unicâ felicissime temperavit Infelices sui seculi errores non effugit modo sed strenuè fugavit c. JEREMY TAYLOR tumbled out of his mothers womb into the lap of the muses at Cambridge was educated in Gonvill and Caius Coll. there till he was M. of A. Afterwards entring into holy orders he supplied for a time the Divinity Lecturers place in the Cath. of S. Paul in London where behaving himself with great credit and applause far above his years came to the cognisance of that great encourager of learning ingenuity and virtue Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. who thinking it for the advantage of the world that such mighty parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and improvement than a course or constant preaching would allow of he caused him to be elected Fellow of All 's Coll. an 1636 Where being setled love and admiration still waited upon him while he improved himself much in Books But this the Reader is to know that tho he came in meerly by the paramount interest of the said Archb yet it was done against the statutes of the Coll in these two respects First because he had exceeded the age with in which the said statutes make Candidates capable of being elected and secondly that he had not been of three years standing in the University of Oxon only a week or two before he was put in However he being a Person of most wonderful parts and like to be an ornament thereunto he was dispenced with and thereby obtained in that house much of that learning wherewith he was enabled to write casuistically About the same time he was in a ready way to be confirmed a member of the Church of Rome as many of that perswasion have said but upon a Sermon delivered in S. Maries Church in Oxon on the 5. of Nov. Gun-powder-treason day an 1638 wherein several things were put in against the Papists by the then Vicechanc he was afterwards rejected with scorn by those of that party particularly by Fr. à S. Clara his intimate acquaintance to whom afterwards he expressed some sorrow for those things he had said against them as the said S. Clara hath several times told me About that time he became one of the Chaplains to the said Archb. of Cant who bestowed upon him the rectory of Uppingham in Rutlandshire and other matters he would have done for him in order to his advance in the Church had not the rebellion unluckily broke out In the year 1642 he was with others by virtue of his Maj. letters sent to this University actually created D. of D. in that noted Convocation held on the first day of Nov. the same year he being then Chaplain in Ord. to his said Majesty and a frequent Preacher before him and the Court in Oxon. Afterwards he attended in his Majesties Army in the condition of a Chaplain where tho he had not a command of his time and books yet he laid the foundation of several Treatises in defence of Episcopacy the Liturgy Ministry and Church of England Upon the declining of the Kings cause he retired into Wales where he was suffer'd under the Loyal Earl of Carbury of the Golden Grove in Caermerthenshire to officiat and keep School to maintain him and his Children From which tho it continued but a few years were several youths most loyally educated and afterwards sent to the Universities In this solitude he began to write his excellent discourses which are enough of themselves to furnish a Library and will be famous to all succeeding generations for the exactness of wit profoundness of judgment richness of fancy clearness of expression copiousness of invention and general usefulness to all the purposes of a Christian By which he soon after got a great reputation among all Persons of judgment and indifferences and his name grew greater still as the world grew better and wiser When he had spent some years in this retirement in a private corner as 't were of the world his family was visited with sickness and thereby lost the dear pledges or Gods favour three sons of great hopes within the space of two or three months And tho he had learned a quiet submission unto the divine will yet the affliction touched him so sensibly that it made him desirous to leave the Country And going to London he there for a time officiated in a private Congregation of Loyalists to his great hazard and danger At length meeting with Edward Lord Conway a Person of great honour and generosity that Lord after he had understood his condition made him a kind profer which our author Taylor embracing it carried him over into Ireland and setled him at Portmore a place made for study and contemplation which he therefore dearly loved And there he wrot his Cases of conscience a book that is able alone to give its author immortality By this time the wheel of providence brought about the Kings happy restauration and out of a confused Chaos beauty and order began to appear Whereupon our loyal Author went over to congratulate the Prince and Peoples happiness and bear a part in the universal triumph It was not long after his sacred Majesty began the settlement of the Church and Dr. Taylor being resolved upon for the Bishoprick of Downe and Connor was consecrated thereunto at Dublin on the 27. of January 1660 and on the 21. of June 1661 he had the administration of the See of Dromore granted to him by his Majesty in consideration that he had been the Churches Champion and that he had suffer'd much in defence of its cause With what care and faithfulness he discharged his office all upon the place knew well and what good rules and directions he gave to his Clergy and how he taught them the practice of them by his own example Upon his being made Bishop he was constituted a Privy Counsellor and the University of Dublin gave him their testimony by recommending him for their Vicechancellor which honorable office he kept to his dying day He was esteemed by the generality of persons a compleat Artist accurate Logician exquisite quick and acute in his reasonings a Person of great fluency in his language and of prodigious readiness in his learning A noted Presbyterian also his Antagonist doth ingeniously confess that Dr. Taylor is a man of admirable wit great parts hath a quick and elegant pen is of abilities in critical learning and of profound skill in antiquity c. and another who knew him well tells us that he was a rare Humanist and hugely vers'd in all the polite parts of learning and had throughly concocted all the antient Moralists Greek and Roman Poets and Orators and was not unacquainted with the refined wits of the later ages whether French or Italian c. But he had not only the accomplishments of a Gentleman but so universal were his parts that they were proportion'd to every thing And tho his spirit and humour were
and educated in Gram. learning in the Free-school there In 1609 May 17 he was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 and in the year 1616 Jan. 4. he was admitted Rector of Ubley alias Obley near to Pensford in Somersetshire by the free and unsolicited bounty of Th. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor of England This person Will. Thomas being always a Puritan closed with the Presbyterians when they raised a Rebellion against his Majesty 1642 was a frequent preacher against his Cause and Followers and was esteemed one of the chief Ministers in his time of that perswasion in the neighbourhood where he lived He afterwards took the Engagement as before he had the Covenant and in 1654 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to Olivers Commissioners for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Afterwards he ran thro the remaining part of the changes and took the Oaths again after his Maj. return of Allegiance and Supremacy His works are these The dead speaking or the living names of two deceased Ministers of Christ viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver Pastor of Wells and Mr. Sam. Croke c. containing two several speeches delivered at the funerals of them Lond. 1653 qu. With them is printed a Sermon preached at the funeral of Sam. Oliver by Joh. Chetwind sometimes of Exeter Coll. then a godly brother and after the Kings return Prebendary of Bristow Rayling rebuked or a defence of the Ministers of this Nation by way of answer to the unparalelled calumnies cast upon them in an Epistle lately published by Tho. Speed Merchant of Bristow unhappily became the Quakers Advocate c. Lond. 1656. qu. Answer'd by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 237. c. The Protestants practice or the compleat Christian being a true and perfect way to the celestial Canaan Lond. 1656. in tw A vindication of Scripture and Ministry in a rejoynder to a reply not long since published by Tho. Speed formerly but unsutably Merchant in the City of Bristol and a Preacher lately but more sadly Merchant and Quaker c. Lond. 1657. qu. Answer'd also by G. Fox in the aforesaid book p. 104 105. c. A preservative of piety in a quiet reasoning for those duties of Religion that are the means and helps appointed of God for the preserving and promoting of Godliness c. Lond. 1662. qu. Exposition on Ruth Lond. 166 ... in tw The Countries sense of Londons sufferings in the late most lamentable fire discovered in the opening and improving the lamentation of Jeremiah Lond. 1667. oct Scriptures opened and sundry cases of conscience resolved in plain and practical answers to several questions upon the Proverbs of Salomon Jerem. Lam. Ezeck and Daniel Lond. 1675 and 83. oct He died at Ubley before mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was soon after a Mon. put up by his son Mr. Sam. Thomas with this inscription following Hic jacet Gulielmus Thomas ecclesiae hujus Rector plus quà m quadragenarius qui populum docuit publicè domatim sermone exemplo Quem non tam mors rapuit quà m ille mortem munere scilicet priùs cedere coactus quà m mundo vitam quam pro grege diutius insumere ut Pastor non potuit avidissimè summo pastori reddidit Nov. 15. an dom 1667. aetat 74. I shall make mention of another William Thomas under the year 1689. WILLIAM HILL son of Blackleech Hill was born at Cudworth in Warwickshire at which time his father who in his younger years had been a petty Attorney was then Bailive of Hemlingford hundred which is one of the four hundreds in Warwickshire and the largest by which employment gaining a considerable subsistance lived in a fashionable condition and bred up his children very well This William being trained up in Grammar in his own Country became a Student in Merton Coll. about the beginning of Mich. term 1634 aged 15 years being then esteemed a sober and ingenious youth and soon after was made one of the Postmasters of the said Coll. After he had taken one degree in Arts he was a Candidate for a Fellowship of that house and shewing himself a most excellent proficient in Greek Latine and Physicks was elected Prob. Fell. an 1639. But soon after the time that he was admitted Bach. Fellow he was prefer'd to be Master of the Free-school at Sutton Colfield in his own Country and soon after to a rich Wife tho the Daughter of a plain country man which school he brought into great credit during his abode there In 1641 he proceeded in Arts and having not long after buried his wife he removed to London where having obtained a considerable practice in Physick he married a young lass daughter of one Mr. Burges a Physitian son of Dr. Joh. Burges sometimes Parson of Sutton Colfield before mention'd who brought him forth a child that lived within the seventh month after marriage In 1649 and 52 he had leave from the Delegates of the University to accumulate the degrees in Physick but whether he did so it doth not appear in our Registers Afterwards as before being a man of those times and a sider with factious people he was prefer'd to be chief Master of the great school at Dublin in Ireland where continuing till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2 was then as it seems forced to leave that place So that removing to Finglass a Village near to that City taught there privately to the time of his death He hath writen Dionysii orbis descriptio Graec. Lat. commentario critico geographico in quo controversiae pluraeque quae in veteri Geographia occurrunt explicantur obscura plurima elucidantur ac tabulis illustrata Lond. 1658. 59. 1663. 1679. c. in a large oct used in many schools and by most Juniors of the University of Oxon. He hath also epitomized some of the works of Laz. Riverius a Physitian which I have not yet seen nor a certain MS. of his which he wrot to justifie his lawful begetting of the aforesaid child by himself which MS. he shewed to two Physitians for their approbation before it went to the press but they looking upon the work as done by a meer scholar unknowing in the world returned it with seeming content and afterwards jeer'd him behind his back for an antidated Cuckold He died of a pestilential fever which took away most of his family in the month of November in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 29 of the said month just before the Ministers seat in the Church at Finglas before mentioned I find another Will. Hill of Merton Coll. also the son of a Committee-man a notorious Schismatick of Herefordshire who
Oct. 1646 where he continued a constant Preacher doing good in his zealous way to his dying day His love to learning was very great and his delight to exercise himself was greater than his weak body could bear He had a strong memory which he maintained good to the last by temperance He was well skill'd in Greek and Hebrew was a fluent Preacher but too much addicted to Calvinisme He hath transmitted to posterity A Breast-plate for the keeping of the heart being the substance of certaine Sermons on Prov. 4.23 former part Lond. 1660. in oct A rich treasurie for the promises being the substance of other Sermons on Micah 7.19 Lond. 1660. oct Some or all of these Sermons were published in 1650. in oct Which two treatises The Breast-plate and Rich treasurie were published by Hugh Gundrey beforemention'd and one Joseph Crabb who dedicated them to William Lord Sydenham a member of Olivers Council one of his Lords and sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University Exposition on the first Chapt. of the Epist of S. Paul to the Ephesians whether this was published after his death I cannot tell He paid his last debt to nature on the 27 of Novemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and five and was buried I suppose in the Church of Neitherbury having before married Joane the Daugh. of George Scullard of Rumsey in Hampshire and been appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Dorsetshire and Pool for the ejection of such whom the godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters GILES WORKMAN Son of Will. Workm was born at Newton-Bagpath in Glocestershire entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in the year of his age 18 dom 1623 took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became Vicar of Wallford in Herefordshire Master of the College School in Glocester and at length by the favour of Matth. Hale Esq afterwards L. Ch. Just of the Kings-bench he became Rector of Alderley in Glocestershire He hath written A modest examination of Lay-mens preaching discovered to be neither warranted by the Word of God nor allowed by the judgment or practice of the Churches of Christ in New England c. Lond. 1646. in about 6. sh in qu. What else he hath published unless one or more Sermons which I have not yet seen I know not nor any thing besides only that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and five as his eldest Son hath informed me was buried in the Church of Alderley beforemention'd This Person who was a quiet and peaceable Puritan had a Brother called John Workman a schismatical Lecturer in Glocester who by medling with things indifferent created not only a trouble to his Diocesan but to the Archb. of Canterbury as you may fully see in Canterburies Doome THOMAS WILLIS whom some pedagogical Writers call Volentius was born of a gentile Family of his name living at Fenny compton in Warwickshire began to be conversant with the Muses in S. Johns Coll in Easter term 1602 aged 19 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Schoolmaster at Thistleworth or Istleworth in Middlesex where he spent near 50 years of his time in the instruction of youth for whose use he wrot these things following Vestibulum Linguae Latinae A Dictionary for Children consisting of two parts c. containing near ten thousand words besides thrice the number derived from and known by them c. Lond. 1651. oct Phraseologia Anglo-Latina Anglicisms latinized c. Lond. 1655. oct This is the same which hath another title sometimes set to it running thus Proteus vinctus Sive aequivoca sermonis Anglicani ordine alphabetico digesta latine reddita To this Book was afterwards added Paraemilogia Anglo-latina Or a collection of Engl. and Lat. Proverbs and proverbial sayings matched together Both which were printed in one Vol. at Lond. 1672. oct This last was wrot with a design to supply what was defective and wanting in our Author Willis his Phraseologia c. by Will. Walker bred up in School learning under Joh. Clerk Bach. of Div. sometimes publick Schoolmaster of Lincoln afterwards teacher of a private School in Fiskerton in Nottinghamshire and a Writer of school-books under whom he the said Walker being ripen'd for the University was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge where he took the degrees in Arts and one in Divinity afterwards he became Master of the publick School at Lowth in Lincolnshire founded by K. Ed. 6. then Rector of Colsterworth in the same County by the donation of Dr. Tho. Pierce as Prebendary I think of Lincoln who had been for several years a great encourager of Mr. Walker's useful studies and at length Master of the Free-school at Grantham where he continued to the time of his death which hapned in the beginning of January or thereabouts an 1684. This person who was very useful in his generation hath written and published 1 Treatise of English Particles several times printed 2 Troposchematologiae Rhetoricae libri duo Lond. 1668. dedic to his Patron Dr. Pierce before mention'd 3 Explanations of the Royal commonly called Lillyes Grammar in two parts Lond. 1670. 74. oct 4 Modest plea for Infant Baptism Cantab. 1677. in tw 5 English Examples of the Lat. Syntaxis c. Lond. 1683. oct with his picture before it aged 59 years and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen particularly his Dictionary of English and Latine Idioms and his book intit De argumentorum inventione libri duo c. in oct ROBERT MATON son of Will. Maton of Tudworth in Wilts was born in that County became a Commoner of Wadh. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and afterwards holy Orders but where beneficed unless in his own Country I cannot tell nor any thing else of him but that as to opinion he was always in his heart a Millinary which he never discovered in publick till the Rebellion broke out and then the Press being open for all Opinions he published these things following Israels Redemption or a prophetical history of our Saviours Kingdom on earth that is of the Church Catholick and Triumphant on Acts 1.6 Lond. 1642. oct Discourse of Gog and Magog or the battle of the great day of God Almighty on Ezek. 38.2 Printed with the former book Comment on the 20 chap. of the Rev. Lond. 1652. quart Israels Redemption redeemed or the Jews general and miraculous Conversion to the faith of the Gospel and return into their own Land and our Saviours personal reign on Earth proved from the Old and New Test c. of purpose to satisfie all Gainsayers and particularly Mr. Alex. Petrie Minister of the Scottish Church at Roterdam Divided in two parts Lond. 1646. qu. Which book being answer'd by the said Petrie it came out again under this title with additions and amendments A Treatise of the fifth Monarchy or Christs personal reign on
minus dubiae fidei supersunt Lond. 1650. in a thick large oct Interiora regni dei Lond. 1665. in tw He also translated The Psalmes of David into English meeter Lond. 1646. oct This translation tho ordered by the H. of Commons to be printed 4. Nov. 1645 yet if I am not mistaken all or most of it was printed in 1641. The said Psalmes were also turned into Meter by Will. Barton pr. by order of Parl. 1645. oct Our Author Rous gave way to fate at Acton near London on the seventh day of January in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in Eaton Coll. Church near to the entrance of that Chappel joyning thereunto formerly built by Rog. Lupton Provost of the said College Soon after were hanged up over his grave a Standard Pennon c. and other Ensigns relating to Barons containing in them the arms of the several matches of his Family All which continuing there till 1661 were then pulled down with scorn by the loyal Provost and Fellows and thrown aside as tokens and badges of damn'd baseness and rebellion Those of his Party did declare openly to the World at his death that he needed no monument besides his own printed works and the memorials of his last will to convey his name to posterity And that the other works of his life were works of charity wherein he was most exemplary as the poor in many parts would after the loss of him tell you c. The Poet of Broadgates called Ch. Fitz Geffry did celebrate his memory while he was of that house and after his death Pembroke College built in the place of Broadg. did the like for his benefaction to the members thereof WILLIAM SANDBROOKE of Glocester Hall took one degree in the Civil Law in 1630 and about that time entring into Holy Orders became Rector of the Church of S. Pet. in the Baylie in Oxon 1635 where he was much frequented by Puritanical People and precise Scholars as Rogers Principal of New Inn was who had his turn in preaching there In the beginning of the Civil Wars he left the University and betook himself to a Sea employment in the quality of a Chaplain under the Earl of Warwick Admiral for the Parliament but being weary of it by the year 1644 he officiated as Vicar of S. Margarets Church in the City of Rochester by the leave of one Mr. Selvey the true Incumbent who having a good temporal estate allowed Sandbrooke the whole profits of the living Afterwards he was appointed by the Presbyterian Party one of three Lecturers in the Cathedral there purposely to preach down the Blasphemies and Heresies of Rich. Coppin and his besotted and begotted followers This Mr. Sandbrooke hath published The Church the proper subject of the new Covenant in three Sermons Lond. 1646. oct Several Sermons as 1 Fun. Sermon on Col. 2.6 printed 1657. in oct c. which and others I have not yet seen He died at Rochester in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was inter'd in the South Isle joyning to the Parish Church of S. Margaret beforemention'd remarkable for being the place of burial of one of the Saxon Kings as the People there say on the fifteenth day of March leaving then behind him the character of a godly and painful preacher WILLIAM RUSSELL Son of a Father of both his names was born at Wickware in Glocestershire educated in the Grammar School at Wotton Underedge in the said County became a Batler of Linc. Coll. in Lent term 1635 took one degree in Arts and then taught School for a time at Sadbury in his own Country At length John Langley being called away to be chief Master of S. Pauls School he became Master in his room of the publick College School in the City of Glocester where by his singular industry happy way of teaching and by his great skill in the Tongues and holy Scripture many learned youths were sent thence to the Universities His works are these The old Protestants conscientious enquiries concerning the new engagement printed in qu. 'T was written against the Oath called the Engagement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Holy Ghost vindicated in oct written against Joh. Biddle He gave way to fate on the 5. of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 42 years and was buried in S. Michaels Church within the City of Gloc. See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. p. 167. a. b. He left behind him three most ingenious Sons and excellent Scholars who were afterwards successively Masters of Arts and Fellows of Magd. Coll. The eldest was Samuel who died 22. July 1670. aged 22 the next was William who died 8. Dec. 1672 aged 22 and the third was Richard who dying 21. of Oct. 1681. aged 28 years was buried by his said two Brethren on the south side of Magd. Coll. outer Chappel One Rich. Russell a Rutlandsh man born as it seems bred in the English Coll. of Secular Priests at Lisbon in Portugal was by the K. of that Country designed to go into England as an interpreter to Don Francisco de Mello Earl of Ponte Embassador extraordinary from the said K. to K. Ch. 2 to settle the Marriage between him and Donna Catherina the Infanta of that Country After Russels return into Portugal he was rewarded for his pains with the Bishoprick of Portalegre where he now lives but whether of the same Family with Will. Russell beforemention'd I cannot tell HENRY EDMONDSON or as he writes himself Henricus Edmundus ab Edmundo was born in Cumberland and in the beginning of the year 1622 and in that of his age 15 he was entred a Student in Queens Coll. where after he had undergone the servile places of a poor Child and Tabarder was when Master of Arts admitted Fellow Afterwards he was made Usher of Tunbridge School in Kent under Dr. Nich. Grey and in 1655 when Thomas Widdowes died he was constituted by the Provost and Fellows of Qu. Coll. Master of the well endowed Free-school at Northleech in Glocestershire where he continued to the time of his death He hath written Lingua Linguarum The natural Language of Languages wherein it is desired and endeavoured that tongues may be brought to teach themselves and words may be best fancied understood and remembred c. Lond. 1655. oct c. Homonyma Synonyma Linguae Latinae conjuncta distincta Oxon. 1661. oct and other things as 't is probable He was buried in the Church of Northleech on the 15 day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine leaving then the character behind him of a most able Person in his profession and of one who had done great benefit for the publick by his sedulous and industrious education of youth MICHAEL JERMIN Son of Alex. Jerm Merchant and Sherriff of Exeter Son of Mich. Jermin somtimes twice Mayor of the said City was born at Knowston in Devonshire entred a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. in the beginning of
what he had done and also took off much of that opinion which Prideaux had among the Puritans In 1638 he became Rector of South Warnborough in Hampshire by exchange with Mr. Tho. Atkinson of S. Johns Coll. for Islip near Oxon and the same year he was put into Commission for the Peace for Hampshire On Ap. 10. an 1640 he was chose Clerk of the Convocation for Westminster and soon after brought into great trouble by his old Enemy Williams B. of Lincolne W. Prynne and certain of his Parishioners of Ailresford By the first because Heylyn had been a favourite of Laud and had continual contentions with him in the Coll. of Westminster about various matters relating to Religion and the Government of that College By the second because he had furnished the Lords of the Council with matter out of his Histrio-Mastix to proceed against him in order to the loosing of his ears c. and by the last because he had translated the Communion Table from the middle to the upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Ailresford and brought in there certain Ornaments to be used in the celebration of Divine Service In the year 1642 leaving his Preb. of Westminster and his Rectories in Hampshire upon a foresight of ruin to come he followed the King to Oxon where having little to live upon did by the Kings command write the weekly intelligence called Mercurius Aulicus which had been begun by John Birkenhead who pleased the generality of Readers with his waggeries and buffoonries far more than Heylyn In the beginning of the year following 1643 he was voted a Delinquent in the H. of Commons sitting at Westm because of his retirement to the King and thereupon an order was sent to the Committee at Portsmouth to sequester his Estate and seize upon his Goods Which Order being put in execution his incomparable Libâ—ary was taken away and carried to Portsmouth In 1644 hâ—s singular good Lord and Patron Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury being beheaded his hopes of rising higher in the Church were totally blasted So that upon the loss of him and his spiritual estate he stuck to his temporal for which he compounded in Goldsmiths Hall and to the earning of money by writing books In 1645 he left Oxon and shifted from place to place like the old travels of the Patriarchs and in pity to his necessity some of his friends of the loyal party entertained him The same year he setled for a time with his Wife and Children in Winchester but that City with the Castle being treacherously delivered up to their enemies he left them in a disguise and being entertained by several Loyalists removed at length to Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire in 1647 where taking a farm of his Nephew Col. Hen. Heylyn in the year following lived there six years or more exercising his Pen in writing of Books the publishing of which especially his Geography which he inlarged to a folio was a great relief to him Thence he removed to Abendon in Berks where he bought an house and land called Lacies Court which being but five miles from Oxon he was therefore furnished with Books at his pleasure either from Shops the Libraries of acquaintance there particularly Barlow of Qu. Coll. or by his repair to Bodlies Library and wrot several things in defence of the Church of England and the true genuine sense thereof Afterwards he suffer'd in his Estate by Decimation which trick being brought up by Oliver while Protector many Families thereby especially such that had before compounded were thereby undone In 1660 upon his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his spiritualities but never rose higher than Subdean of Westminster which was a wonder to many and a great discontent to him and his but the reason being manifest to those that well knew the temper of the Person I shall forbear to make mention of that matter any farther He was a Person endowed with singular gifts of a sharp and pregnant wit solid and clear judgment In his younger years he was accounted an excellent Poet but very conceited and pragmatical in his elder a better Historian a noted Preacher and a ready or extemporanean Speaker He had a tenacious memory to a miracle whereunto he added an incredible patience in study in which he persisted when his Eye-sight failed him He was a bold and undaunted man among his friends and foes tho of very mean port and presence and therefore by some of them he was accounted too high and proud for the function he professed On all occasions he was a constant Assertor of the Churches right and the Kings Prerogative either in their afflicted or prosperous estate a severe and vigorous opposer of Rebels and Schismaticks a despiser of envy and in mind not at all discouraged He writ many books upon various Subjects containing in them many things that are not vulgar either for stile or argument and wrot also History pleasant enough but in some things he was too much a Party to be an Historian and equally an enemy to Popery and Puritanisme His works which are very many are these Spurius a Tragedie Made in the year 1616. Acted privately in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. but never printed Theomachia a Com. Made in the year 1618 but not printed Microcosmus A description of the great World Oxon. 1622. 24 c. qu. Enlarged afterwards to a great folio entit Cosmography in four books Lond. 1652. 1664. 77. 82. This Cosmography was the last book that its Author wrot with his own hand 1651 for after it was finished his eyes failed him that he could neither see to write nor read without the help of an Amanuensis whom he kept to his dying day The Historie of that most famous Saint and Soldier of Jesus Christ S. George of Cappadocia asserted from the fictions of the middle ages of the Church and opposition of the present Lond. 1631. and 33. qu. The institution of the most noble Order of S. George named the Garter Printed with the former Catalogue of all the Knights of the Garter from the first institution to this present as also of the principal Officers thereunto belonging Printed also with the Hist of St. George 1631. and 33. In which last edition is at the end A review of the whole work consisting of additions and emendations On the 2 day of Feb. 1630 being Candlemas day the Author of the said History and its adjuncts was brought by Dr. Laud B. of London a great incourager of learning and industry to his Majesty being then in his Bedchamber at Whitehall to whom he did present them Whereupon his Maj. looking upon the book he did graciously accept of it and was pleased to hold some conference with the Author about that argument Afterwards the Author presented several copies fairly bound to all such Knights of the Order of the Garter and men of eminency that were then in London and Westminster and was used by
return in 1665 he lived for some time in and near London and thence going to Stratford before mentioned and afterwards to Warwick setled in the last of the said places practised Physick and in the Summer-time retired to Bathe at both which places he gained repute and many Patients by the diligence and care he took in his Profession As for his Writings they are many and of various subjects some of which that he published before the Kings restauration were against Monarchy Ministers Universities Churches c. provoking all men to whom those interests were dear He then trampled as one that wrote against him saith on the ashes of his martyr'd Sovereign defended and adored his murtherers stiled all our Kings a succession of Usurpers endeavoured the extirpation of Monarchy and planting a Democracy of Independents Anabaptists Fifth-monarchy men and Quakers in its room He hath represented the meekest justest and best of Kings as an hateful Tyrant and called our now Soveraign Ch. 2. an Usurper He then did write malitiously against Ministry Universities c. and vindicated the Quakers and the rest of the wildest and most dangerous Phanaticks c. But why our Author Stubbe did write so he 'll tell you 't was to serve his Patron Sir Hen. Vane and to express his gratitude to him who relieved him when he was a child and after and that because the quarrels and animosities grew high betwixt the Presbyterians and Sir H. Vane's Friends he sided therefore with him My youth saith he and other circumstances incapacited me from rendring him any great services but all that I did and all that I wrot had no other aim nor do I care how much any man can inodiate my former Writings as long as that they were subservient to him c. The truth is all that knew him here in Oxon knew this of him for certain that he was no frequenter of Conventicles no taker of the Covenant or Engagement no contracter of acquaintance with notorious Sectaries that he neither enriched or otherwise advanced himself during the late troubles or shared the common odium and dangers or prosperity of his Benefactor Some years after the Kings restauration he took pet against the Royal Society for which before he had a great veneration and being encouraged by Dr. Jo. Fell no admirer of that Society became in his Writings an inveterate Enemy against it for several pretended reasons among which were first that the members thereof intended to bring a contempt upon antient and solid Learning upon Aristotle to undermine the Universities and reduce them to nothing or at least to be very inconsiderable Secondly that at long running to destroy the established Religion and involve the Nation in Popery and I know not what c. So dextrous was his pen whether pro or con that few or none could equal answer or come near him He was a person of most admirable parts had a most prodigious memory tho his enemies would not acknowledge it but said he read Indexes was the most noted Latinist and Greecian of his age and after he had been put upon it was so great an enemy to the Virtuosi of his time I mean those of the R. Society that as he saith they alarm'd him with dangers and troubles even to the hazard of his life and fortunes He was a singular Mathematician and thoroughly read in all political matters Councils ecclesiastical and profane Histories He had a voluble tongue and was very seldom known to hesitate either in publick disputes or common discourse His Voice was big and magisterial and his mind was equal to it He was of a high generous nature scorn'd money and riches and the adorers of them which being natural to him was one of the chief reasons why he hated the Presbyterians whom he always found to be false undermining poor spirited void of generous souls sneaking sniveling c. He was accounted a very good Physitian and excellent for those matters that compleat it as Simpling Anatomy and Chymistry and in the times of Usurpation that is while Oliver and Richard ruled when then he thought it the Nations interest to subvert the true Monarchy of England he was passionately addicted to the new Philosophy and motion'd several ways for the introducing it amongst the Gentry and Youth of this Nation and the reason was as he l saith that it would render all the Clergy contemptible lessen the esteem and reverence in the Church and make them seem egregious Fools in matters of common discourse But as he was so admirably well qualified with several sorts of Learning and a generous Spirit so he was very unhappy in this that he was extream rash and imprudent and wanted common discretion to manage his parts He was a very bold man utter'd any thing that came into his mind not only among his Companions but in publick Coffey-houses of which he was a great frequenter and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present without examining the company he was in for which he was often repremanded and several times threatned to be kick'd and beaten He had a hot and restless head his hair being carret-colour'd and was ever ready to undergo any enterprize which was the chief reason that macerated his body almost to a Skeleton He was also a person of no fix'd Principles and whether he believed those things which every good Christian doth 't is not for me to resolve Had he been endowed with common sobriety and discretion and not have made himself and his learning mercenary and cheap to every ordinary and ignorant Fellow he would have been admired by all and might have pick'd and choos'd his Preferment But all these things being wanting he became a ridicule and undervalued by sober and knowing Scholars and others too His Writings and Translations are these Horae subsecivae seu Prophetiae Jonae Historiae Susannae paraphrasis Graeca versibus heroicis Lond. 1651. oct To which are added his Translation into Greek of Miscellanea quaedam Epigrammata à Th. Randolpho W. Chrashavio c. Epistola Lat. cum Poematibus Lat. Graec. ad D. Hen. Vane Domini Hen. Vane de Raby Eq. aur fil promogen Ox. 1656. printed on one side of a sheet The said Hen. Vane was then a Student or Sojourner in the Univ. of Oxon. but wore not a gown and soon after died Otium literarum Sive Miscellanea quaedam poemata Ox. 1656. oct They are printed with the Poems of Hen. Birchead of All 's Coll. In the said vol. are our Author Stubbe his Deliciae Poetarum Anglicanorum in Graecum translatae which were printed again at Oxon. 1658. in oct and had at the end added to them by him Elogiae Romae Venetiarum A severe enquiry into the late Oneirocrita or an exact account of the grammatical part of the Controversie between Mr. Thom. Hobbes and John Wallis D. D. Lond. 1657. qu. In the said book the Author Stubbe
of another because Byrd had been dead several years before Whereupon Charnock began anew with the help of a servant and again by himself alone in which work continuing 9 months which was within a month of his reckoning the Crows head began to appear black but a War being proclaimed against the French an 1557 and he thereupon by the malice of a Gentleman who was his neighbour prest for a Soldier his operations were frustrated and all cast aside On the first of January the same year he began to write The Breviary of natural Philosophy and on the 20. of July following he ended it In the title and end of which he stiles himself an unlettered Scholar and Student in the most worthy science of Astronomy and Philosophy This Breviary is written in old English verse which in the next Century coming into the hands of the most renowned Mercuriophilus Anglicus who sometimes writes himself James Hasolle Elias Ashmole was among other authors of the like nature published by him under this title Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum In 1562 Charnock married Agnes Norden at Stokeland-Bristow four miles from Bridgwater in Somersetshire being then or soon after setled there but afterwards at a place called Comadge and in the year after he buried Absolon his Son In 1566 he finished his book called The principal rules of natural Philosophy figuratively set forth to the obtaining of the Philosophers stone In which year also he dedicated a book of The Science to Qu. Elizabeth and dated the Rolle at Stockland as he himself saith which Rolle is written in Latine being the same I presume with the Emblematical Scrowle supposed to be invented by George Ripley the inside of which was composed as Charnock says by a great Master of the Hermetick Philosophy and written by a Master of his pen. Some notes in the void spaces of it were written by Charnock's hand which shew that he did not or at least throughly understand it In 1572 he wrot the Poesie of the Rolle which Rolle seems to me to have been a kind of a Vade mecum or a Manual that the Students of the Hermetick Science carried about with them and also to be taken from Raymandus Lullius The same year he wrot Aenigma ad Alchimiam and Aenigma de Alchimia both in English Verse and printed in Theat Chem. before mention'd In 1573 he wrot as himself saith the fragment Knock the Child on the head See Theat Chem. pag. 425 and in the year after he confessed that he never saw The white ferment to the red till the fiftieth year of his age In 1576 appeared The difficulty of the Philosophical number in the Rolle This Rolle so often mentioned is religiously kept to this day in a house at Comadge before mention'd where for his Studies and carrying on of his Operations he made a little room and contrivance for the keeping his Work and so ingeniously ordered that no accident of fire could befall him as it did on New-years day 1555. It joyns as a Closet to that which was his Chamber to make a Servant needless and the work of giving attendance more easie to himself On the door was drawn by his own hand with course Colours but rudely an Emblem of his Work So likewise about the walls in his Chamber are several pieces of his painting differing from each other some of which are obscure and almost woren out Several fragments written by him are published in the said Theat Chem Brit. but therein are omitted Charnocks Poesie upon the white and red rose and verses on the Philosophers Dragon which eateth up her owne tale c. This Rosacrucian Charnock paid his last debt to nature in his house at Comadge and was buried within the precincts of the Church at Otterhampton near to Bridgwater 21. Apr. 1581. HENRY MARTEN commonly called Harry Marten son of Sir Hen. Mart. mention'd among these writers under the year 1641 p. 4. was born within the City of Oxford particularly as I conceive in the parish of S. John Bapt in an house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church then lately built by Hen. Sherburne Gent. and possess'd at the time of Harry's birth by Sir Henry his father After he had been instructed in Grammar learning in Oxon he became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in the beginning of 1617 aged 15 years where and in public giving a manifestation of his pregnant parts had the degree of Bach. of Arts confer'd upon him in the latter end of 1619. Afterwards he went to one of the Inns of Court travelled into France and at his return his father found out a rich wife for him whom he married somthing unwillingly and therefore afterwards living a part from her and following other creatures she was for sometime distemper'd In the beginning of the year 1640 he was elected one of the Knights of Berks to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr and again tho not legally in Oct. to serve in that unhappy Parliament that began at the same place on the 3. of Novemb. following In which last Parliament he shew'd himself out of some little pique the most bitter enemy against the K. in all the House as well in action as speech for which being first reprimanded while the Presbyterians swayed therein was afterwards for the incontinence of his tongue committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but soon after released He was an enemy also to the Kingly Office and all belonging thereunto especially the Regalia which he caused to be sold for being authorized by the said Parliament about 1642 he forced open a great iron Chest within the College of Westminster and thence took out the Crown Robes Sword and Scepter belonging antiently to K. Edw. the Confessor and used by all our Kings at their inaugurations and with a scorn greater than his lusts and the rest of his vices he openly declared that there should be no further use of those toyes and trifles c. And in the jollity of that humour he invested George Wither an old puritan Satyrist in the royal habiliments who being crown'd and royally arrayed as well right became him did first march about the room with a stately garb and afterwards with a thousand apish and rediculous actions exposed those sacred ornaments to contempt and laughter Had the abuse been stript and whip'd as it should have been the foolish fellow possibly might have passed for a Prophet tho he could not be reckoned for a Poet. The said H. Marten was a taker of all Oaths whether that of Allegiance Covenant Engagement c. The last of which being by him taken he would by all means as the Independent Gang did make the Covenant an old Almanack out of date to the end that he and they might be rid of that tie of preserving his Majesties person and authority c. as the Presbyterians would with regret frequently say He was also an eager enemy against Lords Gentry Lawyers and Clergy and a
endeavours to answer the four Arguments of Bishop Andrews which are in his Sermon on 2 Phil. 7.11 Answer to Mr. Joseph Mede's treatise of the name of Altar or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 antiently given to the holy table Written in Feb. 1637. Answer to the defence of the coal from the Altar Evangelium contractum ex quatuor Evangeliis c. Written in Hebrew Annales Ecclesiae Christi inchoati secundum methodum Baronii This is written in Lat. but imperfect Chronicon Regum Judaeorum methodo magis perspicu◠Written in Hebr. Mesolabum Geometricum Chronicon mundi emendatum Divina sphaera humanorum eventuum The beginning is Etiam absque eo foret c. dedic to the King 1632. Problema Astronomicum de solis eccentricitate The beginning is Ternis Diatribis c. Diatribae animadversiones Astronomicae ternae Circuli dimensio Lydyatéa Archimidéa Marmoreum chronicon Arundelianum cum annotationibus c. This was afterwards printed in a book intit Marmora Oxoniensia published by Humph. Prideaux All which Mss with others treating of Divinity Mathematicks and Astronomy amounting to the number of 38 at least were bound up in 22 Volumes and reserved as rarities in the hands of Dr. Joh. Lamphire lately Principal of Hart Hall At length after our Author had lived at Okerton several years very poor and obscurely surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the third day of April in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried the next day being the same day on which he had above 70 years before been baptized by the bodies of his Father and Mother in the Chancel of the Church at Okerton which he before had rebuilt Over his grave near to the south Window and not far from the east end of the said Chancel the Warden and Society of New Coll. did cause a stone to be laid at their charge an 1669. The inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 149. a as also the Inscription on his honorary monument in New Coll. Cloyster pag. 155. WALTER RALEIGH second son of Sir Carew Raleigh of Downton in Wilts Knight by Dorothy his wife daugh of Will. Wroughton of Broadhinton in the same County relict of Sir Joh. Thynne Knight elder Brother to the famous Sir Walter Raleigh and both the Sons of Walter Raleigh of Furdell or Fardell in Devon Esq was born at Downton before mention'd educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in Mich. Term 1602 ult Eliz. being then 16 years of age Afterwards proceeding in Arts he was thought worthy being a noted Disputant to undergo the Office of Junior of the Act celebrated in 1608. About that time taking holy Orders he became Chaplain to that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke in whose family spending some time had the Rectory of Chedsey near Bridgwater in Somersetshire conferred upon him on the death of George Mountgomery in the latter end of 1620 and afterwards a minor Prebendship in the Church of Wells and the Rectory of Streat with the Chappel of Walton in the same County Much about the time of the lamented death of the said Count he became one of the Chaplains in ord to K. Ch. 1. and by that title he was actually created D. of D. in 1636. On the 13 of January 1641 he was admitted Dean of Wells on the death of Dr. George Warburton and on the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after which hindred his farther advance in the Church he was persecuted plunder'd and forced to abscond for his Loyalty to his Prince At length being taken Prisoner at Bridgwater by the Rebels 21 Jul. 1645 he was sent to Banwell house as a Captive and after several removes to his own at Wells where being committed to the custody of a Shoe-maker David Barret a Constable of that City by the Committee of the County of Somerset was treated by him far beneath his quality and function Soon after having occasion to write a letter to his Wife the rude Keeper endeavoured to take it from him and read it supposing it might be a letter of intelligence to be sent to some noted Cavalier But the Doctor preventing his sauciness the Keeper thrust his sword into his groyn shedding his blood as the blood of a dog of which wound he died about six weeks after to the great grief of the loyal party His papers after his death such as could be kept were for more than 30 years reserved in obscurity At length they coming into the hands of the worthy and learned Dr Simon Patrick then Rector of S. Paul in Covent Garden Preb. of Westm and Dean of Peterborough now Bish of Ely he viewed amended and methodized them which being done they were made publick under this title Reliquiae Raleighanae Being discourses and Sermons on several subjects Lond. 1679. qu. The number of Sermons are 13. What other things he left worthy of publication were kept in Dr. Charles Gibbes's hands whose sister Mary our Author had married but whether any of them are yet made publick I know not 'T is said that he wrot a Tract of Millinanism he having for some time been much addicted to that opinion but that as I have been informed was long since lost Those that remember him have often said that he was a person not only of gentile behaviour but of great wit and elocution a good Orator and a Master of a strong reason which won him the familiarity and friendship of those great men who were the envy of the last age and wonder of this viz. Lucius Lord Falkland Dr. Hen. Hammond and Mr. Will. Chillingworth The last of which was wont to say that Dr. Raleigh was the best Disputant that ever he met withal He departed this mortal life on the tenth day of Octob. being Saturday in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried on the thirteenth of the same month before the Deans stall in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Andrew in Wells Over his grave is not yet an inscription only a rough marble stone which had probably been laid there many years before the Doctors death One Standish a Clergy-Vicar of that Cathedral was afterwards questioned by the aforesaid Committee for burying him in the Church and his death being soon after call'd into question at an Assize or Sessions there was a Jury of Rebels that brought in his murder either Ignoramus or at least but Man slaughter for they said that the Doctor to shun the Keepers reading of a letter which he wrot to his Wife ran upon the Keepers sword c. Much about that time the Committee turned the Doctors Wife and Children out of doors and his Son as 't is said was forced to fly the Country for that he would have farther prosecuted the Law against the murderer of his Father MATHIAS PRIDEAUX son of Dr. Joh. Prideaux Rector of Exeter Coll. was
degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1611 and about 3 years after leaving his College he became chief Master of Winchester School afterwards Archdeacon of Winton Canon of Wells D of Div. and Archdeacon of Glocester in the place as it seems of Sam. Burton deceased In the beginning of the Civil War when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant he sided with them took the Covenant and having lost in the War time the profits of his Canonry and Archdeaconry obtained the rectory of Hinton near Winchester in Hampshire whence a Loyal Person a little before had been ejected He was an excellent Linguist able Divine and very well seen in antient Histories His works are these Preces written for the use of the children of Winchester School in Lat. and Engl. Grammaticalia quaedam in Lat. and Engl. Antiquae Historiae Synopsis All which were printed at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct Scholae Wintoniensis Phrases Latinae The latine phrases of Winchester School c. Lond. 1654. 64. oct published by Nich. Robinson his Son Annalium mundi universalium c. Tomus Unicus lib. 14. absolutus c. Lond. 1677. fol. Which book coming into the hands of Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury he did by the Kings command revise amend and fill it up with many things that were wanting He hath also written something in vindication of the Scotch Covenant which I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying on the same day on which James Duke of Richmond died so have I been informed by his Daughter which was the 30 of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five was buried near to and within the North door of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near to London In his Archdeaconry of Gloc. succeeded one John Middleton in 1660. After him succeeded Edw. Pope who dying in Jan. 1671 John Gregory of Cambr. succeeded CHRISTOPHER BENNET Son of Joh. Bennet of Raynton in Somersetsh was born there or in that County became a Com. of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term in the year 1632 and that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line but doctorated in that faculty elsewhere Afterwards he was made a member of the Coll. of Physicians at London and much frequented for his practice in that City His works are Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum c. Lond. 1654 oct Exercitationes Dianocticae cum historias demonstrativis quibus alimentorum sanguinis vitia deleguntur in plerisque morbis c. Lond. 1655. He hath also corrected and inlarged Healths improvement or rules comprizing and discovering the nature method and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this Nation Lond. 1655. qu. Written originally by Tho. Moufet This Dr. Bennet was buried on the second day of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five in S. Gregories Church near to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London leaving then behind him as 't is said one or more things fit for the press EDWARD WOOD Son of Tho. Wood alias à Wood or Awood Bachelaur of Arts and of the Civ Law of this University by Maria la Petite commonly called Pettie his Wife descended from a gentile and antient Family in the County of Oxon was born in the Parish of S. John Bapt. in an house opposite to the forefront of Mert. Coll. within the University of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame under his kinsman Will. Burt M. A afterwards Warden of the Coll. near Winton and D. of D. elected Probationer Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1648 and in 1655 was installed one of the Proctors of the University being then noted for a good Disputant Orator and Preacher His works are Several Sermons as 1 Of the knowledge of God by the book of nature in two Sermons on Rom. 1.19.20 Oxon. 1656. and 74. oct 2 Of the knowledge of Jesus Christ by the book of Scripture in two Serm. on 2. Tim. 3.16.17 printed with the former two Sermons 3 His last Sermon Preached at S. Maries in Oxon 20. March 1654. on Philip. 3.8 first part printed also with the former Sermons All which were then acceptable to the generality for the good practical divinity contained in them but since not He died in his Proctorship on the 22 of the Month of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five aged 28 years he being then the eldest of my Brethren and was buried two days after in Mert. Coll. Church not far from the grave of his Father at which time were present the whole body of Convocation and Juniors of the University JOHN ANGELL was born as I conceive in Glocestersh where receiving part of his juvenile Education made his first entry into Magd. Hall about the beginning of the year 1610. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and holy Orders became a frequent and painful Preacher At length about 1630 being made a Lecturer at Leycester continued there several years a Man mighty in Word and Doctrine among the Puritannical Brethren of that place till about the year 1650 at which time being forced by the Independent faction to leave his place because he refused to take the Engagement the Company of Mercers in London gave him a call and chose him Lecturer of Grantham in Lincolnshire it being one of the Lectures that had been given to the said Company by Vicountess Camden whereupon setling at that place he shone as 't is said as a burning light until God translated him to shine above as a Star for ever To which may be added that as his name was Angell so saith another of his perswasion he was a man indeed of angelical understanding and holiness a burning and shining light c. He hath written The right government of the thoughts or a discovery of all vain unprofitable idle and wicked thoughts c. Lond. 1659. oct Four Sermons 1 The right ordering of the conversation two Sermons on Psal 50 last verse 2 Fun. Sermon at the burial of John Lord Darcey 27. Aug. 1636. on Psal 39.5 3 Preparation to the Communion on 1. Cor. 11.28 All printed at Lond. 1659. oct He was buried in the Church at Grantham beforemention'd on the sixth day of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five at which time being attended to his grave by many Divines of the neighbourhood Mr. Laur. Sarson Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. did then deliver before them a large oration of mortality and in praise of the Defunct This Mr. Angell who had the year before his death been appointed by Parliament an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lincolnshire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters was several times heard to say before he fell sick that it was his great desire to live to see the conclusion of the year 1660 hinting
which I take to be false because that his admission to that degree occurs not in the publick register and that in the book of Matriculation subtit Coll. Reginae he is matriculated as a Yorkshire man born his Father or Uncle having then Lands at Flamburg and Great Kelk in that County as his elder Brother Roger was an 1608. RICHARD STANWIX Son of James Stanw was born of an antient and gentile Family within the City of Carlile in Cumberland educated in the Free-school there under Mr. Tho. Robson somtimes of Queens College admitted a poor serving Child of the said House being then put under the tuition of Mr. Charles Robson Son of Thom. beforemention'd about 1625 aged 17 years where profiting much in good Letters was made one of the Tabarders about the time that he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts and Fellow when Master About that time entring into holy Orders he was soon after through the recommendations of his Provost Dr. Potter made Chaplain to Tho. Lord Coventry L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England and after his death to John Lord Finch who succeeded him in that honorable Office of L. K. our Author then being Bach. of Divinity Soon after the said L. Finch withdrawing himself to the Netherlands upon the approaching troubles in the Long Parliament which threatned his ruin our Author returned to his College where continuing for some time without expectation of any advancement in the Church was at length prefer'd by Sir Rich. Saltonstall somtimes of Qu. Coll. to the rectory of Chipping-Warden in Northamptonshire which he kept during the time of the Civil War to his death He hath written A holy life here the only way to Eternal life hereafter or a discourse grounded on 2. Cor. 10.4 Wherein this truth is especially asserted that a holy life or the habitual observing of the Laws of Christ is indispensably necessary to Salvation Lond. 1652. oct c. Appendix laying open the common neglect of the said Laws among Christians and vindicating such necessity of observing them from those general exceptions that are wont to be made against it printed with the former He had also prepared another book for the press concerning the Socinian controversies which is not yet made publick At length after he had submitted to the men in Power during the times of Usurpation yeilded to the stroke of death in sixteen hundred fifty and six or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Chipping-Warden beforemention'd To which place I did formerly send for his Epitaph thinking therein to receive more knowledge of the Person but no return hath been yet made STEPHEN GEREE elder Brother to Jo. Geree mention'd under the year 1648. was a Yorkshire man born and at 17 years of age an 1611 became a Student in Magd. Hall where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy took one degree in Arts afterwards Holy Orders and was either a Minister or Schoolmaster or both In the time of rebellion I find him Minister of Wonnersh near to Guildford in Surrey at which time being a zealous Brother for the cause that was then driven on by the Saints he was removed to a better place called Abinger in the said County His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The ornament of Women or a description of the true excellency of Women Serm. at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Machel 15. Apr. 1639 on Prov. 31.29.30 Lond. 1639. in tw and others which I have not yet seen The Doctrine of the Antinomians by Evidence of Gods truth plainly confuted In an answer to divers dangerous Doctrines in the seven first Sermons of Dr. Tob. Crisps fourteen which were first published c. Lond. 1644. qu. The golden meane being some considerations together with some cases of conscience resolved for a more frequent administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. qu. What other Books or Sermons he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him ALAN BLANE or Blaney a Cumberland man born Son of Tho. Blaney Rector of Acton or Ayketon in the same County became a poor serving Child of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years afterwards Tabarder but never Fellow took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 Holy Orders and had a Benefice confer'd on him but lost it in the time of Rebellion Afterwards he retired to Standish in Glocestershire lived there with the Tenant of the great farm belonging to Joh. Dutton of Shirburne in the said County Esq preached there and at Whitminster a small Curacy near it but never had any living or was a setled Incumbent in that Diocess only much countenanced in his labours by the said Dutton To whom he dedicated this book following Festorum Metropolis The Metropolitan feast or the birth day of our Saviour Jes Christ proved by Scriptures to be annually kept holy c. Lond. 1652. qu. published under the Name or Letter B. who calls himself Pastor fido in Exile It was printed there again in 1654. oct under the name of Alan Blaney and answered by John Collins Bachelaur afterwards Doctor of Divinity and Minister of S. Stephens Church in the City of Norwich in a book entit A Caveat for old and new profaneness c. Lond. 1653. quart In which book he also answers that of Edw. Fisher Esq entit A Christian Caveat to the old and new Sabbatarians or a Vindication of our old Gospel Festivals c. Our Author Blaney translated also from Latin into English Synagoga Judaica c. Written by Joh. Buxtorsius Lond. 1656. qu. and perhaps other things Much about that time he left Standish and lived near Birkley in Glocestershire At length retiring to London died there as I have been informed by the Chanc. of the Dioc. of Gloc. who made enquiry after him at or near Berkley WILLIAM HIGFORD an Esquires Son was born at or near to Alderton in Glocestershire became a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. in 1595. and being soon after translated to that of Corp. Ch. was put under the tuition of Seb. Benefeild where by the benefit of good discipline and natural parts he became a well qualified Gentleman Afterwards taking a degree in Arts he retired to his Fathers Seat became a Justice of Peace and much respected by the Lord Chandois and other Persons of quality in his Country He left behind him a large book in MS. of his own writing intit Institutions or advice to his Grandson in 3. parts Which being epitomized or contracted by Clem. Barksdale a Minister in Glocestershire was by him published at Lond. 1658. in oct Other matters fit for the press he left behind him which being not understood by his Children were lost He died in his House at Dixton near to Alderton beforemention'd and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Alderton on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and
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
State his Capital enemy sent a messenger for and committed him more close than before Soon after the said Justice of Peace died left Biddle a considerable Legacy but in a short time devour'd by the frequent paying of the fees of a Prisoner So that being in a manner reduced to great indigence he was employed by Roger Daniel a Printer of London to correct the Greek Version of the Septuagint of the Old Testament which he was about most accurately to publish And this he did knowing full well that Biddle was an exact Greecian and had time enough to follow it Which employment and another in private did gain him for a time a comfortable subsistance In Feb. 1651 was published by the Parliament a general Act of oblivion that restored among others our Author Biddle to his full liberty which he improv'd among those friends he had gained in London in meeting together every Sunday for the expounding of the Scripture and discoursing thereupon for the clearing of matters therein contained by which means the Doctrine of one God and Christ his only Son and his holy spirit was so propagated that the Presbyterian Ministers in London were exceedingly offended at it but could not hinder it by secular power which then favoured liberty of religion and conscience About that time part of the second impression of his Twelve Arguments the Confession of Faith Testimonies c. which as I have told you were published in oct laying dead on his or the Booksellers hands there was this title put to them The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity revived and asserted c. Lond. 1653. oct but no alterations or augmentation made in them as 't is expressed in the said title set before them which were put and sold together in one volume the Long Parliament being then dissolved Afterwards was written and published by the said Biddle A Twofold Catechisme the one simply called a Scripture Catechisme the other a brief Scripture Catechisme for Children Lond. 1654. The last of which two was printed again by it self in 3 sheets in a little octavo the same year Soon after the Twofold Catechisme coming into the hands of certain Persons elected to sit in the Little Parliament called by Oliver which began at Westminster 3. Sept. 1654 was a publick complaint by some made of it in the House being instigated thereunto by frequent and open preachments against it Whereupon Biddle being sent for he gave answer to their interrogatories and did not deny before them but that he was the Author So that the matter being refer'd to a Committee he was examined by them and in conclusion adhered to the answer that he had before given to the House Reports therefore being made by the said Committee of such things that had passed the House voted on the 12 of Dec. 1654 that the whole drift and scope of the said Twofold Catechisme is to teach and hold forth many blasphemous and heretical opinions and that in the preface of the said Catechisme the Author thereof doth maintain and assert many blasphemous and heretical opinions and doth therein cast a reproach upon all the Catechismes now extant They then voted also that all the printed books entit the Twofold Catechisme be burnt by the hand of the common Hangman That the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to see the same done accordingly in the New Pallace-yard at Westm and at the Old Exchange That the Master Wardens and Assistants of the company of Stationers in London be required immediatly to make search for all the printed books as aforesaid and seize all the said Books and deliver them to the Sherriffs The next day Biddle was brought to the bar of the House and there after it was read unto him what had been done he owned his Books and was thereupon the same day committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster and his Books burnt by the Hangman in the beforemention'd places on the 14 of the same month But this was not all for the members of Parl. perceiving full well what mischief the said Twofold Cat. did do and was likely more to do and that many People were more greedy to buy or obtain it than before the matter was agitated again in January following by the Committee who resolved on the 16. of the same month that the whole drift and scope c. and that it be burnt c. The particulars in the said Catechisme which moved them thereunto were partly these 1 The infinite God is confin'd to a certain place 2 God hath a bodily shape hath a right and a left hand in a proper sense 3 God hath passions in him 4 God is not omnipotent and immutable 5 The three Persons are not to be believed with our whole heart 6 Jesus Christ hath not the nature of God dwelling in him and that he hath only a divine Lordship without a divine nature 7 There is no Godhead of the Holy Ghost 8 Christ was not a Priest whilest he was upon Earth nor did he reconcile God unto us c. At the same time were other particulars gathered from his several books going under the general title of The Apostolical and true opinion concerning the holy Trinity c. The first of which runs thus That God the Father only separated from the Son and Holy Ghost is the first cause of all things that pertain to salvation c. The rest I shall omit for brevity sake These things being reported to the Parliament they ordered the Committee to bring in a Bill for punishing the said Biddle which being accordingly done they ordered as before that the Twofold Cat. be burnt and the Master Wardens c. to seize upon all copies and to deliver them to the Sherriffs in order to their burning c. In the mean time they consulted what to do with Biddle but came to no result tho pressed eagerly on by the Presbyterian Ministers to take away his life On the 10. of Febr. following he the Printer and Bookseller of the said Catechisme with another in the custody of a Messenger as also Theauraw John Tany who burnt the Bible and struck at several Persons with his naked sword at the Parliament door while the members were sitting were upon their petitions to the Upper bench all permitted to have liberty upon sufficient bail which they then put in to appear in that Court on the first day of the next term following where then they were to be tried On the 2. of May 1655 they accordingly appeared but were put off till the next term 28. May following Which day appearing he and they were with much ado set at liberty Afterwards Biddle falling into the company of one John Griffin said to be an Anabaptist teacher discourses pro and con were so high between them that there was a publick dispute appointed to be held to decide the matter The place wherein they were to dispute was the Stone Chappel in S.
Prison in hot weather contracting a disease he died thereof in the month of Septemb. one tells me the second and another the 22d day about 5 of the Clock in the morning to the great grief of his disciples in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being conveyed to the burial place joyning to Old Bedlam in Morefields near London was there deposited by the Brethren who soon after took care that an altar monument of stone should be erected over his grave with an inscription thereon shewing that he was Master of Arts of the University of Oxon and that he had given to the world great specimens of his learning and piety c. He had in him a sharp and quick judgment and a prodigious memory and being very industrious withal was in a capacity of devouring all he read He was wonderfully well vers'd in the Scriptures and could not only repeat all St. Pauls Epistles in English but also in the Greek tongue which made him a ready Disputant He was accounted by those of his perswasion a sober man in his discourse and to have nothing of impiety folly or scurrility to proceed from him Also so devout that he seldom or never prayed without being prostrat or flat on the ground as his life which I have attests Soon after his death his Twofold Catechisme was turned into Latine and printed in oct 1665. The first called A Scripture Cat. was done by Anon. The other called A brief Scripture Cat. for Children was done by a youth called Nathaniel Stuckey and at the end of it was printed 1 Oratiuncula de passione morte Christi made by the said Stuckey 2 Exemplum literarum Jeremiae Felbingeri ad Joh. Biddellum dated at Dantsick 24. Aug. Styl vet 1654. This Nath. Stuckey who had been partly bred up in Grammar and Logick by Biddle or at least by his care died 27. Sept. 1665 aged 16 years and was buried close to the grave of Biddle as it appears by an inscription engraven for him on one side at the bottom of Biddles monument A certain Author tells us that the said Biddle translated into English the Alchoran and the book called The three grand Impostors damn'd for shame But upon what ground he reports these things he tells us not Sure I am that there is no such thing mention'd in his life and whether there be such a book in rerum natura as the Three grand Impostors meaning Moses Mahomet and Christ is by many knowing men doubted After the coming to the Crown of England of William Prince of Orange when then more liberty was allowed to the press than before were several of John Biddles things before mention'd reprinted in the beginning of the year 1691 viz. 1 His 12 questions with An exposition of five principal passages c. 2 A confession of faith c. 3 The Testimonies of Irenaeus c. And before them was set a short account of his life taken from that written in Latine by J. F. as I have here in the margin told you WILLIAM LENTHALL second Son of Will. Lenth of Lachford in Oxfordshire by Frances his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho. Southwell of St. Faiths in the County of Norfolk was born in a Market Town called Henley upon Thames in the said County of Oxon in an house near to the Church there in the latter end of June 1591 descended from Will Lenthall or Leynthall a Gentleman of Herefordshire who in the beginning of K. Edw. 4. married with the Dau. and Heir of .... Pyperd of Lachford before mention'd Which Pyperd also was descended from a younger Son of those of his name living at Great Haseley in Oxfordshire who I mean the said younger Son much in renown in the beginning of K. Edw. 3. performed military acts so valiantly against the Scots that he did not only receive the honour of Knighthood from the King but the mannour of Lachford from his Father to hold by Kings service of the mannour of Pyperd of Great Haseley before mention'd in which Parish Lachford is situated It is here to be noted by the way that both the Haselies did for many descents belong to the Pyperds whose mannour-place was the same which is now the Farm-place situated near to the Church But the Male line being there worn out in the raign of Ed. 3. the said mannour place with the patronage of the rectory of Haseley was given to the College at Windsore of the Dean and Canons of which the said Farm-place is and hath been for several generations held by the said Lenthalls As for Little Haseley now called Haseley Court where in the time of K. Hen. 8. was a right fair mansion place with marvellous fair walks toperarii operis and orchard and pools belonging to Sir Will. Barentine whose Daughter Marie Anth. Huddleston Esq took to Wife was also numbred among the antient possessions of the Pyperds and was held of their mannour by Knights service As for this Will. Lenthall of whom we are now to speak he became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in the year 1606 where continuing about 3 years departed without the honour of a degree and went to Lincolns Inn where applying his mind to the study of the municipal Law became a Counsellor of note and in the 13. of Ch. 1. Lent-reader of the said Inn being then as before noted for his practice in his profession In the latter end of 1639 he was elected Burgess for the Corporation of Woodstock in Oxfordsh to serve in that short Parliament which began at Westm 13. of Apr. 1640 and in Oct. following he was chose again for the same place to serve in that unhappy Convention called the Long Parliament begun 3. of Nov. the same year At which time being elected Speaker worth to him 2000 l. per an he kept that honorable office by siding with the leading Party till its dissolution without any adherance to the King when by force he left that Parliament Whether he acted justly in his place 't is to be question'd forasmuch as he was not only false to the members thereof in many things but also kept correspondence with that noted Minister of State in France Cardinal Julius Mazarini as 't is very well known Being thus put into the road to get beneficial places and so consequently riches which he hungred after by the continual importunities of his covetous Wife named Elizabeth Dau. of Ambrose Evans of Lodington in Northamptonshire Gent he became Master of the Rolls 8 Nov. 1643 worth as 't is said 3000 l. per an one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal 1646 worth 1500 l. per an Chamberlain of Chester 1647 in the room of James E. of Derby a place of profit as well as honour which last he occupying till 1654 was succeeded by John Glynn Lord Ch. Justice but obtained it again 14. March 1659. About the same time 1647 he became Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster worth
his place actually created M. of A made Fellow of the said Coll. in 1662 and afterwards Bach. of Div. and Preb. of Lincoln He hath written on a subject which he much delighted in and wherein he had spent a considerable part of his time but was not printed till after his death The title of which is A short and sure guide in the practice of raising and ordering Fruit-trees Oxon. 1672. oct A large and laudable account of which you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 86. p. 5049 c. He died on the 26. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried near to the grave of his Father in the Chancel of the Church of Comnore beforemention'd SAMUEL MATHER the eldest Son of Rich. Mather mention'd before under the year 1669. nu 289. was born at Much-Woolton in Lanc 13. May 1626 transported with his Father and Family to New England 1635 educated in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge there took the degrees in Arts returned into England in 1650 became one of the Chaplains of Madg. Coll. by the favour of Mr. Tho. Goodwin then President and was as t is said incorporated in the degree of M. of A. tho no such thing occurs in the publick register Afterwards being known be a man of parts and gifts he received a call to go to Leith in Scotland to be there a publick Preacher In 1655 he removed to Dublin in Ireland where he became a Senior Fellow of Trin. Coll. and preached as a Lecturer in S. Nicolas Church there and also before the L. Deputy and Council in his turn At which time tho he was a congregational man and in his Principles respecting Ch. Government a high Nonconformist yet he was observed by some to be civil to those of the Episcopal persuasion when it was in his power to do them a displeasure And when the L. Deputy Hen. Cromwell gave a Commission to him and others in order to the displacing of Episcopal Ministers in the Province of Mounster he declined it as he did afterwards to do the like matter in Dublin alledging that he was called into that County to preach the Gospel and not to hinder others from doing it He was a religious man in the way he professed and was valued by some who differed from him as to opinion in lesser and circumstantial points in religion After his Majesties restauration he was suspended from preaching till his Majesties pleasure should be known for two Sermons which were judged seditious and being afterwards ejected and silenced for Nonconformity preached to the brethren in privat so long as he lived He hath written Wholsome Caveat for a time of liberty Printed 1652. in oct A defence of the protestant religion in answer to Fiat Lux. Dubl 1671. qu. An Irenicum or an Essay for union among Reformers Lond. in qu. The figures or types of the old Testament explained and improved Dubl 1683. qu. He died on the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church of S. Nicolas within the City of Dublin where he used formerly to preach a morning Lecture OWEN PRICE a Mountgomeryshire man born was put in Scholar of Jesus Coll. by the Parl. Visitors 12. Oct. 1648 whence after he had continued 4 years therein he was called to the charge of a public School in Wales where he advanced his Scholars much in Presbyterian principles In the year 1655. making a return to the University he was entred into Ch. Ch of which if I mistake not he was made Student and in the year following did by the favour of the deligated power of the Chancellour accumulate the degrees in Arts. Soon after he became Master of the Free-School near Madg. Coll where by his industry and good way of teaching he drew many youths of the City whose Parents were fanatically given to be his Scholars But upon the Kings restauration being ejected for Nonconformity taught School in which he much delighted in several places as in Devonshire Besills-Lee near Abendon c became useful among the brethren and a noted Professor in the Art of Pedagogy He hath written and published The Vocal Organ or a new art of teaching Orthography by observing the instruments of pronunciation and the difference between words of like sound whereby any outlandish or meer Englishman woman or child may speedily attain to the exact spelling reading writing or pronouncing of any word in the English tongue without the advantage of its fountains the Greek and Latine Oxon. 1665. oct English Orthography teaching 1. The Letters of every sort of print 2. All Syllables made of Letters 3. Short Rules by way of question and answer for spelling reading pronouncing using the great letters and their points 4. Examples of all words of like sound c. Oxon. 1670. oct He died in his House near to Madg. Coll. 25. Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was two days after buried in the Church of S. Peter in the east near to the door leading into the belfry within the City of Oxon. JOHN WHITE was a Wiltsh man born became a Servitor of S. Albans Hall in Mich. terme an 1600 whence after he had continued for some time went to Mert. Coll. and there was entertain'd in the condition of a Servitour to Mr. afterwards Sir Isaac Wake but whether he made a longer stay in Merton Coll. or in S. Alb. Hall I know not we will not contend for and therefore let the Albanians take him After he had left the University without a degree confer'd on him he took holy orders and had a Cure bestowed on him in his own Country at Monkton-Deverel and at length became Vicar of Chertâ—n near to the Devises From which place being ejected in the time of the Rebellion he practiced Physick at Conock Afterwards being restored in 1660 he set himself to the writing of poetry in his old age the effects of which are contained in three volumes full of fooleries and impertinencies entit Miscellanea Variegata Anagrammata Epigrammata Distica c. The first vol. contains Anagrams Epigrams c. on the Kings and Nobility of England Printed at Lond. 1663 in a large thin oct in the 79 year of the authors age The 2d Vol. is on the Bishops and Clergie Lond. 1664 in thin oct in the 80 year of the authors age The third is on the Gentry and other persons Lond 1665. in a thin oct in the 81. year of the authors age In all which books are also several copies of English verses He yeilded to nature at Cherton beforementioned on the 6 of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the north side of Communion Table near the wall Soon after was this inscription set up on the said wall John White Vicar of Cherton was buried neare this place the 8 th day of December An. Dom. 1671. EDWARD BAGSHAW son of Edw. Bagsh
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
at Edinburgh in his rambles into Scotland where the Doctors being taken with the forwardness prettiness and conceitedness of the Youth did confer on him that degree In the beginning of May 1660 he was admitted the Sen. Proctor of the University but being soon after ejected his fellowship of New Coll. by the Kings Commissioners to make room for that person whose bread he had eaten for 10 years he removed to Hart Hall where he continued till his Proctorship was terminated by which office he and his brother Proctor were great gainers by the many creations in several degrees that year made Afterwards he retired to Greys Inn of which he was about that time a Barrister and having consumed a considerable part of the estate left him by his relations travelled beyond the Seas was at Rome and in Flanders he served in the wars as a volenteer for one Summer After his return having by that time but little left he took holy orders threw himself upon the Church a usual thing with Bankrupts became Minister of Colleton in Devon and of another Church in Sommersetshire Both which he kept for some years but having an unsetled head he got himself to be made Chaplain to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winchester who giving to him the Rectory of Brixton or Brightstone in the Isle of Wight he setled there for a time But the aire agreeing not with his constitution Mr. James Rudyerd presented him to Winchfield in Hampshire so that being thereby incapacitated to hold Brixton with it he changed Brixton for North Waltham near to Basingstoke in the same County both which he kept together for about three years and then finished his course occasion'd sooner than otherwise it might have been by too much drudging at his study to carry on the duties required of him He hath written and published The entrance of Mazzasini or some memorials of the state of France between the death of the Cardinal of Richlieu and the beginning of the late Regency Oxon. 1657. oct But his contemporaries then in the University knowing him to be too forward and conceited did generally report that he was not the author of the said book but another mans plagiary Whereupon he came out with another part entit The entrance of Mazzarini continued through the first years Regency of Anna Maria of Austria Qu. Dowager of France and Mother of the present Monarch Louis xiv c. Oxon 1658. oct And in the Epistle before it to the Reader he saith that he was only a divulger of things that were before publick in other Languages intimating that this as the former book were rather translations from or collections out of other authors than barely his own compositions Euphuia or the Acts and Characters of good nature Lond. 1665. oct After the writing of this book the author entred into holy Orders and afterwards published Several Sermons as 1 A call to the Shumalite or to the scatter'd and divided Members of the Church on Cantic 6.13 Lond. 1673. qu. 2 Wisdome and Prudence exhibited preached before L. Ch. Justice Rainsford and L. Ch. Just North in their late Western Circuit on Prov. 8.12 Lond. 1677. qu. c. Primordia or the rise and growth of the first Church of God described Lond. 1683. oct To which are added Two Letters of James Rudyerd Esq written to our author Tanner One about The multiplying of mankind till the flood the other concerning The multiplying of the children of Aegypt He died in the month of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried in the Church at Winchfield before mention'd leaving then behind him in the hands of Elizabeth his widdow the second part of Primordia in manuscript WILLIAM GOUGH commonly called Goffe son of Will. G. Minister of Earl-Stoke in Wilts was born there became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Dr. Narcissus Marsh in Mich. term 1671. aged 17 years but when his Tutor was made Principal of S. Alban Hall he was translated to that House and took one degree in Arts as a member thereof an 1675. Afterwards leaving the University he repaired to London where he sided with the whiggish party upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot an 1678 industriously carried on the cause then driven on and wrot Londinum Triumphans or an historical acccount of the grand influence the actions of the City of London have had on the affaires of the Nation for many ages past shewing the antiquity honor glory and renowne of this famous City the grounds of her rights privileges and franchises the foundation of her Charter c. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo He died of the Small Pox about the beginning of Nov. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried in the parish Church of S. Dunstan in Fleetstreet commonly called S. Dunstans in the West in London ROBERT WICKENS son of Joh. Wickens of Shitlanger in Northamptonshire was born in that County entred a Servitour of Ch. Ch. in Lent terme an 1632 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1639 holy Orders and about that time taught School near Campden in Glocestershire and afterwards at Worcester At length he being made Rector of Todenham in Gloc. where for some also he had taught Grammar on the death as I presume of Dr. Tho. Iles wrot and published Latinum Lyceum Graeca cum Latinis sive Grammaticae artis in utrâque Linguâ lucidissima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oxon. 1654. oct Grammatices Graecae Enchiridion Printed with the former book A compleat and perfect Concordance of the English Bible composed after a new and most compendious method Oxon. 1655. in a thick oct He died on the 29. of Nov. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried on the first of Decemb. following in the Chancel of the Church of Todenham before mentioned OBADIAH HOWE son of Will. Howe of Tattersal in Lincolnshire Priest was born in Leycestershire became either Batler or Com. of Madg. Hall in 1632 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and in the time of the rebellion siding with the rout became Rector of Stickney and some years after his Majesties restauration Vicar of Boston in Lincolnshire He was a person in Joh. Goodwins opinion of considerable parts and learning and yet he believed much more in his own He hath written The Universalist examined and convicted destitute of plaine sayings of Scripture or evidence of reason In answer to a treatise intit The Universalitie of Gods free Grace in Christ to mankind Lond. 1648. qu. The Pagan Preacher silenced c. Lond. 1653. Written in answer to Joh. Goodwins book entit The Pagans debt and dowry c. first published at London in 1652 and again in 1671. oct The said Pagan Preacher was replyed upon by Joh. Goodwin in his Preface to his Triumviri c. Severall Sermons as 1 The Royal Present as it was delivered in a Sermon in the Parish Church
This little book which was written for the training up of children in Independency I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you where or when 't was printed Of the death of Christ the price he paid and the purchase he made Or the satisfaction and merit of the death of Christ cleered and universality of redemption thereby oppugned c. Lond. 1650. qu. Diatriba de justitia divina seu justitiae vindicatricis vindiciae c. Oxon. 1653. oct The doctrine of the Saints perseverance explained and confirmed c. against Joh. Goodwins Redemption redeemed c. Lond. 1654. fol. Vindiciae Evangelicae or the mystery of the Gospel vindicated and Socinianisme examined in consideration of a Catechisme called A Scripture Catechisme written by John Biddle M. A and the Catechisme of Valentinus Smalcius commonly called The Racovian Catechisme Oxon. 1655. qu. Vindication of the testimonies of the Scripture concerning the deity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ c. against Hugo Grotius Printed with Vindiciae Evangelicae Vindication of some things formerly written about the death of Christ and the fruites thereof from the animadversions of Mr. Rich. Baxter Printed also with Vind. Evang. Of the mortification of sin in Beleivers c. resolving cases of conscience thereunto belonging Lond. 1656. oct c. A review of the Annotations of Hugo Grotius in reference to the doctrine of the deity and satisfaction of Christ c. with a defence of the charge formerly laid against them Oxon. 1656. qu. Written in answer to Dr. H. Hammond Catechisme or an introduction to the worship of God and discipline of the Churches of the New Testam Printed 1657. oct c. Animadverted upon by Geor. Fox the Quaker in his Great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 263. Of the true nature of Schisme with reference to the present differences in religion Oxon. 1657. oct Review of the true nature of Schisme with a vindication of the congregational Churches in England from the imputation thereof unjustly charged on them by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey Minister of Billing in Northamptonshire Oxon. 1657 oct Of Communion with God the Father Son and Holy Ghost each person distinctly in love grace and consolation or the Saints fellowship with the Father Son and Holy Ghost unfolded Oxon. 1657. qu. In this book as in some other of his works he doth strangely affect in ambiguous and uncouth words canting mystical and unintelligible phrases to obscure sometimes the plainest and most obvious truths And at other times he endeavours by such a mist and cloud of sensless terms to draw a kind of vail over the most erroneous doctrines But against this book came out another long after written by Dr. Will. Sherlock entit A discourse concerning the knowledge of Jesus Christ and our union and communion with him c. Lond. 1674 c. Which book at its first coming out made a great noise and found many Adversaries viz. besides Dr. Owen who wrot a vindication as I shall tell you anon was 1 Rob. Ferguson a noted Scotch Divine who taught boys Grammar and University learning at Islington near London in his book called The interest of reason in religion c. Printed in oct 2 Edw. Polhill of Burwash in Sussex Esq in his Divine will considered c. as it seems 3 Antisozzo or Sherlocismus enervatus c. Pr. in oct said to be written by Benj. Alsop a Nonconforming Minister who since the death of their famous A. Marvel hath been Quibler and Punner in ordinary to the dissenting party tho he comes much short of that person It was the first piece in which he bestowed his pretensions to wit and buffoonry and it was admired much by the Brethren Besides these Tho. Danson put in his answer entit A friendly debate c. and one or two more viz. the author of Speculum Sherlockianum supposed to have been written by Hen. Hickman and Prodromus or a character of Mr. Sherlocks book called A discourse c. Lond. 1674. oct Written by Sam. Rolle sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Afterwards Sherlock made a Reply to Owens Vindication and Fergusons Interest of reason c. not taking any particular notice of Polhill and Antisozzo in a second piece called A defence and continuation of the discourse concerning the knowledge of Jesus Christ and our union and communion with him with a particular respect to the doctrine of the Church of England c. Lond. 1675. oct Dr. Owen hath also written A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self-contradiction charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey written by himself not long before his death Lond. 1658. oct whereunto is prefixed by our author Owen An answer to a late treatise of Mr. Cawdrey about the nature of Schisme Nature power and danger of temptation Oxon. 1658. octavo Pro sacris scripturis adversus hujus temporis Fanaticos exercitationes Apologeticae quatuor Oxon. 1658. oct Of the divine original authority self evidencing light and power of the Scripture c. Oxon. 1659. oct Vindication of the integrity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek text of the Scripture Printed with The Divine Original c. Considerations on the Prologomena and Appendix to the late Biblia Polyglotta This which is also printed with The Divine Original c. was written against Dr. Brian Walton A paper containing resolutions of certain questions concerning the power of the supreme Magistrate about religion and the worship of God with one about Tythes Lond. 1659 in one sh in qu. Answer'd soon after by a Quaker in another sheet entit A Winding-sheet for Englands Ministry which hath a name to live but is dead 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive de natura ortu progressu studio verae Theologiae Libri 6. c. Oxon. 1661. qu. Digressiones de Gratia universali scientiarum ortu c. Pr. with the former book Animadversions on a Treatise entituled Fiat lux c. Lond. 1662. oct Which book Fiat lux or a general conduct to a right understanding and charity in the great combustion and broiles about religion in England between Papists and Protestants Presb. and Independents printed the same year in oct was written by a learned Franciscan Fryer called John Vincent Cane who dying in or near Somerset house in the Strand within the liberty of Westm in the month of June 1672 was buried in the Vault under the Chappel belonging to that House About 1665 he Cane published a little thing entit Diaphanta written by him partly against Mr. Edw. Stillingfleet in which he endeavours barely to excuse Catholick religion against the opposition of several Adversaries It is briefly animadverted on by the said Mr. Stillingfleet in a Postscript to his reply to Mr. Joh. Sargeants Third Appendix which reply is placed as an Appendix at the end of Mr. Joh. Tillotsons book called The rule of faith He also wrot An account of Dr. Stillingfleets late book against the
1661 he was admitted Bach. of Div and four years after publishing observations on the Evangelists did thereby revive his memory so much in his Coll. that the Society chose him fellow thereof without his knowledge or seeking 17. Dec. 1668. In the year following he proceeded in his faculty was elected Rector of his Coll. an 1672 upon the promotion of Dr. Crew to the See of Oxon and afterwards was made Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty In the month of May an 1680 he became Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire and upon the promotion of Dr. Frampton to the See of Glocester he was nominated Dean of that Church in Jan. 1680 in which Deanery being installed on the 30. of Apr. 1681. he gave up Bladon in Feb. 1682. He was a person very well vers'd in books was a noted Critick especially in the Gothick and English Saxon tongues a painful preacher a good man and governour and one every way worthy of his station in the Church He hath written Observationes in Evangeliorum versiones perantiquas duas Gothica scil Anglo-saxonica c. Dordrecht 1665. in a thick large quarto The Catechisme set forth in the book of Common-prayer briefly explained by short notes grounded upon holy Scripture Oxon. 1679. oct and several times after The said short notes were drawn up and composed by our author upon the desire and motion of Dr. John Fell Bish of Oxon to be used by the Ministers of his Diocess in the catechising of the Children of their respective Parishes In other editions that followed soon after was added An Essay of questions and answers framed out of the same notes for the exercise of youth by the same hand which Catech. with notes and essay were translated into Welsh by John Williams a Cambridge Scholar Tutor to a certain person of quality in Jesus Coll. in this University Printed at Oxon. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Marshall did also take a great deal of pains in compleating the large English life of the aforesaid Dr. Usher published by Rich. Parr sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll. but died before it was published which hapning suddenly in his lodgings in Linc. Coll. early in the morning of the 19. of Apr. being then Easter Sunday in sixteen hundred eighty and five was buried in that Chancel commonly called the College Chancel of the Church of Allhallows alias Allsaints within the City of Oxon. By his last Will and Test he gave to the publick Library of the Univ. of Oxon all such of his books whether Manuscript or printed that were not then in the said Library except only such that were in his said will otherwise disposed And the remaining part to Linc. Coll. Library I mean such that were not there at that time already c. Also so much money which was raised from his estate that came to 600 l. and more he gave to the said College with which was purchased fourteen pounds per an a fee-farm rent issuing out of the mannour of Little Dean in Glocestershire and twelve pounds per an a rent-charge out of some Lands in Brill in Bucks Which benefaction three Scholars of Linc. Coll. do now successively enjoy In his Deanery succeeded Will. Jane D.D. Can. of Ch. Ch. and the Kings Professor of Div. in this Univ. of Oxon and in his Rectory of Linc. Coll. Fitzherbert Adams Bach. of Div. and Fellow of the said House who hath since been a considerable Benefactor thereunto and may in time be a greater Besides the said Tho. Marshall who was always taken to be an honest and conscientious Puritan was another of both his names author of The Kings censure upon Recusants that refuse the Sacrament of the Lords Supper delivered in three Serm. Lond. 1654. qu. and of other things JOHN MARSHAM second son of Tho. Marsham Citizen and Alderman of London descended from the antient family of his name in Norfolk was born in the Parish of S. Barthelmew in London 23. Aug. 1602 educated in the Coll. School at Westminster under Dr. John Wilson became a Communer of S. Johns Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Walker afterwards Master of Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1619 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1625 in which year he went into France and wintred at Paris In the two following years he visited most parts of that Nation and of Italy and some of Germany and then returned to London In 1629 he went through Holland and Gelderlandht to the siege of Boldoc or Balduck and thence by Flushing to Bologne and Paris to attend Sir Tho. Edmonds Embassador extraordinary to swear the peace at Fountaine Bleau During his abode in London he studied the Municipal Laws in the Middle Temple and in 1637 8 he was sworn one of the six Clerks in Chancery In the beginning of the Civil War he left London followed his Majesty and the Great Seal to Oxon and thereupon was sequestred of his said place by the members of Parl. sitting at Westm plundred and lost to an incredible value After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and the declining of the Kings cause he returned to London and compounded among several hundreds of Royallists for his real estate At which time he betook himself wholly to his studies and lived in a retired condition In the beginning of the year 1660 he served as a Burgess for the City of Rochester in that happy Parliament that recalled the King and took away the Court of Wards about which time being restored to his place in Chancery he had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him on the first of July 1660 being then of Whornplace in Kent and three years after was created a Baronet He was a person well accomplish'd exact in Histories whether civil or profane in Chronology and in the Tongues Pere Simon calls him in a preface to a work of his Le grand Marsham de Angleterr and Monsieur Corcaoy the K. of France his Libr. keeper and all the great and learned men of Europe his contemporaries acknowledg him to be one of the greatest Antiquaries and most accurate and learned Writer of his time as appears by their testimonies under their hands and seals in their letters to him which would make a vol. in fol. He hath written Diatriba Chronologica Lond. 1649. qu. Most of which was afterwards remitted into the book that follows Chronicus Canon Aegyptiacus Ebraicus Graecus disquisitiones Lond. 1672. fol. This was reprinted in Lower Germany in qu. with a new Index and Preface wherein are given to the author very great Encomiums by a Forreigner unknown to him There are many things worthy to be inserted thence which for brevity sake I shall now pass by He also wrot the Preface set before the first vol. of Monasticon Anglicanum Lond. 1655. which he entit ΠΡΟΠΥΛΑΙΟΠJohannis Marshami Printed in 7 sheets and an half in fol. but much disliked and disrellish'd by the Rom. Cath.