Sancti Sanciti or the common doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints as who are kept by the power of God through faith unto Salvation vindicated from the attempts lately made against it by John Goodwin in his book entit Redemp redeemed Lond. 1654. fol. This book is animadverted upon by the said John Goodwin in his Triumviri or the Genius Spirit and deportment of three men Mr. Rich. Resbury Mr. John Pawson and Mr. George Kendall in their late writings against the free grace of God in the redemption of the world c. A fescu for a Horn-book or an Apologie for University learning as necessary to Country preachers Being an answer to Mr. Hornes books wherein he gores all University learning Printed in fol. with Sancti Sanciti before mention'd Fur pro Tribunali Examen Dialogismi cui inscribitur Fur praedestinatus Oxon. 1657. oct De doctrina Neopelagiana Oratio habita in Comitiis Oxon. 9. Jul. 1654. Twissii vita victoria De scientia media brevicola dissertatio in qua Twissii nomen à calumnis Francisci Annati Jesuitae vindicatur Dissertatiuncula de novis actibus sint ne Deo ascribendi These three last things are printed and go with Fur pro Tribunali At length after a great deal of restless agitation carried on for the cause our Author died at Cofton before mention'd on the 19 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Chappel joyning to his house there leaving then behind him the character of a Person well read in Polemical Divinity the character also of a ready Disputant a noted Preacher a zealous and forward Presbyterian but hot-headed and many times freakish I shall make mention of another George Kendall by and by NICHOLAS CLAGETT was born within the City of Canterbury entred a Student of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the year 1628 took one degree in Arts went afterwards to Magd. Hall and as a member of that House took the degree of Master of that faculty being then esteemed by the generality thereof a very able Moderator in Philosophy Afterwards at two years standing in that degree he became Vicar of Melbourne in Derbyshire and some years after Rector of S. Maries Church at S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolk where he was held in great veneration by the precise party for his edifying way of preaching and for his singular piety He hath written The abuses of Gods grace discovered in the kinds causes c. proposed as a seasonable check to the wanton libertisme of the present age Oxon. 1659. qu. He paid his last debt to nature on the twelfth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and three aged 56 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Chancel of S. Maries Church before mentioned He left behind him a Son named William Clagett educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge of which Univ. he was Doct. of Divinity afterwards Preacher to the honourable Society of Greys inn Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty and Lecturer of S. Mich. Basinghaugh This Person who died at London in the beginning of the year latter end of March 1688 hath published several things as 1 A discourse concerning the operations of the holy spirit with a confutation of some part of Dr. Owens book upon that subject In three parts In the second part of which is An answer to Mr. Jo. Humphreys animadversions on the first part 2 Notion of Idolatry considered and confuted Lond. 1688. c. Another Son also he left behind him named Nich. Claget M. of Arts who is now or at least was lately Preacher at S Maries in S. Edm. Bury before mentioned Author of a Serm. intit A perswasive to peaceableness and obedience c. Lond. 1683. qu. and of another preached at S. Edm. Bury before William Bishop of Norwich c. 4. May 1686. c. JOB ROYS Son of a Father of both his names a Scrivener of London and he the Son of another Job of Lubenham in Leycestershire was born in the County of Middlesex in the Parish as it seems of S. Giles Cripplegate an 1631 educated partly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks founded by John Royse 1563 became a Student in Pembroke Coll. 1650 and soon after was elected one of the Postmasters of Mert. Coll. where continuing under the tuition of a severe Presbyterian became well qualified with the spirit took one degree in Arts an 1655 left the Coll. soon after and retiring to the great City became a puling Levite among the Brethren for whose sake and at their instance he wrot and published The spirits Touchstone or the teaching of Christs spirit on the hearts of Believers being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know whether he be really taught by the spirit of God c. Lond. 1657 in a pretty thick octavo What other books he published besides this which was esteemed an inconsiderable canting piece I know not nor any thing else of the Author only that first if you had set aside his practical Divinity you would have found him a simple shiftless and ridiculous Person and secondly that dying in sixteen hundred sixty and three was buried in some Church in or near London being then weary of the change of the times and the wickedness forsooth that followed DAVID JENKYNS received his first being in this world at Hensol in the Parish of Pendeylwyn called by some Pendoylon in Glamorganshire became a Commoner of S. Emunds Hall in the year 1597 at which time several Welshmen were Students there After he had taken one degree in Arts he retired to Greys-Inn studied the Common Law and when Barrester was resorted to by many for his Counsel In the first of Car. 1. he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader but refused to read Afterwards he was made one of the Judges for South Wales continued in that office till the Rebellion broke out at which time he either imprison'd divers persons in his Circuit or condemn'd them to dye as being guilty of High Treason for bearing Arms against the King At length being taken Prisoner at Hereford when that City was surprized by the Parliament Forces in Decemb. 1645 he was hurried up to London and committed Prisoner to the Tower Afterwards being brought to the barr in Chancery he denied the Authority of that Court because their Seal was counterfeited and so consequently the Commissioners thereof were constituted against Law whereupon being committed to Newgate prison he was impeached of Treason and brought to the barr of the Commons house but denying their Authority and refusing to kneel was for his contempt fined 1000 l. and remitted to his prison and thence translated to Wallingford Castle About that time he used his utmost endeavours to set the Parliament and Army at odds thereby to promote the Kings Cause but it did not take effect according to his desire Afterwards passed an Act for his Tryal in the High Court of Justice an 1650 so that our
Prince of Poets fell into the hands of the Satyrical wits of this University who having easily got some of his prose and poetry served him as the wits did Tom. Coryat in his time and published them under these titles Naps upon Pernassus A sleepy muse nipt and pincht though not awakened c. Lond. 1658. oct Characters Printed with the former Both which were usher'd into the world by more than twenty Copies of verses advantaging the sale of the book by such that had the name of or at least pretended to be Poets Among them were Tho. Flatman Tho. Sprat and Sam. Woodford since noted and famed for their Poetical works Silvanus Taylour and George Castle of All 's Coll the former better at Musick the other at lying and buffooning than Poetry And among others not now to be named must not be forgotten Alexander Amidei a Jew and Florentine born then a Teacher of Hebrew and other tongues in the University afterwards a converted Christian and Reader of a Hebrew Lecture in Sion Coll. Lond. Our Author Austin hath also written and published A Panegyrick on K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1661. oct wherein just after the Preface he promised to publish more Poems conditionally the said Paneg. took the Subjects of which are there set down But what prevented him unless death which hapned about the plague year in 1665 I cannot tell JOHN OSBORNE a forward zealot for carrying on the righteous cause was the Son of John Osborne of Crediton in Devonshire whence after he had been trained up in trivial learning he was sent to New inn in the year 1634 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and became a frequent Preacher up of the Presbyterian design At length having sufficiently proved himself to be one of them was made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire in the place of a Loyalist ejected where continuing till the Act of conformity put him out preached in Conventicles in the Neighbourhood and thereupon was imprison'd for several weeks in Oxford Castle Afterwards being let loose he retired to the great City taught School and lived in S. Barthelmews Parish near little Britaine to the time as I take it of his death He hath published The Mysterie of the resurrection on Acts 24.15 Lond. 1651. qu. Conference between him and Rich. Coppin of Westwell near Burford at Burford in Oxfordshire concerning the resurrection of the Body Printed with The mysterie c. He also took a great deal of pains in making A catalogue of our English Writers on the Old and New Testament and had printed about 8 sheets of it but Will. Crowe of Suffolk Schoolmaster of Croyden in Surrey the same I mean who hung himself about the latter end of 1674 coming out before him on the same subject in 1659 prevented him from going any farther This Cat which hath been several times since printed is called by some Osbornes but by the generality Crowes Catalogue One John Osborne hath translated into English for the use of Schools Comenius his Vestibuli linguarum auctuarium c. Printed several times and in 1670 it was printed at London in oct Whether this Jo. Osborne be the same with the former I cannot yet tell GEORGE KENDALL son of Rich. Kendall of Rowel in Northamptonshire was born in that County became Batler of New inn in the year 1630 and that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards was actually created Master of that faculty when K. Ch. 1. was entertained at Oxon an 1636. He hath written a book entit An Appendix to the unlearned Alchymist wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent Diopharetick and Diuretick pill purging by sweat and urine commonly known by Matthews Pill c. Lond. 1664. At which time he practiced Physick but whether graduated here in that faculty or licensed to practice it it appears not What other things he hath written I cannot tell nor any thing else of the Author THOMAS HALL son of Rich. Hall clothier by Elizabeth Bonner his Wife was born in S. Andrews Parish within the City of Worcester about the 22 of July 1610 bred up to Grammar learning in the Kings School there under the famous Hen. Bright who perceiving him to be a youth of pregnant parts was by his perswasion sent to Ball. Coll. in 1624 But being his chance to be put under the tuition of a careless Tutor he was removed to Pembroke Coll. then newly founded and became Pupil to Mr. Tho. Lushington reputed by the generality of Scholars eminent for his Philosophical learning After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts and had compleated it by publick Determination he returned to his Country and for a while taught a private School and preached in the Chappels belonging to Kings Norton in Worcestershire Afterwards being a frequenter of the Lectures at Bermingham in Warwickshire maintained and held up by old Puritans they so much operated on his spirit that he relinquished his former principles adhered to that party and in many respects became an enemy to the Church of England and in fine so rigid in his perswasion that he was disliked by the Brethren Much about the same time he served the cure of Kings Norton under his Brother Mr. John Hall who at length resigned it all unto him and for his farther encouragement got the Free-school adjoyning to be added to it Both which employments took up most of his time and were all the preferments he ever had in the Church For being a single person a lover of books and learning and of a retired and obscure life never looked farther than his beloved Kings Norton At the turn of the times in 1641 he shew'd himself openly a Presbyterian and complied altogether with that party not for preferment sake but because they were against Bishops and Ceremonies At length in 1652 having the testimony of godly and able men had the degree of Bach. of Divinity confer'd upon him by the then members of the University but with this condition that he should preach a Latine Sermon as part of his exercise and an English Sermon instead of his other exercise Both which were as I conceive accordingly done tho his admission appears not He was accounted a Person by those of his own perswasion of great integrity and single-heartedness in his Ministry of a free and liberal heart just and one that lived much by faith of an holy and unblamable life of humble deportment and carriage a great lover of peace a plain and profitable Preacher that he was much in communion with God in publick abundant in thansgiving to God careful how to spend his time c. His works are these The Pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publick preaching and expounding the Scriptures without a Call c. Lond. 1651. qu. Answer'd by one Tho. Collier of whom more anon Six arguments to
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
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
Jan. 1688. Lond. 1689. qu. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law July 27. Edward Filmer of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys July 7. Thomas Rose of Ex. Coll. Feb. 16. Rob. Pitt of Wadh. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Doct. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Div. and is now Bishop of Gloc. 20. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll. This Divine who is now Vicar of Bray in Berks and had been Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 hath published 1 The State-informer enquired into Sermon before the Judges at Aylesbury Assizes in Bucks 3. Mar. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15 part of the 3. and 4. verses Lond. 16â—4 qu. 2 Englands restauration parallel'd in Judges or the Primitive Judge and Counsellour Sermon at Abendon Assizes for Berks 6. Aug. 1689 on Isay 1.26.27 Lond. 1689. qu. July 8. Anth. Radcliffe of Ch. Ch. He had been Chapl. to Hen. Earl of Arlington and after the death of Dr. Rich. Allestree he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of Feb. 1680. Dec. 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. This learned Divine who is now Principal of S. Edm. Hall hath in the Press at Oxon the New Testam in a Greek fol according to Rob Stephens his fair fol. Edition an 1550 wherein he gives an account of the various lections of all the Mss that could be met with both at home and abroad Also the Readings of the Fathers Greek and Latine with a judgment upon such Lections as are more considerable with large annotations upon them together with a very full collection of parallel places of holy Scripture and other places illustrative of particular words or passages in each verse placed at the foot of the Greek Text in each page with distinct Asteristiques and marks of reference by which in every verse may be seen what part of each verse the said places of Scripture do refer to This most elaborate work was began above 15 years since and without intermission carried on with great industry and care He hath consulted all the antient Mss of the whole or any part of the New Test now reposited in England and has procured a collation of the most authentick Ms copies at Rome Paris and Vienna The work was attempted by the advice and countenance of Dr. Joh. Fell Bishop of Oxon and the impression began at his charge in his Lordships Printing-house near the Theater After the said Bishops death his Executors being not willing to carry on the undertaking the author Dr. Mill refunded the prime costs and took the impression on himself and at his proper expence it is now so near finish'd that the publication is expected within an year with very learned Prolegomena that will give an historical account of the tradition or conveyance of the New Test and other most early records of the Church Mar. 2. Henry Aldrich Can. of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Divinity and on the 17 of June 1689 he was installed Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Mr. Joh. Massey who withdrew himself from that office in the latter end of Nov. going before In a Convocation held in the beginning of July this year were Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University read in behalf of Will. Hore M. A. of Exet. Coll Chapl. in ord to his Majesty and Preb. of Worcester that he might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div. but whether he did so it appears not Incorporations Thirteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated this year mostly after the Act but not one of them is yet a Writer as I can yet find Among them was Byron Needham Brother to Tho. Visc Kilmurrey in Ireland July 12. William Cave D. D. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge This person who was now Rector of Great Allhallows in London and in 1684 had succeeded Mr. Joh. Rosewell in his Canonry of Windsore about which time he became Rector of Haseley in Oxfordsh as it seems is a learned man as divers books published by him in English and Lat. shew the titles of which are now too many to be here set down See before in p. 286. Liveley Mody or Moody D. D. of the said Coll. of St. Joh. was also incorporated this year May 2 he being then a Master Com. of S. Alb. Hall and beneficed in Northamptonshire Creations Feb. 18. George Compton Earl of Northampton of Ch. Ch being about to leave the University was actually created Mast of Arts. Charles Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland of Ch. Ch the eldest Son of Henry Marquess and Earl of Worcester was then also actually created M. of A. The said Marquess is now Duke of Beaufort These two young Noblemen were presented by the publick Orator each with a little speech This year was a Sojournour in the University and a student in the publick Library one Andreas Arnoldus of Nuremberg who published the Sermon of Athanasius to the Monks and other things and afterwards became Professor of Div. in the University of Altorf Rector of a Church in Nuremberg c. An. Dom. 1682. An. 34. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Joh. Lloyd D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll Oct. 6. Proct. Roger Altham of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26. Will. Dingley of New Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. May 2. White Kennet of S. Edm. Hall Oct. 24. Joh. Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 15. Rich. Simpson of Qu. Coll. Dec. 15. Rob. Harrison of Qu. Coll. The first of these two who was Son of Jam. Simpson Senior Alderman of the Corporation of Kendal in Westmorl was born and bred in the Free-school there and being put aside from being Tabarder of his Coll when Bach. of Arts he retired to his native place in discontent and there concluded his last day He hath written Moral considerations touching the duty of contentedness under afflictions Oxon. 1686 in 6. sh in oct Written by way of Letter to the most affectionate and best of Fathers Mr. Jam. Simpson To this Letter are added Two Prayers one for the submission to the divine Will another for contentment This ingenious and religious young man died in his Fathers house 20. Decemb. 1684 and was buried the day following in the middle Isle of the Parish Church of Kendal before mention'd on the W. side of the Pulpit The other Rob. Harrison who was Son of Joh. Har. of the said Corporation of Kendal and who became a Student of Queens Coll. 1678. aged 15 years hath written A strange relation of the sudden and violent tempest which hapned at Oxford May 31. an 1682. Together with an enquiry into the probable cause and usual consequents of such like tempests and storms Oxon 1682 in two sheets in qu. He hath also written another book which is not yet extant entit Mercurius Oxonio-Academicus c. taken mostly from Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. and said to be written by a well-wisher to Astron
the honor of the Protestant Religion and the English Nation insomuch as his many conflicts with and conquests of the learned Sorbonists in defence of the Protestants and opposition to the Papists caused even those his adversaries to give him this encomium that he was Featlaeus acutiss acerrimus Upon his return into England he repaired to his College took the degree of Bac. of Div. 1613 and soon after became Rector of Northill in Cornwall by the favour of Ezeck Arscot Esq one of his Pupils and a Cornish man born But before he was scarce warm there he was sent for from thence to be domestick Chaplain to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury and by him was prefer'd soon after to the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey In 1617 he proceeded in Divinity and puzled Prideaux the Kings professor so much with his learned arguments that a quarrel thereupon being raised the Archbishop was in a manner forced to compose it for his Chaplains sake The Archb. of Spalato being also present at the disputation was so much taken with our Authors arguments that he forthwith gave him a Brothers-place in the Savoy Hospital near London he being then Master thereof About that time he had the Rectory of Alhallowes Church in Broadstreet within the City of London confer'd upon him by Canterbury which soon after he changed for the Rectory of Acton in Middlesex and at length became the third and last Provost of Chelsey Coll. In 1625 he left Canterburies service being then married and retiring to Kennington near Lambeth where his wife had a house laid aside his polemical Divinity wholly devoted himself to the study and practice of Piety and Charity and composed his Ancilla Pietatis which the next year was published From that time to the beginning of the Civil War may be many things here spoken of him worthy of memory as of his often disputes with persons of contrary Religion his writing of books against the Church of Rome c. which shall now for brevity sake he omitted In Nov. 1642 after the King had encountred the Parliament-Soldiers at Brentford some of the Rebels took up their quarters at Acton who after they had missed our Author Featley whom they took to be a Papist or at least that he had a Pope in his belly they drank and eat up his Provision burnt down a Barn of his full of Corn and two Stables the loss amounting to 211 l. and at the same time did not only greatly profane the Church there by their beastly actions but also burnt the rails pull'd down the Font broke the windows and I know not what In Feb. following the said Rebels sought after him in the Church at Lambeth on a Lords day to murder him but he having timely notice of their coming withdrew and saved himself In 1643 when the Bishops were altogether disinabled from performing their Office and thereupon the Assembly of Divines was constituted by the Blessed Parliament then by some so call'd our Author was appointed a member thereof shewing himself among them to have more of Calvin in him than before being as t is said a Calvinist always in his heart tho he shewed it not so openly till that time But so it was that our Author being a main stickler against the Covenant there which he was to take did in a letter to the learned Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland then at Oxon in the middle of Sept. the same year shew to him the reasons why he excepted against it A copy of which letter or else another which he about the same time wrot being treacherously gotten from him was first carried to the Close Committee and at length to the House of Commons Whereupon our Author being judged to be a Spye and a betrayer of the Parliaments cause was seised on committed Prisoner to the Lord Petre's house in Aldergatestreet on the 30 of the said month and his Rectories taken away that of Acton being bestowed on the infamous Independent Philip Nye and that of Lambeth on Joh. White of Dorchester the old instrument of sedition who afterwards got an order to obtain and keep his Library of books till such time that he could get his own back which had a little before been seised on at Dorchester by the command of Prince Rupert In the said Prison-house he continued till the beginning of March 1644 and then after much supplication made to the Parliament in his behalf he being then drawn very low and weak by the Dropsie he was remov'd for health sake to Chelsey Coll. of which he was then Provost where spinning out a short time in Piety and holy Exercise surrendred up his last breath to him that first gave it He was esteemed by the generality to be one of the most resolute and victorious Champions of the reformed Protestant Religion in his time a most smart scourge of the Church of Rome a Compendium of the learned Tongues and of all the liberal Arts and Sciences Also that though he was of small Stature yet he had a great soul and had all learning compacted in him He was most seriously and soundly pious and devout and tam studio quà m exercitio Theologus insignis c. as 't is express'd in his Epitaph What the Reader may further judg of him may be by his works the Catalogue of which follows The life and death of Jo. Jewell somtime B. of Salisbury 'T is an abridgment of the said Bishops life written by Laur. Humphrey D. D. drawn up by our Author whilst he was a Student in C. C. Coll. an 1609 at the command of Dr. Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury Which being by him concluded and sent to Lambeth was suddenly printed and prefix'd to the said Jewells works before he had time to revise it and to note the errata therein Most if not all of the said life is printed in English in a book intit Abel redivivus collected and written by Tho. Fuller Lond. 1651. qu. History of the life and manner of death of Dr. Joh. Rainolds President of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxon. It was delivered in a Lat. Oration from a pew set in that Coll. quadrangle when the said Rainolds was to be inter'd in the Chappel there Most or all of the said life is remitted into the before mention'd Abel redivivus Life and death of Rob. Abbot D. D. somtimes Bishop of Salisbury Written in Latine also as it seems and remitted into Ab. rediv. in English The Romish Fisher caught and held in his own net Or a true relation of his conference with Joh. Fisher and Joh. Sweet Lond. 1624. qu. Appendix to the Fishers net with a description of the Romish wheel and circle Printed with the former book A defence of his proceedings in the conference together with a refutation of Mr. Fishers answer under the name of A. C. to a treatise intit The Fisher caught in his own net Lond. 1624. qu. The sum and substance of that which passed in a
say that he was natione Teutonicus fortunâ Batavus religione Calvinista c. His Father who was a sufficient Clothier of Newbury perceiving this his Son to have pregnant parts sent him to the College at Winchester where being elected a Child and soon made ripe for the University in the School there founded by Will of Wykeham was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. in the year 1596 and two years after having by that time shaken off his wild extravagancies was admitted Verus Socius after which he diligently applied himself to the Theological Faculty for 16 years together In 1604 he proceeded in Arts and about that time taking Holy Orders became a frequent and diligent Preacher in these parts noted to the Academians for his subtile wit exact judgment exemplary life and conversation and for the endowment of such qualities that were befitting men of his Function In 1614 he proceeded Doct. of Divinity and about that time went into Germany as Chaplain to Princess Elizabeth Daughter of King James I. and Consort of the Prince Palatine where continuing for some time did improve himself much by the conversation he had with German Divines After his return he exchanged the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks which the Society of New Coll. gave him before his departure beyond the Sea for Newbury near to the place of his Nativity with Dr. Nathan Giles Canon of Windsor where being setled he laid a foundation of his doctrine and the seeds of his zealous opinion tho not improved by his Auditors according to his wish His plain preaching was good his solid disputations were accounted by some better and his pious way of living by others especially the Puritans best of all yet some of New Coll. who knew the Man well have often said in my hearing that he was always hot-headed and restless The most learned men even those of his adverse party did confess that there was nothing extant more accurate exact and full touching the Arminian controversies than what was written by this our Author Twisse He also if any one as those of his persuasion say hath so cleared and vindicated the cause from the objected absurdities and calumnies of his Adversaries as that out of his labours not only the learned but also those that are best vers'd in Controversies may find enough whereby to disintangle themselves from the snares of Opposites The truth is there 's none almost that have written against Arminianism since the publishing any thing of our Author but have made very honourable mention of him and have acknowledged him to be the mightiest man in those Controversies that his age hath produced Besides Newbury he was offer'd several preferments as the Rectory of Benefield in Northamptonshire a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester the Wardenship of Wykehams Coll. there and a Professors place at Franeker in Frisland But the three last were absolutely refused and the first he would not accept unless he could obtain liberty of his Majesty in whose gift Newbury was and is to have had an able man to succeed him there Besides also upon conference with Dr. Davenant Bishop of Salisbury Ordinary of that place the King was well satisfied concerning Twisse that he was unwilling to let him go from Newbury In the beginning of the Civil War began by the Presbyterians an 1641. -2. he sided with them was chose one of the Assembly of Divines and at length Prolocutor of them Among whom speaking but little some interpreted it to his modesty as those of his persuasion say as always preferring penning before speaking and others to the decay of his intellectuals But polemical Divinity was his Faculty and in that he was accounted excellent While he was Prolocutor he was one of the three Lecturers in S. Andrews Church in Holborn near London which was given to him for his losses he sustained at Newbury being forced thence as his brethren said by the Royal Party He hath written Vindiciae gratiae potestatis ac providentiae dei Hoc est ad examen libelli Perkinsiani Gul. Perkins de praedestinationis modo ordine institutum à Jacobo Arminio responsio Sholastica tribus libris absoluta Una cum digressionibus ad singulas partes accommodatis c. Amstel 1632. 1648. fol. A discovery of Dr. Jacksons vanities c. Printed beyond the Sea 1631. qu. This was written against Dr. Tho. Jackson's Treatise of divine Essence and attributes but the Doctor made no reply Dissertatio de Scientiâ mediâ tribus libris absolutâ c. Arnhem 1639. fol. Wherein Gabr. Penots book intit Libertatis humanae propugnaculum and that of Franc. Suarez De Scientia dei are answer'd Digressiones Printed with the Dissertatio Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians delivered by way of answer to the Translator of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath Divided into two parts 1 An answer to the preface 2 A consideration of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture Lond. 1641. qu. Treatise of Reprobation in answer to Mr. Jo. Cotton Lond. 1646. qu. Animadversiones ad Jacobi Arminii Collat. cum Franc. Junio Joh. Arnold Corvin Amstel 1649. fol. published by Andr. Rivet The doubting conscience resolved in answer to a pretended perplexing question c. Wherein is evidently proved that the Holy Scriptures not the Pope is the foundation whereon the Church is built c. Lond. 1652. oct published by Sam. Hartlib The riches of Gods love unto the Vessels of Mercy consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the Vessels of Wrath Or an answer to a book intit Gods love to mankind manifested by disproving his absolute decree for their damnation in two books One against Mr. Sam. Hoard and the other against Mr. Hen. Mason Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft London Oxon. 1653. fol. Two tracts in answer Dr. to H. Hammond the one concerning Gods decree definite or indefinite the other about the object of predestination Printed with the former book The Synod of Dort and Ales reduced to practice with an answer thereunto The Scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of Faith made good against the Papists Lond. in tw Christian Sabbath defended against the crying evil in these times of the Antisabitarians of our age shewing that the morality of the Fourth Commandment is still in force to bind Christians unto the sanctification of the Sabbath day Lond. 165. qu. Fiveteen Letters to Mr. Joseph Mede See in the 4 book of the said Mr. Medes works Besides these and something upon the Commandments that are printed he left behind him many Manuscripts mostly compleat of his own composition which were carefully kept in the hands of his Son Rob. Twisse a Minister in Westminster but what became of them after his death which hapned in the latter end of the year 1674 I know not Among them are 1 Examen Historiae Pelag written by Ger. Jo. Vossius put after the Authors death into the
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
that he was very confident that then would be great revolutions in the Kingdom of England THOMAS WIDDOWES Son of Thom. Wid. Brother I think to Giles mention'd under the year 1645. p. 44 was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire entred a Student in Gloc. Hall in 1626 aged 14 years where continuing about 8 Terms was made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Frewen President thereof Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he was by the endeavours of the same Person made Master of the College School at Glocester in the place of Joh. Langley an 1640. at which time Dr. Frewen was Dean of the Cath. Church there But Widdowes being soon after outed for his Loyalty he became Minister of Woodstock and Master of the School there founded by Rich. Cornwell Citizen and Skinner of Lond. 27. Eliz. dom 1585. where continuing for some time was removed to the Free school at Northleech in Glocestershire a place of more value He hath written The just Devil o◠Woodstock or a true narrative of the several apparitions the frights and punishments inflicted upon the Rumpish Commissioners sent thither to survey the Mannors and Houses belonging to his Majestie Lond. 1649. qu. It is a diary which was exactly kept by the Author for his own satisfaction intending not to print it But after his death the copy coming into the hands of another Person 't was printed in Dec. 1660 and had the year 1649 put in the bottom of the title as if it had been then printed The names of the Commissioners were Cockaine Hart Unton Croke Careless and Roe Captains Rich. Croke the Lawyer afterwards Recorder of Oxon. and Browne the surveyor The Book is very impartially written and therefore worth the reading by all especially the many Atheists of this age Our Author also hath written A short survey of Woodstock Taken from antient Authors and printed with the former He hath also written as I have been told certain matters pertaining to the faculty of Grammar for the use of his Scholars which I have not yet seen He was buried in the Church of Northleech beforemention'd on the 26. of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five In the year 1649 was printed in one sheet in qu. a Poem intit The Woodstock scuffle or most dreadful apparitions that were lately seen in the Mannor-house of Woodstock near Oxford c. the beginning of which is It were a wonder if one writes c. but who the Author of it was I cannot tell JOHN LATCH a Sommersetshire man born descended from a gentile family of his name living at Upper Langford near to Churchill in the said County was by the care of his Uncle Latch educated in Academical Learning in Oxon. particularly as I have been informed in S. Johns Coll where he made a considerable proficiency in Literature Afterwards he retired to the Middle Temple studied the municipal Laws but being very sickly lived a solitary and studious life and improved his natural talent as much as his abilities of body would permit He hath written Reports of divers causes adjudged in the three first years of K. Ch. 1. in the Court of the Kings bench Lond. 1662. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hayes as it seems in Middlesex in the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and five and was buried in the Church there Some years before his death he had embraced the R. Cath. Religion partly if not altogether by the perswasion of one called Francis Harvey whose right Sirname was Hanmer a pretended Solicitor and a Broker for letting out money esteemed by the Fanatical Party of that time to be either a Rom. Priest or Jesuit for by his endeavours his estate came to the Soc. of Jesus Soon after fell out great controversies between Uncle Latch who pretended to be Executor to his Nephew and others entrusted by the R. Catholicks What the event of the matter was I know not only that Hanmer was committed to Newgate Prison for conveying away his Will and the matter it self was examined by the Protector in Sept. following FRANCIS GOLDSMITH or Gouldsmith Son and Heir of Franc. Golds of S. Giles in the Fields in Midd. Esq Son of Sir Franc. Goldsmith of Craford in Kent Knight was educated under Dr. Nich. Grey in Merchant Taylours School became a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of 1629 was soon after translated to S. Johns Coll. and after he had taken a degree in Arts to Greys Inn where he studied the common Law several years but other learning more and wrot Annotations on Hugh Grotius his Sophompaneus or Joseph a Tragedie Lond. 1652. oct Which Trag. was with annotations printed then in English He also translated from Lat. H. Grotius his Consolatory Oration to his Father in verse and prose with Epitaphs and also his Catechism into English verse intit Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia c. which translations were printed with the annotations beforemention'd See more in Nich. Grey among these Writers under the year 1660. What other things Fr. Goldsmith hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Ashton in Northamptonshire either in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and five was I presume buried there leaving then behind him a Daugh. named Catherine afterwards the Wife of Sir Hen. Dacres Knight His Father Francis Goldsmith died 16. of Decemb. 1634 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London beforemention'd TOBIE MATHEW the eldest Son of Dr. Tob. Math. Archb. of York by Frances his Wife Daugh. of Will. Barlow sometimes Bishop of Chichester was born as it seems in Oxon. while his Father was Dean of Ch. Church matriculated as a member of that house in the beginning of March 1589 being then eleven years of age and the year following had a Students place conferred on him By the benefit of a good Tutor and pregnant parts he became a noted Orator and Disputant and taking the degrees in Arts he afterwards travelled into various Countries beyond the Seas At his return he was esteem'd a well qualified Gentleman and to be one well vers'd in the affairs of other Nations At length leaving the Church of England by the perswasions of Fath. Parsons the Jesuit to the great grief of his Father he entred himself into the Society of Jesus but whether he took holy Orders is yet to me uncertain Afterwards growing famous for his eminency in the Politicks he came into England upon invitation in January 1621 to the end that the King might make use of his assistance in certain matters of State On the 10. of Octob. 1623 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Maj. then at Royston for his great zeal in carrying on the Spanish match to be had with Prince Charles at which time not only the King but the chief of the Nobility and others
1606 aged 15 years admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 23. Sept. 1608 Master of Arts in the latter end of 1614 and Probat Fellow of the said House 25 of Apr. in the year following Afterwards he was made Chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth Consort to the Pr. Elector Palatine of Rheine made D. of Div. of the University of Leyden in his passage thither or return thence incorporated in the same degree at Oxon in 1624 constituted Chaplain to K. Ch. 1 and at length in 1638 or thereabouts he was made Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate within the City of London which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed He was always reputed a pious and laborious man in his calling learned and well read in most parts of Divinity as in these his labours following is evident Paraphrastical meditations by way of commentarie on the Proverbs c. Lond. 1638. fol. Commentarie on Ecclesiastes c. Lond. 1639. fol. Exemplary life and death of Mr. ... Jurdaine printed in qu. One Ferdin Nicolls Minister of S. Marie Arches in Exeter hath written The life and death of Ignat. Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of the City of Exeter Whether he be the same Jurdaine whose life Dr. Jermin wrot I know not for I have not yet seen it nor The Fathers instruction to his Child printed at Lond. 1658. oct said to be written by Jermin At length after he had suffer'd much for the royal cause in the time of the rebellion by sequestration of his rectory plundering and other miseries lived as opportunity served and on the benevolence of some generous Loyallists Afterward retiring to Kemsing near to Sevenoke in Kent lived obscurely with his Son in law for about 7 years before his death In fine preaching at Sevenoke on the 14 day of August being then the Lords day in sixteen hundred fifty and nine dropt dead from his horse in his return thence to Kemsing Whereupon he was buried on the north side of the Altar in the Chancel belonging to the Church of Kemsing Over his grave was a marble monument set up near to the East Window with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 243. a. ZACHARIE BOGAN Son of Will. Bogan Gent. was born at Little Hempston in Devonshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term under the tuition of Ralph Button a Puritannical Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year 1640 and that of his age 15 admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. of Nov. the year following left the University when the City of Oxon was garrison'd for the King return'd after the surrender thereof to the Parliament took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Mich. term 1646 elected Prob. Fellow of the said Coll. in the year following and afterwards proceeding in his faculty became a retired and religious Student and much noted in the University for his admirable skill in the Tongues He hath written Additions to Franc. Rous his Archeologiae Atticae Printed several times before 1674. in qu. Of the threats and punishments recorded in Scripture alphabetically composed with some brief observations on sundry texts Oxon. 1653. oct dedicated to his Father Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life Oxon. 1653. oct grounded on Psal 32.11 and on Phil. 4.4 dedicated to his Mother Joan. Comparatio Homeri cum scriptoribus sacris quoad Normam loquendi Oxon. 1658. oct Help to prayer both extempore and by a set forme as also to meditation c. Oxon. 1660. oct published after the Authors death by Dan. Agas Fellow of C. C. Coll. He also wrot a large and learned Epistle to Edm. Dickinson M. A. of Mert. College set before a book going under his name entit Delphi Phaenicizantes c. Oxon. 1655. oct At length this our Author Bogan who had contracted an ill habit of body by studying surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the first day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine whereupon his body was committed to the Earth about the middle of the north cloister belonging to the Coll. of Corp. Christi joyning to the S side of the Chappel there At that time and before the Nation being very unsetled and the Universities expecting nothing but ruin and dissolution it pleased Mr. Bogan to give by his will to the City of Oxon 500 l. whereas had the nation been otherwise he would have given that money to his College His picture drawn to the life hangs in the Council Chamber joyning to the Guild-hall of the City of Oxon. CHARLES HERLE third Son of Ed. Herle Esq by Anne his Wife Daugh. of John Trefrie was born at Prideaux Herle near Lystwithyel in Cornwall where tho his ancestors have lived several generations in gentile fashion yet they were originally of West Herle in Northumberland At 14 years of age in 1612 he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1618 and afterwards Holy Orders but what were his employments or preferments that immediatly followed I know not Sure I am that he was Rector of one of the richest Churches in England which is at Winwick in Lancashire before the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 that at the eruption he having always been esteemed a Puritan sided with the Presbyterian Party took the Covenant was elected one of the Assemb of Divines in 1643 being then a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament and in the year 1646 July 22 he was voted by the members of the said Parliament Prolocutor of that Assembly after the death of Twysse In 1647 he with Steph. Marshall went with certain Commissioners appointed by the Parliament into Scotland to give them a right understanding of the affairs in England but what he did there was chiefly to give constant notice of the Scots resolutions and the forwardness of their Levies After the King was beheaded he retired to his rectory of Winwick having first received satisfaction from the Parliament for his Service and losses he sustained at Winwick after he had fled to London for protection during the heat of the War where he was esteemed by the factious party the prime man of note and power among the Clergy In 1654 he was by the Authority of Parl. appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Lanc. for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters in which office he with Is Ambrose of Preston Edw. Gee of Eccleston c. shewed great severity against them This Mr. Herle hath extant under his name these things following Several Sermons as 1 A pair of Compasses for the Church and State Sermon before the House of Com. at their monthly fast ult Nov. 1642 on Zach. 8.19 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Davids Song of three parts Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of Lords for Gods great deliverance of the Parl. City and Kingdom
all of them with great respect save only by Archb. Abbot and William Earl of Exeter the first of which disliked the argument and the other snapped him up for a begging Scholar which he was after much asham'd of when it came to be known Soon after the said History was much impugned by a discourse of Dr. G. Hakewill which was as Heylyn saith full of most base and malicious calumniations both against the Person and Religion of the Author Whereupon his Maj. having received notice of it from Laud who had a copy of it sent to him from Oxon by Dr. W. Smith the Vicechancellour of that place and he from Hakewill to be approved before it was to go to the press commanded Heylyn to consider of the matter and withal sent him to Windsore to search into the records of the Order of the Garter there Which command he accordingly obeying occasioned a second edition of the said History an 1633 as I have before told you wherein he answer'd all Hakewills allegations letting pass his slanders Upon the coming out of which Heylyn heard no more of Hakewill till a second edition of his book of the supposed decay of nature entit An Apol. or Declaration of the Power c. wherein Heylyn found a retraction of the passages which concerned S. George About the same time Hakewill thinking better to sit silent than to come out with a reply yet he thought it fit to acquaint his friends what sentiments he had of the said second edition of The Hist of S. George in several letters sent abroad one of which speaketh thus In the second impression of his book The Hist of S. George where he hath occasion to speak of the Roman writers especially the Legendaries he magnifies them more and when he mentions our men he villifies them more than he did in his first edition But the matter is not much what he saith of the one or of the other the condition of the man being such as his word hardly passeth either for commendation or slander c. From the said Hist of S. George written by Heylyn is a little Pamphlet taken and stoln entit The Hist of that most famous Saint and Soldier S. George of Capadocia c. Lond. 1661 in 7. sheets in qu. Also another for the most part intit The Hist of the life and Martyrdome of S. George the titular Patron of England c. Lond. 1664. in 8 sh in qu. written in verse by Tho. Lowick Gent. And many things are taken thence also with due acknowledgment by E. Ashmole in his book of The Institutions Laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter Lond. 1672. fol. An Essay called Augustus Printed 1632 since inserted into Heylyns Cosmography History of the Sabbath in two books Lond. 1636. qu. twice printed in that year Written to satisfie the scrupulous minds of some misguided zealots who turned the observation of the Lords day into a Jewish Sabbath not allowing themselves or others the ordinary liberties nor works of absolute necessity which the Jews themselves never scrupled at About that time was published A letter to the Vicar of Grantham by Dr. Jo. Williams Bishop of Linc. against the Communion Table standing Altar-ways whereupon Heylyn made a sudden and sharp reply entit A coal from the Altar or an answer to the Bishop of Lincolns letter to the Vicar of Grantham Lond. 1636. qu. To which the Bishop in a year after return'd an answer under this title The holy table name and thing c. pretending withal that it was written long ago by a Minister in Lincolnshire against Dr. Cole a Divine in Qu. Maries raign whereupon Heylyn made a reply as I shall anon tell you Brief discourse in way of Letter touching the form of prayer appointed to be used by preachers before their Sermons Can. 55. Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester in the year 1636 and afterwards printed in the first part of Ecclesia Vindicata Brief and moderate answer to the seditious and scandalous challenges of Hen. Burton late of Friday-street in two Sermons preached by him on the 5 of Nov. 1636 and in the Apologie set before them Lond. 1637. qu. Antidotum Lincolniense or an answer to a book entit The holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1637. 38. qu. Another answer came out against the said Holy Table c. entit Two looks over Lincolne or a view of his holy table name and thing c. Lond. 1641. in 4. sh and an half written by Rich. Day who stiles himself Minister of the Gospel yet seems rather to be an enemy to the Ceremonies of the Church In which book also Heylyns Coal from the Altar is sometimes animadverted upon An uniform book of articles to be used by all Bishops and Archdeacons in their Visitations Lond. 1640 qu. De jure paritatis Episcoporum MS. written 1640 upon a proposition in the Lords house whether Bishops should be of the Committee for the preparatory examinations in the cause of Tho. Earl of Strafford Printed afterwards and involved in his Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts Reply to Dr. Hakewills dissertation touching the sacrifice of the Eucharist Lond. 1641. qu. See more in George Hakewill under the year 1649. An help to English history containing a succession of all the Kings of England and the English Saxons the Kings and Princes of Wales c. As also of all the Archbishops Bishops Dukes Marquesses and Earles within the said dominions In three tables Lond. 1641 c. in oct Published under the name of Rob. Hall Gent. Several additions to this book were made by Christop Wilkinson a Bookseller living against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street London the first edition of which additions with the book it self came out in 1670. in oct with the name put to the book of Pet. Heylyn who made use of Dr. Franc. Godwins Commentarie of the Bishops of England in his succession of Archb. and Bishops and of Ralph Brook and August Vincent their respective Catalogues of the succession of Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls c. 'T is said also that in the same year 1641. our Author Heylyn wrot and published a book intit Persecutio Undecima c. Lond. 1641. 48. quarto 1681. fol. but finding no such thing in his Diary which I have several times perused I cannot be so bold to affirm that he was the Author History of Episcopacy in two parts Lond. 1642. qu. Published under the name of Theophilus Churchman This makes the second part of Ecclesia Vindicata c. Lond. 1657. qu. Historical narration of Liturgies c. written 1642. Afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata c. Relation of Lord Ralph Hoptons victory near to Bodmin in Cornwall on the 19 of Jan. 1642. Oxon. 1642 3. in one sh in qu. Brief relation of the remarkable occurrences in the northern parts viz. The landing of the Queens Majesty in the Bay of Burlington from Holland
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
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
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
Lat. and Greek and such books having too few buyers in England none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory mostly consisting of Dissenters wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies To God and you a sacrifice Not long after was published his life written by Mr. Rich. Baxter who wrot also the introduction Rich. Alleine Rich. Faireclough George Newton his Widow Theodosia Alleine and two conforming Ministers who conceal their names From which Sermon and canting farce or life especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos Alleine was and how his life was spent in actions busie forward if not pragmatical and medling without intermission The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a meer Zantippe finding Jos Alleine to be a meer Scholar and totally ignorant of Womens tricks did flatter sooth him up and woe and soon after married and brought him to her Luer After she had buried him and being not able to continue long without a consort she freely courted a lusty Chaundler of Taunton alienated his affections by false reports from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with and by three days courting they were the fourth day married as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton and so obtained him meerly to supply her salacious humour In 1â—91 our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit A sure Guide to heaven c. printed in tw RICHARD GOVE a Gentlemans Son was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1604 aged 18 years where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degree of M. of A. an 1611. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet and in Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire at which place much about the same time he taught a Grammar School In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty as some of his relations have said but I think false and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter closed so much with the Presbyterians that he became Minister of S. Davids Church there and for several years was much frequented by them About the time of his Majesties restauration he went to East Coker in Somersetshire where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter at which place he taught School for some time and afterwards was made Minister of it His works are The Saints hony-comb full of Divine truths touching both Christian belief and a Christian life in two cent Lond. 1652. oct The Communicants guide directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1654. oct Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations Lond. 1658. oct as also A Catechisme print in oct which I have not yet seen He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mention'd but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight sometimes chief Baron of the Exchecquer in and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of Ireland by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom was born within the City of Dublin but being brought thence very young at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer in England an 1617 he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster and being made full ripe for the University was sent to Trinity Coll where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm term an 1631. aged 16 years But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries and given more to cards and dice than his study they could never then in the least imagine that he could ever inrich the World with his fansie or issue of his brain as he afterwards did From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years and had been examined in the publick Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Lincolns inn where tho he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons yet he would game much and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters who rook'd him sometimes of all he could wrap or get But his Father having received notice of these matters took him severely to task with many threatnings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing Whereupon he wrot a Little Essay against Gaming shewing the vanities and inconveniencies which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation of it After his Fathers death who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey he fell to gaming again and shortly after squandred away several thousands of pounds that were left him c. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong when no body was aware or in the least suspected it Shortly after he was prick'd High Sherriff for Surrey and made Governour of Farnham Castle for the King But he being an inexpert soldier soon after left that office and retired to his Maj. at Oxon where he printed his poem called Coopers hill which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead hath a very noble prospect and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there which he mentions in that most celebrated poem In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James's in Westminster then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother and not long after was sent with William afterwards Lord Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts he return'd into England and being in some streights for by gaming and the War he had squandred away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651 he was kindly entertain'd by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton where
was that he extracting thence several books did in some of them particularly in his two tomes of An exact chronological Vindication c. endeavour to bring an odium upon the Bishops and their function by giving an history in them of the Popes Usurpations upon the King and Subjects of England and Ireland In Aug. the same year he was appointed one of the six Commissioners for appeals and regulating the Excise and in the month of Apr. 1661 he was again elected a Burgess for Bathe to sit in that Parl. that began at Westm 8. of May the same year But in July following being discontented at some proceedings in the House he published a seditious paper against them intit Sundry reasons tendred to the most honorable House of Peers c. against the new intended bill for governing and reforming Corporations This Pamphlet coming into the hands of several Members of Parliament who much complained against it the House appointed a Committee to examine and enquire after the Author the Printer and Publisher thereof The Committee met and soon found that Prynne was the Author of it And accordingly on the 15 of the said month of July the whole matter was reported to the House who thereupon being highly provok'd Prynne unable to conceal it any longer for 't was proved that he had sent that paper to the Printing-house and that he had corrected the Proof sheet and revise with his own hand he flew to the Printing-house and commanded the Compositors to distribute the form for they would be searched Which being done Prynne desired to be heard and unable to evade the evidence confessed himself to be the unhappy Author Then speaking largely setting forth what service he had done for the King formerly how kind and civil the King had been to him c. alledging that he had no mischievous intent but was sorry for what he had done and humbly craved their pardon the House then unanimously called upon him to withdraw and afterwards proceeded to debate it and resolved upon the question That the said printed paper intit Sundry reasons c. is an illegal false scandalous and seditious Pamphlet Prynne afterwards was called in again to receive the sense of the House which was as aforesaid Then Mr. Speaker Sir Edw. Turner worthily told him how sorry he was that a person of his years and experience should commit so foul an offence and one that had formerly much and yet now deserved to suffer all his punishments over again as imprisonment pillory c. But the House had considered his late services and hazards for his Majesty and in contemplation of them and his expressions of his sorrow which truly seemed very great the House shewed mercy unto him Prynne then did thankfully acknowledge the justice of the H. in their judgment of his great offence that the said paper was an illegal false scandalous and seditious pamphlet that he did humbly submit thereunto and did render most humble thanks to the H. and every Member thereof for their mercy and favour to him which words he spake with great sense of his own offence and the Houses goodness not offering to justifie the least line of his paper which his conscience told him he could not Whereupon the H. being satisfied with his confession and recantation they did remit his offence and Prynne sate down in his place From which time to the day of his death we heard of no more libels published by him The books and little pamphlets that he wrot were theological historical political controversial c. but very few of his own profession all which are in number near 200 as the titles following shew bound up in about 40 volumes in fol. and qu. in Linc. Inn Library To which an eminent Sage of the Law who had little respect for those published in his time promised to give the Works of John Taylor the Water-poet to accompany them 'T was not only he but many others afterwards especially Royalists that judged his books to be worth little or nothing his proofs for no arguments and affirmations for no testimonies having several forgeries made in them for his and the ends of his brethren They are all in the English Tongue and by the generality of Scholars are looked upon to be rather rapsodical and confus'd than any way polite or concise yet for Antiquaries Criticks and sometimes for Divines they are useful In most of them he shews great industry but little of judgment especially in his large folio's against the Popes Usurpations He may be well intituled Voluminous Prynne as Tostatus Abulensis was 200 years before his time called Voluminous Tostatus for I verily believe that if it rightly computed he wrot a sheet for every day of his life reckoning from the time when he came to the use of reason and the state of Man His custom when he studied was to put on a long quilted cap which came an inch over his eyes serving as an Umbrella to defend them from too much light and seldom eating a dinner would every 3 hours or more be maunching a roll of bread and now and then refresh his exhausted Spirits with Ale brought to him by his servant Thou that with Ale or viler liquors Did'st inspire Wythers Prynne and Vicars And teach though it were in despight Of nature and the stars to write c. Thus Hudibras part 1. He was a right sturdy and doughty Champion for the Cause a Puritan Beutifew an inveterate enemy against the hierarchy of Bishops especially upon his imprisonment and sufferings for his Hâ—strio mastix a busie pragmatical and medling man without end and one that had brought his body into an ill habit and so consequently had shortned his days by too much action and concernment day and night M. Nedham the Weather-cock tells us that he was one of the greatest paper worms that ever crept into a closet or library c. and others that he never intended an end in writing books and that his study or reading was not only a wearisomness to the flesh but to the ears Nay a printed Petition whereby some Wags under the name of the peaceable and well affected people of the three Nations did shew that whereas Will Prynne Bencher of Linc. Inn had for many years last past reckoning backward from 1659 in which year the said Petition was published been an indefatigable and impertinent Scribler and had almost nauseated the sober part of the said Nations with the stench of his carion pasquills and pamphlets for some whereof he had suffered under the hierarchy in the time of the late King c. that he might have an act of amnesty and pardon for all his Treasons Seditions Jesuitismes Contempts of Government misunderstanding of the Scripture Law and Reason Misquotations and misapplications of Authorities to his pasquills c. Which Petition I say being published and cried in Westm Hall and about London streets did so extreamly perplex Prynne for a time that
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 his hat when the Lords Prayer was repeating by the preacher see in Mr. Tho. Longs book intit No Protestant but Dissenters plot c. p. 167. 168. See also in Apologia pro Ministris in Anglia ejectis written as 't is said by Mr. Hen. Hickman who blames him also for it This action is denied by Dr. Owen that he ever did it in a letter to Dr. Lew. du Moulin but therein he doth err much for several now living in Oxon know it well enough A King and his Subjects unhappily fallen out and happily reconciled in a Serm. at Canterbury on Hosea 3. ver 4.5 Lond. 1660. qu. The question to whom it belonged antiently to preach and whether all Priests might or did Discussed out of antiquity as also what preaching is properly Lond. 1663. qu. Notae emendationes in Diog. Laertium de Vitis c. Philosophorum Lond. 1664. fol. Of the necessity of reformation in and before Luthers time occasioned by some virulent books written by Papists but especially by that entit Labarinthus Cantuariensis Lond. 1664. qu. Answer concerning the new way of infallibility lately devised to uphold the Rom. cause the holy Scriptures the antient Fathers and Councils laid aside against J. S. the author of Sure-footing his letter lately published Lond. 1665. qu. The said letter by J. S. that is Joh. Sargeant contained exceptions against some passages in the former book viz. Of the necessity c. which letter was printed at the end of Sure footing in Christianity and follows the four Appendixes relating to Dr. Tho. Pierce Dr. Dan. Whitby Dr. J. Stillingfleet and Dr. Jer. Taylor Printed 1664 in a large oct Notae in duas posteriores Terentii Comaedias Amstel 1669. in tw Letter to Dr. Pet. du Moulin D. D. and Prebendary of Canterb. concerning natural experimental Philosophy and some books lately set out about it Cambr. 1669 in 5. sh in qu. Of credulity and incredulity in things natural and civil c. in two parts The first was printed at London 1668. oct The second in Things divine and spiritual was printed at the same place also 1670. oct In this last part he takes a view of John Wagstaff's book entit The question of witchcraft debated Lond. 1669. oct But these two parts lying dead on the Booksellers hands they printed a new title to them running thus A Treatise proving Spirits Witches and supernatural operations by pregnant instances and evidences c. Lond. 1672. oct the Author being then dead Notae in Polybium Amstel 1670. oct in the third Vol published by Jac. Gronovius Notae emendationes in Hieroclis commentarium Lond. 1673. oct Variae Epistolae ad Ger. Joh. Vossium alios He also enlarged and amended the third edition of his Fathers Commentary on Aul. Persius his Satyrs Lond. 1647. oct And made fit for the press a book entit A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee and some spirits c. Lond. 1659. fol. To which book M. Casaubon wrot a large preface confirming the reality as to the point of spirits in the said Relation At length after a life spent partly in adversity but mostly in prosperity he gave way to fate on the 14 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the south part of the first cross Isle joyning southward to Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Canterbury Over his grave was soon after erected a handsome monument the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon Lib. 2. p. 282. b. He had a design in his last days of writing his own life and would often confess that he thought himself obliged to do it out of gratitude to the divine providence which had preserv'd and delivered him from more hazardous occurrences than ever any man as he thought beside himself had encountred with particularly in his escape from a fire in the night time which hapned in the house where he lived while he was a boy in Geneva Also by his recovery from a sickness while of Ch. Ch. in Oxon when he was given over for a dead man Which recovery was made by a young Physitian that gave Chymical physick to him In his wonderful delivery from drowning when overset in a boat on the Thames near London the two Water-men being drowned and he bouyed up by the help of his priests coat In his bearing several abuses fines imprisonments c. laid upon him by the fanatical reformers in the time of his sequestration and other memorables But these things being by him deferred from time to time were at length hindred by death which seized on him sooner than he expected GILBERT IRONSIDE son of Ralph Ironside Bach. of Div. somtimes Fellow of Univ. Coll. afterwards Minister of Long Bridie by his wife dau of Will. Gilbert M. A. of Madg. Coll. and superior Beadle of Arts of the Univ. of Oxon was born at Hawksbury near to Sadbury in that County on the 25 of Nov. S Catherins day an 1588 admitted Scholar of Trin. Coll. 28 May 1605 Fellow 1613 being then M. of A and Bach. of Div. in 1619. At length he became Rector of Winterbourn Stepleton and Winterbourn Abbots joyning together in Dorsetshire both which he keeping till after the Kings restauration was made Preb. of Thokerington in the Church of York in Oct. 1660 about which time being nominated to the See of Bristow was consecrated thereunto being first created D. D. in S. Peters Church at Westm on the 6. of January 1660. That which I am to take notice of him further is that tho he was never Chaplain to any spiritual or temporal Lord or to any King or Prince or enjoyed any Dignity in the Church except the little Preb. beforemention'd yet being wealthy he was looked upon as the fittest person to enter upon that mean Bishoprick He hath written Seaven questions of the Sabbath Oxon. 1637. qu. Besides which and a Sermon printed in 1660 he had laid the foundation of other Theological treatises and had in some manner brought them to perfection but Civil Wars breaking forth and old age following the publication of them was hindred He died at Bristow on the 19. Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Cathedral there near to the entrance into the Bishops Stall as I have been enformed by his Son of both his names lately Bishop of that See See more in Joh. White among these writers an 1648. p. 61. FRANCIS DROPE a younger Son of Tho. Drope B. D. Vicar of Comnore near Abendon in Berks and Rector of Ardley near Bister in Oxfordshire was born in the Vicaridge House at Comnore made Demy of Madg. Coll. in 1645 and ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he assisted Mr. Will. Fuller in teaching a privat School at Twickenham or Twittenham in Middlesex where continuing till his Majesties return in 1660 was restored to
stayed an year longer or more would have destroyed all that were to be saved by falling upon them for he was a great Dilapidator suffered some of the Offices Stable and Wood-house to fall made Hey-lofts of the Chambers and suffered one side of the Hall the assembling room to drop down Insomuch that Dr. Edw. Fulham who succeeded him at the Kings restauration was forced to build it up in the first month he had it and Mr. Fr. Carswell in short time succeeding Dr. Fulham spent about 150 l. to make the house habitable He received his maintenance out of the then Augmentation Court neglecting his tithes and put whims into the peoples heads that they were Romish and Antichristian and only pleased himself in taking presents of the peoples free will offering as most becoming the Gospel By these courses he had almost ruined a good Vicaridge for there are but few there now but what are so principled as they think it a piece of service to the establish'd Religion to cheat or rob the Church and an age is scarce able to repair that mischief which he hath done there as other Saints elsewhere I have been informed from that place by a very good hand that he was a man very censorious and ready to damn all those that did not comply with him in his fancies also that he always denied to pay and cheated the wife of Mr. Faringdon his Predecessor in the Vicaridge of her fifths or fifth part of the revenews of the said Vicaridge which he by Law was to pay and she to receive and he thought it a sin to pay her being the wife of one of the Antichristian Crew of the Ch. of England tho she lived near him and he knew full well that she had five or six small Children ready to starve and her Husband a learned man He would not administer the Sacrament in the Church to his Parishioners nor baptize their Children unless they were of his private Church and would not so much as keep company with or come near those that were not of his mind He hath left an ill name behind him and none there have any esteem for his memory only Anabaptists Quakers or such that tend that way In this course he continued till his Majesties Restauration an 1660 and then leaving the place to prevent Ejection he retired to Uxbridge where he carried on the trade among the Brethren either more or less to the time of his death His printed works are these Gate to Sciences Written when he was a Schoolmaster The Childs patrimony laid out upon the good nurture or tilling over the whole man In two parts Lond. 1640. qu. c. This came out afterwards again with the title alter'd Vestibulum or a manuduction towards a fair Edifice by their hands who are designed to open the way thereunto Printed with The Childs Patrimony The Churches Thanksgiving to God her King c. Lond. 1642. qu. The Covenant cleared to the Consciences of all men c. Ibid. 1643. qu. Three Kingdoms made one by the Covenant c. Pr. 1643. Cause use and cure of fear c. Pr. 1643. The Kings Chronicle in two sections Wherein we have the acts of the wicked and good Kings of Judah fully declared with the ordering of their militia and grave observations thereupon c. Lond. 1643. qu. Dedicated to the high court of Parliam and written purposely to point out the bad actions of his Majesty who then stood in his own defence against the inveterate Presbyterians and tumultuous factions in London The Sons patrimony and daughters portion c. Lond. 1643. qu. Inquiries into the causes of our miseries c. Lond. 1644. qu. Written partly against a book entit An antidote against the contagious air of Independency c. by D. P. P. Lond. 1644. qu. Short Letter intreating a friends judgment upon Mr. Edwards book call'd Antipologia with a large but modest answer thereunto c. Lond. 1644. qu. Lords-day the Saints holy-day Christmas an Idol-day c. Lond. 1648. qu. About which time came out Christmas-day the old Heathens feasting-day in honor to Satan their Idol-God c. Whether written by Woodward quaere A just account in truth and peace by Brethren lovers of and fellow-helpers to both why they must open themselves to the view of the world speaking to them as the house top c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Appeal to the Churches of Christ for their righteous judgment in matters of Christ the concernments of all his glory over whom there is a defence whether Christs way be not poured forth in scripture to be traced by the footsteps of his near ones Pr. at Lond. in qu. Conference of some Christians in Church fellowship about the way of Christ with his people and the result therefrom c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Infant baptism and the first quere thereupon Whether all Parents how notorious soever for wickedness are priviledged upon account of their own baptism to present their infants thereunto The negative maintained Pr. at Lond. in qu. An inoffensive answer to remove offences taken from some passages in a printed book other some from report which are cleared to be wholly mistaken by the Author of the Dialogue concerning the practical use of Infant baptisme in his Postscript to his scond part p. 103. c. Lond. 1657. qu. He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen and had others fit for the press lying by him at the time of his death which hapning at Uxbridge in Middlesex 29 of March in sixteen hundred seventy and five aged 87 years or thereabouts his body was carried to Eaton near Windsore and buried in the Churchyard there near the grave of his sometimes wife Frances Woodward who was as I have been told inter'd some years before him in the said yard He had one only daughter named Frances who became the second wife of John Oxenbridge Fellow of Eaton Coll. and dying in child-bed in the 25 year of her age was buried in the Chappel there and hath a monument over her grave as I have before told you HENRY BEESLEY son of Rob. Beesl Chaplain of Merton Coll was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the East in the City of Oxon 22 Jul. 1605 and in Mich. term 1621 was made either Clerk or Portionist of the said College where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts retired to S. Albans Hall took the degree of Master as a member thereof and was for his ingenuity made one of the Terrae filii in the Act following Soon after he became Tutor in the Country to Tho. Pope the young Earl of Downe whose Guardian Joh. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq did for the great care he took on his Pupil bestow on him the Rectory of Swerford near to Châ—pping-Norton in Oxfordshire which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed to his dying day Afterwards he became a sufferer in the time of the
a great admirer of the said Hobbes with whom he was intimately acquainted doth speak freely of Dr. Wallis and why he doth so is because as he tells us he was Sub-scribe to the Tribe of Adoniram i. e. Adoniram Byfield was Scribe to Assembly of Divines and had been an active Preacher in the first War and decyphered besides others to the ruin of many loyal persons the Kings Cabinet taken at Naseby and as a monument of his noble performances deposited the original with the decyphering in the publick Library at Oxford He tells us also that he the said Doctor was then the glory and pride of the Presbyterian faction which our Author Stubbe hated for his Patrons sake In the said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a farther discourse upon that subject but that I suppose was never printed The Savilian Professours case stated Together with the several reasons urged against his capacity of standing for the publick office of Antiquary in the University of Oxon. Which are enlarged and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh. Wallis c. Lond. 1658. in 3 sh and an half in qu. The famous Dr. Rich. Zouche who had been an Assessor in the Chancellours Court for 30 years or more and well vers'd in the Statutes Liberties and Privileges of the University did upon great intreaties stand for the said place of Antiquary or Custos Archivorum thereof but he being esteemed a Royalist Dr. J. W. was put up and stood against him tho altogether uncapable of that place because he was one of the Savilian Professors a Cambridge man and a stranger to the usages of the University At length by some corruption or at least connivance of the Vicechancellour and perjury of the senior Proctor Byfield W. was pronounced elected Whereupon our Author Stubbe who was an eye and an ear-witness of all that had most unjustly passed he therefore wrot and published the said book The Commonwealth of Israel or a brief account of Mr. Prynne's anatomy of the Good old cause Lond. 1659. in oct An Essay in defence of the Good old Cause or a discourse concerning the rise and extent of the power of the Civil Magistrate in reference to spiritual Affairs c. Lond. 1659 oct Vindication of the honorable Sir Hen. Vane from the false Aspersions of Mr. Baxter Lond. 1659. oct The same year I find another book published to that purpose intit A Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Rich. Baxter Printed at Lond. A letter to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate mention'd by them in their proposals to the late Parliament Lond. 1659. qu. Miscellaneous positions concerning Government Lond. 1659. qu. They are I suppose the proposals of a model for the Government of the three Nations mention'd by his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill A light shining out of darkness or certain Queries c. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that year the second edition of which hath therein several Additions and an Apology for the Quakers written by the said Stubbe The Commonwealth of Oceana put in a ballance and found too light Or an account of the Republic of Sparta with occasional animadversions upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistical model Lond. 1660. qu. The Indian Nectar or a discourse concerning Chocolata c. Lond. 1662. oct Concerning the said subject one Antonio Colminero of Ledesma a Spaniard and Doct. of Physick hath learnedly written and not unlikely the first of all that hath so done It was rendred into English by one who call'd himself Capt. James Wadsworth under this title Chocolate or an Indian drink c. Lond. 1652. oct Which book our Author Stubbe had seen and has as I conceive followed him in some things As for the said Wadsworth the Reader may know that he was the same who wrot The English Spanish Pilgrim born in Suffolk son of Jam. Wadsworth Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. Cath. bred in puerile learning at Sivil and Madrid in Spain in Grammar and Academical among the Jesuits at S. Omers but at riper years left them and returned to the Church of England was living in Westminster in the time of Oliver an 1655 at which time he was characterized by an English Historian to be a Renegado Proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade and is now living 1655 a common hackney to the basest catch-pole Bayliffs and too boot a Justice of the Peace in his bench book enters him and his wife Pimp and Bawd in his Precinct The miraculous Conformist or an account of several marvellous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrak Oxon 1666. qu. with a Physical discourse thereupon c. Before I go any farther with the remaining titles of our Author Stubbes's books I must make a digression and tell you why this book was written and who the subject of it was Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes son of Will. Gr. Esq was born at Affane in the County of Waterford in Ireland on S. Valentines day 14 Feb. 1628 was bred a Protestant in the Free-school at Lismore and at 13 years of age was designed to be a Student in the Coll. at Dublin but the Rebellion breaking out in that Nation he was forced with his mother to fly for refuge into England where by the favour of his Uncle Edm. Harris brother to Sir Edw. Harris Knight his mothers father he was for the present time relieved After his death his mother for his farther progress in literature committed him to the charge of a certain Presbyterian called Joh. Daniel Getsius a High German Minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devonshire with whom he spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity and found from his hands much favour and love After 5 or 6 years absence he returned to his native Country at that time in a most miserable and deplorable Estate which made him retire to the Castle of Caperquin where he spent an years time in contemplation and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world as he saith that his life became a burthen to him and his soul was as weary of this habitation of clay as ever was Gally-slave of the oar which brought his life even to the threshold of death so that his legs had hardly strength to carry his enfeebled body about c. In 1649 or thereabouts he became a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Roger Earl of Orrery then acting in Munster against the Irish Papists and others then called the Rebels and in 1656 a great part of the Army there of the English being disbanded he retired to his native country of Affane the habitation of his Ancestors and by the favour of the then Governor he was made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Corke Register for Transplantation and Justice of the Peace After his Majesties Restauration he was removed as I have heard from
his employments and grew thereupon discontented In 1662 or thereabouts he had an impulse or a strange perswasion in his mind of which he was not able to give any rational account to another which did very frequently suggest to him that there was bestowed on him the gift of curing the Kings Evil which for the extraordinariness of he thought fit to conceal it for some time but at length he communicated it to his wife and told her that he did verily believe that God had given him the blessing of curing the said Evil for whether he were in private or publick sleeping or waking still he had the same impulse but her reply was to him that she conceived this was a strange imagination yet to prove the contrary a few days after there was one Will. Maker of Salterbridge in the Parish of Lismore that brought his son Will. Maker to his house desiring his wife to cure him who was a person ready to afford her charity to her neighbours according to her small skill in Chirurgery On which his wife told him there was one that had the Kings Evil very grievously in the eyes cheek and throat whereupon he told her that she should now see whether this were a bare fancy or imagination as she thought it or the dictates of Gods Spirit on his heart and thereupon he laid his hands on the places affected and prayed to God for Jesus sake to heal him and then he bid the Parent two or three days after to bring the child to him again which he accordingly did and then he saw the eye was almost quite whole and the node which was almost as big as a Pullets egg was suppurated and the throat strangely amended and in a month discharged it self quite and was perfectly healed Then there came to him one Margaret Mack-shane of Ballinecly in the Parish of Lismore who had had the Evil seven years and upwards far worse than the former whom he cured to the wonder of all and soon after his fame increasing he cured the same disease in very many other people for three years following not medling with any other distempers till about the end of those three years he cured some that were troubled with Agues all done by stroaking with his hands Afterwards he had the like Impulse on him discovering that he had given him the gift of Healing which the morning following he told to his wife and brother but neither of them could be prevailed with to believe it tho for his own part he had a full assurance thereof within him This Impulse he had on the Sunday after Easter-day 2 Apr. 1665 early in the morning and on Wednesday following he went to one Mr. Deans house at Lismore where there came into the house to him a poor man that with a pain in his loins and flank went almost double and had a most grievous ulcerous leg very black wherein were five ulcers who desired him for Gods sake that he would lay his hands on him and do him what good he could Whereupon he put his hands on his loins and flank and immediately run the pains out of him so that he was released and could stand upright without the least trouble Then he put his hand on his ulcerous leg which forthwith changed colour and became red and three of the five ulcers closed up and the rest within few hours afterwards so that he went out well that could hardly by the help of his staff craul in and in two days after he fell to his labour being a Mason by trade After this he cured many diseases of all sorts by stroaking and his name was wonderfully cried up But the Clergy being jealous of these matters he was cited to the Bishops court and by their authority was prohibited to proceed any farther in his course In Jan. 1665 he went into England and by the invitation of Edward Lord Conway he repaired to Ragley in Warwickshire to cure by stroaking his Lady who for many years had laboured under a most violent Head-ach but with all his endeavours he could not cure her yet continuing there three weeks he cured innumerable people in those parts which caused therefore our Author Hen. Stubbe who then practised Physick at Stratford on Avon in that County and was dayly at â—agley with the Lord and an eye-witness of the cures to write the said book called The miraculous Conformist c. Afterwards Mr. Greatrakes repairing to Whitehall by command from his Majesty and performing several cures there and in London but more mistakes as 't is said caused Dav. Lloyd a Reader or Chaplain of the Charter house thereupon to write Wonders no miracles or Mr. Val. Greatrakes gift of healing examined c. Lond. 1666. qu. Written upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking March 7. an 1665 at one Mr. J. Cressets house in Charter house yard In which book the Author reflecting much on Mr. Greatrakes and his reputation making him but little better than a Cheat that person therefore came out with his vindication intit A brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of his strange cures by him lately performed Lond. 1666. qu. Written by himself in a letter to the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq and thereunto did annex the Testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related From this digression let 's now proceed to go on with our Author Stubbe who had a marvellous dexterity in writing books on all occasions Philosophical observations made in his sailing from England to the Caribe-Islands and in Jamaica c. Remitted into the Philosoph Transact num 27 an 1667 and num 36. an 1668. Legends no Histories or a specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal Society Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Which History was written by Mr. Tho. Sprat Animadversions upon The History of making Saltpeter pen'd by Mr. Tho. Henshaw Printed and bound with Legends no Histories c. Animad upon The Hist of making of Gunpowder written also by the said Mr. Henshaw Pr. and bound with Legends c. also and to it is added An additional review written by Hen. Stubbe The Plus ultra reduced to a Non plus Or a specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Jos Glanvill c. with divers enquiries made about several matters Lond. 1670. in a large qu. Written under pretence of vindicating his faculty against a passage in the Plus ultra which seemed to assert that the antient Physitians could not cure a cut-finger which Glanvill denied ever to have affirmed or thought Censure on certain passages contained in The History of the Royal Society c. Oxon. 1670 in about seven sh in qu. Dedicated to Dr. Joh. Fell and soon after answered by two Anonymi in the same year pr. in qu. The former of which was written by way of letter to Mr Stubbe Campanella revived or an enquiry into The Hist of the Roy.
II. felicissimo Norvicensis Episcopus quod honoris fastigium uti minime ambivit ita pietate prudentiâ comitate modestiâ loco non animo elatus maxime decoravit Pastorum merentium pater amantissimus pacis pietatisque culior devotissimus potestatis arbiter equus mitissimus Quantus fuerit Theologus tam multifaria lectione instructus quam Scripturis potens tam felix eorundem interpres fidelis Praeco silente hoc marmore Scripta eloquuntur caput eruditum os facundum cor caeleste spirantia expirante authore suavissimo cui nihil inerat duri acerbi praeter calculi stranguriaeque cruciatus quos christiana adeo atque invicta tulit side patientia ut albi lapilli licet mortis instrumenta tessera forent vitae victoriae immortalitatis ascriptus est Jul. XXIIX A. D. 1676 aetatis suae 76. Mortalitatis exuviae prope hinc depositae Augusti IX Sacellum hoc ab ipso fundatum dicatumque denuo consecravit In his Deanery of Ch. Ch. succeeded Dr. George Morley afterwards the most worthy Bishop of Winchester in his Wardenship of Merton Coll. Sir Tho. Clayton a Physitian and in his Bishoprick Dr. Anthony Sparrow of Cambridge translated from the See of Exeter THOMAS BRANKER son if I mistake not of Tho. Branker somtimes Bach. of Arts of Exeter Coll. was born in Devonshire admitted Batler of said Coll. 8. Nov. 1652 aged 17 years or thereabouts elected Probationer Fellow 30. June 1655 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards taking the degree of Master he became a Preacher but refusing to conform to the Ceremonies of the Church of England left his fellowship in 1662 retired into Cheshire where conforming and takâ—ng upon him Orders from a Bishop became Minister of Whitegate At which time being well known to William Lord Brereton for his sufficiencies in Mathematicks and Chimistry he gave him the Rectory of Tilston but he keeping that not long was afterwards made master of the well endowed School at Macclesfield in the said County where he finished his course He hath written Doctrinae Sphaericae adumbratio Ox. 1662. Usus Globorum artificialium Ox. 1662. A Table of odd numbers less than one hundred thousand shewing those that are incomposit and reâ—â—â—ving the rest into their Factors or coefficients c. This is added by Branker to a translation which he made from High-Dâ—â—ch into English of An introduction to Algebra Lond. 1668. qu. written by Rhonnius A laudable account of which Table and of the translation you may see in the Philosophical Transactions num 35. p. 688.689 See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 871. He gave way to fate in Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church at Macclesfield before mention'd leaving then behind the character of an able Mathematician WILLIAM MORICE son of Evan alias John Morice a Native of Caernarvanshire and Chancellour of the Diocess of Exeter by Mary his wife daugh of Joh. Castle of Devonshire was born in the Parish of S. Martin in the City of Exeter educated in Grammar learning there and in the beginning of the year 1619 or thereabouts he was sent to Exeter Coll. through his Mothers motion by Sir Nich. Prideaux of Souldon in that County who some years before had taken her to be his third wife where continuing in the state of a Sojourner under the tuition of Mr. Nath. Carpenter not without considerable proficiency in learning till he was Bach. of Arts was sent for home and married to one of the Grand-daughters of the said Sir Nicholas by Humph. Prideaux his eldest son deceased In the year 1640 he was put into the Commission of Peace for the aforesaid County and five years after was elected Knight for that Shire upon a recruit to serve in the Long Parliament In 1651 he was made High Sheriff of the said County in 1656 he setled himself and his family at Werington which he then or lately had purchased of Sir Franc. Drake and in 1658 he was chose a Burgess for Westport in Cornwall to serve in Richard's Parliament that began at Westminster 27. of Jan. the same year And being related by his wife to General George Monke he was intrusted by him with all his concerns in Devonshire while he was Governour of Scotland and discharged himself so faithfully and prudently therein as to recommend himself so far to the Generals esteem that on his coming into England he made choice of him for his chief if not only Confident in the management of that great affair of the Kings restauration and the rather for this reason that our author being generally esteemed a Presbyterian it would please the great Masters at Westminster who were most of that Religion Upon the said Monke's coming to London the secluded Members from all parts of the Kingdom came thither and were by his means restored to the House of Commons of which number our author Mr. Morice was one This Gentleman was somewhat allied to him as I have told you but more in his favour than his blood for he had a great opinion of his prudence and integrity He was one that much conversed with books and had then lately written one against the practice of Independent teachers who would admit none in Parochial Cures to the Lords Supper but such only as being distinguished by their separation were most peculiarly their own flock This had rendred him very grateful to the Presbyterians whose cause he seemed most to serve for the Ministers of the Church of England were generally contented with the exercise of their Religion in private Houses tho even these also were often disturbed by Soldiers and Constables who used to hale them from their very Communion Tables upon the more solemn Festivals of their despised Church rending their Surplices where any were used and tearing their Mass-Book for that was the name by which the crafty Statesman and the more jugling Gospeller taught the undiscerning multitude to call the English Liturgy into pieces The General from and before the beginning of his enterprize had pretended to be a Presbyterian and had not then renounced his faith but at that time it most behoved him to appear one and to act his part well in it for it was his last wherefore our author Morice was received into his house which much pleased the Masters at Westminster who were mostly of that Religion as I have before told you some few only excepted who by beholding the calamities of the Church and their own errors had been converted to a better esteem of Episcopacy which the learning of our author could not but favour So that he was looked upon to have the good repute only of a Presbyterian Him the General retained as his Elbow-Counsellor and a State-Blind concealing his own sense of things and very often speaking contrary to his own thoughts that so he might better understand the sense of others and take his measures accordingly About the same time Mr.
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
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
mark and number of the name of the beast c. Lond. 1656. qu. grounded on Rev. 13.18 Which book is much commended by Matth. Poole in his fifth vol. of Synopsis Criticorum on the Rev. and doth acknowledge that he had some MS. notes from our Author concerning that matter which he had made use of in that volume Vindiciae fundamenti Or a threefold defence of the doctrine of original sin Together with some other fundamentals of Salvation The first against the exceptions of Mr. Rob. Everard in his book intit The Creation and the Fall of man The second against the Examiners of the late Assemblies Confession of Faith The third against the Allegations of Dr. Jer. Taylor in his Unum necessarium and two lesser Treatises of his Lond. 1658. qu. After his Majesties restauration he the said Mr. Stephens kept his Rectory of Fenny-Drayton because the owner of it had been some years before dead but upon the publication of the Act of Uniformity in 1662 he left it because he would not conform resided for some time in the said town and preached thereabouts as a Nonconformist At length after several disturbances he removed to Stoke-Golding two miles distant from Fenny-Drayton and preached there in Conventicles till he was disabled by lameness some years before his death which hapning in sixteen hundred seventy and seven was buried in the Church-yard of Stoke-Golding on the 24 of Feb. the same year One of both his names an Esquire was appointed one of the Commissioners of Glocestershire 1654 for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters who had before been educated in this University THEOPHILUS GALE son of Theoph. Gale D. D. and sometimes Prebend of Exeter was born in Devonshire became a Commoner of Magd. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1648 and afterwards Fellow In the year 1652 he proceeded in Arts became a frequent Preacher in the University and a great resorter to the Presbyterian and Indep meetings especially that of Tho. Googwin in the Presidents Lodgings of his College At the Kings return he lost all the right he had to his Fellowship to make room for the true owner and being then wholly addicted to nonconformity travelled beyond the seas as a Tutor to the sons of Philip Lord Wharton After his return he lived in London was for some time an Assistant to Joh. Rowe in carrying on the work of preaching in his private congregation in Holbourne and published these books following which shew him to have been a person of great reading an exact Philologist and Philosopher The court of the Gentiles Or a discourse touching the original of humane literature both of Philology and Philosophy from the Scriptures and Jewish Church c. part 1. of Philology Oxon. 1669 and there again 1672 both in qu. The second part which is Of Philosophy was printed at Oxon. 1671 and at Lond. 1676 both in qu. Of these two parts there is a laudable account in the Philosophical Transactions num 74. p. 2231. an 1671. The third part Of the vanity of Pagan Philosophy was pr. at Lond. 1677 and the fourth Of Reformed Philosophy was pr. there the same year and both in qu. These four books or parts shew the Author to have been well read in and conversant with the Writings of the Fathers the old Philosophers and those that have given any account of them or their works As also to have been a good Metaphysician and School-Divine The true Idea of Jansenisme both historick and dogmatick Lond. 1669. oct The large preface to it was written by Dr. Joh. Owen Theophilie or a discourse of the Saints amity with God in Christ c. Lond 1671. oct The Anatomie of Infidelity or an explication of the nature causes aggravations and punishment of unbelief Lond. 1672. oct Discourse of Christs coming and the influence with the expectation thereof c. Lond. 1673. oct Idea Theologiae tam contemplativae quam activae ad formam S. Scripturae delineata Lond. 1673. in tw Wherein the love of the World is inconsistent with the love of God Sermon on 1 Jo. 2.15 Lond. 1674. and 76 in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Philosophia generalis in duas partes disterminata una de ortu progressu philosophiae c. Altera 1. De minorum gentium philosophia 2. De novem habitibus intellectualibus 3. De philosophiae objecto c. Lond. 1676. oct Ars sciendi sive Logica novâ methodo disposita novis praeceptis aucta Lond. 1682. oct This is Joh. Clauberg's Logick and Ars cogitandi called the Jansenists Logick digested into one volume with some alterations and enlargments A summary of the two Covenants This is set before a book by him published intit A discourse of the two Covenants c. Lond. 1678. fol. Written by Will. Strong sometimes Preacher in the Abbey Church at Westminster This learned and industrious person Mr. Gale did design to have published other matters but was cut off in the prime of his years aged 49 or thereabouts at Newington Green near London in Middlesex where then his habitation was in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the burial place of Dissenters joyning to the New Artillery Garden and Bunhill Fields in Cripplegate Parish near London He left all his real and personal estate for the education and benefit of poor Presbyterian and Independent Scholars to be managed by certain Nonconformists for their use All his Library also he gave to the Coll. in New England except such philosophical books which are needful for Students of his opinion in Old England JOHN GODOLPHIN the third son of Joh. Godolphin Esquire of the ancient and gentile family of Godolphin in Cornwall was born in the Island of Scilly beyond the lands end in the said County in the Castle there which belonged to his name on S. Andrews Eve an 1617 became a Commoner of Glocester Hall in Mich. term 1632 where profiting much in Logick and Philosophy as afterwards in the Civil Law under the tuition of Will. Sandbrooke was four years after admitted to the reading of any book of the Institutions that is to the degree of Bach. of the said Law In the beginning of 1643 he was actually created Doctor of his faculty being then puritannically inclined and going afterwards to London he sided so much with the men there in power that after he had taken the wicked oath called the Engagement he was by Act of Parl. 30 Jul. 1653 constituted and appointed with Will. Clerke Doct. of the Civ Law and Charles George Cock Esq Judges of the Admiralty and in the middle of Jul. 1659 Clerke being then dead he and Cock were constituted again yet to hold and exercise the said office but till 10 of Dec. following
the Popish Plot was discovered but also wrot and published divers books in vindication of the Church of Rome and thereby gained the character by the men of that party of the prime Champion of England to stand up for their Cause A noted Author of the English Church saith that the author of the Guide in Controversies Ab. Woodhead is a person most highly famed among the Roman Catholicks and that he is in his opinion the most ingenious and solid writer of the whole Rom. Party His Works plainly shew him to have been a person of sound and solid judgment well read in the Fathers and in the polemical Writings of the most eminent and renowned Defenders of the Church of England who have quite down from the Reformation successfully managed the Protestant Cause against Rome He was so wholly devoted to retirement and the prosecutions of his several studies that no worldly concerns shared any of his affections only satisfying himself with bare necessaries and so far from coveting applause or preferment tho perhaps the compleatness of his learning and great worth might have given him as just and fair a claim to both as any others of his perswasion that he used all endeavours to secure his beloved privacy and conceal his name And altho he obtained these his desires in great part yet his calm temperate and rational discussion of some of the most weighty and momentous Controversies under debate between the Protestants and Romanists rendred him an Author much fam'd and very considerable in the esteem of both He hath written very many things some of which were published in his life time and some after his death all without his own name or initial letters of it set to them The Catalogue of most of them follow A brief account of ancient Church Government with a reflection on several moderne Writings of the Presbyterians The Assembly of Divines their Jus divinum Ministerii Anglicani published 1654 and Dr. Blondel's Apologia pro sententia Hieronymi and others touching this subject Lond. 1662 and 85 in four parts in a thin quart This book was generally reported to have been written by him yet a certain R. Catholick who was originally of Univ. Coll and much pretended to know all the Works that Mr. VVoodhead had written which he had with great zeal bought and collected for the honour he had to the author hath several times told me that he was not the author of that book but Obad. VValker The Guide in Controversies or a rational account of the doctrine of the Romane Catholicks concerning the ecclesiastical Guides in Controversies of Religion reflecting on the later Writings of Protestants particularly of Archb. Laud and Dr. Stillingfleet on this subject This book is divided into four discourses the two first of which were printed at London 1666. in qu. But before they could appear in publick they were burnt in the grand conflagration at London except a very few copies that were saved and vended abroad The other two discourses were published at London 1667 qu. and there again altogether with additions and some alterations an 1673. qu. In the composition of this book The Guide I have been credibly informed by several R. Catholicks that one Perkins a learned man of that perswasion did assist the author Part of the third discourse is refuted in a book intit A second discourse in vindication of the protestant grounds of faith against the pretence of infallibility in the Rom. Church in answer to The Guide in Controversies by R. H. and against Protestancy without Principles and Reason and Religion c both written by E. W. I say refuted by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Lond. 1673. oct Exercitations concerning the Resolution of Faith against some exceptions Printed 1674. qu. These Exercitations are in vindication of some part of the third discourse from what was said against it by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet in the Second discourse just before named An appendix to the four discourses concerning The Guide in Controversies Further shewing the necessity and infallibility thereof against some contrary Protestant Principles Printed 1675. qu. Some copies of this book have this title A discourse of the necessity of Church Guides for directingâ—Christians in necessary faith c. The second part of the Appendix printed with the former containeth Annotations on Dr. Stillingfleet's answer to N. O's considerations of his Principles These two parts contain an Answer to what Dr. Stillingfleet in a piece of his called An answer to several late Treatises occasion'd by a book intit A discourse concerning Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome c. hath said against our author Woodhead his book named Dr. Stillingfleets Principles c. considered which I am now about to set down Dr. Stillingfleets principles giving an account of the faith of Protestants considered Paris 1671. oct This is answer'd in Dr. Stillingfleets first part named An answer to several late treatises c. before mention'd Considerations on the Councill of Trent being the fifth discourse concerning The Guide in controversies Printed 1671. qu. 'T is said that there is a sixth part which is concerning the alienation of Church lands but Quaere The Roman Churches devotions vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets misrepresentations Printed 1672. oct The Rom. doctrine of repentance and indulgence vindicated from Dr. Stillingfleets mis-representations Printed 1672. oct These three last books were published under the initial Letters of N. O. or O. N And the two last are briefly replyed upon by Dr. Stillingfleet in the general preface to his first above named wherein having only touched on Seren. Cressy's piece entit Fanaticisme fanatically imputed c. wrot against him saith these things of our author N. O. Woodhead compared with Ser. Cressy whose book he affirms to be rayling and the author mad is a meer pattern of meekness and that he writes pertinently without the others bitterness and passion And elsewhere in the same Preface he stiles him a moderate man An historical narration of the life and death of our Saviour Jes Christ in two parts Oxon. 1685 qu. Published by Obad. Walker and then said not to be of his composition but of his Tutor Ab. Woodhead Before it went to the press it was viewed by Dr. Will. Jane the Kings Professor of Divinity who made some deletions and corrections in it yet afterwards they were put in again by Mr. Walker when it was in the Press Several exceptions were made against divers passages therein and great clammoring there was in the University against the book particularly by Dr. George Reynell of C. C. Coll yet on the 13 of Oct. the same year when Mr. Nath. Boys of Univ. Coll. was introduced into his late Majesties K. Jam. 2. presence he his Majesty was not then only pleased to commend him for his Sermon as being an ingenious and well pen'd discourse I mean that Sermon which he had preached in S. Maries Church on 26. Jul. going before being
Teresa was born 28. Mar. 1515 died 4. Oct. 1582 and was buried first at Alva and afterwards in the Monastery of S. Joseph of Avila in Spain 4 Her Treatise of the manner of visiting the Monasteries of discalced Nunns These three last were printed with her Life 5 The second part of the works of S. Teresa of Jesus containing 1 The way of perfection 2. The Castle interior or the seven mansions c. Printed 1669. qu. 6 The holy life of Gregory Lopez a Spanish Hermit in the West Indies Printed 1675. in oct 2d edit This Greg. Lopez was born at Madrid 4. Jul. 1542 died at Sanctoâ—fe near Mexico 20. Jul. 1596 and had his life afterwards written by Franc. Loza and translated into several Langages Mr. Woodhead also changed the stile of a book called The Scale or Ladder of perfection written by Walt. Hilton a Carthusian in the time of K. Hen. 6. Which book having been printed an 1494 he I say changed many antiquated words therein and rendred them more intelligible for ordinary capacities Lond. 1679. oct He also changed the stile of another treatise of the same author written to a devout man of secular Estate teaching him how to lead a spiritual life therein Printed with The Scale c. At length after this most pious learned and retired person Mr. Woodhead had lived to the age of man surrendred up his most devout soul to God in his little Cell at Hogsden before mentioned in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body was conveyed to S. Pancras Church near Holbourn in Middlesex distant about half a mile from the back part of Greys Inn and was buried in the yard there about 22 paces distant from the Chancel of that Church on the south side Afterwards was a raised altar-monument built of brick covered with a thick planke of blew Marble put over his grave and on the said planke was this ingraven A. W. obiit Maii 4. A.D. 1678 aetatis suae LXX Elegi abjectus esse in domo Dei mansi in solitudine non quaerens quod mihi utilis est sed quod multis This monument being built 2 or 3 years after his death those that put it up caus'd his grave to be opened to view the coffin and body that they might be sure that it was the person for whom the said monument was erected And had K. Jam. 2. continued in his throne two years longer his body would have been removed to the Chappel in Univ. Coll. and there had a monument erected over him equal to his great merits and worth WILLIAM WHITE who writes himself Guliel Phalerius was born of plebeian parents in a market town called Witney in Oxfordshire in the month of June 1604 was entred a Student in Wadham Coll. in Act term 1620 took the degrees in Arts holy orders and preached for a time near Oxon. At length the Mastership of the Free-School joyning to Madg. Coll. falling void it was confer'd upon him some years before the Civil War began where being setled several persons by his care and industry proved afterwards eminent But being ejected thence in the fatal year of 1648 he did about that time privately obtain of Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury the Rectory of Pusey near Faringdon in Berks situated within his Diocess and kept it during the interval by the favour of friends and the smalness of its profits After the Kings return Dr. Th. Pierce President of Magd. Coll. who had sometimes been his Scholar procured the Rectory of Appleton near Abendon in the same County of the Society of that house to be confer'd upon him both which Livings he kept to his dying day and built houses on them having been always accounted a noted Philologist and a loyal and pious Divine He hath published several small tracts of which these only have come to my sight Ad Grammaticam ordinarium Supplementa paedagogica alia c. Lond. 1648 and 52. oct Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam Lond. 1660. qu. Paraphrasis cum annotatis ad difficiliora loca catechismi Anglicani Printed 1674 in Lat. and Engl. He died at Pusey before mention'd on the first day of June about the first hour of the morn in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been enformed by letters written from one of his quondam Scholars living in those parts HENRY GREISLEY son of Joh Gr. of Shrewsbury Gent. became a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1634 took the degrees in Arts adheer'd to his Majesties cause in the time of the rebellion for which he suffer'd by ejection from his house and expulsion from the University by the impetuous Visitors an 1648. He hath translated from French into English 1 The Prince Lond. 1648. oct Written by Sieur de Balsac 2 The Christian man or the reparation of nature by grace Lond. 1650. in a large qu. Written originally by Jo. Franc. Senault Besides which translations he hath certain Specimens of Poetry extant which have obtained him a place among those of that faculty After his Majesties restauration he became beneficed in the Church and on the 19 of Apr. 1672 he was installed Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Will. Owen M. A. deceased This Mr. Greisley died about the beginning of June in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was succeeded in his prebendship by Mr. Joseph Glanvill I find R. G. sometimes M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. to be the translator of A discourse of Constancy Lond. 1654. oct Written in Lat. by Just Lipsius but who he was unless Rob. Gomershall I know not Quaere NATHANIEL HOLMES commonly called Homes Son of George Hol. Minister of Kingswood in Glocestershire was born in Wilts became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 17 years whence after he had continued there for a little while he was translated to Exeter Coll. for the sake of John Prideaux whom he much admired and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards returning to Magd. Hall he took the degree of Master and became a frequent preacher for a time in these parts What his preferments were in the Church afterwards I find not unless it was a cure in Glocestershire Sure I am that he took the degrees in Divinity as a member of Exeter Coll. that of Bach. in 1633 and that of Doctor four years after and also that being a severe Calvinist he did upon the defection of the members of the Long Parliament close with the Presbyterians and when the rout of Orthodox Ministers in and near London was made in 1642 and 43 he obtained one or more cures of which the Church of S. Mary Stayning was one But being soon after delivered from the Presbyterian contagion as he call'd it he with Hen. Burton B. D. and Minister of Friday-street in London became great advancers of the faction set up their Independent
Antiquities of that County He wrot also The description of Harwich and all its appurtenances and antiquities which is now in Ms in a private hand He had great skill not only in the practical but theoretical part of Musick did compose several lessons some of which were tried and played in the publick School of that fac in this University while Dr. Wilson held the chair before his Majesties restauration and after that time he being well acquainted with that most admired Organist to the Queen called Matthew Lock who had married one Garnons a Herefordshire Woman he did compose several Anthems two or more of which were sung in his Majesties Chappel which being well performed his Maj. was pleased to tell the author that he liked them He had also good skill in the Mathematicks and the Tongues and might have proved excellent in them had his continuance in the University been longer or had he not spent most of his time in military matters He died on the fourth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Harwich before mention'd He died much in debt so that all such Mss and Papers that were then laying by him some of which he had before pawned were with his goods seized on by his Creditors His Father Silvanus Taylor before mention'd who also had been one of the High Court of Justice and a grand Oliverian wrot and published Common good or the improvement of Commons Forrests and Chases by enclosure Wherein the advantage of the Poor the common plenty of all and the increase and preservation of timber with other things of common concernment are considered Lond. 1652. in 7. sh and an half in qu. Dedicated to the supreme authority of the Nation the Parliament of England He had a son of both his names sometimes a Communer of Wadham Coll. afterwards M. A. and Fellow of that of Allsouls an ingenious man and well skill'd in the practical part of Musick who died at Dublin in Ireland in the beginning of Nov. 1672. MARCHAMONT NEDHAM was born in a Market Town called Burford in Oxfordshire in the month of Aug. 1620 and on the 21. of the said month received baptisme there He was son of a Father of both his names born of gentile parents in Derbyshire sometimes Bach. of Arts of S. Johns Coll. and Gloc. Hall afterwards an Attendant on the Lady Elizab. Lucas Sister to John Lord Lucas and Wife of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden near Burford before mention'd by Margery his Wife Daughter of John Collier the Host of the George inn then the principal place for the reception of Guests in Burford But the said Father dying in the year following the Mother was the next year after that scil in 1622 married to Christoph Glynn Vicar of the said Town and Master of the Free-school there which Glynn perceiving his Son-in-law to have very pregnant parts did take him under his tuition and spared not to encourage his forwardness At about 14 years of age he was sent to All 's Coll. where being made one of the Choristers continued there till 1637 at which time he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. So that being not capable of keeping that place any longer because inconsistent with his degree he retired to S. Maries Hall for a time At length being invited to London he had confer'd upon him an Ushers place in Merchant Taylors School then presided by one Mr. Will. Staple but how long he continued there I cannot justly tell Sure it is that upon the change of the times he became an under-clerk in Greys inn where by vertue of a good legible court-hand he obtained a comfortable subsistance Soon after siding with the rout and scum of the people he made them weekly sport by railing at all that was noble in his intelligence called Merc. Britan. wherein his endeavours were to sacrifice the fame of some Lord or person of Quality nay of the King himself to the beast with many heads Diego writeth that Barcaeus meeting with the Devil sitting at his ease upon a chair bid him rise up and give place to his betters The tale was moraliz'd in Britanicus who might very well have challenged the precedency of Satan and to have thrust him out of his chair the seat of the scornful wherein he sate several years and out-railed all the Shimies and Rabsekehs and out-lyed all the Simmeasses and Psedolusses that ever sate in that chair So that this Nedham being become popular and an active man in person among the rout he was commonly called Capt. Nedham of Greys inn and what he said or wrot was looked upon as Gospel About that time he studied Physick followed the chymical way and in 1645 began to practice it and by that and his writing maintained himself in very gentile fashion But so it was that whether by his imprisonment in the Gatehouse for his aspersions of his Majesty in the opening or explaining his Cabinet Letters an 1645 or for some scorn or affronts put upon him he forthwith left the blessed cause and obtaining the favour of a known Royallist to introduce him into his Majesties presence at Hampton-court an 1647 he then and there knelt before him and desired forgiveness for what he had written against him and his cause which being readily granted he kiss'd his Majesties hand and soon after wrot Mercurius Pragmaticus which being very witty satyrical against the Presbyterians and full of Loyalty made him known to and admired by the Bravadoes and Wits of those times But he being narrowly sought after left London and for a time sculk'd at Minster Lovel near Burford in Oxfordsh in the house there of Dr. Pet. Heylyn At length being found out imprison'd in Newgate and brought into danger of his life Lenthall the Speaker of the House of Commons who knew him and his Relations well and John Bradshaw President of the High Court of Justice treated him fairly and not only got his pardon but with promise of rewards and places perswaded him to change his stile once more meaning for the Independents then carrying all before them So that being brought over he wrot Merc. Politicus so extream contrary to the former that the generality for a long time especially the most generous Royallists could not believe that that intelligence could possibly be written by the same hand that wrot the M. Pragmaticus The truth is these last were written for about an year and an half and were endeavoured by the Parliamenteers to be stifled but the former the Politici which came out by authority and flew every week into all parts of the Nation for more than 10 years had very great influence upon numbers of inconsiderable persons such who have a strange presumption that all must needs be true that is in print He was then the Goliah of the Philistines the great Champion of the late Usurper whose pen in comparison of others was like a
weavers beam And certainly he that will or can peruse those his Intelligences called Merc. Politici will judge that had the Devil himself the Father of all lies been in this Goliahs office he could not have exceeded him as having with profound malice calumniated his Soveraign scurrility abused the Nobility impudence blasphemed the Church and Members thereof and industry poysoned the People with dangerous principles At the happy return of the times in 1660 he being conscious to himself that he might be in danger of the halteâ— once more sculk'd some said fled into Holland till sâ—ch time he could get his pardon or that the Act of Oblivion should pass In the mean time were not wanting some forward Loyallists to complain of and write against him Among which was a nameless author entit A rope for Pol. or a hue and crie after March Nedham the late scurrulous News-writer print in May 1660. qu wherein he sheweth to the world the horrid blasphemies and revilings against the Kings Majesties Person his cause and his friends published in his weekly Politicus In Apr. also the same year was put forth A conference between Tho. Scot and March Nedham concerning the present Affairs of the Nation wherein many of Nedhams rogueries are ript up and laid open to the world In the beginning also of Jan. before going when great hopes depended upon Monks proceeding a poem entit A New-years gift for Politicus said to be written by Will. Kilburne flew about wherein he tells you that Nedham wrot Politicus Intelligencer As famous as old Meg Spencer Pragmaticus The Spy what not Britanicus The Counter plot Of Hell c. But notwithstanding all verbal and printed complaints he for money given to an hungry courtier obtained his pardon under the Great Seal which was his defence oftentimes particularly at Oxford Act in 1661 when then several set upon him in S. Maries Church to hale him before a Justice and so to prison for treason so that I say being free and at liberty by vertue of that Seal which he several times produced he exercised the faculty of physick to his dying day among the Brethren which was a considerable benefit to him He was a person endowed with quick natural parts was a good humanitian Poet and boon Droll And had he been constant to his Cavaleering principles he would have been beloved by and admired of all but being mercenary and valuing money and sordid interest rather than conscience friendship or love to his Prince was much hated by the Royal Party to his last and many cannot yet endure to hear him spoken of Among several things that he hath written and published these following have only come to my sight Mercurius Britanicus communicating the affairs of Great Britaine for the better information of the people These Mercuries began about the middle of Octob. 1643 and were carried on thence week by week every Munday in one sh to the latter end of 1646 or beginning of 1647. I have seen a Trag. Com. intit Merc. Britanicus or the English intelligencer reprinted in 1641. qu. but the author of that was Rich. Brathwayte A check to the checker of Britanicus or the honour and integrity of Coll. Nath. Fiennes revived re-estated from certain prejudices and mistakes occasion'd by late misreports Lond. 1644. qu. A Hue and crie after the King c. Generally reported to have been written by this author particularly 1 By the writer of the Brief Chron. of the late intestine war c. who tells us that when the King fled from Hampton Court in Nov. 1647 to the Isle of Wight one Nedham published a most execrable and blasphemous paper called A hue and crie after the King c. But how it can be so I cannot judge unless our author Nedham could write treason and loyalty in one breath for at that time and some weeks before he wrot Merc. Pragm as I shall anon tell you 2 The writer of the witty Poem entit Merc. Britanicus his welcome to Hell wherein reckoning up most of the Intelligencies that were wrot for the Parliament saith thus Amongst all these dear son Britanicus Thou hast shew'd thy self the best Mercurius Thou hast out-slander'd Slander and prevail'd And every railing Rogue thou hast out-rail'd Thou bravely didst thy Soveraigne vilifie Persu'dst his honour with an Hue and Cry Abus'd the Queen with scandals c. But the Reader is to know notwithstanding these Writers that the Hue and Cry was not written when the K. left Hampton Court but after his defeat at Naseby an 1645. Our author Nedham hath also written The case of the Kingdom stated according to the proper interests of the several parties engaged c. When first published I know not the third edition was printed at Lond. 1647. in qu. The Levellers level'd or the Independents conspiracy to root out Monarchy An interlude Lond. 1647. in two sh in qu. Said in the title to be written by Merc. pragmaticus See in Will. Prynne under the year 1669. p. 320. Mercurius pragmaticus communicating intelligence from all parts touching all affairs designs humours and conditions throughout the Kingdom especially from Westminster and the Head-quarters There were two parts of them and they came out weekly in one sheet in qu. The former part commenced the 14 Sept. 1647 and ended the 9 Jan. 1648. The other which was intit Merc. pragm for K. Ch. 2 c. commenced 24 Apr. 1649 but quickly ended There were now and then other Pragmatici that peeped forth but they were counterfeit A plea for the King and Kingdom by way of answer to a late remonstrance of the Army Lond. in Nov. an 1648 in 3 sh in qu. Digitus Dei or Gods Justice upon treachery and treason exemplified in the life and death of the late James Duke of Hamilton being an exact relation of his traiterous practices since the year 1630 c. with his epitaph Lond. 1649. in 4 sh in qu. In the year before came out a book intit The manifold practices and attempts of the Hamiltons and particularly of the present Duke of Hamilton now General of the Scottish Army to get the Crown of Scotland in a letter from a Malignant in London to his friend in Scotland Lond. 1648. qu. But who the author of this was I cannot tell Mercurius Politicus Comprising the sum of forein intelligence with the affairs now on foot in the three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland These Mercuries came out weekly every Wednesday in two sheets in qu. commencing with the 9 of June 1649 and ending with the 6 of June 1650. At which time being Thursday he began again Now appeared in print saith a certain writer as the weekly Champion of the new Commonwealth and to bespatter the King Ch. 2. with the basest of scurrulous raillery one Marchamont Nedham under the name of Politicus a Jack of all sides transcendently gifted in opprobrious and treasonable droll and hired therefore by
Bradshaw to act the second part to his starcht and more solemn treason Who began his first Diurnal with an invective against Monarchy and the Presbyterian Scotch Kirk and ended it with an Hosanna to Oliver Cromwell who in the beginning of June returned by the way of Bristoll from Ireland to London c. These Mercurii Politici wherein were many discourses against Monarchy and in behalf of a Free-state especially in those that were published before Ol. Cromwell gaped after the Supremacy were constantly carried on till about the middle of Apr. 1660 when then as several times before the author was prohibited by order of the Council of State By vertue of which order Hen. Muddiman and Giles Dury were authorized to publish their Intelligence every Munday and Thursday under the titles of Parliamentary Intelligencer and Mercurius Publicus which continued Dury soon after giving over till the middle of Aug. 1663 and then Rog. L'estrange published the Intelligence twice every week in quarto sheets under the titles of The publick Intelligencer and The News The first of which came out 31 of Aug. and the other on the 3 of September an 1663. These continued till the 29 of Jan. 1665 at which time L'estrange desisted because in Nov. going before were other kind of News-papers published twice every week in half a sheet in folio These were called The Oxford Gazette and the first commenced 7 Nov. 1665 the King and Queen with their Courts being then in Oxon. These for a little time were written I think by Hen. Muddiman But when the said Courts removed to London they were intituled and called The London Gazette the first of which that was published there came forth on the 5 of Feb. following the King being then at Whitehall Soon after Mr. Joseph Williamson Under-Secretary of State procured the writing of them for himself and thereupon employed Charles Perrot M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll. in Oxon who had a good command of his pen to do that office under him and so he did tho not constantly to about 1671. After which time they were constantly written by Under-Secretaries belonging to those that are Principal and do continue so to this day The publick Intelligencer communicating the chief occurrences and proceedings within the Dominions of England Scotland and Ireland c. These Mercuries came out weekly every Munday but contained mostly the same matter that was in the Politici The case of the Commonwealth of England stated or the equity utility and necessity of a submission to the present Government against all scruples and pretences of the opposite parties viz. Royalists Scots Presbyterians Levellers c. Lond. 1649. in two parts in quarto There again in 1650 in qu. also Discourse of the excellency of a Free-state above Kingly government Lond. 1650. qu. published with the former An appendix added out of Claud. Salmasius his Defensio Regis and Mr. Hobbes De corpore politico Tryal of Mr. Joh. Goodwin at the bar of religion and right reason c. Lond. 1657. qu. The great accuser cast down c. An answer to a scandalous book intit The Triers or Tormentors tried and cast c. Written by Mr. Joh. Goodwin Lond. 1657. qu. The said Goodwin did not reply in another Pamphlet only in a book which he the year after published against other persons doth characterize our author Nedham as having a foul mouth which Sathan hath opened against the truth and mind of God c. as being a person of an infamous and unclean character for the service of the Triers c. A man that curseth whatsoever he blesseth and blesseth whatsoever he curseth c. That his book hath a double image visibly stampt upon it like our Philip and Mary Coine and therein is a Nye of Oxford learning as well as a Mouth of Oxford railing in the composition c. Interest will not lye or a view of Englands true interest in reference to the Papist Royallist Presbyterian c. in refutation of a treasonable Pamphlet intit The interest of England stated Lond. 1659. in 6 sh in large quarto paper The moderate informer communicating the most remarkable transactions both civil and military in the Commonwealth of England c. It commences with the 12 of May 1659 but not carried on for above two or three weeks Nedham it seems was put out of his place of writing the weekly news in the time of Richard L. Protector occasion'd by the Presbyterians yet notwithstanding tho Joh. Can was put in his place yet in spight of opposition he carried on the writing of his Mercuries Newes from Brussels in a Letter from a near Attendant on his Majesties person to a person of honour here dat 10 March stil vet 1659. There is no name to this Letter full of rascallities against K. Ch. 2. and his Court but the general report was then that it was written by M. Nedham and conveyed to the Printer or Bookseller by that notorious Schismatick and grand Zealot for the Good Old Cause called Praise-God Barebone It was answer'd about a week after in another thing in qu. intit The late news or message from Brussels unmasked but by whom it was written I know not A short History of the English Rebellion completed in verse Lond. 1661. qu. 'T is a collection of all such verses which he before had printed before each of his Merc. pragmat and was then by him published to curry favour with the Royallists This short History was printed again in 1680. qu. when the Presbyterians were busie to carry on their designs under the pretence of the Popish Plot. He did prefix to it The true character of a rigid Presbyter and added the Coat of Arms of Sir John Presbyter to that edit of 1661 but the said character was not of his writing Discourse concerning Schooles and Schoolmasters Lond. 1663. in one sh and an half in qu. Medela medicinae A plea for the free profession and renovation of the art of Physick c. Lond. 1665 in a large oct Answer'd by two Doctors of that faculty Fellows of the Coll. of Physitians at London namely Joh. Twysden in his Medicina veterum vindicata c. and Rob. Sprackling in his Medela ignorantiae c. Our Author Nedham saith that four Champions were employed by the Coll. of Physitians to write against this book Two of which he saith are gone already The third I hear saith he is often buried in ale at a place called The hole in the Wall and the fourth hath asked me pardon before company confessing that he was set on by the brotherhood of the confederacy An epistolary discourse before Medicina instaurata or a brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art of Physick c. by Edw. Bolnest M. D. Lond. 1665. A pacquet of Advices and Animadversions sent from London to the men of Shaftsbury c. Occasioned by a seditious Pamphlet intit A Letter from a
More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter but the beginning of this Epist doth implicitly own the same Person to be author To conclude Mr. Glanvill died in his House at Bathe on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the 9th day of the same month at which time Jos Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon which afterwards was made extant In his Rectory of Bathe succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells MYRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Myrth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall where applying his mind to the study of Div took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House and at two years standing in that degree he wrot and published An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon concerning the real presence Lond. 1634. qu at which time he lived at if not Minister of Odyham in Hampshire In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey and in Decemb. that year to be called into question by the Parl. then sitting for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North at York by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on c. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not In the time of the rebellion he suffer'd for the Kings cause but upon the return he was rewarded being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship by creation of this University as a member of S. Alb. Hall He died on the 5. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester having several years before wrot one or more books fit for the press Quaere EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. p. 87 was born at or near Croyden in Surrey admitted Prob. Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1634 entred on the Physick line took both the degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in 1641 in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts In 1643 Nov. 14 he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick But when the Kings cause declined he retired to London practised there and sometimes in the City of Bathe became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian in ord to his Maj. Ch. 2 and at length a pretended Baronet He hath written and published Morbus Epidemicus an 1643. Or the new disease with the signs causes remedies c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris that raged then in Oxon the King and the Court being there Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661 die Harvaei memoriae dicato Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul within the Liberty of Westm He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall became Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1627 afterwards Proctor of the University and a Dignitary in Ireland There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1676. NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School there admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void the said Dr. Blandford as Bishop of Worcester presented him to it an 1672. which he kept to his dying day He hath written Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum gentium hominum deorum gentilium regionum insularum locorum civitatum c. ad sacras profanas historias poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria nomina quo decet ordine complectens illustrans c. Oxon. 1670. fol mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius Afterwards the author made it quite another thing by adding thereunto from his great reading almost as much more matter as there was before with many corrections c. Lond. 1686. fol whereunto is added a Geographical Index An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque c. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149 c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention'd on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him among those that well knew him the character of a harmless quiet man and of an excellent Philologist EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the antient Mannour or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire on the eleventh of Nov. 1621 and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts he was by the care of his Father Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County sent to Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenc'd he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclin'd than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire where continuing for some time return'd to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces setled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected an 1648. Thence after he had spent an year or more therein he went into
Kent and married Jane the Daughter of one Dr. Edw. Simson who being antient resign'd his living Pluckley I think to him and then took the degrees in Divinity in this University But he being much vex'd with factious Parishioners and Quakers left his Benefice and in the year 1657 he procured himself to be made Fellow of the new erected Coll. at Durham where being appointed one of them that should teach Grammar he followed precisely the Jesuits method and the boys under him did by that course profit exceedingly But that Coll. being dissolved in the beginning of 1660 or rather a little before he returned into the South parts setled at Islington near London and in a large Gallery in a house belonging to Sir Thomas Fisher he taught boys after an easie method too large now to tell you He had also there a little Academy for Girls to be taught Latine and Greek and as I have been informed one of them at 14 years of age could construe a Greek Gospel Afterwards this person who had a restless and freakish head went with Coll. E. Harley to Dunkirk and was there a Chaplain for some time Which place with the garrison being sold by the English he returned and that Colonel setled him in the Vicaridge of Lentwarden in Herefordshire But that being a poor thing he soon after left it and by the favour of the Bishop of London he obtained the cure of S. Mary Stayning in that City scarce worth 20 l. per an unless benevolence make it more Being setled there the grand conflagration hapned which burnt down his Church and Parish to the ground an 1666. So that being for the present destitute of a subsistance he went soon after in the quality of a Chaplain to the garrison of Tangier where remaining till the Church of S. Michael in Woodstreet was rebuilt and the Parish of S. Mary united with it he was sent for home and made Rector of that Church which with a Lecture elsewhere he kept to his dying day He was a person very well vers'd in Lat. Gr. and Poetry and always took a very great delight to instruct youth He understood Chronology well and spent much time and money in the art of Alchimy He was a person cynical and hersute shiftles in the world yet absolutely free from covetousness and I dare say from pride But above all that he is to be remembred for is that he was the first discoverer to his Majesty of that Plot commonly called the Popish Plot and by many Oates his Plot about the 25. of Sept. 1678 having a little before been told of it by Titus Oates who conferr'd together what to do in that matter He hath written A short compendium of Grammar Printed in two sheets at most in oct Noun Substantives the names of things declare And Adjectives what kind of things those are c. And in 6 or 8 verses more are comprehended the concords c. Observations directions and enquiries concerning the motion of sap in trees Remitted into the Philosophical Transactions an 1670 num 57. Enquiries relating particularly to the bleeding of Walnuts Rem into the same Trans num 58. Letter about the retarding of the ascent of sap c. and concerning the running of sap in trees There also numb 68. The Royal Martyr Whether printed I cannot tell because Râ—g L'estrange refused to licence it an 1678. The Jesuits unmasked or political observations upon the ambitious pretences and subtile intreagues of that cunning society presented to all high powers as a seasonable discourse at this time Lond. 1678. qu. The new design of the Papists detected or an answer to the last speeches of the five Jesuits lately executed viz. Thom. White alias Whitebread Will. Harcourt alias Harison John Gavan alias Gawen Anthony Turner and John Fenwick Lond. 1679. in 2. sh in fol. An Answer to the objections against the Earl of Danby concerning his being accessary to the murdering of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey Lond. 1679 in one sh in folio There is no name to it but the general vogue then was that Dr. Tongue was the author An account of Romish doctrine in case of conspiracy and religion Lond. 1679. qu. Jesuits Assassins or the Popish Plot further declared and demonstrated in their murtherous practices and principles Lond. 1680 in 9. sh in fol. the first part Whether the second was ever published I know not The northern Star The British monarchy c. Being a collection of many choice antient and modern prophecies wherein also the fates of the Roman French and Spanish monarchies are occasionally set out Lond. 1680. fol. He also compleated and published the Chronicon written by the aforesaid Dr. Edward Simson sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge printed at Oxon 1652. folio see more in Thom. Jones an 1682. He also translated from French into English 1 Popish mercy and justice Being an account not of those massacred in France by the Papists formerly but of some later persecutions of the French Protestants Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Jesuitical Aphorismes or a summary account of the doctrine of the Jesuits and some other popish Doctors c. Lond. 1678. 79. qu. 3 The Jesuits morals or the principal errors which the Jesuits have introduced into Christian morality c. printed several times particularly at Lond. in 1680. fol. 4 Abridgment of controversie c. Written by Ch. Drelincourt 5 Combat Romaine c. by the same author and other things as I conceive which I have not yet seen He died in the house of that factious Dissenter called the Protestant Joyner alias Steph. Colledge who kept him in his house had much ado with him and had been at great charge to keep him in order for the carrying on of the cause then in hand on the eighteenth day of December in sixteen hundred and eighty and was on the 23 of the same month conveyed by a numerous train most of them of the godly party from Scotch-Hall in the Black Friers to St. Michaels Church in Woodstreet within the City of London where his funeral Sermon was preached by Thom. Jones sometimes of University Coll. in Oxon and therein highly characterized Afterwards the body was reposed in the Vault of the Churchyard of S. Mary Stayning before mentioned He the said Dr. Tongue left behind him at his death two written folio's touching Alchymy which was the art wherein he was most excellent and took delight besides certain MSS. of his composition concerning Divinity which he wrot at Durham and elsewhere but whether fit for the Press I know not Some time before his death he invented among other things the way of teaching Children to write a good hand in twenty days time after the rate of 4 hours in a day by writing over with black ink copies printed from copper Plates in red Inke After his death R. Moray Projector of the Penny-Post did cause to be engraven several Plates and then to be printed off with red ink by which means boys
several generous hazards of his person in Battle he was at last totally routed by the rebellious party near Stow on the Would in Glocestershire where the noble and valiant Sir Jacob Astley was taken Prisoner and himself received several scars of honour which he carried to his grave Afterwards he retired to Oxon the then seat of his Majesty and had in recompence of his losses confer'd upon him an employment under Sir Joh. Heydon then Lieutenant General of the Ordnance which was to receive and pay off money for the service of the Magazine and Artillery at which time Edward Sherburne Gent. afterwards a Knight was Commissary General of the said Artillery It was then that at leisure houres he followed his studies was esteemed a member of Queens Coll. being entred among the students there and might with other officers have had the degree of Master of Arts confer'd on him by the members of the Ven. Convocation but he neglected it After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon at which time the Kings cause did dayly decline our author Wharton was put to his shifts and lived as opportunity served went to the great City lived as privately as he could and wrote several small things for a livelyhood But they giving offence to the great men then in power he was several times seized on and imprison'd as in the Gatehouse at Westminster in Newgate and at length in Winsore Castle At which time being threatned with greater punishment he found Will. Lilly his Antagonist a friend After his Majesties restauration he became Treasurer and Pay-Master to the Office of his Majesties Ordnance repaid Lilly his curtesie gained so well by his employment that purchasing an estate he was in consideration of his former sufferings under and for K. Ch. 1 and for particular services to K. Ch. 2 created a Baronet by patent dated 31. Dec. 1677 which honor his son Sir Polycarpus Wharton now enjoyes Sir George was alwaies esteemed the best Astrologer that wrote the Ephemerides of his time and went beyond W. Lilly and Jo. Booker the idolls of the Vulgar was a constant and thro-pac'd Loyallist a boon Companion a witty Droll and waggish Poet. He hath written Hemeroscopions or Almanacks from 1640 to 1666. Printed all in oct The six first came out under the name of George Naworth and therefore by Lilly usually called Noworth The rest that for 1646 being as it seems omitted came partly out under the name of Captaine George Wharton and partly under George Wharton Esq In that Alman which he published in 1644 he began to fill the blank leaves of the respective months with Chronological notes which continuing so now and then interruptedly till 1657 he then put them at the end of every Almanack under the title of Gesta Brittannorum and commenc'd them from 1600 whereas before they were but from Dec. 1641. These Gests are all or most part involved in an octavo book called The Historians Guide c. In all the said Almanacks is a great deal of satyrical poetry reflecting on the times and rebellious persons thereof which since hath been collected together and printed in his works Mercurio-caelico Mastix or an anti-caveat to all such as have heretofore had the misfortune to be cheated and deluded by that great and traiterous Impostor Joh. Booker in answer to his frivolous Pamphlet Entit Mercurius-Caelicus or a caveat to all the people of England Oxon. 1644. in tw sh in qu. Englands Iliads in a Nutshel or a brief Chronologie of the battailes sieges conflicts c. from Dec. 1641 to 25. of Mar. 1645. Oxon. 1645 oct Taken from his Almanacks for 1644. and 45. Mostly involv'd also in the said Hist Guide c. An Astrological judgment upon his Majesties present March begun from Oxon 7. May 1645 Print in qu. Bellum Hybernicale or Irelands Warr Astrologically demonstrated from the late celestial congress of two malevolent Planets Saturne and Mars in Taurus the Ascendent of that kingdome c. Printed 1647. qu. Merlini Anglici Errata Or the errours mistakes c. of Mr. Will. Lilly's new Ephemeris for 1647 Printed 1647. Mercurius Elencticus communicating the unparallel'd proceedings at Westminster the Head-quarters and other places c. Printed by stealth in London This Mercury which began 29. Oct. 1649 came out sheet by sheet every week in qu and continuing interruptedly till 4. Apr. 1649 it came out again with numb 1. and continued till towards the end of that year I have seen several things that were published under the name of Merc. Elenct particularly the first and second part of The last Will and Test of Philip Earl of Pembroke c. Pr. 1649. qu but whether George Wharton was author of them I know not A List of the names of the members of the H. of Commons observing which are Officers of the Army contrary to the self-denying ordinance together with such sums of money offices and lands as they have given to themselves for service done and to be done against the King and Kingdom Printed in one sh in qu. 1648. It was all taken from the first part of The Hist of Independency written by Clem. Walker In the said List are the names of an 100 persons and to it was added a second Century by the same author Wharton printed on one side of a sh of paper the same year and subscribed M. El. i. e. Merc. Elencticus The reader is to note that in 1657. and 58 came out Two Narratives of the late Parliament so called their Election and appearing c. with the account of the places of profit sallaries and advantages which they hold and receive under the present power c. Pr. in qu. but by whom they were written I know not Sure it is that the author borrowes several things from the said Hist of Indep and the said List or Two Centuries and from them all put together doth borrow the author of another book entit The mystery of the good old cause briefly unfolded in a cat of such members of the late Long Parliament that held offices both Civil and Military c. Lond. 1660. oct Who the author of this Mysterie was I cannot yet tell Sure it is if Sir Will. Dugdale told me right that Clem. Spelman who was Cursitor Baron published about the same time a Character of the Oliverians on one side of a sheet which Clement after he had written and published a large preface to his fathers Sir Hen. Spelman book De non temerandis Ecclesiis and some other little things as I suppose he concluded his last day in June after Whitsontide an 1679 whereupon his body was buried in St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet London G. Wharton hath also written A short account of the Fasts and Festivals as well of the Jews as Christians c. The Cabal of the twelve Houses Astrologicall from Morinus Written 1659. and approved by Will. Oughtred A learned and useful discourse teaching the right observation and keeping 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
for the King intended it for him conditionally he would conform Dr. Frewen had the benefit of that too all the fines for renewing and for the filling up lives to his very great profit besides what he got from York At length Mr. Baxter the Coryphaeus of the Presbyterian party refusing it least he in an high manner should displease the Brethren it was offer'd to Dr. Richard Baylie President of S. Johns College and Dean of Sarum who had been a very great sufferer for the Kings cause but he refusing it because Dr. Frewen had skim'd it it was thereupon confer'd on Dr. John Hacket of Cambridge as I shall anon tell you This Dr. Frewen who was accounted a general Scholar and a good Orator but hath nothing extant only a Latin Oration with certain verses on the death of Prince Henry for his Moral Philosophy Lectures are not yet made publick died at his Mannour of Bishops Thorp near York on the 28 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried on the third day of May following under the great east window of the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in York Soon after was erected a splendid monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which being too large for this place shall now for brevity sake be omitted His Father John Frewen before mention'd was a learned Divine and frequent preacher of his time and wrot 1 Fruitful instructions and necessary doctrine to edifie in the fear of God c. Lond. 1587 in tw 2 Fruitful instructions for the general cause of reformation against the slanders of the Pope and League c. Lond. 1589. qu. 3 Certain choice grounds and principles of our Christian Religion with their several expositions by way of questions and answers c. Lond. 1621. in octav and other things He died in 1627 about the latter end and was buried in Nordiam Church leaving then behind these Sons viz. Accepted before mention'd Thankful Stephen Joseph Benjamin Thomas Samuel John c. which John seems to have succeeded his Father in the Rectory of Nordiham but whether the said Father was educated in Oxon I cannot yet tell Qu. As for Dr. Hacket before mention'd who was an eminent person in his time for learning and a publick spirit I shall now take this opportunity to speak at large of him tho I have partly mention'd him already in the Fasti under the year 1616. p. 824 and elsewhere in the first volume Born therefore he was in the Strand near Exeter-house in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of Westminster on the first day of Sept. 34. Elizab. Dom. 1592. His Father was Andr. Hacket of Putferin in Scotland a senior Burgess of the City of Westminster and afterwards of the Robes to Prince Henry who being a zealous Protestant took great care to breed up this his only Son to that religion When he was very young therefore he put him to the Coll. School at Westminster and his Master Mr. Ireland finding in him a great propensity to learning was very kind to him as also was Dr. Lanc. Andrews the Dean of the Ch. there who in the necessary absence of the Master being accustomed to come into the School and examine the boys took this youth into his particular favour and continued it to him as long as the Bishop lived Being made ripe for the University he was in the year 1608 with the pious Mr. George Herbert elected to go to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge by the favour of Dr. Tho. Nevill Master of that Coll who told his Father when he addressed to him about his Son that he should go to Cambridge or else he would carry him upon his back and being there entred he was put under the tuition of Dr. Edw. Simson author of Chronicon ab exordio mundi c. Soon after he was so much noted for his painful studies sober life and great proficiency in learning that he was elected Fellow of that House assoon as he was by the rules thereof fit for the same Afterwards he grew into that credit that he had many Pupils put to his charge and those of the best families in England and then betaking himself to the study of Divinity he took holy Orders in 1618 from the hands of Dr. John King B. of London who had a great affection for him and expressed the same on divers occasions but above all others Dr. John Williams Bishop of Linc observing his great learning and knowledge in the Tongues chose him his Chaplain immediatly after the Great Seal was committed to his charge an 1621. Two years he spent in that Bishops service before his time was come to commence Bach. of Divinity and then beg'd leave to go to Cambridge to keep the publick Act an 1623 which he performed according to expectation and then returning to Court to his Master he prefer'd him to be Chaplain to K. Jam. 1 before whom he preaching several times to that learned Prince's good liking he was the next year by the recommendations of his Master presented to the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourn near London then within his Majesties disposal by reason of the minority of Thomas Earl of Southampton and suddenly after he was by the same means made Parson of Cheame in Surrey fallen likewise in his Majesties gift by the promotion of Dr. Ric. Senhouse to the Bishoprick of Carlile which two Livings he held till the most execrable rebellion broke out in 1642 and was constantly resident upon one of them In 1628 he commenced Doct. of Div. at Cambridge where he preached a Sermon highly applauded by the learned auditory of that time And returning to Holbourne and his duty there he became very famous for excellent preaching and decent order in his charge In 1631 his old Master the Bishop of Lincoln gave him the Archdeaconry of Bedford void by the death or resignation of Nich. Walker D. D. who had succeeded therein one George Eland an 1629. To which charge he usually went once in a year commonly after Easter and exhorted the Clergy thereof to keep strictly the Orders of the Church Afterwards finding his Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne much in decay he eagerly sollicited his great friends and acquaintance to contribute to its reedification or at least repair and about the year 1639 he had obtained divers thousands of pounds for that purpose but the unparalell'd rebellion following soon after the members of the Long Parliament mostly a prevalent party of Presbyterians did seize on that and all the money collected for the repair of St. Pauls Cathedral in London to carry on their rebellion against their King In the beginning of the Civil War he was named one of the Committee with divers eminent Bishops and Pastors to consider of what was amiss in the English Liturgy and Church government and to rectifie the same in hopes by that means to expel the cloud then appearing over the Church but the Lords
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
men of great name and place in Sweedland The last or the younger who in his printed book or books writes himself Benedictus Gustavus Queckfeldt Sudremanius Suecus that is I suppose of the Province of Sodermanland in Sweedland did some exercise for the said degree which he printed with this title Disputatio juridica inauguralis de obligationibus ex contractibus qui re verbis literis consensu perficiuntur in illustriss Anglorum Vniversitate quae Oxoniae est c. pro gradu Doctoratus ejusque privilegiis in Jure c. ... Dec. 1655 modestè exhibita Oxon. 1656. in 3 sh in qu. This year Jacobus Oúzelius who intitles himself Jurisconsultus Dantiscanus was a Sojourner in Oxon purposely to obtain the benefit of the public Library He hath written De numismatibus and is the same as I conceive who hath published Animadversiones in Minutii Felicis Octavium An. Dom. 1656. An. 8 Car. 2. An. 3 4 Oliv. Prot. Chanc. the same viz. Ol. Oromwell Vicechanc. Dr. Owen Oct. 7. Proct. Edw. Littleton of All 's Coll. Apr. 16. Will. Carpender of Ch. C. Apr. 16. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 25. Will. Glynne Principal-Commoner of Jes Coll. In Jan. 1658 he was elected Knight for the County of Caernarvon to serve in Richard's Parliament which began at Westm on the 27 of the said month On the 20 of May 1661 he was created a Baronet and in 1668 he was elected High Sheriff of Oxfordshire See in Joh. Glynne among the Writers p. 270. Jun. 5. Thom. Pittys of Trin. Coll. Oct. 13. Sam. Austin of Wadh. Coll. Oct. 13. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. Oct. 13. Tho. Traherne of Brasn Coll. Oct. 13. Hen. Hesketh of Brasn Coll. The last of which who hath written and published several things is as I presume living and therefore to be remembred hereafter Jan. 29. Tho. Hockin of Magd. Coll. Jan. 29. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. Of both which you may see among the Masters an 1659. Jan. 30. Dav. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jan. 30. Rich. Morton of New Coll. Feb. 3. Hen. Foulis of Queens Coll. The two first of these three are now living one at Northop in Flintshire and the other in Grey-friers Court within Newgate in Lond and have published several things The first of History which he will scarce acknowledge and the other of Physick of which faculty he was created Doctor an 1670 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Feb. 6. Sam. Woodford of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 6. Arth. Brett of Ch. Ch. The first of these two is now Preb. of Winchester and is and hath been celebrated for his Poetry The other was a pretender to it but not to be nam'd or compared with the former 19. Joh Paradise of Mert. Coll. This person who was a Wiltshire man born bred up among Presbyterians and so dexterous in short-hand writing that he would take a Sermon verbatim from the mouth of any Preacher which he would repeat in the College Chappel on Sundays after supper was soon after made Minister of Westbury in his own Country left his Presbyterian Principles and became a Tory-Preacher for the Royal Cause He hath written and published A Sermon on Davids humiliation for cutting off the royal robe and detestation of cutting off the royal head of the Lords anointed preached Januar. 30. an 1660 being a solemn Fast for the horrid murther of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory Lond. 1661. Mar. 21. Hen. Denton of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters of Arts an 1659. Adm. 142. Bach. of Law Jul. ... Joh. Ailmer of New Coll. He was now esteemed an excellent Greecian Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. May 6. Owen Price of Ch. Ch. lately of Jesus Coll. Jun. 5. Ezek. Hopkins of Magd. Coll. 20. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll. 30. Will. James of Ch. Ch. Jul. 9. Joh. Wagstaffe of Oriel Coll. Jul. 9. Clem. Ellis of Qu. Coll. Dec. 13. Hen. Stubbe of Ch. Ch. Mar. 17. Tho Wight of C. C. Coll. This person who was made Fellow of the said Coll as born in the County Pal. of Durham was afterwards Rector of West Hendreth in Berks and wrot and published A discourse of Schisme for the benefit of humble Christians Lond. 1690. qu. He is living there and may publish hereafter more things Adm. 64. Bach. of Phys Jul. 3. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll. Besides him were four admitted and Rob. Wood M. A. of Linc. Coll who had studied Physick six years was licensed to practise that faculty by the decree of Convocation Apr. 10. ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year only created ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was adm this year Doct. of Phys Jul. 3. Franc. Hungerford of All 's Coll. Jul. 3. Rich. Lydall of Mert. Coll. Jul. 3. Edm. Dickenson of Mert. Coll. These three accumulated the degrees in Physick 7. Thom. Kinge of Brasn Coll. Doct. of Div. Jul. 12. Ezrael Tongue of Vniv Coll. He was the only person that was licensed to proceed this year Incorporations Mar. 27. James Windet Doct. of Phys of Leyden The said degree was confer'd on him at Leyd in July 1655. This person who was afterwards of the Coll. of Physitians at Lond. was a good Latin Poet a most excellent Linguist a great Rabbi a curious Critick and rather shap'd for Divinity than the faculty he profess'd He hath extant under his name 1 Ad Majestatem Caroli II. sylvae duae Printed in qu. 2 De vitâ functorum statu ex Hebraeorum atque Graecorum comparatis sententiis concinnatus cum corollario de Tartaro Apost Petri in quem praevaricatores Angelos dejectos memorat Lond. 1663. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen among which is the Epist ded to the most ingenious Joh. Hall of Durham set before an edition of Stierius's Philosophy printed and published by Rog. Daniel Printer to the University of Cambridge who having a great respect for the said Mr. Hall got Dr. Windet to write it which being done Mr. Daniel set his own name to it purposely to do honour to that young Gent. of great and wonderful hopes This Dr. Windet left behind him at his death which those of his profession say hapned about 1680 a quarto Manuscript containing many of his Lat. Poems which at this day go from hand to hand having been expos'd to sale in one or more Auctions Apr. 25. Huntingdon Plumtre Doct. of Phys of Cambr. This person was a Nottinghamshire man born was descended from those of his name of Plumtre in that County and when a young Master of Arts of Cambr. wrot Epigrammatum opusculum duobus libellis distinctum Lond. 1629. oct and to it added Homeri Batrachomyomachia latino carmine reddita variisque in locis aucta illustrata Jun. 3. Thom. Browne Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had that degree confer'd on him at Pad in Sept. 1654 is different from the famous Sir Thom. Browne of Norwich whom I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1682. p.
died at Salisbury where he was Can. resid on the 10 of June 1676 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Whereupon Obadiah Walker M. A. was elected Master of the said Coll. on the 22 of the said month of June Jun. 15. Thom. James Warden of All 's Coll. He became Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edw. Davenant who died at Gillingham in Dorsetsh 12 March 1679 and dying on the 5 of January 1686 was buried in the outer Chap. of All 's Coll. In his Treasurership succeeded Seth Ward M. A. 23. Tho. Lambert of Trin. Coll. a Compounder He was now Can. resid of Salisbury one of his Majesties Chaplains and Rector of Boyton in Wilts On the 12 of June 1674 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Priaulx Jun. 23. Tho. Wyat of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 23. Jam. Longman of New Coll. The former was now Vicar of Melksham in Wilts the other Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire 27. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. 30. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. The former who accumulated was Preb. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and Chapl. to his Majesty the other was now Warden of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh Heywood of C. C. Coll. a Compounder He was now Rector of Walton in Lancashire Sim. Patrick of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He had been sometimes Fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was elected Master thereof by the major part of the Fellows against a Mandamus for the admitting of Dr. Anth. Sparrow Master of the same For which opposition some if not all of the Fellows that sided with him were ejected Afterwards if not at that time he was Minister of Battersea in Surrey then of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty Subdean of Westminster and in the year 1680 Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. James Duport who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Edw. Rainbow an 1664. On the 13 of Oct. 1689 he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in the Bishop of Lond. Chappel at Fulham in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake deceased and in the Month of June 1691 he was translated to Ely in the place of Dr. Franc. Turner deprived of his Bishoprick for not taking the Oathes to their Majesties K Will. 3. and Qu. Marie This Dr. Patrick hath many Sermons Theological discourses and other things relating to the supreme faculty extant which shew him to be a learned Divine and an Orthodox Son of the Church of England July 5. Joh. Cawley of All 's Coll. This person who was Son of Will. Cawley of the City of Chichester was by the endeavours of his Father made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 where he continued several years Some time after his Majesties restauration he became Rector of Henley in Oxfordshire and upon the death of Dr. Raphael Trockmorton Archdeacon of Lincoln in which Dignity he was installed on the second of March or thereabouts an 1666. He hath written The nature and kinds of Simony Wherein is argued whether letting an ecclesiastical jurisdiction to a Lay-surrogate under a yearly pension reserved out of the profits be reducible to that head And a sentence in a cause depending about it near six years in the Court of Arches is examined Lond. 1689 in 5. sh in qu. July 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. He was now Vicar of Adderbury in Oxfordshire and afterward B. of Landaff Incorporations Apr. 7. Henry Compton M. of A. of Cambr. youngest Son of Spencer Earl of Northampton was then incorporated M. of A with liberty allowed him to enter into and suffragate in the House of Congregation and Convocation This Gent. was originally of Queens Coll. in this University and afterwards through several preferments he became B. of London June 19. Edward Browne Bach. of Phys of Cambridge I shall mention him among the Doctors of that faculty in the next year 27. Sim. Patrick Bach. of Div. of Cambridge I have made mention of him among the Doct. of Div. of this year CREATIONS Those that were created this year were mostly by such that were created when Thom. Earl of Ossory had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd on him Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. Sam. Bowater of Pemb. Coll. lately Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was created Mast of that faculty and the same day was admitted Bach. of Div. conditionally that he preach a Latin Sermon The other persons following were created on the 4. of Feb. after the Earl of Ossory and two of his retinue had been created Doctors of the Civil Law James Russell of Magd. Coll. George Russell of Magd. Coll. They were younger Sons of William Earl of Bedford Thom. Leigh a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Lord Leigh of Stoneley Anthony Ashley Cooper of Trin. Coll. Son of Anthony Lord Ashley He was after his Fathers death Earl of Shaftesbury an 1682. Sir Rich. Graham of Ch. Ch. Bt. This Gentleman who was usually called Sir Rich. Grimes was the Son of Sir George Graham of Netherby in Cumberland Bt and afterwards at riper years a Burgess for Cockermouth in Cumberl to serve in several Parliaments particularly for that which began at Westm 26. of Jan. 1679 and for that which began at Oxon 21. of March 1680. Afterwards he was created by his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Viscount Preston in Scotland and by K. Jam. 2. was sent Embassador into France upon the recalling thence of Sir Will. Trumbull Some time after his return he became so great in the favour of that King that on the 28. of Octob. or thereabouts an 1688 he was made one of the Secretaries of State upon the removal of Robert E. of Sunderland who seemed very willing to be discharged of that office because that having then lately changed his religion for that of Rome he thought it very requisite to make provision for a safe retirement to avoid the danger that might come upon him if the enterprize of the Prince of Orange should succeed as it did In the said station of Secretary the Lord Preston continued till K. Jam. 2. left the Nation in Dec. following who then would have made him Viscount Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire but the sudden change of affairs being then made to the great wonder of all People there was no Seal pass'd in order to it In the beginning of Jan. 1690 he was taken with others in a certain Yatcht going to France to K. Jam. 2 upon some dangerous design as 't was said and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower was in danger of his life and endured a long and tedious imprisonment c. He is a Gent. of many accomplishments and a zealous lover of the Church of England c. Sir Carr Scrope of Wadh. Coll. Bt. This person who was Son of Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Kt became
and the Epilogue by John late Earl of Rochester The Songs in this Trag. were printed by themselves in two sh in qu. In 1685 he was elected Burgess for S. Ives in Cornwall to sit in that Parl. that met at Westm 19. May the same year being the first of K. Jam. 2. c. July 5. Thom. Williams of Jes Coll. July 5. Thom. Walter of Jes Coll. The former of these two who is Son of Will. Williams who was adm M. of A. 1676 hath translated into the Welsh tongue Dr. W. Sherlocks book entit A practical discourse of death Oxon. 1691. oct The other who was Son of Joh. Walter of Percefield in Monmouthshire wrot The excommunicated Prince or the false Relique a Tragedy c. Lond. 1679 in a thin fol. To which Trag. tho the name of Capt. Will. Bedloe is put as author yet this Mr. Walter wrot all or the most part of it See more in a book entit An Account of the English Dramatick Poets c. Oxon. 1691. oct Written by Gerard Langbaine Son of the learned Dr. Ger. Langbaine sometimes Provost of Qu. Coll. lately a Com. of Vniv Coll. now superior Beadle of Law in the Univ. of Oxon wherein p. 15. he ascribes it to the said Captain without any notice at all of Tho. Walter Oct. 27. Joh Howell of Trin. Coll. He hath written and published A discourse of persecution or suffering for Christs sake c. Lond. 1685. qu. and may other things hereafter Mar. 11. Thom. Sawyer of Magd. Coll. This person who was Nephew to Sir Rob. Sawyer Attorney General was Musick Reader in the Act 1681 and author of a Poem called Antigamus Or a Satyr against Marriage Oxon. 1681. in one sh in qu. Written upon the denial of a certain Gentlewoman to whom he was a suiter for Marriage c. Adm. 127. Bach of Phys Three were admitted of whom Francis Smith M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. was one I set him down here not that he was a Writer but upon this account following viz. that after the death of Dr. James Hyde Principal of Magd. Hall which hapned on the 7 of May 1681 the Fellows of Magd. Coll. calling into question the power of the Chanc. of the University of putting in a Principal of the said Hall did thereupon the President being then absent elect to be principal the said Francis Smith 21 May 1681 and did intend to seal up the Hall gates against the Vicechancellour in case he should come to admit a Principal of the Chancellours nomination But the President in the mean time returning and the Fellows desir'd by the B. of Winchester to desist from these their proceedings the matter came to nothing So that the Vicechancellour finding no opposition he did forthwith admit Dr. Will. Levet of the Chancellours nomination as I shall tell you among the D. of D. following This Mr. Smith was afterwards Dr. of his faculty and Physitian in the Army of K. Will. 3. in Ireland where he died about the beginning of June 1691. Bach. of Div. May 8. Sam. Master of Exeter Coll. July 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. Feb. 1. Joh. Willes of Trin. Coll. Adm. 12. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 8. Joh. Floyer of Queens Coll. a Compounder He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of certain matters in fol. and other vol. of his faculty and therefore he is to be hereafter numbred among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. May 8. Joh. Hammond of Ch. Ch. a Compounder On the 2 of May 1673 he was installed Preb. of Brampton in the Ch. of Lincolne and on the 23 of Sept. the same year Archdeacon of Huntingdon on the death of Dr. Rich. Perincheif both which he obtained by the favour of Dr. Will. Fuller Bish of Linc. to whom he was Chaplain and on the 8. July 1679 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon on the death of Dr. Thom. Lockey The said Dr. Perincheif who had been Minister of S. Mary Colechurch in London Preb. of Westminster and Subalmoner to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was installed in the said Archdeaconry of Huntingdon on the death of Dr. Henry Downhall 2 Apr. 1670. and died at Westminster on the 3. of Sept. 1673. See more of him in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 2. p. 243. b and in Will. Fulman among the Writers in this vol. June 25. Will. Levett of Ch. Ch. a Comp. On the first of June 1681 he was admitted Principal of Magd. Hall after the death of Dr. James Hyde and on the 10 of January 1685 he was installed Dean of Bristow upon the death of Dr. Rich. Thompson Mar. 10. Alex. Pudsey a Comp. of Magd. Coll. Mar. 10. Hen. Fairfax of Magd. Coll. Mar. 10. Joh. Younger of Magd. Coll. Mar. 10. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. In the middle of Sept. 1689 Dr. Fairfax had the Deanery of Norwich confer'd on him by the promotion of Dr. Joh. Sharp to the Deanery of Canterb. upon the account of his sufferings in the raign of K. Jam. 2 whereupon he was installed in that Dignity on S. Andrews day 30. of Nov. following As for Dr. Younger he was afterwards Preb. of Canterbury as I have told you in Sam. Parker among the Writers p. 617. March 10. George Reynell of C. C. Coll. Incorporations On the 13 of July being the next day after the solemnity of the Act were 23. Masters one Bach. of Div. one Doct. of Law and one Doct. of Physick of the University of Cambridge incorporated Among the Masters I find only one as yet a Writer viz. Steph. Kay of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of Manton in Lincolnsh and author of A discourse teaching the excellency and usefulness of Christian Religion both in principles and practices chiefly designed by the author for the benefit of his Parishioners Printed at York 1686. qu. It is dedicated to Sir Joh. Kay of Woodsome Bt one of the Dep. Lieutenants of the West-Riding in Yorkshire who as it seems was a favourer of his studies The Bach. of Div. and Doctors were these following Nathan Shute Bach. of Div. of Kings Coll. He hath one or more Serm. extant Henry Hitch Doct. of Law of Jes Coll. Rob. Wittie Doct. of Phys of Kings Coll. This learned person hath written 1 Scarborough Spaw or a description of the nature and vertue of the Spaw at Scarborough in Yorkshire 2 Treatise of the nature and use of Water in general and the several sorts thereof as sea rain snow pond c. with their original causes and qualities c. 3 A short discourse concerning mineral waters especially that of the Spaw These three which go and are bound together were several times printed in oct and all or most of them which go under the general name of Scarborough Spaw were put into latine by the author with this tit Fons Scarburgensis sive tractatus de omnis aquarum generis origine usu c. Lond. 1678
Soc. c. Lond. 1670. qu. Letter to Sir N. N. relating the cause of the quarrel between Hen. Stubbe and the Royall Society and an Apology against some of their cavills Printed with Campanella revived Postscript concerning the quarrel depending between Hen. Stubbe and Dr. Christop Merrett Pr. also with Campanella Reply unto the letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe in defence of The history of the Royal Society Oxon. 1671 quart Reply to a letter of Dr. Hen. More printed with Mr. Glanvill's Prefatory answer to Hen. Stubbe with a censure upon the Pythagorico-Cabbalistical Philosophy promoted by him Oxon. 1671. A Preface against Ecebolius alias Joseph Glanvill Fellow of the Royal Society c. These two last are printed with the Reply unto a letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe c. Medice cura te ipsum Or the Apothecaries plea in some short and modest animadversions upon a late Tract entit A short view of the fraudes and abuses of the Apothecaries c. by Christop Merrett Dr. of Phys Lond. 1671. quart An epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy in opposition to George Thomson Pseudo-Chymist a pretended disciple to the Lord Verulam Lond. 1671. qu. A discourse concerning the Sweating Sickness temp Hen. 7. Relation of the strange Symptoms hapning by the bite of an Adder and the cure thereof These two last are printed with the Epistolary discourse c. A caveat for the Protestant Clergy or an account of the sufferings of the English Clergy upon the restitution of Popery in the dayes of Qu. Mary Lond. 1671. 78. in two sh in oct This is said to be written by Hen. Stubbe but not I suppose by our author but by another of both his names whom I shall anon mention A justification of the present warr against the united Netherlands c. illustrated with Sculptures In answer to a Dutch treatise entit considerations upon the present state of the united Netherlands c. Lond. 1672. 73. qu. A farther justification of the present warr against the United Netherlands illustrated with several Sculptures Lond. 1673. qu. For the compiling of these two last books the author was allowed the use of the Paper Office at Whitehall and when they were both finished he had given him 200 l. out of his Majesties Exchequer and obtained a great deal of credit from all people especially from the Courtiers and all that belonged to the Kings Court. In the month of Octob. the same year 1673 when the marriage to be between James Duke of York and Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena was controverted in the House of Commons where were 180 voices for and 188 against it then did this our author Stubbe about the latter end of the said month write and publish The Paris Gazette Which being against the said marriage and for the breaking it off gave great offence to many It was printed in half a sheet as one of our Gazetts are now and was by the author with great confidence and impudence presented to several Parliament men Whereupon a Writ being issued out against him he was taken in the beginning of the next month hurried in the dark from one private Prison to another threatned with hanging and was put to a great deal of charge So that all the credit he had got before was lost among the generallity Directions for drinking the Bath-water Ars Cosmetica or beautifying Art These two go under his Stubbes name and are printed at the end of James Cook his translation from Lat. into English of a book written Originally by Joh. Hall entit Select observations on Eminent persons in desperate diseases Which translation was reprinted with additions in 8 o an 1679. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Introduction to Geography Oxon 1657 oct Written by Philip Cluver 2 The Arts of Grandure and submission Lond. 166â— and 1665 oct Written by John Casa Archb. of Benevento 3 The History of the United Provinces of Achaia Lond. 1673. qu. in 4 sh and half written by Jacobus Gothofredus and others as it seems which I have not yet seen I have now no more to say of this learned person only that he being at Bathe attending several of his Patients living in and near Warwick then there he was sent for to come to another at Bristow in very hot weather to which place therefore going a by-way at 10 of the clock in the night on the twelfth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six his head being then intoxicated with bibbing but more with talking and snuffing of powder was drowned passing through a shallow River wherein as 't is supposed his horse stumbled two miles distant from Bathe So that his body being taken up the next morning and his death examined by the Coroner was the next day after that being Friday buried in the great Church at Bathe dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul in the grave of Dr. Pet. Wentworth joyning on the North side to the stately Tomb of Dr. Jam. Mountague somtimes Bishop of that City situat and being on the north side of the body of that Church At which time his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill preached his funeral Sermon but said no great matter of him and soon after a certain Physitian of that place who seemed to be glad for his death made this Epitaph following on him Which tho not yet put on his grave shall be here set down to his memory Memoriae Sacrum Post varios casus magna rerum discrimina tandem heic quiescunt mortalitatis exuviae Henrici Stubbe Medici Warwicensis quondam ex Aede Christi Oxon â—ei Medicae Historicae ac Mathematicae peritissimi judicii vivi Librorum heluonis qui quum multa scripserat plures sanaverat aliorum saluti sedulo prospiciens propriam neglexit Obiit aquis frigidis suffocatus 12 die July A.D. 1676. aetatis suae ... Besides this Hen. Stubbe was another of both his names and time a nonconforming Minister and somtimes a preacher in the City of Wells where I find him as an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliam to eject such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters who hath among several things pertaining to Divinity written 1 Great Treaty of peace exhort of making peace with God Lond. 1676. 77. oct 2 Disswasive from conformity to the world Lond. 1675. in 8o. 3 Gods severity against mans iniquity Printed with the Disswasive 4 Gods gracious presence the Saints great privilege a farewel Sermon to a Congreg in Lond on 2. Thes 3.16 Printed also with the Disswasive 5 Conscience the best friend or the happy Effects of keeping a good Conscience very useful for this age Lond. 1685. in tw and other things which I have not yet seen among which is his answer to the Friendly debate an 1669 in oct When he died I know not sure I am that after his death which was in London his books were exposed to sale by way of Auction 29. Nov.