and near Oxon. Afterwards he was Lecturer of Allhallows Church in Breadstreet within the City of London took the degree of Bach. of Div. in the year 1633 and about that time became Vicar of S. Andrews Church in the then factious town of Plymouth in Devon where continuing in great liking among the godly party did for benefit and interest sake side with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the most wicked rebellion raised by them was a zealous and forward man against the King his Party and Bishops took all oaths that followed was an enemy to the Orthodox Clergy and in 1654 was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Devon to eject such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters In 1662 when the Act of conformity took place he left his cure in Plymouth lived there and exercising his function in private that is in Conventicles among the Brethren contrary to the Act was with Tho. Martin the late Lecturer of that Church a Conventicler also conveyed into S. Nicholas Island near Plymouth an 1665 where they remained about 9 Months In which time our author Hughes wrot an answer to Joh. Serjeants book entit Sure-footing At length his health being much impaired as the Brethren reported and his legs black and swoln he was offer'd his liberty upon condition of giving security of a 1000 l not to live within 20 miles of Plymouth Which being accordingly effected by the Brethren without his knowledge he retired to Kingsbridge in Devonsh found entertainment in the house of one Daniel Elley a Brother and was much frequented to the last by the fanatical party He was the most noted Presbyterian if not Independent of his time in Devonshire and a most eager defender of his against the prelatical party and ceremonies of the Church of England His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Fun Sermon on 2. Kings 13.14 Printed 1632. qu. 3 Fun. Sermon on Psal 16.10 Pr. 1642. qu. 4 Drie rod blossoming printed 1644. qu. 5 Vae-eugae-tuba or the Wo-joy-trumpet c. Fast serm before the H. of Commons 26. May 1647. on Rev. 11.15 Lond. 1647. qu. c. Exposition on the small prophets Lond. 1657. fol. Sure footing in Christianity examined Lond. 1668. oct Exposition on the book of Job Lond. 1669. fol. Aphorismes or select propositions of the Scripture truly determining the doctrine of the Sabbath Printed 1670. 71. oct Exposition on Genesis and on 23 Chapters of Exodus Amsterd 1672. fol. and other things which I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature in the house of D. Elley of Kingsbridge before mention'd in the beginning of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Church there near to the Pulpit Over his grave is this inscription fastned to a pillar just opposite to the Pulpit In memoriam suaveolentem aeternùm colendam viri desideratissimi Georgii Hughes SS Th. B. Plymudensium nuper pastoris vigilantissimi sacrae sensus paginae penitiores eruere homines concione flectere precibus Deum mirè edocti Qui solis aemulum ab oriente auspicatus cursum ortu Londinâs occidentale dehinc sidus diu claruit lucem in vitâ spargens undique moriens luctum Vitaeque verè vitalis curriculo in an lxiv perducto optima perfunctus perpessus mala requiem tandem invenit animo quidem in caelis corpori verò in subjacente tumulo ipsis Julii nonis an salutis MDCLXVII Symmistae longè charissimi Georgii Geofridi A. M. cujus exuviae ante ter-novem annos ibidem sitae nunc primum in cineres solvuntur novis miscendos Nacta sacros cineres servata fideliter urna Haec uterum satio tibi foecundabit inertem O faelix tumuli matrix de morte renatos Olim tam claros hosce enixura Gemellos Posuit honoris amoris ergô Thomas Crispinus Exoniensis The said Tho. Crispin a rich Fuller of Exeter and founder of a Free-school in Kingsbridge about the year 1670. was at the charge of setting up the said marble monument and Mr. Joh. Howe who married Hughes his daughter drew up the inscription as I have been informed by a neighbouring Minister of that place RICHARD HEYRICK a younger Son of Sir Will. Heyrick of Beaumannour in Leycestershire Kt who fined for Alderman of London and died about 1653 was born in London educated in Merchant Taylors School became Commoner of S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1617 aged 17 took the degrees in Arts was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1624 and about that time entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was beneficed in Norfolk made Warden of Christs Coll. in Manchester in Lancashire sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the rebellion took the Covenant was made one of the Ass of Divines carried on the cause with great zeal was in the plot for which Christop Love suffered and afterwards became an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lancashire for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Upon the approach of his Majesties restauration he seemed to be zealous for it and turning about as many of his party did kept his Wardenship to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Three sermons preached in the collegiat Church of Manchester the first on Psal 122.6 the second 2. Thes 2.15 and the third on Gen. 49.5.6.7 Lond. 1641. in oct 2 Qu. Esthers resolve or a Christian pattern for heaven born resolution Fast Sermon before the House of Com. on Esther 4.16 Lond. 1646. qu. Besides others which I have not yet seen among which is A Sermon on 2. of Kings 11. ver 12. Lond. 1661. qu. He departed this mortal life on the sixth day of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 67 and was buried in the Collegiat Church of Manchester Soon after was a comely monument put over his grave at the charge of Anna-Maria his Relict with a large inscription thereon made by his antient and entire friend Mr. Tho. Case a London Minister who had been intimately acquainted with him while he was a student in the University of Oxon part of it runs thus Siste viator morae pretium est sub eodem cippo cum venerabili Huntingdono primo hujus collegii Custode jacet decimus quartus ab eo successor Ricardus Heyrick Gulielmi Heyrick equitis Aurati filius Collegii Om. Animarum apud Oxonienses socius olim studiosissimus ecclesiae de North-Reps in agro Norfolciensi deinde pastor fidissimus hujusce denique collegii per triginta duos annos multa alia ultro sibi oblata Beneficia aversatus hâc solâ dignitate contentus Custos sive Guardianus vigilantissimus Qui judicium solidum cum ingenio acutissimo singularem zelum cum prudentia eximia gravitatem summam cum egregia morum suavitate generis nobilitatem nominis celebritatem quaecunque minores animas inflare solent cum humilitate
degrees in Arts holy Orders and was made either a Reader or Curate of S. Margarets Church in the City of Westminster In the time of the rebellion when he saw the Church of England declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and went to Paris where by the name of Rolandus Palingenius he made a shift to get a livelyhood by his mendicant scribbles his lepid veine and art of Poetry among the English Gentlemen and other Grandies of France He hath written Varia Poemata Mostly in Lat. some in English and some in French to which he would somtimes make additions of copies to them on new Patrons as they came to his knowledg just as Payne Fisher afterwards did to shark money from those who delighted to see their names in print This Will. Rowland who wrot himself in the title of his Poems Gul. Rolandus Poeta Regius was a boon Droll a jolly companion and was generally called Doctor having had that degree conferâd on him as I have heard at Paris At length retiring for health sake to a village called Vambre near to that great City he having brought his body into a consumption by too much lifting ended his days there in sixteen hundred fifty and nine or thereabouts I have seen a Book intit Legenda lignea c. containing a character of some hopeful Saints revolted to the Church of Rome Lond. 1653. oct In which book p. 172 c. you may see a full if not too smart character of this Will. Rowland but whether all is true that is said of him there for the Book is full of scurrilities may be justly question'd Since I wrot this I find one Will. Rowland Master of Arts and Dr. of Physick as he writes himself to have translated into English besides several books of Physick that he hath written A Treatise of spirits and wind offending mans body Lond. 1668. qu. Written by Dr. Jo. Fienus but the translation being by him dedicated to the vertuosi of the Royal Society first founded 1660 I cannot take him to be the same with the former ROBERT DINGLEY Son of Sir Joh. Dingley of London Knight and Nephew by the Mother to Dr. Hen. Hammond was born in Surrey entred a Student in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1634 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a great observer of Church ceremonies and a remarkable Bower to the Altar when he came into the Chappel But soon after the Presbyterians carrying all before he as a vain man sided with them became an enemy to those things which he before had a zeal for and for the love he bore to the cause became by the favour of his Kinsman Coll. Robert Hammond Governour of the isle of Wight Rector of Brightestone alias Brixton or Brison in the said Isle where he was much frequented by the godly party for his practical way of preaching and hated by the Royallists for his activity in ejecting such that were by some called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters during the time that he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of Hampshire an 1654. 55. c. He hath written The Spiritual tast described or a Glimpse of Christ discovered in two parts grounded on Psal 34.8 and on Malac. 4 2. Lond. 1649. oct Before which book is the picture of the Author fat and jolly in a Presb. Cloak This book came out in 1651. with this title Divine relishes of matchless goodness c. The disputation of Angells or the Angell-Guardian 1 Proved by the divine light of nature c. 2 From many rubs and mistakes c. 3 Applied and improved for our information c. chiefly grounded on Acts 12.15 Lond. 1654. oct As the former book was perused and commended to the World by Tho. Goodwin Pres of Magd. Coll. and Will. Strong so this by Nich. Lockyer of New Inn afterwards Provost of Eaton Coll. Messiah's splendor or the glimpsed glory of a beauteous Christian printed in oct Divine Opticks or a treatise of the eye discovering the vices and virtues thereof as also how that Organ may be tuned chiefly grounded on Psal 119.37 Lond. 1655. in oct Philosophical Historical and Theological observations of Thunder with a more general view of Gods wonderful works Lond. 1658. oct in which year he had a Sermon published on Job 26.14 in oct which I have not yet seen But our Author Dingley having said and preached some things not pleasing to the Quakers he was animadverted upon by George Fox in his Great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 361. c. He died at Brightestone beforemention'd in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there with this inscription on his grave Here lieth the body of Mr. Robert Dingley Minister of this place second Son of Sir John Dingley Knight who died in the fortieth year of his age on the twelfth day of January 1659. JOHN SALKELD fourth Son of Edw. Salkeld Gent. second brother to George Salkeld somtimes of Corby Castle in Cumberland Esquire lineally descended from Sir Rich. Salkeld Kt Lord Warden of Carlile in the time of K. Ric. 3 was born at Corby Castle and when very young journied through Oxon beyond the Seas but in what house he was entred unless in Qu. Coll. I cannot tell His continuance there as I have been informed was so short occasion'd by his Religion that we can scarce reckon him among the Oxonians For so it was that his Father soon after conveyed him into Spain entred him among the Jesuits in the University of Conimbria where as also at Corduba and Complutum he continued among them in the condition of a Jesuit many years and was Assistant in the studies to the famous Jesuits Franc. Suarius who was his fellow student several years and Mich. Vasquez Afterwards he was sent into Portugall where he read Philosophy about six years then into the English mission but being taken and brought before K. Jam. 1 who had several times heard of him and his eminency for learning he entred into divers disputes with him at several times At length being overcome by his solid arguments Salkeld turned Protestant was recommended to Dr. King Bishop of London for maintenance and in Nov. 1613 became by the presentation of his Majesty Vicar of Wellington in Somersetshire being then Bach. of Div. where he used to boast of his conversion and to stile himself the Royal Convert In 1635 he was made Minister of Church Taunton in Devonshire worth to him about 200 l. per an whereupon one Walt. Travers was instituted Vicar of Wellington in his place on the 16. of July the same year But after the Civil Wars broke forth he suffer'd for the Royal cause being esteemed by the obstinate and incredulous Presbyterians a Papist in his heart or at least popishly affected He was a Person profoundly read in Theological and other Authors and K. Jam. 1. doth
Preacher against Bishops Ceremonies c. and being a frequent and constant holder forth was followed by those of the vicinity especially such who were of his perswasion In 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for the ejecting of all such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters and was not wanting in any thing whereby he might express his zeal for the aforesaid cause His works are these The light of faith and way of holiness shewing how and what to believe in all estates and conditions Lond. 1630. oct Doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated or a confutation of a Treatise of the Sabbath written by Mr. Edw. Brerewood against Mr. Nich. Byfield Lond. 1632. qu. The Power of the Christ of God or a Treatise of the power as it is originally in God the Father and by him given to Christ his Son c. Lond. 1641. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Zions answer to the Nations Embassadors c. Fast Sermon before the H. of Commons 25 June 1645 on Isay 14.32 Lond. 1645. qu. 2 Sermon on 1. Cor. 3.17 Lond. 1653. qu. c. The Gospels Glory without prejudice to the Law shining forth in the Glory of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost for the Salvation of sinners who through grace do believe according to the draught of the Apostle Paul in Rom. 3.34 Lond. 1659. Beginning of the Doctrine of Christ Lond. 1660 in tw Whether any other matters were by him published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after he had been ejected from Long Ditton for Nonconformity he retired to Mortclack in Surrey where dying in December in sixteen hundred sixty and four was buried in the Church there leaving this character behind him among the Godly and such that frequented his Conventicles that he was a pious good and harmless man He had another Brother called Adoniram Byfield who became first to be known for the love he bore to the righteous cause by being Chaplain to Colonel Cholmondiley's Regiment in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex the Generalissimo for the Parliament in 1642 and soon after for his being one of the scribes to the Assemb of Divines and a most zealous Covenantier He was afterwards Minister of one of the Collingborns in Wilts was an Assistant to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters He died about the time of his Majesties restauration as it seems for on the 12 of Feb. 1660 Catherine his Relict had letters of administration granted to her to administer the goods debts c. of him the said Ad. Byfield of the Parish of S. Martins in the Fields in Middlesex lately deceased JEREMY STEPHENS Son of Walt. Stephens sometimes Rector of Bishops Castle in Shropshire was born there 1592 entred a Student in Brasn Coll. 29 March 1609 where by continual lucubration he diligently ran through all the forms of Logick and Philosophy and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615. In Decemb. the same year he was made Deacon and about that time Chaplain of All 's Coll. In 1616 May 26 he received the Orders of Priesthood and in 1621 was made Rector of Quinton in Northamptonshire Five years after that he had confer'd upon him the Rectory of Wotton within a Mile of Quinton which with Quinton were bestowed on him by K. Ch. 1. In 1628 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1641 was made Prebendary of Biggleswade in the Church of Lincolne by the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury as a reward of his Labours with Sir Hen. Spelman in the Edition of the first tome or volume of the Councils In 1644 he was sequestred from all his Ecclesiastical preferments by a Committee sitting at Northampton plunder'd imprison'd barbarously used and silenced After the Kings returâ in 1660 he was restored to them and for a requital of his sufferings had the Prebendship of Ilâracomb in the Church of Salisbury confer'd upon him upon the resignation of Edw. Davenant He hath written and published these things following Notae in D. Cyprian de unitate Ecclesiae Lond. 1632. oct Notae in D. Cypr. de bono patientiae Lond. 1633. oct Both which were collated with antient Mss by the care of certain Oxonian Theologists Apologie for the antient right and power of the Bishops to sit and vote in Parliaments Lond. 1660 the question then of restitution being under debate In the year 1663 he began to print the History of Sacriledge designed and began by Sir Hen. Spelman and left to Stephens to perfect and publish but that work sticking long in the Press both the copy and sheets printed off perished in the grand conflagration of London 1666. Besides these he finished and fitted for the Press divers other pieces whereof the argument of some were superseded by the Kings happy restauration such as A comparison between the Belgick Gallick Bohemian and Scotch with the English Covenant Account of the principles and practices of the Presbyterians The Sequestration of the Clergy by Joh. Pym and Joh. White Other things which he finished but prevented their publication by death are these Treatise of the Laws of England The design of the Cormorants upon the Church Lands defeated in the time of K. Hen. 5 effected in the days of K. Hen. 8. and other things He also published B. Gregorii magni Episcopi Romani de curâ pastorali liber verè aureus accuratè emendatus restitutus è Vet. Mss cum Romanâ Editione collatis Lond. 1629. oct This was the Book that the most renown'd K. Alfred translated into the Saxon Language and recommended to all the Diocesses of his Kingdom in that great dearth of learning when scarce a Priest on the North of Humber was found able to translate the Lords Prayer or to understand the Latine Service This I say he published being collated with antient Mss by the care of several Oxford Doctors and Bach. of Divinity In the year also 1633 he was joyned with Sir Hen. Spelman to assist in compiling and publishing the first Tome of the English Councils a work that cost them seven years labour And tho the Book bare the name of Spelman yet is the assistance of our Author Stephens acknowledged by Spelman in the Preface to the Reader in these words Quo autem auspicio in lucem prodibunt me jam sane propemodum exhausto secundus tertius viz. Tomus haud ausim polliceri Nisi illos vir dilectus bono natus publico Jeremias Stephens typis curaverit mandandos cujus operâ primuâ hic Tomus me adhuc tantum non invito in lucem prodiit After this viz. in 1641 Spelman died and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the door of S. Nicholas Chappel 24. oct and then some years after our Author Stephens published Spelmans larger
of Will. Warm Registrary of the Cath. Church at Worcester was born and educated in Grammar learning in that City became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1624 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1631 and had some spiritual cure in his own Country confer'd upon him soon after In 1640 he was Clerk for the Diocess of Worcester in the two Convocations of the Clergy held that year and in 1642 he retired for security sake the Nation being then in a combustion to the King at Oxon where he was actually created D. of D. the same year and afterwards lost what he had before obtained in the Church notwithstanding he had always before been accounted a Puritan After the Kings cause declined he lived mostly in London was the distributer of money obtained from generous Loyalists to sufferers for the royal interest was chief confessor to loyal Martyrs a constant and indefatigable visiter and comforter of sick and distressed Cavaliers for so the Royalists were called very zealous also in converting Infidels industrious in reclaiming the loose and establishing the wavering zealous and careful in preparing his auditors for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost was made Prebendary of Glocester and in the year following Dean of Worcester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Oliver in which Dignity he was installed 27. Nov. 1661. He hath written and published A convocation speech against images altars crosses the new canons and the oath Lond. 1641 in 3. sh in qu. Pax vobis or a charm for tumultuous spirits being an advice to the City of London to forbear their disorderly meetings at Westminster Lond. 1641. qu. Ramus Olivae or a petition for peace to his Maj. and the Houses of Parliament Oxon. 1642. qu. Answer to one W. Bridges concerning the present war and taking up Arms against the King Printed 1643. qu. This W. Bridges I take to be the same with him who wrot Some short annotations on The loyal convert Lond. 1644. in 4. sheets in qu. but not the same I presume with Will. Bridges Preacher at S. Dunstans in the East London Author of Joabs counsel and Davids seasonable hearing it serm before the H. of Com. at the publick fast 22. Feb. 1642 on 2. Sam. 19.5.6.7.8 Lond. 1643. qu. and of other things I find one Will. Bridge to have been fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Minister in Norfolk but to avoid the censures of Episcopal consistories he with Jerem. Burroughes withdrew themselves into the Low countries Upon the change of the times occasion'd by the Presbyterians Bridge returned became Minister at Yarmouth in Norfolk a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament a notorious Independent and a keeper up of that faction by continual preaching during the time of Usurpation silenced upon his Majesties return carried on his cause with the said Jer. Burroughs in Conventicles at Clapham in Surrey till about the time of his death which hapned in 1670. I say this Will. Bridge who while he lived published several Sermons and Theological Tracts and after his death had 8 of his Sermons made publick which are entituled Bridges remains c. Lond. 1673. oct with his picture before them is not to be taken to be the same with Will. Bridges before mention'd because of the different writings of their names Dr. Warmestry hath also written An hearty and friendly premonition to the City of London before their meeting in their common Hall 24 1648. whereby they have an opportunity to become the happy instruments of their own safety and the peace and preservation of the Kingdom Lond. 1648 in two sheet in qu. Vindication of the solemnity of the nativity of Christ Printed 1648. qu. Answer to certain Queries propounded by one Joseph Hemming in opposition to the practice of the Church in the solemnity of the said nativity Printed with the Vindication Sighs of the Church and Commonwealth of England Lond. 1648. in tw A box of Spiknard or a little manual of Sacramental instruction and devotion especially helpful to the People of God at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper Lond. 1664 third edit in 12o. printed there again in 1671. and 74. in 24o. The baptized Turk or a narrative of the happy conversion of Signior Rigep Dandulo the only Son of a silk Merchant in the isle of Tzio c. and of his admission unto Baptisme by Mr. Pet. Gunning at Exeter house Chappel 8. Nov. 1657. Lond. 1658. oct This narrative was drawn up by our Author Warmestry who caused the picture of the said Dandulo in a Turkish habit to be put before it The countermine of union or the Jesuits mine of division being a short platform of expedients for peace Lond. 1660. What other books he hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying on the 30. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five aged 60 or thereabouts was buried by his Father Grandfather and other relations in the body of the Cathedral at Worcester not far from the north door Over his grave is an inscription engraven on a black marble the copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 279.6 In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Will. Thomas of whom I shall make mention in his proper place ROBERT POINTZ son of Sir John Pointz was born of and descended from an antient and noble family of his name living at Iron-Acton in Glocestershire was educated for a time in the quality of a Gent. Com. in this University but in what Coll. unless in that of Lincoln for I cannot find him matriculated as yet I know not Afterwards he studied for a time in one of the Temples and when K. Ch. 1. was crown'd in 1625 he was made one of the Knights of the Bath He hath written A vindication of Monarchy and the government long established in the Ch. and Kingdom of England against the pernitious assertions and tumultuous practices of the Innovators during the last Parliament in the raign of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. qu. He was buried in the Church of Iron-Acton among the graves of his ancestors on the tenth day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five aged 79 years or thereabouts leaving then behind him a Son named John a Knight who died in the Middle Temple at London in 1680 and left behind him a relict named Anne but not the estate at Iron-Acton because it had been conveyed away by his Father One of his name and family called Captain John Pointz wrot and published The present prospect of the famous and fertile Island of Tobago c. with Proposals for the encouragement of all those that are minded to settle there Lond. 1683. in 7 sh in qu. Whether he was of any University I know not JOHN EARLE received his first being in this vain and transitory
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
his Rambles by Drinking and Whoring died there in the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and two whereupon he was buried by the Name of Dr. Higham on the south side of the body of the Church there under the seats on the 23 day of the same month One Joh. Higham hath published a book called A Looking-glass for Loyalty printed 1675. oct but he is not to be taken for the same with the former nor for another Joh. Higham a R. C. Bookseller of S. Omers living in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 who translated from Spanish into English Meditations upon the Mysteries of our holy faith S. Omers 1619. in two or more tomes in qu. HENRY WHISTLER an Oxfordshire man born was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. 1601 aged 16 years and four years after was made Fellow thereof So that taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into holy Orders became Rector of Little Whitnam in Berks Bach. of Div. 1615 and about that time Rector of Whitchurch in the south part of Oxfordshire near to which place he was born He hath written and published a rapsodical piece intit Aim at an Upshot for Infant baptism by the good will of Christ as Priest Prophet and King c. Lond. 1653. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Over his grave is this Inscription Here lieth the body of Henry Whistler Bachelaur of Divinity who departed this life the 24 day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1672 in the 86 year of his age having been Rector of this Parish 56 years PHILIPP NYE was born of a gentile Family in Sussex entred a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 21. July 1615. aged 19 years or thereabouts but making no long stay there he removed to Madg. Hall where being put under the tuition of a puritanical Tutor continued till he had taken the degrees in Arts. About that time he entred into holy orders and had some cure bestowed on him but where unless in S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lond. where I find him in 1630 I cannot justly tell But so it was that he being Schismatically enclined did with others of his perswasion leave his Cure purposely to avoid the censures of Episcopal Consistories and went beyond the Seas into Holland about 1633 where continuing for the most part at Arnheim in Gelderland till about the latter end of 1640 at which time the Members of the Parl. afterward called the Long Parl. were very dominant and prevailing he returned and became soon after by the favour of Edward Lord Kimbolton about that time Earl of Manchester Minister of Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire And tho he then and before shew'd himself a severe censurer of Bishops and those of the Episcopal Clergy for medling in civil affairs as excentrick to their calling yet he with Hugh Peters Steph. Marshall c. did go beyond any of them in that matter more than for 7 years together In 1643 he was appointed one of the Assembly of Divines became a great Champion for the Presbyterian cause and a zealous assertor of the solemn League and Covenant In July the same year he with Steph. Marshall whose Daughter he had taken to Wife were sent by the Parliament into Scotland to expedite their Covenant where in set speeches he told the People that they were to enter into such a Covenant and League as would never be forgotten by them and their posterity and both have occasion to remember it with joy Also that such an oath it is as for matter persons and other circumstances that the like hath not been in any age sufficiently warranted by both humane and divine story for as God did swear for the salvation of men and kingdoms so kingdoms must now swear for the preservation and salvation of kingdoms to establish a Saviour Jesus Christ in England c. After his return both houses of Parl. took the Covenant 25. of Sept. the same year at which time Nye made some observations from the Pulpit touching the said Covenant shewing the warrant of it from Scripture and was about the same time partly rewarded for his good service with the Rectory of Acton near London in the place of Dr. Dan. Featley ejected But soon after disliking the proceedings of the said Ass of Divines he dissented from them for a time as others did being incited thereunto by certain Politicians with promises of reward especially if they would oppose them and their intended discipline to be setled So that then closing with the rising party the Independents especially with the Grandees of the Army he did by their favour hold rich Offices and his counsel in political affairs was often used by them In Dec. 1647 he with Steph. Marshall were sent by them to the King at Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight with the Commissioners then appointed to carry the four bills the four dethroning votes and had for their pains 500 l. apiece given to them About that time also he was employed by the said Grandees to get subscriptions from the Apprentices in London and factious people against a personal treaty with the King while the Citizens of that place were petitioning for one See more in Jos Caryl In Apr. also the next year he with the said Marshall and Jos Caryl were employed by the Independents to invite the secured and secluded members to sit in the House again but they effected nothing In 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors for the approbation of publick Preachers in which office he acted the Politician so much that he did not only get his Son to be Clerk to them but also enriched himself with bribes underhand-dealing and with a Living of 400 l. per an by the help of the said Marshall one of that number In 1654 he with Dr. Laz. Seamon Sam. Clark Rich. Vines Ob. Sedgwick Jos Caryl c. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parl. to eject such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters in the City of London where he especially and they acted with no little rigor to the utter undoing of many loyal Persons In 1660 after his Majesties restauration it was debated by the Healing Parliament for several hours together whether he and John Goodwin that infamous and blackmouth'd Independent should be excepted for life because they had acted so highly none more except Hugh Peters against the King and had been instrumental in bringing all things into confusion At length it came to this result that if Philip Nye Clerk should after the first of Sept. in the same year accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted from life In Nov. 1662 he was vehemently suspected to be in that plot for which George Philips Thâm Tongue c. were executed but how he
there-molested by the loyal party at Ashover and near it he went to London where he became preacher to the Congregation in S. Sepulchres Church and was much admired by the Brethren In the raign of Oliver about 1656 he by the favour of those then in authority became Rector of Waltham in Leycestershire conformed at his Majesties restauration and on the 12. of March 1669 was instituted and inducted into the Rectory of Ailston in the said County This person who was well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen hath written and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Rainbow Sermon at Paules Cross 10. June 1617 on Gen. 9.13 Lond. 1617. qu. 2 The Godly mans guide on Jam. 5.13 Lond. 1620. qu. 3 The true way of a Christian to the new Jerusalem or a threefold demonstration c. on 1 Cor. 5.17 Ibid. 1622 qu. 4. Anatomy of Conscience c. Assize Serm. at Derby on Rev. 20.11 Ibid. 1623. qu. c. A light from Christ leading unto Christ by the starr of his word Or a divine directory for self examination and preparation for the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1645. oct In another edition or another title Pr. there in a thick oct the said book hath this title A light c. Or the rich Jewel of Christian Divinity c. by way of Catechism or dialogue Defence of Scriptures and the holy Spirit speaking in them as the chief Judge of Controversies of faith c. Lond. 1656. qu. Vindication of the honor done to the Magistrates Ministeâs and others Printed with the Defence c. and both contained in a relation of a disputation at Chesterfield in Derbyshire between some Ministers and James Nayler an erring Quaker The said Defence and Vindication were both answer'd by George Fox a ringleader of Quakers in his book entit The great mysterie of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 127. c. Defence and justification of Ministers maintenance by tithes and of Infant-baptisme humane learning and the Sword of the Magistrate c. in a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to the said Im. Bourne Lond. 1659. qu. Animadversions upon Anth. Perisons Parsons Great case of tithes Printed with the Defence and justification c. A Gold chaine of directions with 20 gold linkes of love to preserve love firme between husband and wife c. Lond. 1669. in tw dedicated to his Patron John Lord Roos What other matters he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying on the 27. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Ailston before mentioned and that soon after was a little inscription put over his grave wherein 't is said that he died in the eighty second year of his age JOSEPH CARYL was born of gentile Parents in London became a Commoner or Sojournour of Exeter Coll in the beginning of 1621 aged 17 years where by the benefit of a good Tutor and discipline he became in short time a noted Disputant In 1627 he proceeded in Arts and entring into holy Orders exercised his Function in and near Oxon for some time At length being puritanically affected he became preacher to the honorable Society of Lincolns Inn where he continued several years with good liking and applause In 1642 and after he became a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament and a Licenser of books for the Cause And in the year following being a zealous Covenantier and a pretender to reformation he was elected one of the Ass of Divines among whom he frequently sate and controverted matters of Religion In 1645 he was made Minister of the Church of S. Magnus near London bridge by the factious party there because he was an enemy to the Bishops and a zealous preacher up of rebellion where for many years he carried on the cause without interruption In January 1646 he with Steph. Marshall both by that time notorious Independents and great siders with the Army raised by the said Parliament to pluck down the K. and his party were appointed Chaplains to the Commissioners sent by the said Parliament to the King then at New-castle in order for an accommodation of peace Thence by easie journeys they accompanied the K. and Commissioners to Holdenly in Northamptonshire where his Maj. making some continuance without any of his Chaplains in Ordinary to wait upon him because they disrelish'd the Covenant they the said Ministers upon the desire of the Commissioners did offer their service to preach before the K. and say Grace at Meales but they were both by him denied the K. alwaies saying Grace himself with an audible voice standing under the State So that our author Caryl and Marshall to whom the King nevertheless was civil did take so great disgust at his Majesties refusals that they did ever after mightily promote the Independent slander of the Kings obstinacy T is said that Marshall did on a time put himself more forward than was meet to say Grace and while he was long in forming his Chaps as the manner was among the Saints and making ugly faces his Maj. said Grace himself and was fallen to his meat and had eaten up some part of his dinner before Marshall had ended the blessing but Caryl was not so impudent yet notwithstanding tho they then fully saw the great civilities moderation sweet temper humility prudence and unexpressible devotion in his Majesty yet there was no reluctancy in them as there were in some of the Commissioners especially in Maj. Gen. Rich. Browne In Sept. 1648 our author Caryl was one of those five Ministers that went with other Commissioners appointed by Parliament to treat of peace at Newport in the Isle of Wight where tho he preached before them yet his Maj. would not accept of him or of any of the rest among his Chaplains then with him to pray or preach before him which did again enlarge his disgust The same year January 30 some hours before the K. suffer'd death the Committee of parl ordered that he Phil. Nye and other Ministers should attend the said King to administer to him those spiritual helps as should be sutable to his then present condition but the K. being acquainted with it he would not be troubled with them so that all the desires that our author had to serve or rather impertenize his Maj. were frustrated In Apr. the next year he with Marshall and Nye were employed by the Grandees of the Army to invite and cajole the secured and secluded Members to sit in the Parliament House among the Independents but they effected nothing In Sept. 1650 he and Joh. Owen an Independent Minister were by order of Parliament sent to Scotland to attend Ol. Cromwell who desired their company at that place to receive comfort by their prayers and preachings In the latter end of 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of public Ministers in which
Afterwards the said Duke made him Professor of the Greek Language in the University of Pisa where he was held in great veneration not only for his great sufficiencies in that Tongue but also in Divinity for his great knowledge in the Fathers and in polite and curious learning His works are Notae observationes in Apologiam L. Apulei Madaurensis Philosophi platonici Par. 1635. qu. To which are added certain fragments of Antiquity in copper cuts Matthaeus ex S. Paginâ sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus ex parte illustratus Par. 1646. oct Annotationes in epistolam Jacobi Par. 1646. in a little octav Acta Apostolorum ex S. pagina sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus illustrata Par. 1647. in tw In undecim Apuleianae metamorphoseos sive Milesiarum libros annotationes uberiores Goud 1650. in a large thick oct with Pricaeus his picture before it in a cloak Towards the publishing of this book he borrowed an ancient copy of it from Archb. Laud's MSS. Index scriptorum qui in Hesychii Graeco vocabulario laudantur confectus alphabetico dispositus This is printed at the end of the former book viz. In undecim c. 'T is also printed at the end of Hesychius's Lexicon published by Corn. Schrevelius an 1668. Commentarii in varios Novi Testamenti libros Involved in the fifth tome of the Criticks Lond. 1660. fol. Among these his Commentaries are those on Matthew Acts of the Apostles and James before mentioned remitted Annotationes in Psalmorum librum Involved in the said 5 tome of Criticks Lond. 1660. fol. Epistles to several learned men in Lat. and English This great Critick who had a rambling head left the territory of the Duke of Tuscany and went to Venice under pretence of putting out Hesychius his Lexicon there and afterwards going to Rome he was received as I have heard into the retinew or at least patronage of the famous Card. Franc. Barbarini the Protector of the English Nation lived in his last days in the Covent of S. Augustin in that great City where dying in sixteen hundred seventy and six or thereabouts was buried in the Church or Chappel there I have sent once or twice for the exact time of his obit and for a copy of his Epitaph if there be any over his grave but as yet I have received no answer I shall make mention of another John Price among the Incorporations in the Fasti under the year 1680 but he was Doctor of Divinity GASPER HICKS a Ministers son was born in Berks. entred a Batler or Com. of Trin. Coll. in Mich. term 1621 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Lanerake in Cornwall where he continued a constant Preacher under the name of a Puritan several years At length upon the change of the times he openly expressed his zeal for the Cause in his Sermons more than before he had done but finding that place uneasie to him when the Royalists were dominant in that County he retired to the great City became one of the Ass of Divines a frequent Preacher in London and sometimes a Holder-forth before the Members of the Long Parliament Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings Cause he returned again to his Vicaridge and had something added to it in consideration of his sufferings In 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Cornwall for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and ever after âll the Act of Conformity came forth he was esteemed there the chief of the Presbyterian Ministers He hath ââblished Several Sermons as 1 The glory and beauty of Gods portion Fast-sermon before the H. of Commons 26 June 1644 on Isay 28.5.6 Lond. 1644. qu. The Author complaining either in this or another sermon that he had been plundred and wanted books the H. of Commons gave him 30 l. to buy more 2 Serm. at the funeral of Will Strode Esq a member of the H. of Com. 22 Sept. 1645. on Acts 13.36 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 The advantage of afflictions Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 28 Jan. 1645 on Hosea 5.15 Lond. 1646. qu. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen After the Act of Conformity was published he was turn'd out of Lanerake lived there and near it several years not without keeping up private meetings for which he was sometimes brought into trouble At length giving way to fate in sixteen hundred seventy and seven was according to his desire buried in the porch of the Parish Church of Lanerake before mentioned At his interrment on the 10 of Apr. the same year were present very many of the godly Party living near to and remote from that place THOMAS CAWTON son of Tho. Cawton a learned and religious Puritan sometimes of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was born as it seems at Wivenhoe near to Colchester in Essex his Father being then Parson of that place educated in Hebrew Syriake and Arabick tongues at Roterdam in Holland under Mr. Rob. Sheringham then an Exile for his Loyalty as Tho. Cawton the Father was for preaching against the murder of K. Ch. 1 and for being in the same plot with Christop Love for the raising of moneys to supply the Army of K. Ch. 1 when he was about to come into England from Scotland to gain his right there Afterwards our Author Tho. Cawton was by his father setled in the University of Utrecht whence after he had spent 3 years in Academical learning he came into England and at length to Merton Coll. in Oxon. for the sake if I mistake not of Mr. Sam. Clark an eminent Orientalian where at his first coming and after he was much esteemed and held in great respect for his admirable knowledge in the oriental tongues In the beginning of the year 1660 he was admitted Bach. of Arts at which time was publickly read his Testimonial dated 18 May 1659 subscribed by Joh. Leusden the ordinary Professor of the Holy Tongue in Utrecht Where in among other things I find this of Cawton Totum vetus Testamentum Hebraicum partim punctatum partim non punctatum perlegit explicuit Regulas Grammaticae syntaxeos Hebraicae optime perdidiscit Deinde in lingua Chaldaica Danielis Paraphrasibus Chaldaicis in lingua Syriacâ Novi Test in lingua Arabica commentariis Rabbinorum strenuè sese exercuit Denique quaestiones philologico-Hebraicas circa Vetus Test Hebraeum movere solitas ita perdidiscit ut summo cum honore duas disputationes philologicas publicè defenderit priorem de versione Syriaca veteris Novi Test posteriorem vero de usu linguae Hebraicae in philosophia Theoretica illius fuit Respondens hujus vero author Respondens Certe in disputatione hac componenda in ejusdem strenua defensione ingenium eruditionem suam omnibus palam
Prisoner at Carisbrook in the Isle of Wight an 1648 he was his own Chaplain as not thinking it fit to accept of any of the Presbyterian Ministers upon that account albeit as occasion offered he thanked and was civil to them when they applied themselves to him for that purpose Among others one Troughton who was Chaplain to Col. Rob. Hammond Governour of the Isle of Wight and Preacher to the Soldiers of the Garrison of Carisbrook would many times be in the Presence Chamber when his Majesty was at dinner And tho he was a young man yet he was a scholar had good education and would argue notably in defence of some Tenents he held in opposition to certain ceremonies and discipline in the Episcopacy The King usually after meals would walk for near an hour and take many turns in the Presence-Chamber and when he found the Chaplain there he would pleasurably enter into disputation with him and the Chaplain would be very earnest in defence of his opinion The K. never check'd him for his confidence but allowed him his liberty and would be very pleasant and merry with him The K. being a good Logician and well read in History and matters of Controversie gained ground of his Opponent and would please himself with one passage which hapned and that was this During their discourse the Chaplain then standing at the end of the Presence-Chamber between a Lieutenant of the Garrison who had a Sword in his hand and was earnestly listning to what the K. said in the Debate and a Gentleman who was not known there the King in the heat of his discourse suddenly disarmed the Lieutenant by taking the Sword out of his hand which made him look strangely and the more when his Majesty drew it for that put the Chaplain into a fright also he not imagining the reason until the stranger better understanding the Kings meaning fell upon his knees and the K. laying the naked Sword upon his shoulder confer'd upon him the honour of Knighthood telling him withal it was to perform a promise to his Relations This strangers name was John Duncomb of Battlesdon in Bedfordshire Esq who was afterwards a servant to K. Ch. 2 sworn a member of his Privy Council 22. May 1667 being then or about that time one of the Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury and at length upon the resignation of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer about the 20. of Novemb. 1672. As for the Chaplain Troughton tho Tho. Herbert then one of the Grooms of his Maj. Bedchamber from whom I had this story could not tell me his Christian name yet I take it to be William and him to be the same Will. Troughton who afterwards was beneficed in Salisbury in the time of Oliver silenc'd for Nonconformity after his Majesties restauration lived there several years after keeping his Conventicles as he did afterwards at Bristow and now if living in or near London where we shall leave him for the present till an opportunity may be had to make farther mention of him CHARLES GIBBES the sixth son of Sir Ralph Gibbes was born at Hunnington in Warwickshire near to a Market Town called Shipson in Worcestershire on the 4. of Nov. 1604 admitted a student in this Univ. in the beginning of 1620 and taking the degree of Bach of Arts in the latter end of 1622 was chosen Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. two years after where going thro the severe exercise then used since especially after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 much decayed he became a noted Disputant Orator and quaint Preacher In Apr. 1638 he was presented by the Warden and Fellows of his Coll. to the Rectory of Gamlinghay in Cambridgshire and thereupon leaving the house he setled there without hopes of being translated to another place At length being involv'd in great troubles for his Loyalty he resign'd that Rectory in 1647 to prevent Sequestration retired to Canterbury and taught a private School there with good success After the blessed time of his Majesties restauration he was made Parson of Stanford-Rivers in Essex which he enjoyed 21. years Prebendary of Westminster which he kept 19 years and Doctor of Div. by creation of this University He hath written and published Thirtie and one Sermons preached to his parishioners of Stanford Rivers in Essex upon several subjects and occasions Lond. 1677. qu. He also took a great deal of pains in collecting and fitting for the Press several Sermons and discourses of Dr. Walt. Raleigh who married the Sister of this our author Gibbes but before they were finished he paid his last debt to nature which hapning at Stanford Rivers on the 16 of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried in the Church there leaving then behind him the Character of a Loyal and Religious person and of a charitable and a good neighbour RICHARD ALLEIN son of Rich. All. Rector of Dicheat or Dichet in Somersetshire was born there entred a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term 1627 aged 16 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts went to New Inn being puritanically affected and not only compleated that degree by Determination as a member thereof but continued there in the study of the supreme faculty till after he was Master of Arts. At length taking holy orders he assisted his father and became a frequent preacher in his own Country In the middle of March 1641 at which time he shew'd himself a zealous person for the blessed cause then driving on he became Rector of Batcomb in the same County in the place of Rich. Bernard deceased who had held that Rectory from Novemb. 1613 to that time where being setled he became a preacher up of sedition a zealous Covenanter and therefore several times disturb'd by the Cavaliers in those parts and one of the number that subscribed The testimony of the Ministers of Sommersetshire to the truth of Jesus Christ and to the solemn League and Covenant Printed at Lond. 1648. qu. In 1654 he with his father were constituted Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parliament for the ejection of such whom they and their brethren called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in the same County in which office they shew'd themselves severe enough But upon his Majesties restauration our author Allein putting a curb to his activity was soon after ejected for Nonconformity So that removing from place to place for a time setled at length at Frome-Selwood where he remained not without preaching somtimes in private to his dying day He hath written and published Vindiciae Pietatis or a vindication of Godliness in the greatest strictness and spirituality of it from the imputations of folly and fancy on Ephes 5.15 and on Joh. 1.47 Lond. 1664. and 69. oct Several directions for the attaining and maintaining of a godly life Lond. 1669 Pr. with Vindiciae Pietatis The Godly mans portion and sanctuary being a second part of Vindiciae Pietatis
1621 which was printed that year In 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians and in 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines which is all I yet know of him CALYBUTE DOWNING the eldest Son of Calyb Downing of Shennington in Gloucestershire near to Banbury in Oxfordshire Gent. Lord of the mannors of Sugarswell and Tysoe in Warwickshire became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1623 and in that of his age 17 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts compleated it by determination and then went as it seems to Cambridge or beyond the Seas where taking another degree he entred into orders was made Rector of Hickford in Bucks Doctor of the Laws and had as I have been informed by one that well knew him the Rectory of West-Ildesley in Berks bestowed on him About that time he being a competitor for the Wardenship of All 's Coll. when Dr. Gilb. Sheldon was elected but lost it did at length exchange W. Ildesley for the Rectory of Hackney near London and was a great suitor to be Chaplain to Tho. E. of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland thinking that employment the readiest way to be a Bishop And whilst he had hopes of that preferment he writ stoutly in justification of that calling and was ready ever and anon to maintain it in all Discourses But being a reputed weathercock that turns which way soever the wind of his own humour and ambition blew him did upon some discontent watch an opportunity to gain preferment let it come what way soever At length being esteemed by the Faction to be a Man fitted for any base employment and one that what ever he counterfeited ever looked awry on the Church in which being setled and in peace he could never hope to advance further than Rector of Hackney was by them sent to feel the pulse of the great City of London While therefore discontents did rise high in the North the Scots having in an hostile manner entred the Kingdom the people every where especially in London stirred up by some Agents to petition the King for that Parliament which began 3. Nov. 1640 our Author Downing did then viz. on the first of Sept. 1640 preach to the brotherhood of the Artillery Garden and positively affirmed that for defence of religion and reformation of the Church it was lawful to take up arms against the King He having thus kindled the fire in the City did for fear of being questioned for then it was not lawful to preach Treason retire privately to Little-Lees in Essex the house of Robert Earl of Warwick and common rendezvouze of all schismatical preachers in those parts while in the mean time his Sermon which did administer in every place matter of discourse was censur'd as people stood affected and in fine gave occasion to the Ringleaders of the Faction to enter upon serious examination and study of this case of Conscience And it seems that they consulting with the Jesuits on the one side and the rigid Puritan on the other or indeed because without admitting this doctrine all their former endeavours would vanish into smoak they stood doubtful no longer but closed with these two contrary parties yet shaking hands in this point of Rebellion and subscribing to the Doctrine of Downing as an evangelical truth Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after he became Chaplain to the Regiment of John Lord Roberts in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex where he preached and prayed continually against the King and his Cause In 1643 he shewed himself a grand Covenanter and thereupon was made one of the Assembly of Divines but leaving them soon after he sided with the Independents and preached so seditiously that he was commonly called Young Peters or Hugh Peters the second and often and bitterly preached against such Citizens of London that shew'd themselves zealous for an union or right understanding between the King and his Parliament But behold while he was in the height of these diabolical and rebellious actions he was suddenly and as I may say most justly cut off from the face of the earth and was no more seen His Works are these A discourse of the state Ecclesiastical of this Kingdom in relation to the Civil considered under three conclusions c. Oxon. 1633. c. A digression discussing some ordinary exceptions against Ecclesiastical Officers To these two discourses tho his name is put yet I have been informed by a certain D. of D. then living and well known to Downing that he the said C. Downing was not the Author of them Discourse of the false grounds the Bavarian party have laid to settle their own Faction and shake the peace of the Empire c. Lond. 1641. qu. Discourse upon the interest of England considered in the case of the deteinure of the Prince Elector Palatine his dignities and dominions printed with the former book next going before A discoursive conjecture upon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present Troubles of Great Britaine different from those of Lower Germany c. Lond. 1641. qu. c. Divers Sermons as 1 Serm. preached before the renowned Company of Artillery 1. Sept. 1â40 on Deut. 25.17 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Fast Serm. before the H. of Commons 31. Aug. 1642 on 2. Thes 3. ver 2. whether printed I know not and others which I have not yet seen This person who had a hot and rambling Head laid it down very unwillingly and gave up the Ghost at Hackney about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred forty and four to the great grief of his aged Father who died in Nov. following This Dr. Cal. Downing was Father to a Son of his own temper named George a sider with all times and changes well skil'd in the common Cant and a Preacher sometimes to boot a man of note in Olivers days as having been by him sent Resident to the Lords States General of the United Provinces a Soldier in Scotland and at length Scout Master General there and a Burgess for several Corporations in that Kingdom in Parliaments that began there in 1654 and 56. Upon a foresight of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. his Restauration he wheeled about took all opportunities to shew his Loyalty was elected Burgess for Morpeth in Northumb. to serve in that Parl. begun at Westm 8. May 1661 was about that time sent Envoy Extraordinary into Holland where to shew his zeal and love for his Majesty he seized on three Regicides at Delft named John Barkstead Joh. Okey and Miles Corbet whom he forthwith sent into England to receive the reward of the Gallows Afterwards being made Secretary to the Treasury and one of his Majesties Commissioners of the Customs was by the name of Sir George Downing of East-Hatley in Cambridgeshire Knight created a Baronet on the first of July 1603. BRIAN TWYNE Son of Tho. Twyne mentioned before under the year 1613 p. 329 was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Surrey
then esteemed a leading man in the blessed cause he became Preacher to the Garrison of Windsore castle then under the command of Collonel John Venn In which office he shewed him so violent against the King and his cause that he was usually stiled by the Royalists Venns principal fireman at Windsore This Venn by the way it must be known did while Governour of that Castle exercise very great cruelty against the Royalists that were Prisoners there but being dismist of his employ and Col. Christopher Whitchcot put into his place he retired to London carried on the cause there with great zeal was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and at length hung himself in his chamber as some say others that he died suddenly in his bed on the 7 of July at night or early next morning an 1650. In the year 1644 when the Commissioners from the King and Parliament met at Uxbridge to treat about peace this our Author Love did very officiously put himself upon preaching before some of them on the first day of their meeting Jan. 30 being the Market-day In which his Sermon full of dire he vented many passages very scandalous to his Majesties Person and derogatory to his honour stirring up the People against the Treatie and incensing them against the Kings Commissioners telling the said People that they came with hearts full of blood and that there was as great distance between the Treatie and Peace as between Heaven and Hell or words to that effect with divers other seditious passages against his Maj. and the Treaty Whereupon the Commissioners belonging to the King putting up their complaints to those of the Parliament they represented the matter to the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster who thereupon tho they could not with good conscience imprison Mr. Love yet they did confine him and where should it be but to that very house where his Mistress then lived whom for two years going before he had wooed with prayers sermons and ugly faces After this he was made Minister of S. Anns Church near to Aldersgate a Recruiter of the Assemb of Divines and at length Minister of the Church of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London which he kept till Oliver Cromwell paid the debt and brought him to the Scaffold when he least looked for it which was upon this account After the Presbyterians had been gull'd of their King by the Independents the prime heads of them were resolved to set up his Son Ch. 2. Whereupon he being invited from beyond the Seas into Scotland and there had taken the Covenant and was crown'd the Presbyterians in England plotted to bring him in among them and to that end corresponded with him and supplied him and his with money contrary to an Act of Parliament then lately made in that case provided These matters being discovered our Author Love Mr. Tho. Case Mr. Will. Jenkyns and other London Ministers as also one Dr. Roger Drake a Physician as it seems were by authority of the Council of State taken into custody about the 7. of May 1651 as being the chief Actors in the said treason as they then called it Soon after it was resolved by the great Masters at Westminster that Mr. Love the Minister then Prisoner in the Tower should be brought to his trial before the High Court of Justice on the 20. of June 1651 not for any matter of doctrine as it was then given out but for high treason as they said and conspiracy against the common-wealth of England He and the rest as the Independent then said had outstript the Jesuit both in practice and project as having not only tamper'd with mens consciences in private beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely venture but preached open rebellion and treason with a full mouth in the Pulpit On the said day he made his first appearance in order to his trial and one Jackson a Minister Arth. Jackson as it seems refusing then to give in evidence against him was for his contempt fined 500 l. and committed Prisoner to the Fleet. The next day he appeared again and as 't was then said by his enemies in his carriage and behaviour he discover'd as much ridiculous impudence equivocation and hypocrisie as ever any Person did upon the like occasion adding that in him you might have seen the true character of his faction full of passion and spleen and void of all ingenuity On the 25. and 27. days of the said month of June he appeared again and on the last of those two days he brought his counsel with him viz. Mr. Matthew Hale Mr. John Archer and Mr. Tho. Walter but the two last having not taken the Engagement were not suffer'd to plead for him At which time Mr. Love as the Independent said was full of malepert carriage matchless impudence obstinacy and impatiency On the 5. of July he was condemned to be beheaded on Tower-hill on the 15 of the same month but then several petitions being read in Parliament in his behalf viz. one from divers Ministers another from himself and a third from his Wife he was repriev'd till the 15. of Aug. following and thence to the 22. of the same month What farther may be said concerning his principles and profession you shall have it from his own mouth which he spoke When he was tried for his life thus God is my witness I never drove a malignant design I never carried on a malignant interest I detest both I still retain my covenanting principles from which through the grace of God I will never depart for any terrour or perswasion whatsoever I do retain as great a keeness and shall whilst I live and as strong an opposition against a malignant interest whether in Scotland or in England or in any part of the world against the Nation where I live and have to this day as ever I did in former times I have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parliaments quarrel against the forces raised by the King I gave my all and did not only deem it my duty to preach for the lawfulness of a defensive war but unless my books and wearing apparrel I contributed all I had in the world and tho my life is endeavoured to be taken away yet for all that I repent not of what I have done I have in my measure ventured my all in the same quarrel that you were engaged in and lifted up my hands in the same Covenant that took sweet counsel together and walked in fellowship one with another I die cleaving to all those Oathes Vowes Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the two Houses of Parliament as owning them and dying with my judgment for them to the protestation the vow and the covenant the solemn league and covenant And this I tell you all that I had rather die a Covenant keeper than live a Covenant breaker c. As for his writings and works they are these The debauched Cavilier or
Decemb. 1643. Lond. 1644. qu. The said Prynne was his co-operator in this work also Declaration and protestation against the actings and proceedings of the Army and their Faction now remaining in the H. of Commons This was written on the 19 of Jan. 1648 the Author being then a member of that house secured after he with many of his fellows had been by force taken thence Six serious Queries concerning the Kings tryal by the High Court of Justice The Authors name is not set to them but by all believed to have been written by Walker The mysterie of the two Juntoes Presbyterian and Independent Lond. 1647. in 3 sh in qu. Historie of Independency with the rise growth and practices of that powerful and restless faction Lond. 1648. qu. A list of the names of the members of the H. of Commons observing which are Officers of the Army contrary to the self denying ordinance together with such sums of money Offices and Lands as they have given to themselves for service done or to be done against the King and Kingdom Lond. 1648. This being printed in one sh in qu. was soon after remitted into the first part of the Hist of Independency See more in George Wharton Appendix to the Hist of Independency being a brief description of some few of Argyles proceedings before and since he joyned in confederacy with the Independent Junto in England Lond. 1648. qu. Parallel between Argyle and Cromwell This is printed with the Appendix Anarchia Anglicana Or the history of Independency the second part Lond. 1649. qu. Put out as the former part was under the name of Theodorus verax The High Court of Justice or Cromwells slaughter house being the third part of the Hist of Indep Lond. 1651. qu. Out of which as also the two former parts were many things translated into Latine and printed beyond the seas in a manual 1653. After the Kings Restauration one T. M. added a fourth part which with all the things before mentioned from The mysterie of the two Juntoes c. were printed in one thick volume in qu. Lond. 1661. Upon the coming out of the sec part of the Hist of Independency the Author being discover'd by Cromwell was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London 13 Nov. 1649 where having got allowance of pen ink and paper he wrot the third part of that history He gave way to fate there to the great grief of the Presbyterian Party in the month of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and one whereupon his body was conveyed to the Church of Allhallowes Barkin near to the said Tower and there buried as I have been informed by his said son John Walker The next Writer that must follow according to time was the greatest Royalist in the age he lived and a person much reverenced by those who knew his Vertues and Piety RICHARD STEUART was born of a gentile family in Northamptonshire at Patishul I think became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in 1608 aged 14 or thereabouts elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1613 being then Bach. of Arts proceeded in his Faculty studied the Civil Law for a time and took one degree therein In 1624 he proceeded in the said Faculty and in 1628 he was made Preb. of Worcester on the death of Rich. Potter Bach. of Div. About the beginning of March 1629 he had the Prebendship of North Aulton in the Church of Sarum confer'd upon him and about that time was made Chapl. in ord to his Majesty In 1634 he became Dean of Chichester in the place of Dr. Franc. d ee promoted to the See of Peterborough and soon after Clerk of the Closet in the room of Dr. Math. Wren and Prebendary of Westminster in his place an 1638. In which year he resigned his Prebendship of Worcester and was succeeded therein by Will. Smith D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll. About the same time he was made Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral and in Dec. or Jan. 1639 Provost of Eaton Coll. in the room of Sir Hen. Wotton deceased He was also at the same time Dean of the Chappel Royal and when Dr Williams Bishop of Linc. who kept the Deanery of Westminster in commendam with that See was translated to York he was made Dean of that Collegiat Church not in 164â but in 1645. While he remained in the University he was accounted a good Poet and Orator and after he had left it a noted Divine eloquent Preacher and a person of a smart fluent stile In the beginning of the Rebellion he suffer'd much for the Kings cause lost all and at length retiring to France became a great Champion for the Protestant cause at Paris where at le Hostle de Blinville he preached an excellent sermon of the English case or Hezekiahs reformation in vindication of ours So that whereas Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his publick Writings doth most uncharitably suggest as if he Dr. Steuart when at Paris had a design to introduce the French Popery by preaching it appears to the contrary not only in that but in another sermon preached in defence of the Protestants against the Papists in an Auditory of Prelatists there Besides also he with that publick spirited man Sir George Ratcliff did go very far in making an accommodation between the Jansenists and the reformed Party our Author being then Chaplain to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. His works are these An answer to a letter written at Oxford and superscribed to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the Church and Revenues thereof Printed 1647 in 5 sheets and an half in qu. This afterwards came out under this title A discourse of Episcopacy and Sacrilege by way of letter written 1646. Lond. 1683. qu. The said letter was written not at Oxon but rather at Ailesbury by Joh. Fountaine lately a Royalist but then a Turn-coat Three Sermons 1 On 1 Cor. 10.30 2 On Mat. 28.6 3 On 1 Cor. 15.29 Lond. 1656 and 58. in twelv Trias sacra A second Ternary of sermons Lond. 1659 in tw Catholique Divinity or the most solid and sententious expressions of the primitive Doctors of the Church with other ecclesiastical and civil Authors c. Lond. 1657. oct Other sermons as 1 The English case exactly set down by Hezekiahs reformation in a Court sermon at Paris on 2 Kings 18.22 Lond. 1659. oct and before published for the full vindication of the Church of England from the Romanists charge of Schism and commended to the consideration of the late Author of The Grotian Religion discovered The picture of K. Ch. 2. is set before the title 2 Golden remains or three sermons the first on Phil. 4.17 the second on Mark 6.20 and the third on Heb. 10.1 2. Lond. 1661. in tw c. The old Puritan detected and defeated or a brief treatise shewing how by the artifice of pulpit Prayers our Dissenters at all times have endeavoured to undermine the Liturgy of the reformed Church of England Together with the fault and danger of such Prayers
oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paid his last debt to nature on the second of January or thereabouts in sixteen hundred fifty and one and was buried in the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-barr near London on the fifth day of the same month having suffer'd much in his estate for the Kings Cause which he had stoutly defended PETER TURNER a younger son of Dr. Peter Turner a Physitian mention'd among the Incorporations in the Fasti an 1599 was born as it seems in the parish of S. Helen within Bishopsgate in the City of London in which parish his father lived and practised his Faculty admitted Probation Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1607 proceeded in Arts and being not bound to any particular Faculty as the Fellows in other Colleges are became most admirably well vers'd in all kind of Learning He was a most exact Latinist and Greecian was well skill'd in the Hebrew and Arabick was a thorough-pac'd Mathematician was excellently well read in the Fathers and Councils a most curious Critick a Politician Statesman and what not The first preferment that he had whereby his parts were made manifest to the world was the Professorship of Geometry in Gresham College which he kept with his Fellowship as afterwards he did the Savilian Professorship of Geometry in this University obtained on the death of Hen. Briggs in the year 1630. He was much beloved of Archb. Laud and so highly valued by him that he would have procured him to be one of the Secretaries of State or Clerks of the Privy Council c. but being wedded to his College and a studious life entertaining hopes withal of being Warden thereof he denied those and other honorable and beneficial places In 1636 he was actually created Doctor of Physick and in the beginning of the grand Rebellion was one of the first Scholars that went out and served his Majesty in the quality of a Volunteer under the command of Colonel Sir John Byron for which he did not only for the present suffer as being a Prisoner of War but was afterwards ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors from all right he had to his Fellowship of Mert. Coll and from his Professorship of the University He wrot many admirable things but he being too curious and critical he could never finish them according to his mind and therefore cancell'd them He also made divers Translations from Greek into Lat. particularly some of the Epistles from an old authentick MS of Isidorus Pelusiota Which Trans were found among Hen. Jacobs Papers after his death But that with other Curiosities of our learned Turner went afterwards into obscure hands He hath extant in several books Epistolae variae ad doctissimos viros He had also a principal hand in framing the University Statutes now in use and was the sole person that made them run in good Latine and put the Preface to them He made the Caroline Cycle for the Election of Proctors beginning in 1629 and ending in 1720 and did many other matters for the benefit of Learning and this University At length being in a manner undone by the Severities of the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he retired to the House of his Sister the afflicted widdow of one Wats a Brewer living against the Compter Prison in Southwark near London where spending the short remainder of his life in obscurity surrendred up his soul to God in the month of January in sixteen hundred fifty and one and in that of his age 66 or thereabouts whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Saviour there This person having been of a proud and haughty mind because of his great parts and intimate acquaintance with Archb. Laud and the great Heroes of that time the snivling Presbyterians therefore especially those of his College which he left behind him as Alex. Fisher Ralph Button c. did not stick to report that he died no better than a Brewers Clerk because he often inspected the Accompts of his Sister before mention'd and had a great care of her concerns JOHN ARNWAY a Shropshire man born became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in the year 1618 and in that of his age 18 took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and had a cure of Souls bestowed on him At length the Civil Wars breaking forth he adhered to the Kings cause suffer'd much for it in his own Country went after him to Oxon and was actually created D. of D. in 1642 being about that time as I conceive made Archdeacon of Lichf and Coventry in the place of Dr. Ralph Brownrig promoted to the See of Exeter He had then quitted a large fortune to serve his Prince and thereupon was plunder'd by the Rebels and lost his books and papers which he could never recover Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings cause he went to the Hague in Holland and afterwards to Virginia where he died He hath written The Tablet or moderation of Charles the first martyr An Alarum to the Subjects of England A few copies of these two little treatises were both printed together in a small character at the Hague an 1650 afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1661. in oct by the care of Will. Rider sometimes of Mert. Coll. who married the authors near kinswoman Afterwards Dr. Arnway being reduced to necessity left the Hague and upon an invitation he went into Virginia to exercise his function among the English where he died about Lyn haven Elizabeth river or Nausunum but when I cannot tell unless about the year 1653. JOHN VICARS a Londoner born descended from those of his name living in the County of Cumberland educated from his infancy or time of understanding in School learning in Ch. Ch. Hospital in London and in Academical partly in Oxon. particularly as it seems in Queens Coll. but whether he took a degree it appears not Afterwards he retired to his native place became Usher of the said Hospital which he kept to or near his dying day and was esteemed among some especially the puritannical party of which number he was a zealous brother a tolerable Poet but by the Royalists not because he was inspired with ale or viler liquors In the beginning of the Civil Wars he shewed himself a forward man for the Presbyterian cause hated all people that loved Obedience and did affright many of the weaker sort and others from having any agreement with the Kings Party by continually inculcating into their heads strange stories of Gods wrath against the Cavaliers Afterwards when the Independents began to take place he bore a great hatred towards them especially after they had taken away the Kings life His works are these A prospective glass to look into heaven or the celestial Canaan described Lond. 1618. oct 'T is a Poem The Soules sacred Soliloquie c. sung in a most heavenly hymne 'T is a Poem also and printed with
said elaborate Treatises and some conceive that the pains and travels of bringing forth the younger tho more spiritual manchild did cost him his life They are and have been both taken into the hands of learned men and by them often quoted The Author is stiled by the head of the Presbyterian Party A very learned and great Conformist and by others of moderate perswasion a most profound Clerk He died at Burton commonly called Burton place before mention'd on the second day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was not buried according to his Will in the Chancel of the said Chap. or Church which Sir Will Goring denied because he left him not those Legacies he expected but in the body under the Readers seat Over his grave tho there be no monument with inscription on it which the Testator desir'd yet on the south Wall of the Chancel of Harwell Church before mention'd is fastned a Tablet of Free-stone with this written on it which shall now go for his Epitaph for want of a better Christopher Elderfield Clerk born in this Parish gave by his last will and testament three hundred and fifty pounds with two hundred fourscore and four pounds whereof was bought so much land in the Parish of South Moreton as is worth twenty pounds per an And the other sixty and six pounds thereof residue according to a Decree in his Majesties Court of Chancery remain in the hands of the Church-wardens and other Officers of Hagborne the benefit whereof he willed to be employed yearly in works of charity bounty or piety for the good of this Parish But he expresly forbid that it should be added to the making up of taxes or any other way perverted to the easing of able men upon any pretence particularly he willed every Spring two good milch Cows to be bought and given to two the poorest men or widdows burdned with many children toward their sustentation He died Decemb. 2. an dom 1652. Thus far the inscription He also beside several Legacies which he left to several people bequeathed to the University of Oxon his Manuscripts of Lyra on the Psalmes the History of Tobit in Hebrew with Rodolphus his Postills bound up with Lyra Clemens Romanus with the Tract of Purgatory bound up with it He left also six and thirty pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor Ministers cast down by these times meaning loyal Ministers ejected from their Livings JOHN DIGBY was born of an antient and gentile family living in the Parish of Coleshill in Warwickshire in the month of Febr. 1580 became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1595 and the next year I find him to be one of the Poets of the University to bewail the death of Sir Hen. Unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and returned a well-qualified Gentleman So that his Abilities and Fidelity being occasionally discerned by K. James he was admitted Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and one of his Majesties Carvers in the year 1605 being then newly created Master of Arts of this University On the 16 of Feb. following he received the honor of Knighthood and in Apr. 1611 he was sent Ambassador into Spain as he was afterwards again in 1614. In the beginning of January about the third day 1615 Sir Franc. Cottington was sent into Spain to call him home and about the middle of March following he returned into England On the 3 of Apr. 1616 he was admitted one of the Kings Privy Council and Vicechamberlain of his Majesties Houshold in the place of Philip Lord Stanhope who was persuaded by the Kings Letters to give up that Office In July 1617 he was sent again into Spain and the next year upon his return he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 of Nov. by the Title of the Lord Digby of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire In 1620 he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in Octob. 1621 he was again in 1622 employed Ambassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage between Prince Charles who followed him in few months after and Princess Maria Daughter to Philip 3. King of that Realm and on the 15 of Sept. the same year he was created Earl of Bristow After his return he shew'd himself right able to appear before the English Parliament where he worsted the greatest Minion Buckingham the Folly Love or Wisdom of any King since the Conquest ever bred in this Nation As thro a prodigious dexterity he became the Confident of K. James so likewise of his son K. Ch. 1. for a time tho they drove on if not contrary divers designs From that time till the beginning of the Long Parliament we find no great matter of him when then he being found guilty of concealing some say of promoting a Petition of the Gentry and Ministers of Kent which was to be delivered to the Parliament he with Thomas Mallet were committed for a time to the Tower 28 March 1642. Afterwards perceiving full well what destructive Courses the Members of that Parliament took he left them and became a zealous Adherer to the King and his Cause for which at length he suffer'd Exile and the loss of his Estate He hath extant these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the High Court of Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he spake another upon the delivery of the Scottish Remonstrance and Schedule of their Charges 2 Sp. in the High Court of Parl. 20 May 1642. concerning an accommodation of Peace and Union to be had between the K. and his two Houses of Parliament Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh Reprinted at Caen in Normandy 1647. in fol. and qu. The speaking of which Speech giving displeasure to the H. of Lords he thereupon spake 3 Another Speech 11 June 1642 in vindication of the former and of accommodation Lond. 1642. in 1 sh in qu. Repr at Caen in 1647. in fol. and qu. 4 Sp. at the Council Table in favour of the continuation of the present War Oxon 1642. qu. It was spoken after Edghill Fight and was reprinted at Lond. the same year Other Speeches of his I have seen in MS. which for brevity sake I now pass by A Tract wherein is set down those motives and ties of Religion Oaths Laws Loyalty and Gratitude which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy Wars in England Tract wherein he vindicateth his honor and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure of being excepted from pardon or mercy either in life or fortunes These two Tracts have the general Title of His Apologie Appendix containing many particulars specified in his first Tract meaning his Motives and tyes of Religion with the citations of the Chapters and Pages wherein they are cited The said two Tracts with the Appendix
stile him in his works the learned Salkeld of which character he would often glory His works are A Treatise of Angels c. Lond. 1613. oct dedic to K. Jam. 1. Treatise of Paradise and the principal contents thereof c. Lond. 1617. oct ded to Sir Franc. Bacon L. Keeper of the Great Seal He gave way to fate at Uffculme in Devonshire having for 14 years before been sequestred of Church Taunton in the month of February in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 84 years or more and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed by his son John Salkeld of Uffculme before mention'd Gent. He then left behind him several things of his composition fit for the Press among which were two concerning Controversies between Rome and the Church of Engl. and another of the end of the world which last and one of the former were conveyed to London by his son to his Kinsman Sir Edw. VValker Garter K. of Arms who communicating one of the said former things to Dr. Sam. Parker Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury to know of him whether it was fit to be printed he found it a solid piece and the Author of it learned but the design Cassandrian c. as by his letters I was informed WILLIAM HICKS son of Nich. Hicks Gent. was born at Kerris in the Parish of S. Paulin near to the Mount in Cornwall an 1620 and baptized there on the second day of January the same year After he had been instructed in Grammaticals in the high School at Exeter under Mr. Will. Hayter and partly at Liskerd under one Granger he became a Commoner of Wadham Coll. in Lent Term 1637 and there ran thro the Classes of Logic and Philosophy But being taken thence in the beginning of the Civil War before he could be honored with a degree he was by his Relations put in Arms against the King and in short time became so fanatical in his opinion that he was esteemed by some to be little better than an Anabaptist So that being looked upon as a zealous brother for the Cause he was made a Captain in the Trained Bands and became very forward against those of the loyal party He hath published Revelation revealed being a practical Exposition on the Revelation of S. John Lond. 1659. fol. Which book laying dead on the sellers hands was a new title afterwards put bearing date 1661. with the Authors picture before it in a clock Quinto-Monarchia cum quarto ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã or a friendly compliance between Christs Monarchy and the Magistrates being a glass for the Quinto-Monarchians and all others that desire to know under what dispensations of Providence we now live c. printed and bound with Revelation revealed c. which was written as the common report went in Exet. Coll. and Cornwall by a Kinsman of Will. Hicks called Alexander Harrie a Ministers son in Cornwall Bachelaur of Divinity and sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of Exeter which book Revelation rev coming after his death into Hicks's hands he published it under his own name without any mention of A. Harrie who was a learned man and had in great veneration by those that knew him This Mr. Hicks died at Kerris in the very beginning of March in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried on the third day of the same month in the Parish Church of S. Paulin before mention'd Besides this Will. Hicks was another of both his names Author of Oxford Jests and afterwards of Oxfords Drollery Which books several times printed in oct answering not the expectation of Cambridge men because they have supposed that they were written by a scholastical Wit I desire therefore that they should know that the said Will. Hicks who stiles himself in the titles of his books a Native of Oxon as having been born in S. Thomas Parish of poor and dissolute Parents was bred a Tapster under Tho. Williams of the Star Inn Inholder where continuing till after the Rebellion broke out became a Retainer to the family of Lucas in Colohester afterwards Clerk to a Woodmonger in Deptford where training the young men and putting them in a posture of defence upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 obtained the name of Captain Hicks and was there living in 1669 when his book of Jests was published which gave occasion of other books of the like nature to be afterwards made extant as Cambridge Jests London Jests Englands Jests Poor Robins Jests Westminster Quibbles in verse c. This Hicks who was a sharking and indigent Fellow while he lived in Oxon and a great pretender to the art of Dancing which he forsooth would sometimes teach was also Author of Coffee-house Jests the third Edition of which came out in 1684 and of other little trivial matters meerly to get bread and make the pot walk PHILIP TAVERNER son of Joh. Taverner of Wycombe Great Wycombe in Bucks was born in that County admitted a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. 12 May 1634 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts holy Orders and was made Vicar of West Drayton and afterwards Minister of Hillingdon both in Middlesex He hath written The Quakers rounds Reply to Edm. Burrough Quaker Both which are animadverted upon by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 283 and 308. The Grandfathers advice directed in special to his Children Lond. 1680 81. oct published after the Authors death for the common good What other books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Hillingdon as I have been informed by those of the neighbourhood TOBIE VENNER was born of gentile Parents at Petherton near to Bridgwater in Somersetshire became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in 1594 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts entred upon the Physick line practis'd that fac for some time in these parts afterwards at Bridgwater and lastly in the City of Bathe and near thereunto In 1613 he took both the degrees in Medicine had then and always after the name of a plain and charitable Physitian was resorted to by rich and poor and venerated by all persons for his happy and successful practice in his faculty He did not only shew the right way for living long but acted it himself confirming the theory of the one with the practice of the other for near 60 years He hath written and published these things following Via recta ad vitam longam or a Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthful life is clearly demonstrated Lond. 1620. 1650 c. in qu. This plain book which was written in condescension to mean capacities got him most of his practice Compendious treatise concerning the nature use and efficacy of the Bathes at Bathe Advertisement concerning the taking of Physick in the Spring Censure
1641. in qu. which I have not yet seen Catechisme for the use of the Parishoners of Gr. Greenford Lond. 1646. oct Sum of Religion Printed 1647. qu. Characters of a wicked heart hypocritical and sincere heart Printed in one shâ Voyage to East India Wherein some things are taken notice of in his passage thither but many more in his abode there within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogul Lond. 1655. oct with the Authors picture before it The narrative of this voyage was written and disgested into order by the Author after his return thence and by him dedicated and presented in MS. to Prince Charles an 1622. Afterwards it was added to the Travels of Pet. de la Valle and abridged in Sam. Purchas his second part of Pilgrims book 9. Corolarie of serious and heedful but sad conclusions Printed at the end of the Voyage before mention'd Character of K. Ch. 2. with a short Apologie before it an introduction to it and conclusion after it Lond. 1660. qu. From which King he expected the Deanery of Windsore to be confer'd upon him but upon what ground seeing that he suffer'd neither for his or his fathers cause I know not He departed this mortal life on the 8. day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Greenford beforemention'd as I have been informed by his Son Edw. Terry a Non-conformist Divine somtimes Master of Arts and Fellow of University College THOMAS POWELL Son of Joh. Pow. Rector of Cantreffe near to and in the County of Brecknock was born there in 1608 made his first entrie into this University in 1625 elected Scholar of Jesus Coll. in 162â took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Fellow of that House About which time applying his mind to the faculty of Theologie he entred into the sacred function and at length became Rector of the place of his nativity In the time of the Civil War he suffer'd much for the Kings cause and being sequestred of his spiritualities ship'd himself beyond the Seas for a time After the return of Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms he was restored to them was actually created D. of D. and made Canon of S David and would without doubt have risen higher in the Church had he not been untimely snatch'd away from it He was a Person well vers'd in several sorts of learning was an able Philosopher a curious Critick was well skill'd in various languages and not to be contemn'd for his knowledge in Divinity He hath written Elementa Opticae nova facili compendiosâ methodo explicata c. Lond. 1651. oct Commended to the World by the copies of verses of Olor Iscanus and Eugenius Philalethes his Brother Quadriga Salutis or the four general heads of Christian Religion surveyed and explained Lond. 1657. oct At the latter end of which are some annotations of the same Author in the Welsh tongue A Catechistical Tract of the Lords Prayer the Creed and ten Commandements This I have not yet seen and therefore I know not to the contrary but that it may be the same with his Catechisme in Welsh and English Humane industry or a history of most manual Arts deducing the original progress and improvement of them c. Lond. 1661. in oct This I have in my study but his name is not set to it He translated from Ital. into English Stoa Triumphans Two letters of the noble and learned Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi one in praise of banishment the other in contempt of honor and from French into English 1 Recueil de novellis Lettres or the last letters of Monsieur de Balsac 2 The unfortunate Politick or the life of Herod He left behind him a Ms of his composition unpublished intit Fragmenta de rebus Britannicis A short account of the lives manners and religion of the British Druids and the Bards c. As also two translations one from the Latine and another from the Italian tongue That from the Latine hath this title The Insubrian Historie containing an exact account of the various fates civil commotions battles and seiges acted upon the theater of Lombardie and the adjacent parts of Italy c. written originally by the learned Puteanus And that from the Ital. hath this The Christian politic Favourite or a vindication of the politic transactions of the Count-Duke de S. Lucar the great Minister of State and favourite counsellour to Philip the 4. of Spayne Written originally by Virg. Malvezzi before mention'd it was before traduced but in this translation all things were righted therein by our Author T. Powell who giving way to fate at London on the last day of December in sixteen hundred and sixty was the next day buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet Lond. leaving then behind him the character of a most ingenious and polite Person WALTER RUMSEY an Esquires Son was born in Monmouthshire at Llannover as I have been informed became a Gent. Com. of Glocester Hall in 1600 aged 16 years but leaving that house without a Scholastical degree retired to Greys-inn studied the municipal Law was made Barrester Bencher Lent-Reader 9. Car. 1 and at length a Judge in South Wales being then so noted for his profession that he was usually called The picklock of the Law In 1640 he was elected one of the Knights for Monmouthshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13. Apr. and might have been chosen again to serve in the Long Parliament but refused it He was an ingenious man had a Philosophical head was a good Musician and most curious for graftng inoculating and planting and also for ordering of Ponds But that which he is to be most noted for is that he having been always much troubled with flegme was the first that invented the Provangg or Whalebone instrument to cleanse the throat and stomack which hath not only been since used by noted Physicians and Vertuosi at home but by those beyond the Seas At length he wrot a book of it and its use entit Organon Salutis An instrument to cleanse the stomach Lond. 1657. 59 oct To which he added Divers new experiments of the vertue of Tobacco and Coffey Before both which are two Epistles written to the Author one by Sir Hen. Blount in praise of Tobacco and Coffey and the other by Jam. Howell in praise of those two and the Provangg What other books our Author Rumsey hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he dying in his house at Llannover about sixteen hundred and sixty was buried in the Parish Church there near to the bodies of his Relations He had a Son named Edward who was entred a Gentleman Communer of Broadgates Hall an 1623 21. Jacobi 1. RICHARD ZOUCHE or Zouchaeus as he somtimes writes himself the Cadet of an antient and noble Family was born of worthy parents in the Parish
the room of Gabr. Grant deceased But this Person being esteemed by the Puritan a Licenser of Popish books a purger of orthodox passages against Popery Papists Arminianisme a great creature of Dr. Laud and a practicer of Popish ceremonies he was in the beginning of the rebellion thrown out of his Vicaridge upon the Petition and Articles exhibited against him in the Long Parliament by his Parishioners âas imprison'd in the Compter Ely house and in the Ships forced to fly and his Wife and Children turned out of doors At length being reduced to great want he was forced to keep a private School in Wiltshire under and in the name of his Son John afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to his Vicaridge Canonry and other preferments which he before had lost enjoying them in quietness to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Two Sermons preached in the Parish Ch. of S. Giles in the Fields by way of preparative upon the articles of the Creed The first is on 1. Cor. 13.13 and the other on Heb. 11.6 Lond. 1642. qu. Out of which were some of the Articles framed against charging him as guilty of Arminianisme 2 Sermon tending to Peace preached before his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight during the time of the Treaty on Rom. 12.18 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 Funeral Sermon prepared to be preached at the funeral of Walt. Norbane Esq at Calne in Wilts 13. Apr. 1659 on Rom. 6.5 Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also printed a Serm. on Rom. 5.5 Lond. 1660. qu. and another on Acts 23.5 Lond. 1663. qu. But these two I have not yet seen Others also go from hand to hand in Ms and as I remember I have seen one or two in Dr. Barlowes Library He the said Dr. Haywood was buried in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Pulpit on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Tutor while he was Fellow of S. Johns Coll a general Scholar and a meek man in temper and conversation Near to his grave was his beloved Son John Haywood Master of Arts before mention'd who died 22. of Feb. following buried WILLIAM CREED Son of Joh. Creed wan born in the Parish of S. Laurence within the borough of Reading in Berks elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1631 age 16 years or thereabouts made the Senior Quadragesimal Collector when Bach. of Arts being then Fellow of that College Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty entred into the sacred function and became an eloquent Preacher In the beginning of the rebellion he adheer'd to the cause of his Majesty and in 1644 he was elected to and executed the procuratorial office of this University Two years after he was actually created Bach. of Div. for the Sermons he had preached at Oxon before the King and Parliament and in the time of Usurpation he became Rector of East-Codeford or Codeford S. Marie in Wiltshire In the month of June 1660 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then restored he was made the Kings Professor of Div. in this University in the beginning of July following Archdeacon of Wilts in the place of Tho. Leach some years before deceased and on the 13 of Sept. the same year Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisbury He was a defender of the Church of England in the worst of times was a good Schoolman Divine and a noted Disputant He hath written The Refuter refuted or Dr. Hen. Hammonds ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã defended against the impertinent cavils of Mr. Hen. Jeanes Lond. 1659-60 qu. Several Sermons as 1 Judah's purging of the melting pot an Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Isay 1.25.26 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Judah's return to their Allegiance c. on 2. Sam. 19.14.15 Lond. 1660. qu. c. He gave way to fate in his lodgings at Ch. Ch. in Oxon of which Ch. he was Canon as being Reg. Prof. of Div. on the 19 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried with solemnity in the next North Isle joyning to the choire of the said Cathedral near to the reliques of Democritus Junior being then accompanied to his grave by all the Degrees of the University See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his Archdeaconry of Wilts succeeded Thom. Henchman very nearly related if not Son to Dr. Henchman Bishop of Sarum in the beginning of Aug. the same year and in his Professorship of Divinity Dr. Rich. Allestrie Canon of Ch. Ch. GEORGE KENDALL received his first being in this world at Cofton in the Parish of Dawlish or Dulish near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in Grammar learning in the said City where his Father George Kendall Gent mostly lived was entred a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1626 and was made Prob. Fellow in the fourth year following being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards by indefatigable industry he became a most noted Philosopher and Theologist a Disciple and Admirer of Prideaux and his Doctrine and as great an enemy to Arminius and Socinus as any At the change of the times in 1642 being then Bach. of Div he closed with the Presbyterians then dominant notwithstanding the King that year to mitigate his discontent had zealously recommended him to the Society to be elected Rector of Exeter Coll. on the promotion of Prideaux to the See of Worcester and about 1647 he became Rector of Blissland near to Bodmin in Cornwall But being eagerly bent against that notorious Independent John Goodwin left that Rectory some years after and obtained the Ministry of a Church in Gracious-street in London purposely that he might be in a better capacity to oppose him and his Doctrine In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. and upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. he left London and became Rector of Kenton near Exeter which he kept till the Act of conformity was published in 1662 at which time giving it up he retired to his House at Cofton where he spent the short remainder of his days in a retired condition His works are these Collirium or an ointment to open the eyes of the poor Caviliers This Pamphlet which I have not yet seen was published after the Cavaliers had been defeated in the West by the Forces belonging to the Parliament Vindication of the doctrine commonly received in Churches concerning Gods intentions of special grace and favour to his elect in the death of Christ Lond. 1653. fol. Of Christs prerogative power prescience providence c. from the attempts lately made against them by Mr. John Goodwin in his book entit Redemption redeemed Digressions concerning the impossibility of Faiths being an instrument of justification c. These two last things are printed with the Vindication of the doctrine c.
pag. 467. SAMUEL SMITH a Ministers Son was born in Worcestershire entred a Batler of S. Maries Hall in the beginning of 1603 1 Jac. 1. aged 15 left the University without a degree became beneficed at Prettlewell in Essex and afterwards about the beginning of K. Ch. 1. in his own Country where continuing till the Rebellion began in 1642 did then or the year following retire to London for shelter sided with the Presbyterians and became a frequent Preacher among them Afterwards he returned to his Cure had another confer'd on him in Shropshire was an Assistant to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom they called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters lived after his Majesties Restoration and soon after was as I have been informed silenced His works which are mostly Sermons are these Davids blessed man or a short Exposition upon the first Psalme c. Lond. in oct Printed the tenth time in 1638. and the fifteenth time in 1686. in tw Davids repentance or a plain and familiar Exposition of the 51 Psalme c. Lond. 1618. 19. in tw c. Several Sermons as 1 Joseph and his Mistris c. in 5 Sermons on Gen. 39.7.8.9 c. Lond. 1619. octavo 2 Noahs dove or tydings of peace to the godly fun sermon on Psal 37. ver 37. Lond. 1619. oct 3 Christs preparation to his own death in three sermons on Luke 22.39.40.41 Lond. 1620. oct 4 Christs last Supper or the doctrine of the Sacrament c. in 5 sermons on 1 Cor. 11.28.29 Lond. 1620. oct 5 A christian taske sermon at the Funeral of Mr. John Lawson Gent. at Prettlewell in Essex 28 Dec. 1619 on Psal 90.12 Lond. 1620. oct 6 The great Assize or the day of Jubilee in which we must make a general accompt of all our actions before Almighty in four sermons on the 20 Chapter of the Revel c. Printed at Lond. one and thirty times the last impression of which was an 1684. octavo At the end are Prayers to be said privately by single persons 7 A fold for Christs sheep in two sermons upon the first Chapt. of the Canticles ver 7.8 Printed two and thirty times the last impression of which was at Lond. 1684. oct 8 The Ethiopian Eunuchs Conversion the sum of 30 sermons upon part of the 8 Chapter of the Acts. Lond. 1632. oct The Christians guide with rules and directions for leading an holy life As meditations and prayers suitable to all occasions Printed several times in tw The chief Sheppard or an exposition on the 23 Psal Lond. 1625. oct The admirable Convert or the miraculous conversion of the Thief on the Cross c. Lond. 1632. oct Moses his prayer or an exposition of the 19 Psal c. Lond. 1656. oct Looking-glass for Saints and Sinners or an exposition on the 2 Epist of S. John Lond. 1663. oct He hath written other things which I have not yet seen and was living an aged man near Dudley in Worcestershire in sixteen hundred sixty and three I have made mention of another Sam. Smith under the year 1620 who was first of Magd. Hall and afterwards of Magd. Coll. and shall of a third sometimes of S. Johns Coll. now living when his turn comes EDWARD REYNELL a Cadet of the antient and gentile family of his name living at West Ogwell near to Newton Busshel in Devonshire was admitted to the Fellows Table of Exeter Coll. 30 May 1629 aged 17 years or thereabouts where continuing under the tuition of a noted Tutor till July 1632 went as it seems to one of the Temples at London and was at length made Barrister But his genie being inclin'd more towards Divinity he published these matters following in prose Eugenia's tears for Gr. Britaines glory or Observations reflecting on these sad times Lond. 1642. Advice concerning Libertinism shewing the great danger thereof and exhorting all to zeal of the truth Lond. 1659. in tw Celestial amities or Soul sighing for the love of her Saviour Lond. 1660. oct The benefit of Afflictions Printed with Celest amities c. Whether he hath written other things I know not nor any thing else only that he was a reserved and precise person and dying at West-Ogwell after his Majesties Return about 1663. was buried there I have sent once or more to his Nephew at West-Ogwell and I have spoken several times to his Kinsman Dr. George Reynell lately Fellow of C. C. Coll. to have farther information of the said Edw. Reynell but they like nice and capricious people desire that his name may be forgotten and what he hath done may sink in the pit of oblivion Such like Answers I have received from poor-spirited persons upon my enquiry after other Writers ISAAC AMBROSE a Ministers Son descended from those of his name living at Lowick and they from the Ambroses antiently living at Ambrose Hall in Lancashire was born in that County became a Batler of Bras Coll. in the beginning of the year 1621 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts holy Orders had some little Cure in his own Country confer'd on him and afterwards relief from William Earl of Bedford whereby he and his family were refreshed who caused him also if I mistake not to be put into the list of his Majesties Preachers appointed for the County of Lancaster Afterwards upon the change of the times in 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians then dominant took the Covenant became a Preacher of the Gospel at Garstang and afterwards at Preston in Amounderness in his own Country a zealous man for carrying on the beloved cause and active against the orthodox Clergy when he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom they then 1654. 2 Oliv. Protect called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written Prima media ultima or the first middle and last things wherein is set forth 1. The Doctrine of Regeneration or the new birth 2. The practice of Sanctification in the means duties ordinances both private and publick for continuance and increase of a godly life 3. Certain Meditations of mans misery in his life death judgment and execution as also of Gods mercy in our redemption and salvation The Prima and Ultima were printed at Lond. in 1640. qu. sometimes bound in two vol. sometimes in one The Media is chiefly taken out of the most eminently pious and learned Writings of our native practical Divines with additions added to them of Ambrose's Composition It was first printed at Lond. with his Prima and Ultima 1650. qu. The Authors whom he doth abridge in the said Media are mostly Separatists and 't is licensed by Mr. Charles Herle and recommended to the world by John Angier Thom. Johnson and Joh. Waite B. D. in their respective Epistles before it At length all three were printed at London in a large fol. 1674. with the Authors picture before them aged 59 years an 1663 reprinted 1682. and 89. fol.
Slingsby of Red-house in Yorksh and Dr. Joh. Hewit Jun. 2. an 1658. 3 Speech when he gave sentence of death on Colonel Edw. Ashton Edm. Stacy Oliv. Allen Will. Carrent Joh. Betteley Hen. Fryer and Joh. Sumner July 2. 1658 c. Which Speeches I have seen printed Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a conference had with Oliver L. Protector at Whitehall in Apr. 1657. Pr. at Lond. 1660. in oct with other Conferences and Speeches to the same purpose made by others among whom are Rog. Boyle Baron of Broghill in Ireland Sir Charles Wolseley Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey c. all Oliver's Lords A little before the Return of K. Ch. 2. he with other Regicides fled beyond the seas and L'isle setling at Losanna he was treated by the Magistracy of that Town as Chancellour of England being always vested with the robe of that dignity At length certain Irish-men taking it as a grand Affront that the people of that place should harbour him as they did Edm. Ludlow Will. Goffe Edward Whaley c. for a time and shew him so much respect and honour as they did one of them ventred upon him as he was going to Church accompanied with the chief Magistracy and shot him with a Musquetoon dead in the place on the 21 of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and four Which done two more Irish men rode into the press and trampling on the body of L'isle with their horses feet fled into the Guards and escaped with little hurt Afterwards he was buried with solemnity in the said Church there as I have been credibly informed leaving then behind him a Widow named Alice who for entertaining one Joh. Hicks a Non-conformist Minister and a Follower of James Duke of Monmouth in the time of his Rebellion was for High Treason therefore beheaded at Winchester on the 2 of Sept. 1685. In like manner did before fall one Isaac Dorislaus or Dorislaw a Dutch-man born originally a Schoolmaster and afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law at Leyden Whence coming into England upon no good account was entertained by Fulk Lord Brook and by him appointed to read a History Lecture in Cambridge which he was about to found some years before his death But in his very first Lectures decrying Monarchy was upon the complaint of Dr. Jo. Cosin Master of Peter-house to the Vicechanc. which afterwards came to his Majesties knowledge silenced and about that time marrying an English woman near to Maldon in Essex lived there for some time Afterwards he became Judge Advocate in the King's Army in one of his Expeditions against the Scots Advocate in the Army against the King under Robert Earl of Essex afterwards under Sir Tho. Fairfax and at length one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and an Assistant in drawing up and managing the Charge against K. Ch. 1. in order to his Execution I say that this Dorislaus did fall as L'isle afterwards did for he being thought to be the only fit man to be sent by the Parliament as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute their designs he arrived at the Hague in good Equipage in the beginning of May 1649 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then there in his Exile Which bold and impudent act being much regretted by certain generous Royalists attending his said Majesty about 12 of them in disguise repaired to his Lodging and finding him at supper stab'd him in several places and cut his throat whereupon one of them said Thus dyes one of the Kings Judges This generous Action was performed on the 6 of May or thereabouts but reported by the generality to be performed by one Col. Walt. Whitford Son of Dr. Walt. Whitford of Monckland in Scotland by cleaving his head asunder with a broad sword Afterwards they quietly departed and 't was not known but privately for some time after who did the fact Within few days following this desperate Attempt coming to the knowledge of the Parliament they became so much enraged that they resolved to sacrifice the life of a certain Royalist of note then in their custody and certainly they had done it had he not made a timely escape Afterwards they caused the body of Dorislaus to be conveyed into England and to be buried with solemnity in the Abbey Church at Westminster on the 14 of June following where continuing till Sept. 1661 was then taken up with the bodies of other Cromwellians and buried in a hole in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning He hath published as 't is said several things but all that I have seen of his is De praelio Nuportano Lond. 1640. in 4 sheets and half in qu. JAMES LAMB Son of Rich. Lamb was born in All-saints Parish within the City of Oxon 2 Febr. 1598 bred in the Free-school joyning to Magd. Coll was a Communer for a time of Brasn Coll. and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1615 and then or soon after translated himself to S. Maries Hall Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Southampton and after the Kings restoration in 1660 he was not only actually created D. of D. as a member sometimes of the said Hall but for his sufferings as a Loyalist was made Canon of Westminster and Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London He had a most exact stile in penning and in discoursing was a sententious and acute Preacher and above all had an excellent faculty in opening and explaining the Oriental Languages He hath written Grammatica Arabica In 3. vol. in qu. Danielis Prophetiae Liber Syriace In one vol. qu. Collectiones ad Lexicon Arabicum spectantia formâ oblonga In 4. vol. oct Flexio Verborum Arabicorum In one octavo All which are written with his own hand and are at this day kept as rarities in the Bodleian Library He died in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster near to the stairs going up to the Pulpit and not far from the grave of Dr. Samuel Bolton on the twentieth day of Octob. RICHARD BYFIELD half Brother to Nich. Byfield mentioned under the year 1622 was born in Worcestershire and at 16 years of age in 1615 became either a Servitour or Batler of Queens Coll. in Mich. term Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he left the University and through some petite employments of which the Curacy or Lectureship of Istleworth was one became Rector of Long Ditton in Surrey a leading man for carrying on the blessed cause a reformer of his Church of Superstition as he called it by plucking up the steps leading to the Altar and levelling it lower than the rest of the Chancel by denying his Parishioners particularly his Patron that gave him L. Ditton the Sacrament unless they would take it any way except kneeling c. He was one of the Assemb of Divines a great Covenantier an eager
Marshall Edm. Calamy Calybute Downing c. did first whisper in their Conventicles then openly preach that for the cause of religion it was lawful for the Subjects to take up Arms against their lawful Soveraign Which doctrine being also followed by the rest of the Elders the People of London did violently rush into rebellion and were found pliable by the faction in Parliament to raise tumults make out-cries for justice call for innocent blood subscribe and prefer petitions against the holy Liturgy and the Hierarchy and to strike at root and branch especially if our Author Burges did but hold up his finger to his Mirmidons or Capt. afterwards Colonel John Venn sent his summons by his Wife to assemble the zealots of the City In the beginning of the Long Parliament he was appointed by the Lords one of the Sub-committee to settle Religion who meeting in Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster our Author Burges became speaker for his party the Presbyterians In which office he made a vehement invective against Deans and Chapters and the unprofitableness of such Corporations and did aggravate to debauchedness the lives of singing men and they not only useless but hurtful by their vitious conversation At the same time also being looked upon as a doughty Champion for the holy cause and a zealous Covenantier 't was usual with him and the said Venn to lead up the tumults of the City to the Parliament doors to see that the godly party for so their faction was call'd in the House might not be out-voted and then turning back and beholding the rabble would say These are my band-dogs I can set them on and I can take them off again c. by which means above four parts in five of the Lords and two parts in three of the Commons were frighted out of the house to leave the Faction absolute Masters thereof These things also he did when the most noble Earl of Strafford was tried for his life So that being the Ring-leader of the rout and the only scandal to his profession in all London was thought fit by the blessed Parliament as by the faction it was called to be one of those Godly Divines that were to hold forth before them to be one of the Sub-committee for the advancement of moneys to carry on the War against the King and to be with John White the Centurist Assessors to the Ass of Divines But before that time Essex the General finding him a zealous instrument to carry on the cause made him his Chaplain to that Regiment of Horse which was next under him In Dec. 1643 the Londoners sent Will. Gibbes and John Fowke Aldermen and others of the common Council to the House of Commons to desire that the Cath. Church of S. Paul might be set open again and that there might be a Lecture every Sunday night as was formerly used after the afternoons Sermon and another on the week day and that Dr. Corn. Burges might be the man who having been several times put to his compurgators in that consistory was the ablest and fittest for that Sunday-nights Lecture desiring their honors to allow the Doctor a pension of 400 l. per an out of the revenues of the Cathedral for his encouragement in that service Which being a poor pittance God wot they not only confirmed that pension but gave him the Deans house thereof for his habitation both setled soon after by Act of Parliament The first motion of this did proceed from the Militia of London among whom the Doctor used to ride with his case of pistols was called Colonel and shew'd himself very officious to assist plundering at the Globe Tavern in Holbourne Afterwards growing very rich he purchased several Lands as the mannour of Wells belonging to the Bishop thereof and the habitation of the Dean there which he mostly plucked down and rebuilt And being so done he wrot a book to shew that there was no sacriledge or sin to alien or purchase the Lands of Bishops and Chapters which being taken into the hands of many curious readers had the licentiousness of a second impression an 1659. But upon the Kings restauration he lost all having about an year before been offer'd twelve thousand and odd pounds for his House and Lands at and near Wells whereupon retiring to Watford in Hartfordshire before mentioned lived obscurely there and died in a mean condition as I shall anon tell you He hath written and published these matters following A chain of Graces drawn out at length for reformation of Manners Lond. 1622. in tw New discovery of personal Tithes or the tenth part of mens clear gains proved due both in conscience and by the laws of this Kingdom Lond. 1625. oct The fire of the Sanctuary newly discovered or a compleat Tract of Zeal Lond. 1625. in oct Which book upon its Authors grand defect was answer'd by Anon. in a Pamphlet intit A whip c. printed 1643. Whereupon an old puritannical Poet named Francis Quarles the sometimes Darling of our plebeian judgments who seemed to have a great respect for our Author came out with a Reply intit The Whipper whip'd c. printed 1644 wherein in the first page he stiles Dr. Burges a man of singular parts c. Baptismal Regeneration of elect Infants professed by the Church of England according to Scriptures the primitive Church the present reformed Churches and many particular Divines apart Oxon 1629. qu. Vindication of the Reasons against Bishops Votes in Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Whether he was Author of the Reasons I know not Several sermons as 1 Sermon at a publick Fast before the House of Commons 17 Nov. 1640 on Jer. 50.5 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Sermon before the H. of Com. 5 Nov. 1641. on Psal 76.10 Lond. 1641. qu. Wherein are many things of and against the Papists and Jesuits 3 Serm. before the H. of Com. 30 March 1642 on Jer. 4.14 Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Vanity and mischief of the thoughts of an heart unwashed Serm. before the H. of Com. on their day of humiliation 30 of Apr. 1645. on Jer. 4.14 as before Lond. 1645. qu. 5 Necessity of agreement with God Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 29 Oct. 1645 on Amos 3.3 Lond. 1645. qu. besides others which I have not yet seen as Serm. on 2 Chron. 15.2 another on Ezra 10.2.3 a third called Prudent silence preached 12 Jan. 1648 whether the same with that against the destroying of Kings preached about the same time I cannot tell and lastly another on Amos 5.13 printed 1660. in octavo Sion Coll. what it is and doth A vindication of that Society against two Pamphlets c. Lond. 1648. qu. His case as Lecturer in Pauls This is a little Pamphlet By the way the Reader is now to know that it hath been confidently affirmed that our Author before he was engaged in buying Bishops Lands did concur with Dr. Joh. Hacket in his Answer to Dr. Hacket's Speech in 1641. that the alienating of any thing setled
himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. Catholicks as I have been informed by his familiar friend Robert Pugh a secular Priest who hath told me that he the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other things besides Erastus jun. and Erastus sen but the just titles of them he could not tell One Joh. Lewgar nearly related to if not descended from the before mentioned J. Lewgar died in the Island called Barbadoes an 1675 in which year also died Cecil L. Calvert JOHN QUARLES son of Franc. Quarles the Poet was an Essexian born became a Batler of Exeter Coll. in the latter end of 1642 and in that of his age 18 bore Arms within the Garrison of Oxon for his Majesty and was afterwards as 't is said a Captain in one of his Armies but upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he retired to London in a mean condition where he wrot several things meerly for maintenance sake among which were these Regale lectum miseriae or the English bed of misery in which is contained a Dream Lond. 1649. oct Elegy upon that never to be forgotten Ch. 1. late but too soon martyr'd King of England Elegy and Epitaph on Arthur Lord Capell beheaded 9 Mar. 1648. A curse against the enemies of peace His farewell to England These four last things were printed with Reg. lect miseriae before mention'd Afterwards he took his Rambles beyond the seas but whether in the condition of a Tutor or bare Traveller or Pilgrime I know not After his return he lived as occasion served and published Fons lacrymarum or a fountaine of tears from whence doth flow Englands complaint Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphrased with divine Meditations Elegy upon that son of Valour Sir Charles Lucas These three last things were several times printed in oct one Edition whereof came out in 1677. The tyranny of the Dutch against the English Lond. 1653. oct written in prose Continuation of the history of Argalus and Parthenia Lond. 1659. in tw He also published in verse The rape of Lucrece committed by Tarquin the 6. c. Lond. 1655. in oct Written by Will. Shakespear Gent and added to it Tarquin banished or the reward of lust Lond. 1655. oct in verse He hath also written Divine Meditations upon several Subjects whereunto is annexed Gods love and Mans unworthiness with several divine Ejaculations Lond. 1659 c oct Triumphant chastity or Josephs self conflict when by his Mistress was enticed to adultery shewing the powerful motions betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit Lond. 1683. oct a divine Poem This person J. Quarles who perhaps hath written other things was esteemed by some a good Poet and a great Royalist for which he suffer'd and lived therefore mostly in a poor condition At length upon the raging of the Plague in and near London he was swept away there among thousands that died of that disease in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where his carkass was lodged I cannot tell One Joh. Quarles occurs Archdeacon of Northampton an 1640 and was living after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but he is not to be taken with Joh. Quarles the Poet. ROBERT CODRINGTON was born of an antient and gentile family in Glocestershire elected Demie of Magd. Coll. 29 at July 1619 aged 17 years being then some months standing in that house took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1626 and afterwards upon his return from his Travels lived in the quality of a Gent. in Norfolk for several years and there took to him a wife At length retiring to London spent the remainder of his days and there finished his course This person who was always accounted a Puritan hath written and translated these things following The life and death of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex c. containing at large the Wars he managed and the Commands he had in Holland the Palatinate and in England c. Lond. 1646. in about 7 sheets in qu. In this book he shews himself a rank Parliamenteir Collection of many select and excellent Proverbs The life of Aesop This is written in French and Latine which with that written in English by Tho. Philipot are put before Aesops Fables in English illustrated with an 112 Sculptures by Francis Barlow Lond. 1666. fol. He also translated from French into English 1 Treatise of the knowledge of God Lond. 1634. Written by Pet. du Moulen 2 Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers Lond. 1654. in a thick oct Written by Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarr who divided it into eight days journey This translation is dedicated to the lover of all good learning Tho. Stanley Esq And also from Lat. into English 1 The History of Justin taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius containing the affairs of all Ages and Countries both in peace and war from the beginning of the world until the time of the Rom. Emperors Lond. 1664. second edit 1672. oct 82. in tw 2 Aesops Fables printed in oct 3 Ignoramus a Com. Lond. 1662. qu. with a supplement which out of respect to the Students of the Common Law was hitherto wanting 4 Prophecies of Christoph Kotterus Christiana Poniatovia and Nich. Drabicius three famous German Prophets c. Lond. 1664. oct second edit 5 Life and death of Alexander the Great King of Macedon In 10 books Lond. 1673. oct Written by Q. Curtius Rufus He hath also translated from French the last vol. of Nich. Caussins Holy Court which I have not yet seen Nor do I know any thing else of him only that he died of the Plague in Lond. in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where buried I cannot yet tell and that he had other matters lying by him fit for the Press SAMUEâ FISHER son of Joh. Fisher a Haberdasher of hats and Mayor of Northampton was born there or at least in Northamptonshire became a Student in Trin. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 18 years took one degree in Arts as a member thereof at which time being puritanically inclined he translated himself to New Inn where by the stay that he made which was about two years after he had taken the degree of M. of A he was throughly setled in his opinion and as 't is verily thought he entertained then more opinions and Principles than one of his coat ought to have done About the year 1632 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Lydde in Kent where under the character of a very powerful Preacher he lived in Conformity tho continuing still in his Puritanism till about the year 1643 near which time he held a strict confederacy with some of the religious Zealots of his Town who applied themselves to him for spiritual advice in reference to their scruples of conscience as to which of the new differing Sects they ought to adhere Whilst their thoughts were herein wavering our Author Fisher enjoyn'd himself and them to the observance of several Fast-days wherein he as the mouth of the
mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in the Ch. yard there belonging to S. Maries Church aforesaid In his Rectory succeeded his Kinsman Tho. Ellis Bac. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll Son of Griffin Ellis of Dolbehman in Caernarvanshire who having been well vers'd in British Histories and a singular lover of Antiquities made many additionals to the Historie of Cambria published by Dav. Powell as I have before told you which being so done the book was licensed and put into the Press at Oxon. But by that time he had printed 20 sheets or more out came Percie Enderbie with his book entit Cambria triumphans c. Or antient and modern British and Welsh Historie Lond. 1661. fol. In which book Tho. Ellis finding that Enderbie had seized upon those materials that he had collected for the fabrick of his work he did desist from going any further and caused what had been printed of his work to be sold for wast paper He died at Dolbehman in the beginning of the year in Apr. 1673 and was buried in the Church belonging to that town As for Enderbie who was an Author of no considerable note as having not had that just education which is requisite for a genuine Historian hath done his work but very meanly being mostly a scribble from late Authors and gives not that satisfaction which curious men desire to know And therefore I am perswaded that had Ellis finished his work 't would have been more acceptable to Scholars and intelligent Persons as having had more opportunities and advantages by reason of his birth and a continual succession of his family in Wales to know such matters than Enderbie who was a stranger for he was born at or near to the City of Lincoln and knew little or nothing of Wales till he setled there by a clandestine Marriage with the Daughter of Sir Edw. Morgan of Lantarnam in Monmouthshire Baronet but upon some encouragement received from certain Gentlemen and from the Library at Lantarnam he undertook it partly for fame but more for money sake This Person who translated into English The Astrologer anatomiz'd or the vanity of Star-gazing Art discovered written by Benedict Pererius died at or near Carleon in Apr. 1670 leaving some other things as 't was said fit for the press but if they be no better than his Cambria triumphans 't is no matter if they suffer the same fate as the papers of Tho. Ellis did Besides the before-mention'd John Ellis was another of both his names and a writer bred in Cambridge and afterwards Vicar of Waddesdon in Bucks Father to Philip Ellis bred in Westminster School but in no University in England because he had changed his Religion for that of Rome consecrated a titular Bishop in the Chappel belonging to S. James house in Westminster on Sunday 6. of May 1688. MATTHEW GRIFFITH was born of gentile Parents in London became a Commoner of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of May 1615 aged 16 years or more took one degree in Arts as a member of Glouc. Hall then holy Orders and soon after became Lecturer of St. Dunstans Church in the West under the inspection as 't is said of Dr. John Donne whose favourite he was Afterwards he was made Rector of S. Mary Magd. near Old Fish-street in London by the presentation of the Dean and Chapt. of S. Paul where shewing himself a grand Episcoparian was in the beginning of the rebellion sequestred from his Rectory plundered and imprison'd in Newgate whence being let out he was forced to fly but taken and afterwards imprison'd in Peter-house At length getting loose thence he retired to the King at Oxon by virtue of whose letters he was actually created D. of D. in June 1643 and made one of his Chaplains Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings cause he returned to London and there by stealth read and continued prayers and other ordinances according to the Ch. of England to the poor Cavaliers during the Usurpation for which he suffer'd seven violent assaults as 't is said and five imprisonments the last of which was in Newgate in the beginning of the year 1660. After the Kings return he was restored to his Rectory was made Preacher to the honorable Societies of the Temples and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire but whether he was made a Prebend of a Church or a Dean which he much deserved I know not He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Sermon on Psal 37. ver 1. Lond. 1633. oct 2 Pathetical perswasion to pray for publick peace on Psal 122.6 Lond. 1642. qu. For several passages in which Sermon he suffered imprisonment 3 Sermon touching the power of the King on Eccles 8.4 Lond. 1643. qu. His name is not set to it but the general report then and after was that 't was his 4 The fear of God and the King pressed in a Serm. at Mercers Chappel 25. March 1660 on Prov. 24.21 Lond. 1660. qu. c. In which Serm. shewing himself too zealous for the Royal cause before Gen. George Monk durst own it was to please and blind the fanatical party imprison'd in Newgate but soon after released There was an answer made to this by John Milton entit Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled The fear of God c. Whereupon came out a little thing called No blind guides c. addressed to the Author in two sheets in Rog. Lestrange his Apologie Lond. 1660. qu. 5 Communion Serm. preached at Serjeants inn before the Judges on Rom. 12.4.5 Lond. 1661. qu. 6 Catholic Doctor and his spiritual Catholicon on 1. John 1.7 Lond. 1662. qu. 8 The Kings life-guard an anniversary Sermon preached to the honorable society of both the Temples 30. Jan. 1664. on 1. Sam. 26.9 Lond. 1665. qu. Besides which he hath others that are extant but such I have not yet seen as The Samaritan revived another called The blessed birth c. He hath also written Bethel or a forme for families in which all sorts of both sexes are so squared and framed by the word as they may best serve in their several places for useful pieces in Gods building Lond. 1654. qu. Brief historical account of the causes of our unhappy distractions and the only way to heal them Lond. 1660. oct This is added to a second edition of the Sermon called The fear of God and the King c. This most zealous and loyal Person departed this mortal life at Bladon before mention'd on the 14. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there He had before broken a vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point study to be quiet and follow your own business In the said Rectory of Bladon Woodstock being a Chappel of ease to it succeeded Henry Savage D. D. Master of Balliol Coll. of whom I shall make mention among these writers under the year 1672. THOMAS WARMESTRY son
world within the City of York was admitted Probationer fellow of Merton Coll. in 1620 aged 19 years or thereabouts and proceeded in Arts four years after His younger years were adorned with Oratory Poetry and witty fancies and his elder with quaint preaching and subtile disputes In 1631 he was one of the Proctors of the University and about that time Chaplain to Philip Earl of Pembroke who for his service and merits bestowed upon him the Rectory of Byshopston in Wilts Afterwards he was constituted Chaplain and Tutor to Charles Prince of Wales after Dr. Duppa was made Bishop of Salisbury was actually created Doct. of Div. in 1642 elected one of the Ass of Divines in the year following but refused to sit among them and Chancellour of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury in the place of Will. Chillingworth deceased in the latter end of the same year 1643. Afterwards he suffered and was deprived of all he had for adhering to his Majesty K. Ch. 1 suffered in exile with his Son K. Ch. 2 whom after his defeat at Worcester he saluted at Roan upon his arrival in Normandy and thereupon was made his Chaplain and Clerk of the Closet After the Kings return he was made Dean of Westminster keeping his Clerkship still was consecrated Bishop of Worcester after the death of Dr. Gauden on the last of Novemb. S. Andrews day 1662 and at length was translated to the See of Salisbury 28. Sept. 1663 void by the translation thence to London of Dr. Humph. Henchman This Dr. Earl was a very gentile Man a contemner of the world religious and most worthy of the office of a Bishop He was a Person also of the sweetest and most obliging nature as one that knew him well tho of another perswasion saith that lived in our age and since Mr. Rich. Hooker died none have lived whom God had blest with more innocent wisdom more sanctified learning or a more pious peaceable primitive temper than he so that this excellent Person seem'd to be only like himself and venerable Mr. Hooker and only the fit man to make the learned of all nations happy in knowing what hath been too long confin'd to the language of our little Island I mean by his translation of the said Mr. Hooker's book called Eccles Politie as I shall tell you anon He hath written An Elegy upon Mr. Franc. Beaumont the Poet. Afterwards printed at the end of Beaumonts Poems Lond. 1640. qu. Put out with a poetical Epistle before them subscribed by Laur. Blaikâlock a Bookseller near Temple-bar afterwards an informer to the Committees of sequestration at Haberdashers and Goldsmiths-hall and a beggar defunct in Prison Micro-cosmography or a piece of the world characteriz'd in essays and characters Lond. 1628. c. in tw Published under the name of Edw. Blount He also translated from English into Lat. ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã which he entituled Imago Regis Caroli primi in aerââmnis solitudine Hag. com 1649 in tw and also The Laws of Eccles Polity in 8. books written by Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. This is in Ms and not yet printed Dr. Earl being esteemed a witty man while he continued in the University several copies of his ingenuity and poetry were greedily gathered up some of which I have seen particularly that Lat. Poem entit Hortus Mertonensis The beginning of which is Hortus delitiae domus politae c. He had also a hand in some of the Figures of which about 10 were published but which Figure or Figures claim him as Author I know not The Figure of six I have bearing this title The figure of six containing these six things wit mirth pleasure pretty observations new conceits and merry jests These Figures were not published all at once but at several times At length this worthy Bishop retiring to Oxon when the King Queen and their respective Courts setled there for a time to avoid the plague then raging in London and Westminster took up his quarters in University Coll. where dying on the 17. of Novemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five was buried near the high altar in Mert. Coll. Church on the 25 day of the said month being then accompanied to his grave from the publick Schools by an Herald at Arms and the principal persons of the Court and University In the See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Alexander Hyde sometimes Fellow of New Coll. of whom will be large mention made in his proper place GEORGE WILDE son of Hen. Wilde a Citizen of London was born in the County of Middlesex elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. from Merchant Taylors School in 1628 aged 19 years entred on the Civ Law line took one degree in that fac 1634 became one of the Chaplains to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant who had an especial respect for him and would have prefer'd him above the Vicaridge of S. Giles Church in Reading had not the Civil distempers broke forth In the heat of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of his Majesty was an appointed Preacher before him and the Parliament in Oxon being then in great esteem for his eloquent preaching and therefore had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd upon him Afterwards being turned out of his Fellowship by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he suffer'd much yet kept up a religious meeting for the Loyalists in Fleetstreet London After his Majesties restauration he was in requital for his loyalty made Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland where he was highly valued for his publick spirit religious conversation and exemplary piety In his younger years he was accounted a Person of great ingenuity and in his elder a man of singular prudence a grace to the pulpit and when in Ireland as worthy of his function as any there He hath written The Hospital of Lovers or Loves Hospital a Comedy Acted in S. Johns Coll. publick refectory before the K. and Qu. 30. Aug. 1636 but 't was not as I conceive printed Hermophus a Com. written in Lat. and several times acted but not printed Sermon preached upon the 3. of March in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. before the House of Commons on Psal 122.8.9 Oxon. 1643. qu. and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He departed this mortal life at Dublin on Friday 29. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in Christ Church there at which time Mr. George Seignior his Chaplain sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge preached his funeral Sermon to which I refer the Reader for his farther character being as 't is said made publick In London-Derry succeeded Dr. Rob. Mossom Dean of Ch. Ch. in Dublin THOMAS VAUGHAN who stiles himself in all or most of his writings which he published Eugenius Philalethes was the Son of Tho. Vaughan of Llansomfreid but born at Newton in the Parish of S. Bridget near Brecknock in Brecknockshire an 1621 educated in Grammar learning under one Matthew Herbert
author It was printed at the end of a second Edition of the said Certain verses c. with Hero and Leander a mock Poem The first days entertainment at Rutland house by Declamations and Musick Lond. 1657. oct Published in Sept. 1656 notwithstanding the nicety of those times Play-house to be let containing the History of S. Franc. Drake and the cruelty of the Spaniards at Perue Com. News from Plymouth Com. Law against Lovers Co. The Distresses Tr. The Siege Co. or Tr. Co. Fair favourite Co. A Panegyrick to his excellency the Lord Gener. Monk Lond. 1659. On one side of a sheet of paper printed in the beginning of March the same year A Poem upon his Majesties most happy return to his dominions Lond. 1660 qu. The Siege of Rhodes Tr. Com. in two parts Lond. 1663 qu. c. Poem on the Kings most sacred Majestie Lond. 1663. qu. Man 's the Master Com. Lond. 1669. qu. Poems on several occasions The Tempest or the enchanted Island Com. Lond. 1676. qu. This play was originally Shakespears whom and his works D'avenant much admired as those that have seen his Sea Voyage may easily discern The seventh or last canto of the third book of Gondibert Lond. 1685. oct never before printed Most of which Comedies Tragedies Trag. Com. Masques and Poems were printed together in a large folio Lond. 1672. 3. with the authors picture before them adorned with a wreath of Lawrel and a notch in his nose as over the first letter of his sirname At length this noted and celebrated author having lived to about his grand climecterical year made his last exit in his house in Little Lincolns-inn Fields in the Parish of S. Clement Danes near London on the seventh day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was two days after buried in the s Cross Isle or south trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster without any Lawrel upon his Coffin which I presume was forgotten His body was deposited in the very place or near it where his Antagonist Tho. May the English Lucan had been buried of whom I shall speak more anon and in the mean time give you the Epitaph of Sir Will. D'avenant made on him soon after his death which runs thus Here lies a Subject of immortal praise Who did from Phoebus hand receive his bayes Admir'd by all envied alone by those Who for his glories made themselves his foes Such were his virtues that they could command A general applause from every hand His Exit then this on record shall have A Clap did usher D'avenant to his grave In the office of Poet Laureat succeeded Joh. Driden Son of Erasmus Driden of Tichmersh in Northamptonshire third Son of Erasm Driden of Canons Ashby in the same County Baronet which John was born at Oldwincle called by some Aldwincle near to Oundle in the same County being the very same place that gave breath to Dr. Tho. Fuller the Historian educated in Grammar learning in the College School in Westminster elected thence a Scholar of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge an 1650 and is now highly celebrated among ingenious men for his poetry and other polite learning As for Tho. May before mentioned he was the Son of Tho. May of Mayfield in Sussex Knight by his Wife the Daughter of .... Rich of Hornden on the hill in Essex was educated in all kind of humane learning when he was a youth and in Academical in his manly years in Cambridge Afterwards his genie being chiefly enclined to Poetry he retired to and mostly lived in the City of Westminster where performing divers things for the honour of this nation never paralell'd by any English man before was graciously countenanced by K. Ch. 1. and his royal Consort but he finding not that preferment from either which he expected grew discontented sided with the Presbyterians upon the turn of the times became a Debauchee ad omnia entertained ill principles as to Religion spoke often very slightly of the Holy Trinity kept beastly and atheistical company of whom Tho. Chaloner the Regecide was one and endeavour'd to his power to asperse and invalidate the King and his cause Among several things that he hath written and translated some are these 1 The Trag. of Antigone the Theban Princess Lond. 1631. oct â The Heir a Com. Acted 1620. Lond. 1633. qu. 3 The victorious raign of K. Ed. 3. in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct Written in verse by the special command of K. Ch. 1. 4 The raign of Hen. 2. Lond. in oct Written also in verse and dedicated to K. Ch. 1. 5 Trag. of Cleopatra Qu. of Aegypt Acted 1626. Lond. 1639. oct Dedic to Sir Ken. Digby 6 Trag. of Julia Agrippina Empress of Rome Acted 1628. Lond. 1639. oct 7 Supplementum Lucani lib. vii Lugd. Bat. 1640. oct Written in so lofty and happy Lat. Hexameter that he hath attained to much more reputation abroad than he hath lost at home 8 The old couple Com. Lond. in qu. 9 Historiae Parliamenti Angliae Breviarium tribus partibus explicitum Lond. 1649 or thereabout in oct It was afterwards translated into English by the Author with this title Breviary of the History of the Parliament of England in three parts c. Lond. 1655. oct see edit Before which is the picture of the author in a cloak with a wreath of Laurel over his head He hath also translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 Lucans Pharsalia or the civil wars of Rome between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar In 10 books Lond. 1635. oct third edit with annotations made by Th. May on each book 2 A continuation of the subject of Lucans Historical poem till the death of Julius Caesar in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct sec edition with annotations made by Tho. May on each book 3 Virgils Georgicks four books Lond. 1622. oct with annotations on each book 4 Selected Epigrams of Martial Lond. 1629. oct At length this Person Tho. May who had been favoured by the rebellious Parliament so much as to be made their Historian going well to bed was therein found next morning dead an 1650 occasion'd as some say by tying his night-cap too close under his fat chin and cheeks which choak'd him when he turned on the other side Afterwards his body being conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster was buried on the west side of the large south Isle or transcept there And soon after had a large monument of white marble set in the w. Wall over his grave with this inscription thereon made by March Nedham Quem Anglicana Respub habuit vindicem ornamentum literaria secli sui Vatum celeberrimus deliciae futuri Lucanus alter plusquam Romanus Historicus fidus Equitis aurati filius primogenitus Thomas Maius h. s e. Qui paternis titulis claritatis suae specimen usque adeo superaddidit ut à supremo Anglorum senatu ad annales suos conscribendos fuerit ascitus Tandem fide
intemeratâ Parliamento praestitâ morte inopinâ noctu correptus diem suum obiit id Nov. A o libertatis humanae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo. A o libertatis Angliae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo. Aetatis suae Lv. Hoc in honorem servi tam bene meriti Parliament Reipub. Angl. P. P. Soon after was an Epitaph made in answer to it beginning thus Asta viator poetam legas Lucani interpretem quem ita feliciter Anglicanum fecerat ut Maius simul Lucanus videbatur c. But before his body had rested in the said South Isle eleven years 't was taken up with other bodies that had been unwarrantably buried there from 1641. to his Majesties restauration and buried in a large pit in the yard belonging to S. Margarets Church in Westminster where to this day it continueth At the same time his monument also was taken down and throw'd aside and in the place of it was set up that of Dr. Tho. Triplet an 1670. ALEXANDER HUISH was born in the Parish of S. Cuthbert within the City of Wells became either a Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall 1609 from whence being taken by the Foundress of Wadham Coll. was made by her one of the original Scholars thereof an 1613 and in the same year he took the degree of Bach. of Arts being the first of all that obtained that degree as a member of that College Afterwards being Master of his faculty he entred into holy Orders became a noted Preacher and in the year 1627 was admitted to the reading of the sentences Afterwards he was made Rector of Beckington and of Hornbloton in Sommersetshire the last of which he obtained on the death of Thom. Clarke by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Milbourne Esq in the beginning of Febr. 1638. Afterwards he became a sharer of afflictions for the Kings cause in the sad time of rebellion and tho driven from place to place yet in the quiet repose that he sometimes obtained he did improve his talent for the publick good of learning After the return of his Maj. Ch. 2. an 1660 he was restored to what he before had lost and the same year Sept. 12 he was collated to the Prebendship of Whitlackington in the Church of Wells the gift of which he had before obtained He was a person well read in the Fathers a noted Critick a good Linguist and a solid and sober Divine He hath written Lectures on the Lords Prayer in three parts Lond. 1626. qu. He also was much assisting to Dr. Brian Walton in the compleating the Polyglot Bible was one of the four correctors of it at the Press and took great pains in the Septuagint translation the Greek text of the New Testament and the vulgar latine compared with the most antient Alexandrian MS copy with the old edit of the Septuagint printed at Rome according to the Vatican copy and Rob. Stephens his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament and did diligently collect the various readings of the Alexandrian Copy which are throughout the work put under the Roman edition of the Septuagint and Stephens's edition of the Greek text of the New Testament In the sixth vol. of the said Polyglot Bible our author Huish hath a Greek Hymn with the latine to it written by him on S. Hilaries day 13. Janu. Styl vet 1657 8 in the year of his great climacteric 63. At length having lived beyond the age of man and done extraordinary benefit for the common good died in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried either at Beckington or Hornbloton In his Prebendship succeeded Henry Dutton Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon to which he was collated on the 22. of April in the same year See more of Alex. Huish in the first vol. an 1617 in John Flavell nu 447. GEORGE HALL son of Dr. Joseph Hall sometimes Bishop of Exeter and afterwards of Norwich was born at Waltham Abbey in Essex where his Father had been a constant Preacher for above 20 years had the seeds of virtue sown in him very early by his said Father who when this his Son was ripe for the Univ. sent him to Exeter Coll. an 1628 aged 16 years Where living in the condition of a commoner under a noted and careful Tutor he became Fellow of that house an 1632 and afterwards proceeding in Arts took holy Orders became Archdeacon of Cornwall and Vicar of Mayhenet in that County What his sufferings were in the time of rebellion I know not Sure I am that several years before his Majesties restauration he was first preacher of S. Barthelmews near to the Old Exchange and afterwards Vicar of S. Botolphs Church without Aldersgate in London and that after his Majesties restauration he became one of his Chaplains Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. G. Goodman who had held it in Commendam with the See of Glocester Doctor of Divinity actually created and Archdeacon of Canterbury At length upon the death of Dr. Hen. Ferne he was consecrated Bishop of Chester on the eleventh day of May an 1662 and about the same time had the rectory of Wigan in Lancashire confer'd on him by Sir Orlando Bridgman then chief Justice of the Common-pleas Which rich rectory he kept in Commendam with his See to his dying day He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 Gods appearing for the tribe of Levie Serm. preached at S. Pauls 8. Nov. 1655 to the Sons of the Ministers on Rom. 8.31 Lond. 1656. qu. 2 Serm. at Court on Psal 7.9 Lond. 1666. oct c. He hath also written a book against Papists and Popery entit The triumphs of Rome over despised protestancy Lond. 1655. qu. there again 1667. oct He paid his last debt to nature in the rectory house at Wigan before mentioned on the 23. of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried at the east end of the Rectors Chancel there Over his grave was soon after a large marble stone laid with this inscription thereon P. M. S. ejus repostus pulvere in sacro cinis expectat istic ultimae sonum Tubae mendace qui ne falleret titulo lapis sonum hoc sepulchro jussit incidi suo Georgius Hall S. Th. Pr. Ecclesiae dei servus inutilis sed cordatus D. Josephi Hall Praesulis pientissimi primo Exoniensis dein Norwicensis scriptis semper victuri filius imo umbra potius sex inter septemque annos sedit non meruit Cestriae Episcopus denatus aetatis suae anno LV. Christi vero MDCLXVIII Mirare lector Praesulis modestiam aliunde quaeras caetera By his last Will and Test he gave to Exeter Coll. after the decease of his Wife Gertrude who was afterwards buried under the same marble his Golden cup and all his Estate of land at Trethewen in S. Germans in Cornwall to the end that they be employed to the best commodity
and sometimes at London he continued with that Count more than an year In which time he did translate one of Virgils Aeneids and burlesqu'd it but whether he ever publish'd it I know not K. Ch. 1. did grant to him the reversion of the place of Surveyor of his buildings after the decease of Inigo Jones Which place he entring upon at the restauration of K. Ch. 2. an 1660 for the said Jones died 21. July 1651 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in London he enjoyed it to the time of his death and got by it 7000 l. In the year following he was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. and became much renown'd in the Court of that King for his ingenuity but upon some discontent arising from a second match he became craz'd for a time and so consequently contemptible among vain Fops Soon after being cured of his distemper he wrot excellent verses on the death of Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and some months after followed him The things that he hath written and translated have been many but those that are published are only these The Sophy a tragedy Lond. 1642. qu. and 1667. oct Coopers hill a poem Oxon 1643 in one sh and an half in qu. Printed again with additions at Lond. 1650 and 55 in qu. There again in 1667. 68. in oct A poem it is which for the Majesty of the stile is and ever will be the exact standard of good writing It was translated into Latin verse by Moses Pengrey as I shall elsewhere tell you An Essay against gaming Lond. in about 3 sh in oct This I have not yet seen Cato Major of old age a poem Lond. 1648. in tw in 4 parts c. The destruction of Troy or an Essay upon the second book of Virgils Aeneids Lond. 1656. in 4 sh and an half in qu written in the year 1636. Panegyrick on his excellency the Lord General George Monk Commander in chief c. Printed at Lond. in one sh in qu. in the month of Mar. 16ââ ââ Tho the name of John Denham is not set to it yet the frequent report was then among the Academians that he was the author of it Various poems and translations Lond. 1667 68. c. oct Among which is The Destruction of Troy Cato Major before mention'd and A Poem on Mr. Abr. Cowleys death and burial among the antient Poets Which last was a little before printed by it self in one sheet in fol. in Aug. 1667. Among them also as I remember is The Prologue to his Majesty at the first play presented at the Cock pit in Whitehall being part of that noble entertainment which their Majesties received Nov. 19. an 1660 from his Grace the D. of Albemarle Which Prologue was printed by it self at Lond. 1660. on one side of a broad sheet or paper A new version of the Psalmes of David This I have not yet seen only mention of it in an excellent copy of verses made in its commendation by Mr. Sam. Woodford sometimes of Wadham Coll in his Occasional compositions in English rimes Lond. 1668. p. 146. The true Presbyterian without disguise or a character of a Presbyterians way and actions Lond. 1680. in half a sh in fol. The name of Sir John Denham is set to this poem but then question'd by many whether ever he was the author of it See other works of his poetry in Sir Will. D'avenant before mention'd He died at his Office near to Whitehall which he before had built in March in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried on the 23 of the same month in the s cross isle or trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster near to the graves of Jeffry Chaucer and Abr. Cowley In the year 1666 were printed by stealth in oct certain poems entit Directions to a painter in four copies or parts and each dedicated to K. Ch. 2 in verse They were very satyrically written against several persons engaged in the War against the Dutch an 1665 and at the end of the said four parts is a copy entit Clarindons house-warming Sir John Denhams name is set yet they were then thought by many to have been written by Andrew Marvell Esq and after that his epitaph both bitterly reflecting on Edw. E. of Clarendon his house called Clarendon house and his ways of scraping up wealth To which Directions tho The Printer that printed them being discovered stood in the pillory for the same GEORGE BATE a most noted Physitian of his time Son of John Bate of Burton or Bourton in Buckinghamshire was born at Maidsmorton near to Buckingham became one of the Clerks of New Coll. in the beginning of 1622 aged 14 years was thence translated to Qu. Coll. for a time and thence to S. Edm. Hall took the degrees in Arts as a member of the last entred on the Physick line and took a degree in that faculty 1629 at which time being licensed to practice exercised it in and near Oxon. for some years among precise and puritanical people he being then taken to be one of their number In 1637 he proceeded in his faculty and became thereupon more noted among men especially when K. Ch. 1. to whom he was chief Physitian and his Court kept their residence several years in Oxon in the time of the grand rebellion Afterwards when his Maj. and his cause declined he retired to London closed with the times for interest sake became Physitian to the Charter-house Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and at length chief Physitian to Oliver while he was General and afterwards when Protector and did not stick tho he pretended to be a concealed Royalist to flatter him in an high degree Upon the restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 he got in with the Royal party by his Friends report that he by a dose given to Oliver hastned him to his end was made chief Physitian to K. Ch. 2. and a member of the Royal Society His published works are these The Royal Apologie or the declaration of the Commons in Parliament 11. Feb. 1647. canvassed Printed 1648 in about 14 sh in qu. There was also a book entit The Regal Apologie printed as 't is said at Paris the same year in qu but who the author of it was I know not unless the King himself Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia simul ac Juris regii ac Parliamentarii brevis narratio Par. 1649. Franc. ad Maen 1650. 51. qu. Which being communicated to Dr. Pet. Heylyn before it went to the Press or else when the second part was joyned to it were by him made many observations on it which much tended to the honor of the King and Church This first part of Elenchus was translated into English by an unknown hand and printed at Lond. 1652 in oct The second part of the said Elenchus wherein the author was
Kt and Bt now the Wife of Sir Tho. Millington Dr. of Phys erect the said monument at her proper charges JOHN TRAPP Son of Nich. Trapp of Kemsey as it seems in Worcestershire was born at Crome D'abitot commonly called Crumdebitot in the same County 5 June 1601 educated in Grammar learning in the condition of a Kings scholar under Mr. Hen. Bright in the Free-school at Worcester and made great proficiency in the three learned Languages In 1618 he made his Academical entry into Ch. Ch. and lived there some years in the condition as it seems of a Servitour under the tuition of Mr. George Jay a Student of that house and partly by the benefaction of Dr. Corbet then Dean thereof After he had compleated the degree of Master of Arts an 1624 he was invited to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire to teach a Free school there where shewing great industry in that employment had the small Vicaridge of Weston upon Avon in Glocestersh about two miles from his school confer'd upon him both which places with the Church of Luddington in Warwicksh for some time he kept about 47 years He was by those of the puritannical party esteemed to be a person endowed with several virtuous qualifications and to be one of the prime Preachers of his time Yet this the Reader must know that upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and in his Preachings and Discourses became violent against the King his Cause and his Adherents yet lost nothing for so doing but was a gainer by it as he was by the publication of these books following taken into the hands and admired by the Brethren but by others not Gods Love-tokens or the afflicted mans lessons brought to light and laid before him c. on Rev. 3.19 Lond. 1637. oct Theologia Theologiae or a true treasure of holy truths touching Gods word and God in the word Being a discourse on Hebr. 1. ver 1.2.3 Lond. 1641. oct Comment upon the four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles When this was first published I know not sure I am that his Exposition of S. Joh. the Evang. was pr. at Lond. 1646. qu. Comment upon all the Epistles of the Apostles and upon the Revelation Pr. in qu. A decad of common places Pr. in qu. Clavis to the Bible Or a new comment upon the Pentateuch or 5 books of Moses wherein are first difficult places explained 2 Controversies discussed c. Lond. 1650. qu. Comment on Joshua Judges Ruth first and second of Sam. first and sec of Kings and first and sec of Chronicles Solomonis Î ÎÎÎâ²Î¡ÎΤÎΣ or a Commentary upon the books of Proverbs Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs wherein the text is explained some controversies are discussed divers common places are handled c. Lond. 1650. qu. Com. or Exposition upon all the books of the New Test wherein the text is explained some controversies are discussed c. with a Decad upon these ten heads Abstinence Admonition Alms Ambition Angels Anger Apostacy Arrogance Arts and Atheism Lond. 1656. fol. sec edit with the Authors picture before it In this folio book are contained the Comment on the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles Com. upon the Epistles of the Apost and upon the Rev. as also A Decad of com places before mention'd Com. or Exposition upon the twelve minor Prophets Wherein the text is explained some controversies discussed c. Lond. 1654. fol. The righteous mans recompence Or a true Christian characterized and encouraged Grounded on Malac. 3.16.17.18 Printed with the Com. or Expos upon the twelve min. Proph. Com. on Proverbs Ecclesiastes the Song of Songs Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel and Daniel Lond. 1656 and 60. fol. In this folio is contained the Com. on the Proverbs Eccles and Song of Songs before mentioned which were pr. in qu. 1650. Com. on Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job and Psalmes Lond. 1656. fol. At length this voluminous Author paying his last debt to nature on the 17 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church of Weston upon Avon in Glocestershire before mentioned near to the grave of sometimes wife What other things he left behind him fit for the press I know not Since my writing of this I find that our Author Trapp was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Warwickshire for the ejection of such whom they then in Olivers Raign called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters WILLIAM PRYNNE a most noted and frequent Writer of his time was born at Swainswick near Bathe in Somersetshire an 1600 at which time his Father as afterwards this his son whom we now mention was a Tenant to Oriel Coll. educated in Grammar learning as I conceive within the same City of Bathe became a Commoner of the said Coll. of Oriel under the tuition of Giles Widdowes an 1616 took one degree in Arts in 1620 went afterwards to Linc. Inn to obtain knowledge in the Common Law where he was made successively Barrester utter Barrester Bencher and Reader At his first coming to that Inn he became a great follower and admirer of that noted Puritan Dr. John Preston then Lecturer there who finding him to be of an enterprizing nature hot-spirited and eager in pursuit of any thing that was put into him he was looked upon by Preston and his party as the fittest person to adventure upon such exploits which a more sober and considerate man durst not have appeared in Whereupon he was put into the road of writing not without the helps and advice of Preston and the Brethren and having made or gotten a Common-place-book published several matters against the loosness and debauchery so he took it of the times as against drinking of healths long or womanish hair Stage-plays wherein the Queen Henr. Maria was in a gross manner reflected upon several times and other matters relating to the Church Discipline and Members thereof which were altogether looked upon as aliene from his profession and pragmatical and impudent for him so to do About the time of Christmas an 1632 he published a book intit Histriomastix c. wherein breathing out nothing but disgrace to the Nation infamy to the Church reproaches to the Court dishonour to the Queen and some things which were thought to be tending to the destruction of his Majesties person as Dr. Pet. Heylyn an enemy to our Author Prynne tells us great complaints therefore were made of that book notwithstanding it had been licensed by Mr. Tho. Buckner Chaplain to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury Before I go forward with this matter you may be pleased to hear what a certain Author saith of it thus About this time meaning the latter end of 1632 Mr. Prynne published his book called Histrio-mastix by license of Archb. Abbot's Chaplain which being against Plays and a reference in the table of the book to this effect Women actors notorious Whores relating
should have known whether he was the same who was afterwards the famed Author of Hudibras After Sam. Butler had continued in Cambridge about 6 or 7 years but in what Coll. or Hall his brother knows not he was taken into the service of Elizabeth Countess of Kent in whose family living several years he did for a diversion exercise his parts in Painting and Musick and at length became so noted for the first that he was entirely beloved of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of his age Great Selden who was much conversant in the family of that Countess had an esteem for and would often employ him to write letters beyond sea and translate for him At riper years he studied the Common Law but did not practise it only lived on the jounture of a widow that he had married After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Secretary to Richard Earl of Carbury L. President of the Principality of Wales and of the Marches thereof who as 't is said made S. Butler Steward of Ludlow Castle when the Court there was revived Afterwards he became Secretary to George Duke of Buckingham when he was made Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and had promises of places and employments of greater value and credit from Edward Earl of Clarendon when he was L. Chanc. of England especially for this cause that his Majesty had a respect for him and the more for his poem called Hudibras the first part of which came out in 8o. an 1663 and was not only taken into his Majesties hands and read by him with great delight but also by all Courtiers loyal Scholars and Gentlemen to the great profit of the Author and Bookseller Afterwards came out a second part and both printed together with several additions and annotations And at length a third and last part but without annotations as by the copy printed 1678 appears In 1682 was published in 8o. Butlers Ghost or Hudibras The fourth part with reflections on these times But whether he was the Author of I know not for I have not yet seen it This Sam. Butler who was a boon and witty companion especially among the company he knew well died of a Consumption 25 of Sept. 1680 and was according to his desire buried six foot deep in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster viz. at the west end of the said yard on the north side and under the wall of the Church and under that wall which parts the yard from the common high way As for our voluminous Author Will. Prynne he died in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 24 of Oct. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Walk under the Chappel there which stands upon Pillars Over whose grave tho there is no Epitaph only his name and Obit which are now worn out yet I shall venture to give you this Epitaph that was then made upon him Here lies the corps of William Prynne A Bencher late of Lincolns Inn Who restless ran through thick and thin This grand scripturient paper-spiller This endless needless margin-filler Was strangly tost from post to pillar His brains career were never stopping But pen with rheume of gall still dropping Till hand o're head brought ears to cropping Nor would he yet surcease such theams But prostitute new virgin-reams To types of his fanatick dreams But whilst he this hot humour hugs And for more length of tedder tugs Death fang'd the remnant of his lugs NATHANIEL FIENNES second son to Will. Fiennes Vicount Say and Sele of whom I have made mention before was born at Broughton in Oxfordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. at his first entry therein because he was a Founders kinsman an 1624 aged 16 years where continuing about 5 years departed without a degree and went to the Inns of Court or to travel or both In 1640 he was elected Burgess for Banbury to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm in Apr. the same year and again for the same place to sit in that that commenc'd the 3 of Nov. following wherein shewing himself very busie and zealous for the Cause had a Commission given to him to be Captain of a Troop and afterwards to be Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under Robert Earl of Essex the Capt. Gen. of the Parliament Forces raised to fight against the King Afterwards shewing himself a zealot for the Covenant and professing himself in all respects to be a thorough-paced Parliamenteer was made Governour of the Garrison of Bristow when first taken in for the use of the Parliament Where being no sooner setled but he used many insolencies and barbarities too many here to be named among which was 1 His causing the Kings Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Marriners and all Officers of his Navy to take employment under Robert Earl of Warwick lately made Admiral of the Kings royal Navy by the Parliament to be burnt in the publick market-place there 4 March 1642 by the hands of one of the City Sargeants being then the chief market-day notwithstanding he connived at the publishing it the day before 2 In causing to be murdered under the notion of Plotters against the Parliament two eminent Citizens of Bristow Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher notwithstanding his Maj. sent letters in their behalf to have their lives spared to the extream horror and amazement of all honest men and the great grief of his Majesty who could not choose but look upon it as the most barbarous act which the impudence and cruelty of the said Rebellion had produced against him 3 In his and his murtherous Crews contempt and profanation of Gods holy Worship and Service and permitting the rending of Surplices tearing the book of Common-Prayer breaking down Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of the Congregations c. 4 His discountenancing and driving away the orthothodox Ministers and substituting in their places the most infamous and notorious Schismaticks that he could pick out of Bristow and other places as Joh. Tombes of Lemster Edm Cradock .... Bacon .... Walter .... Simonds and one Mathew Hazard whom tho I name last yet deserves to have precedency of all the rest as being a main Incendiary in the Rebellion violently egged on by his wife whose disciple the silly man was But at length the said City of Bristow being by Col. Fiennes surrendred to Pr. Rupert for the use of his Majesty 27 July 1643 he was thereupon called into question and articles were drawn up against him by the restless proceedings of Will. Prynne and Clem. Walker So that he being tryed for his life for the same before a Council of War sitting at S. Alban in Dec. the same year notwithstanding he had made a large defence for what he had done in open Parliament on the 5 of Aug. going before he was sentenced to lose his head for
a Coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes alias Fines alias Fenys alias Fienes but by the intercession of his father and others of his relations he was pardoned and by the palpable flattery and prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March Nedham he was justified for what he had done as to that matter See more in the Works of W. Prynne Afterwards tho he the said N. Fiennes was not trusted in any military matter yet he became an active man in the Parliament and was made a Commissioner in several matters But when he saw the Cause of the Presbyterians decline especially upon the purging of the House of 40 of them whereof he was one by Col. Tho. Pride he struck in with the Independents took the Engagement became great with Oliver a Member of all or at least of most of the Parliaments held between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and the return of his Maj. King Ch. 2 was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal after Oliver was installed L. Protector one of his Privy Council Lord Privy Seal in June 1655 a Member and Speaker of the other House alias House of Lords and tho before he had shew'd himself an Antimonarchist yet then when he saw what Oliver aimed at became a lover of Kingship and Monarchy purposely to gain honor and riches for the establishing a family which he and the rest of the godly party aimed at His Works are these Several Speeches in Parliament as 1 Speech in the House of Commons in answer to the third Speech of Lord Geo. Digby concerning Bishops and the City of Londons petition spoken 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1641 in 4 sh in qu. The beginning is Mr. Speaker two things have fallen into debate this day c. 2 Second Speech in the Com. House of Parl. touching the Subjects liberty against the late Canons and the new oath Lond. 1641. in tw sh and an half in qu. 3 Speech concerning the proffer of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse 6000 l. towards the suppressing of the Rebellion in Ireland Lond. 1641. qu. 4 Speech containing unparallel'd reasons for the abolishing of Episcopacy c. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his Speech against Bishops before mention'd and shews that Episcopacy is an Enemy to Monarchy 5 Speech or relation made in the H. of Com. concerning the surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow 5 Aug. 1643 with the transcripts and extracts of certain letters wherein his care for the preservation of the City doth appear Lond. 1643 in 3 sh and an half in qu. This was answer'd by Clem. Walker True and exact relation of both the ââttels fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his forces against the bloody Cavaliers The one of the 23 of Oct. last near Keynton below Edghill in Warwicksh the other at Worcester by Col. Browne Capt. Nath. and Joh. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and some others c. Lond. Nov. 9. an 1642. in two sh in qu. Letter to the Lord General Essex concerning Bristoll Lond. 1643. in 1 sh in qu. Reply to a Pamphlet intit An answer to Col. Nath. Fiennes's relation concerning his surrender of the City of Bristol Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. Other Speeches in Parl. as 1 Speech before his Highness Ol. Protector and both Houses of Parl. 20 Jan. 1657 being the first day of their sitting Lond. 1657. in 3 sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to both Houses of Parl. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference had at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Committee of Parliament c. in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct He also had an especial hand in a certain book called by an author a Legend or Romance intit Anglia rediviva being the Hist of the motions actions and successes of the Army c under Sir Tho. Fairfax c. published by Joshua Sprigge as I shall elsewhere tell you but how true that report is I cannot tell At length our Author Fiennes retiring after his Majesties return to Newton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts where he had an estate that came to him by his second wife Frances daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderley in Hampshire continued there to the time of his death which hapning on the 16 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave to his memory as also to his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth who both died in the flower of their age This Nath. Fiennes had a younger brother called John who was a Colonel for the Parliament and afterwards one of Oliver's Lords and tho a Sectary yet he was no great stickler notwithstanding guided partly by Nathaniel but more by old subtilty the Father Another there was who was the fourth brother named Richard of whom I know no great matter only that he had a daughter named Mary who was married to William the only surviving son of Nath. Fiennes which Mary dying in child-bed 23 Oct. 1676 was buried in the Church at Broughton near to the grave of her Grandfather William Vic. Say and Sele HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of Sir Henry son of Sir Dav. Foulis of an antient family in Scotland Baronets was born at Ingleby Mannour in Clievland in Yorkshire educated in Grammar learning and in the Presbyterian way within the City of York became a Communer of Qu. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully 6 June 1654 aged 16 years and thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1659 and on the 31 of Jan. the same year he was elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. Afterwards entring into holy orders he applied himself for a time to the study of Divinity and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1667. But his genie being naturally inclin'd to the study of certain parts of History he waved his proper profession and betook himself to the writing and publishing of books of that faculty The products of which do evidently shew him to have been a true son of the Church of England a hater of Popery Presbytery and Sectarism He was endowed with a most happy memory understood books and the ordering of them so well that with a little industry he might have gone beyond the great Philobiblos Jamesius He had also in him a most generous and public spirit a carelesness of the world and things thereof as most bookish men have a most becoming honesty in his dealings a just observance of collegiate discipline and a hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his time He hath written and published The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints the Presbyterians c. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674 both in fol. Which book tho full of notable girds against that party yet it hath been
Perkinson M. A. of Hart Hall and Gowin Knight M. A. and Fell. of Mert. Coll. But before the Election was to be made Perkinson desisted and Knight by the perswasions some say threatnings of Dr. Fell desisted So that then the Masters were left to Hobsons choice to choose Bennet and no body else Whereupon they perceiving full well that Dr. Fell was resolved to get his man in meerly by his Authority without any application to them and Bennet's little stirring for it only for form sake without applying himself according to the manner with cap in hand to gain votes they were resolved to cross the matter So that when the Election was to be on the 10 of the same month a majority of the Masters joyned together headed and encouraged chiefly by a clownish factious person did in despight of Dr. Fell his Mandamus and Authority of the Heads of Houses Seniors and the sober party set up and choose a meer stranger who lived remotely from Oxon named Christop Wase sometimes Fellow and Bach. of Arts of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Schoolmaster at several places to the very great-discomposure of Dr. Fell and something to the discredit of the University as if not able to afford a man to execute the said Office Afterwards Wase came to Oxon was sworn and took possession of his place But Dr. Fell who had received a character of would never let him execute the Archityp place because as he usually said he was not fit for it as being not a person of sobriety c. So that from the death of Mr. Clarke to this time the superior Beadleship of the Civ Law and the Architypographers place hath been joyned WILLIAM EYRE Son of Giles Eyre of White in Wilts was born in that County became either a Batler or a Communer of Magd. Hall an 1629 aged 16 years where continuing under a severe discipline till he had taken the degrees in Arts was appointed a Tutor in that House and about the same time entred into the sacred function But being always schismatically enclined he sided with the factious party in the time of the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1 became a rigid Calvinist an enemy to Tithes and a purchaser of Church Revenues In those sad times of calamity he was made Minister of S. Edmunds Church in the City of Salisbury where by his doctrine he advanced much the blessed Cause and in 1654 he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in which office he shew'd himself very forward against those people of which some were his acquaintance and contemporaries in Oxon. After the Kings restauration he proceeded in his usual preaching but in 1662 was silenced for Nonconformity and lived for a time at or near to Salisbury But finding that place and neighbourhood uneasie he retired to Milksham near to Chippenham in Wilts where he had purchased an Estate and continued there to the time of his death His works are An Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Psal 45.6 Lond. 1652. qu. Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae Justification without conditions or a free justification of a sinner c. vindicated from the Exceptions and Objections which are cast upon it by the Assertors of conditional Justification c. against Mr. Ben. Woodbridge Mr. Jam. Cranford and Mr. Rich. Baxter Lond. 1654. qu. Answer'd the same year by Mr. Baxter in his book intit An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre of Salisb. concerning his miscarriages in a book lately written for the justification of Infidels against Mr. B. VVoodbridge c. Sermon on Acts 20.9 Lond. 1658. oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church at Milksham before mentioned on the 30 of Januar. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine as the Register of that Church enforms me which I presume follows the English Accompt and not the common Another VVill. Eyre I find who was long before this mans time educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge between whom and the learned Usher Primate of Ireland passed many letters some of which were De Textus Hebraici veteris Testamenti variantibus lectionibus an 1607. Pr. at Lond. 1652. The said VVill. Eyre was living at Colchester in Essex an 1617. 15 Jac. 1. EDMUND VAUGHAN son of the Minister of Ashted in Surrey and nephew to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London was born in that County admitted Chorister of Corp. Ch. Coll. an 1621. aged 12 years afterwards he was successively Clerk Scholar and Fellow of that House Bach. of Div. and at length Rector of Pichford alias Pisford in Northamptonshire He hath written The life of Dr. Thom. Jackson sometimes President of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxford 'T was printed and set before the said Dr. Jacksons Commentary on the Creed an 1653 and afterwards before the collection of his works an 1672. fol. This Mr. Vaughan died on the Purification of the Virgin Mary in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Pichford after he had suffer'd much as a true son of the Church of England and as a loyal man to his Prince and his cause in the time of the grand rebellion began and carried on by a predominant party in both Houses of Parliament THOMAS SWADLIN born in Worcestershire applied his mind to Academical studies in S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders and had some little cure bestowed on him At length about the time that Dr. Laud became Bishop of London he was made Minister of S. Botolphs Church without Aldgate there where for his ready and fluent way of preaching he was much frequented by the Orthodox party but in the beginning of the grand rebellion he being esteemed as one of Dr. Lauds creatures he was imprison'd in Gresham Coll. and afterwards in Newgate was sequestred plunder'd and his wife and children turn'd out of doors At length he with much ado getting loose but in a manner distracted by the great miseries he endured he retired to Oxon where he was created D. of Div. an 1646 about which time and after he taught School in several places meerly to gain bread and drink as in London and afterwards at Paddington c. Upon the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was re-invested in S. Botolphs Church but being wearied out there by the contentiousness of his parishioners he left it and in the year 1662 he was presented to the Vicaridge of S. James in Dover upon the removal of one John Davis an Independent Preacher and to the Rectory of Hougham near to that place by the favour of Dr. Juxon Archb. of Canterbury but the yearly valuation of both not exceeding 80 l. per an he was at length being grown crazy and infirm presented unsought
was with the said Earl at Wolverhampton he preached twice there before his Lordship as Quarter-master General to Sir Tho. Middleton and within two hours after his last Sermon he fell to practice on one of his brethren and plundered a Townsman to the value of 500 l tho the man was as notorious as any in Coventry Banbury or Colchester c. This Keme was asked at Namptwich by a Brick-layer why the Earl of Denbigh gave offence by wearing long hair To which he made answer being then the chief leader in cases of conscience That to wear long hair was not against the rule but to have it was the thing forbidden by the Apostle for truly said he if my Lord should have long hair of his own I hold my self bound to tell him of it but that which his Lordship wears is not his own hair and if S. Paul were in England he would not mislike it tho it reached down as low as his knees Such Levites as this Keme were Sprat and Lorkin the two twins of Greenwich where they libell'd and blasphemed every Sunday according to their talents In Nov. the same year 1644 he went with his Colonel Basil Earl of Denbigh and the other Commissioners constituted by Parliament to treat with his Majesty at Oxon for peace where he with great confidence preached before them and about that time was made a Major and became very active in several places within this Kingdom to carry on the cause as well by fighting as preaching Afterwards he took all oathes to keep what he had and to gain more took all advantages to rake and scrape what he could together meerly to satisfie his unsatiable desire The truth is he was a man of a very servile spirit a flatterer a time-server an Epicure a Lecher c. and yet always a pretender to Saintship After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he turned about endeavoured to express his Loyalty took the oathes again as he had done when he took the Academical degrees and when he entred on the Minister and all to keep his living of Albury and the trade of eating and drinking He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Martialists dignity on Deut. 23.14 Printed 1640. qu. 2 The messengers preparation for an address to the King for a well grounded peace preached at Oxon. 24. Nov. 1644 before the Commissioners of both Kingdoms the morning before their presenting the propositions to his Majesty on Esther 4.16 Lond. 1644. qu. Dedic to the said Commissioners 3 The King of Kings his privy marks for the Kingdoms choice of new members c. preached at Bristol at the choice of new Burgesses of that City 28. Feb. 1645 on Prov. 10. ver 10.11 Lond. 1646. qu. The said City was then under the command of the Parliament 4 The Olive-branch c. on 2. Thes 3.16 Lond. 1647. qu. 5 Serm. on 1. Cor. 13. ver 14. Lond. 1647. qu. This last with others which he hath published I have not yet seen He died at Albury before mention'd on the 22 of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was two days after buried in the Chancel of the Church there near to an inscription which he before had caused to be painted on the wall to the memory of Anne Ball only daughter of John Ball Citizen and Skinner of London Jemimah Pelham eldest dau of Herbert Pelham of Lincolnsh and of Feriars Court in Essex Esq and of Mary Bridger second daughter of Samuel Bridger of Dursley in the County of Glocester Which three Women had been the wives of him the said Samuel Keme who at his death left behind him a young buxom Widow with whom he had a good portion but left her nothing as having spent all that he could get to satisfie his Epicurisme JOHN STRICKLAND was born of and descended from an antient and gentile family of his name in the County of Westmorland became a Batler of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 17 years took the degrees of Arts holy Orders and was made Chaplain as I have been informed to the Earl of Hertford In the month of May 1632 he was admitted Bach. of Div. and in Dec. following he became Rector of Middleton alias Pudimore Milton in Somersetshire by the presentation of Sir John Horner Knight c. This person who was always puritanically affected sided with the rebellious party in the beginning of the Civil War took the Covenant was made one of the Assembly of Divines preached frequently before the Long Parliament exciting the members thereof to proceed in their blessed cause prayed several times blasphemously and in 1645 or thereabouts was made Minister of S. Peters le poor in London where he exercised his gifts against the King and his party and was never wanting to excite his Auditors to carry on the said Cause Afterwards he was made Minister of S. Edmunds Church in Salisbury was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and took upon him great authority in his Apostleship especially if he had to do with the loyal and suffering Clergy He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Gods work of mercy in Sions misery Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons 27. Dec. 1643 on Isay 10.20 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 A discovery of peace or the thoughts of the Almighty for the ending of the peoples calamities c. on Jer. 29.11 Lond. 1644. qu. 3 Immanuel or the Churches triumph in God with us c. Thanksgiving serm before the House of Lords 5. Nov. 1644. on Psal 26.7 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Mercy rejoycing against Judgment Fast-serm before the House of Commons 29. Oct. 1645 on Isay 30.18 Lond. 1645. qu. In his Epist dedic to the House of Com. he desires them to have a care how they plant the towns in Cumberland and Northumberland with able preachers that they reform the Universities c. He hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen See more of him in Hum. Chambers under the year 1662. p. 207. This Mr. Strickland who is stiled by one of his opinion Praeco fidelissimus and so he was esteemed by the factious party was ejected from his Living for his refusal to conform to the service and ceremonies of the Church of England an 1662 Whereupon keeping Conventicles in and near Salisbury was several times as I have been informed imprisoned At length giving way to fate in sixteen hundred and seventy was buried on the 25 of Octob. in the Church of S. Edmund before mention'd being then accompanied to his grave by many of his perswasion VAVASOR POWELL having often told his friends and the Brethren not without boasting that he was once a member of Jesus Coll. in Oxon I shall therefore upon his word number him among these writers Be it known therefore that this person who was famous in his generation for his ill name
K. Ch. 1. and garrison'd for his use he was put into Commission for a Captain of a Foot Company consisting mostly of Scholars In which office doing good service had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him by the favour of his Majesty tho no such matter occurs in the public register of the University which was then somtimes neglected After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon for the use of the Parl. he by the name of Tho. Holyoake without the addition of Master Bac. or D. of D obtained a License from the University to practice physick whereupon setling in his own Country he exercised that faculty with good success till 1660. In which year his Maj. being restored to his Kingdoms Thomas Lord Leigh Baron of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire presented him to the Rectory of Whitnash near Warwick and soon after was made Prebendary of the collegiat church of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire In 1674 Robert Lord Brook conferr'd upon him the Donative of Breamour in Hampshire which he had by the marriage of his Lady worth about 200 l. per an free from presentation institution and episcopal visitation but before he had enjoy'd it an year or thereabouts he died to the great grief of his family He hath written A large Dictionary in three parts 1. The English before the Latine 2. The Latine before the English 3. The proper names of Persons places and other things necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets Lond. 1677 in a thick larg folio Before which is an Epistle written by the authors son Charles Holyoake of the Inner Temple whereby he dedicates the book to Fulke L. Brook and author written by Dr. Thom. Barlow B. of Lincolne wherein are many things said of the work and its author But this the reader is to know that the foundation of the said Dictionary was laid by his father Fr. Hol. before mention'd and upon that foundation is the largest Dictionary made that hath been ever yet published in England The said Dr. Holyoake who was much respected in the neighbourhood where he lived for his ingenuity and humanity died of an high Feaver at Breamour on the tenth day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was conveyed to Warwick and there interred by that of his father in the great Church there dedicated to S. Mary the Virgin THOMAS WOOLNOUGH a ministers Son of Gloustershire as it seems became either Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall 1648 trained up there acording to the presbyterian way took a degree in Arts afterwards had a cure in the interval and at length became Rector of S. Michaels Church in Glocester where he was frequented for his edifying way of preaching He hath extant Fideles aquae or some pious tears drop'd upon the hearse of the incomparable Gentlewoman Mistris Sarah Gilby together with some Elegies upon her Grandmother and Brother Lond. 1661. oct Dust returning to the earth Sermon at the interment of Tho. Lloyd Esq late of Wheaten-Hurst in the County of Gloc. 22. Dec. 1668 on Eccles 12.7 Lond. in the Savoy 1669 qu. and one or more things as t is said which I have not yet seen He died 20. June in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the church of S. Michael before mention'd near to the body of Eleanor his sometimes wife dau of Gaspar Estecourt of Radbourough in Gloucestersh Gent. descended of a knightly family of his name in Wilts Which Eleanor died on the ides of Decemb 1665. BULSTRODE WHITLOCK son of Sir James Whitlock Knight by Elizab. his wife daugh of Edw. Bulstrode of Hugeley or Hedgley-Bulstrode in Bucks Esq was born in Fleetstreet in London in the house of Sir George Croke Serjeant at Law his Mothers Uncle on the 6 of Aug. 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Taylors School became a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term an 1620 at which time he was principally recommended to the care and oversight of his fathers contemporary and intimate friend Dr. Laud then President of that House who shewing to him several fatherly kindnesses our author Whitlock did many years after make some returns when the said Doctor then Archb. of Cant was to be brought to a trial for his life especially in this respect when he refused to be one of the Commissioners or number of the Committee appointed by Parl to draw up a charge against him But before our author had taken a degree he went to the Middle Temple where by the help of his father he became a noted proficient in the Common Law well read also in other studies and in time made for himself a large provision from them and a retired contemplation At length when the Long Parliament was to sit he being then a Counsellour at Law he was chose a Burgess for Marlow in Bucks to serve therein and shewing himself very active in baiting the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford became noted in the House for a man of parts In 1642 he for his activeness for the cause then driving on was made one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire at which time a new Lieutenant was constituted by the Parliament and soon after was named one of the Commissioners to treat for peace with the King at Oxon in the name of the Parliament and one of the Lay-Gentlemen to sit among the Ass of Divines In 1644 he became Attorney of the Dutchy of Lancaster Commissioner again for peace and in the same year when Rob. E. of Essex was about to prove Ol. Cromwell an Incendiary he gave him the said Oliver timely notice of the design he being privy to it and thenceforth he became very gratious with that most active person who with his party were very willing to engage him as far as they could to them In 1645 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Admiralty and being then suspected to hold intelligence with the Kings party was in danger to have lost all had he not freed himself from that suspicion especially by his urging his losses that he had sufferd by the said party for his adhering to the Parliament in consideration of which he had afterwards given to him 2000 l. In 1646 he was sent for to the Leaguer before Oxon by Sir Tho. Fairfax the General of the Parl. forces who being admitted one of his Council of War he did oftentimes being a friend to the Univ. of Oxon express his unwillingness that any thing of damage should be done to it and pressed for honorable tââms to be offer'd to the Garrison there In 1647 O. Cromwell used his advice in many things and therefore by his power it was that in the beginning of March in the said year he was made one of the four Commissioners of the Great Seal In 1648 Ph. E. of Pembrok who was then lately made Constable of Windsore Castle and keeper of the Forest adjoyning constituted him his Lieutenant of those places in the
c. and somewhat of Dr. Is Barrow on the same subject Several tracts as 1 A discourse of religion on three heads first the ends and uses of it secondly the life of religion and superadditions to it and thirdly the superstructions upon it and animosities about it 2 A treatise touching provision for the poor before mentioned 3 A letter to his Children advising them how to behave themselves in their speech 4 A letter to one of his Sons after his recovery from the small-pox Lond. 1684. in oct Discourse of the knowledge of God and of our selves first by the light of nature secondly by the sacred Scriptures Lond. 1688. oct Brief abstract of the Christian religion Considerations seasonable at all times for the cleansing of the heart and life These two last were printed with Discourse of the knowledge of God c. He hath also translated into English The life of Pomponius Atticus written by his contemporary and acquaintance Cornel. Nepos c. Lond. 1677. oct To which are added by our author Hale Observations political and moral thereupon He also wrot the preface to and published the Abridgment of many cases and resolutions c. made by Judge Henry Rolle as I shall tell you when I come to him and under his Hale's name ought to be put The perjur'd Fanatick or the malicious conspiracy of Sir John Croke of Chilton Henry Larimore and other Fanaticks against the life of Rob. Hawkins Clerk and late Minister of Chilton occasion'd by his suit for tithes Discovered in a trial at Ailesbury before Sir Matth. Hale Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Lond. 1685. in 10. sh in fol. Which Rob. Hawkins was afterwards Vicar but a poor one if not scandalous of Beckley in Oxfordshire These I think are all that are published under the name of Judge Hale The rest that he hath written and not yet extant are many among which are 1 Concerning the Secondary origination of mankind folio 2 Concerning religion fol. in 5. vol. 3 Of Policy in matters of religion fol. 4 De anima fol. written to Mr. Rich. Baxter 5 De anima fol. Transactions between him and the said Mr. Baxter c. and many others as you may see elsewhere And left behind him as a Legacy to Linc. inn Library several volumes of collections made by him mostly from records in the Tower and divers matters relating to Glocestershire all which may be of great use to Lawyers and Antiquaries At length after this most learned and religious person had lived to the age of 67 he gave way to fate on Christmas day 25. Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and six whereupon his body was buried on the 4. of Jan. following in the yard belonging to the Church of Alderley among the graves of his Mothers Ancestors At which time Evan Griffith the pious Minister of that place preached his funeral sermon on Isay 57.1 which was afterwards as I have been informed made extant by him the said Griffith sometimes of Oriel Coll. in Oxon as it seems who dying in the beginning of June 1681 after he had been one of the Wednesdays Lecturers at Wotton Under-edge in Com. Gloc. several years was buried at Alderley before mention'd To conclude all that I shall farther say of this worthy person Sir Matth. Hale whom we have now brought to his grave shall be the very same words which conclude his life written by a Native of Edenburgh called Gilbert Burnet D. D. sometimes Professor of Div. in the Univ. of Glascow but then 1682 Preacher at the Rolls in Chancery-lane running thus He was one of the greatest patterns that this age hath afforded whether in his private deportment as a Christian or in his publick employments either at the bar or on the bench Which character being without doubt true as most things of him in the said life are yet I must take leave to tell the reader that most knowing and observing men had a better esteem of Judg Hale before the said life was published than after as also in some respects before the publication of Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matth. Hale The author of which Mr. R. Baxter the learned and most eminent Nonconformist takes often occasion to reflect in them on the Church of Englands and its Orthodox Sons THOMAS FORD was born of a Plebeian Family in Devons entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in Easter term an 1619 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts entred into Orders and became a very faithful Tutor in his House for several years But being puritanically educated as all in his time of the said House were and not able to endure certain passages acted in the University preached a very factious sermon at S. Maries on 2. Thes 2.10 for which he was banished thence an 1631 as I have at large elsewhere told you So that retiring into his own Country to get preferment he was kept back from it by the endeavours of Archb. Laud till such time that he should make his peace and recantation for what he had done At length the small cure of Oundle in Northamptonshire being bestowed upon him he continued there as I conceive till the grand rebellion began At which time finding no opposition he retired to the City of Exeter and became much resorted to for a time by those of the Presbyterian perswasion But leaving that place when garrison'd for his Majesty he retired to London or near it became one of the Ass of Divines in the room of Mr. Bolls deceased an 1644 and frequently preached up the cause there Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings interest he went to Exeter again was made Minister of S. Laurence Church there became the prime leader of the faction took the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant and was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Devon for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties restauration he continued in his cure till silenced for Nonconformity an 1662 so that preaching in private among the brethren he obtained a livelyhood from them to the time of his death A certain Doct. of Divinity of his time and perswasion that knew him well hath several times told me that this our author was a man of very great parts and of unbyassed principles one and the same in all times and changes He hath written A treatise tending to prove the lawfulness of singing Psalmes Lond. 1657 in oct or tw 'T is grounded on Ephes 5.19 One John Foord hath written Expositio libri Psalmorum Lond. 1646. qu. Published by Thom. Paget but whether he was ever of Oxford I cannot tell The Sinner condemned of himself Being a plea for God against all the ungodly proving them alone guilty of their own destruction c. Lond. 1668 in oct containing 256. pages He preached once before the Lords of the Long Parliament at a Fast held 29.
in Cheapside and the rest or third part in Smithfield All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous so the predominant party in the House said as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House and that of the Commons and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford c. 5 His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh and half in qu. This also was burnt 6 Sp in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indempnity Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. 7 Two speeches with some observations upon them Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery 15. Mar. 1672 the King being then present The other in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663 in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple Several Letters as 1 Letter to the Queens Majesty dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641 to which place he fled when he was banished wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence as well as from any place in England over and above the service which he might do for him there and accordingly he returned into England not to London notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers that if he appeared not in 20 days he should be proclaimed Traytor but to his Majesty at or near York The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. 2 Letter to the Qu. Majesty dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter with another from Tho. Eliot Esq written to the said Lord Digby dated at York 27. May 1642 being intercepted by the Rebels were ordered to be printed by the Parliament 1. Aug. 1642 with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus 3 Divers Letters written at Oxon in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London They were intercepted by the Rebels and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following in a pamphlet entit A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh in qu. 4 Divers Letters written in design to betray Abendon for the Kings use Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660 for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon but after Browne in a false manner had dril'd the said Lord on so long which he could not in honour do longer then did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament and they to a Committee who caused them to be printed 5 Letter in the Kings name to the Irish Commissioners Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament and printed with this title Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish Rebels 6 Several other Letters c. These also were intercepted and with others had this title put to them The Lord Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Steph. Goffs negotiations together with his Majesties the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorks about the 15 of Oct. last 1645 Also observations on the said Letters Lond. 1646. qu. 'T is a villanous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyr'd Kings Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels 7 Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebels General in Munster Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month an 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland were sent to the Parliament in England who caused them forthwith to be published I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts for the surrender of Plymouth to the King an 1644 and others to General Leven for peace an 1645 but whether printed I know not Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire an 1645 by the Parliament forces were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion Lond. 1651. oct Elvira or the worst not always true a Comedy Upon the writing of which he the L. Digby and not Sir Kenelm was brought into the poem called The session of Poets made by Sir John Suckling Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance Printed in oct At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex having been much afflicted with the Gout on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby Lord Treasurer of England JOHN PRICE or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books wherein he shews himself the greatest Critick of his time was born in London as one of his contemporaries hath enformed me elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts left the University without a degree or being matriculated otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage and was taken into the retinew of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel he being then a R. Catholick At length he went beyond the Seas and settling for a time in a certain University there took the degree as t is said of Doctor of Law for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. Lauds MSS. in Bodlies Library Afterwards he returned into England where continuing for some time he went into Ireland and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primat thereof But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and question'd by the Parliament in 1640 he returned into England and published certain Pamphlets for the Kings cause but what the titles of them are I could never learn certain it is that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time Afterwards being enlarged he went beyond the Seas and at length into Italy about 1652 and setling in Florence was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany who made him Supervisor of his Medals yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude
by his wife daughter and heir of Rob. Sapcote of Elton in Huntingdonshire Esq younger brother to John Lord Harrington sons of Sir Jam. Harrington Kt. by Lucie his wife daughter of Sir Will. Sydney Kt. son of Sir Jo. Harrington Knight who was Treasurer of the Army to K. Hen. 8. Now as for Mr. Rogers before mention'd whom our author Harrington answered in his Parallel of the Spirit c. as 't is before told you his Christian name was John a notorious fifth Monarchy man and Anabaptist living in Aldersgatestreet in London and the title of his book which was answered runs thus A Christian concertation with Mr. Prynne Mr. Baxter and Mr. Harrington for the true cause of the Commonwealth c. Lond. 1659. This Mr. Rogers was a busie pragmatical man and very zealous to promote a quarrel between his party and Oliver Cromwell for his seemingly running with them till he had got the reins of Government into his own hands and then to leave them with scorn He with Christop Feake as impudent and forward as himself were the Coryphaei of their party as Love in his time was of the Presbyterians and were not wanting upon all occasions to raise a commotion Wherefore it being thought requisite to secure Oliver caused them to be imprison'd at Lambeth and to debar their party to have access to them in Dec. or thereabouts 1654. Rogers being then of S. Thomas the Apostles in Southwark After they had remained there for some time Rogers had prevailed so far with his party as to present an Address which he himself had drawn up to the said Oliver for his enlargment Whereupon on the 7 of Feb. the same year Rogers was brought before the Protectors Council sitting at Whitehall who told him what a high charge there was against him and that he was not a Prisoner for the cause of Christ but suffered as a busie body and an evil-doer c. At length it being desired by his friends that the cause might be debated between his Highness the Protector and himself it was with his Highness his consent granted Whereupon in the evening of the said day Rogers with some of his friends were admitted into his Highness's presence where being told of an high charge exhibited against him Rogers charged them that brought it in to be Drunkards and Swearers The Protector asked him which of them was so that brought it in but he could name none of them that he knew The Protector pressed him for Scripture for his actings He said the Scripture was positive and privative And being asked which of those evil Kings that he mention'd that God destroyed he would parallel to this present State he gave no positive but privitive answer Whereupon the Protector shewed what a disproportion there was those being such as laboured to destroy the people of God but his work speaking of himself was to preserve them from destroying one another and if the sole power was in the Presbyterians they would force all to their way and they the Fifth Monarchy men would do the like and so the re-baptized persons also And his work was to keep all the Godly of several judgments in peace c. And when Rogers cried down the national Ministry and national Church mention'd to be antichristian the Protector told him that it was not so for that was to force all to one form that was national which was then done as he said in this Commonwealth c. Afterward Maj. Gen. Tho. Harrison Col. Charles Rich and some others made an address to the Protector to desire the release of him Feake and others or to try them The Protector shewed how he kept them from tryal out of mercy because if they were tried the Law would take away their lives So he was remitted to his Prison and Feake and the rest were there to continue On the 30 of March 1655 Oliver and his Council ordered that the said Rogers should be removed to Windsor Castle whereupon the next day he was carried there and his wife rode after him RICHARD ATKYNS whose birth was neither glorious nor contemtible as having been descended from Gentry on his fathers side and Nobility on that of his mother His father was son and heir of Rich. Atkyns of Tuffleigh in Glocestershire Esq at which place this our author as I conceive was born chief Justice of West Wales and of Qu. Elizabeths Council of the Marches of Wales and brother to Sir Edward Atkyns of Lincolns Inn one of the Barons of the Exchecquer His mother was second daughter of Sir Edwyn Sandys of Latimer in Bucks Baronet by his wife the Lady Elizab. Sandys dau and heir of Will Lord Sandys of the Vine near Basingstoke in Hampshire descended from the Bray's Barons After he had been partly educated in English and Grammar learning under two bad Masters he was sent to the College School at Glocester where being compleated for the University he was at 14 years of age sent to Balliol Coll an 1629 and continued there at least two years in the quality of a Gent. Commoner studying the Zegardines Philosophy more than that of Aristotle or Ramus Thence he went to Lincolns Inn and soon after travelled into France with the son of the Lord Arundel of Wardour by a second venture but that son dying there before they went farther he returned improv'd himself with the accomplishments of a Courtier and then married which towards his latteâ end proved his ruin Afterwards upon the breaking out of the Civil Wars in England he raised a Troop of Horse at his own charge for the King and did him good service for which afterwards he suffered much in his estate After his Majesties restauration he was made being then a Colonel one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Glocestershire where and in that capacity he expressed himself not only loyal upon all occasions but an affectionate son of the Church of England He was an ingenious and observing man and saw the vanity of this world sooner than others tho of elder years which fitted him the better for another He hath written and published The original and growth of Printing c. Lond. 1664· in 4. sh in qu. His Vindication Lond. 1669. qu. Relation of several passages in the western War of England wherein he was concerned Sighs and Ejaculations These two last were printed with the Vindication At length being committed prisoner to the Marshalsea in Southwark for debt died there on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and two days after was buried without any publick solemnity in the Parish Church of S. George the Martyr within the said Borough of Southwark by the care and appointment of Sir Rob. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas and Edw. Atkyns Esq afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer both nearly related to the defunct WILLIAM LUCY descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Charlcote in Warwickshire was
lived in died full of years on the 28. of January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven At which time he left a considerable legacy of books to the Church of S. Giles before mention'd in the chancel whereof he was buried on the 31. of the said month He had two Sons that were Ministers one named John who was Vicar of the said Church and the other Samuel who lived and died Rector of Eastling in Kent CHRISTOPHER FOWLER son of Joh. Fowl of Marlborough in Wilts was born there became a Servitour of Magd. Coll. in 1627 aged 16 or thereabouts where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts he retired to S. Edm. Hall took the degree of Master of that faculty as a member thereof entred into holy Orders and preached for some time in and near Oxon and afterwards at West Woodhey near Dunnington Castle in Berks. At length upon the turn of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians having before been puritanically affected took the Covenant and became a very conceited and fantastical preacher among them For by his very many odd gestures and antick behaviour unbeseeming the serious gravity to be used in the pulpit he drew constantly to his congregation a numerous crowd of silly Women and young People who seemed to be hugely taken and enamour'd with his obstreporousness and undecent cants He was then as I conceive Minister of S. Margarets Church in Lothbury London to which City he retired for safety under pretence of being disturbed by the Malignants as he called them at Dunnington and soon after being a zealous Brother for the cause he became Vicar of S. Maries Church in Reading an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks for the ejection of such that were then called by the Godly party scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and at length Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore notwithstanding he had refused the Engagement After his Majesties restauration he lost his Fellowship of Eaton and being deprived of his cure at Reading for nonconformity retired to London and afterwards to Kennington near Newington S Mary in Surrey and carried on the trade of conventicling to his last His works are these Daemonium meridianum Satan at noon or antichristian blasphemies anti-scriptural divilismes c. evidenced in the light of truth and punished by the hand of justice Being a sincere relation of the proceedings of the Commissioners of the County of Berks against John Pordage late Rector of Bradfield in Berks. Lond. 1655. qu. Notes and animadversions upon a book of Jo. Pordage entit Innocency appearing c. Printed at the end of Daem merid This John Pordage who was the Son of Sam. Pordage Citizen and Grocer of the Parish of S. Dionise Backchurch in London who died in the latter end of the year 1626 was called Doctor by a charientismus and had been preacher at S. Laurence Church in London before he came to Bradfield From which last being ejected by the said Commissioners as having been conversant with evil spirits as they said and for blasphemy ignorance scandalous behaviour divilisme uncleanness and I know not what he therefore wrot the said book of Innocency appearing c. in his own vindication But that book availing nothing he continued notwithstanding ejected and as the Commissioners said he took part with the great blasphemer Abiezer Coppe and appeared in his behalf before when he was accrimated by them of various foul matters Daemon merid the second part discovering the slanders and calumnies cast upon some corporations with forged and false articles upon the author in a Pamphlet entit The case of Reading rightly stated c. by the Adherents and Abettors of the said Joh. Pordage Lond. 1656. qu. A word to Infant-baptisme and a glaunce to Mr. Pendarves his Arrows against Babylon c. Answer to the Mayor Aldermen and Assistants of Reading in Berks. to a scandalous pamphlet entit The case of the Town of Reading stated These two last are printed with the second part of Daemon Merid. Sober answer to an angry Epistle directed to all publick teachers in this nation and prefix'd to a book called by Antiphrasis Christs innocency pleaded against the cry of the chief priests written in hast by Tho. Speed Quaker and Merchant of Bristow c. Lond. 1656. qu. Sim. Ford a Minister in Reading assisted our author Fowler in the composition of the said book which was soon after animadverted upon by that noted Quaker called George Fox in his book entit The great mystery of the great Whore unfolded c. Several Sermons as 1 How Christians may get such a faith as may be not only saving at last but comfortable and joyful at present on 2. Pet. 1.8 This is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Scriptures to be read by the common people on 1. Thes 5.27 in The morning exercise against popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 Sermon on S. John 19.42 Printed 1666. qu. This or any others besides that he hath published I have not yet seen At length this our author Ch. Fowler who was esteemed a little better than crazed or distracted for some time before his death departed this mortal life in Southwark in the latter end of January in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried within the precincts of S. John Baptists Church near Dowgate in the Ch. yard I think in London As for John Pordage before mention'd commonly called Dr. Pordage whom I have heard Mr. Ashmole commend for his knowledge in or at least his great affection to Astronomy was restored to Bradfield after his Majesties return lived there several years leaving behind him a Son named Samuel of Linc. inn author of Herod and Mariamne Trag. and of The Siege of Babylon Trag. Com also of Eliana a Romance and of a Translation of Troades Which Samuel was Steward to Philipp the second Earl of Pembroke and not to Old Philipp or Philipp the first as I have told you among the Writers in the first Volume pag. 336. NATHANIEL STEPHENS son of Rich. Steph. Minister of Staunton Barnwood in Wilts was born in that County became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1622 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became a puritannical Preacher in his own Country At length upon the change of the times he closed with the Presbyterians took the Covenant preached frequently against the Kings Followers and Prelacy and was not wanting on all turns to carry on the blessed cause At length having the Rectory of Fenny Drayton or Draiston in the Clay in Leycestershire confer'd on him wrot and published A precept for the baptisme of Infants out of the New Test c. partly against the Cavills of Mr. Everard in his late treatise intit Baby-baptisme routed c. Lond. 1651. qu. Animadverted upon by Joh. Tombes in his first part of Antipedobaptisme Plain and easie calculation of the name
Teresa was born 28. Mar. 1515 died 4. Oct. 1582 and was buried first at Alva and afterwards in the Monastery of S. Joseph of Avila in Spain 4 Her Treatise of the manner of visiting the Monasteries of discalced Nunns These three last were printed with her Life 5 The second part of the works of S. Teresa of Jesus containing 1 The way of perfection 2. The Castle interior or the seven mansions c. Printed 1669. qu. 6 The holy life of Gregory Lopez a Spanish Hermit in the West Indies Printed 1675. in oct 2d edit This Greg. Lopez was born at Madrid 4. Jul. 1542 died at Sanctoâfe near Mexico 20. Jul. 1596 and had his life afterwards written by Franc. Loza and translated into several Langages Mr. Woodhead also changed the stile of a book called The Scale or Ladder of perfection written by Walt. Hilton a Carthusian in the time of K. Hen. 6. Which book having been printed an 1494 he I say changed many antiquated words therein and rendred them more intelligible for ordinary capacities Lond. 1679. oct He also changed the stile of another treatise of the same author written to a devout man of secular Estate teaching him how to lead a spiritual life therein Printed with The Scale c. At length after this most pious learned and retired person Mr. Woodhead had lived to the age of man surrendred up his most devout soul to God in his little Cell at Hogsden before mentioned in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body was conveyed to S. Pancras Church near Holbourn in Middlesex distant about half a mile from the back part of Greys Inn and was buried in the yard there about 22 paces distant from the Chancel of that Church on the south side Afterwards was a raised altar-monument built of brick covered with a thick planke of blew Marble put over his grave and on the said planke was this ingraven A. W. obiit Maii 4. A.D. 1678 aetatis suae LXX Elegi abjectus esse in domo Dei mansi in solitudine non quaerens quod mihi utilis est sed quod multis This monument being built 2 or 3 years after his death those that put it up caus'd his grave to be opened to view the coffin and body that they might be sure that it was the person for whom the said monument was erected And had K. Jam. 2. continued in his throne two years longer his body would have been removed to the Chappel in Univ. Coll. and there had a monument erected over him equal to his great merits and worth WILLIAM WHITE who writes himself Guliel Phalerius was born of plebeian parents in a market town called Witney in Oxfordshire in the month of June 1604 was entred a Student in Wadham Coll. in Act term 1620 took the degrees in Arts holy orders and preached for a time near Oxon. At length the Mastership of the Free-School joyning to Madg. Coll. falling void it was confer'd upon him some years before the Civil War began where being setled several persons by his care and industry proved afterwards eminent But being ejected thence in the fatal year of 1648 he did about that time privately obtain of Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury the Rectory of Pusey near Faringdon in Berks situated within his Diocess and kept it during the interval by the favour of friends and the smalness of its profits After the Kings return Dr. Th. Pierce President of Magd. Coll. who had sometimes been his Scholar procured the Rectory of Appleton near Abendon in the same County of the Society of that house to be confer'd upon him both which Livings he kept to his dying day and built houses on them having been always accounted a noted Philologist and a loyal and pious Divine He hath published several small tracts of which these only have come to my sight Ad Grammaticam ordinarium Supplementa paedagogica alia c. Lond. 1648 and 52. oct Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam Lond. 1660. qu. Paraphrasis cum annotatis ad difficiliora loca catechismi Anglicani Printed 1674 in Lat. and Engl. He died at Pusey before mention'd on the first day of June about the first hour of the morn in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been enformed by letters written from one of his quondam Scholars living in those parts HENRY GREISLEY son of Joh Gr. of Shrewsbury Gent. became a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1634 took the degrees in Arts adheer'd to his Majesties cause in the time of the rebellion for which he suffer'd by ejection from his house and expulsion from the University by the impetuous Visitors an 1648. He hath translated from French into English 1 The Prince Lond. 1648. oct Written by Sieur de Balsac 2 The Christian man or the reparation of nature by grace Lond. 1650. in a large qu. Written originally by Jo. Franc. Senault Besides which translations he hath certain Specimens of Poetry extant which have obtained him a place among those of that faculty After his Majesties restauration he became beneficed in the Church and on the 19 of Apr. 1672 he was installed Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Will. Owen M. A. deceased This Mr. Greisley died about the beginning of June in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was succeeded in his prebendship by Mr. Joseph Glanvill I find R. G. sometimes M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. to be the translator of A discourse of Constancy Lond. 1654. oct Written in Lat. by Just Lipsius but who he was unless Rob. Gomershall I know not Quaere NATHANIEL HOLMES commonly called Homes Son of George Hol. Minister of Kingswood in Glocestershire was born in Wilts became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 17 years whence after he had continued there for a little while he was translated to Exeter Coll. for the sake of John Prideaux whom he much admired and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards returning to Magd. Hall he took the degree of Master and became a frequent preacher for a time in these parts What his preferments were in the Church afterwards I find not unless it was a cure in Glocestershire Sure I am that he took the degrees in Divinity as a member of Exeter Coll. that of Bach. in 1633 and that of Doctor four years after and also that being a severe Calvinist he did upon the defection of the members of the Long Parliament close with the Presbyterians and when the rout of Orthodox Ministers in and near London was made in 1642 and 43 he obtained one or more cures of which the Church of S. Mary Stayning was one But being soon after delivered from the Presbyterian contagion as he call'd it he with Hen. Burton B. D. and Minister of Friday-street in London became great advancers of the faction set up their Independent
1663 and for which several suffered death at York and elsewhere But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet Sure I am that his name was in his Majesties Proclamation for his apprehension and was therein described to be a tall man flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex descended from those of his name in Cheshire was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond educated in Merchant-Taylors School became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621 aged 18 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristow In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew in London In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Div. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching but when the nation was turn'd topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people he was dispoyl'd of all suffered much for the royal cause was a brand snatch'd out of the fire and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet At length after his Majesties restauration he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsore and by vertue of the Kings Conge d' eslire being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663 upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln was soon after consecrated and on the 28. of May Ascension day installed He hath written and published Horae Succissivae or spare houres of meditations upon our duty to God others and our selves Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw being the fifth edit In the year 1620 was published in ââ a book entit Horae Subsecivae Observations and discourses but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish who died before his father Will. Earl of Devonshire which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written Dayly thoughts or a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane Lond. 1651. oct the third edit with enlargements He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street CoventâGarden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex was buried in the Church of EastâLavant near Chichester close by the body of his only wife Jane somtimes daughter of Thomas May of that place and near to a son that he had buried there JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called HyghâWycombe in Bucks became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts left the University about two years after entred into the sacred function and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant he put in for one having alwaies been precisely educated closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark took the Engagement was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough confer'd on him as I have been informed by those that knew the man where or else at S. Thomas continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity He hath written and published The glorious mystery of Gods mercy or a pretious cordial for fainting soules c. Lond. 1647. oct This book is the effect of certain Sermons The grand trial of true conversion or sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in mans thoughts c. Lond. 1655. oct This also as it seems is the effect of certain Sermons The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel and mystery of the Gospel in the Law Printed in oct Whether he hath any other things extant I cannot tell sure I am that after his ejection he removed to several places and preached in Conventicles and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity High Wicombe concluded his last there to the great lamentation of the brethren in sixteen hundred seventy and nine whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place was buried on thâ ninth day of June the same year in the north isle joyning thereunto JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born bred in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1665 junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of Sheldons Theater an 1669. Afterwards being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House he was made Lecturer of St. Michaels Cornhill and Curat to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin in London He hath written Poems upon several occasions Lond. 1667. oct Character of a London Scrivener Printed with the Poems He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mention'd 24 of August in sixteen hundred seventy and nine having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mention'd widdow of Sir John Mennes and alwaies accounted an ingenious man JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet London admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years choâe probationerâfellow of All 's Coll. soon after upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq one of the Secretaries of State where tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law yet he studied Physick and became noted for his practice therein especially in the Summer time in the City of Bathe but better known by these books which shew the pregnancy of his parts De Respiratione tractatus unus Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct De Rachitide tract un Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions nu 41. p. 833. an 1668. De Sal-nitro spiritu nitro-acerbo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De Respiratione Faetûs in utero ovo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De motu musculari spiritibus ani malibus Ox. 1674. in a large oct Of these three last with which were printed again the two first is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact nu 105. p. 101. c. And all five were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet
Sir Ed. Bysshe also gave out among his acquaintance before the Kings restauration that he wouâd write The Survey or Antiquities of the County of Surrey âut when after that time he was fix'd in his Clarenceauxship and had got a Knighthood he did nothing but deturpate and so continued worse and worse till his death which hapning in the Parish of S. Paul in Covent-garden on the 15 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine was obscurely buried late in the night in the Church of S. Olaves in the Jewry within the City of London by Mr. Green the Minister of that Church Nephew to the Relict of the Defunct JOHN SHIRLEY son of Jo. Shiâ of London Bookseller was born in the Parish of S. Botolph Aldersgate in London 7. Aug. 1648 entred into Trin. Coll. in Lent term 1664 became Scholar of that House in 1667 took the degrees in Arts made Terrae filius in 1673 but came off dull Soon after he was elected Probationer Fellow of his Coll. being then esteemed a person of some parts but behaving himself very loosely was expell'd when the year of his Probationship was expir'd or rather before So that retiring to the great City he married an Inn-keepers Daughter of Islington corrected the Press and wrot and scribled for bred several trite things as A short compendium of Chirurgery containing its grounds and principles more particularly treating of impostumes wounds ulcers fractures and dissolutions Lond. 1683. sec edit in oct In the title of which he writes himself Med. Doctor though never took it in this Univ. or any other degree in that faculty Discourse of the generation and birth of man c. Printed with the former The art of Rowling and Bolstring that is the method of dressing and binding up the several parts c. Lond. 1682. oct printed with the sec edit of the Compendium before mention'd Life of the valiant and learned Sir Walt Raleigh Kâ with his trial at Winchester Lond. 1677. oct 'T is the same that was a little before prefix'd to the works of the said Sir Walter printed in fol. He hath also written and published little things of a sheet and half a sheet of paper but what they treat of I know not He died at Islington near London before mention'd on the 28. of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Ch. yard there two days after One John Shirley Gent. hath written The History of the Wars of Hungary or an account of the miseries of that Kingdome c. Lond. 1685. in tw and one John Shurley M. A. and Gent. hath written Ecclesiastical History epitomized containing a faithful account of the birth life and doctrine c. of the holy Jesus with the lives of the Apostles c. in two parts Lond. 1682. oct But whether either of these two was of Oxon I cannot yet tell nor whether J. Shirley author of The renowned History of the life and death of Guy Earl of Warwick c. Lond. 1681. qu. be the same with our author John Shirley of Oxon. DANIEL CAPEL son of Rich. Capel mention'd under the year 1656 was born in the City of Glocester educated in the Coll. School there under Will. Russell was first Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll and about the time that he took the degree of M. of A. which was in 1651 he became a preacher Afterwards he was successively Minister of Morton Alderley and Shipton in his own Country which last he resigning because as I presume he would not conform he fell to the practice of Physick in the Town of Strowd in Glocestershire where he continued to the time of his death He hath written Tentamen medicum de variolis and one or two little things besides which I have not yet seen He died at Strowde in sixteen hundred seventy and nine or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there The next that follows a most excellent School Divine and Philosopher is Fr. à S. Clara not known or called Christop Davenport after he had entred into a religious order CHRISTOPHER DAVENPORT son of Joh. Dav. by Elizabeth Wolley his Wife the fifth Son of Hen. Dav. Alderman of Coventry Grandson to a younger Brother of the Davenports of Henbury in Cheshire was born in the antient City of Coventry in Warwickshire and in Grammar learning there educated At about 15 years of age he and his Brother John were sent to Merton College in the beginning of the year 1613 and became Pupils to Mr. Sam. Lane Fellow of that House They were only Batlers and took the Cooks Commons but the Warden Sir Henry Savile having received notice of them and their condition he dismiss'd them unless they would become Commoners But their Parents being unwilling John thereupon went to Magd. Hall and became afterwards a noted Puritan and at length an Independent but Christopher continued longer in the Coll. especially upon Sir Henries recess to Eaton but upon his return withdâew So that having spent about two years among the Mertonians he by the invitation of some Rom. Priest then living in or near Oxon went to Doway an 1615 where remaining for some time went to Ypres and entred into the Order of Franciscans among the Dutch there 7. Oct. 1617. Afterwards he returned to Doway and was entred into the House of the English Recollects there of the same order 18. Oct. 1618 which was then built for them and dedicated to S. Bonaventure the same year After he had ran a course there and had read for some time a Lecture he went into Spain and in an University there Salamanca I think he improved himself much in the supreme faculty Thence he returned to Doway where he read first Philosophy and afterwards became chief Reader of Divinity in the said Coll. of S. Bonaventure and in fine was made Doctor of Divinity of his order but not of any University At length he became a Missionary in England where he went by the name of Franciscus à Sancta Clara and at length was made one of the Chaplains to Henrietta Maria the Royal Consort of K. Ch. the first and became highly honored of all of his profession and of many Scholars too whether Protestants or Papists for his great learning After his settlement in England where he continued going and coming more than 50 years he did very great service for the R. Cath. cause by gaining disciples raising money among the English Catholicks to carry on publick matters beyond the Seas in writing of books for the advancement of his Religion and Order by his perpetual and unwearied motion day and night to administer among the Brethren and by tendring his service to consult and help warping Protestants c. When Dr. Laud was made Archb. of Canterbury he became his acquaintance not to make use of him as an instrument to reconcile us to the Church of Rome as inveterate Prynne would have it but for that he was much
More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter but the beginning of this Epist doth implicitly own the same Person to be author To conclude Mr. Glanvill died in his House at Bathe on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the 9th day of the same month at which time Jos Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon which afterwards was made extant In his Rectory of Bathe succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells MYRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Myrth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall where applying his mind to the study of Div took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House and at two years standing in that degree he wrot and published An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon concerning the real presence Lond. 1634. qu at which time he lived at if not Minister of Odyham in Hampshire In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey and in Decemb. that year to be called into question by the Parl. then sitting for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North at York by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on c. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not In the time of the rebellion he suffer'd for the Kings cause but upon the return he was rewarded being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship by creation of this University as a member of S. Alb. Hall He died on the 5. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester having several years before wrot one or more books fit for the press Quaere EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. p. 87 was born at or near Croyden in Surrey admitted Prob. Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1634 entred on the Physick line took both the degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in 1641 in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts In 1643 Nov. 14 he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick But when the Kings cause declined he retired to London practised there and sometimes in the City of Bathe became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian in ord to his Maj. Ch. 2 and at length a pretended Baronet He hath written and published Morbus Epidemicus an 1643. Or the new disease with the signs causes remedies c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris that raged then in Oxon the King and the Court being there Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661 die Harvaei memoriae dicato Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul within the Liberty of Westm He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall became Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1627 afterwards Proctor of the University and a Dignitary in Ireland There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1676. NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School there admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void the said Dr. Blandford as Bishop of Worcester presented him to it an 1672. which he kept to his dying day He hath written Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum gentium hominum deorum gentilium regionum insularum locorum civitatum c. ad sacras profanas historias poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria nomina quo decet ordine complectens illustrans c. Oxon. 1670. fol mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius Afterwards the author made it quite another thing by adding thereunto from his great reading almost as much more matter as there was before with many corrections c. Lond. 1686. fol whereunto is added a Geographical Index An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque c. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149 c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention'd on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him among those that well knew him the character of a harmless quiet man and of an excellent Philologist EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the antient Mannour or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire on the eleventh of Nov. 1621 and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts he was by the care of his Father Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County sent to Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenc'd he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclin'd than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire where continuing for some time return'd to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces setled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected an 1648. Thence after he had spent an year or more therein he went into
Laud Archb. of Cant. and a fourth upon Sir Hen. Spelman the Antiquary Verses on the return of K. Ch. 2 James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Glocester Lond. 1660. in 3 sh in folio Elegie on the death of Henry Duke of Glocester Printed 1660. in a fol. paper Wickham wakened or the Quakers Madrigall in rime dogrell Printed 1672 in one sheet in qu. Written while he was Mayor of Wycombe against a Practitioner of Phys who was a Quaker and took much from his practice He died on the 17 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the middle of the north isle joyning to the Chancel of the Church of Gr. Wycombe before mentioned Over his grave was soon after a black marble stone laid with this inscription thereon Hic jacet Martinus Lluelyn eruditus Medicinae Doctor ex Aede Christi olim Alumnus saeviente Civilis belli incendio dum Oxonium praesidio muniebatur cohorti Academicorum fideli Praefectus erat adversus ingruentem Rebellium ferociam posteaquam sereniss Carolo secundo inter juratos Medicus Colleg. Med. Lond. socius Aulae sanctae Mariae dudum Principalis dein hujusce comitatus Irenarcha necnon municipii hujus semel Praetor Regiae authoritatis religionis Eccles Angliae legibus stabilitae strenuus assertor inconcussus amator celeberrimus insignis Poeta Qui res egregias sublimes pari ingenio facundia depinxit Bino matrimonio foelix septem liberos superstites reliquit Laetitiam Martinum ex priore Georgium Ricardum Mauritium Martham Mariam ex posteriore nuper amantissima conjuge Georgii Long de Penn Generosi filiâ Heu quam caduca corporis humani fabrica qui toties morbos fugavit ipse tandem morbo succumbit Anhelus doctorum proborum maximum desiderium Obiit xvii Martii MDCLXXXI annoque aetatis LXVI THOMAS CASE son of George Case Vicar of Boxley in Kent was born in that County became Student of Ch Ch. upon the recommendations of Tob. Mathew Archb. of York in the year 1616 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders preached for some time in these parts and afterwards in Kent at or near the place of his nativity At the turn of the times in 1641 he closed with them and being schismatically addicted he became an enemy to the Bishops and Liturgy a great Boutifieu and firebrand in the Church a leader and abettor of the pretended reformation and what not to vent his spleen to become popular in the City of London and so consequently to get preferment and wealth which before he wanted and therefore discontented About the same time he was made Minister of S. Mary Magd. Ch. in Milkstreet in Lond upon the sequestration thence of a Loyalist where it was usual with him at his invitation of the people to the Lords table for the receiving of the sacrament to say You that have freely and liberally contributed to the Parliament for the defence of Gods Cause and the Gospel draw near instead of You that do truly and earnestly repent c. To the rest he threatned damnation as coming unwillingly to the holy sacrament In 1643 he as a grand lover of the cause was made by ordinance of Parliament one of the Ass of Divines being then as before and after a frequent Preacher before the members of the said Parliament and about that time the Thursdays Lecturer at S. Martins in the Fields He was so zealous a Covenanteer also that he published a Sermon about the solemn League and Covenant advised all to take it and was angry with those that did not tho they understood it not He was during the War as most of the Brethren were a common Preacher of Rebellion Atlength he and they being cozened of their King and the designs they had upon him by the Independents he became a bitter enemy to that party plotted with Love Jenkyns c. and with the Scots to bring in his son K. Ch. 2 an 1651 Case being about that time Minister of S. Giles in the Fields near London but their Plot being discovered and Love the Corypheus suffering for the rest our author Case with his Brethren that were in the Conspiracy made a Petition to Oliver by way of acknowledgment and submission for what they had done In the year 1653 he made it his endeavours to be one of the Triers for the approbation of Ministers appointed by Oliver but was rejected yet when the Presbyterians began to lift up their heads in the latter end of 1659 upon the generous proceedings of General Monk he was constituted by Act of Parl. dated 14 of Mar. that year one of the Ministers for the approbation and admission of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way But that foppery being soon after laid aside he himself upon the coming out of the Act of Conformity an 1662 was laid aside also yet ever after so long as he lived he was not wanting to carry on the beloved Cause in Conventicles for which he sometimes suffer'd He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Two Serm. before the House of Commons on Ezek. 20.25 and on Ezra 10.2.3 Lond. 1642. sec edit 2 Gods rising his Enemies scattering before the H. of C. at their Fast 26 Oct. 1642 on Psal 68.1.2 Lond. 1644. qu. 3 The root of Apostasy and fountain of true Fortitude Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of C. 9 Apr. 1644 for the great Victory given to Sir Will. Waller and the Forces with him against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton on Dan 11.32 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Deliverance-obstruction or the set-backs of Reformation Fast Serm. before the H. of Lords 26 Mar. 1646 on Exod. 5.22.23 Lond. 1646. qu. 5 A model of true spiritual Thankfulness Thanksgiving Serm. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Psal 107.30.31 Lond. 1646. qu. 6 Spiritual whoredome discovered in a Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 26 May 1647 on Hosea 9.1 Lond. 1647. qu. 7 Serm. before the H. of C. 22 Aug. 1645 being the day appointed for the solemne Thanksgiving unto God for the Parliament forces their gaining of Bathe and Bridgwater Scarborough and Sherburne Castle and for the dispersing of the Club-men and the good success in Pembrokshire on Isa 43.14 Lond. 1645. qu. Other Sermons as 1 Gods waiting to be gracious unto his people together with Englands encouragements and cautions to wait on God delivered in certain Sermons at Milk-street in Lond. on Isa 30.18 Lond. 1642. qu. 3 Sermon on Ezek. 50.5 Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Jehosaphats caution to his Judges on 2 Chron. 19.6.7 Lond. 1644. 45. qu. This Sermon which I have not yet seen was preached if I mistake not in Aug. 1644 upon the occasion of a Court Martial From the Epistle before which and from the Sermon it self the Independents took great advantage and quoted it when the
Keeper and Chancellour Speech at the sentence of Will Visc Stafford 7. Dec. 1680 Printed in one sh in fol. and in The Trial of the said Visc p. 212.213 At which time he performed the office of L. High Steward of England Answers by his Majesties command upon several Addresses presented to his Maj. at Hampton Court 19 May 1681. Lond. 1681. in 1. sh in fol. His Arguments upon which he made the Decree in the cause between the honorable Charles Howard Esq plaintiff Henry late Duke of Norfolk Hen. Lord Mowbray his Son Henry Marq. of Dorchester and Richard Marriott Esq Defendants wherein the several ways and methods of limiting a trust of a term for years are fully debated Lond. 1685 in 9 sh in fol. He also left behind him written with his own hand Chancery Reports MS in fol. in the hands of his Son Daniel Earl of Nottingham At length his body being worn out with tâo much business which his high station and office required he yeilded to nature in his house in Queen-street near Covent Garden on the 18. of Decemb. in the afternoon in sixteen hundred eighty and two whereupon his body was buried on the 28 of the same month in the Church of Raunston before mention'd near Oulney in Bucks On the 20 of the said month his Majesty was pleased to commit the custody of the Great Seal to the right honorable Sir Francis North Lord Ch. Justice of the Common-pleas with the title of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and on the 22 he was sworn at the Council-board and took his place as Lord Keeper This noble Earl of Nottingham left behind him several Sons the eldest of which named Daniel who had been sometimes Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. succeeded his Father in his honors having been before a Parliament Man one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and Privy Counsellour The second is named Heneage bred also in the said House and afterwards in the Inner Temple who became Sollicitor General in the place of Sir Franc. Winnington but removed thence about the 21 Apr. 1686 and Sir Tho. Powis put in his place about five days after He hath been several times elected Burgess by the University of Oxon. to serve in Parliaments for the members thereof ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER Baronet Son of Sir John Cooper of Rockbourne in Wilts Kt. and Bt by Anne his Wife Dau. and sole Heir of Sir Anth. Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire was born at Wimbourne on the 22. of July 1621 19. Jac. 1. became a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1636 under the tuition of Dr. Prideaux the Rector thereof and continued there about two years Afterwards he went to Lincolns Inn to study the municipal Law and in the latter end of 1639 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Tewksbury in Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. In 1642 he sided with his Majesty being then as 't is said High Sherriff of Dorsetshire became Governour of Weymouth and raised some forces for his use But the mind of this person being mutable he left the royal cause went in to the Parliament and served them was made Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and took the Covenant But when the Presbyterians thought themselves sure of him whip he was gone as one saith and in a trice commenced a Brother Independent which was a wise part and no trick of a changling to shift principles like shirts and quit an unlucky side in a fright at the noise of a new prevailing party with whom he staid till he grew up to the size of a great Commonwealths man and made hay in the Sun shine until the Commonwealth and Cromwell were brought to bed of a strange new kind of Monarchy in the House of Commons a three or four hundred-headed Monarchy called The Fifth Monarchy and in those days it was also called Cromwells little Parliament in which his little Lordship became one of the Princes among a Drove of Changlings c. In 1645 he was elected Sherriff of Norfolk and the next year Sherriff of Wilts both approved of and consented to by the members of Parliament In Jan. 1651 he having before taken the Engagement he was one of those 21 persons who were appointed by Parliament to sit as a Committee to consider of the inconveniences which were in the Law c. and soon after he was chose one of the Council of State to Oliver in which high office he continued till that person was Protector In June 1653 he was constituted Knight for Wilts to serve in the said Little Parliament that began at Westm on the 4. of July the same year but therein having spied out Olivers purpose of matching to another sort of Monarchy of his own Sir Anthony then resolved like a constant steady man to his own main point to trepan his fellow members and strike in with him and lent him thereupon a helping hand towards the confounding of Fifth Monarchy to make way for a new one under the name of Protector in which seene of affairs he was made a Protectorian Privy-counsellour In Aug. 1654 he was appointed by ordinance one of the Commissioners for Wilts Dorsetshire and Pool for the ejection of such whom the Godly Party then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time he was elected a. Burgess for Pool before mention'd and for Tewkesbury in Glocestershire to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver then Protector that began at Westm 3. of Sept. the same year At which time he aspiring to become the Protectors Son-in-Law Cromwell who well enough understood him either disdaining or not daring to take him so near into his bosome took occasion also to quit him out of his Council So that being out of such publick employs he was at leisure to make court to all private Malecontents against the Protector and wheresoever he found a sore there he rub'd hardest till the end of the Raign of Richard In 1656 he was elected a Parliament man for Wilts to serve in that convention that met at Westminster 17 of Sept. the same year and in 1658 he was elected again for that which began at the same place 27. of January In both which the friends and favourites of Sir Anthony say that he endeavoured to cross the designs of Oliver and Richard But the last being soon after laid aside Sir Anthony thought it high time of necessity to turn back to the old honest point of the compass and get in again to be thought a new man of his Majesties party To this end notwithstanding he had been nominated one of the Council of State after the deposing of Richard May 15 1659 he joyned partly with the Presbyterians and privately engaged with Sir George Booth was of the Cabal kept intelligence with him and had a party in Dorsetshire which should be ready to assist him if little success
This book which got him great credit with his Diocesan Dr. Jo. Cosin is commended by Dr. Durell in his S. Eccles Anglicanae Vindiciae Afterwards at the request of the said Hesenthalerus our author Ritschel sent to Wertemberg his Ethica Christiana in 2 vol. qu. with another Latin quarto called Exercitationes sacrae which Hesenthalerus desired and promised to take care of the printing them and engaged his son to take the like care if he should die before they were began Whether they were printed is not yet certain He also at his death left with his son two MSS. ready for the press one De fide catholica and the other against the English Quakers both in qu. and in Latine This learned author who for a time had been Tutor in his travels to the sons of the Prince of Transylvania died on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Hexham before mentioned sometimes a Cathedral dedicated to St. Andrew in the Vicaridge of which his son named George Ritschel lately of S. Edm. Hall succeeded him Soon after was a monument put over his grave with this inscription thereon Sub hoc marmore sacrae reconduntur reliquiae Georgii Ritschel Patria Bohemi religione reformati qui saeviente in Protestantes Ferdinando secundo omnibus gentilitiis haereditatibus exutus sed Argentorati Lugduni Batavorum aliarumque Academiarum exterarum spoliis onustus quicquid eruditionis in istis florentissimis Musarum Emporiis viguit secum detulit Oxonium an Dom. 1644 qua celeberrima Academia consummatis studiis aliorum commodo studere coepit contemplationibus Metaphysicis vindiciisque ceremoniarum Eccles Anglicanae aliisque scriptis eruditissimis editis toto orbe statim inclaruit Tanta fame auctus Ecclesiam Augustaldensem ad quam electus erat cui praefuit annos plus minus 27 magis Augustam tantum non cathedralem qualis olim fuerit reliquit c. You may read more of the Encomiums of this worthy person in the sermon preached at his funeral by one Major Algood Rector of Simonbourne in Northumberland and in an Elegy on his death at the end of it Printed at Lond. 1684. quart FRANCIS BAMPFIELD third son of John Bampf of Portimon in Devons Esq was born in that County became a Commoner of VVadham Coll. in 1631 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1638 and afterwards holy Orders from a Bishop But being puritannically inclined he sided with the rebellious party in 1642 took the Covenant preached up the Cause in several places and was all things to all men except those of the royal party At length on the death of VVilliam Lyford he became Minister of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire having before taken the Engagement an 1653 where he continued carrying on the trade among the factious people not without great disturbance from Quakering Witches as he pretended till the Act of Uniformity cast him out an 1662. Afterwards he lived in the said Town for some time kept Conventicles was imprisoned for so doing several times and forced to remove his quarters At length retiring to London the common refuge of such people he preached in Conventicles there was several times committed upon that account and continued a Prisoner for about the ten last years of his life at several times He was always a person so strangely fickle and unsteady in his judgment that he was first a Church man then a Presbyterian afterwards an Independent or at least a fider with them an Anabaptist and at length almost a compleat Jew and what not He was also so enthusiastical and canting that he did almost craze and distract many of his disciples by his amazing and frightful discourses He hath written His judgment for the observation of the Jewish or seventh day Sabboth with his Reasons and Scriptures for the same Sent in a Letter to Mr. Will. Ben of Dorchester c. Lond. 1672 and 1677. oct See more in VVill. Ben under the year 1680 p. 507. who by one of his perswasion is commended for a pious man for his holiness of life and for his dexterous preaching All in one All useful Sciences and profitable Arts in one book of Jehovah Aelokim copied out and commented upon in created Beings comprehended and discovered in the fulness and perfection of Scripture-knowledges The first part Printed 1677 in 45 sh in fol. The design of which fantastical and unintelligible book is for the advancement and augment of useful Arts and of profitable Sciences in a scripture way and that all Philosophy be taught out of the Scripture and not from Heathen Authors The Author shews himself dissatisfied with his Academical education and is clearly against that way and would if he could have his own Idea take place and vainly endeavours to represent the many pretended inconveniencies of those methods which have been so long established in our Universities saying that Enthusiastick Phantasmes humane Magistralities self-weaved Ratiocinations forc'd Extractions indulg'd Sensuations and unsetling Scepticismes have laid some of the most claim to the highest advance of humane learning that hath been hitherto made 'T is full of bombast great swelling and forc'd language and oftentimes unintelligible The house of wisdome The house of the sons of the Prophets An house of exquisite enquiry and of deep research where the mind of Jehovah Aeloim in the holy Scripture of truth in the original words and phrases and their proper significancy is diligently studied faithfully compared and aptly put together for the farther promoting and higher advancing of Scripture knowledge of all useful Arts and profitable Sciences in the one book of books the word of Christ copied out and commented upon in created Beings Lond. 1681. in 7 sh in fol. In which fantastical book the Author would have the Hebrew Tongue and Language to be the universal character over all the inhabited earth to be taught in all Schools and Children to be taught it as their mother language He proposes a way for the erection of Academies to have it taught and all Philosophy to proceed from Scripture to have all books translated into that language and I know not what What other things he hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only 1 That he having been convicted and committed for preaching at Pinmakers-Hall in London was brought on the 24 of Feb. 1682 to the Sessions held at the Old Bayly where being tendred the Oaths he said that the King of Kings forbad him to take them and thereupon was re-committed to Newgate Prison 2 That he was brought thither again about the 18 of Apr. 1683 and refusing them was sent to Newgate from whence he came 3 That he and one Griffith Reynolds and Warner who had laid a long time in Newgate for refusing the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy were on the 18 of Jan. 1683 indicted for the same and
to print his Sermons which much deserve to be publish'd but such as are set forth are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon before his Majesty on Good Friday at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1664. on Joh. 19. part of the 19 ver Lond. 1665. qu. 2 Serm. before the K. on Tuesday 20 June 1665 being the day of solemn Thanksgiving for the late Victory at sea on Psal 54.6.7 Lond. 1665. qu. 3 Serm. before the K. 1666 on the like occasion on Psal 18.1.2.3 Land 1666. qu. c. He died of the Small Pox on the eleventh day of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed from Bishops Thorp to York and there inter'd in the Cathedral When he was promoted to the See of York Dr. Franc. Turner succeeded him in Rochester and Dr. Tho. Sprat in the Deanery of Westminster and an year and a half after his death Dr. Tho. Lamplugh B. of Exeter succeeded him in the See of York as I shall tell you elsewhere Soon after was put a large and comely Monument over his grave with this inscription thereon Hic situs est Johannes Dolben filius Gulielmi S. Th. Professoris Ex antiqua familia in Cambria septentrionali oriundus Natus Stanvici in Agro Northampton Mart. 20. A. D. 1624. Anno aetatis 12 Regiam scholam Westmonast auspicato ingressus Singulari istius loci genio plenus 15 exivit In numerum Alumnorum Aedis Christi Oxon electus Exardente bello civili Partes regias secutus est in pugna Marstonensi Vexillarius In defensione Eboraci graviter vulneratus Effuso sanguine consecravit locum Olim morti suae destinatum A. D. 1656. à Rev. Episc Cicestrensi sacris ordinibus initiatus Instaurata Monarchia factus est Aedis Christi Canonicus Deinde Decanus Westmonasteriensis Mox Carolo II. Regi optimo ab Oratorio Clericus Episcopus postea Roffensis Et post novennium Regis Eleemosynarius Anno denique 1683. Metropol Eboracens honore cumulatus est Hanc provinciam ingenti animo pari industria administravit Gregi Pastoribus exemplo Intra 30 circiter menses seculi laboribus exhaustis Caelo tandem maturus Lethargia Variolis per quatriduum lecto affixus A. D. 1686 aet 62 Potentis Princ. Jac. II. altero die dominico Eodem die quo praeeunte anno sacras Synaxes In Eccles sua Cathed septimanatim celebrandas instituerat Caelo fruebatur Maestissima conjux magni Gilberti Cantuariensis Archiep. Neptis Ex qua tres liberos suscepit Gilbertum Catharin Johan Monumentum hoc posuit Desideratissimo Marito In aede Christi sub illius auspiciis partim extructâ Bromleiensi Palatio reparato in Caenobio Westmon conservato In Senatu Ecclesiis Eloquentiae gloriâ In Diocoesibus suis Episcopali diligentia In omnium priorum animis justâ veneratione semper Victuro WILLIAM COVENTRIE fourth son of Tho. Lord Coventrie sometimes Keeper of the Great Seal of England by Elizabeth his wife daughter of John Alderley of London was born either in the City or Suburb of London became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1642 aged 14 years but leaving that house without a degree he travelled beyond the Seas and at his return seemed to adhere to the cause of K. Ch. 2. After his restauration he was elected a Burgess for the Town of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8 May 1661 and two years after was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University being about that time Secretary to his Royal Highness James Duke of York In 1665 Jun. 26 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and was afterwards sworn one of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council being then esteemed upon all accounts qualified for noble employments for at that time if I mistake not he was Secretary to the Navy the said Duke being then General at Sea in the Wars against the Dutch by which employment he got a considerable estate in money which ever after kept up his port according to his quality But at length behaving himself displeasing to the said Duke when there was need of him he was removed from his service whereupon setling at Minster Lovel near Witney in Oxfordshire became much respected by the neighbouring Gentry for whose sake he was the first that found out a way for the ease of him or them that should bear the Office of Shrievelty For whereas before it was usual for the High Sheriff to expend four or five hundred pounds ere he could be quit of his Office he then in Octob. 1675 by certain Articles which he framed and were afterwards subscribed by the Gentry to stand to brought that sum to 50 or 60 l and the first High Sheriff of Oxfordshire that enjoyed the benefit of the said Articles was Sir Edm. Fetyplace of Swinbroke near Burford Baronet who was elected to that office in Nov. the same year Among several things which the said Sir Will. Coventrie wrot and published without his name set to them were these Englands appeal from the private Cabal at Whitehall to the great Council of the Nation the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled Printed 1673. in 7 sh in qu. Letter written to Dr. Gilb. Burnet giving an account of Cardinal Pole's secret powers From which it appears that it was never intended to confirm the alienation which was made of the Abbey-Lands To which are added two Breves that Card. Pole brought over and some other of his Letters that were never before printed Lond. 1685. in 5 sh in qu. He hath also written another thing to which his name was set intit The Character of a Trimmer His opinion of 1. The Laws and Government 2. Protestant Religion 3. The Papists 4. Forraign Affairs Lond. 1689. in 6 sh in qu. sec edit the first of which had not his name set to it At length this honorable Knight retiring to Tunbridge Wells in Kent for the sake of the Water there to cure his distemper died at Somerhill near thereunto of the gout in the Stomach which the Physitians took to be the Stone on Wednesday 23 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed to Penshurst in the said County and buried in the Church there He bequeathed 2000 l. to the French Protestants that were then lately come into England upon their expulsion from their own Country upon account of Religion and 3000 l. for the redemption of Captives at Algiers as the current report then went appointing Dr. Compton B. of London and Dr. Jo. Fell B. of Oxon Overseers of his gift JOHN FELL son of Dr. Sam. Fell sometime Dean of Ch. Ch. by Margaret his wife daughter of Tho. Wyld of the Commandery in the Suburbs of Worcester Esq was born at Suningwell near to Abendon in Berks educated mostly in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire founded by John Lord Williams made Student of Ch.
Communer of Magd. Hall in Easter Term an 1640 aged 18 years left it upon the eruption of the Civil Wars went to Cambridge and taking the Covenant became Fellow of Trin. Coll. there in the place of a Loyallist ejected and having the degree of Master of Arts in that University confer'd on him became a person of high repute as one of his perswasion tells us for his good life good learning and excellent gravity greatly beloved of the then Master who lov'd an honest man and a good Scholar with all his heart About that time taking Orders according to the Presbyterian way he retired to London and much about the same time that he became Minister of S. Martins Church joyning to Ludgate he became one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of London for the ejecting of such whom the faction then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters From that time to his silencing he was a very zealous person for promoting the cause and in very great esteem by those of his perswasion as the aforesaid author tells us for his piety parts prudence sound judicious practical spiritual substantial preaching yet another of a contrary perswasion who lived afterwards as now in very great esteem for his loyalty and learning represents him to have been the prettiest nonsensical trifling Goose cap that ever set pen to paper On the 14 of March 1659 he was one of those Zealots who by Act of Parliament were appointed Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way before they were to be setled in Church Livings but that being soon after laid aside upon his Majesties restauration he himself was ejected from S. Martins and laid aside also for Nonconformity at Bartholmew tide in 1662 he being about that time Doct. of Divinity Afterwards he followed the trade of Conventicling for which he was brought several times into trouble and at length became Chaplain to the Countess of Exeter in whose service he died He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Enochs walk and change funeral Sermon on Gen. 5.24 preached at the burial of Mr. Rich. Vines sometimes Master of Pembr Hall in Cambridge in the Church of S. Laurence Jewry London 7. Feb. 1655. Lond. 1657. qu. third edit To which our author Jacombe hath added A short account of the life and death of Mr. Rich. Vines 2 The active and publick spirit preached at S. Pauls 26. oct 1656 on Acts 13. former part of the 36 vers Lond. 1657. qu. 3 Gods mercy for mans mercy preached at the Spittle before the L. Mayor Aldermen c. of Lond. on Matth. 5.7 Lond. 1657. qu. 4 Two farewell Sermons at Bartholmew tide on John 8.29 Lond. 1662. oct His picture is before the title among other pictures of Nonconformists that preached farewell Sermons in London 5 Several Sermons preached on the whole eighth Chap. of the Epistle to the Romans eighteen of which were preached on the first 2.3 and fourth verses of the said eighth Chapt. Lond. 1672. 3. qu. This is sometimes called his Commentary on the eighth Chap. to the Romans 6 How Christians may learn in every state to be content on Phil. 4.11 This is in The supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 7 The Covenant of redemption on Isa 53.10 This is in The morning exercise methodized c. preached at St. Giles in the Fields in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. 8 The upright mans peace at his end opened in a fun discourse or Serm. 8. Dec. 1681. upon the death of Mr. Matth. Martyn Citizen of London Lond. 1682. qu. c. He hath also written A treatise of holy dedication both personal and domestick recommended to the Citizens of London upon their entring into their new habitations Lond. 1668. oct This was written after the grand conflagration of London and published after the Citizens had returned to their habitations when rebuilt A short account of the life of Mr. Will. Whittaker late Minister of S. Mary Magd. Bermondsey in Southwark Lond. 1674. 5. oct This is set before Mr. Whittakers eighteen Sermons preached upon several texts of Scripture Dr. Jacombe also was one of the eight Nonconforming Ministers that undertook in 1682 to finish the English Annotations on the Holy Scripture in two vol. in fol. began by Matthew Pool and by him carried on to the 58 Chapter of Isaiah and no doubt there is but that he did his share in that great work At length he giving way to fate in the house of Frances Countess of Exeter situat and being in Little Britaine on the 27. of March being then Easter Sunday in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried five days after in the Church of St. Anne within and near Aldersgate in the City of London in the presence of very many as well Conformist as Nonconformist Divines I find one Sam. Jacombe Bach. of Div to have been sometimes Fellow of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Minister of S. Mary Wolnoth in Lombardsârâet in London in times of Usurpation author of two or more Sermons of which one is entit Moses his death preached at Ch. Church in London at the funeral of Mr. Edw. Bright Minister there Lond. 1657. qu. Which S. Jacombe who was buried in his own Church of S. Mar. Woln. on the 17. June 1659 I take to have been brother of the before mention'd Dr. Tho. Jacombe EDWARD SHELDON a younger Son of Edw. Sheldon of Beoley in Worcestershire Esq was born there on the 23 of Apr. 1599 became a Gent. Com. of Gloc. Hall in the time of Dr. Hawley Principal thereof about 1613 where spending three or more years did afterwards travel beyond the Seas and became Master of two languages besides the Lat. at least Some years after his return he setled on his Patrimony at Stratton near to Cirencester in Glocestershire which at length he lost or was forced to quit for the cause of K. Ch. 1. and for his Religion in the time of the grand rebellion raised and carried on by restless people He hath translated from French into Engl. 1 The holy life of Gaston Joh. Bapt. de Renty a Nobleman of France Lond. 1658. oct mangled by an Irish Priest when it went to the press It was printed there again with corrections an 1683. oct 2 The rule of Cath. Faith c. Lond 1660 there again tho said in the title to be printed at Paris with its old date an 1672 both in oct This book was originally written by Franc. Veron D. D. 3 Christian thoughts for every day in the month Lond. 1680. in tw 4 The Counsels of wisdom or a Collection of the Maxims of Solomon c. with reflections on the Maxims Lond. 1680. oct in two parts Dedic by the Translator to Qu. Catherine This Mr. Sheldon who spent most of his time in studies and devotion paid his tribute common to the condition of the living in a good old age in his house situate and being in
S. James's street near to S. James's house within the liberty of Westminster on the 27 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven Whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said house of S. James's He had several Sons among whom Lionel Sheldon a Benedictine Doct. of Divinity and Chaplain to Anne Duchess of York after she had changed her religion for that of Rome was one and Dominick Sheldon another lately a Colonel of Horse of prudent and couragious conduct in Ireland in the Army of K. Jam. 2. against that of K. Will. 3. Among his daughters were Mary one of the Dressers belonging to Queen Catherine Wife of Sir Sam. Tuke of Cressing-Temple in Essex Kt and Bt a person sometimes of compleat honour and ingenuity a Colonel in the Army of his Majesty K. Ch. 1. and one of the prime Officers in that noble and generous expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 for which he had like to have lost his life afterwards a sufferer for his religion and loyalty author of that celebrated Trag. Com. called The adventures of five hours Lond. 1662 64 and 1671 qu. He died in his house in the Parish of S. Mary le Savoy in the Strand near London in May or June 1674 but where buried unless in the Church of that Parish or in the Chap. at Somerset-house I know not He the said Mr. Sheldon had another Dau. named Frances who was one of the Maids of honour to Qu. Catherine before mention'd and was Uncle to Ralph Sheldon of Beoley Esq commonly called Great Sheldon THOMAS WASHBOURNE a younger Son of Joh. Washbourne of Wychenford in Worcestershire Esq was born there entred a Communer of Balliol Coll in the beginning of the year 1622 aged 16 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts being then esteemed a tolerable Poet holy Orders and in 1636 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences In the time of the rebellion he had a Prebendship in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester confer'd upon him and suffer'd for the Royal cause but when his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was restor'd he was setled and installed in it actually created Doctor of Divinity and became Rector of Dumbleton in Glocestershire He hath written and published Divine Poems Lond. 1654. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the funeral of Charles Cocks Esq on Psal 90.9.10 Lond. 1655. qu. 2 The repairer of the breach preached in the Cathedral of Glocester 29 May 1661 being the anniversary of his Majesties birth day and happy entrance into his imperial City of London on Isa 58.12 Lond. 1661. qu. c. He died on the sixth day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in our Ladies Chappel within the Cathedral Church of Glocester Soon after was a little monument set up on the wall over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was Theologus vere Christianus vere primitivus per annos 44 Eccl. Cath. Gloc. Prebendarius and that he desired to have this written on his mon. that he was primus Peccatorum minimus Ministrorum Dei c. EDMUND HALL was born and educated in Grammar learning within the City of Worcester entred into Pemb. Coll. in 1636 aged 16 left the Univ. before he took a degree sided afterwards with the forces raised by the Parliament against his Majesty K. Ch. 1 took the Covenant and at length became a Captain among them When the Kings cause declined and the war ceased he retired to his Coll was made Fellow thereof and in 1649 he took the degree of Master of Arts much about which time he express'd himself an Enemy to Oliver for his diabolical proceedings and was thereupon committed to custody as I shall tell you anon About that time he became tho a Calvinist a conceited and affected preacher several years in these parts kept pace with the leading men during the Interval complemented with the times at his Majesties restauration and endeavoured to express his loyalty yet could not endure to be called Captain Afterwards he became Minister of a Market Town in Oxfordsh named Chipping-Norton where being much frequented by the neighbourhood obtained the character from some of a fantastical and from others of an edifying preacher About the latter end of 1680 the rectory of Great Risington near North Leech in Glocestershire falling void it was conferr'd upon him by Sir Edm. Bray Knight and soon after he took to him in his elderly years a fair and comely Wife His Sermons preached before the University of Oxon had in them many odd light and whimsical passages altogether unbecoming the gravity of the Pulpit And his gestures being very antick and mimmical did usually excite somewhat of laughter in the more youthful part of the auditory His works are these Lazarus's soares lick'd Written against Dr. Lazarus Seamon who affirmed in a book published about 1648 that an Usurper ought to be submitted to proving it from Christs paying tribute money to Caesar Lingua Testium Manus Test Digitus Test These three pamphlets the titles of which at large I could never get from the author were wrot by him against Oliver to shew that he had slain the Witnesses was very Antichrist and impossible for him to raign above three years and an half Whereupon being imprison'd by the Council of state continued there twelve months and then with much ado upon good Bail given he obtained his liberty A scriptural discourse of the Apostacy and the Antichrist by way of comment upon the twelve first verses of 2. Thes 2. c. in 4 parts Printed 1653. in about 20 sh in qu. with a Preface to it of about four Discourse of slaying the Witnesses and the immediat effects thereof Printed with the former These two last he wrot while he was a Prisoner Sermon at Staunton Harcourt Church in the County of Oxon at the funeral of the Lady Anne Harcourt who deceased 23. Aug. 1664 on Ezek. 24.16 Oxon. 1664. oct A funeral speech at her grave Printed with the Sermon This Lady Anne Harcourt Daughter of Sir Will. Waller sometimes a General of one of the Parliaments Armies was the Wife of Sir Philip Harcourt Knight son and heir of Sir Simon Which Philip dying at or near London was buried by her about the 12 of Apr. 1688 leaving then a son behind him named Simon Recorder of Abendon Our author Mr. Hall died in the month of August or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Great Risington before mention'd His elder Brother Thomas Hall I have at large mention'd already among these Writers under the year 1665. p. 233. WILLIAM PETTY son of Anthony Petty a Clothier was born in a little haven Town in Hampshire called Rumsey on the 26 of May 1623 and while a boy he took very great delight in spending his time among Artificers there as Smiths Carpenters Joyners c. whose trades in
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
his books p. 234 and in Will. Erbury an 1654. p. 104. In Thomae Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio Epistolica ad D. Joh. Wilkinsium Guardianum Coll. Wadhami Ox. 1656. octav Appendicula ad calumnias ab eodem Hobbio in sex documentis nuperrimè editis in authorem congestas responsoria Printed with the Exercitatio epistolica Astronomia Geometrica ubi methodus proponitur qua primariorum Planetarum Astronomia sive Elliptica sive circularis possit Geometricè absolvi Lond. 1656. oct Several Sermons as 1 Against resistance of lawful powers preached 5 Nov. 1661. on Rom. 13.2 2 Against the Antiscripturists pr. 20 Feb. 1669 on 2 Tim. 3.16 3 Concerning sinfulness danger and remedies of infidelity pr. 16 Feb. 1667 on Heb. 3.12 4 Sermon before the H. of Peers at Westm 10 Oct. 1666 on Eceles 11.9 5 Serm. concerning the strangeness frequency and desperate consequence of impenitency preached 1 Apr. 1666 soon after the great Plague on Rev. 9.20 6 Serm. against Ingratitude on Deut. 32.6 7 An Apologie for the mysteries of the Gospel preached 16. Feb. 1671 on Rom. 1.16 Some of which Sermons having been severally printed at several times were all printed in one vol. at Lond. 1673 74. oct and then said to have been all preached at Whitehall except the fourth 8 The Christians victory over death preached at the funeral of George Duke of Albemarle c. in the collegiat Church of S. Pet. Westm 30 Apr. 1670 on 1. Cor. 15.57 Lond. 1670. qu. 9 The Case of Joram preached before the House of Peers 30. Jan. 1673 on 2. Kings 6 last vers Lond. 1674. qu. He also collected viewed and reviewed the Determinationes Theologicae Tractatus de justificatione and Praelectiones de peccato originali of Dr. Samuel Ward before mentioned which he caused to be printed and published at London In the beginning of the year 1683 arose a controversie between him the said Dr. Ward Bishop of Salisbury and Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of the Cathedral Church there occasion'd by the denial upon the first asking of Pierce for a Prebendship in the said Church for his Son Robert which denial being much resented by Pierce notwithstanding the reversion of it had been before promised by the Bishop he studied revenge and forthwith rais'd a controversie by maintaining that the King had right of giving and bestowing of the Dignities in the Church of Salisbury and not the Bishop Which controversie being laid before his Majesties Commissioners for Ecclesiastical affairs they ordered Dr. Pierce to write a Narrative of that matter which being done Dr. Ward answered it but 't was not printed Whereupon Pierce wrot A Vindication of the Kings Soveraign rights c. which was printed at Lond. 1683 in 12. sh in fol. Afterwards the controversie being carried on by the black and dismal malice of Pierce it did so much discompose the Bishop especially by the several journies to London in unseasonable time and weather that by degrees his spirits were exhausted his memory gone and totally unfit for business About a month before he died he took very little sustenance and lived only on the stock and died a Skeleton which hapning in his house at Knightbridge near London on Sunday morn the sixth of January being the day of Epiphany in sixteen hundred eighty and eight his body was afterwards conveyed to Salisbury and buried in the Cathedral there What epitaph he hath over his grave I know not notwithstanding I have more than once sent for it and therefore take this character of him given by Mr. Oughtred in his pref to Clavis mathem running thus Vir prudens pius ingenuâs nec mathesi solum sed omni politioris literaturae genere cultissimus c. He tells us there that he was the first in Cambr. that expounded his Clav. Math. and that he had taken a large journey to see him in his hidden and retired condition at which time by his importunate desire he did correct add many things to and republish his said book of Clav. Math. There had been formerly several learned Letters passed between him and Ballialdus and Hevelius which are yet kept private THOMAS CARTWRIGHT son of Tho. Cartwright sometimes Schoolmaster of Brentwood in Essex was born in the antient Borough of Northampton on the first of Sept. 1634 educated in the School there and being puritanically educated under Presbyterian Parents was sent to Magd. Hall where spending two terms in the study of Logick was forcibly put into Queens Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 and at that time was put under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully Afterwards he was made Tabarder and Chapl. of the Coll. for a time but before he was elected Fellow he left the House having before been ordained Priest by Dr. Robert Skinner B. of Oxon. and became Vicar of Walthamstow in Essex and a very forward and confident preacher for the cause then in being In 1659 I find him Chaplain to Joh. Robinson Esq Alderman and then Sherriff of London and a Preacher at S. Mary Magd. in Milkstreet but whether he did then enjoy the Vicaridge of Barking in Essex which he did after his Majesties restauration I cannot tell After the Kings return he shew'd himself very forward to express his loyalty was made domestick Chaplain to Henry Duke of Glocester procured himself to be actually created D. of D tho not of full standing for it was made Preb. of Twyford in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul Minister of S. Thomas Apostle in London Preb. of Shalford in the Church of Wells and Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty In Nov. 1672 he was installed Prebend of Durham struck in on the death of Dr. Tully his quondam Tutor and was made Dean of Rippon in the latter end of 1675. Afterwards putting in with great boldness before his Seniors for a Bishoprick particularly for that of S. David but put aside by Dr. L. Womack was at length made Bishop of Chester on the death of the most learned and religious Dr. John Pearson to which See being consecrated with Dr. Lloyd to S. David and Dr. Parker to Oxon at Lambeth on the 17. of Octob. 1686 had liberty then allowed to him to keep the Vicaridge of Barking and the Rectory of Wigan in Lanc. which he before had obtained in commendam with his Bishoprick In the next year he being then in favour with K. James 2 and ready upon all occasions to run with his humour purposely to obtain a translation to a better Bishoprick he was by him not only added to the number of Ecclesiastical Commissioners but also appointed one of the three Delegates or Commissioners Sir Rob. Wright Ch. Just of the Kings-Bench and Sir Thomas Jenner one of the Barons of the Exchecquer being the other two to go to Oxon to examine and determine the affairs relating to Magd. Coll and what they did there in ejecting the President and Fellows thereof a book entit An impartial relation of the
his Maj. K. Ch. 2 in his exile was by him sent Ambassador to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople and demanding audience in his name he was by bribes given delivered to some of the English Merchants there who shipping him in the Smyrna Fleet was conveyed into England Soon after he being committed to the Tower of London he was brought before the High Court of Justice where he desired to plead in the Italian Language which he said was more common to him than the English But it being denied him he was at length condemned to die whereupon he lost his head on a Scaffold erected against the Old Exchange in Cornhill on the fourth day of March an 1650. It was then said by the faction in England that he did by vertue of a Commission from Charles Stuart as K. of Great Britaine act in the quality of an Agent to the Court of the Great Turk with intent to destroy the trade of the Turkey Company and the Parliaments interest not only in Constantinople but also in Mitylene Anatolia and Smyrna That also he had a Commission to be Consul in that matter with an aim likewise to seize upon the Merchants goods for the use of Charles King of Scots For the effecting of which design he presumed to discharge Sir Tho. Bendish of his Embassie being Leiger there for the state of England c. The said faction also reported and would needs perswade the People in England that those that abetted Sir H. Hyde at Smyrna had the heavy hand of judgment fell upon them This Sir Hen. Hyde after his decollation was conveyed to Salisbury and buried there in the Cathedral among the graves of his Relations Another Brother younger than him was Edward Hyde D. D sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berkshire From which being ejected in the time of Usurpation he retired with his Wife and Children to Oxon and hiring an apartment within the precincts of Hart Hall lived there several years studied frequently in Bodlies Library and preached in the Church of Halywell in the suburbs of Oxon to the Royal Party till he was silenc'd by the Faction In 1658 he obtained of his exil'd Majesty by the endeavours of Sir Edw. Hyde before mention'd his kinsman then tho in banishment Lord Chancellour of England Letters Patents for the Deanery of Windsore in the place of Dr. Chr. Wren deceased dated in July the same year but he dying at Salisbury of the Stone a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was never installed in that Dignity He hath written and published several books which were taken into the hands of and perused by the Royal Party as 1 A Christian âegacy consisting of two parts preparation for and consolation against death Lond. 1657. oct 2 Christ and his Church or Christianity explained under seven Evangelical and Ecclesiastical heads Oxon. 1658. qu. 3 Vindication of the Church of England Ibid. 1658. qu. 4 Christian vindication of truth against errour Printed 1659. in tw 5 The true Catholick tenure c. Cambr. 1662. oct and other things as you may see in Joh. Ley among these Writers an 1662. Another Brother the tenth in number was Sir Frederick Hyde Knight the Queens Serjeant an 1670 and one of the chief Justices of South Wales who dyed in 1676. Also another called Francis who was Secretary to the Earl of Denbigh Embassador and died at Venice without issue And among others must not be forgotten Dr. Thomas Hyde Fellow of New Coll afterwards Judge of the Admiralty and also the eleventh and youngest Brother of them all named James Hyde Dr. of Physick lately Principal of Magd. Hall HUGH LLOYD was born in the County of Cardigan became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Oriel Coll. an 1607 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts translated himself to Jesus Coll of which I think he became Fellow and in 1638 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Archdeacon of S. David and well beneficed in his own Country In the times of Usurpation and Rebellion he suffered much for the Kings cause was ejected and forced to remove from place to place for his own security In consideration of which and his episcopal qualities he was consecrated to the See of Landaffe on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday of that month an 1660 by the Archb. of York Bishops of London Rochester Salisbury and Worcester at which time six other Bishops were also consecrated He died in June or July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was as I suppose buried at Matherne in Monmouthshire where the House or Pallace pertaining to the Bishop of Landaff is situated In the said See succeeded Dr. Francis Davies as I shall tell you elsewhere JEREMY TAYLOR originally of the University of Cambridge afterwards Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in this University was consecrated Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland an 166â and died in Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 282. GEORGE HALL sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll became Bishop of Chester in the room of Dr. Henry Ferne deceased an 1662 and dying in sixteen hundred sixty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 297 was succeeded in that See by Dr. Joh. Wilkins of whom I have largely spoken elsewhere already HENRY KING sometimes Canon of Ch Church afterwards Dean of Rochester was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1641. and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 308. In the said See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Pet. Gunning as I have elsewhere told you HENRY GLEMHAM a younger Son of Sir Henry Glemham of Glemham in Suffolk Knight by Anne his Wife eldest daughter of Sir Tho. Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset was born in the County of Surrey became a Commoner of Trin. Coll in 1619 aged 16 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Robert Skinner Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became well beneficed before the rebellion broke out at which time suffering more for his loyalty than merits was upon his Majesties restauration made Dean of Bristow in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas promoted to the Deanery of S. Pauls Cath. in London where continuing till 1666 he was by the endeavours of Barbara Dutchess of Cleavland made Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of that year in the place of Dr. George Griffith deceased He gave way to fate at Glemham Hall in Suffolk on the seventeenth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Vault that belongs to the Family of Glemham in the Parish Church of Little Glemham in the said County To the said See of S. Asaph was translated Dr. Is Barrow Bishop of the Isle of
great a stranger to Covetousness that he hardly understood money which yet he took care to employ to the best uses His memory was prodigious in his younger years not only natural but acquired for he had studied and wrot of the Art of memory and improv'd it to great advantage He wrot several Treatises curious and learned which were designed to see the light but were all lost together with his great Library of many years collection and several Mss which he had brought from forreign Countries partly by the Irish and partly by the Protestant Army in the time of K. Will. 3. an 1689.90 He died in sixteen hundred seventy and one aged an hundred years and more being then as 't was computed the antientest Bishop in the world having been above 50 years a Bishop His death hapned at his Seat called Castle Lesley alias Glaslogh and was there buried in a Church of his own building which he had made the Parish Church by vertue of an Act of Parliament for that purpose in Ireland Which Church was consecrated to S. Salvator Sir James Ware in his Commentary of the Irish Bishops tells us that this Bishop Lesley was Doct. of Div. of Oxon and his Son named Charles Lesley a Minister in Ireland hath informed me that he was not only Doct. of Div. but of both the Laws of Oxford How true these things are I cannot tell sure I am that I cannot find his name in any of the registers of Congreg or Convocation or that he took any degree there GILBERT IRONSIDE sometimes Fell. of Trin. Coll was made B. of Bristow in the year 1660 and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 357. In the said See succeeded Dr. Guy Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1685. WILLIAM NICOLSON sometimes one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll succeeded Dr. Godfrey Goodman in the See of Glocester an 1660 and died in the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 362. In the said See succeeded John Prichett as I shall tell you under the year 1680. GRIFFITH WILLIAMS sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards of the Univ. of Cambr. became Bishop of Ossory in 1641 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 363. In the said See succeeded Dr. John Parry as I have told you among the said Writers an 1677. p. 448. JOHN WILKINS sometimes of New Inn afterwards of Magdalen Hall was consecrated Bish of Chester an 1668 on the death of Dr. George Hall and died in Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two under which year you may also see more of him among the Writers p. 370.371 In the said See succeeded the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson born at Creake in Norfolk bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631 commenced M. of A became Chaplain to George Lord Goring at Exeter Preb. of Sarum Preacher at S. Clements Eastcheap and afterwards at S. Christophers in London In 1660 he was installed Archd. of Surrey after it had laid void about eleven years being then D. of D. was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Preb. of Ely Chapl. in ord to his Maj and Master of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. I say that he succeeding Dr. Wilkins in Chester was consecrated to that See with Dr. Pet. Mews to Bath and Wells on the ninth day of Febr. an 1672 having before published an Exposition on the Creed c. After his death which I have mention'd elsewhere succeeded in the See of Chester Dr. Thom. Cartwright The said Dr. Joh. Pearson had a younger brother named Richard born also at Creake bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in 1646 was afterwards M. of A Professor of the Civil Law at Gresham Coll and kept his Fellowship with it went out Doct. of the Civ and Canon Law upon the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to Cambr. in the beginning of 1669 he being then Under-keeper of his Maj. Library at S. James He was a most excellent Scholar a most admired Greecian and a great Traveller He died in the summer-time an 1670 being then as 't was vulgarly reported a Rom. Cath. FRANCIS DAVIES a Glamorganshire man born became a Student of Jes Coll. an 1628 aged 17 years took the degr in Arts and was made Fellow of the said House About that time entring into holy Orders he became beneficed in Wales and in 1640 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards suffering much for the Kings Cause lived as opportunity served and was involved in the same fate as other Royalists were But being restored to what he had lost after his Maj. restauration he was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of the year 1661 being then Archd. of Landaff in the place of Tho. Prichard In. 1667 he was made Bishop of Landaff on the death of Dr. Hugh Lloyd paid his homage on the 4 of Sept. the same year and about that time was consecrated He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried as I have been informed by some of the Fellows of Jes Coll in the Cath. Ch. at Landaff In the said See of Landaff succeeded Dr. Will. Lloyd sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr consecrated thereunto on the 18 of Apr. 1675 where sitting till the death of Dr. Henshaw he was translated to Peterborough and confirmed therein 17 of May 1679. Besides the beforemention'd Franc. Davies was another of both his names the e in Davies excepted but before him in time author of A Catechism wherein is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian Faith contained in the Lords Prayer and Creed c. Lond. 1612. oct ded to Mr. Tho. Digges but whether he was of Oxford I cannot yet tell Qu. WILLIAM FULLER son of Tho. Fuller was born in London educated in the Coll. School at Westminster became a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1626 or thereabouts aged 18 years took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law six years after as a Member of S. Edm. Hall having translated himself thither some time before About that time he entred into holy Orders was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch and when the K. had taken up his head quarter at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion he became Chapl. to Edw. L. Littleton L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal there Afterwards upon the declension of the Kings Cause he suffer'd as others did taught a private School at Tââttenham or Twickenham in Middlesex in the Reigns of Oliv. and Richard and endeavoured to instil Principles of Loyalty into his scholars At length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Dean
In Sept. 1667 he was made Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Rich. Baylie deceased and in Feb. 1674 he was by the endeavours of Lodovisa Dutchess of Portsmouth whose hands were always ready to take bribes nominated by the King to be Bishop of Chichester on the translation of Dr. P. Gunning from thence to Ely So that being consecrated thereunto on the 18 day of April an 1675 had liberty then allowed to him to keep his Canonry of Windsore in commendam with that See which he did to his dying day This person who had spent the chief part of life in continual agitation for the obtaining of Wealth and setling a Family for he was a married man and left behind him 3 sons at his death was suddenly taken from this world as he was visiting his diocess on the fifth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight Whereupon his body being conveyed to Windsore was buried in Bray's Chappel joyning on the south side to the outer Chappel of S. George in the Castle there Soon after was a fair altar monument erected over his grave with his Statue from head to foot adorned with Pontificalia all curiously cut from one entire piece of Alabaster laying thereon with this inscription engraven upon it M. S. maturus Deo mortalitatem exuit Rev. in Christo Pater Radulphus Brideoake Vir audacter probus magnus sed humilis Ingens Atticae omnis eloquentiae Thesaurus Exule Carolo II. bonis omnibus mulctatus reverso à sacris hujus capellae Canonicus Decanus Sarisburiensis postea Cicestrensis Episcopus ΦÎÎÎÎÎÎÎΣ ΦÎÎÎΤÎÎΣ Dioeceseos tanquam Familiâs Pater Qui alienae salut iconsulens immemor suae dum Gregem visitaret grassante febri correptus Episcopali munere immortuus est iii non Octob. MDCLXXVIII aetatis suae LXIV Marito optimo monumentum hoc posuit conjux moestissima M. B. that is Mary Brideoake second daughter of Sir ..... Sal. tonstall of Okenden in Essex Kt by his second wife JOSEPH HENSHAW sometimes a Communer of Magdalen Hall became Bishop of Peterborough upon the translation of Dr. Laney to Lincolne in the beginning of the year 1663 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and eight leaving then behind him this character in his diocess that he was a learned man and a good Preacher but so proud and unhospitable that in that respect he deserved not the name of a Bishop I have already mentioned him among the Writers under the year 1678 pag. 473 and therefore I shall only say that Dr. Will. Lloyd succeeded him in Peterborough and confirm'd in that See on the 17 of May 1679. Afterwards he was translated to Norwich where sitting with good approbation till after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he was then depriv'd as I have before told you in Dr. E. Reynolds JOHN PRICHETT son of Walt. Prich of Hillenden in Middlesex afterwards Alderman of Lond. as his Relations have told me was born there or in that County admitted a Student of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1622 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts as a member of S. Edm. Hall that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated 1629. Afterwards marrying an Oxford Woman of inferiour note he became beneficed in his own Country but whether he suffer'd for any Cause during the Civil War I know not Sure 't is that he being Vicar of S. Giles Church near Cripplegate in London after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and esteemed a rich man as indeed he was he by the endeavours of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Cant had the poor Bishoprick of Glocester confer'd on him after the death of Dr. Nicolson with leave allowed to him to keep the said Ch. of S. Giles in commendam with it So that being consecrated thereunto on the third day of Nov. being the first Sunday of that month an 1672 sate there till the time of his death which hapning at Harefield in Middlesex where he had an Estate on the first day of January in sixteen hundred and eighty was buried on the seventh day of the same month under the Pulpit of the Church there In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Frampton of Oxon who sitting there with great liking till after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown was then deprived of his Bishoprick for not taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy JOHN PARKER was born in the City of Dublin educated partly in the University there and partly in this as a Member of Ch. Ch as I have been not only informed there by certain Seniors but also from Dublin Afterwards he retired to his native place became Prebendary of S. Michan and much in respect there for his Religion and Learning Afterwards in the times of Usurpation he was deprived of all his Spiritualities by O. Cromwell and by him cast into Prison upon suspicion that he was a Spy from the Marquess of Ormonde Afterwards being freed by exchange he constantly adhered to the said Marquess as long as he continued in Ireland But when he withdrew himself thence into France Mr. Parker went into England where making a shift to rub out till his Majesties return went then into his own Country and being nominated Bishop of Elphine was consecrated thereunto in S. Patricks Church on the 27 of Jan. 1660 he being then Doctor of Divinity In 1667 Aug. 9 he was by Letters Patents then dated made Archbishop of Tuam in the room of Dr. Sam. Pullen and afterwards Archb. of Dublin in the place of Dr. Mich. Boyle translated to Armagh He died in the beginning of January in sixteen hundred eighty and one and was buried as I conceive at Dublin Whereupon Dr. Francis Marsh succeeded him in the See there The said Dr. Parker hath extant A sermon preached before both Houses of Parliament in Ireland on 2 Sam. 19.14 printed 1663. qu. and as I conceive others HENRY BRIDGMAN the third son of Dr. John Bridgman B. of Chester who died an 1652 aged 77 years was born in Northamptonshire entred a Communer of Oriel Coll. in the year 1629 aged 16 or thereabouts elected Fellow of that of Brasnose 6 Dec. 1633 he being then Bach. of Arts Afterwards he was actually created Master of that faculty and in 1639 he resign'd his Fellowship being then by the endeavours of his father beneficed or dignified or both In the time of the Rebellion he did his Maj. faithful service and therefore was a sharer in afflictions as other Loyalists were occasioned by the violent Proceedings of the Presbyterians After his Majesties Restauration he was elected Dean of Chester in July in the place of Dr. Will. Nicolls who died in 1658 was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of Aug. following and soon after installed in his Deanery and on the 22 of Septemb. 1660 installed Preb. of Stillington in the Ch. of York being about that time Parson of Bangor in Flintshire and of Barrow in Cheshire At length upon the
was made one of the Kings Serjeants being then esteemed an excellent Orator a great Lawyer and an ornament to his profession and on the 7. of Aug. 1641 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament he followed him to Oxon and was very serviceable to him in many respects In 1645 he was disinabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency as t was then called So that retiring to his home after the Kings cause declined he was committed to Prison where continuing till he had made his composition was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant 1 Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham an 1626. See in John Rushworths Collections under the year 1626. 2 Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628 wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Soveraign power Printed in qu. See in a book entit The Soveraigns Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3 d. and 4 th years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186 3 Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right 4 Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640 p. 1121.1123 5 Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances in Dec. 1640. c. with other things c. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Serjeant also and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661 was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire the Mannour of which he some years before had bought In Sept. 1673 Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake shall be now omitted One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622 and afterwards that of Master but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John because he was never bred in any University as his Son hath informed me The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock who when young being very vicious was disinherited by his Father and the Estate setled on Sir John But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man Sir John restored to him the Estate See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale c. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo p. 11. Feb. 19. Sir Rich. Vivian Knight He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there an 1643. Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon was created the same day In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter afterwards the Queens Sollicitor and now 1643 her Attorney and upon the declining of the Kings cause a great sufferer After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Recorder of Exeter again after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendred that office in 1676. Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires The first of these two was a Knight for Anglesie to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 sate in the Parl. at Oxon. March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires March 21. Peirce Edgecombe Esquires The first of these last two who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County and afterwards sate at Oxon suffered for the Kings cause and dying in 1650 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County and afterwards sate at Oxon for which also he suffered in his Estate This year was among others nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law one Colonel Bard but whether he was admitted I cannot tell I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eaton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631. Whilst he was Scholar he made an excursion to Paris upon the customary leave of absence which is but for 9 weeks in a year without the College or his Relations privity After he was made Fellow he travelled for some years into France Germany Italy Turkey Palestine Aegypt Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason After his return he lived high as he had done before without any visible income and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library supposed to be stoln by him out of a Mosque in Egypt which being valued but at 20 l he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventur'd his neck for it This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition yet proper robust and comely did upon the approach of the grand rebellion retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages especially of the French which the Queen took notice of he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel and afterwards to be Governour of Camden house in Glocestershire which when he quitted he burnt and then for a time of Worcester On the 22 of Nov. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood and soon after being made a Baronet his ambition was so great that being not content with that station he by his and the endeavours of others was created Baron of Brombry and Vicount Bellomont in Ireland 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesties unfortunate battles he wrot to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up armes neither for religion for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of nor for that moustrap the Laws but to re-establish the King in his Throne and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come he desired leave that they would discharge him that he might relinquish the Land which accordingly was done After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2 then ân Exile Embassador to the Emperour of Persia upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus But so it was that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind
of A. of this University 23. March 1614 a second born in Oxfordshire who became Auditor of Ch. Ch. in 1608 or thereabouts aged 35 and a third born in Nottinghamshire and the Son of a Minister who being entred into Ch. Ch. in 1624 took one degree in Arts four years after I find also another perhaps one of the two next before going who dying at Bathe was buried in the great Church there by the name of Mr. Philip King of Oxford 23. Sept. 1635. c. An. Dom. 1646. An. 22. Car. 1. Chanc. William Marquess of Hertford Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell again without any nomination from the Chancellour because he had left Oxon at the surrender of it to the Parliament Forces 24 of June this year Proctors Rich. Wyatt of Oriel Coll. Apr. 8. Byrom Eaton of Brasn Coll. Apr. 8. But the Senior Proctor dying in his Fathers house Dr. Tho. Wyatt at Ducklington near Witney in Oxfordshire in the beginning of Octob his place was supplied by a Deputy till the 25 of Feb. following At which time Mr. James Farren of the said Coll. of Oriel who had been elected by the Masters of that house was admitted therein by the consent of the Committee for regulating the University Bach. of Arts. July 22. Joshua Childrey of Magd. Coll. Oct. 21. Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch. Oct. 21. Zachar. Bogan of C. C. Coll. Feb. 9. John Betts of C. C. Coll. The last is now living and one of the Coll. of Physitians Mar. 18. Rob. Wood of Merton afterwards of Linc College Adm. 47. Bach. of Law Five were admitted but not one of them was afterward either a Writer Bishop or man of note Mast of Arts. July 1. Thankful or Gracious Owen of Linc. Coll. This person who was the Son of Philip Owen was born at Taplow in Buckinghamshire became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll under a Puritanical Tutor in the year 1635 aged 16 years elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. in the beginning of Aug. 1642 he being then Bach. of Arts but soon after left the University and so consequently did not bear arms for his Majesty as other Scholars did within the Garrison of Oxon. Upon the surrender of the said Garrison for the use of the Parliament he returned to his Coll took the degree of Master as 't is before told you submitted to the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament being then esteemed a Presbyterian But the Independents at that time carrying all before them he became one of their number a Preacher in their private congregations Proctor of the University in 1650 and the same year upon Cheynells marching off President of S. Johns College and a noted Polititian for carrying on the then cause In the latter end of 1653 he was appointed by Oliver one of the Commissioners for the approbation of publick preachers and in 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Oxfordshire as certain Heads of other Colleges were for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and was not wanting upon all occasions to promote the Independent interest in the University In 1660 he was forced to leave his beloved Presidentship to make room for the right owner Dr. Rich. Baylie who for 12 years going before had suffer'd much for his Loyalty So that retiring to London he took up his quarters at length in Hatton Garden and was not wanting to carry on the congregational way upon all occasions This person with James Baron did after Dr. Thomas Goodwins death publish certain of his Theological works in two volumes in fol. and set before them a preface See more among the Creations under the year 1653. This Mr. Owen who had a good command of the Latin tongue died suddenly in his House in Hatton Garden in Holbourn near London on the first day of April Good Friday 1681 and was buried near to the grave of the said Dr. Goodwin in the yard called by some Tyndales and by others The fanatical burying place joyning on the north side to the New Artillery-yard or Garden near London Some time before his death he had almost prepared for the press a book entit Imago Imaginis The design of which was to shew that Rome Papal is an image of Rome Pagan as I have been informed by one of his perswasion who is remembred among the Writers under the year 1669. July 4. Thomas Clutterbook or Clotterbook of Magd. Coll. This person is the same I suppose who was doctorated in Divinity elsewhere and installed Archdeacon of Winchester 31. Jul. 1684. See more in Robert Sharrock among the Writers under the year 1684. Nov. 10. Joshua Ahier of New Coll. This Loyal Gentleman who was the Son of Guy Ahier of S. Saviours in the isle of Jersey translated from French into English The Elements of Logick Oxon 1647 oct Written originally by Pet. du Moulin A translation of the said book had been before made with the authors approbation and printed at Lond. 1624. oct by one Nathan de Lawne Bach. of Arts of Cambridge educated in the Grammar Free-school in the City of Norwych whence he was sent by the Mayor Sherriffs and Aldermen thereof to C. C. Coll. in the said University an 1618. Nov. 10. Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch. He then accumulated the degrees in Arts. Dec. 9. Will. Lloyd of Jes Coll. Jan. 26. George Stradling of All 's Coll. Adm. 39. Bach of Phys Dec. 3. John Baber of Ch. Ch. He was then admitted by vertue of the Letters of Colonel John Lambert Governour of the Garrison of Oxford for the Parliament which Garrison was surrendred for their use on the 24 of June this year as I shall tell you anon 8. Thom. Willis of Ch. Ch. 8. Humph. Brooke of S. John Coll. The last of these two did on the eleventh of Nov. going before supplicate the ven Convocation that he might accumulate the degrees of Master of Arts and Bach. of Phys which was granted See among the Doctors of Phys an 1659. Besides these three who were all that were this year admitted were two that were licensed to practice Phys viz. Peter Dewever of Brasn Coll and Edward-Atkinson Chirurgeon to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parl. Army Bach. of Div. July 23. Gilb. Stoaks of Wadh. Coll. This person who was the Son of a Gentleman of Devonshire had taken one degree in Arts as a member of Hart Hall an 1608 at which time being noted for his Scholarship he was afterwards made the Junior of the first two Chaplains of Wadham Coll by the Dame Dorothy the Foundress thereof Afterwards he became an indefatigable Student in Philosophy and Theology and a continual Disputant even to his last among the Juniors in the time of Lent being a usual thing in his time and before for grave Seniors to take the questions of quadragesimal Disputants to try and ferret them from one hole to another with subtilities But since that custome is
our selves on Matth. 22.39 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate in London an 1674. 76. quart Joh. Flower of New Inn was also created the same day What preferment he had confer'd upon him by the Visitors I know not sure I am that he was soon after Preacher of God's Word at Ilmington in Warwickshire and afterwards at Staunton in the County of Nottingham where I find him in 1658 and that he was author of 1 The free and honorable servant set forth in his privileges and prerogatives c. Lond. 1652. oct 2 Several Queries concerning the Church of Jesus Ch. upon earth briefly explained and resolved c. Lond. 1658. oct What other things he hath published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he was son of Will. Flower of Cubley in Derbyshire Gent and that he became a Commoner of New Inn in Act term 1640 aged 16 years Jenkyn Lloyd of Jesus Coll was also created the same day See more among the created Doctors of Div. an 1661. Apr. 15. Rich. Werge of Trin. Coll was actually created in the second Pembrokian Creation This person who was a Shoomakers son was born at Witney in Oxfordshire became Servitour of the said Coll in the beginning of the year 1642 aged 17 years and this year was made Fellow thereof by the Visitors being by them taken to be a godly brother for the Cause as indeed he was Afterwards he became Rector of Nelson or Nailson in Leycestershire which he exchanged with Mr. Joh. Cave of Coleorton for Gateshead or Gateside near New Castle upon Tyne he being then a Conformist He hath written and published 1 A Sermon preached in S. Maries Church at Gateshead in the County Pal. of Durham on Hos 5.12 Lond. 1683. qu. 2 Sermon in S. Mar. at Gateshead c. at the funeral of George Johnson Gent. deceased 29 May 1683 on Heb. 9. part of the 27 ver printed in qu whereunto is added an Elegy by a friend This R. Werge died about Michaelmas 1687 and was buried in the Church of S. Mary at Gateshead Apr. 15. Rob. Gorges of S. Edm. Hall He was soon after made Fellow of S. Johns Coll. by the Visitors became one of the Proctors of the Univ. in 1653 afterwards Secretary to Hân Cromwell L. Lieutenant of Ireland Doct. of the Civil Law of Dublin and an enjoyer of several places of honor and trust as also of an estate in that Kingdom At length he became Secretary to Frederick Duke of Schomberg General of his Majesties Forces and Scout-master general in Ireland c. Ambrose Vpton of New Inn was created the same day He was soon after one of those many that were this and the next year made Fellows of All 's Coll. by the Visitors In 1651 he became by the favour of Ol. Cromwell Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon in the place of Dr. John Mills ejected for refusing the Engagement but being discharged of that place about the 13 of Mar. 1659 to make room for the said Mills then restored by the Rump Parl. and secluded Members added to them he retired to London and lived for some time there a Nonconformist Afterwards he went into Ireland got a place there belonging to the Customs and lived in good fashion for several years Afterwards returning into England he concluded his last day at Lond. about 7 or 8 years since and was buried at Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the said City as I have been enformed by one of his perswasion a congregational man who farther told me that he was of the antient family of the Vptons in Devonshire Jan. 6. George Kellam Secretary to the Committee of Lords and Com. for affairs of foreign concernment the Navy and Customs was then actually created by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which say that he is a Gent. whose parts and good affections to the Cause are very considerable and found no less useful in the way of his employment c. Bach. of Phys Apr. 14. Thom. Sydenham of Magd. Hall He was soon after put in Fellow of All 's Coll. by the Visitors There was but one more created who was of Ch. Ch. and ran with all mutations but good for nothing and not worth the naming unless it be for his antient and gentile extraction Bach. of Div. Apr. 12. Francis Cheynell of Mert. Coll. now one of the Visitors appointed by Parl. to reform the University was then actually created Bach. of Div. This person was to have been Bach. of Div. in Decemb. 1641 but unjustly as he said kept back from his degree because he preached against Arminianisme that is against the Kings Declaration for which his Grace was then denied It was then also 12 Apr. 1648. desired and granted in Convocation that he might be declared Bach. of Div he having performed his Exercise seven years before and not lose his seniority but be seated among the Bach. of Div. of that year c. The next day when the Chancellour and Visitors with a great rabble following them went from College to College to give the new Heads possession they put this Mr. Cheynell into possession of the Presidents Lodgings in S. Johns Coll. See more in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. p. 403. a. b. 404. a. Apr. 12. John Wilkins M. A. of Magd. Hall The next day the said Visitors gave him possession of the Wardens Lodgings of Wadham Coll. Henry Langley M. A Master of Pembr Coll. and one of the six or seven Ministers appointed by Parliament to preach the Scholars in to obedience to them was created the same day On the 26 of Aug. 1647 he was made Master of the said Coll by order of Parliament and on the 8 of Oct. following he was established therein by the Visitors In 1648 he became Canon of Ch Ch in the place of Dr. George Morley by the same power and had possession given to him thereof in this month of April See more of him among the created Doctors of Div. an 1649. Henry Cornish M. A. of New Inn another of the Ministers He was soon after put into possession of one of the Canonries of Ch. Ch. See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 260. a. See also among the created Doct. of Div. under the year 1649. The said four Bachelaurs of Div. were presented to the Vicech Dr. Reynolds by Dr. Joh. Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall the senior Theologist of the University and the design'd and nominated President of Magd. Coll. April 14. Henry Wilkinson junior of Magd. Hall April 14. Edw. Hinton of Merton Coll. April 14. Rob. Rogers of New Inn. May 19. Thom. Gilbert of S. Edm. Hall This person who hath written and published several things and is now living in Oxon a Nonconformist aged 80 years or more is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers Aug 4. Thomas Borrace a Student in Divinity for at least twenty years was then actually created This zealous
The other ... Harding was a most violent Presbyterian an indefatigable Preacher against the King and his cause and because he would not conform after his Majesties restauration tho courted to it he was turned out of his Rectory This year the generality of the Heads of Houses Professors and Lecturers Doctors and Bach. of Divinity Masters and Bachelaurs of Arts Undergraduats Beadles College Servants and sometimes Bedmakers and scrapers of Trenchers to the number of several hundreds were thrown out of their respective places and soon after banished the University by the Visitors for not submitting to their power from Parliament and acknowledging their Covenant c. An. Dom. 1649. An. 1. Car. 2. Chanc. Philip Earl of Pemb. and Mountgomery who dying at the Cock-pit near Whitehall on the 23 of January this year was buried in the Cathedral Church at Salisbury among the graves of those of his family on the 8. of Febr. following From which time till Jan. ensuing the Chancellours place laid void Soon after the said Earls death came out against him several Satyrical prints among which were 1 His last Will and Testament Printed in one sheet in fol 2 Pembrokes Pass from Oxford to his grave 'T is a Poem printed on one side of a sheet of paper and hath this beginning Hence Mountebank of honour hence away c. At the end is his Epitaph 3 The life and death of Philip Herbert the late infamous Knight of Berkshire once Earl of Pembroke and Mountgom c. having by a degenerate baseness betrayed his Nobility and entred himself a Commoner amongst the very scum of the people Printed in one sheet in qu. by way of interlude with Poetry Vicechanc. Edw. Reynolds D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. was re-admitted Aug. 30 having been nominated a little before by the Chancellour Proct. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll. Apr. 4. Hierome Zanchy of All 's Coll. Apr. 4. The last was elected contrary to the Caroline Cycle because it did appoint Queens Coll to joyn with the said Coll. of Exeter but so it was that that Coll. being not in a capacity of yielding a person zealous and sutable to the times the members of All 's therefore did choose by recommendations of the Committee and Visitors one of their number lately made Fellow thereof but whether incorporated M. of Arts as he had stood in another University it appears not in the publick register and therefore what I have to say of him shall be set down here This Hierome Zanchy who was born of a gentile family was bred in Cambridge but being more given to manlie exercises than Logick and Philosophy he was observed by his contemporaries to be a boisterous fellow at Cudgelling and Foot-ball-playing and indeed more fit in all respects to be a rude Soldier than a Scholar or man of polite parts In the beginning of the rebellion he threw off his gown and took up armes for the Parliament and soon after became a Captain a Presbyterian an Independent a Preacher and I know not what When the War was ceased and the Kings cause declined he obtained a Fellowship of All 's Coll. from the Committee and Visitors and was the first or senior of those many that were by them put into the said Coll in the places of Loyallists ejected by them an 1648 and 49. But before he had served the least part of his Proctorship about a month only he returned to his Military employment went in the quality of a Commander into Ireland to fight against those that were then called Rebels and doing good service in short time was made a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and as a Colonel he had 474 l. and 10 s. per an for his Salary besides other advantages In 1651 and 52 I find him Commander in chief of the Parliament forces in the County of Tipperary where as those of his party said he did excellent service for the cause being then a thorough-pac'd Anabaptist and in 1654 he with Joh. Reynolds Commissary General were elected Knights for the Counties of Tipperary and Waterford to serve in the Parliament that assembled at Dublin that year In 1658 he being then a Knight by the favour of Hen. Cromwell he was by the endeavours of Col. Charles Fleetwood a pitiful Anabaptist and Son-in-law to Ol. Cromwell chosen Burgess for Woodstock in Oxfordshire to serve in Richards Parliament that began at Westm 27. Jan. that year at which time living much as he had done some time before in the house of the said Fleetwood in Westminster did often hold forth in Conventicles among the Anabaptists It was observed then that he was a dull man as indeed he was ab origine for by his rebaptization when he went into Ireland and his herding among the Anabaptists he did improve it to the purpose otherwise had he continued among the Presbyterians or Independents who were accounted a more ingenious sort of people he might have improved himself perhaps in something of ingenuity Under this personâ name was published 1 A Sermon on 1. of John 2.18 c. printed in oct but when I know not for I have not yet seen it 2 Speech in Parliament in Dublin printed in Sir Will. Petty's book intit Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland c. p. 70 71 c. It is a most rude and nonsensical thing and only fit to be read to make people laugh at the absurdity of the person See more in Sir Will. Petty among the Writers an 1687. p. 611. where you 'll find this Zanchy to concern himself much meerly out of envy against that curious and polite Gentleman What other things he hath extant I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he died in Ireland about the latter end of K. Charles 2. as I have been informed by those that knew him Bach. of Arts. June 5. Joh. Rotheram of Linc. Coll. June 5. Charles Perot of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Masters 1652 and of the other among the Mast in 1653. June 11. Henry Hurst of Magd. Hall He was soon after made Prob. Fellow of Mert. Coll. by the Visitors 27. Charles Potter of Ch. Ch. 27. John Tickell of New Inn. The last who was afterwards made Student of Ch. Ch by the Visitors is said in the publick register of Convocation to be Vir provectioris aetatis firmatae eruditionis This person who is now or at least was lately living did afterwards publish several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers of this University July 6. Walter Pope of Wadh. Coll. See among the created Doct. of Phys 1661. Nov. 6. Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. Nov. 6. Tho. Cole of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1651. Dec. 17. Theophilus Gale of Magd. Coll. He is said in the pub reg of Convoc to be Vir provectioris aetatis uberioris spei juvenis Jan.
head of a considerable party of desperate Phanaticks near to Daventry in Northamptonshire to hinder if possibly it might be not only the said Settlement but Restauration of the King he the said Col. Ingoldesbie did with his own Regiment and some other Troops and Companies of Foot such as he could confide in draw towards him and about the 23 of Apr. making an Onset took Lambert with his own hands while the other prime Officers were taken by others of Ingoldesbie's party c. Whereupon for this his good service his Majesty did not only spare his life as having been one of his fathers Judges but gave order that he should be made a Knight of the Bath at his Coronation which accordingly was done Afterwards he retired to Lethenborough lived several years after in a quiet repose and died in the beginning of Sept. 1685. Before which time his Estate at Lethenborough was as it was then reported sold to Elianor Gwynn for the use of her natural son which she had by K. Ch. 2. called Sir Charles Beaucleer Earl of Burford and afterwards Duke of S. Albans This Col. Ingoldesbie was elder brother to Henry Ingoldesbie a Colonel also in the Parliam Army and to Thomas a Captain c. May 19. Col. John Hewson a Colonel of Foot was also presented by Proct. Zanchy and by him conducted to his place among the other Officers He was sometimes an honest Shoomaker in Westminster but getting little by that trade he in the beginning of the grand rebellion went out a Captain upon the account of the blessed cause was very zealous for it fought on stoutly and in time became a Colonel When K. Ch. 1. was by the godly brethren brought to trial for his life he sate as one of the Judges consented to the sentence passed upon him and sealed and subscribed the warrant for his execution Afterwards for his said service he became Governour of Dublin one of the Council of State in July 1653 a member of the Little or Barebones Parliament held the same year and of all the Parliaments since before his Majesties restauration a Knight also of the new stamp and at length one of Olivers Lords to have a negative voice in the Other House Upon an infallible foresight of the turn of the times he conveyed himself away into Holland to save his neck and soon after died and was buried at Amsterdam about 1662 as the vulgar report went at that time Colonel John Okey was another great Officer that was then also presented by Proct. Zanchy May 19. and by him conducted to the rest His parentage was as mean as his calling having been originally as 't is supposed a Dray-man afterwards a Stroaker in a Brew-house at Islington near London and then a poor Chandler near Lyon-Key in Thamestreet in London At length changing his Apron for a Buff-coat he became thro certain military degrees a Col. of Dragoons and by the artifice of Cromwell had unknowing to him his name inserted among the Kings Judges and so consequently was by him appointed to sit among that diabolical crew which if he refus'd to do he knew full well it would displease Cromwell much and in the end contract prejudice against him This Fellow who was of greater bulk than brains and of more strength than wit or conscience left Cromwell when he saw that he aimed at the office of a single person sided with the Anab. and Fift-Monarchy-men and thereupon was committed to custody for a time and his Regiment taken from him and given to a great Creature of Ol. called Ch. L. Howard afterwards E. of Carlile At length upon a foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled into Holland and setling at Delfâ in a very timorous condition under the name of Frederick Williamson because his fathers name was William with Miles Corbet and John Barkstead two other Regicides the last of which went by the name of Joh. Harman they were all seized upon in the beginning of March 1661 by the forward Endeavours of Sir George Downing his Majesties Envoy or Resident at the Hague by order from the States they being then in an Ale-house Soon after they were sent to England in the Blackamore Frigot and upon their arrival were committed Prisoners to the Tower of London Afterwards being convey'd to the Kings-bench Bar at Westm Hall to know what they could say for themselves why Execution should not pass upon them they were returned to the Tower again and on the 19 of April 1662 were all convey'd thence each in a Sledge to Tybourn and there hang'd drawn and quarter'd Afterwards Okey's quarters were instead of being hang'd on several gates of the City of London permitted by his Majesty's order to be inter'd by his Relations because he had behaved himself dutifully towards him in his last words at the Gallows Soon after were publish'd their Speeches and Prayers together with several passages at the time of their Execution at Tybourne with some due and sober animadversions on the said Speeches Lond. 1662. in 5 sh in qu. and A letter from Col. Barkstead Col. Okey and Mil. Corbet to their friends in their congregational Churches in Lond. with the manner of their apprehension Lond. 1662 in 1 sh in qu. But this last is a feigned thing and reflects upon Sir Geor. Downing as a Revolter from their Cause as indeed he was which afterwards was his advancement He was then a member of that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May 1661 wherein acting much to the great dislike of those that took themselves to be the honest party of the House had this character given of him Sir Geor. Downing a poor child bred upon charity like Judas betray'd his Master What can his Country expect He drew and advised the Oath of renouncing the Kings family and took it first himself For his honesty fidelity c. he was rewarded by his Maj. with fourscore thousand pounds at least and is a Commissioner of the Customes the House-bell to call the Courtiers to vote at six of the clock at night an Exchecquer teller c. May 19. Geor. Sedascue Adjutant General of the Parliament Army was also then presented and took his place He had been a Cornet of Horse in the Expedition against the Rebels in Ireland 1641. 42. Col. Edward Grosvenour Quartermaster General of the said Army was presented and created M. of A. the same day In 1656 he was chose Burgess for Westminster to serve in that Parl. which began 17 of Sept. the same year he being then a favourite of Oliver and for the same place also to serve in Richards Parliament c. May 19. Owen Roe Scoutmaster General was also then created and conducted by Proctor Zanchy to the rest of the Officers He was originally a Silk-man and in the beginning of the Rebellion being a violent Covenantier and afterwards an Independent was by Oliver's interest made a prime Officer Lieut. Col. I think in the Militia of London and
disconsolate and relegated place to walk two miles at least in length containing but a few paces in breadth either in the company of the Governour of the said Castle or in that of Captain Reynolds an Officer therein beside Harrington while he was there and Herbert who according to their duties did always attend him That which made some amendments was a fair and uninterrupted prospect a good way into the Sea a view into the Isle of Wight one way and main Land the other with the sight of Ships of all sizes daily under sail with which his Majesty was much delighted In this Castle his Majesty continued from the evening of the 30 of Nov. till the 21. of Dec. following an 1648. and what hapned in that interval I have partly told you in Jam. Harrington among the Writers under the year 1677. p. 437.438 About the 15 of the said month of Dec. Major Harrison came late at night with orders for the removal of his Majesty thence lodged there two nights and went away without seeing the King or speaking with any of his Attendants Two days after L. Col. Cobbet before mention'd came and acquainted his Majesty with the orders he had received for his remove thence to Windsore Castle forthwith The King told him he was more kind at that time than he was at Newport when he would not gratifie him or any other the knowledge of the place he was to go to Windsore was the place he ever delighted in and 't would make amends for what at Hurst he had suffer'd All things in short time being made ready he bad solitary Hurst adieu and having pass'd the narrow passage before mention'd which reaches well nigh from Hurst to Milford three long miles there appeared a party of Horse belonging to the Army who had then their Winter quarter at Lindhorsh and were ordered to convoy the King to Winchester but going first to Ringwood then through the New Forest to Rumsey went thence to the said City At his entrance therein the Mayor and Aldermen of the City did notwithstanding the times receive the King with dutiful respect and the Clergy did the like During his short stay there the Gentry and others of inferiour rank flock'd thither in great numbers to welcome his Majesty and out of zeal to pray for his enlargement and happiness with which the King was much satisfied and was pleased to give his hand to many of them to kiss Thence his Majesty rode to Alton and so to Alresford while the Inhabitants round about made hast to see his Majesty pass by and to pour forth their prayers for his preservation From thence he went to Farnham 'twixt which two Towns Major Harrison met him with a party of Horse to convey him to Windsore See more before in Thomas Harrison among these creations Bach of Phys May 19. Thomas Trapham Chyrurgion to the General of the Parl. Army was then actually created Bach. of Physick while the said General Cromwell and the aforesaid Officers were seated in their Gowns in the Doctors seats This person who was Son of John Trapham of Maidstone in Kent and had been licensed by the University to practice Chyrurgery an 1633 did practice it in these parts for some time before the grand rebellion broke forth Afterwards he turned tail for profit sake practiced in the Parliament Army and became a bitter enemy to his Majesty K. Ch. the first to whose body after his decollation in the latter end of Jan. 1648 he put his hand to open and embalm and when that was done he sewed his head to his body and that being done also he said to the company then present that he had sewed on the head of a Goose Afterwards he was Chyrurgeon to Oliver Cromwell at the fight at Worcester against K. Ch. 2 was a great man among his party and got what he pleased After his Majesties return he retired to the fanatical Town of Abendon in Berks practiced there among the Brethren and dying an absolute Bigot for the cause in the latter end of Dec. 1683 was buried on the 29 of the same month in the presence of a great number of Dissenters in the Church yard of S. Helen there close under one of the windows of that Church One of both his names and his Son as it seems I shall elsewhere mention Nov. 14. James Ward was actually created by the favour of Fairfax the General This person who was lately made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors I have mentioned among the Incorporations an 1648. Jan. 14. Edm. Scrope eldest Son of Col. Adrian Scrope mention'd among the Creations of Bachelaurs of Arts this year was created by order of the Delegates of this University This ingenious and most comely Gentleman who had by the endeavours of his Father been made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the favour of the Committee and Visitors was afterwards Keeper of the Privy Seal in the Kingdom of Scotland He died much lamented by those that knew him in 1658 or thereabouts and was buried with solemnity by two or more Officers of Armes at Ch. Ch. alias the Grey-friers within Newgate in London Bach. of Div. May 19. Matthew Barten sometimes Mast of Arts of New Inn now a sturdy zealous and dayly Preacher up of the blessed cause in the Parliament Army was actually created Bach. of Div while the General Lieut. General and Officers were sitting in their respective stalls It was the pleasure then of Fairfax and Cromwell that George Sikes Jam. Baron Joh. Dale and Josh Cross all zealous and doughty Brethren for the said cause might be created Bachelaurs of Div. when they pleased June 8. George Sikes was created in a Convocation then held This person who was Son of George Sikes of Lutterworth in Leycestershire was originally of S. Johns Coll a Servitour I think and as a member of it he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards siding with the faction he became a Presbyterian a Covenantier an Independent was made Fellow of Magd. Coll by the Com. and Visitors where he had his share of the old gold or spurroyals belonging to that house went away with and never restored them again as others did and took the Engagement became a great admirer and follower of Sir Hen. Vane junior and therefore esteemed by the generality an Anabaptist Fifth-monarchy man and a Hodg-podge of religions He hath written The life and death of Sir Hen. Vane Knight or a short narrative of the main passages of his earthly pilgrimage Printed 1662 in qu. 'T is a most canting and enthusiastical piece and the effects rather of a craz'd than setled brain And instead of giving the Reader an account of the birth extract breeding actions c. of that Knight usually called Sir Humerous Vanity he puts the Reader off with his such as 't is Divinity What else he hath written I know not nor any thing besides of the person only that he was a great encourager of Henry Stubbe in
Altaris or a pious reflection on primitive devotion as to the Feasts and Fasts of the Christian Church orthodoxly revived Lond. 165. oct c. In other editions this title is contracted 3 Devotions on the 5. of Nov. 30. of Jan. and 29. of May c. Lond. 1666. oct These were afterwards added to some of the editions of Scintilla Altaris and consist of prose poems sculptures c. He hath other things extant as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen This person who was living at Totenham Highcross near Lond. in 1675 where I presume he was beneficed had a Son of both his names Bachelaur of the Laws and Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon who dying on the last day of Nov. 1675 was buried in the Chappel there and soon after had a comely mon. set over his grave by his Father Henry Maisterson D. D. and Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. was then Jul. 12. incorporated He was afterwards beneficed at Namptwich in Cheshire and died in 1671. These two last were also incorporated just after the celebration of the Act. Feb. 9. Zurishaddeus Langius Doct. of Phys of Padua The said degree he took at Pad in the beginning of Oct. 1649 and was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London Creations Mar. 26. Edm. Lewis a Knights Son of Magd. Coll. was actually created Bach. of Arts as also was Rob. Simons a Gent. Commoner of Trin. Coll. Oct. 19. Thure Thureson Sweeds Oct. 19. Paul Kiefengeller Sweeds Oct. 19. Joh. Widechennius Sweeds These three who were actually created Masters of Arts were Retainers to the Embassador of Christina Queen of Sweedland to the Commonwealth of England Dec. 23. John Owen M. A Dean of Ch. Ch and Vicechancellour of the University was then he being at Lond. diplomated Doct. of Div. He is said in his Diploma to be in Palaestra Theologica exercitatissimus in concionando assiduus potens in disputando strenuus acutus c. His Dipl was dated 22. and read and sealed in Convocation 23 of Dec. this year Thom. Goodwin President of Magd. Coll and Bach. of Div. of several years standing was then also Dec. 23 diplomated D. of D. This person who is said in the common Register to be in scriptis in re Theologicâ quamplurimis orbi notus was born in the County of Norfolk educated for a time in Christs Coll. in Cambridge then in Catherine Hall of which he was Fellow Afterwards disliking conformity he removed as others did beyond the Seas into Holland to avoid the censures of Episcopal consistories where remaining till the beginning of the Long Parliament he returned and became one of the Ass of Divines at Westminster but disliking their proceedings he left them and about the same time had preferment confer'd upon him At length upon the increasing of the Independents he being one himself struck in with Ol. Cromwell became his Favourite and by his power President of Magd. Coll. about the beginning of January 1649 purposely to promote the Independent cause in this University which he afterwards did to the purpose by his constant preaching at S. Maries by his sometimes preaching in his Coll. Chappel and by his setting up and continuing a weekly meeting in his Lodgings in the said Coll where all those that were to enter into that fraternity were openly to make a confession of their sins c. In 1653 he was one of the prime men appointed by ordinance to be a Trier or Commissioner for the approbation of publick preachers and in the year following he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Oxfordshire for the ejection of such whom the Saints of that time called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines whom especially such that had rich benefices or well endowed Schools be sure they ejected and either took their benefices themselves or confer'd them on their confiding brethren or those of their Church In the beginning of the year 1660 he was removed from his Presidentship to make room for Dr. Joh. Oliver whereupon retiring to London lived mostly in the Parish of Great S. Barthelmew where dying 23 Feb. 1679 aged 80 years was buried in a little vault towards the East end of the new burial place for Dissenters joyning on the North side of the New Artillery-yard or Garden by Bunhill fields near London Over the Vault was soon after erected an Altar-monument with a large inscription thereon engraven made by the common Epitaph-maker for Dissenters called Tho. Gilbert Bach. of Div. now a Nonconformist living in Oxon. After his death his works consisting of Expositions Sermons Theological discourses c. were gathered together and published in two volumes in fol. with his picture before them much resembling the author while living by Thankful Owen and Jam. Baron Lond. 1681 Before which is a canting preface written by the said two persons wherein many things are said of the author and his learning See in Phil. Nye among the Writers under the Year 1672. p. 370. Dec. 23. Peter French Bach. of Div. and Canon of Ch. Ch. was then diplomated Doct. of Div. He had before taken to Wife Robina Sister of Oliver Cromwell as I have before told you and dying 17. of June 1655 she was afterwards married to Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. Mar. 18. Gasparus Tizabetzi of Transylvania was actually created Mast of Arts In the publick reg he is said to be humanâ Literaturâ bonarum Artium cognitione probe instructus An. Dom. 1654. An. 6. Car. 2. An. 1 2 Oliv. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Ol. Cromwell L. Protect Vicechanc. Dr. Owen again Dec. 13. Proct. Tho. Cracroft of Magd. Coll. Ap. 5. Steph. Charnock of New Coll. Ap. 5. Bach. of Arts. June 17. Gabr. Towerson of Queens afterwards of All 's Coll. 27. Edw. Pearse of S. Johns Coll. Both these are now living as I conceive and Writers The first a Divine of note the other a Luke-warm conformist July 6. John Franklin of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. an 1665. Oct. 12. Malachi Conant of Magd. Coll. Oct. 12. Rich. Berry of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1665 of the other among the Masters an 1657. 18. George Castle of Balliol afterwards of All 's Coll. Jan. 25. Tho. Turnor of Ball. Coll. This Gentleman who was Son of Sir Tim. Turnor of Shrewsbury Kt Serjeant at Law and one of the Kings Council in ord for the Marches of Wales went afterwards to Greys Inn where he became a Barrester and wrot 1 The case of the Bankers and their Creditors stated and examined Lond. 1674. in 5 sh in qu. Printed there again in 1675 qu. with several additions in all making up 8. sh 2 The joyful news of opening the Exchecquer to the Goldsmiths of Lombard-street and their Creditors c. Lond. 1677. qu. Said in the title
men of great name and place in Sweedland The last or the younger who in his printed book or books writes himself Benedictus Gustavus Queckfeldt Sudremanius Suecus that is I suppose of the Province of Sodermanland in Sweedland did some exercise for the said degree which he printed with this title Disputatio juridica inauguralis de obligationibus ex contractibus qui re verbis literis consensu perficiuntur in illustriss Anglorum Vniversitate quae Oxoniae est c. pro gradu Doctoratus ejusque privilegiis in Jure c. ... Dec. 1655 modestè exhibita Oxon. 1656. in 3 sh in qu. This year Jacobus Oúzelius who intitles himself Jurisconsultus Dantiscanus was a Sojourner in Oxon purposely to obtain the benefit of the public Library He hath written De numismatibus and is the same as I conceive who hath published Animadversiones in Minutii Felicis Octavium An. Dom. 1656. An. 8 Car. 2. An. 3 4 Oliv. Prot. Chanc. the same viz. Ol. Oromwell Vicechanc. Dr. Owen Oct. 7. Proct. Edw. Littleton of All 's Coll. Apr. 16. Will. Carpender of Ch. C. Apr. 16. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 25. Will. Glynne Principal-Commoner of Jes Coll. In Jan. 1658 he was elected Knight for the County of Caernarvon to serve in Richard's Parliament which began at Westm on the 27 of the said month On the 20 of May 1661 he was created a Baronet and in 1668 he was elected High Sheriff of Oxfordshire See in Joh. Glynne among the Writers p. 270. Jun. 5. Thom. Pittys of Trin. Coll. Oct. 13. Sam. Austin of Wadh. Coll. Oct. 13. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. Oct. 13. Tho. Traherne of Brasn Coll. Oct. 13. Hen. Hesketh of Brasn Coll. The last of which who hath written and published several things is as I presume living and therefore to be remembred hereafter Jan. 29. Tho. Hockin of Magd. Coll. Jan. 29. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. Of both which you may see among the Masters an 1659. Jan. 30. Dav. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jan. 30. Rich. Morton of New Coll. Feb. 3. Hen. Foulis of Queens Coll. The two first of these three are now living one at Northop in Flintshire and the other in Grey-friers Court within Newgate in Lond and have published several things The first of History which he will scarce acknowledge and the other of Physick of which faculty he was created Doctor an 1670 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Feb. 6. Sam. Woodford of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 6. Arth. Brett of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is now Preb. of Winchester and is and hath been celebrated for his Poetry The other was a pretender to it but not to be nam'd or compared with the former 19. Joh Paradise of Mert. Coll. This person who was a Wiltshire man born bred up among Presbyterians and so dexterous in short-hand writing that he would take a Sermon verbatim from the mouth of any Preacher which he would repeat in the College Chappel on Sundays after supper was soon after made Minister of Westbury in his own Country left his Presbyterian Principles and became a Tory-Preacher for the Royal Cause He hath written and published A Sermon on Davids humiliation for cutting off the royal robe and detestation of cutting off the royal head of the Lords anointed preached Januar. 30. an 1660 being a solemn Fast for the horrid murther of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory Lond. 1661. Mar. 21. Hen. Denton of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters of Arts an 1659. Adm. 142. Bach. of Law Jul. ... Joh. Ailmer of New Coll. He was now esteemed an excellent Greecian Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. May 6. Owen Price of Ch. Ch. lately of Jesus Coll. Jun. 5. Ezek. Hopkins of Magd. Coll. 20. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll. 30. Will. James of Ch. Ch. Jul. 9. Joh. Wagstaffe of Oriel Coll. Jul. 9. Clem. Ellis of Qu. Coll. Dec. 13. Hen. Stubbe of Ch. Ch. Mar. 17. Tho Wight of C. C. Coll. This person who was made Fellow of the said Coll as born in the County Pal. of Durham was afterwards Rector of West Hendreth in Berks and wrot and published A discourse of Schisme for the benefit of humble Christians Lond. 1690. qu. He is living there and may publish hereafter more things Adm. 64. Bach. of Phys Jul. 3. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll. Besides him were four admitted and Rob. Wood M. A. of Linc. Coll who had studied Physick six years was licensed to practise that faculty by the decree of Convocation Apr. 10. â Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year only created â Not one Doct. of Law was adm this year Doct. of Phys Jul. 3. Franc. Hungerford of All 's Coll. Jul. 3. Rich. Lydall of Mert. Coll. Jul. 3. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll. These three accumulated the degrees in Physick 7. Thom. Kinge of Brasn Coll. Doct. of Div. Jul. 12. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv Coll. He was the only person that was licensed to proceed this year Incorporations Mar. 27. James Windet Doct. of Phys of Leyden The said degree was confer'd on him at Leyd in July 1655. This person who was afterwards of the Coll. of Physitians at Lond. was a good Latin Poet a most excellent Linguist a great Rabbi a curious Critick and rather shap'd for Divinity than the faculty he profess'd He hath extant under his name 1 Ad Majestatem Caroli II. sylvae duae Printed in qu. 2 De vitâ functorum statu ex Hebraeorum atque Graecorum comparatis sententiis concinnatus cum corollario de Tartaro Apost Petri in quem praevaricatores Angelos dejectos memorat Lond. 1663. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen among which is the Epist ded to the most ingenious Joh. Hall of Durham set before an edition of Stierius's Philosophy printed and published by Rog. Daniel Printer to the University of Cambridge who having a great respect for the said Mr. Hall got Dr. Windet to write it which being done Mr. Daniel set his own name to it purposely to do honour to that young Gent. of great and wonderful hopes This Dr. Windet left behind him at his death which those of his profession say hapned about 1680 a quarto Manuscript containing many of his Lat. Poems which at this day go from hand to hand having been expos'd to sale in one or more Auctions Apr. 25. Huntingdon Plumtre Doct. of Phys of Cambr. This person was a Nottinghamshire man born was descended from those of his name of Plumtre in that County and when a young Master of Arts of Cambr. wrot Epigrammatum opusculum duobus libellis distinctum Lond. 1629. oct and to it added Homeri Batrachomyomachia latino carmine reddita variisque in locis aucta illustrata Jun. 3. Thom. Browne Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had that degree confer'd on him at Pad in Sept. 1654 is different from the famous Sir Thom. Browne of Norwich whom I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1682. p.
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
Jan. 1688. Lond. 1689. qu. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law July 27. Edward Filmer of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys July 7. Thomas Rose of Ex. Coll. Feb. 16. Rob. Pitt of Wadh. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Doct. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Div. and is now Bishop of Gloc. 20. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll. This Divine who is now Vicar of Bray in Berks and had been Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 hath published 1 The State-informer enquired into Sermon before the Judges at Aylesbury Assizes in Bucks 3. Mar. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15 part of the 3. and 4. verses Lond. 16â4 qu. 2 Englands restauration parallel'd in Judges or the Primitive Judge and Counsellour Sermon at Abendon Assizes for Berks 6. Aug. 1689 on Isay 1.26.27 Lond. 1689. qu. July 8. Anth. Radcliffe of Ch. Ch. He had been Chapl. to Hen. Earl of Arlington and after the death of Dr. Rich. Allestree he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of Feb. 1680. Dec. 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. This learned Divine who is now Principal of S. Edm. Hall hath in the Press at Oxon the New Testam in a Greek fol according to Rob Stephens his fair fol. Edition an 1550 wherein he gives an account of the various lections of all the Mss that could be met with both at home and abroad Also the Readings of the Fathers Greek and Latine with a judgment upon such Lections as are more considerable with large annotations upon them together with a very full collection of parallel places of holy Scripture and other places illustrative of particular words or passages in each verse placed at the foot of the Greek Text in each page with distinct Asteristiques and marks of reference by which in every verse may be seen what part of each verse the said places of Scripture do refer to This most elaborate work was began above 15 years since and without intermission carried on with great industry and care He hath consulted all the antient Mss of the whole or any part of the New Test now reposited in England and has procured a collation of the most authentick Ms copies at Rome Paris and Vienna The work was attempted by the advice and countenance of Dr. Joh. Fell Bishop of Oxon and the impression began at his charge in his Lordships Printing-house near the Theater After the said Bishops death his Executors being not willing to carry on the undertaking the author Dr. Mill refunded the prime costs and took the impression on himself and at his proper expence it is now so near finish'd that the publication is expected within an year with very learned Prolegomena that will give an historical account of the tradition or conveyance of the New Test and other most early records of the Church Mar. 2. Henry Aldrich Can. of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Divinity and on the 17 of June 1689 he was installed Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Mr. Joh. Massey who withdrew himself from that office in the latter end of Nov. going before In a Convocation held in the beginning of July this year were Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University read in behalf of Will. Hore M. A. of Exet. Coll Chapl. in ord to his Majesty and Preb. of Worcester that he might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div. but whether he did so it appears not Incorporations Thirteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated this year mostly after the Act but not one of them is yet a Writer as I can yet find Among them was Byron Needham Brother to Tho. Visc Kilmurrey in Ireland July 12. William Cave D. D. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge This person who was now Rector of Great Allhallows in London and in 1684 had succeeded Mr. Joh. Rosewell in his Canonry of Windsore about which time he became Rector of Haseley in Oxfordsh as it seems is a learned man as divers books published by him in English and Lat. shew the titles of which are now too many to be here set down See before in p. 286. Liveley Mody or Moody D. D. of the said Coll. of St. Joh. was also incorporated this year May 2 he being then a Master Com. of S. Alb. Hall and beneficed in Northamptonshire Creations Feb. 18. George Compton Earl of Northampton of Ch. Ch being about to leave the University was actually created Mast of Arts. Charles Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland of Ch. Ch the eldest Son of Henry Marquess and Earl of Worcester was then also actually created M. of A. The said Marquess is now Duke of Beaufort These two young Noblemen were presented by the publick Orator each with a little speech This year was a Sojournour in the University and a student in the publick Library one Andreas Arnoldus of Nuremberg who published the Sermon of Athanasius to the Monks and other things and afterwards became Professor of Div. in the University of Altorf Rector of a Church in Nuremberg c. An. Dom. 1682. An. 34. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Joh. Lloyd D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll Oct. 6. Proct. Roger Altham of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26. Will. Dingley of New Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. May 2. White Kennet of S. Edm. Hall Oct. 24. Joh. Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 15. Rich. Simpson of Qu. Coll. Dec. 15. Rob. Harrison of Qu. Coll. The first of these two who was Son of Jam. Simpson Senior Alderman of the Corporation of Kendal in Westmorl was born and bred in the Free-school there and being put aside from being Tabarder of his Coll when Bach. of Arts he retired to his native place in discontent and there concluded his last day He hath written Moral considerations touching the duty of contentedness under afflictions Oxon. 1686 in 6. sh in oct Written by way of Letter to the most affectionate and best of Fathers Mr. Jam. Simpson To this Letter are added Two Prayers one for the submission to the divine Will another for contentment This ingenious and religious young man died in his Fathers house 20. Decemb. 1684 and was buried the day following in the middle Isle of the Parish Church of Kendal before mention'd on the W. side of the Pulpit The other Rob. Harrison who was Son of Joh. Har. of the said Corporation of Kendal and who became a Student of Queens Coll. 1678. aged 15 years hath written A strange relation of the sudden and violent tempest which hapned at Oxford May 31. an 1682. Together with an enquiry into the probable cause and usual consequents of such like tempests and storms Oxon 1682 in two sheets in qu. He hath also written another book which is not yet extant entit Mercurius Oxonio-Academicus c. taken mostly from Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. and said to be written by a well-wisher to Astron
the River of Boyne in the County of Lowth to fight the Forces belonging to K. James 2 and soon after he expir'd at or near Tredagh An. Dom. 1690. An. 2. Will. 3. An. 2. Qu. Mary Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Edwards again Oct. 6. Proct. Franc. Browne of Mert. Coll. Apr. 30. Franc. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 30. Bach. of Arts. July 10. Edward Wells of Ch. Ch. He hath published Two Geographical Tables containing the principal Countries Kingdoms Provinces Islands c. of the now known world c. one in English and another in Latine and both printed at Oxon. 1690. Adm. 156. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or person of note Mast of Arts. May 5. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. He is author of Tabellae Dialectorum in Graecis Declinationibus c. Lond. 1691. oct c. 8. James Harrington of Ch. Ch. He is now a Barrister of the Inner Temple and hath written and published several books July 8. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall He was afterwards author of An amical call to repentance and the practical belief of Gospel as being the only way to have peace and content here c. Lond. 1691. 2. in tw c. Adm. 71. Bach. of Phys Eight were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Seven were admitted of whom Rob. Wynn of Jesus Coll a Compounder and Chancellour of the Diocese of S. Asaph was one June 26. â Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 28. Nich. Stanley of All 's Coll. He compounded and accumulated July 10. Will. Boyse of C. C. Coll. He accum Doct. of Div. May 31. Tho. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. He was elected Warden of his Coll upon the promotion of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Bristow on the 21 of Octob. 1689. June 21. Matthew Hutton of Brasn Coll. Comp. July 8. Joh. Price of Ch. Ch. July 8. Franc. Morley of Ch. Ch. July 8. Thom. Burton of Ch. Ch. The two first of these three were Compounders and Accumulators Incorporations The Act being the sixth time put off not one Cambr. Master was incorporated only one which was before the time of Act. Two also were incorporated from Dublin Creations May 22. George Royse of Oriel Coll was actually created Doct. of Div. On the first of Dec. 1691 he was elected Provost of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Rob. Say deceased Dec. 11. Francis Lord North Baron of Guilford a Nobleman of Trin. Coll was after he had been presented by the Dep. Orator actually created Master of Arts being then about to leave the University His Father Sir Francis North second Son of Dudâey Lord North was from being L. Ch. Just of the Common-pleas advanced to the honorable office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England on the 20 of Dec. 1682 and in Sept. 1683 he was for his great and faithful services that he had rendred the Crown created a Baron of this Kingdom by the name and stile of Baron of Guilford in Surrey He died at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordshire on the 5 of Sept. 1685 and was privately buried in a vault under part of the Church there among the ancestors of his Wife named Frances the second daughter and coheir of Thomas Pope Earl of Downe in Ireland uncle to Thomas the last Earl of Downe of the straight or linial descent of that family who died at Oxon in the year 1660 as I have told you in the 397 page of this book But whereas 't is said there that he married the eldest daughter and coheir is an errour for it was the second the first named Beata having been married to Will. Some of Suffolk Esquire and the youngest named Finetta to Robert Hyde Esq Son of Alexander sometimes Bishop of Salisbury Sir George Makenzie of Rosehaugh de Valle Rosarum in the County of Rosse in Scotland having left that Country upon the change of the Government there and violent proceedings of the Kârk party an 1689 he retired to Oxon in the month of Sept. that year became a Sojournour there for a time a frequenter of the publick Library and on the second day of June 1690 he was by the favour of the Ven. Congregation of Regents admitted a Student therein where he continued all that Summer This most worthy and loyal Gentleman Son of Simon Makenzie Brother to the Earl of Seaforth by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of a Gentleman of an antient and heroick Extraction named Dr. And. Bruce Rector of the University of S. Andrew was born at Dundee in the County of Angus an 1636 and having an ardent desire from his Childhood for the obtaining of good Letters he was at about 10 years of age at which time he had conquered his Grammar and the best classical authors sent to the University of Aberdene where and afterwards in that of S. Andrew he ran through the Classes of Logick and Philosophy under the tuition of several eminent Masters before he was scarce 16 years of age Afterwards applying his studies with great zeal to the Civil Law he travelled into France and in the University of Bourges he continued in an eager pursuit of that faculty for about three years time After his return to his native Country he became an Advocate in the Courts at Edenburgh being then scarce 20 years of age and in 1661 he was made choice of to be an Advocate for pleading the causes of the Marquess of Argyle and afterwards became a Judge in the criminal Court which office he performed with great faith justice and integrity In 1674 or thereabouts he was made the Kings Lord Advocate and one of his Privy Council and notwithstanding the great troubles and molestations that arose from the fanatical party yet he continued in those places and stood steady faithful and just in the opinion of all good and loyal men till the beginning of the raign of K. James 7 at which time being averse in lending his assistance to the taking away of the penal laws he was removed and Sir Joh. Dalrimple now Secretary of State in Scotland under K. Will. 3. was put into his place Some time after his removal he was restored and continued L. Advocate and Privy Counsellour till K. Will. 3. made a revolution in Scotland and then he went into England as I have before told you He was a Gentleman well acquainted with the best authors whether antient or modern of indefatigable industry in his studies great abilities and integrity in his profession powerful at the Bar just on the Bench an able Statesman a faithful Friend a loyal Subject a constant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities of strict honour in all his actions and a zealous Defender of piety and religion in all places and companies His conversation was pleasant and useful severe against vice and loose principles without regard to quality or authority a great lover of the Laws