and near Oxon. Afterwards he was Lecturer of Allhallows Church in Breadstreet within the City of London took the degree of Bach. of Div. in the year 1633 and about that time became Vicar of S. Andrews Church in the then factious town of Plymouth in Devon where continuing in great liking among the godly party did for benefit and interest sake side with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the most wicked rebellion raised by them was a zealous and forward man against the King his Party and Bishops took all oaths that followed was an enemy to the Orthodox Clergy and in 1654 was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Devon to eject such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters In 1662 when the Act of conformity took place he left his cure in Plymouth lived there and exercising his function in private that is in Conventicles among the Brethren contrary to the Act was with Tho. Martin the late Lecturer of that Church a Conventicler also conveyed into S. Nicholas Island near Plymouth an 1665 where they remained about 9 Months In which time our author Hughes wrot an answer to Joh. Serjeants book entit Sure-footing At length his health being much impaired as the Brethren reported and his legs black and swoln he was offer'd his liberty upon condition of giving security of a 1000 l not to live within 20 miles of Plymouth Which being accordingly effected by the Brethren without his knowledge he retired to Kingsbridge in Devonsh found entertainment in the house of one Daniel Elley a Brother and was much frequented to the last by the fanatical party He was the most noted Presbyterian if not Independent of his time in Devonshire and a most eager defender of his against the prelatical party and ceremonies of the Church of England His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Fun Sermon on 2. Kings 13.14 Printed 1632. qu. 3 Fun. Sermon on Psal 16.10 Pr. 1642. qu. 4 Drie rod blossoming printed 1644. qu. 5 Vae-eugae-tuba or the Wo-joy-trumpet c. Fast serm before the H. of Commons 26. May 1647. on Rev. 11.15 Lond. 1647. qu. c. Exposition on the small prophets Lond. 1657. fol. Sure footing in Christianity examined Lond. 1668. oct Exposition on the book of Job Lond. 1669. fol. Aphorismes or select propositions of the Scripture truly determining the doctrine of the Sabbath Printed 1670. 71. oct Exposition on Genesis and on 23 Chapters of Exodus Amsterd 1672. fol. and other things which I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature in the house of D. Elley of Kingsbridge before mention'd in the beginning of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Church there near to the Pulpit Over his grave is this inscription fastned to a pillar just opposite to the Pulpit In memoriam suaveolentem aeternùm colendam viri desideratissimi Georgii Hughes SS Th. B. Plymudensium nuper pastoris vigilantissimi sacrae sensus paginae penitiores eruere homines concione flectere precibus Deum mirè edocti Qui solis aemulum ab oriente auspicatus cursum ortu Londinâs occidentale dehinc sidus diu claruit lucem in vitâ spargens undique moriens luctum Vitaeque verè vitalis curriculo in an lxiv perducto optima perfunctus perpessus mala requiem tandem invenit animo quidem in caelis corpori verò in subjacente tumulo ipsis Julii nonis an salutis MDCLXVII Symmistae longè charissimi Georgii Geofridi A. M. cujus exuviae ante ter-novem annos ibidem sitae nunc primum in cineres solvuntur novis miscendos Nacta sacros cineres servata fideliter urna Haec uterum satio tibi foecundabit inertem O faelix tumuli matrix de morte renatos Olim tam claros hosce enixura Gemellos Posuit honoris amoris ergô Thomas Crispinus Exoniensis The said Tho. Crispin a rich Fuller of Exeter and founder of a Free-school in Kingsbridge about the year 1670. was at the charge of setting up the said marble monument and Mr. Joh. Howe who married Hughes his daughter drew up the inscription as I have been informed by a neighbouring Minister of that place RICHARD HEYRICK a younger Son of Sir Will. Heyrick of Beaumannour in Leycestershire Kt who fined for Alderman of London and died about 1653 was born in London educated in Merchant Taylors School became Commoner of S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1617 aged 17 took the degrees in Arts was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1624 and about that time entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was beneficed in Norfolk made Warden of Christs Coll. in Manchester in Lancashire sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the rebellion took the Covenant was made one of the Ass of Divines carried on the cause with great zeal was in the plot for which Christop Love suffered and afterwards became an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lancashire for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters Upon the approach of his Majesties restauration he seemed to be zealous for it and turning about as many of his party did kept his Wardenship to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Three sermons preached in the collegiat Church of Manchester the first on Psal 122.6 the second 2. Thes 2.15 and the third on Gen. 49.5.6.7 Lond. 1641. in oct 2 Qu. Esthers resolve or a Christian pattern for heaven born resolution Fast Sermon before the House of Com. on Esther 4.16 Lond. 1646. qu. Besides others which I have not yet seen among which is A Sermon on 2. of Kings 11. ver 12. Lond. 1661. qu. He departed this mortal life on the sixth day of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 67 and was buried in the Collegiat Church of Manchester Soon after was a comely monument put over his grave at the charge of Anna-Maria his Relict with a large inscription thereon made by his antient and entire friend Mr. Tho. Case a London Minister who had been intimately acquainted with him while he was a student in the University of Oxon part of it runs thus Siste viator morae pretium est sub eodem cippo cum venerabili Huntingdono primo hujus collegii Custode jacet decimus quartus ab eo successor Ricardus Heyrick Gulielmi Heyrick equitis Aurati filius Collegii Om. Animarum apud Oxonienses socius olim studiosissimus ecclesiae de North-Reps in agro Norfolciensi deinde pastor fidissimus hujusce denique collegii per triginta duos annos multa alia ultro sibi oblata Beneficia aversatus hâc solâ dignitate contentus Custos sive Guardianus vigilantissimus Qui judicium solidum cum ingenio acutissimo singularem zelum cum prudentia eximia gravitatem summam cum egregia morum suavitate generis nobilitatem nominis celebritatem quaecunque minores animas inflare solent cum humilitate
by his wife daughter and heir of Rob. Sapcote of Elton in Huntingdonshire Esq younger brother to John Lord Harrington sons of Sir Jam. Harrington Kt. by Lucie his wife daughter of Sir Will. Sydney Kt. son of Sir Jo. Harrington Knight who was Treasurer of the Army to K. Hen. 8. Now as for Mr. Rogers before mention'd whom our author Harrington answered in his Parallel of the Spirit c. as 't is before told you his Christian name was John a notorious fifth Monarchy man and Anabaptist living in Aldersgatestreet in London and the title of his book which was answered runs thus A Christian concertation with Mr. Prynne Mr. Baxter and Mr. Harrington for the true cause of the Commonwealth c. Lond. 1659. This Mr. Rogers was a busie pragmatical man and very zealous to promote a quarrel between his party and Oliver Cromwell for his seemingly running with them till he had got the reins of Government into his own hands and then to leave them with scorn He with Christop Feake as impudent and forward as himself were the Coryphaei of their party as Love in his time was of the Presbyterians and were not wanting upon all occasions to raise a commotion Wherefore it being thought requisite to secure Oliver caused them to be imprison'd at Lambeth and to debar their party to have access to them in Dec. or thereabouts 1654. Rogers being then of S. Thomas the Apostles in Southwark After they had remained there for some time Rogers had prevailed so far with his party as to present an Address which he himself had drawn up to the said Oliver for his enlargment Whereupon on the 7 of Feb. the same year Rogers was brought before the Protectors Council sitting at Whitehall who told him what a high charge there was against him and that he was not a Prisoner for the cause of Christ but suffered as a busie body and an evil-doer c. At length it being desired by his friends that the cause might be debated between his Highness the Protector and himself it was with his Highness his consent granted Whereupon in the evening of the said day Rogers with some of his friends were admitted into his Highness's presence where being told of an high charge exhibited against him Rogers charged them that brought it in to be Drunkards and Swearers The Protector asked him which of them was so that brought it in but he could name none of them that he knew The Protector pressed him for Scripture for his actings He said the Scripture was positive and privative And being asked which of those evil Kings that he mention'd that God destroyed he would parallel to this present State he gave no positive but privitive answer Whereupon the Protector shewed what a disproportion there was those being such as laboured to destroy the people of God but his work speaking of himself was to preserve them from destroying one another and if the sole power was in the Presbyterians they would force all to their way and they the Fifth Monarchy men would do the like and so the re-baptized persons also And his work was to keep all the Godly of several judgments in peace c. And when Rogers cried down the national Ministry and national Church mention'd to be antichristian the Protector told him that it was not so for that was to force all to one form that was national which was then done as he said in this Commonwealth c. Afterward Maj. Gen. Tho. Harrison Col. Charles Rich and some others made an address to the Protector to desire the release of him Feake and others or to try them The Protector shewed how he kept them from tryal out of mercy because if they were tried the Law would take away their lives So he was remitted to his Prison and Feake and the rest were there to continue On the 30 of March 1655 Oliver and his Council ordered that the said Rogers should be removed to Windsor Castle whereupon the next day he was carried there and his wife rode after him RICHARD ATKYNS whose birth was neither glorious nor contemtible as having been descended from Gentry on his fathers side and Nobility on that of his mother His father was son and heir of Rich. Atkyns of Tuffleigh in Glocestershire Esq at which place this our author as I conceive was born chief Justice of West Wales and of Qu. Elizabeths Council of the Marches of Wales and brother to Sir Edward Atkyns of Lincolns Inn one of the Barons of the Exchecquer His mother was second daughter of Sir Edwyn Sandys of Latimer in Bucks Baronet by his wife the Lady Elizab. Sandys dau and heir of Will Lord Sandys of the Vine near Basingstoke in Hampshire descended from the Bray's Barons After he had been partly educated in English and Grammar learning under two bad Masters he was sent to the College School at Glocester where being compleated for the University he was at 14 years of age sent to Balliol Coll an 1629 and continued there at least two years in the quality of a Gent. Commoner studying the Zegardines Philosophy more than that of Aristotle or Ramus Thence he went to Lincolns Inn and soon after travelled into France with the son of the Lord Arundel of Wardour by a second venture but that son dying there before they went farther he returned improv'd himself with the accomplishments of a Courtier and then married which towards his latte◠end proved his ruin Afterwards upon the breaking out of the Civil Wars in England he raised a Troop of Horse at his own charge for the King and did him good service for which afterwards he suffered much in his estate After his Majesties restauration he was made being then a Colonel one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Glocestershire where and in that capacity he expressed himself not only loyal upon all occasions but an affectionate son of the Church of England He was an ingenious and observing man and saw the vanity of this world sooner than others tho of elder years which fitted him the better for another He hath written and published The original and growth of Printing c. Lond. 1664· in 4. sh in qu. His Vindication Lond. 1669. qu. Relation of several passages in the western War of England wherein he was concerned Sighs and Ejaculations These two last were printed with the Vindication At length being committed prisoner to the Marshalsea in Southwark for debt died there on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and two days after was buried without any publick solemnity in the Parish Church of S. George the Martyr within the said Borough of Southwark by the care and appointment of Sir Rob. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas and Edw. Atkyns Esq afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer both nearly related to the defunct WILLIAM LUCY descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Charlcote in Warwickshire was
by the small pox to the great reluctancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts After his death Dr. Edw. Bernard Savilian professor of Astronomy published a book which Mr. Guise turn'd into Lat. and illustrated with a Commentary entit Misnae pars ordinis primi Zeraim tituli septem Ox. 1690. qu. Before which is put the translation into Latine by Dr. Edw. Pocock of Mosis Maimonides praefatio in Misnam Mr. Guise died in his House in S. Michaels Parish in Oxford on the third of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in that Chancel called the College Chancel in St. Michaels Church within the said City Soon after was set up a monument over his grave at the charge of his Widow named Frances Daughter of George Southcote of Devonshire Esq with an inscription thereon beginning thus MS. Gulielmi Guise Equestri apud Glocestrenses familia orti è Coll. Oriel in Coll. Omn. Anim. asciti Linguar praecipue Orientalium peritissimi Critici Rhetoris Mathemat Theologi in omnibus adeò eximii ut raro quisquam in singulis in juventute ut raro quisquam in senio quem ne perfectionis humanae apices transiret c. HENRY BOLD fourth Son of Will. Bold of Newstead in the Parish of Buriton in Hampshire sometimes Capt. of a Foot company descended from the antient and gentile family of the Bolds of Bold-hall in Lancashire was born in Hampshire elected Probationer-fellow of New Coll. from Winchester School 1645 or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 and afterwards going to the great City became a member of the Examiners office in Chancery and excellent at translating the most difficult and crabbed english into latine verse He hath written Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique c. Lond. 1664. oct Ded. to Col. Hen. Wallop of Farley-Wallop in the County of Southampton and to The ingenious he saith thus If thou wilt read so if not so it is so so and so farewell Thine upon liking H. B. Among these Poems is Scarronides or Virgil Travestie c. He hath also written Latine Songs with their English and Poems Lond. 1685. oct Collected and perfected by Capt. Will. Bold his Brother This Hen. Bold died in Chancery-lane near Lincolns inn on the 23. of Oct. being the first day of the Term in sixteen hundred eighty and three aged 56 or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Twyford West Twyford near Acton in the County of Middlesex I shall make mention of another H. Bold in the Fasti an 1657. WILLIAM SCROGGS son of Will. Scroggs was born in a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Dedington became a Communer of Oriel Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 aged 16 years but soon after was translated to that called Pembroke where being put under the tuition of a noted Tutor became Master of a good Latine stile and a considerable Disputant Soon after tho the Civil War broke forth and the University emptied thereupon of the greatest part of its Scholars yet he continued there bore arms for his Majesty and had so much time allowed him that he proceed Master of Arts in 1643. About that time he being designed for a Divine his Father procured for him the reversion of a good Parsonage but so it was that he being engaged in that honorable tho unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 wherein as I have been credibly informed he was a Captain of a Foot Company he was thereby disingaged from enjoying it So that entring himself into Greys inn studied the municipal Law went through the usual Degrees belonging to it was made Serjeant at Law 25. June 1669 and Knighted and the same year on the 2 of Nov. he was sworn his Majesties Serjeant In 1678 May 31. he was made L. Chief Justice of the Kings Bench upon the resignation of Sir Richard Rainsford but not long after his advancement the Popish conspiracy was discovered So that his place obliging him to have the chiefest hand in bringing some of the principal conspirators concern'd therein to publick justice he in several trials of them behaved himself with so undaunted a courage and greatness of spirit giving such ample testimony of his true zeal for the Protestant cause that he gained thereby for a while an universal applause throughout the whole Nation being generally esteemed as a main Patriot and support of his Country whose all seem'd then especially to the fanatical party to lay at stake and to be threatned with apparently impendent ruin But at length the implacable and giddy headed rabble being possess'd with an opinion that he had not dealt uprightly in the trials of some of the conspirators he mitigating his zeal when he saw the Popish Plot to be made a shooing-horn to draw on others which caused articles of impeachment to be drawn up against him read in the H. of Commons and ingrossed and on the 17 of Jan. 1680 sent up to the H. of Lords he was removed from his high office about the eleventh of April 1681 meerly to stop their mouthes and so obtain quietness Whereupon Sir Francis Pemberton Kt. was sworn to the said office on the next day as it seems and the day following that he paid his duty to his Majesty Soon after Sir William retired to his Estate at Weald hall near Burntwood in Essex where he enjoyed himself for a time in a sedate repose He was a person of very excellent and nimble parts a good Orator and a fluent Speaker but his utterance being accompanied with some stops and hesitancy his Speeches effected more in the reading than they did when heard with the disadvantage of his delivery Under his name were printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech before the L. Chancellor when he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench Printed in half a sh in fol. 2 Sp. in the Kings Bench in Westm hall on the first day of Mich. term 1679. Lond. 1679 in 3 sheets in fol. Answer'd by an idle fellow and remarks made on it in one sh in fol. entit A New years gift for Justice Scroggs c. He hath other Speeches extant as I shall tell you by and by Notes on the writing found in the pocket of Laur. Hill when he and R. Green were executed 21. Feb. 1678. Pr. in one sh in fol. Answer to the Articles against him given in by Titus Oates and Will Bedlow in Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680 in two sh and an half in fol. He hath also several discourses arguings and speeches printed in divers Tryals and Condemnations while he was Lord Chief Justice as in 1 The Tryal of William Staley Goldsmith for speaking treasonable words against his Majesty c. 21. Novemb. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. 2 Tryal of Edw. Coleman Gent. for conspiring the death of the King subversion of the government c. 28. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. This Coleman was as I have heard a Ministers Son had been
the English Midianite wherein are compared by way of parallel the carriage or rather miscarriage of the Cavaliers c. Lond. 1642. Which Pamphlet tho 't is but one sheet in quarto yet forsooth he had a co-operator in writing it and who should that be but one George Laurence of New Inn as rank a Presbyterian as Love Englands distemper having division and errour as its cause wanting peace and truth for its cure c. Serm. preached at Uxbridge 30. Jan. 1644. on Jerem. 33.6 Lond. 1645. qu. His vindication from those scandalous aspersions cast upon him by the Malignant party who charge him to be a hinderer of the treaty at Uxbridge c. Printed with Englands Distemper and by it self in one sh in qu. at Lond. 1651. Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Will. Dells Sermon preached before the H. of Commons 25. Nov. 1646. on Heb. 9.10 Lond. 1646. and 47. qu. Which animadversions were replyed upon the same year by Dell. The reader is to note that our Author Love preached the same day being a solemn Fast before the said H. of Commons but his Sermon being much displeasing to the Independents and malepert against the then proceedings of Parliament he had neither thanks given him or order to print it but Dell a Minister attending on his excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax being encouraged to print his netled Love so much that he forthwith wrot the said animadversions Answer to an unlicensed Pamphlet annext to the Sermon entit A reply to Mr. Loves contradictions Lond. 1647. oct Which Reply to the contradictions of Mr. Loves Sermon was written as it seems by Dell. His case Pr. 1651. qu. and thereupon followed soon after Quaeries upon it but who wrot them I know not His vindication Printed 1651. qu. pen'd by himself His Advocate Pr. 1651. qu. pen'd as I have been informed by himself Several petitions to the Parl. in Jul. and Aug. Lond. 1651. qu. A full narrative of the late dangerous designe against the state c. Lond. 1651. qu. This is said to be written by him and by him sent to the Parl. Wherein he setteth down his several meetings and several actings with Major Alford c. Mr. Tho. Case Mr. Tho. Cawton Dr. Drake Mr. Rich. Drake Maj. Rob. Huntingdon Mr. Will. Jenkyns c. His Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold on Tower-hill 22. Aug. 1651. Lond. 1651. qu. On which Sp. and Pr. were animadversions made and published by Anonymus and on his decollation a Poem by Dr. Rob. Wild Rector of Ainoe in Northamptonshire intit The tragedy of Christop Love at Tower-hill Lond. 1660 in one sh in qu. Grace the truth and growth and different degrees thereof The sum and substance of the last 15 Sermons preached by him Lond. 1652. in oct there again 1654 and a third time in 1657. qu. The first Sermon is on 1. Kings 14. part of the 13. vers published with an Epistle before them subscribed by Edm. Calamy Simeon Ash Jerem. Whitaker and Will. Taylor dated 13. Feb. 1634. Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. B. being the last Sermon he ever preached on Job 30.23 Printed with the book of Grace beforemention'd Against the said Sermons were great complaints made by divers Officers of the Army and other notorious Independents to the Parliament in 1652 thus several pamphlets have been lately published in vindication of Mr. Love wherein they the Presbyterians account him a Martyr as in the pref to his Sermons and charge the Parliament with injustice in putting him to death c. more particularly Mr. Edm. Calamy in his late Epistle before Mr. Loves Sermons and his funeral Sermon hangs out a flag of defiance to the State proclaiming Mr. Love to die in and for the Lord And the Saints meaning the Independents and Anabaptists he calls Murtherers Traytors Rebels Blasphemers c. and chargeth the highest sins to have ascended into Pulpits and Thrones c. But upon examination Mr. Calamy as 't is said was not the Author of that Preface but another more violent than he Heavens glory Hells terror or two treatises the one concerning the glory of the Saints with Jesus Christ as a spur to duty in 10 Sermons The other of the torments of the damned as a preservative against security in 8 Sermons Lond. 1653. 58. qu. Soules cordiall in two treatises Lond. 1653. oct Treatise of effectual calling and election in 16 Sermons on 2. Pet. 1.10 Lond. 1653. qu. ibid. 1658. oct This treatise hath an Epist commend before it subscribed by E. Calamy Jerem. Whitaker Simeon Ash Will. Taylor and Allen Geere Scripture rules to be observed in buying and selling Lond. 1653. on one side of a sh of paper The true doctrine of mortification and sincerity in opposition to hypocrisie Lond. 1654. in oct Combate between the flesh and the spirit as also the woful withdrawing of the spirit of God with the causes thereof c. being the sum and substance of 27 Sermons Lond. 1654. 58. qu. Ded. by Will. Taylor to Edw. Bradshaw Mayor of Chester and the Epist to the reader is subscrib'd by E. Calamy S. Ash and Jer. Whitaker before-mention'd Sum or substance of practical Divinity or the grounds of religion in a catechistical way Lond. 1654. in tw Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God hath cast him into in 15 Sermons Lond. 1654 and 58 qu. The Epist to the Reader is subscrib'd by Calamy Ash Taylor and Geere before mention'd all Presbyterians The dejected Soules cure tending to support poor drooping sinners c in divers sermons Lond. 1657. qu. The ministry of the Angels to the heirs of Salvation Or a treatise of Angels Lond. 1657. qu. Of the Omnipresence of God in several sermons began 13 May 1649 and ended 3 June following Lond. 1657. qu. The sinners Legacy to their posterity on Lam. 5.8 Lond. 1657. qu. These four last books have an Epist commend before them subscribed by Calamy Ash and Taylor before mentioned as also by Will. Whitaker Math. Poole and Jos Church Presbyterians The penitent pardon'd A Treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the privilege of the pardon of sin Lond. 1657. qu. Discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven wherein the opinion of the Chiolists is considered and solidly confuted Lond. 1657. qu. This with The penitent pardoned c. is the substance of several Sermons Both published by Calamy Ash Taylor and Will. Whitaker before mention'd The natural mans case stated or an exact map of the little world Man in 17 sermons Lond. 1658. oct These are all the things that he hath extant as I conceive and therefore I have nothing more to say only that he was beheaded on Tower-hill on the 22 of August in sixteen hundred fifty and one Whereupon his body being afterwards carried to his house and there reposited for a time was buried with great lamentation by the Brethren
the times reduced to those necessities under which he lived c. And whereas he had been heard to say in his former days that he thought he should never dye a Martyr yet he was known to live a Confessor and died little less than a Martyr for the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England The Publisher of his Remains doth tell us that He was a man of as great sharpness quickness and stability of wit as ever this or perhaps any Nation bred His Industry did strive if it were possible to equal the largeness of his capacity Proportionable to his Reading was his Meditation which furnished him with a judgment beyond the vulgar reach of man So that he really was a most prodigious example of an acute and piercing wit of a vast and illimited knowledge of a severe and profound judgment c. He tells us also that he was true and just in his secular Transactions and charitable beyond example and as a Christian none was ever more acquainted with the nature of the Gospel because none more studious of the knowledge of it than he That he was sollicited to write and thereby to teach the World but would resolve against it yet did not hide his Talent being so communicative that his Chamber was a Church and his Chair a Pulpit and was as communicative of his Knowledge as the celestial Bodies of their Light and Influences When the King and Court resided at Windsore he was much frequented by Noble-men and Courtiers who delighted much in his company not for his severe or retired Walks of Learning but for his polite Discourses Stories and Poetry in which last 't is supposed he was excellent for a noted Poet of that time doth bring him into The Session of Poets thus Hales set by himself most gravely did smile To see them about nothing keep such a coile Apollo had spied him but knowing his mind Past by and call'd Falkland that sate just behind Those that remember and were well acquainted with Mr. Hales have said that he had the most ingenious Countenance that ever they saw that it was sanguine chearful and full of air Also that his stature was little and well proportion'd and his motion quick and nimble And they have verily supposed that had not Extremities contributed to the shortning of his days Nature would have afforded him life till he had been 90 years old or more The things that he hath written are these Oratio funebris in obitum Cl. Equitis Tho. Bodleii 29 Mar 1613. Oxon. 1613. qu. printed again in 1681. in the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Will. Bates Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at S. Maries on Tuesday in Easter week on Pet. 3.16 Oxon. 1617. qu. and divers others which you may see in his Remains One Joh. Hales hath a Sermon of Duells extant on Numb 35.33 which I take to be the same with our Author yet it is not printed in his said Remains Another also Concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture c. Quaere Dissertatio de pace concordia Ecclesiae Eleutheropoli 1628. in tw This book which is much celebrated by famous Authors is printed in the same character and at the same supposed place as his Brevis disquisitio and therefore by the generality is taken to be written by our Author Brevis disquisitio an quomodo vulgo dicti Evangelici Pontificios ac nominatim Val. Magni De Acatholicorum credendi regula judicium solidè atque evidenter refutare queant Eleuth 1633. in 16. This book containeth as the Puritan then said Sundry both Socinian and Pelagian Points as also that the body which shall be raised in the Resurrection is not idem numero And that Souls do not live till the Resurrection besides other points c. 'T is true that certain of the principal Tenents were cunningly inserted therein pretending them for the best Expedients to appease some Controversies between the Ch. of England and Rome A Tract concerning Schism and Schismaticks wherein is briefly discovered the original and cause of all Schism All or most of this Pamphlet was taken as 't is said from Socinus and written about the year 1636 partly as some think out of discontent that he had no preferment confer'd on him partly as others say for the encouragement of some great Masters of Wit and Reason to dispute the Authority of the Church and partly at the request of his friend W. Chillingworth who desired some such matter of to be used by him in the composition of his book intit The Religion of Protestants c. Several copies of it were transmitted from hand to hand and one coming into those of Dr. Laud he therefore sent for him as I have already told you entred into a long discourse with him about certain particulars therein and being drawn over to his mind our Author Hales as 't is said recanted and was then resolved tho before inconstant to be orthodox and to declare himself a true Son of the Church of England both for Doctrine and Discipline This Tract was afterwards published without a name in one large sh in qu. an 1642 when the Press was open for every Opinion And since it hath given great advantage and use to some that have not loved nor are Lovers of the Ch. of Engl. as 1 E. S. in his Irenicum 2 Dr. Jo. Owen in his Plea for the Nonconformists 3 The Author of Separation no Schism wrot against Dr. Jo. Sharp's Sermon before the Lord Mayor on Rom. 14.19 4 Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal transpros'd part 1. c. So that advantage being taken by it and the Tract several times printed some of the orthodox Clergy have answer'd it among which have been 1 Rob. Conold M. A. in his Notion of Schism in two letters The last of which is against Hales 2 Tho. Long B. D. in his Character of a Separatist but more largely in his book intit Mr. Hales's Treatise of Schism examined and censur'd c. One Philip Scot also a Rom. Cath. doth modestly accost our Author in his Treatise of the Schism of England Amsterd 1650. in tw but he goes another way to work See more in Will. Page among these Writers under the year 1663. Golden Remains Lond. 1659. 73. 88. oct These Remains consist of Sermons Miscellanies Letters and Expresses from the Synod of Dort c. Tract concerning sin against the Holy Ghost Lond. 1677. oct Tract conc the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A just censure of which you may see in a book intit An account of the Greek Church c. written by Tho. Smith B. of D. of Magd. Coll. printed 1680. p. 169. Paraphrase on S. Mathews Gospel Tract concerning the Power of the Keys and Auricular Confession Miscellanies With these is printed his Tract concerning Schism before mention'd according to the orig copy These four last things are printed and go with his Tract concerning sin
State his Capital enemy sent a messenger for and committed him more close than before Soon after the said Justice of Peace died left Biddle a considerable Legacy but in a short time devour'd by the frequent paying of the fees of a Prisoner So that being in a manner reduced to great indigence he was employed by Roger Daniel a Printer of London to correct the Greek Version of the Septuagint of the Old Testament which he was about most accurately to publish And this he did knowing full well that Biddle was an exact Greecian and had time enough to follow it Which employment and another in private did gain him for a time a comfortable subsistance In Feb. 1651 was published by the Parliament a general Act of oblivion that restored among others our Author Biddle to his full liberty which he improv'd among those friends he had gained in London in meeting together every Sunday for the expounding of the Scripture and discoursing thereupon for the clearing of matters therein contained by which means the Doctrine of one God and Christ his only Son and his holy spirit was so propagated that the Presbyterian Ministers in London were exceedingly offended at it but could not hinder it by secular power which then favoured liberty of religion and conscience About that time part of the second impression of his Twelve Arguments the Confession of Faith Testimonies c. which as I have told you were published in oct laying dead on his or the Booksellers hands there was this title put to them The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity revived and asserted c. Lond. 1653. oct but no alterations or augmentation made in them as 't is expressed in the said title set before them which were put and sold together in one volume the Long Parliament being then dissolved Afterwards was written and published by the said Biddle A Twofold Catechisme the one simply called a Scripture Catechisme the other a brief Scripture Catechisme for Children Lond. 1654. The last of which two was printed again by it self in 3 sheets in a little octavo the same year Soon after the Twofold Catechisme coming into the hands of certain Persons elected to sit in the Little Parliament called by Oliver which began at Westminster 3. Sept. 1654 was a publick complaint by some made of it in the House being instigated thereunto by frequent and open preachments against it Whereupon Biddle being sent for he gave answer to their interrogatories and did not deny before them but that he was the Author So that the matter being refer'd to a Committee he was examined by them and in conclusion adhered to the answer that he had before given to the House Reports therefore being made by the said Committee of such things that had passed the House voted on the 12 of Dec. 1654 that the whole drift and scope of the said Twofold Catechisme is to teach and hold forth many blasphemous and heretical opinions and that in the preface of the said Catechisme the Author thereof doth maintain and assert many blasphemous and heretical opinions and doth therein cast a reproach upon all the Catechismes now extant They then voted also that all the printed books entit the Twofold Catechisme be burnt by the hand of the common Hangman That the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to see the same done accordingly in the New Pallace-yard at Westm and at the Old Exchange That the Master Wardens and Assistants of the company of Stationers in London be required immediatly to make search for all the printed books as aforesaid and seize all the said Books and deliver them to the Sherriffs The next day Biddle was brought to the bar of the House and there after it was read unto him what had been done he owned his Books and was thereupon the same day committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster and his Books burnt by the Hangman in the beforemention'd places on the 14 of the same month But this was not all for the members of Parl. perceiving full well what mischief the said Twofold Cat. did do and was likely more to do and that many People were more greedy to buy or obtain it than before the matter was agitated again in January following by the Committee who resolved on the 16. of the same month that the whole drift and scope c. and that it be burnt c. The particulars in the said Catechisme which moved them thereunto were partly these 1 The infinite God is confin'd to a certain place 2 God hath a bodily shape hath a right and a left hand in a proper sense 3 God hath passions in him 4 God is not omnipotent and immutable 5 The three Persons are not to be believed with our whole heart 6 Jesus Christ hath not the nature of God dwelling in him and that he hath only a divine Lordship without a divine nature 7 There is no Godhead of the Holy Ghost 8 Christ was not a Priest whilest he was upon Earth nor did he reconcile God unto us c. At the same time were other particulars gathered from his several books going under the general title of The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity c. The first of which runs thus That God the Father only separated from the Son and Holy Ghost is the first cause of all things that pertain to salvation c. The rest I shall omit for brevity sake These things being reported to the Parliament they ordered the Committee to bring in a Bill for punishing the said Biddle which being accordingly done they ordered as before that the Twofold Cat. be burnt and the Master Wardens c. to seize upon all copies and to deliver them to the Sherriffs in order to their burning c. In the mean time they consulted what to do with Biddle but came to no result tho pressed eagerly on by the Presbyterian Ministers to take away his life On the 10. of Febr. following he the Printer and Bookseller of the said Catechisme with another in the custody of a Messenger as also Theauraw John Tany who burnt the Bible and struck at several Persons with his naked sword at the Parliament door while the members were sitting were upon their petitions to the Upper bench all permitted to have liberty upon sufficient bail which they then put in to appear in that Court on the first day of the next term following where then they were to be tried On the 2. of May 1655 they accordingly appeared but were put off till the next term 28. May following Which day appearing he and they were with much ado set at liberty Afterwards Biddle falling into the company of one John Griffin said to be an Anabaptist teacher discourses pro and con were so high between them that there was a publick dispute appointed to be held to decide the matter The place wherein they were to dispute was the Stone Chappel in S.
Preacher against Bishops Ceremonies c. and being a frequent and constant holder forth was followed by those of the vicinity especially such who were of his perswasion In 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for the ejecting of all such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters and was not wanting in any thing whereby he might express his zeal for the aforesaid cause His works are these The light of faith and way of holiness shewing how and what to believe in all estates and conditions Lond. 1630. oct Doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated or a confutation of a Treatise of the Sabbath written by Mr. Edw. Brerewood against Mr. Nich. Byfield Lond. 1632. qu. The Power of the Christ of God or a Treatise of the power as it is originally in God the Father and by him given to Christ his Son c. Lond. 1641. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Zions answer to the Nations Embassadors c. Fast Sermon before the H. of Commons 25 June 1645 on Isay 14.32 Lond. 1645. qu. 2 Sermon on 1. Cor. 3.17 Lond. 1653. qu. c. The Gospels Glory without prejudice to the Law shining forth in the Glory of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost for the Salvation of sinners who through grace do believe according to the draught of the Apostle Paul in Rom. 3.34 Lond. 1659. Beginning of the Doctrine of Christ Lond. 1660 in tw Whether any other matters were by him published I know not nor any thing else of him only that after he had been ejected from Long Ditton for Nonconformity he retired to Mortclack in Surrey where dying in December in sixteen hundred sixty and four was buried in the Church there leaving this character behind him among the Godly and such that frequented his Conventicles that he was a pious good and harmless man He had another Brother called Adoniram Byfield who became first to be known for the love he bore to the righteous cause by being Chaplain to Colonel Cholmondiley's Regiment in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex the Generalissimo for the Parliament in 1642 and soon after for his being one of the scribes to the Assemb of Divines and a most zealous Covenantier He was afterwards Minister of one of the Collingborns in Wilts was an Assistant to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters He died about the time of his Majesties restauration as it seems for on the 12 of Feb. 1660 Catherine his Relict had letters of administration granted to her to administer the goods debts c. of him the said Ad. Byfield of the Parish of S. Martins in the Fields in Middlesex lately deceased JEREMY STEPHENS Son of Walt. Stephens sometimes Rector of Bishops Castle in Shropshire was born there 1592 entred a Student in Brasn Coll. 29 March 1609 where by continual lucubration he diligently ran through all the forms of Logick and Philosophy and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615. In Decemb. the same year he was made Deacon and about that time Chaplain of All 's Coll. In 1616 May 26 he received the Orders of Priesthood and in 1621 was made Rector of Quinton in Northamptonshire Five years after that he had confer'd upon him the Rectory of Wotton within a Mile of Quinton which with Quinton were bestowed on him by K. Ch. 1. In 1628 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1641 was made Prebendary of Biggleswade in the Church of Lincolne by the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury as a reward of his Labours with Sir Hen. Spelman in the Edition of the first tome or volume of the Councils In 1644 he was sequestred from all his Ecclesiastical preferments by a Committee sitting at Northampton plunder'd imprison'd barbarously used and silenced After the Kings returâ— in 1660 he was restored to them and for a requital of his sufferings had the Prebendship of Ilâ—racomb in the Church of Salisbury confer'd upon him upon the resignation of Edw. Davenant He hath written and published these things following Notae in D. Cyprian de unitate Ecclesiae Lond. 1632. oct Notae in D. Cypr. de bono patientiae Lond. 1633. oct Both which were collated with antient Mss by the care of certain Oxonian Theologists Apologie for the antient right and power of the Bishops to sit and vote in Parliaments Lond. 1660 the question then of restitution being under debate In the year 1663 he began to print the History of Sacriledge designed and began by Sir Hen. Spelman and left to Stephens to perfect and publish but that work sticking long in the Press both the copy and sheets printed off perished in the grand conflagration of London 1666. Besides these he finished and fitted for the Press divers other pieces whereof the argument of some were superseded by the Kings happy restauration such as A comparison between the Belgick Gallick Bohemian and Scotch with the English Covenant Account of the principles and practices of the Presbyterians The Sequestration of the Clergy by Joh. Pym and Joh. White Other things which he finished but prevented their publication by death are these Treatise of the Laws of England The design of the Cormorants upon the Church Lands defeated in the time of K. Hen. 5 effected in the days of K. Hen. 8. and other things He also published B. Gregorii magni Episcopi Romani de curâ pastorali liber verè aureus accuratè emendatus restitutus è Vet. Mss cum Romanâ Editione collatis Lond. 1629. oct This was the Book that the most renown'd K. Alfred translated into the Saxon Language and recommended to all the Diocesses of his Kingdom in that great dearth of learning when scarce a Priest on the North of Humber was found able to translate the Lords Prayer or to understand the Latine Service This I say he published being collated with antient Mss by the care of several Oxford Doctors and Bach. of Divinity In the year also 1633 he was joyned with Sir Hen. Spelman to assist in compiling and publishing the first Tome of the English Councils a work that cost them seven years labour And tho the Book bare the name of Spelman yet is the assistance of our Author Stephens acknowledged by Spelman in the Preface to the Reader in these words Quo autem auspicio in lucem prodibunt me jam sane propemodum exhausto secundus tertius viz. Tomus haud ausim polliceri Nisi illos vir dilectus bono natus publico Jeremias Stephens typis curaverit mandandos cujus operâ primuâ— hic Tomus me adhuc tantum non invito in lucem prodiit After this viz. in 1641 Spelman died and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the door of S. Nicholas Chappel 24. oct and then some years after our Author Stephens published Spelmans larger
Marshall Edm. Calamy Calybute Downing c. did first whisper in their Conventicles then openly preach that for the cause of religion it was lawful for the Subjects to take up Arms against their lawful Soveraign Which doctrine being also followed by the rest of the Elders the People of London did violently rush into rebellion and were found pliable by the faction in Parliament to raise tumults make out-cries for justice call for innocent blood subscribe and prefer petitions against the holy Liturgy and the Hierarchy and to strike at root and branch especially if our Author Burges did but hold up his finger to his Mirmidons or Capt. afterwards Colonel John Venn sent his summons by his Wife to assemble the zealots of the City In the beginning of the Long Parliament he was appointed by the Lords one of the Sub-committee to settle Religion who meeting in Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster our Author Burges became speaker for his party the Presbyterians In which office he made a vehement invective against Deans and Chapters and the unprofitableness of such Corporations and did aggravate to debauchedness the lives of singing men and they not only useless but hurtful by their vitious conversation At the same time also being looked upon as a doughty Champion for the holy cause and a zealous Covenantier 't was usual with him and the said Venn to lead up the tumults of the City to the Parliament doors to see that the godly party for so their faction was call'd in the House might not be out-voted and then turning back and beholding the rabble would say These are my band-dogs I can set them on and I can take them off again c. by which means above four parts in five of the Lords and two parts in three of the Commons were frighted out of the house to leave the Faction absolute Masters thereof These things also he did when the most noble Earl of Strafford was tried for his life So that being the Ring-leader of the rout and the only scandal to his profession in all London was thought fit by the blessed Parliament as by the faction it was called to be one of those Godly Divines that were to hold forth before them to be one of the Sub-committee for the advancement of moneys to carry on the War against the King and to be with John White the Centurist Assessors to the Ass of Divines But before that time Essex the General finding him a zealous instrument to carry on the cause made him his Chaplain to that Regiment of Horse which was next under him In Dec. 1643 the Londoners sent Will. Gibbes and John Fowke Aldermen and others of the common Council to the House of Commons to desire that the Cath. Church of S. Paul might be set open again and that there might be a Lecture every Sunday night as was formerly used after the afternoons Sermon and another on the week day and that Dr. Corn. Burges might be the man who having been several times put to his compurgators in that consistory was the ablest and fittest for that Sunday-nights Lecture desiring their honors to allow the Doctor a pension of 400 l. per an out of the revenues of the Cathedral for his encouragement in that service Which being a poor pittance God wot they not only confirmed that pension but gave him the Deans house thereof for his habitation both setled soon after by Act of Parliament The first motion of this did proceed from the Militia of London among whom the Doctor used to ride with his case of pistols was called Colonel and shew'd himself very officious to assist plundering at the Globe Tavern in Holbourne Afterwards growing very rich he purchased several Lands as the mannour of Wells belonging to the Bishop thereof and the habitation of the Dean there which he mostly plucked down and rebuilt And being so done he wrot a book to shew that there was no sacriledge or sin to alien or purchase the Lands of Bishops and Chapters which being taken into the hands of many curious readers had the licentiousness of a second impression an 1659. But upon the Kings restauration he lost all having about an year before been offer'd twelve thousand and odd pounds for his House and Lands at and near Wells whereupon retiring to Watford in Hartfordshire before mentioned lived obscurely there and died in a mean condition as I shall anon tell you He hath written and published these matters following A chain of Graces drawn out at length for reformation of Manners Lond. 1622. in tw New discovery of personal Tithes or the tenth part of mens clear gains proved due both in conscience and by the laws of this Kingdom Lond. 1625. oct The fire of the Sanctuary newly discovered or a compleat Tract of Zeal Lond. 1625. in oct Which book upon its Authors grand defect was answer'd by Anon. in a Pamphlet intit A whip c. printed 1643. Whereupon an old puritannical Poet named Francis Quarles the sometimes Darling of our plebeian judgments who seemed to have a great respect for our Author came out with a Reply intit The Whipper whip'd c. printed 1644 wherein in the first page he stiles Dr. Burges a man of singular parts c. Baptismal Regeneration of elect Infants professed by the Church of England according to Scriptures the primitive Church the present reformed Churches and many particular Divines apart Oxon 1629. qu. Vindication of the Reasons against Bishops Votes in Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Whether he was Author of the Reasons I know not Several sermons as 1 Sermon at a publick Fast before the House of Commons 17 Nov. 1640 on Jer. 50.5 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Sermon before the H. of Com. 5 Nov. 1641. on Psal 76.10 Lond. 1641. qu. Wherein are many things of and against the Papists and Jesuits 3 Serm. before the H. of Com. 30 March 1642 on Jer. 4.14 Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Vanity and mischief of the thoughts of an heart unwashed Serm. before the H. of Com. on their day of humiliation 30 of Apr. 1645. on Jer. 4.14 as before Lond. 1645. qu. 5 Necessity of agreement with God Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 29 Oct. 1645 on Amos 3.3 Lond. 1645. qu. besides others which I have not yet seen as Serm. on 2 Chron. 15.2 another on Ezra 10.2.3 a third called Prudent silence preached 12 Jan. 1648 whether the same with that against the destroying of Kings preached about the same time I cannot tell and lastly another on Amos 5.13 printed 1660. in octavo Sion Coll. what it is and doth A vindication of that Society against two Pamphlets c. Lond. 1648. qu. His case as Lecturer in Pauls This is a little Pamphlet By the way the Reader is now to know that it hath been confidently affirmed that our Author before he was engaged in buying Bishops Lands did concur with Dr. Joh. Hacket in his Answer to Dr. Hacket's Speech in 1641. that the alienating of any thing setled
in the quality of a Gent. Com. for more than two years he went beyond the seas for a time and at his return received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty then at Hinchingbrook who before had restored to this our Author Digby his estate forfeited by his father on the 28 of Octob. 1623. In the year 1628 being then Admiral of a Fleet going to the Levant about which time I find him written è secretiori conclavi ad Carol. 1. in rebus maritimis Administrator praecipuus he acquired great honour by his gallant comportment at Algier in reescating many English Slaves and by bearing up so bravely in the resolute Onset on the Venetian Fleet in the Bay of Scanderoon and making the Pantolini to know themselves and him better This Onset was made as 't is reported on the eleventh of June his birth-day as Ben. Joh. will have it yet a Pamphlet that was publish'd the same year giving an account of all the Transactions of that Fight tells us it was on the 16 of the same month which if true then the fortune of that day is again mar'd For this his Valour and by his Travels into several Countries and converse with the Virtuosi of most civilized Nations he became The ages wonder for his noble parts Skill'd in six Tongues and learn'd in all the Arts. He was not only Master of a good graceful and judicious stile but also wrot an admirable hand both fast and Roman His person was handsome and gigantick and nothing was wanting to make him a compleat Chevalier He had so graceful elocution and noble address that had he been dropt out of the Clouds in any part of the World he would have made himself respected but the Jesuits who cared not for him spoke spitefully and said 't was true but then he must have stayed there above six weeks He had a great faculty which proceeded from abundance of wit and invention of proposing and reporting matters to the Virtuosi especially to the philosophical Assembly at Montpelier and Royal Society at home Which is the reason why many say that as he was most exactly accomplish'd with all sorts of Learning so was he guilty withall of extravagant Vanities Nay one a most noted Author doth not stick to say that this our eminent Virtuoso was the Pliny of our age for lying having been provoked to say so not only from the said Reports but from another which put men to a very great wonder viz. of a City in Barbary under the King of Tripoli that was turned into stone in a very few hours by a petrifying Vapor that fell upon the place that is Men Beasts Trees Houses Utensels c. every thing remaining in the same posture as Children at their Mothers breasts c. But this report the Reader is to understand that Sir Kenelme had from an Englishman Mr. Fitton residing in Florence Library-keeper to the great Duke there by Letter dated 2 Jul. 1656 and he from the great Duke who a little before had written to the Bassa of Tripoly to know the truth Which strange accident being look'd upon as the great wonder of the world was put into the common News-book of that time called Mercurius Politicus as having been received from Sir Kenelme then residing at Tholouse in France who sent a full account of it to a friend of his in England in Sept. following But as no man knew better than Sir Ken. how to abound and how to live like a Philosopher for both were indifferent to him so none of his time knew better how to take and pocket up Abuses which indeed belongs to a true Philosopher In the beginning of the Civil Wars he shew'd himself active for the Kings Cause and thereupon was forced to compound for his estate in 1649. Which being done the Parliament then sitting voted that he should depart the Commonwealth and not return without leave from the House under pain of death and confiscation of his estate Notwithstanding which he did afterwards return for a time and as 't is said cringed to Oliver but in what sense whether in order for the good of the Rom. Catholicks or for the carrying on of some publick design I cannot now tell About the same time he being Chancellour to Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England she sent him as her Envoy from France to the Pope was at his first coming to Rome highly venerated by all people as being a person not only of a majestick port and carriage but of extraordinary Parts and Learning At length growing high and huffing his Holiness he was in a manner neglected and especially for this reason that having made a collection of money for the afflicted Catholicks in England was found to be no faithful Steward in that matter As for his Works they are these Letter giving an account of the fight with the Venetians at the bay of Scandaroon Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion Par. 1638. c. Lond. 1654. oct Answer'd by Will. Twisse but never published Observations upon Religio Medici Lond. 1643. 44. oct c. They were the conceptions of one night and of an hasty birth The said Rel. Medici was pen'd by Dr. Tho. Browne as I shall elsewhere tell you Treatise of the nature of Bodies Par. 1644. fol. Lond. 1658. 1665. and 69. all three in qu. Answer'd by Alex. Rosse in a book intit The philosophical Touchstone or observations on Sir Ken. Digby's Discourses of nature of Bodies and of the reasonable Soul c. in which his erroneous Paradoxes are refuted c. Lond. 1645. qu. Treatise of the nature of Mans Soul Par. 1644. fol. Lond. 1645. 58. 69. qu. This which was answer'd by Rosse also with the Treatise of the nature of Bodies were translated into Latin by J. L. and had a Preface put to them by Tho. White who writes himself Thomas Anglus ex Albiis East-saxonum Par. 1651. folio Observations on the 22 d Stanza in the ninth Canto of the second book of Spencers Fairy Queen Lond. 1644. octavo Institutionum peripateticarum libri quinque cum appendice Theologica de origine mundi Par. 1651. fol. set at the end of the two Translations made by J. L. before mention'd Translated into English by the said Tho. White Lond. 1656. oct Letters to the Lord George Digby concerning Religion Lond. 1651. oct Of the cure of Wounds by the powder of Sympathy Lond. 1658. oct Spoken in French in a solemn Assembly at Montpelier in France 1657. and translated into English by Rich. White Lond. 1660. Reprinted at Lond. with the Treatise of bodies an 1669. and translated into Lat. by Laur. Stransius of Darmstad in Hassia It is also printed in the book intit Theatrum sympatheticum published by Joh. Andreas Endter at Norimberg 1662. in qu. and is also printed in the German Language This is the so much approved sympathetical powder said to be prepared by Promethean fire curing all green wounds that
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
of Will. Warm Registrary of the Cath. Church at Worcester was born and educated in Grammar learning in that City became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1624 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1631 and had some spiritual cure in his own Country confer'd upon him soon after In 1640 he was Clerk for the Diocess of Worcester in the two Convocations of the Clergy held that year and in 1642 he retired for security sake the Nation being then in a combustion to the King at Oxon where he was actually created D. of D. the same year and afterwards lost what he had before obtained in the Church notwithstanding he had always before been accounted a Puritan After the Kings cause declined he lived mostly in London was the distributer of money obtained from generous Loyalists to sufferers for the royal interest was chief confessor to loyal Martyrs a constant and indefatigable visiter and comforter of sick and distressed Cavaliers for so the Royalists were called very zealous also in converting Infidels industrious in reclaiming the loose and establishing the wavering zealous and careful in preparing his auditors for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost was made Prebendary of Glocester and in the year following Dean of Worcester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Oliver in which Dignity he was installed 27. Nov. 1661. He hath written and published A convocation speech against images altars crosses the new canons and the oath Lond. 1641 in 3. sh in qu. Pax vobis or a charm for tumultuous spirits being an advice to the City of London to forbear their disorderly meetings at Westminster Lond. 1641. qu. Ramus Olivae or a petition for peace to his Maj. and the Houses of Parliament Oxon. 1642. qu. Answer to one W. Bridges concerning the present war and taking up Arms against the King Printed 1643. qu. This W. Bridges I take to be the same with him who wrot Some short annotations on The loyal convert Lond. 1644. in 4. sheets in qu. but not the same I presume with Will. Bridges Preacher at S. Dunstans in the East London Author of Joabs counsel and Davids seasonable hearing it serm before the H. of Com. at the publick fast 22. Feb. 1642 on 2. Sam. 19.5.6.7.8 Lond. 1643. qu. and of other things I find one Will. Bridge to have been fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Minister in Norfolk but to avoid the censures of Episcopal consistories he with Jerem. Burroughes withdrew themselves into the Low countries Upon the change of the times occasion'd by the Presbyterians Bridge returned became Minister at Yarmouth in Norfolk a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament a notorious Independent and a keeper up of that faction by continual preaching during the time of Usurpation silenced upon his Majesties return carried on his cause with the said Jer. Burroughs in Conventicles at Clapham in Surrey till about the time of his death which hapned in 1670. I say this Will. Bridge who while he lived published several Sermons and Theological Tracts and after his death had 8 of his Sermons made publick which are entituled Bridges remains c. Lond. 1673. oct with his picture before them is not to be taken to be the same with Will. Bridges before mention'd because of the different writings of their names Dr. Warmestry hath also written An hearty and friendly premonition to the City of London before their meeting in their common Hall 24 1648. whereby they have an opportunity to become the happy instruments of their own safety and the peace and preservation of the Kingdom Lond. 1648 in two sheet in qu. Vindication of the solemnity of the nativity of Christ Printed 1648. qu. Answer to certain Queries propounded by one Joseph Hemming in opposition to the practice of the Church in the solemnity of the said nativity Printed with the Vindication Sighs of the Church and Commonwealth of England Lond. 1648. in tw A box of Spiknard or a little manual of Sacramental instruction and devotion especially helpful to the People of God at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper Lond. 1664 third edit in 12o. printed there again in 1671. and 74. in 24o. The baptized Turk or a narrative of the happy conversion of Signior Rigep Dandulo the only Son of a silk Merchant in the isle of Tzio c. and of his admission unto Baptisme by Mr. Pet. Gunning at Exeter house Chappel 8. Nov. 1657. Lond. 1658. oct This narrative was drawn up by our Author Warmestry who caused the picture of the said Dandulo in a Turkish habit to be put before it The countermine of union or the Jesuits mine of division being a short platform of expedients for peace Lond. 1660. What other books he hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying on the 30. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five aged 60 or thereabouts was buried by his Father Grandfather and other relations in the body of the Cathedral at Worcester not far from the north door Over his grave is an inscription engraven on a black marble the copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 279.6 In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Will. Thomas of whom I shall make mention in his proper place ROBERT POINTZ son of Sir John Pointz was born of and descended from an antient and noble family of his name living at Iron-Acton in Glocestershire was educated for a time in the quality of a Gent. Com. in this University but in what Coll. unless in that of Lincoln for I cannot find him matriculated as yet I know not Afterwards he studied for a time in one of the Temples and when K. Ch. 1. was crown'd in 1625 he was made one of the Knights of the Bath He hath written A vindication of Monarchy and the government long established in the Ch. and Kingdom of England against the pernitious assertions and tumultuous practices of the Innovators during the last Parliament in the raign of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. qu. He was buried in the Church of Iron-Acton among the graves of his ancestors on the tenth day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five aged 79 years or thereabouts leaving then behind him a Son named John a Knight who died in the Middle Temple at London in 1680 and left behind him a relict named Anne but not the estate at Iron-Acton because it had been conveyed away by his Father One of his name and family called Captain John Pointz wrot and published The present prospect of the famous and fertile Island of Tobago c. with Proposals for the encouragement of all those that are minded to settle there Lond. 1683. in 7 sh in qu. Whether he was of any University I know not JOHN EARLE received his first being in this vain and transitory
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
as preach to their parishioners and the legal remedies against them in case of obstinate refusal Ibid. 1656. in qu. It was twice pr. in that year Short demurrer to the Jews long discontinued barred Remitter into England comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into England their ill deportment misdemeanours condition sufferings c. Lond. 1656. sec edit in qu. The second part of the said Short demurrer c. was printed at the same place also in 1656 qu. A summary collection of the principal fundamental rights liberties properties of all English Free men Ibid. 1656. qu. Two editions the second of which was much enlarged Lords Supper briefly vindicated and clearly demonstrated to be a Grace-begetting Soul-converting not a meer confirming ordinance Lond. 1657. Answer'd by S. S. Minister of the Gospel in a book intit Holy things for holy men or the Lawyers plea non-suited c. Lond. 1657. 8. qu. The subjection of all Traytors Rebels as well Peers as Commons in Ireland to the laws statutes and tryals by Juries of good and lawful men of England in the Kings bench at Westm for treasons perpetrated by them in Ireland c. Being an argument at law made in the court of the Kings bench term Hillar 20. Car. Reg. in the case of Connor Magwire an Irish Baron c. Lond. 1658. and 81. qu. Probable expedient for future peace and settlement Ibid. 1658. Twelve serious Queries proposed to all conscientious electors of Knights Citizens and Burgesses for the Assembly Ibid. 1658. Twelve several heads of publick grievances and useful necessary proposals of the western Counties Cities and Boroughs to their Knights Citizens and Burgesses an 1658. Eight military Aphorismes demonstrating the usefulness unprofitableness hurtfulness and prodigal expensiveness of all standing English Forts and Garrisons to the people of England c. Lond. 1658 in 5. sh in qu. The first part of a brief register kalendar and survey of several kinds forms of all Parliamentary writs c. Ibid. 1659. Beheaded Dr. John Hewyts Ghost pleading yea crying for exemplary justice against the misnamed high Court of Justice Lond. 1659. qu. The true good old cause rightly stated and the false uncased Ibid. 1659 two edit in one sh in qu. Answer'd by Anon. in 3. sh in qu. intit Mr. Prynns Good old cause stated and stunted 10 years ago c. and by Hen. Stubbe in his Commonwealth of Israel c. The Reipublicans and others spurious good old cause briefly and truly anatomized to preserve our native Country Kingdom legal Government c. Ibid. 1659. three edit in 3 sh in qu. In answer partly to this came out soon after A Christian concertation with Mr. Prynne Mr. Baxter and Mr. Ja. Harrington for the true cause of the Commonwealth being an answer to Mr. Prynns Anatomy of the Republick and his True and perfect narrative To part of Mr. Baxters Holy Commonwealth with some reflections on his Catholick key Written by John Rogers New cheaters forgeries detected disclaimed c. Lond. 1659. True and perfect narrative of what was done spoken by and between Mr. Prynne the old and newly forcibly late secluded members the Army officers and those now sitting both in the common Lobby house and elsewhere on the 7. and 9. of May c. Lond. 1659 in 14. sh in qu. Whereupon came out a pamphlet of one sh in qu. intit The character or Ear-mark of Mr. Will. Prynne author of a great many scandalous pasquills c. Ten considerable Queries concerning Tithes c. against the Petitioners and petitions for their total abolition as Antichristian Jewish burdensome c. Ibid. 1659. in 1. sh in qu. Answer to a proposition in order to the proposing of a Commonwealth or Democracy Ibid. 1659. Concordia discors or the dissonant harmony of sacred publick oathes protestations leagues covenants ingagements lately taken by many time-serving Saints Officers without scruple of conscience making a very unpleasant consort in the ears of our most faithful c Lond. 1659 in 6. sh in qu. The remainder of A Gospel plea for the tithes and setled maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel Ibid. 1659. A brief necessary vindication of the old and new secluded members from the false malicious calumnies and of the fundamental rights liberties privileges c. from the late avowed subversions 1. of Joh. Rogers in his Christian concertion with Mr. Will. Prynne and others 2. of March. Nedham in his Interest will not lie c. Ibid. 1659. in 8. sh in qu. Short legal medicinal useful safe easie prescription to recover our Kingdom Church Nation from their present dangerous distractive destructive confusion and worse than Bedlam madness c. Lond. 1659 in one sh and half in qu. Conscientious serious Theological and Legal Queries propounded to the twice dissipated self-created Anti-parliamentary Westminster Juncto and its members To convince them of humble them for c. Ibid. 1660 in 6. sh and half in qu. It was printed in Nov. 1659. Seven additional Queries in behalf of the secluded members propounded to the twice broken Rump now sitting the Cities of Westm London c. Ibid. 1660 in one sh in qu. It was published in Dec. 1659. Case of the old secured secluded and twice excluded members briefly and truly stated for their own vindication c. Lond. 1660 in 1. sh in qu. published in Decemb. 1659. Full declaration of the true state of the secluded members case in vindication of themselves and their privileges and of the respective Counties c. Ibid. 1660. published 5. Jan. 1659 in 7. sh and half in qu. Remonstrance of the Noblemen Knights Gentlemen Clergy-men Freeâ—holders Citizens Burgesses and Commons of the late Eastern Southern Western association who desire to shew themselves faithful and constant to the good old cause c. Ibid. 1659. Ten Queries upon the ten new commandments of the general Council of the Officers of the Army 22. Dec. 1659. Printed in 1. sh in qu. Brief narrative of the manner how divers members of the H. of Commons that were illegally and unjustly imprisoned or secluded by the Armies force in Dec. 1648 and May 7. an 1659 coming on the 27 Dec. 1659 to discharge their trust were again shut out by the pretended order of the members sitting c. Lond. 1660 in 1. sh and an half in qu. This was published in the latter end of Dec. 1659. Six important Queries proposed to the re-sitting Rump of the Long Parliament fit to be satisfactorily resolved c. Printed in Dec. 1659 in one sh on one side The privileges of Parliament which the members Army and this Kingdom have taken the protestation and covenant to maintain Reprinted in 1. sh in qu. 5. Jan. 1659 the day appointed to remember them Copy of the presentment and indictment found and exhibited by the Gr. Jury of Middlesex on the last day of Hilary term 1659 against Coll. Matthew Alured Coll. John Okey and others for assaulting
Perkinson M. A. of Hart Hall and Gowin Knight M. A. and Fell. of Mert. Coll. But before the Election was to be made Perkinson desisted and Knight by the perswasions some say threatnings of Dr. Fell desisted So that then the Masters were left to Hobsons choice to choose Bennet and no body else Whereupon they perceiving full well that Dr. Fell was resolved to get his man in meerly by his Authority without any application to them and Bennet's little stirring for it only for form sake without applying himself according to the manner with cap in hand to gain votes they were resolved to cross the matter So that when the Election was to be on the 10 of the same month a majority of the Masters joyned together headed and encouraged chiefly by a clownish factious person did in despight of Dr. Fell his Mandamus and Authority of the Heads of Houses Seniors and the sober party set up and choose a meer stranger who lived remotely from Oxon named Christop Wase sometimes Fellow and Bach. of Arts of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Schoolmaster at several places to the very great-discomposure of Dr. Fell and something to the discredit of the University as if not able to afford a man to execute the said Office Afterwards Wase came to Oxon was sworn and took possession of his place But Dr. Fell who had received a character of would never let him execute the Archityp place because as he usually said he was not fit for it as being not a person of sobriety c. So that from the death of Mr. Clarke to this time the superior Beadleship of the Civ Law and the Architypographers place hath been joyned WILLIAM EYRE Son of Giles Eyre of White in Wilts was born in that County became either a Batler or a Communer of Magd. Hall an 1629 aged 16 years where continuing under a severe discipline till he had taken the degrees in Arts was appointed a Tutor in that House and about the same time entred into the sacred function But being always schismatically enclined he sided with the factious party in the time of the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1 became a rigid Calvinist an enemy to Tithes and a purchaser of Church Revenues In those sad times of calamity he was made Minister of S. Edmunds Church in the City of Salisbury where by his doctrine he advanced much the blessed Cause and in 1654 he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in which office he shew'd himself very forward against those people of which some were his acquaintance and contemporaries in Oxon. After the Kings restauration he proceeded in his usual preaching but in 1662 was silenced for Nonconformity and lived for a time at or near to Salisbury But finding that place and neighbourhood uneasie he retired to Milksham near to Chippenham in Wilts where he had purchased an Estate and continued there to the time of his death His works are An Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Psal 45.6 Lond. 1652. qu. Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae Justification without conditions or a free justification of a sinner c. vindicated from the Exceptions and Objections which are cast upon it by the Assertors of conditional Justification c. against Mr. Ben. Woodbridge Mr. Jam. Cranford and Mr. Rich. Baxter Lond. 1654. qu. Answer'd the same year by Mr. Baxter in his book intit An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre of Salisb. concerning his miscarriages in a book lately written for the justification of Infidels against Mr. B. VVoodbridge c. Sermon on Acts 20.9 Lond. 1658. oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church at Milksham before mentioned on the 30 of Januar. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine as the Register of that Church enforms me which I presume follows the English Accompt and not the common Another VVill. Eyre I find who was long before this mans time educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge between whom and the learned Usher Primate of Ireland passed many letters some of which were De Textus Hebraici veteris Testamenti variantibus lectionibus an 1607. Pr. at Lond. 1652. The said VVill. Eyre was living at Colchester in Essex an 1617. 15 Jac. 1. EDMUND VAUGHAN son of the Minister of Ashted in Surrey and nephew to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London was born in that County admitted Chorister of Corp. Ch. Coll. an 1621. aged 12 years afterwards he was successively Clerk Scholar and Fellow of that House Bach. of Div. and at length Rector of Pichford alias Pisford in Northamptonshire He hath written The life of Dr. Thom. Jackson sometimes President of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxford 'T was printed and set before the said Dr. Jacksons Commentary on the Creed an 1653 and afterwards before the collection of his works an 1672. fol. This Mr. Vaughan died on the Purification of the Virgin Mary in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Pichford after he had suffer'd much as a true son of the Church of England and as a loyal man to his Prince and his cause in the time of the grand rebellion began and carried on by a predominant party in both Houses of Parliament THOMAS SWADLIN born in Worcestershire applied his mind to Academical studies in S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders and had some little cure bestowed on him At length about the time that Dr. Laud became Bishop of London he was made Minister of S. Botolphs Church without Aldgate there where for his ready and fluent way of preaching he was much frequented by the Orthodox party but in the beginning of the grand rebellion he being esteemed as one of Dr. Lauds creatures he was imprison'd in Gresham Coll. and afterwards in Newgate was sequestred plunder'd and his wife and children turn'd out of doors At length he with much ado getting loose but in a manner distracted by the great miseries he endured he retired to Oxon where he was created D. of Div. an 1646 about which time and after he taught School in several places meerly to gain bread and drink as in London and afterwards at Paddington c. Upon the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was re-invested in S. Botolphs Church but being wearied out there by the contentiousness of his parishioners he left it and in the year 1662 he was presented to the Vicaridge of S. James in Dover upon the removal of one John Davis an Independent Preacher and to the Rectory of Hougham near to that place by the favour of Dr. Juxon Archb. of Canterbury but the yearly valuation of both not exceeding 80 l. per an he was at length being grown crazy and infirm presented unsought
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
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
his Rambles by Drinking and Whoring died there in the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and two whereupon he was buried by the Name of Dr. Higham on the south side of the body of the Church there under the seats on the 23 day of the same month One Joh. Higham hath published a book called A Looking-glass for Loyalty printed 1675. oct but he is not to be taken for the same with the former nor for another Joh. Higham a R. C. Bookseller of S. Omers living in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 who translated from Spanish into English Meditations upon the Mysteries of our holy faith S. Omers 1619. in two or more tomes in qu. HENRY WHISTLER an Oxfordshire man born was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. 1601 aged 16 years and four years after was made Fellow thereof So that taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into holy Orders became Rector of Little Whitnam in Berks Bach. of Div. 1615 and about that time Rector of Whitchurch in the south part of Oxfordshire near to which place he was born He hath written and published a rapsodical piece intit Aim at an Upshot for Infant baptism by the good will of Christ as Priest Prophet and King c. Lond. 1653. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Over his grave is this Inscription Here lieth the body of Henry Whistler Bachelaur of Divinity who departed this life the 24 day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1672 in the 86 year of his age having been Rector of this Parish 56 years PHILIPP NYE was born of a gentile Family in Sussex entred a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 21. July 1615. aged 19 years or thereabouts but making no long stay there he removed to Madg. Hall where being put under the tuition of a puritanical Tutor continued till he had taken the degrees in Arts. About that time he entred into holy orders and had some cure bestowed on him but where unless in S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lond. where I find him in 1630 I cannot justly tell But so it was that he being Schismatically enclined did with others of his perswasion leave his Cure purposely to avoid the censures of Episcopal Consistories and went beyond the Seas into Holland about 1633 where continuing for the most part at Arnheim in Gelderland till about the latter end of 1640 at which time the Members of the Parl. afterward called the Long Parl. were very dominant and prevailing he returned and became soon after by the favour of Edward Lord Kimbolton about that time Earl of Manchester Minister of Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire And tho he then and before shew'd himself a severe censurer of Bishops and those of the Episcopal Clergy for medling in civil affairs as excentrick to their calling yet he with Hugh Peters Steph. Marshall c. did go beyond any of them in that matter more than for 7 years together In 1643 he was appointed one of the Assembly of Divines became a great Champion for the Presbyterian cause and a zealous assertor of the solemn League and Covenant In July the same year he with Steph. Marshall whose Daughter he had taken to Wife were sent by the Parliament into Scotland to expedite their Covenant where in set speeches he told the People that they were to enter into such a Covenant and League as would never be forgotten by them and their posterity and both have occasion to remember it with joy Also that such an oath it is as for matter persons and other circumstances that the like hath not been in any age sufficiently warranted by both humane and divine story for as God did swear for the salvation of men and kingdoms so kingdoms must now swear for the preservation and salvation of kingdoms to establish a Saviour Jesus Christ in England c. After his return both houses of Parl. took the Covenant 25. of Sept. the same year at which time Nye made some observations from the Pulpit touching the said Covenant shewing the warrant of it from Scripture and was about the same time partly rewarded for his good service with the Rectory of Acton near London in the place of Dr. Dan. Featley ejected But soon after disliking the proceedings of the said Ass of Divines he dissented from them for a time as others did being incited thereunto by certain Politicians with promises of reward especially if they would oppose them and their intended discipline to be setled So that then closing with the rising party the Independents especially with the Grandees of the Army he did by their favour hold rich Offices and his counsel in political affairs was often used by them In Dec. 1647 he with Steph. Marshall were sent by them to the King at Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight with the Commissioners then appointed to carry the four bills the four dethroning votes and had for their pains 500 l. apiece given to them About that time also he was employed by the said Grandees to get subscriptions from the Apprentices in London and factious people against a personal treaty with the King while the Citizens of that place were petitioning for one See more in Jos Caryl In Apr. also the next year he with the said Marshall and Jos Caryl were employed by the Independents to invite the secured and secluded members to sit in the House again but they effected nothing In 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors for the approbation of publick Preachers in which office he acted the Politician so much that he did not only get his Son to be Clerk to them but also enriched himself with bribes underhand-dealing and with a Living of 400 l. per an by the help of the said Marshall one of that number In 1654 he with Dr. Laz. Seamon Sam. Clark Rich. Vines Ob. Sedgwick Jos Caryl c. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parl. to eject such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters in the City of London where he especially and they acted with no little rigor to the utter undoing of many loyal Persons In 1660 after his Majesties restauration it was debated by the Healing Parliament for several hours together whether he and John Goodwin that infamous and blackmouth'd Independent should be excepted for life because they had acted so highly none more except Hugh Peters against the King and had been instrumental in bringing all things into confusion At length it came to this result that if Philip Nye Clerk should after the first of Sept. in the same year accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted from life In Nov. 1662 he was vehemently suspected to be in that plot for which George Philips Thâ—m Tongue c. were executed but how he
there-molested by the loyal party at Ashover and near it he went to London where he became preacher to the Congregation in S. Sepulchres Church and was much admired by the Brethren In the raign of Oliver about 1656 he by the favour of those then in authority became Rector of Waltham in Leycestershire conformed at his Majesties restauration and on the 12. of March 1669 was instituted and inducted into the Rectory of Ailston in the said County This person who was well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen hath written and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Rainbow Sermon at Paules Cross 10. June 1617 on Gen. 9.13 Lond. 1617. qu. 2 The Godly mans guide on Jam. 5.13 Lond. 1620. qu. 3 The true way of a Christian to the new Jerusalem or a threefold demonstration c. on 1 Cor. 5.17 Ibid. 1622 qu. 4. Anatomy of Conscience c. Assize Serm. at Derby on Rev. 20.11 Ibid. 1623. qu. c. A light from Christ leading unto Christ by the starr of his word Or a divine directory for self examination and preparation for the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1645. oct In another edition or another title Pr. there in a thick oct the said book hath this title A light c. Or the rich Jewel of Christian Divinity c. by way of Catechism or dialogue Defence of Scriptures and the holy Spirit speaking in them as the chief Judge of Controversies of faith c. Lond. 1656. qu. Vindication of the honor done to the Magistrates 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
severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline And being esteemed a plain honest man a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law he was entertained by both as well loyal as Presbyterian parties In 1643 he took the Covenant and as I have been often informed he appeared several times with other Lay-persons among the Assembly of Divines He was then in great esteem with the Parliament and was employed by the members thereof as to his counsel about several matters particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service who as a Lawyer was added to the Commissioners appointed by them to treat with those appointed by the King And in that capacity he did good service by advising them especially Fairfax the Generalissimo to have in his eye a preservation of that place Oxon so famous for learning from ruin Afterwards tho the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him yet he took the oath called the Engagement and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practice his profession In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq Recorder of the City of London Charles George Cock Esq Sir Hen. Blount Kt John Fountaine Esq a common Lawyer Hugh Peters Clerk Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt c. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords but what the result of their meeting was I cannot yet tell On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Serjeant at Law and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench in which place he acted with great justice and integrity not without the displeasure sometimes as 't is said of the Protector In 1654 he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Glocester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Sept. purposely as 't is said to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot by two parties that had very different principles and ends In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Univ. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted In the month of May 1671 he was upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Kings Bench and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oathes before the Lord Keeper and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an unwearied Student a prudent man a solid Philosopher a famous Lawyer the Pillar and Basis of justice who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the ornament of his Majesties Government and honour of England the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the reverend and honorable Judges a godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness c. a great contemner of riches pomp and vanity of the world a pattern of honest plainess and humility c. As for his works relating to learning they are these An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof Lond. 1674. oct Difficiles nugae or observations on the Torricellian experiment Lond. 1674. oct Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum c. Lond. 1676. oct Contemplations moral and divine In two parts Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Directions touching and keeping the Lords day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Poems on Christmas day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Contemplations mor. and div The sec part Lond. 1677. oct They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the authors death and why he published it I shall give you these three reasons 1 Because that some writings of his Contempl. mor. and divine did without his privity come abroad in print which he never intended And this book might have had the same fate if not in his life time yet after his death 2 Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof than of some others that have gone abroad in publick 3 That altho he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published as worthy of publick view yet he found them well accepted by many which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts c. Observations touching the principles of natural motion and especially touching rarefaction and condensation together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids Lond. 1677. oct These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Mores Remarks before mention'd were replied upon by the said Doctor Lond. 1678. The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions nu 136. p. 917. Londons liberty or a learned argument of law and reason an 1650 This came out afterwards with this title Londons liberties or the opinions of those great Lawyers Lord Ch. Justice Hale Mr. Justice will Wild and Mr. Serjeant Maynard about the election of Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen and Common council men of London and concerning their charter c. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control Discourse touching provision for the poor Lond. 1683. in tw Short treatise touching Sherriffs accompts Lond. 1683. oct To which is joyned his Tryal of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. Edmonds on the 10. of March 1664 which was published by its self in oct in 4. sh an 1682. Pleas of the Crown or a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject Lond. 1685. sec edit in oct The first edit came out in 1678. oct His judgment of the nature of true religion the causes of its corruption and the Churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges To this book is annex'd The judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon
his proper talent viz. Politicks and political reflections Whereupon he wrot The Commonwealth of Oceana and caused it to be printed without his name by stealth at London At the appearance of which it was greedily bought up and coming into the hands of Hobbes of Malmsbury he would often say that H. Nevill had a finger in that pye and those that knew them both were of the same opinion And by that book and both their smart discourses and inculcations daily in Coffee houses they obtained many Proselytes In 1659 in the beginning of Mich. term they had every night a meeting at the then Turks head in the New Pallace yard at Westm the next house to the stairs where people take water called Miles Coffee house to which place their disciples and Vertuosi would commonly then repair and their discourses about Government and of ordering of a Commonwealth were the most ingenious and smart that ever were heard for the arguments in the Parl. house were but flat to those This Gang had a Balloting-box and balloted how things should be carried by way of Tentamens which being not used or known in England before upon this account the room every evening was very full Besides our Author and H. Nevill who were the prime men of this Club were Cyriack Skinner a Merchants son of London an ingenious young Gentleman and scholar to Jo. Milton which Skinner sometimes held the Chair Major John Wildman Charles Wolseley of Staffordshire Rog. Coke Will. Poultney afterwards a Knight who sometimes held the Chair Joh. Hoskyns Joh. Aubrey Maximilian Pettie of Tetsworth in Oxfordsh a very able man in these matters and who had more than once turn'd the Councilâ—board of Oliver Cromwell Mich. Mallet Ph. Carteret of the Isle of Guernsey Franc. Cradeck a Merchant Hen. Ford Major .... Venner Nephew to Dr. Tob. Venner the Physitian Tho. Marryot of Warwickshire Hen. Croone a Physitian Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. and sometimes Rob. Wood of Linc. Coll. and Jam. Arderne then or soon after a Divine with many others besides Antagonists and Auditors of note whom I cannot now name Dr. Will. Petty was a Rotaman and would sometimes trouble Ja. Harrington in his Club and one ... Stafford a Gent. of Northamptonshire who used to be an Auditor did with his Gang come among them one evening very mellow from the Tavern and did much affront the Junto and tore in pieces their Orders and Minutes The Soldiers who commonly were there as Auditors and Spectators would have kick'd them down stairs but Harrington's moderation and perswasion hindred them The doctrine was very taking and the more because as to humane foresight there was no possibility of the Kings return The greatest of the Parliament men hated this design of Rotation and Balloting as being against their power Eight or ten were for it of which number Hen. Nevill was one who proposed it to the House and made it out to the Members thereof that except they embraced that way of Government they would be ruined The modell of it was that the third part of the Senate or House should rote out by Ballot every year so that every ninth year the said Senate would be wholly alterâ—d No Magistrate was to continue above 3 years and all to be chosen by Ballot then which choice nothing could be invented more fair and impartial as 't was then thought tho opposed by many for several reasons This Club of Commonwealths men lasted till about the 21 of Feb. 1659 at which time the secluded members being restored by Gen. George Monke all their models vanished After the Kings restauration our Author Harrington retired and lived in private but being looked upon as a dangerous person he with Maj. Joh. Wildman and Prais-god Barbon a notorious Schismatick were committed Prisoners to the Tower of London 26 Nov. 1661 where continuing for some time Harrington was transmitted to Portsey Castle and kept there for several months Afterwards being set at liberty he travelled into Italy where talking of Models Common-wealths and Government he was reputed no better than a whimsical or crack'd-brain'd person 'T is true that his close restraint which did not agree with his high spirit and hot and rambling head was the protractick cause of his deliration or madness I do not mean outragiousness for he would discourse rationally enough and be facetious in company but a deep conceit and fancy that his perspiration turned into flies and sometimes into bees Which fancy possess'd him a whole year before he died his memory and discourse being then taken away by a disease So that he who had been before a brisk and lively Chevalier was then made a sad sample of Mortality to H. Nevill who did not leave him to his last and others of his intimate acquaintance who much lamented his loss He hath written and published these things following The Commonwealth of Oceana Lond. 1656. in a thin fol. dedicated to Oliver Lord Protector and the model therein admired by a noted author H. Stubbe who was ready to cry out as if it were the Pattern in the mount In the praise whereof he saith he would enlarge did he not think himself too inconsiderable to add any thing to those applauds which the understanding part of the world must bestow upon him and which though eloquence should turn Panegyrist he not only merits but transcends Yet the said authors mind being soon after changed he wrot Animadversions on Oceana as erroneous The said Oceana was answer'd by Matthew Wrenn son of Matthew B. of Ely in his Considerations as I shall elsewhere tell you Afterwards our Author came out with a reply wherein he reflects on the Club of Virtuosi which use to meet in Dr. Jo. Wilkins his lodgings in Wadham Coll. to make experiments and communicate their observations in order to carry on a discovery of nature in these words that the University wits or good company are good at two things a diminishing of a Commonwealth and the multiplying of a Lowse He also in several places insinuates as if the Considerations of the Commonwealth of Oceana were not wrot by Mr. Wrenn but composed by the University or at least by some eminent persons in it which is false Soon after Wrenn wrot a Rejoynder to Harrington's Reply intit Monarchy asserted c. and afterwards our Author with Politicaster as I shall anon tell you Mr. Rich. Baxter also wrot something against the said Oceana and Sir Hen. Vane's Modell in answer to which Harrington wrot a paper of Gibberish as Baxter calls it scorning at his ignorance in Politicks Whereupon he the said Baxter wrot his Political Aphorismes called A holy Commonwealth pleading in the beginning for the divine universal Soveraignty and next for Monarchy as under God and next seeing they were all for new modelling how piety might be secured and promoted by Monarchy This Holy Commonwealth said to be written upon the invitation of our Author Harrington to which is annexed a treatise of
Prisoner at Carisbrook in the Isle of Wight an 1648 he was his own Chaplain as not thinking it fit to accept of any of the Presbyterian Ministers upon that account albeit as occasion offered he thanked and was civil to them when they applied themselves to him for that purpose Among others one Troughton who was Chaplain to Col. Rob. Hammond Governour of the Isle of Wight and Preacher to the Soldiers of the Garrison of Carisbrook would many times be in the Presence Chamber when his Majesty was at dinner And tho he was a young man yet he was a scholar had good education and would argue notably in defence of some Tenents he held in opposition to certain ceremonies and discipline in the Episcopacy The King usually after meals would walk for near an hour and take many turns in the Presence-Chamber and when he found the Chaplain there he would pleasurably enter into disputation with him and the Chaplain would be very earnest in defence of his opinion The K. never check'd him for his confidence but allowed him his liberty and would be very pleasant and merry with him The K. being a good Logician and well read in History and matters of Controversie gained ground of his Opponent and would please himself with one passage which hapned and that was this During their discourse the Chaplain then standing at the end of the Presence-Chamber between a Lieutenant of the Garrison who had a Sword in his hand and was earnestly listning to what the K. said in the Debate and a Gentleman who was not known there the King in the heat of his discourse suddenly disarmed the Lieutenant by taking the Sword out of his hand which made him look strangely and the more when his Majesty drew it for that put the Chaplain into a fright also he not imagining the reason until the stranger better understanding the Kings meaning fell upon his knees and the K. laying the naked Sword upon his shoulder confer'd upon him the honour of Knighthood telling him withal it was to perform a promise to his Relations This strangers name was John Duncomb of Battlesdon in Bedfordshire Esq who was afterwards a servant to K. Ch. 2 sworn a member of his Privy Council 22. May 1667 being then or about that time one of the Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury and at length upon the resignation of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer about the 20. of Novemb. 1672. As for the Chaplain Troughton tho Tho. Herbert then one of the Grooms of his Maj. Bedchamber from whom I had this story could not tell me his Christian name yet I take it to be William and him to be the same Will. Troughton who afterwards was beneficed in Salisbury in the time of Oliver silenc'd for Nonconformity after his Majesties restauration lived there several years after keeping his Conventicles as he did afterwards at Bristow and now if living in or near London where we shall leave him for the present till an opportunity may be had to make farther mention of him CHARLES GIBBES the sixth son of Sir Ralph Gibbes was born at Hunnington in Warwickshire near to a Market Town called Shipson in Worcestershire on the 4. of Nov. 1604 admitted a student in this Univ. in the beginning of 1620 and taking the degree of Bach of Arts in the latter end of 1622 was chosen Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. two years after where going thro the severe exercise then used since especially after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 much decayed he became a noted Disputant Orator and quaint Preacher In Apr. 1638 he was presented by the Warden and Fellows of his Coll. to the Rectory of Gamlinghay in Cambridgshire and thereupon leaving the house he setled there without hopes of being translated to another place At length being involv'd in great troubles for his Loyalty he resign'd that Rectory in 1647 to prevent Sequestration retired to Canterbury and taught a private School there with good success After the blessed time of his Majesties restauration he was made Parson of Stanford-Rivers in Essex which he enjoyed 21. years Prebendary of Westminster which he kept 19 years and Doctor of Div. by creation of this University He hath written and published Thirtie and one Sermons preached to his parishioners of Stanford Rivers in Essex upon several subjects and occasions Lond. 1677. qu. He also took a great deal of pains in collecting and fitting for the Press several Sermons and discourses of Dr. Walt. Raleigh who married the Sister of this our author Gibbes but before they were finished he paid his last debt to nature which hapning at Stanford Rivers on the 16 of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried in the Church there leaving then behind him the Character of a Loyal and Religious person and of a charitable and a good neighbour RICHARD ALLEIN son of Rich. All. Rector of Dicheat or Dichet in Somersetshire was born there entred a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term 1627 aged 16 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts went to New Inn being puritanically affected and not only compleated that degree by Determination as a member thereof but continued there in the study of the supreme faculty till after he was Master of Arts. At length taking holy orders he assisted his father and became a frequent preacher in his own Country In the middle of March 1641 at which time he shew'd himself a zealous person for the blessed cause then driving on he became Rector of Batcomb in the same County in the place of Rich. Bernard deceased who had held that Rectory from Novemb. 1613 to that time where being setled he became a preacher up of sedition a zealous Covenanter and therefore several times disturb'd by the Cavaliers in those parts and one of the number that subscribed The testimony of the Ministers of Sommersetshire to the truth of Jesus Christ and to the solemn League and Covenant Printed at Lond. 1648. qu. In 1654 he with his father were constituted Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parliament for the ejection of such whom they and their brethren called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in the same County in which office they shew'd themselves severe enough But upon his Majesties restauration our author Allein putting a curb to his activity was soon after ejected for Nonconformity So that removing from place to place for a time setled at length at Frome-Selwood where he remained not without preaching somtimes in private to his dying day He hath written and published Vindiciae Pietatis or a vindication of Godliness in the greatest strictness and spirituality of it from the imputations of folly and fancy on Ephes 5.15 and on Joh. 1.47 Lond. 1664. and 69. oct Several directions for the attaining and maintaining of a godly life Lond. 1669 Pr. with Vindiciae Pietatis The Godly mans portion and sanctuary being a second part of Vindiciae Pietatis
Laud Archb. of Cant. and a fourth upon Sir Hen. Spelman the Antiquary Verses on the return of K. Ch. 2 James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Glocester Lond. 1660. in 3 sh in folio Elegie on the death of Henry Duke of Glocester Printed 1660. in a fol. paper Wickham wakened or the Quakers Madrigall in rime dogrell Printed 1672 in one sheet in qu. Written while he was Mayor of Wycombe against a Practitioner of Phys who was a Quaker and took much from his practice He died on the 17 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the middle of the north isle joyning to the Chancel of the Church of Gr. Wycombe before mentioned Over his grave was soon after a black marble stone laid with this inscription thereon Hic jacet Martinus Lluelyn eruditus Medicinae Doctor ex Aede Christi olim Alumnus saeviente Civilis belli incendio dum Oxonium praesidio muniebatur cohorti Academicorum fideli Praefectus erat adversus ingruentem Rebellium ferociam posteaquam sereniss Carolo secundo inter juratos Medicus Colleg. Med. Lond. socius Aulae sanctae Mariae dudum Principalis dein hujusce comitatus Irenarcha necnon municipii hujus semel Praetor Regiae authoritatis religionis Eccles Angliae legibus stabilitae strenuus assertor inconcussus amator celeberrimus insignis Poeta Qui res egregias sublimes pari ingenio facundia depinxit Bino matrimonio foelix septem liberos superstites reliquit Laetitiam Martinum ex priore Georgium Ricardum Mauritium Martham Mariam ex posteriore nuper amantissima conjuge Georgii Long de Penn Generosi filiâ Heu quam caduca corporis humani fabrica qui toties morbos fugavit ipse tandem morbo succumbit Anhelus doctorum proborum maximum desiderium Obiit xvii Martii MDCLXXXI annoque aetatis LXVI THOMAS CASE son of George Case Vicar of Boxley in Kent was born in that County became Student of Ch Ch. upon the recommendations of Tob. Mathew Archb. of York in the year 1616 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders preached for some time in these parts and afterwards in Kent at or near the place of his nativity At the turn of the times in 1641 he closed with them and being schismatically addicted he became an enemy to the Bishops and Liturgy a great Boutifieu and firebrand in the Church a leader and abettor of the pretended reformation and what not to vent his spleen to become popular in the City of London and so consequently to get preferment and wealth which before he wanted and therefore discontented About the same time he was made Minister of S. Mary Magd. Ch. in Milkstreet in Lond upon the sequestration thence of a Loyalist where it was usual with him at his invitation of the people to the Lords table for the receiving of the sacrament to say You that have freely and liberally contributed to the Parliament for the defence of Gods Cause and the Gospel draw near instead of You that do truly and earnestly repent c. To the rest he threatned damnation as coming unwillingly to the holy sacrament In 1643 he as a grand lover of the cause was made by ordinance of Parliament one of the Ass of Divines being then as before and after a frequent Preacher before the members of the said Parliament and about that time the Thursdays Lecturer at S. Martins in the Fields He was so zealous a Covenanteer also that he published a Sermon about the solemn League and Covenant advised all to take it and was angry with those that did not tho they understood it not He was during the War as most of the Brethren were a common Preacher of Rebellion Atlength he and they being cozened of their King and the designs they had upon him by the Independents he became a bitter enemy to that party plotted with Love Jenkyns c. and with the Scots to bring in his son K. Ch. 2 an 1651 Case being about that time Minister of S. Giles in the Fields near London but their Plot being discovered and Love the Corypheus suffering for the rest our author Case with his Brethren that were in the Conspiracy made a Petition to Oliver by way of acknowledgment and submission for what they had done In the year 1653 he made it his endeavours to be one of the Triers for the approbation of Ministers appointed by Oliver but was rejected yet when the Presbyterians began to lift up their heads in the latter end of 1659 upon the generous proceedings of General Monk he was constituted by Act of Parl. dated 14 of Mar. that year one of the Ministers for the approbation and admission of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way But that foppery being soon after laid aside he himself upon the coming out of the Act of Conformity an 1662 was laid aside also yet ever after so long as he lived he was not wanting to carry on the beloved Cause in Conventicles for which he sometimes suffer'd He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Two Serm. before the House of Commons on Ezek. 20.25 and on Ezra 10.2.3 Lond. 1642. sec edit 2 Gods rising his Enemies scattering before the H. of C. at their Fast 26 Oct. 1642 on Psal 68.1.2 Lond. 1644. qu. 3 The root of Apostasy and fountain of true Fortitude Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of C. 9 Apr. 1644 for the great Victory given to Sir Will. Waller and the Forces with him against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton on Dan 11.32 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Deliverance-obstruction or the set-backs of Reformation Fast Serm. before the H. of Lords 26 Mar. 1646 on Exod. 5.22.23 Lond. 1646. qu. 5 A model of true spiritual Thankfulness Thanksgiving Serm. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Psal 107.30.31 Lond. 1646. qu. 6 Spiritual whoredome discovered in a Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 26 May 1647 on Hosea 9.1 Lond. 1647. qu. 7 Serm. before the H. of C. 22 Aug. 1645 being the day appointed for the solemne Thanksgiving unto God for the Parliament forces their gaining of Bathe and Bridgwater Scarborough and Sherburne Castle and for the dispersing of the Club-men and the good success in Pembrokshire on Isa 43.14 Lond. 1645. qu. Other Sermons as 1 Gods waiting to be gracious unto his people together with Englands encouragements and cautions to wait on God delivered in certain Sermons at Milk-street in Lond. on Isa 30.18 Lond. 1642. qu. 3 Sermon on Ezek. 50.5 Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Jehosaphats caution to his Judges on 2 Chron. 19.6.7 Lond. 1644. 45. qu. This Sermon which I have not yet seen was preached if I mistake not in Aug. 1644 upon the occasion of a Court Martial From the Epistle before which and from the Sermon it self the Independents took great advantage and quoted it when the
Stilling fleets Irenicum c. against his late Sermon entit The mischief of separation against the author of The Christian temper said to be written by John Barret M. of A. in a Letter to a friend I say the respective characters of these five answers to Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon before mention'd together with that of The peaceable design renewed c. wrot by John Humphrey with which Dr. Stillingfleet begins first are to be found in the preface to the said Doctors Unreasonableness of separation c. Which characters as are thus given are reflected on by a short piece entit Reflections on Dr. Stillingfleets book of the unreasonableness of separation Lond. 1681. qu. Written by a Conformist Minister in the Country in order to peace The nature and efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ as typed by all the sacrifices of the Law the erection of the Tabernacle according to the heavenly pattern with the institution of all its utensils and services their especial signification and end c. Lond. 1681. An enquiry into the original institution power order and communion of Evangelical Churches the first part Lond. 1681. qu. Answer to a Discourse of the unreasonableness of separation written by Dr. Stillingfleet Printed with the Enquiry Discourse of the work of the holy spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and formes Lond. 1681. oct An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful Churches and Nations or the only way to deliver a sinful Nation from utter ruin by impendent judgments in a discourse on Luke 13.1 2. 3. 4. 5. Lond. 1681. oct Printed with the Discourse of the work c. The grace and duty of being spiritually minded declared and practically improved Lond. 1681. 82. qu. This is the sum of certain of Sermons A brief instruction in the Worship of God and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam by way of question and answer with an explication and confirmation of those answers Lond. 1682. oct c. Meditations and discourses on the Glory of Christ in his person office and grace with the difference between faith and sight applyed to the use of them that believe Lond. 1683. 84. c. oct Opus Posth Treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sins reign is discovered in whom it is and in whom it is not how the law supports it how grace delivers from it by setting up its dominion in the heart Lond. 1688. oct The true nature of a Gospel Church and its government wherein these following particulars are distinctly handled 1. The subject matter of the Church 2. The formal cause of a particular Church 3. Of the policy of the Church in general c. Lond. 1689. qu. Afterwards came out certain Animadversions on the said book but by whom written I cannot tell A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the World its strength and weakness with the ways and indications of the ruin or continuance of its publick national profession Lond. 1690. qu. Continuation or the second part of that book formerly printed the difference between faith and sight being the meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto converted sinners and Saints under spiritual decays in two chapters from John 17.24 Lond. 1691. oct Our author Dr. Owen with Dr. Tho. Jacomb Dr. Will. Bates Dr. Jo. Collings Mr. Pet. Vinke Joh. How Dav. Clarkson and Ben. Alsop did undertake in June 1682 to finish the English Annotations of the Holy Scripture in 2. vol. in fol. which were began by Matthew Pole or Poole and carried on by him to the 58 chapt of Isaiah and there is no doubt but that Owen did his share in that work who also hath written prefaces and epistles before divers books by way of recommendation among which are his and Dr. Tho. Goodwins epist before Dr. T. Taylors works A preface also to the Exposition of the song of Solomon written by Jam. Durham sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Glascow Printed 1669. in qu. An Epist commend with another by Mr. Baxter to The Christians dayly walk in holy security and peace written by Hen. Scudder Printed 1674. the eleventh edit An ep by way of recom to A new and useful concordance of the Holy Bible c. Another before The Ark of the Covenant and a large preface to The true Idea of Jansenisme as I have already told you in Theoph. Gale c. But as for Jo. Bradshawes Ultimum vale being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him as they were delivered in a Sermon preach'd at his interment printed in two sh in qu. and said to be written by John Owen D. D. Time-server general of England is not his but fathered upon him by one who desired then to make sport in the great City At length he the said Dr. Owen having spent most of his time in continual agitation to carry on the cause to promote his own interest and gain the applause of people he did very unwillingly lay down his head and die at Eling near Acton in Middlesex on S. Barthelmews day in sixteen hundred eighty and three having a little before been knowing of and consenting to the Presbyterian Plot that was discovered some time before his death Whereupon his body was conveyed to a house in S. James's where resting for some-time was on the 4. of Sept. following attended by about 20 mourners and 67 coaches that followed to the Fanatical burying-place called by some Tyndales Burying-place joyning on the North side to the New Artillery-garden near London where it was buried at the East end thereof Soon after was an Altar-tomb of freestone erected over his grave covered with a black marble plank with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus Johannes Owen S. T. P. Agro Oxoniensi oriundus patre insigni Theologo Theologus ipse insignior seculi hujus insignissimis annumerandus Communibus humanarum literarum suppetiis ménsura parum communi instructus omnibus quasi ordinata Ancillarum serie suae jussis familiari Theologiae c. Obiit Augusti 24. anno à partu virginio 1683 Aetat 67. Besides this John Owen I find another of both those names Chaplain to Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen author of Immoderate mourning for the dead prov'd unreasonable and unchristian c. Sermon on 2. Sam. 12.21.22.23 Lond. 1680 in oct and perhaps of other things WILLIAM GUISE or Guisius as in his book following he is written Son of John Guise was born of a knightly family living at Abloads Court near to Glocester in Glocestershire became a Communer of Oriel Coll. an 1669 aged 16 years afterwards Fellow of that of All 's Master of Arts and in holy Orders In 1680 he resign'd his Fellowship being about that time married and in great esteem for his Oriental learning but soon after cut off
which was shortly after as I shall tell you anon So that whereas he was first a Presbyterian and afterwards a true Son of the Church of England he was then esteemed by the generallity especially when his Reasons for abrogating the Test were published very popishly enclined It was about that time said that he seemed very much to favour the Cath. Cause that he proposed in Council whether it was not expedient that at least one College in Oxford should be allowed Catholicks that they might not be forced to be at so much charges by going beyond the Seas to study The same Bishop inviting two Noblemen R. Cath. to a banquet drank the Kings health to an heretical Baron there wishing a happy success to all his affairs and he added that the Faith of the Protestants in England seemed to him but to be little better than that of Buda was before it was taken and that they were for the most part meer Atheists that defended it c. Thus a certain Jesuit of Liege to another at Friburg in a letter dat 2. Feb. 1687. And father Edm. Petre another Jesuit one of the Privy Council to K. Jam. 2. tells us in the same month that the Bishop of Oxon has not yet declared himself openly the great obstacle is his wife whom he cannot rid himself of his design being to continue Bishop and only change Communion as it is not doubted but the King will permit and our holy father confirm tho I do not see how he can be further useful to us in the Religion in which he is because he is suspected and of no esteem among the Hereticks of the English Church nor do I see that the example of his Conversion is like to draw many others after him because he declared himself so suddenly If he had believ'd my counsel which was to temporize for some longer time he would have done better but it is his temper or rather zeal that hurried him on c. But to let pass these and other matters which are related of him by that party the Roman Catholicks I shall proceed to give you an account of his published writings which are these Tentamina Physico-Theologica de Deo sive Theologia Scholastica c. lib. 2. Lond. 1665. qu. This book an account of which is in the Philosoph Transactions numb 18. is answer'd by N. Fairfax M. D. in his book entit Of the bulk and selvedge of the world These Tentamina are much enlarged in a book in a large quarto entit Disputationes de Deo c. as I shall tell you by and by A free and impartial censure of the Platonick Philosophy Lond. 1666. qu. Ox. 1667. oct At which time as his Adversary tells us he was proclaimed under the hand of another mascarade Divine The wonder of his age An account of the nature and extent of the divine dominion and goodness as they refer to the origenian hypothesis concerning the preexistence of soules c. This book which is printed with the Free and impartial censure is briefly reflected on by Anon. in a book entit Deus justificatus or the divine Goodness vindicated c. Ox. 1667. Lond. 1668. oct A discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity wherein the authority of the Civil Magistrate over the Consciences of subjects in matters of external Religion is asserted c. Lond. 1669. 79. oct Of which book hear what Mr. Baxter says I can shew you a Manuscript of one both impartial and truly judicious even the late Judge Hale expressing so great dislike of that Debate The Friendly Debate and Ecclesiastical Policy as tending to the injury of Religion it self that he wisheth the authors would openly profess that they would write for themselves and no more so abusively pretend it is for Religion c. A defence and continuation of the Eccles Politie c. against Dr. Owen Together with a Letter from the author of The Friendly Debate Lond. 1671. oct On the said book Ecclesiast Politie and Reproof to the Rehearsal a certain Scotchman named Rohert Ferguson a Divine of some note hath written reflections in a book entit A sober enquiry into the nature measure and principle of moral virtue c. Lond. 1673 oct A discourse in vindication of Bishop John Bramhall and the Clergy of the Church of England from the Fanatick charge of Popery together with some reflections upon the present state of affairs c. This discourse was published by way of Preface to a Treatise of the said Bishop Lond. 1672. and by it self in oct Lond. 1673. In the said Discourse or book is a great deal of rallery against Dr. Joh. Owen his doctrine and writings but more especially against some passages of his book of Evangelical Love Church peace c. and much said in defence of that sharper way which he took in his former answer to the Doctor and somewhat against Baxter's Grotian religion discovered Whereupon our author Parker being esteemed by the Nonconformists a forward proud ambitious and scornful person was taken to task purposely to clip his wings or take him shorter by their buffooning Champion Andr. Marvell somtimes one of John Miltons companions in a book which he published entit The Rehearsal transpros'd or animadversions upon a late book entit A Preface shewing c. Lond. 1672. oct Which title The Rehearsal c. was taken from a Comedy then lately published by George Duke of Buckingham called The Rehearsal wherein one Mr. Bayes acteth a part Afterwards our author Parker wrot an answer to Marvell who stiles him throughout his book Mr. Bayes entit A reproof to the Rehearsall transpros'd in a discourse to its author Lond. 1673 oct Besides which answer came out five more against Marvell viz. 1. Rosemary and Bayes or Animadversions upon a treatise called The Rehearsall transpros'd c. Lond. 1672 in 3. sh in qu. 2 The Transproser rehears'd or the fifth act of Mr. Bayes Play c. Oxon 1673 oct Written by Rich. Leigh somtimes Commoner of Qu. Coll. 3 Gregory Father-Greybeard with his vizard off or news from the Cabal in some reflections c. in a letter to our old friend R.L. from E.H. Lond. 1673. oct subscribed Edm. Hickeringhill 4 A common place book out of The Rehearsall transpros'd digested under these several heads c. Lond. 1673. oct 5 Stoo him Bayes or some animadversions upon the humour of writing Rehearsals transpros'd Oxon. 1673. oct All or most of which answers which were to the first part of The Rehearsall transpros'd were wrot in a buffooning burlesquing and ridiculing way and stile in which fashion of writing Marvell himself had led the way Besides Marvell's answer to the said Preface of Dr. Parker I find another small piece wrot against it partly entit The authority of the Magistrate about Religion discussed in a rebuke to the prefacer of the late book of Bish Bramhalls c. Lond. 1672. oct by J. H supposed to be Joh. Humphrey
head of a considerable party of desperate Phanaticks near to Daventry in Northamptonshire to hinder if possibly it might be not only the said Settlement but Restauration of the King he the said Col. Ingoldesbie did with his own Regiment and some other Troops and Companies of Foot such as he could confide in draw towards him and about the 23 of Apr. making an Onset took Lambert with his own hands while the other prime Officers were taken by others of Ingoldesbie's party c. Whereupon for this his good service his Majesty did not only spare his life as having been one of his fathers Judges but gave order that he should be made a Knight of the Bath at his Coronation which accordingly was done Afterwards he retired to Lethenborough lived several years after in a quiet repose and died in the beginning of Sept. 1685. Before which time his Estate at Lethenborough was as it was then reported sold to Elianor Gwynn for the use of her natural son which she had by K. Ch. 2. called Sir Charles Beaucleer Earl of Burford and afterwards Duke of S. Albans This Col. Ingoldesbie was elder brother to Henry Ingoldesbie a Colonel also in the Parliam Army and to Thomas a Captain c. May 19. Col. John Hewson a Colonel of Foot was also presented by Proct. Zanchy and by him conducted to his place among the other Officers He was sometimes an honest Shoomaker in Westminster but getting little by that trade he in the beginning of the grand rebellion went out a Captain upon the account of the blessed cause was very zealous for it fought on stoutly and in time became a Colonel When K. Ch. 1. was by the godly brethren brought to trial for his life he sate as one of the Judges consented to the sentence passed upon him and sealed and subscribed the warrant for his execution Afterwards for his said service he became Governour of Dublin one of the Council of State in July 1653 a member of the Little or Barebones Parliament held the same year and of all the Parliaments since before his Majesties restauration a Knight also of the new stamp and at length one of Olivers Lords to have a negative voice in the Other House Upon an infallible foresight of the turn of the times he conveyed himself away into Holland to save his neck and soon after died and was buried at Amsterdam about 1662 as the vulgar report went at that time Colonel John Okey was another great Officer that was then also presented by Proct. Zanchy May 19. and by him conducted to the rest His parentage was as mean as his calling having been originally as 't is supposed a Dray-man afterwards a Stroaker in a Brew-house at Islington near London and then a poor Chandler near Lyon-Key in Thamestreet in London At length changing his Apron for a Buff-coat he became thro certain military degrees a Col. of Dragoons and by the artifice of Cromwell had unknowing to him his name inserted among the Kings Judges and so consequently was by him appointed to sit among that diabolical crew which if he refus'd to do he knew full well it would displease Cromwell much and in the end contract prejudice against him This Fellow who was of greater bulk than brains and of more strength than wit or conscience left Cromwell when he saw that he aimed at the office of a single person sided with the Anab. and Fift-Monarchy-men and thereupon was committed to custody for a time and his Regiment taken from him and given to a great Creature of Ol. called Ch. L. Howard afterwards E. of Carlile At length upon a foresight of the return of Monarchy he fled into Holland and setling at Delfâ— in a very timorous condition under the name of Frederick Williamson because his fathers name was William with Miles Corbet and John Barkstead two other Regicides the last of which went by the name of Joh. Harman they were all seized upon in the beginning of March 1661 by the forward Endeavours of Sir George Downing his Majesties Envoy or Resident at the Hague by order from the States they being then in an Ale-house Soon after they were sent to England in the Blackamore Frigot and upon their arrival were committed Prisoners to the Tower of London Afterwards being convey'd to the Kings-bench Bar at Westm Hall to know what they could say for themselves why Execution should not pass upon them they were returned to the Tower again and on the 19 of April 1662 were all convey'd thence each in a Sledge to Tybourn and there hang'd drawn and quarter'd Afterwards Okey's quarters were instead of being hang'd on several gates of the City of London permitted by his Majesty's order to be inter'd by his Relations because he had behaved himself dutifully towards him in his last words at the Gallows Soon after were publish'd their Speeches and Prayers together with several passages at the time of their Execution at Tybourne with some due and sober animadversions on the said Speeches Lond. 1662. in 5 sh in qu. and A letter from Col. Barkstead Col. Okey and Mil. Corbet to their friends in their congregational Churches in Lond. with the manner of their apprehension Lond. 1662 in 1 sh in qu. But this last is a feigned thing and reflects upon Sir Geor. Downing as a Revolter from their Cause as indeed he was which afterwards was his advancement He was then a member of that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May 1661 wherein acting much to the great dislike of those that took themselves to be the honest party of the House had this character given of him Sir Geor. Downing a poor child bred upon charity like Judas betray'd his Master What can his Country expect He drew and advised the Oath of renouncing the Kings family and took it first himself For his honesty fidelity c. he was rewarded by his Maj. with fourscore thousand pounds at least and is a Commissioner of the Customes the House-bell to call the Courtiers to vote at six of the clock at night an Exchecquer teller c. May 19. Geor. Sedascue Adjutant General of the Parliament Army was also then presented and took his place He had been a Cornet of Horse in the Expedition against the Rebels in Ireland 1641. 42. Col. Edward Grosvenour Quartermaster General of the said Army was presented and created M. of A. the same day In 1656 he was chose Burgess for Westminster to serve in that Parl. which began 17 of Sept. the same year he being then a favourite of Oliver and for the same place also to serve in Richards Parliament c. May 19. Owen Roe Scoutmaster General was also then created and conducted by Proctor Zanchy to the rest of the Officers He was originally a Silk-man and in the beginning of the Rebellion being a violent Covenantier and afterwards an Independent was by Oliver's interest made a prime Officer Lieut. Col. I think in the Militia of London and
disconsolate and relegated place to walk two miles at least in length containing but a few paces in breadth either in the company of the Governour of the said Castle or in that of Captain Reynolds an Officer therein beside Harrington while he was there and Herbert who according to their duties did always attend him That which made some amendments was a fair and uninterrupted prospect a good way into the Sea a view into the Isle of Wight one way and main Land the other with the sight of Ships of all sizes daily under sail with which his Majesty was much delighted In this Castle his Majesty continued from the evening of the 30 of Nov. till the 21. of Dec. following an 1648. and what hapned in that interval I have partly told you in Jam. Harrington among the Writers under the year 1677. p. 437.438 About the 15 of the said month of Dec. Major Harrison came late at night with orders for the removal of his Majesty thence lodged there two nights and went away without seeing the King or speaking with any of his Attendants Two days after L. Col. Cobbet before mention'd came and acquainted his Majesty with the orders he had received for his remove thence to Windsore Castle forthwith The King told him he was more kind at that time than he was at Newport when he would not gratifie him or any other the knowledge of the place he was to go to Windsore was the place he ever delighted in and 't would make amends for what at Hurst he had suffer'd All things in short time being made ready he bad solitary Hurst adieu and having pass'd the narrow passage before mention'd which reaches well nigh from Hurst to Milford three long miles there appeared a party of Horse belonging to the Army who had then their Winter quarter at Lindhorsh and were ordered to convoy the King to Winchester but going first to Ringwood then through the New Forest to Rumsey went thence to the said City At his entrance therein the Mayor and Aldermen of the City did notwithstanding the times receive the King with dutiful respect and the Clergy did the like During his short stay there the Gentry and others of inferiour rank flock'd thither in great numbers to welcome his Majesty and out of zeal to pray for his enlargement and happiness with which the King was much satisfied and was pleased to give his hand to many of them to kiss Thence his Majesty rode to Alton and so to Alresford while the Inhabitants round about made hast to see his Majesty pass by and to pour forth their prayers for his preservation From thence he went to Farnham 'twixt which two Towns Major Harrison met him with a party of Horse to convey him to Windsore See more before in Thomas Harrison among these creations Bach of Phys May 19. Thomas Trapham Chyrurgion to the General of the Parl. Army was then actually created Bach. of Physick while the said General Cromwell and the aforesaid Officers were seated in their Gowns in the Doctors seats This person who was Son of John Trapham of Maidstone in Kent and had been licensed by the University to practice Chyrurgery an 1633 did practice it in these parts for some time before the grand rebellion broke forth Afterwards he turned tail for profit sake practiced in the Parliament Army and became a bitter enemy to his Majesty K. Ch. the first to whose body after his decollation in the latter end of Jan. 1648 he put his hand to open and embalm and when that was done he sewed his head to his body and that being done also he said to the company then present that he had sewed on the head of a Goose Afterwards he was Chyrurgeon to Oliver Cromwell at the fight at Worcester against K. Ch. 2 was a great man among his party and got what he pleased After his Majesties return he retired to the fanatical Town of Abendon in Berks practiced there among the Brethren and dying an absolute Bigot for the cause in the latter end of Dec. 1683 was buried on the 29 of the same month in the presence of a great number of Dissenters in the Church yard of S. Helen there close under one of the windows of that Church One of both his names and his Son as it seems I shall elsewhere mention Nov. 14. James Ward was actually created by the favour of Fairfax the General This person who was lately made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors I have mentioned among the Incorporations an 1648. Jan. 14. Edm. Scrope eldest Son of Col. Adrian Scrope mention'd among the Creations of Bachelaurs of Arts this year was created by order of the Delegates of this University This ingenious and most comely Gentleman who had by the endeavours of his Father been made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the favour of the Committee and Visitors was afterwards Keeper of the Privy Seal in the Kingdom of Scotland He died much lamented by those that knew him in 1658 or thereabouts and was buried with solemnity by two or more Officers of Armes at Ch. Ch. alias the Grey-friers within Newgate in London Bach. of Div. May 19. Matthew Barten sometimes Mast of Arts of New Inn now a sturdy zealous and dayly Preacher up of the blessed cause in the Parliament Army was actually created Bach. of Div while the General Lieut. General and Officers were sitting in their respective stalls It was the pleasure then of Fairfax and Cromwell that George Sikes Jam. Baron Joh. Dale and Josh Cross all zealous and doughty Brethren for the said cause might be created Bachelaurs of Div. when they pleased June 8. George Sikes was created in a Convocation then held This person who was Son of George Sikes of Lutterworth in Leycestershire was originally of S. Johns Coll a Servitour I think and as a member of it he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards siding with the faction he became a Presbyterian a Covenantier an Independent was made Fellow of Magd. Coll by the Com. and Visitors where he had his share of the old gold or spurroyals belonging to that house went away with and never restored them again as others did and took the Engagement became a great admirer and follower of Sir Hen. Vane junior and therefore esteemed by the generality an Anabaptist Fifth-monarchy man and a Hodg-podge of religions He hath written The life and death of Sir Hen. Vane Knight or a short narrative of the main passages of his earthly pilgrimage Printed 1662 in qu. 'T is a most canting and enthusiastical piece and the effects rather of a craz'd than setled brain And instead of giving the Reader an account of the birth extract breeding actions c. of that Knight usually called Sir Humerous Vanity he puts the Reader off with his such as 't is Divinity What else he hath written I know not nor any thing besides of the person only that he was a great encourager of Henry Stubbe in
the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the dedication of the Theater and the coming to the University of the Duke of Ormonde Mast of Arts. On the 9 of July in a Convocation held in the Sheldonian Theater betwixt the hours of 8 and 10 in the morn at which time it was dedicated to a learned use were these seven persons following actually created Masters of Arts there George Berkley of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of George Lord afterwards Earl of Berkley He was afterwards benenced in Leycestershire at Segrave I think and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester 22. July 1686 on Matth. 7.12 Lond. 1686. qu. c. Blewet Stonehouse of Ch. Ch. Baronets Tho. Middleton of Ch. Ch. Baronets Joh. Bowyer of Ch. Ch. Baronets Ralph Ashton of Brasn Coll. Baronets Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Baronets Charles Keymish of Wadh. Coll. Baronets Afterwards were these two persons following created in the Convocation house at what time the most noble Duke of Ormonde was created Doct. of Law Jul. 15. Rob. Shirley of Ch. Ch. Baronets Jul. 15. Will. Drake of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets Sir Rob. Shirley Son of Sir Rob. Shirley who died in the Tower of London was brought into the Lords house and seated next above the Lord Stourton by the name of the Lord Ferrers of Chartley 28. Jan. 1677 as I have before told you Jul. 17. Franc. Cholmondeley Esq Jul. 17. George Brucâ— These two were to have been created on the 15 of Jul. when the Duke of Orm. honored the degree of Doct. of Law had they been present The first was of the antient family of his name in Cheshire and was a Burgess as it seems to serve in Parl. after the Prince of Orange came to the Crown The other was a Scot of an antient and noble race Doct. of Law July 15. The most illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Ossâ—ry and Brecknock Viscount Thorles Baron of Lanthony and Arclo chief Butler of Ireland Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary Chanc. of the Univ. of Dublin Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland one of the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council in all his Majesties Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold L. Lieutenant of the County of Somerset Gentleman of his Majesties Bedchamber and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter was with great solemnity actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in the House of Convocation in order to his election of Chancellour of this University which was accordingly made on the 4 of Aug. following He was paternally descended from Harvey Walter a great Baron of this Realm in the time of K. Hen. 2 whose posterity afterwards became Earls of Ormonde whereof another James surnamed Boteler who married Elizabeth the Dau. of Humph. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Lord of Brecknock and Constable of England by Elizabeth his Wife one of the Daughters of K. Edw. 3. was the first so created by K. Edw. 3. This James Duke of Ormonde was L. Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory where he performed great things for his cause and afterwards did constantly adhere to K Ch. 2. in the tedious time of his calamitous exile Afterwards for these his loyal actings and sufferings he was by his Majesty after his restauration made L. Lieutenant of Ireland and advanced to honours and places in England as before 't is told you At length in the latter end of Nov. 1682 his Majesty K. Ch 2. was graciously pleased to create him a Duke of this Kingdom of England by the name and title of James Duke of Ormonde This most noble person who was a true Son of the Church of England a zealous adherer to the Royal cause and a great lover of the regular Clergy Universities and Scholars hath going under his name several Declarations Letters c. while he was L. Lieutenant of Ireland and in other capacities engaged there for the cause of K. Ch. 1 as also A Letter in answer to Arthur Earl of Anglesey his Observations and reflections on the E. of Castlehavens Memoirs concerning the rebellion of Ireland Lond. 1682 in 3 sh in fol. See in Arth. Annesley E. of Angl. among the Writers in this Vol. an 1686. p. 598.599 He died much lamented at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on Saturday 21. of July 1688 aged 79 years whereupon succeeded him in his honours his Grandson James Earl of Ossory Son of his eldest Son Thom. late Earl of Ossory Afterwards his body was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland and there depoâ—ted in a vault under part of the Cath. Ch. among his Ancestors Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield was created the same day Jul. 15. He had before taken for his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of the said James Duke of Ormonde Rob. Spencer Esq Joh. Evelyn Esq The last of these two who was originally of Ball. Coll hath written many things of great curiosity and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers with honor It was then also July 15. granted that Charles Earl of Dunfermling in Scotland and Theobald Earl of Carlingford in Ireland who accompanied the Duke of Ormonde in these parts might be created Doctors of Law but whether they were so it appears not Doct. of Phys Nov. 2. Elias Ashmole Esq sometimes of Brasn Coll now 1669 chief controller of his Majesties excise in England and Wales was diplomated Doct. of Phys ab eruditione reconditâ benevolentia in Academ propensa nobis charissimus as it is said in the pub reg of the University He hath written several things and therefore he is with due respect to be numbred hereafter as he is partly already among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. Feb. 28. Joh. Durell of Merton Coll. the judicious and laborious Advocate for the Church of England both in word and deed was then created On the 15 of July when the D. of Orm. was created it was unanimously granted by the members of Convocation that Rich. Lingard Dean of Lismore in Ireland might be admitted to the degree of Doct. of Div but whether he was so it appears not He was now publick Professor of Div. of the University of Dublin of which he was D. D. and dying at Dublin was buried in the Chap. of Trinity Coll. there on the 13 of Nov. 1670. Soon after were published An Elegy and funeral Oration on his death In both which the last being in Lat. and spoken in the Hall of the said Coll. just before he was inter'd may be seen a just character of his great learning and worth He was originally of the University of Cambridge and hath written among other things A Letter of advice to a young Gentleman leaving the Vniversity concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world Printed in tw 1670 c. The said letter was