the aforesaid Merchants as I have been informed by Dr. Tho. Marshall lately Rector of Linc. College who succeeded him in that office of Preacher there HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an antient and gentile family in a Market Town in Sommersetshire called Dulverton became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1606 took a degree in Arts as a member of that House made Fellow of Wadham Coll. by the Foundress thereof an 1613 and the year after proceeded in Arts being the first of all that Coll. that took that degree Afterwards he entred into the sacred function was made Priest by Lewis Bishop of Bangor in 1621 had the Rectory of Ashbrittle in Sommersetshire bestowed on him by the presentation of his Majesty an 1627 and three years after that of Pokington in the said County by the same hand About that time he was made Chaplain to Edward Lord Howard of Escrick so that thereby being capacitated to hold several Benefices had the Rectory of Odcombâ— in the same County given to him by his Maj. in Dec. 1644 Sir Joh. Sydenham Bt. to whom that Rectory did belong being then in his minority and a Ward Which three Benefices or at least two he lost soon after by the Parliamentarian commissioners of Sommersetshire He was a Person of a quaint and curious stile better at practical than School Divinity and was so eloquent and fluent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongue Sydenham He hath published these Sermons following Five Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1627. qu. 1 The Athenian Babler on Acts 17.18 2 Jacob and Esau c. on Rom. 9.18 3 Arraignment of an Arrian on Joh. 8.58 4 Moses and Aaron c. on Exod. 4.12 5 Natures overthrow and deaths triumph on Eccles 12.5 preached at the funeral of Sir Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimpton 15. Dec. 1625. Other Sermons Lond. 1630. qu. The first of which is called The passing bell on Psal 32.6 2 The rich mans warning peece on Psal 62.10 3 The waters of Marah and Meribah on Rom. 12.1 Sermons upon solemn occasions preached in several auditories Lond. 1637. qu. They are 8 in number and the first is entit The well-tun'd Cymbal on Psal 15.16 preached at the dedication of an Organ lately set up at Bruton in Sommersetshire All which Sermons were at their preaching and publishing wonderfully cried up by most People of understanding but books have their credit or discredit from the fancy of their readers as they please to like or dislike He paid his last debt to nature in Sommersetshire in sixteen hundred and fifty or thereabouts but where buried unless at Dulverton I cannot tell nor whether he had any other Sermons published after his death JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Maries Hall where he was observed by his contemporaries to be studious and a good Disputant Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Minister of Broadclist in Devonshire and wrot A discovery of the World to come according to the Scriptures c. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick oct What other things he hath publish'd I know not nor any thing else of him SAMUEL YERWORTH or Jeruvorthus as he writes himself in the title of the book following was born in Dorsetshire became a Student in Oriel Coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards being noted for his excellency in the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue taught and read it privately divers years in Oxon to young Students and for their benefit wrot Introductio ad linguam Ebraeam brevissima praecipua duntaxat ejus documenta eaque ex optimis Grammaticis collecta complectens c. Oxon. 1650. oct At the time when it was published he gave notice to the Reader that if the said introduction should be kindly received he would put forth a more full and compleat Grammar with Scholia added to each Chapter as need should require but whether the Grammar was acceptable among Scholars and so consequently the Author stood to his promise I know not WILLIAM HEMMINGS Son of John Hemmings a Comedian or Actor of playes with Will. Shakespear was born in London elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1621. aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1628 and at hours of recess from happier employments than the delight of poetry composed The fatal contract comedie Lond. 1653. qu. printed from the original copy by the care of A. T. and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was revived not many years since under the title of Love and revenge with some alterations and in 1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the title of The Eunuch a Trag. This being founded on a French Chronicle was said in the first edition of it 1653. to be a French Comedie The Jewes Tragedy or their fatal and final overthrow by Vespasian and Titus his Son Lond. 1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentick History of Josephus Our Author Hemmings left behind him greater monuments of his worth and ability but whether they are yet published I cannot tell However the Fatal contract having justly gained an esteem with men of excellent judgments by several copies of it that flew abroad in Ms was therefore published for the satisfaction of all Persons especially such who had lighted upon imperfect copies CHRISTOPHER LOVE Son of a Father of both his names was born at Cardiff in Glamorganshire became a Servitour of New Inn in Midsommer or Act term 1635 aged 17 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders and would with great impudence and conceitedness ascend the pulpit in the Church of S Peter in the Baylie joyning to the said Inn and there hold out prating for more than an hour before Academical as well as Lay auditors In 1642 he proceeded Master of Arts and was Junior of the Act then celebrated at which time he performed the exercise of that office with more confidence than was seemly He himself tells us that when he was a Scholar in Oxon and Master of Arts he was the first Scholar that he knew of or ever heard of in Oxon that did publickly refuse in the Congregation house to subscribe unto those impositions or Canons imposed by the Archb. touching the Prelates and Common prayer For which tho they would not denie him his degree yet he was expelled the congregation never to sit as a member among them c. About that time he left the University went to or near London and became a sedulous preacher up of treason and rebellion About the beginning of the Wars saith he I was the first Minister that I knew of in England who was accused of preaching treason and rebellion meerly for maintaining in a Sermon in Kent at Tenterden the lawfulness of a defensive War at the first breaking out and irruption of our troubles c So that being
his imprisonment He departed this mortal life on the 12 day of Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Church at Morton-Pinkney in Northamptonshire as I have been informed by his son Hen. Bagshaw D. D. sometimes a Student of Christ Church in Oxon who having published several things ought hereafter to be remembred in the Append. to these Athenae I shall make mention of another Edw. Bagshaw son of the aforesaid Edward under the year 1671. WILLIAM COLE Son of Joh. Cole of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Bach. of Div. and sometimes Fellow of New College was born and educated in Grammar learning there entred a Student in the University in 1642 and soon after was made one of the Portionists commonly called Postmasters of Merton Coll. by his Mothers brother Joh. French one of the senior Fellows of that house and publick Registrary of the University When he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he was made a publick Notary to the end that he might supply the said place of Registrary when Mr. French was either absent or indisposed In the latter end of 1650 he took one degree in Arts his Uncle being then dead left the University retired to London and lived several years at Putney near that City where he became the most famous Simpler or Herbarist of his time At length upon the Kings Restoration in 1660 he was made Secretary to Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winchester in whose service he died His works are these The Art of Simpling or an introduction to the knowledge of gathering of Plants wherein the definitions divisions places descriptions c. are compendiously discoursed of c. Lond. 1656. oct Perspicillum microcosmologicum or a prospective for the discovery of the lesser world wherein Man is a Compendium c. Printed with the former Adam in Eden or Natures Paradise The History of Plants Herbs Flowers with their several original names c. Lond. 1657. fol. Into this book if I am not mistaken is remitted The Art of Simpl. As for the book intit The Garden of Eden or an accurate description of all flowers c. which was printed in 1653 't was written by that learned and great Observer Sir Hugh Plat Knight Our Author Will. Cole died either at Winchester or at Farnham in Surrey in sixteen hundred sixty and two aged 36 or thereabouts but where buried I know not I find another Will. Cole who published a book in t A Rod for the Lawyers who are hereby declared to be the grand Robbers and Deceivers of the Nation c. Lond. 1659. qu. But of what University he was if of any at all I know not THOMAS WEAVER Son of Tho. Weav was born in the City of Worcester applied his poetical genie to Academical Learning in Ch. Ch. an 1633 aged 17 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1640 about which time he was made one of the Chaplains or petty-Canons of the Cathedral from which place being ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he shifted from place to place and lived upon his wits a Specimen of which he published to the world intit Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery Printed 1654. in oct In which book is a Ballad intit Zeal over-heated or a relation of a lamentable fire which hapned in Oxon in a religious brothers Shop c. to the tune of Chivey Chase The said religious brother was Tho. Williams a Milliner living sometimes against Allsaints Church where holy Cornish teached that is Hen. Cornish a Presbyterian Minister Canon of Ch. Ch. by Authority of Parliament an 1648. But the said Songs and Poems being looked upon by the godly men of those times as seditious and libellous against the Government he was imprison'd and afterwards tried for his life Whereupon his book being produced in open Court after it had been proved that he was the Author of it the Judge read some pages and then spake to this effect Gentlemen the person that we have here before us is a Scholar and a man of wit Our Forefathers had Learning so much in honor that they enacted that those that could but as much as read should never be hanged unless for some great crime and shall we respect it so little as to put to death a man of parts I must tell you I should be very unwilling to be the person that should condemn him and yet I must be forced to it if the Jury bring him in guilty c. So that upon this harangue too large to be all here set down the Jury brought him in not guilty Whereupon being set at liberty he was ever after highly valued by the boon and generous Royalist He hath also certain Epigrams extant which I have not yet seen and wrot the copy of verses called The Archbishop of York's revolt printed in the Poems of Joh. Cleaveland besides divers pieces of Poetry printed in several books published in his time After his Majesties return in 1660 he was made Excise-man for Leiverpole in Lancashire and was commonly called Captain Weaver but prosecuting too much the crimes of Poets brought him to his grave in the Church there in the prime and strength of his years on the third day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two About the beginning of the year 1656 was a book published entit Choice Drollery with Songs and Sonnets Which giving great offence to the Saints of that time who esteem'd it a lewd and scandalous thing it was order'd by the Protectors Council to be burnt on the 8. of May the same year But who the Author of that book was I cannot yet tell ROBERT SANDERSON a younger Son of Rob. Sanderson was born at Rotheram in Yorkshire on the 19 of Sept. 1587 29 Elizab. educated in the Grammar School there sent by his Relations to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1601 afterwards matriculated a member of the University as a Ministers Son took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Lent term 1604 elected Fellow of the said Coll. 3. May 1606 having then a Metaphysical brain and matchless memory In Mich. term 1607 he was admitted Master of Arts and in July following he compleated that degree by standing in the Act. In 1611 he was made Deacon and Priest by Dr. King B. of London in 1614 he stood to be Proctor of the University but missed it and the year after he published his Logick Lectures that he had before read in the publick Refectory of Linc. Coll. So that his name being then famous he was elected Proctor with great ease and willingness an 1616. The next year he was admitted Bach. of Div. and the year after that became Rector of Wibberton near to Boston in Lincolnshire but surrendred it up as he did his Fellowship in 1619 because it was a bad air The same year he became Rector of Bothby-paynel in the said County was made Chaplain to Dr. George
and death of that great Cynick Diogenes whom Lucretius stiles Canis coelestis the heavenly dog c. Lond. 1615. in tw The guide of honour or the ballance wherein she may weigh her actions c. Lond. 1634 in tw written by the author in foreigne parts The female glory or the life of the Virgin Mary pr. at Lond. with cuts 1635 in oct This little book pen'd in a flourishing stile was in another impression intit The President of female perfection or the life c. But the said book being esteemed egregiously scandalous among the Puritans who look'd upon it as purposely publish'd to encourage the papists Hen. Burton Minister of Friday street in London did pretend to discover in his Sermon entit For God and the King several extravagant and popish passages therein and advised the people to beware of it For which and nothing else as W. Prynne tells us he was brought into the Starr-chamber and there censured But on the contrary this popish book of Staffords as he calls it with many scandalous passages in it were by the Archbishops special direction professedly justified both by Dr. Heylyn in his Moderate answer to Mr. Burton and by Christoph Dow in his Innovations justly charged and this book neither called in nor corrected so audaciously popish was he grown in this particular among many others c. See more in Canterburies Doome p. 215.216.217 Our Author Stafford hath also written A just apology or vindication of a book intit The female glory from the false and malevolent aspersions cast upon it by Hen. Burton of late deservedly censured in the Starr-chamber c. Whether this book was ever published I know not I once saw it in a quarto MS. in the library of Dr. Tho. Barlow given to him by Sir Joh. Birkenhead Honour and virtue triumphing over the grave exemplified in a fair devout life and death adorned with the surviving perfections of Henry Lord Stafford lately deceased which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sun sets in a serene sky c. Lond. 1640. qu. At the end of which are divers Elegies upon the death of the said Lord mostly written by Oxford men especially those of S. Johns Coll. Our author A. Stafford who was Kinsman to the said Lord hath also translated from Latine into English The oration of Justus Lipsius against Calumny Lond. 1612. oct What other things he hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died as I have been informed in the time of the Civil Wars SHAKERLEY MARMION son and heir of Shak. Marm. Esq sometimes Lord of the Mannour of Ainoe near Brackley in Northamptonshire was born in the Mannour house at Ainoe in January 1602 and baptized there 21 of the said month educated in Grammar learning in the free school at Thame in Oxfordshire under Rich. Boucher commonly called Butcher LL. Bac. the then Master thereof became a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1617 took the degrees in Arts and soon after was cried up for a noted Poet and a copious writer of English comedy which appeared by these his writings following which afterwards were made public Hollands Leaguer or a discourse of the life and actions of Donna Britannica Hollandia the Archmistris of the wicked women of Utopia A comedy Lond. 1632. quart A fine Companion com Lond. 1633. qu. Cupid and Psiche or an Epick poem of Cupid and his mistress as it was lately presented to the Prince Elector Lond. 1637. qu. 'T is a moral poem contained in two books the first having in it four sections and the other three The Antiquary com Lond. 1641. qu. besides copies of verses dispersed in several books and other things in Ms which he left ready for the press but are either lost or in obscure hands This Poet Marmion who was descended from an antient and noble family was a goodly proper Gentleman and had once in his possession seven hundred pounds per ann at least but died as the curse is incident to all Poets poor and in debt about the beginning or in the height of the civil war JOHN BARCHAM second son of Laur. Barcham of S. Leonards in Devonshire by Joan his wife dau of Edw. Bridgman of the City of Exeter Son of Will. Barcham of Meerfield in Dorsetshire where his ancestors had lived more than three generations before him was born in the parish of S. Mary the Moore within the said City entred a sojourner of Exeter Coll. in Michaelm Term 1587 aged 15 years admitted scholar of Co. Ch. Coll. 24 Aug. in the year following Probationer-Fellow 21 June 1596. being then M. of A. and in orders Afterwards being Bach. of Div. he was made Chaplain to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. as afterwards he was to his successour Rector and Dean of Bockyng in Essex and Doctor of his faculty He was a person very skilful in divers Tongues a curious Critick a noted Antiquary especially in the knowledge of Coins an exact Historian Herald and as 't is said an able Theologist He was also a strict man in his life and conversation charitable modest and reserv'd in his behaviour and discourse but above all he was remarkable for those good qualities which became a man of his profession He hath written The history or life of John King of England which is the same that is in the History of Great Britaine published by John Speed and the same which sheweth more reading and judgment than any life besides in that History 'T is reported also that he wrot or at least had a chief hand in composing The hist or life of Hen. 2. K. of Engl. Remitted by Speed also in his said History Which Hist. or Life Dr. Barcham wrot as my Author says in opposition or rather to suppress the same written by one Boulton a Rom. Catholick who did too much favour the haughty carriage of Thomas Becket c. This Boulton was the same with Edmund Boulton who wrot The elements of Armorie Lond. 1610. qu. and the Carmen gratulatorium de traductione corporis Mariae Reginae Scotorum à Petroburgo ad Westmonasterium Dr. Barcham hath also written The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. much used by Novices and the best in that kind for method that ever before was published This book being mostly composed in his younger years he deemed it too light a subject for him to own being then when published a grave Divine Chapl. to an Archb. and not unlikely a Dean Wherefore being well acquainted with John Guillim an Officer of Arms he gave him the copy who adding some trivial things to it published it with leave from the Author under his own name and it goeth to this day under the name of Guillims Heraldry Our Author also published Crackanthorps book against Marc. Ant. de Dominis and wrot a preface to it He also wrot a book concerning coins in Ms but
The capacious title of these collections is The History of Great Britaine being the life and raign of K. James the first relating to what passed from his first access to the crown till his death Lond. 1653. fol. In which History which some call an infamous Pasquil you 'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the last Earl of Essex and his allies and to underprize such as were more in the Kings favour than he The reason is because he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber and had received an annual pension from him several years After his death he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick and by him made his Steward of whose Father named Robert also he maketh honourable mention in the said History in which may easily be discerned a partial Presbyterian veine that constantly goes throughout the whole work And it being the Genie of those People to pry more than they should into the Courts and Comportments of Princes do take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them Further also our Author having endeavour'd in many things to make the world believe that K. James and his Son after him were enclined to popery and to bring that Religion into England hath made him subject to many errors and misrepresentations He gave way to fate at Felsted near to Little Lighes the seat of the Earl of Warwick in the County of Essex about the beginning of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there After his death the said History coming into the hands of a certain Doctor had some alterations made therein as 't is said by him who shaped it according to his desire In the year before the said Hist was published came out a most desperate and libellous book full of lyes mistakes nonsense c. entit The divine Catastrophe of the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts or a short History of the rise raigne and ruin thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. are discovered c. Lond. 1652. oct written by one who pretended to be a diligent observer of the times named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet the same who had written and published A discourse concerning the fitness of the posture necessary to be used in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament Lond. 1642. qu. The said book called The divine Catastrophe c. being highly resented by the Royalists the Author of it therefore was condemn'd of great baseness and ingratitude His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time and therefore he being out of my road I have no more to say of him but this that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury that after he had left the University he setled on his patrimony in Cambridgshire in which County I suppose he was born that afterwards he served in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after and was Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgshire of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham At length he siding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion had his share of sufferings for that cause while the war lasted wrot a sharp Pamphlet against the Kings violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament as he calls them by endeavouring to seize upon and imprison five of the members thereof 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occasions to blast the reputation of his Majesty and his followers At length having lived to see the Line of the Steuarts extirpated for a time died at Wicket in Cambridgshire in the beginning of the year 1657. JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampshire was born there educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father the most noted Schoolmaster in all that Country became a Student in this Univ. in the fifteenth year of his age an 1617 took a degree in Arts and being Masters standing was a Candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. in 1624 at which time shewing himself an admirable proficient in Philosophy Latine and Greek Learning was the first of five that was elected Afterwards being made compleat Fellow and Master of Arts he had more liberty to pursue his critical studies much advanc'd by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a senior Fellow of that House who finding him a compleat Master and gentile withal was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury At length in the year 1633 his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Person he sent him to travel into the Eastern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him The voyage he performed not without great danger and having satisfied himself with many curiosities return'd in 1640 to the great content of his Patron and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge he became not only the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this University but also superior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which especially that of Astronomy his learning was so made manifest to the remnant of the Academians then left that he gained thereby to himself an unperishing reputation But then again the Parliamentarian visitation coming on the impetuous Visitors mostly Presbyterians who did not or at least would not discern between Dunces and Scholars threw him out of his Lecture and right to his Fellowship which by supreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Astr Lecture and the rather for this cause that he avoided an answer to several articles of misdemeanour pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon that were by the endeavours of some factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and prosecuted Among them I find these 1 That he betrayed the College in discovering to the Kings Agents 400 l. in the treasury which thereupon was taken away for the Kings use 2 That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a considerable part of the College goods without the consent of the company and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houses 3 That he feasted the Queens confessors and sent divers presents to them among which was an holy thorne and that he was more familiar with them than any true Protestants use to be 4 That he was the occasion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenship for adhering to the Parliament and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place 5 That he was the occasion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button puritannical fellows were turned out of their respective offices and chambers in the College because they abode in the Parliaments quarters c. 6 That he gave leave to Father Philips the Queens confessor and Wyatt one of her
what he had done and also took off much of that opinion which Prideaux had among the Puritans In 1638 he became Rector of South Warnborough in Hampshire by exchange with Mr. Tho. Atkinson of S. Johns Coll. for Islip near Oxon and the same year he was put into Commission for the Peace for Hampshire On Ap. 10. an 1640 he was chose Clerk of the Convocation for Westminster and soon after brought into great trouble by his old Enemy Williams B. of Lincolne W. Prynne and certain of his Parishioners of Ailresford By the first because Heylyn had been a favourite of Laud and had continual contentions with him in the Coll. of Westminster about various matters relating to Religion and the Government of that College By the second because he had furnished the Lords of the Council with matter out of his Histrio-Mastix to proceed against him in order to the loosing of his ears c. and by the last because he had translated the Communion Table from the middle to the upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Ailresford and brought in there certain Ornaments to be used in the celebration of Divine Service In the year 1642 leaving his Preb. of Westminster and his Rectories in Hampshire upon a foresight of ruin to come he followed the King to Oxon where having little to live upon did by the Kings command write the weekly intelligence called Mercurius Aulicus which had been begun by John Birkenhead who pleased the generality of Readers with his waggeries and buffoonries far more than Heylyn In the beginning of the year following 1643 he was voted a Delinquent in the H. of Commons sitting at Westm because of his retirement to the King and thereupon an order was sent to the Committee at Portsmouth to sequester his Estate and seize upon his Goods Which Order being put in execution his incomparable Libâ—ary was taken away and carried to Portsmouth In 1644 hâ—s singular good Lord and Patron Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury being beheaded his hopes of rising higher in the Church were totally blasted So that upon the loss of him and his spiritual estate he stuck to his temporal for which he compounded in Goldsmiths Hall and to the earning of money by writing books In 1645 he left Oxon and shifted from place to place like the old travels of the Patriarchs and in pity to his necessity some of his friends of the loyal party entertained him The same year he setled for a time with his Wife and Children in Winchester but that City with the Castle being treacherously delivered up to their enemies he left them in a disguise and being entertained by several Loyalists removed at length to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire in 1647 where taking a farm of his Nephew Col. Hen. Heylyn in the year following lived there six years or more exercising his Pen in writing of Books the publishing of which especially his Geography which he inlarged to a folio was a great relief to him Thence he removed to Abendon in Berks where he bought an house and land called Lacies Court which being but five miles from Oxon he was therefore furnished with Books at his pleasure either from Shops the Libraries of acquaintance there particularly Barlow of Qu. Coll. or by his repair to Bodlies Library and wrot several things in defence of the Church of England and the true genuine sense thereof Afterwards he suffer'd in his Estate by Decimation which trick being brought up by Oliver while Protector many Families thereby especially such that had before compounded were thereby undone In 1660 upon his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his spiritualities but never rose higher than Subdean of Westminster which was a wonder to many and a great discontent to him and his but the reason being manifest to those that well knew the temper of the Person I shall forbear to make mention of that matter any farther He was a Person endowed with singular gifts of a sharp and pregnant wit solid and clear judgment In his younger years he was accounted an excellent Poet but very conceited and pragmatical in his elder a better Historian a noted Preacher and a ready or extemporanean Speaker He had a tenacious memory to a miracle whereunto he added an incredible patience in study in which he persisted when his Eye-sight failed him He was a bold and undaunted man among his friends and foes tho of very mean port and presence and therefore by some of them he was accounted too high and proud for the function he professed On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches right and the Kings Prerogative either in their afflicted or prosperous estate a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks a despiser of envy and in mind not at all discouraged He writ many books upon various Subjects containing in them many things that are not vulgar either for stile or argument and wrot also History pleasant enough but in some things he was too much a Party to be an Historian and equally an enemy to Popery and Puritanisme His works which are very many are these Spurius a Tragedie Made in the year 1616. Acted privately in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. but never printed Theomachia a Com. Made in the year 1618 but not printed Microcosmus A description of the great World Oxon. 1622. 24 c. qu. Enlarged afterwards to a great folio entit Cosmography in four books Lond. 1652. 1664. 77. 82. This Cosmography was the last book that its Author wrot with his own hand 1651 for after it was finished 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 The Historie of that most famous Saint and Soldier of Jesus Christ S. George of Cappadocia asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church and opposition of the present Lond. 1631. and 33. qu. The institution of the most noble Order of S. George named the Garter Printed with the former Catalogue of all the Knights of the Garter from the first institution to this present as also of the principal Officers thereunto belonging Printed also with the Hist of St. George 1631. and 33. In which last edition is at the end A review of the whole work consisting of additions and emendations On the 2 day of Feb. 1630 being Candlemas day the Author of the said History and its adjuncts was brought by Dr. Laud B. of London a great incourager of learning and industry to his Majesty being then in his Bedchamber at Whitehall to whom he did present them Whereupon his Maj. looking upon the book he did graciously accept of it and was pleased to hold some conference with the Author about that argument Afterwards the Author presented several copies fairly bound to all such Knights of the Order of the Garter and men of eminency that were then in London and Westminster and was used by
Apostles by their most macerated bodies and countenances and were indeed in that respect pitied by many comforted and bless'd by true Hearts as they passed the streets After his Majesties restauration he did not read the English Liturgy in his Church in Covent garden neither did the Parishioners enjoy it from the mouth of another till the latter end of 1661 at which time they petitioned the Bishop of London to have it read unto them In the interim this fat Doctor had a fat Deanery design'd him by his Majesty upon a supposal that he would conform and 't was verily thought that he would have taken it as Reynolds had the Bishoprick of Norwych could he have been ascertain'd that the Kings declaration about Ecclesiastical affairs published at his restauration would have indulged him while he was a Dean as then while he was a parochial Minister or as 't is said had not a female Saint who had read many of his books and wrot much of his Sermons extracted from them every sentence that made for the Covenant for the government by presbytery for the honor of Smectymnus or that made against the Bishops and Liturgy of the Church all put in a Letter and sent by her to him Which of these two was the reason I am not certain Sure it is that while these things were agitating and after he had taken a great deal of pains as a commission'd person by his Majesty in the Savoy conference about the Liturgy the Act of uniformity was published and rather than he would conform he not only refused the Deanery but left his rectory at Barthelmew day an 1662. Afterwards he did set up a Conventicle in Covent-garden and tho imprison'd for it for some time in the Gate-house yet as 't was thought he got more from the Brethren than if he had been a Dean or had continued in his rectory His works are these Many Sermons as 1 Meat out of the Eater or hopes of Unity in and by divided and distracted times Fast sermon before the House of Commons 30. June 1647 on Zech. 14.9 latter part Lond. 1647 qu. 2 Englands spiritual languishing with the causes and cure Fast serm before the H. of Com. 28. June 1648 on Rev. 2.3 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord on Rev. 14 13. 4 Sermon before the L. Protector and Parl. on a publick day of humiliation 24. Sept. 1656. on Amos 4.12 5 The Saints triumph over death Fun serm on Ch. Love 25. Aug. 1651. on 1. Cor. 15.57 Lond. 1658 oct 6 Sermon on Matth. 15.7.8 Printed in the book called The morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Farewel sermon at Barthelmew-tyde on Heb. 12.2 Lond. 1662. oct This sermon tho put out under his name yet it was disclaimed by him under his hand in the common News of Sept. 24. an 1663. published by Roger L'estrange 8 How we ought to improve baptisme on Acts 2.38 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 9 Serm. on 2. Thes 2.15 Published in the Morning exercise against popery in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 10 Serm. on Rom. 5.12 Published in The morning exercise methodized c. Lond. 1676. qu. 11 Twenty sermons on the Psalms Acts c. Lond. 1678. qu. with his picture before them published by Dr. Will. Bates 12 Eighteen sermons on the second Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Thess containing the description use growth and fall of Antichrist c. Lond. 1679 oct 13 Sermons on the 119 Psal Lond. 1681. fol. They are in number 190 and have his picture before them This is called The first vol. of Sermons 14 A second Volume of sermons in two parts The first containing 27 sermons on the 25 of S. Matthew forty and five on the 17 of S. John and twenty and four on the sixth to the Romans The second part containing 45 sermons on the eighth to the Romans and 40 on the fifth Chapt. of the sec Epist to the Corinthians c. Lond. 1684. 85. fol. 15 The third Vol. of sermons in two parts The first containing sixty six sermons on the eleventh Chapt. to the Hebrews To which is annex'd A Treatise of the life of faith The second part contains A Treatise of self denial with several sermons on the sacrament of the Lords Supper and other occasions c. Lond. 1689. fol. Besides these there is now May 1691 prepared for the press a fourth Vol. in fol. of select sermons on several Texts A practical commentary or exposition on the Epistle of S. James Lond. 1651. 53. qu. Exposition on the Epistle of S. Jude Lond. 1652. qu. Smectymnus redivivus being an answer to a book entit An humble remonstrance c. Lond. 1653. 60. 61. This book called Smectymnus was written as I have elsewhere told you by Steph. Marshall Edm. Calamy Thom. Young Matth. Newcommen and Will. Spurstow and first of all published in 1641 being the year after the said Humble remonstrance was published Practical exposition of the Lords Prayer Lond. 1684. oct with his picture before it He also made some additions to the second edition of The life and death of Ignatius Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of Exeter written by Ferdinando Nicolls Minister of S. Mary Arches in Exeter Lond. 1655. in tw Also an Epistle commendatory before A Commendatory or Exposition on the second Epist to the Corinth Lond. 1655. fol. Written by Dr. Rich. Sibbs was one of the three that collected and published Thirty and one select sermons written by Will. Strong and wrot the Epistle to the reader before the second edit of The larger and lesser Catechismes of the Assemb of Div. Lond. 1658. qu. with several other little things of the like stamp He paid his last debt to nature after he had ran through many changes on the 18. of Oct. S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was accompanied to his grave in the Church at Stoke-Newington near London before-mention'd by hundreds of the brethren At which time Dr. Will. Bates one of his perswasion the same who also had been offered a Deanery with our author if he would conform preached his funeral Sermon Which being published the Reader if curious may see therein the character and encomiums of him the said Dr. Manton JOHN PARRY son of Edw. Parry sometimes Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland was born in the City of Dublin educated in Trin. Coll. there till he was Bach. of Arts Afterwards going to Oxon in the latter end of 1650 was incorporated there in the same degree and about that time being made Fellow of Jesus Coll. he proceeded in Arts. At his Majesties restauration he went into Ireland in the quality of a Chaplain to James then Marquess afterwards Duke of Ormonde L. Lieutenant of that Realm took the degree of Bach. of Div. at Dublin 26. Jan. 1660 and in the next year returning to Oxon for a time was incorporated in
want of understanding tho 't is well known as the E. of Devonshires Chaplain hath said he several times within two years after his death received the Sacrament from him with seeming devotion He dyed at Hardwyke before mentioned about 10 of the clock at night on the fourth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine Whereupon his body being wrap'd up in a woollen shroud and coffin'd was two days after accompanied by most of the E. of Devonshires Family and some of the neighbourhood after they had received a funeral entertainment to the Parish Church called Hault-Hucknell where in an Isle joyning to the Church he was inter'd with the service in the Common-prayer book close to the rail of the monument of the Grandmother of the then present Earl of Dev. Soon after was a Marble stone with an inscription thereon laid over his grave the contents of which and a farther account of the person you may at large see in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium following the life in prose before mention'd written by himself and published by Rich. Blackbourne born in London sometimes M. of A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of Leyden in Holland The materials of which were all or at least the most part taken from the English life in Mâ— of Thom. Hobbes largely and more punctually written by John Aubrey his antient acquaintance born at Easton-Piers near Malmsbury bred under the same Master who had been a Pedagogue above 40 years that educated Hobbes in Grammatical learning afterwards he became Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in Oxon then a Student in the Middle Temple and afterwards a member of the Royal Society Mr. Hobbes by his last Will and Test dat 25. Sept. 1677. did bequeath to Mary Tirell Daughter of his deceased Broâ—ther Edm. Hobbes 40 l. To Eleanor Harding Daughter of the said Edm. 40 l. To Elizab. Alaby Daughter of Thomas Alaby 200 l for her furtherance in marriage which Eliz. was then an Orphan and committed to the tuition of Mâ— Hobbes Exec. to the said Tho. as also an 100 l which thâ— Earl of Devon gave him to dispose in his will to be equalâ—ly divided among the Grandchildren of his said Bâ—otheâ— Edm. Hobbes to the eldest of which named Thom. Hobbes he had before given a piece of Land He also lefâ— considerable Legacies to his Executor James Wheldon a servant to the Earl of Devonshire who before had for many years been his Amanuensis EDWARD BYSSHE or Bissaeus as he writes himself Son of Edw. Bysshe of Burstow in Surrey Esq a Counsellor of Linc. Inn was born at Smallfield in the Parish of Burstow the capital tenement of which he and six of his Ancestors or more were not only Lords of but of divers other Lands in Horne near thereunto and elsewhere in the said County and some of them also owners of the Mannour of Bysshe or Bysshe Court situated and being between Burstow and Smallfield As for our author whom we are now to mention he became a Communer of Trin. Coll. in 1633 aged 18 years but before he took a degree he went to Lincolns Inn studied the Common Law and was made a Barrester In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Blechenley in Surrey to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year and afterwards taking the Covenant he was about 1643 made Garter King of Arms in the place of Sir John Borough who had followed his Majesty to Oxon. On the 20 of Oct. 1646 there were votes passed in the House of Commons that he the said Bysshe should be Garter K. of Arms and Clarenceaux and Will. Râ—ley should be Norroy or the Northern K. of Arms and that a committee be appointed to regulate their fees so that if Bysshe was ever invested in the said office of Clarenceaux as several of the Coll. of Armes say he was then did he succeed Arthur Squibb who had obtained that office by the endeavours of his Son in Law Sir John Glynn a noted and leading member in that Parliament upon the recess to his Majesty at Oxon of Sir Will. Le Neve Howsoever it is sure I am that in the greatest part of the interrupted times our aâ—thor Bysshe was both Garter and Clarenceaux his genie being more adequat to Arms and Armory in which he did excel than to the municipal laws In 1654 he was elected Burgess for Rigate in Surrey to serve in that Convention called the Little Parliament that met at Westm 3. Sept. the same year and in 1658 a Burgess for Gatton in the same County for that Convention that met at the same place 27 Jan. in that year After the Kings restauration he was forced to leave his Gartership to make room for Sir Edw. Walker who had that office conferr'd on him by his Majesty on the death of Sir Hen. S. George an 1644. and with much ado obtaining the place of Clarenceaux Sir Will. Le Neve being then distracted had the honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him In 1661 he was chosen Burgess for Blechenley to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May the same year which continuing 17 years or more he became a Pensioner as 't is said and received 100 l. every Session and yet was very poor In the rebellious times he was a great gainer by being a Parliament man and thereupon became an encourager of learning and learned men particularly that noted Critick John Gregory of Ch. Ch. He had a very choice Library of books all richly bound with gilt dorses but after the Kings restauration running much in debt became at length necessitous and not only took dishonest courses by issuing out divers Grants of Armes under hand as Clarenceaux to the undoing of the Heralds Office meerly to supply his necessities but also sold many of his books which cost him much for inconsiderable prizes He had been one that understood Armes and Armory very well but could never endure to take pains in Genealogies and in his younger years was esteemed a worthy and virtuous Person but in his latter not being thâ—n much degenerated as to manners His works of learning are these Notae in librum Nicholaâ— Upton de studio militari Notae in Johannis de Bado aureo libellum de Armis Notae in Henrici Spelmanni Aspidologiam These three things which were all printed together at Lond. 1654. fol. weâ—e written by Sir Ed. Bysshe in English but translated into Latine by Dav. Whitford to whom he exhibited after his expulsion fâ—om the Univ. of Oxon. for several years He also pâ—t out under his own name a translation from Gr. into Lat. with some notes and corrections entit Palladius de gentibus Indiae â—ragmanibus Lond. 1665. qu. in Gr. and Lat. To which he added 1 S. Ambrosius de moribus Brachmannorum 2 Anonymus de Bragmanibus Both in Gr. and Lat. Of which three pieces see more in Jo. Gregory under the year 646.
More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter but the beginning of this Epist doth implicitly own the same Person to be author To conclude Mr. Glanvill died in his House at Bathe on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the 9th day of the same month at which time Jos Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon which afterwards was made extant In his Rectory of Bathe succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells MYRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Myrth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall where applying his mind to the study of Div took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House and at two years standing in that degree he wrot and published An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon concerning the real presence Lond. 1634. qu at which time he lived at if not Minister of Odyham in Hampshire In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey and in Decemb. that year to be called into question by the Parl. then sitting for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North at York by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on c. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not In the time of the rebellion he suffer'd for the Kings cause but upon the return he was rewarded being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship by creation of this University as a member of S. Alb. Hall He died on the 5. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester having several years before wrot one or more books fit for the press Quaere EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. p. 87 was born at or near Croyden in Surrey admitted Prob. Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1634 entred on the Physick line took both the degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in 1641 in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts In 1643 Nov. 14 he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick But when the Kings cause declined he retired to London practised there and sometimes in the City of Bathe became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian in ord to his Maj. Ch. 2 and at length a pretended Baronet He hath written and published Morbus Epidemicus an 1643. Or the new disease with the signs causes remedies c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris that raged then in Oxon the King and the Court being there Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661 die Harvaei memoriae dicato Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul within the Liberty of Westm He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall became Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1627 afterwards Proctor of the University and a Dignitary in Ireland There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1676. NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School there admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void the said Dr. Blandford as Bishop of Worcester presented him to it an 1672. which he kept to his dying day He hath written Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum gentium hominum deorum gentilium regionum insularum locorum civitatum c. ad sacras profanas historias poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria nomina quo decet ordine complectens illustrans c. Oxon. 1670. fol mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius Afterwards the author made it quite another thing by adding thereunto from his great reading almost as much more matter as there was before with many corrections c. Lond. 1686. fol whereunto is added a Geographical Index An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque c. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149 c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention'd on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him among those that well knew him the character of a harmless quiet man and of an excellent Philologist EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the antient Mannour or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire on the eleventh of Nov. 1621 and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts he was by the care of his Father Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County sent to Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenc'd he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclin'd than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire where continuing for some time return'd to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces setled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected an 1648. Thence after he had spent an year or more therein he went into
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â—5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
Coll. in Cambridge of which he was elected Scholar an 1636 where by the progress and continuance of his wit it appeared that two things were joyn'd in it which seldom meet together viz. that it was ripe and lasting In the beginning of 1643 he being then M. of A was among many others ejected his Coll. and University whereupon retiring to Oxon he setled in S. Johns Coll and under the name of a Scholar of Oxon he published the same year a Poem entit A Satyre The Puritan and the Papist In that House he prosecuted his Academical Studies with the like success as before and was not wanting in his duty in the War it self whereby he became acquainted with the great men of the Court and the Gown After he had left Oxon which was a little before the surrender thereof for the use of the Parliament he went to Paris where falling into the acquaintance of Dr. Stephen Goffe a Brother of the Oratory he was by him prefer'd and plac'd in the family of the noble and munificent Henry Lord Jermyn afterwards E. of S. Alban who having a great and singular respect for him he was by his most generous endeavours design'd to be Master of the Savoy Hospital which tho granted to his high merit by both the Charles's 1. and 2 yet by certain persons enemies to the Muses he lost that place He was absent from his native Country about 10 years which were for the most part spent either in bearing a part in the distresses of the Regal family or in labouring in the affairs thereof In the year 1656 he returned into England and was for a time brought into trouble but afterwards complying with some of the men then in power which was much taken notice of by the Royal party he obtained an order to be created Doctor of Physick Which being done to his mind whereby he gained the ill will of some of his friends he went into France again having made a copy of verses on Olivers death where continuing till towards the time of the blessed restauration of K. Ch. 2 he returned but then not finding that preferment confer'd on him which he expected while others for their money carried away most places he retired discontented into Surrey where he spent the remaining part of his days in a private and studious condition mostly at Chertsie where he had a lease of a Farm held of the Queen procured for him by George Duke of Bucks from the Earl of S. Alban before mention'd The writings of this most eminent Poet are these 1 Poetical Blossomes Lond. 1633. qu which contain Antonius and Melida and The tragical History of Piramus and Thisbe The first is ded to Dr. Williams Bishop of Line and the other to his Master Mr. Lambert Osbaldeston Before both is his picture with his age set over it viz. 13 but false an 1633. There are also verses made by his School-fellows in commendation of them one of which is Rob. Mead who proved afterwards a most ingenious person as I have elsewhere told you and at the end are two Elegies one on Dudley Lord Carleton and another on his kinsman Rich. Clerk of Linc. Inn Gent and A dream of Elysium I have seen a book entit Sylva or divers copies of verses made upon sundry occasions Lond. 1636. oct said in the title to be written by A. C. but whether by Abr. Cowley I doubt it because the said A. C. seems to be not of Cambr. 2 Loves riddle a pastoral Comedy Lond. 1638. oct written while he was at Westminster School and ded to Sir Ken. Digby 3 Naufragium joculare Comaedia Lond. 1638. oct Acted before the Academians of Cambr. in Trin. Coll. there on the 4. of the nones of Feb. 1638. 3 A Satyre The Puritan and the Papist Pr. in 1643 in one sh and an half in qu. This was published again at London in 1682 in qu. in a book entit Wit and Loyalty revived in a collection of some smart Satyrs in verse and prose on the late times The prefacer to these Satyrs complains that this of Mr. Cowley was not set forth by the publisher of his first collection of pieces of Poetry and gives two presumptive reasons thereof and wonders that his Poem called Brutus and that upon the B. of Lincolns enlargement from the Tower which he guesseth not to be his have met with so good fortune as to have place therein See more in Joh. Birkenhead among the Writers an 1679. p. 476. 4 The Mistress or several copies of love verses Lond. 1647. oct 5 Guardian Com. Lond. 1650. qu. Acted before Pr. Charles at Trin. Coll. in Cambr. 12. Mar. 1641. 6 Cutter of Colemanstreet Com. 7 Poems viz. 1. Miscellanies 2. The Mistriss or Love verses 3. Pindariques c. with notes Lond. 1656. fol. Before a copy of this book which he gave to the publick Library at Oxon he wrot with his own hand A Pindarique Ode whereby the book presents it self to the Vniversity Library of Oxon. 8 Ode upon the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. qu. 9 Poemata Latina in quibus continentur sex libri Plantarum cum notis Lond. 1668 and 78. oct with his picture before them and a short account of his life written in Lat. by Dr. Tho. Sprat Among these books were reprinted Plantarum libri duo which had been printed at Lond. 1662. oct A translation of the sixth book of these Plants was printed in 1680. qu. 10 Miscellan lib. 1 wherein is Opus imperfectum Davideios sacri Poematis Pr. with Poem Lat. 11 Poem on the late Civil War Lond. 1679. qu. This was afterwards printed in the translation of the sixth book of Plants before mention'd As for other of his writings which have escaped my sight you may see more in the first part of his Works printed at least eight times in fol in the second part of his Works being what was written and published by himself in his younger years pr. at least four times in fol and in the third part of his works containing his 6. books of Plants made English by several hands fol. c. A little before his first return into England 1656 there was a book published under his name entit The iron age which he disclaimed in the preface of his Poems which came out that year He died at Chertsey in Surrey before mention'd on the 28. of July 1667 aged 49 years Whereupon his body being conveyed to the house of his great Patron George D of Bucks called Wallingford house near to Whitehall was conveyed thence to Westminster Abbey on the 3 of Aug. following accompanied by divers persons of eminent quality and there in the South cross isle or large isle joyning to the South side of the Choire was buried near to the place where the reliques of Jeffr. Chaucer had been lodged About the middle of May 1675 the said Duke of Bucks did at his own charge erect over his grave a curious Pedestal of white
done by Sir Tho. Clarges whose sister the said Duke had married and put into the hands of the said Philipps but therein Mr. Philipps attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true he got the ill will of him Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created and other matters But so it was that the Author Baker and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq published Animadversions on that edit of 1671 and were printed in oct at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth But notwithstanding these Animadversions the Chronicle when afterwards it was several times reprinted had none of the said errors therein corrected but came out full of faults as before and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons By the way it must be known that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire being of a younger house of an antient and noble family of his name but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University only his own genie and industry together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple before and after he was Barrister His Writings are many and some perhaps not fit here to be put down among which are 1 The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat English Rhetorick Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after 2 Glossographia or a Dictionary interpreting such hard words whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. c. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue c. Lond. 1656. oct Published several times after with additions and amendments 3 The lamps of the law and lights of the gospel or the Titles of some late spiritual polemical and metaphysical new books Lond. 1658. in oct Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers 4 Boscobel or the history of his Majesties Escape after the battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660 in oct there again 1680. in oct third edit Translated into French and Portuguese the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire a R. Catholic 5 The Catholic Almanack for 1661. 62. 63. c. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did he therefore wrot 6 Booker rebuked or Animadversions on Bookers Alm. which made much sport among people having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen 7 A law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute antient or modern laws c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691 with some corrections and the addition of above 600 words 8 Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation c. Oxon. 1672. oct 9 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit A new world of Engl. words c. 10 Fragmenta Antiquitatis Antient tenures of land and jocular customs of some Mannours Lond. 1679. oct 11 Boscobel c. the second part Lond. 1681. oct To which is added Claustrum regale reseratum Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent Our Author Blount also wrot Animadversions upon Britannia written by R. Blome but whether printed I cannot tell and translated from French into English The Art of making Devises Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Estiâ—nne Lord of Fossez To which Blount added A catalogue of Coronet-Devises both on the Kings and Parliaments side in the late Wars At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot being much affrighted by the violent current of that time he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath. he contracted the Palsie as by his last letter sent to me dated 28 Apr. 1679 I was informed adding therein that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion On the 26 of Dec. following being S. Stephens day he died at Orleton in Herefordshire where he had a fair and plentiful estate in the year of his age 61 and was buried in the Church there and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict daugh of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England which he and J. B. that 's all I know of him for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name had for several years been compiling but what became of it afterwards I cannot tell As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker he hath written besides what I have already mention'd Theatrum redivivum or the Theatre vindicated in answer to Mr. Prynns Histrio mastix c. Lond. 1662. octavo Theatrum triumphans or a discourse of Plays Lond. 1670 oct He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53 and were written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi and from French into English Letters of Monsieur Balsac in 4 parts Lond. 1638. oct and 54 c. with additions in qu. He also wrot his own life which he left in Ms behind him burnt or made wast paper by one Smith of Pater noster row who married one of his daughters At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world departed this mortal life in the Prison call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was the day following buried about the middle of the south isle joyning to S. Bridgets commonly called S. Brides Church near Fleetstreet in London By his wife Margaret dau of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts he had issue Thomas Arthur Cecilia Anne Margaret c. But whereas he saith in his Chronicle that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain from whom as he adds is his family lineally descended through females viz. thro Cummin Chenduit Brimpton Stokes Foxcote and Dyneley is a great mistake for all or most Chronicles nay the Pedigree it self of Corbet which I have several times seen say that the Concubine named in the said Pedegree Sybill and not the daughter was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire was born in that County elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm about the
Rich. Richardson sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge now or lately an Inhabitant in the most pleasant Village of Brixworth in Northamptonshire Lond. 1673. oct In this version he hath left out some of the ornamental and emblematical part of the English copy and hath with the Authors scatter'd and intermix'd his own Observations on Bees and what of note he had either heard from men skilful this way or had read in other books But this last translation being slow in the sale there hath been a new title put to it and said therein to be printed at Oxon. 1682. oct Rhetoricae libri duo Oxon. 1618. and 29. qu. Lond. 1635. oct De propinquitate matrimonium impediente regula generalis Oxon. 1625. qu. Oratoriae libri duo Ox. 1633. qu. Lond. 1635. oct English Grammar Ox. 1634. qu. The principles of Musick Lond. 1636. qu. He took his last farewel of this world on the 29 of March in sixteen hundred forty and seven and in that of his age 88 or thereabouts after he had been Vicar of Wotton St. Laurence before mention'd 48 years and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there EPHRAIM PAGIT or Paget son of Euseb Pag. mentioned before under the year 1617. p. 357. was born of a gentile family in Northamptonshire matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 25 of May 1593 aged 18 but whether he took a degree it appears not Afterwards thro some petit imployments he became Parson of the Church of S. Edmund in Lombardstreet within the City of London where he continued many years He hath written Christianographia or a description of the multitudes and sundry sorts of Christians in the world not subject to the Pope c. Lond. 1635. 36. 40. c. qu. Treatise of the Religion of the antient Christians in Britany pr. with some editions of the former book Heresiographia or a description of the heresies of later times Lond. 1645. and 48. 4th edit in qu. He hath also a serm extant called The mystical Wolf on Math. 7. ver 15. Lond. 1645. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen Upon the breaking out of the civil War he was so molested and troubled that meerly for quietness sake he was forced to leave his Benefice in his old age being then commonly called Old Father Ephraim So that retiring to Deptford in Kent spent there the short remainder of his days in great devotion and retiredness At length surrendring up his pious soul to God in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred forty and seven was buried according to his will in Deptford Churchyard One of both his names his Uncle I think translated into English Sermons upon Ruth Lond. 1586. in oct written originally by Lod. Lavater but whether the said Ephraim Paget was educated in Oxon I cannot justly say tho two or more of his sirname and time occur in our Registers THOMAS COLEMAN was born in Oxfordshire particularly as it seems within the City of Oxon where several of his name and time have lived made his first entry into Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615 and in that of his age 17 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became so accomplish'd in the Hebrew Language that he was commonly called Rabbi Coleman Afterwards he was made Rector of Blyton in Lincolnshire but being schismatically enclined he left that place in the beginning of the civil War 1642 under pretence of persecution by the Cavaliers and retiring to the great City became a grand Covenanteer an inveâ—gher against the King and his Party against the Bishops and Orthodox Clergy one of the Assembly of Divines Rector of S. Peters Church in Cornhill in the place of a loyal Doctor ejected and a Preacher before the Parliament While he sate in the Assembly to which he was chiefly called for his language in the Hebrew tongue he behaved himself modestly and learnedly maintaining among them the tenets of Erastus His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The Christians cause and complaint c. Fast-sermon before the House of Commons on Jerem. 8.20 Lond. 1643. qu. 2 The hearts engagement Serm. at S. Margarets in Westm at the publick entring into the Covenant 29 Sept. 1643 on Jer. 30.21 last clause Lond. 1643. qu. There were then present some Noblemen and Gentlemen many Soldiers and People of all sorts and looking on the Soldiers he told them that the Covenant was the Parliaments sword and buckler For when the Cavaliers shall see you come arm'd with the Covenant they will run run run away from the Lord of Hosts c. 3 Gods unusual answer to a solemn Fast Fast-serm before both houses on Psal 65.5 Lond. 1644. qu. preached upon the sad success that the Parliament Forces had in Cornwall 4 Hopes defer'd and dashed Fast-serm before the H. of Com. on Job 11.20 Lond. 1645. qu. He was not thanked for this sermon according to custom but only ordered to print it because the Presbyterian Party disliked him for that he too slightly spoke of ministerial Authority and seemed not to dislike the Independent c. In his Epist ded to the H. of Com. he saith thus There was never Sermon preached on these publick Fasts that was received with such contrary Affections and Censures as this some approving above commendation others disliking below detestation c. Soon after George Gillespie a Presbyterian Minister of Edenburgh educated in S. Andrews University did not only preach against the said sermon in another delivered before the H. of Lords and in a second elsewhere but also printed them in vindication of the Presbyterians whereupon our Author Coleman published A brotherly Examination examined or a clear justification of those passages in a Sermon against which the rev and learned Commissioner Mr. Gillespie first in two several Sermons and then in print did preach and write Lond. 1646. qu. To which is added A short discovery of some tenets and principles which entrench upon both the honour and power of the Parliament What else our Author hath written I find not only a thing called A modell as the Author of A Friendly debate tells us which was briefly viewed and answer'd in 1645 but neither the Modell or Answer have I yet seen He died suddenly about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and seven but where buried I cannot tell because the register of St. Peters in Cornhill mentions him not I find one Tho. Coleman Minister of Allhallows Barkin near the Tower of London who published a Sermon intit Justification justified an 1653 but of what University he was I know not yet As for G. Gillespie before-mention'd he was a high Covenanteer had some good learning but was very antiprelatical and bold beyond all measure He wrot against the ceremonies several pieces against the Erastians and died about 1649. In the month of January 1660 the tombstone of this Gillespie who had
good will The Prince returned him many thanks and assured him it should never go farther than the cabinet of his own breast but withall he asked him to whom he had shew'd it Hakewill replied the Archbishop Abbot hath read it who returning said to him Well done thou good and faithful servant Besides him he told the Prince he had shewed it to Mr. Murrey his Tutor who belike being better acquainted with his Masters perfidious disposition so are the words of the libellous Author than the other did then disswade him from delivering it to the Prince for saith he he will betray you And it so fell out for within less than two hours after his said engagement to the Doctor he presented it to his Father upon which he or any thro whose hands or cognizance it had passed before were all under a disgrace and banished the Court c. The works of this our Author Hakewill are these The vanity of the eye Oxon. 1608. in oct Written for the comfort of a young Gentlewoman who became blind by the Small pox Scutum Regium adversus omnes Regicidas Regicidarum patronos ab initio mundi usque ad interitum Phocae Imperatoris c. lib. 3. Lond. 1612. oct The antient and ecclesiastical practice of Confirmation confirmed by Arguments drawn from Scripture Reason Councils Fathers and later Writers c. Lond. 1613. qu. Answer to a Treatise written by Dr. B. Carier by way of letter to his Majesty wherein he layeth down sundry politick considerations by which he pretendeth himself was mov'd and endeavoureth to move others to be reconciled to the Ch. of Rome c. Lond. 1616. qu. Treatise against the match with the Infanta This little thing which is in MS. I have not yet seen But another of the like nature I have lying by me written by one Thomas Allured sometimes Secretary to Ralph Lord Ever President of Wales the beginning of which is this Though to advise may seem presumptuous yet what is well intended I am more than confident will be neither offensive to your Lordship c. 'T was written to the Marquess of Buckingham who communicating it to the King he was so much displeased that the Author Allured was committed to custody 10 June 1620 being a full year before Hakewill had written his Tract Twelve Sermons concerning Davids vow to reform himself his Family and his Kingdom on Psal 101. Lond. 1621 22. oct Besides which he hath other Sermons extant as 1 Serm. preached at Barnstaple on Judg. 5.51 Lond. 1632. qu. 2 Serm. at the funeral of John Downe Bac. of Div. Rector of Instow in Devon sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. on Dan. 12.3 Oxon 1633. quart Comparison between the days of Purim and that of Powder Treason Printed 1626. qu. An Apology or Declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World proving that it doth not decay c. in four books Lond. 1627. To which were added two more Lond. 1635. fol. 3d Edit In the first of which are Hakewills Replyes to Bishop Goodmans Arguments and Digressions which he had made on the first four books of the before mentioned Apol. or Declar. having been incited thereunto by Hakewills former confutation of some passages in Bish Goodmans Fall of man c. relating to the eternity of the world or for the universal and perpetual decay thereof whereby Goodman would prove the fall of man But this confutation made by our Author whether in MS. or printed I know not I have not yet seen Discourse of the Lords day on Rev. 1.10 Lond. 1641. quart Dissertation with Dr. Heylyn concerning the pretended Sacrifice in the Eucharist Lond. 1641. qu. A Treatise rescuing Dr. Joh. Rainolds and other grave Divines from the vain assaults of P. Heylyn touching the History of S. George pretendedly by him asserted This I have seen in a MS. fol. but whether ever printed I cannot tell Quaere He also translated into Latine The life of Sir Tho. Bodley his Kinsman which is in MS. in the publick Library At length upon the promotion of Dr. Prideaux to the Bishoprick of Worcester he was elected Rector of Exeter Coll. to which he had before been an especial benefactor but did little or not at all reside upon it for the Civil War breaking then forth he receded to his Rectory of Heanton near to Barnstaple in Devon where he lived a retired life to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of April in sixteen hundred forty and nine was buried on the fifth day of the same month in the chancel of the Church there Over his grave was a stone afterwards laid with this Inscription ingraven thereon Reliquiae Georgii Hakewell S. Th. D. Archidiaconi Surriae collegii Exoniensis hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris in spem resurrectionis hic repositae sunt an 1649. aetatis suae 72. I have seen a copy of his last will and testament proved 2 May 1649 wherein he desires that his body might be buried in Exeter Coll. Chappel if it could conveniently be if not at least his heart under the Communion table or under the desk where the Bible lays with this Inscription on a brass plate to be put on it Cor meum ad te Domine But this I presume was not done because no such Inscription appears However the Society of Ex. Coll. did afterwards in honor to his memory hang up his Picture painted to the life in his doctoral formalities on the Organ-loft at the east end of the isle joyning to the south side of the Chappel In the Rectory of the said Coll. succeeded Mr. afterwards Dr. John Conant and in his Archdeaconry Joh. Pearson D. D. of Cambridge installed therein 26 Sept. 1660 a learned man and famous for his Exposition of the Creed and other books He was afterwards the worthy Bishop of Chester and died about the middle of July 1686. ARTHUR DUCK was born of a wealthy family living at Heavytre in Devonshire the place where afterwards his Father built an Hospital became a Student in Exeter Coll. in the year 1595 and that of his age 15 took one degree in Arts in June 1599 and then was made Commoner of the said Coll. Afterwards he translated himself to Hart Hall and as a member thereof proceeded in the said faculty an 1602 and two years after was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. But his genie leading him to the study of the Civil Law he took the degrees in that faculty and much about the same time travelling into France Italy and Germany was after his return made Chancellour of the dioc of Bathe and Wells In which office behaving himself with great integrity prudence and discretion was honoured by and beloved of Lake Bishop of that place and the more for this reason because he was beholden to him for the right ordering of his jurisdiction Afterwards he was made Chancellour of London and at length Master of the Requests and was in
ubi ad interiorem Templum saith he Amanuensis mihi in codice Regi tunc porrigendo operam praestitit mihi vir doctissimus Henricus Jacobus c. At which time as 't is said he taught or at least improved Selden in the Hebrew Language and added several things which Selden finding to be very excellent let them stand In the same year he was created Master of Arts but upon the turn of the times Brent then Warden of Mert. Coll. no friend to Laud silenced him In the year 1641 he was upon the death of John Thimble elected superior Bedle of Divinity about the 14 of June and in the beginning of Novemb. in the year following he was created Bach. of Physick But his head being always over-busie about critical notions which made him sometimes a little better than craz'd he neglected his duty so much that he was suspended once if not twice from his place and had his Bedles staff taken from him At length when the Parliamentarian Visitors sate he lost it for altogether and the right he pretended to his Fellowship in Mert. Coll. So that being destitute of maintenance he retired to London where the learned Selden exhibited to him gave him his cloaths and an old scarlet cloak of which last his friends would mock him and call him Young Selden when they saw it on his back But he being a shiftless Person as most meer Scholars are and the benefactions of friends not sufficing him he sold that little Land he had at Godmersham in Kent to supply his necessities and died before that was spent He wrot many things but he himself published nothing in his life time a Cat. of which is this Oratio inauguralis sub aditu praelectionis Philologicae publicè habita apud Collegium Oxonio-Merton 4. Aug. 1636. Graeca Latina Poemata Description of Oakey hole near Wells an 1632 Written in English verse Annotationes in eam partem Orationis inaug in qua viz. p. 6. dicitur Oratione soluta scripsit Aristeus Proconnesius Contained in about 5. sheets in qu. These four things beforemention'd were published at Oxon while the Author lived an 1652. in qu. by his intimate friend Hen. Birkhead Fellow of All 's Coll. To which he putting a Preface he tells you therein that this our Author had written and laying by him these things following Etymotechnia Catholica containing four Diatribes concerning the original of Letters The first De ordine Alphabeti the second De transitu Alphabeti the third De numero figura potestate divisione Literarum and the fourth called Geographistor Etymotechnicus Grammatica Ebraea No English man before his time did ever endeavour to make one after that way and manner which he did this ΣΒΩ′ vel Osiris inventus de coptiacis originibus commentatio Geographumena In which are many Assiriac and Egyptic antiquities discovered Pancarpia opus ex artibus linguis miscellan Imperfect Excogitata Philosophica nempe de novâ ratione circa Monoptosyllogismum dialecticum pridem semicirculariter figuratam natalia ventorum conceptacula c. Magnetologia in lib. 3. agentibus de triplici motu Magnetico Lapidali Caelesti Animali c. Before I go any farther the reader is to understand that this our Author Jacob being ejected in 1648 from Merton Coll. and so consequently from his Chamber wherein he had left a trunk full of Books as well written as printed left Oxon as I have before told you And taking no care or appointing any friend for its security his Chamber door before an year was expired was broke open for a new commer who finding the trunk there did let it remain in its place for a time At length when no man inquired after it as the then possessor thereof pretended he secur'd it for his own use broke it open and therein discover'd a choice treasure of Books One of them being a Ms and fit for the press he disguised and alter'd it with another stile and at length after he had learned Hebrew and the Oriental Languages to blind the World and had conversed openly with those most excellent in them as Pocock and Bogan of C. C. Coll. or any Grecian or Jew that came accidentally to the University he published it under this title Delphi Phoenicizantes sive tractatus in quo Graecos quicquid Delphos celebre erat c. è Joshuae Historiae scriptisque sacris effluxisse rationibus haud inconcinnis ostenditur c. Oxon. 1655. oct To which is added Diatriba de Noe in Italiam adventu ejusque nominibus Ethnicis and a little tract De origine Druidum Which three things are much commended by forreign Authors particularly by Spizelius in his book De doctrina Senensium The Reader is also to know farther that Dr. Pet. Turner of Mert. Coll. being a great friend to Hen. Jacob did borrow and peruse several of his elucubrations in which taking great delight because his learning did partly lye that way did either keep the originals by him or at least took copies of them At length the Doctor being involv'd in the same fate with his friend retired with his Books for succour to his Sister the Widow of one Wats sometimes a Brewer in Southwark where dying obscurely about an year before Jacob his Papers came into the hands of his Nephew Will. Wats afterwards a Residentiary of Hereford who having a Son of Bras Coll. into whose possession they came he communicated several of them to Moses Pengry Fellow of that House a curious Person in Philological learning of which one was entit De Mari rubro and another De historia Beli Draconis Copies of which Pengry communicated to Mr. Rich. Reeves then Master of the School joyning to Magd. Coll. which he hath in his possession to this day Our Author Jacob also did put notes to most of the printed books in his study which tho little yet curious and particularly on Solinus his Hist of the World with Salmasius's notes to it Which book coming I know not how into the hands of H. B. he transcribed the said notes or observations and entring them as it seems into another Copy of his own deleeted those of Jacob with Aquafortis and sold the copy it self to an Oxford Bookseller such was his sordid avarice There is also another Ms of his going about entit Libri Ebraeo Rabbinici in Bib. Bodleiana recensiti an 1629. A copy of which I have written by the hand of the learned Dr. Langbaine It was the first work that Jacob performed after he was setled in Oxon at the desire and command of his Patron Will. Earl of Pembroke being the same books which the said Count a little before had obtained out of Italy from the Baroccian Library A copy of which Cat. or else another I have seen written under the hand of Pet. Turner for Seldens use To conclude it must be now known that this miracle of learning a harmless innocent careless and shiftless Person who by his
Earth one thousand years with his Saints c. Lond. 1655. qu. JOHN HALES a younger son of Joh. Hales Steward to the family of the Horners in Somersetshire eldest son of Edw. Hales of Highchurch in the said County son of Jo. Hales of the same place son of Rich. Hales by his wife the daughter of Beauchamp was born in the Parish of S. James within the City of Bathe and educated in Grammar Learning there At 13 years of age he was sent to the University in the beginning of the year 1597 and was for some time a Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. At length the prodigious pregnancy of his parts being discovered by the Hedge-beaters of Sir Hen. Savile he was encouraged by them to stand for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. Whereupon an Election being appointed and made in 1605 3 Jac. 1. and all the Candidates sifted and examined to the utmost he was the first that was chosen In which Election as he shew'd himself a person of Learning above his age and standing so thro the whole course of his Bachellourship there was never any one in the then memory of man so I have been informed by certain Seniors of that Coll. at my first coming thereunto that ever went beyond him for subtile Disputations in Philosophy for his eloquent Declamations and Orations as also for his exact knowledge in the Greek Tongue evidently demonstrated afterwards not only when he read the Greek Lecture in that Coll. but also the publick Lecture of that Tongue in the Schools His profound learning and natural endowments not that I shall take notice of his affability sweetness of nature and complaisance which seldom accompany hard Students and Criticks made him beloved of all good men particularly of Savile before mentioned who found him tho young serviceable in his Edition of S. Chrysostom's Works and therefore often-mention'd with honor by that noted Greecian Andrew Downes Greek Professor of Cambridge Afterwards he was made Fellow of Eaton Coll partly if I mistake not by the help of Savile and partly by Sir Dudley Carleton with whom he went in the quality of Chaplain when he was sent Embassador to the United Provinces at what time the Synod of Dort was celebrated an 1618 where our Author Hales did good service in several respects so far as his capacity did permit him From that time till about the year 1638 no great matters occur memorable of him only his acquaintance with Will. Chillingworth whom he assisted in his great work as I shall anon tell you which made him to be noted among the learned especially for certain opinions that were not thought fit to be by him entertained In that year I say Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury who had received cognisance of his great worth did send for him to Lambeth sifted and ferreted him about from one hole to another in certain matters of Religion that he partly then but more in his younger days maintained And finding him an absolute Master of Learning made him upon his complyance one of his Chaplains and procured a Canonry of Windsore for him installed therein 27 of June 1639. which with his Fellowship was all that this most incomparable person whom I may justly stile a walking Library enjoy'd He was a man highly esteemed by learned men beyond and within the Seas from whom he seldom fail'd to receive Letters every week wherein his judgment was desir'd as to several points of Learning He was a very hard Student to the last and a great Faster it being his constant custom to fast from Thursday dinner to Saturday And tho a person of wonderful knowledge yet he was so modest as to be patiently contented to hear the disputes of persons at table and those of small abilities without interposing or speaking a word till desir'd As for his justness and uprightness in his dealings all that knew have avouched him to be incomparable For when he was Bursar of his Coll. and had received bad money he would lay it aside and put good of his own in the room of it to pay to others Insomuch that sometimes he has thrown into the River 20 and 30 l. at a time All which he hath stood to to the loss of himself rather than others of the Society should be endamaged After the Civil War began occasion'd by the iniquity of the restless Presbyterians he was turn'd out of all and into his Fellowship was thrust in by the Authority of Parliament one Penwarden who being afterwards touch'd in conscience for the wrong he had done so worthy a person by eating his bread went and voluntarily would have resign'd up the place again to him but Mr. Hales refused telling him that the Parliament having put him out he was resolved never to be put in again by them As for his Canonry of Windsore it laid void till his Majesties Restauration an 1660 and then 't was bestowed on Anth. Hawles D. D. sometimes of Queens Coll. in Oxon. At length he being reduced to necessity was forced to sell the best part of his most admirable Library which cost him 2500 l. to Cornelius Bee of London Bookseller for 700 l. only as I have been informed by persons of unquestionable veracity 'T is true that one of the Sedleian Family of Kent did invite him to live in his Family with an Allowance of 100 l. per an the keeping of two Horses and a Servants diet but he being wedded to a retir'd and studious life refused to accept of that generous offer yet about that time he accepted of a quarter of that Salary with his diet in the family of one Madam Salter Sister if I mistake not to Dr. Duppa B. of Sarum who lived near Eaton purposely that he should instruct her son Will. Salter but he being blockish Hales could do nothing upon him Afterwards a Declaration issuing out prohibiting all persons from harbouring Malignants that is Royalists he left that Family notwithstanding rhe Lady desired him to the contrary telling him that she would undergo all danger that might ensue by harbouring him and retiring to Eaton he took up his quarters and sojourned in an house next to the Christopher Inn belonging then to Hannah the widow of John Dickenson a Servant from his youth to our Author Hales and afterwards the wife and widdow of one Sim. Powney which Hannah was very careful of and respectful to him as having formerly at her Marriage received of his bounty Other persons of the loyal party would have exhibited to had they not been equal sharers in affliction with him and therefore it was that he died in an obscure condition much pitied by many then in being but by more in the next generation particularly by such which you 'll say is a wonder that were no friends to the Church of England who did reckon it not one of the least ignominies of that age that so eminent a person of the Church of England as Hales was should have been by the iniquity of
act he was much blamed by his antient friends and acquaintance of the Orthodox Clergy yet commended by some for making provision for a second Wife that he a little before in his elderly years had taken and the Children to be had by her After the Kings restauration he left that Living to make room for the true owner returned to Eifley near Oxon. to live on his Archdeaconry and might had he not acted the vain man been made a Bishop or at least a Dean of a rich Church His poetry and sublime fancy were such that fam'd him second to none in his time in the University witness in some manner his smooth translation of rough Persius which he made before he was 20 years of age tho in these times much undervalued by Juniors As Scaliger said of Claudian and his works solo argumento ignobiliore oppressus addit de ingenio quantum deest materiae so may it be of Holyday and his Poem viz. whatsoever is mean in Persius is so choicely adorned by his Genie that if it stand out of the presence of ignorant and desperate emulation it may be graceful His Philosophy also expressed in his book De Anima and well languag'd Sermons speak him eminent in his generation and do enough shew him to have traced the rough as well as the pleasant pathes of Poetry His works are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Three Sermons upon the passion resurrection and ascension of our Saviour Lond. 1626. qu. The first at Ch. Ch. on Goodfriday 1621. on 1. Cor. 2.8 The second at S. Maries on Easter Tuesday 1623 on 1. Cor. 15.20 and the third at Ch. Ch. on Ascension day 1625 on 1. Pet. 3.22 2 Two Sermons at Pauls Cross the first preached 24. of Mar. 1624 on Ezech. 37.22 Lond. 1626. qu. The other preached the 5 of Aug. 1623 on Psal 18.48.49 Printed there the same year 3 Nature of Faith on Heb. 11.4 Lond. 1654. qu. 4 Motives to a godly life in 10. Sermons Oxon. 1657. qu. 5 Four Sermons against disloyalty preached in the times of the late troubles Oxon. 1661. oct The first of which is Of Obedience on Exod. 20.12 c. Technogamia or the marriage of Arts a Comedy Lond. 1630. qu. acted publickly in Ch. Ch. Hall with no great applause 13. Febr. 1617. But the wits of those times being minded to shew themselves before the King were resolved with leave to act the said Comedy at Woodstock whereupon the Author making some foolish alterations in it it was accordingly acted on a Sunday night 26. Aug. 1621. But it being too grave for the King and too Scholastick for the auditory or as some have said that the Actors had taken too much wine before they began his Majesty Jam. 1. after two Acts offer'd several times to withdraw At length being perswaded by some of those that were near to him to have patience till it was ended least the young men should be discouraged sate down tho much against his will Whereupon these verses were made by a certain Scholar At Christ Church Marriage done before the King Least that those Mates should want an offering The King himself did offer what I pray He offer'd twice or thrice to go away Several witty copies of verses were made on the said Comedy among which was that of Pet. Heylyn of Magd. Coll. called Whoop Holyday Which giving occasion for the making other Copies pro and con Corbert Dean of Ch. Ch. who had that day preached as it seems before the King with his band starch't clean did put in for one for which he was reproved by the graver sort but those that knew him well took no notice of it for they have several times said that he loved to the last boys-play very well Philosophiae polito-barbarae specimen in quo de animâ ejus habitibus intellectualibus quaestiones aliquot libris 2. illustrantur Oxon. 1633. qu. Survey of the World in 10 books a Poem Oxon. 1661. oct Which passing the censure of Scholars it was judged by them to be an inconsiderable piece and by some not to be his But so it was that it being published just before his death it was taken for a posthumus work which had been by him composed in his younger days 'T is said by some that he was Author of a Com. called The Gentile Craft but whether true I doubt it Sure I am he translated from Lat. into English 1 Satyrs of Persius Oxon. 1616. sec edit There again 1635. Reviewed and amended and also augmented with illustrations by the translator Oxon. 1673. fol. In this translation he consulted above a dozen Expositors yet in his preface to the translation he hath these words I may without ambition say it is a new thing Persius understood To have committed no faults in my translation saith he according to his elegant way of writing had been to translate my self and put off man 2 Satyrs of Juvenal illustrated with notes and sculptures Oxon. 1673. fol. At the end of which is the fourth Edit of Persius before mention'd both which were published by Will. Dewey of Tortdeane in Glocestershire Gent. whose Mother Dr. Holyday had taken to his second Wife 3 Odes of Horace Lond. 1652. oct Whether printed before that time I know not This translation is so near that of Sir Tho. Hawkins printed 1638. in oct or that of Hawkins so near this that whether of the two is the Author remains to me as yet undiscovered This Dr. Holyday who was highly conceited of his own worth especially in his younger days died in the house belonging to the Archdeacon of Oxon. situated and being in a village called Eisley near to that City on the second day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and one and was three days after buried at the foot of Bishop Kings monument under the South wall of the Isle joyning on the South side to the choire of Christ Church Cathedral At which time his bones being laid close on the right side to those of W. Cartwright and Jo. Gregory what had it been for an admirer of those learned and pious men to have put a memorial over their graves As for Sir Thom. Hawkins Kt. before mention'd he was an ingenious man was as excellent in the fac of Musick as in Poetry and translated from the original Unhappy prosperitie expressed in the history of Ael Sejanus and Philippa the Catanian with observations on the fall of Sejanus Lond. 1639 in oct or tw sec edit What other translations he hath made or what books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was of Nash Court in the Parish of Boughton under the Bleane in Kent where dying in the latter end of 1640 as it seems was buried in the Parish Church of Boughton near to the graves of his Father Sir Tho. Hawkins Kt and of Anne his Mother He had an ingenious Brother named John Hawkins Doctor of Physick of London and a
he was one of the pillars of Presbytery and by others a person learned and well read in the Fathers and Councils One Mr. Ley a learned Divine wrot a book about 1624. intit The Christian Nomenclator c. against the Papists mention'd in Joh. Gee's book intit The foot out of the snare c. Lond. 1624. qu. p. 17. in marg whether the same with our Author Joh. Ley I know not HENRY JACKSON Son of Hâ—n Jacks Mercer was born in S. Maries parish within the City of Oxon admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. on the first of Dec. 1602 aged 17 years or thereabouts having for two years before been Clerk of the said house admitted probat Fellow thereof 5 of Sept. 1612 to the reading of the Sentences five years after and at length upon the death of Dr. Seb. Benefield sometimes his Tutor he became Rector of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire which was all the preferment he ever look'd after for being a studious and cynical person he never expected or desired more He was a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Joh. Rainolds whose memories being most dear to him he did for the sake of the first industriously collect and publish some of his small Treatises and of the latter several of his Epistles and Orations He also did diligently recognize and added marginal notes with a copious Index to the twelve books of Jo. Lud. Vives sometimes Rhetorick Reader of C. C. Coll. seven of the former of which are De corruptis Artibus the other five De tradendis disciplinis He had also made a Collection of several of the Works of Pet. Abaelard from antient MSS. of that Author had revised compared and collected them All which he did intend at his own charge to publish but the grand Rebellion breaking forth in 1642 the Soldiers belonging to the Parliament rifled his house scatter'd the said Collection and made it so imperfect that it could never be recovered He hath written Vita Ciceronis ex variis autoribus collecta Commentarii in Ciceronis Quaest lib. quintum Both which dedicated by the Author to Dr. Seb. Benefield are remaining under the Authors hand in my custody but whether they were ever printed I cannot tell He also translated from English into Latine Commentarii super 1 cap. Amos Openheim 1615. oct written by the said Dr. Benefield as I have elsewhere told you Also Joh. Fryth's book of Baptisme which he intituled De Baptismo cognitione sui next Joh. Hoopers Lectures on the Creed and lastly Hugh Latymers Oration to the Convocation concerning the state of the Kingdom to be reformed by the Gospel Which last Translation had before been done by Sim. Gryneus But whether these three last which are in MS. in my hands are published I cannot tell nor do I know any thing of the Translator besides only that he dying on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meis Hamp near to the grave of Dr. Benefield before mention'd I find another Hen. Jackson to be Author of The description of the little world or body of man printed 1660 in oct but of what University he was if of any I know not THOMAS MERRIOT was born at Steeple Langford in Wilts educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1610 aged 21 years or more took one degree in the Civil Law and for a time taught in the Grammar-school joyning to the Cloister there Afterwards being presented to the Vicaridge of Swaclyve near Banbury in Oxfordshire by the Warden and Society of the said Coll. he preached there and taught Grammar to the time of his death He hath written Vulgaria sive miscellanea prosaica hinc inde decerpta ad discipulos non vulgares è ludis literariis emittendos quà m maximè conducentia modo solerter edoceantur c. in novem classes distributa Oxon. 1652. oct Adagia selectissima c. Ib. eod an oct He died at Swaclyve on the 19 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and two after he had been Vicar of that place 38 years and was two days after buried in the Church there EDWARD STANLEY was born of gentile Parents in the Parish of S. Peter within the City of Chichester educated in Wykeham's School made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. 1608 aged 20 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts left the said Coll. in 1623 and was about that time made Master of the said School and afterwards Prebendary of Winchester and Doct. of Div. He hath published Several Sermons three of which were preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester The first on Sunday Aug. 19. an 1660 at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that Church on Psal 14.7 The second on Jan. 30. an 1661 being the Anniversary of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory on Jer. 4.20 And the third at the general Assize held at Winton 25 Feb. 1661. on Isay 1.26 Lond. 1662. in oct In which year the Author died and was buried at Winchester leaving then behind him the character of a learned godly and orthodox Minister of Gods word HENRY JEANES Son of Christop Jeanes of Kingston in Somersetshire was born at Allensay in that County as I have been informed by one of his rural disciples became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsomer term in the year 1626 aged 15 years where pecking and hewing continually at Logick and Physicks became a most noted and ready Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he removed to Hart Hall took holy Orders and soon after was cried up for a learned Preacher in the University In the beginning of Aug. 1635 he was presented by Sir Joh. Windham to the Rectory of Beer-Crocomb and Capland in Somersetshire and soon after became Vicar of Kingston in the same County At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians notwithstanding he had before while he continued in the University been a scoffer of them and when Dr. Walt. Raleigh was thrown out of Chedsey near Bridgwater he became Rector of the Church there where during the times of Usurpation he took into his family divers Youths designed for the University and read to them contrary to his Oath Logick and Philosophy and had often times set Disputations among them while he himself moderated He was a most excellent Philosopher a noted Metaphysitian and well grounded in polemical Divinity He was also a scholastical man a contemner of the World generous free-hearted jolly witty and facetious and in many things represented the humour of Dr. Rob. Wild the Poet. All which qualities do very rarely or seldom meet in men of the Presbyterian perswasion who generally are morose clownish and of sullen and reserved natures The books that he hath written and published are many the titles of most if not all follow Treatise concerning a Christians careful abstinence
pity as well as with strength of arguments to convince him of his dangerous error telling him that either he was in a damnable error or else that the whole Church of Christ who had in all ages worshipped the Holy Ghost had been guilty of Idolatry But Biddle who had little to say was no whit moved either by the learning gravity piety or zeal of that good Archbishop but continued as 't is said obstinate After he had remained about six months at liberty in Glocester he was cited to Westminster to make his defence but being put off by the Parliament to a Committee to be examined his crime was by them laid closely to his charge The crime he denied not and desired withal that some Theologist whom they should appoint might dispute with him concerning that criminal matter in hand But it being delayed from day to day Biddle desired a certain Knight Sir Hen. Vane of that Committee that his cause might be heard or he set at liberty The Knight proposed it and shewed himself a friend to Biddle who thereupon was confin'd more close than before Whereupon came out his book for the satisfaction of all People with this title Twelve questions or arguments drawn out of Scripture wherein the commonly received opinion touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit is clearly and fully refuted Printed 1647. in qu. Before which is printed a letter tending to the said purpose written to the said Sir Henry Vane a member of the H. of Commons And at the end is An exposition of five principal passages of the Scripture alledged by the Adversaries to prove the Deity of the Holy Ghost These I say being published and making a great noise in the World the Author was summoned to appear at the Bar of the H. of Com. being asked whether he owned that book or Tw questions c. and the opinions therein he answered yea and that they were his Whereupon being remitted to his Prison they ordered on the 6. of Sept. 1647 that the said Book blasphemous against the Deity of Christ be called in and burnt by the hand of the common Hangman and that the Author be examined by the Committee of plunder'd Ministers Both which were done viz. the book burnt on the 8 of the same month and he examined While these things were in doing the book vended so fast that the same year it was printed again in oct and afterwards answer'd by Matthew Poole M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge in his Plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost c. Soon after or at the same time was published of Biddles writing A confession of faith touching the Holy Trinity according to Scripture Lond. 1648. oct It consists of 7 articles each of which is confirmed all along by subjoyned proofs and reasonings on them which for the most part tend to disprove the Deity of our Saviour Before the said confession is put a Preface against the Holy Trinity and about the same time came out of our Authors composition The testimonies of Irenaeus Justin Martyr Tertullian Novatianus Theophilus Origen who lived in the two first centuries after Christ was born or thereabouts as also of Arnobius Lanctantius c. concerning that one God and the Persons of the Trinity together with observations on the same Printed in oct Upon the coming out of which things the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westminster made their endeavours to the Parliament that he might suffer death in the month of May 1â—48 but what hindred it I cannot tell unless it was the great dissention that was then in the said Parliament However his confinement was made close Some time after the publication of Biddles first book it hapned that Joh. Cloppenburch D. D. and Professor in the University of Frisia was at Bristow in England where meeting with Will. Hamilton a Scot lately Fellow of All 's Coll. in Oxon the said William did not only then furnish him with a copy of that book but debated the controversie with him Afterwards upon the return of Cloppenburch to his own Country he did excellently well answer it in Latine which he had translated so much as he answer'd in a small treatise entituled Vindiciae pro Deitate spiritus sancti adversus Pneumatomachum Johan Bidellum Anglum printed at Franeker 1652. qu. It must be also noted that upon the publishing of the said book of Biddle I mean his Twelve questions Samuel Maresius D. D. and chief Professor of that faculty at Gronningen did take occasion in his Epist ded before his first Vol. entit Hydra Socianismi written against Joh. Volkelius and Jo. Crellius to give this account of the growth of Socinianisme Vigesimus jam praeteriit annus ex quo pestilentissima haec nutrix viz. Socinianismus in Sarmaticis paludibus primum nata caput erexit per Germaniam ac Belgiam nostram sibilis halitu faedissimo grassata etiam tetrum suum virus superato oceano intulit in Angliam in quâ tristi hoc tempore dicitur incredibiles progressus fecisse c. As for the Confession of Faith c. beforemention'd it was examined and confuted by Nich. Estwick Rector of Warkton in Northamptonshire in a book published by him in qu. an 1656 Which being dedicated to Edward Lord Montague of Boughton he takes occasion to say that Biddles writings have not been enclosed within the confines of our nation but have taken their wings and have fled beyond the Seas to the disreputation of our dear Country in the reformed Churches insomuch that Maresius Professor of Divinity at Groningen is bold to avouch I cannot say either truly or charitably that Socinianisme hath fixed its seat here in England and displayed openly the banners of its impiety The said Estwick also had some years before held forth an antidote against the Poyson of Biddles Twelve arguments against the Deity of the Holy Ghost Since which as 't is usual in deceivers so Estwick words it Biddle grew worse and worse and levied his forces against the Holy Trinity and published notwithstanding other matters replenished with Socinian Tenents Our Author Biddle continued yet in restraint and none of the Assembly durst venture to give him a visit either out of charity or to convince him of his errors nor indeed any Divine of note of the other party only Mr. Pet. Gunning who had several friendy conferences with him At length some of the Layty of London and others of the Country would come to him either to see or converse with him who being taken with his religious discourse and Saint-like conversation a certain Justice of Peace of Staffordshire prevailed so far with his keeper that upon security given for his appearance upon the least summons he should be surrendred up to him Whereupon he was conveyed into Staffordshire and not only made by him his Chaplain but also Preacher of a Church there These matters soon after being known at London John Bradshaw President of the Council of
Parliament to the H. of Commons c. on Jerem. 8.11 Lond. 1660. qu. Therein is somewhat added above what was preached 6 God's great demonstration and demands of justice mercy c. Serm. on Micah 6.8 before the H. of Com. at their solemn Fast before their first sitting 30 Apr. 1660. Lond. 1660. qu. And other Sermons which I have not yet seen Certain scruples and doubts of conscience about taking the solemn League and Covenant tendered to the consideration of Sir Laur. Bromfield and Zach. Crofton Lond. 1643 and 1660. qu. Hierapistes or a defence by way of Apology of the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England Lond. 1653. qu. Christ at the Wedding or the pristine sanctity and solemnity of Christian Marriages Lond. 1654. qu. The case of the Ministers maintenance by tithes plainly discussed in conscience and prudence c. Lond. 1653. qu. It must be now known that Oliver Cromwell by his Declaration did require all persons not to entertain in any capacity whatsoever any person engaged in the late Wars for the King or who were any way assistant to his cause prohibiting then also all such persons the exercise of any part of their Ministry Whereupon this severity moved our Author to write this Pamphlet A petitionary remonstrance presented to Oliver Protector 4 Feb. 1655 in behalf of his distressed brethren of the Church of England deprived of all publick Employment by his Declaration 1 Jan. 1655. Lond. 1659. qu. At the same time Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland went from Riegate to Whitehall on purpose to the said Protector to interceed for his indulgence towards them He took also the safest opportunities for mediating for them for the space of more than a month but was forced at last to retreat to his Country retirement and so to his grave with little success and less hope to his great grief and sorrow using this expression to our Author Dr. Gauden that he saw some men had only guts and no bowells c. But if another Author may be believed his intercessions did take effect Ecclesiae Anglicanae suspiria setting forth her former Constitution compared with her present condition in 4 books Lond. 1659. fol. Antisacrilegus or a Defensative against the plausibleness or guilded poyson of that nameless Paper supposed to be the plot of Dr. Cornelius Burges and his Partners which attempts the Kings Maj. by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds to make good by an Act of Parliament to the Purchasers of Bishops c. Lands their illegal bargain for 99 years Lond. 1660. in 2 sh and an half in qu. Account of the life and death of Dr. Ralph Brownrig lately B. of Exeter This is at the end of his funeral Sermon before mention'd The loosing of S. Peters bonds setting forth the true sense and solution of the Covenant in point of conscience Lond. 1660. qu. Answer'd by one Joh. Rowlands in a pamphlet printed in qu. the same year Analysis of the Covenant Lond. 1660. qu. Soon after came out two answers The first of which was intit after this rude manner An anatomy or confutation of that idolized piece of nonsense and blasphemy of Dr. Gauden c. No name is set to it The second was St. Peters bonds abide by Zach. Crofton Both which were printed at Lond. 1660. qu. These two were soon after replyed upon by John Russell of Chinkford in Essex in a little piece in qu. intit The solemn League and Covenant discharged or S. Peters bonds not only loosed but annihilated c. attested by our Author Gauden Lond. 1660. in 3 sh and half in qu. Whether the said Joh. Russell be the same with him who became Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. 1630 in which year Will. and Franc. Russell before mentioned were entred Students of the same house I cannot yet tell About the same time came out another book intit An Anonymus Questionist in defence of Dr. Gauden c. And soon after this Analepsis Analeptica The fastning of S. Peters bonds in seaven links or proportions or the efficacy and extent of the solemn league and covenant asserted and vindicated against the doubts and scruples of Dr. Joh. Gaudens Anonym Questionist Mr. Joh. Russells St. Peters bonds not only loosed c. Dr. Featley his League illegal falsly fathered on him and The University of Oxon their reasons for not taking the Covenant c. Written by Zach. Crofton Minister of S. Botolphs Aldgate in London After this our Author Gauden came out with Anti Baal-Berith or the binding of the Covenant and all Covenantiers to their good behaviour By a just vindication of Dr. Gaudens Analysis that is his resolving the Covenant to law and justice to duty and conscience to reason and religion or to his dissolving it against the cacotomy of a nameless and shameless Libeller the worthy Hyperaspites of Dr. Burges Also against the pitiful cavils and objections of Mr. Zach. Crofton a rigid Presbyter with an answer to that monstrous paradox of No sacriledge no sin to alienate Church lands without and against all laws of God and man c. Lond. 1661. qu. The said Crofton came out soon after with a reply intit Anti-Bereth-Baal c. Lond. 1661. qu. Considerations touching the Liturgy of the Church of England in reference to his Maj. late Declaration c. Lond. 1661. qu. Answer'd by a vain and idle book intit Rhetorick restrained or Dr. Joh. Gauden Lord B. elect of Exeter his considerations of the liturgy of the Church of England considered and clouded Published under the name of Tho. Bold of Exon attested by Zach. Crofton and printed at London the same year Counsell delivered to 44 Presbyters and Deacons after they had been ordained by him in the Cath. Ch. of Exeter c. 13 Jan. 1660. Lond. 1661. in Lat. and Engl. in 2 or 3 sh in fol. printed also at Lond. in Lat. by it self Life of Mr. Richard Hooker This is written in a large Preface before Mr. Hooker's works which Dr. Gauden pablished at Lond. 1661. fol. In the said life and preface he doth with great confidence use divers Arguments to satisfie the world that the three books joyned to the five genuine books of the said Mr. Hooker are genuine and pen'd by him notwithstanding those poysonous assertions against the regal power which are to be found therein He hath also committed many errors as to several matters relating to his life and actions which being made evident elsewhere I shall now pass them by and proceed A pillar of gratitude humbly dedicated to the glory of God the honour of his Majesty c. for restoring of Episcopacy Lond. 1661 2 in a thin fol. On which book hangs an old story written by a Presbyterian but whether all true I must leave it to the judgment of the Reader He tells us that About the month of January 1661 a reverend gaudy Prelate did put forth A pillar of gratitude c. wherein having
Sancti Sanciti or the common doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints as who are kept by the power of God through faith unto Salvation vindicated from the attempts lately made against it by John Goodwin in his book entit Redemp redeemed Lond. 1654. fol. This book is animadverted upon by the said John Goodwin in his Triumviri or the Genius Spirit and deportment of three men Mr. Rich. Resbury Mr. John Pawson and Mr. George Kendall in their late writings against the free grace of God in the redemption of the world c. A fescu for a Horn-book or an Apologie for University learning as necessary to Country preachers Being an answer to Mr. Hornes books wherein he gores all University learning Printed in fol. with Sancti Sanciti before mention'd Fur pro Tribunali Examen Dialogismi cui inscribitur Fur praedestinatus Oxon. 1657. oct De doctrina Neopelagiana Oratio habita in Comitiis Oxon. 9. Jul. 1654. Twissii vita victoria De scientia media brevicola dissertatio in qua Twissii nomen à calumnis Francisci Annati Jesuitae vindicatur Dissertatiuncula de novis actibus sint ne Deo ascribendi These three last things are printed and go with Fur pro Tribunali At length after a great deal of restless agitation carried on for the cause our Author died at Cofton before mention'd on the 19 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Chappel joyning to his house there leaving then behind him the character of a Person well read in Polemical Divinity the character also of a ready Disputant a noted Preacher a zealous and forward Presbyterian but hot-headed and many times freakish I shall make mention of another George Kendall by and by NICHOLAS CLAGETT was born within the City of Canterbury entred a Student of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the year 1628 took one degree in Arts went afterwards to Magd. Hall and as a member of that House took the degree of Master of that faculty being then esteemed by the generality thereof a very able Moderator in Philosophy Afterwards at two years standing in that degree he became Vicar of Melbourne in Derbyshire and some years after Rector of S. Maries Church at S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolk where he was held in great veneration by the precise party for his edifying way of preaching and for his singular piety He hath written The abuses of Gods grace discovered in the kinds causes c. proposed as a seasonable check to the wanton libertisme of the present age Oxon. 1659. qu. He paid his last debt to nature on the twelfth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and three aged 56 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Chancel of S. Maries Church before mentioned He left behind him a Son named William Clagett educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge of which Univ. he was Doct. of Divinity afterwards Preacher to the honourable Society of Greys inn Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty and Lecturer of S. Mich. Basinghaugh This Person who died at London in the beginning of the year latter end of March 1688 hath published several things as 1 A discourse concerning the operations of the holy spirit with a confutation of some part of Dr. Owens book upon that subject In three parts In the second part of which is An answer to Mr. Jo. Humphreys animadversions on the first part 2 Notion of Idolatry considered and confuted Lond. 1688. c. Another Son also he left behind him named Nich. Claget M. of Arts who is now or at least was lately Preacher at S Maries in S. Edm. Bury before mentioned Author of a Serm. intit A perswasive to peaceableness and obedience c. Lond. 1683. qu. and of another preached at S. Edm. Bury before William Bishop of Norwich c. 4. May 1686. c. JOB ROYS Son of a Father of both his names a Scrivener of London and he the Son of another Job of Lubenham in Leycestershire was born in the County of Middlesex in the Parish as it seems of S. Giles Cripplegate an 1631 educated partly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks founded by John Royse 1563 became a Student in Pembroke Coll. 1650 and soon after was elected one of the Postmasters of Mert. Coll. where continuing under the tuition of a severe Presbyterian became well qualified with the spirit took one degree in Arts an 1655 left the Coll. soon after and retiring to the great City became a puling Levite among the Brethren for whose sake and at their instance he wrot and published The spirits Touchstone or the teaching of Christs spirit on the hearts of Believers being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know whether he be really taught by the spirit of God c. Lond. 1657 in a pretty thick octavo What other books he published besides this which was esteemed an inconsiderable canting piece I know not nor any thing else of the Author only that first if you had set aside his practical Divinity you would have found him a simple shiftless and ridiculous Person and secondly that dying in sixteen hundred sixty and three was buried in some Church in or near London being then weary of the change of the times and the wickedness forsooth that followed DAVID JENKYNS received his first being in this world at Hensol in the Parish of Pendeylwyn called by some Pendoylon in Glamorganshire became a Commoner of S. Emunds Hall in the year 1597 at which time several Welshmen were Students there After he had taken one degree in Arts he retired to Greys-Inn studied the Common Law and when Barrester was resorted to by many for his Counsel In the first of Car. 1. he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader but refused to read Afterwards he was made one of the Judges for South Wales continued in that office till the Rebellion broke out at which time he either imprison'd divers persons in his Circuit or condemn'd them to dye as being guilty of High Treason for bearing Arms against the King At length being taken Prisoner at Hereford when that City was surprized by the Parliament Forces in Decemb. 1645 he was hurried up to London and committed Prisoner to the Tower Afterwards being brought to the barr in Chancery he denied the Authority of that Court because their Seal was counterfeited and so consequently the Commissioners thereof were constituted against Law whereupon being committed to Newgate prison he was impeached of Treason and brought to the barr of the Commons house but denying their Authority and refusing to kneel was for his contempt fined 1000 l. and remitted to his prison and thence translated to Wallingford Castle About that time he used his utmost endeavours to set the Parliament and Army at odds thereby to promote the Kings Cause but it did not take effect according to his desire Afterwards passed an Act for his Tryal in the High Court of Justice an 1650 so that our
Prince of Poets fell into the hands of the Satyrical wits of this University who having easily got some of his prose and poetry served him as the wits did Tom. Coryat in his time and published them under these titles Naps upon Pernassus A sleepy muse nipt and pincht though not awakened c. Lond. 1658. oct Characters Printed with the former Both which were usher'd into the world by more than twenty Copies of verses advantaging the sale of the book by such that had the name of or at least pretended to be Poets Among them were Tho. Flatman Tho. Sprat and Sam. Woodford since noted and famed for their Poetical works Silvanus Taylour and George Castle of All 's Coll the former better at Musick the other at lying and buffooning than Poetry And among others not now to be named must not be forgotten Alexander Amidei a Jew and Florentine born then a Teacher of Hebrew and other tongues in the University afterwards a converted Christian and Reader of a Hebrew Lecture in Sion Coll. Lond. Our Author Austin hath also written and published A Panegyrick on K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1661. oct wherein just after the Preface he promised to publish more Poems conditionally the said Paneg. took the Subjects of which are there set down But what prevented him unless death which hapned about the plague year in 1665 I cannot tell JOHN OSBORNE a forward zealot for carrying on the righteous cause was the Son of John Osborne of Crediton in Devonshire whence after he had been trained up in trivial learning he was sent to New inn in the year 1634 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and became a frequent Preacher up of the Presbyterian design At length having sufficiently proved himself to be one of them was made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire in the place of a Loyalist ejected where continuing till the Act of conformity put him out preached in Conventicles in the Neighbourhood and thereupon was imprison'd for several weeks in Oxford Castle Afterwards being let loose he retired to the great City taught School and lived in S. Barthelmews Parish near little Britaine to the time as I take it of his death He hath published The Mysterie of the resurrection on Acts 24.15 Lond. 1651. qu. Conference between him and Rich. Coppin of Westwell near Burford at Burford in Oxfordshire concerning the resurrection of the Body Printed with The mysterie c. He also took a great deal of pains in making A catalogue of our English Writers on the Old and New Testament and had printed about 8 sheets of it but Will. Crowe of Suffolk Schoolmaster of Croyden in Surrey the same I mean who hung himself about the latter end of 1674 coming out before him on the same subject in 1659 prevented him from going any farther This Cat which hath been several times since printed is called by some Osbornes but by the generality Crowes Catalogue One John Osborne hath translated into English for the use of Schools Comenius his Vestibuli linguarum auctuarium c. Printed several times and in 1670 it was printed at London in oct Whether this Jo. Osborne be the same with the former I cannot yet tell GEORGE KENDALL son of Rich. Kendall of Rowel in Northamptonshire was born in that County became Batler of New inn in the year 1630 and that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards was actually created Master of that faculty when K. Ch. 1. was entertained at Oxon an 1636. He hath written a book entit An Appendix to the unlearned Alchymist wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent Diopharetick and Diuretick pill purging by sweat and urine commonly known by Matthews Pill c. Lond. 1664. At which time he practiced Physick but whether graduated here in that faculty or licensed to practice it it appears not What other things he hath written I cannot tell nor any thing else of the Author THOMAS HALL son of Rich. Hall clothier by Elizabeth Bonner his Wife was born in S. Andrews Parish within the City of Worcester about the 22 of July 1610 bred up to Grammar learning in the Kings School there under the famous Hen. Bright who perceiving him to be a youth of pregnant parts was by his perswasion sent to Ball. Coll. in 1624 But being his chance to be put under the tuition of a careless Tutor he was removed to Pembroke Coll. then newly founded and became Pupil to Mr. Tho. Lushington reputed by the generality of Scholars eminent for his Philosophical learning After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts and had compleated it by publick Determination he returned to his Country and for a while taught a private School and preached in the Chappels belonging to Kings Norton in Worcestershire Afterwards being a frequenter of the Lectures at Bermingham in Warwickshire maintained and held up by old Puritans they so much operated on his spirit that he relinquished his former principles adhered to that party and in many respects became an enemy to the Church of England and in fine so rigid in his perswasion that he was disliked by the Brethren Much about the same time he served the cure of Kings Norton under his Brother Mr. John Hall who at length resigned it all unto him and for his farther encouragement got the Free-school adjoyning to be added to it Both which employments took up most of his time and were all the preferments he ever had in the Church For being a single person a lover of books and learning and of a retired and obscure life never looked farther than his beloved Kings Norton At the turn of the times in 1641 he shew'd himself openly a Presbyterian and complied altogether with that party not for preferment sake but because they were against Bishops and Ceremonies At length in 1652 having the testimony of godly and able men had the degree of Bach. of Divinity confer'd upon him by the then members of the University but with this condition that he should preach a Latine Sermon as part of his exercise and an English Sermon instead of his other exercise Both which were as I conceive accordingly done tho his admission appears not He was accounted a Person by those of his own perswasion of great integrity and single-heartedness in his Ministry of a free and liberal heart just and one that lived much by faith of an holy and unblamable life of humble deportment and carriage a great lover of peace a plain and profitable Preacher that he was much in communion with God in publick abundant in thansgiving to God careful how to spend his time c. His works are these The Pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publick preaching and expounding the Scriptures without a Call c. Lond. 1651. qu. Answer'd by one Tho. Collier of whom more anon Six arguments to
entred in Jesus Coll. in Mich. term 1638 and was put under the tuition of a noted Tutor by whose lectures profiting much he took one degree in Arts was made Fellow of the said House and afterwards taking holy Orders from Dr. Manwaring Bishop of S. David had about that time the Rectory of S. Bridget before mentioned confer'd upon him by his kinsman Sir George Vaughan But the unsetledness of the times hindring him a quiet possession of he left it retired to Oxon and in a sedate repose prosecuted his medicinal genie in a manner natural to him and at length became eminent in the chymical part thereof at Oxon and afterwards at London under the protection and patronage of that noted Chymist Sir Rob. Murrey or Moray Kt Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland He the said Vaughan was a great admirer of the labours of Cornel. Agrippa whose principles he followed in most of his works and to whom in matters of Philosophy he acknowledged that next to God he owned all that he had and therefore in his praise he did often passionately break out into poetical streines as that he was Natures Apostle and her choice High-priest Her mystical and bright Evangelist c. As he was a great admirer of Agrippa so he was no great favourer of the Aristotelian Philosophy condemning it as altogether imperfect and false a meer Apothecaries drugg a mixture of inconsistent contrary Principles which no way agree with the harmony and method of nature The whole Encyclopaedia of which abating the demonstrative mathematical part he says is built on meer imagination without the least light of experience and therefore he wishes that all true sons of his famous Oxford mother would look beyond Aristotle and not confine their intellect to the narrow and cloudy horizon of his text Our Author seems also to have had as little kindness for the Cartesian Philosophy as the former for he says that the Author of it was a whim and a wham a Fellow that invented ridiculous Principles of his own but hath cast them into such a method that they have a seeming dependency and Scholars mistake his knavery for his reason c. The truth is our Author Vaughan was so wedded to his beloved Agrippa that nothing could relish with him but his works especially his Occult Philosophy which he would defend in all discourse and writing He was a great Chymist a noted son of the fire an experimental Philosopher a zealous brother of the Rosie-Crucian fraternity an understander of some of the Oriental Languages and a tolerable good English and Latin Poet. He was neither Papist nor Sectary but a true resolute Protestant in the best sense of the Church of England His Works are these Anthroposophia Theomagica or a discourse of the nature of Man and his state after death grounded on his Creators Proto-chimistry and verified by a practical examination of principles in the great world Lond. 1650. oct Dedicated to his brethren of the Rosie-Cross Anima magica abscondita or a discourse of the universal spirit of nature with the strange abstruse miraculous ascent and descent Lond. 1650. oct It is joyned with the former book and they go both together But the Reader is to know that our Author having reflected on some of the Writings of Mr. Hen. More Fellow of Christs Coll. in Cambridge particularly as it seems on his Psychodia Platonica More thereupon came out with a book intit Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica and Anima mag abscond under the name of Alazonomastix Philalethes Par. alias Lond. 1650. oct Which observations being somewhat satyrical charging our Author to be a Magician and withal affirming that nothing but an implacable enmity to Immorality and Foolery and a zeal of discountenancing Vanity moved him to write against him in which his Writings he stiles our Author a Mome a Mimick an Ape a meer Animal a Fool in a Play a Jack-pudding c our Author thereupon came out with an Answer in vindication of himself intit The Man-mouse taken in a trap and tortured to death for gnawing the Margins of Eug. Philalethes Lond. 1650. oct Written in the greatest buffoonry and scolding imaginable out-stripping the pattern laid before him by his Adversary and not only plays and quibbles on his name like a Novice but falls fouly on his University in a childish manner All which doth fully make out the fantasticalness of the title But this also was replied upon by the said More under the name of Alaz Philalethes in a book intit The second Lash against Vaughans Anthropos Camb. 1651. oct Which answer and reply of More did afterwards so little please him tho they tended to a good end that he thought not fit to have them translated into Latine with the rest of his Philosophical Works which were printed 1679. fol. See the general Preface to the said Works concerning the occasion and stile of the aforesaid Answer and Reply Th. Vaughan hath also written Magia Adamica or the antiquity of Magic and the descent thereof from Adam downward proved c. Lond. 1650. oct A perfect and full discovery of the true Coelum terrae or the Magicians heavenly Chaos and first matter of all things Printed with Magia Adam The second wash or the Moore scoured once more being a charitable Cure for the distractions of Alazonomastix Lond. 1651. oct The first wash was the Man-mouse This worthy person Dr. Hen. More of whom we heard no farther as to this matter was born of Calvinistical Parents in a Mercate Town in Lincolnshire called Grantham and there for a while bred up under a Master of the same perswasion At about 14 years of age he was sent to Eaton School near Windsore where he usually spoke very slightly of the opinions of Calvin and about three years after he was entred into Christs Coll. in Cambridge where he became Fellow a great Tutor and a most noted Philosopher He died on the third day of Apr. 1687 aged 73 years and was buried in the Chappel of Christs Coll as I have been informed thence Lumen de lumine or a new magical light discovered and communicated to the world Lond. 1651. oct Aphorismi Magici Eugeniani Printed with Lum de lum 〈◊〉 both dedicated to the Univ. of Oxon. Aula lucis or the house of Light a discourse written in the year 1651. Lond. 1652. oct Published not under the name of Eug. Philalethes but under the two Letters of S. N. a modern Speculator being the two last Letters of Thomas Vaughan Large Preface with a short declaration of the physical work of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross Set by him before a book intit The fame and confession of the Fraternity of R. C. commonly of the Rosie Cross Lond. 1652. oct Which Fame and Confession was translated into English by another hand I have seen another book intit Themis aurea The laws of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross Lond. 1656. oct Written in
Lat. by Count Michael Maierus and put in English for the information of those who seek after the knowledge of that honorable and mysterious Society of wise and renowned Philosophers This English translation is dedicated to Elias Ashmole Esq by an Epistle subscribed by N. L. T. S. H. S. but who he is or they are he the said El. Ashmole hath utterly forgotten Euphrates A discourse of the Waters of the East or of that secret fountain whose water flows from fire and carries in it the beams of the Sun and Moon Lond. 1655. oct He hath also translated into English The Chymists key to open and shut or the true doctrine of Corruption and Generation Lond. 1655. Written by Hen. Nollius He hath also left several Lat. Poems behind him which are in the hands of his Brother Henry called by some Olor Iscanus esteemed by many fit to be published One Eugenius Philalethes hath written A brief natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses upon the burning of Mount Aetna with refutations c. Lond. 1669. oct but by the language of it it seems not to be written by our Eug. Phil. but another and besides when Olor Iscanus sent me a Cat. of his Brothers works the title of that book was not put among them One who calls himself Eireneus Philalethes a Citizen of the World hath published Ripley redivivus c. and another who writes himself Eireneus Philoponos Philalethes hath published The marrow of Alchemy c. in two parts Lond. 1654. and 55. oct Both which parts the second containing two books are written in verse and so consequently the Author is to be numbred among the Poets As for our Author Eug. Phil. alias Thom. Vaughan he did accompany Sir Rob. Murrey before mention'd to Oxon at what time the great Plague at London drove their Majesties and their respective Courts to that place where he continued for a time Soon after taking up his quarters in the house of Sam. Kem Rector of Albury near to Thame and Ricot in Oxfordshire died there on the 27 of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried on the first of March following in the Church belonging to the said Village of Albury alias Oldbury about 8 miles distant from Oxon by the care and charge of the said Sir Robert Murrey Of whom by the way I must let the Reader know these things viz. That he was born of an antient and noble family in or near the High-lands in Scotland that his youth was spent in good letters partly in the University of S. Andrew and partly in France where he had afterwards a military Employment in the service of Lewis 13 and was at length a Lieutenant-Colonel and an excellent Soldier That he was General of the Ordnance in Scotland against K. Ch. 1. when the Presbyterians of that Kingdom first set up and maintained their Covenant That at the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made one of the Privy Council of the said Kingdom and about the same time became one of the first Contrivers and Institutors of the Royal Society of which he was made the first President This person tho presbyterianly affected yet he had the Kings ear as much as any other person and was indefatigable in his undertakings He was a single man an abhorrer of Women a most renowned Chymist a great Patron of the Rosie-Crusians and an excellent Mathematician His several relations and matters of experiment which are in the Philosophical Transactions shew him to be a man well vers'd in experimental Philosophy He died suddenly in his Pavilion in the garden at Whitehall on the fourth day of July some hours after he had informed my friend of the death and burial of Eugen. Philalethes an 1673. 25 Car. 2. and was at the Kings charge buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster near to the grave of Sir Will. D'avenant sometimes Laureat Poet to the said King I find another Rob. Moray son of a Scotchman to be Author of a little Pamphlet intit Composition-credit or a bank of credit made currant by common consent in Lond. more useful than money Lond. 1682. in one sh in qu. and Author of An advertisement for the more easie and speedy collecting of debts and of other things But this person who was born in the Strand near London was a Milliner and of the company of Cloath-workers afterwards Clerk to the general Commissioners for the Revenue of Ireland then Clerk to the Commissioners of the grand Excise of England and in the latter end of 1679 the first inventer of the Penny-Post in London which was carried on by one .... Docwray GEORGE HOPKINS Son of Will. Hopk was born at Beaudley in Worcestershire 15 Apr. 1620 educated partly there in School learning under Joh. Graile and partly at Kinfare in Staffordshire became a Batler of New Inn in Lent Term 1637 took one degree in Arts in 1641 and then left the University for a time being puritannically affected Afterwards he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant retired to Oxon after the Garrison thereof was surrendred for the use of the Parliament submitted to the Visitors appointed by them took the degr of Master and soon after became Minister of Allsaints Parish in Evesham in Worcestershire In 1654 he was by the then Parliament appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and soon after published Salvation from sin by Jesus Christ or the doctrine of Sanctification which is the greater part of our Salvation founded upon Christ who is both the meritorious and efficient cause of sanctifying grace c. Lond. 1655. oct This book which is levelled against Antinomianism was preached in seven sermons in a weekly lecture at Evesham on Math. 1.21 In the Authors dedication of the book to the Borough of Evesham he saith that to them he had dedicated himself to the work of the Gospel from his first beginning to be a constant Preacher of it and saith afterward that Dr. Bayly preached to them part of The practice of Piety before he publish'd it See among the Writers in the first Vol. p. 485 486. In 1662 our Author Hopkins left his Cure of Allsaints for want of Conformity and retiring to Dumbleton in Glocestershire died there at about one of the clock in the morning of the 25 of March Annunc day in sixteen hundred sixty and six whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there During the time he lived in that Town he constantly with his whole family frequented the Parish Church and publick Prayers on Holydays and Sundays in the Afternoons when there was no Sermon He never failed to receive the Holy Communion as oft as it was celebrated and did all things required of a Lay-member of the Ch. of England Besides his knowledge in Divinity he was a very good
in the Beadleship In the beginning of which the said Vicechancellour Dr. Fell stood up and exhorted the Masters in a set speech to have a care whom they should choose and desired them by all means that they would not elect a Poet or any that do libellos scribere adding withal that the late Beadle Gayton was such an ill husband and so improvident that he had but one farthing in his pocket when he died c. But notwithstanding this exhortation which was just the Black-pot-men or such who are called Boon Blades who with shame be it spoken carry all before them in elections did instead of electing a Master of Arts for there were two that stood to that beneficial place which hath been done time out of mind did choose a Yeoman-Beadle Solad Lichfield who had formerly kept a publick inn and was good for nothing but for eating drinking smoaking and punning CHARLES HOOLE son of Charl. Hoole was born at Wakefield in Yorks educated in the Free-school there under Rob. Doughtie a Cantabrigian who had taught in that school 50 years or more sent to Linc. Coll. by the advice of his Kinsman Dr. Rob. Sanderson in Mich. term 1628 aged 18 years where by the help of a good Tutor he became a proficient in the Greek and Hebrew tongues and in Philosophy After he had taken one degree in Arts he entred into the sacred function retired to Lincolnshire for a time and by the endeavours of Sanderson before mentioned he was made Master of the Free-school at Rotheram in Yorkshire and then proceeded in Arts. In the beginning of the Civil War he went to London and by the invitation of certain noted Citizens he taught a private School there between Goldsmiths-alley in Redcross-street and Maidenhead-court in Aldersgate-street Afterwards leaving that place about 1651 he taught another private Grammar School in Token-house Garden in Lothbury not far from the Royal Exchange where as in the former School the generality of the youth were instructed to a miracle About the time of his Majesties restauration he was invited into Monmouthshire with hopes of great reward but promises answering not expectation he returned to London and Dr. Sanderson being then made Bishop of Lincolne he appointed him his Chaplain gave him a Prebendship in the Church of Lincolne and would have done greater matters for him if he had lived About that time he became Rector also of Stock near to Chelmsford in Essex where he mostly spent the remainder of his days with great content to himself and his Parishioners He was a noted Royalist and therefore suffered for it in the beginning of the Wars was a good Latinist Greecian and Hebritian and admirably skill'd in classical learning He hath transmitted to posterity these things following Pueriles confabulatiunculae Anglo latinae in varias clausulas distributae c. Lond. 1633. 53. c. oct Aditus facilis ad linguam latinam c. Lond. 1641. 49. c. oct in Lat. and Engl. Terminationes exempla Declinationum Conjugationum Lond. 1650 57 c. in Engl. and Lat. in oct Maturini Corderii Colloquia Scholastica Lond. 1653. 71. c. in Engl. and Lat. in oct Plain and easie Primmer for Children wherein the pictures of beasts and birds for each letter in the Alphabet are set down c. Grammar in Lat. and Engl. Lond. 1654 oct At first intended for the use of his private School but since found the most necessary and easiest for attaining the lat tongue of any then extant Aesopi fabulae Lond. in oct Engl. and Lat. The common rudiments of Latine Grammar usually taught in all Schools Lond. 1657. oct The first part or book The construction of eight parts of Speech The second part or book The examples of the English rules grammatically construed The third part or book The fourth edition of this Grammar in three parts was published in 1664 having been before approved by Bishop Sanderson and others to be the shortest orderliest and plainest for ease both of Master and Scholars that had been then extant Examination of common Accidence Lond. 1657. c. Engl. and Lat. Vocabularium parvum c. Lond. 1657. oct Engl. and Latin Catonis distica de moribus Lond. 1659. 70. c. oct Eng. and Lat. The Ushers duty or a platforme of teaching Lilies Grammar Lond. 1659. in tw The letters C. H. are set to it in the title and therefore I suppose it was written by our Author Ch. Hoole Dicta insignia septem sapientium Graeciae Lond. 1659. 70. oct in Engl. and Lat. Mimi Publiani sive Senecoe proverbia Lond. 1659. 70. oct Examinatio Grammaticae latinae in usum scholarum adornatae c. Lond. 1660. oct New discovery of the old art of teaching School in four Treatises Lond. 1660. oct Written 1637 for the use and benefit of Rotheram school and after 14 years trial by diligent practice in London it was published with Enlargements Sententiae pueriles Angl. Lat. c. Lond. 1681. octav Printed then with Colloquia Corderii Publii Terentii Comediae sex Angl. Lat. c. Lond. 1676. octavo Sententiae pueriles c. Lond. 1677. Engl. and Lat. Phraseologiae pueriles Angl. Lat. Lond. in oct In the year 1653 he published the New Testam in Greek with all the positions of the most difficult words which are grammatically resolved in George Pasors Lexicon put in the margin thereof Afterwards were several Editions published and that which came out in 1674 was ill corrected and printed on bad paper and in a worse character He also translated from Lat. into English The visible world or a picture or nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world and of mens employments therein Lond. 1659. oct The book which is adorned with pictures to make Children understand it the better was originally written by Joh. Amos Commenius This most noted Grammarian Ch. Hoole paid his last debt to nature at Stock before mention'd on the 7 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in the chancel of the Church there under an arch in the wall near the Communion Table I have been informed by one of his relations that he the said Mr. Hoole hath 24 books and translations extant which number is before set down but whether in order as they came out I cannot tell for I have not yet seen all their editions ISAAC ROET an Englishman of an antient and gentile family studied for some time in Oxon but in what Coll. or Hall it appears not in the Matriculation-book or whether he took any degree from any of the Registers He hath written a book intit Pestis adumbrata in libris V. Aphorismorum c. Lond. 1666. oct Which is all I know of him nor should I have known that he ever studied in the University had he not in the title of the said book wrot himself olim Oxonienses WALTER BUSHNELL Son of Will. Bushn of Corsham in Wilts
he became in a manner craz'd To conclude I must now let the Reader know that there was no Writer of his time nor ever before except Bale that was given more to calumny and railing in his Writings than he especially against the Bishops true Churchmen of England Episcoparians and Papists while in the mean time his Brethren that deserved justly to be chastised by his pen were omitted As for his railing at the Episcoparians all readers of his books pen'd against Dr. Laud and the Bishops may in a plentiful manner behold and what he says against the Papists let it be truth or not truth may also in them be easily discern'd But for these last the Papists let one of their number who is a grave Writer characterize our Author Prynne for an egregious lye that he hath committed against a red-letter'd-man and against the English Papists when he would have them all massacred in 1666. Yet of late this poysonous humour of calumniating Gods Saints is become the principal character of the new reformed Gospel I will add one example more of a Calumniator at least parallel to these viz. Mr. Will. Prynne a late stigmatized Presbyterian who in his not long since published censure of Archb. Whitgift charges S. Anselme that he induced Sir Walt. Tyrrell to murder K. Will. Rufus Now by the consent of all Historians Tyrrell himself was no murderer for it was by the unhappy casual glancing of an arrow that the King was slain However it hapned yet certain it is that at that time S. Anselme was an exil'd person in France and whereas at the Kings burial many noble men met but few mourn'd for his death yet saith a late Protestant Historian of all mourners Anselme expressed most cordial sorrow at the news That blasphemous tongue therefore must expect that such envenomed darts as these shot against heaven it self will if he repent not one day descend upon his own head and the wounds made by them never be cured But alas what repentance can be expected in such a person who is inveteratus dierum malorum when we see in his decrepit age his rancorous tongue against innocent Catholicks yet more violently set on fire of hell so far as to sollicite a general Massacre of them by publishing himself and tempting others to damn their souls also by publishing through the whole Kingdom that in the last fatal calamity by fire hapning to London 1666 they were the only Incendiaries This he did tho himself at the same time confessed that not the least proof could be produced against them But said he it concerns us that this report should be believed Complaints of this most execrable Attentate were made and several Oaths to confirm this were offer'd but in vain However surely there is a reward for the innocent oppressed And whatsoever Mr. Prynne may think doubtless there is a God who judges the World Let him therefore remember what the spirit of God says Quid detur What must be given to thee and what must be assigned to thee for thy portion O deceitful Tongue Sharp darts cast by an almighty arm with devouring coals of Juniper c. The books and pamphlets that this unwearied Writer hath published are these The perpetuity of a regenerate mans estate against the Saints total and final Apostacy Lond. 1627. qu. Healths sickness Or a compendious and brief discourse proving the drinking and pledging of healths to be sinful and utterly unlawful unto Christians c. Lond. 1628. qu. The un-loveliness of Love-locks and long womanish hair Ibid. 1628. qu. Brief survey and censure of Mr. Cozens his couzening devotions Ibid. 1628. qu. This was written against the Private devotions that were published by John Cosin afterwards Bishop of Durham as containing Arminianisme in them as Prynne says who adds that it was one of the reasons why Laud Archb. of Cant. did malign him and caused his Histrio-mastix to be called into question Anti-Arminianisme or the Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme c. Lond. 1630. It was twice pr. that year in qu. Appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jesus See more in Giles Widdowes under the year 1645 who by the strangeness of his parts was fitted as 't were on purpose to duell with Prynne as Don Quixot with the Wind-mill which no man else was Knight errant enough to encounter about the said matter God no impostor or deluder or an answer to a Popish and Arminian cavil in defence of free will and universal Grace wherein Gods tender of Grace c. Lond. 1629. 30. qu. Lame Giles his haultings together with an appendix concerning the popish original and progress of bowing at the name of Jesus Ibid. 1631. qu. Written against Giles Widdowes before mention'd Histrio-mastix The playes scourge c. against the intollerable mischief and abuses of common playes and play-houses Ibid. 1633. qu. Books written during his imprisonment in the Tower of Lond. Appendix supplementum Epilogus ad Flagellum Pontificis touching the parity of Bishops and Presbyters jure divino An. 1635. This Flagellum was written by Joh. Bastwick Dr. of Phys of Padua sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge afterwards a Practitioner at Colchester in Essex in which County he was born A breviate of the Bishops intollerable usurpations and encroachments upon the Kings prerogative and Subjects liberties with an appendix to it An. 1635. Certain Queries propounded to the bowers at the name of Jesus and the Patrons thereof An. 1636. The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus proving them no diocesan Bishops of Ephesus and Crete and that Presbyters have a divine right to ordain Ministers as well as Bishops with a Postscript Print 1636 reprinted with additions at Lond. 1660. qu. the Bishops then being about to be restored by K. Ch. 2. Lookingâ—glass for all Lordly Prelates An. 1636. Certain Queries propounded to Bishops c. An. 1636. Instructions for Church Wardens concerning visitatation articles fees oathes c. An. 1636. News from Ipswich discovering certain late detestable practices of some domineering Lordly Prelates to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our Church c. Printed as 't is said at Ipswich but false an 1636 in one sh in qu. Published under the name of Matthew White three times in that year and another time in 1641. He the said Prynne had also a special hand in the writing of a book intit A divine Tragedy lately acted or a collection of sundry memorable examples of Gods judgment upon Sabbath breakers c Printed by stealth an 1636. qu. At the end of which is an Appendix pr. in another character containing the sufferings of Prynne for his Histrio-mastix and the miserable end as 't is there said that befel Will. Noy the chief instrument of his sufferings Catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence Bishops and Presbyters to be both one equal and the same in jurisdiction office c. by divine law and institution c.
restauration for want of conformity He was a conceited whimsical person and one very unsetled in his opinions sometimes he was a Presbyterian sometimes an Independent and at other times an Anabaptist Sometimes he was a Prophet and would pretend to foretel matters in the pulpit to the great distraction of poor and ignorant people At other times having received revelations as he pretended he would forewarn people of their sins in publick discourses and upon pretence of a vision that Doomesday was at hand he retired to the house of Sir Franc. Russell in Cambridgshire whose daughter Henry the son of great Oliv. Cromwell had married and finding divers Gentlemen there at Bowles called upon them to prepare themselves for their dissolution telling them that he had lately received a revelation that Doomesday would be some day the next week At which the Gentlemen being well pleased they and others always after called him Doomesday Sedgwick and the rather for this reason that there were others of his sirname that pretended to prophecy also He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Zions deliverance and her friends duty or the grounds of expecting and means of procuring Jerusalems restauration Preached at a publick Fast 29. June 1642 before the House of Commons on Isaiah 62.7 Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Some flashes of Lightning in the Son of man in eleven Sermons Lond. 1648. oct These Sermons seem to have been preached on Luke 17.20.21.22 c. The Leaves of the tree of Life for the healing of the nations opening all wounds of this Kingdom and of every party and applying a remedy to them c. Lond. 1648 qu. This book as soon as 't was published which was in the latter end of 1647 the author went to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight and desired the Governours leave to address himself to K. Ch. 1. then a Prisoner there Mr. Jam. Harrington one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber being acquainted with the occasion told his Maj. that a Minister was purposely come from London to discourse with him about his spiritual concerns and was also desirous to present his Maj. with a book he had lately written for his Majesties perusal which as he said if his Majesty would please to read might as he imagined be of much advantage to him and comfort in that his disconsolate condition The King thereupon came forth and Sedgwick in decent manner gave his Maj. the book After he had read some part thereof he returned it to the author with this short admonition and judgment By what I have read in this book I believe the author stands in some need of sleep These words being taken by the author in the best sense he departed with seeming satisfaction The next day came one John Harrington Esq Son of Sir John Harrington and Epigrammatist in the time of Queen Eliz. and K. James 1. and being admitted into the Castle upon the like charitable account desired to have some discourse with his Majesty but his Maj. having heard some odd things of him from Jam. Harrington before mention'd that he was a canting and prophetical Presbyterian thanked him likewise for his good intentions without discoursing with him upon any point Whereupon Harrington wishing his Maj. much happiness withdrew Justice upon the Army-remonstrance or a rebuke of that evil spirit that leads them in their Councils and actions With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their ways c. Lond. 1649 qu. A second view of the Army-remonstrance or justice done to the Army wherein their principles are new model'd brought out of obscurity into clearer light c. Lond. 1649. in 5. sh in qu. This last seems somewhat to contradict the former but in such a canting fashion that I know not what to make of it unless the Author meant to claw with them in their own way Animadversions on a letter and paper first sent to his Highness Oliv. Cromwell by certain Gentlemen and others in Wales And since printed and published to the world by some of the subscribers c. Lond. 1656 qu. Animadversions upon a book intit Inquisition for the blood of our Soveraign Lond. 1661. oct What other things this our author hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after the return of K. Ch. 2. he lived mostly at Leusham in Kent but leaving that place about 1668 retired to London where he soon after died I have been several times promised an account of his death and burial but my friend Dr. S. C. of Gr. in Kent stands not to his word NATHANIEL HARDY son of Anth. Hard. was born in the Old Baylie in the Parish of S. Martin Ludgate in London on the 14 of Sept. 1618 became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1632 where continuing several years under the course of a severe discipline went thence to Hart Hall for a time and took the degree of Mast of Arts an 1638 and in the next year he was admitted into full Orders Afterwards he retired to the great City became a florid and very ready Preacher and at the turn of the times was insnared with the fair pretences of the Presbyterian party but at the treaty at Uxbridge between the Commissioners appointed by the King and those by the Parliament to treat about Peace an 1644 he was present and being desirous to be impartially informed in the truth of that Controversie he was fully convinced of his error chiefly by the Arguments of Dr. Hen. Hammond So that then being in the 26 year of his age he immediately as 't is said upon his return to London preached a Recantation Sermon and ever after even in the worst of times he attested his loyalty to the King and conformity to the Church in discipline as well as in doctrine in his ministerial function Of these matters I have been informed by his friend but this must be known that in all or most of the times of usurpation he was Minister of S. Dionyse Back-Church in London and tho frequented by some Loyalists yet by more Presbyterians His said friend also hath informed me that he kept up a Lecture in the said Church which was called The Loyal Lecture whereby many of the then suffering Clergy were relieved Also that that year on which the King was beheaded and ever after till near the time of the return of K. Ch. 2 he preached his funeral Sermon In the year 1660 he by his forward endeavours got to be one of those Ministers that went with the Commissioners appointed by the City of London to the Hague in order to his Majesties restauration And being there on a Sunday 20. May he with great confidence preached a Sermon before his Majesty on the 29 verse of the 26. chapter of Isaiah wherein he applied his discourse to the then present Estate of affairs in England so pathetically and learnedly that there was not any one present but admired his elegancy and learning and
he return'd again and told him that the Lieu. Gen. intended his good and advancement and that his particular errand was that he would make use of his Pen to write the History of the late War desiring withal that nothing but matters of fact be impartially set down c. To which he returned answer that he desired his humble service and hearty thanks be returned for that great honour done unto him and withal that he was uncapable in several respects for such an employment and could not so impartially engage in it but that his subject would force him to make such reflections as would be ungrateful if not injurious to his Lordship Notwithshanding this answer Cromwell seemed so sensible of his worth that tho he could not win him over to his desires yet he acknowledged a great respect for him and as a testimony thereof he ordered that upon the first demand there should be delivered three or four hundred pounds by a certain Bookseller in London whose name was Cromwell whensoever his occasions should require without acknowledging any benefactor at the receipt of it But this offer as I have been informed by our authors Son John Casaubon a Chirurgion of Canterbury he scorned to accept tho his condition was then mean At the same time it was proposed by the said Greaves who belonged to the library at S. James that if our author would gratifie him in the foregoing request Cromwell would restore unto him all his Fathers books which were then in the Royal Library there given by K. James who had invited him into England and withal a Patent for 300 l. per an to be paid to the family so long as the youngest Son of Dr. Is Casaubon should live but this also was refused Not long after there was a proposal made by the then Sweedish Ambassador in England from Christina Qu. of Sweedland to our author M. Casaubon whereby he was invited by the said Queen into her Country to have the government of one or inspection of all her Universities and for an encouragement she proposed not only an honorable Salary for himself but offered to settle 300 l. per an upon his eldest Son during life But this also was waved with full design to spend the remainder of his days in England After the Kings return he was restored to his Spiritualities and went on in writing books which he continued almost to his last He was a general Scholar but not extraordinary in any one sort unless in criticisms wherein his Fathers notes might probably have set him up He was also a religious man loyal to his Prince exemplary in his life and conversation and very charitable to the poor The Writings and Translations which he published were many as the Catalogue following will tell you Pietas contra maledicos patrii nominis religionis hostes Lond. 1621. oct Vindicatio patris adversus impostores qui librum ineptum impium De origine idolatriae nuper sub Isaaci Casauboni nomine publicavit Lond. 1624. 25. in 8. sh in qu. Which book Of the original of idolatry was translated out of a French copy by Abr. Darcy Isaac Casaubon having been dead about 10 years before and was dedicated to Prince Charles and presented to K. James and all the Lords of the Council It is said to have been written before Isaac Casaubon was born but his name being fraudently inserted in the title page Meric the Son who was then a Student of Ch. Ch. informed his Majesty by Letters of the wrong done to his Father by making him the author of such a book contrary to his Genius and constant profession being full of impertinent allegations out of obscure and late authors whom his Father never thought worthy the reading much less the using their authority After his Majesties perusal of that letter he was much incensed at the matter and Dr. Mountaigne Bishop of Lond. had much ado to make his Chaplains peace for licensing it the printer and translator being for some time kept in prison Yet after all this the same translation was printed at Amsterdam with a justificatory preface of the former edition to make the book more vendible for their own profit tho discredit to the memory of others He the said Mer. Casaubon hath also written Notae emendationes in Optatum Afrum Milevitani Episcopum de schismate Donatistarum Lond. 1631. oct Translation out of Gr. into English of and notes upon Marc. Aurel. Antoninus his meditations concerning himself Lond. 1634. 35. qu. Revised and corrected Lond. 1664. oct 3d. edit c. Treatise of use and custome in things natural civil and divine Lond. 1638. qu. The use of dayly publick prayers in three positions Lond. 1641. qu. Notae emendationes in Marci Antonini Imperatoris de seipso ad seipsum libros XII Lond. 1643. oct Guil. Xylander did first of all make the said book publick in Gr. and Lat Which version our author did mend in many places and made it new c. The original cause of temporal evils Lond. 1645. qu. Discourse concerning Christ his incarnation and exinanition Lond. 1646. qu. Before which is an introduction Concerning the principles of Christianity and Divinity De verborum usu accuratae eorum cognitionis utilitate Diatriba Lond. 1647. in tw De quatuor linguis commentationis pars prior quae de lingua Hebraica de lingua Saxonica Lond. 1650 oct The author had not opportunity of finishing the other two tongues Gr. and Lat. Some annotations on the Psalmes and Proverbs Done at the earnest request of certain Booksellers whereof our author hath given a farther account in the first part of Credulity p. 106. Which Annotations were in the last edit of the Assemblies Annotations on the Bible reprinted with some additions Notae in Hieroclem de providentia fato Lond. 1655. octavo Treatise concerning Enthusiasme as it is an effect of nature but is mistaken by many for either divine inspiration or diabolical possession Lond. 1655. 56. oct Translation into Engl. of and notes on Luc. Florus Hist of the Romans Lond. 1658. 59. oct Notae in Epicteti Enchiridion Lond. 1659. oct Notae in Cebetis tabulam Lond. 1659. oct Notae in Paraphrasin Enchiridii Lond. 1659. oct De nupera Homeri Editione Lugdunâ-Batavicâ Hackiana dissertatio Lond. 1659. oct Dissertatiuncula super loco Homerico quo Dei in hominem tam mentes quam fortunas imperium asseritur Printed with the former book 1659. Vindication of the Lords prayer as a formal prayer and by Christs institution to be used by Christians as a prayer Lond. 1660. oct The first occasion of writing this treatise was the relation of a strange affront done publickly unto Christ or if you will more punctually to the Lords Prayer in the chief Church of Oxon by one Dr. John Owen that had under the usurping powers the chief â—â—vernment of that famous University from 1652 to 1657. Concerning the heinousness of which affront viz. by putting
The faithful Shepherd on Psal 80.1 Ibid. 1665. qu. 6 The flying Sea on Psal 114.5 Printed 1665. qu. 7 The only way to preserve life preached before the House of Commons at Oxon on Amos 5. ver 6. Pr. 1666. qu. Besides all these he hath several other Sermons which I have not yet seen He hath also written a book of his sufferings in the time of the grand rebellion which was published in English an 1664 but this neither have I yet seen At length this good old Bishop giving way to fate in Feb. or the beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and one was buried in his Cath. Church at Kilkenny By his last Will and testam dat 16. of Oct. 1671 and proved in the Prerogative Court at Dublin on the eleventh of Apr. following he bequeathed his Lands in Ireland called Fermoile worth forty pounds per an to be setled upon eight poor distressed Widows for whom he had erected eight several Alms-houses in the Parish of S. Kenny in his Diocess In the said Will was a passage by him inserted concerning the noble James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut of Ireland for not promoting him as 't is thought to a higher Bishoprick Which being esteemed scandalous was struck out of his Will when proved JOHN AILMER was born of gentile Parents in Hampshire as it seems educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1652 took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1663 being then and before accounted an excellent Greecian and a good Greek and Lat. Poet as it appears by this book which he composed when a young man Musae sacrae seu Jonas Jeremiae threni Daniel Graeco redditi carmine Oxon. 1652. oct and also by divers Gr. and Lat. verses dispersed in various books He died at Petersfield on Good Friday Apr. 5. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Church at Havant in Hampshire as I have been informed by the Letters of my sometimes friendly acquaintance Mr. Isaac Walton dated at Farnham 26. May 1683. HENRY SAVAGE son of Francis Sav. was born of a gentile Family at Dobs hill in the Parish of Elderfield commonly called Eldsfield in Worcestershire became a Communer of Ball. Coll. in the year 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts and taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in Nov. 1625 was three years after made Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. and two years after that 1630 he was compleated Master of his faculty In the beginning of the grand rebellion he travelled into France with William Lord Sandys whose Sister the Lady Mary he afterwards married and by the opportunity of that journey he not only learned the Language of that Country saw the fashions of their Clergy and Universities but learn'd to shake off the morosity and rusticity which commonly attends severe Students Soon after his return he obtained the Mastership or Headship of his House and in the year following was admitted Doctor of Divinity After the restauration of K. Ch 2 and a submission to the Powers in the time of Usurpation he became Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Glocester an 1665 and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire on the death of Dr. Matth. Griffith He hath written and published Quaestiones tres in novissimorum comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. discussae an 1652. viz. An Paedobaptismus sit licitus aff c. Oxon. 1653. qu. Soon after these questions were answer'd by John Tombes of Magd. Hall Thesis Doctoris Savage nempe Paedobaptismum esse licitum confirmatio contra refutationem Mri. Tombes nuper editum c. Oxon. 1655. qu. Vindicatio ejus à calumniis Mri. Tombes Printed at the end of Thesis Confirmatio c. Reasons shewing that there is no need of such reformation of the publick 1. Doctrine 2. Worship 3. Rites and Ceremonies 4. Church Government and 5. Discipline as is pretended c. Lond. 1660 qu. This small piece as likewise another of Dr. John Pearson since B. of Chester the very learned Author of the much commended book on the Creed of the Vindiciae Epistolarum S. Ignatii c. entit No necessity c. which came out in qu. much at the same time with this of our author Savage were wrot against a Pamphlet called Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation c. Lond. 1660. qu. See in Corn. Burges an 1665. Which tho in the title it is said to have been wrot by divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England yet Mr. Baxter saith that Dr. Corn. Burges was the Person that penned The necessity of reformation c. meaning I conceive the said Reasons which so much as he farther affirms offended the Episcopal party This is yet further rendred the more probable because that besides a reply made by Will. Hamilton Gent. to Dr. Pearsons No necessity c. Cornel. Burges as possibly judging himself more concern'd than any body else in the success of these Reasons c. in a Postscript to a Treatise of his annexed a brief answer to Dr. Pearson who not long after in a short piece vindicated himself from what was said in the said Postscript against his No necessity c. The said Reasons shewing c. were answer'd again more fully in the Retractions of John Ellis Dr. Savage hath also written The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion or an answer to a book entit Sions groans for her distressed c. Offered to the Kings Majesty Parliament and People Lond. 1663. qu. Some copies of the impression of this book The dew c. have this title Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted or an answer to a book entit Sions groans c. Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation founders and affairs of Balliol College gathered out of the records thereof and other antiquities c. Oxon. 1668. qu. But the author having had no natural genie to the study of Antiquities and History neither a timing head nor indeed record enough from his Coll. for there is no Register of Acts of the Society above the year 1520 12. Hen. 8. nor no antient rolls of Accompts wherein the state of the Coll. is every year represented as also the names of the Fellows he hath committed many foul errors therein especially in this respect that he hath made the said Coll. of Ball. Father or Parent to many eminent men which never studied or were conversant with the muses therein as Joh. Duns Scotus Dr. Tho. Gascoigne Steph. de Cornubia c. while in the mean time he hath omitted others that have studied there and have been of great fame in their time as Richard Son of Ralph sometimes Archb. of Armagh commonly called by Writers Ricardus Armachanus Tho. de Wylton Rich. Rotheram Cardinal Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. Cuthb Tonstall B. of Durham c. Natalitia Collegii Pembrochiani
his learning desiring to be Master of no more than he knew how to use He was constantly known every day to walk his rounds among the Booksellers shops especially in Little Britaine in London and by his great skill and experience he made choice of such books that were not obvious to every mans eye He lived in times which ministred peculiar opportunities of meeting with books that were not every day brought into publick light And few eminent Libraries were bought where he had not the liberty to pick and choose Hence arose as that vast number of books so the choiceness and rarity of the greatest part of them and that of all kinds and in all sorts of learning especially in History of which he had the most considerable Writers of all ages and nations antient and modern especially of our own and the neighbouring nations of which as 't was thought there was scarce any thing wanting that was extant He was also a great collector of Mss whether antient or modern that were not extant and delighted much to be poring on them He collected also abundance of pamphlets published at and before the time of reformation of religion relating to Ecclesiastical affairs and it was supposed that the copies of some of them were not then extant in the World and therefore esteemed as choice as Mss Among the books relating to history were his collection of Lives the Elogia of illustrious men the authors who have written the lives and characters of Writers and such who have writ of the foundations of Monasteries Nor was he the owner of this choice treasure of books as an idle possessor or did he barely turn over the leaves but was a constant peruser of and upon his buying did generally collate them observed the defects of impressions the all arts used by many and compared the differences of editions concerning which and the like cases he with great diligence and industry entred many memorable and very useful remarks and observations upon very many of his books under his own hand He hath written Letter to Dr. Hen. Hammond concerning the sense of that article in the Creed He descended into Hell Dated from his house in Little Moorfields near London where he mostly lived after he had buried his Son in Apr. 1659. Which Letter being answer'd by Dr. Hammond in the same month were both afterwards published an 1684. See more in Dr. Hammond under the year 16â—0 p. 161. This I think is all that R. Smith hath extant Those things that are not are these Observations on the three grand Impostors Exposition on these words used in the form of Marriage with my body I thee worship Written in qu. Collection of expositions of Baptisme for the dead Wr. in qu. Collection of several expositions and opinions of Christs descent into hell See more in Dr. Hammond before mentioned Miscellaneous tracts chiefly Theological Collection of Arms belonging to the name of Smith in colours MS. in oct Vita S. Simonis Stock Angli Carmelitae Collected from the Writings and Mss of John Bale Life of Hugh Broughton and Cat. of his works He also translated from Latin into English 1 The fifth book of Histories of Corn. Tacitus 2 The order of receiving the new Bishop after his consecration before he enter into the Cathedral Church of Salisbury taken out of an old Ms ritual belonging to that Church and from French into English Bosquires Sermon before the company of Shoomakers in France an 1614. on the Festival of S. Crispin and Crispiana Besides these and others of his writing and translations he made ten thousand instances or remarks with his own hand either of authors in or before the title or in the margin of their works This Mr. Rich. Smith who was a man of an excellent temper great justice c. died 26. March in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Church of S. Giles near to Cripplegate in London Soon after was a marble monument erected over his grave for him his Wife and Children with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by Afterwards there was a design to buy his choice Library for a publick use by a collection of moneys to be raised among generous persons but the work being publick and therefore but little forwarded it came into the hands of Richard Chiswell a Bookseller living in S. Pauls Ch. yard London who printing a catalogue of with others added to them which came out after Mr. Smiths death they were exposed to sale by way of Auction to the great reluctancy of publick spirited men in May and June 1682. HEZEKIAH WOODWARD the youngest of the nine Children of his Father was born in Worcestershire and after he had spent six years or more in a Grammar school was sent to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1608 and setled in Ball. Coll. where being put under a careful Tutor took a degree in Arts in the latter end of the year 1611. Afterwards he retired to London taught school there several years and was esteemed eminent in his profession but having been always puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians upon the change of the times in 1641 was a great Zealot and frequent Preacher among them either at S. Mary in Aldermanbury or near it Afterwards he took the Covenant and shewed the use and necessity of it in his discourse and preachings but soon after when he saw the Independents and other factious people to be dominant he became one of them and not unknown to Oliver who having quartered more than an year in the Vicaridge-house at Bray near Maydenhead in Berks during the time of the Rebellion in which time he had opportunity to know the Parish to be very large being a whole Hundred of it self he sent afterwards thither our Author Woodward being then his Chaplain or at least Favourite under the notion of doing some eminent good to that great place and to take care of it and the souls therein This was about the year 1649 at which time one Mr. Brice the then Vicar left it and was afterwards Minister of Henley in Oxfordshire Here he continued ten years or more and had the good opinion of the rabble and factious people but of others of sense and judgment not He was always very invective in his sermons which by the sober party were accounted dull against the King his Followers whom he call'd Malignants the Church of England her Rites Ceremonies and all Forms of Worship and it is commonly now reported among the Inhabitants of Bray that he wrot a book against the Lords Prayer which was answer'd by Brice before mention'd He was also an eager man and spent much time in preaching against observation of times and days as Christmas Easter c. against May-poles Morices Dancing c. He had a select Congregation out of his Parish of those that were to be saved who frequently met to pray in the Vicaridge-house which if he had
a new conceit of the reflecting of the Sun beams upon a Dial c. Lond. 1635. oct He married Catherine daughter of Thom. Wallenger Esq by Benedicta Gonson his wife who dying 5 Jul. 1634 aged 47 was buried in the Church at Deptford Afterwards Joh. Wells went into Hampshire and lived and died at Brembridge as 't is said leaving a son of both his names to succeed him in his office at Deptford FRANCIS POTTER was born in the Vicaridge house at Meyre in Wilts on Trinity Sunday an 1594 educated in Grammar learning in the Kings school at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright became a Communer of Trin. Coll under the tuition of his elder brother Hannibal Potter in the latter end of the year 1609 took the degrees in Arts and one in Divinity and continued in the Coll. a close Student till his father died an 1637 and then succeeding him in the Rectory of Kilmanton sometimes called Kilmington and Culmington left the University for altogether retired to that place led a single and monkish life without the conversation of ingenious men till the day of his death He was from a boy given to drawing and painting and the Founders picture that hangs in the Refectory of Trin. Coll. is of his copying His genie laid most of all in the Mechanicks had an admirable mechanical invention and excellent notions for the raising of water and making Water-engins many of which inventions being presented to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection were highly approved by them and forthwith the members thereof admitted him one of their number About the year 1640 he entertained the notion of curing diseases by transfusion of blood out of one man into another the hint whereof came into his head from Ovid's story of Medea and Jason Which matter he communicating to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection was entred into their books But this way of transfusion having as 't is said been mention'd long before by Andr. Libavius our author Potter who I dare say never saw that Writer is not to be esteemed the first inventer of that notion nor Dr. Rich. Lower but rather an Advancer He hath written and published An interpretation of the number 666. Wherein not only the manner how this number ought to be interpreted is clearly proved and demonstrated but it is also shewed that this number is an exquisite and perfect character truly exactly and essentially describing that state of government to which all other notes of Antichrist do agree Oxon. 1642. qu. Which book as one saith is the happiest that ever yet came into the world and such as cannot be read save of those persons that will not believe it without much admiration c. A book also called The key of the Scripture written by a London Divine wherein being large upon the Revelations he prefers the said Interpretation before all others It was afterwards translated into French Dutch and Latine the last of which was done by several hands and severally printed One copy was all or mostly performed by Tho. Gilbert of S. Edm. Hall printed at Amsterd 1677. oct And that or the other was partly remitted into Matth. Poole's Synopsis Critic in the second part of the fourth volume on the Revelations What answers were made to the said Interpretation that were printed I think there were none sure I am that one Lambert Morehouse Minister of Pertwood about 6 miles from Kilmanton accounted by some a learned man and a good Mathematician did write against it and seemed to be angry with the Author that 25 is not the true but the propinque root To which the Author replied with some sharpness The MS. of this controversie Morehouse gave to Dr. Seth Ward B. of Salisbury an 1668 before which time he was prefer'd by Dr. Henchman then B. of that place to the spiritual Cure of Little Langford in Wilts where he died about 1672. He was a Westmorland man by birth was educated I think in Clare Hall in Cambridge and wrot other things but are not printed As for our author Potter he lived to a good old age died perfectly blind at Kilmanton between Easter and Whitsuntide in the month of Apr. I think in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the chancel of the Church there His memory is preserved in Trin. Coll. by a Dial that he made and set up on the north side of the old Quadrangle where it doth yet remain His fathers name was Rich. Potter an Oxfordshire man born sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of the holy Trinity and afterwards Vicar of a little mercate Town in Wilts and Rector of Kilmington or Kilmanton in Somersetshire before mention'd ABRAHAM WOODHEAD son of Joh. Woodh of Thornhill in Yorks was born at Maltham in the Parish of Albonsbury alias Ambury in the said County entred a Student in Univ. Coll. under the tuition of Jonas Radcliff an 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts and soon after was made Scholar Afterwards going thro the several classes of Logick and Philosophy with very great industry he took the degrees in Arts became Fellow in 1633 entred into holy Orders passed a course in Divinity and in 1641 was elected one of the Proctors of the University which office being quitted not without trouble occasion'd by the denying of the Grace of Franc. Cheynell of which he complained to the Long Parliament he travelled into France with a Gent. Com. of his House called Thomas Radcliff son of Sir Geor. Radcl and afterwards with Thom. Culpeper and Thom. Strode both of the same House At length setling for a time in Rome he was entertained by George Duke of Buckingham whom he instructed in Mathematicks and was much respected by him After his return into England being depriv'd of his Fellowship by the Visitors appointed by Parliam for absence and non-appearance an 1648. he lived for some time in York house in the Strand near London by the appointment of the said Duke but Arthur Lord Capell being informed of the great merits of the person he entertained and learned of him the Mathematical Sciences In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship by his Maj. Commissioners and remained in his Coll. for a time But his opinion as to Religion being then alter'd as it had been since he was at Rome which he always very warily conceal'd got leave of the Master and Society to be absent as intending again to travel with the allowance of 20 l. per an So that retiring to London he afterwards setled at Hoxton alias Hogsden near to that City where he lived very obscurely and retiredly upon that allowance that the College made to him as a Traveller all therein except one knowing not to the contrary but that he was beyond the seas There I say being setled he not only caused Youths to be trained up in the R. Cath. Religion of which certain members of Parliament did openly make mention in the House after
and artificial Sines Tangents and Secants and table of Logarithms and the use of the said Canon in the resolution of all Triangles plain or spherical c. in two books Lond. 1658. fol. one composed by our author Newton the other translated from the lat copy of Hen. Gellibrand Chiliades centum logarithmorum Printed with the former Geometrical Trigonometrie c. Lond 1659. Mathematical Elements in three parts Lond. 166â— 63. qu. A perpetual Diary or Almanack Engraven on copper and printed on one side of a sheet of paper 1662. Description of the use of the Carpenters Rule Lond. 1667. Ephemerides or Diary shewing the interest and rebate of money at six per cent c. Lond. 1667. Chiliades decem logarithâ—oâ—um Lond. 1667. Tabula partium proportionalium Lond. 1667. The scale of interest or the use of decimal fractions c. part 2. Lond. 1668. oct School pastime for young Children or an easie and delightful method for the teaching of Children to read English directly Lond. 1669. oct Art of practical gauging of casks and Brewers tuns c. Lond. 1669. Introduction to the Art of Logick Lond. 1670. 78. in tw Introd to the Art of Rhetorick Lond. 1671. in tw which as to its form and method is the same with that of Ch. Butler and for invention and disposition with that of the first part of Mich. Radau's Orator extemporaneus But these two Introductions I presume are or at least most part of them involved in The English Academy that follows The Art of natural Arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions vulgar and decimal c. Lond. 1672. oct The English Academy or a brief Introduction to the seven liberal Arts Grammar Arithmetick Geometry Musick c Lond. 1677. oct Most of which Arts having before been published singly by themselves are in this book epitomized and chiefly intended for the instruction of young Scholars who are acquainted with no other than their native language Cosmographie or a view of the terrestial and celestial Globes in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid Geometrie c. Lond. 1679 oct Introduction to Astronomie in two parts Introd to Geography These two are printed with the Cosmography This learned but capricious and humerous person Dr. Newton died at Rosse before mentioned on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the chancel of the Church there under the south wall as I have been informed by a Gentleman of the neighbourhood in those parts He had an elder brother named Humph. Newton Bach. of the Civ Law and sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. who dying on the 6 of Sept. 1659 was buried in the Chappel of that College Besides the said Joh. Newton I find another M. of Arts sometimes Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambr. and afterwards Vicar of S. Martins Ch. in Leycester author of a Sermon intit The penitent recognition of Josephs Brethren c. Lond. 1684. quart ANTHONY PALMER son of Anth. Palm was born at Great Comberton in Worcestershire became a Student in Balliol Coll. an 1634 aged 16 years admitted Fellow thereof after he had taken one degree 29 Nov. 1640 and in the year after being then Master of Arts he entred into holy Orders But all things at that time being in a very sad confusion in the Nation he sided with the Presbyterians then dominant took the Covenant had some employment among them and was all things to all men such was the mutability and vanity of the person At length the rich Rectory of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire being made void he got into it resign'd his Fellowship in Octob. 1649 took the Engagement and was afterwards an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County for the ejecting of such whom the Brethren called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is loyal and orthodox Clergymen being about that time 1654 Anabaptistically inclin'd and a great favourer of those of that perswasion and their Tenets About the time of his Majesties Restauration he was by the force of some of the Royallists of his Town driven from his charge as having been a most pernitious person as to his doctrine and a great enemy to the Loyal party whereupon he withdrew and put in a Curate but he being disturb'd they got one to read the Common-Prayer In the year following there was published in that Villanous imposture called Annus Mirabilis or the year of prodigies and wonders c. Printed 1661. a story concerning this matter and an account of a strange judgment that befel two of his Disturbers viz. one who was soon after suddenly striken with death and another who was smitten in a very strange manner c. After our author Palmer had been forced to leave that comfortable harbour he retired to London where we find him to have had a hand in or at least consenting to that stupendious Tragedy which was intended to be acted by the Satanical Saints in Nov 1662 for which George Phillipps Tho Tonge Franc. Stubbs c. suffered 22. Dec. the same year Afterwards he carried on the trade of conventicling to his last and thereby obtained a comfortable subsistance from the brethren His works are these A Scripture raile to the Lords table against Mr. Jo. Humphrey's treatise of Free admission to the Sacrament Lond. 1654. oct or tw Memorials of Godliness and Christianity with the way of making religion ones business c. Lond in tw The Christians Freedome by Christ or Gods deed of Gift to the Saints Lond. in tw The Gospel new Creature wherein the work of the Spirit is opened in awakening the soul to the gaining pardon of sin and an interest in Jesus Christ is plainly opened c. Lond 1658 1674. oct The Tempestious soul Calmed by Jesus Christ These two last are grounded upon certain texts of Scripture He hath written other things which I have not seen and therefore I shall only tell you that he taking his last farewel of this world on the 26. of January in sixteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the phanatical burial place joyning to Old Bedlam near to Morefields by London where some years since I saw an altar monument of stone over his grave Several of the Sirname of Palmer have been writers and one Thom. Palmer who was Minister of S. Laurence Pountney in London did zealously assert the former rebellion as well with his Sword as Pen. Upon his Maj restauration being ejected he retired into Derbyshire where we find him at Aston carrying on the cause by preaching but being thence ejected he became an Itinerant preacher and a gatherer of Churches here and there and in the month of July or thereabouts an 1663 he was secured in Nottingham for preaching in Conventicles But soon after getting loose we find him engaged in that fanatical hellish plot in the north parts of England which was discovered in the beginning of Oct.
pleasant life this noble and beautiful Count paid his last debt to nature in the Rangers Lodge in Woodstock Park very early in the morn of the 26 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in a vault under the north Isle joyning to Spelsbury Church in Oxfordshire by the body of his Father Henry sometimes the generous loyal and valiant Earl of Rochester the same who had been Commissary General of the Army in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 under Thomas Earl of Arundel the General and had then a troop of horse under him and the same who had married Anne the Widow of Sir Harry Lee of Dichley before mention'd and Daughter of Sir John St. John of Wiltshire Which Henry Earl of Roch. dying beyond the Seas in his attendance on his Majesty on the 19 of Feb. 1657 aged 45 years was by leave obtained privately buried in the before mention'd Vault being the place of sepulture only for the family of Lee since honored with the title of Earl of Lichfield The said John E. of Rochester left behind him a son named Charles who dying on the 12 of Nov. 1681 was buried by his father on the 7 of Dec. following He also left behind him three daughters named Anne Elizabeth and Malet so that the male line ceasing his Majesty Ch. 2. confer'd the title of Rochester on Laurence Viscount Killingworth a younger son of Edward Earl of Clarendon STEPHEN CHARNOCK son of Rich. Charnock an Attorney or Solicitor descended from an antient family of his name living in Lancashire was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Creechurch in London educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge mostly under the tuition of Mr. Will. Sancroft spent afterwards some time in a private family and a little more in the exercise of his Ministry in Southwarke in the time of the Rebellion In 1649 or thereabouts he retired to Oxon purposely to obtain a Fellowship from the Visitors appointed by Parliament when they ejected scholars by whole shoales and in 1650 he obtained a Fellowship in New Coll. and thereby for several years did eat the bread of a worthy Loyallist In 1652 he was incorporated Master of Arts as he had stood in Cambridge and two years after he did undergo the office of Proctor of the University being then taken notice of by the godly Party for his singular gifts and had in reputation by the then most learned Presbyterians and therefore upon that account he was the more frequently put upon publick Works After he had discharged his office he received a call to go into Ireland where exercising his Ministry for about 4 or 5 years he was held in admiration by the Presbyterian and sometimes by the Independent and had the concurrent applause of some that were of different sentiments from him in matters of Religion and such also who did not love his opinion did notwithstanding commend him for his learning After the King was restored in 1660 he was ejected from his publick exercise being then as I conceive Bach. of Div. of Dublin returned into England and in and about London he did spend the greatest part of 15 years without any call to his own work whereby he took advantage to go now and then either into France or Holland In the five last years of his life he became more known by his constant preaching in private meetings in the great City gaining thereby infinite love and applause from the Brethren who held him to be a person of excellent parts strong reason great judgment and which do not often go together curious fancy They also esteemed him to be a man of high improvements and general learning that his chief talent was his preaching gift in which he had few equals that also he was good in the practice of physick in which he had arrived to a considerable measure of knowledge and lastly that he was a true son of the Church of England in that sound doctrine laid down in the articles of Religion and taught by our most famous antient Divines and Reformers c. As for his Writings they are many yet he published nothing while he lived However after his death his friends made extant these things following to prevent false copies which were then likely to creep abroad A Sermon of reconciliation to God in Christ on 2 Cor. 5.19 Lond. 1680. qu. Treatise of divine providence 1. In general 2. In particular as relating to the Church of God in the world Lond. 1680. oct Before which is an Epistle written by Rich. Adams and Edw. Veel who as I think published the said book This was afterwards involved in his Works His Works containing several discourses upon the excellence and attributes of God Lond. 1682. in a large fol. published by the said two persons R. Adams and E. Veele His Works vol. 2. containing several discourses upon various divine Subjects Lond. 1683. fol. with a Supplement He died in the house of one Rich. Tymms a Glazier in the Parish of White Chappel near London on the 27 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty aged 52 years or thereabouts whereupon his body being conveyed to Crosby house belonging to Sir Jo. Langham in which house Tho. Watson M. of A sometimes of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. Pastor of S. Stephens Church Walbrook in Lond. in the times of Usurpation and the author of The art of divine contemplation and of other things did hold forth by praying and preaching as our author Charnock did was thence accompanied by great numbers of the Brethren to S. Michaels Church on Cornhill in London where after John Johnson his contemporary in Emanuel and New Coll had held forth in a funeral Sermon wherein many things were spoken in praise of the defunct his body was committed to the earth on the 30 day of the same month at the bottom of the Tower under the Belfry I must now having a just opportunity laid before me tell the Reader that the name of Charnock is antient and in Lancashire is now or at least hath been lately Charnock of Charnock from whence was originally descended Thom. Charnock a noted Chymist and Rosacrucian of his time born at Feversham some say in the Isle of Thanet in Kent an 1526 and being very covetous of knowledge he travelled all England over to gain it fixed in Oxon for a considerable time where it hapned that he fell into such acquaintance that it proved his future comfort About that time he became known to Mr. James S. a spiritual man living in the Close at Salisbury who being a noted Chymist he entertained Charnock to be his Operator In 1554 he obtained the secret from his said Master Jam. S. who dying about that time left him inheritor of it but lost it by firing his Tabernacle on New years-day at noon an 1555. Soon after he learned the secret again but not of Will. Byrd sometimes Prior of Bathe who had bestowed a great deal of pains and money to obtain it but
way as they call it of promoting learning now for some years carried on and professed tho not at this time 1690 and several years since with that active vigour as at first by the Royal Society The institution of which its religious tendency towards the advancement of true substantial and solid improvements and great benefit which hath and may accrue thence to humane life by that real and useful knowledge there aimed at and in part obtained he hath with some shew and appearance at least of reason defended against H. Stubbe and all this against the old way which he calls a bare formal Scheme of empty airy notions sensless terms and insignificant words fit only to make a noise and furnish men with matter of wrangling and contention c. His reflecting on his University education with such regret and disatisfaction declaring often in common discourse that his being trained up in that trite and beaten road was one of his greatest unhappinesses that had ever befalen him as it savoured plainly of too much arrogance thus rashly to condemn the statutable continued practice of such a learned body which doth not as is by our modern Virtuosi falsly pretended so slavishly tye up its youth to the magisterial dictates of Aristole as not to be permitted in any cases to depart from his somtimes erroneous sentiments but gives them free and boundless liberty of ranging and conversing with the many and different writers who set up with the specious name of new Philosophy referring still to the authority of Aristotle as unquestionable in the performance of public exercise So neither did it seem to consist with those grateful returns which his more benign mother the University might here reasonably looked for from him as some slender requital for her so frankly bestowing on him the ground-work or foundation at least of all that learning which afterwards rendred him so mightily known and famous to and among some people Mr. R. Baxter to whom our author wrote a large courting Letter dat 3. Sept. 1661 wherein it appears that he admired his preaching and writings saith that he was a man of more than ordinary ingeny that he was one of themselves here tho an Originist a most triumphant Conformist and not the greatest contemner of Nonconformists and famous for his great wit c. which last commendation is given of him by the most famous Th. de Albiis an eminent writer of another persuasion As for the books that this our author Glanvill hath written the titles of which follow some of them are new vamp'd have fresh titles and somtimes new dedications put to them which whether it was so contrived to make the world believe that he was not lazy but put out a book every year I leave to others to judge The vany of Dogmatizing or confidence in opinions manifested in a discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our knowledg and its causes with some reflections on Peripateticisme and an apologie for philosophy Lond. 1661. oct All or most of this book is contained in Scepsis scientifica c. as I shall tell you by and by It was answered by Thom. Anglus ex Albiis East-Saxonum in his book entit Sciri sive Sceptices Scepticorum a jure disputationis exâ—lusio Lond. 1663. in tw By this Tho. Anglus we are to understand to be the same with Tho. White second son of Rich. White of Hutton in Essex Esq by Mary his wife daughter of Edm. Plowden the great Lawyer in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth which Th. White having been alwaies from his childhood a Rom. Catholick became at length a Secular Priest and a most noted Philosopher of his time as his published writings much sought after and admired by many shew Hobbes of Malmsbury had a great respect for him and when he lived in Westminster he would often visit him and he Hobbes but seldom parted in cool blood for they would wrangle squabble and scold about philosophical matters like young Sophisters tho either of them was 80 years of age yet Hobbes being obstinate and not able to endure contradiction tho well he might seeing White was his Senior yet those Scholars who were somtimes present at their wrangling disputes held that the Laurel was carried away by White who dying in his lodging in Drury lane between the hours of two and three in the afternoon of the sixth day of July an 1676 aged 94 years was buried almost under the Pulpit in the Church of S. Martin in the fields within the liberty of Westminster on the ninth day of the same month By his death the R. Catholicks lost an eminent ornament from among them and it hath been a question among some of them whether ever any Secular Priest of England went beyond him in philosophical matters Our author Glanvill hath also written Lux Orientalis or an Enquiry into the opinion of the Easterne Sages concerning the pre-existence of Soules being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of Providence c. Lond. 1662. oct There again 1683. See at the end of this Cat. of our authors works Scepsis Scientifica or confest ignorance the way to Schisme in an Essay to the vanity of Dogmatizing and confident opinion Lond. 1665. qu. A reply to the exceptions of the learned Tho. Albius c. Or thus Scire i tuum nihil est or the authors defence of the vanity of Dogmatizing c. Printed with Scep Scient A Letter to a friend concerning Aristotle Printed also with Scep Scient Some philosophical considerations touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft In a letter to Rob. Hunt Esq Lond. 1666. qu. But all or most of the impression of this book being burnt in the great fier at Lond. in the beginning of Sept. the same year it was reprinted there again 1667. qu. The said Phil. consid were answer'd by John Webster practicioner in physick and chirurgery in the W. Riding of Yorshire in a book which I shall anon mention A blow at moderne Saducisme in some philosophical considerations about Witchcraft Lond. 1668 c. qu. See more towards the latter end of this Cat. of books Relation of the famed disturbance at the house of Mr. Mumpesson Printed with the Blow at Mod. Sad. This disturbance in the house of Tho. Mompesson of Tidworth in Wilts Esq was occasion'd by its being haunted with evil Spirits and the beating of a drum invisibly every night from Febr. 1662 to the beginning of the year following and after Reflections on drollery and Atheisme Pr. also with A Blow at Mod. Sad. Palpable evidence of Spirits and Witchcraft in an account of the famed disturbance by a Drummer in the house of Mr. Mumpesson c. Lond. 1668. This is most if not all the same with the former only the title alter'd A Whip for the Droll Fidler to the Atheist being reflections on Drollery and Atheisme Lond. 1668. This is also mostly the same with Rest on droll and Ath. before-mention'd 'T
Stilling fleets Irenicum c. against his late Sermon entit The mischief of separation against the author of The Christian temper said to be written by John Barret M. of A. in a Letter to a friend I say the respective characters of these five answers to Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon before mention'd together with that of The peaceable design renewed c. wrot by John Humphrey with which Dr. Stillingfleet begins first are to be found in the preface to the said Doctors Unreasonableness of separation c. Which characters as are thus given are reflected on by a short piece entit Reflections on Dr. Stillingfleets book of the unreasonableness of separation Lond. 1681. qu. Written by a Conformist Minister in the Country in order to peace The nature and efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ as typed by all the sacrifices of the Law the erection of the Tabernacle according to the heavenly pattern with the institution of all its utensils and services their especial signification and end c. Lond. 1681. An enquiry into the original institution power order and communion of Evangelical Churches the first part Lond. 1681. qu. Answer to a Discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Stillingfleet Printed with the Enquiry Discourse of the work of the holy spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and formes Lond. 1681. oct An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful Churches and Nations or the only way to deliver a sinful Nation from utter ruin by impendent judgments in a discourse on Luke 13.1 2. 3. 4. 5. Lond. 1681. oct Printed with the Discourse of the work c. The grace and duty of being spiritually minded declared and practically improved Lond. 1681. 82. qu. This is the sum of certain of Sermons A brief instruction in the Worship of God and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers Lond. 1682. oct c. Meditations and discourses on the Glory of Christ in his person office and grace with the difference between faith and sight applyed to the use of them that believe Lond. 1683. 84. c. oct Opus Posth Treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sins reign is discovered in whom it is and in whom it is not how the law supports it how grace delivers from it by setting up its dominion in the heart Lond. 1688. oct The true nature of a Gospel Church and its government wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled 1. The subject matter of the Church 2. The formal cause of a particular Church 3. Of the policy of the Church in general c. Lond. 1689. qu. Afterwards came out certain Animadversions on the said book but by whom written I cannot tell A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the World its strength and weakness with the ways and indications of the ruin or continuance of its publick national profession Lond. 1690. qu. Continuation or the second part of that book formerly printed the difference between faith and sight being the meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto converted sinners and Saints under spiritual decays in two chapters from John 17.24 Lond. 1691. oct Our author Dr. Owen with Dr. Tho. Jacomb Dr. Will. Bates Dr. Jo. Collings Mr. Pet. Vinke Joh. How Dav. Clarkson and Ben. Alsop did undertake in June 1682 to finish the English Annotations of the Holy Scripture in 2. vol. in fol. which were began by Matthew Pole or Poole and carried on by him to the 58 chapt of Isaiah and there is no doubt but that Owen did his share in that work who also hath written prefaces and epistles before divers books by way of recommendation among which are his and Dr. Tho. Goodwins epist before Dr. T. Taylors works A preface also to the Exposition of the song of Solomon written by Jam. Durham sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Glascow Printed 1669. in qu. An Epist commend with another by Mr. Baxter to The Christians dayly walk in holy security and peace written by Hen. Scudder Printed 1674. the eleventh edit An ep by way of recom to A new and useful concordance of the Holy Bible c. Another before The Ark of the Covenant and a large preface to The true Idea of Jansenisme as I have already told you in Theoph. Gale c. But as for Jo. Bradshawes Ultimum vale being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him as they were delivered in a Sermon preach'd at his interment printed in two sh in qu. and said to be written by John Owen D. D. Time-server general of England is not his but fathered upon him by one who desired then to make sport in the great City At length he the said Dr. Owen having spent most of his time in continual agitation to carry on the cause to promote his own interest and gain the applause of people he did very unwillingly lay down his head and die at Eling near Acton in Middlesex on S. Barthelmews day in sixteen hundred eighty and three having a little before been knowing of and consenting to the Presbyterian Plot that was discovered some time before his death Whereupon his body was conveyed to a house in S. James's where resting for some-time was on the 4. of Sept. following attended by about 20 mourners and 67 coaches that followed to the Fanatical burying-place called by some Tyndales Burying-place joyning on the North side to the New Artillery-garden near London where it was buried at the East end thereof Soon after was an Altar-tomb of freestone erected over his grave covered with a black marble plank with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus Johannes Owen S. T. P. Agro Oxoniensi oriundus patre insigni Theologo Theologus ipse insignior seculi hujus insignissimis annumerandus Communibus humanarum literarum suppetiis ménsura parum communi instructus omnibus quasi ordinata Ancillarum serie suae jussis familiari Theologiae c. Obiit Augusti 24. anno à partu virginio 1683 Aetat 67. Besides this John Owen I find another of both those names Chaplain to Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen author of Immoderate mourning for the dead prov'd unreasonable and unchristian c. Sermon on 2. Sam. 12.21.22.23 Lond. 1680 in oct and perhaps of other things WILLIAM GUISE or Guisius as in his book following he is written Son of John Guise was born of a knightly family living at Abloads Court near to Glocester in Glocestershire became a Communer of Oriel Coll. an 1669 aged 16 years afterwards Fellow of that of All 's Master of Arts and in holy Orders In 1680 he resign'd his Fellowship being about that time married and in great esteem for his Oriental learning but soon after cut off
endeavours of some of his friends and fellow-sufferers to reduce the University to that manner and form as to Preaching Disputing Discipline Opinion c. as 't was while Dr. Laud was Chancellour thereof but because of the twenty years interval wherein a most strange liberty loosness in manners and religion had taken place they could not do it and I remember that many made it a ridiculous thing that he and they should in the least think of such a matter which a whole age could not do nor that also unless a succession of good Kings came that should be of the same mind and opinion with Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory He was a most excellent Disciplinarian kept up the exercise of his house severely was admirable in training up Youth of noble extraction had a faculty in it peculiar to him and was much delighted in it He would constantly on several mornings in the week take his rounds in his Coll go to the Chambers of Noblemen and Gent. Commoners and examine and see what progress they made in their studies He constantly frequented divine Service in public four times in a day and had besides Prayers twice every day in his own family He was a most zealous Favourer of the Ch. of England and none that I yet know of did go beyond him in the performance of the rules belonging thereunto He was a great encourager and promoter of Learning in the University and of all public works belonging thereunto witness not only the Edifices before mentioned but his sollicitation for the building of the publick Theater to the end that the house of God might be kept free for its own use He likewise advanced the learned Press and improv'd the Manufacture of Printing in Oxford in such manner as it had been designed before by that public spirited person Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and certainly it would have been by him effected as other matters of greater concern relating to Religion and Learning had not the iniquity of the restless Presbyterians prevented him He was also a person of a most generous spirit undervalued money and disburs'd it so freely upon learned pious and charitable uses that he left sometimes for himself and his private use little or nothing He was an eager defender and maintainer of the University and its Privileges especially while he executed the office of Vicechancellour against the Oppugners of them and always endeavour'd to advance its Liberties for which he often gained the ill opinions of the Citizens He was a bold and resolute man and did not value whaâ— the generality said or thought of him so that he could accomplish his just and generous designs which being too many to effect was the chief reason of shortning his days His charity was so great that he was a husband to the afflicted widow a father to the orphan and a tender parent to poor Children He constantly allowed an yearly pension to a poor man of S. Thomas in the Suburb of Oxon purposely that he should teach gratis 20 or 24 poor children of that Parish to read some of which he afterward bound Apprentices or made Scholars He was a person of great morals and vertues spent his time in celebacy of an unspotted life and unquestionable reputation On the 8 of Jan. 1675 he was elected Bishop of Oxon by the Chapter of Ch. Ch. by vertue of a Conge d'eslire sent to them from his Majesty and on the sixth of Febr. following being then Shrove Sunday he was consecrated in the Chappel of the Bishop of Winchester at Chelsey near London at which time liberty was given to him to keep his Deanery in commendam purposely to keep him in his Coll. that he might do farther good therein and in the University No sooner he was setled in his See but he betook himself to the rebuilding the Palace belonging thereunto at Cudesden near Oxon whereupon examining what had been done in order to it by any of his Predecessors which was no considerable matter he undertook and finished it as I have told you in the first vol. p. 634 yet enjoyed but a little time in it As for his Works pertaining to Learning they are these The life of the most learned Rev. and Pious Dr. Hen. Hammond Lond. 1661 c. oct Before which time he was supposed to be author of The interest of England stated or a faithful and just account of the aimes of all parties now pretending distinctly treating of the designments of the R. Cath Royalist Presbyterian Anabaptist c. Printed in 1659 in two sh in qu. but how true it is I cannot tell because I heard of it but very lately and that from no considerable hand It was answered by March Nedham as I have told you in my discourse of him The vanity of scoffing in a letter to a Gent. Lond. 1674 qu. No name is set to it only then generally reported to be his Responsio ad epistolam Thomae Hobbes Malmsburiensis See at the end of Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Several Sermons as 1 The Character of the last days preached before the King on 2. Pet. 3.3 Oxon. 1675. qu. 2 Serm. preached before the H. of Peers 22. Dec. 1680 being the day of solemn humiliation on Matth. 12.25 Oxon. 1680. qu. c. Account of Dr. Rich. Allestree's life This is in the preface before the said Doctors Forty Sermons published by our author Dr. Fell who also reviewed and illustrated with marginal notes the works of S. Cyprian which he published under this title Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Opera recognita illustrata per Johannem Episcopum Oxoniensem Pr. 1682 fol. in the printing house joyning on the east side of the Theater erected at the charge of the University of Oxon on the motion of Dr. Fell an 1674. To which book were added Annales Cyprianici by Dr. John Pearson Bishop of Chester He also translated into English Of the Unity of the Church Printed also in the same house 1681. qu. Written originally by S. Cyprian See more of his works in Pat. Young in the first vol. p. 794 and in Ger. Langbaine and Tho. Willis in this p. 141 and 403. Dr. Fell also published or reprinted every year while he was Dean of Ch. Ch viz. from 1661 to the time of his death a book commonly a classical author against New-years tide to distribute among the Students of his House To which books he either put an Epistle or running notes or corrections These I have endeavoured to recover that the titles might be known and here set down but in vain The first piece which he published of the incomparable author of The whole duty of man was The Ladies Calling before which he put an Epistle to the Reader giving an account after what a private manner the copy thereof accompanied with a letter was conveyed to his hands This Epistle is left out in the folio edit of that authors works as also Dr. Hammonds Epistle before The whole duty of man
which was shortly after as I shall tell you anon So that whereas he was first a Presbyterian and afterwards a true Son of the Church of England he was then esteemed by the generallity especially when his Reasons for abrogating the Test were published very popishly enclined It was about that time said that he seemed very much to favour the Cath. Cause that he proposed in Council whether it was not expedient that at least one College in Oxford should be allowed Catholicks that they might not be forced to be at so much charges by going beyond the Seas to study The same Bishop inviting two Noblemen R. Cath. to a banquet drank the Kings health to an heretical Baron there wishing a happy success to all his affairs and he added that the Faith of the Protestants in England seemed to him but to be little better than that of Buda was before it was taken and that they were for the most part meer Atheists that defended it c. Thus a certain Jesuit of Liege to another at Friburg in a letter dat 2. Feb. 1687. And father Edm. Petre another Jesuit one of the Privy Council to K. Jam. 2. tells us in the same month that the Bishop of Oxon has not yet declared himself openly the great obstacle is his wife whom he cannot rid himself of his design being to continue Bishop and only change Communion as it is not doubted but the King will permit and our holy father confirm tho I do not see how he can be further useful to us in the Religion in which he is because he is suspected and of no esteem among the Hereticks of the English Church nor do I see that the example of his Conversion is like to draw many others after him because he declared himself so suddenly If he had believ'd my counsel which was to temporize for some longer time he would have done better but it is his temper or rather zeal that hurried him on c. But to let pass these and other matters which are related of him by that party the Roman Catholicks I shall proceed to give you an account of his published writings which are these Tentamina Physico-Theologica de Deo sive Theologia Scholastica c. lib. 2. Lond. 1665. qu. This book an account of which is in the Philosoph Transactions numb 18. is answer'd by N. Fairfax M. D. in his book entit Of the bulk and selvedge of the world These Tentamina are much enlarged in a book in a large quarto entit Disputationes de Deo c. as I shall tell you by and by A free and impartial censure of the Platonick Philosophy Lond. 1666. qu. Ox. 1667. oct At which time as his Adversary tells us he was proclaimed under the hand of another mascarade Divine The wonder of his age An account of the nature and extent of the divine dominion and goodness as they refer to the origenian hypothesis concerning the preexistence of soules c. This book which is printed with the Free and impartial censure is briefly reflected on by Anon. in a book entit Deus justificatus or the divine Goodness vindicated c. Ox. 1667. Lond. 1668. oct A discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity wherein the authority of the Civil Magistrate over the Consciences of subjects in matters of external Religion is asserted c. Lond. 1669. 79. oct Of which book hear what Mr. Baxter says I can shew you a Manuscript of one both impartial and truly judicious even the late Judge Hale expressing so great dislike of that Debate The Friendly Debate and Ecclesiastical Policy as tending to the injury of Religion it self that he wisheth the authors would openly profess that they would write for themselves and no more so abusively pretend it is for Religion c. A defence and continuation of the Eccles Politie c. against Dr. Owen Together with a Letter from the author of The Friendly Debate Lond. 1671. oct On the said book Ecclesiast Politie and Reproof to the Rehearsal a certain Scotchman named Rohert Ferguson a Divine of some note hath written reflections in a book entit A sober enquiry into the nature measure and principle of moral virtue c. Lond. 1673 oct A discourse in vindication of Bishop John Bramhall and the Clergy of the Church of England from the Fanatick charge of Popery together with some reflections upon the present state of affairs c. This discourse was published by way of Preface to a Treatise of the said Bishop Lond. 1672. and by it self in oct Lond. 1673. In the said Discourse or book is a great deal of rallery against Dr. Joh. Owen his doctrine and writings but more especially against some passages of his book of Evangelical Love Church peace c. and much said in defence of that sharper way which he took in his former answer to the Doctor and somewhat against Baxter's Grotian religion discovered Whereupon our author Parker being esteemed by the Nonconformists a forward proud ambitious and scornful person was taken to task purposely to clip his wings or take him shorter by their buffooning Champion Andr. Marvell somtimes one of John Miltons companions in a book which he published entit The Rehearsal transpros'd or animadversions upon a late book entit A Preface shewing c. Lond. 1672. oct Which title The Rehearsal c. was taken from a Comedy then lately published by George Duke of Buckingham called The Rehearsal wherein one Mr. Bayes acteth a part Afterwards our author Parker wrot an answer to Marvell who stiles him throughout his book Mr. Bayes entit A reproof to the Rehearsall transpros'd in a discourse to its author Lond. 1673 oct Besides which answer came out five more against Marvell viz. 1. Rosemary and Bayes or Animadversions upon a treatise called The Rehearsall transpros'd c. Lond. 1672 in 3. sh in qu. 2 The Transproser rehears'd or the fifth act of Mr. Bayes Play c. Oxon 1673 oct Written by Rich. Leigh somtimes Commoner of Qu. Coll. 3 Gregory Father-Greybeard with his vizard off or news from the Cabal in some reflections c. in a letter to our old friend R.L. from E.H. Lond. 1673. oct subscribed Edm. Hickeringhill 4 A common place book out of The Rehearsall transpros'd digested under these several heads c. Lond. 1673. oct 5 Stoo him Bayes or some animadversions upon the humour of writing Rehearsals transpros'd Oxon. 1673. oct All or most of which answers which were to the first part of The Rehearsall transpros'd were wrot in a buffooning burlesquing and ridiculing way and stile in which fashion of writing Marvell himself had led the way Besides Marvell's answer to the said Preface of Dr. Parker I find another small piece wrot against it partly entit The authority of the Magistrate about Religion discussed in a rebuke to the prefacer of the late book of Bish Bramhalls c. Lond. 1672. oct by J. H supposed to be Joh. Humphrey
then admitted because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous Royallist Afterwards with much ado he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire which being worth but 50 l. per an supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England In 1661 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then setled in the regal Throne he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chappel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire as he was again in 1679 and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland He hath written The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle 1652. The other from verse 22 to the end was preached at the same place an 1659. Both which were afterwards published in qu. Origo Protestantium or an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's that would fain make the Protestant Catholick Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery Lond. 1677. and 79. qu. Answer to the Jesuits letter Printed with the former book and the Jesuits letter with it No reformation of the established religion Lond 1685. oct This loyal religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mention'd just before the altar Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Fathers marble part of which runs thus Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris Deo Ecclesiae Patriae Regi pie fidelis c. Besides this John Shaw was another of both his names and time Minister of Hull in Yorkshire author of several Sermons among which are 1 Britannia rediviva or a soveraign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize 9. Aug. 1649 2 The Princess Royal preached at the same place before the Judges 24 Mar. 1650. c. And among other things he hath published a book entit Mistriss Shawes tomb stone or the Saints remains being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland was born in the said Burgh an 1633 and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny an 1638 they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon but now their estate there is out of their hands In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in and near Oxon. In 1656 he being then Bach. of Arts he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland in the beginning of Aug and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town After he had proceeded in Arts he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662 he then went in the quality of a Chaplain with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg where continuing several years was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City which is also a Prebendship In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty under his royal hand with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto made Dean of Edinburgh and on Oct. 1. an 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew His works as to learning are these Fides Catholica Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word Sacraments and Prayer in purity number and nature catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu. Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance c. Print with Fides Catholica c. Panem quotidianum or a short discourse tending to prove the legality decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England Lond. 1661. qu. Pater noster Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers methodically cleared and succinctly opened Lond. 1670. oct Mysterium Pietatis or the mystery of godliness c. Lond. 1671. oct Doxologia or glory to the Father the Churches Hymn reduced to glorifying the Trinity Lond. 1672. oct Dualitas or a twofold subject displayed and opened conduceable to godliness and peace in order first Lex loquens the honor and dignity of Magistracy with the duties thereupon c. secondly Duorum unitas or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev Clergy there Edinburg 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day to the vestry of that part of S. Giles's Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh in which Church as Dean he did ordinarily preach at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr'd in the Grey Friers Church but without a funeral Sermon because not permitted by the Presbyterians in whose hands the Magistracy then was As his life was pious and devout so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him He received his
more than what the King was pleased of his own bounty to confer upon him which was 100 l. per an in compensation of quadruple the loss he sustained This Person who hath been always an intimate friend and acquaintance as well of the antient Greek and Latine as of the choicest modern Poets both Italian French and Spanish hath written and translated 1 Medea a Tragedy Lond. 1648. oct translated from Lat. into English verse with annotations 'T is one of Seneca's Tragedies 2 Seneca's answer to Lucilius his Quaere why good men suffer misfortunes seeing there is a divine providence Lond. 1648. oct written originally in Lat. prose and translated into English verse It was dedicated by Mr. Sherburne to K. Ch. 1. during his captivity in the Isle of Wight which he was pleased most graciously to approve and accept of 3 Salmacis Lyrian and Sylva forsaken Lydia the rape of Hellen a comment thereon with several other Poems Lond. 1651. oct On which three translations as also annotations on each of them the most ingenious Thomas Stanley before remembred mention'd also in the Fasti 1640 did make an excellent copy of verses as also upon the mutual friendship between him and our author Ed. Sherburne the beginning of which is this Dear friend I question nor can I yet decide Whether thou more art my delight or pride 4 The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an english Poem Lond. 1675. fol. 'T is adorned with Cuts and an account thereof is in the Philosophical Transactions num 110. p. 233. It was chiefly intended by its author for the use of the young Gentry and Nobility of the Land to serve as their initiation in the first rudiment of spherical learning 5 A Catalogue with a character of the most eminent Astronomers antient and moderne Which with other matters as first Of the Cosmical System secondly A Cosmographical-Astronomical Synopsiâ— c. are added by way of an Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Man before mention'd 6 Troades or the Royal Captives a Trag. Lond. 1679. oct Written originally in Lat. by L. An. Seneca englished with Annotations by Mr. Sherburne He had likewise laying by him another Trag. of Seneca Hippolitus and Phaedra long since by him translated with Annotations Which three Tragedies viz. Medea Troades and Hippolitus he endeavours to prove that they belong only to the Philosopher among all the rest that go under the name of Seneca The sixteenth Idillium of Theocritus in N. Tates Miscellanies is ascribed to him and perhaps other things in other books In 1682. Jan. 6. his Majesty K. Ch. 2 did in consideration of his great sufferings and the long and faithful services by him performed to his royal Father of blessed memory and to himself confer upon him the honor of Knighthood in his private Bedchamber at Whitehall having also suffered several indignities from the faction in the time of the Popish Plot who endeavoured to out him of his place for being as they supposed a Rom. Cath. After K. Jam. 2 had abdicated the Government and left the Nation he was outed for altogether and put to trouble So that whereas he before for 19 years together had suffered for his Loyalty to his Prince and had in some manner suffered after his restauration as I have told you before so now doth suffer upon account of his Religion being living near London in a retired yet cheerful and devout condition spending his time altogether in books and prayer Henry Sherburne younger Brother to Edw. before mention'd was then also Dec. 20. actually created Master of Arts He was soon after made Comptroller of the Ordnance in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton but how long he continued in that employment I know not While he continued in Oxon he drew an exact ichnography of the City of Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesty with all the fortifications trenches bastions c. performed for the use of Sir Tho. Glemham the Governour thereof who shewing it to the King he approved much of it and wrot in it the names of the bastions with his own hand This ichnography or another drawn by Rich. Rallingson was by the care of Dr. John Fell engraven on a copper plate and printed purposely to be remitted into Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. between p. 364. and 365. This Henry Sherburne who was an ingenious man was kill'd in a mutiny that hapned among some of the Soldiers in Oxon on the 12 of June 1646 Whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Chur. of S. Peter in the East in the said City January 16. In a Convocation then celebrated were these following persons actually created Masters of Arts by vertue of the Kings Mandamus then read viz. Henry Lord Seymour Son of Will Marq. of Hertford He was Knighted by his Maj. on the 17 of Jan. 1644. See among the Doctors of Phys an 1645. Sir John Stawell See among the Doctors of Physick this year Amiaâ— Paulet Esq Joh. Stawell Esq Mr. Edw. Stawell Rob. Hawley a Captain Francis Lord Hawley one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York died 22 of Dec. 1684. aged 76 or thereabouts but whether Robert was nearly related to him I know not Joh. Stanhop He was Master of the Horse as it seems to the Marquess of Hertford George Strangwaies an Officer He was one of the antient and gentile family of his name in Dorsetshire Geor. Trimme Secretary to the Marq. of Hertf. Anth. Lightfoot Servant to Prince Charles Râ—g Sanders a Captain Rich. Knightley c. All which with others were lately come to Oxon among the forces under the conduct of the said William Marquess of Hereford In the same convocation were others also created by vertue of the Letters of the said Marq. soon after Chanc. of this Univ. which were then read The names of some of them follow Edw. Windham Esq Edw. Kirton Esq He was a Parliamentary Burgess for Milborne in Somersetsh to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it because of the violent proceedings of the members thereof he retired to his Majesty at Oxon and late in the Parl. there 1643. Tho. Lower Esq He was also a Burgess for Eastlow in Cornwall but leaving the said Parliament he retired to Oxon and sate there I take this person to be the same who was Son and Heir of Sir W. Lower of S. Winnow in Cornw. Knight which Thomas dying a Bachelaur 5. Feb. 1660 was buried in the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster as I have elsewhere told you ... Bampfield a Colonel Joh. Miller a Captain Hugh Windham Hugh Smith Franc. Chalk or Chock of Avington in Berks He was Knighted 26. Oct. 1643. All which with others did attend the said Marq. of Hertford when he came to Oxon. Feb. 1. Anth. Goslyng was then created by vertue of a dispensation pass'd in convocation Feb. 21. was another convocation celebrated and therein a
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotatiâ—ns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
Edward Rogers of Magd. Coll. The first of these two a most celebrated Lat. Poet of his time hath published several things of his profession and therefore he ought to be numbred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Incorporations Jul. 5. John Boord Doct. of the Laws of Cambr. He was of Trin. Hall in that University Sept. 8. Edward Montague Earl of Mancester Baron of Kimbolton c. Master of Arts and Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge which University he had ruin'd in the time of the grand and unparallel'd Rebellion was incorporated in the same degree as he had stood at Cambridge After he had been conducted into the House of Convocation in his Masters Gown and Hood by the Beadles and seated on the right hand of the Vicechancellour the Orator of the University who then stood on the other side near and above the Registraries desk did then speak directing his voice to him an eloquent Oration which being done the said Oratoâ— went from his place and going to he took him by the hand and led him to the middle of the Area where he presented him to the Vicechancellour and ven Convocation which being done and he incorporated by the Vicechancellours Sentence he re-took his place This is that Kimbolton who with 5 members of the House of Commons were demanded by his Majesty on the 4 of Jan. 1641 for endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government and to deprive the King of his legal power c. and the same who after he had sedulously endeavoured to promote did carry on a Rebellion and continued his course till the Wars were ceased Afterwards striking in with Oliver he became one of his Lords that is one of the Lords of the other house and was a great man a thorough-pac'd Dissembler c. and never a looser for his high actings against the Royal Family After his Majesties restauration towards which he pretended to be a great helper when it could not otherwise be avoided he was made L. Chamberlain of his Majesties houshold and in that quality did he with Edw. Earl of Clarendon Chanc. of the Univ come this year to Oxon from Salisbury where they left their Majesties in order to have Lodgings provided for them about to come hither to take up their Winter-Quarters to avoid the Plague then raging in Lond. and Westminster This Edw. Earl of Manchester had a younger brother named Walter Montague born in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate in London educated in Sidney Coll. in Cambr afterwards travelled beyond the Seas and returning with an unsetled mind did at length after he had been sent once or more into France about public concerns give a farewel to his own Country and Religion wherein he had been born and baptized and going beyond the Sea he setled himself in a Monastery for a time and wrot A Letter in justification of his change which was afterwards answer'd by Lucius Lord Falkland Afterwards being received with great love into the favour of the Qu. Mother of France she made him Abbat of Nantveil of the Benedictine order in the dioc of Mets and afterwards Abbat of the Benedictines of S. Martins Abbey near Pontois in the dioc of Roan in the place of Job Franc. de Gâ—ndy deceased He was also one of her Cabinet Council and a promoter of Mazarine into her favour who when fix'd shew'd himself in many respects ungrateful to Montague and his friends And whereas Mazarine made it one of his chief endeavours to raise a family and to do such things that might perpetuate his name so Montague who was of a most generous and noble spirit and a person of great piety did act to the contrary by spending all that he could obtain for public and pious uses In his younger years before he left the Ch. of England he wrot The Sheppards paradise Com. Lond. 1629. oct And after he had left it Miscellanea spiritualia Or devout Essayes in two parts The first was printed at Lond. 1648 the other at the same place in 1654 and both in qu. I have seen a book intit Manchester al Mundo Contemplations on death and immortality Lond. 1635. oct and several times after the fifteenth impression of which was made at Lond. in 1690. in tw Which book was written by one of the family of the Earl of Manchester but whether by this Walter Montague who was a younger son to Henry Montague the first Earl of Manchester of his name I cannot tell because his name is not set to it This person who was commonly called Abbat Montague and sometimes Lord Abbat of Pontois died after Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England who concluding her last day on the last of Aug. 1669 he soon after followed as I have been informed by one of his domestick Servants who told me further that he was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the Hospital of Incurables at Paris You may read much of him in a book called Legenda lignea c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 137.138 c. but that book being full of Satyr persons of moderate Principles believe little or nothing therein As for the other persons who were incorporated besides the said Earl of Manchester were these Dec. 8. Joh. Logan M. A. of Glascow with liberty to suffragate in Convoc and Congreg which is all I know of him Mar. 8. Henr. Montague M. A. of Cambridge a younger son to the said Edward Earl of Manchester and others CREATIONS The Creations this year were mostly made on the 8 of Septemb. when the said Edward Earl of Manchester was incorporated M. A. at which time the Chancellour of the University was then in Oxon. Mast of Arts. Rob. Montague Visc Mandevile eldest son to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was presented by the Orator of the University with a little Speech and afterwards was seated on the left hand of the Vicechancellour After his fathers death in 1671 he became Earl of Manchester and died at Paris about the latter end of Decemb according to the English Accompt an 1682. Charles Dormer Visc Ascot of Mert. Coll eldest son of Charles Earl of Caernarvan Edward Capell of Wadh. Coll. a younger son of Arthur Lord Capell Vere Bertie a younger son of Montague Earl of Lindsey He was made Serjeant at Law in 1675 and afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer Charles Bertie his brother He is now Treasurer of the Ordnance Nich. Pelham Bt. of Ch. Ch. Scrope How Kt. of Ch. Ch. Will. Dolben a Counsellor of the Inner Temple and brother to Dr. John Dolben He was afterwards Recorder of London a Kt Serjeant at Law and one of the Justices of the Kings Bench. Rich. Cooling or Coling Secretary to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was afterwards Secretary to Hen. Earl of Arlington while he was L. Chamberlain and on the 21 of Feb. 1688 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Maj. Privy Council in ordinary at which time were sworn with
one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Afterwards Sir Edw. was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of indempnity or pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary dated 23. May 1690. May 6. Thomas Adderley of S. Johns Coll. This person who was a Warwickshire man born was a Servitour of the said Coll and after he had taken one degree in Arts he left it and became Chaplains as it seems to Sir Edw. Boughton of Warwickshire Bt. He hath written and published The care of the peace of the Church the duty of every Christian In a discourse on Psal 122.6 Lond. 1679. qu. To which is added A Letter shewing the great danger and sinfulness of popery written to a young Gentleman a Roman Cath. in Warwickshire May 27. Rich Roderick of Ch. Ch. May 27. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch. Jun. 15. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682 of the second among the Masters 1672 and of the third among the Bach. of Div. 1681. June 19. Rich. Leigh of Qu. Coll. This Gent who was a younger Son of Edw. Leigh mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 351. hath Poetry and other things extant and therefore he is to crave a place hereafter among the Writers Oct. 19. Humph. Humphreys of Jes Coll. He was afterwards B. of Bangor 26. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1681. Dec. 11. Richard Forster of Brasn Coll. See among the Masters in 1673. Feb. 1. Joh. Clerk of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll. See among the Mast an 1673. Mar. 15. Joh. Rogers of S. Joh. Coll. See among the Mast an 1672. Admitted 208 or thereabouts Doct. of Mus July 8. Benj. Rogers Organist of Magd. Coll was then admitted Doctor of Musick which degree he compleated in that great and solemn Act celebrated in Sheldons Theater on the 12 of the same month being the third day after the opening and dedication of the said Theater for a learned use This person who was Son of Peter Rogers belonging to his Majesties Chap. of S. George at Windsore in Berks was born at Windsore was when a boy a Choirester and when a Man Clerk or Singing-man of the said Chap. at Windsore Afterwards he became Organist of Ch Ch. in Dublin where continuing till the rebellion broke out in 1641 he was forced thence and going to Windsore he obtained a Singing mans place there But being soon after silenced by the great troubles occasion'd by the Civil Wars in England he taught his profession at Windsore and in the neighbourhood and by the favour of the men then in power got some annual allowance in consideration of his lost place In 1653 or thereabouts he being then famed for a most admirable Composer did at the request of great personages compose several sets of Airs of four parts to be performed by Violins and an Organ which being esteem'd the best of their kind that could be then composed were sent as great rarities into Germany to the Court of Archduke Leopold now Emperour and were tried and often played by his own Musitians to his very great content he himself being then a Composer and a great Admirer of Musick In 1658 his great favourer and encourager of his profession Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo Fellow of Eaton conducted him to Cambridge got the degree of Bach. of Mus to be confer'd on him as a member of Qu. Coll that Doctor having been sometimes Fellow thereof and at that time a Proceeder in Div. and giving great content by his song of several parts which was his exercise performed in the Commencement that year by several voices he gained the reputation there of a most admirable Musitian and had the greater part of his fees and entertainment defray'd by that noble and generous Doctor After his Majesties restauration the Lord Mayor Aldermen and chief Citizens of London being unanimously dispos'd to entertain the King the two Dukes and both Houses of Parliament with a sumptuous Feast it was ordered among them that there should be added to it the best Musick they could obtain And B. Rogers being then esteemed the prime Composer of the Nation he was desir'd of them to compose a song of several parts to be performed while the King and company were at dinner Whereupon in order to it Dr. Ingelo made Hymnus Eucharisticus the beginning of the prelude to which is Exultate Justi in Domino c. This also he translated into English and both were printed in single papers These things being done B. Rogers composed a song of four parts to that Hymne which was more than once tried in private At length on the 12. of July Thursday 1660 being the day that his Majesty James Duke of York Henry Duke of Glocester and both Houses of Parliament were at Dinner in the Guild-hall of the City of London the said printed papers in Latin and English being delivered to the King the two Dukes and dispersed among the Nobility c. purposely that they might look on them while the performance was in doing the song was began and carried on in Latin by twelve Voices twelve Instruments and an Organ mostly performed by his Majesties Servants Which being admirably well done it gave very great content and Mr. Rogers the author being present he obtained a great name for his composition and a plentiful reward Much about that time he became Organist of Eaton Coll where continuing till Theodore Colby a German was prefer'd to be Organist of Exeter Cathedral Dr. Thomas Pierce who had a great value for the man he himself being a Musitian invited him to Magd. Coll. and gave him the Organists place there and there he continued in good esteem till 1685 and then being ejected the reason why let others tell you the Society of that house allow'd him an yearly pension to keep him from the contempt of the world In which condition he now lives in his old age in a skirt of the City of Oxon unregarded He hath extant certain compositions in a book entit Cantica Sacra Containing Hymns and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Latin and English Lond. 1674. fol. As also in The Latine Psalmes and Hymns of four parts published by Joh. Playford His compositions for instrumental Musick whether in two three or four parts have been highly valued and were always 30 years ago or more first called for taken out and played as well in the publick Musick school as in private Chambers and Dr. Wilson the Professor the greatest and most curious Judge of Musick that ever was usually wept when he heard them well perform'd as being wrapt up in an extasie or if you will melted down while others smil'd or had their hands and eyes lifted up at the excellency of them c. But now le ts go on with the admissions Bach. of Law Five were admitted but not one of
He was of Trin. Coll. in that University was afterwards D. of D Chaplain to Dr. Pearson B. of Chester Archdeacon of Richmond in the place of Charles Bridgman mentioned under the year 1662 Minister of S. Brides Ch. in London and Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. Jam. 2. K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He hath published five or more Sermons May 6. Rich. Wroâ— M. A. of Camb. He was of Jesus Coll. in that University was afterwards Chaplain to the said Dr. Pearson B. of Chester Warden of the College at Manchester in the place of Dr. Nich. Stratford in the beginning of the year 1684 and Doct. of Div. He hath three or more Sermons extant May. 11. Joh. Beveridge M. A. of Cambr. He was of S. Johns Coll. in that University and I know not yet to the contrary but that the publick Registrary might mistake him for Wiâ—l Beveridge M. A. of the said Coll afterwards D. of D Archdeacon of Colchester Rector of S. Peters Cornhill in Lond. Canon of Canterbury and Chaplain to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary This Dr. W. Beveridge who denied the Bishoprick of B. and Wells in the beginning of the year 1691 of which Dr. Ken had then lately been deprived for not taking the Oathes to the said K. W. 3. and Queen Mary is a right learned man and hath published several books and sermons which shew him so to be June 15. Joh. North M. A. of Cambr. This Gentleman who was Fellow of Jesus Coll. in the said University but now of Trinity Coll. in this where he continued for some time was a younger Son of Dudley Lord North of Kirtlyng was afterwards Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge D. of D Clerk of the Closet and Preb. of Westminster He hath published one Sermon and made a strict review of Platoes select Dialogues De rebus divinis in Greek and Latin purged many superfluous and cabalistical things thence about the fourth part of them which being done he published them in 1673. He died at Cambridge in the month of April about the 12 day an 1683 being then esteemed a good Grecian July 8. Theoph. Howerth Doct. of Phys of Cambr. He was of Magd. Coll. in that University and of the Coll. of Phys at London This year Sheldons Theater being opened and dedicated for a learned use was a most splendid Act celebrated therein on the 12 of July and very many Cambridge men coming to the solemnity were 84 Masters of Arts of that Univ. incorporated in a Congregation held in the House of Convocation the next day The names of some of which follow Will. Saywell Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Peter Gunning B. of Chichester and afterwards of Ely was installed Chancellour of the Church of Chichester 5. Dec. 1672 became Master of Jesus Coll. in the said University D. of D and Archdeacon of Ely in the place of Barnab Oley deceased He hath written several things among which are Evangelical and Cath. unity maintained in the Church of England or an apology for her government liturgy subscriptions c. with answers to the objections of Mr. Baxter Dr. Owen and others against conformity Also the L. Bishop of Ely's Gunning Vindication shewing his way of true and christian concord And a Postscript in answer to Mr. Baxters late objections against my self concerning general Councils c. Lond. 1682. oct The book of Mr. Baxter which he answers is his Apology for the Non-conformist Ministry c. Lond. 1681. qu. and that or Dr. Owen is An enquiry into the Original of Evangelical Churches c. He hath also written The reformation of the Church of England justified according to the Canons of the Council of Nice c. being an answer to a paper reprinted at Oxford entit The Schism of the Church of England demonstrated c. Printed in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. c. Samuel Scattergood Fell. of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Blockley in Warwickshire an 1678 and is author of two or more Sermons Tho. Gale Fell. of the said Coll. of the holy Trinity In 1672 he became chief Master of S. Pauls School in London was afterwards D. of D Prebendary of Pauls Fellow of the Royal Society and much celebrated for his admirable knowledge in the Greek tongue for his great labour and industry in publishing Greek authors as well Mss as printed exemplars as also certain books of English antiquities He hath written Philosophia Generalis in duas partes disterminata c. Joh. Sharp of Christs Coll. He was made Archdeacon of Berks in the place of Dr. Peter Mews promoted to the See of B. and Wells an 1672 was afterwards Chaplain to Heneage Lord Finch Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Preb. of Norwich Rector of S. Giles in the Fields near London Dean of Norwich in which Dignity he was installed 8. June 1681 in the place of Herb. Astley deceased afterwards of Canterbury upon Dr. Jo. Tillotson's translation thence to that of S. Paul in London in Sept. 1689 and at length upon the death of Dr. Thom. Lamplugh Archbishop of York to which he was consecrated in the Church of S. Mary le Bow in London on Sunday the 5. of July 1691. He hath 10 Sermons or more extant Hen. Jenks Fellow of Gonvile and Caies Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society and author of The Christian Tutor or a free and rational discourse of the Sovereign good and happiness of man c. in a Letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies Lond. 1683. oct Rob. Wensley of Sydney Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Chesthunt in Hertfordshire Chaplain to James Earl of Salisbury and author of two or more Sermons and of The forme of sound words or the Catechisme of the Ch. of Engl. proved to be most Apostolical c. Lond. 1679. in tw Joh. Newton Fellow of Clare Hall He hath one or more Sermons extant See in Joh. Newton among the Writers in this Vol. p. 472. Jam. Lowde Fell. of Clare Hall He was afterwards Rector of Esington in Yorkshire Chaplain to John Earl of Bridgwater and author of one or more Sermons He hath also translated from French into English A discourse concerning divine dreams mention'd in Scripture together with the marks and characters by which they might be distinguished from vain elusions Lond. 1676. oct Written originally in a Letter by Moses Amyraldus to Monsieur Gaches Thom. Bambridge of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards a Doctor and author of An answer to a book entit Reason and authority or the motives of a late Protestants reconciliation to the Cath. Church With a brief account of Augustine the Monk and conversion of England Printed in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. Henry Anderson of Magd. Coll. He is the same I suppose who was afterwards Vicar of King sumburne in Hampshire and author of three or more Sermons All which Masters viz. Saywell Scattergood Gale Sharp Jenks
Transact nu 129.147 in which the author hath one or more Discourses Dec. 20. John Vlacq Doct. of the Civil Law of Orange was incorporated in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange was entertain'd with the delights of the Muses there He was the Son of Cornelius Vlacq chief Amanuensis or Scribe or Secretary to the said Pr. of Orange Edw. Halsius Doct. of Phys of Leyden and Physitian in the Court of the said Prince was then and there also incorporated Sam. Morrys Doct. of Physick of the said University was also then and there incorporated He was Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall an 1662. These three last were nominated by the Pr. of Orange to be incorporated CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of the Prince of Aurange or Orange Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Joshua Stopford of Brasnose lately of Magd. Coll. He was soon after admitted Bach. of Div. as I have before told you Dec. 20. Rich. Lauder of S. Johns Coll was actually created in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange sate in a chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour This noble person was son of Charles Maitland Baron of Haltown in Scotland by his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Lauder younger Brother to John Maitland Duke of Lauderdale and was afterwards Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland where he was called Lord Maitland so long as his Father Charles was Earl of Lauderdale for by that title he was known after the said Joh. Maitland Duke of Lauderdale died which was at Tunbridge in Kent on S. Barthelmews day 1682 and after the said Charles his death which hapned about the ninth day of May an 1691 the said Richard Lauder became Earl of Lauderdale and is now living in Scotland After him were these persons following created in the said Convocation Will. Scharp of Ch. Ch who was allowed to wear the gown of a Noble man during his stay in the University was next after Lauder created He was the eldest Son of Dr. James Scharp sometimes Professor of Divinity and Rector of the University of S. Andrew afterwards consecrated Archbishop of S. Andrew in S. Peters Church commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster 15 of Decemb. 1661 at which time were also consecrated Andr. Fairfoâ—d Minister of Dâ—nce to the Archiepiscopal See of Glascow James Hamilton late Minister of Cambusnethum to the See of Gaâ—loway and Rob. Leighton Dean of his Majesties Chappel Royal in Scotland and late Principal of the Coll. at Edinburgh to the See of Dâ—mblayne This most worthy Archbishop Scharp who is justly characterized to have been Pietatis exemplum pacis Angelus sapientiae oraculum gravitatis imago c. was most barbarously murdered for his function sake near the City of S. Andrew by a pack of Hell-hounds enemies to God Man and all kind of Religion to the great horror and amazement of all the christian world on the 3 of May 1679 aged 61 years whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Andrew and had soon after put over it a stately monument with a most noble inscription thereon the contents of which being now too large for this place they shall for brevity sake be omitted George Sheild a Scot Governour to the before mention'd John Lauder Andrew Bruce a Scot of an antient family I have made mention of another Andrâ—w Bruce among the Incorporations an 1660. Joh. Trevor Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll. Son of Sir Joh. Trevor one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and of his most honorable Privy Council The said Sir Joh. Trevor died on the 28 of June 1672 aged 47 years and was buried in the Church of S. Barthelmew in Smithfield London whereupon Hen. Coventrie Esq was sworn Principal Secretary in his place on the 3. of July following The said Sir Joh. Trevâ—r was Son of another Sir John Trevor of the City of Westminster Kt who after he had kept pace with the dominant party in the times of Usurpation as his said Son had done for they were both halters in the Presbyterian Rebellion and adherers to the Usurper died full of years in the said City in the Winter time before the month of Dec. an 1673. Besides the aforesaid persons were then actually created William Tayler Joh. Dan Franc. Anshenhurst Jam Innys Clem. Dolby Joh. Mathew and James Waddyng of all whom I know nothing Febr. 1. Altham Annesley of Magd. Coll. Febr. 1. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. These were the Sons of Arthur Earl of Anglesey and were to have been created had they not been absent in the Orangian Creation I shall make mention of the said Rich. Annesley among the Doct. of Div. an 1689. Mar. 21. Sir Will. Ellis of Linc. Coll. Bt. He was also nominated to be created when the Pr. of Orange honored the degree of Doct. of the Civil but was then absent Bach. of Div. Jan. 13. Joseph Sayer of Wadh. Coll. This Divine who was Son of Franc. Sayer sometimes Minister of Yattenden in Berks became Servitour of Wadh. Coll. in 1647 left it without a degree took holy Orders but from whom I know not succeeded his Father in Yattenden an 1656 resign'd it to his Brother Francis sometimes of Mert. Coll. an 1665 at which time Joseph Sayer became Minister of Newbury and of Sulham in his own Country of Berks. In the month of May 1670 he became Preb. of Bishopston in the Church of Salisbury by the death of one Will. Hobbes and under pretence of being ejected for his loyalty from his Coll which is false he got himself to be put in the roll of those which the Prince of Orange desired to be created while he was entertain'd at Oxon. About which time he by the endeavours of one Sayâ—r his Majesties chief Cook procured the rich Rectory of North-Church in Hertfordshire He hath published A Sermon preached at Reading 25 Feb. 1672 at the Assizes there holden for the County of Berks c. on Rom. 13. part of the 5 vers Lond. 1673. qu. On the 8 of Decemb. 1681 he was installed Archdeacon of Lewes in Sussex which is all that I hitherto know of him Doct. of Law Sept. 16. Isaac Vossius Son of the famous Joh. Gerard Vâ—ssius was then actually created Doct. of the Civil Law after he had been with great humanity and friendship entertained by some of the chief Heads of Colleges as his Father had been before in 1629 much about which time he was installed Canon of Canterbury This Dr. Vossius was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Tho. Viner deceased 12 May 1673 and dying in his Lodgings in Windsore Castle on the 10 of Feb. 1688 was buried there leaving then behind him the best private library as it was then supposed in the whole world He hath published several books the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodâ—eian
the River of Boyne in the County of Lowth to fight the Forces belonging to K. James 2 and soon after he expir'd at or near Tredagh An. Dom. 1690. An. 2. Will. 3. An. 2. Qu. Mary Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Edwards again Oct. 6. Proct. Franc. Browne of Mert. Coll. Apr. 30. Franc. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 30. Bach. of Arts. July 10. Edward Wells of Ch. Ch. He hath published Two Geographical Tables containing the principal Countries Kingdoms Provinces Islands c. of the now known world c. one in English and another in Latine and both printed at Oxon. 1690. Adm. 156. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or person of note Mast of Arts. May 5. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. He is author of Tabellae Dialectorum in Graecis Declinationibus c. Lond. 1691. oct c. 8. James Harrington of Ch. Ch. He is now a Barrister of the Inner Temple and hath written and published several books July 8. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall He was afterwards author of An amical call to repentance and the practical belief of Gospel as being the only way to have peace and content here c. Lond. 1691. 2. in tw c. Adm. 71. Bach. of Phys Eight were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Seven were admitted of whom Rob. Wynn of Jesus Coll a Compounder and Chancellour of the Diocese of S. Asaph was one June 26. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 28. Nich. Stanley of All 's Coll. He compounded and accumulated July 10. Will. Boyse of C. C. Coll. He accum Doct. of Div. May 31. Tho. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. He was elected Warden of his Coll upon the promotion of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Bristow on the 21 of Octob. 1689. June 21. Matthew Hutton of Brasn Coll. Comp. July 8. Joh. Price of Ch. Ch. July 8. Franc. Morley of Ch. Ch. July 8. Thom. Burton of Ch. Ch. The two first of these three were Compounders and Accumulators Incorporations The Act being the sixth time put off not one Cambr. Master was incorporated only one which was before the time of Act. Two also were incorporated from Dublin Creations May 22. George Royse of Oriel Coll was actually created Doct. of Div. On the first of Dec. 1691 he was elected Provost of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Rob. Say deceased Dec. 11. Francis Lord North Baron of Guilford a Nobleman of Trin. Coll was after he had been presented by the Dep. Orator actually created Master of Arts being then about to leave the University His Father Sir Francis North second Son of Dudâ—ey Lord North was from being L. Ch. Just of the Common-pleas advanced to the honorable office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England on the 20 of Dec. 1682 and in Sept. 1683 he was for his great and faithful services that he had rendred the Crown created a Baron of this Kingdom by the name and stile of Baron of Guilford in Surrey He died at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordshire on the 5 of Sept. 1685 and was privately buried in a vault under part of the Church there among the ancestors of his Wife named Frances the second daughter and coheir of Thomas Pope Earl of Downe in Ireland uncle to Thomas the last Earl of Downe of the straight or linial descent of that family who died at Oxon in the year 1660 as I have told you in the 397 page of this book But whereas 't is said there that he married the eldest daughter and coheir is an errour for it was the second the first named Beata having been married to Will. Some of Suffolk Esquire and the youngest named Finetta to Robert Hyde Esq Son of Alexander sometimes Bishop of Salisbury Sir George Makenzie of Rosehaugh de Valle Rosarum in the County of Rosse in Scotland having left that Country upon the change of the Government there and violent proceedings of the Kâ—rk party an 1689 he retired to Oxon in the month of Sept. that year became a Sojournour there for a time a frequenter of the publick Library and on the second day of June 1690 he was by the favour of the Ven. Congregation of Regents admitted a Student therein where he continued all that Summer This most worthy and loyal Gentleman Son of Simon Makenzie Brother to the Earl of Seaforth by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of a Gentleman of an antient and heroick Extraction named Dr. And. Bruce Rector of the University of S. Andrew was born at Dundee in the County of Angus an 1636 and having an ardent desire from his Childhood for the obtaining of good Letters he was at about 10 years of age at which time he had conquered his Grammar and the best classical authors sent to the University of Aberdene where and afterwards in that of S. Andrew he ran through the Classes of Logick and Philosophy under the tuition of several eminent Masters before he was scarce 16 years of age Afterwards applying his studies with great zeal to the Civil Law he travelled into France and in the University of Bourges he continued in an eager pursuit of that faculty for about three years time After his return to his native Country he became an Advocate in the Courts at Edenburgh being then scarce 20 years of age and in 1661 he was made choice of to be an Advocate for pleading the causes of the Marquess of Argyle and afterwards became a Judge in the criminal Court which office he performed with great faith justice and integrity In 1674 or thereabouts he was made the Kings Lord Advocate and one of his Privy Council and notwithstanding the great troubles and molestations that arose from the fanatical party yet he continued in those places and stood steady faithful and just in the opinion of all good and loyal men till the beginning of the raign of K. James 7 at which time being averse in lending his assistance to the taking away of the penal laws he was removed and Sir Joh. Dalrimple now Secretary of State in Scotland under K. Will. 3. was put into his place Some time after his removal he was restored and continued L. Advocate and Privy Counsellour till K. Will. 3. made a revolution in Scotland and then he went into England as I have before told you He was a Gentleman well acquainted with the best authors whether antient or modern of indefatigable industry in his studies great abilities and integrity in his profession powerful at the Bar just on the Bench an able Statesman a faithful Friend a loyal Subject a constant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities of strict honour in all his actions and a zealous Defender of piety and religion in all places and companies His conversation was pleasant and useful severe against vice and loose principles without regard to quality or authority a great lover of the Laws
studies had brought his body into great indisposition did some weeks before his end retire with the advice of friends to the City of Canterbury in the month of Sept. an 1652 where being kindly entertained by Dr. Will. Jacob a noted Physician of that place but of no kin to did from him receive a cure of a gangreen in his foot But soon after a tumour breaking out from one of his Legs his radical moisture did as from a flood-gate violently run forth and so ended his life on the 5 of Nov. following about the year of his age 44. The next day the said Doctor buried him answerable to his quality in the midst of the Parish Church of Allsaints in that City Soon after in a bright Moon-shining night the resemblance of Hon. Jacob came into the bed-chamber of the Doctor who being asleep the resemblance laid his cold hand upon his face Whereupon the Doctor awaking looked up and saw H. Jacob staring upon him with his beard turned up as he used to wear it living whereat being strangely surprised stirred himself thinking that it might be a dream but still the resemblance stood still so that the Doctor having not courage to speak to it turned on the other side and laid in a cold sweat After some time he looked again and saw him sitting on a little table near to his bed but before morning he vanished Another night the Maid going out of the house saw the said resemblance standing on a Wood-pile and was thereupon much affrighted These stories the Doctor did confidently aver to be true not only to Dr. Pet. Moulin Preb. of Canterbury but to others of note among whom if I am not mistaken Dr. Meric Casaubon was one They were sent to me by a second hand from Dr. Jacob and whether true or not you may judge I shall not NATHANIEL BRENT Son of Anchor Brent of Little Wolford in Warwickshire a younger Son of Rich. Brent Gentleman eldest Son of John Brent of the House of Brent of Cosington in Sommersetshire was born at Little Wolford beforemention'd became Portionist commonly called Postmaster of Merton Coll in 1589 admitted Probationer-Fellow of the said Coll. in 94. being then Bach. of Arts proceeded in that faculty four years after entred himself on the Law Line became Proctor of the University in 1607 travelled into several parts of the learned World in 1613. 14. c. and underwent dangerous adventures in Italy to procure the History of the Council of Trent which he translated into English as I shall anon tell you and therefore to be remembred by posterity with an honorable mention After his return he married Martha Dau. and Heir of Dr. Rob. Abbot Bish of Salisbury and neice to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury by the favour of which last he had the Wardenship of Merton Coll. conferr'd on him was made Commissary to him Vicar general of England being then Doctor of the Civ Law and at length judge of the Prerogative on the death of Sir Henry Marten by another hand In 1629 Aug. 23 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Woodstock he being then and after accounted a zealous man for the Church and Prelacy But when he saw the Presbyterians begin to be dominant he sided with them and because of a Pique that had been between the Abbots and Bishop Laud he therefore became a frequent witness against the last at his trial deserted Oxon and his College when K. Ch. 1. garrisoned that place for his use took the Covenant and ran altogether with the rebellious rout About the same time he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. by his Majesties command but restored again when Oxford Garison was surrendred for the Parliaments use an 1646. In the years 1647. and 48. he was appointed Arch-visitor of this University and what he did there to promote the Presbyterian cause the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. will tell you under those years When an order was made against pluralities he was forced to leave Mert. Coll. in 1650 at which time if I mistake not he refused also the oath called the Engagement He translated into English as I have intimated before The History of the Council of Trent containing eight books In which besides the ordinary Acts of Council are declared many notable occurrences which hapned in Christendom during the space of 40 years and more c. Lond. 1616. there again 1619. 1677. fol. Sir Nath. Brent did also review Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae examine the quotations and compare them with the originals as I have told you before in Fr. Mason under the year 1621 And what else he hath translated and written is yet if any in Ms At length after he had lived 79 years he gave way to fate in his house in Little Britaine in the City of London on the sixth day of November in sixteen hundred fifty and two Whereupon his body was buried with great solemnity on the 17. of the same month in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew within the said City I have seen a printed Epitaph made on him by John Sictor a Bohemian Exile who if I mistake not had for some time before been exhibited to by Brent The contents of which being large I shall now for brevity sake pass by I find one William Brent a writer whose Great Grandfather William Brent of Stoke-lark in Glocestershire was younger Brother to Richard Brent Grandfather to Sir Nathaniel Of which William Brent the Writer I shall make some mention in Hen. Carey Earl of Monmouth under the year 1661. CHRISTOPHER ELDERFIELD son of Will. Elderf by Margaret his Wife was born at Harwell near to Wantage in Berks baptized there on the eleventh of Apr. 1607 educated in School learning under Hugh Lloyd M. A. of Oxon Vicar of Harwell and sometimes Chaplain to the Bishop of Bangor which Hugh built a considerable part of the Vicaridge-house standing near the Churchyard and was buried in the Chancel of Harwell on the 17 of May 1654. As for our Author Elderfield he was entred a Batler in S. Maries Hall in Mich. term 1621 and being naturally inclin'd to good letters made great proficiency in them took the degrees in Arts entred into Orders and through several petit Employments became Chaplain to Sir Will. Goring Baronet and Rector of a depopulated Town near to Petworth in Sussex called Burton having then only the House of the said Goring standing there In the said House he spent his time in great retiredness and wrot these books following which shew him to have been well read in the Civil Canon and Common Law in School Divinity and other profound matters The civil right of Tithes c. Lond. 1650. qu. Of Regeneration and Baptism Lond. 1654. qu. The Author of these was a man of a single life only wedded to his book and so had only a spiritual issue to keep up his name He was left both Father and Mother to the two
said elaborate Treatises and some conceive that the pains and travels of bringing forth the younger tho more spiritual manchild did cost him his life They are and have been both taken into the hands of learned men and by them often quoted The Author is stiled by the head of the Presbyterian Party A very learned and great Conformist and by others of moderate perswasion a most profound Clerk He died at Burton commonly called Burton place before mention'd on the second day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was not buried according to his Will in the Chancel of the said Chap. or Church which Sir Will Goring denied because he left him not those Legacies he expected but in the body under the Readers seat Over his grave tho there be no monument with inscription on it which the Testator desir'd yet on the south Wall of the Chancel of Harwell Church before mention'd is fastned a Tablet of Free-stone with this written on it which shall now go for his Epitaph for want of a better Christopher Elderfield Clerk born in this Parish gave by his last will and testament three hundred and fifty pounds with two hundred fourscore and four pounds whereof was bought so much land in the Parish of South Moreton as is worth twenty pounds per an And the other sixty and six pounds thereof residue according to a Decree in his Majesties Court of Chancery remain in the hands of the Church-wardens and other Officers of Hagborne the benefit whereof he willed to be employed yearly in works of charity bounty or piety for the good of this Parish But he expresly forbid that it should be added to the making up of taxes or any other way perverted to the easing of able men upon any pretence particularly he willed every Spring two good milch Cows to be bought and given to two the poorest men or widdows burdned with many children toward their sustentation He died Decemb. 2. an dom 1652. Thus far the inscription He also beside several Legacies which he left to several people bequeathed to the University of Oxon his Manuscripts of Lyra on the Psalmes the History of Tobit in Hebrew with Rodolphus his Postills bound up with Lyra Clemens Romanus with the Tract of Purgatory bound up with it He left also six and thirty pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor Ministers cast down by these times meaning loyal Ministers ejected from their Livings JOHN DIGBY was born of an antient and gentile family living in the Parish of Coleshill in Warwickshire in the month of Febr. 1580 became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1595 and the next year I find him to be one of the Poets of the University to bewail the death of Sir Hen. Unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and returned a well-qualified Gentleman So that his Abilities and Fidelity being occasionally discerned by K. James he was admitted Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and one of his Majesties Carvers in the year 1605 being then newly created Master of Arts of this University On the 16 of Feb. following he received the honor of Knighthood and in Apr. 1611 he was sent Ambassador into Spain as he was afterwards again in 1614. In the beginning of January about the third day 1615 Sir Franc. Cottington was sent into Spain to call him home and about the middle of March following he returned into England On the 3 of Apr. 1616 he was admitted one of the Kings Privy Council and Vicechamberlain of his Majesties Houshold in the place of Philip Lord Stanhope who was persuaded by the Kings Letters to give up that Office In July 1617 he was sent again into Spain and the next year upon his return he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 of Nov. by the Title of the Lord Digby of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire In 1620 he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in Octob. 1621 he was again in 1622 employed Ambassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage between Prince Charles who followed him in few months after and Princess Maria Daughter to Philip 3. King of that Realm and on the 15 of Sept. the same year he was created Earl of Bristow After his return he shew'd himself right able to appear before the English Parliament where he worsted the greatest Minion Buckingham the Folly Love or Wisdom of any King since the Conquest ever bred in this Nation As thro a prodigious dexterity he became the Confident of K. James so likewise of his son K. Ch. 1. for a time tho they drove on if not contrary divers designs From that time till the beginning of the Long Parliament we find no great matter of him when then he being found guilty of concealing some say of promoting a Petition of the Gentry and Ministers of Kent which was to be delivered to the Parliament he with Thomas Mallet were committed for a time to the Tower 28 March 1642. Afterwards perceiving full well what destructive Courses the Members of that Parliament took he left them and became a zealous Adherer to the King and his Cause for which at length he suffer'd Exile and the loss of his Estate He hath extant these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the High Court of Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he spake another upon the delivery of the Scottish Remonstrance and Schedule of their Charges 2 Sp. in the High Court of Parl. 20 May 1642. concerning an accommodation of Peace and Union to be had between the K. and his two Houses of Parliament Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh Reprinted at Caen in Normandy 1647. in fol. and qu. The speaking of which Speech giving displeasure to the H. of Lords he thereupon spake 3 Another Speech 11 June 1642 in vindication of the former and of accommodation Lond. 1642. in 1 sh in qu. Repr at Caen in 1647. in fol. and qu. 4 Sp. at the Council Table in favour of the continuation of the present War Oxon 1642. qu. It was spoken after Edghill Fight and was reprinted at Lond. the same year Other Speeches of his I have seen in MS. which for brevity sake I now pass by A Tract wherein is set down those motives and ties of Religion Oaths Laws Loyalty and Gratitude which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy Wars in England Tract wherein he vindicateth his honor and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure of being excepted from pardon or mercy either in life or fortunes These two Tracts have the general Title of His Apologie Appendix containing many particulars specified in his first Tract meaning his Motives and tyes of Religion with the citations of the Chapters and Pages wherein they are cited The said two Tracts with the Appendix
Oct. 1646 where he continued a constant Preacher doing good in his zealous way to his dying day His love to learning was very great and his delight to exercise himself was greater than his weak body could bear He had a strong memory which he maintained good to the last by temperance He was well skill'd in Greek and Hebrew was a fluent Preacher but too much addicted to Calvinisme He hath transmitted to posterity A Breast-plate for the keeping of the heart being the substance of certaine Sermons on Prov. 4.23 former part Lond. 1660. in oct A rich treasurie for the promises being the substance of other Sermons on Micah 7.19 Lond. 1660. oct Some or all of these Sermons were published in 1650. in oct Which two treatises The Breast-plate and Rich treasurie were published by Hugh Gundrey beforemention'd and one Joseph Crabb who dedicated them to William Lord Sydenham a member of Olivers Council one of his Lords and sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University Exposition on the first Chapt. of the Epist of S. Paul to the Ephesians whether this was published after his death I cannot tell He paid his last debt to nature on the 27 of Novemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and five and was buried I suppose in the Church of Neitherbury having before married Joane the Daugh. of George Scullard of Rumsey in Hampshire and been appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Dorsetshire and Pool for the ejection of such whom the godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters GILES WORKMAN Son of Will. Workm was born at Newton-Bagpath in Glocestershire entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in the year of his age 18 dom 1623 took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became Vicar of Wallford in Herefordshire Master of the College School in Glocester and at length by the favour of Matth. Hale Esq afterwards L. Ch. Just of the Kings-bench he became Rector of Alderley in Glocestershire He hath written A modest examination of Lay-mens preaching discovered to be neither warranted by the Word of God nor allowed by the judgment or practice of the Churches of Christ in New England c. Lond. 1646. in about 6. sh in qu. What else he hath published unless one or more Sermons which I have not yet seen I know not nor any thing besides only that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and five as his eldest Son hath informed me was buried in the Church of Alderley beforemention'd This Person who was a quiet and peaceable Puritan had a Brother called John Workman a schismatical Lecturer in Glocester who by medling with things indifferent created not only a trouble to his Diocesan but to the Archb. of Canterbury as you may fully see in Canterburies Doome THOMAS WILLIS whom some pedagogical Writers call Volentius was born of a gentile Family of his name living at Fenny compton in Warwickshire began to be conversant with the Muses in S. Johns Coll in Easter term 1602 aged 19 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Schoolmaster at Thistleworth or Istleworth in Middlesex where he spent near 50 years of his time in the instruction of youth for whose use he wrot these things following Vestibulum Linguae Latinae A Dictionary for Children consisting of two parts c. containing near ten thousand words besides thrice the number derived from and known by them c. Lond. 1651. oct Phraseologia Anglo-Latina Anglicisms latinized c. Lond. 1655. oct This is the same which hath another title sometimes set to it running thus Proteus vinctus Sive aequivoca sermonis Anglicani ordine alphabetico digesta latine reddita To this Book was afterwards added Paraemilogia Anglo-latina Or a collection of Engl. and Lat. Proverbs and proverbial sayings matched together Both which were printed in one Vol. at Lond. 1672. oct This last was wrot with a design to supply what was defective and wanting in our Author Willis his Phraseologia c. by Will. Walker bred up in School learning under Joh. Clerk Bach. of Div. sometimes publick Schoolmaster of Lincoln afterwards teacher of a private School in Fiskerton in Nottinghamshire and a Writer of school-books under whom he the said Walker being ripen'd for the University was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge where he took the degrees in Arts and one in Divinity afterwards he became Master of the publick School at Lowth in Lincolnshire founded by K. Ed. 6. then Rector of Colsterworth in the same County by the donation of Dr. Tho. Pierce as Prebendary I think of Lincoln who had been for several years a great encourager of Mr. Walker's useful studies and at length Master of the Free-school at Grantham where he continued to the time of his death which hapned in the beginning of January or thereabouts an 1684. This person who was very useful in his generation hath written and published 1 Treatise of English Particles several times printed 2 Troposchematologiae Rhetoricae libri duo Lond. 1668. dedic to his Patron Dr. Pierce before mention'd 3 Explanations of the Royal commonly called Lillyes Grammar in two parts Lond. 1670. 74. oct 4 Modest plea for Infant Baptism Cantab. 1677. in tw 5 English Examples of the Lat. Syntaxis c. Lond. 1683. oct with his picture before it aged 59 years and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen particularly his Dictionary of English and Latine Idioms and his book intit De argumentorum inventione libri duo c. in oct ROBERT MATON son of Will. Maton of Tudworth in Wilts was born in that County became a Commoner of Wadh. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and afterwards holy Orders but where beneficed unless in his own Country I cannot tell nor any thing else of him but that as to opinion he was always in his heart a Millinary which he never discovered in publick till the Rebellion broke out and then the Press being open for all Opinions he published these things following Israels Redemption or a prophetical history of our Saviours Kingdom on earth that is of the Church Catholick and Triumphant on Acts 1.6 Lond. 1642. oct Discourse of Gog and Magog or the battle of the great day of God Almighty on Ezek. 38.2 Printed with the former book Comment on the 20 chap. of the Rev. Lond. 1652. quart Israels Redemption redeemed or the Jews general and miraculous Conversion to the faith of the Gospel and return into their own Land and our Saviours personal reign on Earth proved from the Old and New Test c. of purpose to satisfie all Gainsayers and particularly Mr. Alex. Petrie Minister of the Scottish Church at Roterdam Divided in two parts Lond. 1646. qu. Which book being answer'd by the said Petrie it came out again under this title with additions and amendments A Treatise of the fifth Monarchy or Christs personal reign on
differ See the titles of some of his works in Bodlies Catalogue and elsewhere in others Now I am got into the name of Collins I cannot but let the Reader know something of John Collins the Accomptant who having been a person of extraordinary worth considering his education you may be pleased therefore to know that he was born at Wood-Eaton near to and in the County of Oxon on Saturday 5 March 1624. His father was a Nonconformist Divine and tho not suffer'd to preach in Churches yet in Prisons to Malefactors which with the correcting of the Press obtain'd him a subsistence At 16 years of age Joh. Collins was put an Apprentice to a Bookseller one Tho. Allam living without the Turl-gate of Oxon but Troubles soon after following he left that Trade and was employed in Clerkship under and received some mathematical knowledge from Mr. Joh. Marr one of the Clerks of the Kitchin to Pr. Charles afterwards K. Ch. 2 I mean the same Mr. Marr who was eminent for his mathematical knowledge and noted for those his excellent Dyals wherewith the Gardens of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. were adorned But the intestine Wars and Troubles increasing Collins lost that employment and went seven years to sea most part of it in an English Merchant-man that became a Man of War in the Venetian Service against the Turks In which having leisure he applied part of his studies to Mathematicks and Merchant-Accompts and upon his return he fell to the practice thereof and afterwards profess'd Writing Merchant-Accompts and some parts of Mathematicks And having drawn up some books of Accompts and divers loose questions for the instructions of his Scholars in the year 1652 he committed them to the press under the title of An introduction to Merchants Accompts They were reprinted in 1665 without alteration and in 1666 the fire consumed the greatest part of the impression At length it was reprinted with the addition of two more Accompts than were formerly extant On the 12. of Oct. 1667 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society upon the publication in the Philos Transact of his Solution of a Problem concerning time to wit about the Julian Period with divers Perpetual Almanacks in single verses a Chorographical Problem and other things afterwards in the said Transact concerning Merchants Accompts Compound Interest and Annuities c. While Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury was L. Chanc. he nominated him in divers references concerning suits depending in Chancery about intricate Accompts to assist in the stating thereof which was some emolument to him and to the shortning of the charge of the parties concern'd From which time especially his assistance was often used in other places and by other persons whereby he not only obtained some wealth but a great name and became accounted in matters of that nature the most useful and necessary person of his time and thereupon towards his latter end he was made Accomptant to the Royal Fishery Company His works besides those before mentioned are among others 1 The Sector on a Quadrant or a treatise containing the description and use of four several Quadrants c. Lond. 1658. qu in which there are very curious prints of two great Quadrants and of two small Quadrants with particular projections on them serving for the Latitude of London See in the Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Manilius made an English Poem Lond. 1675. fol. pag. 116 written by Edw. Sherburne Esq afterwards a Knight 2 Mariners plain Scale new plained This is a treatise of Navigation and was print in 1659. In which besides projections of the Sphere there are constructions for many Astronomical Problems and Spherical propositions This book hath found good acceptance and is now become a common Theme to the Scholars of Christ Ch. Hospital in London whereof forty by his Majesties bounty and the establishing a Lecturer to instruct them are constantly taught Navigation 3 Treatise of Geometrical dyalling printed 1659. 'T is of good esteem both for the newness and easiness of method in situating the Requisites and drawing the Hour-lines 4 The doctrine of Decimal Arithmetick simple interest c. As also of compound Interest and Annuities generally performed for any time of payment c. Lond. 1664 in a quarter of a sheet for portability in a Letter-case It was published again by J. D. Lond. 1685. 5 An introduction to Merchants accompts containing seven distinct questions or Accompts 1. An easie question to enter beginners c. Lond. 1674. fol. 6 A plea for bringing in of Irish Cattle and keeping out of fish caught by Forreigners c. Lond. 1680. qu. 7 Address to the members of Parl. of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon about the advancement of Tin Fishery and other Manufactures Ibid. 8 Salt and Fishery A discourse thereof insisting on the following heads 1. The several ways of making salt in England c. Lond. 1682. qu. 9 Arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions both vulgar and decimal with Tables for the forbearance and rebate of money c. Lond. 1688. in tw published by Tho. Plant Accomptant What other things Mr. Collins hath written I know not and therefore I shall only say that if we did not further enlarge by telling the World how much it is obliged for his pains in exciting the learned to publish their Works and in acting the part of an ingenious Obstetrix at the Press in correcting and in drawing of Schemes we should be much injurious to his memory After the Act at Oxon was finished 1682 he rode thence to Malmsbury in Wilts in order to view the ground to be cut for a river between Isis and Avon which journey being performed between twelve at noon and eleven at night in a hot day he did at his arrival in his Inn drink more than he should at that time being very hot and his blood not setled of Red streak Cider which giving him an Astma and that a consumption he died thereof in his Lodging on Garlick-hill in London on Saturday 10. of Nov. 1683 whereupon his body was buried on Tuesday following in the Church of S. James Garlick-hythe in the South Isle just behind the Pulpit June ... Tho. Margetson Doct. of Phys of Aurange or Orange This Physitian who was Son of Jam. Margetson of Yorkshire was admitted a Student of Trin. Coll. near Dublin 5. May 1647 retired to Oxon in the latter of 1650 entred himself a Student of S. Maries Hall and as a member thereof he took the degrees in Arts Afterwards applying his mind to the study of Phys had the degree of Doctor of that faculty confer'd on him at Aurange before mention'd in the middle of March 1656. These Cambridge men following were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act on the 14 of July John Stillingfleet M. A. and Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. He became soon after Rector of Beckingham in Lincolnshire and at length D. of Div. He hath published one or more books Edw.
Stillingfleet M. A. and Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. before mention'd was incorporated on the same day This person who was younger Brother to the said Joh. Still was born near Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire was first Rector of Sutton in Bedfordshire by the favour of Sir Rog. Burgoyne then of S. Andrews Church in Holbourne near London D. of D Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Canterbury Can. resid of S. Pauls Cathedral Dean thereof upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Sancroft to the See of Canterbury and at length Bishop of Worcester to which See he was consecrated in the Bishop of Londons Chappel at Fulham on Sunday the 13 of Oct. 1689 with Dr. Sim. Patrick to Chichester and Dr. Gilbert Ironside to Bristow by the Bishops of London S. Asaph and Rochester by vertue of a Commission directed to them in that behalf He hath published divers books too many to have their titles set down here in defence of the Church of England which shew him to be an orthodox and learned man The first book which made him known to the world was his Irenicum A weapon salve for the Churches wounds Lond. 1661. Tho. White of Peter House I find one Thom. White a Minister of London of Allhallows the Great as it seems to be author of 1 Method and instructions for the art of divine meditation c. Lond. 1655. c. in tw 2 Observations on the fourth 5 and 6 Chapters of S. Matthew c. Lond. 1654. oct 3 Treatise of the power of godliness in three parts c. Lond. 1658 in tw 4 A manual for Parents wherein is set down very particular directions in reference to baptizing correcting c. Lond. 1660. c. and of other things Whether this author who was dead before 1671 be the same with the former Tho. White of Peter House I know not Rich. Cumberland M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Doct. of Div. and published 1 De Legibus naturae disquisitio Philosophica in qua â—arum forma summa capita ordo promulgatio obligatio è rerum natura investigantur quinetiam elementa Philosophiae Hobbianae cum moralis tum civilis considerantur refutantur Lond. 167â— qu. 2 An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures and weights comprehending their moneys by help of an antient standard compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans and Eastern Nations Lond. 1686. oct c. This Dr. Cumberland was consecrated Bish of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Tho. White deprived for not taking the Oathes to K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary in the Church of S. Mary Le Bow in London on the 5 of July 1691 at which time other Bishops were consecrated Mathew Pole or Poole M. of A. of Emanuel Coll. He was Minister of S. Michaels in Le Querne in London from whence being ejected for Nonconformity an 1662 he set himself to the writing of those admirable and useful books entit Synopsis Criticorum Bibliorum c. The two first Volumes of which were printed at Lond. 1669 and three more afterwards besides one in English all in fol. He hath also written 1 The Blasphemer slain with the sword of the spirit or a plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost wherein the Deity of the spirit is proved against the Cavils of Joh. Biddle Lond. 1654. in tw 2 A model for the maintaining of Students of choice abilities in the Vniversity and principally in order to the Ministry c. Printed 1658 in 3. sh and an half in qu. 3 Letter to the Lord Charles Fleetwood Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. It was delivered to that person one of Olivers Lords 13. of Dec. the same Year in reference to the then juncture of affairs 4 Quo Warranto A moderate debate about the preaching of unordained persons election ordination and the extent of the Ministerial relation in vindication of the Jus Divinum Ministerii from the exceptions of that late piece entit The Preacher sent Lond. 1659. qu. Written by the appointment of the Provincial Assembly at London 5 Evangelical Worship serm before the L. Mayor 26. Aug. 1660. c. Lond. 1660. qu. 6 The nullity of the Romish faith c. Oxon. 1666. oct 7 Dialogue between a Popish Priest and English Protestant wherein the principal points and arguments of both religions are truly proposed and fully examined Lond. 1667 and several times after in tw 8 Seasonable Apologie for religion on Matth. 11.19 Lond. 1673. qu besides other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died at Amsterdam in Holland to which place he had retired for the free exercise of his religion in the middle of Octob. 1679 leaving then behind him the character of Clarissimus Criticus Casuista whereupon his body was buried in a certain Vault under the Church which belongs to the English Merchants trading there He left behind him certain English Annotations on the Holy Scripture which being imperfect were finished by other hands in two volumes in fol. an 1685. See more among the Writers in Joh. Owen p. 564. Joh. Meriton M. A. of S. Johns Coll. He was before his Majesties restauration the Sunday's Lecturer at S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster afterward D. D. Rector of S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lecturer at S. Mary Hill c. in London He hath published several Sermons as 1 Curse not the King preached at S. Mart. in the Fields 30. Jan. 1660 on Eccles 10.20 Lond. 1660. 61. qu. 2 Religio Militis on Josh 1.7 preached to the Attillery Company 24. Oct. 1672 at S. Mich. in Cornhill Lond. 1673 qu. c. I find another Joh. Meriton who was M. of A Vicar of S. Ives in Huntingdonshire Rector of St. Mary Bothaw in London c. and Chaplain to Henry Earl of Arlington a publisher also of several Sermons as of 1 The obligation of a good conscience to civil obedience preached before the Judges at an Assize held at Huntingdon 24. Aug. 1670 on Rom. 13.5 Lond. 1670. qu. 2 Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall 30. July 1676. Lond. 1676 qu. c. Will. Williams M. A. of Trin. Coll. Several of both his names have been Writers but whether this hath published any thing I know not Anthony Walker M. A. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Doct. of Div Rector of Fyfield in Essex Chaplain to his Majesty and a publisher of several Sermons as 1 Planctus Unigeniti spes resuscitandi Or the bitter sorrows for a first born c. funeral Serm. on Luke 7.12 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 Leez lachrymans sive Comitis Warwici justa Serm. at the funeral of Charles Earl of Warwick Baron Rich of Leez who being the fourth Earl of the Family and last of the direct line died at his house of Leez le Rich in the County of Essex 24. August 1673 aged 55 and was inter'd among his Ancestors in