his friends by Letters a way he much delighted in without He died 1656. having spent most of his suffering time in reconciling differences among his indiscreet friends and in encouraging hope which he would say was at the bottom of the box among his desponding acquaintance a person that was not sensible of his oppression because he was not subject to passion With Dr. Smith were Dr. Ailworth of All-Souls Dr. Edward Hide Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Rector of Brightwel in Berk-shire and a grave Preacher as long as he was permitted to the great satisfaction of good people at Holywell in Oxford writing good Books such as The Christian Legacy and A Vindication of the Church of England and giving good instructions to young men such as he designed Nurseries for the Church of England recommending to them a methodical Learning an exemplary zeal at their devotion and a strict life making great use of Bodley's Library while he was permitted and when forbidden retiring to his own He died at Salisbury 1658. where I think his Reverend Brother is Bishop of the Stone under which God exercised his patience as he did under the usurpation his faith and heroick charity Whose advice was by all means use to be alone be acquainted with your selves and keep your selves discreetly in a capacity of serving the Church for he would say did all men comply the Church would be at a loss for Champions to defend her at present and were all obnoxious the Church might be at a loss for Worthies to propagate it for the future Dr. Richard Bayly for forty years President of St. Iohns and for above thirty Dean of Salisbury an excellent Governor a good Landlord preferred by Bishop Laud his kinsman one of whose Executors he was at St. Iohns as Dr. George Walker another allyed to him was at the University Colledge in Oxford whereof he was thrice Vice-chancellor much a Gentleman and therefore in the late times much a Sufferer when P. E. of P. told his Masters at Westminster how among other Exploits he had done at Oxford he had by force turned out Dr. Bayly and his wife with six pretty children out of St. Iohns He lived chearfully behind the Schools all the sad times as he died hospitably in St. Iohns in better A right primitive Church-man for his good Table great Alms just and generous Dealings and the Repair of every place he came to Thrifty but not covetous giving his need his honor and his friend his due Never saith our sweet Singer was scraper brave man get to live than live and use it Dr. R. Kettle and Dr. Hannibal Potter both Presidents of Trinityâ—Colledge â—Colledge men that if they could not play on the Fiddle that is if they were not so ready Scholars yet could build and govern Colledges and make as Themosticles a little City or Colledge a great one the Whetstone is dull its self that whets the things Dr. Metcalf was a better of St. Iohns in Cambridge than Dr. Whitacres because the first though a Sophister put a fallacy upon him cosensu diviso ad sensum compositum found the Colledge spending scarce 200 Marks per annum and left it spending by his own and his friends benefactions a thousand and the other though a great Scholar following Studies and remitting matters to others to the general decay of the Colledge The Government of a Colledge is commended by the proficiency of the Students among whom its honor enough to the House to mention 1. Mr. William Chillingworth born in Oxford and so falling out of his Mothers arms into the Muses lap a general Scholar made ready in himself by teaching others taking great delight in directing and encouraging young men and in disputing with the elher so accute and subtile a Disputant that the best disputation that ever was heard in Oxford Schools was when he Mr. Halke and Dr. Hammond disputed together Admirable at opposing and overthrowing any Position though solid and wary enough at answering and Dr. Potter being sickly sent for him to reply to Mr. Knots Answer to his Book of Charity whereupon having obtained leave to travel he resolved to finde out Mr. Knot himself and agreeably to his great spirit designing to answer not onely that Book but all that could be said for Popery to dive by converse and dispute with the choicest Romanists in the world to the bottom of all the Intrigues and Quirks of that Controversie to which end he entred himself of one of their best Colledges whereof upon the stupendious reach of his reason he became presently Sub-Rector continuing there until by continual discourses wherewith he tired them all he had distilled the quintessence of their reason into a book answering it upon his return in the Book called The Religion of Protestants a saâ—e way to salvation which was never answered but with a War sent amongst us with the extract of Catholick reason called by unreasonable men that make Christianity a Supersedeas for Humanity Socinianism approved by Dr. Fell Dr. Bayley and Dr. Prideaux his adversary who compared his Book to a Lamprey fit for food if the venemous string was taken out of it As great his faculty in reclaiming Shismaticks as in confuting Papists seldom either discoursing or preaching but he convinced the parties he spoke or preached to His great skill in Mathematicks whereby he drew several regular Fortifications against Glocester and elsewhere being called The Kings little Engineer and Black-art-man fixing and clearing his reason in all subjects he had occasion to insist upon His counsel was that young men should be sure to be good Artists and then the Arts knitting together all other learning they would be good Scholars He was taken prisoner by the Enemies Forces who found him sick and by hard usage hastened his death 1645. being buried at Arundle-castle with this Character from an adversary That his Head was made for contrivances and his Heart for that which makes men wise viz. Doubts and Scruples resting no where in his disquisition but upon first principles 2. Mr. Anthony Farington Bachelor of Divinity an excellent Tutor and Governor while Fellow of that House an imitable Preacher for High Rhetorick Copious Learning and Moral Instructions while resident in the University a grave Pastor and charitable Neighbour while Vicar of Bray and Preacher at Windsor and so honest and orthodox that the old Proverb true of his predecessor who kept his Vicaridge under Henry the eighth Edward the sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth saying He was no Turncoat keeping always to his principles which was this that he would live and dye Vicar of Bray and turn his Mill with the Wind rather than loose his Grist could not be applied to him The Vicar of Bray will be Vicar of Bray still He after Ireton who had been of the same House with him had revenged a piece of discipline he exercised upon him for his ominous knavery in affronting his superiors whereupon Mr. Farington
Barons of the Exchequer in which place he was tender of two things the Churches and the Kings Rights having never as we heard taken Fee when a Pleader either of an Orthodox Minister or of a Kings Servant The first Books of the Law he would recommend to young Students was the Historical as the years and tearms of Common-law permitting Finch Dodderidge Fortescue Fulbeck and others that writ of the nature of the Law among which Books the Register is authentique Speculum Iustitiariorum is full and satisfactory Glanvill de Legibus consuetudinibus Regni Angliae is useful and practical the Old Tenures tried and approved Bracton methodical rational and compleat Britton learned and exact though his Law in some cases be obsolete and out of date Fleta deep and comprehensive Fortescue sinewy and curious Stuthams Abridgement well contrived and of ready use Littletons Tenures sound exact and the same thing to us Common Lawyers that Iustinians Institutes is to Civil Lawyers Littleton being deservedly said not to be the name of a Lawyer but of the Law it self Fitz-Herberts Abridgement and Natum brevium elaborate and well-digested Collections Doctor and Student A good account of the nature grounds and variety of Laws Stamfords Pleas of the Crown and Prerogative weighty smart and methodical Rastals Book of Entries and the Lord Brooks's Abridgement commended by my Lord Cook as good repertories of the year-books of the Law Theobalds Book of Writs sound and full the next explanatory Books were the next in which kind Cooks Works and Ploydens Commentaries pass for Oracles and Mr. Lambards Books for the most exquisite Antiquities and in the third place Reports among which those of Cook and Crook are profound fundamental and material those of Popham Hobart Owen Hutton Winch Lea Hetley Leonard Brownlow Bulstrode Yelverton Bridgeman are sinewy clear pertinent useful and approved and especially a man must have the Year-books and Statutes His Counsel to the King was with the like freedom as these directions to the young Gentlemen and his Judgment on the Bench with as much faithfulness as either The English in a year of great mortality amongst them had their children born without their cheek-teeth This Judge especially in sad times and in a sad case would have all Pleadings without biting his Nature was pitiful and ingenuous insomuch that he might be called as Tostanus was The Patron of Infirmities His Discourse was always charitable either to excuse their failings or mitigate their punishments The favour he shewed others he found not himself His concurring with his Brethren about Ship-money being aggravated with the most odious circumstances and punished with the severe usage of a Prison a Fine and the loosing of his Place a great argument certainly of his Integrity that in a searching Age he that had been Judge near upon twenty years could be found guilty of no fault but avowing the Law according to his Judgement and being of opinion That the King in case of danger whereof he was Iudge might tax the Nation to secure its self An opinion so innocent that Justice Hutton himself who went to his grave with the reputation of an honest Judge would protest he could heartily wish true it being as much for the Interest of the Nation as it seemed to him against the Law of it So legal that Baron Denham though he was sick and could not debate it with his Brethren and something scrupulous that if he had been there he could not have agreed with them yet it appears his dissent was not from his apprehension of the injustice of the Tax called Ship-money in general but from some particular irregularity in the proceeding with Mr. Hampden in particular as appears from this Certificate dated May 26. 1638. directed to the Lord Chief Justice Brampston May it please your Lordship I Had provided my self to have made a short Argument and to have delivered my Opinion with the Reasons but by reason of want of rest this last night my old Disease being upon me my sickness and weakness greatly increased insomuch as I cannot attend the business as I desire and if my opinion be desired it is for the Plaintiff Iohn Denham And this reason added to it That he thought His Majesty could not seize on any Subjects Goods without a Court-Record c. And so harmless that it was but twenty shillings that Hampden paid with all this ado after Monarchy and Liberty was brought to plead at the Bar. And Judge Crook himself who was one that dissented from his Brethrens opinions about Shipmoney though he had once subscribed it by the same token that the People would say at that time That Ship-money might be had by Hook it should never be had by Crook would say of Hampden That he was a dangerous man and that men had best take heed of him Remarkable here the difference between His Majesties temper and the Parliaments they punished five of the Judges for that very liberty of opinion which they themselves asserted under the notion of Liberty of Conscience that voted against their Sentiments severely The King entertained those two that voted against his Judgement and Interest too with respect the one dying with a Character from his Master of an upright man and the other being dismissed upon his own earnest Petition with the honour of having been a good Servant as is evident from this humble Petition of his to His Majesty To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Your Majesties humble Servant George Crook Knight one of the Iustices of Your Bench Humbly â—heweth THat he having by the Gracious Favour of Your Majesties late Father of blessed Memory and of Your Majesty served Your Majesty and your said late Father as a Judge of Your Majesties Court of Common-Pleas and of Yâ—ur Highness Court called the Kings-Bench above this sixteen years is now become very old being above the age of 80 years and by reason of his said age and dullness of hearing and other infirmities whereby it hath pleased God to visit him he findeth himself disabled any longer to do that Service in your Courts which the Place requireth and he desireth to perform yet is desirous to live and die in your Majesties Favour His most humble Suit is That your Majesty will be pleased to dispence with his further Attendance in any your Majesties Courts that so he may retire himself and expect Gods good pleasure And during that little remainder of his life pray for your Majesties long Life and happy Reign George Crook And this Gracious Answer of his Majesty to him The KINGS Answer UPon the humble Address by the humble Petition of Sir George Crook Knight who after many years Service done both to Our deceased Father and Our Self as Our said Fathers Serjeant at Law and one of His and Our Judges of Our Benches at Westminster hath humbly besought Us by reason of the Infirmity of his old Age which disableth him to continue
conferences with God by prayer and meditations were never omitted upon any occasion whatsoever When he went the yearly Progress to view the Colledge Lands and came into the Tenants houses it was his constant custome before any other business discourse or care of himself were he never so wet or weary to call for a retire Room to pour out his soul unto God who led him safely in his journey And this he did not out of any specious pretence of holiness to devour a Widows House with more facility Rack their Rents or Change their Fines for excepting the constant Revenue to the Founder to whom he was a strict accountant no man ever did more for them or less for himself For thirty years together he used this following Anthem and Confession of the holy and undivided Trinity Salva nos libera nos vivifica nos Obeat a Trinit as Save us deliver us quicken us Oblessed Trinity Let us praise God the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit let us praise and super-exalt his name for ever Almighty and everlasting God which hast given us thy Servants grace by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the Holy Trinity and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Vnity We beseech thee that through the stedfastness of this faith we may evermore be defended from all adversity which livest and raignest c. This he did perform not only as a sacred Injunction of the Founder upon him and all the Society but he received a great delight in the performance of it No man ever wrote more highly of the Attributes of God than he and yet he professes that he always took more comfort in admiring than in disputing and in praying to and acknowledging the Majesty and Glory of the blessed â—rinity than by too curiously prying into the Mystery He composed a book of Private Devotions which some judicious men having perused the same much extolled and admired as being replenished with holy truths and divine meditations which if it be not already annexed to this book I hope the Reader will shortly enjoy in a portable Volumn by it self Thus have many Scholars and Polemical men in their elder times betaken themselves to Catechizing and Devotion as Pareus Bishop Andrews Bishop Vsher and Bellarmin himself seems to prefer this Book De ascensione mentis ad Deum Of the ascension of the soul to God before any other parts of his works Books saith he are not to be estimated Ex multitudine folliorum sed ex fructibus By the multitudes of the leaves but the fruit My other books I read only upon necessity but this I have willingly read over three or four times and resolve to read it more often whether it be saith he that the love towards it be greater than the merit because like another Benjamin it was the Son of mine old age He seemed to be very Prophetical of the ensuing times of Trouble as may evidently appear by his Sermons before the King and Appendix about the signs of the times or divine fore-warnings therewith Printed some years before touching the great tempest of wind which fell upon the Eve of the fifth of November 1636. He was much astonished at it and what apprehension he had of it appears by his words This mighty wind was more then a sign of the time the very time it self was a sign and portends thus much that though we of this kingdom were in firm league with all Nations yet it is still in God's power we may fear in his purpose to plague this kingdom by this or like tempests more grievcously then he hath done at any time by Famine Sword or Pestilence to bury many living souls as well of superiour as inferior rank in the ruine of their stately Houses or meaner Cottages c. Which was observed by many but signally by the Preface to Master Herberts Remains I shall not prevent the Reader or detain him so long from the original of that book as to repeat Elogies which are there conferred upon him I cannot forbear one passage in that Preface wherein he made this profession I speak it in the presence of God I have not read so hearty vigorous a Champion against Rome amongst our Writers in this rank so convincing and demonstrative as Dr. Jackson is I bless God for the confirmation he hath given me in the Christian religion against the Atheist Iew and Socinian and in the Protestant against Rome As he was always a reconciler of differences in the private government so he seriously lamented the publick breaches of the kingdom for the divisions of Reuben he had great thoughts of heart At the first entrance of the Scots into England he had much compassion for his Country-men although that were but the beginning of their sorrows He well knew that war was commonly attended with ruin and calamity especially to Church and Churches and therefore that prayer was necessary and becoming of them Da pacem Domine in diebus nostris c Give peace in our time O Lord because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God One drop of Christian blood though never so cheaply spilt by others like water upon the ground was a deep corrosive to his tender heart Like Rachel weeping for her children he could not be comforted his body grew weak the chearful hue of his countenance was empaled and discoloured and he walked like a dying mourner in the streets But God took him from the evil to come it was a sufficient degree of punishment to him to see it it had been more than a thousand deaths unto him to have beheld it with his eyes When his death was now approaching being in the Chamber with many others I over-heard him with a soft voice repeating to himself these and the like ejaculations I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope my soul waiâ—eth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning As for me I will behold thy face in right cousness I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness And he ended with this Cygnean caution Psal. 116. 5 6 7. Cracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me Return unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee And having thus spoken soon after he surrendred up his spirit to him that gave it If you shall enquire what this charitable man left in Legacy at his Death I must needs answer That giving all in his life time as he owed nothing but love so he left nothing when he dyed The poor was his heir and he was the administrator of his own goods or to use his own expression in one of his last Dedications he had little else to leave his Executors but his Papeâ— only which the Bishop of Armagh being at his Funeral
vowed not to stir a foot except with these their Baggage which the King was forced to wink at for the present smiling out his anger and permitting now what he might and did amend afterwards But greatest Piety the best Cause the strictest Discipline the most faithful Service may miscarry in this world where we are sure no person can discern either the love or the hatred of the great Governor of the world by any thing that is under the Sun For he saw prosperous Villany trampling on unhappy Allegiance the best King lying down under the stroke of the worst Executioner and himself forced to compound for his estate with those very Rebels he now scorned and formerly defied overcome in all things but his mind For the note runs thus in that Record which we are bound to forgive but History will not forget Sir Edward Berkley of Pull Som. 0770 l. 00 00 In the primitive times like these I write of made up of suffering when the surviving Christians endeavoured to preserve the memory of their Martyrs for imitation and those few that escaped persecution advanced the honor of Confessors for their incouragement they had books called Dyptychs because filled on both sides with holy Names on the one side of those that died in the great cause on the other side of those that suffered for it being hardly thought by that wicked world worthy to live and yet not so happy as to be suffered to dye I am sensible I could fill this Volume with those eminent Assertors of Loyalty that are still alive of this Family to serve the Soveraign they suffered for and the great Martyrs of it that sealed their Allegiance with their bloud but foreseeing a fair opportunity elsewhere to do them the utmost right I am able that is to give the world a faithful Narrative of their exemplary virtues which though they may often times tempt to the liberty of a Panegyrick yet they still perswade to as strict an observance of truth as is due to an History For that Pen expresseth good men most elegantly that draweth their lives most faithfully In the mean time Let the very names of these worthy persons be Histories their very mention carry with it a Chronicle Sir MAVRICE BERKLEK ALthough as my Lord Bacon observes De Augmentatione Scientiarum l. 2. c. 13. Nature hath planted in all men fear twisted together with the principles of self-preservation as the great instrument of it and wariness as the great effect of fear Although all things as he saith be if we should look into them full of Panick fear nay though retiredness added to caution studiousness to retiredness simplicity and innocency of behaviour added to studiousness might have excused this Gentleman from the noise and much more from the sufferings of the late times yet the bare unhappiness of thinking Rationally of wishing Loyally of relieving Charitably of endeavouring to keep the peace of his Country Prudently cost him at Goldsmith-Hall where lay The Treasures of wickedness One thousand three hundred seventy two pounds deep besides the several inroads made upon his Estate and Lands by the Garrison of Glooester to which he would not Contribute freely he was forced to submit patiently And according to the method intimated in the Holy History that what the Catterpillar left the Canker-worm destroyed what Glocester left Essex his Army swallowed and what escaped them Sequestration seized RICHARD BERKLEY Esq THE elegant variety of beings in the world doth not more naturally conduce to the service of the world than the admirable diversity of mens gifts and abilities doth serve the necessities of those times and places to which they are appointed The former Gentleman was so studious that he might have been served as Vlrick Fugger was chief of the whole Family of the Fuggers in Auspurgh who was disinherited of a great Patrimony only for his studiousness and expensiveness in buying costly M. SS and yet his very thoughts and meditations served his Majesty giving great satisfaction to those that doubted and as great directions and countenance to those that managed that Cause which he called The Supporting of the government of the world This worthy personage was so active that he would say often That the greatest trouble to him was that he could not think and yet as corrected Quick-silver is very useful so his reduced quickness became very serviceable to ballance that of the Gloucester Officers who were at once the most indefatigable at home and the most troublesom abroad of any in England and never so well met with as by the vigilancy of this person who would not be surprised and his industry that could not be quiet An un-experienced Sailer would think Ballast unnecessary and Sails dangerous to a Ship and ordinary men judge so staid a man as Sir Maurice useless and so nimble a man as this Esquire not safe in great trust while wise men look on an even lay of both as the best temper but as some full word cannot be delivered of all that notion and sense with which it is pregnant without variety of expressions so this great spirit cannot be understood or made out without the large Paraphrase of such a multitude of excellent Instances as this place and method will not permit Only according to the Spanish Proverb Yr a la soga con el Calderin Where goeth the Buckle there goeth the Rope When his Master Set it was Night with him and when his Majesty laid down his life he was put to lay down for his lively-hood 0526 l. 00 00 As another of his name did 0020 00 00 though yet all these three had wherewithal to promote any Loyal Design that was offered and to relieve any Cavalier that wanted their Houses being the common Sanctuaries for distressed Loyalty whom they would see employed in a way suitable to their respective abilities and subservient to the publick design not enduring that their houses should be Hospitals or down-right begging a good Subjects calling A Husband-man pretended and made out his relation to Robert Groasthead Bishop of Lincolne and thereupon was an humble Suitor to him for an Office about him Cousin saith the Bishop to him If your Cart be broken I le mend it if your Plough old I will give you a new one But an Husband-man I found you and an Husband-man I le leave you Neither must we omit Sir ROWLAND BERKLEY of Cotheridge in the County of Worcester OF whom when he was pitched upon to manage a part of the Worcester Association we may say as Puterculus did of another Non quaerendus erat quem eligerent sed eligendus quis eminebat being a steady man that looked not at few things but saw thorow the whole Systheme of Designs and comprehended all the Aspects and Circumstances of it putting Affairs notwithstanding that they ran sometimes against his Biass by some rubs of unusual impediments into an easie and smooth course using never one counsel any more than the Lord H.
Soveraign an Argument that Religion Justice or the love of Liberty which are alwayes uniform but unworthy Interests that vary with hopes and fears had the strongest influence upon them Nay they must overcome the Parliament it by whose pretended Authority they had hitherto the City of London at whose charge they had hitherto fought and the first Leaders of the Army by whose Reputation it was first raised and by whose skill and activity it so long prospered The Kings prudence and their own jealousies combinations in crimes conclude in jealousies each party thinking the advantage of the other too great having committed and injealousied them They must Conquer Scotland and their dear Brethren and take the King off from the Presbyterians by their arts and insinuations inveighing him into the pit they had laid for him in the Isle of Wight for his escape from Hampton-Court by the withdrawing of the Centinels from their usual posts appeared to be their design they must oppose the highest reason in the world offered by the King there intent upon the settlement of the Nation for a Personal Treaty agreeable to the sense of the whole kingdom 1. By Preliminary Articles which they knew the King could not yield to and upon his refusal four Votes of No Addresses to him which they could never have compassed had they not sent half the Members away to the Country upon pretence of expediting the Contributions and tired the other half with late Sitting from ten in the morning till twelve at night and withal the Menaces of the Officers that came with Remonstrances to the House and the terror of the Army two Regiments whereof under colour of guarding but indeed for awing the Parliament were quartered at Whitehall They must endure the clamors of an undone people deluded with pretences of avoiding Tyranny into Slavery 1. For an excellent Religion broken into Schismes and Heresies 2. For Prayers and Fasts made to serve impious designs and promote prosperous crimes 3. For Liberty become an empty name the common ways of confinement being too little to secure those that would not break the Law men lingring in strange imprisonment knowing neither their crimes nor their accusers because they had not guilt enough for condemnation thousands forced to be Exiles in strange lands or Slaves at home 4. For Propriety hedged no longer by Law but become a prey to the fraud and violence of the Conspirators 5. For great Virtues become as dangerous as formerly great crimes were 6. For Converse become a snare spies in each company watching mens words and searching into their thoughts 7. For the Parliament become a Conspiracy divided in its self and enslaved to its vassals who made Laws according to their interests and executed them according to their lusts The whole Nation now better understanding their good and wise Prince the publick interest and themselves panted for a return to the obedience of the most incomparable Government and most inestimable Prince in the world Insomuch so admirable were the returns of Divine Justice at that time that the very same Convention that first stirred up this way of tumultuary Petitions against the King were now forced to complain That the honor and safety of Parliaments for so they called the poor remainder of that Assembly was indangered by Petitions They must rescinde the City Petitions and their own Votes that the Kings Concessions were a safe ground for the Parliament to settle the Peace of the kingdom on The King having granted so much as the people might see he was not as he was reported obstinate against his own happiness and the Nations peace and so gratified not his Enemies and yet so discreetly that he deserted not his Friends his wisdom tempering prudently their harsh Propositions and his Reason urging effectually his own They must cast off all obedience to their own Superiors as well as to the King and imprison the Parliament as well as the King Violate their Protestation and renounce their Solemn League and Covenant disown the Lords House and leave not above sixty of almost five hundred Members in the House of Commons In fine they must go against their own Prayers Sermons Engagements and Consciences against the very foundations of Government in the world and the sentiments of Mankind about it against the known Laws of the Land and against truths as clear as the Sun in these unheard-of Propositions I. That the People under God are the Original of all just Power II. That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament being chosen by and representing the People have the Supream Authority of this Nation III. That whatsoever is Enacted and Declared for Law by the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament hath the force of a Law IV. That all the people of this Nation are concluded thereby although the consent and concurrence of the King and Peers be not had thereunto V. That to raise Arms against the peoples Representative is Treason VI. That the King himself took Arms against the Parliament and on that account is guilty of the Bloud-shed throughout the Civil War and that he ought to expiate the Crime with his own Bloud Bold and ridiculous men That think with one breath to alter the notion of Good and Evil and to make their Usurpations just because they had the face to declare them so Qui amici veritatis esse possent sine labore ut peccent Laborant Greg. de curâ past They who might have been honest with so much ease what pains do they take to be wicked For these and many more restraints they must break through before they came at the Kings Life Towards the taking away of which they pack a Court of Iustice as they called them though it had nothing to do with Justice but that it deserved to be the object of it of such people as the Ring-leader of them O. C. called at the Table of an Independent Lord A Company of Rascals whom he knew to be so and would so serve Invested with a power to Cite Hear Iudge and punish Charles Stuart King of England Reader I know not with what temper thou readest these lines I tremble when I writ them One or two Brewers two or three Coblers many of them Mechanicks all poor Bankrupts one turned out of the House for a Rape another for writing a Blasphemous Book against the Trinity and another a known Adulterer Men so low that no lesser crime could raise them and so obnoxious there was no other way for them to hope for impunity men fitter to stand at a Bar than to sit on the Bench. These though a search was made for a number of men that could not blush at nor fear any guilt yet many of them abhorred the villany and left them others stayed with a design to disturb it went to act the murther not as other Regicides Ravillaic c. used to do privately or as they themselves used to Preach it in a
forbear to mingle their tears with his bloud All the learning then in the world expressed its own griefs and instructed those of others in most excellent Poems and impartial Histories that vindicated his honor and devulged the base arts of his enemies when their power was so dreadful that they threatned the ruin of all ingenuity as they had murthered the Patron of it While the few Assassinates that crept up and down afraid of every man they met pointed at as Monsters in nature finished not their reason when they had ended his Martyrdom One O. C. to feed his eyes with cruelty and satisfie his solicitous ambition curiously surveyed the murthered Carcass when it was brought in a Coffin to White-hall and to assure himself the King was quite dead with his fingers searched the wound whether the Head were fully severed from the Body or no. Others of them delivered his body to be Embalmed with a wicked but vain design to corrupt his Name among infamous Empericks and Chirurgions of their own who were as ready to Butcher and Assassinate his Name as their Masters were to offer violence to his Person with intimations to enquire which were as much as commands to report whether they could not find in it symptomes of the French disease or some evidences of frigidity and natural impotency but unsuccessfully for an honest and able Physician intruding among them at the Dissection by his presence and authority awed the obsequious Wretches from gratifying their opprobrious Masters declaring the Royal body tempered almost ad pondus capable of a longer life than is commonly granted to other men But since their search into his Body for calumnies were vain they run up to Gods Decrees and there found that he was rejected of God and because his Raign was unhappy they concluded that his person was reprobated And when they had indeavoured to race him out of Gods Book of Life and consequently out of the hearts of his People the vain men pull down his Statue both at the West End of Saint Pauls and at the Exchange in the last of which places they plaistered an Inscription which men looked on then as false and Providence hath rendred since ridiculous Exit Tyrannus Regum ultimus Fond Rebels that thought to use the weighty words of the reverend Dr. Pirrinchief to destroy the memory of that Prince whose true and lasting glory consisted not in any thing wherein it was possible for successors to shew the power of their malice but in a Solid Vertue which flourisheth by age and whose fame gathereth strength by multitude of years when Statues and Monuments are obnoxious to the flames of a violent envy and the ruins of time But he had a Monument beyond Marble his Papers with the Bishop of London and others and his Incomparable Book of Meditations and Sollioquies Those Repositories of piety and wisdom which first they suppressed envying the benefit of mankind and when the more they hindered the publication of the Royal Peices the more they were sought after They would have robbed his Majesty of the honor of being the Author of them knowing they should be odious to all posterity for murthering the Prince that composed a Book of so Incredible Prudence Ardent Piety and Majestick and Truly Royal Stile Those parts of it which consisted of Addresses to God corresponded so nearly in the occasions and were so full of the Piety and Elogancies of Davids Psalms that they seemed to be dictated by the same spirit The ridiculous President in his Examination of Mr. Royston who Printed it asked him How he could think so bad a Man for such would that Monster have this excellent Prince thought to be could write so good a Book But these attempts were as contemptible as themselves were odious the faith of the world in this point being secured 1. By the unimitably exact Stile not to be expressed any more than Ioves thunder but by the Royal Author 2. By those Letters of his which they published of the same periods with these Meditations they suppressed 3. By Colonel Hammonds testimony who heard the King Read them and saw him Correct them 4. By the Arch-bishop of Armaghs evidence who had received commands from the King to get some of them out of the hands of the Faction who had taken them in his Cabinet at Naseby Besides Mr. Roystons command sent him from the King to provide a Press for some Papers he should send to him which were these together with a design for a Picture before the Book which at first was three Crowns indented on a Wreath of Thorns but afterwards the King re-called that and sent that other which is now before the Book This was the vile employment of villains while all that was virtuous in the Nation honored the memory of that good Prince who like the being he represented the more he was understood the more he was admired and loved leaving great examples behind him that will be wondered at eastier than imitated Particularly the Duke of Richmond the Marquiss of Hertford the Earls of Southampton and Lindsey and the Lord Bishop of London obtained an order to Bury his Corps which four of his Servants Herbert Mildmay Preston and Ioyner with others in a Mourning Equipage had carried to Windsor provided that the expenses exceeded not 500 l. which they did in St. George his Chappel in a Vault discovered them by an honest old Knight they disdaining the ordinary grave the Governor had provided in the body of the Church with Henry the Eighth and Iane Scymour his Wife whose Coffins those were supposed to be that were found there the Officers of the Garrison carrying the Herse and the four Lords bearing up the Corners of the Velvet-pall and my Lord of London following Feb. 9. about three in the afternoon silently and sorrowfully and without any other solemnity than sighs and tears the Governor refusing the use of the Common Prayer though included in their order Because he thought the Parliament as he called them would not allow the use of that by Order which they had abolished by Ordinance Whereunto the Lords answered but with no success That there was a difference between destroying their own Act and dispensing with it and that no power so binds its own hands as to disable its self in some cases Committing the great King to the earth with the Velvet Pall over the Coffin to which was fastned an Inscription in Lead of these words KING CHARLES 1648. Besides which he hath in the hearts of men such Inscriptions as these are 1. The excellent Romans Character given him by Dr. Perrinchief Homo virtuti simillimus per omnia Ingenio diis quam hominibus proprior qui nunquam recte fecit ut recte facere videretur sed quia aliter facere non poterat cuique id solum visum est habere rationem quod haberet Iustitiam omnibus humanis vitiis Immunis semper in potestate sua
but understand the truth in this point as it was declared by the Laws either of God or Men truly It restrained the people that they might not be debauched from their Christian sobriety to Heathenish loosness but practise their duty on this day as it was taught by the Laws of God and Men orderly 20. His next Charge is his preferring of 1. The great Scholar Critick and Antiquary Dr. Mountague though it was Sir Dudley Carleton that preferred him 2. The profound Divine and honest man Dr. Iackson 3. Charitable Meek and Learned Dr. Christopher Potter 4. Acute Pious and Rationable Bishop Chapple 5. Pious Publick-spirited and Learned Dr. Cosins preferred indeed by the Arch-bishop of York 6. The very Learned and Industrious Bishop Lindsey deservedly preferred indeed by Bishop Neile 7. The worthy A. B. Neile who was so far from being preferred by my Lord of Canterbury that in truth my Lord of G. was advanced by him 8. The smart discreet and understanding man Bishop Wren Chaplain to Bishop Andrews 9. He is charged with the Incouragements he gave Dr. Heylm who was raised by the Earl of Denby Dr. Baker Bray Weekes Pocklington who were recommended by the Bishop of London c. 10. It is reckoned his fault that he interposed with His Majesty for such worthy men as Bishop Vsher recommended to him in Ireland and that upon a difference between the Lord Keeper and the Master of the Wards about Livings in the Kings Gift he moved the King to remove the occasion of those differences by presenting to him immediately himself and that if he recommended a worthy man to the King as Chaplain he trespassed upon my Lord Chamberlains Office 21. Some hundred Books are produced out of which some indiscreet passages had been expunged by Dr. Heywood Dr. Baker Dr. Weekes Dr. Oliver c. and these purgations are laid upon him and because the forementioned Gentleman suffered not bitter expressions that tended to the raising of old and legally silenced Controversies to pass the press as the expressions of the Church of England the Arch-bishop must come to the Block as an enemy of the Church of England 22. Because a Jesuite contrived a Letter wherein Arminianism is said to be planted in England to usher in Popery therefore the Arch-bishop preferring some worthy men who were of the same minde with Arminians had a design to introduce Popery 23. The High Commission called in many Books and punished Authors Printers or Booksellers and the poor Arch-bishop therefore indeavored the subversion of the Government 24. The Kings Declaration to silence the Controversies of the Church and his care to check those that endeavored to renew them The King and Councels Order at Woodstock about the tumult 1633. at Oxford the Kings perswading of Bishop Davenant and Bishop Hall to leave out some passages in their writings that might disturb the Peace and imprisoning their Printer for daring after they were purged to insert them in His Majesties approving Bishop Harsenets considerations about the Controversies and sending them to every Bishop and his Deputies reversing the Articles in Ireland make up his 21 th Charge 25. The Star-Chamber Order Iuly 1. 1637. about Printing whereby the Geneva Bibles were prohibited here and by Sir William Boswell suppressed in Holland Mr. Gellibrands new Almanack in Mr. Foxes his way burned Beacon Palsgraves Religion c. and other Books against the Kings Declaration for laying down Controversies stifled through the actions of other men must be this good mans fault 26. If Popish Books crept in either by imposing on his Chaplains or being printed without license though innocent ones too he must be guilty of a design against the Protestant Religion 27. The Kings Command to him to alter the form of Prayer for the fifth of November Dr. Potters request to him to review his Book called Charity mistaken must be another branch of his Charge as was his Majesties Order about sending the Common-Prayer upon D. H. request The Scottish alterations of it another the Bishops Chaplains presuming to alter the least Syllable in a conceited Authors Work a third The Importation of unlawful books by stealth against his will and without his knowledge a fourth Considerations about Lectures written by Bishop Harsenet and sent to every Diocesse by Arch-bishop Abbot a fifthâ— Attorney General Noy's suppressing the Puritane Corporation foâ— buying in of Impropriations as illegal and dangerous a sixth The alteration of the Letters Patents for the Palatinate Collection by the Kings Order who would not have such expressions pass the Great Seal as determined some Controversies as that the Pope was Antichrist which neither the Schools nor the Church had decided a seventh His very favourable dealing with the Walloon the French and Dutch Church for which they thanked him upon some incroachments of theirs upon the Parishes where they lived an eighth 28. 1. The Jesuits whispering into the ears of some fond people to raise suspicions of him and so oppositions against him which was the sum of Sir H. M. Mr. A. M. and Mr. Ch. hear-says of him produced at the Bar. 2. Rumors raised upon him because of his acquaintance with one Louder Brown and Ireland reputed Papists because his supposition in Oxford concurred in some things with Bellarmine where Bellarmine himself concurred with the Primitive times 3. Because Bishop Hall writ a Letter to one W. L. not to halt between two Religions 4. Because a Doctor in the University preached against those who were severe against the Puritans the then predominant Faction and moderate against the Catholicks at that time kept under and that he was pointed at by the University as one of those discreet men which indeed moved him but yet so that in a business of that kinde he thought fit in a Letter to Bishop Neal to be swaged to a patient course The Treaty for the Spanish Match which began before he was so much as Bishop and ended before he was Privy-Counsel the Duke of B. breaking it off to the great contentment of the Kingdom as appeared by the Parliaments thanks to him 1624. with whom he is accused to be so familiar and the Treaty with France which was managed with the Parliaments approbation His civilities to the Queens Majesty which was his duty and to win upon her his prudence His dislike of some scandalous passages in some mens prayers to her disparagement The Preface to the Oxford Statutes not written by him wherein Queen Maries days are extolled beyond Queen Elizabeths not for the state of our Church and Religion but for the Laws and Government of the University The printing of Sancta Clarae's book at Lyons and the maintaining of St. Giles by the King against the Archbishops will at Oxford The increase of Papists and Popery in Ireland without his privity The Lord Deputy Wentworths actions in Ireland not within his power The Queens sending Agents to Rome and receiving Nuncio's from thence against his advice
health and opportunity to wait upon the King And here give me leave I humbly beseech you to tell your Lordships that this was no new conceit of his Majesty to have a Lyturgy framed and Canons made for the Church of Scotland For he followed the example and care in the business of his Royal Father King Iames of blessed memory who took Order for both at the Assembly held at Perth Anno 1618. As appears in the Acts of that General Assembly and the Sermon which the late Reverend Arch Bishop of St. Andrews preached before it pag. 40. 68. When I was able to go abroad and came to his Majesty I represented all that passed His Majesty avoided the sending of Dr. Maxwell to me and the business but then agreed to my opinion to have the English without alteration And in this case I held the business for two if not three years at least Afterwards the Scottish Bishops still pressing his Majesty that a Lyturgie made by themselves and in some things different from the English Service would relish better with their Country-men they prevailed with his Majesty at last to have it so notwithstanding all I could say or do to the contrary Then his Majesty commanded me to give the Bishops of Scotland the best assistance I could in this way work I delayed as much as I could with my Obedience When nothing would serve but it must go on I did not only acquaint his Majesty with it but writ down most of the amendment or alterations in his Majesties presence And do hope there is no one thing in that Book which may not stand with the Conscience of a right good Protestant Sure I am his Majesty approved them all and I have his warrant under his Royal hand for all that I did about that Book As for the way of introducing it I ever advised the Bishops both in his Majesties presence and at other times that they would look carefully to it and be sure to do nothing in any kinde but what should be agreeable to the Laws of that kingdom And that they should at all times as they saw cause be sure to take the advice of the Lords of his Majesties Council in that Kingdom and govern themselves accordingly Which course if they have not followed that can no way as I conceive reflect upon me And I am able to prove by other particulars as well as this that for any thing concerning that Nation I have been as careful their Laws might be observed as any man that is a stranger to them might be To the grand Charge his endeavor to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome which certainly is a noble design or a plot to introduce Popery he made this general defence Sept. 2. 1644. My Lords I Am charged for endeavouring to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome I shall recite the sum of the Evidence and Arguments given in for to prove it First I have in my first Speech nominated divers persons of Eminency whom I reduced from Popery to our Church And if this be so then the Argument against me is this I converted many from Popery Ergo I went about to bring in Popery and to reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome Secondly I am charged to be the Author of the c. Oath in the New Canons parcel of which Oath is to abjure Popery and that I will not subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome A more strict Oath then ever was made against Popery in any Age or Church And then the agreement against me is this I made and took an Oath to abjure Popery and not to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome therefore I was inclinable to Popery and endeavoured to subject the Church of England to the Church of Rome Thirdly The third Canon of the late New ones was made by me which is against Popery and then the Argument is I made a Canon against Popery Ergo I was inclinable to and endeavoured to introduce it Fourthly I was twice seriously offered a Cardinalship and I refused it because I would not be subject to the Pope and Church of Rome Ergo I was addicted to Popery and endeavoured to reduce the Church of England into subjection to the Church of Rome Fifthly I writ a Book against Popery in Answer to Fisher the Jesuit and then the Argument is this I writ a Book against Popery Ergo I am inclinable to Popery and laboured to introduce it Sixthly It is alledged I concealed and cherished the Plot of the Jesuits discovered by Habernfield and therefore I intended to bring in Popery and reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome I answer either this Plot was not real and if so then Romes Masterpiece is quite blown up and published in vain Or else it was real and then I was really in danger of my life for opposing Popery and this Plot. Then the Argument from it must be this I was in danger of my life for cherishing the Jesuits Plot of reducing the Church of England to the Church of Rome Ergo I cherished and endeavoured to effect this Plot. Seventhly I laboured to make a reconciliation between the Lutherans and Calvinists Ergo I laboured to introduce Popery and make a reconciliation between the Church of England and the Church of Rome These were his general Defences besides his particular Answers to each Article of his Charge consisting of near nine hundred and designed to make up in number what they wanted that the good Prelate might sink under a Cumulative Impeachment as his good friend L. L. I. did under a Cumulative Treason so Accurate so Pertinent so Acute so Full so Clear so Quick and so Satisfactory and well Accommodated ad homines as argued he had great abilities beyond expectation A Clear Understanding above distractions a Magnanimous Spirit out of the reach of misfortunes a Firm Memory proof against the infirmities of this age and the injuries of the times a Knowledge grasping most things and their circumstances and a Prudence able to put them together to the most advantage and in fine a Soul high and serene above his afflictions and what was more the sence of them his passions too like Moses he that was quick and zealous in Gods and the Kings cause was most meek and patient in his own mastering himself first and so if there had been any place for reason overcoming even his adversaries Had not they injured him so much that they thought themselves not safe unless they did injure him more and secure themselves from the guilt of their Libels Tumults Imprisonments and Impeachments by the more dreadful one of his Death So men are robbed first of their Goods and upon second thoughts lest they should complain and retaliate of their Lives And indeed he could not expect there should be a great distance between his Prison and
the way of an active conformity to the Church is to crack the sinews of Government for it weakens the hands and damps the spirit of the obedient And if only scorn and rebuke shall attend men for asserting the Churches dignity many will chuse rather to neglect their duty in the Churches service only to be rewarded with that that shall break their hearts too That very little he had got in the time of peace he lost in the time of war their practices and designs had been a long time the subject of his smart reproofs and his estate now become a prey to their revenge To see the good man escape them in his Clarks habit that had been certainly murthered in his own when it was safe to be any thing but a Minister and withal to hear the chearful man smile out his old Motto I have as much as I desire if I have as much as I want and I have as much as the most if I have as much as I desire 'T was a spectacle that had melted any spirit but that in which the custom of cruelty had taken away the conscience of it whom yet he was very tender of according to his usual Maxim Nature may induce me to shew so much care of my self as to look to my adversaries reason shall perswade me to shew so much wit as to beware of those that deceived me once but Religion hath taught me so much love as to be injurious to none For estate Abundance he thought a trouble want a misery honor a burthen business a scorn advancement dangerous disgrace odious but competency a happiness I will not climb lest I fall nor lye on the ground lest I am trod on He for carriage He did so much forâ— think what he would promise that he might promise only what he would do that he would often do a kindness and not promise it and never promise a kindness and not to do it In Religion His heart spake more devoutly than his tongue when as too many peoples tongues speak more piously than their hearts The good man hath oftentimes God in his heart when in his mouth there is no good mentioned The Hypocrite hath God often in his mouth when the fool hath said in his heart there is no God The tongue speaks loudest to men the heart truest to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Its pity to part intimate Friends the one dying under the sense the other under the fear of this Nations Calamity THE Life and Death OF Dr. JOHN BARKHAM JOhn Barkham that said he had lived under a good Government and was afraid to live any longer lest he should see none at all was born in the City of Exeter bred in Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford whereof he was Fellow Chaplain afterwards to Archbishop Bancroft and Parson of Bocking in Essex Much his Modesty and no less his Learning who though never the publick Parent of any was the careful Nurse of many Books who otherwise had expired in their Infancy had not his care preserved them He set forth Dr. Crackenthorp his Posthume Book against Spalato and was helpful to Iohn Speed in the composing of his English History â—ea he wrote the whole Life of the Reign of King Iohn which 〈◊〉 â—he King of all the Reigns in that Book for profound Penning discoverable from the rest of the different style and much Scripture cited therein Mr. Guillim in his Heraldry was much beholden to this Doctors Emendations He was a greater lover of Coyn than of Money rather curious in the Stamps than covetous for the Mettal thereof That excellent Collection in Oxford Library was his gift to the Arch-bishop before the Archbishop gave it to the University richer in M. SS than Printed Books and richer in the skill he had by the phrase and Character to fill up the defects and guess at the meaning of a Moth-eaten Record than in the possession of the Paper when the Factious were admitted to look upon his Rarities they did him the kindness to supect him of his Religion thinking that the rust of his old Inscriptions cankered his Soul with as old Superstition When it is in the study of Antiquity as it is in that of Phylosophy a little skill in either of them inclines men to Atheism or Heresie but a depth of either study brings them about to their Religion When both extreams as he called them to the virtue of the Church of England the Partizans of Rome and Geneva the men of the old Doctrine and the new Discipline met with any little remnant of Antiquity that made for them they ran to him with it and he would please himself infinitely with a story which hath been since his death Printed the story was this A Nobleman who had heard of the extream age of one dwelling not far off made a journey to visit him and finding an aged person in the the Chymney corner addressed himself to him with admiration of his age till his mistake was rectified so Oh Sir said the young old man I am not he whom you seek for but his Son my Father is further off in the Field They mistaking middle Antiquity for Primitive History wherein he was so versed that he had not the Fathers books only but their hearts not their History only but their Piety So strict in his life that he went among Fathers himself being observed as much a rule to others as they were to him Skilled he was in many Tongues and yet a man of a single heart When God made him rich he made not himself by coveteousness poor and if God had made him poor he could have made himself by contentment rich Bishop Vsher and he had one useful quality above many others that they understood men better than they did themselves and so employed men that could not tell what to do with themselves upon what was most suitable to them and most profitable to the publick having Dr. Iames his motion much upon their spirits that all the Manuscripts of England should be collected and compared A design that would have proved very beneficial to the Protestant considering how many M. SS England hath still notwithstanding her loss at the dissolution of Monasteries if prosecuted with as great indeavor as it was proposed with good intention You would think you were at St. Augustine and St. Cyprians House when you saw the poor at the Doctors doors the Neighbors welcome at his Table young Scholars in his Study Bibles and other godly books in each room of his house the Servants and all the Houshold so used to Psalms and Chapters that they spoke familiarly the holy Language the hours of Devotion and Instruction constantly observed the people being at all the returns of duty in Gods service to forget their own business though in their own business they never forgot Gods service When you saw a man making the errors of men the subject of his grief not of his discourse so prudently
quem non reperit argutum facit THE Life and Death OF HENRY HAMOND D. D. WHEN Doctor Henry Hamond was born Aug. 18. 1605. at Chersey in Surrey a place equally indeared to the pious but unfortunate King Henry VI. for bestowing on him a charitable Burial and to the excellent but not understood King Charles I. for giving this man a seasonable birth the hopeful circumstances of his relations promised as much in his Infancy as the eminent passages of his life performed in his Manhood Son he was to Dr. Iohn Hamond that exact Critick Grandchild to Dr. Alexander Nowel that reverend Divine God-son to Prince Henry that great Spirit To Eaton he was sent in his Long-coats initiated in Latine Greek yea and Hebrew too Languages that seemed to be his Mother tongue so early were they rather infused to him than acquired by him by his Fathers care and to Magdalen Colledge in Oxford at thirteen by Mr. Allens assistance his good friend and Mr. Bush his diligence his excellent School-master Here they that taught him Philosophy were not ashamed to learn of him the Tongues especially the Hebrew so rare a Quality in that age that at first admission as he had no less than eight Batchellors his Schollars for Greek so he entertained four Masters his Pupills for Hebrew wherein as in the whole Circle of Learning that though his Father and in him all his Interest dyed yet his own merit recommended him at once to the honor and advantage of Demy in that Colledge at fourteen years of age of Fellow at nineteen of Natural Philosophy-Reader at twenty and the Orator at Dr. Langtons Funeral at twenty two Having taken his Degree the ordinary method of those times had preposted his soul and ennarrowed his spirit by the contrived and interested systems of modern and withall obnoxous Authors but that his larger Genius and second thoughts prompted his great soul to a study equal with its self that took in all humane and sacred Learning from the clearest and most dis-interested sources of both wherein he gave on all the occasions his fifteen years continuance in the University offered him such pregnant Specimens of a vast proficiency as might be expected from that indefatigable man that constantly studyed twelve hours a day and left Notes and Indexes at the beginning and end of each Book upon almost all the Classick Authors extant This industry and this eminence could not in those days wherein Religion and Learning were at their fatal heighth both of perfection and encouragement escape either observation or preferment therefore being ordained at twenty four viz. 1629. and Batchelor of Divinity at twenty six viz. 1631. and regularly both in conformity as well to the Statutes of the House as to the Canons of the Church Anno 1633. he Preached Dr. Frewens Course the President of his Colledge since Lord Archbishop of York at Court with that success that with the Right Honorable the Earl of Leicesters favour then his Hearer he was upon an honest resignation of his Fellowship inducted Aug. 22. of that year to Pensehurst as not long after by the Reverend Father in God Brian Lord Bishop of Chichester then and since of Salisbury and Winchester he was dignified at Chichester His Preferments were not so suitable to his Desert as his Carriage was to his Preferment For When Rector of Pensehurst His Sermons were not undigested and shallow effusions but rational and just discourses his method was which he recommended to his Friends after every Sermon to resolve upon the ensuing subject and so pursue the course of study he was then in hand with reserving the close of the week for the Provision of the next Lords-day whereby not only a constant progress was made in Science but materials unawares were gained unto the immediate future work for he said be the subject treated of never so distant somewhat will infallibly fall in conducible to the present purpose but preaching being the least part of Religion Prayer and Devotion that power of Godliness was observed by himself and his Family guided by his good and prudent Mother publickly and privately every day according to the strictest rules of the Church for the assistance wherein he allowed a Curate a comfortable Salary His Administration of the Sacrament was as of old frequent and monethly wherein the Assertors was by his instruction and example restored to that repute as it not only relieved the aged and apprentised the young poor of Penshurst but afforded a surplusage to the necessities of Neighbor Parishes But that his other cares might be the more successful he brought an able School-master into the Town and the Church Catechism into the Church which with his half hours exposition before Evening Prayer he rendred so fully intelligible to the meanest capacity that he observed the older as well as the younger hearers reaped more benefit than from his Sermons Yet a Ministers converse must enforce his Doctrine and the endearing of his Person must recommend his instruction very Hospitable he was at all times especially those more solemn at his Table very charitable at his door besides the tenth of his Estate set apart for the poor in weekly Pensions and his Corn sold them below Market prices which though as he said he had reason to do it gaining thereby the charge of Portage was a great benefit to them who besides the abatement of price and possibly forbearance saved thereby a days work Very civil he was in letting his Tythes whereof one memorable instance in this Having let the tythe of a large Meadow and received half the Money at the beginning of the year the meadow was drowned and when the Tenant offered the payment he generously returned him the first with this Noble reflexion God forbid I should take the tenth where you have not the nine parts Very punctual he was in visiting the sick whose request he prevented in his addresses both in person and by writing taking as he would say the opportunity of that serious time to instill the most serious instruction but withall intimating the folly of remitting the great business of eternity to the last hour which God designed for the commensurate employment of the life so much Charity exercised among his Neighbors taught them that love among themselves that no difference there in his time went beyond his mediation and that kindness for him who had the rare happiness obliging both parties that as long as he was there he had never any trouble for his Dues and when forced thence no care for his Books and Estate which when plundred were redeemed and reserved for him by his Neighbors to the end of the War When Arch-Deacon so frequent were his publick Sermons at the Cross and elsewhere so earnest and pathetick his Discourses for obedience and union which his zeal and prudence charged as the Interest of the Clergy who saw
Charms especially since in both it it seems the Patients observed the like Magical times and washings Whereupon the Gentleman surprized and disavowing that learning referred him to their Divines the most eminent whereof was Costerus who having invited him to the Colledge at the Gate whereof the party saluted him with a Deo gratias lost time in a designed discourse of the unity of the Church out of which no Salvation till he satisfied him he came not thither with any doubt of his own Profession but for the same of his Learning and a particular account of the aforesaid Miracles in order to which a weak discourse of Divine and Diabolical Miracles a cholerick invective against our Church for want of Miracles with many other incident particulars which Mr. Hall modestly yet effectually refuted that Father Baldwyn who sate at the end of the Table as sorry a Gentleman of his Country for all the while he was accosted agreeably to his Habit with a Dominatio Vestra should depart without further satisfaction offered him another Conference next morning which upon Sir Edmund Bacons intimation of the danger of it he excused as bootlesse both sides being so throughly settled Thence not without a great deliverance from Free-booters a suspicious Convoy and Night they passed by the way of Naumaurs and Leige to the Spaw where finishing a second part of Meditations to the first he had published just upon his travels in his return up the Mosa reconciling our reverent posture at the Eucharist to our denial of Transubstantiation and answering some furious Invectives against our Church with an intimation of the Lawsâ— disabling him to return upon theirs He incensed a Sorbonist Prior so far that Sir Edmund Bacon winked upon him to withdraw and in his way to Brussels describing our Churches and Baptism to some Italians who thought we had neither in elegant Latine bewrayed him so well that he was charged as a Spy until he told them he was only an attendant of Sir Edmund Bacon Grand-child to the famous Lord Chacellor of that name in England travelling under the Protection of our late Embassador whom he waited on not without danger at Antwerp upon a Procession-day had not a tall Brabanter shadowed him along the fair River Schield by Vlushing where the curiosity of visiting an ancient Colleague at Middleburgh parted him from his Company whom the Tide would not stay for and stayed him in a long expectation of an inconvenient and tempestuous passage But ten pounds of his small maintenance being detained a year and a half after his useful extravagancies he arose suddenly out of Bed and went to London upon the Overture of a Preachers place at St. Edmunds-bury to perswade his Patron to reason who complemented him out of so ungainful a change and commending his Sermon at London to my Lord Denny who had a great kindness for him for those little Books sake he writ as he said to buy Books wished him to wait upon him as he did when upon Mr. Gurney the Earl of Essex his Tutors motion he had preached so successefully the Sunday at the Princes Court where his meditations were veryacceptable and on the Tuesday following by the Princes order that he gave him his hand and commanded him his service and when his Patron who knowing he would be taken up wished him now at home gave him an harsh answer about Ministers rate of Competencies with welcome and terms as noble as the mover for the acceptance of Waltham wherein and the Princes service he setled himself with much comfort and no less respect his Highness by his Governor Sir Thomas Challoner offering him honorable Preferment for constant residence at Court and his Lord no less advantagious for his stay at Waltham where his little Catechism did much good his three exactly Penned Sermons a week more and his select prayer without which he never performed any exercise from the thirteenth year of his age to his daying day most of all During the two and twenty years he continued at Waltham four eminent Services he went through 1. The recovery of Wolverhampton Church to which belonged a Dean and eight Prebendaries swallowed up by a wilful Recusant in a pretended Fee-farm for ever where being collated Prebend by the Dean of Windsor upon his Masters Letters he discovered counterfeited Seals Rasures Interpolations and Misdates of unjustifiable evidence whereupon the Lord Elmrere awarded the Estate to the Church until revicted by Common-Law the Adversary Sir Walter Leveson offered him 40 l. per annum A special Verdict at Kings-Bench being declared for them upon the renewal of the Suit his Colleague in whose name it ran being dead the Fore-man of the Jury who vowed to carry it for Sir Walter the very day before the tryal fell mad His Majesty having upon his Petition prevented the Projectors of concealment which a word that fell from Sir Walter intimated Sir Walter offered first to cast up his Fee-farm for a Lease Secondly to make each Prebends place 30 l. per annum which Composition being furthered by Spalato and only deferred by two scrupulous Prebends till Sir Walters death the Lord Treasurer confirmed only with some abatement in consideration of the Orphans condition and the Prebend resigned by the publick-spirited Doctor resigned to one Mr. Lee who should reside there and instruct that great and long neglected people 2. The attendance in my Lord Viscount Doncaster afterward the Earl of Carlisles most splendid Embassie in France whence returning with much ado after a hard journey by Land in Company with his dear Du Moulin and an harder by Sea he was collated to the Long-promised Deanery of Worcester which yet the excellent Dr. Field Dean of Glocester was so sure of in the Doctors absence that he had brought Furniture for that spacious house 3. His Majesties service in Scotland which he performed with that applause for his Demeanor and Doctrine from Priests and people that at his return with the Earl of Carlisle before the King upon supposition that the Country Divines would supply the Stage-courses some envious persons suggested to his Majesty his compliance with that prejudicate people whereupon he was after a gracious acknowledgement of his service called to a mild account his Royal Master not more freely professing what informations had been given against him than his own full satisfaction with his sincere and just answer as whose excellent wisdom well saw that such winning carriage of his could be no hindrance to his great designs and required him to declare his judgment in the five points in answer to a Letter of Mr. W. Strouther of Scotland that the King understood was privately sent to him which was read in the Universities of that Nation with effects there and approbation from his Majesty beyond his hopes 4. The reason why those five points becoming troublesome and dangerous in the Low-Countries his Majesty advising and furnishing a Synod there sent
Persons of Quality as the Sons of the Earl of Lindsey the Lord Fairfax whose Son Sir Charles was his Gentleman-Usher desired to be admitted for Education 13. His Industry so great as if his labours were as it is said of his Kinsman Arch-bishop Morton his Recreation and his Motto Severus his who died at York where this Bishop was born Laboremus or Iulius Maximinus Quo major eo laboriosior 14. His Acquaintance the most grave and learned men of our own and forreign Churches Spanhemius Rivet Willius c. 15. His Retainers and Chaplains the most Eminent men in either University and Bishop Brownrig was one of them made by him Arch-deacon of Coventry and Prebendary of Durham the last of which preferments he held in Commendam with his Bishoprick till he died 16. His aptness to teach by every thing he did like Socrates whom he resembled in another particular in that he usually confuted his Adversaries always out of something they granted 17. His Converts Bishop Crofts of Hereford the Lady Cholmeley Dr. Swinborne Mr. Theoph. Higgens and twelve eminent Papists more 18. His Small Stature actuated by a great spirit 19. His affable virtues and parts 20. His extraordinary though secret mortification all which virtues and performances rendred him a Saint in his life a Doctor in his works a Confessor in his sufferings and a Martyr in his charity in visiting persons Sick of the Plague who being buried in Saint Peters Eâ—ston-mauduit hath this Monument In Memoria Sacra hic vivit usque usque vivat exiguum etiam illud quod mortale fuit viri pietate literis hospitalitatâ— eleemosinis Celeberrimi Reverendi in Christo patris ac Domini Thomae Dunelmensis Episcopi Eoque nomine Comitis Palatini Clara Mortonorum familia Oriundione Quem Richardo peperit Elizabetha Leâ—dale Sexto de 19. puerperiâ— Eboraci in lucem Editum Quem Col. Sancti Joh. Evangelistae in Acad. Cant. Alumnum fovit Instructissimum socium Ambivit selectissimuâ— Benefactorem sensit munificentissimum ornamentum celebrabit perpetuo singulare Marstonienis Alesfordiensis Stopfordiensis Rectorem sedulum Eboracensis Canonicum Pium  Quem Ecelesia Glocestrensis Wintoniensis Decanum Providum  Cestrensis Leich Covent Dunelmensis  Praesulem vigilantem   Habuere Qui post plurimos pro sancta Ecclesia Catholica Exantlatos Labores Elucubrata volumina toleratas afflictiones Diuturna heu nimium Ecclesiae procella hinc inde Iact at us huc demum Appulsus bonis exutus omnibus bona preterquam fama conscientia tandem etiam corpore senex Caelebs hic Requiescit in Domino Felicem praestolans Râ—surrectionem Quam suo demum tempore bonus debit Deus Amen Nullo non dignus Elogio Eo vero dignior quod nullo se dignum existimaverit Obiit Crastinâ— S. Mathaei Salutis 1659. Sepultus Festo S. Michaelis Anno Aetatis 95. Episcopatus 44. THE Life and Death OF Dr. THOMAS COMBER Dean of Carlisle DOctor Thomas Comber Son of Comber Clarenciaux King of Armes was born at Shermanbury in Sussex on New-years-day and Baptized on the day of Epiphany 1575. the twelfth Child of his Father as Bellarmine Baronius Scultetus and many eminent men were who were the vigorous off-spring of their decayed Parents His first Education was at Horsham in the same County under a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who studying his meek but active temper as much as he did his Books rather mildly led than severely drive him to whom a frown was as bad as correction and a correction as bad as death whose great industry and happy memory taking in all the learning instilled into him and retaining all he had taken in twice reading sufficing him to gain any piece of an Author at eight years of age furnished him with so much skill in Greek and Latine Poetry History and Oratory as with Mr. Titchburns his exemplary Tutors improvement of him in Hebrew Syriack Arabick besides Logick Ethicks and a smattering in the Mathematicks recommended him after three years continuance in Trinity Colledge Cambridge where he was admitted to Dr. Nevill then intent upon planting a good Nursery in that Colledge knowing that learning propagates by example and one good Scholar begets another as one lights his Candle at the Candle of his Neighbour to be Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Foundation Where his proficiency was the effect 1. Of St. Bernards method which was written upon many of his Books ut Legeret Intelligendi fecit cupidites ut Intelligeret oratio Impetravit ut Impetraret quid nisi vitae sanct it as promeruit sic cupiat sic orat sic vivat qui se proficere desiderat 2. The industry he commended to others in these Instructions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shun Idleness as the common sewer that takes in all temptation employ your selves well or you will be employed ill 3. And the good example of other Students and he would use often that of Seneca magnum est quod a sapiente viâ—o vel tacente proficias and the accomplished man now dexterous in Hebrew Arabick Coptick Samaritane Syriack Chaldee Persian Greek Latine French Spanish and Italian and well versed in the Greek and Latine Fathers Schoolmen Councels and Modern Writers Great Abilities very much sweetned by his great Modesty and Humility appeared first an exellent Tutor bringing up his Pupils rather as Friends and Companions than Scholars stealing his vast Learning to them by Discourse and Converse rather than inculcating it by Set-Lectures and training them up to vertue and knowledge by his example more effectually than others did by Precepts giving this reason for it afterwards to other Tutors That young men admitted to the Company of those that were their Seniors would be decoyed into excellency being ashamed to speak or do any thing below the Company they kept And then a melting Preacher preaching as much by his silent and grave Gesture composed to a smiling sweetness as by his learned and honest Sermons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After that having filled his own Country with his hopes and name he travelled three years secured from the Vices of foraign Nations by his chast gravity and sage prudence and very capable of their vertues by exact Observations and good Company being all the while he was in France at the house of the Judicious Learned and Religious Mounsieur Moulin the Buckler of the Protestant profession Frequent Disputes at which he was so much of Chrysippus his faculty in disputando pressus concisus subactus that he was imployed at the command of our late famous King to Dispute at St. Andrews in Scotland in publick with the Divines there who admired him much for his solid quickness and various Learning Holy Conference the fruit whereof was the conversion of several Jews the good effect of Oriental Learning and particularly one Bardesius by name whom he convinced that it was impossible to maintain the truth of the Old
book De Art◠Poetica giving exact rules for composition but composing well himself his invention keeping pace with his judgment giving this rule to young Preachers whereof he bred as many under him in the Church as he did Scholars in the University that they should write exactly till they attained to a stile when young which they might be Masters of in their age a grave man whose looks were a Sermon and affable withall carrying it within his jurisdiction as God doth in the world with Reverence and Love in somuch that the Right Honorable the Lord of Bridge-Waters Father who left it to him to provide Chaplains to his House and Tutors to his Children would say it did him good to see him within his House Such a Pattern of Charity himself and so good a Preacher of it that he was with Chrysostom called the poor mans Preacher Sequestred Plundred and Imprisoned in Ely House where he preached so comfortably as if to use Mr. Noyes words of another He knew the mind of God And being thence I think upon exchange dismissed to Oxford he Preached there so seasonably that King Charles would say of him and some others there That they were sent of God to set those distracted times in their Wits by the Sobriety of their Doctrines and the becomingness of their good behaviour M. S. Dom. Gul. Fuller S. Th. D. Ecclesiae Sancti AEgidii extra Cripplegate Vicarii Ecclesiae prim◠Eliensiis postea Dunelmensiis Decani Regibus Serenissimis Jacobo Carolo primo Sacellani Viri Doctrina Prudentia Pietate morumque gravitate Clarissimi Ob fidem in principem constantiam in vera Religione Bonis perituris spoliatus AEternis in Caelo fruitur Tandem sepultura Iuxtaritus Ecclesiae per barbariem Pseudovicarii Ingratitudinem eorum Inter quos ut Lucern◠ardens seipsum consumpserat Negata Requiem quam in propria Ecclesia habere non potuit Heic Invenit Natus Hadleiae in Suffolcia Renatus ipso die ascensionis Dominicae Anno Domini MDCLIX Aetatis suae LXXIX M. P. Jana silia Vxor Briani Episcopi Cestrensis Old Ephraim Pagit of St. Edmund Lumbardstreet that in his Haerescography discovered so much of the errors of the times that he could not quietly injoy his Living and his Conscience one so well skilled in Physiognomy that he never looked on Iretons face but with tears as Iulius Scaliger never saw his Infant son Audectus but with grief as sorrow struck with some sad Sign of ill success he saw in his face though some say That cannot be read in mens faces which was never written there and that he that seeks to finde the disposition of mens souls in the figure of their bodies looks for letters on the backside of the book His Sermons were as pleasant as profitable tickling his Auditors to good and making a bait of pleasure Dr. Childerley of St. Dunstans in the East so aged that being past Preaching for thirty years together at the end of the thirtieth year Preached his friends Wedding Sermon and his own Funeral the aged Swan thus sings and dies yet lives to suffer the loss of his Living who for many years having lost his sight was sequestred from the world When his Windows were shut in the evening of his days without he lighted a Candle within being the better able to Meditate as the Philosopher that put out his Eyes to Study because he could not see when we shut an Eye we aim best He would say virtue had a joy that if weighed with that the vitious call so he could say as the Poet Continence hath his joy weigh both and so If Rottenness have more let Heaven go Dr. Brown of St. Faiths and Dean of Hereford a man of so Ecclesiastical an aspect and of so happy an Art of Preaching that as he passed those that reviled his brethren reverenced him such a Majesty carrieth a lovely virtue that those who cannot practise it cannot but love it Much deliberation there was before he was Sequestred yet at last it was resolved because he gave offence to a good woman Mrs. Charnock by name at White-hall where he was Chaplain by bowing to the Altar as a Popish Priest had done before though it s not likely that a Popish Priest should come and bow before the Altar at White-hall the good woman saying she hoped she should never live to see the day whereon a Popish Priest and a Protestant Minister should use the self-same gesture and posture His phrase in Preaching was plain and natural not being darkened with the affection of Scholastical harshness or Rhetorical flourishes so easily expounding his Notion that it was evident he clearly understood them obscurity in the discourse is an argument of darkness in the minde his expression was close and not obscure plain but neither vain not tedious popular but not novel using not suspicious phrases least he might seem to insinuate strange Doctrines The Committee sends for him to suffer and at the same time God sends for him to dye so St. Augustine died the day before Hippo was taken Ambrose before Millain and Paraeus before Heidelberg The exact Scholar Dr. Styles of St. George Buttolph-lane and St. Gregories by St. Pauls A person excellent at examining Schools he was so good a Grammarian and Consciences he was so good a Casuist His Lectures at St. Pauls were for the peaceable and regular matter of them a pattern to all the Lectures in Town in all which he would say when he had digested his matter he had studied his expressions which he confined not himself to because that weakened the Judgement dulled the Affections and overburdened and vexed the Memory A man cannot ordinarily be so much affected himself and consequently he cannot so much affect others with things he speaks by rote as when he takes some liberty to prosecute a matter according to his more immediate apprehensions by which besides a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a becoming Orators confidence many particulars may be suggested that were not before thought of when he doth expiate upon any subject according to the working of his own affections and the various alterations that may appear in the Auditory With him lived his exact Pupil Mr. Edlin turned out of St. Iohn Zachary by the Faction and yet chosen into Bassishaw by the People one that was too hard for the pretenders in their own Bow viz. Preaching and wearied them with meekness and patience being a Willow in temper though an Oak in heart With an even and an holy Conversation he lived to hear many wishing for that Episcopal Government which they had overthrown and to see that Kingship longed for in 1656. that was Voted down 1648. teaching his people the honest duties of Religion while others were taken up with the empty notions of it Come would people say let us go and hear Mr. Edlin for he will teach us to live Charitable Mr. Isaac Calf forced to give up St. Leonard Eastcheap and retire
remember another His industry was great in the mornings attending his Philosophy and in the afternoons Collecting Materials for such subjects as he would receive satisfaction in his body strong his natural and artificial memory exact his fancy slow though yet he made several sallies into Poetry and Oratory both to relieve his severer thoughts and smooth and knit his broken and rough stile made so by the vast matter it was to comprehend being taught by Ben Iohnson as he would brag to rellish Horace but judgment sure his nature communicative A good Herald as appears by his Titles of Honor a great Antiquary as he shewed by his Marmora Arundeliana on Drayton's Eâ—dmerus his many ancient Coins and more modern rich in his Study and in his Coffers a skillful Lawyer discovered by his Observat on Fleta tenures Fortesne modus tenendi Parliamentum and his Arguments being the readiest man in the kingdom in Records well seen in all learning as is evident in his History of Tyths comprehending all Jewish Heathen and Christian learning on that subject his Mare Clausum against Grotius his Mare Liberum containing all the Laws Customs and Usages of the World in that point his Vxor Hebraica de Synedriis Lex naturae secundum consuetudines Hebraick being Monuments of his insight in the Jewish learning his books de Diis Syris being an instance how well he understood how the Heathen Fables was the corruption of Sripture-truth and how the Gentile Learning might be made subservient to Christian Religion his Book of Tyths Printed 1616. gave offence for the Preface of it disparaging the Credit of our Clergy in point of learning and for the Matter prejudicing their interest in point of profit though answered by Sir Iames Temple for the legal and historical part Mr. Nettles of Queens Colledge Cambridge a great Talmudist for the Judaical part by Mr. Mountague and Dr. Tilsley Archdeacon of Rochester for the Greek and Latine learning with the Ecclesiastical History the fiercest storm saith one that fell on Parsonage Barns since the Reformation but he omitted that 28. Ianu. 1618. before four Bishops and four Doctors of Law and a Publick Notary he tendred his submission and acknowledgment for his presumption in that Book under his Hand in these very words My good Lords I Most humbly acknowledge my error which I have committed in publishing the History of Tithes and especially in that I have at all by shewing any Interpretation of holy Scriptures by medling with Counsels Fathers or Canons or by whatsoever occurres in it offered any just occasion of Argument against any right of maintenance of Iure Divino of the Ministers of the Gospel beseeching your Lordships to receive this ingenuous and humble acknowledgment together with the unfeigned protestation of my grief for that through it I have so incurred both his Majesties and your Lordships displeasure conceived against me in behalf of the Church of England Iohn Selden Which his submission and acknowledgment being received and made an Act of Court was entred into the publick Registrie thereof by this Title following viz. Officium dominorum contra Joh. Seldenum de inter Templo Lond. Armiger I am loath to think that the Play Ignoramus Acted at Cambridge 1614. to make some sport with Lawyers was the occasion of this History published 1616. to be even with Divines but apt to think that the latitude of his minde tracing all parts of Learning did casually light on the Rode of this Subject handling it as he did all others with great freedom according to the Motto written in all his books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The foresaid Submission was accompanied with an humble Letter afterwards with his own hand to Bishop Laud wherein many expressions of his contrition much condemning himself for Writing a book of that nature and for Prefacing such a book with insolent reflections of that kinde And this Letter seconded with an Apology in Latine to all the world to clear himself from the least suspition of disobedience to Government or disassection to the Church and that Apology backed with a Dedicatory Epistle to Archbishop Laud expressing great reverence to his Function and an honorable respect to his Person for his great design for the advancement of Universal Learning and the truly Catholick Religion whereupon the recommended him for Burgess to the University of Oxford in the Long Parliament which and an intimate acquaintance with the honorable Io. Vanghan Esq of Troescod to whom he Dedicated some of his Books and Bishop Vsher who Preached at his Funeral he reckoned the greatest honors of his life He was outed that Parliament to use his own words by those men that deposed his Majesty Dr. Mathew Grissith born in London bred in Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford Lecturer at St. Dunstans in the West under Dr. Donnes inspection whose favourite he was Minister of Maudelins Fish-street London by his donation For telling the Citizens that they sent in their Bodkins Thimbles c. to furnish out the Cause as the Children of Israel did their Ear-rings and Jewels only these had a Calf for theirs whereas they were likely to have a Bull for theirs and for a Sermon at St. Pauls about the peace of Ierusalem Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned in Newgate and forced to fly to Oxford whence he returned continuing Prayers and other Ordinances in London according to the Established Laws of the Church of England during the Usurpation enduring seven violent Assaults five Imprisonments the last of which was at Newgate 1659. for a Sermon Called fear God and honor the King Preached at Mercers-Chappel pardon one big with his Loyalty if he Longed for his Majesties Restauration before the Design of it was ripe he died Minister of the forsaid Maudlin Parish Lecturer of the Temple London and Rector of Bladon in Oxford-shire where he departed Octob. 14. Anno Aetatis 68. Domini 65. having broken a Vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point Study to be quiet and follow your own business and ventured his Life at Bazing-house where his Daughter manly lost hers To whom I will subjoyn his neighbor Mr. Chostlen of Fryday-street Assaulted in his house Sequestred Plundered Imprisoned first in one of the London Compters and afterwards in Colchester-Goal And gentile Mr. Bennet of St. Nicholas Acons who as Bishop Vsher would say he Preached Perkins so long till he was able to imitate him Preached Seneca and St. Bernard so much till they attained a sententiousness as happy as theirs and art of Preaching that is of Collecting Composing and Delivering their discourses by having those things whereof they themselves had onely some imperfect confused Notion fully and clearly represented to their view from the discoveries that other men have made after much study and experience Dr. Tho. Howel born at Nanga-March near Brecknock in Brecknock-shire bred Scholar and Fellow of Iesus Colledge in Oxford smooth and meek in his Conversation and his Sermons by both gliding
softly and unperceivably into the hearts of all that knew him but those that first vexed him out of St. Stephens Walbrook London where he was Minister and afterwards sequestred him for going away whereupon his Majesty promising himself good effects of his clearness candor solidness sweetness eloquence and good repute recommended him to the Diocess of Bristol 1644. where like Gregory Thaumaturgus he found few well-affected to the Church and left few dis-affected upon which account that honourable City as I have been told hath taken care for his childrens comfortable Education out of gratitude to their Father in Christ. A man not only flourishing with the verdure and Spring of Wit and the Summer of much Learning and Reading but happy in the Harvest of a mature Understanding and a mellow Judgment in matters Politick and Prudential both Ecclesiastical and Civil one who like Diogenes confuted the Enemies of his Function not his Person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by circumspect walking He died about the year 1646. and his brother Mr. Iames Howell of the same Colledge mentioned by Sir Kenelm Digby in his discourse of the Sympathy Cure of Wounds at Montpelier with so much respect Secretary to the Lord Scroop when President of the Council in the North relating to my Lord Conway in the Marriage-Treaty with Spain many particulars whereof may be met with in his familiar Letters which as all private Letters do give the best History I meet with in that and other affairs of that Time Assistant to Sir R. Mansel in the Glass-Works and in some place about the Clerks of the Council before the late Civil Wars when he was imprisoned in the Fleet where and in other places of his suffering he wrote 49 Books most Translations out of French Spanish Italian and Portugez wherein he had a good faculty and a great advantage with a handsome Parabolical and allusive fansie according to his Motto Senesco non segnesco He died 1665. Mr. Launce of St. Michael in the Quern a grave man and Minister to whom his people would have given their right eyes till he began to open them by telling them the truth A choice man in the Books he read and in the friends he conversed with many mens excellent parts are kept low for want of a well contrived and by reason of a scant ill chosen Library The knowledge of Books as it is a specious so he would say it was an useful part of Learning as whereby upon any emergent doubt or difficulty a man may have recourse unto the advise of grave and learned men who it may be have bestowed a great part of their time and study in the resolution of that particular business The presence of a Bishop at a Marriage is a License and his appearance before the War was among his Neighbours countenance enough to any action the good he did by the holy Ingenuity of his private Visitations wherein his discourses were quick and cheerful was not inferiour to the effects of his publick administration those indeed making way for these and by his inviting looks far from the threatning aspects of some men to both the predominant habit of the Mind by the conformity of the Fansie spirit bloud and constitution to those habits like the black and yellow Jaundies leaving a notable tincture and signature on the eye and aspect especially when men come to be fixed in their desires and designs vultu promisit quicquid vita praestitit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. de Basil. fornia innocentissimus ingenio florentissimus propositio sanctissimus vit a innocentissimus in a word he was one well seen in the different conditions of the people of God which he studied that he might divide the Word aright and give unto every one a due proportion to every state Impatient of two things in a Sermon a jeering Irony or a furious Zeal advising that if the matter required a passion it should be the zeal of a displeased Friend rather than the biterness of a provoked Enemy to convince rather than exasperate He died 1665. Dr. Swadlin of St. Bololph Aldgaie sequestred plundered imprisoned at Gresham Colledge and Newgate his wife and children turned out of doors he himself administring to most of the Martyrs before their death and preaching so boldly in the behalf of both their Majesties as if he did intend to be a Martyr himself saying when he heard of some horrid action of the Adversary Blessed be God! now their oppressions are at highest they will be at an end the night is darkest ever upon the break of day Dr. Walter Balcanguel known by his place and discreet interposals in the Synod of Dort when very young representing the Church of Scotland by his shrewd accounts of that Synod when something farther in years a very pathetick Preacher having a great command as Orators should over his own affections and his Hearers and a notable prudential man he being Duke Hamiltons creature having the draught of the grand Declaration about the Scotch affairs for which he was made Dean of Durham as he was before Master of the Savoy one of a nimble wit and clear expression sequestred plundred and forced to fly in which condition he died in Chirk Castle 1644. Dr. Thomas Fuller born at Oâ—ndle in Northamptonshire where his Father was Minister and bred in Queens and Sidney Colledges in Cambridge under Dr. Ward and Dr. Davenant Master of a good Method and by that of an extraordinary memory which qualified him for an excellent Historian and by keeping the coherence of things in his mind for a great Wit his Writings are very facetious and where he is careful judicious his Pisgah sight is the exactest his Holy War and State the wittiest his Church-History the unhappiest written in such a time when he could not do the truth right with safety nor wrong it with honour and his Worthies not finished at his death the most imperfect A good natured man too credulous and a witty man too quick considering that every thing is big with Jest if we have the vein not so well skilled where to spare his Jests as where to spend at once serious and Cheerful moderate in his judgement and practice and therefore faring as moderate men use to do who are suspected on both sides and Guests at the middle of a Table who can reach to neither Mess either above or beneath He was so good Company that happy the person that could enjoy him either Citizens Gentlemen or Noblemen he removing up and down out of an aequanimous civility to his many worthy friends that he might so dispense his much desired company among them that no one might monopolize him to the envy of others so general a Scholar that it was his insight into every thing he had read that together with his thinking and meditating nature out of which he could not be got sometimes for several hours together made his fansie so nimble
first Fellows of Sidney Colledge who grew a good Divine by Family-exercises at Mr. Ailoffes house in Essex and an excellent Scholar by private Lectures begun his Ministry at a small Vicarage under an old man near Cambridge continued it in Sir Will. Cooks Family in London and at Lincolns-Inn for ten years and at Rotherith in Surrey whither he was recommended by Sir Henry Hobart and Sir R. Crew to prevent an Abby-lubber and where as in Lincolns-Inn he reformed Sabbath-Abuses and Preached freely a Catachetical Lecture every Friday throughout the body of Divinity for forty two years One whose memory was the best Library extant whose family was an Academy for Englishmen and Foreigners with whom he compared Studies every night to his and their great advantage correspondence with Salmasius and others universal as his study whose charity was secret meekness open self-denial in waving Prince Henries service and the Earl of Manchesters offer of the Mastership of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge signal having travelled to the Low-Countries 1620. having been four times Married Visitor of three publick Schools seen ten of his assistants eminent Ministers in the Church gone through the body of Divinity in his Family nine times having written twenty two Books in Latine and sixteen in English of his and revised above an hundred Books of others bewailing the Schism which in the Assembly he indeavoured to moderate He died Iuly 27. 1954. in the eightieth year of his age â— say Dr. Featleys value of good men was a fifth particular that endeared him to many good people Yet this good man after a Disputation in Southwark Octob. 17. 1642. wherein he overthrew the Anabaptists taking a good method Catechising them first to discover their ignorance in the Grounds of Religion before they disputed to shew their Opinions in the Controversies of it and adding to his arguments against them what was indeed the shrewdest argument an History of them and several Speeches in the Assembly in which he was though not of it against the Covenant and other extravagancies of those times was Sequestred Plundered and upon a Letter he sent to Bishop Vsher in Oxford Subscribed â— â— i. e. Fidelity as they interpreted giving an account of his shrewd argument against the Covenant imprisoned as a Spie and upon his declaring before the Committee that he could not be of another minde continued in Peter-house notwithstanding his great assistance to the Assembly in the Comment on St. Pauls Epistle undertaken by him in bonds where they were most written upon an humble Letter written to him from the whole Assembly till a little before he died he was removed to Chelsey-Colledge whereof he was the third and last Provost making no other reflection upon his sufferings than the answer he gave Mr. White the Chair-man when he told him he must suffer Nec mihi ignominiosum est puti quid passus est Christus Nec tibi gloriosum est facere quod fecit Judas Siste gradum viator Paucis te volo Hic situs est Daniel Featleus Impugnator Papismi Propugnator reformationis Instigator Assiduae pietatis Tam studio quam exâ—rcitio Theologus Insignis Disputator Strenuus Concionator Egregius Pusillus Atlas vegetior a certaminibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Facete candidus candide facetus D. D. Featleus qui Natus Charltoniae educatus Oxonii Aetatis suae 65. 17 Obiit Chelsei Sepultus fuit Lambethae Aprilis Anno salutis 21 1645. To make up this Catalogue compleat I will conclude with 1. Dr. Cattesford Rector of Hadley and Monks-Ely in Suffolk Sequestred for a strict observation of the Canons for intreating the people to repair to their Ministers for Ghostly Comfort and Advise for refusing to read the Parliaments Declarations or approve of their Proceedings 2. Dr. Roberts Fellow of Trinity Colledge and Rector of Hambledon in the County of Bucks a grave and modest man a general Scholar and an accurate Preacher Sequestred for declaring it unlawful upon any pretence to raise Armes against the King a Doctrine which he made good by the Testimonies of all the Fathers and Modern Divines and was told that if they were alive now they would be of another minde 3. Dr. N. Andrews Rector of Guilford and Vicar of Godliman in Surrey Sequestred for saying that long Sermons went beyond St. Peters Sword cutting off both Ears and that the surfeit of the Word is most dangerous and that Prayer was as good as Preaching and for lifting up the Bread and Wine at the consecration of it with reverence together with his dislike of reprobation and refusing to publish their Orders about destroying the Ornaments of the Church 4. Dr. Io. Mountford Rector of Austie in the County of Hertford Sequestred for saying that God was present by the presence of his Grace in the places of his Worship and therefore he reverenced God when he came into such a place usually ordering that part of the 43. Psalm Then shall I to the Altar go of God c. to be sung as he went to second Service for tying Lecturers to Catechise within his Iurisdiction for religiously adorning his Church and Chancel 5. Dr. Iames Mountford Rector of Tewing in the County of Hertford Sequestred for bringing his people to order and discipline as Kneeling at Communions and for teaching That if the King were an Idolater we should not as the Apostles did not take Armes against him together with refusing to contribute to the Parliament Cause and discouraging them that did 6. Dr. Iefferies Fellow of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge Chaplain to Archbishop Abbot Vicar of Feversham and Ticehurst in Kent a methodical Scholar and a melting Preacher Sequestred for Preaching that the Episcopal Government was Apostolical that Bishops Priests and Deacons under the Gospel answered to High-priests Priests and Levites under the Law as the Presbyterians did Corah Dathan and Abiram for not admitting the House of Commons Lecturer into his Church and not observing their Fasts a mirror of patience under tortures of the Gout racking his whole body He died at Mr. Challenor Chutes house who said he would plead for Bishops as long as he had a tongue 1658. 7. Dr. Io. Gorsuck of Walherne in Hertford-shire Sequestred for sending a good horse to serve his Majesty and a bad one to serve the Parliament 8. Mr. Ed. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex for pressing his Parishioners to receive the Communion orderly at the Rails 9. Dr. Edward Marten Minister of Houghton-Conquest in Bedford-shire and of Dunnington in Cambridge-shire Sequestred for blessing God for the examples of the Saints departed and Preaching much upon holy Reverence and Obedience as likewise for lending and giving his Majesty money besides those turned out in both Universities for refusing the Covenant and disowning the Parliaments Authority to Visit the Universities whereof his Majesty was by their Statutes Visitor as his Predecessors were Founders in Oxford Dr. Samuel Fell Student Prebendary and Dean of Christ-Church
and Margaret Professor of Divinity a strict observer of Discipline and a great pattern of Charity having eluded the first commission of the Visitors by a prudent demurr and delay and with excellent Reasons penned by Dr. Saunderson against the Covenant and by Dr. Langbain against the Visitation honourably neglected the second turned out so violently that his sick Wife was carried out in a Chair to make way to a Presbyterian successor as his was a little while after Digitus Dei to make way for an Independent one Dying heart-broken not for his own sufferings but his Majesties he left a Son heir of his zeal the Reverend Dr. Io. Fell now Dean of Christ Church who kept up the Devotions and Orders of the Church of England in his Brother-in-law Dr. Willis the accurate Natural Philosopher and Physician at Oxford Lodgings and House supported the Members of it by a great part of his Estate and kept up the honor of it by his example Dr. Robert Sanderson of the Noble Family of the Sandersons in York-shire and Lincolnshire bred under a methodical Master at Lincoln School and an exact Tutor at Lincoln Colledge who improved his pregnant Wit his large Understanding his faithful Memory his solid Judgment made more so by method and a deep Apprehension his hopeful Seriousness his silent Sedentary and astonishing Industry to that exactness which stuck to him to his dying day and he would observe that exactness or strictness in laying the grounds of Learning had their respective influences upon the superstructure In his younger days he learned an Art of Memory for being enjoyed when young to learn what he understood not he was compelled to make use of similitudes and to remember those things he knew not by thinking upon something like them he knew Being Serious in his Design Prudent in his Study Industrious in his Way Clear in his Apprehension Searching in his Disquisitions Serene Orderly and Methodical in his thoughts Sober and Civil in his Carriage his Tuition having added to his great parts that Humility Meekness Modesty Obedience and Civility as advantaged by his good Disposition rendred him to his last Submissive to Superiors Obliging to his Equals Tender to his Inferiors Affable and Charitable good Discipline in youth begets an habit of Obedience in riper years his thoughtful Soul strugling with the Intricacies Perplexities Darkness and Confusion of Nature and intent upon a genuine Apprehension of things rather than a toilsome Collection of words save so much Grammar as enabled him to speak his minde properly so much Rhetorick as to express it Perswasively and so much Logick as might order guide and direct his thoughts Methodically in apprehending things Distinctly in judging of them Exactly in finding out the truth that lieth in them Successfully in discovering the errors deceits and fallacies imposed upon us about them Evidently and urging the truths found out Convincingly His way was 1. To write the Rules his Tutor suggested or his Books afforded for he writ most he read or heard as he said To stay his active and young soul upon things till he had distinctly conceived them 2. To debate the Rules he writ with his friends whereof he always kept a Club. 3. To practise them upon some question or other till they became as his native reason as his own soul whereby he attained afterwards in all cases a great happiness to comprehend things deeply and fully State Controversies exactly to lay them before others clearly solidly compendiously and impartially to find out the merit of a cause the right state of a question exactly reasoning convincingly and demonstratively alledging closely and pertinently with observations choice and prudent deductions clear and genuine expressions apt suitable weighty and accurate and the whole discourse even and steady made up of abstract notions of reason experience and religion being sure to state the words in a question or case What is controverted as there will be very little when words and things are well understood must be clearly laid down would he say as it is understood on all hands and convincingly proved by a proper reason from the nature of the thing or uncontrouled authority pressed and cleared from all evasions cavils and Subter-fuges which cavils must be proposed faithfully and honestly and answered breifly fully ingeniously candidly and modestly Insomuch that as he composed a new Logick an excellent way of reasoning so he was many years the publick Reason of the Church as her best Casuist and of the University as her accurate Kings Professor of Divinity He sorted every word he read to its proper head â— having a vast Index materiarum where to put his reading and meditations drawn by himself by him he made it his business to know rather distinctly and exactly than much though he that digesteth a few things throughly and methodically so much doth one part of learning well understood depend upon and illustrate all knoweth every thing His Fellowship he reckoned a great advantage by good converse to improve his first years of prudence and discretion and his Pupils among whom the Lord Hopton was one a great help by giving him opportunity to observe the several weaknesses of reason and the respective remedies Eleven hours was his usual allotment for study though there was hardly a minute of his time but was full of his affairs either of necessity civility or study It cost him so much sad thoughts to go through any subject in his unnering and accurate way that as he writes in his Preface to the book of the Obligation of Conscience that he could do nothing untill he needs must his mind running up and down till penned up and confined by necessity of which he used to say as Pythagoras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Having attained a grave and comely carriage a plain and solemn garb becoming a man that alwayes meditated some good and great design an even calm and deliberate serious and well-ordered habit of words and action an innocently faâ—â—tious converse tempered and allayed with gravity good counsels and an excellent example a temperance and moderation made up of Epictetus his two words Sustine Abstine none in judgement more for Liberty in those things that were lawful and none in practice more Cautious in those things that were not expedient Having his youthful heat abaded and fined into a mature prudence and an exact Learning and his soul knit into compleatness and resolution resigning his Fellowship in a way agreeable to the will of the Founder and the present good of the Colledge and the University as well as the future benefit of the Church in compliance with the expectation of the University and the Church together with his own inclination who would always say That imployment was improvement he was for many years Minister of Booth by Pagnel in Lincoln-shire Where 1. his care was to settle and maintain friendship and love among people of the same Inclination Profession Study and
he was Author of the benefit of one of which upon the Thames is settled upon him by Act of Parliament 14 Car. 2. He Died 1666 7. The Lord Charles Herbert and the Lord Iohn Somerset the old Marquiss his Sons The glory of whose actions redounds to the Father according to that of Agricola Nec unquam in suam famam gestis exultavit ad aut horem ducem minister fortunam reserebat Tacit. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dion l. 4â— 3. Sir Philip Iones of Treeowen Monmouth-shire who after eminent contributions to his Majesties service under the favour of the Ragland Articles wherein being in that Garrison he was comprised with his Son William paid for his Loyalty 1050 l. as Iohn Iones of Nam-cross Cardig Esq did 389 l. Gilbert Iones Chancellor of Bristol 43 l. Cad Iones Exon. Esq 483 l. Tho. Iones of Osswell Devon Clerk 80 l. Edmund Iones of Landson-Mannor 70 l. Io. Iones of Halkin Flint 156 l. 4. Commissary Guillims and Dr. Bayley a Gentleman of great Alliance a good Temporal Estate and considerable Spiritual Preferments who being undone for his Loyaly by the Faction who for divers years imprisoned him in New-gate where he writ the book called The Wall-flower and by the way he was indeared to my Lord of Warwick for being an excellent Florist and Chymist and disregarded for setting out the Conference between the Marquiss of Worcester and his Majesty by the Kings party became of a solid Protestant such a scandal did the late war give the soundest men of our profession a zealous Papist seeing our Church afflicted he thought her forsaken dying at 〈…〉 heart-broken with the report of the Guns shot off a◠〈◊〉 a man to whose name we owe much for Bishop â—â—yly'sâ—ake â—ake the Author of that Book that hath done so much good in England and Wales I mean The Practice of Piety 5. Edward Vaughan of Old-castle Monmouth-shire Io. Vaughan of LLanely Caerm who paid for composition 540 l. Sir George â—aâ—ghan Penbrey Caâ—rm a Colonel in the Kings Army 2609 l. Sir Henry Vaughan of Wit-well York 659 l. 6. Sir William Vaughan a person of excellent conduct and service in South-wales and Cheshire both for the Sallies he made out of Shrawarding-castle whence he was called the Devil of Shrawarding Commanding Shropshire Cheshire and the borders of North-wales for his Majesty and the defeat he gave one day at Rowtâ—n heath September 24. 1645. three miles off Chester to Pointz who being re-inforced next day and Sir Williams Command being bestowed elsewhere totally overthrew his Majesties forces Sir William hardly escaping to Ragland and thence to Ireland where having formed a considerable Army and incamped them under my Lord of Ormond before Dublin all Ireland besides being reduced by the neglect of the Ingeneer who had the charge of the Guards he was surprized and fighting desperately to gain the whole Army time to Rally was killed August 22. 1649. when as Commissary General of the Horse he had not long before drawn up most part of his Troops with a considerable body of Foot to cast up a Work at Baggot Rath which would have shut up Dublin so effectually aâ— with a few days to force it to a surrender had not some persons envied him that enterprize because as the Romans said of Christ refusing a share in the Pantheon of Rome he would have no partner of his honor A man owing his Success to his Reputation and his Reputation to his Vigilance Industry Civility Justice and Sobriety 7. Io. Williams of Parke Breton 50l Roger Williams 〈◊〉 206 l. Willam Williams Mothry 102 l. Thomas VVhâ—tely of Aston Flâ—nt 125 l. Sir Io. VVeld senior VVilly Sal. 1121 l. 18s 4d Maurice Williams of Swarbe Line 460 l. Sir Trevor Williams a Colonel of eminent service in the Kings Army Io. LLoyd Crinvin Carâ— 140 l. Sir 〈◊〉 LLoyd Cacrm 1033 l. Hugh LLoyd Guâ—rdvâ—â—y Râ—â— 76 l. Sir R. Lee of Lingley Sal. with 169 l. 9â— 0d settled paid 371â— l. 〈◊〉 LLoyd LLanvardo Sal. Esq 300 l. R. LLoyd of LLoyd 〈◊〉 Sal. Esq 480 l. Walter LLoyd LLanvair Cardig Esq 1003 l. Anne Lady Somerset 2000 l. Tho. Stradling of St. Brides Glam 777 l. The Right Honorable the Marquiss of Winchester who in his house at Basing commonly called Basing-house in 〈◊〉 the greatest of any Subjects house in England yea larger than most Eagles have not the biggest Nests of all Birds of the King Pallaces Hugh Peters in the relation of the taking of it he made to the House of Common saying an Emperor might have lived in it made good the Motto written in every Window of it viz. Aimez Loyali Love Loyalty In a two years siege from August 1643. to October 1645. he held out against all the Parliament forces the good Marquiss being heard to to say That if the King had no more ground in England but Basing-house he would adventure as he did and so maintain it to the utmost as he did not yielding till it was taken by storm with the richest plunder in money plate jewels houshold stuffe amounting to 200000 l. Sterling among which a Bed worth 14â—â— l. with the assistance 1. Of Sir Robert Pâ—ake who had been an Artillery-man forty two years commanded thither from Oxford 1643. with but 100. men with whom before October 1645. by vigilant and dexterous Sallies he did execution upon thousands with two brave Majors Cuâ—â—and and Lingley of whom see more in the Journals of this Siege Printed Oxford by L. L. 1645. He died a good Benefactor to the City of London particularly to St. Sepulchres where he was buried with great military pomp Iuly 1667. 2. Inigo Iones the great Architect brought up by William Earl of Pembroke at whose charge he travelled much abroad and studied at home in King Iames and King Charles I. time for Representations Masks and more solid Buildings his skill both in the Theory and History of Architecture in the most excellent discourse writ by him upon King Iames his motion called Stone-henge Restored appears singular wherein he modestly propoundeth and more substantially proveth that Posing Quarry to be a Roman Work or Temple dedicated to Caelus or Coelum son to Aether and Dies the Senior of the Heathen gods 3. Dr. Thomas Iohnson born in York-shire not far from Hâ—ll bred an Apothecary in London where he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England making Additions to the Edition of Gerard A man of such modesty that knowing so muchâ— he owned the knowledge of nothing The University of Oxford bestowed on him the Honorary Degree of Doctor in Physick and his Loyalty engaged him on the Kings side in our civil wars When in Basing-house a dangerous piece of service was to be done this Doctor who publickly pretended not to valor understood and performed it yet afterwards he lost his life at a Salley in the same siege 1644. generally lamented even of those that murdered him Dr.
diligence and industry did wonders in that School imposed upon him on the Epistles and Gospels at School were the ground of that Divine fancy so famous in Pembroke-hall where he was Scholar and Peter-house where he was Fellow in Cambridge where he was esteemed the other Herbert of our Church for making Poetry as Divine in its object as in its Original and setting wit disparaged in talking out most of its gallant Genius on Fables Women Drollery or Flattery upon a matter and subject as noble as its nature making his Verses not in his Study at St. Peters-house but in his Devotions wherein he spent many a night at St. Maries Church warbling his Hymns for St. Ambroses his Saints under Tertullians Roof of Angels having no other Helicon than the Iordan of his eyes nor Parnassus than the Sion where dwelled his thoughts that made the Muses Graces and taught Poems to do what they did of old propagate Religion and not so much Charm as Inspire the Soul Hebrew Greek Latine Spanish French Italian were as familiar to him as English Philosophy came as plausible from him as his Speeches or Sermons those thronged Sermons on each Sunday and Holiday that ravished more like Poems than both the Poet and Saint two of the most sacred names in heaven and earth scattering not so much Sentences and Extasies his soul breahing in each word was the soul of the Assembly as its original is of the World Poetry Musick Drawing Limning Graving exercises of his curious Invention and sudden Fancy were the subservient recreations of his vacant hours not the grand business of his soul his diet was temperate to a Lesson exactness whence his memory was so clear that he had ready at his service the choicest treasures of Greek and Latine Poets those Gibeonites to draw water to the Tabernacle The Divine Poet that had set a Language made up of the Quintessence of Fancy and Reason for the Angels as the Schoolmen state their way of discourse to converse in seeing Atheism prevailing in England embraced Popery in Italy chusing rather to live in the Communion of that corrupt Church in the practise of fundamental truths confessed to be then mixed with some errors than to stay here where was hardly the face of any Church after the overthrow of those to make way for all errors being resolved to any Religion than that which taught a holy Rebellion and Perjury a pious Sacriledge a godly Parracide and made the very horrors of nature the glory of Christianity And died of a Feaver the holy order of his soul over-heating his body Canon of Loretto whence he was carried to heaven as that Church was brought thither by Angels singing Dr. Iohn Sherman Scholar at Charter-house London and Fellow of Trinity-colledge Cambridge whom to use his own words Reading makes a full Scholar as appeared by his discourse called The Greek brought into the Temple Conference a ready Scholar evidenced in his successful contracts in these times with both papists and Sectaries and meditation a deep Scholar as is legible in his excellent discourse so much commended by the Reverend Dr. Pierce of Inâ—allibility so conscientious a man that because he had a small estate of his own derived to him by providence he would not return to his old Preferment his Fellow-ship and so modest that he looked not after any new being infinitely more happy in his rational and sublime self-satisfaction whereby he neglected the lower advantages of his Majesties Restauration than others have been in their thoughts since that made it their business to enjoy them Dr. Abraham Cowley bred at Westminster under the Reverend Dr. Busby whose name will be deeply woven into the history of this age most of the eminent Prelates and States-men owning their Abilities to his admirable Education and their Loyalty to his choice Principles preferred to Trinity-colledge Cambridge and when ejected admitted in France Secretary in effect to her Majesty the Queen Mother in being so formerly to the Right Honorable the Earl of St. Albans since the Restauration designed Master of the Savoy and Charter-house and the first failing and the second not falling rewarded with a rich Lease of her Majesties I think at Chersey in Surrey A Poet as all are born not made a Jewel brought forth with it fire and light about it writing at eleven well at School for the entertainment of Noblemen and at sixteen excellently in the University for the entertainment of a Prince aiming according to his Motto Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo victorque virum voliture per ora at nothing ordinary he performed upon all occasions extraordinary arriving at the greatest heighth of English and Latine Poetry that is a happy fertility of Invention a great Wisdom of Disposition a curious Judgement in observance of Decencies and quick Luster and Vigor of Elocution a becoming Modesty Variety and Majesty of Number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bold and unusual figures all every where like a Mans Soul Grave Calm Sober and Chaste as his Life not gay all over but skilled when to be witty and when to be wise in a word his Poems the great exactness in Greek and Latine Authors his Comment being as Learned as his Poems Ingenious the one opening what the other coucheth Sublimated not Translated by him richer in his grasping coherent and great thoughts than in their own a stupendious skill in most Languages and Sciences particularly in the two great Mistrisses professions Divinity and Physick and their brave attendants Philosophy Mathematicks and History besides Musick Limning c. his recreations and that in the pleasant privacy of a Colledge not on the Banks of Cham amidst the great Collection of the most learned Books and Men where his thoughts run as clear and undisturbed as the stream and peaceable as the times but among cares and fears melancholy and grief sufferings and removes times fit to write of and its pity his three Books of the Civil Wars reaching as far as the first Battel of Newbury are lost and that he laid down his Pen when his friends did their Armes that he marched out of the Cause as they did out of their Garrisons dismantling the Works and Fortifications of Wit and Reason in his power to keep when they did the Forts and Castles not so in theirs but not in In te inluens they are Tullies words applied by Mr. C. to himself Brute Doleo cujus in adolescentiam per medias laudes quasi quadrigis vehentem transversa incurrit misera fortuna Reipublicae Since Poesie as he observeth there that is to communicate pleasure unto others must have a soul full of bright and delightful Ideas sad times and a sad spirit being as unsuitable to a good fancy as to use his comparison for I make him all along who best could express himself the grave to Dr. Donnes Sun-dial nothing but Love the Poets necessary affection
and all his Estate in Ireland both men of miraculous deliverances the one at Sea when forced to serve the Levant or the Indian Merchants where he was twice shipwracked living for four days without any sustenance and at last relieved only by that money which was stollen from him and the Company by one that was to die with them a strange itch to stealing when one takes that which neither they that lost nor he that took it could keep for ought they knew two hours to an end The other saved at the taking of Drogedah when all others were put to the sword because the Souldiers breaking into his Chamber found him at Prayers both persons of great fidelity intrusted with the Legacies and Charities of more private Benefactors than any two men in England and both called to manage publick Largesses the one being Sub-almoner to King Charles II. and the other Almoner to an Office though imposed upon him possibly with design he managed certainly with integrity The first died Archdeacon of Huntington 1666. and is buried at Westminster having great apprehensions of the sad state of things amongst us by the same token-that the last time I saw him he was very inquisitive what particular History there was besides Mr. Fox and the troubles of Frank ford of the Confessors Exile and Sufferings in Queen Maries dayes ' and the other died Rector of Whitchurch in Shropshire where he is buried fearing and suspecting the settlement of Ireland because he chose rather to take a Parsonage here than to return to his Dignities thither They were both Inns of Court-preachers the one Master of the Temple where he was as in all places he came to indefatigable in the extraordinary pains he took in Expounding Praying and Preaching the other Preacher of Grays-Inn 19. Dr. Ieremy Taylor born in Cambridge Town and bred in Cajus Colledge in that University his Parts being above his Birth and Fortunes for his Father was a Barber supplied his Chamber-fellow Mr. Risdens turn in the Pauls Lecture three or four times with such applause above his years that Archbishop Laud that great Judge and Patron of able men observing the tartness of his discourses the quickness of his Parts the modesty and sweetness of his temper and the becomingness of his personage and carriage preferred him Fellow of All Souls Oxford where he might have Time Books and company to compleat himself in those several parts of Learning whereinto he had made so fair an entrance An admirable Specimen of his progress wherein he gave in his full Sermon against the Papists November 5. 1638. preached to the University at St. Maries Oxford and Dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury and being a compleat Artist especially an accurate Logician whereby he reduced all his Learning to such a method that he was the readiest in it of any man in his time notwithstanding the loss of his Church-preferments and which was more to him his time by his necessary attendance on his Majesties Army to which he was Chaplain he writ most accurate Defences of our Episcopacy Liturgy Ministry and Church which were never answered and some of the other side confessed could not be answered so exquisitely quick and exact were his Reasonings so fluent his Language and so prodigiously ready and various his Learning as being a very strict and pious man he writ several taking books of Devotion as Holy Living and Dying his Life of Christ his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Course of Sermons throughout the year the Doctrine and practice of Repentance his Golden Grove or a Manual of daily Prayers the Worthy Communicant A Collection of Offices or Forms of Prayer fitted to the needs of all Christians the Nature Offices and Measures of Friendship and his Cases of Conscience by which doing the Church in the time of her sufferings great services the latter adorning and assisting the forme◠and his indeavor to make men holy and serious preparing to his pains to make or keep them good Subjects and Church-men His great Wit and vast Learning being to be excused for some unwary Sentiments about Original sin and Liberty of Conscience the first in his Book of Repentance and the second in his Liberty of Prophecying which he writ to weaken Presbytery by pleading for Liberty to all other Sects as well as to undermine it as it had undermined Episcopacy he having published them with submission and explained them with moderation and Ingenuity erring possibly as a man but not persisting in his error as an obstinate man The reason why he was suffered under the Right Honorable the Earl of Carbery to officiate and keep School as he did very dexterously so long in South-wales to preach and keep a Congregation so long in London and to have a settlement in Ireland in those times where he had done so much good that his Majesty preferred him Bishop of Down and Connor there 1660. In which place what advices and comforts did he treasure up for all sorts of people and direct his Clergy to what Liberal Collections did he make what Directions to teach inferior Ministers to say and do well by reading good and approved Books especially Casuists and being skiled in the Rubricks Canons Articles and Homilies of the Church did he give what care of constant Prayers and Communions what strict Injunctions on his Clergy to visit their Parishioners and to deal faithfully with them especially in their sicknesses about their final state what exact Rules about the observation of the Lords day the Church Fasts and Festivals Catechisms Confirmation Confession of sin Declaration of the state of their Souls and conversation with their Ministers about Spiritual things what helps and Rules about the practice methods and benefits of Meditations what caution against popular compliances and making the peoples humors the measure of Doctrines which should be the measure of their humors indiscreet clashings between Prayers Sermons and other Ordinances unbecoming the discourses of God or light expression in the things of God emulation about Audiences of which he would say that he that envied his followed Brother is but a Dwarf that endeavoureth to pull down a higher man but is a Dwarf still advising those who could not have the fame of a good Preacher to take care that they had the Rewards of good men it being very hard to miss both what severity against disputing Articles of Faith or reviving old Heresies and their Arguments or novel and not allowed Interpretations of Scripture what diligence he wished popular errors and evil principles should be suppressed and the four last things should be inculcated what discretion he required in the use of Prmititive known and accustomed words in Religious Discourses in teaching all men the duties of their Calling in avoiding the heights of Gods Mysteries and inculcating the lowliness of Christs life in reproving the faults of men that Laws cannot or do not take cognizance of especially slandering and backbiting those poysons of Charity
Diabolus est qui non possit converti Lich. nec tu Deus qui convertas nostri concilium tridentinum Spal novi nec credunt q Before this time he discovered a Boy of Bilson suborned to act the Daemoniack by those that would have had the honor to dispossesse him with much pains wisdom and patience to the saving of a Womans life that the Boy accused for bewitching him for whose sake he prevailed with the Iudges at one Assize to have the over-sight of the Boy at his House Eccleshall Castle till the next r Having power to dispose of all Iudges Registers Clerks to make Sheriffs Escheters â—cudarics Coroâ—ers Iustices of Peace Deputy Lieutenants Colonels c. s 〈◊〉 sued him for saâ—e Imprisonment ungratefully and to no purpose who was known moderate in his whole Government 1. In his Fines leaving it to four Gentlemen of the Neighborhood to make a moderate composition between him and the Tenant 2. In Wrecks Deodands and Wardships so tender that he took only such an inconsiderable summe as preserved the Right of his Successors rather than increased his Revenue t Thâ—ugh they were never brought to axyâ—â— ryal only their absence made use of to Vote them out of the Parliament and to Sâ—quester their Eâ—tates real and personal v This was the pretended occasion but the more real was his refusing to give up to the House of Commons the Seat of the Bâ—shâ—prick of Durham appealing in that Case to the Lords-house 1. Because it was his own Seat and not the Bishopricks 2. Because of the several Patents and Estates that depended upon it 3. And because of the person that intrusted him with it w Here insert we a slander cast upon this Reverend Prelate in a Book called The Nature of Catholick Faith and Heresie that in a Speech against a Book brought in against the succession of Protestant Bishops by some Presbyterian Lords he should say The Protestant Bishops were Consecrated at the Naggs-head in Cheap-side The untruth of which story both of the Book and of the Speech is not only by a Protestation under the Hand of the Bishop before a publick Notary in the ninty fifth year of his age July 17. 1657. declared against â—ut under the hands of seven that is all the Bishops and fifteen of the Temporal Lords then Sitting in the Parliamen 1640. together with the Clerks of Parliament then being attested July 19. 1658. which Protestation and chief Attâ—stations are entred into the Archbishops of Canterburys Register Office as a lasting Testimony of the truth therein asserted w Of the 〈◊〉 Savile in the mâ—nâ—rity of her Son Sir George who when he came to years confirmed and paid it punctually at the timâ— and place appointed offering the payment of the quarter current at his death if there had nâ—t been enough left to defray the charge of his burial x Owâ—ing the 3. ancient Creeds the 4. 〈◊〉 general Councils with the Scripture within 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 general Councel y Episcopacy he believed was instituted by the Apostles and approved by Christ in the Revelations as he did the succession of the English Bishops wishing the differences between us and Romeâ—wled â—wled by the practice the first 500. years of Christianity Priority of Order being all that the Fathers allowed the Bishop of Rome He thought there might be Ordinations without Bishops where they might not be had not where they might He said that where-ever there is a Church there must of necessity be a Form of Worship and ours wâ—â— he thought the best for decency and for Edification and Devotion This was annexed in a Codicil to his Will April 15. 1658. z M. S. 1. Tractatus de externo Judice Infallibili 2. De Justificatione Grand Imposture Latine 3. Arminian Controversie 4. Another Edition of Apologia Catholica 5. Answer to J. S. Anti-mortonus 6. Of prayer in an unknown Tengue 7. Of Paedo-baptism against Tombes which Bishop Brownrigg advised him not to publish because the controversie was gone too far 8. The Conference at York 9. Confutation of R. G. a 1. Apologia Cath. p. 1 2 1605 1606. Quarto 2. Romish Positions and Practices about Conspiracies and Rebellions 1605. Quarto 3. With an Answer to the Reply to it Quarto 4. The Preamble to an Encounter and the Encounter it self with Mr. Parsons about his Treatise of Mitigation 1608 1609. Quarto whereupon they say Mr. Parsons repented attributing aequivocation to our Saviour 5. Catholick Appeal for Protestants against Brerlyes Apology whose Testimonies Mr. James examined 1609. Fol. never answered 6. An Answer to the exception of Theophilus Higgons 1601. Quarto 7. A Defence of the 3. Innocent Ceremonies 1619. Quarto defended against Dr. Ames by Dr. John Bruges 1631. 8. Causa Regia against Bellarmine De Officio Principis Christiani 1620. Quarto 9. The grand Imposture of the new Church of Rome 1628. Quarto 10. Of the Institution of the Sacrament Folio English two Editions 1635. Latine 1640. 11. With a Discharge of five Imputations of Mis-allegations 1633. Octavo 12. Antidotum adversus Ecclesiae R. de merito condigno venenum 1637. Quarto 13. Replica sive refutatio confutationis C. R. 1638. Quarto 14. Three Sermons 1. Of Subjection at New-castle on Rom. 13. 1. 1639. 2. Of Resurrection 1641. at Spittle 3. Of Contentions on 1 Cor. 11. 16. at St. Pauls 1642. 15. Confessions and Proofs of Protestant Divines 1644. Quarto about Episcopacy 16. Of Gods Providence called Ezekiels Wheel 1653. b Where of one Loe of a good memory was one against whose Non-conformity be writ a large Lâ—tter to the Colledge a With him suffered the Reverend and stupendiously learned Mr. Thorndike Dr. Crawley of Agmionsham Dr. Cowley Dr. Salman Dr. Sherman the two last bred at the Charteâ—-house the last Author of the sober book called White Salt and of the Potes Infallibility a very learned sober and charitable man in the worst times and because he had 80 l. of his own would not accept of his Fellowship in the best timesâ— eminent for gathering Conâ—is butions to Bishop Waltons Bible and other â—oyal and Worâ—by designs a With him were turned out Doctor Charles Mason the excelleâ—t Doctor Joâ— Peâ—â—â—on Maâ—g Prof. of Divinity in Camb. Mr. of Trin. Coll. and Archdeacon of Surrey a 〈…〉 himself in his Books b Mr. G. 〈◊〉 a With him were Sequestred that incomparable Preacher and sweet-natured man Dr. Lake of Bishopsgate London the worthy and beloved Bishop Morgan of Bangor the excellent Dr. Boteâ—er of the North. a Pâ—inted by Mr. William Weirs and Mr Scot at the Princes Aâ—â—es in Little Brittain a Dr. South on Tit. 2. ult a The First Battel b Nâ—uâ—f psaâ— diceadâ—m 〈◊〉 sccâ—â—siâ— a When at at Edge-hill he Winged the Foot with the Horse on all sides taking advantage both of ground and winde the like he did at Round way down decoying Hazelrigs Horse to an advantage and then beating them upon their own Foot to
him to reâ—â—â— wâ—â—in 14. days with the Sea◠〈◊〉 of High Tâ—â—â—eson Sir Ed. Litleton is desceâ—ded of Sir Tho. Litleton Author of the book of Tenures commented on by Sir Edw. Cooke and of so much repute that the Iudgâ—s in K. Jâ—â—â—s'sâ—â—me â—â—me declarâ—â— that his Case was not to â—e qaâ—stioned b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Ogmiâ— Eloquii preside Thebâ—no â—onstâ—orum Domitore a Both of the Long-Pareiament acting vigorously among the Members as Oxford b He was of Clare-Hall Cambâ—â— I think a good Benefactor to it c Sir 〈◊〉 Heath Ruâ—l paid for composâ—â—ion 700l Rich. Heath Weston Chest. 138 l. and R. H. of Eyerton Cheshire Esq 237 l. J. H. of Braâ—steel Kent Esq 52l and then were two Col. of his name in the King Army Col. Francis and Jo. Heath a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c 〈…〉 d 〈…〉 a His Tract about planâ—ing Tobacco in England a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 c He purchased â—ands there and Lawyers generâ—lly 〈◊〉 Lands near the place of their birth built their Nâ—sts near the place where they were Hatched a 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 a Who paid 500l composition Heâ—â— â—â—d Berlâ— 610l Sir Thomas Hâ—de and 300l a Giving Chamber counâ—â—l about convâ—iances and writing good books as Lex terrae conâ—uâ—ed onely by sevenarguments Authoritate viarre fraude metu terrore tyrannide b H. B. Om. Anâ— as he published many other Loyal Elogies under the covert name of H. G. a The Daughter of Mr. H. Southworth Merchâ—nt and Customer of Lond. reâ—yâ—ing afâ—eâ— he had got a greet E. state at wellâ— where Bishop Lake who never mâ—râ—yed any besides in râ—yed her to Dr Ducke b See his Funeral Sermon Mrs. Marg. Duck. c Bâ—â— it remembred 〈◊〉 when there was a 〈◊〉 after the confirmatioâ—â— Bâ—shâ—p Monntagues Eâ—ctâ—oâ— to 〈◊〉 Bâ—shâ—pâ—ick of oâ— Chicâ—ester to dine at a Tâ—vern here fased it because dâ—â—ing in 1 Ta veâ—â— gave the occasion to the â—alde of the Nags head Consecration Tho Reeves of Reading Eâ—que paid 〈…〉 a To maintain â—ax Candles in the Chappel in Trinity-hall on Annual Commemoration with a Latine Speech a Which no Clergy-man held since Bishop Gray who was Lord Treasurer 9. Edw. 4. a He was Lord 〈…〉 to King Charles 1. b Bishop â—ush Harpsâ—ield Hist. Eccles. Aug. 15. â—aeculâ— c. 24. c Whose Men Miracles were written on purpoâ—e to please the Duk into Learning a 〈…〉 b Eâ—â—s de Aug. He was buried aâ— Westminster-Abheâ— April 24. 1662. a He had another Brother a great sufferer câ—â—ncellor of Bangor and Saint Asaph Sir Henry Griffith of Agnisâ—â—rton York Bar with 1781. per annum settled 4461l Mr. Ed. Griffith of Henslan Denb 170l Peâ— Griffiâ—h of Carnvy â—lint Esq 113l Sir Ed. Griffith Ding by North. 1700l b Eccleâ—â—ull-castle 〈◊〉 â—â—affordsâ—â—â—e â—â—e â—â—de an excellent Apology for himself in Parliament a Foâ—nding a School and an Alms-house there a An accurate Logician Philosopher and School-Divine as appears by his Letter to Dr. â—aâ—â—or about his Unum Necessaâ—ium b Much lamented by the whole Kingdome more own by his Diocesse most of all by the Chuch and his Majesty who was much concerned for him a 〈…〉 b Whereof he was a Member R. C. in L. A. Ep. W. a And one of the Commissioners as Bishop Gauden and Bishop Earls was for reviewing the Liturgy and satisfying the dissenting Brethren b The very Parliament naming him as worthy to be one of the Assembly 1643. though he thought not it worthy of him c How well he understood the world in his younger days appears be his smart Characters how little be valued it was seen in the careless indifference of his bâ—ly contempâ—ative life a 〈◊〉 pâ—â—la oâ— the Vniversity chaplain to the 〈◊〉 and â—â—inister of a Living of his donation in Wâ—lâ—shire which he quitted with iâ—s Lord when he attended be â—â—ded not as urged with 〈◊〉 Arâ—â—uns by hâ—m his Master a Only Mr. Faringdon saith he spake of his Sermon Diâ—i Custodiaâ—â— with complacency a He proceeded 1631. a As Sir William â—ackehouse son Mr. Stokes Dr. Will. LLoyd Mr. Arth Haughton who had much ado to prevail with his modesty to publish his Trigonometria b In the Mathematical way a 〈…〉 b 〈◊〉 L' Hâ—lic de Blmville beâ— the Pâ—â—icc of Wales He 〈◊〉 Baâ—â—â— shment An 〈◊〉 Dom. 1â—42 Novem 14. Ann Ae aâ— 58. leâ— râ—â—ng 〈◊〉 â— st Charles Stuâ—t 〈◊〉 of Oriel Colledge Oxon â—â—bind him a sweet-natured and a very 〈◊〉 Gentlemen c And buried I think in Salisbury a He was in the Tower sâ—veral years sed with bread and water which diâ—t by Gods providence having saved his life when his veâ—â— broke hedâ— onlâ— little or nothing but water all his life time after and eat nothing but once in 24. or 30. hours b He was Prebendary of Durham before and â—â—â—plain and Executor to Bishop Morten c Hâ— gave liberally towards the repair of Saint Pauls a 〈…〉 and the good I expect from you will bring so great a benefit to your Country and to yourself that I cannot think that you will decline my Interest I leave the way and manner of declaring it intirely to your own Judgement and will comply with the advice you will give me The other to Sir John about him in these words I am confident that George Monke can have no malice in his heart against me noâ— hath he done any thing against me which I cannot easily pardon and it is in his power to do me so great service that I cannot easily reward but I will do all I can and perform what he shall promise his Army whereof he shall still keep the Command upon the word of a King July 21. 1659. b I think that 〈…〉 who was taken up 30. years after his Fuâ—eral as 〈◊〉 as the first 〈◊〉 he was 〈◊〉 was his Faâ—hel a where 〈◊〉 Broâ—her D. Wâ—en him Father is the 〈◊〉 genieus and learned Dr. W. â—n Ajironony-prosessor in Oxford b Two Ser mons aâ— Cambridge made him mâ—st â—â—ment the one an â—ssize Sermon upon a disign to Drayn the Fens 〈◊〉 Amos 5. 24 the other 〈◊〉 veturn out of Spain on Psal. 42. 7. C Twenty 〈…〉 of St. Johns Peter-Iâ—ose and Pembrokeâ—hall beirghiâ— Relâ—tions in mourning a Whereof he sent out the first part viz his Mosaique History first the acceptance of which among the learned encouraged him to finish it b And the doctrine of Regeneration in Joh 3. 6 which because he saidâ— that any great sin did extinguish grace and that St. Paul Rom. 7. Spâ—â—t in the person of anunregener 〈◊〉 man K. James was displeased a The Mythological part is most excellent b Wherein among â—thers he dâ—famed this opinion c He got the skill in Grammar in the Low-Countries where he was a Souldier a Where he was a Prisâ—ner as he was in the Fleet c. a Being turned out of his Fellowship a Whose â—ay of versitying on 〈◊〉 subâ—ects was