a very bad head for he must needs tell all he knows of him that the flesh in the forepart of his Head rotted to the Scull where never any hair came afterward he was sent to London and kept to a strict Diet and â—…requent sweatings God be thanked this was in the Doctors childhood or else the World would think strange things of him It seems some unlucky Star had a malevolent aspect upon his head which the the Writer of his Life though an Astrologer did take no notice of in his Nativity and much worse Fortune had the Doctor in the affairs of humane Life which if they had been prosperous according to Prognostication no doubt he had been a Bishop and not only a sub-Dean of Westminster and probably he would have preferred this Author whom his Son designed to write his Life But still he persists in his Astrology At which time sayes he the Sun was in the Horoscope of his Nativity and the Houses very well disposed But I affirm the contrary who think my self as great an Astrologer as he Non tu plus cernis sed plus tenerarius audes That the Houses were very ill disposed that time not only for the reasons I have already given but to speak more judiciously upon the point I find the Planets then were combust of the Sun under a fiery triplicity and the Lord of the ascendant in his Nativity was out of his essential dignities the moon also Cadent and unfortunated by those Planets that had dominion in the sixth or eighth House besides not a good Planet was then in Cazimi or the heart of the Sun both the promittors and significators weak in the Radix of his Nativity all which did signifie but indifferent good Fortune to the Doctor sometimes prosperous and improsperous good health and bad no firm Constitution of body as he saith but infirm often crazy never ill but once of his Head when he was a Boy which the Writer would for no good omit But I have found him out all this while where he has been tampering and that is in Mr. Lillys Book of introduction to Astrology who hath learnt him his coelestial Art That the ☉ presents a Man of good corporature of healthful constitution very humane c. his head quickly bald and so the Life-Writer sayes never any hair came afterward when the flesh was rotted to the Scull But Mr. Lilly is not at all so absolute and positive in his judgment upon Nativities between the hours of eight and nine in the Morning Indeed he is the more subtil Astrologer for he hath out-done Mr. Lilly in Christian Astrology because he can prognosticate and foretel from the Stars whether a Child when it is born shall be baptised or no and whether then it shall be Christened by the Minister with the sign of the cross for saith he this reverend man was in this particular fortunate that he had the honour to carry the mark of the Cross which was imprinted on him at the Font. Oh strange under what a happy constellation was the Doctor born above other Christians I thought it had been ordinary but this was extraordinary because he fell not into the hands of a Non-conformist I beleived he was signed with the Cross because I am sure the Heavenly Houses which first set out the Cross to Constantine are allwayes well disposed to this good sign but whether he was Christened at home or in Church I am not fully satisfied and if I should hold the contrary he cannot confute me for according to my Albumazar and other learned Authors the Heavens were then in that positure that the Sun was separated from a square of Jupiter and applyed to the square of Saturn which often gives strange disappointments to things expected so that still it remains a Question whether the Child was Christened in the Font. For my part I durst not pry so far into the Doctors Nativity much less into the Baptism or Holy Font but that the Author incites me to it For I medled no further but that he was born in a happy year with Augustus Thuanus the famous Historian which I wonder escaped his dash in the printed Folio Therefore for that kindness I will give him this counsel and I wish he may follow it hereafter That he would study the Doctors Books and not his Birth and leave poring on his Astronomical Tables and gazing up to the Stars lest he should happen some ill mischance not minding his foot-hold like Thales Milesius fall into a pit or meet with some worse disaster some trap-door which Tiberius Caesar provided for his Astrologers si vanitatis aut sraudis suspicio in cesserat If any jealousie came into his mind they were false and treacherous I cannot also but take notice of the Authors high opinion and conceit of himself because he is a little Writer All Men saith he have not the abilities to write Books so neither to pass sentence on them when written And is it not a Truth as undeniable Scribimus indoctique Are there not more Scriblers than learned Writers The World is pestered too much with them that swarm like Gnats and Flyes to buz the Head and â—…urt the Eyes and yet have no Hony or sweetness in them I am of opinion if there were fewer Books there would be more Learning and much better Scholars in every Age for Authors then would be well read digested and turned into good nourishment Whence Petrus Comestor who writ the Historia Scholastica took his Name Comestor sive manducator librorum saith Trithem quia scripturas quasi in ventrem memoriae manducarit An Eater of Books and good Digester of them Now they are hastily swallowed down without chewing and by reason of the gross stuff and mean feeding in most Books and Writers are converted into excrementitious matter that passes away per latrinam and as Martial saith of a bungling Versifier in his time Scribit Carmina quae legunt cacantes Socrates was looked upon as the chief Oracle among the Philosophers yet he left not one Book of his own writing to Posterity saith Suidaâ—… No doubt there hath been and is still in the World most worthy wise and learned Men as those who have written many vast Volumes For modesty in some weakness of Body and not of Mind in others fear of the Worlds censure nay continual study and reading of Books with which the mind of a Scholar is never satisfied has hindred many a good Writer so that it is no want of Faculty but Will No Imperfection ought to be charged on Mens Abilities who are known Scholars but if every one of them should undertake such a work in a short compass of time there would be more Writers of Books than Readers It was a Saying of Luther All of us have a Pope â—…red in us That is an opinion of our own works though there be no merit in them which we may apply
that the dear Saints in England had their Nose and their Ears slit for the profession of the Gospel The Parliament then might pretend the revenge of Mr. Pryns sufferings by a retaliation of a worse punishment upon Dr. Heylyn but the real cause that exasperated them was the good Doctors Loyalty to his King and fidelity to his Arch-Bishop the two great Pillars of the Church to whom all true Sons of the Church of England ought to be faithful And finally the many Books the Doctor had written and still likely to write more against the Puritan Faction was the grand cause of all his flights and sufferings in the time of War Est fuga dicta mihi non est fuga dicta Libellis Qui Domini paenam non meruere sui Though I am forc'd to fly my Books they are not fled No reason for my sake they should be punished At what Friends house he was now secured from danger though I have heard it named indeed I have forgot but from thence he travelled to Doctor Kingsmil a Loyal Person of great worth and ancient Family where he continued and sent for his Wife and Daughter from Winchester to him and from thence removed to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire the pleasant Seat of his elder Brother in the year An. Dom. 1648. which he farmed of his Nephew Collonel Heylyn for six years Being deprived of his Eâ—…astial Preferments he must think of some honest way for a Livelihood Fruges lustramus agros Ritus ut a prisco traditus extat aevo Yet notwithstanding he followed his studies which was his chief delight for though the 〈◊〉 Powers had silenced his Tongue from preaching they could not withold his Pen from writing and that in an acute and as sharp a stile as formerly after he had done with his frequent visits of Friends and long perambulations For the publick good of the Church to uphold her ancient maintenance by Tithes being rob'd then of all her other dues and dignities though himself was sequestred of both his Livings and made inâ—…apable of receiving any benefit by Tithes yet for the common cause of Christianity and in mere compassion of the Presbyterian Clergy though his profest Enemies he published at that time when Tithes were in danger to be taken away from them an excellent little Tract to undeceive the People in the point of Tithes and proveth therein That no man in the Realm of England payéth any thing of his own toward the maintenance of his Parish Minister but his Easter Offerings At the same time he enlarged his Book of Geography into a large Folio which was before but a little Quarto and intitâ—…led it with the name of Cosmography of which it may be truly said it does contain a world of Learning in it as well as the Description of the World and particularly sheweth the Authors most excellent Abilities not only in History and smoothness of its style that maketh the whole Book delightful to the Reader but in Chronology Genealogy and Heraldry in which last any one may see that he could blazon the Arms and describe the Descent and Pedigree of the greatest Families in Europe In which pleasing study while he spent his time his good Wife a discreet and active Lady looked both after her Housewifery within doors and the Husbandry without thereby freeing him from that care and trouble which otherwise would have hindred his laborious Pen from going through so great a work in so short a time And yet he had several divertisements by company which continually resorted to his House for having God be thanked his Temporal Estate cleared from Sequestration by his Composition with the Commissioners at Gold-Smiths Hall and this Estate which he farmed besides he was able to keep a good house and relieve his poor Brethren as himself had found relief from others Charity that his House was the Sanctuary of sequestred men turned out of their Livings and of several ejected Fellows out of Oxford more particularly of some worthy persons I can name as Dr. Allibone Mr. Levit Mr. Thornton Mr. Ashwel who wrote upon the Creed who would stay for two or three Months at his House or any other Acquaintance that were suffering men he cheerfully received them and with a hearty welcom they might tarry as long as they pleased The Doctor himself modestly speaks of his own Hospitality how many that were not Domesticks had eaten of his Bread and drunk of his Cup. A Vertue highly to be praised and most worthy of commendation in it self for which Tacitus giveth this Character of the old Germanes Convictibus Hospitiis non alia gens Effusius indulget Greater Hospitality saith he and Entertainment no Nation shewed more bountifully accounting it as a cursed thing not to be civil in that kind according to every mans ability and when all was spent the good Master of the House would lead his Guest to the next Neighbours House where he though not invited was made welcom with the like courtesie Among others kindly entertained Mr. Marchamont Needham then a zealous Loyalist and Scourge to the Rump Parliament was sheltered in the Doctors House being violently pursued till the Storm was over the good Doctor then as his Tutelar Angel preserved him in a high Room where he continued writing his weekly Pragmaticus yet he afterward like Balaam the Son of Beor hired with the wages of Unrighteousness corrupted with mercinary Gifts and Bribes became the only Apostate of the Nation and writ a Book for the pretended Common-wealth or rather I may say a base Democracy for which the Doctor could never after endure the mention of his name who had so disobliged his Country and the Royal Party by his shameful Tergiversation The good Doctors Charity did not only extend it self to ancient Friends and Acquaintance but to mere Strangers by whom he had like to run himself into a Premunire For word being carried to him in his Study there was a Gentleman at the door who said he was a Commander in the Kings Army and carâ—…estly desired some relief and harbour the Doctor presently went to him and finding by his Discourse and other Circumstances what he said was true received him into his House and made him very welcom the Gentleman was a Scotch Captain who having a Scotch Diurnal in his Pocket they read it fearing no harm thereby but it proved otherwise for one of the Doctors Servants listning at the door went straight way to Oxford and informed the Governour Collonel Kelsey that his Master had received Letters from the King whereupon the Governour sent a Party of Horse to fetch him away Strange News it was knowing his own Innocency to hear that Soldiers had beset his House so early in the Morning before he was out of Bed But go he must to appear before the Governour and when he came that treacherous Rogue his Man did confidently affirm that he heard the Letters read and was sure
Mr. Baxter makes a hideous cry As Murder it self cannot be concealed no more can those Actions that border upon it but Divine Vengeance will pursue whosoever is guilty of either which the very Heathen took notice of when he saith Raro antecedentem scelestum deseruit pede paena claudo The innocent Doctor is falsly accused of words but now his Accuser is truly arraigned and upon his indictment found guilty of bloody deeds For he that is a Partizan with cruel men or an Abettor and Encourager of them is certainly a Pertaker with them and not only an Accessary to the Fact but a Principal as in all Sanguinary Causes according to our Statute Laws there are no Accessaries but Principals and I am sure in Foro poli or the Court of Heaven such Offenders are alike But the Man is still alive What then the intention of killing him and their leaving him for dead is a breach of the sixth Commandment as if it were actual homicide Murther was intended Mr. Baxter standing by not once reproving Hurdman but setting him thereon by his own example calling the Major Rogue I say it had been Murther with all cruelty to the height if the poor man had dyed because it is against the Law of Arms after a Battel fought to kill our Enemy in cold blood And as the Case now stands aggravated with all the Circumstances alledged Mr. Baxter can no ways acquit himself because he cannot be ignorant of this Rule Nullum Praeceptum consistit in indivisibili that no Precept of Gods Law is tyed up to one single or individual act but has a greater latitude in it as all kinds of Murther is forbidden whether of the bea rt tongue or hand unmercifulness cruelty revenge hatred malice is Murther Whosoever hateth his Brother saith the Apostle he is a Murtherer and you know that no Murtherer hath eternal Life in him Also every Precept of Gods Law is both affirmative and negative under the affirmative all duties that possibly can be reduced to it are implyed and under the negative which is of greater force because it binds ad semper as the Schools say all things which come within the verge of it as cruelty inhumanity c. are absolutely forbidden Mr. Baxters personal presence gave countenance to the bloody action much more in being a delightful Spectator of it which ought to have been abhorred by him Nero himself could not behold bloody Tragedies though he commanded them saith the Historian Et jussit scelera Nero non spectavit Much more barbarous actions are hateful to the Eyes of all Christians that Constantine after his Conversion by publick Edict did forbid all monstrous and bloody Spectacles in the Amphitheater For a Minister of Jesus Christ as he calls himself who preaches against hardness of heart to be so cruel hearted himself as not to pity a poor Christian weltring in his blood and wounds for the cause only of his King and Country to shew no mercy nor Cristian compassion towards him not so much as we would do to a Turk or an Infidel but call him Rogue Popish Rogue violently pulling from his Neck the Kings Picture and seeing him dragg'd up and down in the Fields by merciless Souldiers Honesco referens It was a more lamentable sight than the Spectacula nefranda when Christians were torn in pieces by wild Beasts in the Roman Theater I must therefore say to Mr. Baxter as the High-priest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Are these things so I sincerely wish from my heart that he may and I hope he will repent and ask God and the Major forgiveness which is the lest part of pennance and satisfaction he can perform for so heinous an Offence and till then with what confidence can Mr. Baxter preach to his Auditors being a silenced Minister both by the Laws of the Land and his own Conscience that must needs fly in his face and sorely exagitate him as it was once the Case of Origen who sinned not maliciously but out of fear and cowardice to save his life This Scripture struck him to the heart Why doest thou preach my Laws and takest my Covenant in thy mouth whereas thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behind thee If Mr. Baxter will look out of his broken Church History into true Ecclesiastical History he shall find Origen's Repentance set forth by Suidas for a most excellent Example to imitate He was called Syntacticus for compiling many Books in which Mr. Baxter does strive to follow him in writing many Books full of Errors but not so learnedly erreth as Origen did and and probably if he will not leave the odious quality of abusing reverend and worthy men his Books may hereafter run the same fortune with Origens to be publickly condemned For He cannot forbear railing upon Dr. Heylyn after he hath laid in his Grave near twenty years Speaking of the late Wars saith he Not only Lads that knew it not but Heylyn the great Reproacher of Reformers would make men believe that it was Presbyterians in England that began the strife and War What Heylyn There be many Heylyns in England which of them So profest an Enemy he is to Degrees because he was himself I hear never a Graduate or an University-man that he is a Despiser of those Dignities in others For his insolency in this kind and errors in other matters he was once soundly swinged by the Doctor and the Correction put an end to all the Epistolary Controversies between them that he was fain then to lower his Top-sail and durst never appear in the Doctors time top and top gallant In revenge of which and therein he thinks he hath done a great Act not to call him so much as Peter Heylyn Mr. Heylyn or Good-man Heylyn nay he will not allow him a Christian Name because he will be out of Charity with him both alive and dead This is the man that prefesseth so much mortification humility and self-denyal Yet no man swelleth with more spiritual pride Mare Adriatico superbior But why is Heylyn a Reproacher of the Reformers I cannot tell unless this be accounted a reproach which rather tendeth to his credit that he is an impartial Writer of Histories relating the naked Truth of things without respect of Persons and chiefly because he utterly dislikes such a Reformation of Religion that is carried on in a popular and tumultuary way which I think cannot be justifiable neither by Law Reason nor Scripture nor by all the Learning Mr. Baxter hath or ever shall have to prove the contrary I appeal to the ancient Fathers and the primitive Christians in the first Centuries whether this was judged by them an approvable way of Reformation that is effected by the vulgar sort who are not competent Judges of Religion but by the Authority of the Christian Magistrate with the advice and good counsel of the Clergy which is the only regular and most Scriptural
465. that the Assembly of Divines so called in their Confession larger and lesser Catechism held forth such a Doctrine touching Gods Decrees that they gave occasion of receiving the old Blastian Heresie in making God to be the Author of Sin that the Bill against Bishops he observes took date from the fifth of November the day defigned on the blowing up of the Parliament by the Gun-powder Traytors that notwithstanding the House of Commons had taken the Scotch Covenant they never intended to set up Scotch Presbytery only held fair quarter with them for a time because in April 1646. They published this following Declaration That they were not able to consent to the granting of an arbitrary and unlimited Power and Iurisdiction to near ten thousand Iudicatories to be erected in the Kingdom which could not be confistent with the fundamental Laws and Government of it and which by necessary conse quence did exclude the Parliament from having any thing to do in that Iurisdiction Page 470. the Doctor tells us again That the English Puritans laid their heads and hands together to embroil the Realm out of a confidence that having alienated the greatest part of the Tribes from the House of David they might advance the golden Calves of Presbyterians in Dan and Bethel and all other places whatsoever in the Land and for the maintenance thereof had devoured in conceit all Chapter Lands and parcelled them amongst themselves into Augmentations But no sooner had they driven this bargain but a Vote passed for selling those Lands towards the payment of those debts of the Common-wealth Nor have they lived to see their dear Presbytery settled or their lay Elders entertained in any one Parish of the Kingdom Now I have recited all those passages out of the pages Mr. Baxter refers us to what hath he gained to his cause but a confutation of it As it wa said of Caesar's Conspirators iisdeâ—…â—…bus quibus Caesarem foderunt 〈◊〉 occiderunt With the same Daggers they stabbed Iulius Caesar they killed themselves So Mr. Baxter hath destroyed himself and the good old Cause with his own Weapons by reciting Dr. Heylyn against Dr. Heylyn The Dr. though dead he yet speaketh and hath vanquished his living Adversary For what man out of these premises could draw a conclusion except Mr. Baxter by his Kederminster Logick that Heylyn had laid much of the War upon the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. when there is no mention of War or Bishops in the Case No quantum to be found of much or little in it no minimum quod sic Nay nothing at all to prove Mr. Baxter's position and scandalous defamation of the Doctor Therefore I must say to him the words of the old Comedian Dehine quieâ—… porro moneo desinat maledicere ne maâ—…cta noscat sua If the Dr. himself had been still living as some of his Elders are neither Mr. Baxier Mr. Hickman nor M. Burnet no one of them durst have adventured a single Duel with him in any point of Learning but he would have said to every such Gladiator as Cicero did to Mark Antony Catilinae gladios contempsi non pertimescam tuos But now he hath neither hand nor sword but is disarmed by Death miserandum flebile corpus it is no sign of true Vertue or noble Valour in them much less of a good Cause on their side to insult ignobly over a dead Lion As for Mr. Baxter who will not let him rest quietly in his Grave if my fraternal correption cannot amend him I wish he may remember his good Wifes rebuke and deserved correction she gave him by his own confession That he should make fewer Books and write them better And I think this good counsel had not been unseasonable to the late Writer of Dr. Heylyn's Life to have transmitted that Task to any other person who had been an ancient Friend and Acquaintance of the Doctors rather than ambitiously assumed it upon himself who was a professed Stranger to him by reason of which no better account could be expected from him than what he has given and that is unsatisfactory a Life to the half an imperfect Creature that is not only lame as the honest Book-seller said but wantteth Legs and all other integral parts of a Man nay the very Soul that should animate a Body like Dr. Heylyn I am sure no man except himself who was totally ignorant of the Dr. and all the circumstances of his Life would have engaged in such a work which was never primarily laid out or designed for him but by reason of some unhappy differences as usually fall out in Families and he who loves to put his Ore in troubled matters instead of closing them up hath made them wider Otherwise it is not material who had writ the Doctors Life so it had been done by an able hand of a more knowing person therefore I must say of him as Plutarch doth of Tib. Gracâ—…us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is a bold Undertaker and rash Talker of those matters he does not understand And so I have done with him unless he creates to himself and me a future trouble Now I hope any ingenious Reader will plainly see I am forced to a just and necessary Vindication of my self Si quis me atro dente petiverit inultus ut flebo puer and chiefly of my Father in Law to whom as I am bound in gratitude for the favours I received from him in his Life time so I could do no less than perform this little Task of writing his Life and that without passion and partiality being free from motives of both as the Historian said Quorum Causas procul habeo However for holding the Reader in so long suspence I have endeavoured to make a mends in the following Life which in a manner I have composed new retaining only what I had before written and still remains in the printed Folio entitled Keimelia Ecclesiastica but now with that which was so shamefully abused I am sure the Work is complete and perfect and I hope will afford this general benefit First to encourage all young Scholars in the Love of Learning by the Example of so Reverend a Divine and excellent Historian as Dr. Heylyn And secondly to remind others of some principal transactions both in Church and State during his time And so I conclude in the words of Salust Age nunc illa videamus Judices quae consecuta sunt THE LIFE OF THE Most Reverend and Learned DIVINE Dr. PETER HEYLYN TO write the Lives of worthy Personages was ever accounted a most laudable Custom among the Heathens For to perpetuate the Memory of the Dead who were eminent in Vertue did manifestly conduce to the publick benefit of the Living much more the Ancient Christians in their time both solemnly retained this Practice and adjudged it an Act of Piety and Justice to the Deceased If they were Men of Fame for Learning or other Vertues
to celebrate their Praises to Posterity and by this means stir'd up Emulation in others to follow so noble Precedents before them For which Cause St. Jerome writ his Catalogus illustrium Virorum before whom also Eusebius with others in short recorded to future Ages the holy Lives of those Primitive Fathers who were signally active or passive for the Christian Faith Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit saith the Historian Posterity doth render to every man the Commendation he deserves Therefore for the Reverend Doctor 's Sake and in due veneration of his Name which I doubt not is honoured by all true Sons of the Church of England both for his learned Writings and constant Sufferings in defence of her Doctrine and Discipline established by Law Here is faithfully presented to them a true and complete Narrative of his Life to answer the common Expectations of men in this Case who would read his Person together with the ordinary and extraordinary occurrences of Providence that befel him as well as his Books that were long before published to the World To give satisfaction in the former here is nothing inserted but the Relations of Truth which hath been often heard from his own Mouth spoken to his dearest Friends or written by his Pen in some loose fragments of Paper that were found left in his Study after his Death upon which as on a sure Foundation the whole Series and Structure of the following Discourse is laid together but would have been more happily done if he had left larger Memoirs for it Nothing was more usual in ancient times than for good men saith Tacitus to describe their own Lives Suam ipsi vitam narrare fiduciam potius morum quam arrogantiam arbitrati sunt upon a confidence of their right behaviour rather than to be supposed any arrogancy or presumption in them First of all I shall begin with his Birth In that Country above all other enobled with the famous seat of the Muses to which he was a constant Votary By Cambden Oxford is called the Sun Eye and Soul of Great Brittain by Matthew Paris the second School of the Church by the Reverend Doctor co-eval to Paris if not before it the glory of this Island and of the Western parts Yet it cannot be denyed as high praises have been attributed by Learned Men to the most famous University of Cambridge that I dare make no comparisions betwixt those two Sisters of Minerva for the Love I owe to either of them who were both my dear Nurses However the University of Oxon was long since honoured with the Title of Generale Studium in nobilissimis quatuor Europae Academiis and this glorious Title conferred upon none else in former times but the Universities of Paris in France Bononia in Italy and Salamanca in Spain Near which Oxon or noble Athens he was born at Burford an ancient Market Town of good Note in the County of Oxford upon the 29th day of November Anno Dom. 1600. In the same year with the celebrated Historian Jacob. August Thuanus on both whom the Stars poured out the like benign influences But the former viz. Peter Heylyn had not only the faculty of an Historian but the gift of a general Scholar in other Learning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as will appear to any one that reads his laborious Writings He was second Son of Henry Heylyn Gentleman descended from the ancient Family of the Heylyns of Peutre-Heylyn in Montgomeryshire then part of Powis-Land from the Princes whereof they were derived and unto whom they were Hereditary Cup-bearers for so the word Heylyn doth signifie in the Welch or Brittish Language an honourable Office in most Nations which we find in Divine as well as Prophane History whereby Nehemiah became so great a Favorite with Artaxerxes that he obtained a Grant for the rebuilding of the holy City Magni honoris erat Pincernae munus apud persas saith Alex. ab Alex. If Camden Clarencieux be of good Authority as with most he is unquestionable the Doctor deriveth his Pedigree from Grono-ap Heylyn who descended from Brockwel Skythrac one of the Princes of Powis-Land in whose Family was ever observed that one of them had a Gag-tooth and the same was a notable omen of good Fortune which Mark of the Tooth is still continued in the Doctors Family These and such like signatures of more wonderful form are indeed very rare yet not without Example So Seleucus and his Children after him were born with the Figure of an Anchor upon their Thigh as an infallible mark of their true geniture saith Justin Origenis hujus argumentum etiam posteris mansit si quidem filij nepotesque ejus anchoram in femore veluti notam generis naturalem habuere The aforesaid Grono-ap Heylyn from whom the Doctor is one of the Descendents was a man of so great Authority with the Princes of North-Wales that Llewelleu the last Prince of the Country made choice of him before any other to treat with the Commissioners of Edward the First King of England for the concluding of a final Peace between them which was accordingly done but afterwards Llewellen by the perswasion of David his Brother raised an Army against the King that were quickly routed himself slain in Battel and in him ended the Line of the Princes of North-Wales who had before withstood many puissant Monarchs whose attempts they always srustrated by retiring into the heart of their Country and as the Doctor saith leaving nothing for their Enemies to encounter with but Woods and Mountains after they had reigned Princes of North-Wales for the space of four hundred and five years A goodly time that scarcely the greatest Monarchies in the World have withstood their fatal period and dissolution as Chronologers usually observe Anni quingenti sunt fatalis Periodus Regnorum rerum publicarum saith Alsted But this little Monarchy of Wales may be compared to a Finger or Toe `or the least joynt indiscernable in the vast Body of the four great Empires and yet withal shows the mutability of them and all worldly Powers That Time will triumph in the Ruin of the strongest States and Kingdoms as is most excellently represented to us by Nebuchadnezzar's Image of Gold Silver Iron and Brass that mouldred away though durable Mettal because it stood upon feet of Clay So unstable are all mortal things And of no longer duration are the most high and mighty Powers under Heaven than the Brittish Monarchy which caused the Historian to complain that the more he meditated with himself of things done both in old and latter times tanto magis ludibria rerum mortalium cunctis in negotijs obversantur So much the more saith he the uncertainties and mock Vanities of Fortune in all worldly Affairs came to his remembrance Notwithstanding those great alterations in Wales no longer a Kingdom of it self but annexed to the Crown of England the Family of
Brother did both pay her and the other Sisters Portions who were all married to Persons of Quality himself had an Estate left him by his Father to the value of 800l per Annum he married an Heiress whose fortune added to his Estate on which they lived nobly for many years before he fell into losses and misfortunes caused by his own extravigant Pleasures and chiefly of Gaming at Dice and Cards Quem damâ—…osa Venus quem Praeceps alea nudat To the said Letitia High-gate Mr. Heylyn was an earnest Sutor For indeed he could not make a better Choice for the excellency of her Person Wit and Friends all concentring together for his more happy Contentment she being also a discreet Religious young Lady which is a Blessing to a Clergy-man his Courtship of her was not after a Romantick manner nor as a Gallant of the times but like a Scholar and a Divine as appears by a Copy of Verses written upon a rich guilded Bible which he presented to her and the Verses are as followeth Could this outside beholden be To cost and cunning equally Or were it such as might suffice The Luxury of curious Eyes Yet would I have my Dearest look Not on the Cover but the Book If thou art merry here are Aires If melancholly here are Prayers If studious here are those things writ Which may deserve thy ablest Wit If hungry here is Food Divine If thirsty Nectar heavenly Wine Read then but first thy self prepare To read with zeal and mark with care And when thou read'st What here is writ Let thy best Practice second it So twice each Precept read shall be First in the Book and next in thee Much reading may thy Spirits wrong Refresh them therefore with a Soâ—…g And that thy Musick Praise may merit Sing David's Psalms with David's Spirit That as thy Voice do pierce Mens Ears So shall thy Prayer and Vows the Sphaears Thus read thus sing and then to thee The very Earth a Heaven shall be If thus thou readest thou shalt find A private Heaven within thy mind And singing thus before thou dye Thou sing'st thy Part to those on High The Verses with the Bible were most affectionately received by her as the best Tokens of Love that could be given to lay the Foundation of a future Happiness betwixt them that was now begun so Religiously with the Book of God which they both intended to make the Rule of their Life and Love Soon after the Solemnization of Marriage followed by the consent of Friends on both Parties in the presence of whom and other Witnesses they were married by Dr. Allibone his faithful Friend upon the Festival day of St. Simon and St. Jude in Magdalen Colledge Chappel where he was Fellow but now the Husband of a good Wife of whom we may say as the Poet Felices Quos irrupta tenet copula nec malis Divulsis querimoniis Suprema citius solvet die Most happy is the Marriage-tye Where Love abideth â—…onstantly No sad Complaints or Cryes whilst Breath Remains but true Love unto Death At his Marriage with this vertuous Gentlewoman he had a good Estate of his own besides her Portion to begin the World with for he had a Rent Charge of Inheritance paid him out of the Manor of Lech-led in the County of Glocester and the Adv ousan of Bradwel living near Lech-led both which were left him by his Father as a Competent Portion for a younger Brother but he wisely parted with the Advousan resolving not to bury his Parts in a Country Parish where if he had been once setled possibly his Fortune might have proved like other Mens never to have been Master of more Lands or Goods than the Tythe or Glebe of his own Parsonage Therefore he took the first opportunity offered to him as a more probable means of his future preferment and that was to attend the right Honourable the Earl of Danby to the Isles of Guernsie and Jersie of which afterward he writ a Description And for this gooâ—… Service he so much endear'd himself to his Lordship who took great notice of his extraordinary merits that at their return back the Noble Lord commended him not only to some Lords in Court but presented him to Arch-Bishop Laud then Bishop of London who had cast a singular Eye of favour upon him before but now reminded by the Earl he presently got him admitted Chaplain to the King knowing that step to Preferment would carry him on further because the rise of the Clergy is either from the Press or the Pulpit in both which Mr. Heylyn was exercised The good Bishop instructed him with Counsel and wise Cautions how to behave himself in all Circumstances sutable to the Calling and Dignity of his Place telling him amongst other things That the King did not love Silk nor Sattin Chaplains which Mr. Heylyn ever observed both young and old never ruffling in Silks like some of his Brotherhood but went alway in a plain grave and decent habit In humble gratitude to the Earl his original Patron who first recommended him to the Bishop and afterward brought him to the honour of acquaintance with Noble-men among whom he found such a general love and respect that their Lordships would often call him to a familiar Conversation with them by which means Mr. Heylyn acquired more than an ordinary Interest in Court He could not study out a more ingenious way to please and oblige all their Lordships than the Vindication of the most noble Order of the Garter and that by writing his History of the famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Jesus St. George of Cappadocia which Work he performed so admirably well for History Learning and Language all these not vulgar but incomparable in their kind that I would fain see the Fellow that can second it especialy considering that never any one before Mr. Heylyn durst attempt the work by reason of the many difficulties occurring in Story But what could re sist the Authors Ingenuity and Industry who had importunum Ingenium a restless working Head and a Mind indefatagable for Study Perrupit Acheronta Herculeus labor Hor. So various and perplexed are the infinite stories that go of this Saint that one would think it were an impossible thing to find out the Truth Great care was taken by Anterus Bishop of Rome An. Dom. 238. who was a Martyr himself to preserve the Memory of the Christian Martyrs by causing all their Acts and Passions to be written by publick Notaries and afterwards laid up in the Register of the Church as Platina tells us and we find in Gregories Epistles that in the Ancient Martyrologies the time of their death and place where they suffered is described but not the circumstance and manner of their deaths whereby hath risen so many Fables and incredible stories especially of St. George which the Monks of old hath filled their Legends with And on the other side some because they would be contradictory to them
the historical than philosophical part of Geography At which the Lord Falkland seemed to be much displeased thinking that he had spoken thus either out of slight to his old Captain or through some aversness in himself to be engaged in the business but Mr. Heylyn quickly satisfied his Lordship to the contrary that he intended to use all possible means by his own study and consult with others more learned than himself in this point non conamur tenues grandia and afterward give the King and his Lordship a full account of the whole matter Several Letters passed betwixt his Lordship and Mr. Heylyn but in one partienlarly his Lordship commended the honest old Captain to his judicious care and consideration telling him that in the credibility of that phaenomenon his Majesties resolution would be much guided by his judgment which he found would be of special Authority with him that he press'd the point oftner to him because he conceived it a Duty which he owed to the Truth it self to have it made manifest one way or other that is either to be freed from the Captains imposition and pretence if upon Tryal it appeared to be fallacious or else to be approved and declared for right and perfect if such it be to the silencing perpetually of all milicious Impugners thereof that the World may be deprived no longer of the participation and use of so publick and common a benefit After the receipt of his Lordships Letter Mr Heylyn who was ever forward to promote any probable Notion in Learning and as ready to obey his Lordships Commands he both studied the point himself and conferred with the learned Mr. Oughtred who was a person most likely for his admired abilities in this kind of Learning to give satisfaction but his Judgement ran quite contrary to the Sea-Captain with whom he discoursed about his Hypothesis and â—…wed him his Error of which he gave a full account to Mr. Heylyn in a Letter as followeth I asked him the Ground whereon he went and told him the difficulties which others found His Ground he said was by the Nodes of the Moons Circle because the Moon accompanied the Earth having it the Center of her Orb. The difficulties which others imagined was the finding out the place of the Node or ☊ upon the Superficies of the Earth His Principle I determine to omit till more leasure for I had but one whole day to stay in London The difficulty of the place of ☊ I saw factible at Sea and accordingly let him understand it Now being at London I desired conference with him and thus I proceeded You require for the Discovery of the Longitude the distance of ☊ upon the Earth Well imagin you were now at Sea in an unknown place and that I gave you in degrees of Longitude the distance of ☊ from that Place where you are what will you conclude He was entring into I know not what by demands of if this and if that But I held him to the Question in the Hypothesis telling him he had what he required At last he answered Why methinks you have already done it your self You have the distance of ☊ in the degrees of Longitude of the ☊ from an unknown place and therefore the difference of the ☊ is also unknown except in that place only But we require the distance from the other known place which you promised to argue At last he began to be sensible of his mistake and I advised him to desist from such undertakings and being of so great an Age to labour the discovery of another Voyage or rather only labour to attain to the blessed end thereof being already opened to us by our Saviour And this was the end of our Communication and will be I suppose of that business also I wonder how for these twelve years wherein he hath mused upon this Subject and hath had conferrence with so mamy learned men would receive no Answer But it seems they gave him too much liberty of digression and he having a very ill expression of his confused conceipts entangled himself more and more in perplexities Thus at last the old Captain was weaned from his dear Opinion which he had doted upon for so many years but to his further grief and worthily to be lamented by others followed the Death of his Friend and learned Lord who was the honour of his time and degree And had his Lordship but lived unto these times of ours since the Institution of the Royal Society unto whom he had commended the Hypothesis their profound Learning and exquisite Knowledge rare Invention and Judgement by which they have made so many wonderful Discoveries of things would have quickly satisfied his Lordships scrupulosity which was more to be regarded than the Captains Fancy For this noble Society has made particular Enquiries of Tides Currents and Depths of the Sea since their first foundation having a vast number of Experiments a new Instrument saith Dr. Sprat to sound the Depth of the Sea without a line The Seas longitude is easie once taken under their consideration Mr. Heylyn being released of this troublesome Captain and the Seas longitude which was out of Mr. Heylyn's reach and proper Element he thought it more useful and necessary to study the Statutes of the Land the Laws and Customes of this Nation Acts of Parliament old Statutes and Records to compare them with the times and circumstances occurring in story whereby he might inable himself by this means to do better service both to Church and State And this was a most profitable as well as delightful diversion from his other studies His Improvements appeared to be so great therein that afterward he utterly confounded the utter Barister and Scribler against the State Mr. William Pryn of Lincolns-Inn who being called to question for his Histrio-mastix Mr. Heylyn was sent for to the Council-Table where his Majesty commanded him to read over that seditious Book and collect thence all such passages as were scandalous and dangerous to the King and State and write them down in such Logical Inferences as might naturally arise and follow upon the Premises All which Mr. Heylyn exactly performed and delivered his Copy to the Attorny General Mr. Noy who presented the same to the King and Lords of the Council of whom it was observed that they urged not any thing against Mr. Pryn upon his Tryal but what was contained in Mr. Heylyns Papers of Collection who took occasion at the same time to publish a Book touching the punishments due by Law and in point of Practice against such notorious Offenders as Pryn Bastwick and Burton the Triumviri of Sedition For this and other good services which with wonderful Prudence as well as Diligence Mr. Heylyn faithfully performed his Majesty was graciously pleased to requite him as Caesar did those Servants who best merited he bestowed upon them Riches and Honours saith Sueton Quanto quis servitio promptior opibus honoribus
when he thought it would digest The Scruple troubled all the rest Notwithstanding this scrupulosity in them the World knows their hypocritical Practices under all those zealous Pretences how light they are in the Ballance and how extraordinary a thing it is to find from their hands downright honesty and plain dealing they are too much like the Scribes and Pharisees who by godly shews of long Prayers sad Countenances Justification of themselves that they were the only Righteous and all others Sinners played the Hypocrites most abominably to deceive the vulgar sort they made Religion a meer mock and empty show 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith our Saviour to be seen like Stage-players in a Theater Nam tota actio est histrionica as Erasmus well observeth their whole carriage was dramatick to make a feigned Pageantry and Ostentation of Piety Yet John Lord Bishop of Lincoln in compliance with this Sect out of discontent and revenge because deprived of the great Seal and commanded by the King to retire from Westminster transformed himself into one of these Angels of new Light and made himself the Archangel and Head of their Party First of all by writing his pretended Letter to one Titly Vicar of Grantham against the holy Communion Table standing Altar-wise to which Dr. Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply in his Book entituled A Coal from the Altar to which the Bishop within a Twelve-month after he took time enough for the Work did return an Answer under the Title of The Holy Table Name and Thing pretending withal that this was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire against Dr. Cole a Divine in Queeu Marys Reign No sooner the King heard of this new Book but he sent a Command to Dr. Heylyn to write a speedy Answer to it and not in the least to spare the Bishop Neither did the Doctor baulk the grand Sophos but detected all his false Allegations and answered them that were true which the Bishop had wrested to a contrary sense if we will look into the Doctors Book called by him Antidotum Lincolniense All this while the Bishop as it must be confest being a man of Learning writ against his own Science and Conscience so dear is the passion of revenge to gratifie which some men wilfully sin against the Light of their own Souls therefore the Bishop according to the Apostles word was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 condemned of himself For look upon him in the point of practice and we shall find the Communion Table was placed Altar-wise in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln whereof he was Bishop and in the Collegiate Church of Westminster of which he was Dean and lastly in the private Chappel of his own house as Dr. Heylyn saith in whieh it was not only placed Altar-wise but garnished with rich Plate and other costly Utensils in more than ordinary manner By all which the Bishop needed no further refutation of his Book than his own Example that in those places where he had Authority the Holy Table did not stand in Gremio and Nave of the Quire as he would have it fixed but above the Steps upon the Altar close to the East end of the Quire ex vi catholicae consuetudinis according to the ancient manner and custom in the Primitive Catholick Church But hinc illae lachrymae ever since this mischief followed his Book that in most Country Churches to this day the Table is set at the hither end of the Chancel whithout any Traverse or Rails to fence it Boys fling their Hats upon it and that which is worse Dogs piss against it Country Juries write their Parish accounts Amerciaments By-Laws c. all which is a most horrible profanation and not to be suffered But now John Lord Bishop of Lincoln who would have removed the holy Communion Table from its proper place and had displaced his Prebends of their ancient Seat was himself at this time Anno Dom. 1637. thrown out of his Episcopal Chair by sentence of the Star-Chamber for endeavouring to corrupt the Kings Evidence in a Cause of Bastardy brought before his Majesties Justices of Peace at Spittle Sessions in the County of Lincoln which business afterward came to a hearing before the Lords in Star-Chamber by whose definitive sentence the Bishop was suspended ab Officio Beneficio deprived of all his Ecclesiastical Preferments deeply fined and his Complices with him and afterward committed to the Tower of London where he continued Prisoner for three years and in all that space of time his Lordship did never hear Sermon or publick Prayers to both which he was allowed liberty but instead thereof he studied Schism and Faction by his own Example and his Pen disguisedly During the time of his Lorships Imprisonment Dr. Heylyn was chosen Treasurer for the Church of Westminster in which Office he discharged himself with such diligence and fidelity that he was continued in it from year to year till the Bishops release out of tâ—…e Tower and his removal back again to Westminster While he was Treasurer he took care for the repairs of the Church that had been neglected for many years First of the great West-Isle that was ready to fall down was made firm and strong and of the South-side of the lower West-Isle much decayed he caused to be new timbred boarded and leaded but chiefly the curious Arch over the preaching place that looketh now most magnificently he ordered to be new vaulted and the Roof thereof to be raised up to the same height with the rest of the Church the charge of which came to 434 l. 18 s. 10 d. He regulated also some disorders of the Quire perticularly the exacting of Sconses or perdition mony which he divided among them that best deserved it who diligently kept Prayers and attended upon other Church Duties Whilest he was Treasurer his Brethren the Prebendaries to testifie their good affections to him presented him to the Parsonage of Islip near Oxford a very good Living worth about 200l per Annum then by the death of Dr. King made void but by reason of the distance from Alresford though standing most conveniently to taste the sweet pleasures of the University he thought fit to exhange it for another nearer hand the Rectory of South-warnborough in the County of Hampshire that was in the gift of St. Johns Colledge in Oxon to which exchange he was furthered by the Arch-Bishop who carried a great stroke in that Colledge of which he had been President It pleased God soon after to visit him and his Family at Alresford with a terrible fit of Sickness of which none escaped the Disease was so contagious but the Cook 's boy in the Kitchen who was then Master Cook for the whole Family and he performed his part so well in making their broths and other necessaries that he was the best Physitian among the Doctors for by his Kitchen Physick the Sick was cured No sooner Dr. Heylyn recovered of the
he could remember the very words if his Master would produce the Letters Upon which the Doctor relates the whole story to the Governour and withal shews the Diurnal which the Governour read to the Fellow often asking him is this right Is this the same you heard To whom he answered Yes Sir yes that is the very thing and those words I remember Upon which the Governour caused him to be soundly whipt instead of giving him a reward for his Intelligence and dismissed the Doctor with some Complements ordering the same Party of Horse that fetcht him to wait upon him home Being thus delivered from the treachery of his Servant his great care was to provide one more faithful which the good Lady Wainman his Neighbour hearing of commended to him one of her own Servants whom Sr. Francis her Husband had bred up from a Child whose fidelity he need not fear in the Worst of times when a Mans enemies may be of his own Household as Q. Vibius Serenus was betrayed by his own Son Reus pater accusator filius idem Judex et Testis saith the Historian the Son was both Acuser Judge and witness against his Father After he had lived many years in Minster-Lovel he removed from thence to Abingdon where he bought a House called Lacies-Court of which he bestowed much cost in repairing and building some Additions to it particularly of a little Oratory or Chappel which about the Altar was adorned with Silk Hangings the other part of the Room plain but kept very decent wherein himself and his Family went to prayers most Rooms of his house were well furnished and the best Furniture in them as in the Dining-Chamber and next Room to it were saved by his good Neighbours at Alresford who were so far from thinking except some malicious persons among them that they should never fixe eye on him more unless they took a journy which I hate to mention to a Gaol or a Gallowes that they questioned not his return again to Alsford and the enjoyment of his plundered goods This house in Abingdon he purchased for the pleasantness of its situation standing next the Feilds and not distant five Miles from Oxford where he might be furnished with Booksat his pleasure either from the Book-Sellers Shops or the Bodlean-Library perticularly he was beholden to his Reverend and Learned Friend Doctor Barlow now Lord-Bishop of Lincoln who sometimes accommodated him with choice Bookes of whom I have heard the Doctor say if the Times ever altered he was confident that man of learning would be made a Bishop which indeed is now come to pass Such a fresh appetite to Study and Writing he still retained in his old Age that he would give his mind no time of vacancy and intermission from those Labours in which he was before continually exercised t is said of Julius Coesar Scaliger an indefatigable Student as his Son Writes of him Nullum tempus a Studiis Literarum et lucubrationibus relinquebat but he was then forty years of Age before he began the course of his Studies having spent his former dayes in the Camp of Mars and not of the Muses The Doctor from a Child devoted his whole Life to painful Study not allowing himself ease in the worst of times and in the midst of his troubles For at the time of his sad Pilgrimage when he was forced to wander and take Sanctuary at any Freinds House his thoughts were not extravagant but studiously intent upon these matters which he digested afterward into Form and Use when he came to a settled condition And in the begining of his troubles being under the displeasure of the House of Commons on the complaint of Mr. Pryn when his Enemies took the advantage some to Libel and others to write against him perticularly Doctor Hackwel before mentioned at such an unseasonable time with whom Doctor Heylyn saith he would not refuse an encounter upon any Argument either at the sharp or at the Smooth afterward when Monarchy and Episcopacy was troden under foot then did he stand up a Champion in defence of both and feared not to publish the stumbling Block of Disobedience and his Certamen Epistolare in which Mr. Baxter fled the Feild because there was impar congressus betwixt him and as I may say an old Soldier of the Kings who had been used to fiercer Combats with more famous Goliahs Also Mr. Thomas Fuller was sufficiently chastised by the Doctor for his Church History as he deserved a most sharp correction because he had been a Son of the Church of England in the time of her prosperity and now deserted her in her adverse Fortune and took to the Adversaries side And it was then my hap having some business with Mr. Taylor my fellow Collegian in Lincoln-Colledge then Chaplain to the Lord-Keeper Mr. Nathanial Fines to see Mr. Fuller make a fawning address to my Lord with his great Book of Church History hugged under his Arm which he presented to the Keeper after an uncouth manner as Horace describeth Sub ala fasciculum portas librorum ut rusticus agnum The many falsities defects and mistakes of that Book the Doctor discovered and refuted of which Mr. Fuller afterward being ingeniously ashamed came to the Doctors House in Abingdon were he made his Peace both became very good Friends and between them for the future was kept an inviolable bond of Friendship In the Year 1656. the Doctor printed some observations upon the History of the Reign of King Charles published by H. L. Esq with whom the Doctor dealt very candidly and modestly corrected some of his mistakes in most mild and amicable terms telling him viz. Between us both the History will be made more perfect and consequently the Reader will be better satisfied which makes me somewhat confident that these few Notes will be so far from making your History less vendible then it was before that they will very much advantage and promote the Sale And if I can do good to all without wrong to any I hope no man can be offended with my pains and Industry In answer to which Mr. Hammond L' Estrange led by his passion and not by reason fell upon the Doctor in such uncivil words unbecoming a Gentleman that as the Doctor saith he never was accustomed to such Billings-gate Language There was indeed a time saith he when my name was almost in every Libel which exercised the Patience of the State for seven years together and yet I dare confidently say that all of them together did not vomit so much filth upon me as hath proceeded from the Mouth of the Pamphleter whom I have in hand Therefore the Doctor returned a quick and sharp reply to him in his Book Entituled Extraneus Vapulans wherein with admired Wit and Eloquence he gave Mr. L' Estrange a most severe yet civil correction His Brother Mr. Roger L' Estrange a most Loyal Gentleman hath since made amends for his Brothers
credit groweth greater An ordinary Scandal hath been thrown upon learned men who have been zealous Defenders of the Church of England to brand them with the ignominious name of Papists or being Popishly affected because they have abhorred the other extreme of Puritanism in which kind of Slanders the Doctor hath sufficiently received his share that Hammond L' Estrange called him An Agent for the Sea of Rome A heavy charge this is if it carried the least semblance of Truth but what honest man may not be so belyed Si accusare suffecerit quis innocens erit When the Doctor in all his Writings and no man I may say more hath declared his judgement against the Church of Rome and upon every occasion as he meets with her whets his Pen most sharply to lance her old sores and and let the World see what filthy corruptions and errors abound in her more particularly in his Book of Books Theologia Veterum upon the Apostles Creed the Sum of Christian Theology positive polemical and philological and in all his Court Sermons upon the Tares especially the fourth Sermon also in his great Cosmography where he sets out the Popes of Rome in their pontifical Colours Therefore for the Vindication of him from this foul aspersion with which some have maliciously bespattered many of our excellent Divines I particularly thank the Reverend and Learned Dr. Stillingsleet for his Answer to T. G. who would have made use of the Puritans accusation for the Papists purpose but the worthy Doctor quickly refuted him and ever after put him to silence in citing Dr. Heylyns fourth Sermon upon the Tares where he lays at the Door of Papists the most gross Idolatry greater than which was never known among the Gentiles This being brought into discourse at such time as the Arch-Bishops Book against Fisher the Jesuit was newly published it was affirmed by some that the Doctor in his Sermon had pulled up Popery by the Roots yet one of the Company most maliciously replyed thereunto That the Arch-Bishop might print and the Doctor might preach what they pleased against Popery but that he should never think them or either of them to be the less Papists for all that A Censure of so strange a nature saith the Doctor himself that he believed it is not easie to be parallel'd in the worst of times But what need is there of producing Sermons or other Testimonies in his behalf when his general Conversation more severe than ordinary fully attested that as he was a strict Observer of all the Rites and Orders of the Church of England so a perfect Abhorrer of Popery and Roman Superstitions that he would not so much as hold correspondency with a Papist or with one so reputed as I can instance an Example of one Mr. Hood whose Family and the Doctors were very kind when he lived at Minster being near Neighbours but the Gentleman afterward changing his Religion and turning Papist came to Abington to give him a Visit in his new House the Doctor sent his Man Mr. Gervis who was his Amanueâ—… to bid the Gentleman be gone and â—…t the Doors of him saying that he heard he was turn'd Papist for which he hated the sight of him and so my Gentleman went away never daring to give him another Visit. In which he followed the Example of his Lords Grace of Canterbury that when Con was sent hither by the Pope to be assistant to the Queen in her Religion the wise Bishop kept himself at such a distance with him that neither Con nor Panzani before him who acted for a time in the same capacity could fasten any acquaintance on him nay he neglected all intercessions in that Case and did shun as it were the Plague the company and familiarity of Con. THEOLOGO-HISTORICVS Or the True Life Death OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Written by his Son in Law John Barnard D. D. Part. II. BEATI MORTUI qui in Domino Moriuntur Apoc. Cap. 14. v. 13. LONDON Printed 1683. THE TRUE LIFE and DEATH OF THE Most Reverend and Learned DIVINE Dr. PETER HEYLYN Part. II. LIKE a true Christian and obedient Son of the Church the good Doctor did patiently undergo all the persecutions reproaches and clamorous speeches both of Papists and Puritans not regarding what the height of their malice could speak or their virulent Pens could write against him because he was able to defend himself But that which drew all the odium and inveterate malice upon him from the several Factions then prevalent was his Loyalty Learning and Conscieuce that he constantly asserted the Kings Prerogative the Churches Rights not infringing the Peoples priviledges in the defence of which he was continually employed untill his Majesties most happy Restauration which was the longed hope and earnest desire of this poor distracted Nation Quia non aliud patriae discordantis remedium fuisse quam ut ab uno regeretur As the Historian said which cannot be Englished better than in the words of his Majesties late gracious declaration That Religion Liberty and property were all lost and gone when the Monarchy was shaken of and could never be reviv'd till that was restored Therefore the Peoples Representative in Parliament induced by necessity as well as duty did unanimously vote like the Elders of Judah to bring home their Lord the King to his native Kingdom of whose wish'd return we did then all sing as the Poet of Augustus Custos Gentis abes iam nimium Diu Maturum reditum pollicitus Patrum Sancto Concilio Luâ—…m redde lux Dux bone Patriae Instar veris enim vultus ubi tuus Affulsit populo gratior it dies Et Soles melius nitent That is to say Most Soveraign Guardian of this Nation Thy absence all lament Return to joy the expectation Of thy whole Parliament Good Prince the Glory of our Land Shine with thy Beams of Majesty Thy countenance like the Spring at hand Cheers up thy People merrily Our days now more delightfully are spent The Sun looks brighter in the Firmament And now the Sun shone more gloriously in our Hemisphere then ever the Tyrannical powers being dissolved as the historian said Non Cynnae non Syllae dominatio Pompei Crassique potentia in Caesarem The Kingdom ruled by its own natural Prince and only lawful Soveraign the Church restored to her ancient Rights and true Religion established among us every man sitting under his own Vine with joy who had been a good Subject and a Sufferer the Doctor was restored to all his former preferments of which he had been deprived for Seventeen years After his re-entrance into his Preâ—…dary of Westminster he had the Hoâ—…r to attend his Sacred Majesty at the â—…e of his Coronation in the Soâ—…y of which according to his office and place as Subdean of the Church he presented upon his knees the Royal Scepter unto his Majesty in whose exile
receive the greatest share of Knowledge and Understanding it being the principal Organ of sensâ—… for that use But the loss of his Eyes considering the Cause was no blemish to his Person but rather a Mark of Honour as the Caeci among the Romans a noble Family were so called because of the notable service they did for the publick good Claros illustres viros militiae domique ex oculorum vitio cognomenta invenere saith Alex. ab Alexand. Thus Constantine the great in honour of Paphnutius sufferings for Christian Religion kissed the hole in his face out of which the Tyrant Maximinus had bored his eye the good Emperor making much of the Socket saith Mr. Fuller when the Candle was pâ—…t out These outward Windows being shut the Doctor enjoyed more perfectly the sweet and seraphical contemplations of his own Mind without â—… disturbance from other Objects which â—…eing removed he did take a complacency and delight only in himself as Tully saith Habet animus quo se delectet etiam occlusis sensibus I may say truly of him thus though he was my Father in Law that he was the venerable Bede of our Age for many excellent Tractates he published which he never saw with his own Eyes and they were done in as exact a manner as when he had his faculty of sight at the best The like Socrates saith of Dydimus when he was blind he not only interpreted Origens Writings and made Commentaries upon them but set forth excellent Treatises to defend the Orthodox Faith against the Arians The Doctors Cosmography was the last Book he writ with his own hand after which voluminous work his Eyes failed him that he could neither see to write nor read without the help of an Amanuensis whom he kept to his dying day yet he was not so totally deprived of his sight as some imagin but he could discern a Body or Substance near hand though not the Phisiognomy of a Face so as to follow his Leader when he walk'd abroad He macerated his Body with the immoderate exercises of his mind ofteâ—… fasting and taking little or nothing for the space of two or three days when he was upon painful studies which made him look at such times like a Sceleton yet then he was also of a cheerful Spirit He followed no excercise for his health but walking in his Garden and then he used a kind of low whistling with himself either to recreate his Spirits or else as it were to sound an Alarm against his Enemies like the old Germans who affected a such like Tone asperitas soni fractum murmur when they went to War All this while he was in deep Meditation preparing for an encounter with his Adversary in some polemical discourse The Pen being his only Weapon in which he was as fortunate as Alexander with his Sword of whom it s said Cum nullo hostium unquam congressus est quem non vicerit He fought with none of his Enemies but he overcame them so the Doctor had the same good fortune in all his Pen-Combates to be Conqueror For which cause he was ordinarily called the Primipilus and chief Defender of Prelacy by Smectymnus the Bishops Darling by others the Puritan Episcopal man For his Zeal and Courage I may truly say of him he was a right Peter of whom Casaubon observes out of the Greek Fathers Petrum suisse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…ervido ingenio virum St. Peter was a man of a hot temper and disposition that set him forward on all occasions more than the other Disciples So the Doctor was of the like disposition naturally and inclined the more by study much watching and sitting up late at Nights that threw him often into Fevers to which he was very subject not withstanding his hot temper and constitution he did so wisely correct and govern it that he never fell into those Paroxisms as to suffer his reason to be extinguished with passion but his most fervent zeal was ever attended with deep knowledge for he had an acute Wit a solid judgement and exuberant fancy to which was adjoyned that which is rare to be found in all these excellences together a most prodigious and yet faithful Memory that he did not usually take Notes or make Collections of Readings out of Authors as most Scholars do but committed what he read to his own Memory which I believe never failed him in whatsoever he treasured up to make use of hereafter Therefore it was a pittiful charge of Mr. H. L' Estrange against him that he misreported the words of Pareus in putting down quomodo for quando to which the Doctor answers thus for himself whereby we may see what a true Repository of things his Memory was I must tell you saith he for him that is plundred of his Books and keeping no Remembrances and Collections of his Studies by him he cannot readily resolve what Eâ—…ition he followed in his consulting with that Author He always thought that Tenure in Capite was a nobler and and more honourable Tenure than to hold by Copy and therefore carelesly neglected to commit any part of his Readings unto Notes and Papers of which he never found such want as in this perticular which you so boldly charge upon him When the Esquire tax'd him again for having many Helpers as if he were beholden to other mens studies and pains about the composing of his Books that was such a notorious Scandal that every one who knew him could confute he in modest and most pious manner replied thus Though I cannot say that I have many Helpers yet I cannot but confess in all humble gratitude that I have one great Helper which is instar omnium even the Lord my God Auxilium meum a Domino my help cometh even from the Lord which hath made Heaven and Earth as the Psalmist hath it And I can say with the like humble acknowledgements of Gods mercies to me as Jacob did when he was askt about the quick dispatch which he had made in preparing savory meat for his Aged Father Voluntas Dei fuit tam cito occurreret mihi quod volebam Gen. 27. 20. It is Gods goodness and his only that I am able to do what I do And as for any humane Helpers as the French Courtiers use to say of King Lewis the Second That all his Council rid upon one Horse because he relyed upon his own Judgement and Abilities only So I may very truly say that one poor Hackny-horse will carry all my Helpers used be they never so numerous The greatest help which I have had since it pleased God to make my own sight unuseful to me as to writing and reading hath come from one whom I had entertained for my Clerk or Amanuensis who though he reasonably well understood both Greek and Latin yet had he no further Education in the way of Learning than what he brought with him from the
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam mihi When will they find another such his Fall Was most by me lamented much by All God Almighty had blessed him with eleven Children four of which are still living His Monument is erected on the North side of the Abbey in Westminster over aganst the Sub-Deans Seaâ—… with this following Epitaph which the Reverend Dean of the Church then Dr. Earl did himself compose in honour of his Memory DEPOSITUM MORTALE PETRI Heylyn S. â—… P. Hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarii Subdecaniâ—…s Viri plane memorabilis Egregiis dotibus instructissimi Ingenio acri faecundo Judicio subacto Memoria ad prodigium tenaci Cui adjunxit incredibilem in studiis patientiam Quae cessantihus oculis non cessarunt Scripsit varia Plurima Quae jam manibus hominum teruntur Et argumentis non vulgaribus Stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Et. Majestatis Regiae assertor Nec florentis magis utriusque Quam afflictâ—… Idemque perduellium Schismâ—…ticae factionis Impugnator acerrimus Contemptor invidiae Et animo infracto Plura ejusmodi meditanti Mors indixit silentium Ut sileatur Efficere non potest Obiit Anno Etat 63. In English A Monument of Mortality Of Peter Heylyn Doctor of Divinity Prebendary and Sub-Dean of this Church A man truly worthy of remembrance Endowed with excellent parts Of sharp and pregnant Wit A solid and clear Judgement A memory tenacious to a Miracle Whereunto he added an incredible Patience in Study And therein still persisted when his Eye sight ceased He Writ many Books upon various Subjects that are now in mens hands containing in them nothing that 's Vulgar either for Style or Argument On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches Right and the Kings Prerogative as well in their afflicted as prosperous estate Also he was a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks A despiser of Envy and a man of undaunted Spirit While he was seriously intent on these and many more like Studies Death commanded him to be silent but could not silence his Fame He died in the Sixty third year of his Age. A Catalogue of such Books as were written by the Learned Doctor SPurius a Tragedy M. S. 1616. Theomachia a Comedy M. S. 1619. Geography printed at Oxon twice A. D. 1621. and 1624. in Quarto and afterwards in A. D. 1652. inlarged into Folio under the Title of Cosmography An Essay called Augustus 1631. since inserted into his Cosmography The History of St. George Lond. 1631. reprinted 1633. The History of the Sabbath 1631. reprinted 1636. An Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's Letter to the Vicar of Grantham 1636. twice reprinted An Answer to Mr. Burton's two Seditious Sermons A. D. 1637. A short Treatise concerning A Form of Prayer to be used according to what is enjoyned in the Fifty fifth Canon written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester 1637. Antidotum Lincolniense or an Answer to the Bishop of Lincolns Book entituled Holy Table Name and Thing 1637. reprinted 1638. An uniform Book of Articles fitted for Bishops and Arch-Deacons in their Visitations 1640. De Jure paritatis Episcoporum or concerning the Peerage of Bishops 1640. M. S. A Reply to Dr. Hackwel concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist M. S. 1641. The History of Episcopacy first under the Name of Theoph. Churchman afterwards in his own Name reprinted 1657. The History of Liturgies written 1642. A Relation of the Lord Hoptons Victory at Bodmin A View of the Proceedings in thâ—… â—…est for a Pacification A Letter to a Gentleman in Lincolnshire about the Treaty A Relation of the Proceedings of Sir John Gell. A Relation of the Queens Return from Holland and the Siege of Newark The Black Cross shewing that the Londoners were the Cause of the Rebellion The Rebels Chatechism All these printed at Oxon. 1644. An Answer to the Papists groundless Clamor who nick-name the Religion of the Church of England by the Name of a Parliamentary Religion 1644. A Relation of the Death and Sufferings of Will. Laâ—…d Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1644. The stumbling Block of Disobedience removed written 1644. printed 1658. The Promised Seed in English Verse Theologia Veterum or an Exposition of the Creed Fol. 1654. Survey of France with an account of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey 1656. Quarto Exâ—…men Historicum or a Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes Falsities and Defects in some Modern Histories Lond. 1659 Certamen Epistolare or the Letter-Combat managed with Mr. Baxter Dr. Bernard Mr. Hickman Oct. Lond. 1659. Historia Quinque-Articularis Quarto Lond. 1660. Respondet Petrus or the Answer of Peter Heylyn D. D. to Dr. Bernard's Book entituled the Judgment of the late Primate c. Quarto Lond. 1658. Observations on Mr. Hamond L' Estrange's History of the Life of King Charles the First 1648. Extraneus Vapulans or a Defence of those Observations Lond. 1658. A short History of King Cbarles the First from his Cradle to his Grave 1658. Thirteen Sermons some of which are are an Exposition of the Parable of the Tares printed at London 1659. and again 1661. A Help to English History containing a Succession of all the Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls Bishops c. of England and Wales first written in the year 1641. under the 〈◊〉 of Robert Hall but now enlarged and in Dr. Heylyn's Name Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified c. Quarto 1657. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library Octavo Ecclesia Restaurata or the History of the Reformation Folio Lond. 1661. Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the Life and Death of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Folio Aerius Redivivus or the History of the Presbyterians Folio FINIS S. Jer. Com. in cap. 2. Esdr. Instit. lib. 1. cap. 9. Pref. to Hist. of Ref. Hor. de Ar. po Berâ—… Epis 135. Mart. Piaut His Preface Preface Pag. 59 60 61 62 63. Pag. 101. 102. 103. 104. Cic. de orat ftom p. 67 to 89. from p. 212 to p. 227. from p. 228 to 236. p. 61 to 174. pag. 241. Plat. in Parmen p. 38. p. 35. p. 123. p. 31. p. 120. pag. 13. Arist. Eth. lib. cap. 10. A. Gell. lib. 12. cap. 11. pag. 32. pag. 14. Pag 43. Pag. Epist. deep Jact lib. 7. c. 14. pag. 1. pag. 7. pag. 2. Chr. Astrol. lib. 1. cap. 11 pag. 2. Diog. Laer in vit Tacit. Annal lib. 6. Trith de Scrip. Eccl. pag. 86. Suid. Hist. Luth. colliq Vindicat. of the sincerity of the Prot. Rel. p. 11 12. Arch Bish. Life p. 5 6. At the Tryal of Pickering Groâ—… and Ireland 1678. David Par. Comment in Evang. S. Mat. Cap. 23. Maph in vita Ign. Oplat l. 5. c. 29. Lact. Instit. lib. 4. cap. 30. Thu. Hist. l. 22. Theod. Bez. de Minist Evang. Grad Pag. 91. Thu. Hist. â—… 13. Chr. Ocland 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Elizab. Diodor. Sicul l. 3. Tacit. l.
THEOLOGO-HISTORICVS Or the True LIFE OF THE Most Reverend DIVINE and Excellent HISTORIAN PETER HEYLYN D.D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Written by his Son in Law JOHN BARNARD D. D. Rec. of Waddington near Lincoln To correct the Errors supply the Defects and confute the Calumnies of a late Writer Also an Answer to Mr. BAXTERS false Accusations of Dr. HEYLYN Quisquis patitur peccare peccantem is vires subministrat Audaciae Arnob. L. 4. LONDON Printed for J. S. and are to be sold by Ed. Eckelston at the Sign of the Peacock in Little-Britain 1683. TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD NATHANIEL Lord Bishop of DURHAM My Honour'd Lord I Here present to your Lordship the true Effigies of Dr. Heylyn drawn to the Life so far as my Pen is able to preserve the memory of his person among the number of worthy men for his extraordinary merits I hope may be truly said to this Church and Nation wherein he labour'd while he liv'd to promote the publick Good of both that his Name will never be forgotten whil'st his Books are extant if we may believe the words of St. Jerome in this particular Vir sapiens saith he diebus noctibus laborat componit Libros ut memoriam suam posteris derelinquat so the Works which this painful Presbyter has publish'd to the World the Catalogue of them being not ordinary with the Writers of our Age and the matter in them upon several Subjects not vulgarly handled I doubt not will perpetuate his Memory to future Posterity especially among all good men who are sincere Lovers of Monarchy and Episcopacy I am sure for his Religion and Loyalty for the Cause of the King and Church of England no man could declare himself a more faithful and zealous example by constant writing and sufferings And for his conversation not only as a good Christian but as becomes a Clergy man it was so unblameable that his most inveterate enemies could never throw dirt in his Face for the least Immoralities Therefore for his sake whom your Lordship hath seen in his house at Abingdon where he made you heartily welcome in those dayes when I had the honour though so unworthy a person to dictate the first Principles of Academical Learning to you which God has since well blessed that you are one and I wish may long continue so of the Cheif Prelates in this Realm I doubt not I say for this Reverend and Learned Mans sake more than mine your Lordship will be pleased to take into your Patronage the Narrative of his Life which I have faithfully composed and retriv'd from the Ignorances and unpardonable deficiencies of a late Writer I am the more nearly concern'd for my Relation sake because Dr. Heylyn was not an ordinary common Clergy-man though he acted in a lower Sphere than the highest Dignitaries in our Church it s sufficiently known he was singularly well acquainted above many others with the principal motions and grand Importances in his time both of Church and State as any man may perceive who will take the pains to peruse his Writings And that he had not only a speculative Science in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Polity of this Nation but was oftentimes employed an Agent by the late King and Arch-Bishop the two blessed Martyrs of this Land in several matters committed to his particular Charge for which he incurr'd the odium of the Mobile and especially of those Factious People then call'd Puritans but now Fanaticks a Name though seems new and strange to them was of old first given by Calvin himself to those who deserting his and the Lutheran way of Reformation out of an aversion to Popery fell upon a contrary extreme Their hair-brain'd zeal without understanding and accompanied with invincible obstinacy in their Enthusiastical Dotages if Power was answerable to their Wills would bring a second desolation upon our Church and confusion in the Kingdom Both which God and his good Angels evermore protect that we may enjoy the inestimable comforts of Peace and Government our true Religion establish'd by Law and Scripture our sacred Ministry second to none for Learning and good Life generally and the ancient Order of Episcopacy deriv'd from the pure Fountain of Apostolical Times heartily prayeth Your Lordships most faithful Servant JOHN BARNARD Errata PAge 3. line 10. read acquainted p. 5. l. 16. r. transcriptions for transcription p. 10. l. 10. r. multavit for mulcavit p. 12. l. 15. r. volumes for volumnes p. 17. l. 2. r. E. p 19. l. 6. dele to p. 20. l. 7. r. joculari for voculari p. 20. l. 19. dele the p. 28. l. 8. r. two for too ibid. r. extremes for extreams p. 24. l. 28. r. thought for think p. 25 l. 4 dele which I sup p. 26 l 20 r. temerarius for teneâ—…arius p. 28 l. 14 r. believe for believed p. 29 l. 20 r. incesserat p. 31 l. 29 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 40 l. 23 r. supra for supera p. 32 in the marg r. Mileu p. 53 r. Euseb for Eusib. p. 54 l. 2 r. horresco for honesco ib. r. nefanda for nefranda p. 55 marg r. Suid. for Suida p. 57 l. 13 r. tends for bend p. 57 l. 24 r. Optatus for Oplatus p. 58 l. 25 r. Presbyterians for Presbiteriaas p. 93 l. 27 r. for p. 95 l. 21. r. manifestaque for manitestaque p. 101 l. 29 r. Levit. for Lenit p. 109 l. 20 r. Antagonist for Antogonist ib. marg r. And. for Aud p. 115 l. 11 add Justice of Peace for the County of Oxon. p. 123 marg r. in for tae p. 125 l. 3 r. Allegations for Accusations ibid r. Retractation for Retraction p. 139 l. 21 r. conference for conferrence p. 143 l. 29 r. where for when p. 144 l. 29 r. Turret for Tower p. 151 l. dele and p. 153 l. 20 r. sitting for sitting p. 186 l. 21 r. rights for right p. 157 l. 15 r. ut for p. p. 191 l. 18 add afterward p. 198 l. 3 r. commended for commanded p. 199 l. 8 r. he for be p. 209 l. 10 r. was for were p. 226 l. 9 r. himself for he p. 228 l. 15 r. there for their p. 255 l. 16. r. the Doctor lived p. 268 l. 23 r. faces for face p. 246 l. 28 dele Lux. r. 〈◊〉 There are more Errors than in the Errata which the good Reader is desired to pass by A Necessary Vindication OF Dr. HEYLYN AND THE AUTHOR of the following LIFE I Had never put my self to the trouble of writing and the Reader to his pains in reading the third Publication of Dr. Heylyn's Life but that I have been most grosly abused in the first and second upon the same Subject At the sight of both which I was not a little amazed but ashamed First to see an anonymous piece printed before the Doctors works which I had ordered otherwise And lately a little Book crept forth
with the Name of its Author Therefore I must crave leave of the Reader 's Patience to shew how I come concern'd and have been uncivilly dealt with by George Vernon as he writes himself Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire a Man utterly unknown to me before this affair Nec beneâ—…icio nec injuria mihi notus About four years agoe hearing that Mr Hen. Heylyn my Brother in law did intend to print his Fathers life before some miscellaneous pieces of his Writings I made a tender of my service to that work for which I could propose no other advantage to my self than my labour for my pains and only to testifie my real reverence and hearty affection to his Father and mine whom I ever honoured for his learning and good life And because I thought such a duty might be more reasonably expected from me his Son-in-Law than any other who was a stranger to him especially when he was pleased to put several papers into my hands to transcribe and had often discoursed various passages of his Life to me which I know none in the world can give an account of but my self Yet since his Sons fancy led him to make choice of another before me I was satisfied and did patiently expect the coming forth of the work not only Term after Term but year after year a very considerable time for so small a Tract But at last instead of the Life came a Letter to me from a Book-Seller in London viz. Mr. Chr. Wilkinson at the sign of the black Boy in Fleetstreet to desire my assistance for the thing as he writ was at a stand The printing of which Mr. Harper his Friend would not have undertaken had not Mr. Heylin assured him that I was engaged in it because it must needs be as he said lame and imperfect if it was done without my knowledge who was â—…quainted with all the transactions of the Doctors Life But to those Letters I returned several flat denyals thinking it below me to medle in that which another had before undertaken much less to be his journey man to patch up what I should have made new Besides I had no confidence in the Man so bold and forward in the work because he was a mere stranger to my Father Heylyn as he now publickly confesses and I beleive never saw the Doctors face in his Life Yet still I was importun'd and his writings were sent down to me withal to let me know the Writer was willing I should make what alterations in them and additions to them I pleased for which I have Mr. Wilkinsons letter by me in his verbis a person so honest as will not deny his own words Reverend Sir I Received your Letter and am again troublesome to you Mr. Harper assures me that he thought you had been first concern'd in writing your Fathers Life by Mr. Heylyn's recommendation But afterwards he found that one Mr. Vernon of Gloucester has collected the papers which compose the Life whom Mr. Heylyn desired to perfect the said Vernon has desired Mr. Harper to communicate the papers to whom he pleases and cross out or add what is thought convenient to which purpose he designes to send the said Life down to you and do with it as you think good and if you think â—…itting put your own Name to it for Mr Vernon will not have his name made use of I thought good to acquaint you hereof and desire you will be pleased to give me a line or too Sir I am Your obliged and humble Servant Christopher Wilkinson London February 18. 1680 At the receipt of this Letter I was unwillingly perswaded by some Friends to send to Lincoln for the Gentlemans Manuscript which had laid at the Carriers house above three weeks And when it came into my hands I found it indeed according to the Booksellers description in another Letter lame and imperfect And I must say ill begun and worse carried on and abruptly concluded Nay some things false and scandalous tending to the disreputation and not the honour of my Father Besides half the Life for want of other matter when those few old Notes failed him which Mr. Heylin had lent him was stuffed out with a long story of Westminster and a farrago of needless transcription out of Dr. Heylins Books for no other purpose then to prove the Doctor was no Papist Quorsum haec perditio For did ever any lay this to his charge but the Puritan Sectaries who were his profest Enemies I will call Doctor Burnet his very good Friend who I am sure will stand his second in this challenge for he saith I doubt not but he was a sincere Protestant But this only was his mishap first to write the History of Reformaaion and his second hath so far outgone him that ever since the poor Doctor has suffered in his Reputation and the Church of England nick-named with Popery which odious name first took its epoch and God be thanked is of no elder date from the beginning of the late History of Reformation and the thankful Parliament to the Historian Since then our Religion and Hierarchy has been hunch'd at by every Clown and Fanatick Others more unnaturally like Nero to Agrippina have searched into the secret Entrals of their Mother ript up her Bowels to see if they could find a Pope in her Belly Therefore the good old Doctor lyes no more under the malicious slander and suspicion of Popery than our dear Mother the Church of England for her excellent Wisdom in keeping up a medium beâ—…wixt the two extreams of Popery and Fanaticism Bâ—…t to return to my Gentleman again out of respect to my Brother because he was his Acquaintance I dealt most ingenuously with the Life made several Additions to it corrected many mistakes abated only the Harangue of Transcriptions and such passages as I thought were disgraceful reflections on my Reverend Father I put it into a method which was before very confused Cui lecta potenter â—…rit res Neo facundia deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo as the Poet said I also disposed both his and my own Discourses into distinct Paragraphs that the one might be known from the other And finally I writ this civil Letter of Thanks to him which I sent up to the Book-seller and ordered to be printed before the Life and it is as followeth Sir THough I have not the good Fortune to be aequainted with you nor in all probability eveâ—… shall at so far a distance as we live asuâ—… yet I cannot but express a most hearty thanks for your reverence and high esteem of Dr. Heylyn and for the pains you have bestowed about his Life In the carrying on of which notwithstanding I have taken the greater Task upon my self and should have undertook it wholly if I had been first engaged in it because I am related to the Family and know more material circumstances for this purpose than any man now living