and keeping Sir Gilb. Gerard and other members by force of Arms out of the Commons house of Parl. on 27. Dec. 1659. Lond. 1660. Three seasonable Queries proposed to all those Cities Counties and Burroughs whose respective Citizens c. have been forcibly excluded unjustly ejected and disabled to sit in the Commons H. by those now acting at Westm Ibid. 1660. It was published about the latter end of Dec. 1659 on one side of a sh of paper Humble petition and address of the Sea-men and Water-men in and about the City of Lond. to the L. Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of Lond. in Com. Council assembled for a free and legal Parliament c. Ibid. 1660. Seasonable and healing instructions humbly tendered to the Free-holders Citizens and Burgesses of England and Wales to be seriously commended by them to their respective Knights Citizens Burgesses elected and to be elected for the next Parliament 25 Apr. 1660. Books and Pamphlets written after the restauration of his Maj. K. Ch. 2. Second part of a brief Register Kalendar and Survey of the several kinds of Parliamentary Writs relating to the H. of Commons c. Lond. 1660. qu. Bathonia rediviva The humble address of the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Bathe to the Kings most excellent Maj. presented by Mr. Prynne 16 June 1660. Lond. 1660. The first part of the signal loyalty of Gods true Saints and pious Christians as likewise of Pagans towards their King both before and under the Law and Gospel expressed in and by their constant public prayers supplications intercessions thanksgiving for them Lond. 1660. quart The 2 part of â—ig Loyalty together with various forms of prayers supplications votes acclamations ceremonies and solemnities used at the Coronations of Emperors and Kings especially of the Kings of England Ibid. 1660. quart Vindication of Christian Kings transcribed out of Joh. Hus Ibid. 1660. qu. Sundry reasons humbly tendered to the most honorable H. of Peers by some Citizens and Members of Lond. and other Cities Burroughs Corporations and Ports against the new intended bill for governing and reforming Corporations Some few of these reasons were published and the rest suppressed A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common Prayer c. Lond. 1661. qu. Brevia parliamentaria rediviva in 13 sections containing several catalogues of the numbers dates of all bundles of original Writs of summons and elections newly found or formerly extant in the Tower of London c. Ibid. 1662. qu. Apology for tender consciences touching not bowing at the name of Jesus Ibid. 1662. qu. The fourth part of a register and survey of the several kinds and forms of Parliamentary Writs c. Lond. 1664. qu. The first Tome or an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction in over all spiritual or religious affairs causes persons c. within their Realms of England Scotland Ireland and other dominions from the original planting of Christian Religion c. to the death of K. Rich. 1. an 1199. Lond. 1666 in a large fol. The second Tome of an exact chronological vindication c. from the first year of K. John 1199 to the death of K. Hen. 3. dom 1273 c. Ibid. 1665. in a large fol. This second Tome came out before the first Aurum Reginae or concerning Queen-gold c. Lond. 1668. qu. Animadversions on the fourth part of Sir Edw. Cokes Institutes of the Laws of England c. Lond. 1669. fol. The History of K. John K. Hen. 3. and K. Edw. 1. wherein the antient Soveraign dominion of the Kings of England Scotland France and Ireland c. is asserted and vindicated against all incroachments and innovations whatsoever c. Lond. 1670. in a thick fol. He also did revise rectifie in sundry mistakes and supplied with a preface marginal notes several omissions and exact tables a book intit An exact abridgment of the Records of the Tower of London from the Reign of K. Ed. 2. unto K. Rich. 3. of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign and the several Acts in every Parliament c. Collected by Sir Rob. Cotton Kt. and Bar. Lond. 1657. fol. c. Besides these and others which I have not yet seen our Author Prynne hath published the works of other persons as 1 Truth gloriously appearing from under the sad cloud of Obloquy or a vindication of the practice of the Church of Christ in the Summer Islands c. Lond. about 1650. Written by Nath. White Bac. of Div. and Pastor of the Church of Christ at Summer Islands 2 A discourse of the Spanish Monarchy Written by Tho. Campanella which having been translated into English by Edm. Chilmead and published 1654 had a new Preface put to it by Prynne with a Title bearing the date of 1659. 3 A breviat of the life of Will Laud Archb. of Cant. published purposely to make him odious to the vulgar sort of people yet the rational part I mean those persons that were not guided by Presbyterian clamours entertained other kind of thoughts of the Archb. than they had before The original of this Diary was found after his death by Mr. Will. Dugdale and others who were commanded by Authority to search for that and other matters which he the said Prynne unwarrantably got into his custody Several Pamphlets also are fathered upon him of which he was not in the least Author among which are 1 Mola Asinaria or the unreasonableness and insupportable burden now pressed upon the shoulders of this groaning Nation by the headless head and unruly rulers c. held forth in a remonstrance c. Lond. 1659. in 1 sh in qu. 2 Two letters one from Joh. Audland a Quaker to Will Prynne the other Will. Prynne's Answer Lond. 1672. in 3 sh in fol. written by Samuel Butler Author of the much celebrated Poem called Hudibras of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know that he was born in the Parish of Strensham in Worcestershire and baptized there 13 Feb. 1612. His father named Sam. Butler was a person of a fair estate near 300 l. per an but most of it lease-lands held of Sir Tho. Russell Grandfather to Sir Franc. Russell Bt Lord of the Mannour of Strensham before mention'd The son Sam. Butler whom we are farther to mention was educated in Grammar learning in the Coll. School at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright and from thence went as his brother now living affirms to the University of Cambridge yet others of the neighbourhood say to Oxon but whether true I cannot tell Sure I am that one Sam. Butler was elected from Westm school a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1623 but making little stay there he was not matriculated and so consequently the place of his nativity and age are not remaining on record otherwise had he been made a member of the University we
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
died at Salisbury where he was Can. resid on the 10 of June 1676 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Whereupon Obadiah Walker M. A. was elected Master of the said Coll. on the 22 of the said month of June Jun. 15. Thom. James Warden of All 's Coll. He became Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edw. Davenant who died at Gillingham in Dorsetsh 12 March 1679 and dying on the 5 of January 1686 was buried in the outer Chap. of All 's Coll. In his Treasurership succeeded Seth Ward M. A. 23. Tho. Lambert of Trin. Coll. a Compounder He was now Can. resid of Salisbury one of his Majesties Chaplains and Rector of Boyton in Wilts On the 12 of June 1674 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Priaulx Jun. 23. Tho. Wyat of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 23. Jam. Longman of New Coll. The former was now Vicar of Melksham in Wilts the other Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire 27. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. 30. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. The former who accumulated was Preb. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and Chapl. to his Majesty the other was now Warden of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh Heywood of C. C. Coll. a Compounder He was now Rector of Walton in Lancashire Sim. Patrick of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He had been sometimes Fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was elected Master thereof by the major part of the Fellows against a Mandamus for the admitting of Dr. Anth. Sparrow Master of the same For which opposition some if not all of the Fellows that sided with him were ejected Afterwards if not at that time he was Minister of Battersea in Surrey then of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty Subdean of Westminster and in the year 1680 Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. James Duport who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Edw. Rainbow an 1664. On the 13 of Oct. 1689 he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in the Bishop of Lond. Chappel at Fulham in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake deceased and in the Month of June 1691 he was translated to Ely in the place of Dr. Franc. Turner deprived of his Bishoprick for not taking the Oathes to their Majesties K Will. 3. and Qu. Marie This Dr. Patrick hath many Sermons Theological discourses and other things relating to the supreme faculty extant which shew him to be a learned Divine and an Orthodox Son of the Church of England July 5. Joh. Cawley of All 's Coll. This person who was Son of Will. Cawley of the City of Chichester was by the endeavours of his Father made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 where he continued several years Some time after his Majesties restauration he became Rector of Henley in Oxfordshire and upon the death of Dr. Raphael Trockmorton Archdeacon of Lincoln in which Dignity he was installed on the second of March or thereabouts an 1666. He hath written The nature and kinds of Simony Wherein is argued whether letting an ecclesiastical jurisdiction to a Lay-surrogate under a yearly pension reserved out of the profits be reducible to that head And a sentence in a cause depending about it near six years in the Court of Arches is examined Lond. 1689 in 5. sh in qu. July 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. He was now Vicar of Adderbury in Oxfordshire and afterward B. of Landaff Incorporations Apr. 7. Henry Compton M. of A. of Cambr. youngest Son of Spencer Earl of Northampton was then incorporated M. of A with liberty allowed him to enter into and suffragate in the House of Congregation and Convocation This Gent. was originally of Queens Coll. in this University and afterwards through several preferments he became B. of London June 19. Edward Browne Bach. of Phys of Cambridge I shall mention him among the Doctors of that faculty in the next year 27. Sim. Patrick Bach. of Div. of Cambridge I have made mention of him among the Doct. of Div. of this year CREATIONS Those that were created this year were mostly by such that were created when Thom. Earl of Ossory had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd on him Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. Sam. Bowater of Pemb. Coll. lately Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was created Mast of that faculty and the same day was admitted Bach. of Div. conditionally that he preach a Latin Sermon The other persons following were created on the 4. of Feb. after the Earl of Ossory and two of his retinue had been created Doctors of the Civil Law James Russell of Magd. Coll. George Russell of Magd. Coll. They were younger Sons of William Earl of Bedford Thom. Leigh a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Lord Leigh of Stoneley Anthony Ashley Cooper of Trin. Coll. Son of Anthony Lord Ashley He was after his Fathers death Earl of Shaftesbury an 1682. Sir Rich. Graham of Ch. Ch. Bt. This Gentleman who was usually called Sir Rich. Grimes was the Son of Sir George Graham of Netherby in Cumberland Bt and afterwards at riper years a Burgess for Cockermouth in Cumberl to serve in several Parliaments particularly for that which began at Westm 26. of Jan. 1679 and for that which began at Oxon 21. of March 1680. Afterwards he was created by his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Viscount Preston in Scotland and by K. Jam. 2. was sent Embassador into France upon the recalling thence of Sir Will. Trumbull Some time after his return he became so great in the favour of that King that on the 28. of Octob. or thereabouts an 1688 he was made one of the Secretaries of State upon the removal of Robert E. of Sunderland who seemed very willing to be discharged of that office because that having then lately changed his religion for that of Rome he thought it very requisite to make provision for a safe retirement to avoid the danger that might come upon him if the enterprize of the Prince of Orange should succeed as it did In the said station of Secretary the Lord Preston continued till K. Jam. 2. left the Nation in Dec. following who then would have made him Viscount Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire but the sudden change of affairs being then made to the great wonder of all People there was no Seal pass'd in order to it In the beginning of Jan. 1690 he was taken with others in a certain Yatcht going to France to K. Jam. 2 upon some dangerous design as 't was said and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower was in danger of his life and endured a long and tedious imprisonment c. He is a Gent. of many accomplishments and a zealous lover of the Church of England c. Sir Carr Scrope of Wadh. Coll. Bt. This person who was Son of Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Kt became
of it in the year 1612. Where being setled he did not only go over the harmony of the Gospels in less than 12 years making thereon above 600 Sermons but wrot also several books and laid the foundation of others All which in due time he would have published had he not been unadvisedly engaged for the debts of one very near related to him Which debts he being unable for the present to pay having before spent his small patrimony for the printing of his books remained in the Prison call'd Bocardo in Oxon and in the Kings bench and elsewhere till such time Sir Will. Boswell a great encourager of deserving men Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll. and if I am not mistaken Dr. Usher before mention'd had laid down the debt and released him Dr. Laud also Archb. of Canterbury did give his assistance upon the desire of Sir Hen. Marten for the delivery of him from prison but Selden who was desir'd and importun'd to contribute towards refused it for no other reason as 't is thought than that his Marmora Arundeliana could not stand uncontradicted by him and that instead of a most judicious he gave him only the name of an industrious Author for his labour 3 That about that time he put up a Petition to K. Ch. 1. wherein among several things that he desired was that his Majesty would give him leave to travel into foreign parts viz. into Turkey Ethiopia or the Abasen Emperors Country to search and find Copies especially of civil and ecclesiastical Histories to be published in print or whatsoever Copies may tend to the propagation or increase of good learning And farther also whereas he had Leiger-Embassadors and Agents with his Confederates Emperors Kings and Princes of other Countries they might in his Majesties name in behalf of Mr. Lydyat and his Assigns move their Highnesses to grant the like privilege to him and his Assigns c. What the effect of this Petition was I find not however from thence his noble intentions and publick spirit may be discover'd 4 That tho he was a person of small stature yet of great parts and of a publick soul and tho a poor and contemptible Priest to look upon for so he was held by the vulgar yet he not only puzled Christop Clavius and the whole College of Mathematicians but also that great Goliah of literature Joseph Scaliger who when he was worsted by our Authors Writings tho he would never acknowledge it howbeit great men particularly the famous Usher held it for granted he betook himself unmanly to his tongue by calling him in a scornful manner a beggarly beardless and gelt Priest 5 That as he was much esteemed by learned men at home among whom were Usher before mentioned Sir Adam Newton Secretary and Sir Tho. Chaloner Chamberlain to Pr. Henry Dr. Jo. Bainbridge Mr. Hen. Briggs Dr. Pet. Turner c. who were his great acquaintance so was he by the Virtuosi beyond the seas who were pleased and that worthily to rank him with the Lord Bacon of Verulam and Mr. Joseph Mede But when they heard that our Author and the said Mede were very poorly prefer'd they answer'd that the Englishmen deserved not to have such brave scholars among since they made no more of them 6. That in the civil War which began an 1642 he suffer'd much at his Rectory of Okerton before mention'd by the Parliament Party for in a letter written by him to Sir William Compton Kt. Governour of Banbury Castle dat 10 Dec. 1644 I find that he had been four times pillaged by the Parliament Forces of Compton house commonly called Compton in the hole in Warwickshire to the value of at least 70 l. and forced for a quarter of a year together to borrow a shirt to shift himself that also he had been twice carried away from his house once to Warwick and another time to Banbury To the first of which places being hurried away on a poor jade was infamously used by the Soldiers there and so sorely hurt that he was at the writing of the said letter not throughly whole and he doubted scarce ever should be c. The cause of all which ill usage was for that he had denied them money and had defended his books and papers and afterwards while a Prisoner in Warwick Castle had spoken much for the King and Bishops His Works are these Tractatus de variis annorum formis Lond. 1605. oct Praelectio Astronomica de naturâ caeli conditionibus elementorum Disquisitio physiologica de origine fontium The two last were printed and go always with the first Defensio tractatûs de variis annorum formis contra Josephi Scaligeri obtrectationem Lond. 1607. oct Examen Canonum Chronologiae Isagogicorum Printed with the Defensio Emendatio temporum ab initio mundi huc usque compendio facta contra Scaligerum alios Lond. 1609. oct Explicatio additamentum argumentorum in libello emendationis temporum compendio factae de nativitate Christi ministerio in terris Printed 1613. oct Solis Lunae periodus seu annus magnus Lond. 1620. oct c. De anni solaris mensurâ Epistola Astronomica ad Hen. Savilium Lond. 1620. 21. oct Numerus aureus melioribus lapillis insignitus factusque Gemmeus è thesauro anni magni sive solis lunae periodi octodesexcentenariae c. Lond. 1621. in one large sheet on one side Canones Chronologici ne◠non series summorum magistratuum triumphorum Romanorum Oxon. 1675. oct Published from a Ms in the library of Dr. Jo. Lamphire Letters to Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland Printed at the end of the said Usher's life 1686 published by Dr. Rich. Parr These I think are all the things that he hath extant As for those many Mss which he left behind him at the time of his death are mostly these Annotations upon that part of Mr. Edw. Breerwood's Treatise of the Sabbath wherein he denies the Christian Sabbath on the Lords day or the first day of the week to be established jure divino by Gods Commandment The beginning of this Mss is There was brought to me being Prisoner in the Kings Bench on Friday Evening 3 Dec. 1630. c. Annotations upon some controverted points of the chronical Canons The beg is Notwithstanding there be divers c. A few Annotations upon some places or passages of the second and third Chapters of the book intit Altare christianum The beg is There have been Christians ever since c. Treatise touching the setting up of Altars in Christian Churches and bowing in reverence to them or common Tables and bowing the knee or uncovering the head at the name or naming of Jesus occasionally made 1633. Written upon the desire of some London Ministers to declare his judgment therein dedicated to Archb. Laud in gratitude for his releasing him from prison In a postscript at the end of his discourse concerning bowing at the name of Jesus he
also written a seditious book intituled his Last Will and Testament was according to an order of the Committee of Estates in Scotland fetcht from the burial place and on a Market-day broke by the Common-hangman at the cross of Kirkadie where he had formerly been Minister THOMAS FARNABIE the most noted Schoolmaster of his time Son of Tho. Farn. of London Carpenter Son of ... Farnabie sometimes Mayor of Truro in Cornwall was born in London about 1575 became a Student in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of 1590 at which time being a youth of great hope he was entertained by Mr. Tho. French a learned Fellow of that House who made him his Postmaster and so consequently his Servitour being the fashion then for Postmasters to serve those Fellows from whom they received their places But this youth being very wild tho of pregnant parts made no long stay there for being enticed to forsake his Religion and Country he left the Coll. very abruptly went into Spain and was for some time educated there in a certain Coll. belonging to the Jesuits At length being weary of their severe discipline he found a way to leave them and then being minded to take a ramble went with Sir Fr. Drake and Sir Joh. Hawkyns in their last voyage 1595 being in some esteem with the former Afterwards as 't is said he was a Soldier in the Low Countries being more addicted to that employment than to be a Scholar and that being reduced to poverty he made shift to be set on shoare in the Western part of England where after some wandring to an fro under the name of Tho. Bainrafe the anagram of his sirname he setled at Martock in Sommersetshire and taught the Grammar School there for some time with good success For in the year 1646 when Mr. Charles Darby was called to teach that School he found in that Town and in the neighbourhood many that had been his Scholars ingenious Men and good Grammarians even in their grey hairs Among whom it was then reported that when he landed in Cornwall his distresses made him stoop so low as to be an Abcdarian and several were taught their hornbooks by him After he had gotten some feathers at Martock he took his flight to London and taught a long time in Goldsmiths-rents in Cripplegate Parish behind Redcross-street where were large gardens and handsome houses and great accommodations for the young Noblemen and other generous Youths who at one time made up the number of 300 or more The School-house was a large brick building divided into several partitions or apartments according to the distinctions of the Forms and Classes under the care and circumspection of the respective Ushers allotted to attend them In which time while he taught there he was made M. of A. of Cambridge and soon after incorporated at Oxon. At length upon occasion of some underhand dealing of his Landlords and frequent sicknesses in the City he removed about 1636 to Sevenock in Kent in the neighbourhood of which place at Otford he had purchased an estate taught there the Sons of several Noblemen and Gentlemen who boarded with him with great esteem grew rich purchased an estate there also and near Horsham in Sussex Upon a foresight of the Civil War he was esteemed ill affected to the cause for that when the protestation was urged in 1641 he then said it was better to have one King than five hundred Afterwards being suspected to have favoured the rising of the Country for the King about Tunbridge in 1643 he was thereupon imprisoned first in Newgate and thence removed on Shipboard it being then urged in the House of Commons whether he should be sent to America further'd by some of his good neighbours in Kent nay and by some that had been his Scholars as I have heard who sate in the two Houses but at length it being rejected he was removed to Ely-house in Holbourn where he remained for about an year before his death He was the chief Grammarian Rhetorician Poet Latinist and Grecian of his time and his School was so much frequented that more Churchmen and Statesmen issued thence than from any School taught by one Man in England The things that he hath written and published are these Notae ad Juvenalis Persii Satyras Lond. 1612. oct c. Notae ad Senecae tragoedias Lond. 1613. oct c. For which work he is commended by a certain Poet who was his friendly acquaintance Notae ad Martialis Epigrammata Lond. 1615. oct Genev. 1623. 33. c. in tw Notae ad Lucani Pharsal Lond. 1618. oct Index Rhetoricus Scholis institutioni tenerioris aetatis ac commodatus Lond. 1625. oct Phrases Oratoriae elegantiores poeticae Lond. 1628. oct 5th edit Florilegium Epigrammatum Graecorum eorumque latina versu à variis redditorum Lond. 1629. in oct c. Notae ad Virgilium Lond. 1634. in oct Notae in Terentium Lond. in tw Notae in Ovidii Metamorph. libros 12. Lond. in tw c. Ib. 1677. c. Systema Grammaticum Lond. 1641. in oct Index Rhetoricus Oratorius cum formulis Oratoriis indice poetico Lond. 1646. oct Phrasiologia Anglo-Lat Lond. in oct Tabulae Grecae Linguae Lond. in qu. Syntaxis Ib. in oct Epistolae Variae ad doctiss viros Other things he hath written as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred forty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Sevenock commonly called Sennock be forementioned over whose grave was this Epitaph put P. M. viri ornatissimi Thomae Farnabii Armigeri causae olim Regiae reique publicae sed literariae vindicis acerrimi Obiit 12 Junii 1647. Vatibus hic sacris qui lux Farnabius olim Vate carens saxo nunc sine luce jacet By his first Wife named Susan Dau. of Joh. Pierce of Launcells in Cornwall he had a Son named John who followed his Fathers martial humour being a Captain in the Kings Army to whom he left his estate in Sussex where he lived in good esteem and died about the beginning of 1673. By his second Wife Anne Daugh. of Dr. John Howson Bishop of Durham he had several children one of which was named Francis to whom he left his estate at Kippington in the Parish of Sennock where he was lately living a Justice of Peace in good esteem from whose mouth I formerly received several passages of his Fathers life which are remitted into the former discourse At which time he aver'd to me that the great Grandfather of his Father viz. the Father of him who was Mayor of Truro was an Italian Musician The memory of this eminent Schoolmaster is celebrated by several Authors among whom is John Dunbar a Scot who stiles himself Megalo-Britannus Rich. Bruch and others DEGORIE WHEAR was born at Jacobstow in Cornwall retired to the habitation of the Muses called Broadgates Hall in the beginning of
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
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
The capacious title of these collections is The History of Great Britaine being the life and raign of K. James the first relating to what passed from his first access to the crown till his death Lond. 1653. fol. In which History which some call an infamous Pasquil you 'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the last Earl of Essex and his allies and to underprize such as were more in the Kings favour than he The reason is because he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber and had received an annual pension from him several years After his death he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick and by him made his Steward of whose Father named Robert also he maketh honourable mention in the said History in which may easily be discerned a partial Presbyterian veine that constantly goes throughout the whole work And it being the Genie of those People to pry more than they should into the Courts and Comportments of Princes do take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them Further also our Author having endeavour'd in many things to make the world believe that K. James and his Son after him were enclined to popery and to bring that Religion into England hath made him subject to many errors and misrepresentations He gave way to fate at Felsted near to Little Lighes the seat of the Earl of Warwick in the County of Essex about the beginning of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there After his death the said History coming into the hands of a certain Doctor had some alterations made therein as 't is said by him who shaped it according to his desire In the year before the said Hist was published came out a most desperate and libellous book full of lyes mistakes nonsense c. entit The divine Catastrophe of the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts or a short History of the rise raigne and ruin thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. are discovered c. Lond. 1652. oct written by one who pretended to be a diligent observer of the times named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet the same who had written and published A discourse concerning the fitness of the posture necessary to be used in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament Lond. 1642. qu. The said book called The divine Catastrophe c. being highly resented by the Royalists the Author of it therefore was condemn'd of great baseness and ingratitude His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time and therefore he being out of my road I have no more to say of him but this that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury that after he had left the University he setled on his patrimony in Cambridgshire in which County I suppose he was born that afterwards he served in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after and was Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgshire of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham At length he siding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion had his share of sufferings for that cause while the war lasted wrot a sharp Pamphlet against the Kings violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament as he calls them by endeavouring to seize upon and imprison five of the members thereof 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occasions to blast the reputation of his Majesty and his followers At length having lived to see the Line of the Steuarts extirpated for a time died at Wicket in Cambridgshire in the beginning of the year 1657. JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampshire was born there educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father the most noted Schoolmaster in all that Country became a Student in this Univ. in the fifteenth year of his age an 1617 took a degree in Arts and being Masters standing was a Candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. in 1624 at which time shewing himself an admirable proficient in Philosophy Latine and Greek Learning was the first of five that was elected Afterwards being made compleat Fellow and Master of Arts he had more liberty to pursue his critical studies much advanc'd by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a senior Fellow of that House who finding him a compleat Master and gentile withal was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury At length in the year 1633 his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Person he sent him to travel into the Eastern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him The voyage he performed not without great danger and having satisfied himself with many curiosities return'd in 1640 to the great content of his Patron and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge he became not only the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this University but also superior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which especially that of Astronomy his learning was so made manifest to the remnant of the Academians then left that he gained thereby to himself an unperishing reputation But then again the Parliamentarian visitation coming on the impetuous Visitors mostly Presbyterians who did not or at least would not discern between Dunces and Scholars threw him out of his Lecture and right to his Fellowship which by supreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Astr Lecture and the rather for this cause that he avoided an answer to several articles of misdemeanour pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon that were by the endeavours of some factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and prosecuted Among them I find these 1 That he betrayed the College in discovering to the Kings Agents 400 l. in the treasury which thereupon was taken away for the Kings use 2 That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a considerable part of the College goods without the consent of the company and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houses 3 That he feasted the Queens confessors and sent divers presents to them among which was an holy thorne and that he was more familiar with them than any true Protestants use to be 4 That he was the occasion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenship for adhering to the Parliament and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place 5 That he was the occasion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button puritannical fellows were turned out of their respective offices and chambers in the College because they abode in the Parliaments quarters c. 6 That he gave leave to Father Philips the Queens confessor and Wyatt one of her
that he was very confident that then would be great revolutions in the Kingdom of England THOMAS WIDDOWES Son of Thom. Wid. Brother I think to Giles mention'd under the year 1645. p. 44 was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire entred a Student in Gloc. Hall in 1626 aged 14 years where continuing about 8 Terms was made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Frewen President thereof Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he was by the endeavours of the same Person made Master of the College School at Glocester in the place of Joh. Langley an 1640. at which time Dr. Frewen was Dean of the Cath. Church there But Widdowes being soon after outed for his Loyalty he became Minister of Woodstock and Master of the School there founded by Rich. Cornwell Citizen and Skinner of Lond. 27. Eliz. dom 1585. where continuing for some time was removed to the Free school at Northleech in Glocestershire a place of more value He hath written The just Devil o◠Woodstock or a true narrative of the several apparitions the frights and punishments inflicted upon the Rumpish Commissioners sent thither to survey the Mannors and Houses belonging to his Majestie Lond. 1649. qu. It is a diary which was exactly kept by the Author for his own satisfaction intending not to print it But after his death the copy coming into the hands of another Person 't was printed in Dec. 1660 and had the year 1649 put in the bottom of the title as if it had been then printed The names of the Commissioners were Cockaine Hart Unton Croke Careless and Roe Captains Rich. Croke the Lawyer afterwards Recorder of Oxon. and Browne the surveyor The Book is very impartially written and therefore worth the reading by all especially the many Atheists of this age Our Author also hath written A short survey of Woodstock Taken from antient Authors and printed with the former He hath also written as I have been told certain matters pertaining to the faculty of Grammar for the use of his Scholars which I have not yet seen He was buried in the Church of Northleech beforemention'd on the 26. of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five In the year 1649 was printed in one sheet in qu. a Poem intit The Woodstock scuffle or most dreadful apparitions that were lately seen in the Mannor-house of Woodstock near Oxford c. the beginning of which is It were a wonder if one writes c. but who the Author of it was I cannot tell JOHN LATCH a Sommersetshire man born descended from a gentile family of his name living at Upper Langford near to Churchill in the said County was by the care of his Uncle Latch educated in Academical Learning in Oxon. particularly as I have been informed in S. Johns Coll where he made a considerable proficiency in Literature Afterwards he retired to the Middle Temple studied the municipal Laws but being very sickly lived a solitary and studious life and improved his natural talent as much as his abilities of body would permit He hath written Reports of divers causes adjudged in the three first years of K. Ch. 1. in the Court of the Kings bench Lond. 1662. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hayes as it seems in Middlesex in the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and five and was buried in the Church there Some years before his death he had embraced the R. Cath. Religion partly if not altogether by the perswasion of one called Francis Harvey whose right Sirname was Hanmer a pretended Solicitor and a Broker for letting out money esteemed by the Fanatical Party of that time to be either a Rom. Priest or Jesuit for by his endeavours his estate came to the Soc. of Jesus Soon after fell out great controversies between Uncle Latch who pretended to be Executor to his Nephew and others entrusted by the R. Catholicks What the event of the matter was I know not only that Hanmer was committed to Newgate Prison for conveying away his Will and the matter it self was examined by the Protector in Sept. following FRANCIS GOLDSMITH or Gouldsmith Son and Heir of Franc. Golds of S. Giles in the Fields in Midd. Esq Son of Sir Franc. Goldsmith of Craford in Kent Knight was educated under Dr. Nich. Grey in Merchant Taylours School became a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of 1629 was soon after translated to S. Johns Coll. and after he had taken a degree in Arts to Greys Inn where he studied the common Law several years but other learning more and wrot Annotations on Hugh Grotius his Sophompaneus or Joseph a Tragedie Lond. 1652. oct Which Trag. was with annotations printed then in English He also translated from Lat. H. Grotius his Consolatory Oration to his Father in verse and prose with Epitaphs and also his Catechism into English verse intit Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia c. which translations were printed with the annotations beforemention'd See more in Nich. Grey among these Writers under the year 1660. What other things Fr. Goldsmith hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Ashton in Northamptonshire either in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and five was I presume buried there leaving then behind him a Daugh. named Catherine afterwards the Wife of Sir Hen. Dacres Knight His Father Francis Goldsmith died 16. of Decemb. 1634 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London beforemention'd TOBIE MATHEW the eldest Son of Dr. Tob. Math. Archb. of York by Frances his Wife Daugh. of Will. Barlow sometimes Bishop of Chichester was born as it seems in Oxon. while his Father was Dean of Ch. Church matriculated as a member of that house in the beginning of March 1589 being then eleven years of age and the year following had a Students place conferred on him By the benefit of a good Tutor and pregnant parts he became a noted Orator and Disputant and taking the degrees in Arts he afterwards travelled into various Countries beyond the Seas At his return he was esteem'd a well qualified Gentleman and to be one well vers'd in the affairs of other Nations At length leaving the Church of England by the perswasions of Fath. Parsons the Jesuit to the great grief of his Father he entred himself into the Society of Jesus but whether he took holy Orders is yet to me uncertain Afterwards growing famous for his eminency in the Politicks he came into England upon invitation in January 1621 to the end that the King might make use of his assistance in certain matters of State On the 10. of Octob. 1623 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Maj. then at Royston for his great zeal in carrying on the Spanish match to be had with Prince Charles at which time not only the King but the chief of the Nobility and others
Lat. serm of Dr. Dan. Featly were printed at Utrecht in 1657 in tw and both intit Pedum pastorale c. Advice and council to his family Written in 1636 and printed at the end of his life Two letters in vindication of himself from the slanders of an unknown Writer Printed 1648 in one sh in qu. The said unknown Writer was the Author of A Letter from Oxon dat 17. Apr. 1648. which letter is the second part of Pegasus or the flying horse from Oxon bringing the proceedings of the Visitours and other Bedlamites there by the command of the Earl of Montgomery The slanders as Dr. Harris calls them were Non-residency exchange of Churches and Pluralities as also the guilt of Covetousness which he used to preach against The Pluralities were as the Author of the letter tells us Hanwell worth 160 l. per an Hanborough in Oxfordsh towards 300 l. Beriton and Petersfield in Hampshire not above 500 l. or 600 l. more besides 4 shill a day for the Assembly Membership and 10 shillings for Apostleship in Oxon. But the Reader must know that he lost Hanwell in 1643 when he retired to London and was made one of the Ass of Divines and did not keep all the rest together yet whether he was restored to Hanwell when the War ceased in 1646 I cannot justly tell He departed this mortal life in Trin. Coll. on the eleventh of Decemb. late in the night in sixteen hundred fifty and eight aged 80 years and was buried at the upper end of the Chappel of that College Over his grave was a fair monument set up in the Wall with an inscription thereon wherein he is said to have been per decennium hujus collegii Praeses aeternùm celebrandus Perspicatissimus indolum scrutator potestatis Arbiter mitissimus merentium fautor integerrimus c. The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 301. b. RICHARD LOVELACE the eldest son of Sir Will. Lovelace of Woollidg in Kent Knight was born in that County educated in Grammar learning in Charter house school near London became a Gent. Commoner of Glocester Hall in the beginning of the year 1634 and in that of his age 16 being then accounted the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld a person also of innate modesty virtue and courtly deportment which made him then but especially after when he retired to the great City much admired and adored by the female sex In 1636 when the King and Queen were for some days entertained at Oxon he was at the request of a great Lady belonging to the Queen made to the Archb. of Cant. then Chancellor of the University actually created among other persons of quality Master of Arts tho but of about two years standing at which time his Conversation being made publick and consequently his ingenuity and generous soul discovered he became as much admired by the male as before by the female sex After he had left the University he retired in great splendor to the Court and being taken into the favour of George Lord Goring afterwards Earl of Norwich was by him adopted a Soldier and sent in the quality of Ensign in the Scotch Expedition an 1639. Afterwards in the second Expedition he was commissionated a Captain in the same Regiment and in that time wrot a Tragedy called The Soldier but never acted because the stage was soon after suppress'd After the Pacification at Berwick he retired to his native Country and took possession of his Estate at Lovelace place in the Parish of Bethersden at Canterbury Chart Halden c. worth at least 500 l. per an About which time he was made choice of by the whole body of the County of Kent at an Assize to deliver the Kentish Petition to the H. of Commons for the restoring the King to his Rights and for setling the Government c. For which piece of service he was committed to the Gatehouse at Westminster where he made that celebrated song called Stone walls do not a prison make c. After 3 or 4 months prisonment he had his liberty upon bayle of 40000 l. not to stir out of the Lines of Communication without a Pass from the Speaker During this time of confinement to London he lived beyond the income of his Estate either to keep up the credit and reputation of the Kings Cause by furnishing men with Horse and Arms or by relieving ingenious men in want whether Scholars Musitians Soldiers c. Also by furnishing his two Brothers Colonel Franc. Lovelace and Capt. Will. Lovelace afterwards slain at Caermarthen with men and money for the Kings Cause and his other brother called Dudley Posthumus Lovelace with moneys for his maintenance in Holland to study Tacticks and Fortification in that school of War After the rendition of Oxford Garrison in 1646 he formed a Regiment for the Service of the French King was Colonel of it and wounded at Dunkirk and in 1648 returning into England he with Dud. Posthumus before mention'd then a Captain under him were both committed Prisoners to Peterhouse in London where he fram'd his Poems for the Press intit Lucasta Epodes Odes Sonnets Songs c. Lond. 1649. oct The reason why he gave that title was because some time before he had made his amours to a Gentlewoman of great beauty and fortune named Lucy Sacheverel whom he usually called Lux casta but she upon a strong report that Lovelace was dead of his wound received at Dunkirk soon after married He also wrot Aramantha A pastoral printed with Lucasta Afterwards a musical Composition of two parts was set to part of it by Hen. Lawes sometimes Servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private Musick After the Murther of K. Ch. 1. Lovelace was set at liberty and having by time consumed all his Estate grew very melancholy which brought him at length into a Consumption became very poor in body and purse was the object of charity went in ragged Cloaths whereas when he was in his glory he wore Cloth of gold and silver and mostly lodged in obscure and dirty places more befitting the worst of Beggars than poorest of Servants c. After his death his Brother Dudley before mention'd made a collection of his poetical papers fitted them for the Press and intituled them Lucasta Posthume Poems Lond. 1659. oct the second part with his Picture before them These are all the things that he hath extant those that were never published were his Trag. called The Soldier or Soldiers before mention'd and his Com. called The Scholar which he composed at 16 years of age when he came first to Gloc. Hall acted with applause afterwards in Salisbury Court He died in a very mean Lodging in Gun-powder Alley near Shoe lane and was buried at the west end of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London near to the body of his Kinsman Will. Lovelace of Greys Inn Esq in sixteen hundred fifty and eight
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 â—as 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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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.
by divine right upon the Church is sacriledge This he confessed he did but he was put upon it suddenly by the H. of Commons in May 1641 and had no time given him but one hour However afterwards he was so zealous in that point that he before he had purchased such was a forward Preacher for it and after he had made purchases he wrot and published a book intit No sacrileege nor sin to aliene or purchase the Lands of Bishops or others whose offices are abolished Lond. 1659. 2 edit Also A Case concerning the lawfulness of buying Bishops Lands This last I have not yet seen nor another paper reported to be his wherein the Kings Majesty is attempted by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds to make good by an Act of Parliament the purchases of Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands for 99 years Printed 1660. See more in Joh. Gauden among these Writers an 1662. num 206. Apologie for purchases of Lands late of Bishops Deans and Chapters This is a sheet in fol. and therein is shewed a great deal of reading but whether it was all pen'd by Burges tho no doubt but he had a hand in it I know not Reasons shewing the necessity of Reformation of the publick 1 Doctrine 2 Worship c. Lond. 1660. qu. Which tho in the title it is said that divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England wrot yet Mr. Baxter saith that our Author Burges pen'd them They were answer'd by Dr. Joh. Pearson and Dr. Hen. Savage the former of which was replied upon by our Author Burges in a Postscript to a piece of his which I have not yet seen Answer'd or rejoyn'd by the said Pearson in a little thing intit Answer to Dr. Burges his word by way of Postscript in vindication of No necessity c. Antidote against Antisobrius Printed about 1660. Some of the differences and alterations in the present Common-prayer book from the book established by the Act in the fifth and sixth of Ed. 6. and first of Q. Eliz. Printed in one sh in qu. 1660. The book of Common-Prayer c. compared with the old Editions and all the Alterations noted down Lond. 1663. oct I shall make mention of this work more anon and in the mean time tell you that after the Kings Restauration our Author Burges being deprived of all the Church-lands that he had purchased at very easie rates and of his pension from S. Pauls Cathedral notwithstanding he tugged hard to keep some he retired to his house at Watford before mention'd where exercising himself much in penitence and in observing the duties of the Church was at length reduced to such poverty that he was forced to sell all or most part of his Library to buy bread But that was not all for about that time he was so much troubled with a cancer in his neck and cheek that all he could get could not in the least cure it or satisfie that hunger which it caused Insomuch that being brought very low in body and purse he sent to Sir Rich. Browne who was elected Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660. for relief and in his letter told him that he was brought to great want and poverty and that he was eaten up with a cancer in his neck and cheek I am saith he reduced to want a piece of bread as this bearer my son may better inform you but Sir mistake me not I do not beg I only acquaint you with my condition and do you what is fit c. To which Sir Richard made return and told the Doctor that Tho he was the prime cause and motive of his Rebellion against the late King by his preaching and violent persuasions yet if he would preach a Recantation sermon in S. Pauls Cathedral he would take care that he should never want so long as he lived But the reply made to it being this that he was not then in a capacity to do it Sir Richard rewarded him with 3 l. only Afterwards dying obscurely and in want was obscurely buried in the middle of the body of the Church at Watford before mentioned on the ninth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five About three weeks before his death he sent certain Common-prayer books to the publick Library at Oxon and in a spare leaf before the title of one of them he wrot this note following with his own hand dated at Watford 16 May 1665. I Cornelius Burges being an 1627 by my dear and much honoured mother the renowned University of Oxford made Doctor in Divinity am much grieved that I am able to do nothing worthy of her yet I humbly offer that I have viz. the first book of the first of Edw. 6 as also the second book of Common-prayer 5 and 6 of Ed. 6. wherein this hath several Alterations upon the censure of Bucer extant in his book Scripta Anglicana I also add a third book of Common-prayer renewed and established in 1 Elizab. which book is very hard to be had that was then printed I could never see any other of that edition I also add a fourth book of Common-prayer in 12 o wherein I have noted all the differences between that book established by this great Parliament an 1663 and the former book established before All these I most humbly and thankfully give to my said honorable mother of Oxford I being ready to dye beseeching her to account of these four small mites as our Lord and blessed Saviour did of the poor Widows two mites that by casting in that cast in all she had Cornelius Burges The Common-prayer book wherein this note was written was printed in fol. at Lond. 1549 in the month of May. At the bottom of the title of which is this written by Dr. Burges This is one of the very first books of Common Prayer in the beginning of Edw. 6. which book at the Request of Archb. Cranmar was reviewed and censured by Martin Bucer and then reformed accordingly in the 5 of Ed. 6. which latter is the book still in force by the statute of 1 Eliz. and this meaning the Common-Prayer-book printed 1549 is repealed KENELME DIGBY the magazine of all Arts or as one stiles him The ornament of this Nation son and heir of Sir Everard Digby of Dry-stoke in Rutlandshire Kt. by Mary his wife daughter and sole heir to Will. Mulsho of Gothurst commonly called Gadhurst in Buckinghamshire was born at Gothurst on the eleventh day of July 1603 1 Jac. 1. yet Ben. Johnson for rhyme-sake will have it June thus Witness thy action done at Scanderoon Upon thy birth day the eleventh of June About the year 1618 he was sent to Glocester Hall after he had been trained up in the Protestant Religion which afterwards he left for that of Rome and committed to the care of Tho. Allen who used to say that he was the Mirandula of his age but to the tuition of another where continuing
S. Maries Parish within the City of Oxon an 1608 and on the sixth of July the same year received baptisme there After he had been educated in Grammar learning either in the School of that noted Greecian Edw. Sylvester who taught in Allsaints Parish or else in the Freeâ—school of Magd. Coll or in both he became a member of this University in the beginning of the year 1623 And being Bach. of Arts of two years standing or more he was by the intercession of his Mother then the Widow of Dr. Rob. Abbot Bish of Salisbury made to Dr. Brent the Warden of Merton Coll. who had married Martha the only Daughter of the said Bish by his first Wife elected Probationer fellow thereof in the year 1629. After he had proceeded in Arts he entred into the sacred function and was a Curate in or near Oxon for a time But when the face of things began to alter in 1640. and 41. he manifestly shew'd himself what he was before but in part viz. a Presbyterian and an enemy to the Bishops and Ceremonies of the Church So that closing with the mighty men of the predominant party he took the Covenant became one of the Ass of Divines in 1643 a frequent Preacher before the members of Parliament Rector of the rich parsonage of Petworth in Sussex in the place of an honest and loyal Doctor ejected thence one of the Apostles to convert the University from loyalty to Presbyterie an 1646 a Visitor appointed by Parliament 1647. 48 to take possession of and enjoy the places of other Persons as the Margaret Professorship of the University and Presidentship of S. Johns Coll. But being forced to leave those two places soon after to his great grief he being then Doct. of Div. he retired to Petworth where he remained a useful member for the covenanting cause till the Kings restauration and then or at Bartholmew tide two years after he was deprived of that Parsonage I have said much of him elsewhere and therefore I shall only now tell you that he was accounted by many especially by those of his party who had him always in great veneration a good Disputant and Preacher and better he might have been and of a more sober temper had he not been troubled with a weakness in his head which some in his time called craziness He hath commended to posterity these things following Several Sermons as 1 Gods Alarum Fast sermon before the H. of Commons 31. May 1643 on Zach. 2.7 Lond. 1643. qu. 2 The man of honour Fast sermon before the H. of Lords 26 March 1645 on Psal 49.20 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Plot for the good of prosperity communicated in a Fast serm before the H. of Com. 25. March 1646 on Gen. 18.19 Lond. 1646. qu. c. The rise growth and danger of Socinianisme c. Lond. 1643. qu. 'T is the effect of 3. or more Sermons Chillingworthi novissima Or the sickness heresie death and burial of Will Chillingworth Clerk of Oxford and in the conceit of his fellow soldiers the Queens Arch-engineer and grand Intelligencer c. Lond. 1643. qu. Speech at the funeral of Mr. Chillingworth's heretical and mortal book Prophane Catechisme collected out of Mr. Chillingworths works These two last things are printed with Chillingworthi novissima Divers letters to Dr. Jasp Mayne concerning false Prophets Printed 1647. qu. Copy of some papers past at Oxford between the Author of the Practical Catechisme H. Hammond and Mr. Cheynell Lond. 1647. qu. Published by Dr. H. Hammond Truth triumphing over errour and heresie or a relation of a Disputation at Oxon in S. Maries Church between Mr. Cheynell and Mr. Erbury a Socinian c. Lond. 1646. 47. in one sh in qu. Account given to the Parliament by the Ministers sent by them to Oxon. Lond. 1647 in about 8. sh in qu. It must be now known that several socinian books being published about that time against the Holy Trinity by John Biddle Jo. Fry and others it was thought fit by the leading men or the Presbyterian party of the Univ. of Oxon. that one or more of them should make answer to them Wherefore this our Author Cheynell being looked upon as a Goliah among them he was at a meeting of the Delegates of the said University 19. Feb. 1649 desired by them to set forth a book touching the vindication of the Trinity so that he undertaking the matter came out a book written by him thus entituled The divine Trinunity of the Father Son and Holy Ghost c. Lond. 1650. qu. Dedicated to the Univ. of Oxon. in a Lat. Epist written by Cheynell Much about the same time came out a book written by him bearing this title A discussion of Mr. Frye's Tenents lately condemn'd in Parliament and Socinianisme proved to be an unchristian doctrine 'T is not said to be where printed or when or by whom written but all then took it by the stile or Cheynell as indeed it is Whereupon Fry being not able to retort wrot a book not without railing against the Presbyterian Clergy entit The Clergy in their Colours c. Lond. 1650. oct wherein p. 7. he speaks of Cheynell thus But to use such expressions causlesly or from a spirit of malice is worthy of reproof and therefore I may justly blame Mr. Cheynell the Author of the Divine Trin-unity for railing at my Bellows If an ipse dixit or foul mouthed Language be a sufficient confutation I confess I am fully answered for he is plentiful in it But what do I mean doubtless the sign was in Aries when he writ and it might be in the Cuckoe-month too and therefore he is the more to be excused and till the man writes soberly or I meet with one in his wits that quarrels with my aforesaid book I shall not be careful to vindicate it from blasphemy and errour though the Doctor is pleased to bestow those liveries upon it c. What other things our Author Cheynell hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that after he was turn'd out from Petworth he retired to an obscure Village called Preston lying between Chichester and Mydhurst in Sussex at which place he before had purchased an estate where dying in a condition little better than distracted in the month of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five was buried in the Church there leaving then behind him several Sons You may see more of him in William Chillingworth under the year 1643. As for John Fry before mention'd who was a man of more than ordinary parts was of Bursey in Dorsetshire but whether he was educated in this or in another University I cannot yet tell 'T is true that one Jo. Fry became a Commoner of Exeter Coll an 1616 aged 17 years but he was matriculated as a Native of Devon and an Esquires Son and so consequently cannot be the same with the former who in 1640 was one of the Burgesses elected by the men of Shaftesbury
in his own Country to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Nov. the same year but his election being voted void he sided notwithstanding with the faction was seemingly a Presbyterian and afterwards all things to all men So that being esteemed very capable of carrying on the beloved cause he was first made a Committee man of his County and afterwards was called into the House of Commons by the Independents upon their excluding the active Presbyterians purposely to carry on their designs against the King Afterwards he being very ready to keep pace with them he not only subscribed his vote for the trial of his Majesty Ch. 1. but personally sate in judgment when sentence was past for his decollation About that time he being observed by some of the H. of Commons to be a Person of strange principles in Religion an Arrian Socinian and I know not what and also to be a Person of no good Morals he was publickly complained of in the house by Colonel Joh. Downes one of the Regicides and afterwards a member of the Council of State Whereupon Fry published The Accuser ashamed or a pair of Bellows to blow off the dust cast upon John Fry a member of Parliament by Col. Jo. Downes who charged the said John Fry of blasphemy and errour Printed at Lond. in Febr. 1648. in oct To which he added 1 A word to the Priests Lawyers Royalists Self-seekers and rigid Presbyterians 2 A brief ventilation of that chaffie and absurd opinion of three Persons or substances in the Godhead Afterwards he being exasperated by the Presbyterian Ministers and some Independents he wrot and published The Clergy in their colours or a brief character of them c. Lond. 1650 in 4. sh in oct Which the next year was answered by J. D. Nephew as 't was said to Mr. John Davy of Taunton Magdalen in Somersetshire Soon after the publication of the said Clergy in their colours the Parliament took so much cognizance of the matter that they sate on Saturday 22. Feb. 1650 from morning to night in debate of certain passages published in the said books as 1 In debate of that added to the Accuser ashamed in the title running thus that chaffie and absurd opinion of three persons or substances in the Godhead 2 In that in p. 22. running thus that gross and carnal opinion of three distinct Persons or subsistences in the Godhead Persons and subsistences are subsistences or accidents As for the word Person I do not understand that it can be properly attributed but to man It is out of doubt with me that if you ask the most part of men what they mean by a Person they will either tell you 't is a man or else they are not able to give you any answer at all As for the word Accident I suppose none will attribute that to God for according to my poor skill that word imputes no more but the figure or colour c. of a thing and certainly no man ever saw the likeness of God as the Scriptures abundantly testifie c. These things being discussed it was resolved by the members of Parliament that they were erroneous prophane and highly scandalous Afterwards they proceeded to the book called The Clergy in their colours wherein p. 34 is this said by the Author I cannot let pass one observation and that is the strange posture those men put themselves into when they begin their prayers before their Sermons whether the fools and knaves in stage plays took their pattern from these men or these men from them I cannot determine c. what wry mouths squint eyes they make c. how like a company of conjurers do they mumble out the beginnings of their prayers that the People may not hear them c. These passages being debated the Parliament resolved that they were scandalous Again also p. 42. thus I must confess I have heard much of believing things above reason and the time was when I swallowed that still but I may say with S. Paul c. When I was a child c. Every man that knoweth any thing knoweth this that it is reason that distinguishes a man from a beast If you take away his reason you deny his very Essence therefore if any man will consent to give up his reason I would as soon converse with a beast as with that man c. These matters being debated it was resolved by Parliament that they were erroneous Afterwards they resolved that the said book called The Accuser ashamed and the other called The Clergy in their colours be burnt and that the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to cause all the printed copies of both the said books and every of them wheresoever they should be found to be burnt some in the New-Pallace-yard at Westm and some at the Old Exchange Not a word in the order was there of the Hang-man for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them then in pomp and great splendor At the same time it was resolved that the said Joh. Fry be disinabled to sit as a member of Parliament so that being solemnly cashier'd he had more liberty to keep company with John Biddle which he did as with others of that opinion This Person who had ran through most if not all religious even to Rantisme died soon after and thereby saved the Hang-man his labour JOHN ELLIS received his first breath in the Parish of Llanderkuin near to Harlech in Merionithshire entred a Student in Hart Hall in the year 1617 and in that of his age 18. or thereabouts where going through with infinite industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy became M. of A. in 1625 and three years after was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. being then in holy orders In 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and soon after going into Scotland upon what account I know not was made and admitted Doctor of his faculty in the University of S. Andrew on the day before the Cal. of August 1634 and in Oct. following was incorporated in this University Before that time having taken to Wife Rebecka Daugh. of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach near to Thame in Oxfordshire Esq became Rector of Whitfield near that place which Benefice he keeping till about 1647 was made Rector of S. Maries Church in a Market town called Dolgelhy or Dolgethle in his own county where he continued till the time of his death siding with all parties and taking all Oathes His works are these Clavis fidei seu brevia quaedam dictata in symbolum Apostolorum Oxon. 1642. 43. oct Translated into English by Will. Fowler a composer in the Art of Printing Camb. 1669. oct Comment in Obadium Proph. Lond. 1641. oct Defensio fidei seu responsio succincta ad argumenta quibus impugnari solet confessio Anglicana una cum nova articulorum versione Lond. 1660. He concluded his last day at Dolgethle before
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
beneficial employment he wrot books to his last He had a singular command of his pen whether in verse or prose and was well read in modern Histories especially in those of the Countries wherein he had travelled had a parabolical and allusive fancy according to his motto Senesco non Segnesco But the reader is to know that his writings having been only to gain a livelyhood and by their dedications to flatter great and noble persons are very trite and empty stoln from other authors without acknowledgment and fitted only to please the humours of Novices His works are these Dodena's Grove or the vocal Forest Lond. 1640. 44. qu. Much cried up and taken into the hands of curious People at its first publication The second part of it was printed at Lond. in 1650 oct and tho not so much admired as the first which was translated into French and printed several times yet there was a translation made of it into the new refined French by one of the prime wits in the Academy of Breux Esprits of Paris Par. 1652. qu. Ou le Parler des Arbres Par. 1648. qu. The English copy I have not yet seen this being different from the Vocal Forest which bears another title in the French edit The vote or a Poem-Royal presented to his Majesty for a New-years gift by way of discourse 'twixt the Poet and his Muse cal Jan. 1641. Lond. 1642 in two sh in qu. Instructions for forreign travel Lond. 1642 in tw Dedicated to Prince Charles There again with additions 1650 in tw Casual discourses and interlocutions between Patricius and Peregrin touching the distractions of the times with the causes of them Written by the author in the prison call'd the Fleet presently after Edghill battle being the first book that came forth for the vindication of his Majesty Mercurius Hibernicus or a discourse of that horrid insurrection and massacre which hapned lately in Ireland Written in the Fleet 1643. Parables reflecting upon the times Lond. 1644. in 2 sh in qu. at the latter end of the second edit oâ— Dodena's Grove Englands tears for the present wars c. Lond. 1644. in two sh and half in qu. There again in 1650 in tw Put into lat under this title Angliae suspiria lacrymae c. Lond. 1646. in tw Preheminence and pedegree of Parliaments in two sections Lond. 1644 in tw There again in 1677 in 3 sheets in qu. Vindication of some passages reflecting upon him in a book called The Popish Royal Favorite pen'd by Mr. Prynne Lond. 1644 in tw Printed with the very next pamphlet before mentioned A clearing of some occurrences in Spain at his Majesties being there cited by the said Mr. Prynne out of the Vocal Forest This is also printed with the former Epistolae Ho-Elianae Familiar letters domestic and forreign divided into sundry sections partly historical political and philosophical Lond. 1645. 47. qu. Lond. 1650. oct There again 1655 and 73 in oct All which impressions contained two vol. and had to the last added a third and fourth volume Many of the said letters were never written before the Author of them was in the Fleet as he pretends they were only feigned no time being kept with their dates and purposely published to gain money to relieve his necessities A nocturnal progress or a perambulation of most Countries in Christendome performed in one night by strength of imagination Written in the Fleet 1645. Lustra Ludovici or the life of Lewis 13 K. of France and of his Cardinal de Richelieu Lond. 1646. fol. Divided into 7 lusters and dedicated to Pr. Charles at his Court in the Isle of Jersey An account of the deplorable and desperate condition that England stands in an 1647. in a letter to Francis Cardinal Barberini Written from the Fleet 1647. Letter to the Earl of Pembr concerning the times and the sad condition both of Prince and People Printed 1647 in two sh in qu. Bella Scot-Anglica A brief of all the Battels and martial encounters which have hapned 'twixt England and Scotland from all times to this present Printed 1648. Corollary declaring the causes whereby the Scot is come of late years to be so hightned in his spirits These two last are in 3 sh in qu. The instruments of a King or a short discourse of Sword Scepter and Crown Lond. 1648. in 2 sh in qu. Winter dream Written in prose and printed 1649 in 3 sh in qu. A trance or news from hell brought first to town by Merc. Acheronticus Lond. 1649 in 2 sh and half in qu. Written in prose Inquisition after blood to the parliament in statu quo nunc and the Army regnant c. Printed 1649 in two sh in qu. Vision or dialogue between the soul and the body Lond. 1651. oct c. Survay of the signorie of Venice of her admired policy and method of government Lond. 1651. thin fol. Discourse of the Interests of the Reipublick of Venice with the rest of the states of Italy Printed with the Survay Some sober inspections made into the carriage and consults of the late Long Parliament c. Lond. 1653. oct Dedicated to Oliver Lord Protector whom he compares to Charles Martel and complements him in smooth language The fourth edition of this book came out in 1660 with several additions containing reflections upon government in general with some prophetick paragraphs and a supplement of divers signal passages which the other three additions had not Hist of the Wars of Jerusalem Epitomiz'd Printed in oct Ah Ha Tumulus Thalamus Two counter poems the first an Elegy upon Edward late Earl of Dorset The second an Epithalamium to the L. Marquess of Dorchester with an Hymeneum or Bridal-sonet of 4 stanzas according to a choice Aire set thereunto by Mr. Will. Webb Lond. 1653 in two sh in qu. A Dialogue Published and couched under the name of Polyander Written about the time that Oliver began to be Protector In this Dialogue he gives his opinion for a single Person against all other governments The German diet or the ballance of Europe wherein the power and weakness glory and reproach virtues and vices c. of all the Kingdoms and States of Christendom are impartially poysed Lond. 1653 fol. The authors picture from head to foot is set before the title leaning under a British oak Parthonopoeia or the history of the most renowned Kingdom of Naples with a list of their Kings c. Lond. 1654 fol. The first part of it was written by Scipio Mazzella englished from Ital. by Samson Lennard Herald of Arms. The second part was compiled by our Authors Jam. Howell who besides some supplements to the first part draws the thread of the story to these present times Collected and translated from several modern Ital. authors Londinopolis An historical discourse or perlustration of the City of London and Westminster with the Courts of Justice Antiquities and new buildings Lond. 1657. fol. 'T is a short discourse mostly taken from
became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1628 aged 19 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Vicar of Box near Malmsbury in his own Country where continuing in good esteem in the greatest part of the interrupted times was at length ejected from his living in the Reign of Oliver whereupon he wrot A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walt. Bushnell Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts Which book being not permitted to be published after he had made it fit for the Press was at his Majesties return printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. About which time the Author being restored to his living continued there to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and seven was buried in the Church at Box having then laying by him one or more things fit to be printed as I have been informed by some of the neighbourhood GEORGE WITHER Son of George Wither the first Son by a second venter of the house of Wither of Manydowne near to Wotton S. Laurence in Hampshire was born at Bentworth near Alton in the said County on the eleventh day of June 1588 30 Eliz. educated in Gram. learning under the noted School-master of those parts called Joh. Greaves of Colemore sent to Magd. Coll. in the year 1604 or thereabouts where being put under the tuition of Joh. Warner afterwards B. of Roch. whom if I mistake not he serv'd made some proficiency with much ado in academical learning but his genie being addicted to things more trivial was taken home after he had spent about three years in the said house and thence sent to one of the Inns of Chancery in London and afterwards to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law But still his genie hanging after things more smooth and delightful he did at length make himself known to the world after he had taken several rambles therein by certain Specimens of Poetry which being dispersed in several hands became shortly after a publick Author and much admired by some in that age for his quick advancement in that faculty But so it was that he shewing himself too busie and satyrical in his Abuses stript and whipt was committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where continuing several months was then more cried up especially by the puritanical Party for his profuse powring forth of English rime and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical Poetry in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass which he pretended to predict In 1639 he was a Captain of Horse in the Expedition against the Scots and Quarter-master Gen. of the Regiment wherein he was Captain viz. of that Regiment of oâ— next under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the said expedition But this our Author who was always from his youth puritannically affected sufficiently evidenced in his Satyrs sided with the Presb. in the beginning of the Civil Wars rais'd by them an 1642 became an enemy to the King and Regality sold the estate he had and with the moneys received for it rais'd a Troop of Horse for the Parliament was made a Captain and soon after a Major having this motto on his Colours Pro Rege Lege Grege but being taken prisoner by the Cavaliers Sir Jo. Denham the Poet some of whose land at Egham in Surry Wither had got into his clutches desired his Majesty not to hang him because that so long as Wither lived Denham would not be accounted the worst Poet in England About that time he was constituted by the said Long Parliament a Justice of Peace in Quorum for Hampshire Surrey and Essex which office he kept 16 years and afterwards was made by Oliver Major Gen. of all the Horse and Foot in the County of Surrey in which employment he licked his fingers sufficiently gaining thereby a great Odium from the generous Royalist After the Kings Restauration in 1660 he lost all the lands that had belonged to Royalists and Bishops which he before had either bought or had confer'd upon him for the love and zeal he had to the blessed Cause And being then look'd upon as a dangerous person to the King and State especially for a scandalous and seditious libel that he had then dispersed was committed Prisoner to Newgate and afterwards upon his own confession and the oaths of two persons that he was the Author of it he by order of the H. of Commons was sent in custody and committed close prisoner to the Tower of London to be debarr'd Pen Ink and Paper and about the same time 24 of March 1661 2 an Impeachment was ordered to be drawn up against him In both which Prisons he continued three years and more wrot several things by the connivance of the Keeper of which some were afterwards made publick yet could never refrain from shewing himself a Presbyterian Satyrist He began very early being precisely educated from his childhood to express and publish those conceptions which the affections and inclinations to youth had awakened in him endeavouring to season them with morality and piety as subjects of that nature are capable of suiting them to the capacities of young-men who delight to see their own natural passions represented as 't were in a glass wherein they not only meet with some better things than they looked for but with such notions also therewith mixed as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems and rendred him so generally known that thousands especially such youths that were puritannically educated were desirous to peruse his future writings and to take better heed of that whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice while others of generous education and of more solid parts looked upon them as the effects of a crazed brain and esteemed Taylor the Water-Poet a fit match for him with his wild and rambling rimes The things that he hath written and published are very many accounted by the generality of Scholars meer scribbles and the fancies of a conceited and confident if not enthusiastical mind The titles of them follow Iter Hibernicum or an Irish Voyage Written in verse Iter Bor. or a northern Journey Written in verse Patricks Purgatory Written in verse Philaretes Complaint Written in verse These four were called his Juvenilia and tho the original MS. of them was lost yet they were recovered and printed more than once Prince Henries obsequies or mournful elegies upon his death Lond. 1612. and 1622. oct A supposed interlocution betw the ghost of Pr. Hen. and Great Britaine Printed with the former Abuses stript and whipt or satyrical essays in two books Lond. 1613. 14.15 and 22. in oct Satyr written to the King Jam. 1. when he was prisoner in the Marshalsea for his first book Lond. 1614. 15. 22. in
oct Which first book is the same I suppose with Abuses whipt and stript which stands first in the six of his poetical pieces that he published in 1622 of which the said Satyr is one intit in the first edit A Satyr dedicated to his most excellent Majesty Eglogues Lond. 1614. oct at the end of The Sheppards pipe written by Will. Browne of the Inner Temple to whom one of the said Egl. is dedicated The Sheppards hunting being certain Eglogues made during the time of the Authors imprisonment in the Marshalsea Lond. 1615 and 22. oct Which book as 't is said contains more of poetical fancy than any other of his writings Preparation to the psalter Lond. 1619. in a thin fol. in prose Soliloquy or the Authors preparation of himself unto the study and use of the psalter This written in verse is printed at the end of Prep of the psal Hymne of thanksgiving after sickness This also is printed with it Fidelia a Poem Lond. 1619. sec edit and 22. oct Exercises on the first psalme both in prose and verse Lond. 1620. oct Withers motto Nec habeo nec careo nec curo Nor have I nor want I nor care I. Lond. 1618. and 21. in oct written in verse and dedicated to any body Whereupon Joh. Taylor a Water poet came out with a book intit Taylors motto Et habeo careo curo I have I want I care Lond. 1621. oct dedic to every body This Joh. Taylor was born in the City of Glocester went to school there and having got into his Accidence was bound an Apprentice to a Waterman in London which tho a laborious employment yet such was his prodigious genie to Poetry that he wrot very many things in that faculty that made great sport in their time and were most of them esteemed worthy to be remitted into a large folio Had he had learning bestowed on him according to his natural parts which were excellent he might have equalled if not excelled many who claim a great share in the temple of the muses Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1642 he left London retired to Oxon where ha was much esteemed by the Court and poor remnant of Scholars for his facetious company kept a common Victualling-house and did great service for the royal Cause by writing bitter Pasquils against the Roundheads After the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred he retired to Westminster kept a publick house in Phenix Alley near Long-Acre and continued constant in his loyalty to the King After whose murder he set up a sign over his door of a Mourning Crown but that being esteem'd malignant he pulled it down and hung up his own picture under which were these Verses written There 's many a head stands for a signe Then gentle Reader why not mine On the other side Though I deserve not I desire The laurel wreath the Poets hire He died in the year 1654 aged 74 years and was buried in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden as I have been informed hy his Nephew a Painter of Oxford who gave his picture to the School Gallery there where it now hangs shewing him to have been of a quick and smart countenance But all this of Taylor do I speak by the by Now let 's proceed to the rest of the Works of G. Wither which are these Epithalamia or nuptial Poems upon the most blessed and happy Marriage between Frederick the 5. Count Palatine of the Rhine and Princess Elizabeth sole daughter of K. James Lond. 1622. oct Canonical Hymnes and Songs Hymnes and Songs of the Church Lond. in tw Songs of Moses and other Hymnes of the old Test The scholars Purgatory discovered in the Stationers Commonwealth and described in a discourse apologetical as well for the publick advantage of the Church the State and whole Commonwealth of England as for the remedy of private injuries Where or when printed it appears not 'T is written in prose and printed in octavo Britains remembrancer containing a narration of the Plague lately past a declaration of mischiefs present and a prediction of Judgments to come c. Lond. 1628. oct Written in verse 1625. Psalmes of David in lyrick verse illustrated Lond. 1632. oct or tw Prophecy of our present calamity and except we repent future misery Written 1628. Emblems illustrated or a collection of Emblems antient and modern Quickned with metrical illustrations both moral and divine and disposed into lotteries that instruction and good counsel may be fathered by an honest and pleasant recreation in 4 books Lond. 1634. 35. fol. Apology to the Lords of the Council in justification of the reproof of Vices in his poems Discourse concerning the plantations of Ulster in Ireland with pre-conjectures of what consequences would probably ensue Printed in prose Meditations on the ten Commandments Printed in verse with sculptures This was lately published again under this title Divine Poems by way of paraphrase on the ten Commandments illustrated with 12 Copper plates shewing how personal punishments have been inflicted c. Lond. 1688. oct Haleluiah or Britains second Remembrancer bringing to remembrance in praisful and penitential Hymns spiritual Songs and moral Odes Meditations advancing the glory of God c. composed in a threefold Volume The first contains Hymns occasional 2. Hymns temporary 3. Hymns personal c. Lond. 1641. in tw The doubtful Almanack or very suspitious presages of great calamities yet to come Printed in one sh in qu. but when unless in 1641. it appears not Proclamation in the name of the King of Kings to all the Isles of Great Britaine Printed in a large oct Campo-Musae or the Field-musings touching his military engagement for the K. and Parl. Lond. 1643. 44. octavo Mercurius Rusticus Print 1643. This was written in imitation of the weekly intelligences then published offering between jest and earnest some particulars to consideration relating both to Civil and Military transactions and hinted notions then pertinent to those times c. The beginning of this Merc. Rust. to distinguish Merc. Rust written by Dr. Ryves is this By your leave Gentlemen when seriousness takes not effect perhaps trifling may c. Letter of advice touching the choice of Knights Cit. and Burgesses in Parl. c. Printed 1644. Vox pacifica A voice tending to pacification of Gods wrath and offering those propositions or conditions by the acceptation or performance whereof in some good measure a firm and continual peace may be obtained c. Lond. 1645. oct in 6. Books or Cantoes What peace to the wicked Pr. 1646. This which is a Poem is an expostulatory answer to a derisory question concerning peace Justiciarius justificatus Lond. 1646. This being an apologetical discourse in English reflecting upon Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey Kt and Parliam man arose a debate in Apr. the same year in the H. of Commons occasion'd by the said Sir Richard concerning several unhandsome expressions therein against him At length in
Aug. following it was voted by them that G. Wither author thereof should pay to the said Sir R. Onslow 500 l. for damages and that the book be burnt by the hand of the common Hangman at which time Withers was then in prison for it and continued there about an year Opobalsamum Anglicanum An English balm lately pressed out of a shrub and spread upon these papers for the cure of some scabs gangrenes and cancers endangering the body of this Commonweale c. Lond. 1646 in 3 sh and an half in qu. in verse Amygdala Britannica Almonds for Parrets A dish of stone-fruit partly shell'd and partly unshell'd which if crack'd pick'd and digested may be wholsom against those epidemick distempers of the brain now predominant c. Printed 1647 in qu. in double columes in tw sh in verse Carmen expostulatorium Printed 1647. This was written to prevent the engaging these nations into a second war when the dividing of the City and Army was then by some endeavoured A si quis or Quaeries with other verses annexed Printed 1648. Presented to the members of Parliament in their single capacities related to the Authors particular interest A petition and narrative to the Parl. Pr. 1648. The tired petitioner Printed in a single sheet in verse about the same time Carmen Eucharisticon A private Thank-oblation exhibited to the glory of the Lord of Hosts for the timely and wonderful deliverance vouchsafed to this Nation in the routing of a numerous army of Irish rebels before Dublin by Mich. Jones Lieut. Gen. for the Parl. of England Lond. 1649 in one largesh in qu. in double columns Of which poem and its author several things are said by the writer of Mercurius Elencticus numb 19. p. 152. published 3. Sept. 1649. Se defendendo Not said when printed 'T was an Apologie written by him in prose to vindicate himself from such aspersions as had been injuriously and without any probable cause cast upon him by malicious detractors A thankful retribution Lond. 1649 in vers The British appeal with Gods merciful replies on the behalf of the commonwealth of England contained in a brief commemorative Poem c. Lond. 1651. oct The dark lantern containing a dim discovery in riddles parables and semi-riddles intermix'd with cautions remembrances and predictions c. Lond. 1650 53 oct in vers Poem concerning a perpetual Parliament Printed with the Dark lantern A suddaine flash on the stile of Protector Printed in oct Westrow revived a funeral poem Pr. in oct Vaticinium casuale Printed 1655. Boni ominis votum Printed 1656. This poem was occasion'd by the summoning of extraordinary Grand Juries out of the eminent Baronets Knights Esquires Gentlemen to serve in their Counties at a Summer assize 1656. A cause allegorically stated Printed 1657 with an appeal therein to all impartial censurers Address to the members of Parl. in their single capacities Printed 1657. a poem Salt upon salt made out of certain ingenious verses upon the late storm and the death of his Highness c. by which occasion is taken to offer to consideration the probable near approaching of greater stormes and more sad consequences Lond. 1659. oct in vers A bitter-sweet passion of the Soul expressed in a Hymne to God Printed at the end of Salt upon salt Poetick frenzie occasion'd by Gen. Monks restoring the Parliament Printed in a large oct Speculum speculativum or a considering glass being an inspection into the present and late sad conditions of these nations c. Lond. 1660. oct poem Glimmerings discovered of what will probably ensue hereafter Printed with the former 'T is a Poem Postscript in answer to some cavilling objections made against the Author of this considering glass since the composing thereof Printed also with the former Fides Anglicana or a plea for the publick faith of these nations lately pawned forfeited and violated by some of their former Trustees to the rendring it as infamous as Fides punica was heretofore c. Lond. 1660. oct prose Triple paradox affixed to a counter-mure raised against the furious batteries of restraint slander and poverty c. Lond. 1661. oct poem Crums and scraps lately found in a Prisoners basket in Newgate Lond. 1661. oct poem Metrical paraphrase on the Lords Prayer Printed 1665. 1688. oct vers Memorandum to London occasion'd by the pestilence in the year 1665. Pr. in oct a poem Sigh for the pitchers with three private meditations Lond. 1666. oct Fragmenta prophetica or his remains being a collection of the several predictions dispersed throughout his works Lond. 1669 oct Before which is his picture in armour and his head bare adorn'd with a wreath of Laurel An interjection being a sudden ejaculation cast in at the collecting of Fragm proph Metrical paraphrase on the Creed Lond. 1688. oct vers 'T is at the end of the 2d edit of the Paraphrase on the 10 Com. before mention'd Besides all these which I have mostly seen and perused are many others which I have not seen only their trite and imperfect titles as they follow 1 The Scourge 2 The Mistress of Philarete 3 Vaticinium poeticum All these written in verse and the last reprinted in Fragm Proph. 4 Caveat Emptor in prose 5 Britains Genius Pr. in oct 6 Carm. Ternarium semicynium ver 7 Speech without door 8 His Disclaimer These two last are in prose 9 Know thy self ver 10 The Delinquents purgation prose 11 Sinners confession vers 12 A cordial confection c. prose 13 Verses to the individual members of Parliament 14 Epistolium vagum prosau-metricum 15 Furor poeticus 16 Three grains of Frankincense 17 The Protector The three last are in vers 18 Epistle to the three Nations 19 Epistle at random Pr. in qu. 20 Ecchoes from the sixth trumpet reverberated by a review of neglected remembrances Pr. in oct c. Besides these 20 pieces and others which were printed were many others of his composition which were not as 1 Exercises on the nine Psalmes next following the first These which he intended to add to the Exercises on the first psalme printed 1620 were lost and could never be recovered 2 Treatise of antient Hieroglyphicks with their various significations Lost 3 Persuit of happiness being a character of the extravagancy of the authors affections and passions in his youth Written in prose 4 Riddles Songs Epigrams 5 The Dutchess in vers 6 Domestick devotions prose 7 Funeral Elegie 8 Tract of usury c. prose 9 The confession of his faith both in fundamentals and in relation to most points controverted by men of several judgments in religion 10 Precatory meditation and soliloquy with God on the behalf of his children and their posterity if they have any 11 Discourse to a friend touching the consolations in close imprisonment 12 Familiar Epistles 13 The true state of the cause between the King and Parl. Wr. in prose 14 Declaration in the Person of Oliver Cromwell given into his own hand and tending to the
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
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
on the â—â— of Sept. in the same year had then leave given to him to keep his Deanery and Archdeaconry in commendam In the beginning of the Rebellion he adhered to the Cause 〈◊〉 his Majesty and the first book that he wrot in his 〈◊〉 against the Rebels was his Vindiciae Regum c. for which he was fetch'd away from his house at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire by a Troop of Soldiers and carried Prisoner to Northampton where the Committee that were appointed by the Parliament to meet and sit there had the said book in their hands Afterwards he retired to Oxon and printed his Discovery of Mysteries and on that very day he was preaching at S. Maries before the House of Commons the Soldiers from Northampton went and plunder'd his House and all his Houshold-stuff at Apethorp where his Wife and Children then resided and sequestred his Lands for the use of the Parliament The next winter following he wrot his Jura Majestatis and according to his poor abilities out of the means he had in Wales he gave unto his Majestys own hands every winter for three years together the testimony of his loyalty and affection to the utmost of his power Upon the the declining of the Kings cause this our author being then brought very low the said Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery offered to procure him a Benefice in Lancashire worth 400 l. per ann conditionally that he would submit himself to the Parliament but he refused it as he did also the importunat invitation of his singular good friend Dr. Williams Archb. of York for the same purpose Soon after he retired into Wales where for 12 years together as he saith having not one penny of Ecclesiastical means nor 20 l. per an in all the world to maintain himself and servants of any temporal estate he was forced to live upon a little Tenement for which he paid 2 l. 10 s. per ann to Sir Gr. Williams and 4 l. Land per ann besides of his own So that he lived worse than a poor Curat with oaten-bread barley-bread buttermilk and somtimes water being not able to keep any drop of ale or beer for two lusters of years He went attir'd in very mean cloaths as he farther adds and was forced to do many servile works himself about his House Garden and Cattel And all this he did as he said rather than accept of means benevolence or maintenance from the Usurpers Rebels and the Robbers of Christ's Church He then also perswaded as he had done before some of the Earl of Pembrokes children who had been his Scholars to adheer to his Majesty altho their Father was misled to adheer to the Parliament but they refused Hen. Cromwell also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland while his Father was Protector of England offer'd him as he did other Irish Bishops an 100 l. per ann if he or they would submit to the then Government and conform in their Ministry but he scorn'd that motion also as he farther tells us After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick Deanery and Archdeaconry but rose no higher or was translated to any other place because the King was informed that he had kept pace with the Parliamenteers particularly with Philip Earl of Pembroke and that also he enjoyed his Deanery even in the times of Usurpation paying a small Rent to the Usurpers and not only suffered the Deanery House to go to ruine but helped it forward by selling some of the Wainscot of it which last is yet frequently reported by the Neighbours at Bangor Afterwards he retired into Ireland lived as privately as might be obtained what he could from the Revenues of his Bishoprick to make Reparations on the Cath. Church belonging thereunto The Works that he hath written and published are these The delights of the Saints A most comfortable Treatise of grace and peace c. Lond. 1622. oct Seven Gold Candlesticks or 7 Lights of Christian Religion Lond. 1627. qu. The true Church shewed to all men that desire to be members of the same in 6. books Lond. 1629. fol. The best religion wherein is largely explained the sum and principal heads of the Gospel Ibid. 1636. fol. This book contains 24 Sermons at least which he had formerly preached and mostly published besides some treatises among which is The delights of the Saints before mention'd Vindiciae Regum or the grand rebellion that is a looking glass for Rebels whereby they may see how by ten several degrees they shall ascend to the heighth of their design c. Oxon. 1643. qu. The discovery of Mysteries or the plots and practices of a private faction in this present Parliament to overthrow the established religion c. Printed 1643. qu. Jura Majestatis the rights of Kings both in Church and State granted 1. By God 2. Violated by rebels and 3. Vindicated by the truth Oxon. 1644. qu. The only way to preserve peace Sermon at the publick fast 8. March at S. Maries in Oxon before the H. of Commons on Amos 5.6 Oxon. 1644. qu. The great Antichrist revealed before this time never discovered And proved to be neither Pope nor Turk nor any single Person nor the succession of any one Monarch or Tyrant in any policy but a collected path or multitude of hypocritical blasphemous and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophecies of the Scripture c. Lond. 1660. fol. Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these bad days to prevent the seven last vials of Gods wrath that the seven Angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel 16. c. Lond. 1661. fol. The declaration of the just judgment of God 1. Upon our late Kings friends 2. Upon the Kings enemies that rebell'd and warr'd against him c. This is printed at the end of the Seven Treatises c. Four Treatises suffering of the Saints burning of Sodom c. Lond. 1667. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The happiness of Saints on Joh. 20.26 Printed 1657. qu. 2 Gods war with the wicked Rebels and Murtherers on Isa 57.21 3 The property and prerogative of true Saints on Joh. 10.27.28 4 The monstrous murther of the most holy Jesus parallel'd to the murther of Kings on Acts 7.32 5 The four chief duties of every Christian man on 1. Pet. 2.17 6 The chiefest cause why we should love God on 1. John 4.19 7 The lively picture of these hard times on Jer. 14.10 8 The grand rebellion c. Psal 106.16 9 The tragedy of Zimri that slew his King that was his Master on 2. Kings 9.31 All these Sermons except the first with others were printed in folio an 1662. Other Sermons as 1 Description of the four Beasts explained in 4 Sermons on Rev. 4.8 Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The ejection of four devils on Matth. 17.21 Lond. 1664. qu. 3 The saving Serpent on John 3.14 Ibid. 1664. qu. 4 The monstrous murther of two mighty Kings on 2. Cor. 24.23 Ibid. 1665. qu. 5
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 Ministeâ—s 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
stayed an year longer or more would have destroyed all that were to be saved by falling upon them for he was a great Dilapidator suffered some of the Offices Stable and Wood-house to fall made Hey-lofts of the Chambers and suffered one side of the Hall the assembling room to drop down Insomuch that Dr. Edw. Fulham who succeeded him at the Kings restauration was forced to build it up in the first month he had it and Mr. Fr. Carswell in short time succeeding Dr. Fulham spent about 150 l. to make the house habitable He received his maintenance out of the then Augmentation Court neglecting his tithes and put whims into the peoples heads that they were Romish and Antichristian and only pleased himself in taking presents of the peoples free will offering as most becoming the Gospel By these courses he had almost ruined a good Vicaridge for there are but few there now but what are so principled as they think it a piece of service to the establish'd Religion to cheat or rob the Church and an age is scarce able to repair that mischief which he hath done there as other Saints elsewhere I have been informed from that place by a very good hand that he was a man very censorious and ready to damn all those that did not comply with him in his fancies also that he always denied to pay and cheated the wife of Mr. Faringdon his Predecessor in the Vicaridge of her fifths or fifth part of the revenews of the said Vicaridge which he by Law was to pay and she to receive and he thought it a sin to pay her being the wife of one of the Antichristian Crew of the Ch. of England tho she lived near him and he knew full well that she had five or six small Children ready to starve and her Husband a learned man He would not administer the Sacrament in the Church to his Parishioners nor baptize their Children unless they were of his private Church and would not so much as keep company with or come near those that were not of his mind He hath left an ill name behind him and none there have any esteem for his memory only Anabaptists Quakers or such that tend that way In this course he continued till his Majesties Restauration an 1660 and then leaving the place to prevent Ejection he retired to Uxbridge where he carried on the trade among the Brethren either more or less to the time of his death His printed works are these Gate to Sciences Written when he was a Schoolmaster The Childs patrimony laid out upon the good nurture or tilling over the whole man In two parts Lond. 1640. qu. c. This came out afterwards again with the title alter'd Vestibulum or a manuduction towards a fair Edifice by their hands who are designed to open the way thereunto Printed with The Childs Patrimony The Churches Thanksgiving to God her King c. Lond. 1642. qu. The Covenant cleared to the Consciences of all men c. Ibid. 1643. qu. Three Kingdoms made one by the Covenant c. Pr. 1643. Cause use and cure of fear c. Pr. 1643. The Kings Chronicle in two sections Wherein we have the acts of the wicked and good Kings of Judah fully declared with the ordering of their militia and grave observations thereupon c. Lond. 1643. qu. Dedicated to the high court of Parliam and written purposely to point out the bad actions of his Majesty who then stood in his own defence against the inveterate Presbyterians and tumultuous factions in London The Sons patrimony and daughters portion c. Lond. 1643. qu. Inquiries into the causes of our miseries c. Lond. 1644. qu. Written partly against a book entit An antidote against the contagious air of Independency c. by D. P. P. Lond. 1644. qu. Short Letter intreating a friends judgment upon Mr. Edwards book call'd Antipologia with a large but modest answer thereunto c. Lond. 1644. qu. Lords-day the Saints holy-day Christmas an Idol-day c. Lond. 1648. qu. About which time came out Christmas-day the old Heathens feasting-day in honor to Satan their Idol-God c. Whether written by Woodward quaere A just account in truth and peace by Brethren lovers of and fellow-helpers to both why they must open themselves to the view of the world speaking to them as the house top c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Appeal to the Churches of Christ for their righteous judgment in matters of Christ the concernments of all his glory over whom there is a defence whether Christs way be not poured forth in scripture to be traced by the footsteps of his near ones Pr. at Lond. in qu. Conference of some Christians in Church fellowship about the way of Christ with his people and the result therefrom c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Infant baptism and the first quere thereupon Whether all Parents how notorious soever for wickedness are priviledged upon account of their own baptism to present their infants thereunto The negative maintained Pr. at Lond. in qu. An inoffensive answer to remove offences taken from some passages in a printed book other some from report which are cleared to be wholly mistaken by the Author of the Dialogue concerning the practical use of Infant baptisme in his Postscript to his scond part p. 103. c. Lond. 1657. qu. He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen and had others fit for the press lying by him at the time of his death which hapning at Uxbridge in Middlesex 29 of March in sixteen hundred seventy and five aged 87 years or thereabouts his body was carried to Eaton near Windsore and buried in the Churchyard there near the grave of his sometimes wife Frances Woodward who was as I have been told inter'd some years before him in the said yard He had one only daughter named Frances who became the second wife of John Oxenbridge Fellow of Eaton Coll. and dying in child-bed in the 25 year of her age was buried in the Chappel there and hath a monument over her grave as I have before told you HENRY BEESLEY son of Rob. Beesl Chaplain of Merton Coll was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the East in the City of Oxon 22 Jul. 1605 and in Mich. term 1621 was made either Clerk or Portionist of the said College where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts retired to S. Albans Hall took the degree of Master as a member thereof and was for his ingenuity made one of the Terrae filii in the Act following Soon after he became Tutor in the Country to Tho. Pope the young Earl of Downe whose Guardian Joh. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq did for the great care he took on his Pupil bestow on him the Rectory of Swerford near to Châ—pping-Norton in Oxfordshire which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed to his dying day Afterwards he became a sufferer in the time of the
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 tâ—â—ms 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.
near Covent Garden within the liberty of Westminster having been married a little before not altogether to his content in the month of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden One Joh. Mayo was Minister of Catistock in Dorsetshire and published certain Sermons in 1630 and after but of what University he was I know not yet nor where Jo. Maio was bred who was author of the Popes Parliament wherein are throughly delivered and brightly blazed out the paltrie trash and trumperies of him and his poling prelates c. whereunto is annexed the life of Pope Joan. Lond. 1591. qu. JOHN SMITH the eldest son of a Gentleman was born in Bucks admitted a Communer of Brasn Coll. 7. Aug. 1647 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line proceeded in that faculty 1659 and at length became one of the Coll. of Physitians and eminent for his practice in London He hath written and published The Portraict of old age wherein is contained a sacred Anatomie both of soul and body and a perfect account of the infirmities of age incident to them both Being a Paraphrase upon the six former verses of the twelfth Chapter of Ecclesiastes Lond 1666. oct c. T is a philosophical discourse tho upon a sacred theme and therein is to be met with an ingenious observation concerning the antiquity of the doctrine of the bloods circulation See in the Philosoph Transactions numb 14. p. 254. Matth. Poole in his second vol. of Synopsis makes an honorable mention and use of it This learned Doctor died in his house in the Parish of S. Helen the Great in London in Winter time either in Octob. or Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Church there in a vault near his wife One John Smith a Physitian published The compleat practice of Physick wherein is described c. Lond. 1656. in tw but he is not the same I suppose with the former Quaere JOHN BIRKENHEAD son of Randall Birkenhead of Northwych in Cheshire Sadler was born there became a Servitour of Oriel Coll. under the tuition of Humphrey Lloyd afterwards B. of Bangor in the beginning of the year 1632 aged 17 years where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts became Amanuensis to Dr Laud Archbishop of Cant who taking a liking to him for his ingenuity did by his Diploma make him Master of Arts an 1639 and by his letters commendatory thereupon was elected Probationer-Fellow of All 's Coll. in the year following After the rebellion broke out and the King and his Court hid setled themselves in Oxford this our author Mr. Birkenhead was appointed to write the Mercurii Aulici which being very pleasing to the Loyal party his Majesty recommended him to the Electors that they would chuse him Moral Philosophy Reader which being accordingly done he continued in that office with little profit from it tâ—ll 1648 at which time he was not only turn'd out thence but from his fellowship Afterwards he retired to London suffered several imprisonments for his Majesties cause lived by his wits in helping young Gentlemen out at dead lifts in making Poems Songs and Epistles on and to their respective Mistresses as also in translating and writing several little things and other petite Employments After his Majesties restauration he was by vertue of his letters sent to the University actually created Doctor of the Civil Law and in 1661 he was elected a Burges for Wilton to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 8. of May the same year In 1662 Nov. 14 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty King Charles the Second and in Jan. 1663 he was constituted one of the Masters of Requests in the place of Sir Rich. Fanshaw when he went Embassador into Spain he being then also Master of the Faculties and a member of the Royall Society A certain Anonymus tells us that this Sir Joh. Birkenhead was a poor Alehouse-keepers son and that he got by lying or buffooning at court to be one of the Masters of Requests and Faculty Office and in boons at Court 3000 l. The truth is had he not been given too much to bantring which is now taken up by vain and idle people he might have passed for a good wit And had he also expressed himself grateful and respectful to those that had been his benifactors in the time of his necessity which he did not but rather slight them shewing thereby the baseness of his spirit he might have passed for a friend and a loving companion He hath written Mercurius Aulicus communicating the intelligence and affairs of the Court at Oxon to the rest of the Kingdom The first of these was published on the first of Jan. 1642 and were carried on till about the end of 1645 after which time they were published but now and then They were printed weekly in one sheet somtimes in more in quarto and contain a great deal of wit and buffoonry Mercurius Britanicus pen'd by Foul-mouth'd Nedham no more his equal than a Dwarf to a Gyant or the goodness of his cause to that of the Kings tells us that the penning of these Mercurii Aulici was the act of many viz. Birkenhead the Scribe Secretary Nicholas the informer and George Digby the contriver Also that an assesment of wits was laid upon every Coll and paid weekly for the communion of this thing called Mercurius Aulicus But let this lyer say what he will all that were then in Oxford knew well enough that John Birkenhead began and carried them on and in his absence P. Heylyn supplied his place and wrote many of them News from Pembroke and Montgomery Or Oxford Manchester'd c. Printed in 1648 in one sh in qu. 'T is a faigned speech as spoken by Philip Earl of Pembroke in the Convocation house at Oxon. 12. Apr. 1648 when he came to visit and undoe the University as Edward Earl of Manchester had done that of Cambridg while he was Chancellor thereof T is exceeding waggish and much imitating he way of speaking of Pembroke Paules Churchyard Libri Theologici Politici Historici nundinis Paulinis una cum templo prostant venales c. Printed in 3 several sheets in qu. an 1649. These Pamphlets contain feigned titles of books and Acts of Parliaments and several questions all reflecting on the reformers and men of those times The four-legg'd Quaker A ballad to the tune of the dog and elders maid Lond. 1659. in 3. columes on one side of a sh of paper Such another almost you may see in Sir Joh. Denhams Poems and translations The Assembly man or the character of an Assembly man written 1647. Lond. 1662 3 in three sheets in qu. The Copy of it was taken from the author by those who said they could not rob because all was theirs so exciz'd what they liked not and so mangled and reformed it
protestor for a Community of wealth as well as of women He was also a grand prodigal in not only spending 3000 l. per an which his father and other relations left him mostly lying in Berks but several thousand pounds and a 1000 l. per an given to him and his heirs for ever out of the Duke of Buckinghams estate by Parliament in consideration of his losses not of his members for the holy and blessed cause This viper which had been fostered in the bosome of Parliament was against the Parliament it self and against all Magistrates like a second Wat Tyler all pen and Inkhorn men must down This his levelling doctrine is contained in a Pamphlet called Englands troubles troubled wherein all rich men whatsoever are declared enemies to the mean men of England and in effect warr denounced against them Besides all this he being a Colonel plundered so much where ever he came that he was commonly called the plunder-master general and all whatsoever he got that way he spent to satisfie his filthy lusts In 1648 he forbad the people to stand bare at a Sessions in Barkshire and do homage and fealty to the Lords but in this he gull'd them tho they were not sensible of it because he gave that which was not their due Yet notwithstanding he rob'd them of that which was their due as of their horses goods money c. which he plundered from them under pretence forsooth for service of the State and did beat those that defended their own So that while he flatter'd them to be the supreme authority and Lords Paramount and the Parliament to be their servants he used them like slaves conquer'd by the Parliament On the 8. of Dec. the same year being the day after the Parliament house was purged of the Presbyterians in came Ol. Cromwell out of the Country bringing in under his protection our sanctified Member Harry Marten who had spent much time in plundering the Country had often basâ—ed the House and disobeyed many of their orders sufficient to have made an honest man liable to sequestration But great was the privilege of the Saints for there was nothing done in it because it fortun'd that day that the case of the secured Members was reported to the House which Harry interrupting desired them to take into consideration the deserts of the Lieu. General Cromwell which with all slavish diligence was presently done So Harry by this device escaped free who in the beginning of the next month was with Hugh Peters a zealous sollicitor in Parliament to have the Statute of banishment against the Jewes repealed according to their Petition for the same purpose then put up to the House About the same time Cromwell finding him a man fit for his purpose put him into the roll for one to sit as Judg upon the life of his Sovereign in which Tragedy he acted his part so unconcernedly that he valued the life of his Prince no more than that of a dog yet afterwards as the report goes he in a speech in the House upon the debate whether a King or no King He made answer that if they must have a King he had rather have had the last than any Gentleman in England for he found no fault in his person but office On the 14. of Feb. following which was about a fortnight after the King was beheaded he was appointed one of the thirty to be of the Council of State and in the beginning of July 1649 he brought into the House an accompt of his arrears which came to 25000 l. whereupon it was ordered that 1000 l. in Land should be setled upon him and his heirs About which time the Welsh Counties were set on work to desire H. Marten for their Commander in chief Afterwards Harry perceiving Oliver to aim at high things he left him fided with the Levellers and would have done them good service had not the Parl. given him 3000 l. more to put him upon the holy Sisters In Nov. 1651 he was appointed again one of the Council of State and had in a manner what he desired but after Oliver had made him as many a wiser person his shooing horn merely to serve his turn he turn'd him off and publickly called him a noted Whoormaster as he did Th. Chaloner a Drunkard and a vitious Liver at the dissolution of the reliques of the Long Parliament To conclude he was a man of good natural parts was a boon familiar witty and quick with repartees was exceeding happy in apt instances pertinent and very biting so that his company being esteemed incomparable by many would have been acceptable to the greatest persons only he would be drunk too soon and so put an end to all the mirth for the present At length after all his rogueries acted for near 20 years together were past was at length called to an account for that grand villany of having a considerable hand in murthering his Prince of which being easily found guilty was not to suffer the loss of his life as others did for it was then commonly reported that if they hung him his body would not hold together because of its rottenness but the loss of his estate and perpetual imprisonment for that he came in upon the Proclamation of surrender So that after one or two removes from Prison to Prison he was at length sent to Chepstow Castle in Monmouthshire where he continued another twenty years not in wantonness riotousness and villany but in confinement and repentance if he had pleased Under his name go these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Common Hall 28. Jul. 1643 concerning Sir Will. Waller and what course now is to be taken Lond. 1643 qu. 2 Speech in Parl. c. The independency of England endeavoured to be maintained against the claim of the Scottish Commissioners in their late answer upon the bills and propositions sent to the King in the Isle of Wight Lond. 1648 in 3 sh and an half in qu. The Parliaments proceedings justified in declining a personal treaty with the King c. Lond. 1648 in 3 sh in qu. Familiar Letters to his Lady of delight Oxon. 1663. Lond. 1685. qu. Politick and Oeconomical Letters Printed with the first and I think with the sec Edit of the said Familiar Letters In the beginning of the said Letters is that in justification of the murther of K. Ch. 1 See more in Edm. Gayton under the year 1666. p. 271. Our author Marten was also the principal cause of publishing the letters of the King and Queen called the Cabinet besides other things which have not yet come to my sight I have seen also under his name A Speech in the H. of Com. before his departure thence 8. June 1648. Printed in one sh in qu. but t is a piece of roguery fathered upon him This person who lived very poor and in a shabbed condition in his confinement and would be glad to take a pot of ale from any
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
learn to admiration JOHN CORBET Son of Rog. Corb. Shoomaker was born and educated in Grammar learning within the City of Glocester became a Batler of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years and in 1639 he was admitted Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he was made a Master of one of the Schools and a Lecturer in that City but when it was garrison'd for the Parliament use he became Dinner-Chaplain to Col. Edw. Massey Governour thereof preached seditiously vilified the King and his party in a base manner and would several times say in common discourse and in the Pulpit sometimes that nothing hath so much deceived the world as the name of a King which was the ground of all mischief to the Church of Christ When the War was terminated he was called to be a Preacher at Bridgwater in Somersetshire whence after some time spent in holding forth he went to the City of Chichester where he was frequented by schismatical people At length being called to a richer Cure he went to Bramshot in Hampshire where being setled it was his desire made to the Delegates of the Convocation of this University that they would dispence with him for ten terms absence and give him leave to accumulate the degree of Bach. of Divinity Which desire being granted his supplicate in order thereunto followed 14 May 1658 and granted simpliciter conditionally that he perform all exercise requisite for the said degree But whether he did so or was admitted to that degree it appears not in the Register At Bramshot he continued till the Act of Uniformity cast him out an 1662 and then he retired to London as most Nonconformists did where he lived privately taking no employment till his first wife died and then he lived in the house with Sir Joh. Micklethwaite President of the Coll. of Physitians and afterwards with Alderm Webb about which time he married a daughter of Dr. W. Twyss and then lived privately with Mr. Rich. Baxter at Totteridge in Hertfordshire At length the Kings license or toleration being published in the middle of March 1671 he was invited by the godly party to Chichester where he preached till a month before his death at which time removing to London to be cut of the stone in the bladder he died as soon as he came to that City without effecting his desire One of his perswasion tells us that he was a man so blameless in all his conversation that he never heard one person accuse or blame him except for Nonconformity that he was of so great moderation and love of peace that he hated all that was against it and would have done any thing for concord in the Church except sinning against God and hazarding Salvation c. He hath written and commended to posterity An historical relation of the military Government of Gloucester from the beginning of the Civil Warr between King and Parl. to the removal of Col. Massie from that Government to the command of the Western Forces Lond. 1645. in 18 sh in qu. A Vindication of the Magistrates of the City of Gloucester from the calumnies of Robert Bacon printed in his relation of his usuage there which he intitles The Spirit of Prelacy yet working or truth from under a cloud Lond. 1646. qu. Ten questions discussed which tend to the discovery of close Antinomianisme Printed with the Vindication The interest of England in the matter of religion unfolded in the solution of three questions c. Lond. 1660. oct in two parts Answer'd first by Râ—g L'Estrange in his Interest mistaken or the holy cheat c. Lond. 1661 and 62. in oct Wherein it appears that our author Corbet justifies in his said book the Presbyterian cause of 1641 that he excludes the Royal Party that served the late King from having any hand in the restoring of this that he revives the pretended misdemeanours of the Bishops as occasioners of the last Warr that he maintains the actings of the Presbyterians according to the Covenant that he makes the two Houses participate of the Soveraignity and denies the lawfulness of the English Ceremony c. 2 By an Anonymus in his book intit The Presbyterians unmasked c. Lond. 1676. oct Which book came out again in 1681 under the title of The Dissenter disarmed c. supposed verily to be written by Sam. Thomas Chanter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. This is the author whom Mr. Baxter stiles A shamless Writer who published a bloody invective against Mr. Corbets pacificatory book called The Interest of England as if it had been written to raise a War The Kingdom of God among men a tract of the sound state of Religion c. Lond. 1679. oct The point of Church-unity and schisme discussed An account of himself about conformity These two last are printed with The Kingdome of God c. Discourse of the Religion of England asserting that reformed Christianity setled in its due latitude is the stability and advancement of this Kingdome In 2 parts Self-employment in secret containing 1 Evidences upon self-examination 2 Thoughts upon painful afflictions 3 Memorialls for practice Lond. 1681. in tw Published after the Authors death with a prefatory Epistle by Joh. How An account given of the principles and practices of several Nonconformists Wherein it appears that their Religion is no other than what is profest in the Church of England c. Lond. 1682. qu. An Enquiry into the oath required of Nonconformists by an Act made at Oxon. Wherein the true meaning of it and the unwarrantableness of taking it is consider'd Lond. 1682. in 3 sh in qu. An humble endeavour of some plaine and brief explications of the decrees and operations of God about the free actions of men more especially of the operations of divine grace Lond. 1683. qu. Remaines Lond. 1684. in tw being most of the 9 Tracts which he left behind him to be published He the said J. Corbet had also laboured much in compiling the first vol. of Historical Collections published by Joh. Rushworth and dying on the 26 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and eighty was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne near London as I have been informed by the Letters of Mr. Rich. Baxter dated 22 of Feb. following Besides this Jo. Corbet was another of both his names Minister of Bonyl one of the collegiat Churches of the Provostry of Dunbarton in Scotland who for not submitting to the Covenant was ejected from that Kingdom and went into Ireland where he published The ungirding of the Scotish armour c. Dubl 1639. qu. and The Epistle congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor to the Covenanters in Scotland c. printed the year following in qu. Which Mr. Corbet who was an ancient man and a Minister of Galloway had his head cut off by two Swiniards in the time of the Rebellion in Ireland an 1641. See more in the Epistle to the Reader written by Andr. Allam of S. Edm. Hall set
on Psal 4.9 Lond. in oct Heaven opened or a brief and plain discovery of the riches of Gods Covenant of Grace Being the third part of Vindiciae Pietatis Lond. in oct The World Conquered or a believers victory over the World laid open in several Sermons on 1. Joh. 5.4 Being the fourth part of Vind. Pietat Lond. 1668. oct All which pieces were printed together at London 1671 in oct and were entit The Works of Mr. Rich. Allein in four parts Dedicated to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Batcombe Godly feare or the nature and necessity of feare and and its usefulness both to the driving sinners to Christ and to the provoking Christians on in a godly life through the several parts and duties of it till they come to blessedness Lond. 1674. oct This book consists of Sermons preached on several texts A rebuke to Back-Sliders and a spur for Loiterers in several Sermons lately preached to a private Congregation Lond. 1677 c. oct A Companion for Prayer or directions for improvement in grace and practical godliness in times of extraordinarie danger Lond. 1680. in tw Instructions about Heart-work What is to be done on Gods part and ours for the cure and keeping of the Heart that we may live in the exercise and growth of Grace here and have a comfortable assurance of glory to eternity Lond. 1682 oct with a preface of Dr. Sam. Annesley alias Aneley to it To the second edit of this which came out in 1684 was added our author Alleins book entit A Companion for prayer c. He also had a hand in writing The life of Joseph Alleine his kinsman and digested fitted for the Press and published his Remaines c. See more in the said J. Alleine among these writers page 300.301 At length this our zealous author concluding his last day at Frome Selwood before mention'd in the house of one Rob. Smith wherein he had lived several years and had kept Conventicles on the 22. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried in the Church there in or about the midst of the middle alley At which time Rich. Jenkins M. of A. somtimes of Gloc. Hall a Luke-warm Conformist and Vicar of that place the same who married Tho. Thynne of Longleat Esq to Elizabeth Countess of Ogle heir to the illustrious Family of Percy preached his funeral Sermon containing many pathetical Encomiums of him having several times before also visited him in his sickness THOMAS HERBERT son of Christop Herbert son of Thomas Herbert somtimes Alderman of the City of York descended being a younger brother from Sir Rich. Herbert of Colebroke in Monmouthshire Knight was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive within the City of York admitted Commoner of Jesus Coll. in 1621. under the tuition of Mr. Jenkyn Lloyd his kinsman but before he took a degree his Uncle called Dr. Ambr. Aikroyd fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. brother to his mother Jane dau of Jo. Aikroyd of Folkerthorpe in Yorkshire invited him to that house where his continuance being short he went thence to London to wait upon that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke who owning him for his kinsman and intending his advancement he sent him to travel in 1626 with allowance to defray his charges So that spending some years in travelling into Africa and Asia the great he did at his return wait on the said noble Count who inviting him to dinner the next day at Baynards Castle in London died suddenly that night whereby his expectation of preferment from him being frustrated he left England a second time and visited several parts of Europe After his return he married and setling in his native Country delighted himself more with the converse of the Muses than in the rude and brutish pleasures which most Gentlemen follow In the time of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of the Parliament and by the endeavours of Philip Earl of Pembroke he became not only of the Commissioners of Parliament to reside in the Army of Sir Thomas Fairfax but also a Commiss to treat with those on the Kings side for the surrender of Oxford Garrison Afterwards he attended the said Count especially at that time in Jan. 1646 when he with other Commissioners were sent from the Parliament to the King at Newcastle to treat about peace and bring him nearer to London When his Majesty came thence and was setled at Holdenby in Northamptonshire jealousies increased which begat fears against which there was then no fence The Commissioners persuant to instructions addressed themselves altogether on a certain time unto the King and acquainted him therewith and humbly prayed his Majesty to dismiss such of his servants as were there and had waited upon him at Oxon. This their application was in no wise pleasing to the King he having had long experience of the loyalty and good affection of those his servants as it appeared by his countenance and the pause he made ere he gave the Commissioners any answer Howbeit after some expostulation and deliberation he condescended to what they proposed they not opposing the continuance of Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patr. Maule their attendance upon his royal person as Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber in which place they had several years served the King Next day his Majesties servants came as at other times into the presence Chamber where all dinner time they waited but after his Majesty rose from dinner he acquainted them with what had passed 'twixt him and the Commissioners and thereupon they all knelt and kissed his Majesties hand and with great expressions of grief for their dismiss they poured fourth their prayers for his Majesties freedom and preservation and so left Holdenby All that afternoon the King withdrew himself into his Bedchamber having given order that none should interrupt him in his privacy Soon after this his Majesty purposing to send a message to the Parliament he after dinner called Philip Earl of Pembroke to him and told him that he would have Mr. Herbert come into his Chamber which the Earl acquainting the Commissioners with Mr. Tho. Herbert our author was brought into the Bedchamber by Mr. Maxwell and upon his knees desired to know the Kings pleasure He told him he would send a message to the Parliament and having none there that he usually employed and unwilling it should go under his own hand called him in for that purpose Mr. Herbert having writ as his Majesty dictated was enjoyn'd secrecy and not to communicate it to any until made publick by both Houses if by them held meet which he carefully observed This errand was as I conceive His Majesties message for Peace dated from Holdenby 12. May 1647. About a week after the King was pleased to tell the Commissioners that seeing that Mr. Jam. Levingston Hen. Moray John Ashburnham and Will. Legge were for the present dismist he had taken notice of Mr. Jam. Harrington and Mr. Tho. Herbert who had
72 persons Members of the House of Commons Officers of the Army and Citizens of London sate upon benches some degrees above one another as Judges Hacker I say by order of the Court which was erected in the same place where the Judges of the Kings-bench use to hear causes brought his Majesty to a velvet chair opposite to the President at which time John Cook the Sollicitor General was placed on the Kings right hand I shall pretermit the Judges names the formality of the Court and the proceedings there by way of charge as also his Majesties replies in regard all those particulars have been published at large by several writers Nor indeed was much to be observed seeing his Majesty having heard the allegations against him would sometimes smile but not acknowledge their jurisdiction or that by any known law they had any authority to proceed in that manner against the King it being without example also whereupon the Court made no farther proceedings on that day Afterwards his Majesty was conveyed to Cotton house where Sir Tho. Cotton the Master thereof and Mr. Kinnerslie of the Wardrobe did make the best accommodation they could in so short a time in the Kings Chamber The Soldiers that were upon the Guard were in the very next Chamber to that of the King which his Majesty perceiving he commanded Mr. Herbert to bring his pallet and place it on one side of the Kings bed which he did and there slept Sunday the 21. of Jan. Dr. Will. Juxon the good Bishop of London had as his Majesty desired the Liberty to attend the King which was much to his comfort and as he said no small refreshing to his spirit especially in that his uncomfortable condition The most part of that day was spent in prayer and preaching to the King Munday 22. Jan. Col. Hacker brought his Majesty the second time before the Court then sitting as formerly in Westminster Hall Now the more noble the person is the more heavy is the spectacle and inclines generous hearts to a sympathy in his sufferings Here it was otherwise for assoon as his Majesty came into the Hall some Soldiers made a hideous cry for justice justice some of the Officers joyning with them At which noise the King seemed somewhat abashed but overcame it with patience Sure to persecute a distressed soul and to vex him that is already wounded at the heart is the very pitch of wickedness yea the utmost extremity malice can do or affliction suffer as the learned Bishop of Winchester Bilson saith in one of his Sermons preached before Qu. Elizabeth upon Good Friday which was here very applicable As his Majesty returned from the Hall to Cotton house a Soldier that was upon the Guard said aloud as the King passed by God bless you Sir The King thank'd him but an uncivil Officer struck him with his cane upon the head which his Majesty observing said The punishment exceeded the offence Being come to his apartment in Cotton house he immediatly fell upon his knees and went to prayer which being done he asked Mr. Herbert if he heard the cry of the Soldiers in Westminster hall for justice he answer'd he did and marvell'd much at it So did not I said the King for I am well assur'd the Soldiers bare no malice towards me the cry was no doubt given by their Officers for whom the Soldiers would do the like if there were occasion His Majesty likewise demanded of him how many there were that sate in the Court and who they were he replied there were upward of threescore some of them members of the House of Commons others Commanders in the Army and others Citizens of London some of whom he knew but not all The King then said he viewed all of them but knew not the faces of above eight and those he named The names tho Mr. Herbert told me not yet they were generally supposed to be Thomas Lord Grey of Grobie William L. Monson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir John Danvers Oliver Cromwell who had shew'd seeming civility to him at Childerlie Newmarket and Hampton Court Major Harrison Lieut. Gen. Tho. Hammond c. Tuesday 23. Jan. The King was the third time summoned and as formerly guarded to the Court where as at other times he persisted in his judgment that they had no legal jurisdiction or authority to proceed against him Upon which Cook the Solicitor began to offer some things to the President of the Court but was gently interrupted by the King laying his staff upon the Solicitors arme the head of which being silver hapned to fall off which Mr. Herbert who as his Majesty appointed waited near his Chair stoop'd to take it up but falling on the contrary side to which he could not reach the King took it up himself This was by some looked upon as a bad Omen But whereas Mr. Herbert puts this passage under the 22 of Jan. is a mistake for it hapned on the first day of the Trial when the charge was read against the King The Court sate but a little time that day the K. not varying from his principle At his going back to Cotton house there were many men and women crouded into the passage behind the Soldiers who as his Majesty pass'd said aloud God almighty preserve your Majesty for which the King returned them thanks Saturday 27. Jan. The President came into the Hall and seated himself in his Scarlet Gown whereupon the K. having quick notice of it he forthwith went seated himself in his chair and observing the President in his red Gown did imagine by that sign that it would be the last day of their sitting and therefore he earnestly press'd the Court that altho he would not acknowledge their jurisdiction for those reasons he had given yet nevertheless he desired that he might have a conference in the Painted Chamber with a Committee of Lords and Commons before the Court proceeded any farther whereupon the President and Court arose and withdrew In which interval the K. likewise retired to Cotton house where he and Dr. Juxon were private near an hour and then Colonel Hunks gave notice that the Court was sate The King therefore going away he seated himself in the Chair The President told his Majesty that his motion for a conference with a Committee of Lords and Commons had been taken into consideration but would not be granted by the Court in regard he would not own their jurisdiction nor acknowledge them for a lawful assembly Whereupon the King with vehemency insisted that his reasonable request might be granted that what he had to offer to a Committee of either House might be considered before they pronounced sentence His Majesty had the former day mov'd the President that the grounds and reasons he had put in writing for his disavowing their authority might be publickly read by the Clerk but neither would that desire be granted The President then gave judgment against the King who at the Presidents pronouncing it
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year
questioning and censuring rebellious actions The running title of which in the Corollary it self is this Who can touch the Lords anointed and be guiltless 2 A singular Master-piece of furious Sedition preached Jan. 15. an 1642. on Psal 94.20 Printed with Disloyalty of Language questioned c. 3 The almighty his gracious token of love to his friend Abraham preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristow 3 Jan. 1674 on Acts 7.8 former part Lond. 1676. qu. c. He died in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the north isle of the choire at Bristow over against the tomb of Sir Charles Vaughan Soon after was a flat stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Richardus Towgood S. T. B. obiit Aprilis 21. An. Dom. 1683. aetatis suae octogesimo nono Spes mea reposita est in caelis In his Deanery succeeded Sam. Crossman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Bristow son of Sam. Crossm of Bradfield Monachorum in Suffolk who had it confer'd upon him by his Maj. in the beginning of May following He hath written and published several things as The young mans Monitor c. Lond. 1664. oct and several sermons among which are Two sermons preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol 30 Jan. 1679 and 30 Jan. 1680. being the days of publick humiliation for the execrable murder of K. Ch. 1. Printed at Lond. 1681. qu. Also A Serm. preached 23 Apr. 1680 in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol before the Gentlemen of the Artillery company newly raised in that City Pr. at Lond. 1680. qu. And An humble plea for the quiet rest of Gods ark preached before Sir Joh. Moore L. Mayor of Lond. at S. Mildreds Ch. in the Poultrey 5 Feb. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. c. He died 4 Febr. 1683 aged 59 years and was buried in the south isle of the Cath. Ch. in Bristow After him followed in the said Deanery Rich. Thompson as I shall tell you elsewhere MATHEW SMALWOOD son of Jam. Smal. of Middlewick in Cheshire was born in that County became a Student in this Univ. 1628 aged 16 years Scholar of Brasn Coll. two years after took the degrees in Arts and left the University for a time In 1642. Nov. 1. he was actually created Master of Arts being then in holy Orders and a sufferer in those times if I mistake not for the royal cause After his Majesties restauration in 1660 he was actually created D. of D. by vertue of the Kings Letters for that purpose was about that time made a Dignitary and in 1671 Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Tho. Wood promoted to the See thereof He hath published Several Sermons as one upon Gen. 5.24 another on Prov. 11.18 a third on Math. 5.34 c. All printed after his Maj. restauration He died at Market Bosworth in Leicestershire on the 26 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and three being then there to attend the funeral of Sir Wolstan Dixey and was some days after buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. in Oxon. JOHN DURELL son of Jo. Durell of S. Hillary in the Isle of Jersey was born there entred a Student in Merton Coll. in the latter end of the year 1640 aged 15 years having then a chamber in S. Albans Hall but before he had spent two years there which was under Mr. Tho. Jones he left that antient house Oxford being then garrison'd for his Majesty and the Scholars in arms for him and forthwith retired to France where at Caen in Normandy he took the degree of Master of Arts in the Sylvanian Coll. 8. of July 1644. About which time he studied Divinity carried it on for at least two years at Samaur under the famous Divine and Writer Moses Amyraldus Divinity Reader in that University Afterwards he retired to his own Country continued there for a time among his Relations but at length being expuls'd thence with Monsieur Le Conteur and Dan. Brevint both born in Jersey our author Durell who was the first that left that place took his journey to Paris and there received Episcopal Ordination in the Chappel of the honorable and truly noble Sir Rich. Browne Knight his Majesties then Resident in France from the hands of Thomas Bish of Galloway after the Kings restauration of Orkney about 1651. So that being a native of Jersey ordained in France and by a Scotch Bishop doth make a certain Writer doubt whether he was Ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter as our author stiles himself in his books Soon after he resided at S. Maloes and acquainting his friends with the condition he was then in he was thereupon kindly invited by the reformed Church at Caen by an express on purpose to come there and become one of their Ministers in the absence of Monsieur Sam. Bochart the famous Orientalian Philologist and Critick author of Geographia sacra c. and of that Latin Letter to Dr. George Morley at the end of that book who was then going into Sweden Not long after the Landtgrave of Hessen having written to the Ministers of Paris to send to him a Minister to preach in French at his Highness's Court he was by them recommended to that Prince from whom likewise he received a very kind invitation by Letters which he kept by him to the time of his death But the providence of God not permitting him to go to either of those places he became at length Chaplain to the Duke de la Force Father to the Princess of Turein Monsieur Le Couteur being invited likewise at the same time to the reform'd Church of Caen and Brevint to another Church in Normandy where he was prefer'd to be Chaplain to the Prince of Turein Before I go any farther I must tell you that about 1642 the Duke of Soubize living near to the Court at Whitehall and finding it troublesome and sometime impossible by reason of his infirmities to go to the VValloons Church in the City of London had commonly a French sermon preached before him in his own house every Sunday This being found very commodious to the French living near thereunto it was thought convenient upon the death of the said Duke to set up a French Church about the Strand And it being in a manner setled that in the City did so highly resent it that ever after the members thereof did endeavour by all means possible to pull it down Upon the Kings restauration the French Church in the City addressed his Majesty to have the French Congregation at VVestminster broken and forbidden to assemble because it was not established by lawful authority That at VVestminster did present an humble suit to his Majesty that he would be pleased to continue it His Maj. upon consideration of the matter granted both their requests by breaking the Congregation at VVestm and by setting up a new Church under the immediate jurisdiction of the Bishop of London wherein divine Service
Raphoe in Ireland was first made B. of Raphoe and afterwards of London Derry in that Country who dying in June in sixteen hundred and ninety under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 647. Dr. George Walker was designed to succeed him but he dying of his wound or wounds received in passing over the River Boyne in Ireland when K. Will. 3. went with his Army to encounter that of K. Jam. 2 in the beginning of July following the said Bishoprick of London Derry was confer'd by his Majesty K. Will. 3. in the beginning of Decemb. following on Dr. Will. King Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin at which time his said Majesty did dispose of other vacant Bishopricks in Ireland viz. the Archbishoprick of Cashiell on Dr. Narciss Marsh B. of Ferns c. the Bishoprick of Clogher on Dr. Richard Tenison B. of Killala the Bishoprick of Elphine on Dr. Sim. Digby B. of Limerick the Bishoprick of Ferns on Dr. .... Vigures Dean of Armagh the Bishoprick of Limerick on Dr. Nath. Wilson Dean of Raphoe the Bishoprick of Clonfert on Dr. Will. Fitzgerald Dean of Cloyne and the Bishoprick of Killala on Dr. ...... Lloyd Dean of Achonrey FASTI OXONIENSES An. Dom. 1641. An. 17. Car. 1. THE Chancellour of the University this year was Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Canterbury but he being accused of divers capital crimes in both Houses of Parliament and thereupon committed first to private custody and afterwards to the Tower of London he made a resignation on the 22 of June of all authority and academical administration belonging to him in the University Which resignation under his hand and seal he sent with his Letter of the 25 of the said month to Oxford giving therein very great tokens in a lamenting manner of his love and affection to the University Both which being received they were after a new Chancellour had been elected answer'd with great affection and piety On first of July following the said resignation being published in Convocation Philip Herbert Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery c. High Steward of the University was then elected Chancellour and on the eight of the said month was installed in his House called Bayâ—ards Castle in London The Vicechancellour of the University this year was John Prideaux D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll design'd by the new Chancellour Oct. 7 and soon after became Bish of Worcester But now Hierarchy dayly declining and Bishops not only ejected from the number of Peers in Parliament but also divers Ecclesiastical Persons deprived of acting in secular affairs as aliene from their profession this our worthy Vicechancellour both a spiritual and a temporal Judge next to the Chanc. in academical causes being thereupon thought not fit at least with safety to execute his office the Chanc. by his Letters dated 2 of Mar. this year appointed a Laical person named Giles Sweit LL. D. his Commissary or Deputy to supply his turn in the Courts of Civil affairs of the University Which office tho it was for some time performed by him such were the times that required it yet the like example we never before or since had Proctors Baldwin Acland of Exet. Coll. May 15. Abrah Woodhead of Vniv Coll. May 15. Bach. of Arts. May 13 Pet. Mews of S. Joh. Coll. May 13 Will. How of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards successively Bish of Bathe and Wells and Winchester 25. Tho. Leigh of Wadh. Coll. He afterwards wrot his name Tho. Lye as you may see among the Writers under the year 1684. p. 575. Jun. 25. Rob. Frampton lately of C. C. C now of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards B. of Glocester Jul. 1. Joh. Newton of S. Edmunds Hall Oct. 19. Giles Collier of New Inn Nov. 9. George Hopkins of New Inn 11. Nathaniel Johnson of Hart Hall I set him down here not that he was afterwards a Writer but to distinguish him from Nath. Johnston M. D. of Pomfret in Yorkshire now living author of certain books and the collector of Antiquities of one of the Ridings in Yorkshire Nov. 18. Joh. Humphrey of Pemb. Coll. Dec. 4. Thom. Pierce of Magd. Coll. Jan. 18. Joh. Chetwind of Exet. Coll. The first and the last of these three are living and they having published several books are hereafter to be remembred Feb. 18. Tho. Vaughan alias Eugenius Philalethes of Jes Coll. Mar. 3. Joh. Pendarves of Exet. Coll. 24. Sam. Brunsell of Magd. Hall See among the created Doctors an 1660. Admitted in all this year 223. Bach. of Law Jun. 26. Tim. Baldwin of All 's Coll. Dec. 4. Humph. Newton of All 's Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctors of the Civil Law an 1652. The other I have mention'd among the Writers in Joh. Newton an 1678. p. 472. Mast of Arts. May 13. George Sikes of S. Joh. Coll. He took the degree of Bach. of Arts 9. Ap. 1638 but then omitted by me to be put down under that year because I did not know that he was a Writer See more of him among the created Bach. of Div. an 1649. 20. Joh. Biddle of Magd. Hall 22 Rob. Mead of Ch. Ch. 22 Joh. Towers of Ch. Ch. Jun. 5. Hen. Birkhead of All 's C. Jul. 1. Joh. Osborne of New Inn. 7. Will. Hill of Mert. Coll. 8. Hen. Greisley of Ch. Ch. Dec. 4. Tho. Greenfield of Pemb. Coll. This is the same Thomas Greenfield who as I suppose was afterwards Preacher to the honorable Society of Linc. Inn at Lond and author of A Fast-sermon at S. Marg. Westm 12. Jun. 1661 on Isa 58.5.6.7 Lond. 1661. qu. and of other things as I conceive which is all I know of him only that he was Son of Joseph Greenf Minister of one of the Combes in Somers Dec. 4. George Rogers of Linc. Coll. 16. Anthony Palmer of Ball. Coll. Adm. 122. Bach. of Phys Jul. 10. Nath. Heighmore of Trin. Coll. Two only besides him were admitted this year Bach. of Div. May 15. Thom. Wood of Ch. Ch. See among the Doctors of Div this year Oct. 22. Tho. Greaves of C. C. Coll. Nov. ... George Kendall of Ex. Coll. Franc. Cheynell of Mert. Coll. was a Candidate for the said Degree in the month of December but denied by the Regents for two reasons one of which was that he had preached against his Majesties Declaration Adm. 5. Doct. of Law Jun. 26. Will. Basset of All 's Coll. Jul. 6. Hen. Janson of All 's Coll. The first of these two died at or near Miskin in Glamorganshire in the beginning of 1677. Dec. 4. Joh. Nourse of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Captain of a Foot company in the service of his Maj. against the Rebels at Edghill fight where he was kill'd about the 23 of Octob. 1642. Doct. of Phys Jul. 13. Tho. Nourse of Linc. Coll. He was an eminent Physitian of his time and was of great practice in the City of Westminster especially after his
same with the other then was he created D. D. at 5 years standing in the degree of Bachelaur The said Matthew Fowler was now deeply engaged in his Majesties service for which afterwards he suffered as other Royallists did After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire in the place of Dr. Nich. Bernard deceased where he continued to his dying day He hath published besides Totum hominis mention'd in the Fasti an 1637 a Sermon entit The properties of heavenly wisdome preached at the Assizes held at Shrewsbury in the County of Salop. Lond. 1681-2 qu. He died on S. Stephens day 1683 aged 66 years and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Soon after was a black marble monument set up in the north wall over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was almost 22 years Rector of the said Church that he was descended of the antient family of his name living in Staffordshire that he was first of the Vniversity of Oxon and afterwards of Cambridge and the ornament and glory of both and that when he was a young man of Ch. Ch he was one of the chief of those many Scholars that stood up and valiantly defended the Kings cause c. Other persons also occur created the same day or at least were nominated by his Majesty to be promoted Doctors of Divinity when they were pleased to make intimation to the Vicechancellour as one Ramsdâ—n of Linc. Coll King of Magd. Hall Babington of Ch. Ch. c. Jan. 31. Rob. Marks of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Rich. Langston of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Will. Cox of New Coll. Jan. 31. John Jones of Bras Coll. Thom. Hook of Cambr. was created the same day Feb. 21. William Bayly a Dignitary in Ireland He was soon after made Bishop of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in that Country Feb. 21. Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. Feb. 21. Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. Feb. 21. Thom. Bourman of Cambr. One Rob. Boreman or Bourman Brother to Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Green-cloth to K. Ch. 2. was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards D. of D. and Rector of S. Giles Church in the Fields nâ—â—â— London but what relation he had to the said Thomas I cannot yet tell This Robert who seems to be of the family of the Boremans in the Isle of Wight hath written several things among which are 1 The Countrymans Catechisme or the Churches plea for tithes Lond. 1651. qu. 2 The triumph of learning over ignorance and of truth and falshood Being an answer to four quaeries first whether there be any need of Vniversities c. Lond. 1653. qu. 3 Life and death of Freeman Sonds Esq 4 Relation of Sir George Sonds narrative of the passages on the death of his two Sons Both printed at Lond. in qu. The said Freeman Son of Sir George was hanged for murdering his Brother 5 A mirrour of Christianity and a mirrour of charity or a true and exact narrative of the life and death of Alice Dutchess Duddeley c. Lond. 1669. qu. The said Dutchess who had been the Wise of Sir Rob. Dudley died in her house near the Church of S. Giles in the fields 22. Jan. 1668 aged 90 years 6 Sermon on Philip. 3.20 Ibid. 1669. qu. This person Dr. Boreman after he had spent his time in celebacy died at Greenwich in Kent in the Winter time 1675. Mar. 4. Laurence Hinton of Mert. Coll. Prebend of Winchester He died at Shilbolton or Chilbolton in Hampshire of which he was Rector an 1658. 24. Will. Sherbourne of S. John Coll. in this Univ. and Prebend of Hereford He suffered afterwards much for the Kings cause and lost all his spiritualities but being restored to them again after his Majesties return enjoyed himself in a quiet repose for almost 20 years He died at Pembridge in Herefordsh of which he was Rector in the month of Apr. 1679 aged 92 years An. Dom. 1643. An. 19. Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery c. but he being thought unworthy to bear the said office by the King and University forasmuch as he was actually against the former in the present War and altogether neglected the other the K. authorized the members thereof to make choice of another wherefore they calling a convocation on the 24 of Octob. did elect for their Chancellour one that had been formerly of Magd. Coll viz. Will. Marquess of Hertford Vicount Beauchamp Baron Seymour c and on the 31 of the said month they admitted and installed him in the House of convocation then in the north chap. joyning to S. Maries Church in the presence of the Bishops of Bathe and Wells Salisbury Rochester and divers of the Nobility that were then in the University Vicechanc. Joh. Tolson D. D. Provost of Oriel who continuing in his office till the 18 of Nov Dr. Pink before mention'd succeeded him Proct. George Wake of Magd. Coll. Apr. 12. Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. Apr. 12. The senior Proctor having sprain'd his leg or else put it out of joynt and therefore not able to come to the convocation house to be admitted that ceremony a dispensation being first granted was performed in his Chamber at Magd. Coll. As for the other Proctor he dying 29. Nov. Mr. Joh. Maplâ—t of the same house succeeded Dec. 9. This year in the month of Oct. the courts of Parliament assembled in the Schools and there sate for some time so that upon that account and that the other Schools were employed as Granaries all exercises and lectures if any at all were performed in S. Maries Church Bach. of Arts. July 4. Joh. Ahier of New Coll. See among the Masters an 1646. Dec. 2. John Lakenby of Magd. Coll. This person who was the Son of Simon Lakenby of Shadford in the County Pal. of Durham did afterwards retire to S. Edm. Hall and lived there a close student till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred an 1646. At which time perceiving the English Church tottering he went beyond the Sea changed his religion and was entred into the English Coll. at Doway After some time spent there he returned into England became Usher to James Shirley when he taught in the White Fryers at London in the time of Oliver but being seized on and imprisoned for some time was at length released and died in London in a mean condition He was accounted famous among those of his opinion for the Greek and Latin tongues and for ecclesiastical history Feb. 16. John Douch of Trin. Coll. This person who was a Dorsetshire man born hath extant A Serm. on 1. Sam. 10.24 Print 1660. qu. Adm. 73. Bach. of Law But two this year were admitted viz. John Jennings of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 20 and Thomas Godwin sometimes a member of this University Mast of Arts. Apr. 12. Gilb. Coles of New Coll. Apr. 12. Nich. Ward of Sydney
Earl Marshal to whom he was then or lately Secretary was sworn Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray because no person can be King of Armes before he is Herald and on the 23 of Dec. the same year he was created Norroy King of Armes at Arundel-house in the Strand in the place of Sir Rich. S. George created Clarenceaux On the 17 of July 1624 he received the honour of Knighthood and in 1634 he was made Garter King of Armes in the place of Sir Will. Segar deceased This learned and polite person who writes his Sirname in Latine Burrhus hath written 1 Impetus juveniles quaedam sedatioris aliquantulum animi epistolae Oxon. 1643. oct Most of the epistles are written to Philip Bacon Sir Franc. Bacon afterwards Lord Verulam Thom. Farnabie Tho. Coppin Sir Hen. Spelman c. 2 The Soveraignty of the British Seas proved by records history and the municipal laws of the Kingdom Lond. 1651. in tw It was written in the year 1633. He hath also made A collection of records in the Tower of London which I have not yet seen He died in Oxon to which place he had retired to serve his Majesty according to the duty of his office on the 21. of Octob. 1643 and was buried the next day at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side to the choire of the Cath. of Ch. Church in the University Of Oxon. Octob 31. Sir George Radcliff Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Vniv Coll was after he had been presented by Dr. Rich. Steuart Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation celebrated in the north Chappel commonly called Ad. Bromes Chap of S. Maries Church He afterwards suffered much for the Kings cause as he in some part had done before for the sake of the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford was with him in his exile and died some years before his restauration You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives actions c. of excellent personages c. by Dav. Lloyd M. A. pag. 148. 149 c. Nov. 18. Thom. Bird a Captain in the Kings Army and about this time Governour of Eccleshal in Staffordshire was then actually created After his Majesties restauration he became one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and on the 12 of May 1661 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty Jan. 31. Sir Rich. Lane Knight Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law with more than ordinary ceremony This worthy person who was the Son of Rich. Lane of Courtenhall in Northamptonshire by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Clem. Vincent of Harpole in the said County was educated from his youth in the study of the Com. Law in the Middle Temple where he made great proficiency beyond his contemporaries was called to the Bar and became a Counsellour of note In the 5. of Char. 1. he was elected Lent Reader of his Inn but did not read because of the pestilence and when the Long Parliament began he was so much esteemed for his great knowledge in the Law that the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford made use of him to manage his cause when he was tried for high treason in the latter end of 1640. Soon after he was made Attorney to Prince Charles at which time seeing what strange courses the members of Parliament took when the King had given them leave to sit he entrusted his intimate friend Bulstrode Whitlock a Counsellour of the Middle Temple with his Chamber there all his goods therein and an excellent Library and forthwith leaving London he retired to the King at Oxon where in 1643 he was made Serjeant at Law Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer a Knight on the 4 of Jan. the same year and about the same time one of his Majesties honourable Privy Council In the latter end of the next year he was nominated one of the Commissioners by his Maj. to treat of Peace with those of the Parliament at Vxbridge and on the 30 of Aug. 1645 he had the Great Seal delivered to him at Oxon on the death of Edward Lord Littleton In May and June 1646 he was one of the prime Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and soon after conveyed himself beyond the Sea to avoid the barbarities of the Parliament In his absence his Son was conducted to the said B. Whitlock then in his greatness to the end that the said goods of his Father then in his possession might be delivered to him for the use of his said Father who then wanted them but Whitlock would not own that he ever knew such a Man as Sir Richard and therefore he kept what he had of his to the great loss of him the said Sir Richard who died as a certain author tells us in the Isle of Jersey before the month of Aug. 1650 but false as I presume because that on the 22 of Apr. 1651 a Commission issued forth from the Prerogative Court to the Lady Margaret his Relict to administer the goods chattels and debts of him the said Sir Richard late of Kingsthorp in Northamptonshire who died in the Kingdom of France This Sir Rich. Lane who was an eminent Professor of the Law hath written Reports in the Court of Exchecquer beginning in the third and ending in then ninth of K James 1. Lond. 1657 fol. On the 29 of Jan. 1657 the Great Seal was delivered by his Majesty at Bruges in Flanders to Sir Edw. Hyde Knight Sir John Glanvill Kt Serjeant at Law was created the same day Jan. 31. and admitted in the house of Congregation and Convocation as Sir Rich. Lane was This Sir John was a younger Son of John Glanvill of Tavistock in Devonshire one of the Justices of the Common Bench who died 27 July 1600 and he the third Son of another John of the same place where and in that County their name was gentile and antient When he was young he was not educated in this University but was as his Father before him bred an Attorney and afterwards studied the Common Law in Lincolns Inn and with the help of his Fathers notes became a great proficient When he was a Counsellour of some years standing he was elected Recorder of Plymouth and Burgess for that place to serve in several Parliaments In the 5. of Char. 1. he was Lent Reader of his Inn and on the 20 of May 1639 he was made Serjeant at Law at which time having engaged himself to be a better Servant to the King than formerly for in several Parliaments he had been an enemy to the Prerogative he was in the year following elected Speaker for that Parliament which began at Westm on the 13 of April in which he shew'd himself active to promote the Kings desires On the 6 of July the same year he
Presbyterian was now 1648 a forward Preacher up of the cause in the Church of S. Martin and in that of Allsaints within the City of Oxon. His usual form of prayer for the King before his Sermons was that if God took any pleasure in him he would do so and so c. When he was created Bach. of Div. he took the oath of Allegiance but with this salvo I take this Oath so far forth as it doth not contradict the national Covenant Feb. 9. George Marshall M. of A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge a Student in Divinity for twenty years at least Chaplain to the Garrison of Oxon belonging to the Parliament and the designed and nominated Warden of New Coll was then also created Johan Progulbicki born in the Province or Dukedome of Samogitie in Poland was created the same day He was now or at least lately Deacon or Catechist of the Church of Keidun in the said Dukedome and one of the Scholars of the illustrious Prince Janusius Radzevill the chief Fautor and Patron of the reformed Church in those part This Progulbicki had spent before this time four years in several Universities in Germany and Holland Mar. 8. Isaac Knight Chaplain to Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parliament Army Doct. of Law April 14. Samuel Aneley of Qu Coll. This person who wrot himself afterwards and was called by the name of Annesley because it is the same with a noble name hath written and published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers He is now or at least was lately living a Nonconformist Divine either in or near London See in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 404. b. Jan. 5. John Miils LL. Bach. one of the Visitors and Canon of Ch. Ch. He had been lately Judge Advocate of the Parliament Army and was this year put into possession of his Canonry but in 1651 being turned out thence for denying the Oath called the Engagement Ambr. Vpton succeeded as I have before told you On the 13. of March 1659 he was restored to his Canonry by the Rump Parliament with the secluded members added to them but soon after upon his Majesties restauration he was forced to leave it to make room for Dr. Edw. Pococke See Hist Antiq. Vniv Ox lib. 2. p. 259. a. 261. a. Soon after by the favour of Dr. Edward Reynolds he became Chancellour of Norwich and died in or near Doctors Commons in London about the beginning of the year 1676. Doct. of Phys April 12. Joh. Palmer alias Vaulx Bach. of Phys of Queens Coll now a Recruiter of the Long Parliament was actually created Doct. in the presence of the Chancellour The next day he was put into possession of the Lodgings belonging to the Warden of All 's Coll. by the said Chancellour and Visitors Dr. Sheldon the Warden being then dismist by them and imprison'd See Hist Antiq. Vniv Ox. lib. 1. p. 402. b. 403. a. Apr. 14. Tobie Garbrand alias Herks Bach. of Phys and Principal of Gloc. Hall was also actually created In 1660 he being turn'd out from his Principality he retired to Abendon in Berks practised his faculty there and dying 7. Apr. 1689 was buried in S. Helens Church in that Town Samuel Thompson of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of Will. Thomp of Westbury in Wilts Minister of Gods word wrot Exercitations and Meditations on some texts of holy Scripture and most in Scripture phrase and expression Lond. 1676. oct In the title of this book he writes himself Master of Arts and Doct. of Physick but whether he was Mast of Arts of this University it appears not in the publick register April 14. John French of New Inn. I have spoken of him at large among the Writers Apr. 15. Peter Dormer of Magd. Hall He was the fifth Son of Fleetwood Dormer of Grange in Bucks and a Neighbour and Relation to the Earl of Caernarvan Feb. 9. Humphrey Whitmore of S. Maries Hall was then created by vertue of the Letters sent to the Convocation from Fairfax the General now Lord Fairfax which say that he is a Physitian of note and eminency in those Cities and Towns where he hath lived and that he hath been a member of both Vniversities c. Mar. 8. Abraham Huard alias Lomprè sometimes of the University of Caen in Normandy was then created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that his affections to the cause of the Parliament have exposed him to sufferings That he is a Protestant of France and his quality and sufferings have been made known to me by persons of honour Gentlemen of quality and Physitians of this Kingdom as also by one Mr. Joh. Despaigne one of the French Ministers of London c. Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Edward Reynolds M. A. Dean of Ch. Church by order of Parliament and actually put into possession of it by the breaking open the doors belonging to the Dean in the morn of this day by the Chancellour Visitors and a band of the Soldiers of the Garrison of Oxon was declared Doct. of Div in a Convocation held in the afternoon by order of Parliament He was not presented Doctor according to the usual manner and custome only stood near the Chancellours Chair while the order of the said Parliament was reading And the reason for this unusual way was because there was no Vicechancellour to whom he should be presented and if he had been presented to the Chancellour he could not have returned any Latine for he understood it not After the said order was read and he seated among the Doctors another was produced by vertue of which he was to be Vicechancellour which being read he was admitted by Sir Nathan Brent as I have before told you in the beginning of this year and thereupon he took his place Apr. 12. Rob. Harris Bach. of Div. of Magd. Hall The next day he was put into possession of the Presidents lodings of Trinity Coll by the breaking open the doors thereof a little before which time the old and loyal President had withdrawn himself to avoid imprisonment Afterwards he removed his family to the said Lodgings but before they were setled there three quarters of a year the new President employed a Painter to do some work there for him in the week before that of the Act if one had been solemnized an 1649. Which Painter pulling down some old boards and shelves found two bags sealed and a paper in the mouth of each which signified that there was an 100 l. in each bag And tho they were covered with dust about half an inch thick yet Dr. Harris and his Wife solely addicted to money and reformation presently own'd them and said confidently that they were theirs but oportet mendacem esse memorem For first he had not been setled in his Lodgings scarce 3 quarters of a year and the baggs were so old and overcovered with dust as if they had laid there 40 years
A. of Ch. Ch. and Preb. of Winchester Nov. 9. Tho. Lamplugh B. D. of Qu. Coll. Nov. 9. Tho. Tully B. D. of Qu. Coll. The first of these three became Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Tho. Gorges deceased and dying on the 29 of March 1684 aged 74 years his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Rob. Sharrock 19. Thom. Manton of Wadh. Coll. the noted Presbyterian 29. Thom. Lockey B. D. and Student of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Canon of that House and dying on the 29 of June 1679 aged 78 years was buried in the second isle joyning on the north side to the Choire of Ch. Ch. where there is a neat monument over his grave He was a retired and studious person had been a great Tutor in his house in the time of Usurpation a Collector of pictures coines medals c. All or most of which with his choice Library came into the hands of Dr. Hen. Killigrew Preb. of Westminster Tho. Hacket M. A. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin was actually created the same day He was Dean of Cork in Ireland afterwards Vicar of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty and at length Bishop of Downe He hath extant A Convocation Sermon at Dublin on 1. Cor. 14.16 printed 1662 in qu. and A Sermon preached at the Spittle upon Tuesday in Easter week 1672 printed the same year at Lond. in qu and perhaps other things Dec. 1. Nich. Cordel of All 's Fellow of Eaton Coll. Dec. 1. Joh. Gough commonly called Goffe M. A. of Magd. Coll. Dec. 1. Rich. West M. of A. of Ch. Ch. The last of these three who was Son of Thomas West of the antient Borough of Northampton Priest was elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1632 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being completed in 1639 and afterwards suffer'd for the Royal cause Much about the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of Shillingston in Dorsetshire and afterwards Preb. of Wells He hath published The profitableness of piety opened in an Assize Sermon preached at Dorchester 24 of March 167 0 1 before Sir Rich. Rainsford Kt one of the Judges of the Kings Bench on 1. Tim. 4. latter part of the 7. and 8 verses Lond. 1671. qu. Dec. 1. Edw. Clerke M. A. of Hart Hall Dec. 1. Edm. Morgan M. A. of Magd. Hall Dec. 1. Edw. Hicks of Oriel Coll. The last of these three who was Son of Joh. Hicks Minister of Barrington in Glocestershire became a Student in the said Coll. of Oriel in 1639 aged 15 years left it when the War began without taking the degree of B. of A sided with the predominant party return'd to his house after the War was ended submitted to the Visitors and then took the degree of Master Afterwards he became Rector of Hartingfordbury in Hertfordshire procured by his interest as certain other Presbyterians did to be created D. D. among the Royallists and afterwards being ejected from his living for Nonconformity as a printed Catalogue of the generality of Nonconformists in England informs me did afterwards conform and became Rector of S. Margaret Patens in the City of London He hath published The righteous Judge Sermon preached at Hertford Assize 10. March 1681 2 on Gen. 18.25 last part Lond. 1682. qu. It is dedicated by the author to Sir Nich. Miller Kt High Sherriff of Hertfordshire by his Epist dated at Buckland in the same County 29 of March 1682 of which place he was then as I suppose Rector What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in the latter end of the said year 1682. Dec. 1. Gilb. Ironside the designed B. of Bristow B. of D. of Trin. Coll. Diplomated D. of D. Dec. 1. Will. Nicolson the desig B. of Gloc. B. of D. of Magd. Coll. Diplomated D. of D. 11. Tho. Smith afterwards Bishop of Carlile B. of D. of Queens Coll. Diplomated D. of D. 15. Joh. Gurgany of Mert. Coll. was created for his several laudable Sermons preached before the King and Parliament while Oxon was a Garrison for his Majesty This person who had been outed of his Chaplainship of Merton Coll. by the Visitors in 1648 suffered afterwards as other Loyallists did but after his Majesties restauration he became Preb. of Winterbourne Earles in the Church of Salisbury Preb. of Chichester and Rector of Clapham in Surrey at which place he died in Aug. or thereabouts an 1675. See more of him in Joh. Gregory among the Writers p. 50. John Castillion M. A. of Ch. Ch. and Preb. of Canterbury was created the same day On the 15 of Nov. 1676 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Thom. Lamplugh promoted to the See of Exeter and dying about the latter end of Octob. 1688 his Majesty K. Jam. 2. nominated Mr. Sim. Lowth to succeed him but he being not then D. D and not in a possibility to obtain that degree before the said K. left the Nation K. Will. 3. gave it to one Dr. ... Vllock January 16. Sam. Brunsell of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of Oliver Brunsell of Wroughton in Dorsetshire became a Com. of the said Hall 1636 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts 1641 and then left the University because the rebellion soon after broke out After his Majesties restauration if not before he became Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire and at length Preb. of Southwell c. He hath published Solomons blessed Land Sermon before an extraordinary assembly at Newark upon Trent on the 29 May 1660 on Ecclesiast 10.17 Lond. 1660. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 24. Joshua Childrey of Magd. Coll. Mar. 1. Edw. Cotton M. A. of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Cornwall in the place of Dr. Rob. Hall I have made mention of his Father of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 813. James Stermont a Dutch Divine was diplomated the same day by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which partly run thus While his Majesty was in the parts beyond the Sea he had evidence of the affections of this Mr. James Stermont Minister of the Hague in Holland who has a great repute for piety and learning with those among whom he lives And by the affections he has declared to the Church and Crown of England deserves the acknowledgment of all who wish well to either c. This person being a high Royalist for the cause of the King of England 't was frequent with him to have several passages in his Sermons at the Hague esteemed by those that were not lovers of his Majesty to be extravagancies invectives and strange digressions which being looked upon as much tending to the prejudice of peace and the intended treaties between England and Holland he was forced to recant before the high and mighty States general an 1651. Mar. 12. William Holder of Cambridge This worthy person who
him Sir John Nicholas Kt. of the Bath Will. Blathwait and Charles Montague Esquires This Rich. Cooling was originally as it seems of All 's Coll. The said nine persons were actually created on the 8 of Sept. Doct. of Law Sept. 8. Sir Cyrill Wyche Kt son of Sir Pet. Wyche sometimes Controller of his Majesties Houshold now a Burgess in Parliament for Kellington in Cornwall He was M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in the times of Usurpation was afterwards Secretary to the Lieutenancy in Ireland one of the Royal Society and a Burgess in other Parliaments Nov. 7. Sir Henneage Finch Kt Sollicitor General and one of the Burgesses of the Univ. to sit in Parliament Col. Giles Strangwaies sometimes of Wadh. Coll. now a Knight for the County of Dorset to serve in Parl was created the same day This most loyal and worthy Gent. who was of Melbury Samford in the said County died 1675. The said two persons were created Doctors of the Civil Law in a Convocation held on that day Nov. 7. after they had communicated the thanks of the honorable House of Commons lately sitting in the said Convocation-house to the members of the University for their Reasons concerning the solemn League and Covenant negative Oath c. made 1647. Laurence Hyde Esq another Burgess for the University and Sir Joh. Birkenhead were the other two that were besides the two former appointed to return thanks and were then present in Convocation but the first of these last two was not created Doctor of the Civ Law because he had before been diplomated M. A which he then thought was sufficient and the other created Doctor as I have before told you Doct. of Phys Sept. 8. Robert Boyle Esq was created after Edw. E. of Manchester had been incorporated This honorable person who was the fourth son of Richard the first Earl of Cork was born at Lismore in Ireland whence after he had been well grounded in juvenile Learning he went to the Univ. of Leyden and spent some time there in good Letters Afterwards he travelled into France Switzerland Italy c. and spending some time in Rome he was so much satisfied with the curiosities there that afterwards he never had any desire to see or view the Curiosities or Antiquities of other places After his return into England being then accounted a well bred Gentleman he setled in Oxon in the time of Oliver about 1657 where he carried on his great delight in several studies especially in experimental Philosophy and Chimistry spent much money entertained Operators to work in his Elabratory which he had built for his own use and often did repair to the Club of Virtuosi in the Lodgings of Dr. Wilkins Warden of Wadh. Coll and they to him in his joyning to Vniv Coll. and opposite to that of Allsoules After his Majesties restauration when the Royal Society was erected he was made one of the first members thereof was one of the Council belonging thereunto and the greatest promoter of new Philosophy of any among them After he had left Oxon for London he setled in the house of his sister Catherine Lady Ranelaugh where he erected an Elaboratory kept men at work and carried on Chimistry to the last The books that he hath written are many some of which are printed beyond the Seas and are there highly valued In all which he hath done such things for the benefit of the world and increase of knowledge that none hath yet equall'd much less gone beyond him In them you 'll find the greatest strength and the gentilest smoothness the most generous knowledge and the sweetest modesty the noblest discoveries and the sincerest relations the greatest Self-denial and the greatest love of men the profoundest insight into philosophy and nature and the most devout affectionate sense of God and of Religion as in any Works whatsoever written by other men c. This worthy person died 30 of Decemb. 1691 aged 64 years or thereabouts and was buried on the 7 of Jan. following at the upper end on the south side of the Chancel of the Church of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster near to the body of his sister the Lady Ranelaugh before mention'd who dying about a week before him the grief for her death put him in convulsion fits which carried him off Soon after were Elegies and Epitaphs on him made public as also the Sermon at his funeral preached by Dr. Gilb. Burnet Bish of Sarum in all which you 'll find just Encomiums of him as no doubt you will in the life of him the said Mr. Boyle about to be published by the said Doctor The eldest brother of this Mr. Rob. Boyle was Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork The next was Roger Earl of Orery a great Poet Statesman Soldier and great every thing which merits the name of great and good He hath published four Plays in heroick verse highly valued and commended by ingenious men and died in Octob. 1679. The third was Francis Viscount Shannon whose Pocket Pistol as he stiled his book may make as wide breaches in the walls of the Capitol as many Canons These were his elder brothers and besides them he had seven Sister all married to noble persons This year in the month of Septemb. Andr. Marvel a Burgess for Kingston upon Hull to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8. May 1661 became a Sojourner in Oxford for the sake of the public Library and continued there I presume some months See in Sam. Parker among the Writers an 1687 p. 619 where you 'll find an account of him and his Works In the beginning of Dec. following was entred into the said Library Arthur Trevor an eminent and famous common Lawyer c. In January following Francis Sandford an Officer of Arms attending the King now in Oxon was entred also in the said Library with the liberty then allowed to him of a Student This person having published several books I must according to the method that I have hitherto followed let the Reader know that tho he was descended from the antient and gentile Family of the Sandfords of Sandford in Shropshire yet he was born in the Castle of Carnow in the County of Wicklow in Ireland and half Barony of Shelelak which half Barony was purchased of K. Jam. 1. by his mothers father called Calcot Chambre When the Rebellion broke out in Ireland Francis being then about eleven years of age his Relations carried him thence into England setled themselves at Sandford with intentions to breed him a Scholar but then the Rebellion breaking out there and his family afterwards Sufferers for the Royal Cause he had no other education than what Grammar Schools afforded On the 6 of June 13 Car. 2. he was by Letters Patent created Pursuivant at Arms by the name and title of Rouge Dragon and afterwards on the 16 of Nov. in the 27 of the said Kings Reign he was created Lancaster Herald of Arms Which office he held
which he delivered with much boldness gained him the esteem of his Auditors who for the most part charm'd with his eloquence and full of compassion for his misery soon cast about to put him into a condition of appearing in a decent habit and subsisting After this he was much favoured by some and as much hated by the Roman Catholicks particularly by St. Germaine a Jesuit in London who pretending to assassinate him as Luzancy gave out was a Proclamation issued forth for his protection and the taking of S. Germaine to bring him to condign punishment After this Luzancy's advancement being powerfully carried on the B. of London took care to have him ordained with a design of putting him in a condition of becoming one day a great Defender of the Church of England All which being done in a hurry 't was to little purpose for the Pastors and several Masters of Families of the Church at the Savoy to cry out against But while these things were in doing a Minister of the Church of England belonging to the French Church at the Savâ—y named Rich. du Marescq full of zeal to the truth printed a Sermon which he had preached during these bustles and in the preface to it doth give a true and just character of Luzancy not for his goodness but baseness lying dissimulation c. Which Serm. and Pref. as soon as they appeared in publick the B. of London caused all the copies to be seized and the author to be cited to the Bish Court interdicted the function of his charge because he refused to ask God forgiveness his neighbour the Church his Superior and to sign and seal a Declaration and at length openly suspended him for reasons reserved to the Bishop and his Officers After he had continued in that condition for some time he was at the intreaties of Dr. Jo. Durell and Monsieur Ruvigny who had a mind to oblige the Bishop restored to the exercise of his charge upon a bare acknowledgment that he was in the wrong to print his preface without license from his Superior or any else in authority c. After the following Christmas our author Luzancy went to Oxford where by vertue of several Letters of commendation he was received into Ch. Ch. by the Dean there had a Chamber allowed to him and such diet that belongs to Master-students at the charge I think of the Bishop of London On the 26 of Jan. following there was a Convocation of Doctors and Masters celebrated wherein the Letters of the Duke of Ormonde Chanc. of the University dat 2. Dec. were publickly read in his behalf which partly run thus This Gentleman Monsieur Luzancy was bred in the University of Paris in the Romish religion but having lately professed himself a member of the Church of England and given some testimonies of his adherence thereunto has made it his humble request for his encouragement to be recommended to the University for their favour in conferring upon him the degree of Master of Arts He has not his Testimonials from the University of Paris of the degree he took there but I doubt not when you shall discourse with him you 'll find him a person meriting that favour c. After the reading of that Letter Luzancy by the consent of the House was then actually created M. of A as I have before told you About the time of Easter in the beginning of Apr. 1676 was spread abroad by certain R. Catholicks a Pamphlet entit A Letter from a Gentleman at Lond. to his friend in the Country c. Printed at Lond in two sheets and an half in qu wherein are some of Luzancy's actions represented while he was in France but more while he was in England the Bishop of London and Dr. Franc. Durant de Brevall Preb. of Westm and Rochester sometimes a Capuchin Fryer reflected on severely and many things said which doth invalidate the K. Proclamation before mention'd At length some of the dispersers of that Pamph. it being discovered particularly Will. Rogers of Linc. Inn a zealous Proselyte for the R. Cath. cause he was seized on by a Messenger and brought before the Kings Council in Aug. following from whom receiving several checks and threatnings was at length released In the latter end of 1679 Luzancy left the University having before borrowed a considerable sum of money of one of the Chapl. of Ch. Ch. P. B. for whom he pretended kindness but he minding not the payment of he was sued for it by Law At the same time he became by the favour of the Bishop of London Vicar of Dover-Court in Essex to the Church of which place the Town of Harwich belongs so that he was Vicar of that also as well as of Dover-Court Soon after to prevent an unchast life he married a Gentlewoman in those parts where he was lately perhaps still living He hath written and pub 1 Serm. on the day of his abjuration at the Savoy 11. July 1675 on Joh. 8.32 Lond. 1675 qu. in French Translated into English Lond. 1676. qu. 2 Reflections on the Council of Trent Oxon. 1677. oct 3 Treatise against irreligion Lond. 1678. oct Justus Christop Schomerus and M. Meno Reich both of Lubeck in Saxony were Sojournours and Students this year in the University and afterwards learned men in their own Country The first who was Professor and Superintendent at Lubeck wrot one or more books against the Socinians and other things Besides them were also Sojournours Paul Bauldrey a Frenchman of note and Joh. Wandalinus of Copenhagen in Denmark both learned men the first of which hath written notes on Lanctantius de morte Persecutorum and the other who was afterwards Professor of Div. at Copenhagen De esu sanguinis c. An. Dom. 1676. An. 28. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Henry Clerk Doct. of Physick and Priest President of Magd. Coll. Oct. 9. Proct. Baptista Levinz of Magd. Coll. Apr. 5. Nathan Pelham of New Coll. Apr. 5. The Senior of these two Proctors was while Proctor elected and admitted moral Phil. Professor in the place of Mr. Abr. Campion 27. Mar. 1677 who enjoying it till the beginning of the year 1682 Will. Halton M. A. of Qu. Coll. was elected thereunto about the 7 of April the same year After his time was expir'd for he that is Professor enjoyeth the Lecture but for 5 years Joh. Barnard M.A. of Brasn Coll. was elected thereunto 28. Mar. 1687 by vertue of the Mandamus of K. Jam. 2 dated on the first of January going before After his removal thence for being a Papist tho since return'd to his former opinion which was after the said King left England Will. Christmas M. A. of New Coll. succeeded him in the latter end of Dec. 1688. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 6. Tho. Lyndesay of Wadh. Coll. See among the Masters in 1678. 29. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. He hath published two or more books May 27. Nathaniel Williams of Jes Coll. He was
the River of Boyne in the County of Lowth to fight the Forces belonging to K. James 2 and soon after he expir'd at or near Tredagh An. Dom. 1690. An. 2. Will. 3. An. 2. Qu. Mary Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Edwards again Oct. 6. Proct. Franc. Browne of Mert. Coll. Apr. 30. Franc. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 30. Bach. of Arts. July 10. Edward Wells of Ch. Ch. He hath published Two Geographical Tables containing the principal Countries Kingdoms Provinces Islands c. of the now known world c. one in English and another in Latine and both printed at Oxon. 1690. Adm. 156. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or person of note Mast of Arts. May 5. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. He is author of Tabellae Dialectorum in Graecis Declinationibus c. Lond. 1691. oct c. 8. James Harrington of Ch. Ch. He is now a Barrister of the Inner Temple and hath written and published several books July 8. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall He was afterwards author of An amical call to repentance and the practical belief of Gospel as being the only way to have peace and content here c. Lond. 1691. 2. in tw c. Adm. 71. Bach. of Phys Eight were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Seven were admitted of whom Rob. Wynn of Jesus Coll a Compounder and Chancellour of the Diocese of S. Asaph was one June 26. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 28. Nich. Stanley of All 's Coll. He compounded and accumulated July 10. Will. Boyse of C. C. Coll. He accum Doct. of Div. May 31. Tho. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. He was elected Warden of his Coll upon the promotion of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Bristow on the 21 of Octob. 1689. June 21. Matthew Hutton of Brasn Coll. Comp. July 8. Joh. Price of Ch. Ch. July 8. Franc. Morley of Ch. Ch. July 8. Thom. Burton of Ch. Ch. The two first of these three were Compounders and Accumulators Incorporations The Act being the sixth time put off not one Cambr. Master was incorporated only one which was before the time of Act. Two also were incorporated from Dublin Creations May 22. George Royse of Oriel Coll was actually created Doct. of Div. On the first of Dec. 1691 he was elected Provost of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Rob. Say deceased Dec. 11. Francis Lord North Baron of Guilford a Nobleman of Trin. Coll was after he had been presented by the Dep. Orator actually created Master of Arts being then about to leave the University His Father Sir Francis North second Son of Dudâ—ey Lord North was from being L. Ch. Just of the Common-pleas advanced to the honorable office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England on the 20 of Dec. 1682 and in Sept. 1683 he was for his great and faithful services that he had rendred the Crown created a Baron of this Kingdom by the name and stile of Baron of Guilford in Surrey He died at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordshire on the 5 of Sept. 1685 and was privately buried in a vault under part of the Church there among the ancestors of his Wife named Frances the second daughter and coheir of Thomas Pope Earl of Downe in Ireland uncle to Thomas the last Earl of Downe of the straight or linial descent of that family who died at Oxon in the year 1660 as I have told you in the 397 page of this book But whereas 't is said there that he married the eldest daughter and coheir is an errour for it was the second the first named Beata having been married to Will. Some of Suffolk Esquire and the youngest named Finetta to Robert Hyde Esq Son of Alexander sometimes Bishop of Salisbury Sir George Makenzie of Rosehaugh de Valle Rosarum in the County of Rosse in Scotland having left that Country upon the change of the Government there and violent proceedings of the Kâ—rk party an 1689 he retired to Oxon in the month of Sept. that year became a Sojournour there for a time a frequenter of the publick Library and on the second day of June 1690 he was by the favour of the Ven. Congregation of Regents admitted a Student therein where he continued all that Summer This most worthy and loyal Gentleman Son of Simon Makenzie Brother to the Earl of Seaforth by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of a Gentleman of an antient and heroick Extraction named Dr. And. Bruce Rector of the University of S. Andrew was born at Dundee in the County of Angus an 1636 and having an ardent desire from his Childhood for the obtaining of good Letters he was at about 10 years of age at which time he had conquered his Grammar and the best classical authors sent to the University of Aberdene where and afterwards in that of S. Andrew he ran through the Classes of Logick and Philosophy under the tuition of several eminent Masters before he was scarce 16 years of age Afterwards applying his studies with great zeal to the Civil Law he travelled into France and in the University of Bourges he continued in an eager pursuit of that faculty for about three years time After his return to his native Country he became an Advocate in the Courts at Edenburgh being then scarce 20 years of age and in 1661 he was made choice of to be an Advocate for pleading the causes of the Marquess of Argyle and afterwards became a Judge in the criminal Court which office he performed with great faith justice and integrity In 1674 or thereabouts he was made the Kings Lord Advocate and one of his Privy Council and notwithstanding the great troubles and molestations that arose from the fanatical party yet he continued in those places and stood steady faithful and just in the opinion of all good and loyal men till the beginning of the raign of K. James 7 at which time being averse in lending his assistance to the taking away of the penal laws he was removed and Sir Joh. Dalrimple now Secretary of State in Scotland under K. Will. 3. was put into his place Some time after his removal he was restored and continued L. Advocate and Privy Counsellour till K. Will. 3. made a revolution in Scotland and then he went into England as I have before told you He was a Gentleman well acquainted with the best authors whether antient or modern of indefatigable industry in his studies great abilities and integrity in his profession powerful at the Bar just on the Bench an able Statesman a faithful Friend a loyal Subject a constant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities of strict honour in all his actions and a zealous Defender of piety and religion in all places and companies His conversation was pleasant and useful severe against vice and loose principles without regard to quality or authority a great lover of the Laws