Zanchy with a flattering speech in a most humble posture which being done he that then held the Chancellours Chair who all the time stood up bare admitted him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Which being done Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him to his place next on the left hand to the Chancellours Chair This person also who had a greater name in his time than Fairfax had not only in England but throughout the whole World which he obtained more by policy dissimulation under the cloak of religion whether in prayer preaching discourse and action rather than valour must according to method have something said of him which shall with as much brevity as may be done because all Histories ring of his fame as well as infamy Born therefore he was in the Parish of S. John in the antient Borough of Huntingdon on the 24 of Apr. 1599 41. of Elizab. and was Christned in that Church on the 29 of the same month where Sir Oliver Cromwell his Uncle gave him his name His Father who lived in the same Town was Rob. Cromwell second Son of Sir Hen. Cromwell of Hinchingbrook in Huntingdonshire Kt. who died in 1603 His Mother was Elizabeth sister to Sir Thomas Son of Sir Richard Steward Kts whence 't was that when Oliver gaped after the Protectorship it was given out by those of his party that he was descended of the Royal Blood and had right to the Crown of England His said Mother Elizabeth lived to See her Son Lord Protector and dying in Whitehall 18. Nov. 1654 was buried in K. Hen. 7. Chappel at Westm where her body continuing till after his Majesties restoration was removed from that place 12. of Sept. 1661 and buried with other Cromwellian bodies in a pit dug in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning where it now resteth Oliver her Son was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Huntingdon under one Dr. Tho. Beard a Minister in that Town and in Academical in Sidney Coll. in Cambridge but his Father dying while he was there he was taken home and sent to Lincolns Inn to study the Common Law but making nothing of it he was sent for home by his Mother became a Debauchee and a boysterous and rude Fellow At length being reformed and pretending to Saintship he married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir James Bouchier of Essex became heir to his Uncle his Mothers Brother spent the estate which was considerable took a Farm at S. Ives thrived not and therefore had intentions to go to New England a receptacle for Puritans and Nonconformists but that project taking not he removed to the Isle of Ely where he more frequently and publickly own'd himself a Teacher In 1640 he by the endeavours of one Rich. Tyms afterwards Alderman of Cambridge who had several times heard him preach at Ely was first made free of the Corporation of Cambridge then a Burgess thereof to sit in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640. Soon after when the rebellion began towards which he gave a considerable helping hand he had a Commission given to him to be a Captain of Horse which he soon raised in his native Country and doing great service in those parts he soon after was made a Colonel and at length Lieutenant General to Edward Earl of Manchester who had the separate command in a distinct supremacy of the associated Counties Afterwards doing great service at Marston-moor near York after Sir Tho. Faâ—rfax and the Scots had been totally routed there Cromwell and his party of Curassiers being then in the left wing his atchievment was industriously cried up at Westminster and all the Grandees of Scriptural Ovation were fitted and accommodated thereunto Within 4 months after we find him in the second battle at Newbury in Beâ—ks where the fates favoured him again tho not with a complete victory yet on that side where he fought with a part of one and so much as endangered the Person of the King if the noble and stout Earl of Cleveland had not hazardously interposed and bore off the pursuit Soon after the Army being new modell'd Essex the General was laid aside as unfortunate and Sir Thomas Fairfax being put into his place Cromwell was made Lieutenant General of the same Army from which time he continued as Fairfax did victorious and upon all occasions did lull and bewitch with the syrene charmes of his zealous insinuations the said Fairfax to carry on his pernitious designs Afterwards we find him the chief person under the cloak of great dissimulation of hurrying the King from place to place of defaming him among the people and bringing him to judgment Which done he sat with the rest of the Judges on him stood up when sentence was passed and set his hand and seal to the warrant for his execution Soon after he being made one of the Council of State he was ordained Commander in chief or Lord Governour of Ireland in June 1649 conquer'd there returned and was made General of the Parliament Army upon Fairfax's laying down his Commission Afterwards he went into Scotland did some seats there against K. Ch. 2 but that King giving him the go-by he followed him into England encountred him at Worcester conquer'd his party and put him to flight Thence he went to London and was highly caressed by the Citizens and Parliament and soon after dissolving the Parliament he called another but that being not suitable to his designs he dissolv'd that and took upon him the Protectorship which he enjoyed during his life time Under his name were published Many Letters written to the Speaker of the House of Commons to the House of Commons Sir Thomas Fairfax Committees c. containing relations of skirmishes victories taking of Castles Towns c. as also some Speeches and Declarations c. By his Wife Elizabeth before mention'd he had Sons and Daughters as 1 Rich. Cromwell who being young when the War began did not bear arms but several years after they were concluded he was made Colonel and Privy-Counsellour in order to have the Protectorship confer'd on him 2 Henry Cromwell afterwards Commander of the Generals Life-guard and at length on the 25 of Nov. 1657 was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland upon the recalling of Charles Fleetwood He married the Dau. of Sir Francis Russell of Cambridgshire Kt and Bt first a Royallist afterwards a Parliament Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchâ—ster and Chamberlain of Chester 3 Bridget the Wife of Hen. Ireton of whom I have made mention among the Writers an 1651. p. 81. After his death she was married to Charles Fleetwood before mention'd a Gent. of Bucks and a Recruiter of the Long Parliament afterwards a Colonel in their service a strong Anabaptist Lord Deputy of Ireland one of Olivers Lords and Lieutenant General of the Army and Major General of several Counties in the time of Cromwells Protectorship 4 Elizabeth the Wife of John
65 places of holy Scripture Lond. 1643. qu. Written originally by Jo. Hen. Alstedius Professor of the University at Herborne Our Author Will. Burton gave way to fate on the 28. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried the same day in a Vault belonging to the Students of S. Clements Inn under part of the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near London leaving then behind him several Papers and Collections of Antiquity Manuscripts and Coines which came into the hands of Tho. Thynne Esq sometimes his Scholar at Kingston afterwards Gent. Com. of Ch. Church then of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York a Bt. after the death of his Father Sir Hen. Fred. Thynne of Kemsford in Glocestershire possessor of the large estate belonging to Tho. Thynne of Longleet in Wilts murdered by certain Forreigners 12. Feb. 1681 and at length Viscount Weymouth There have been several Writers of both our Authors names as Will. Burton of Leicestershire Will. Burton a Divine and Will. Burton a Pretender to Astronomy a Specimen of which he gave us in an Ephemeris for 1655 which was printed at Oxon. WILLIAM AYLESBURY Son of Sir Thom. Aylesbury of the City of Westminster Bâ— was born in that City became a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1628 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards was by K. Ch. 1. made Governour to the Duke of Buckingham and his Brother the Lord Francis Villiers with whom he travelled beyond the Seas While he continued in Italy it hapned that walking in the Garden of the House where he lodged he was shot with a brace of bullets in his thigh by men who watched him on the other side of the wall a usual adventure in that Country and assoon as he fell the men who had done it leaped over the wall and looking upon him beg'd his pardon and said they were mistaken for he was not the man that they intended to kill which was all the satisfaction he had After his return into England and had delivered up his charge of the two noble Brothers to the King who highly approved of the care he had taken of their education as it appears by the grant his Maj. was pleased to give him of the first place of Grome of his Bed-chamber which should become void the King was pleased to command him to translate Davila's History he being a perfect Master of the Italian Language which he did with the assistance of his constant Friend Sir Charles Cotterel and published it under this title The History of the Civil Wars of France written in Italian by Henry Canterino de Avila Lond. 1647. fol. written in 15 Books to which was a continuation of 15 books more In the year following our Translator Aylesbury went beyond the Sea and dwelt at Antwerp with his Relations till 1650 at which time being reduced to great straights stole over into England where he lived for some time among his friends and acquaintance and sometime at Oxon. among certain Royalists there At length Oliver Cromwell sending a second supply to the Island of Jamaica he engaged himself in that expedition in the quality of a Secretary to the Governour as I have heard where he died in the year sixteen hundred fifty and seven otherwise had he lived till the Restauration of K. Charles 2. he might have chosen what preferment in the Court he pleased by the help of Edward E. of Clarendon who married his Sister OBADIAH SEDGWICK elder Brother to John mentioned under the year 1643. was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Marlborough in Wilts and there or near it was educated in Grammar learning In 1616 he was sent to Qu. Coll. being then 16 years of age but making no long stay there he retired to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and became Chaplain to Sir Horatio Vere Baron of Tilbury with whom he went into the Low Countries in quality of a Chaplain After his return he retir'd to Oxon. and performing certain exercise he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in the latter end of 1629. Afterwards he was Preacher to the Inhabitants of S. Mildrids Parish in Breadstreet within the City of London which he quitting upon no good account before the beginning of the rebellion he became the scandalous and seditious Minister as one calls him of Cogshall in Essex But soon after upon appearance of the said rebellion he retired to the said City again and being a voluble Preacher he was thought fit not only to exercise his parts at S. Mildrids beforemention'd but also before both Houses of Parliament the Members of which constituted him one of the Assembly of Divines as being a Covenanteer to the purpose While he preached at S. Mildrids which was only to exasperate the People to rebel and confound Episcopacy 't was usual with him especially in hot weather to unbutton his doublet in the Pulpit that his breath might be the longer and his voice more audible to rail against the Kings Party and those that were near to him whom he called Popish Counsellors This he did in an especial manner in Sept. 1644 when he with great concernment told the People several times that God was angry with the Army for not cutting off Delinquents c. Afterwards about 1646 he became Minister of the Church of S. Paul in Convent Garden where as also sometimes in the Country he kept up the vigour of a Presbyterian Ministry which for divers years prospered according to his mind to the converting of many and conviction of more In 1653 he was appointed one of the number of triers or examiners of Ministers appointed by Parliament and the year after he was by the members thereof constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters At length finding himself decayed by his too zealous carrying on the Covenanting work he resigned his charge in Convent Garden about two years before his death and retired to Marlborough Soon after the Earl of Bedford upon some consideration confer'd the said Church on the Son-in-law of our Author Sedgwick called Thomas Manton as zealous a Presbyterian as the former where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him as I shall tell you when I come to him As for our Author Sedgwick he hath these things following going under his name Several Sermons as 1 Military discipline for a Christian Soldier on 1. Cor. 16.13.14 Lond. 1639. oct 2 Christs counsell to his languishing Church of Sardis or the dying and decaying Christian c. being the effect of certain Sermons on Rev. 3.2.3 Lond. 1640. in a large oct 3 Christ the life and death the gaine at the funeral of Rowl Wilson a member of Parliament on 1. Philip. 1.21 Lond. 1650. qu. Before which is An account given of some years more than ordinary experience
in his own Country to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Nov. the same year but his election being voted void he sided notwithstanding with the faction was seemingly a Presbyterian and afterwards all things to all men So that being esteemed very capable of carrying on the beloved cause he was first made a Committee man of his County and afterwards was called into the House of Commons by the Independents upon their excluding the active Presbyterians purposely to carry on their designs against the King Afterwards he being very ready to keep pace with them he not only subscribed his vote for the trial of his Majesty Ch. 1. but personally sate in judgment when sentence was past for his decollation About that time he being observed by some of the H. of Commons to be a Person of strange principles in Religion an Arrian Socinian and I know not what and also to be a Person of no good Morals he was publickly complained of in the house by Colonel Joh. Downes one of the Regicides and afterwards a member of the Council of State Whereupon Fry published The Accuser ashamed or a pair of Bellows to blow off the dust cast upon John Fry a member of Parliament by Col. Jo. Downes who charged the said John Fry of blasphemy and errour Printed at Lond. in Febr. 1648. in oct To which he added 1 A word to the Priests Lawyers Royalists Self-seekers and rigid Presbyterians 2 A brief ventilation of that chaffie and absurd opinion of three Persons or substances in the Godhead Afterwards he being exasperated by the Presbyterian Ministers and some Independents he wrot and published The Clergy in their colours or a brief character of them c. Lond. 1650 in 4. sh in oct Which the next year was answered by J. D. Nephew as 't was said to Mr. John Davy of Taunton Magdalen in Somersetshire Soon after the publication of the said Clergy in their colours the Parliament took so much cognizance of the matter that they sate on Saturday 22. Feb. 1650 from morning to night in debate of certain passages published in the said books as 1 In debate of that added to the Accuser ashamed in the title running thus that chaffie and absurd opinion of three persons or substances in the Godhead 2 In that in p. 22. running thus that gross and carnal opinion of three distinct Persons or subsistences in the Godhead Persons and subsistences are subsistences or accidents As for the word Person I do not understand that it can be properly attributed but to man It is out of doubt with me that if you ask the most part of men what they mean by a Person they will either tell you 't is a man or else they are not able to give you any answer at all As for the word Accident I suppose none will attribute that to God for according to my poor skill that word imputes no more but the figure or colour c. of a thing and certainly no man ever saw the likeness of God as the Scriptures abundantly testifie c. These things being discussed it was resolved by the members of Parliament that they were erroneous prophane and highly scandalous Afterwards they proceeded to the book called The Clergy in their colours wherein p. 34 is this said by the Author I cannot let pass one observation and that is the strange posture those men put themselves into when they begin their prayers before their Sermons whether the fools and knaves in stage plays took their pattern from these men or these men from them I cannot determine c. what wry mouths squint eyes they make c. how like a company of conjurers do they mumble out the beginnings of their prayers that the People may not hear them c. These passages being debated the Parliament resolved that they were scandalous Again also p. 42. thus I must confess I have heard much of believing things above reason and the time was when I swallowed that still but I may say with S. Paul c. When I was a child c. Every man that knoweth any thing knoweth this that it is reason that distinguishes a man from a beast If you take away his reason you deny his very Essence therefore if any man will consent to give up his reason I would as soon converse with a beast as with that man c. These matters being debated it was resolved by Parliament that they were erroneous Afterwards they resolved that the said book called The Accuser ashamed and the other called The Clergy in their colours be burnt and that the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to cause all the printed copies of both the said books and every of them wheresoever they should be found to be burnt some in the New-Pallace-yard at Westm and some at the Old Exchange Not a word in the order was there of the Hang-man for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them then in pomp and great splendor At the same time it was resolved that the said Joh. Fry be disinabled to sit as a member of Parliament so that being solemnly cashier'd he had more liberty to keep company with John Biddle which he did as with others of that opinion This Person who had ran through most if not all religious even to Rantisme died soon after and thereby saved the Hang-man his labour JOHN ELLIS received his first breath in the Parish of Llanderkuin near to Harlech in Merionithshire entred a Student in Hart Hall in the year 1617 and in that of his age 18. or thereabouts where going through with infinite industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy became M. of A. in 1625 and three years after was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. being then in holy orders In 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and soon after going into Scotland upon what account I know not was made and admitted Doctor of his faculty in the University of S. Andrew on the day before the Cal. of August 1634 and in Oct. following was incorporated in this University Before that time having taken to Wife Rebecka Daugh. of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach near to Thame in Oxfordshire Esq became Rector of Whitfield near that place which Benefice he keeping till about 1647 was made Rector of S. Maries Church in a Market town called Dolgelhy or Dolgethle in his own county where he continued till the time of his death siding with all parties and taking all Oathes His works are these Clavis fidei seu brevia quaedam dictata in symbolum Apostolorum Oxon. 1642. 43. oct Translated into English by Will. Fowler a composer in the Art of Printing Camb. 1669. oct Comment in Obadium Proph. Lond. 1641. oct Defensio fidei seu responsio succincta ad argumenta quibus impugnari solet confessio Anglicana una cum nova articulorum versione Lond. 1660. He concluded his last day at Dolgethle before
made up of smoothness and gentleness yet he could bear with the harshness and roughness of the Schools and was not unseen in their subtilities and spinosities His skill was great both in the civil and canon Law and casuistical Divinity And he was a rare conductor of Souls and knew how to counsel and to advise to solve difficulties and determine cases and quiet consciences To these may be added his great acquaintance with the Fathers and ecclesiastical Writers and the Doctors of the first and purest ages both of the Greek and Lat. Church which he hath made use of against the Rom. Catholicks to vindicate the Church of England from the challenge of innovation and to prove Her Antient Catholick and Apostolical Add to all these he was a Person of great humility had nothing in him of pride and humour but was courteous and affable and of easie access He was withal a Person of great charity and hospitality And whosoever compares his plentiful incomes with the inconsiderable estate he left at his death will be easily convinc'd that Charity was steward for a great proportion of his revenue To sum up all in a few words of another author this great Prelate had the good humour of a Gentleman the eloquence of an Orator the fancy of a Poet the acuteness of a Schoolman the profoundness of a Philosopher the wisdom of a Chancellour the sagacity of a Prophet the reason of an Angel and the piety of a Saint He had devotion enough for a Cloister learning enough for an University and wit enough for a Coll. of Virtuosi And had his parts and endowments been parcel'd out among his poor Clergy that he left behind him it would perhaps have made one of the best Diocese in the world His works of learning are very many and all that he hath written are I conceive set down in the following Catalogue The Golden Grove or a manual of dayly prayers and letanies fitted to the days of the week c. This is sometimes called The Guide of Infant devotion and was composed at the Golden Grove in the County of Caermerthen before mention'd Several impressions have been made of it mostly in the Vol. called twelves one of which was made at Lond. 1656 or thereabouts and the fourteenth impression came out in 1683. Festival Hymns according to the manner of the antient Church An Apologie for authorized and set forms of Liturgy against the pretence of the spirit c. Lond. 1649. qu. Of the sacred order and offices of Episcopacy by divine institution Apostolical tradition and Catholick practice Or thus Episcopacy stated c. Oxon. 1642. qu. The real presence and spiritual of Christ in the blessed Sacrament proved against the doctrine of Transubstantiation Lond. 1654. oct Discourse of the liberty of prophecying Lond. 1647. qu. In the writing of which book the author made use of a like stratagem as Hales did in writing his book of Schisme to break the Presbyterian power and so countenance divisions between the factions which were too much united against the loyal Clergy For in the said book as a certain author saith he insists on the same Topicks of schisme and heresie of the incompetency of Councils and Fathers to determine our Ecclesiastical controversies and of scrupulous consciences and urgeth far more cogent arguments than Hales did but still he had prepared his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an antidote to prevent any dangerous effect of his discourse For the judicious reader may perceive such a reserve tho it lay in ambuscado and is compacted in a narrow compass as may easily rout those Troops which began too soon to cry victoria and thought of nothing else but of dividing the spoil And if the learned author did this and was blameless the goodness of the end in such cases denominating the action I see no cause why our author whose ends were for the restoring of peace seeing he represented the causes of the war so frivolous and inconsiderable ought to be represented as a Criminal or Adversary This book of Liberty of prophecying was animadverted upon by Sam. Rutherford Prof. of Divinity in the University of S. Andrew in his Free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience c. Lond. 1649. qu. Vindication of the Glory of the divine attributes in the question of original sin Lond. 1656. in tw Measures and offices of Friendship in a letter to the most ingenious and excellent Mrs. K. P. Lond. 1657. 2d edit in tw By this K. P. is to be understood Katherine Philipps the Wife of Jam. Philipps of the Priory of Cardigan Esq daughter of John Fowler of Bucklesbury in Lond. Merchant by Katherine his Wife daughter of Dan. Oxenbridge Doctor of Physick Which Kath. Fowler alias Philipps by the way it must be observed was born in the Parish of S. Mary wool-Wool-church in Lond and baptized there on the eleventh of Januar. 1631 bred up in a School at Hackney under Mrs. ... Salmon where she then much delighted in Poetry notwithstanding brought up in the Presbyterian way After her marriage with Ja. Philipps she went into Ireland with the Vicountess of Dungannon Trevor and at Dublin she translated from French into Engl. the Tragedy called Pompey which was several times acted in the new Theater there with great applause an 1663. and 64. in which last year it was made publick While she was young she was very forward in English learning by the blessedness of a quick and happy memory At riper years she was esteemed the most applauded Poetess of our Nation and not without reason since her name is of a fresh and lively date from a publish'd Vol. in fol. of her poetical Works bearing this title Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philipps the matchless Orinda To which is added Monsier Corneille's Pompey and Horace's Tragedies with several other translations out of French Lond. 1667. fol with her picture a shoulder piece before them standing on a pedestal and underneath written Orinda These Poems which were first printed in oct an 1664 without the translations are commended to the world by the Poems of Abr. Cowley Tho Flatman Jam. Tyrrell Esq c. At length she being overtaken with the small pox died of it in Fleet-street and was buried 22 June 1664 in the Church of S. Bennet Sherehog at the end of Syths-lane in London under a great grave-stone where her Father Grand-father and Gr. mother were before buried Dr. Taylor hath also published Sermon at S. Maries in Oxon upon the 5 or Nov. 1638. on Luke 9.54 Oxon. 1638. qu. All which books and sermon before mention'd were printed in one Vol. under this title A collection of polemical and moral discourses Lond. 1657. fol. To a third Edition of which collection wherein are omitted The Golden Grove and the Sermon at S. Maries are added 1 A disswasive from Popery the first and second part written while he was B. of Downe and Connor and received with
Perkinson M. A. of Hart Hall and Gowin Knight M. A. and Fell. of Mert. Coll. But before the Election was to be made Perkinson desisted and Knight by the perswasions some say threatnings of Dr. Fell desisted So that then the Masters were left to Hobsons choice to choose Bennet and no body else Whereupon they perceiving full well that Dr. Fell was resolved to get his man in meerly by his Authority without any application to them and Bennet's little stirring for it only for form sake without applying himself according to the manner with cap in hand to gain votes they were resolved to cross the matter So that when the Election was to be on the 10 of the same month a majority of the Masters joyned together headed and encouraged chiefly by a clownish factious person did in despight of Dr. Fell his Mandamus and Authority of the Heads of Houses Seniors and the sober party set up and choose a meer stranger who lived remotely from Oxon named Christop Wase sometimes Fellow and Bach. of Arts of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Schoolmaster at several places to the very great-discomposure of Dr. Fell and something to the discredit of the University as if not able to afford a man to execute the said Office Afterwards Wase came to Oxon was sworn and took possession of his place But Dr. Fell who had received a character of would never let him execute the Archityp place because as he usually said he was not fit for it as being not a person of sobriety c. So that from the death of Mr. Clarke to this time the superior Beadleship of the Civ Law and the Architypographers place hath been joyned WILLIAM EYRE Son of Giles Eyre of White in Wilts was born in that County became either a Batler or a Communer of Magd. Hall an 1629 aged 16 years where continuing under a severe discipline till he had taken the degrees in Arts was appointed a Tutor in that House and about the same time entred into the sacred function But being always schismatically enclined he sided with the factious party in the time of the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1 became a rigid Calvinist an enemy to Tithes and a purchaser of Church Revenues In those sad times of calamity he was made Minister of S. Edmunds Church in the City of Salisbury where by his doctrine he advanced much the blessed Cause and in 1654 he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in which office he shew'd himself very forward against those people of which some were his acquaintance and contemporaries in Oxon. After the Kings restauration he proceeded in his usual preaching but in 1662 was silenced for Nonconformity and lived for a time at or near to Salisbury But finding that place and neighbourhood uneasie he retired to Milksham near to Chippenham in Wilts where he had purchased an Estate and continued there to the time of his death His works are An Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Psal 45.6 Lond. 1652. qu. Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae Justification without conditions or a free justification of a sinner c. vindicated from the Exceptions and Objections which are cast upon it by the Assertors of conditional Justification c. against Mr. Ben. Woodbridge Mr. Jam. Cranford and Mr. Rich. Baxter Lond. 1654. qu. Answer'd the same year by Mr. Baxter in his book intit An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre of Salisb. concerning his miscarriages in a book lately written for the justification of Infidels against Mr. B. VVoodbridge c. Sermon on Acts 20.9 Lond. 1658. oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church at Milksham before mentioned on the 30 of Januar. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine as the Register of that Church enforms me which I presume follows the English Accompt and not the common Another VVill. Eyre I find who was long before this mans time educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge between whom and the learned Usher Primate of Ireland passed many letters some of which were De Textus Hebraici veteris Testamenti variantibus lectionibus an 1607. Pr. at Lond. 1652. The said VVill. Eyre was living at Colchester in Essex an 1617. 15 Jac. 1. EDMUND VAUGHAN son of the Minister of Ashted in Surrey and nephew to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London was born in that County admitted Chorister of Corp. Ch. Coll. an 1621. aged 12 years afterwards he was successively Clerk Scholar and Fellow of that House Bach. of Div. and at length Rector of Pichford alias Pisford in Northamptonshire He hath written The life of Dr. Thom. Jackson sometimes President of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxford 'T was printed and set before the said Dr. Jacksons Commentary on the Creed an 1653 and afterwards before the collection of his works an 1672. fol. This Mr. Vaughan died on the Purification of the Virgin Mary in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Pichford after he had suffer'd much as a true son of the Church of England and as a loyal man to his Prince and his cause in the time of the grand rebellion began and carried on by a predominant party in both Houses of Parliament THOMAS SWADLIN born in Worcestershire applied his mind to Academical studies in S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders and had some little cure bestowed on him At length about the time that Dr. Laud became Bishop of London he was made Minister of S. Botolphs Church without Aldgate there where for his ready and fluent way of preaching he was much frequented by the Orthodox party but in the beginning of the grand rebellion he being esteemed as one of Dr. Lauds creatures he was imprison'd in Gresham Coll. and afterwards in Newgate was sequestred plunder'd and his wife and children turn'd out of doors At length he with much ado getting loose but in a manner distracted by the great miseries he endured he retired to Oxon where he was created D. of Div. an 1646 about which time and after he taught School in several places meerly to gain bread and drink as in London and afterwards at Paddington c. Upon the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was re-invested in S. Botolphs Church but being wearied out there by the contentiousness of his parishioners he left it and in the year 1662 he was presented to the Vicaridge of S. James in Dover upon the removal of one John Davis an Independent Preacher and to the Rectory of Hougham near to that place by the favour of Dr. Juxon Archb. of Canterbury but the yearly valuation of both not exceeding 80 l. per an he was at length being grown crazy and infirm presented unsought
restauration he lived in and near London a Nonconformist to his dying day being in high value for his edifying preaching among the Brethren in Conventicles Under his name are published Several sermons as 1 How we must govern our tongues on Ephes 4.29 'T is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Purgatory a groundless and dangerous doctrine on 1. Cor. 3.15 'T is the 24 sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. c. His Legacy being a discourse of the perfect man Lond. 1679. in a small oct 'T is grounded on Psal 37.37 At length this zealous person having preached twice to his congregation on the Lords day being then the 30. of January and finished his work departed this life in the night of the same day and went to his rest in the 41 year of his age in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was buried towards the West end of Tindals Cemetery commonly called the Fanatical burial place joyning to the New Artillery Yard or Garden near London Over his grave was soon after erected an Altar-monument of white stone built on a brick foundation with this inscription engraven thereon The Saint whose dust this stone doth hide Sung Epicedium first then dy'd His life he spent lost man to save And yet 's not silent in the grave Reader no more but underneath he lies Who whilst he liv'd th' world had one good one wise EDWARD TURNOUR son of Arthur Turnour of Little Parendon in Essex Serjeant at Law was born in Essex educated in Grammar learning partly under a private Tutor but chiefly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks. under Dr. Tho. Godwin the famous Schoolmaster there became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1632 aged 15 years where spending about 10 terms in Logicals and Philosophicals he afterwards retired to the Middle Temple applied himself severely to the studies of the Municipal Laws and took the usual degrees belonging thereunto After his Majesties restauration he became Attorney to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood was elected Speaker for the Parliament that began at Westminster 8. May 1661 afterwards made Solicitor Gen. to his Majesty Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer 1671 and the same year Serjeant at Law Under his name were printed Several speeches as 1 Sp. to the House of Commons when they chose him Speaker 8. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in one sh in fol. 2 Sp. to his Maj. when he was presented to him by the House of Com. to be their Speaker 10. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. sh in fol. 3 Sp. after the L. Chanc. had declared the Kings approbation of the choice of the H. of C. Lond. 1661. in 2. sh in fol. 4 Sp. to the King at the passing of the bill for confirmation of the Act of oblivion 8. July 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. or 2. sh in fol. 5 Sp. to the K. at the adjournment of the Parl. 30. July 1661. Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh in fol. 6 Sp. upon the Parliaments adjournment 20. Dec. 1661 Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh fol. In which Speech as 't is said he compared the restitution of our monarchy to the return of the tide after a very low ebb at which very time there hapned at London-bridge a very strange double tide which by the troublesome and factious party was looked upon as a prodigie 7 Sp. upon the Commons reasons and address presented to hiâ— Maj. 28. Feb. 1662. As also his report of the substance of his Majest gracious answer thereunto Lond. 1662. in two sh in fol. or thereabouts 8 Sp. to his Maj. representing the humble thanks of the H. for his gracious acceptance of their endeavours in the service of his Maj. and of the publick c. 17. May 1664. 9 Sp. to his Maj. and both Houses of Parl. at Oxon at the prorogation of the Parl. 21. Oct. 1665. Oxon. 1665. in fol. 10 Sp. to the Kings Majesty at the prorogation of the Parliam 8. Feb. 1666 Lond. 1666. in 2. sh in fol. or thereabouts These are all that I have seen besides several of his discourses in the trial of the Kings Judges an 1660 and therefore I have no more to say only that he the said Sir Edw. Turnour with Justice W. Ellis being appointed to go as Judges of the Assize for the Norfolk Circuit in the month of Feb in the Lent then ensuing died at Bedford on the fourth of March following in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body being conveyed to London laid there for some days in state After which he was dignâ pompâ carried to Little Parendon before mention'd and according to his own command he was inter'd in the Chancel of the Church there under the marble stone that covered the grave of his first Wife THOMAS GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652 p. 87. was born at Colmore in Hampshire mostly educated in the Charterhouse School near London admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 15. Mar. 1627 where making great progress in Log. Phil. and other learning he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he became Deputy Professor of the Arabick Lecture in the absence of Mr. Edw. Pocock an 1637 Bach. of Div. in 1641 Rector of Dunsby in Lincolnshire in the times of Usurpation and of another place near London had the degree of D. of D. confer'd upon him in 1661 and a Prebendship in the Church of Peterborough in the place of Mr. Will. Towers deceased an 1666 being then Rector of Benyfield in Northamptonshire Which last he resigned some years before his death through trouble from his Parishioners who because of his slowness of speech and bad utterance held him insufficient for them and it notwithstanding he was a man of great learning His works are these De Linguae Arabicae utilitate praestantia oratio Oxonii habita 19. Jul. 1637. c. Ox. 1639. in 3. sh in qu. Observationes quaedam in Persicam Pentiteuchi versionem They are in the sixth Tome of Bib. Polyglot p. 48. Annotationes quaedam in Persicam interpretationem Evangeliorum In the said sixth Tome p. 56. Which annotations were translated into Lat. by Sam. Clerk This learned person Dr. Greaves did in his latter days retire to Weldon in Northamptonshire where he had purchased an Estate and dying there on the 22. of May in sixteen hundred seventy and six was buried in the Chancel of the Church at that place Over his grave was soon after a plain gravestone laid in the N. East corner of the said Chancel with this inscription thereon Thomas Gravius S. Th. D. Ecclesiae Petroburg Praebend vir summae pietaâ—is eruditionis in Philosophicis paucis secundus in Philologicis peritissimis par in Linguis Orientalibus plerisque major quarum Persicam notis in appendice ad Biblia Polyglotta doctissime illustravit Arabicam
in Cheapside and the rest or third part in Smithfield All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous so the predominant party in the House said as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House and that of the Commons and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford c. 5 His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh and half in qu. This also was burnt 6 Sp in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indempnity Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. 7 Two speeches with some observations upon them Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery 15. Mar. 1672 the King being then present The other in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663 in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple Several Letters as 1 Letter to the Queens Majesty dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641 to which place he fled when he was banished wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence as well as from any place in England over and above the service which he might do for him there and accordingly he returned into England not to London notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers that if he appeared not in 20 days he should be proclaimed Traytor but to his Majesty at or near York The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. 2 Letter to the Qu. Majesty dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter with another from Tho. Eliot Esq written to the said Lord Digby dated at York 27. May 1642 being intercepted by the Rebels were ordered to be printed by the Parliament 1. Aug. 1642 with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus 3 Divers Letters written at Oxon in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London They were intercepted by the Rebels and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following in a pamphlet entit A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh in qu. 4 Divers Letters written in design to betray Abendon for the Kings use Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660 for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon but after Browne in a false manner had dril'd the said Lord on so long which he could not in honour do longer then did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament and they to a Committee who caused them to be printed 5 Letter in the Kings name to the Irish Commissioners Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament and printed with this title Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish Rebels 6 Several other Letters c. These also were intercepted and with others had this title put to them The Lord Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Steph. Goffs negotiations together with his Majesties the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorks about the 15 of Oct. last 1645 Also observations on the said Letters Lond. 1646. qu. 'T is a villanous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyr'd Kings Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels 7 Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebels General in Munster Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month an 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland were sent to the Parliament in England who caused them forthwith to be published I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts for the surrender of Plymouth to the King an 1644 and others to General Leven for peace an 1645 but whether printed I know not Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire an 1645 by the Parliament forces were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion Lond. 1651. oct Elvira or the worst not always true a Comedy Upon the writing of which he the L. Digby and not Sir Kenelm was brought into the poem called The session of Poets made by Sir John Suckling Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance Printed in oct At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex having been much afflicted with the Gout on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby Lord Treasurer of England JOHN PRICE or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books wherein he shews himself the greatest Critick of his time was born in London as one of his contemporaries hath enformed me elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts left the University without a degree or being matriculated otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage and was taken into the retinew of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel he being then a R. Catholick At length he went beyond the Seas and settling for a time in a certain University there took the degree as t is said of Doctor of Law for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. Lauds MSS. in Bodlies Library Afterwards he returned into England where continuing for some time he went into Ireland and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primat thereof But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and question'd by the Parliament in 1640 he returned into England and published certain Pamphlets for the Kings cause but what the titles of them are I could never learn certain it is that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time Afterwards being enlarged he went beyond the Seas and at length into Italy about 1652 and setling in Florence was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany who made him Supervisor of his Medals yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude
Daughter named Bethiah and a Brother called Nehemiah Holmes of Machin in Hertfordshire Clerk GILES COLLIER son of Giles Collier of Pershore in Worcestershire was born there or at least in that County became either a Batler or Servitour of New inn in Lent term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts and departed for a time closing then with the Presbyterians In 1648 when the Parliamentarian Visitors were in Oxon he proceeded in Arts took the Covenant and afterwards became Vicar of Blockley near Evesham and Shipson in Worcestershire and a busie man when he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such whom the Godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654 and after At his Majesties restauration he continued in Blockley and when the Act of uniformity was published he conformed not without the regret of some Loyallists in the neighbourhood whom he had much displeased in the interval He hath written Vindiciae thesium de sabbato or a vindication of certain passages in a sermon of the morality of the Sabbath from the exceptions of which they are subjected by Edw. Fisher Esq in his book called A Christian Caveat c. Lond. 1653. 56. qu. Appendix wherein is briefly examined this bold assertion of Edw. Fisher viz. There is an equal authority and equal antiquity for the observation of the 25 of Dec. as for the Lords day Answer to 15 questions lately published by Edw. Fisher Esq and the suggestions therein delivered against suspending ignorant and scandalous persons from the Lords Supper These two last things were printed with the Vindiciae thesium Fun. Sermon on Isaiah 57.1 Printed 1661. qu. He died at Blockley in the latter end of July in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 30. day of the same month in the Church there In the said Vicaridge succeeded Sam. Scattergood of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge as I shall elsewhere tell you BENJAMIN PARRY younger Brother to Joh. Parry before mention'd was born as I conceive in Dublin admitted in Arts in Trin. Coll. there on the 5. of Decemb. 1648 came with his Brother to Jesus Coll. in this University took the degrees in Arts and after his Majesties restauration he was by the favour of his Commissioners appointed to visit this University made Greek Reader and so consequently Fellow of C. C. Coll. In 1663 Feb. 26 he was installed Preb. of Knaresbergh in the Church of York he being then Bach. of Div. upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Mossom which Dignity he resigning upon his going into his own Country was succeeded therein by Dr. Will. Asshton in Feb. 1673. On the first of May 1674 he was made Dean of Kilkenny and thence was translated to the Deanery of S. Patrick at Dublin on the 24 of March following On the 27. of Jan. 1677 he was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in the place of his Brother deceased which he kept to his dying day that shortly after followed He hath written Chymia Caelestis Drops from heaven or pious meditations on several places of Scripture Lond. 1659 73 in tw And also made fit for the press and published Holy rules and helps to devotion c. Lond. 1674. in tw Written by Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winton This Dr. Parry who I suppose hath published no other things died on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight having a little before been married but not to his content and was buried near to the graves of his Brother and Father in S. Audoens Church in Dublin In the See of Ossory succeeded Dr. Mich. Ward Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin and soon after he was translated to London-Derry PETER LEYCESTER son of Pet. Leycest Esq was born at Nether Tabley in Cheshire 3. March 1613 became a Gent. Com. of Brasn Coll. 13. Oct. 1629 but leaving that house without a degree he went I presume to the Inns of Court Afterwards he retired to his patrimony where besides the pleasures of a Country life he exercised himself much in the study of History and Antiquities After the restauration of his Majesty an 1660 for whose cause he before had suffer'd he was created a Baronet and probably had he sought he might have had beneficial places confer'd on him but such was the love he had to his native Country that postponing all matters of profit he studied and laboured to revive its antiquities that had almost been buried in oblivion which he afterwards published with this title Historical antiquities in two books The first treating in general of Great Britaine and Ireland the other containing particular remarks of Cheshire and chiefly of Bucklow hundred Lond. 1673 fol. But therein having made Amicia Daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester a Bastard was as to that matter answer'd in a book intit A defence of Amicia c. by Sir Tho. Manwaring of Peover in Cheshire Bt who with this our author Pet. Leyc were descended from her Whereupon Sir Peter came out with An answer to Sir Tho. Manwarings book entit A defence of Amicia c. Lond. 1673. oct Addenda or some things to be added to the former answer to Sir Thomas Manwarings book to be placed immediatly after pag. 90. Lond. 1673. oct He also wrot A reply to Sir Tho. Manwarings answer to Sir Pet. Leycesters Addenda Lond. 1674. oct and Sir Tho. Manwarings Law cases mistaken and the antient Law misunderstood and the new law misapplied c. Lond. 1674. oct There was a waggish and merry Ballad that went from hand to hand in Ms concerning these petite controversies between the two Baronets and great sport there was made among idle and vain Gentlemen concerning the punctilio's and minute things they insisted on but at length at an Assize held at Chester 1675 their controversies were decided by the Justices Itinerant who as I have heard adjudged the right of the matter to Manwaring As for our author Sir Peter he dyed at Nether-Tabley on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried by his Ancestors in our Ladies Chappel on the north side of the Church at Great Budworth in Cheshire Over his grave was soon after set up a comly monument for him and his Lady who died 26. of Jan. following aged 59 years the inscription whereof being large I shall now for brevity sake omit THOMAS VINCENT second son of John Vincent sometimes a Gent of Lincolns Inn and afterwards a Minister was born in the antient Borough of Hertford in the month of May 1634 educated partly in Grammar learning in Westminster school and partly in that at Felsted in Essex and in 1648 became a Student of Ch. Ch. by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors then and there sitting In 1654 he proceeded in Arts at which time the Governour of his house had so great opinion of him that he chose him Catechist which usually belongs
1663 and for which several suffered death at York and elsewhere But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet Sure I am that his name was in his Majesties Proclamation for his apprehension and was therein described to be a tall man flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex descended from those of his name in Cheshire was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond educated in Merchant-Taylors School became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621 aged 18 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristow In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew in London In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Div. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching but when the nation was turn'd topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people he was dispoyl'd of all suffered much for the royal cause was a brand snatch'd out of the fire and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet At length after his Majesties restauration he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsore and by vertue of the Kings Conge d' eslire being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663 upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln was soon after consecrated and on the 28. of May Ascension day installed He hath written and published Horae Succissivae or spare houres of meditations upon our duty to God others and our selves Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw being the fifth edit In the year 1620 was published in â—â— a book entit Horae Subsecivae Observations and discourses but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish who died before his father Will. Earl of Devonshire which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written Dayly thoughts or a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane Lond. 1651. oct the third edit with enlargements He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street Coventâ—Garden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex was buried in the Church of Eastâ—Lavant near Chichester close by the body of his only wife Jane somtimes daughter of Thomas May of that place and near to a son that he had buried there JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called Hyghâ—Wycombe in Bucks became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts left the University about two years after entred into the sacred function and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant he put in for one having alwaies been precisely educated closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark took the Engagement was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough confer'd on him as I have been informed by those that knew the man where or else at S. Thomas continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity He hath written and published The glorious mystery of Gods mercy or a pretious cordial for fainting soules c. Lond. 1647. oct This book is the effect of certain Sermons The grand trial of true conversion or sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in mans thoughts c. Lond. 1655. oct This also as it seems is the effect of certain Sermons The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel and mystery of the Gospel in the Law Printed in oct Whether he hath any other things extant I cannot tell sure I am that after his ejection he removed to several places and preached in Conventicles and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity High Wicombe concluded his last there to the great lamentation of the brethren in sixteen hundred seventy and nine whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place was buried on thâ— ninth day of June the same year in the north isle joyning thereunto JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born bred in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1665 junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of Sheldons Theater an 1669. Afterwards being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House he was made Lecturer of St. Michaels Cornhill and Curat to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin in London He hath written Poems upon several occasions Lond. 1667. oct Character of a London Scrivener Printed with the Poems He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mention'd 24 of August in sixteen hundred seventy and nine having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mention'd widdow of Sir John Mennes and alwaies accounted an ingenious man JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet London admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years choâ—e probationerâ—fellow of All 's Coll. soon after upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq one of the Secretaries of State where tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law yet he studied Physick and became noted for his practice therein especially in the Summer time in the City of Bathe but better known by these books which shew the pregnancy of his parts De Respiratione tractatus unus Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct De Rachitide tract un Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions nu 41. p. 833. an 1668. De Sal-nitro spiritu nitro-acerbo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De Respiratione Faetûs in utero ovo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De motu musculari spiritibus ani malibus Ox. 1674. in a large oct Of these three last with which were printed again the two first is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact nu 105. p. 101. c. And all five were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet
Oliver the Protector which with the Academy there being soon after dissolved he retired to Westbury and continued at that place till 1662 at which time being ejected for Nonconformity held notwithstanding afterwards Conventicles in the places where he lived He hath written A treatise of Monarchy containing two parts 1. Concerning Monarchy in general 2. Concerning this particular Monarchy c. Lond. 1643 qu. Answer'd by Dr. Hen. Ferne in his Reply to several Treatises c. and by Sir Rob. Filmer in a piece of his called The Anarchy of a limited and mixed monarchy Lond. 1646 qu. Reprinted at Lond. 1652 and 1679. oct This Sir Robert by the way must be known was son of Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Rich. Argall of the same place Esq and was as I conceive educated in Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Our author Hunton hath also written A Vindication of the treatise of Monarchy Lond. 1644. qu. As for the said Treatise of Monarchy which hath been and is still in great vogue among many persons of Commonwealth and Levelling Principles was reprinted when the Press was open in 1680 when then the factious party endeavoured to carry on their designs upon account of the Popish Plot. But forasmuch as 't is said therein that the Soveraignity of England is in the three Estates viz. King Lords and Commons that proposition was condemned by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon in their Convocation held 21. July 1683 and the book it self wherein it is was then publickly burnt in the School-quadrangle Afterwards as soon as the Prince of Orange was come into England at which time the Nation was in a hurry it was again printed at Lond. in January 1688 qu. with the date of 1689 put to it Under our authors name goes also a book entit Jus Regum c. Lond. 1645. qu. But this I have not yet seen and therefore I can say nothing of it Nor no more of the author who was a man of parts only that he dying in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Church of Westbury in Wilts before mentioned having some years before married a widdow with a good joynture which maintained him and kept up his port THOMAS JONES son of John Williams was born and brought up in juvenile learning at Oswestrie in Shropshire entred into Jesus Coll. in the beginning of the grand rebellion left it soon after returned when Oxford garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parl an 1646 became fellow of Univ. Coll. by the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament in 1648 to whom he then submitted and acknowledg'd the use of the Covenant and in the year following he took a degree in Arts being at that time and after a zealous person for carrying on the righteous cause In 1652 he being then Master of his faculty he wrot Vita Edwardi Simsoni S. T. D. ex ipsius autographo excerpta which is set before the said Simsons Chronicon Catholicum printed at Oxon. 1652. fol. and in 1654 he took holy orders as 't is said from a Bishop About that time he became Rector of Castle in Montgomerieshire in the dioc of S. Asaph and learned the Welsh tongue purposely to serve those parts when the Orthodox Clergy were miserably consumed by an act of propagation From that place being ejected upon one Wynns's discovery of a dormant title he removed to the service of the Lord President and Council of Wales at Ludlow Castle an 1661 and thence to be domestick and naval Chaplain to James Duke of York in 1663 In whose service continuing till 1666 or after was then by the means of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester for some words spoken against him derogatory to his person and function dismiss'd thence So that soon after retiring to his rectory of Landurnog in the dioc of Bangor which he some time before had obtained found there but little quiet also from Dr. Morgan his Diocesan being as our author saith set on by the B. of Winchester In 1670 Winchester call'd him to an account for an action of slander at the Kings-bench for saying that he was a promoter of Popery and a subverter of the Church of England attested upon oath by Bangor and two of his Chaplains whereupon our author was fined 300 l. or mor and the Rectory of Landurnog was sequestred for the payment of it Which fine Winchester offer'd to remit wholly if he would confess he had spoken those words against him and ask forgiveness But when he would not the sequestration continued and 20 l. of it was sent to our author and some given for the repairing of the Cathedral of Bangor and the rest for other pious uses About the same time he was condemn'd and censur'd ab officio beneficio by his Diocesan occasioned by some controversie that hapned between them about a reading Pew in the Church at Landurnog the particulars of which you may read at large elsewhere So that being in a manner undone did much about the time of the breaking out of the Popish Plot publish Of the heart and its right Soveraigne and Rome no Mother-Church to England Or an historical account of the title of an English Church and by what Ministry the Gospel was first planted in every County Lond. 1678 oct A remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above in the great question where is the true Mother Church of Christians Printed with the former book At that time the author taking part with Tit. Oates his old acquaintance Ez. Tongue Steph. Colledge c. and other factious people to gain their ends by making a disturbance in the nation by be Popish Plot he wrote and published Elymas the Sorcerer or a Memorial towards the discovery of the bottome of this Popish Plot c. Published upon occasion of a passage in the late Dutchess of Yorks declaration for changing her religion Lond. 1682 in 8. sh in fol. This book was written and published in Spleen against the Bishop of Winchester grounded upon a passage in The Historie of Calvinisme written by Monsieur Lewes Maimburgh a French Jesuit wherein he resolves the Dutchess of Yorks declaration for Popery into the seeming encouragement of two of the most learned Bishops in England One of these our author Jones doth endeavour to make the Reader to understand tho he nameth him not to be Winchester Notice of this book therefore comming to the said B. of Wint. he would have prosecuted the matter so far in his own vindication as to have the said Elymas the Sorcerer to be publickly burnt and the author to the further punished But before he could compass his design the author died However Winchester that he might not sit silent published his own vindication as to M. Maimburghs words in his preface to certain treatises that he published in 1683. Rich. Watson also D. D. of this
15 years of age an 1574 he was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll and in 1581 Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy Orders was made Rector of Sonning in Berks of Hayes in Middlesex Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth Doctor of Divinity Rector of Borton on the water in Glocestershire Canon Resid and Treasurer of Wells Chaplain in ord to K. Jam. 1 and in 1613 the first Warden of Wadham Coll but resigned that office soon after because he was not permitted to take to him a wife by Dame Dorothy the Foundress thereof In 1622 he became Bishop of Bristow was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth on the 23 of March the same year Dr. Jo. Featley then preaching the Consecration sermon on Joh. 20.22 but had not restitution made to him of the Temporalities of that See till the 4 of Apr. following In 1632 he was translated to Lichf and Coventry the Temporalities of which he received on the 3 of Dec. the same year at which time he gave up the Treasurership of Wells which he kept in commendam with Bristow In Dec. 1641 when then he saw what mad work the Members of the Long Parliament made and what farther they would do concerning the Hierarchy he did with eleven more Bishops draw up a Protestation in behalf of themselves against their unreasonable actions which being first presented to the King who refused to have any thing to do with it it was transmitted to the H. of Commons who thereupon impeaching the said Bishops of High Treason they were all committed to custody viz. ten of them of which Lichfield was one to the Tower and two Durham and Norwich to the Black Rod but before Lichfield was conveyed thither he spoke an eloquent Speech at the bar of the H. of Commons in answer for himself which was afterwards printed in one sh in qu. After he had continued Prisoner about 18 weeks to his great charge he was released Whereupon retiring to Eccleshal Hall in Staffordshire the Seat belonging to his Bishoprick which about that time was fortified for his Majesty and kept for his service by Dr. Bird a Civilian died therein in Jul. or Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and three at which time the said place was besieged by Sir Will. Brereton and his Forces under the command of the Parliament but where his body was buried unless in the Cath. Ch. at Lichfield which he desired in his last Will. and Test dat 3 May 1643 I know not On the 17 day of the said month of Aug. his Maj. nominated Dr. Accepted Frewen Dean of Glocester and President of Magd. Coll. to succeed the said Dr. Wright in the See of Lich. and Coventry Dr. Will. Brough to be Dean of Glocester and Dr. Joh. Oliver to be Pres of Magd. Coll. The Reader may be pleased now to know that the said Dr. Wright having been much given up to the affairs of the world he did in short time gather up so much wealth from the Church as not only to purchase the rich Mannour of Newnham Courtney in Oxfordshire of Hugh Audley of the Inner Temple Esq and Tho. Audley his brother for the sum of 18000 l. which mannour they some years before had bought of the Pollards but Lands also in other places All which he leaving to his only son Calvert Wright sometimes Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll he proved so ill a husband as to sell the said Mannour some years before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 to John Robinson of London Esq afterwards a Knight and Baronet and Lieutenant of the Tower in the Church of which place he was afterwards buried As for Calv. Wright he died in a mean condition in the Prison called the Kings Bench in Southwark in the Winter time 1666. WILLIAM LAUD sometimes Fellow afterwards President of S. Johns Coll was consecrated Bish of S. David in the Chappel belonging to the house of the Bishop of London with Joh. Davenant to Sarum and Dr. Val. Cary to Exeter by the Bishops of London Worcester Chichester Ely Landaff and Oxon on the 18 of Nov. 1621 the Archbishop Abbot being then thought irregular for casual Homicide Thence he was translated to Bathe and Wells in Aug. 1626 thence to London in Jul. 1628 and at length to Cant. in Sept. 1633. He was beheaded on Tower-hill near London on the tenth of January in sixteen hundred forty and four under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 30.31 c. The See of Cant. lying void till 1660 was then supplied by Dr. Juxon B. of London as I shall elsewhere tell you MORGAN OWEN a Ministers son received his first breath in Caermerthenshire was admitted a Student in Jesus Coll. in the beginning of 1608 aged 23 years and being afterwards made one of the Chaplains of New Coll. did as a member thereof take the degree of Bach. of Arts by the name of Owen Morgan an 1613 he being then a Preacher In 1616 he was admitted M. of A as a Member of Hart Hall was afterwards well beneficed in his own Country of Wales and a useful man in the Church there When Dr. Laud became B. of S. David he then knew the man and his zeal for the Church and therefore when he became Chanc. of the University he was by his endeavours actually created Doctor of Divinity as a Member of Jesus Coll. an 1636. Soon after that he might shew himself grateful to his Mother the Univ. of Oxon he at his own charge being a rich man enclos'd the south yard belonging to S. Maries Church with a fair free stone wall and built also of the same stone most curiously carved and engraven the beautiful Porch leading from the high street into the said Church with the image of our Lady and a babe in her arm at the top of it Which being finished about two or three years after 't was not only disgusted by the Puritan and defaced by the Parliament Soldiers in the beginning of the Troubles an 1642 but laid in Laud's dish as an article against him at his Tryal that he did oblige the said Dr. M. Owen to build it permitted him as Chancellour of the University and connived at all when 't was finished About the beginning of March 1638 he was elected Bishop of Landaff in the place of Dr. VVill. Murrey deceased who before had been B. of Kilfenore in Ireland which election being consented to by the King on the 19 of the same month he was soon after consecrated but the day when I know not and on the 9 of Apr. following the Temporalities of the said See were restored to him In Dec. 1641 he was one of the Bishops that were impeached of High Treason for subscribing the Protestation mention'd before in Dr. R. VVright and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower remained there till about VVhitsontide following Afterwards he retired to his own Country suffered there for his Loyalty and for being
for the King intended it for him conditionally he would conform Dr. Frewen had the benefit of that too all the fines for renewing and for the filling up lives to his very great profit besides what he got from York At length Mr. Baxter the Coryphaeus of the Presbyterian party refusing it least he in an high manner should displease the Brethren it was offer'd to Dr. Richard Baylie President of S. Johns College and Dean of Sarum who had been a very great sufferer for the Kings cause but he refusing it because Dr. Frewen had skim'd it it was thereupon confer'd on Dr. John Hacket of Cambridge as I shall anon tell you This Dr. Frewen who was accounted a general Scholar and a good Orator but hath nothing extant only a Latin Oration with certain verses on the death of Prince Henry for his Moral Philosophy Lectures are not yet made publick died at his Mannour of Bishops Thorp near York on the 28 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried on the third day of May following under the great east window of the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in York Soon after was erected a splendid monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which being too large for this place shall now for brevity sake be omitted His Father John Frewen before mention'd was a learned Divine and frequent preacher of his time and wrot 1 Fruitful instructions and necessary doctrine to edifie in the fear of God c. Lond. 1587 in tw 2 Fruitful instructions for the general cause of reformation against the slanders of the Pope and League c. Lond. 1589. qu. 3 Certain choice grounds and principles of our Christian Religion with their several expositions by way of questions and answers c. Lond. 1621. in octav and other things He died in 1627 about the latter end and was buried in Nordiam Church leaving then behind these Sons viz. Accepted before mention'd Thankful Stephen Joseph Benjamin Thomas Samuel John c. which John seems to have succeeded his Father in the Rectory of Nordiham but whether the said Father was educated in Oxon I cannot yet tell Qu. As for Dr. Hacket before mention'd who was an eminent person in his time for learning and a publick spirit I shall now take this opportunity to speak at large of him tho I have partly mention'd him already in the Fasti under the year 1616. p. 824 and elsewhere in the first volume Born therefore he was in the Strand near Exeter-house in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of Westminster on the first day of Sept. 34. Elizab. Dom. 1592. His Father was Andr. Hacket of Putferin in Scotland a senior Burgess of the City of Westminster and afterwards of the Robes to Prince Henry who being a zealous Protestant took great care to breed up this his only Son to that religion When he was very young therefore he put him to the Coll. School at Westminster and his Master Mr. Ireland finding in him a great propensity to learning was very kind to him as also was Dr. Lanc. Andrews the Dean of the Ch. there who in the necessary absence of the Master being accustomed to come into the School and examine the boys took this youth into his particular favour and continued it to him as long as the Bishop lived Being made ripe for the University he was in the year 1608 with the pious Mr. George Herbert elected to go to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge by the favour of Dr. Tho. Nevill Master of that Coll who told his Father when he addressed to him about his Son that he should go to Cambridge or else he would carry him upon his back and being there entred he was put under the tuition of Dr. Edw. Simson author of Chronicon ab exordio mundi c. Soon after he was so much noted for his painful studies sober life and great proficiency in learning that he was elected Fellow of that House assoon as he was by the rules thereof fit for the same Afterwards he grew into that credit that he had many Pupils put to his charge and those of the best families in England and then betaking himself to the study of Divinity he took holy Orders in 1618 from the hands of Dr. John King B. of London who had a great affection for him and expressed the same on divers occasions but above all others Dr. John Williams Bishop of Linc observing his great learning and knowledge in the Tongues chose him his Chaplain immediatly after the Great Seal was committed to his charge an 1621. Two years he spent in that Bishops service before his time was come to commence Bach. of Divinity and then beg'd leave to go to Cambridge to keep the publick Act an 1623 which he performed according to expectation and then returning to Court to his Master he prefer'd him to be Chaplain to K. Jam. 1 before whom he preaching several times to that learned Prince's good liking he was the next year by the recommendations of his Master presented to the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourn near London then within his Majesties disposal by reason of the minority of Thomas Earl of Southampton and suddenly after he was by the same means made Parson of Cheame in Surrey fallen likewise in his Majesties gift by the promotion of Dr. Ric. Senhouse to the Bishoprick of Carlile which two Livings he held till the most execrable rebellion broke out in 1642 and was constantly resident upon one of them In 1628 he commenced Doct. of Div. at Cambridge where he preached a Sermon highly applauded by the learned auditory of that time And returning to Holbourne and his duty there he became very famous for excellent preaching and decent order in his charge In 1631 his old Master the Bishop of Lincoln gave him the Archdeaconry of Bedford void by the death or resignation of Nich. Walker D. D. who had succeeded therein one George Eland an 1629. To which charge he usually went once in a year commonly after Easter and exhorted the Clergy thereof to keep strictly the Orders of the Church Afterwards finding his Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne much in decay he eagerly sollicited his great friends and acquaintance to contribute to its reedification or at least repair and about the year 1639 he had obtained divers thousands of pounds for that purpose but the unparalell'd rebellion following soon after the members of the Long Parliament mostly a prevalent party of Presbyterians did seize on that and all the money collected for the repair of St. Pauls Cathedral in London to carry on their rebellion against their King In the beginning of the Civil War he was named one of the Committee with divers eminent Bishops and Pastors to consider of what was amiss in the English Liturgy and Church government and to rectifie the same in hopes by that means to expel the cloud then appearing over the Church but the Lords
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Laughton Church Langton 863 15 from bot Simoudsbry Simondsbury 864 8 from bot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 871 12 from bot excolando excolendo 891 35 from bot Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. Joh. Smyth of Magd. Hall 892 25 from top Tho. Beale Joh. Beale The two last lines in pag. 850 running thus He hath written Philosophia generalis in duas partes disterminata c. must be taken out for that book was written by Theophilus and not Thomas Gale Books Printed for and Sold by Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church yard THE Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley fol. Sir William Davenant's Works fol. Comedies and Tragedies by Tho. Killigrew fol. Beaumont and Fletcher's Plays fol. Shakespear's Works fol. Sir Robert Howards 5 Plays fol. Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Pinto a Portugal who was five times Shipwrackt sixteen times Sold and thirteen times made a Slave in Aethiopia China c. Written by Himself fol. Dr. Pocock on the Minor Prophets fol. A Critical History of the Text and Versions of the New Testament wherein is firmly Establish'd the Truth of those Acts on which the Foundation of Christian Religion is laid By Father Simon of the Oratory Together with a Refutation of such Passages as seem contrary to the Doctrin and Practice of the Church of England Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God Pathetically discoursed of in a Letter to a Friend by the Honourable Robert Boyle The Seventh Edition much Corrected Memoirs of the Court of Spain Writ by the Ingenious French Lady and Englished by Mr. Thomas Brown Octavo Memoirs of the Court of France by the same Author Octavo The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Roman Emperor Translated out of Greek into English with Notes by Dr. Causabon To this Edition is added the Life of the said Emperor with an Account of Stoick Philosophy As also Remarks on the Meditations All newly written by the famous Monsieur and Madam Dacier Waller's Poems compleat in Two Parts Sir John Denham's Poems Aristeae Historia LXXII Interpretum accessere Veterum Testimonia de eorum Versione è Theatro Sheldoniano The Works of the Learned or an Historical Account and Impartial Judgment of the Books newly Printed both Foreign and Domestick together with the State of Learning in the World Published Monthly by J. de la Crose a late Author of the Universal Bibliotheque This first Volume beginning in August last is compleated this present April with Indexes to the whole The Bishop of Chester's Charge to his Clergy at his Primary Visitation May 5. 1691. Five Sermons before the King and Queen by Dr. Meggot Dean of Winchester A Sermon before the King and Queen by the L. Bishop of Worcester A Sermon before the House of Commons on the Thanksgiving-day by Dr. Jane Dean of Gloucester Sermons and Discourses upon several occasions by G. Stradling D. D. late Dean of Chichester never before printed together with an account of the Author octavo A Voyage to the World of Cartesius Written originally in French and now Translated into English by T. Taylor of Magd. Coll. Oxon. octavo A Sermon before the Queen May 29. 1692. by F. Atterbury Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. ATHENAE OXONIENSES THE HISTORY OF THE Writers of the University OF OXFORD FROM THE Beginning of the Year of Our Lord 1641 to the End of 1690. VOLUME II. GERVASE WARMSTREY the eldest Son of Will. Warmstrey principal Registrary of the Diocess of Worcester by Cecelie his Wife Daug. of Tho. Smith of Cuâ—rdsley in Lanc. an Inhabitant of S. Aldates Parish in Oxford was born and educated in Grammar Learning within the City of Worcester became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and afterwards retiring to his native place succeeded his Father in the before mentionâ—d Office While he continued in the University he was numbred among the eminent Poets especially upon his writing and publication of Virescit vulnere virtus Englands wound and cure printed 1628. qu. Which being by many persons of known worth esteem'd an excellent piece was by the Author dedicated to that great Patron of all ingenious men especially of Poets Endimion Porter Esquire whose native place Aston under Hill commonly called Hanging Aston near to Campden in Glocestershire tho obscure yet he was a great man and beloved by two Kings James 1. for his admirable wit and Ch. 1. to whom as to his Father he was a servant for his general learning brave stile sweet
done by Sir Tho. Clarges whose sister the said Duke had married and put into the hands of the said Philipps but therein Mr. Philipps attributing more to the Dukes glory than was true he got the ill will of him Therein are also added to the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. the names of the Noble-men that they created and other matters But so it was that the Author Baker and his Continuator Philipps having committed very many Errors Thom. Blount of the Inner Temple Esq published Animadversions on that edit of 1671 and were printed in oct at Oxon 1672. Which book containing only a specimen of the errors may easily be discerned what the whole Chronicle containeth But notwithstanding these Animadversions the Chronicle when afterwards it was several times reprinted had none of the said errors therein corrected but came out full of faults as before and was greedily bought up by illiterate and inconsiderable persons By the way it must be known that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire the fifth son of Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same County was born at Bordesley in Worcestershire being of a younger house of an antient and noble family of his name but never advantaged in Learning by the help of an University only his own genie and industry together with the helps of his scholastical acquaintance during his continuance in the Temple before and after he was Barrister His Writings are many and some perhaps not fit here to be put down among which are 1 The Academy of Eloquence containing a compleat English Rhetorick Printed at Lond. in the time of the Rebellion and several times after 2 Glossographia or a Dictionary interpreting such hard words whether Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. c. that are now used in our refined Engl. Tongue c. Lond. 1656. oct Published several times after with additions and amendments 3 The lamps of the law and lights of the gospel or the Titles of some late spiritual polemical and metaphysical new books Lond. 1658. in oct Written in imitation of J. Birkenheads Pauls Churchyard and published under the name of Grass and Hay Withers 4 Boscobel or the history of his Majesties Escape after the battel of Worcester 3 Sept. 1651. Lond. 1660 in oct there again 1680. in oct third edit Translated into French and Portuguese the last of which was done by Pet. Gifford of White Ladies in Staffordshire a R. Catholic 5 The Catholic Almanack for 1661. 62. 63. c. which selling not so well as Joh. Booker's Almanack did he therefore wrot 6 Booker rebuked or Animadversions on Bookers Alm. which made much sport among people having had the assistance therein of Jo. Sargeant and Jo Austen 7 A law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute antient or modern laws c. Lond. 1671. fol. There again in 1691 with some corrections and the addition of above 600 words 8 Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. and its Continuation c. Oxon. 1672. oct 9 A world of errors discovered in The new world of words c. Lond. 1673. fol. Written against Edw. Philipps his book intit A new world of Engl. words c. 10 Fragmenta Antiquitatis Antient tenures of land and jocular customs of some Mannours Lond. 1679. oct 11 Boscobel c. the second part Lond. 1681. oct To which is added Claustrum regale reseratum Or the Kings Concealment at Trent in Somersetshire published by Mrs. Anne Windham of Trent Our Author Blount also wrot Animadversions upon Britannia written by R. Blome but whether printed I cannot tell and translated from French into English The Art of making Devises Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written originally by Hen. Estiâ—nne Lord of Fossez To which Blount added A catalogue of Coronet-Devises both on the Kings and Parliaments side in the late Wars At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot being much affrighted by the violent current of that time he himself being a zealous Rom. Cath. he contracted the Palsie as by his last letter sent to me dated 28 Apr. 1679 I was informed adding therein that he had then quitted all books except those of devotion On the 26 of Dec. following being S. Stephens day he died at Orleton in Herefordshire where he had a fair and plentiful estate in the year of his age 61 and was buried in the Church there and soon after had a comely monument put over his grave by Anne his relict daugh of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex Esq He then left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England which he and J. B. that 's all I know of him for Mr. Blount would never tell me his name had for several years been compiling but what became of it afterwards I cannot tell As for our Author Sir Rich. Baker he hath written besides what I have already mention'd Theatrum redivivum or the Theatre vindicated in answer to Mr. Prynns Histrio mastix c. Lond. 1662. octavo Theatrum triumphans or a discourse of Plays Lond. 1670 oct He also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses upon Corn. Tacitus Lond. 1642. fol. They are in number 53 and were written by Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi and from French into English Letters of Monsieur Balsac in 4 parts Lond. 1638. oct and 54 c. with additions in qu. He also wrot his own life which he left in Ms behind him burnt or made wast paper by one Smith of Pater noster row who married one of his daughters At length after he had undergone many cares and troubles in this world departed this mortal life in the Prison call'd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was the day following buried about the middle of the south isle joyning to S. Bridgets commonly called S. Brides Church near Fleetstreet in London By his wife Margaret dau of Sir Geor. Manwaring of Ightfield in Shropshire Kt. for whose family this our Author was engaged for the payment of debts he had issue Thomas Arthur Cecilia Anne Margaret c. But whereas he saith in his Chronicle that K. Hen. 1. had by his Concubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to Fitzherbert his Lord Chamberlain from whom as he adds is his family lineally descended through females viz. thro Cummin Chenduit Brimpton Stokes Foxcote and Dyneley is a great mistake for all or most Chronicles nay the Pedigree it self of Corbet which I have several times seen say that the Concubine named in the said Pedegree Sybill and not the daughter was married to the said Fitzherbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip Strode sometimes living near Plimpton and he a younger son of Sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or Newinham in Devonshire was born in that County elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the Coll. School at Westm about the
hands of Dr. G. Kendall to perfect and afterwards to publish it but never done 2 Answer to a book intit A Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion Written by Sir Ken. Digby 3 Answer to the respective books concerning the Sabbath written by Dr. Fr. White Dr. Gilb. Ironside and Mr. E. Breerword He hath also either answer'd or animadverted upon certain matters of Nich. Fuller Jos Mede the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker Dr. Christ Potter Dr. Tho. Godwin Dr. Tho. Jachson and Mr. Joh. Goodwin the Titles of which I shall now pass by for brevity sake At length after he had lived 71 years departed this mortal life in Holborn in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried on the 24 of July the same year near to the upper end of the poor folks Table next the Vestry in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster On the 14 of Sept. 1661 his body â—ith those of Thom. May the Poet Will. Strong Steph. Marshall Ministers c. which were buried in the said Church of S. Peter were taken up and buried in one large pit in the Ch. yard of S. Margaret just before the back door of the Lodgings belonging to one of the Prebendaries of Westminster having been unwarrantably buried there during the times of Rebellion and Usurpation THOMAS HAYNE Son of Rob. Hayne was born in a Town commonly but corruptly called Thurciston near to and in the County of Leicester At the last of which places having received his juvenile learning was sent to the University and matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Coll. in Mich. Term 1599 and in that of his age 17 where being put under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor obtained great knowledge in Philosophy and the more for this reason that he was taken off from various Recreations and Rambles by a lameness in his Legs from his Cradle After he had taken a degree in Arts 1604 he became one of the Ushers of the School in the Parish of S. Laurence Pountney in London erected by the Merchant Taylors and afterward being M. of Arts Usher of the School belonging to the City of London in Ch. Church Hospital He was a noted Critick an excellent Linguist and a solid Divine beloved of learned Men and particularly respected by Selden He hath written Grammatices Latinae Compendium an 1637 c. Lond. 1640. in oct To which are added two appendices Linguarum cognatio seu de linguis in genere de variarum linguarum harmoniâ dissertatio Lond. 1639. oct It was also printed if I mistake not in 1634. Pax in terrâ seu tractatus de pace ecclesiasticâ c. Lond. 1639. oct The equal ways of God in rectifying the unequal ways of man Lond. 1639 c. in oct General view of the holy Scriptures or the times places and persons of holy Scripture c. Lond. 1640 fol. sec Edit Life and death of Dr. Mart. Luther Lond. 1641. qu. He gave way to fate on the 27. of July in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Parish Church of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the City of London Soon after was put a monument over his grave about the middle of the Church on the North side and a large inscription thereon which about 20 years after was consumed and defaced with the Church it self when the great fire hapned in London In the said inscription he is stiled Antiquitatis acerrimus investigator antiquitatem praematuravit suam Publicis privatisque studiis sese totum communi bono coelebem devovit Pacis Ecclesiae Irenicus pacificus jure censendus c. In the Library at Leicester is another inscription put up to his memory which being perfect you may take instead of the other See Hist et Antiq Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 166. a. b. By his will which I have seen he gave to the said Library all his Study of books except some few which he gave to the Library at Westminster He gave also 400 l. to be bestowed in buying Lands or Houses in or near Leycester of the yearly Rent of 24 l. for ever for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster in Thurciston alias Thrushington or some Town near thereunto to teach ten poor Children c. and for the maintenance of two poor Scholars in Linc. Coll. to come from the Free-School at Leycester or in defect of that from the School at Milton c. The Schoolmaster to have 12 l. yearly and the two Scholars six pounds yearly c. In the said Will are other acts of Charity mentioned which for brevity sake I now pass by EDWARD LITTLETON Son and Heir of Sir Edw. Littleton of Henley in Shropshire Knight was born in that County an 1589. became a Gentleman Commoner of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of the year 1606 where by the care of an eminent Tutor he became a proficient in Academical learning took a degree in Arts an 1609 and from Ch. Ch. removed to the Inner Temple where he made such admirable progress in the Municipal Laws and was of such eminence in his Profession in a short time that the City of London took early notice of and chose him their Recorder being also about that time Counsellor to University of Oxon. In the 8. of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of his Society and in the 10. of the said King Oct. 17. he was made Sollicitor-General After which upon the 6. of June next ensuing he received the honor of Knighthood at Whitehall at which time and some years before he was a Member of the Commons House of no small reputation On the 27. of Jan. 15. Car. 1. he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and on the 23. of Jan. the next year his Majesty confer'd upon him the utmost honor belonging to his Profession by giving the Great Seal into his custody In less than a month after upon the 18. of Feb. he made him a Peer of England by the name of the Lord Littleton Baron of Mounslow in his Native Country being then in great esteem for integrity and eminence in his Profession Shortly after the troubles in this Realm taking their rise partly from the insurrection of the Scots and their entrance into this Realm which hapned in Aug. next ensuing an 1640 and partly from the predominancy of certain Members in the Long Parliament then called by reason of that invasion he retired to the King at York in June 1642 having first conveyed the Seal thither From which time to his death which hapned in Oxon where in 1642 he was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law he constantly attended his Majesty with great fidelity He was Author of Several Speeches as 1 Speech at a conference with the Lords in Parliament concerning the Liberty of the Subject and propriety in their Goods 3. Apr. 1628. See in Jo. Rushworths Collections Vol. 1. p. 528. an 1628. This with other Conferences were published by themselves
perfect man a Sermon at the burial of Sir Robert Spencer Knight Baron of Wormleighton 6 Nov. 1627 in Braynton Church in Northamptonshire on Psal 37. ver 37. Oxon 1628. qu. and one or two more which I have not yet seen This person who was a Sufferer for the Royal Cause during the time of the Rebellion was living in Lancastire as I have been informed thence in the time of Usurpation but when he died I cannot yet tell One Rich. Parr was of Exeter Coll and afterwards a Writer and is now an 1690. living One Elnathan Parr also was an eminent Divine in the Raign of K. Jam. 1. as his Works shew but he was not of Oxon but of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was Bach. of Divinity and Rector of Palgrave in Suffolk WILLIAM LYFORD son of Will. Lyf Rector of Peysmere near to Newbury in Berks. was born there to the poor of which place he was an especial benefactor at the time of his death became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1614 aged 16 or thereabouts Demie of Magd. Coll. 1617 and perpetual Fellow five years after he being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he took holy Orders and exercised his Function for some time in and near Oxford In 1631 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time became Minister of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire by the favour of John Earl of Bristow where he was much resorted to for his edifying and practical way of preaching At length the Civil War breaking forth and the Presbyterians carrying all before he sided with them was made one of the Assembly of Divines but sate not among them He hath written and published several theological Tracts which savour much of great Piety Zeal and sincerity to Religion but withal they shew him to have been a zealous Calvinist The Titles are these Principles of Faith and good Conscience digested into a catechistical form Lond. 1642. Oxon. 1652. in oct c. An Apology for our publick Ministry and Infant-baptism Lond. 1652. 53. c. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The translation of a Sinner from death to life by the free grace of God Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon on Tit. 3.5 Oxon. 1648. qu. 2 Serm. on Dan. 3. from ver 14. to 18. Lond. 1654. qu. 3 Serm. on 2 Cor. 2.15.16 Lond. 1654. qu. 4 Serm. on Heb. 5.13.14 Lond. 1655. qu. One of these last two if I am not mistaken is intit The matching of the Magistrates Authority and the Christians true liberty in matters of Religion Plain mans Senses exercised to discern both good or evil or a discovery of the Errors Heresies and Blasphemies of these times c. Lond. 1655. qu. His Legacy or an help for young people to prepare them for the Sacrament Lond. 1656. 58 oct Cases of Conscience propounded in the time of Rebellion resolved Lond. 1661. oct Conscience informed touching our late Thanksgivings in a plain and modest discourse Lond. 1661. This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell you in what Vol. 't was printed At length this person who was of great Modesty and Vertues being tormented with a painful and sharp disease by the Witchcraft as 't is said of certain Quakers surrendred up his pious soul to God on the third day of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church at Shirebourne before mention'd By his last Will and Test he bequeathed to Magd. Coll. 120 l. towards the maintenance of a godly poor Scholar thereof in way of restitution for a sum of money which according to a corrupt custom of his time he did receive for the resignation of his Fellowship of that College You may see more of him his holy life and conversation in some Memorials of him delivered after his funeral sermon by W. H. D. of D. prefixed to The plain mans senses exercised c. before mention'd FRANCIS HOLYOKE who writes himself de sacrâ Quercu was born at Nether Whitacre in Warwickshire applied his mind to Academical Learning in this University in the year 1582 or thereabouts particularly in Queens Coll. as his son Thomas hath informed me but whether he took a degree it appears not Sure I am that after he had taught School partly here but mostly in his own Country was made Rector of Southam there in Feb. 1604. And being esteemed a grave and learned person was elected a Member of the Convocation of the Clergy 1 Car. 1. He hath written and published Sermon of Obedience especially unto Authority Ecclesiastical c. on Heb. 13.17 preached at a Visitation of Dr. Will. Hinton Archd. of Coventry Oxon. 1610. quart Dictionarium Etymologicum part 2. Riders Dictionary corrected and augmented Wherein Riders Index is translated into a Dictionary Etymological deriving every word from his native fountain c. Lond. 1606. c. in a thick quarto See more in John Rider under the year 1632. p. 495. This Dictionary was afterwards published several times with the addition of many hundred words out of the Law and out of the Latine French and other Languages c. This our Author concluded his last day on the 13 of Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and three and in that of his age 87 and was buried in S. Maries Church in Warwick having suffer'd much for the Kings Cause during the time of the grand Rebellion which began in 1642. He left behind him a son named Thomas whom I shall mention in his proper place GEORGE SINGE son of Rich. Singe alias Millington was born of gentile Parents at Bridgnorth in Shropshire became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1609 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1616 and afterwards became Chaplain as it seems to Dr. Christop Hampton Archb. of Armagh who not only made him his Vicar general but Dean of Dromore In 1638 Nov. 11. he was consecrated at Tredagh Bishop of Cloyne and soon after was made one of the Kings Privy Council in Ireland but upon the breaking out of the Rebellion there in 1641 he was forced to fly to Dublin for a time for his own security At length upon the death of Dr. Joh. Maxwell in Feb. 1646 he was as 't is said nominated to succeed him in the Archbishoprick of Tuam The next year he went into England and setling at his native place died in few years after as I shall anon tell you He was a learned man especially in Polemical Divinity the Civil and Canon Law and hath written A Rejoynder to the Reply of Will Malone Jesuit against Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland Dubl 1632. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day at Bridgnorth before mention'd in Winter time before the month of Jan. in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Mary Magdalen there He had a younger Brother named Edward born
Upminster in Essex and he the son of Adrian D'ewes a lineal descendant of the antient Family of Des Ewes Dynasts or Lords of the dition of Kessell in the Dutchy of Gelderlandht who came first thence into England in the time of K. Hen. 8. when that Dutchy had been much ruined wasted and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised and continued between Charles Duke thereof and Philip the Archduke and Charles the fifth his son 3 That he was educated in the University of Cambridge the antiquity of which he zealously asserted against that of Oxon. in a Speech spoken in a grand Committee of Parliament in Jan. 1640 as I have elsewhere told you and afterwards retired to his estate called Stow hall in Suffolk 4 That he was a Burgess for Sudbury in the same County to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 and soon after he was made a Baronet and in 1643 he took the Covenant I find going under his name these things following viz. 1 The Greek Postscripts of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus cleared in Parliament And an occasional Speech concerning the Bill of Acapitation or Poll money printed 1641 in one sheet and half in qu. 2 Speech in a grand Committee touching the antiquity of Cambridge 3 Sp. touching the priviledge of Parliament in Causes criminal and civil Which two Speeches were printed in 1641. 42. qu. 4 Sp. in Parl. on the xi of January concerning the proceedings against the eleven Bishops accused of High Treason an 1641 2. 5 The primitive practice for preserving truth or an historical narration c. Lond. 1645. qu. 6 Sp. in the H. of Commons 2â— Jul. 1644. qu. at the end of which is a Postscript by way of advice to all those who have gotten into their possessions either the Church Revenues or other mens Estates Lond. 1646. qu. in 2 sh 7 Journal of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth both of the House of Lords and H. of Commons Lond. 1682. fol. Revised and published by Paul Bowes of the Middle Temple Esq This person D'ewes who was a great searcher into Records and the best of his time for the knowledge of Coins and Coinage yet of a humourous and minical disposition died in the beginning of the year 1650 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Stowlangâ—oft in Suffolk I have seen a copy of his Will written by himself in Latine wherein are most particulars of his life recited But let 's go forward with the Works of Great Selden who hath also written Of the Judicature of Parliaments wherein the Controversies and Precedents belonging to the Title are methodically handled Lond. 1681. oct Englands Epinomis Of the original of ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Testaments Of the disposition or administration of Intestates goods These three last were published by Redman Westcot before mention'd with the English Translation of Jani Anglorum c. Lond. 1683. fol. Under his name is also published Table-talke being the discourses or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State Lond. 1689. qu. published by Rich. Milward who had observed his discourses for 20 years together Letters to learned men Among which are several to the learned and godly Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland as at the end of his life printed in fol. you may see Speeches Arguments Debates c. in Parliament He also had a great hand in and gave directions and advice towards that Edition of Plutarchs Lives printed 1657 with an addition of the year of the World and the year of our Lord together with many chronological notes and explanations out of divers Authors He left behind him also divers MSS. of his own writing some of which are since published as before you may see among these are 1 The life of Rog. Bacon 2 Collections of many Records and Antiquities 3 Collection of Notes and Records of various Subjects marked with M. 4 Extracts out of the leiger books of Battel Evesham Winton c. 5 Vindication of his history of Tithes This last I once saw in the library of MSS. belonging to his Godson named Joh. Vincent son of August Vincent sometimes Windsore Herald but where it is now I cannot tell At length after this great light of our Nation had lived to about the age of man was extinguished at Lond. on the last of Nov. being S. Andr. day in sixteen hundred fifty and four in the large house called the Carmelite or White Fryers then belonging to Elizabeth the Countess Dowager of Henry Earl of Kent whose estate he for several years had managed and commanded which was the reason he died very wealthy whereupon on Thursday the 14 of Decemb. following he was magnificently buried in the Temple Church on the south side of the round walk in the presence of all the Judges some of the Parl. men Benchers and great Officers His grave was nine foot deep at least the bottom pav'd with bricks and walled about two foot high with grey marble coarsly polished each piece being yoated that is fastned with lead molted in with iron champs Into this repository was the Corps in a woodden Coffin covered with a black cloth let down with a pulley or engine Which being done a stone of black polish'd marble six inches thick was let down also and made fast to the top of the repository with champs of iron yoated in to the end that in future ages when graves are dug there it might not be remov'd Upon the said marble stone was this engraven Hic inhumatur corpus Johannis Seldeni or to that effect Over the said sepulchre and stone was turned over or made an arch of brick the diameter being about three foot and above was left room to bury other bodies in future time On the surface of the earth even with the pavement of the Church was soon after laid a plain marble with the Bakers Arms engraven thereon and this Inscription Johannes Seldenus J. C. heic situs est Over which in the wall was fastned a white marble table and thereon an Epitaph made by himself a copy of which with encomiastical Verses under his printed picture made by Dr. Ger. Langbaine you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 350. The learned Usher Primate of Ireland preached his funeral Sermon but did not or could not say much of his sound Principles in Religion Mr. Ric. Johnson Master of the Temple buried him according to the Directory and said in his Speech with reference to the saying of a learned man that When a learned man dies a great deal of Learning dies with him and added that if Learning could have kept a man alive our brother had not died But notwithstanding the said Usher's silence concerning our Author's Religion Sir Matth. Hale one of his Executors hath often profess'd that Selden was a resolved serious Christian and that he was a great
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
1641. in qu. which I have not yet seen Catechisme for the use of the Parishoners of Gr. Greenford Lond. 1646. oct Sum of Religion Printed 1647. qu. Characters of a wicked heart hypocritical and sincere heart Printed in one sh◠Voyage to East India Wherein some things are taken notice of in his passage thither but many more in his abode there within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogul Lond. 1655. oct with the Authors picture before it The narrative of this voyage was written and disgested into order by the Author after his return thence and by him dedicated and presented in MS. to Prince Charles an 1622. Afterwards it was added to the Travels of Pet. de la Valle and abridged in Sam. Purchas his second part of Pilgrims book 9. Corolarie of serious and heedful but sad conclusions Printed at the end of the Voyage before mention'd Character of K. Ch. 2. with a short Apologie before it an introduction to it and conclusion after it Lond. 1660. qu. From which King he expected the Deanery of Windsore to be confer'd upon him but upon what ground seeing that he suffer'd neither for his or his fathers cause I know not He departed this mortal life on the 8. day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Greenford beforemention'd as I have been informed by his Son Edw. Terry a Non-conformist Divine somtimes Master of Arts and Fellow of University College THOMAS POWELL Son of Joh. Pow. Rector of Cantreffe near to and in the County of Brecknock was born there in 1608 made his first entrie into this University in 1625 elected Scholar of Jesus Coll. in 162◠took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Fellow of that House About which time applying his mind to the faculty of Theologie he entred into the sacred function and at length became Rector of the place of his nativity In the time of the Civil War he suffer'd much for the Kings cause and being sequestred of his spiritualities ship'd himself beyond the Seas for a time After the return of Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms he was restored to them was actually created D. of D. and made Canon of S David and would without doubt have risen higher in the Church had he not been untimely snatch'd away from it He was a Person well vers'd in several sorts of learning was an able Philosopher a curious Critick was well skill'd in various languages and not to be contemn'd for his knowledge in Divinity He hath written Elementa Opticae nova facili compendiosâ methodo explicata c. Lond. 1651. oct Commended to the World by the copies of verses of Olor Iscanus and Eugenius Philalethes his Brother Quadriga Salutis or the four general heads of Christian Religion surveyed and explained Lond. 1657. oct At the latter end of which are some annotations of the same Author in the Welsh tongue A Catechistical Tract of the Lords Prayer the Creed and ten Commandements This I have not yet seen and therefore I know not to the contrary but that it may be the same with his Catechisme in Welsh and English Humane industry or a history of most manual Arts deducing the original progress and improvement of them c. Lond. 1661. in oct This I have in my study but his name is not set to it He translated from Ital. into English Stoa Triumphans Two letters of the noble and learned Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi one in praise of banishment the other in contempt of honor and from French into English 1 Recueil de novellis Lettres or the last letters of Monsieur de Balsac 2 The unfortunate Politick or the life of Herod He left behind him a Ms of his composition unpublished intit Fragmenta de rebus Britannicis A short account of the lives manners and religion of the British Druids and the Bards c. As also two translations one from the Latine and another from the Italian tongue That from the Latine hath this title The Insubrian Historie containing an exact account of the various fates civil commotions battles and seiges acted upon the theater of Lombardie and the adjacent parts of Italy c. written originally by the learned Puteanus And that from the Ital. hath this The Christian politic Favourite or a vindication of the politic transactions of the Count-Duke de S. Lucar the great Minister of State and favourite counsellour to Philip the 4. of Spayne Written originally by Virg. Malvezzi before mention'd it was before traduced but in this translation all things were righted therein by our Author T. Powell who giving way to fate at London on the last day of December in sixteen hundred and sixty was the next day buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet Lond. leaving then behind him the character of a most ingenious and polite Person WALTER RUMSEY an Esquires Son was born in Monmouthshire at Llannover as I have been informed became a Gent. Com. of Glocester Hall in 1600 aged 16 years but leaving that house without a Scholastical degree retired to Greys-inn studied the municipal Law was made Barrester Bencher Lent-Reader 9. Car. 1 and at length a Judge in South Wales being then so noted for his profession that he was usually called The picklock of the Law In 1640 he was elected one of the Knights for Monmouthshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13. Apr. and might have been chosen again to serve in the Long Parliament but refused it He was an ingenious man had a Philosophical head was a good Musician and most curious for graftng inoculating and planting and also for ordering of Ponds But that which he is to be most noted for is that he having been always much troubled with flegme was the first that invented the Provangg or Whalebone instrument to cleanse the throat and stomack which hath not only been since used by noted Physicians and Vertuosi at home but by those beyond the Seas At length he wrot a book of it and its use entit Organon Salutis An instrument to cleanse the stomach Lond. 1657. 59 oct To which he added Divers new experiments of the vertue of Tobacco and Coffey Before both which are two Epistles written to the Author one by Sir Hen. Blount in praise of Tobacco and Coffey and the other by Jam. Howell in praise of those two and the Provangg What other books our Author Rumsey hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he dying in his house at Llannover about sixteen hundred and sixty was buried in the Parish Church there near to the bodies of his Relations He had a Son named Edward who was entred a Gentleman Communer of Broadgates Hall an 1623 21. Jacobi 1. RICHARD ZOUCHE or Zouchaeus as he somtimes writes himself the Cadet of an antient and noble Family was born of worthy parents in the Parish
Provinces of Flanders Lond. 1652. fol. written by Guido Cardinal Bentivoglio 3 Hist of the Wars of Flanders Lond. 1654. fol. written by the said Cardinal This translation hath the E. of Monmouths picture before it 4 Advertisements from Pernassus in two centuries with the politick touchstone Lond. 1656. fol. written by Trajano Boccalini 5 Politick discourses in three books Lond. 1657. fol. written by Paul Paruta a noble Venetian to which is added a Short Soloquie in which Paruta briefly examines the whole course of his life 6 Historie of Venice in two parts Lond. 1658. fol. written by the said Paruta with the Wars of Cyprus wherein the famous seiges of Nicossia and Famagosta and the battle of Lepanta are contained He also began to translate from the said Italian Language The Historie of France written by the Count Gualdo Priorato but died after he had made some progress therein Afterwards it was finished by Will. Brent Esq and printed at Lond. 1677. fol. being the same Person that had before wrot a book intit A discourse upon the nature of eternity and the condition of a separated Soul according to the grounds of reason and principles of Christian Religion Lond. 1655 in a small oct written while he was a Prisoner in the Gatehouse at Westminster It was afterwards printed there again in 1674 in 6. sh and an half in qu. By the way it must be known that tho we have had several of the Brents who have been Students in this University yet this Will. Brent was not but educated while a youth in the Coll. of English Jesuits at S. Omer Afterwards being entred into the society of Greys-inn he became a Barrister and a Solicitor or such like Officer under Tho. Earl of Strafford when he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland He was born at Stoke Lark in Glocestershire in the Parish of Ilmington in Warwickshire and having suffered much for his Religion by Imprisonments payments of money and I know not what lived privately several years at Foxcote in Warwickshire and in his last days at London He died in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London in the beginning of the year 1691 aged 80 years or more He the said Hen. Carey E. of Monmouth did also translate from French into English 1 The use of the passions Lond. 1649. oct 2 Man become guilty or the corruption of his nature by sin printed at Lond. Both written by Joh. Franc. Senault before the first of which is the picture of the said Earl a shoulder peice standing on a Pedestall What other translations this noble Count hath made besides unless The Hist of the late Wars of Christendome printed in fol. 1648. which I have not yet seen I know not nor any thing else of him only that he giving way to fate on the 13 of June in sixteen hundred sixty and one was buried in the Church of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire He had an ingenious Brother named Thomas whom I have mention'd in the Fasti 1613. One H. Cary a Lawyer hath written The Law of England or a true guide for all Persons concerned in Ecclesiastical Courts printed 1666 in tw but what relation he hath to the Earl I know not WILLIAM TAYLOR was born at Kighley in Yorks 30. Sept. 1616. entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in 1631 took one degree in Arts was made Schoolmaster of Keniton or Keynton in Herefordshire proceeded in his faculty went to Cirencester in Glocestershire about the latter end of 1639 became Schoolmaster there in the place of Henry Toppe then ejected by the puritanical Townsmen But that Town being taken by storm by the Royal party 2. Feb. 1642 Toppe was restored So that Taylor retiring to London became Preacher at Bowe near that City and afterwards Minister of S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet in the place of Joh. Goodwin turn'd out by the Parliament But he meeting with opposition there he exercised his function for some time in a Church in Woodstreet and kept a Lecture at S. Giles near Cripplegate every Sunday and another Lecture on a week day at S. Peters Cornhill Afterwards being recalled by the Rump Parliament to S. Stephens he kept it to his dying day He was a frequent Preacher not only in his own but in other Churches and a laborious and learned man in his profession He hath written and published Sermons as 1 Serm. on Phil. 2.10 and others as 't is said which I have not yet seen and also collected and reviewed several of Mr. Christop Loves Sermons before they went to the press and set epistles before some of them He died on the fifth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Stephen beforemention'd at which time Dr. William Spurstow of Hackney preached his funeral Sermon wherein he spoke many things to his honour which for brevity sake I now omit This Will. Taylor tho he was a zealous Presbyterian yet he was a lover of the King in all revolutions as a Doctor of his perswasion hath often told me BARTEN HOLYDAY Son of Thomas Holyday a Taylor was born in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxford in an house opposite to Linc. College entred into Ch. Ch. and exhibited unto by his kinsman Dr. Ravis somtimes Dean of that House an 1605 aged 12. or more years and was I think at that time a Chorister Afterwards when he was about to take the degree of Bach. of Arts he was elected one of the number of Students being then noted to have a most admirable veine in Poetry and Oratory In 1615 he proceeded in Arts took Holy Orders soon after became a most eloquent and quaint Preacher and had two Benefices in the Dioc. of Oxon. confer'd on him whereof one was the rectory of Crowell In 1618 he went as Chaplain to Sir Franc. Steaart when he conducted to Spaine Dedicus Sarmiento de Acunna the Earl of Gundamore after he had continued several years in the English Court as an Embassador from the K. of that Country in which journey behaving himself in a facete and pleasant way did much obtain the favour of that Count. Afterwards he became Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and succeeded Mr. Will. Bridges Son of Dr. John Bridges B. of Ox in the Archdeaconry of Oxon. before the year 1626. In 1642 he was by vertue of the Letters of the said King actually created with others Doct. of Divinity and sheltred himself in and near Oxon during the time of rebellion but when the royal Party declin'd and the Independent had taken place upon the installation of Oliver to the Protectorship he who before had lost his Livings and the profits of his Archdeaconry did side with that faction so far as to undergo the examination of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors in order to be inducted into the rectory of Chilton in Berks in the place of one Tho. Laurence ejected for being not Compos mentis For which
and of the repulse given to the Rebels at the Town of Newark Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh in qu. View of the proceedings in the West for a pacification Letter to a Gent. in Leycestershire about the Treatie at Uxbridge shewing that all the overtures which have been made for peace and accommodation have proceeded from his Majestie only Printed 1643 in 4. sh in qu. The Roundheads remembrancer or a true and particular relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by his Maj. Subjects of Cornwall under the command of Sir Ralph Hopton in Tuesday 16. May 1643. Printed 1643 in one sh in qu. This Pamphlet is generally said to have been written by Heylyn Relation of the proceedings of S. Joh. Gell. This is the same if I mistake not with a Pamph. intit Theeves Theeves or a relation of Sir Jo. Gells proceedings in Derbyshire in gathering up the rents of the Lords and Gentlemen of that Country by pretended authority from the two Houses of Parliament printed 1643. qu. This Sir John Gell who was Son of Tho. Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire Gent. became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1610 left it without a degree exercised himself in martial seats beyond the Seas retired to his patrimony was made a Baronet in Jan. 1641 and being then a Presbyterian took up arms soon after for the Parliament became a Colonel and one of their Champions Afterwards hating the proceedings of the Independents when they had murder'd the King he entred into a plot against the Parliament in which Coll. Euseb Andrews being engaged suffer'd death an 1650. for which being imprison'd was at length tried for his life before the High Court of Justice but being found only guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it he was condemn'd to loose his estate and to perpetual imprisonment from the last of which he was released by order of Parliament 5. of Apr. 1653. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster in Nov. 1671 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was as I suppose buried at Hopton Quaere having had this character given of him by the Presbyterians while they were dominant that he was a man beloved of his Country and feared by his enemies valiant in his actions and faithful in his ends to promote truth and peace Of the same family was Rob. Gell D. D. of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire and sometimes Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury which Doctor died in the very beginning of the year 25. of March or thereabouts 1665. The black ✚ Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of this present rebellion c. The Rebells Catechisme composed in an easie and familiar way to let them see the hainousness of their offence c. Printed 1643. in 4. sh in qu. Discourse in answer to the common but groundless clamour of the Papists nick-naming the religion of the Church of England by the name of a Parliament Religion Written in 1644 at the request of George Ashwell of Wadham Coll. But when this book was printed it had this title following put to it Parliaments power in Lawes for religion or an answer to that old and groundless calumny of the Papists nick-naming c. Oxon. 1645. in 6. sh in qu. In another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7. sh in qu. it hath this title The way of reformation of the Church of England declared and justified against the clamours of our Adversaries reproaching the religion here by law established by the name of a Parliament religion c. This was afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Brief relation of the death and sufferings of the most reverend and renowned Prelate the L. Archb. of Canterbury with a copie of his speech and other passages on the Scaffold more perfect than hath been hitherto imprinted Oxon. 1644 in 4 sh in qu. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library c. Lond. 1649. 50. and 59. oct Heylyns name is not set to it but 't is generally known to be his collection from some of the works of K. Ch 1. In this book is inserted the conference between K. Ch. 1. and the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland which by many is taken to be authentick because published by Heylyn See more among the Writers in the first vol. in Lewis Bayly p. 486. Stumbling block of disobedience c. in answer to and examination of the two last sections in Calvins institutions against Soveraigne Monarchy MS. written in 1644. printed at Lond. 1658. qu. with this title The Stumbling block of disobedience and rebellion cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way discovered censured and removed The promised seed Written in vers The undeceiving the People in the point of Tithes c. Lond. 1648. 51. Published under the name of Ph. Treleinie which is an Anagram for Peter Heylyn Reprinted at Lond. in qu. 1657. in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Theologia Veterum The sum of Christian Theologie contained in the Creed according to the Greeks and Latines c. lib. 3. Lond. 1654. and 1673. fol. Full relation of two journies The one into the main Land of France The other into some of the adjacent Islands in 5 Books Lond. 1656. qu. These adjacent Islands are Guernsey and Jersie c. Survey of the estate of the two Islands Guernsey and Jersie with the isles depending c. in one book Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the former and both were published by their Author Pet. Heylyn because a little before a false copy of them had crept abroad under the title of France painted to the life as I shall farther tell you anon Observations on The Historie of the raigne of K. Charles published by Hamon L'estrange Esq for illustration of the storie c. Lond. 1656. oct Upon the coming out of which observations L'Estrange printed another edit of the said Hist Lond. 1656. fol. and at the end added a book intit The Observator observed or animadversions upon the observations on the History of K. Charles c. Whereupon our Author Heylyn came out with this book following entit Extraneus Vapulans or the Observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L'Estrange Esq and the back blows of Dr. Nich. Bernard an Irish Dean Lond. 1656. oct In our Authors Epist to the reader before this book dat 7. June 1656 he tells us that in one week of the last term he was plundered twice first of his name and secondly of his good name Of his name by one Will. Leak a Bookseller who publishing a discourse of his Dr. Heylyns under the title of France painted to the life by a false and imperfect copy hath fathered it in Stationers Hall on one Rich. Bignall a Fellow to him utterly unknown Secondly plundered of his good name by Ham. L'Estrange Esq by loading him with abusive language Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified 1 In the
he was one of the pillars of Presbytery and by others a person learned and well read in the Fathers and Councils One Mr. Ley a learned Divine wrot a book about 1624. intit The Christian Nomenclator c. against the Papists mention'd in Joh. Gee's book intit The foot out of the snare c. Lond. 1624. qu. p. 17. in marg whether the same with our Author Joh. Ley I know not HENRY JACKSON Son of Hâ—n Jacks Mercer was born in S. Maries parish within the City of Oxon admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. on the first of Dec. 1602 aged 17 years or thereabouts having for two years before been Clerk of the said house admitted probat Fellow thereof 5 of Sept. 1612 to the reading of the Sentences five years after and at length upon the death of Dr. Seb. Benefield sometimes his Tutor he became Rector of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire which was all the preferment he ever look'd after for being a studious and cynical person he never expected or desired more He was a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Joh. Rainolds whose memories being most dear to him he did for the sake of the first industriously collect and publish some of his small Treatises and of the latter several of his Epistles and Orations He also did diligently recognize and added marginal notes with a copious Index to the twelve books of Jo. Lud. Vives sometimes Rhetorick Reader of C. C. Coll. seven of the former of which are De corruptis Artibus the other five De tradendis disciplinis He had also made a Collection of several of the Works of Pet. Abaelard from antient MSS. of that Author had revised compared and collected them All which he did intend at his own charge to publish but the grand Rebellion breaking forth in 1642 the Soldiers belonging to the Parliament rifled his house scatter'd the said Collection and made it so imperfect that it could never be recovered He hath written Vita Ciceronis ex variis autoribus collecta Commentarii in Ciceronis Quaest lib. quintum Both which dedicated by the Author to Dr. Seb. Benefield are remaining under the Authors hand in my custody but whether they were ever printed I cannot tell He also translated from English into Latine Commentarii super 1 cap. Amos Openheim 1615. oct written by the said Dr. Benefield as I have elsewhere told you Also Joh. Fryth's book of Baptisme which he intituled De Baptismo cognitione sui next Joh. Hoopers Lectures on the Creed and lastly Hugh Latymers Oration to the Convocation concerning the state of the Kingdom to be reformed by the Gospel Which last Translation had before been done by Sim. Gryneus But whether these three last which are in MS. in my hands are published I cannot tell nor do I know any thing of the Translator besides only that he dying on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meis Hamp near to the grave of Dr. Benefield before mention'd I find another Hen. Jackson to be Author of The description of the little world or body of man printed 1660 in oct but of what University he was if of any I know not THOMAS MERRIOT was born at Steeple Langford in Wilts educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1610 aged 21 years or more took one degree in the Civil Law and for a time taught in the Grammar-school joyning to the Cloister there Afterwards being presented to the Vicaridge of Swaclyve near Banbury in Oxfordshire by the Warden and Society of the said Coll. he preached there and taught Grammar to the time of his death He hath written Vulgaria sive miscellanea prosaica hinc inde decerpta ad discipulos non vulgares è ludis literariis emittendos quà m maximè conducentia modo solerter edoceantur c. in novem classes distributa Oxon. 1652. oct Adagia selectissima c. Ib. eod an oct He died at Swaclyve on the 19 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and two after he had been Vicar of that place 38 years and was two days after buried in the Church there EDWARD STANLEY was born of gentile Parents in the Parish of S. Peter within the City of Chichester educated in Wykeham's School made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. 1608 aged 20 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts left the said Coll. in 1623 and was about that time made Master of the said School and afterwards Prebendary of Winchester and Doct. of Div. He hath published Several Sermons three of which were preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester The first on Sunday Aug. 19. an 1660 at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that Church on Psal 14.7 The second on Jan. 30. an 1661 being the Anniversary of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory on Jer. 4.20 And the third at the general Assize held at Winton 25 Feb. 1661. on Isay 1.26 Lond. 1662. in oct In which year the Author died and was buried at Winchester leaving then behind him the character of a learned godly and orthodox Minister of Gods word HENRY JEANES Son of Christop Jeanes of Kingston in Somersetshire was born at Allensay in that County as I have been informed by one of his rural disciples became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsomer term in the year 1626 aged 15 years where pecking and hewing continually at Logick and Physicks became a most noted and ready Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he removed to Hart Hall took holy Orders and soon after was cried up for a learned Preacher in the University In the beginning of Aug. 1635 he was presented by Sir Joh. Windham to the Rectory of Beer-Crocomb and Capland in Somersetshire and soon after became Vicar of Kingston in the same County At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians notwithstanding he had before while he continued in the University been a scoffer of them and when Dr. Walt. Raleigh was thrown out of Chedsey near Bridgwater he became Rector of the Church there where during the times of Usurpation he took into his family divers Youths designed for the University and read to them contrary to his Oath Logick and Philosophy and had often times set Disputations among them while he himself moderated He was a most excellent Philosopher a noted Metaphysitian and well grounded in polemical Divinity He was also a scholastical man a contemner of the World generous free-hearted jolly witty and facetious and in many things represented the humour of Dr. Rob. Wild the Poet. All which qualities do very rarely or seldom meet in men of the Presbyterian perswasion who generally are morose clownish and of sullen and reserved natures The books that he hath written and published are many the titles of most if not all follow Treatise concerning a Christians careful abstinence
before Insomuch that in compliance with the whimsical and ridiculous fickleness of an humoursome age what of this kind was but just now received from the Press with all possible marks of acceptance and approbation is soon after as not suited to the fashionable mode of the nice and delicate palet of the present times decryed and condemned by the same Persons as flat dull and insipid Notwithstanding this observation generally almost holds good yet Dr. Sandersons Sermons and indeed all his other genuine works have not by their age lost the least of their former repute For such is that solidity and clearness of reason which runs through all his discourses and writings pen'd in such a manly and lasting a language that so long as men make these the only tests and measures of their judgings and censures as they do still so must they needs likewise in after ages continue in the greatest esteem and veneration and he be always placed in the highest and first rank of English writers Two cases of conscience resolved Lond. 1628. oct Three more added Lond. 1667. 8. oct Another Lond. 1674 and another in 1678. In all nine and repr 1678 and 1685. in oct De juramenti promissorii obligatione praelectiones septem in Schola Theol. Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. and 83. in oct Printed also at Lond. in Engl. 1655. oct This is the book which I have before hinted that was translated into English by K. Ch. 1. writ with his own hand and by him shew'd to his Servants Jam. Harrington and Tho. Herbert commanding them then to examine it with the original which they did and found it accurately translated Not long after his Maj. communicated it to Dr. Juxon B. of Lond Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sheldon his Majesties Chaplains in ordinary but the particular time when I cannot tell Oratio habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. cum publicam professionem auspicaretur 26. oct 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. 83. oct Censure of Mâ— A. A. his book of the confusions and revolutions of Government Lond. 1649. The next year came out a reply to that censure by Anon. De obligatione conscientiae praelectiones decem Oxonii in Schola Theol. habitae an 1647. Lond. 1660. 70. 76. 82. oct The same in English came out with this title Several cases of conscience discussed in 10 Lectures at Oxon. Lond. 1660. oct Published at the instant desire of Rob. Boyle Esq an encourager of Dr. Sandersons studies in the time of his affliction Episcopacy as established by law in England not prejudicial to regal power c. Lond. 1661. 73. 83. oct His judgment for setling the Church in exact resolutions of sundry grand cases Oxon. 1663. qu. This is at the end of a book intit Reason and judgment or special remarks of the life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Linc. Reprinted I mean His judgment at Lond. 1678. oct Physicae scientiae compendium Oxon. 1671. oct Whether ever before printed I know not His judgment concerning submission to Usurpers Lond. 1678. oct Pax Ecclesiae Lond. 1678. oct in English These two with His judgment for setling c. before mention'd and the Oxford reasons are to be seen in his life printed in oct Discourse concerning the Church in these particulars 1 concerning the visibility of the true Church 2 concerning the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1688 in about 5 â—h in qu. Published by Dr. Will. Assheton of Brasn Coll. from a Ms copy which he had from Mr. Josias Pullen of Magd. Hall in Oxon Domestick Chaplain to the said Bishop at the time of his death He also had the chief hand in a book intit Reasonâ— of the University of Oxon against the Covenant c. wherein the matters that refer to reason and conscience are his yet notwithstanding tho Dr. Zouch drew up the Law part the whole goes under his name He also wrot 1 The large Preface before a book which he faithfully published out of the original copy entit The power communicated by God to the Prince and the obedience required of the Subjects Lond. 1660. 1. in qu. there again in 1683 oct Written by Dr. Jam. Usher Archb. of Armagh 2 The Preface to a collection of Treatises made by the said Archb. bearing the title of Clavi Trabales or nails fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies c published by Nich. Bernard D. D. Lond. 1661. It consists of several Treatises written by Dr. Usher Mr. Ric. Hooker Lanc. Andrews Adr. Saravia c. 3 Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Printed in a book intit Fair warning the second part Lond. 1663. and left a fragment of an Answer to Dr. Tho. Baylies Challenge Which challenge a certain Author calls a piece of transparent Sophistry as was ever called Demonstration And tho the weakness and inconsequence of it hath been sufficiently displayed yet such is the pleasure of some men that it hath been printed and reprinted with as much assurance as if not the least notice had been ever taken of it He also had the chief hand in reviewing the Common Prayer at the Savoy an 1661 being one of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose and was the Author and Writer of several Letters to Dr. Hammond in Dr. Hammonds works about those knotty points which are by the learned called the Quinquarticular controversie Several Treatises also he had laying by him which were esteemed by those that had seen them most worthy of publication but a little before his death he caused them to be burnt least after they might come out imperfectly for lucre sake He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on Thursday 29 of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Bugden before mention'd in the 76 year of his age Over his grave was soon after a marble stone laid with an Inscription engraven thereon made by himself a Copy of which being printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. shall be now omitted and in its room shall this be said that whether you consider him in his writings or conversation from his first book of Logick to his Divinity Lectures Sermons and other excellent discourses the vastness of his judgment the variety of his learning all laid out for publick benefit his unparallel'd meekness humility and constancy you cannot but confess that the Church of England could not loose a greater pillar a better man and more accomplish'd Divine Pray be pleased to see more of him in a book entit The life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Lincolne Lond. 1678. oct Written by Isaac Walton and in the book before mention'd entit Reason and judgment or special remarks c. ROBERT VILVAIN a most noted Physician of his time in the West parts of England Son of Peter Vilvaine sometimes Steward of the City of Exeter by Anne his Wife was born in the Parish of Allhallows in Goldsmith-street within the said City and educated there in Grammar
sermon is numbred among those before mention'd Discourse upon the Beatitudes Left by the Author unfinish'd Christian consolation taught from five heads 1. Faith 2. Hope 3. Holy Spirit 4. Prayer 5. The Sacraments Lond. 1671. oct Contemplations of the state of Man in this life and in that which is to come Lond. 1684. oct Moral demonstration proving that the Religion of Jesus Christ is from God Lond. 1687. oct set at the end of A copy of a letter written to a Gentlewoman newly seduced to the Ch. of Rome printed then again at Lond. being one of the five letters before mention'd with some other little works of the said Author The said Moral demonstration had before been printed with one of the edit of his Cases of Conscience These are all the books and sermons as I conceive that this most worthy and eminent Author hath written and therefore I shall only add that he being overtaken with a violent fever surrendred up his pious soul to the omnipotent at Lisburne alias Lisnegarvy on the thirteenth day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in a Chappel of his own erection on the ruins of the old Cathedral of Dromore In that See succeeded his most dear and excellent friend who preached his funeral sermon and afterwards made it publick named George Rust D. D. sometimes Fellow of Christs Coll. in Cambridge a learned Divine and an eloquent Preacher who dying in Dec. about S. Thomas day in 1670 was buried in the same Vault wherein the said B Taylor had been deposited After him succeeded in the same See Drâ—more Dr. Essex Digby and him Capel Wisemâ—n Dean of Raphoe sometimes Fellow of All 's College an 1683. STEPHEN SKINNER Son of Joh. Skin of London Gent. was born either in that City or in the County of Middlesex applied his studies to academical learning in the condition of a Communer as it seems in the royal foundation called Christ Church an 1638 aged 16 years or thereabouts but before he could take one degree the most unnatural Rebellion broke out to the great horror and reluctancy of all good men so that travelling beyond the seas he made progress in the studies of Arts and Philosophy in several Universities with very great improvement In 1646 or thereabouts he returned to his native Countâ—y and the Garrison of Oxford being that year reduced for the use of the Parliament he returned to the then disconsolate Muses and took both the degr in Arts that year Afterwards he finished his rambles in several Countries as in France Italy Germany the Spanish Netherlands c. visited the Courts of diveâ—s Princes frequented several Universities and obtained the company and friendship of the most learned men of them At length upon the renovation of the University of Heidelberge by Charles Lewis Elector Palatine he was adorned there with the degr of Doctor of Physick and held in admiration by all learned men at that place Afterwards returning once more to his native Country and to his Mother the Univ. of Oxon then quite alter'd to what he had left it was there incorporated in the same degr an 1654. About which time setling within the City of Lincoln practised his faculty there and in the neighbourhood with good success and therefore much resoâ—â—ed to by persons of all quality and beloved of the Gentâ—y He was a person well vers'd in most parts of learning understood all books whether old or new was most skilful in the oriental Tongues an excellent Greecian and in short a living library He hath written Prolegomena Etymologica with a large preface to it and these things following Etymolâ—gâ—con linguae Anglicanâ—e Eâ—ym Botanicum Eâ—ymolâ—gica Expâ—sitio vocum forensium Etymol vocum omnium Anglicarum Etym Onomasticon c. He died of a malignant fever at Lincolne before mention'd on the fifth day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried in the Cath. Church there After his death his before mention'd Works which had been by him left imperfect came into the hands of Thomas Henshaw of Kensington near London Esq who correcting and digesting them and adding many words to them of his own were publâ—â—hed 〈…〉 with an Epistle before them to the Reader of Mâ— Hâ—â—shâ—w's writing an 1671. fol. with this 〈◊〉 Eâ—yâ—â—lâ—gicon linguae Anglicanae c. In which book 〈◊〉 Woâ—ds and Additions and Explanations that have 〈…〉 H put to them were done by the said Th. 〈◊〉 a noted Critick sometimes a Communer of Univ. 〈◊〉 and therefore hereafter to be numbred among the 〈◊〉 Wâ—â—tâ—rs See more of Dr. Skinner in Hist 〈◊〉 Univ. Oxâ—n lib. 2. pag. â—80 JOHN READING born of sufficient Parents in Buckinghamshire was admitted a Student in Magd. Hall in 〈…〉 of the year 1604. aged 16 years took the 〈…〉 that of Master being compleated in 1610 〈…〉 a little bâ—fore the Camiâ—ia he had 〈◊〉 â—imself a 〈◊〉 of S. Alb. Hall On the last 〈…〉 1612 â—he was ordained Deacon by John Bishop of 〈◊〉 in the Church of Nowenham Courtney and on the 〈◊〉 of June 1614 he was made a Priest by the said Bishâ—p in the Church of Dorchester in the County of Oxon. 〈◊〉 that time he became Chaplain to Edward Lord 〈◊〉 of Harâ—â—gworth Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governour of Dover Castle with whom going to Dâ—ver where he preached divers Sermons he was at the instant request of the Parishioners of S Maries who 〈◊〉 very much taken with his preaching made Miniâ—â—â—â— of that Church â— Dec. 161â— So that being setled there he was very much resorted to for his frequent and edifying Sermons and held in great esteem by the neighbourhood especially by the puritanical party Afterwards he was made Chapl. in ord to K. Ch. 1. and Bach. of of Divinity but whether of this University it appears not Upon the change of the times occasion'd by the violent Presbyterians he seemed much to discountenance them in his Sermons and Discourses and therefore in Apr. 1642 his study of books at Dover was plundered by one .... Sandys of Northborne in Kent a Militia Officer who usually shew'd his valour by plundring several of the loyal inhabitants in the County of Kent and in Nov. following he was by the command of Sir Edw. Boys a Parliamenteer taken violently by Soldiers out of his study being then upon his Paraphrase upon the whole Evangelist of S. John and had gone as far as the 8 and 9 verse of the 5 chap. and sent to prison and banishment for a year and seven months and not at all restored to his Cure of Souls at Dover Which Sir Edward that he might comply with the Schismaticks did prosecute so long as he lived our Author Reading to his utter undoing On the 27 of Jan. following 1642 his Majesty having had notice of his Sufferings sent his letters to Archb. Laud then a prisoner in the Tower that he bestow the Parsonage of Chartham in Kent upon him then void
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
prospect of Qu. Cath. the Royal Consort of K. Ch. 2 she found means to have it pluck'd down Some time after his Majesties restauration he invented a new way of farthings of which he made demonstration to the King and Council so plainly that they were satisfied that they could not possibly be counterfeited and that one farthing could not be like another but that they should differ in some little thing And having then a design to get a patent for the making of them for England was put aside by Pr. Rupert and at length was content with one only for Ireland To which place taking a journey soon after died there before he could effect his design He hath written and published A design for bringing a river from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire to S. Giles in the Fields near London The benefits of it declared and the objections against it answerâ—d Lond. 1641. in 5. or 6. sh in qu. Experimental proposals how the K. may have money to pay and maintain his Fleets with ease to the people London may be rebuilt and all proprietors satisfied money may be lent at 6 l. per cent on pawns and the fishing trade set up and all without straining or thwarting any of our laws and customs Lond. 1666. qu. Defence of Bill-credit Printed at the end of the former pamphlet About the year 1663 he printed an ingenious proposal for the raising of money by bills of exchange which should pass current instead of money to prevent robbery but this I have not yet seen He died in Ireland on the 3. of Sept. in sixteen hundred and seventy and his body being brought into England was buried in the Church at Harting by its Ancestors He was a great Virtuoso of his time yet none of the Royal Society and might have done greater matters if that he had not been disincouraged for those things he had done before HENRY YELVERTON Baronet was born of an antient and gentile family at Easton Manduit or Mauduit in Northamptonshire baptized there 6 of July 1633 educated in Grammar learning in S. Pauls School in London admitted a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1650 where he made as great proficiency in several sorts of learning as his age was capable of and became so exact a Latinist and Greecian that none of his time went beyond him He hath written A short discourse of the truth and reasonableness of the religion delivered by Jesus Christ Wherein the several arguments for Christianity are briefly handled the miracles done by our Saviour Apostles and Christians c. Lond. 1662. oct To which is added A disquisition touching the Sybils and Sybilline writings c. Written by John Twysden Broth. to Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent both the Uncles of Sir H. Yelverton who hath also written something in vindication of the Church of England against Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. which I have not yet seen and a preface to a book of Dr. Tho. Morton Bish of Durham entit The Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolical from the authority of the Primitive Church c. Pr. in oct Which Bishop Sir Hen. had kept in his family several years in the time of that Bishops persecution and was as tender of him as of his parent shewing thereby as indeed he was a true Son of the Church of England He died in the flower of his age on the 3. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried at Easton Manduit among the graves of his relations leaving then behind him by Susan his wife sole daughter and heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen Charles his eldest Son afterwards a Noble-man of Ch. Ch. and called up to the House of Lords where he took his place as Lord Grey of Ruthen He died of the small pox unmarried in his Lodgings in the Pall-mall within the liberty of Westm on the 17. of May 1679 and was as I suppose buried at Easton Manduit CHRISTOPHER AIRAY was born at Clifton in Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1621 where going through the servile offices was made Fellow when Master of Arts About which time entring into holy Orders according to the statutes of that House he became a Preacher was actually created Bac. of Div. in 1642 and afterwards made Vicar of Milford in Hampshire He hath written Fasciculus Praeceptorum Logicalium in gratiam juventutis Academiae Oxon compositus Oxon. 1660. sec edit in oct and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died on S. Lukes day in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Milford before mention'd· Over his grave was soon after put this epitaph Memoriae sacrum Christopheri Airay S. T. Bac. olim Coll. Reg. Oxon. socii hujus ecclesiae Vicarii vigilantissimi viri summae integritatis judicii acerrimi ingenii literarum omnium capacis qui deficillimo seculo inter aestuantes rerum fluctus clavum rectum tenuit Mortalitati tandem exuit 18. Oct. annos natus 69. c. SAMUEL KEME or Kem was born according to the Matricula in the City of London became a Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Act term 1621 aged 16 years but how long he continued there I know not Sure I am that a certain author tells us that for those few weeks he wore a gown in Magd. Hall he obtained the title of a most notorious lyer that ever wore long ears In 1624 he was elected Demie of Magd. Coll at which time he said that he was born in Surrey and that he was in the nineteenth year of his age In that House he continued till after he was Bach. of Arts and then taking holy Orders he had a cure bestowed on him In 1636 the King being then in Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Divinity about which time he became Rector of the Church at Oldbury commonly called Albury near Ricot in Oxfordshire and a retainer if I mistake not to the family of Edward Wray of Ricot Esq Patron of the said Church by virtue of his marriage with Elizabeth the dau and heir of Francis L. Norris Earl of Berks. At the turn of the times in 1641 he put a Curate into his Living sided with the Rebels took the Covenant was made Chaplain to and Captain of a Troop of Horse in the Regiment of Basil Earl of Denbigh prayed and preached often to encourage the Soldiers to fight laid open to them the righteousness of their cause preached against the K. and his followers and endeavoured to make them believe that all that were about him were Papists or at least popishly affected When any Officer of the Regiment was kill'd he was ready to preach his funeral Sermon particularly that of Major Pinkney slain in the beginning of July 1644 and was ready at all hours to do the like provided the party died not a natural death When he
he died on the 10. of March another by Anon. who tells us the 12. of the said month c. but both false HUGH CRESSEY or Cressy son of Hugh Cressey a Counsellour of Lincolns Inn by Margerie his wife dau of Dr. Tho. D'oylie a Physitian of London was born in a market Town in Yorksh called Wakefield descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living sometimes at Holme near Hodsack in Nottinghamshire and being educated in Grammar learning in his native country was at 14 years of age sent to the University of Oxon. in Lent term an 1619 but for want of a vigilant Tutor he lost much time yet having good natural parts did in the fourth year after his coming to the Univ. take the degree of Bach. of Arts and in 1625 being a candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. he was elected Probationer and the year after was made true and perpetual Fellow So that what time and learning he before had lost was by a strict and severe discipline then and there observed recovered and advanced After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had entred into holy Orders he became Chaplain to Thom. Lord Wentworth while he was President of the North and afterwards when he was Earl of Strafford but what he obtained from that most noble Lord while he enjoyed that honourable employment I know not In 1638 he went in the quality of a Chaplain as I conceive with his most honoured Lord Lucius Viscount Falkland when he went into Ireland and in the year after returned into England but had nothing then and there conser'd upon him In the latter end of 1642 he became by the favour and interest of the said Viscount then one of the Secretaries of State Canon of Windsore in the room of Dr. Gilb. Primerose deceased but was never installed in that Dignity and much about the same time had the Deanery of Laighlen in Ireland confer'd upon him In which year all things being in a confusion he received no profits from either Dignity So that being destitute of a comfortable subsistance especially in the next year when he lost his most beloved Lord Falkland at Newbury fight he travelled as a Tutor with Charles Berkley Esq afterwards Earl of Falmouth an 1644 and upon a foresight that the Church of England would terminate through the endeavours of the peevish and restless Presbyterians he began to think of setling himself in the Church of Rome At length after mature consideration he renounced his religion and made a publick recantation at Rome of his errours and heresie as they are there called before the Inquisition an 1646. Which being so done he returned to Paris and there published his Motives that induced him to change his religion not that he was so considerable a person that all the World should take notice of it but that he might give some proof both of the mature advice and also reasonableness of his change A certain author tells us that it was not devotion but necessity and want of a subsistence which drove him first out of the Church of England and then into a Monastery And another that he became a Roman Catholick and was insnared to that new choice by the hopes and promise of being to be admitted an idle Drone or Monk in the Charterhouse at Paris where he might live as warmly as lapt all over in Lambskins and like a Bee in a plentiful hive fed with the purest amber honey c. But how such a bait should allure him no man that understands the rules of that order can easily imagine it so to be considering that the Monks thereof spend most of their time whether early or late in prayer in fasting loneness and abstinence from all flesh whatsoever c. Of this I am sure that when he wrot and published his Motives his mind became so humble that it was his eager desire to be a Monk of the English Coll. of Carthusians at Neiuport in Flanders a poor place God wot and very slenderly endowed as the Prior thereof Peter Bilcliff a Yorkshire man born did once tell me But so it was that he being diswaded from that Order because he could never be in a capacity or Master of so much time as to vindicate himself or the Roman Catholick Church by writing he took upon him the habit of the Benedictine Order as I shall anon tell you As soon as his Motives called Exomologesis were made publick he sent a copy into England to his dear friend Dr. Henry Hammond who in a kind letter return'd him thanks for the book and without the least exception against the stile gave this judgment of it that an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did privily run through the whole contexture of the book He did not interpret wherein the fallacy consisted but added we are friends and I do not purpose to be your Antagonist At the end of the letter he kindly invited him into England assuring him that he should be provided of a convenient place to dwell in and a sufficient subsistence to live comfortably and withal that not any one should molest him about his religion and conscience Our author Cressey had reason to believe that the said invitation was an effect of a cordial friendship and he was also inform'd that he was well enabled to make good his promise as having the disposal of great charities and being a very charitable man himself Yet rendring such thanks as gratitude required of him he told him that he could not accept of so very kind an offer being engaged almost by vow to leave all pretensions to the World and to embrace poverty for his portion Besides also such a friend as this he had many more several near his Majesty among whom one especially there was of the highest rank to whom formerly upon the rebellion in Ireland he being destitute of a present subsistance he did acknowledge all gratitude due for by his care alone he was provided of a condition both honorable and comfortable So that if he had lost all other friends he had reason to assure himself he would have freely contributed rather than extremity of want should have forced him to quit the world But to return while he continued at Paris Henrietta Maria the Queen of England was very civil to him and being about to leave that place she assign'd him an hundred crowns to furnish him in his journey towards a Monastery Afterwards upon an invitation he went to Doway took upon him the habit of the Benedictine order in the Coll of the English Monks of that Order there And being setled he changed his name from Hugh Paulin which he received at the Font in Wakefield Church to Serenus de Cressy lived according to their discipline for 7 years or more and afterwards became one of the Mission in England At length upon the Kings Marriage with Catherine the Infanta of Portugal he became one of her Servants
and mostly lived in Somerset house in the Strand within the liberty of Westminster c. One of his Adversaries tell us that Cressy was an author grave and sober whose reason was very keen and sharp one that he was the Coripheus of the Roman party which is true but I must take leave here to tell the reader that while he continued in Oxon he was accounted a quick and accurate Disputant a man of a good nature manners and natural parts and when in Orders no inconsiderable preacher But after he had spent diâ—ers years in a religious order and was returned into England his former acquaintance found great alterations in him as to parts and vivacity and he seemed to some to be possest with strange notions and to others a reserved Person and little better than a Melancholick Which mutation arose not perhaps known to him upon his solely giving himself up to religion the refinedness of his soul and the avoiding of all matters relating to humane and profane learning as vanities His works are these Exomologesis or a faithful narration of the occasions and motives of his conversion to Catholick unity Paris 1647. and 53. in oct In the last edition is an Appendix in which are cleared certain misconstructions of his Exomologesis published by J. P. author of the Preface to the Lord Falklands Discourse of infallibility This Exomologesis was the golden calf which the English Papists fell down to and worshipped They brag'd that book to be unanswerable and to have given a total overthrow to the Chillingworthians and book and tenents of Lucius Lord Falkland Sancta Sophia or directions for the prayer of contemplation c. extracted out of more than XL treatises written by the late rev Father Aug. Baker a Monk of the English congregation of the holy Order of S. Benedict Doway 1657. in 2. vol. in a large oct Certain patterns of devout exercises of immediate acts and affections of the will Printed with S. Sophia Roman-Catholick doctrines no novelties or an answer to Dr. Pierces Court Sermon miscalled The primitive rule of reformation Print 1663. in oct A non est inventus returned to Mr. Edw. Bagshaw's enquiry and vainly boasted discovery of weakness in the grounds of the Churches infallibility Pr. 1662. oct Letter written to an English Gent 16. July 1662 wherein Bishop Morley is concern'd Printed among some of the said Bishops treatises Lond. 1683. qu. The Church History of Britanny from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest c. Printed at Roan in Normandy 1668. fol. 'T is mostly taken from 1 Annales Ecclesiae Britannicae Printed at Leodes 1663 in 4. vol written by Mich. Alford alias Griffith a Jesuit 2 The first and 2 vol. of Monast Anglic. Printed at Lond. 1655. and 1661. fol. 3 The Decem Scriptores Hist Anglicanae Printed there also in 1652. fol. and the collection in Ms contained in several folios made from several antient Mss relating to English antiquities chiefly in the Cottonian Library by Aug. Baker before mention'd Many severe censures have been given by learned men of the author Cressy for publishing many Miracles and Monkish stories in the said Ch. Hist of Britanny particularly by that great Master of the English language Edward somtimes Earl of Clarendon who knew him well in the University to be much averse to such matters as also the author of Reflexions upon the devotions of the Rom. Church c. Lond. 1674. oct Yet let this be said of him that forasmuch that he doth mostly quote his authors for and leaves what he says to the judgment of the Readers he is to be excused and in the mean time to be commended for his grave and good stile proper for an Ecclesiastical Historian After it was published he went forward with a second volume which was to conclude about the time of the dissolution of Monasteries made by K. Hen. 8 but before he had finished 300 years after the Norman Conquest he died Answer to part of Dr. Stillingfleets book entit Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome Printed 1672. in oct Fanaticisme fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted c. Printed 1672. oct Question why are you a Catholick Pr. 1673. oct Qu. why are you a Protestant Pr. 1673. oct Epistle Apologetical to a Person of honour touching his vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet Print 1674. oct The Person of honour was Edw. E. of Clarendon Reflections on the Oath of Supremacy This I have not yet seen He also published Sixteen revelations of divine love shewed to a devout servant of our Lord called mother Juliana an Anchorete of Norwych who lived in the days of K. Ed. 3. Printed 1670. oct and dedic by Cressy to the Lady Mary Blount of Sodington Widow of Sir George Blount and also changed from old into modern English more compendiously a book written before the change of religion entit An abridgment of the book called the cloud of unknowing and of the counsel referring to the same This is not printed but in Ms and was shewed to me by Fath. Wilfrid R a Benedictine Monk See more in Maur. Chawney in vol. 1. p. 160. At length Mr. Cressey having lived to about the age of man he surrendred up his last breath at East Greensted in Sussex in the house of Rich. Caryl Esq on the tenth day of Aug. S. Laurence day in the year sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed by the Superior of his order on this side of the river Trent in England named Gregory Mallet alias John Jackson who dying in the Sheldonian Family on the 10. Sept. 1681 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Long Compton in Warwickshire THOMAS TRAHERNE a Herefordshire man born was entred a Communer of Brasn Coll. on the first day of March 1652 took one degree in Arts left the house for a time entred into the sacred function and in 1661 he was actually created Mast of Arts. About that time he became Rector of Credinhill commonly called Crednell near to the City of Hereford afterwards Domestick Chaplain to S. Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Minister of Tuddington called by some Teddington near Hampton Court in Middlesex and in 1669 Bach. of Divinity He hath written Roman forgeries or a true account of false records discovering the impostures and counterfeit antiquities of the Church of Rome Lond. 1673. oct Christian Ethicks or divine morality opening the way to blessedness by the rules of virtue and reason Lond. 1675. oct He died at Teddington before mention'd in the house of S. Orl. Bridgman and was buried on the tenth day of Octob. in the Church there under the reading desk in sixteen hundred seventy and four This Person who always led a single and a devout life was well read in primitive antiquity as in the Councils Fathers c. DAVID WHITFORD a
Several Speeches in Parl. during his office of L. Chancellour from his Majesties Restauration to 1667. They are in number at least 10 and were printed in fol. papers The difference and disparity between the Estates and Conditions of George Duke of Buckingham and Robert Earl of Essex See in Reliq Wottonianae c. Lond. 1672 octav Animadversions on a book intit Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted by Ser. Cressy Lond. 1674. oct It was printed twice in that year and once in 1685. oct Brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious Errors to Church and State in Mr. Hobbes book intit Leviathan Oxon. 1676. qu. Letter to his daughter Anne Duchess of York upon a report of her inclinations towards Popery and at the same time another to the Duke upon the same subject Written about 1670. It was printed at Lond. 1681. 82. He hath also written 1 A History or an Historical account of Ireland MS which Edm. Borlace made use of without acknowledgment in his book or books which he published of the affairs of that Kingdom so Dr. Jo. Nalson in his Pref. to his second vol. of his Impartial collection of Records c. 3 History from the beginning of K. Ch. 1. to the restauration of K. Ch. 2. MS as also an account of his own life which being hereafter to be published you may be pleased to take this present discourse of him only as a Specimen of a larger to come He died of the terrible disease of the Gout at Roan in Normandy on the ninth day of Decemb. according to our accompt in sixteen hundred seventy and four whereupon his body being conveyed into England 't was buried on the north side of the Capella Regum in S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster The Reader may be pleased now to know that besides this Edw. Hyde have been two more of both his names and time that have been Writers as Edw. Hyde jun. an enthusiastical person who among several things that he hath written hath published A wonder and yet no wonder A great red Dragon in Heaven c. Lond. 1651 And Edw. Hyde first cosin to our Author Edw. E. of Clarendon as I shall tell you at large elsewhere JOHN VAUGHAN a most noted and learned Lawyer of his time was born at Trowscoed in the County of Cardigan educated in Grammar learning in the Kings School within the City of Worcester whence after he had remained there 5 years he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this Univ. in the 15th year of his age and thence at 18 he went to the Inner Temple where for some time he chose rather to follow his Academical Studies of Poetry and Mathematicks than the municipal Laws of England At length falling into the acquaintance of the learned Selden and others was instructed by them in the value of civil learning so that soon after he applied himself closely to the course of that Study particularly of the said laws which he after made his profession but when he began to become noted and admired in the Parliament that began 3 Nov. 1640. of which he was a Burgess for the Town of Cardigan the Civil War broke forth and gave a stop to his Proceedings Whereupon leaving London he retired to his own Country and mostly lived there till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Afterwards being elected Knight for the County of Cardigan to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8 May 1661 his Majesty was about that time pleased to take notice of his great worth and experience Afterwards he confer'd the honour of Knighthood upon him and in few days after viz. May 22. an 1668 he was solemnly sworn Serjeant at Law in the Court of Chancery in Westm Hall and the next day was sworn L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas. He hath written and collected Reports and Arguments being all of them special Cases and many wherein he pronounced the resolution of the whole Court of Common Pleas at the time he was L. Ch. Justice there Lond. 1677. fol. Published by his son Edw. Vaughan Esq and other things as 't is said fit to be printed He died in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried in the Temple Church near the grave of Jo. Selden Over his grave was a large marble stone soon after put and over that was erected a marble Table in the south wall near the round walk with this Inscription thereon Hic situs est Johannes Vaughanus Eq. Aur. Capital Justiciar de Com. Banco filius Edwardi Vaughan de Trowscoed in agro Dimetarum Ar. Leticiae uxoris ejus filiae Johannis Stedman de Strata florida in eodem Com. Arm. unus è quatuor perdocti Seldeni Executoribus ei stabili amicitia studiorumque communione à tyrocinio intimus praecarus Natus erat xiiii die Sept. an Dom. 1608. denatus x. die Decemb. an Dom. 1674. qui juxta hoc marmor depositus adventum Christi propitium expectat Multum deploratus JOHN OXENBRIDGE son of Dan. Oxenb sometimes Doct. of Phys of Ch. Ch. in this University and a Practitioner of his faculty at Daventrey commonly called Daintrey in Northamptonshire and afterwards in London was born in that County became a Communer of Linc. Coll. in 1623 aged 18 years and thence translating himself to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts and soon after became a Tutor there but being found guilty of a strange singular and superstitious way of dealing with his Scholars by perswading and causing some of them to subscribe as Votaries to several articles framed by himself as he pretended for their better government as if the Statutes of the place wherein he lived and the authority of the then present government were not sufficient he was distutor'd in the month of May 1634. Afterward he left the Hall and shewing himself very scismatical abroad was forced to leave the Nation whereupon he with his beloved Wife called Jane Butler went to the Islands of Bermudas where he exercised his Ministry At length the Long Parliament making mad work in England in 1641. c. he as other Schismaticks did returned preached very enthusiastically in severally places in his travels to and fro while his dear Wife preached in the house among her Gossips and others So that he being looked upon as a zealous and forward brother for the cause he had some spirituality bestowed on him and at length was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore in the place of one Simonds deceased who had been thrust into the place of Dr. David Stokes in the time of the rebellion Upon his Majesties restauration Oxenbridge was outed of his Fellowship and afterwards retiring to Berwick upon Twede he held forth there till the Act of conformity silenced him an 1662. Afterwards he went to the West Indies and continued there at Syrenham for a time in preaching and praying At length
Rebellion lived poorly and therefore for that his Loyalty he was not only restored to what he had lost upon the King's restauration but also was actually created Doct. of Div. He was accounted a witty man and a good Poet in his younger years and in his elder a good Preacher and sober Divine He hath published The souls conflict c. portrayed in eight several sermons six whereof were preached before the King at Oxon. Lond. 1657. c. oct and other sermons which I have not yet seen He died 29 May in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried under the Communion-table at the east end of the Chancel of the Church of Swerford before mention'd Tho. Pope E. of Downe who was his Patron died in S. Maries Parish in Oxon 28 Dec. 1660 aged 38 years leaving behind him one only daughter named Elizab. begotten on the body of Elizab. his wife dau and one of the heirs of Will. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq Which said Elizab. his daughter was first married to Henry Francis Lea of Dichley in Oxfordshire and afterwards to Robert Earl of Lindsey The Earldom of Downe went after the death of the said Thomas to Thom. Pope Esq his Uncle whose male issue also dying the Estate went away among three daughters the eldest of which was married to Sir Francis North afterwards L. North of Guilford Both the said Earls were buried at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordsh among the graves of their Ancestors HENRY WILKINSON Senior commonly called Long Harry son of Hen. Wilk mentioned before under the year 1647 was born at Waddesdon in Bucks became a Com. of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1622. aged 13. years where making great proficiency in his studies took the degrees in Arts became a noted Tutor Master of the Schools and Divinity Reader in his House In the year 1638 he was admitted Bach. of Div preached frequently in and near Oxon yet not without girds against the actions and certain men of the times On the 6. of Sept. 1640. he preached in his turn in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon on Rev. 3.16 So then because thou art luke-warm c. Which Sermon being very bitter against some ceremonies of the Church very base also and factious and intended meerly to make a party for the Scots was summon'd the same day to make his recantation in a form then prescrib'd for him But he obstinatly refusing to do it was suspended from all execution of his Priestly Function within the University and Precincts thereof according to the Statute till he should make his Palinody Soon after when that unhappy Parliament called the Long Parl began he complained to the Members about the latter end of Nov. of the usage he had received from the Vicechancellour Whereupon according to the command of the Committee of Religion in the H. of Com. the Vicehanc sent up a copy of his sermon with his exceptions against it which being received from the hands of Dr. Rich. Baylie Dec. 9. was by them perused but they finding nothing as they said that might make him guilty of punishment they released him from his suspension and gave order that his sermon should be printed which accordingly was done Upon this our author Wilkinson grew very bold preach'd and discours'd what he pleas'd setled afterwards in London to carry on the Cause was made Minister of S. Faith under Paules one of the Ass of Divines became a frequent Preacher before the Members of Parliament and Rector of S. Dunstans in the West about 1645. At which time being esteemed a grand zealot for promoting the designs then on foot he was constituted by the said Members one of the six Ministers to go to Oxon in 1646 after the surrender of the Garrison there to draw off by their preaching the Scholars from their Orthodox Principles to the Presbyterian persuasion and soon after one of the Visitors to break open turn out and take possession For which service he was not only rewarded with a senior Fellowship of Madg. Coll. which he kept till he took to wife a holy woman call'd the Lady Carr but also with a Canonry of Ch. Church a Doctorship of Divinity and after Cheynells departure with the Margaret professorship of the University After his Majesty was restored he was ejected and thereupon went to London continued a Non-conformist lived and had his meetings at Clapham in Surrey near London especially when the Kings toleration was published in the latter end of 1671 whereby he gained from the Brethren a considerable maintenance He was a good Scholar always a close Student an excellent Preacher tho his voice was shrill and whining yet his Sermons were commonly full of dire and confusion especially while the rebellion continued Under his name were these things following published viz. Several Sermons as 1 Sermon against Lukewarmness in religion on Rev. 3.16 Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Babylons ruin Jerusalem's rising Fast serm before the House of Com. 25 Oct. 1643. on Zech. 1.18.19.20.21 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 The gainfull cost Fast Serm. before the H. of Lords 27. Nov. 1644. on 1. Chron. 21.24 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Miranda Stupenda Or the wonderful and astonishing mercies which the Lord hath wrought for England in subduing and captivating the pride power and policy of his Enemies Thanks-giving Serm. before the H. of Com. for the surrender of Oxon preached 21. Jul. 1646 on Numb 23.23 Lond. 1646. qu. In his Epist ded to the H. of Com. he doth seriously exhort them to think of a sudden reformation of that University and perhaps he had thoughts then of being a Visitor and to get what might be obtained while the Sun shined 5 Serm. on Luk. 17.27.28 Published in The morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1661. qu. 6 Serm. on 2. Thes 2. from ver 3. to 10. Published in The morning exercise against popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 7 How we must do all in the name of Christ on Col. 3.17 Publ. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. 76. qu. What other things are published under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Clapham before mention'd in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five his body was thereupon conveyed to Drapers Hall in Lond and thence conducted with solemnity by hundreds of the Brethren to the Church of S. Dunstan in Fleetstreet before mention'd where it was inâ—eâ—'d I shall make mention of another Henry Wilkinson under the year 1690 who for distinction sake was commonly called Deane Harry THOMAS HOLYOAKE or Holyoke son of Francis Hol. mention'd under the year 1653 was born at Stony Thorp near to Southam in Warwickshire educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. White at Coventry became a student in Queens Coll. in Michaelm term 1632. aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts made Chaplain of the said Coll. and in the beginning of the Civil War when Oxford became the Seat of
K. Ch. 1. and garrison'd for his use he was put into Commission for a Captain of a Foot Company consisting mostly of Scholars In which office doing good service had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him by the favour of his Majesty tho no such matter occurs in the public register of the University which was then somtimes neglected After the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon for the use of the Parl. he by the name of Tho. Holyoake without the addition of Master Bac. or D. of D obtained a License from the University to practice physick whereupon setling in his own Country he exercised that faculty with good success till 1660. In which year his Maj. being restored to his Kingdoms Thomas Lord Leigh Baron of Stoneleigh in Warwickshire presented him to the Rectory of Whitnash near Warwick and soon after was made Prebendary of the collegiat church of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire In 1674 Robert Lord Brook conferr'd upon him the Donative of Breamour in Hampshire which he had by the marriage of his Lady worth about 200 l. per an free from presentation institution and episcopal visitation but before he had enjoy'd it an year or thereabouts he died to the great grief of his family He hath written A large Dictionary in three parts 1. The English before the Latine 2. The Latine before the English 3. The proper names of Persons places and other things necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets Lond. 1677 in a thick larg folio Before which is an Epistle written by the authors son Charles Holyoake of the Inner Temple whereby he dedicates the book to Fulke L. Brook and author written by Dr. Thom. Barlow B. of Lincolne wherein are many things said of the work and its author But this the reader is to know that the foundation of the said Dictionary was laid by his father Fr. Hol. before mention'd and upon that foundation is the largest Dictionary made that hath been ever yet published in England The said Dr. Holyoake who was much respected in the neighbourhood where he lived for his ingenuity and humanity died of an high Feaver at Breamour on the tenth day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was conveyed to Warwick and there interred by that of his father in the great Church there dedicated to S. Mary the Virgin THOMAS WOOLNOUGH a ministers Son of Gloustershire as it seems became either Batler or Com. of Magd. Hall 1648 trained up there acording to the presbyterian way took a degree in Arts afterwards had a cure in the interval and at length became Rector of S. Michaels Church in Glocester where he was frequented for his edifying way of preaching He hath extant Fideles aquae or some pious tears drop'd upon the hearse of the incomparable Gentlewoman Mistris Sarah Gilby together with some Elegies upon her Grandmother and Brother Lond. 1661. oct Dust returning to the earth Sermon at the interment of Tho. Lloyd Esq late of Wheaten-Hurst in the County of Gloc. 22. Dec. 1668 on Eccles 12.7 Lond. in the Savoy 1669 qu. and one or more things as t is said which I have not yet seen He died 20. June in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the church of S. Michael before mention'd near to the body of Eleanor his sometimes wife dau of Gaspar Estecourt of Radbourough in Gloucestersh Gent. descended of a knightly family of his name in Wilts Which Eleanor died on the ides of Decemb 1665. BULSTRODE WHITLOCK son of Sir James Whitlock Knight by Elizab. his wife daugh of Edw. Bulstrode of Hugeley or Hedgley-Bulstrode in Bucks Esq was born in Fleetstreet in London in the house of Sir George Croke Serjeant at Law his Mothers Uncle on the 6 of Aug. 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Taylors School became a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term an 1620 at which time he was principally recommended to the care and oversight of his fathers contemporary and intimate friend Dr. Laud then President of that House who shewing to him several fatherly kindnesses our author Whitlock did many years after make some returns when the said Doctor then Archb. of Cant was to be brought to a trial for his life especially in this respect when he refused to be one of the Commissioners or number of the Committee appointed by Parl to draw up a charge against him But before our author had taken a degree he went to the Middle Temple where by the help of his father he became a noted proficient in the Common Law well read also in other studies and in time made for himself a large provision from them and a retired contemplation At length when the Long Parliament was to sit he being then a Counsellour at Law he was chose a Burgess for Marlow in Bucks to serve therein and shewing himself very active in baiting the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford became noted in the House for a man of parts In 1642 he for his activeness for the cause then driving on was made one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire at which time a new Lieutenant was constituted by the Parliament and soon after was named one of the Commissioners to treat for peace with the King at Oxon in the name of the Parliament and one of the Lay-Gentlemen to sit among the Ass of Divines In 1644 he became Attorney of the Dutchy of Lancaster Commissioner again for peace and in the same year when Rob. E. of Essex was about to prove Ol. Cromwell an Incendiary he gave him the said Oliver timely notice of the design he being privy to it and thenceforth he became very gratious with that most active person who with his party were very willing to engage him as far as they could to them In 1645 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Admiralty and being then suspected to hold intelligence with the Kings party was in danger to have lost all had he not freed himself from that suspicion especially by his urging his losses that he had sufferd by the said party for his adhering to the Parliament in consideration of which he had afterwards given to him 2000 l. In 1646 he was sent for to the Leaguer before Oxon by Sir Tho. Fairfax the General of the Parl. forces who being admitted one of his Council of War he did oftentimes being a friend to the Univ. of Oxon express his unwillingness that any thing of damage should be done to it and pressed for honorable tâ—â—ms to be offer'd to the Garrison there In 1647 O. Cromwell used his advice in many things and therefore by his power it was that in the beginning of March in the said year he was made one of the four Commissioners of the Great Seal In 1648 Ph. E. of Pembrok who was then lately made Constable of Windsore Castle and keeper of the Forest adjoyning constituted him his Lieutenant of those places in the
when he was at Worcester which he did with so much vigour and confidence that Tichbourne the next day durst throw the Kings declaration into the fire made at the Exchange c. with other passages which for brevity sake I now omit At length he dying of the stone in his house at Chilton Park on the 28. of July in sixteen hundred seventy and five was buried in an isle joyning to the Church of Falley or Fawley near Marlow in Bucks which he had built for a burying place for his family Among the sons that he had by Rebecca his wife daughter of Thom. Benet Alderman of London was James Whitlock first a Captain afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll then a Colonel in the parliament Army one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3. of Sept. 1654 knighted by Oliver 6. Jan. 1656 Burgess for Aylesbury in Bucks to serve in the Parl. which began at West 27 Jan. 1658 c. THOMAS TOMKINS son of Joh. Tomk somtimes Organist of S. Pauls Cathedral was born in Aldersgate-street in the Parish of S. Botolph in London educated in Virtue and Learning from his cradle by the care of his Uncle Nathan Tomkins Prebendary of Worcester became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in Act term 1651 probat Fellow of All 's in 1657 and taking the degree of M. of A. was elected one of the Proctors of the University for year 1663. Afterwards he became Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury Rector of Lambeth in Surrey Monks-Risborow in Bucks and at length Chancellour of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and D. of D. The Archb. valued him so much that he kept him many years Chaplain in his house and resolving never to part with made him Rector of Lambeth before mention'd which he kept to his dying day The books that he hath published are these The Rebells plea examined or Mr. Baxters judgment concerning the late warr c. Lond. 1660. qu. Short Strictures or animadversions on so much of Mr. Zach. Croftons Fastning of S. Peters bounds as concern the reasons of the Univers of Oxon concerning the Covenant Lond. 1661. oct The inconveniencies of toleration or an answer to a book called A proposition made to the K. and parl c. Lond. 1667. qu. The modern pleas for toleration comprehension c. considered and discussed Lond. 1675. oct This book came out the second time with this title The new distemper or the Dissenters usual pleas for comprehension toleration and renouncing the Covenant considered and discussed Lond. 1680. oct To which is a large Preface written by Sam. Thomas Chantour of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. now Vicar of Chard in Sommersetsh The first edition of this book 1675 is reflected upon by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his Apol. for the Nonconformists ministry c. from p. 147. to p. 154. This Dr. Tomkins died at Exeter in sixteen hundred seventy and five and his body being carried into Wocestershire was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Marton near Droitwych Soon after was a marble table fastned to the wall over his grave with this inscripton thereon Thomas Tomkins SS Theologiae Professor Coll. Om. An. Oxon. olim Socius reverendiss Archi-Episcopo Cantuariensi à sacris Ecclesiae cathedralis Exon. Cancellarius Lambethanae c Rector Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra Schismaticos assertor exiimius Vir ingenio judicio memoriâ literaturâ eloquentiâ clarus Exoniae morbo correptus obiit Augusti 20 an Dom. 1675 aetat 37. Cujus corpus huc translatum hic subtus quiescit Over his grave is laid a flat stone with an inscription thereon containing his name dignity and death which for brevity sake I now omit In his Rectory of Lambeth succeeded Dr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch in Monks-Risborow John Wolley M. A. of Trin. Coll. and in his Chancellourship Dr. Joh. Copleston of Cambridge Canon of Exeter the same who was elected Provost of Kings Coll. in that University 24. Aug. 1681. THOMAS WILLIS the most famous Physitian of his time was born at Great Bedwyn in Wilts 27. Janu. 1621. His father was Tho. Willis of North Henxsey near Abendon in Berks somtimes a retainer to S. Johns Coll but no Graduat afterwards Baillive or Steward to Sir Walt. Smith of Bedwyn and in his last days a constant inhabitant of N. Henxsey before mention'd Which last Thomas was son of another Thomas a Taylor as I have been informed who mostly lived at Kennington near Abendon also As for Thomas our author he was bred in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester who taught a private School in Allsaints parish in Oxon to whom he went every day from N. Henxsey In 1636 he became a retainer to the family of Dr. Tho. Iles Canon of Ch. Ch. and was his Batler there where applying himself very severely to his studies took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1642. About that time Oxford being garrison'd for the King he among the Scholars that were then remaining bore arms in his defence and all the time that he could obtain he bestowed on his beloved study of Physick In 1646 the Garrison being then surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took the degree of Bachelaur of that faculty fell to the practice of it and every Munday kept Abendon Market So that by his great care and industry he in short time became famous in these parts setled in S. John Baptists parish in an house opposite to Merton Coll. Church and was sent for far and near for his help while in the mean time Mr. John Fell whose sister he had married Mr. Joh. Dolben and somtimes Mr. Rich. Allistry did constantly exercise in his house as they had partly before done in his lodgings in Canterbury quadrangle the Liturgy and Sacraments according to the Church of England to which most of the Loyallists in Oxon especially Scholars that had been ejected in 1648 did daily resort In 1660 after his Majesties restauration he became Sedlies professor of Natural Philosophy in the place of Dr. Josh Cross then ejected and shortly after he was created Doctor of his faculty and upon the foundation of the Royal Society was made fellow of it In 1666 after the dismal conflagration at London he upon the invitation of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Câ—nt went to the City of Westminster took a tenement in S. Martins Lane and in very short time after he became so noted and so infinitely resorted to for his practice that never any Physitian before went beyond him or got more mony yearly than he About that time he was made one of the Coll. of Physitians who for the most part had him in great esteem The truth is tho he was a plain man a man of no carriage little discourse complesance or society yet for his deep insight happy researches in natural and experimented Philosophy Anatomy and Chymistry for his wonderful success and repute in his practice the natural smoothness
born there or at least in that County entred a Student in Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 entred into the sacred function and had some little cure bestowed on him but what I cannot tell Sure I am that he being always puritanically affected closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars went to London took the Covenant and became Minister of S. Augustins there in the place of a noted Loyalist ejected In 1649 Feb. 12 he was presented to the rectory of Wrington in Somersetshire by his especial Patron Arthur Lord Capell Son of the most loyal and generous Arthur Lord Cap. then lately beheaded which rectory was then void by the death of another Presbyterian called Samuel Crook In this rectory our author Roberts shewing himself a zealous man of those times was among several Ministers of his County of whom Richard Fairclough was one and Ralph Farmer another constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejectment of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties return he rather than loose his living and so consequently the comforts of this world did turn about took the Oathes again whereby he denied all those that he had taken in the interval and conform'd himself without hesitation to the ceremonies of the Church of England and was nominated the first Chaplain by his Patron to serve him after he was made Earl of Essex 13. Car. 2. What preferments he had afterwards confer'd upon him I know not only that the degree of Doctor of Div. was confer'd on him by the University I think of Dublin at what time his Patron a favourer of such people was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the place of John Lord Roberts an 1670. Under the said Dr. Robert's name were these things following published Several sermons as 1 A broken spirit Godâ—â— sacrifice Fast sermon before the House of Lords 9. Dec. 1646. on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1647. qu. Preached for the removing of the great judgment of rain and waters then upon the Kingdom 2 Checquer of Gods providences made up of black and white fun Serm. on Psal 68.13 Lond. 1657. qu. and others which I have not yet seen Believers evidences for eternal life collected out of the first epistle of S. John which is Catholick c. Lond. 1649. 55. oct Clavis Bibliorum The Key of the Bible unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures Whereby 1. The Order 2. Names 3. Times 4. Penmen 5. Occasion 6. Scope and 7. Principal parts containing the subject matter of the books of the Old and New Test are familiarly and briefly opened c. Edinburg and Lond. 1649. oct with the authors picture before it aged 40. Afterwards it was printed in qu. and fol. and the fourth Edit was published 1675. The communicant instructed or practical directions for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper Lond. 1651. oct with the authors picture before it This was afterwards reprinted at least three times Mysterium Medulla Bibliorum The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible viz. Gods Covenant with man in the first Adam before the fall and in the last Adam Jesus Christ after the fall from the beginning to the end of the world unfolded and illustrated in positive aphorismes and their explanations c. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. The true way to the tree of Life or the natural man directed unto Christ Lond. 1673. oct What other things he hath written unless A Synopsis of Theology or Div. which is mentioned by the author of the Cat. of books in the Libr. at Sion Coll. Lond. I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Wrington before mention'd in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and five was as I presume buried in the Church there On the 28. of Jan. the same year his immediate successor Mr. Joh. Powell was instituted to the rectory of Wrington then void by the late death of Dr. Fr. Roberts THOMAS TULLY son of George Tully was born in S. Maries parish in the City of Carlile in Cumberland 22. Jul. 1620 educated partly in the Free-school there under Mr. John Winter and afterwards at Barton Kirk in Westmorland entred in Queens Coll. in Mich. term an 1634 where by the benefit of a good Tutor Ger. Langbaine and a severe discipline he became a noted Disputant and at length through several advances Fellow of the said College In 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts and soon after Oxford being garrison'd he became Master of the Grammar School at Tetbury in Glocestershire After the surrender of the Garrison he returned to his College and became a noted Tutor and Preacher and in 1657 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity Soon after he was made Principal of S. Edm. Hall so that whereas from the surrender of the said Garrison and before there were very few or no Students in that House only some of Queens Coll. that lodged there he by his diligence and severe government made it flourish equal with if not beyond any Hall in Oxon. After his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he obtained a Doctorship of Divinity by creation a Chaplainship to his Majesty by a friend the rectory of Grigleton alias Grittleton near Malmsbury in Wilts by a quondam Pupil and at length in the month of Apr. 1675 the Deanery of Rippon in Yorksh from his Maj. by the death of Dr. John Neile who had that Deanery confer'd upon him in the month of May an 1674. by the death of the preceeding Incumbent This Dr. Tully was a pious man and many ways very learned chiefly read in the more antient Writers yet not so wholly addicted to the perusal of them but that at some time he took delight to converse with later authors Those that knew him and his constitution accounted it his great misfortune that he did betake himself to write controversie when as throughout the whole managery of it he laboured under many bodily ills and infirmities which first by lingring decays did sensibly impair and at last wholly shatter his weaker frame and constitution He was a Person of severe morals puritanically inclin'd and a strict Calvinist which as may be reasonably presum'd was some stop to him in his way to preferment the want of which he did in some degree resent seeing so many of his juniors in the University and all the Kings Chaplains twice told over during the time he served him not more deserving than himself advanced before him He hath written Logica Apodictica sive tractatus brevis dilucidus de Demonstratione cum dissertatiunculâ Gassendi eodem pertinente Oxon. 1662 in 2 sh in oct Which tract is commonly bound up at the end of Manuductio ad Logicam written by Philip de Trieu sometimes chief professor of Philosophy in the Jesuits Coll. at Doway
men especially in Ministers of the Gospel on 1. Cor. 3.21 Lond. 1643. 45. 47. qu. 5 True old light exalted above pretended new light or a treatise of Jesus Christ c. in nine Sermons Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also as it seems a Sermon extant on 1. Cor. 7.14 which I have not yet seen only mention of it in the title of a book written by Mr. Baxter running thus Plain Scripture proof of infant-Infant-Church membership and baptisme Being the whole arguments at a publick dispute with Mr. Tombes at Beaudley and answers to his Sermon upon 1. Cor. 7.14 with all his letters by Messengers and his calling for answers in pulpit and in point with many things relating to Mr. Thomas Bedford and Dr. Ward and others upon that subject Printed 1652 or thereabouts and in an 1656. Two Treatises and an appendix to them concerning Infant-baptisme c. Lond. 1645. qu. Written mostly against Steph. Marshall Minister of Finchingfield in Essex An examen of a Sermon of Mr. Steph. Marshall about Infant-baptisme in a Letter sent to him in 4. parts Lond. 1645. qu. An apologie for two treatises and an appendix to them concerning Infant-baptisme published 15. Dec. 1645. against the unjust charges and complaints of Dr. Nathan Homes Mr. John Geree Stephen Marshall John Ley and William Husley together with a Postscript by way of reply to Mr. Blakes answer to Mr. Tombes Letter c. Lond. 1646. qu. See in Tho. Blake under the year 1657. p. 133. Exercitation about Infant-baptism in 12 arguments c. Lond. 1646. qu. A serious consideration of the oath of the Kings Supremacy Lond. 1649. qu. Antidote against the venome of a passage in the first direction of the Epist ded to Mr. Baxters book of the Saints everlasting rest Lond. 1650. qu. Praecursor or a forerunner to a large view of a dispute concerning Infantâ—baptism c. Lond. 1652. qu. Anti paedobaptisme or no plain or obscure scripture proof of Infants baptisme or Church membership being the first part of the full review of the dispute about Infant-baptisme c. against St. Marshall John Geree Rich. Baxter Tho. Cobbet Tho. Blake Josias Church Nath. Stephens c. Lond. 1652. qu. Anti-paedob or the second part of a full review and dispute concerning Infant baptisme c. against the Writings of St. Marshall Dr. Nath. Homes Dr. Daniel Featley Dr. H. Hammond Th. Blake Tho. Cobbet Rob. Bailee Joh. Brinsley Cuthb Sydenham Tho. Fuller c. Lond. 1654. qu. Anti-paedob or the third part being a full review of a dispute concerning Infant-bapt c. against St. Marshall Rich. Baxter J. Geree Th. Blake Th. Cobbet Dr. N. Homes John Drew Jos Church Will. Lyford Dr. D. Featley Jo. Brinsley C. Sydenham Will. Carter Sam. Rutherford Joh. Cragge Dr. H. Hammond Joh. Cotton Th. Fuller Jo. Stallam Tho. Hall and others c. Lond. 1657. qu. Refutatio positionis ejusd confirmationis paedobaptismum esse licitum affirmantis ab Hen. Savage S S. Th. D. in comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. mense Jul. 1652 propositae Lond. 1653. quart Plea for Anti-paedobaptists against the vanity and falshood of scribled Papers intit The Anabaptists anatomized and silenced in a publick dispute at Abergavenny in Monmouthshire 5 Sept. 1653 betwixt Mr. Joh. Tombes Joh. Cragge and Hen. Vaughan touching Infant-baptisme Lond. 1654. qu. Relation of a conference had between Joh. Tombes B. D. and Hen. Vaugen M. A. at Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653 touching Infant-bapt Lond 1656. oct Relation of a dispute had between Joh. Tombes B. D. Respondent and Joh. Cragge M. A. Opponent at Abergavenny 5 Sept. 1653 touching Infant-bapt Lond. 1656. octav Animadversiones quaedam in Aphorismos Richardi Baxter de justificatione Published by the said Baxter without the Authors knowledge an 1658. I never saw this book only the mention of it made in our Authors Epist ded before his Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bulli. Short Catechisme about Baptisme Lond. 1659 in one sh in oct Felo de se Or Mr. Rich. Baxters self-destroying manifested in 20 Arguments against Infant-baptisme c. Lond. 1659. qu. A discussion of Mr. Rich. Baxters ten reasons of his practice about Infant baptisme delivered in a serm at Beaudley on Colos 3.11 Lond. 1659. qu. Romanisme discussed or an answer to the nine first Articles of H. T. Turbervill his Manual of controversies Lond. 1660. qu. Sephersheba or the oath-book Being a treatise concerning swearing c. Lond. 1662. qu. Delivered in 20 catechistical lectures at Lemster an 1636. Saints no smiters c. a treatise shewing the doctrine and attempts of Quinto-Monarchians or fift Monarchy-men about smiting Powers to be damnable and antichristian Lond. 1664. qu. Theodulia or a just defence of hearing the sermons and other teaching of the present Ministers of the Ch. of England against a book unjustly intit in Greek A Christian testimony against them that serve the image of the beast c. Lond. 1667. oct Emanuel or God-man A treatise wherein the doctrine of the first Nicene and Chalcedon Councils concerning the two Nativities of Christ is asserted against the lately vented Socinian doctrine Lond. 1669. oct Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bullii cui titulum fecit Harmonia Apostolica c. Lond. 1676. oct What other things our Author Tombes hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died at Salisbury in sixteen hundred seventy and six and that he was buried on the 25 day of May in St. Edmunds Ch. yard there over against the Steeple on the north side at a good distance And lastly that soon after was put over his grave a flat stone with this Inscription thereon Here lyeth the body of Mr. John Tombes Bachelour of Divinity a constant Preacher of Gods word who deceased the 22 of May an 1676. aged 73. GILBERT COLES Son of Edm. Coles of Winchester Priest was born at Burfield in Berks educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1637 took the degrees in Arts and in 1648 or thereabouts became Fellow of the Coll. near Winchester but soon after was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament Afterwards he was elected Fellow again by the Society of New Coll for the great respect they had for him he being about that time Rector of East-Meon in Hampshire and accounted by many a learned man Afterwards he became Rector of Easton near Winchester Doct. of Divinity and Rector of Ash in Surrey He hath written Theophilus and Orthodoxus or several conferences between two friends the one a true son of the Church of England the other faln off to the Church of Rome Ox. 1674. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church of Easton before mentioned Over his grave his widow soon after caused a stone to be laid with this Inscription thereon Gilb. Coles S. T. P. hujus ecclesiae Rector
Ap. 1646. and once as it seems before the Commons 30. July 1645 and his sermons without doubt were published but such I have not yet seen nor a little thing printed in tw going under the name of Thom. Ford entit The Anatomy of the times This Tho. Ford of Exeter died in the latter end of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried on the 28 day of the same month in the Church of S. Lawrence before mention'd near to the bodies of his Wife Bridget and several of his Children that had been there buried before him I find one Thomas Ford who entitles himself Philothal to be author of Virtus rediviva A Panegyrick on our late K. Ch. 1. c. attended with several other pieces from the said pen viz. 1 A theatre of Wits being a collection of Apothegms 2 A century of familiar Letters 3 Loves Laberynth a Trag. Comedy 4 Fragmenta Poetica or poetical diversions concluding with a Panegyrick on his sacred Majesties return Lond. 1660. oct But whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot yet tell nor whether he was the same T. Forde who translated into English Lusus fortunae c. Lond. 1649. oct GEORGE DIGBY son and heir of John Digby Earl of Bristow was born in the City of Madrid in Spain in the month of Oct. 1612 made his first entry into Magd. Coll. 15. Aug. 1626 and was then entred a Noble man there At which time and so long as he continued there he was very familiar and held great correspondence with Pet. Heylyn Fellow of that House by whose directions and conversation he improved himself much in several sorts of learning In 1636 just after his Majest had left Oxon where he had been splendidly entertained by the members of the University and by the Archbishop at S. Johns Coll he was among other Persons of honor actually created Master of Arts being then esteemed a Person of good parts and in hopes to do the State service In the beginning of the Long Parliament of which he was a member he became one of the eminent Darlings of the People as being a Person discontented and therefore was appointed one of the Committee to prepare a charge against the most noble and eminently conspicuous Thomas Earl of Strafford 11. Nov. 1640 and appointed one of the managers of the evidence against him But upon a discovery of the unjust practices against him he became his Advocate tho all the advantage he got by it was that he lost his own esteem both among the House of Commons and among the Faction From that time he became their declared enemy by being a bold friend of truth and justice which he shewed in a Speech at the passing of the Bill of Attainder against the said Earl 21. Apr. 1641 ordered to be burnt as I shall tell you anon and therefore was posted up by some in the head of those called Straffordians He was also a friend to the Bishops and their function when both were called into question about that time and a zealous enemy to the Covenant All which do appear in speeches uttered in good language and sweetness On the 10. of June 1641. he was expell'd the House of Commons not only for exceptions taken by them for words spoken concerning an oath which Colonel G. Goring confessed he had taken to be secret to saying he was a perjur'd Person but because he was the day before made a Baron and introduced into the upper House the very same 10. of June In the beginning of January following he went on a message from his Maj. to Kingston upon Thames to certain Gentlemen there some say to give Coll. Tho. Lundsford a visit in a Coach with 6 horses and no other equipage with him save only a servant riding by him and a Companion in a Coach But his appearance there being represented to the Parliament as in a warlike manner and every Coach horse reckoned for a Troop the House of Commons made a complaint thereof on the 10. of the same month to the House of Lords Whereupon it being voted that he then took up Arms for his Majesty he was proclaimed Traitor banished and made the publick hatred of the Puritans or Presbyterians But the King soon after leaving the Parliament because of their desperate proceedings he drew by degrees many Lords and Commons after him together with this Lord from beyond the Seas and therefore he was excepted by the Parliament in a treaty of peace with the King at Oxon in the latter end of the year 1642. In 1643 he was made one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty and high Steward of this University in the place of Will Lord Say who adher'd to the Parliament and in the next year he would have been question'd for an Incendiary by the Parliament sitting at Oxon because of a Mutiny that hapned among the Soldiers of the Garrison there but it was dissolved before the members could do any thing in the matter In the latter end of 1645 he being then a stirring active man he went into Ireland where he did good service for his Majesty and underwent great hazards of his life but upon the declining of the Kings cause he left that place and on the 24. of Oct. 1648 he was exempted from pardon by the Parliament Afterwards upon the death of his Father he became Earl of Bristow and Knight of the Garter being then in exile beyond the Seas suffering much by the loss of his Estate After the Kings return he was restored to what he had lost and the year after was installed with others Knight of the said Order became a frequent Speaker in Parliaments and an enemy to Clarendon while he was Lord Chancellour Under his name were printed these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in Parl. 9. Nov. 1640. concerning grievances and a triennial Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Printed in the 1. vol. of John Nalson's Impartial Collection c. p. 505. 2 Speech in the H. of Com. to the bill of triennial Parliaments 19. Jan. 1640. Lond. 1641. qu. Remitted into the third part of Joh. Rushworth's Historical Collections 3 Sp. in the H. of Com. concerning Bishops and the City Petition 9. Feb. 1640. Lond. 1640. in 4. sh in qu. Remitted into the said 3d. part of Hist Coll. with other discourses of our author Digby This Sp. spoken 9. Feb. is called the L. Digby's third speech 4 Sp. in the House of Com. to the bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford 21. Apr. 1641. Lond. 1641. in two sh in qu. Remitted into John Rushworth's Trial of the E. of Strafford p. 50. and into Joh. Nalson's Impart Coll. vol. 2. p. 175. On the 13 of July following it was ordered by the H. of Com. that one part of the said speech should be publickly burnt on Friday after at 10. of the clock in the morn by the hands of the common hangman in the Pallace-yard at Westminster and another part
Afterwards the said Duke made him Professor of the Greek Language in the University of Pisa where he was held in great veneration not only for his great sufficiencies in that Tongue but also in Divinity for his great knowledge in the Fathers and in polite and curious learning His works are Notae observationes in Apologiam L. Apulei Madaurensis Philosophi platonici Par. 1635. qu. To which are added certain fragments of Antiquity in copper cuts Matthaeus ex S. Paginâ sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus ex parte illustratus Par. 1646. oct Annotationes in epistolam Jacobi Par. 1646. in a little octav Acta Apostolorum ex S. pagina sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus illustrata Par. 1647. in tw In undecim Apuleianae metamorphoseos sive Milesiarum libros annotationes uberiores Goud 1650. in a large thick oct with Pricaeus his picture before it in a cloak Towards the publishing of this book he borrowed an ancient copy of it from Archb. Laud's MSS. Index scriptorum qui in Hesychii Graeco vocabulario laudantur confectus alphabetico dispositus This is printed at the end of the former book viz. In undecim c. 'T is also printed at the end of Hesychius's Lexicon published by Corn. Schrevelius an 1668. Commentarii in varios Novi Testamenti libros Involved in the fifth tome of the Criticks Lond. 1660. fol. Among these his Commentaries are those on Matthew Acts of the Apostles and James before mentioned remitted Annotationes in Psalmorum librum Involved in the said 5 tome of Criticks Lond. 1660. fol. Epistles to several learned men in Lat. and English This great Critick who had a rambling head left the territory of the Duke of Tuscany and went to Venice under pretence of putting out Hesychius his Lexicon there and afterwards going to Rome he was received as I have heard into the retinew or at least patronage of the famous Card. Franc. Barbarini the Protector of the English Nation lived in his last days in the Covent of S. Augustin in that great City where dying in sixteen hundred seventy and six or thereabouts was buried in the Church or Chappel there I have sent once or twice for the exact time of his obit and for a copy of his Epitaph if there be any over his grave but as yet I have received no answer I shall make mention of another John Price among the Incorporations in the Fasti under the year 1680 but he was Doctor of Divinity GASPER HICKS a Ministers son was born in Berks. entred a Batler or Com. of Trin. Coll. in Mich. term 1621 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Lanerake in Cornwall where he continued a constant Preacher under the name of a Puritan several years At length upon the change of the times he openly expressed his zeal for the Cause in his Sermons more than before he had done but finding that place uneasie to him when the Royalists were dominant in that County he retired to the great City became one of the Ass of Divines a frequent Preacher in London and sometimes a Holder-forth before the Members of the Long Parliament Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings Cause he returned again to his Vicaridge and had something added to it in consideration of his sufferings In 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Cornwall for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and ever after â—ll the Act of Conformity came forth he was esteemed there the chief of the Presbyterian Ministers He hath â—â—blished Several Sermons as 1 The glory and beauty of Gods portion Fast-sermon before the H. of Commons 26 June 1644 on Isay 28.5.6 Lond. 1644. qu. The Author complaining either in this or another sermon that he had been plundred and wanted books the H. of Commons gave him 30 l. to buy more 2 Serm. at the funeral of Will Strode Esq a member of the H. of Com. 22 Sept. 1645. on Acts 13.36 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 The advantage of afflictions Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 28 Jan. 1645 on Hosea 5.15 Lond. 1646. qu. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen After the Act of Conformity was published he was turn'd out of Lanerake lived there and near it several years not without keeping up private meetings for which he was sometimes brought into trouble At length giving way to fate in sixteen hundred seventy and seven was according to his desire buried in the porch of the Parish Church of Lanerake before mentioned At his interrment on the 10 of Apr. the same year were present very many of the godly Party living near to and remote from that place THOMAS CAWTON son of Tho. Cawton a learned and religious Puritan sometimes of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was born as it seems at Wivenhoe near to Colchester in Essex his Father being then Parson of that place educated in Hebrew Syriake and Arabick tongues at Roterdam in Holland under Mr. Rob. Sheringham then an Exile for his Loyalty as Tho. Cawton the Father was for preaching against the murder of K. Ch. 1 and for being in the same plot with Christop Love for the raising of moneys to supply the Army of K. Ch. 1 when he was about to come into England from Scotland to gain his right there Afterwards our Author Tho. Cawton was by his father setled in the University of Utrecht whence after he had spent 3 years in Academical learning he came into England and at length to Merton Coll. in Oxon. for the sake if I mistake not of Mr. Sam. Clark an eminent Orientalian where at his first coming and after he was much esteemed and held in great respect for his admirable knowledge in the oriental tongues In the beginning of the year 1660 he was admitted Bach. of Arts at which time was publickly read his Testimonial dated 18 May 1659 subscribed by Joh. Leusden the ordinary Professor of the Holy Tongue in Utrecht Where in among other things I find this of Cawton Totum vetus Testamentum Hebraicum partim punctatum partim non punctatum perlegit explicuit Regulas Grammaticae syntaxeos Hebraicae optime perdidiscit Deinde in lingua Chaldaica Danielis Paraphrasibus Chaldaicis in lingua Syriacâ Novi Test in lingua Arabica commentariis Rabbinorum strenuè sese exercuit Denique quaestiones philologico-Hebraicas circa Vetus Test Hebraeum movere solitas ita perdidiscit ut summo cum honore duas disputationes philologicas publicè defenderit priorem de versione Syriaca veteris Novi Test posteriorem vero de usu linguae Hebraicae in philosophia Theoretica illius fuit Respondens hujus vero author Respondens Certe in disputatione hac componenda in ejusdem strenua defensione ingenium eruditionem suam omnibus palam
a new conceit of the reflecting of the Sun beams upon a Dial c. Lond. 1635. oct He married Catherine daughter of Thom. Wallenger Esq by Benedicta Gonson his wife who dying 5 Jul. 1634 aged 47 was buried in the Church at Deptford Afterwards Joh. Wells went into Hampshire and lived and died at Brembridge as 't is said leaving a son of both his names to succeed him in his office at Deptford FRANCIS POTTER was born in the Vicaridge house at Meyre in Wilts on Trinity Sunday an 1594 educated in Grammar learning in the Kings school at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright became a Communer of Trin. Coll under the tuition of his elder brother Hannibal Potter in the latter end of the year 1609 took the degrees in Arts and one in Divinity and continued in the Coll. a close Student till his father died an 1637 and then succeeding him in the Rectory of Kilmanton sometimes called Kilmington and Culmington left the University for altogether retired to that place led a single and monkish life without the conversation of ingenious men till the day of his death He was from a boy given to drawing and painting and the Founders picture that hangs in the Refectory of Trin. Coll. is of his copying His genie laid most of all in the Mechanicks had an admirable mechanical invention and excellent notions for the raising of water and making Water-engins many of which inventions being presented to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection were highly approved by them and forthwith the members thereof admitted him one of their number About the year 1640 he entertained the notion of curing diseases by transfusion of blood out of one man into another the hint whereof came into his head from Ovid's story of Medea and Jason Which matter he communicating to the Royal Society about the time of its first erection was entred into their books But this way of transfusion having as 't is said been mention'd long before by Andr. Libavius our author Potter who I dare say never saw that Writer is not to be esteemed the first inventer of that notion nor Dr. Rich. Lower but rather an Advancer He hath written and published An interpretation of the number 666. Wherein not only the manner how this number ought to be interpreted is clearly proved and demonstrated but it is also shewed that this number is an exquisite and perfect character truly exactly and essentially describing that state of government to which all other notes of Antichrist do agree Oxon. 1642. qu. Which book as one saith is the happiest that ever yet came into the world and such as cannot be read save of those persons that will not believe it without much admiration c. A book also called The key of the Scripture written by a London Divine wherein being large upon the Revelations he prefers the said Interpretation before all others It was afterwards translated into French Dutch and Latine the last of which was done by several hands and severally printed One copy was all or mostly performed by Tho. Gilbert of S. Edm. Hall printed at Amsterd 1677. oct And that or the other was partly remitted into Matth. Poole's Synopsis Critic in the second part of the fourth volume on the Revelations What answers were made to the said Interpretation that were printed I think there were none sure I am that one Lambert Morehouse Minister of Pertwood about 6 miles from Kilmanton accounted by some a learned man and a good Mathematician did write against it and seemed to be angry with the Author that 25 is not the true but the propinque root To which the Author replied with some sharpness The MS. of this controversie Morehouse gave to Dr. Seth Ward B. of Salisbury an 1668 before which time he was prefer'd by Dr. Henchman then B. of that place to the spiritual Cure of Little Langford in Wilts where he died about 1672. He was a Westmorland man by birth was educated I think in Clare Hall in Cambridge and wrot other things but are not printed As for our author Potter he lived to a good old age died perfectly blind at Kilmanton between Easter and Whitsuntide in the month of Apr. I think in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the chancel of the Church there His memory is preserved in Trin. Coll. by a Dial that he made and set up on the north side of the old Quadrangle where it doth yet remain His fathers name was Rich. Potter an Oxfordshire man born sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of the holy Trinity and afterwards Vicar of a little mercate Town in Wilts and Rector of Kilmington or Kilmanton in Somersetshire before mention'd ABRAHAM WOODHEAD son of Joh. Woodh of Thornhill in Yorks was born at Maltham in the Parish of Albonsbury alias Ambury in the said County entred a Student in Univ. Coll. under the tuition of Jonas Radcliff an 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts and soon after was made Scholar Afterwards going thro the several classes of Logick and Philosophy with very great industry he took the degrees in Arts became Fellow in 1633 entred into holy Orders passed a course in Divinity and in 1641 was elected one of the Proctors of the University which office being quitted not without trouble occasion'd by the denying of the Grace of Franc. Cheynell of which he complained to the Long Parliament he travelled into France with a Gent. Com. of his House called Thomas Radcliff son of Sir Geor. Radcl and afterwards with Thom. Culpeper and Thom. Strode both of the same House At length setling for a time in Rome he was entertained by George Duke of Buckingham whom he instructed in Mathematicks and was much respected by him After his return into England being depriv'd of his Fellowship by the Visitors appointed by Parliam for absence and non-appearance an 1648. he lived for some time in York house in the Strand near London by the appointment of the said Duke but Arthur Lord Capell being informed of the great merits of the person he entertained and learned of him the Mathematical Sciences In 1660 he was restored to his Fellowship by his Maj. Commissioners and remained in his Coll. for a time But his opinion as to Religion being then alter'd as it had been since he was at Rome which he always very warily conceal'd got leave of the Master and Society to be absent as intending again to travel with the allowance of 20 l. per an So that retiring to London he afterwards setled at Hoxton alias Hogsden near to that City where he lived very obscurely and retiredly upon that allowance that the College made to him as a Traveller all therein except one knowing not to the contrary but that he was beyond the seas There I say being setled he not only caused Youths to be trained up in the R. Cath. Religion of which certain members of Parliament did openly make mention in the House after
pleasant life this noble and beautiful Count paid his last debt to nature in the Rangers Lodge in Woodstock Park very early in the morn of the 26 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in a vault under the north Isle joyning to Spelsbury Church in Oxfordshire by the body of his Father Henry sometimes the generous loyal and valiant Earl of Rochester the same who had been Commissary General of the Army in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 under Thomas Earl of Arundel the General and had then a troop of horse under him and the same who had married Anne the Widow of Sir Harry Lee of Dichley before mention'd and Daughter of Sir John St. John of Wiltshire Which Henry Earl of Roch. dying beyond the Seas in his attendance on his Majesty on the 19 of Feb. 1657 aged 45 years was by leave obtained privately buried in the before mention'd Vault being the place of sepulture only for the family of Lee since honored with the title of Earl of Lichfield The said John E. of Rochester left behind him a son named Charles who dying on the 12 of Nov. 1681 was buried by his father on the 7 of Dec. following He also left behind him three daughters named Anne Elizabeth and Malet so that the male line ceasing his Majesty Ch. 2. confer'd the title of Rochester on Laurence Viscount Killingworth a younger son of Edward Earl of Clarendon STEPHEN CHARNOCK son of Rich. Charnock an Attorney or Solicitor descended from an antient family of his name living in Lancashire was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Creechurch in London educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge mostly under the tuition of Mr. Will. Sancroft spent afterwards some time in a private family and a little more in the exercise of his Ministry in Southwarke in the time of the Rebellion In 1649 or thereabouts he retired to Oxon purposely to obtain a Fellowship from the Visitors appointed by Parliament when they ejected scholars by whole shoales and in 1650 he obtained a Fellowship in New Coll. and thereby for several years did eat the bread of a worthy Loyallist In 1652 he was incorporated Master of Arts as he had stood in Cambridge and two years after he did undergo the office of Proctor of the University being then taken notice of by the godly Party for his singular gifts and had in reputation by the then most learned Presbyterians and therefore upon that account he was the more frequently put upon publick Works After he had discharged his office he received a call to go into Ireland where exercising his Ministry for about 4 or 5 years he was held in admiration by the Presbyterian and sometimes by the Independent and had the concurrent applause of some that were of different sentiments from him in matters of Religion and such also who did not love his opinion did notwithstanding commend him for his learning After the King was restored in 1660 he was ejected from his publick exercise being then as I conceive Bach. of Div. of Dublin returned into England and in and about London he did spend the greatest part of 15 years without any call to his own work whereby he took advantage to go now and then either into France or Holland In the five last years of his life he became more known by his constant preaching in private meetings in the great City gaining thereby infinite love and applause from the Brethren who held him to be a person of excellent parts strong reason great judgment and which do not often go together curious fancy They also esteemed him to be a man of high improvements and general learning that his chief talent was his preaching gift in which he had few equals that also he was good in the practice of physick in which he had arrived to a considerable measure of knowledge and lastly that he was a true son of the Church of England in that sound doctrine laid down in the articles of Religion and taught by our most famous antient Divines and Reformers c. As for his Writings they are many yet he published nothing while he lived However after his death his friends made extant these things following to prevent false copies which were then likely to creep abroad A Sermon of reconciliation to God in Christ on 2 Cor. 5.19 Lond. 1680. qu. Treatise of divine providence 1. In general 2. In particular as relating to the Church of God in the world Lond. 1680. oct Before which is an Epistle written by Rich. Adams and Edw. Veel who as I think published the said book This was afterwards involved in his Works His Works containing several discourses upon the excellence and attributes of God Lond. 1682. in a large fol. published by the said two persons R. Adams and E. Veele His Works vol. 2. containing several discourses upon various divine Subjects Lond. 1683. fol. with a Supplement He died in the house of one Rich. Tymms a Glazier in the Parish of White Chappel near London on the 27 of July in sixteen hundred and eighty aged 52 years or thereabouts whereupon his body being conveyed to Crosby house belonging to Sir Jo. Langham in which house Tho. Watson M. of A sometimes of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. Pastor of S. Stephens Church Walbrook in Lond. in the times of Usurpation and the author of The art of divine contemplation and of other things did hold forth by praying and preaching as our author Charnock did was thence accompanied by great numbers of the Brethren to S. Michaels Church on Cornhill in London where after John Johnson his contemporary in Emanuel and New Coll had held forth in a funeral Sermon wherein many things were spoken in praise of the defunct his body was committed to the earth on the 30 day of the same month at the bottom of the Tower under the Belfry I must now having a just opportunity laid before me tell the Reader that the name of Charnock is antient and in Lancashire is now or at least hath been lately Charnock of Charnock from whence was originally descended Thom. Charnock a noted Chymist and Rosacrucian of his time born at Feversham some say in the Isle of Thanet in Kent an 1526 and being very covetous of knowledge he travelled all England over to gain it fixed in Oxon for a considerable time where it hapned that he fell into such acquaintance that it proved his future comfort About that time he became known to Mr. James S. a spiritual man living in the Close at Salisbury who being a noted Chymist he entertained Charnock to be his Operator In 1554 he obtained the secret from his said Master Jam. S. who dying about that time left him inheritor of it but lost it by firing his Tabernacle on New years-day at noon an 1555. Soon after he learned the secret again but not of Will. Byrd sometimes Prior of Bathe who had bestowed a great deal of pains and money to obtain it but
More is not author of the abovenamed Digression against Baxter but the beginning of this Epist doth implicitly own the same Person to be author To conclude Mr. Glanvill died in his House at Bathe on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in his Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the 9th day of the same month at which time Jos Pleydell Archdeacon of Chichester preached his funeral Sermon which afterwards was made extant In his Rectory of Bathe succeeded Will. Clement of Ch. Ch in his Prebendship of Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle M. of A. of Peter house in Cambridge and in his Rectory of Streat with Walton Charles Thirlby Archdeacon of Wells MYRTH WAFERER son of Rich. Myrth Waferer of Grewel in Hampshire Gent became a Portionist of Mert. Coll. in 1624 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree and then translated himself to S. Alb. Hall where applying his mind to the study of Div took the degree of M. of A. as a member of the said House and at two years standing in that degree he wrot and published An apology for Dr. Dan. Featley against the calumnies of one S. E. in respect of his conference had with Dr. Smyth Bishop of Chalcedon concerning the real presence Lond. 1634. qu at which time he lived at if not Minister of Odyham in Hampshire In 1640 I find him Parson of Compton in Surrey and in Decemb. that year to be called into question by the Parl. then sitting for speaking scandalous words concerning those Lords that petitioned his Majesty in the North at York by saying that Lesley did not stick to say that the southern Lords were the cause of his coming on c. But how he was acquitted of that trouble it appears not In the time of the rebellion he suffer'd for the Kings cause but upon the return he was rewarded being then Rector of Upham in Hampshire with a Prebendship in the Church at Winchester and a Doctorship by creation of this University as a member of S. Alb. Hall He died on the 5. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester having several years before wrot one or more books fit for the press Quaere EDWARD GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. p. 87 was born at or near Croyden in Surrey admitted Prob. Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1634 entred on the Physick line took both the degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in 1641 in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts In 1643 Nov. 14 he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick But when the Kings cause declined he retired to London practised there and sometimes in the City of Bathe became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian in ord to his Maj. Ch. 2 and at length a pretended Baronet He hath written and published Morbus Epidemicus an 1643. Or the new disease with the signs causes remedies c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris that raged then in Oxon the King and the Court being there Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661 die Harvaei memoriae dicato Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul within the Liberty of Westm He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall became Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1627 afterwards Proctor of the University and a Dignitary in Ireland There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1676. NICHOLAS LLOYD son of George Lloyd a Minister of Gods word was born at Wonson alias Wonsington near Winchester in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School there admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. from Hart Hall 20. Oct. 1653 aged 19 years and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. In the year 1665 when Dr. Blandford Warden of that Coll. became Bishop of Oxon our author Lloyd was made his Chaplain being about that time Rector of S. Martins Ch. in Oxon and continued with him till he was translated to Worcester At length the Rectory of Newington S. Marie near Lambeth in Surrey falling void the said Dr. Blandford as Bishop of Worcester presented him to it an 1672. which he kept to his dying day He hath written Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum gentium hominum deorum gentilium regionum insularum locorum civitatum c. ad sacras profanas historias poetarumque fabulas intellegendas necessaria nomina quo decet ordine complectens illustrans c. Oxon. 1670. fol mostly taken from the Dictionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius Afterwards the author made it quite another thing by adding thereunto from his great reading almost as much more matter as there was before with many corrections c. Lond. 1686. fol whereunto is added a Geographical Index An account of this book and of the authors first undertaking to write it you may at large see in The universal historical Bibliotheque c. for the month of March 1686. Lond. 1687. qu. cap. 12. p. 149 c. written by Edm. Bohun Esq Mr. Lloyd died at Newington before mention'd on the 27. of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him among those that well knew him the character of a harmless quiet man and of an excellent Philologist EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the antient Mannour or Town of Tickhill near Doncaster in Yorkshire on the eleventh of Nov. 1621 and being educated in Grammar learning in those parts he was by the care of his Father Hen. Tongue Minister of Holtby in that County sent to Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 where continuing under a severe discipline till he was Bach. of Arts which was about the time that the grand rebellion commenc'd he chose rather to leave the Coll. being puritanically inclin'd than stay with other Scholars and bare arms for the King within the Garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into the Country he taught a little School within the Parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire where continuing for some time return'd to Oxon. upon the surrender of its Garrison to the Parliament forces setled in his Coll. and soon after submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by the said Parl was by them constituted Fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Hen. Watkins then ejected an 1648. Thence after he had spent an year or more therein he went into
Presbyterian Plot was discovered to bring into England K. Ch 2. an 1651 at which time Chr. Love who was the chief man in that Plot and our Author Case another were to be brought to their Trial. The Sermon is all for revenge of blood innocent blood spilt and 't is in a most high and desperate manner a downright provocation to do justice upon Delinquents that is Cavaliers or those that adhered to the King to spare not one of them living c. 5 The quarrel of the Covenant with the pacification of the quarrel in 3 Sermons on Lev. 26.25 and on Jer. 50.5 Lind. 1644. qu. 6 The vanity of vain glory funeral Sermon at the burial of Kingsmyll Lucy on 1 Cor. 1. ver 29. with 31. Lond. 1655. in tw 7 Sensuality dissected Serm. before divers Citizens of London born in Kent Lond. 1657. qu. 8 Eliahs abateman or corruption in the Saints Sermon at the funeral of Walt. Roswell M. A. at Chatham in Kent on Jam. 3.17 Lond. 1658. in tw 9 Serm. on Prov. 31.19 Lond. 1658 oct 19 Fun. Serm. on Malack 3.17 Lond. 1659. qu. 11 Farewell Sermon at Barthelmewtyde on Rev. 2.5 Lond. 1662. oct 12 How the Sabbath ought to be Sanctifyed on Isa 58.13.14 Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 'T is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate 13 Sermon on 2. Tim. 1.13 preached in the Morning Exercise at S. Giles in the feilds in May 1659 which Serm. is extant in a book entit The morning Exercise methodized published by our author Case with his Epistle before it Lond. 1676 qu. Besides these and other Sermons which I have not yet seen he hath published The Morning Exercise or some short notes taken out of the Morning Sermons which divers Ministers of the Gospel in the City of Lond. preached at S. Giles in the fields in the month of May 1655. Lond. 1655. in tw Imitation of the Saints opened in practical meditations Lond. 1666. qu. Mount Pisgah or a prospect of heaven Being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first Epistle of S. Paul to the Thess from the 13 verse to the end of the chapt Lond. 1670. qu. Dedicated to Sir Rob. Booth L. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland whose Mother the author Case had married Correction instruction or a treatise of afflictions first conceived by way of privat meditations after digested into certain Sermons Lond. 1671. in tw At length after our author had lived in continual agitation for carrying on the cause he professed died in sixteen hundred eighty and two whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Church called Christ Church within Newgate in London and had soon after laid over his grave a large white stone just below the steps going to the altar with this Inscription thereon Heic molliter dormit Thomas Case fideliss Jesu Christi Minister in hâc urbe alibi perquam plurimos annos egregius Concionator In Aede Christi Oxon educatus in hoc templo Christi tandem sepultus Obiit 30. Maii an aetatis 84. annoque Domini 1682. BENJAMIN NEEDLER son of Tho. Needl of Lanum in Middlesex was born in that County elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. from Merch. Taylors School an 1642. aged 18 years afterwards fellow and a cringer to the Presbyterian Visitors of the University in 1648 by submitting to their power and accepting of by way of Creation the degree of Bach. of the Civ Law Whether he afterwards took orders from a Bishop I know not sure I am that he being a well gifted brother for praying and preaching he was some years after made Minister of Margaret Moses in Friday street within the City of London where continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity an 1662. He hath written Expository notes with practical observations towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Genesis delivered by way of Exposition in several Lords dayes Exercises Lond. 1655 in a large oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Math. 5.29.30 'T is the third Serm. in the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate preached in Sept. 1661. Lond. 1661. qu. 2 Serm. on Math. 4.10 'T is the thirteenth Serm. in the Morning Exercise against Popery preached in Southwark c. Lond. 1675. qu. 3 The Trinity proved by Scripture Serm. on 1. Joh. 5.7 in the Morning Exercise Methodized c. preached in S. Giles in the fields in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. What other things goe under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Northwarnborough in Hampshire where for some years he had exercis'd his function in privat in the month of May or June in sixteen hundred eighty and two was according to his will as I presume buried frugally in some Church yard I think in that of Northwarnborough before mention'd At which time he left behind him a son called Culverwell Needler another named Benjamin and a Brother in Law called Rich. Culverwell Minister of Grundesburgh HENRY MUNDY was born in a Market Town called Henley in Oxfordshire became one of the Portionists of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the rebellion took one degree in Arts in 1647 and kept pace with the interrupted times to enjoy some petit employment In 1656 May 20 he was elected Master of the Free-Grammar School at Henley before mention'd which being well endowed and replenish'd with Scholars was very beneficial to him At length following the practice of Physick it fell to decay and had not death prevented Justice he would have been ejected He hath written and published Commentarii de aere vitali 2 De esculentis 3 De potulentis cum corallario de perergis in victu Oxon. 1680. in a large oct He died by a fall from his horse in his return to Henley from the house of John Lord Lovelace at Hurley on the 28. of June in sixteen hundred eighty and two aged about 58 years and the next day his body was buried in the North Chancel of the Church at Henley In the said School succeeded Dan. Ashford M. A. and Vice-Pr of Hart Hall somtimes of Wadh. Coll. who by his industry and vigilancy made it flourish PHILIPP HUNTON son of Ph. Hunt of Andover in Hampshire was born in that County became either Batler or Servitour of Wadham Coll. in Lent terme 1622 of which House he was afterwards Scholar and Master of Arts. At length entring into the sacred function he became successively Schoolmaster of Aburie in Wilts Minister of Devises afterwards of Hatchbury and in fine of Westbury in the said County and as Minister of the last place he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejecting of such whom the Presbyterians Independents and other factious people called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654. In the beginning of the year 1657 he was appointed the first Provost of the new College at Durham erected by
dispersed THOMAS BROWNE eldest son of Th. Br. Gent. was born in S. Michaels Cheap or in the parish of S. Michael in Cheapside in London on the 19 of Nov. an 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester entred a Commoner of Broadgates Hall soon after known by the name of Pembroke Coll in the beginning of the year 1623 took the degrees in Arts as a Member of the said Coll entred on the physick line and practised that faculty for some time in these parts Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas was made Doctor of Physick at Leyden and after his return he was incorporated in this University an 1637. About which time he by the perswasions of Tho. Lushington his somtimes Tutor retired to the City of Norwych where being setled he was much resorted to by Patients for his admirable skill in Physick which he practiced there with good success for many years was made Socius honorarius of the Coll. of Physitians at London and at length in the latter end of Sept. 1671. had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Maj. Ch. 2 then at and near the City of Norwych He hath written Religio Medici Lond. 1642. c. oct in English Answerd in a book intit Medicus Medicatus written by Alex. Ross a Scot and had English Observations put on it about the same time by Sir Ken. Digby and Annotations by another Afterwards the book it self was translated into Latine by Joh. Meryweather M. A. of Cambridge and had latine annotations put to it by a certain German who subscribes himself L. N. M. E. M. Printed at Strasburgh 1652. in oct whose preface to it tells us that the book it self which is translated into French Italian Dutch German c. hath been much taken into the hands of curious and learned men who have read it with great delight See more there of the author Browne and of his Relig. Med. in the said translat Pseud Epidem Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed truths or enquiries into common and vulgar errours Lond. 1646 in a little fol. There again 1650. and 57 c. The sixth edit in 1673 was enlarged by the author with many explanations additions alterations c. T was answer'd by the said Alex. Ross in his Arcana Microcosmi Or the hid secrets of mans body discovered c. Lond. 1652 oct c. And in a book written by Joh. Robinson M. D. entit Eudoxa seu questionum quarundam Miscelleniarum examen probabile c. Lond. 1656. oct The Reader may be pleased now to know that there hath been published under Dr. Tho. Brownes name a book bearing this title Natures Cabinet unlocked wherein is discovered the natural causes of Metalls Stones Pretious Earths c. Printed 1657 in tw A dull worthles thing stole for the most part out of the Physicks of Magirus by a very ignorant person a Plagiary so ignorant and unskilful in his rider that not distinguishing between Laevis and Levis in the said Magirus hath told us of the Liver that one part of it is gibbous and the other light And yet he had the confidence to call this scribble Natures Cabinet c an arrogant and fanciful title of which our authors Browne true humilitie would have no more have suffer'd him to have been the father than his great learning could have permitted him to have been the author of the said book For it is certain that as he was a Philosopher very inward with nature so was he one that never boasted his acquaintance with her Sir Tho. Browne hath written also Urn-burial or a discourse of Sepulchral Urns lately found out in Norfolke c. Lond. 1658. oct c. The Garden of Cyrus or the Quincunical Lozenge or Net-work plantations of the Antients artificially naturally mystically considered with sundry observations c. Printed with Urn-burial Certaine Miscellany Tracts 1 Observations upon several plants mention'd in Scripture 2 Of Garlands and coronary or garden-plants 3 Of the Fishes eaten by our Saviour with his Disciples after his resurrection from the dead 4 Answer to certain equeries relating to Fishes Birds Insects 5 Of Hawkes and falconry antient and moderne 6 Of Cymbals c. 7 Of ropalie or gradual verses c. 8 Of Languages and particularly of the Saxon tongue 9 Of artificial Hills mounts or burrowes in many parts of England 10 What place is meant by that name 11 Of the answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Croesus King of Lydia 12 A prophecie concerning the future state of several nations 13 Musaeum Clausum or Bibliotheca abscondita c. All these were printed at Lond. 1686 in oct with the authors picture before them shewing him to have been an handsome man and an Epistle written by Dr. Tho. Tennison the publisher of them who saith that there is on foot a design of writing the authors life and that there are already some memorialls collected for that purpose by one of his antient friends and puts the Reader in expectation of receiving hereafter some other remaining brief Discourses among which is his Repertorium or some account of the Tombes Monuments c. in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich This learned and worthy Physitian whose works were published in fol. 1686 with his picture also before them died in his house in Norwych on the 19 day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried within the Railes at the East end of the Chancell in the Church of S. Peter in Mancroft within the said City Over his grave was a Monument soon after erected by his Relict Dame Dorothy who had been his affectionate wife 41. years with this inscription thereon M. S. Hic situs est Thomas Browne M. D. Miles An. 1605 Londini natus generosâ familiâ apud Upton in agro Cestrensi oriundus Scholâ primum Wintoniensi postea in Coll. Pembr apud Oxonienses bonis literis haud leviter imbutus in urbe hâc Nordovicensi Medicinam arte egregiâ faelici successu professus Scriptis quibus tituli Religio Medici Pseudodoxia Epidemica aliissque per orbem notissimus Vir pientissimus integerrimus doctissimus Obiit Octob. 19 an 1682. Pie posuit maestissima conjux D a Dor. Br. There is also an English Epitaph which for brevity sake I shall now pass by THOMAS TANNER son of a wealthy Citizen of London was born in the Parish of S. Matthew in Friday-street within that City an 1630 educated in Paules School and thence sent to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge where he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon when the Visitours appointed by Parl. sate there he was incorporated in the said degree in Feb. 1650 and about that time was made one of the Fellows of New Coll. by the said Visitors In less than two years after he proceeded in Arts having some time before had the degree of M. of A. confer'd on him
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
found guilty at the Old Bayly and lastly that our Author Bampfield dying in the said Prison of Newgate on Saturday the sixteenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred eighty and three his body was two or three days after followed with a very great company of factious and schismatical people to his grave in the new burying place bought by the Anabaptists in Glass-house Yard joyning to Aldersgate street in London THOMAS GAWEN son of a Minister of the City of Bristow of both his names was born in a market Town in Glocestershire called Marifield educated in Wykehams School near VVinchester made perpetual Fellow of New Coll an 1632 aged 22 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders travelled was at Rome and accidently sometimes fell into the company of John Milton the Antimonarchist After his return he became Chaplain to Dr. Curl Bishop of VVinchester who gave him a Prebendship in that Church and the Rectory as I conceive of Exton in Hampshire he being then much valued for his Learning Greek and Latin Poetry About the latter end of 1642 he having the year before left his Fellowship he was appointed by the said Bishop to be Tutor to his son then a Commoner of Magd. Coll where being esteemed a person of admirable breeding his company was much desired and courted by reason of his travels and discourse which savoured at that time nothing of Popery but rather an aversion from it of which great notice was taken among those with whom he commun'd Afterwards upon the delivery up of his charge and a foresight of the ruine of the Ch. of England he travelled again to Rome with the heir of the Dorcestrian Pier ponts spent some time there and in other parts of Italy and returning thro France met with an intimate friend of his then lately of Magd. Coll. at Paris with whom having several conferences that person found his discourse changed and some tincture therein of the Romish dye Whereupon he acquainting Dr. Steph. Goffe of the person he desired his company but could not by any means perswade him to come within the verge of the Court of the Queen Mother of England then there and the reason of it was as they conceived because he would keep his opinion undiscovered to the end that he might afterwards gain some profit from the Ch. of England After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Rector of Bishops-stoke in Hampshire and of Fawley but the last he never enjoyed because not inducted thereunto About that time he being discovered to be what he was a Rom. Catholick he willingly left all he had and to prevent danger that might ensue from his clerical brethren he procured himself by the endeavours of Dr. Goffe and L. Abbat Mountague to be sworn a Servant to Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother before mentioned Afterwards he went a third time to Rome married an Italian woman well born and had a child by her but because he had nothing with left her and the child and returned to his native Country his wealth being kept for the children of his brother who was then P. of the P. P. at London About that time he took up his quarters in the City of VVestminster lived a retired life a perpetual Student in religionary Controversies and wrot many things of which some are extant as A brief explanation of the several mysteries of the holy Mass and of the actions of the Priest celebrating very necessary for all Roman Catholicks for the better understanding thereof Lond. 1686. oct Certain Reflections upon the Apostles Creed touching the Sacrament Divers Meditations and Prayers both before and after the Communion These two last go and are bound with the Brief Explanation c. Other things also which he left behind him that are not as yet I suppose extant are 1 A treatise of mental prayer 2 How to gain a Jubilee or Indulgence 3 Of the name of God Jehovah 4 Meditations belonging to spiritual exercise 5 Treatise touching the reading of Saints lives c. And among the Translations into Latine which he made was Joh. Cleavelands Poem called The Rebel Scot and among those from Spanish into English The life of S. Vincent of Caraffa the General of the society of Jesus He died in his house situated in the Pall-Mall within the Liberty of the City of VVestminster on the 8 day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields within the said City leaving then behind him the character among men especially those of his perswasion of a learned and religious person THOMAS GORE was born of an antient and gentile family living at Aldrington alias Alderton in VVilts an 1631 at which place his Ancestors who originally came from Whitlegh near Melkesham in the said County have lived about 300 years In the time of the Rebellion he was educated in Grammar learning at Tetbury in Glocestershire under Mr. Tho. Tully where being rip'ned for the University became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in the month of May 1647 under the tuition first of Joh. King Fellow of that House and afterwards with leave from the President under the said Mr. Tully Fellow of Qu. Coll. After he had continued in Magd. Coll. more than three years and had perform'd his exercise for the degree of Bach. of Arts he retir'd to Lincolns Inn whence after he had spent some time in the municipal Laws he receeded to his Patrimony at Alderton where prosecuting his natural Genius which he had to Heraldry and Antiquities wrot and published these things following A Table shewing how to blazon a coat of Arms ten several ways Printed 1655 on one side of a single sheet and taken verbatim as it seems from Joh. Fern's book called The blazon of Nobility c. Nomenclator Geographicus Latino Anglicus Anglico-Latinus alphabeticè digestus complectens plerorumque omnium M. Britanniae Hiberniae regionum Comitatum Episcopatuum Oppidorum Fluviorum c. nomina appellationes c. Oxon. 1667. oct To which the Author did afterwards add many other things with an intention to come out with another edition Series alphabetica Latino-Anglica nomina gentilitiorum sive cognominum plurimarum familiarum quae multos per annos in Angliâ floruere è libris quà manuscriptis quà typis excusis aliisque antiquioris aevi monumentis latinis collecta Oxon. 1667. oct This book was afterwards crept into a thick quarto by the additions of the etymologies of the words and many little annotations concerning the Arms of the said Families but before the Author could put it into the press he was snatch'd away by death Catalogus in certa capita seu classes alphabetico ordine concinnatus plerorúmque omnium authorum tam antiquorum quà m recentiorum qui de re heraldica Latinè Gallicè Ital. Hispan Germ. Anglicè scripserunt Oxon. 1668. in 4 sh and an half To which the Author making many
additions with prefaratory discourses of Arms and Armory it was printed again at Oxon 1674. in 16 sh in qu. After this the Author growing wealthy and noted for a rich man became High-Sheriff of Wilts an 1680 whereupon suffering in his reputation by some of his neighbouring gentry he wrot and published Loyalty displayed and falshood unmask'd or a just Vindication of Tho. Gore Esq High-Sheriff of the County of Wilts in a letter to a friend Lond. 1681. in 1 sh qu. He gave up the ghost at Alderton before mention'd on the 31 of March Easter Munday in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church there among the graves of his Ancestors leaving then behind him several pieces of Heraldry of his own composure collections of Arms out of several Churches and Houses which he had made in his Journeys additions to and corrections of the books that he had published and a choice collection of Heraldry books and books relating to that faculty as well printed as in MS. WILLIAM CLARKE son of George Clarke by his wife the sister of Will. Prynne Esq was born at Swainswyke near Bathe in Somersetshire became a Communer of Oriel Coll an 1657 aged 17 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts 1661 and on the 30 of Mar. 1663 was made Fellow of his House About that time applying his mind solely to the study of Physick left his Fellowship three years after retired to his native Country and practised it in the City of Bathe where I saw him in 1678 and his book intit The natural history of Niter or a philosophical discourse of the nature generation place and artificial extraction of Niter c. Lond. 1670. oct Translated into Lat. and printed beyond the Seas after a full account of it had been made publick in the Philosophical Transactions numb 61. p. 2008. Afterwards the Author retired to Stepney near London in Middlesex where he practised his faculty with good success and dying on the 24 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Church there on the 27 of the same month He was usually called there Dr. Clarke but whether he ever took that degree elsewhere I cannot tell I am sure he was only Bach. of Arts of this University DANIEL WHISTLER son of Will. Whistl of Elvington in the Parish of Goring in the dioc of Oxford was born at Walthamstow in Essex educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in Jan. 1639 aged 20 years or thereabouts where going thro the severe exercise then kept up proceeded in Arts four years after About that time obtaining leave of his Society to travel he crossed the seas to Holland took the degree of Doctor of Phys at Leyden an 1645 and returning the year following to his Coll. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University 1647. Afterwards he submitted to the power of the Visitors appointed by Parliament kept his Fellowship tho absent became superior Reader of Lynacres Lecture but read not because he was practising his faculty in London and in 1653 he went as chief Physitian to the Embassy made by Bulstrode Whitlock into Sweedland After his return he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Fellow of the Royal Society when first instituted and at length upon the removal of Dr. Tho. Cox for being whiggishly inclined he was made President of the said College about S. Lukes day 1683. He hath written and published Disputatio medica inauguralis de morbo puerili Anglorum quem patrio idiomate indigenae vocant The Rickets quam deo suppetias ferente c. Lond. 1645 and 1685. qu. This noted Doctor tho he had married a rich widdow and did obtain about 1000 l. per an by his practice many years before his death yet he died in the Coll. of Physitians very much in debt and worse than nothing on Sunday the eleventh day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried but a little better than in private towards the upper end of the north isle or alley joyning to the Church called Christ Church in London which is near the said Coll. of Phys THOMAS LYE son of Tho. Lye or Leigh was born at Chard in Somersetshire 25 of Mar. 1621 entred a Servitour of Wadh. Coll. under his learned and faithful Tutor Mr. George Ashwell in Mich. term 1636 elected scholar thereof 29 Jun. in the year following took one degree in Arts by the name of Tho. Leigh by which name also he had been matriculated went afterwards to Cambridge when Oxford was garrison'd for his Majesty took the degree of Master of Arts there in July 1647 being then or lately Master of the school at Bury S. Edm. in Suffolk returned afterwards to Oxon for preferment was made Chaplain of Wadh. Coll and incorporated Master of this University by the name of Tho. Lye in the month of May 1649. Soon after he was made Minister of Chard before mentioned and on the 24 of Aug. 1651 he preached a farewell sermon as being under the sentence of banishment because he would not swear against the beloved Covenant In 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Somersetshire for the ejection of such whom the Saints then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters In 1658 upon the receipt of a Call he entred on the pastoral charge of Allhallowes Church in Lombard-street in London on the 20 of Nov. or thereabouts and by Act of Parl. of the 14 of March 1659 he was made one of the Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way which Act being soon after annulled upon a foresight of his Majesties restauration he himself two years after was ejected for Nonconformity He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 The fixed saint held forth in a farewell Serm. at Allhallowes in Lombardstreet 17 Aug. 1662 on Phil. 4.1 Lond. 1662. qu. It was reprinted the same year in octavo among other farewell Sermons at Barthelmew tide with his picture very like him with other pictures of Nonconformists that then preached in and near London set in the title 2 Sermon on Luke 17.10 Printed in The morning Exercise against Popery preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 3 By what spiritual rules may catechising be best managed on Prov. 22.6 Printed in The supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 4 The true believers union with Christ on 1 Cor. 6.17 Pr. in The morning exercise at S. Giles in the fields near Lond. in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. In which Morn exerc one John Tillotson hath also a sermon An explanation of the shorter Catechisme composed by the Assembly of Divines 1647. With a plain and familiar method of instructing the younger sort in that Cat. Lond. in oct Several times printed The Childs delight together with an English Grammar Lond. in oct Several times printed A new
Spelling-book or reading and spelling English made easse wherein all the words of our English Bible are set down in an alphabetical order and divided into their distinct Syllables Together with the grounds of the English Tongue laid in verse wherein are couch'd many moral Precepts Lond. 1674. oct c. What other Sermons or books are published under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Bednal green near London on the seventh day of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Ch. of Clapham in Surrey in which Town he had usually held forth in Conventicles with Dr. Hen. Wilkinson commonly called Long Harry and Will. Bridge sometimes Minister of Yarmouth He also for a better livelyhood instructed the sons of Nonconformists JOSHUA SPRIGGE son of Will. Sprigge sometimes servant to Will Lord Say afterwards Steward of New Coll was born at Banbury in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsummer term an 1634 aged 16 years left it without a degree journied into Scotland and became Master of Arts at Edinburgh and a Preacher A little before the Rebellion began he retired to London was a Preacher at S. Mary Alderm afterwards took the Covenant was made Minister of S. Pancras Ch. in Soperlane and at length a retainer to Sir Tho. Fairfax General of the Parliament Army In 1648 he was constituted one of the Fellows of All 's Coll. by the Committee and Visitors appointed by Parliament to reform the University and in the year following he was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Edinburgh While he continued in All 's Coll he was of civil conversation but far gone in Enthusiasme and blamed much by some of the Fellows then there for his zeal of having the history of our Saviours Ascension curiously carved from stone over that Coll. gate to be defaced after it had remained there since the foundation of that House About that time he was esteemed also a noted Independent and afterwards very well known to be a great favourer of factious and blasphemous persons particularly that grand Impostor James Naylor Quaker in whose behalf he did in the head of an 100 men deliver a Petition in favour of him to Oliver L. Protector After the Kings return he retired to an Estate which he had purchased at Crayford in Kent lived privately there and frequented Conventicles At length upon the death of James Lord Say which was in the latter end of 1673 he married his widow named Frances daughter of Edward Viscount Wimbledon with whom he had great familiarity during the time of her first Husband But she being a holy Sister and kept or caused to be kept Conventicles in her house they upon trouble ensuing removed to Highgate near London where our Author Sprigge died as I shall tell you anon He hath extant these things following viz. Several Sermons viz. 1 God a Christians all himself nothing on Gen. 5.24 Printed 1640. 2 A Testimony to approaching glory in five Sermons delivered at S. Pancrass Church in Soperlane Lond. 1649 sec edit In which Sermons are contained several blasphemies as certain Pamphlets inform us See more in Joh. Owen 3 A farther Testimony c. Printed in oct This I have not yet seen 4 The dying and living Christian c. on Rom. 14.8 Lond. 1648. oct and others as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen Anglia rediviva Fnglands recovery Being the History of the motions actions and successes of the Army under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight Capt. General of all the Parliament forces in England Lond. 1647. fol. Characterized falsly by an outlandish author to be opus rude moles indigesta c. This book goes under the name of J. Sprigge but if a knowing author saies true Nath. Fiennes second son to Will Lord Say had a chief hand in compiling the said book Certaine weighty considerations humbly tendred and submitted to the consideration of such of the Members of the High Court of Justice for the trial of the King as they shall be presented unto Lond. 1648. in two sh in qu. Solace for Saints in the saddest times Printed in oct This I have not yet seen News of a new world from the word and works of God compared together evidencing that the times of the man of sin are legally determined and by the same right the days of the son of man are already commenced with an account of the times of Gog and Magog and of the three last Viols Lond. 1676. oct Besides these he hath other things without doubt extant but I cannot yet in all my searches find them out He died at Highgate before mention'd in the month of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body being carried to Crayford aforesaid was buried in the Church there About a fortnight after his beloved wife Frances dying was I presume buried near him So that the Estate of him the said J Sprigge went to his younger brother William who hereafter is to be mention'd as a writer RICHARD HAYTER son of Will. Hayt of the City of Salisbury was born in Wilts became a Commoner of Madg. Hall in 1628 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts retired to Salisbury lived three as a Lay-man and wrote The meaning of the Revelation or a paraphrase with questions on the Rev. of the holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Divine c. wherein the Synchronismes of Mr. Joseph Mede c. are called into question c. Lond. 1675. qu. Errata Mori The errours of Henry More Doct. of Div. contained in his Epilogue annex'd to his exposition of the Revelation of S. John in which these questions are debated c. This was made ready for the Press in Apr. 1683 and another book but whether yet printed I cannot tell He died on the 30. of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Thomas in Salisbury which is all I yet know of him only that he and Joh. Warner are by the Printers mistake put among the Masters of Arts in the Fasti an 1634. as Masters of Magd. College instead of Madg. Hall and that by another mistake in this vol. p. 254 he hath set down the death of Dr. H. More before mentioned to be on the 3. of Apr. instead of the first of Sept. 1687. PETER GUNNING son of Pet. Gunn Minister of How in Kent by Elianor Trest his wife a Kentish woman of a good family was born at How on the eleventh and baptized on the 16 of Janu. 1613 bred up in the Free-School at Canterbury where being found remarkably ripe for the University he was at 15 years of age sent to Clare Hall in Cambridge of which House he was soon after made Fellow having been from his first admittance very much in the Eye of all that University as having and never wanting in any kind of exercise either
accounted among the Brethren a learned and mighty man and had brought upon himself a very ill habit of body by his too too much agitation for the cause gave up the Ghost at Inglefield before mention'd on the first day of November in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body being attended by multitudes of Dissenters to Newbury was buried in the Church there on the fourth day of the same month As for Tho. VVarren before mention'd he also wrot against Mr. Eyre in a book entit Unbelievers no subjects of justification nor mystical union vindicated against Mr. Eyre's objections in his Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae with a refutation of that antifidean and antievangelical error asserted therein viz. The justification of a sinner before or without faith Printed in qu. He hath also two or more Sermons extant and perhaps other things JOHN DALE son of Anth. Dale of Gilfield in Yorkshire was born there or in that County became a Student in Qu. Coll. an 1634 aged 15 years or thereabouts where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was elected into a Yorkshire Fellowship of Magd. Coll. In 1648 he submitted to the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament and in the year after he became Bach of Divinity and kept pace with the men then and afterwards in power that is with Presbyterians and Independents About the time of his Majesties restauration he was presented by the President and Fellows of his Coll. to the rectory of Stanlake in Oxfordshire and soon after upon an exchange for another in Yorkshire was inducted into the rectory of Longworth in Berks near Stanlake but deprived of it soon after for Simony He hath written and published The Analysis of all the Epistles of the New Testament c. Oxon. 1652. oct and had written another book as I have heard fit for the press but was never printed He died at Stanlake before mention'd on the 14 day of Nov. in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was 3 days after buried in the Chancel of the Church there Soon after the Pres and Fell. of the said Coll. presented to the said rectory of Stanlake one of their society named Thomas Smith D. D who keeping it not long surrendred it up to the College SETH BUSHELL son of Adam Bushell was born at Kuerdin in the Parish of Leyland near Preston in Amoundernes in Lancashire became a Commoner of S. Maries Hall in 1639 continued there till about the time that the Univ. and City of Oxon were garrison'd for the King and then retired to his own Country In 1654 he returned for a time and took both the degrees in Arts in that year being then as it seems Minister of VVhitley in Yorks and in 1665 he took the degree of Bach. of Div. at which time he was Minister of Euxton in his own County Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he became Vicar of Preston and in the three last years of his life Vicar of Lancaster where he finished his course He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A warning piece for the unruly in two Serm. on 1. Thes 5.14 at the metrapolitical Visitation of the most rev Fath. in God Richard L. Archb. of York held at Preston in Lanc. and there preached Lond. 1673. qu. 2 The Believers groan for Heaven preached at the funeral of the right honorable Sir R. Houghton of Houghton Baronet at Preston in Amoundernes on 2. Cor. 5.2 Lond. 1678. qu. And another preached on the 25. day of the first month an 1658. which George Fox Quaker answers in his book entit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. Cosmo-meros The worldly portion or the best portion of the wicked and their misery in the enjoyment of it opened and applied Lond. 1682 in tw It is the substance of several Sermons under some abridgments on Luke 16.25 Directions and helps in order to a heavenly and better portion enforc'd with many useful and divine considerations Printed with Cosmo-meros c. At length giving up the Ghost at Lancaster in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Church there and soon after had this Epitaph put over his grave P. S. Exuvias en hic deposuit Seth Bushell SS Th. Pr. Deo Ecclesiae Anglicanae reformatae usquam devotissimus utrique Carolo angugustissimis temporibus piè fidelissimus familiae suae quibusque notus fuerat meritò charissimus postquam hanc suam ecclesiam vitâ inculpabili assiduis concionibus per triennium faeliciter rexisset quo tempore inter alia pietatis specimina Parochi domum modò corruituram instauravit auxit Immortalitati verò natus coelâ—que maturus spe resurrectionis terris valedixit anno salutis 1684 aetatis 63. die Novemb. sexto NICHOLAS LOCKYER son of VVill. Lock of Glastenbury in Somersetshire was born in that County entred either Batler or Commoner of New Inn in 1629 aged 17 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts but whether that of Master it appears not And about the same time entring into holy Orders according to the Church of England had some Cure conferr'd on him but upon the change of the times occasion'd by the iniquity of the Presbyterians he closed with preached frequently among them took the Covenant and afterwards preaching among the Independents he took the Engagement On the 10 of Dec. 1653 he was one of the Independent Ministers that were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for the ejecting and setling of Ministers according to the rules then prescribed but that project taking not effect he was appointed one of the Commissioners by Oliver in the latter end of the said year for the approbation of publick Preachers In June 1654 he being then Fellow of Eaton Coll in great favour with Oliver to whom he was Chaplain and entrusted in several Commissions the then Delegates of the University ordered that he the said Mr. Lockyer sometimes of New Inn and Master of Arts of 12 years standing might have the degree of Bach. of Divinity confer'd on him but whether he was admitted to that degree or was ever Master of Arts of this University it appears not as it is told you before In the latter end of 1658 he became Provost of Eaton Coll in the place of Franc. Rouse deceased was deprived of it at his Majesties restauration and two years after when the act of Conformity was published he lost an Ecclesiastical Benefice So that carrying on the trade of conventicling and plotting he was shrewdly suspected with Ph. Nye to have had a hand in that stupendious Tragedy intended to be acted by the satanical saints on the King royal Family Court and Loyal party in Nov. 1662 for which George Phillips Tho. Tongue c. suffered death He hath written Several Sermons as 1 Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 28 Oct. 1646. on Isa 53.10 Lond. 1646. qu. 2 Fast Serm. bef the H.
praestitit officium sed etiam bene maximam horum partem meaning his Clavis Mathematica Anglicè non ita pridem edendam transtulit Besides which he hath written The times mended or a rectified account of time by a new Luni-solar year the true way to number our days Lond. 1681. in 4. sh and an half in fol. An account and abstract of which is in the Philosophical Collections written by Mr. Rob. Hook numb 2. p. 27. an 1681. A new Al-mon ac for ever or a rectified account of time beginning with March 10. an 1680 1 by a Luni-solar year or by both luminaries that is by the moons monthly course primarily so as the first of the month shall always be within about a day of the change and yet adjusted to the Suns yearly course also viz. keeping within about a week thereof at a medium Described in and dedicated to the most noble order of the Garter Printed the same year with the Times amended c. An account of which is also in the said Philosophical Collections p. 26. He also wrot some things in Mathematicks not yet published one piece whereof he was pleased out of great friendship and 〈◊〉 long acquaintance sake to dedicate to Mr. George Tâ—â—let a Teacher of Gentlemen in London the faculty of Mathematicks This Dr. Wood died at Dublin in Ireland on the ninth day of April in sixteen hundred eighty and five aged 63. or thereabouts and was buried in St. Michaels Church there notwithstanding he had desired his friends some days before his death that he might be buried in the Ch. yard of the Parish Church where he should happen to dye thinking that Churches were the less wholsome for corps being buried in them THOMAS OTWAY son of Humph. Otway Rector of Wolbeding in Sussex was born at Trottin in that County on the 3. of March 1651 educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester became a Communer of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1669 left the University without the honor of a degree retired to the great City where he not only applied his muse to Poetry but sometimes acted in plays whereby he obtained to himself a reputation among the ingenious and a comfortable subsistence to himself besides the favour and countenance of Charles Fitz-Charles commonly called Don Carlos Earl of Plymouth one of the natural Sons of K. Ch. 2. In 1677 he went in the quality of a Cornet with the new rais'd English forces design'd for Flanders but getting little or nothing by that employment returned with the loss of time to London where he continued to the day of his death by writing of plays and little poetical essays He was a man of good parts but yet sometimes fell into plagiary as well as his contemporaries and made use of Shakespear to the advantage of his purse at least if not his reputation After his return from Flanders which was in a poor condition Rochester the biting Satyrist brought him into his Session of Poets thus Tom Otway came next Tom Shadwells dear Zany And swears for Heroicks he writes best of any Don Carlos his pockets so amply had fill'd That his mange was quite cur'd and his lice were all kill'd But Apollo had seen his face on the stage And prudently did not think fit to engage The scum of a Playhouse for the prop of an age As for his works which have been approved by the generality of Scholars a Catalogue of them follows Alcibiades a Tragedy Lond. 1675. 87. qu. 'T is writ in Heroick verse and was the first fruits of the authors labours Don Carlos Prince of Spain Trag. Lond. 1676. 79. Titus and Berenice Trag. Lond. 1677. qu. Cheates of Spaine a Farce Printed with Tit. and Ber. Friendship in fashion a Comedy Lond. 1678. qu. The Poets complaint of his muse or a satyr against Libells a Poem Lond. 1680. qu. The History and Fall of Caius Marius Trag. Lond. 1680. qu. The Orphan or the unhappy marriage Trag. Lond. 1680. 84. c. qu. The Soldiers fortune Com. Lond. 1681. qu. Venice preserv'd or a plot discovered Lond. 1682. qu. The Atheist or the second part of the Soldiers fortune Lond. 1684. qu. Windsor Castle in a monument to our late Sovereign K. Ch. 2. of ever blessed memory a poem Lond. 1685. qu. He also translateâ— from Lat. into English The Epistle of Phaedra to Hyppolytus in Ovids Epistles translated by several hands Lond. 1680. 81. oct Also The sixteenth Ode of Horace in a book entit Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgils Eclogues Ovids Elegies Odes of Horace c. Lond. 1684. oct In which Miscellany Poems is our author Otway's Epistle to R. D. in verse p. 218. He englished also The History of the Triumvirates the first part of Julius Caesar Pompey and Crassus The second part of Augustus Antony and Lepidus Being a faithful collection from the best Historians and other authors concerning that revolution of the Rom. government which hapned under their authority Lond. 1686. oct Written originally in the French language At length after he had lived about 33 years in this vain and transitory world made his last exit in an house on Tower-hill called the Bull as I have heard on the 14. of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was conveyed to the Church of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster and was buried in a vault there In his sickness he was composing a congratulatory Poem on the inauguration of K. Jam. 2. THOMAS MARSHALL or Mareschallus as in his Observ in Evang. he writes himself son of a father of both his names was born at Barkbey in Leicestershire educated there in Grammar learning under Francis Foe Vicar of that Town entred a Batler in Linc. Coll. in Mich. terme an 1640 aged 19 years and on the 31. of July in the year following he was elected one of Rob. Trapps Scholars in that House much about which time he being a constant auditor of the Sermons of the most learned and religious Primate of Ireland Dr. Usher delivered in Allhallowes Church joyning to his Coll his affections were so exceedingly wrought upon that he was alwaies resolv'd from thence forth to make him the pattern of all the religious and learned actions of his life and therefore ever after he could not endure those that should in their common discourse or writings reflect in the least on that sacred Prelate Soon after Oxford being garrison'd upon the breaking out of the rebellion he bore Arms therein for his Majesty in the Regiment of Henry Earl of Dover at his own proper cost and charges and therefore in 1645 when he was a Candidate for the degree of Bach. of Arts he was admitted thereunto without paying fees But upon the approach of the Parliamentary Visitation he left the University went beyond the Seas and became Preacher to the Company of English Merchants at Roterdam and Dort in the place of Henry Tozer deceased In
and that of Dr. Humph. Henchmans before The Gentlemans Calling which two books had been published by the said Doctors Dr. Fell also published in the year 1675 two other pieces written by the same author viz. The Government of the Tongue and The Art of Contentment and last of all The lively Oracles given to us c. which was first printed at Oxon 1678. oct In 1684 all the works of the said excellent author were printed together in a pretty large folio and fair character at Oxon and London The whole duty of man The decay of Christian piety and The Gentlemans Calling which altho published by Dr. Henchman some years before The decay of Christian Piety is in this Edit placed after it make the first part which is printed at London and the four pieces above-named make the second part printed at Oxon. Before the whole volume is placed a general preface of Dr. Fells composition wherein among other things he points at no less than five spurious pieces which have expresly or by a designed implication boldly usurp'd on the name and authority of this unknown celebrated author In this edition of his works compleat Dr. Fell hath inserted in the margin of the four last pieces which make the second part of the said vol. if not too of The Gent. Calling and The decay of Christ Piety the heads and contents of each section with useful marginal abbreviations which were till then wanting in all the parts except only in The whole duty of man He caused also at his own proper charge the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon to be translated into latine and kept two men in pay for doing it besides what he did himself which was considerable and the Author which was less And being so done he caused it at his own charge also to be printed with a good character on good paper but he taking to himself liberty of putting in and out several things according to his own judgment and those that he employ'd being not careful enough to carry the whole design in their head as the Author would have done it is desir'd that the Author may not be accountable for any thing which was inserted by him or be censur'd for any useless repetitions or omissions of his Agents under him At length this most godly learned and zealous person having brought his body to an ill habit and having wasted his spirits by too much zeal for the publick he surrendred up his pious soul to God to the great loss of learning and of the whole University about three of the clock in the morning of the tenth of July being then Saturday in sixteen hundred eighty and six leaving then behind him the general character of a learned and pious Divine and of an excellent Greecian Latinist and Philologist of a great assertor of the Church of England of another Founder of his own College and of a Patron of the whole University He was buried on the 13 day of the same month in the Divinity Chap. which is the Isle most northward from the choir of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in a little vault built of brick under the Deans seat on the right hand and under the seats adjoyning Eastward His Monument long since promis'd by his Executors is yet to be expected JOHN JONES son of John Jones of Llang-Ellian in Denbighshire became a Student in New Inn in Act term 1675 aged 20 years was translated afterwards to Trin. Coll. and as a member thereof taking the degree of Bach. of Arts 1681 was soon after made Usher of the Free-school at S. Alban in Hertfordshire where as in the University he was esteemed a good latin Poet. He hath written Fanum S. Albani Poema carmine Heroico Lond. 1683 in 4. sh in qu. dedic to Sir Harbottle Grimston Knight and Bt Master of the Rolls He died in sixteen hundred eighty and six and was buried in the large Church of S. Alban before mention'd with this epitaph soon after put over his grave H. S. E. Johannes Jones Wallus Scholae S. Albanensis Hypodidascalus literatissimus Qui dum Ecclesia haec Anno 1684 publicis impensis instauraretur exsculpsit sibi quoque monumentum quod inscripsit Fanum S. Albani poema carmine Heroico hoc lapide hâc Aede aevoque perrennius omni c. JOHN BENNET son of a Father of both his names was born in S. Margarets Parish within the City of Westminster elected from the Coll. School there a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1676 took one degree in Arts and wrot Constantius the Apostate Being a short account of his life and the sense of the primitive Christians about succession Wherein is shewn the unlawfulness of excluding the next heir upon the account of Religion and the necessity of Passive Obedience as well to the unlawful oppressor as legal persecutor Being a full answer to a late pamphlet entit Julian the Apostate c. Lond. 1683. oct Afterwards the author proceeded in Arts studied Physick and dying of a violent feaver on the 6. of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and six was buried on the south side of the body of the Cathedral of Christ Church in Oxford WILLIAM GOULD was born of gentile parents at Parhams farm in the Parish of Alston in Wiltshire entred a Com. of Oriel Coll. 19 of May 1658 where being extravagant in his life and conversation was forc'd thence but taking up in time and making a through reformation in him self obtained the Chancellors letters for the accumulating the degrees in Arts an 1666 wherein I find this character of him that he is a man of very good parts and learning and well qualified to do service in the Church c. But whether he was admitted Bach. or Master of Arts it appears not About that time being in holy Orders he became Rector of Kenn near Exeter in his own Country a most loyal and orthodox person and a good preacher He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Domus mea domus orationis preached at S. Peters in Exeter on Matth. 21.13 Lond. 1672 qu. 2 Conformity according to the Canon justified and the new way of moderation reproved preached in the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in Exeter at the Visitation of Anthony Bishop of Exeter on 1. Cor. 14.20 Lond. 1674. qu. 3 The generosity of Christian love on 1. Cor. 13.5 Lond. 1676. qu. 4 The primitive Christian justified and Jack Presbyter reproved or a scripture demonstration that to be innocent and persecuted is more eligible than to be prosperously wicked preached in his Abbey Church of Bathe on Job 36.21 Lond. 1682. qu. He died in the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and six and was buried on the first of Novemb. in the Church of Kenn before mention'd where there is a Monument and Epitaph over his grave THOMAS JACOMBE son of Job Jac. was born at Burton Lazers near to Melton Mowbray in Leycestershire became either a Batler or a
S. James's street near to S. James's house within the liberty of Westminster on the 27 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven Whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said house of S. James's He had several Sons among whom Lionel Sheldon a Benedictine Doct. of Divinity and Chaplain to Anne Duchess of York after she had changed her religion for that of Rome was one and Dominick Sheldon another lately a Colonel of Horse of prudent and couragious conduct in Ireland in the Army of K. Jam. 2. against that of K. Will. 3. Among his daughters were Mary one of the Dressers belonging to Queen Catherine Wife of Sir Sam. Tuke of Cressing-Temple in Essex Kt and Bt a person sometimes of compleat honour and ingenuity a Colonel in the Army of his Majesty K. Ch. 1. and one of the prime Officers in that noble and generous expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 for which he had like to have lost his life afterwards a sufferer for his religion and loyalty author of that celebrated Trag. Com. called The adventures of five hours Lond. 1662 64 and 1671 qu. He died in his house in the Parish of S. Mary le Savoy in the Strand near London in May or June 1674 but where buried unless in the Church of that Parish or in the Chap. at Somerset-house I know not He the said Mr. Sheldon had another Dau. named Frances who was one of the Maids of honour to Qu. Catherine before mention'd and was Uncle to Ralph Sheldon of Beoley Esq commonly called Great Sheldon THOMAS WASHBOURNE a younger Son of Joh. Washbourne of Wychenford in Worcestershire Esq was born there entred a Communer of Balliol Coll in the beginning of the year 1622 aged 16 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts being then esteemed a tolerable Poet holy Orders and in 1636 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences In the time of the rebellion he had a Prebendship in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester confer'd upon him and suffer'd for the Royal cause but when his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was restor'd he was setled and installed in it actually created Doctor of Divinity and became Rector of Dumbleton in Glocestershire He hath written and published Divine Poems Lond. 1654. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the funeral of Charles Cocks Esq on Psal 90.9.10 Lond. 1655. qu. 2 The repairer of the breach preached in the Cathedral of Glocester 29 May 1661 being the anniversary of his Majesties birth day and happy entrance into his imperial City of London on Isa 58.12 Lond. 1661. qu. c. He died on the sixth day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in our Ladies Chappel within the Cathedral Church of Glocester Soon after was a little monument set up on the wall over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was Theologus vere Christianus vere primitivus per annos 44 Eccl. Cath. Gloc. Prebendarius and that he desired to have this written on his mon. that he was primus Peccatorum minimus Ministrorum Dei c. EDMUND HALL was born and educated in Grammar learning within the City of Worcester entred into Pemb. Coll. in 1636 aged 16 left the Univ. before he took a degree sided afterwards with the forces raised by the Parliament against his Majesty K. Ch. 1 took the Covenant and at length became a Captain among them When the Kings cause declined and the war ceased he retired to his Coll was made Fellow thereof and in 1649 he took the degree of Master of Arts much about which time he express'd himself an Enemy to Oliver for his diabolical proceedings and was thereupon committed to custody as I shall tell you anon About that time he became tho a Calvinist a conceited and affected preacher several years in these parts kept pace with the leading men during the Interval complemented with the times at his Majesties restauration and endeavoured to express his loyalty yet could not endure to be called Captain Afterwards he became Minister of a Market Town in Oxfordsh named Chipping-Norton where being much frequented by the neighbourhood obtained the character from some of a fantastical and from others of an edifying preacher About the latter end of 1680 the rectory of Great Risington near North Leech in Glocestershire falling void it was conferr'd upon him by Sir Edm. Bray Knight and soon after he took to him in his elderly years a fair and comely Wife His Sermons preached before the University of Oxon had in them many odd light and whimsical passages altogether unbecoming the gravity of the Pulpit And his gestures being very antick and mimmical did usually excite somewhat of laughter in the more youthful part of the auditory His works are these Lazarus's soares lick'd Written against Dr. Lazarus Seamon who affirmed in a book published about 1648 that an Usurper ought to be submitted to proving it from Christs paying tribute money to Caesar Lingua Testium Manus Test Digitus Test These three pamphlets the titles of which at large I could never get from the author were wrot by him against Oliver to shew that he had slain the Witnesses was very Antichrist and impossible for him to raign above three years and an half Whereupon being imprison'd by the Council of state continued there twelve months and then with much ado upon good Bail given he obtained his liberty A scriptural discourse of the Apostacy and the Antichrist by way of comment upon the twelve first verses of 2. Thes 2. c. in 4 parts Printed 1653. in about 20 sh in qu. with a Preface to it of about four Discourse of slaying the Witnesses and the immediat effects thereof Printed with the former These two last he wrot while he was a Prisoner Sermon at Staunton Harcourt Church in the County of Oxon at the funeral of the Lady Anne Harcourt who deceased 23. Aug. 1664 on Ezek. 24.16 Oxon. 1664. oct A funeral speech at her grave Printed with the Sermon This Lady Anne Harcourt Daughter of Sir Will. Waller sometimes a General of one of the Parliaments Armies was the Wife of Sir Philip Harcourt Knight son and heir of Sir Simon Which Philip dying at or near London was buried by her about the 12 of Apr. 1688 leaving then a son behind him named Simon Recorder of Abendon Our author Mr. Hall died in the month of August or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Great Risington before mention'd His elder Brother Thomas Hall I have at large mention'd already among these Writers under the year 1665. p. 233. WILLIAM PETTY son of Anthony Petty a Clothier was born in a little haven Town in Hampshire called Rumsey on the 26 of May 1623 and while a boy he took very great delight in spending his time among Artificers there as Smiths Carpenters Joyners c. whose trades in
Work the perusals of them when they could not otherwise but know that they would have been serviceable to him in the promotion of this Work then almost ready for the Press But such is the humour of the men of this age that rather than they 'll act a part for the public good and honour of learning they 'll suffer choice things to be buried in oblivion Mr. Fulman who died to the reluctancy of many learned men was buried in the Churchyard at the east end of the chancel of the Ch. at Meysey-Hampton before mentioned near to the body of his then late wife named Hester Grandaughter by the father of Dr. Rog. Manwaring sometimes Bishop of S. David ROBERT CARY son of George Cary of Cockington in Devonshire Gent was born there adm to the Communers table in Exeter Coll. 4 Oct. 1631 aged 16 years where continuing till Oct. 1634 was then adm scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll and in the year after took the degree of Bach. of Arts but whether he was ever Fellow of the said house I know not In 1638 he was licensed to proceed in Arts and in Nov. 1644 he as a Kinsman to Will Marquess of Hertford Chanc. of the Univ. of Oxon was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law by vertue of his letters then read in Convocation Afterwards he became Rector of East Portlemouth near Kingsbridge in Devonshire and Archdeacon of Exeâ—er being then accounted very learned in curious and critical learning He hath written Palaeologia chronica A chronological account of antient time in three parts 1. Didacticall 2. Apodeicticall 3. Canonicall Lond. 1677. fol. A large account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions numb 132. pag. 808.809 c. What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at East Portlemouth before mentioned in sixteen hundred eighty and eight was buried on the nineteenth day of Septemb. the same year in the Church there THOMAS FLATMAN an eminent Poet of his time was born in Aldersgate street in the Suburb of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester elected Fellow of New Coll. in 1654 left it before he took a degree retired to the Inner Temple of which he became a Barrester and equally ingenious in the two noble faculties of Poetry and Painting or Limning as several choice pieces shew the titles of the former of which are these A Pindariqu ' Ode on the death of the truly valiant and loyal George Duke of Albemarle late General of his Majesties Forces c. Lond. 1670. in 3 sh in fol. reprinted in his Poems and Songs following Poems and Songs Lond. 1674. oct there again with additions and amendments 1676. oct and lastly with more additions in oct 1682 with his picture before them A Pindariqu ' Ode on the death of Thomas Earl of Ossory Lond. 1681. in 2 sh in fol. Which Earl the eldest son of James Duke of Ormonde died at Westminster to the great grief of many at about 7 of the clock in the evening of the 30 of Jul. 1680. This Poem that pleased the author best as it did the generality was printed in the last edition of his Songs and Poems Soon after the publication of the said Ode it was read and perused by the said Duke who being in an high manner pleased with it he sent to the author a mourning Ring with a Diamond in it worth a 100 l as a reward for his labour and ingenuity On the death of K. Ch. 2. a Pindariqu ' Ode Lond. 1685. in two sh in fol. At the latter end of which are Gratulatory Verses on K. Jam. 2. In the year 1660 came out under the two letters of T. F. a book called Virtus rediviva A Panegyrick on the late King Charles the first of ever blessed memory attended with several ingenious pieces from the same pen. Whether Thom. Flatman was thâ— author of these Poems I cannot justly tell because they are not among his Songs and Poems In the next year was published a piece in prose intit Don Juan Lamberto or a comical history of the late times with a wooden cut before it containing the pictures of Giant Desborough with a great club in his right hand and of Lambert both leading under the arms the meek Knight i. e. Richard Cromwell which book vending very fast a second part was added by the same hand with the Giant Husonio before it and printed with the second impression of the first part Lond. 1661. qu. To both which parts very witty and satyrical tho the disguis'd name of Montelion Knight of the Oracle c. is set to them yet the acquaintance and contemporaries of Th. Flatman always confidently aver'd that he the said Flatman was the author of them He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Laodomia to Protesilaus which is in Ovids Epistles translated from Lat. into Engl. by several hands Lond. 1681. oct sec edit At length he having lived to the age of 53 or thereabouts gave way to fate in his house in Fleetstreet Lond. on the eighth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight and was three days after buried in the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget near to the rails of the Communion-table under a grave-stone with inscription and verses thereon which he had sometime before caused to be laid on his son there buried This person whose father a Clerk in the Chancery was then living in the 80 year of his age or more was in his younger days much against marriage to the dislike of his said father and made a song describing the cumbrances of it beginning thus Like a dog with a bottle ty'd close to his tail Like a Tory in a bog or a thief in a jayle c. But being afterwards smitten with a fair Virgin and more with her fortune did espouse her 26 Nov. 1672 whereupon his ingenious Comrades did serenade him that night while he was in the embraces of his Mistress with the said song SETH WARD a most noted Mathematician and Astronomer of his time was born in a little market town in Hertfordshire called Buntingford and on the 15 of Apr. 1617 was baptized there His father was an Attorney of good repute among his neighbours who perceiving his son very forward to learn he taught him common Arithmetick and caus'd him to be carefully educated in Grammar learning When he was fitted for the University he was sent to Sidney Coll. in Cambridge where he became Servitour to Dr. Sam. Ward Master of that house who being much taken with his ingenuity and industry as also with the suavity of his nature did soon after make him Scholar of the said house And because he was of the same Sirname many supposed that he was of kin occasion'd by the Doctor 's great kindness to him But there was no relation at all between them only the consimility of their dispositions which made a greater
his books p. 234 and in Will. Erbury an 1654. p. 104. In Thomae Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio Epistolica ad D. Joh. Wilkinsium Guardianum Coll. Wadhami Ox. 1656. octav Appendicula ad calumnias ab eodem Hobbio in sex documentis nuperrimè editis in authorem congestas responsoria Printed with the Exercitatio epistolica Astronomia Geometrica ubi methodus proponitur qua primariorum Planetarum Astronomia sive Elliptica sive circularis possit Geometricè absolvi Lond. 1656. oct Several Sermons as 1 Against resistance of lawful powers preached 5 Nov. 1661. on Rom. 13.2 2 Against the Antiscripturists pr. 20 Feb. 1669 on 2 Tim. 3.16 3 Concerning sinfulness danger and remedies of infidelity pr. 16 Feb. 1667 on Heb. 3.12 4 Sermon before the H. of Peers at Westm 10 Oct. 1666 on Eceles 11.9 5 Serm. concerning the strangeness frequency and desperate consequence of impenitency preached 1 Apr. 1666 soon after the great Plague on Rev. 9.20 6 Serm. against Ingratitude on Deut. 32.6 7 An Apologie for the mysteries of the Gospel preached 16. Feb. 1671 on Rom. 1.16 Some of which Sermons having been severally printed at several times were all printed in one vol. at Lond. 1673 74. oct and then said to have been all preached at Whitehall except the fourth 8 The Christians victory over death preached at the funeral of George Duke of Albemarle c. in the collegiat Church of S. Pet. Westm 30 Apr. 1670 on 1. Cor. 15.57 Lond. 1670. qu. 9 The Case of Joram preached before the House of Peers 30. Jan. 1673 on 2. Kings 6 last vers Lond. 1674. qu. He also collected viewed and reviewed the Determinationes Theologicae Tractatus de justificatione and Praelectiones de peccato originali of Dr. Samuel Ward before mentioned which he caused to be printed and published at London In the beginning of the year 1683 arose a controversie between him the said Dr. Ward Bishop of Salisbury and Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of the Cathedral Church there occasion'd by the denial upon the first asking of Pierce for a Prebendship in the said Church for his Son Robert which denial being much resented by Pierce notwithstanding the reversion of it had been before promised by the Bishop he studied revenge and forthwith rais'd a controversie by maintaining that the King had right of giving and bestowing of the Dignities in the Church of Salisbury and not the Bishop Which controversie being laid before his Majesties Commissioners for Ecclesiastical affairs they ordered Dr. Pierce to write a Narrative of that matter which being done Dr. Ward answered it but 't was not printed Whereupon Pierce wrot A Vindication of the Kings Soveraign rights c. which was printed at Lond. 1683 in 12. sh in fol. Afterwards the controversie being carried on by the black and dismal malice of Pierce it did so much discompose the Bishop especially by the several journies to London in unseasonable time and weather that by degrees his spirits were exhausted his memory gone and totally unfit for business About a month before he died he took very little sustenance and lived only on the stock and died a Skeleton which hapning in his house at Knightbridge near London on Sunday morn the sixth of January being the day of Epiphany in sixteen hundred eighty and eight his body was afterwards conveyed to Salisbury and buried in the Cathedral there What epitaph he hath over his grave I know not notwithstanding I have more than once sent for it and therefore take this character of him given by Mr. Oughtred in his pref to Clavis mathem running thus Vir prudens pius ingenuâ—s nec mathesi solum sed omni politioris literaturae genere cultissimus c. He tells us there that he was the first in Cambr. that expounded his Clav. Math. and that he had taken a large journey to see him in his hidden and retired condition at which time by his importunate desire he did correct add many things to and republish his said book of Clav. Math. There had been formerly several learned Letters passed between him and Ballialdus and Hevelius which are yet kept private THOMAS CARTWRIGHT son of Tho. Cartwright sometimes Schoolmaster of Brentwood in Essex was born in the antient Borough of Northampton on the first of Sept. 1634 educated in the School there and being puritanically educated under Presbyterian Parents was sent to Magd. Hall where spending two terms in the study of Logick was forcibly put into Queens Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 and at that time was put under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully Afterwards he was made Tabarder and Chapl. of the Coll. for a time but before he was elected Fellow he left the House having before been ordained Priest by Dr. Robert Skinner B. of Oxon. and became Vicar of Walthamstow in Essex and a very forward and confident preacher for the cause then in being In 1659 I find him Chaplain to Joh. Robinson Esq Alderman and then Sherriff of London and a Preacher at S. Mary Magd. in Milkstreet but whether he did then enjoy the Vicaridge of Barking in Essex which he did after his Majesties restauration I cannot tell After the Kings return he shew'd himself very forward to express his loyalty was made domestick Chaplain to Henry Duke of Glocester procured himself to be actually created D. of D tho not of full standing for it was made Preb. of Twyford in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul Minister of S. Thomas Apostle in London Preb. of Shalford in the Church of Wells and Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty In Nov. 1672 he was installed Prebend of Durham struck in on the death of Dr. Tully his quondam Tutor and was made Dean of Rippon in the latter end of 1675. Afterwards putting in with great boldness before his Seniors for a Bishoprick particularly for that of S. David but put aside by Dr. L. Womack was at length made Bishop of Chester on the death of the most learned and religious Dr. John Pearson to which See being consecrated with Dr. Lloyd to S. David and Dr. Parker to Oxon at Lambeth on the 17. of Octob. 1686 had liberty then allowed to him to keep the Vicaridge of Barking and the Rectory of Wigan in Lanc. which he before had obtained in commendam with his Bishoprick In the next year he being then in favour with K. James 2 and ready upon all occasions to run with his humour purposely to obtain a translation to a better Bishoprick he was by him not only added to the number of Ecclesiastical Commissioners but also appointed one of the three Delegates or Commissioners Sir Rob. Wright Ch. Just of the Kings-Bench and Sir Thomas Jenner one of the Barons of the Exchecquer being the other two to go to Oxon to examine and determine the affairs relating to Magd. Coll and what they did there in ejecting the President and Fellows thereof a book entit An impartial relation of the
then admitted because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous Royallist Afterwards with much ado he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire which being worth but 50 l. per an supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England In 1661 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then setled in the regal Throne he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chappel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire as he was again in 1679 and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland He hath written The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle 1652. The other from verse 22 to the end was preached at the same place an 1659. Both which were afterwards published in qu. Origo Protestantium or an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's that would fain make the Protestant Catholick Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery Lond. 1677. and 79. qu. Answer to the Jesuits letter Printed with the former book and the Jesuits letter with it No reformation of the established religion Lond 1685. oct This loyal religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mention'd just before the altar Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Fathers marble part of which runs thus Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris Deo Ecclesiae Patriae Regi pie fidelis c. Besides this John Shaw was another of both his names and time Minister of Hull in Yorkshire author of several Sermons among which are 1 Britannia rediviva or a soveraign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize 9. Aug. 1649 2 The Princess Royal preached at the same place before the Judges 24 Mar. 1650. c. And among other things he hath published a book entit Mistriss Shawes tomb stone or the Saints remains being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland was born in the said Burgh an 1633 and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny an 1638 they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon but now their estate there is out of their hands In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in and near Oxon. In 1656 he being then Bach. of Arts he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland in the beginning of Aug and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town After he had proceeded in Arts he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662 he then went in the quality of a Chaplain with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg where continuing several years was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City which is also a Prebendship In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty under his royal hand with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto made Dean of Edinburgh and on Oct. 1. an 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew His works as to learning are these Fides Catholica Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word Sacraments and Prayer in purity number and nature catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu. Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance c. Print with Fides Catholica c. Panem quotidianum or a short discourse tending to prove the legality decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England Lond. 1661. qu. Pater noster Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers methodically cleared and succinctly opened Lond. 1670. oct Mysterium Pietatis or the mystery of godliness c. Lond. 1671. oct Doxologia or glory to the Father the Churches Hymn reduced to glorifying the Trinity Lond. 1672. oct Dualitas or a twofold subject displayed and opened conduceable to godliness and peace in order first Lex loquens the honor and dignity of Magistracy with the duties thereupon c. secondly Duorum unitas or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev Clergy there Edinburg 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day to the vestry of that part of S. Giles's Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh in which Church as Dean he did ordinarily preach at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr'd in the Grey Friers Church but without a funeral Sermon because not permitted by the Presbyterians in whose hands the Magistracy then was As his life was pious and devout so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him He received his
volebat cum vita merita ejus laudes omnes longe superarent In the Rectory of Winwick succeeded Thom. Benet M.A. Fellow of Univ. Coll lately one of the Proctors of this University now Master of the said Coll. WILLIAM THOMAS son of John Thomas was born on the bridge in the Parish of S. Nicholas in the City of Bristow on the second day of Feb. 1613 educated in Grammar learning at Caermethen in Wales by the care of his Grandfather Recorder of that Town became a Student in S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term 1629 thence translated to that of Jesus of which he was made Fellow when Bach. of Arts proceeded in that faculty took holy Orders and before the Civil War began he became Vicar of Penbryn in Cardiganshire Afterwards being sequestred for his loyalty he taught School at Laughern in Caermerthenshire where after a while he read the common prayer and preached yet not without some disturbance occasioned by Olivers Itinerant preachers After his Majesties restauration in 1660 he became Chauntor of the Cathedral Church of St. David in the place of Dr. Griff. Higges deceased was actually created Doct. of Divinity made Chaplain to James Duke of York and about that time had the Living of Llanbedder in the Valley in Pembrokshire confer'd upon him In 1665 Nov. 25. he was installed Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Tho. Warmestry deceased and about that time he gave up Llanbedder for the Rectory of Hampton Lovet six miles distant from Worcester On the 27. of January 1677 he was consecrated with Dr. Sancroft to the See of Cant. Bishop of S. David at which time liberty was given him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it and in the middle of Aug. 1683 he was translated to the See of Worcester in the place of Dr. James Fleetwood deceased where he sate to the time of his death in good respect from the Clergy and Laity He hath written Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the Assize at Caermerthen on Exod. 20.16 Lond. 1657. qu. 2 Serm. before the right honorable the Lords assembled in Parliament in the Abbey Ch. of S. Pet. Westm upon the Fast-day appointed 10. Apr. 1678. on Luke 13.3 Lond. 1678. qu. 3 The mammon of unrighteousness detected and purified preached in the Cathedral of Worcester 19 Aug. 1688 on Luke 16.9 Lond. 1689. qu. Apology for the Church of England in point of separation from it Lond. 1678. 9 oct Written in the time of Usurpation A pastoral letter to his Clergy of Worcester Dioc. about catechising Printed with many things expung'd since his death It was as 't is said written in answer to Dr. G. Burnet Bishop of Salisbury his Pastoral letters about Oathes an 1689. Roman Oracles silenced or the prime testimonies of antiquity produced by Hen. Turbervil in his Manual of controversies Lond. 1691. Published in the beginning of Mar. 1690. This worthy Bishop Dr. Thomas died on the 25 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried according to his desire in the north east corner of the Cloyster belonging to the Cathedral Church of Worcester at the foot of the steps in the way from the Deanery to the Cathedral Soon after was a plain stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Depositum Gulielmi Thomas S. T. P. olim Decani Wigorniensis indigni postea Episcopi Menevensis indignioris tandem Episcopi Wigorniensis indignissimi meritis tamen Christi ad vitam aeternam resurrectionis candidati Sanctissimus doctiss Praesul pietatis erga Deum erga Regem fidelitatis charitatis erga Proximos illustre exemplum expiravit An. redemptionis MDCLXXXIX Aetatis LXXVI Junii XXV moribundus hoc quicquid supra est epitaphii pro modestia sua tumulo inscribi jussit THOMAS MANWARING a younger Son of Philip Manwaring Esq was born of an antient and gentile family in Cheshire either at Over-Peover or Baddily on the 7 of Apr. 1623 became a Commoner of Brasn Coll. 24. of Apr. 1637 where continuing about 3 years receeded without an Academical degree to his Fathers house and after the death of his elder Brother became Heir to the Lands of his Ancestors In the time of the grand rebellion he sided with the dominant party took the usual Oathes then prescribed was Sherriff of Chester in the reign of Oliver an 1657 and after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was created a Baronet 22. Nov. 1660. He hath written and published A Defence of Amicia daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester wherein is proved that she was not a Bastard Lond. 1673. oct Written against Sir Pet. Leycester A reply to an answer to The defence of Amicia wherein is proved that the reasons alledged by Sir Pet. Leycester concerning her illegitimacy are invalid c Lond. 1673. oct An answer to Sir Pet. Leycester's Addenda Lond. 1673 4. oct He died in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried by his Wife Father and Mother in a vault under a Chappel on the North side of the Chancel of the Church of Over-Peover before mentioned See more in Peter Leycester under the year 1678 p. 463. SAMUEL DERHAM son of Will. Derham of Weston called by some Weston Subter Wethele near Camden in Glocestershire was born in that County entred a Student in Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1672 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line took one degree in Physick and published Hydrologia Philosophica Or an account of Ilmington waters in Warwickshire with directions for drinking of the same Oxon. 1685. oct Experimental observations touching the original of compound bodies Printed with Hydr. Philos Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty had then and before some practice in it and dying of the small pox on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine in his house in S. Michaels parish within the City of Oxon was buried at the upper end of the north Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Parish OBADIAH GREW was born at Atherston in the Parish of Manceter in Warwickshire in Nov. 1607 partly educated in Grammaticals under Mr. Joh. Denison his Uncle admitted a Student in Ball. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Trimnell an 1624 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders at 28 years of age from the hands of Dr. Rob. Wright Bishop of Cov. and Lichfield and had some cure I presume bestowed on him in his own Country In the beginning of the Civil War he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and about that time became upon the desire of the Mayor Aldermen and principal Citizens of Coventry Minister of the great Parish of S. Michael in that City In which place The soundness of his doctrine as those of his perswasion have told me the sanctity and prudence of his conversation the vigilancy and tenderness of his care were of that constant tenor that he seemed to do all that which S.
of blessed memory in his most disconsolate condition and to administer comfort ghostly counsel and the Sacrament to him and to be also present with him on the Scaffold when he was beheaded before his own door by his most rebellious Subjects to the great horrour and amazement of all the world Afterwards this holy Bishop retired to his Mannour of Little Compton in Glocestershire near to Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire where he spent several years in a retired and devout condition and now and then for healths sake rode a hunting with some of the neighbouring and loyal Gentry After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was translated to the See of Canterbury on Thursday 20 of Sept. 1660 to the rejoycing of all those that then loved order in the Church The solemnization was in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster where besides a great confluence of Orthodox Clergy many persons of honour and Gentry gave God thanks for the mercies of that day as being touched at the sight of that Good man whom they esteemed a Person of primitive sanctity of great wisdom piety learning patience charity and all apostolical Virtues He died in his Pallace at Lambeth on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and three aged 81 years whereupon his body being embalmed was conveyed to Oxon in great Pomp on the 7 of July following where laying in state the next day and part of the ninth in the Divinity School accompanied always by some of the Heralds of Arms was then after an eloquent speech had been openly spoken by the University Orator in the Convocation house adjoyning in praise of the defunct and dispraise of the Presbyterians and Independents conveyed in great state on mens shoulders the Heralds and all the Degrees of the University attending through Catstreet and so up the High-street to Quatervois and thence through the North gate to S. Johns Coll. After it was placed in the Chappel there an Anthem sung a speech delivered near the grave by Mr. Will. Levinz and the usual service for burial performed by Dr. R. Baylie the President of that College the body was solemnly inter'd at the upper end thereof before the altar in a grave wall'd with bricks adjoyning on the south side to that then made to receive the body of his Predecessor Dr. Will. Laud which in few days after was there reburied As for the benefaction of this worthy Arch-prelate Dr. Juxon besides that to S. Pauls Cathedral to the Archbishops Pallace at Lambeth c. is mention made elsewhere and as for his estate that which remained when all his benefactions were disposed went to his Brothers Son Sir Will. Juxon Baronet now living at Little Compton before mention'd This Dr. Juxon hath only extant one Sermon on Luke 18.31 HENRY HALL son of Thom. Hall sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards a Minister in the City of Wells whence he was prefer'd by the Dean and Canons of Ch. Ch. to the Vicaridge of Marcham near to Abendon in Berks was born in Somersetshire particularly as I conceive in the said City of Wells became a Batler of Linc. Coll an 1630 aged 16 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in Arts. In the beginning of the rebellion he became Chaplain to James Marquess of Ormonde in Ireland by whose favour he was made Prebendary of Ch. Ch. in Dublin and Dean of a certain Church in the said Kingdom After the ill success and declension of the Marquess there he return'd into England lived for a time at Badmington in Glocestershire with the Marquess of Worcester and in 1654 had the Vicaridge of Harwell in Berks confer'd on him by John Loder of Hinton in the said County Gentleman Where continuing till his Majesties restauration he returned to Ireland was actually created Doctor of Div. at Dublin and on the 27 of January 1660 he was consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry in the Church of S. Patrick near to the said City of Dublin He gave way to fate on the 23 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three in the Bishops house at Killala which he in a manner had rebuilt from the ground and was buried in the Cathedral Church there whereupon Thomas Bayly D. D. succeeded him in his Sees Besides the said Hen. Hall I find another of both his names Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge author of Heaven ravished or a glorious prize Fast Sermon before the H. of Com. 29. May 1644 on Matth. 11.12 Lond. 1644. qu. and of other things as I suppose ACCEPTED FREWEN the eldest Son of Jo. Frewen the puritanical Rector of Nordiam or Northiam in Sussex was born in Kent educated in the Free-school at Canterbury became a student and soon after a Demie of Magd. Coll about the beginning of the year 1604 aged 16 years where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy he was elected Probat Fellow of that House about S. Mary Magd. day an 1612 he being then Master of Arts. About that time he entred into the sacred function and became a frequent preacher as being puritanically enclin'd In 1622 he attended in the Court of Prince Charles while he was in Spain courting the Infanta and in 1625 he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to the said Prince then King In 1626 he was elected President of his Coll and in the next year he proceeded in Divinity In 1628 and 29 he executed the office of Vicechancellour of this University and on the 13. of Sept. 1631 he being then or about that time Prebendary of Canterbury he was installed Dean of Glocester upon the removal of Dr. George Warburton thence to the Deanery of Wells In 1638. and 39 he upon the sollicitations of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and Chancellour of this Univ. whose Creature then he was did undergo the said office of Vicechancellour again and on the 17 of August 1643 he was nominated by his Majesty to succeed Dr. Wright in the See of Lichfield and Coventry But so it was that the times being then very troublesome he was not consecrated till the next year that is to say on a Sunday in the month of Apr. following at which time the solemnity was performed in the Chappel of Magd. Coll by the Archb. of York Bishops of Winchester Oxford Salisbury and Peterborough But this preferment being then but little better than titular because that the Hierarchy was about that time silenc'd he retired to London and lived there and partly elsewhere among his Relations for several years At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was elected to the See of York on the 22. of Sept translated on the 4. of Octob and enthronized in the person of Tob. Wickham Preb. of that Church on the 11. of the same month an 1660. At that time the See of Lichfield being not supplied by another for about the space of an year in expectation that Mr. Rich. Baxter would take it
Parliament called by the faction the blessed Parliament he lived retiredly on a considerable estate of his own sometimes at Cudesden near Oxon and married a second Wife which is well known to all the neighbourhood there yet the said Mr. Prynne would needs perswade us that he was reduced to such extremity that in November 1655 he went to an honorable Knight of his acquaintance in Westminster and complained to him that he had not bread for him and his to put in their mouthes intreating his favour to procure any Lect. or Curates place for him tho never so mean which he by all the friends he had could no where obtain to keep him from starving Whereupon the Knight minded him of his former speeches and cruelty towards other Lecturers and Ministers whom as he added he reduced to extreme poverty wishing him to take special notice how God had justly requited him in his own kind so as himself would now turn Lecturer or the meanest Curate under others in his old age to get but a meer subsistence and yet none would entertain him as himself confessed in any place So as the judgment threatned against Ely his posterity 1. Sam. 2.36 was then actually fallen on that great Prelate c. In 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick and by the great fines and renewings that then came in he was rewarded in some degree for his sufferings but his said second Wife too young and cunning for him got what she could from the children he had by his first Wife and wheedling him to Walthamstow in Essex got thousands of pounds and his plate from him as the common report at Wells is which of right should have gone to his said Children He died at that place in the month of Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was privately buried in the Parochial Church there by the care of his said Wife He hath two Sermons in print preached during his restraint in the Tower with other Bishops that were committed thither by the Parliament an 1641 both on 2. Cor. 12.8.9 Lond. 1642. qu. He left behind him a Son of both his names actually created D. of D. an 1661 tho of lesser merit than sufferings and another called John Piers who being a Lay-man had a Lay-prebendship in the Church of Wells bestowed on him by his Father He lived mostly at Denton in the Parish of Cudesden near Oxon where his Father had setled an estate on him and dying 28. Nov. 1670 was buried in the Church at Cudesden whereupon his Prebendship was converted to the use of a Clergy-man ROBERT SKINNER second Son of Edm. Skinner Rector of Pitchford or Pisford in Northamptonshire by Bridget his Wife Daughter of Humph. Radcliff of Warwickshire Son of Thomas Skinner of the Parish of Ledbury in Herefordshire and he the Son of Stephen was born at Pisford educated in Grammar learning in a School at Brixworth near to that place admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll an 1607 aged 16 years and six years after Fellow he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he took holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in the Coll and some of his Pupils proved afterwards men of note as Will. Chillingworth Rich. Newdigale a Judge c. In 1621 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and afterwards going to London was unexpectedly chose Preacher of S. Gregories Church near S. Pauls Cathedral where preaching twice every Sunday for nine years obtained love honour and applause especially from the Puritans When Dr. Laud became Bishop of London he caused him to be sworn Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty and endeavoured to take him off from the principles that he then professed was made Rector of Launton near Bister in Oxfordshire and Minister of Greensnorton In the month of July or thereabouts an 1636 he being elected Bishop of Bristow was as Bishop elect of that place diplomated Doctor of Div. of this University on the 13 of August the same year and having the temporalities thereof given to him on the 20 of January following had liberty allowed to him to keep Launton and Greensnorton in Commendam with the said See In the beginning of 1641 he was translated to the See of Oxon on the death of Dr. Bancroft and soon after being one of the twelve Bishops that subscribed a Protestation in behalf of themselves against the immoderate Proceedings of the Parl. then sitting was impeached by the members thereof of High Treason and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where continuing 18 weeks to his great charge was upon bail released Whereupon retiring to his Rectory of Launton which he kept also in commendam with Oxon lived there retiredly and submitted so much to the men of those times that he kept the said Rectory when the rest of his Spiritualities were lost meerly as 't was supposed for the bare maintenance of himself and children in which time he did usually as 't is said read the Common Prayer and confer Orders according to the Ch. of Engl. After his Maj. return in 1660 he was restored to his Bishoprick became one of his Maj. Commissioners of the Univ. of Ox. for the visiting and rectifying it then much out of order but was not translated to a richer See which he much expected occasion'd by a great and potent enemy at Court who maligned him because of his submission in some part to the Usurpers In the month of Oct. 1663 he was translated to the See of Worcester upon the removal of Dr. Earle to that of Sarum where he became esteemed more by his many Tenants than family or friends because of his goodness as a Landlord He died in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in a Chappel at the east end of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester Over his grave was soon after laid a flat marble stone with this inscription engraven thereon H. I. E. Rev. in Ch. Pater ac Dom. Robertus Skinner Coll. S. Trinitatis Oxon Socius Carolo primo Britanniarum Monarchae à sacris Doctoratum in SS Theologiâ almae Matris diplomate oblatum sine ambitu cepit A Rectoriâ Launton Dioeceseos Oxon ad Episcopatum Bristoliensem evocatus tantus ecclesiae filius meruit cito fieri parens mox ad sedem Oxoniensem translatus Turre Londinensi à Perduellibus diu incarceratus tam sine culpâ quam examine exivit A Carolo II. ad sedem Vigorniensem promotus postquam Presbyteris sanciendis assuetam dextram sufficiendis Praesulibus mutuam dedisset eorumque quinque à suo collegio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnibus ante sacrilegam usurpationem Episcopus superstes Junii 14. A. D. 1670 Octogenarius ad summam animarum Episcopum ascendit prius gratiâ nunc gloriâ consecratus While he lived in the times of Usurpation he was supposed to be the sole Bish that confer'd Orders and after his Majesties return an hundred and three persons did at once take holy Orders from
in a solemn chapter held by the Soveraign and certain of the Knights Companions of that most noble Order in the red room at Whitehall which Oath was administred to him by Seth Bishop of Salisbury Chancellour of the Garter one of the Officers of that order then kneeling on his Majesties left hand As to the exercise of his office of Norroy when he was Provincial K. of Armes for the northern parts of this Realm the books of his visitation of the several Counties under his charge remaining in the Coll. of Armes will sufficiently manifest his care therein as by taking exact notice of all collaterals viz. Uncles Aunts Brothers and Sisters in the descents there drawn Also by publickly disclaiming all such as did take upon them the titles of Esquire or Gentlemen without just right and truly registring the Armes of all such as could shew any justifiable right thereto His care also was manifested in defacing such Tablets of Armes as he found in any publick places which were fictitious and by pulling down several Atchievments commonly called Hatchments irregularly and against the law of Armes hung up in any Churches or Chappels within the precincts of his Province the particulars whereof are expressed in that large book in the Office or Coll. of Armes covered with russet leather and called the Earl Marshalls book Further also to vindicate the just rights of his said office he commenced a sute at the common law against one Randal Holme a Painter of the City of Chester who had boldly invaded the office of him the said Norroy by preparing Atchievments for the funeral of Sir Ralph Ashton of Middleton in the County of Lancaster Kt and giving directions for a formal proceeding at the solemnity thereof whereupon he had a verdict against him the said Holme at the general Assizes held at Stafford in March an 1667 and recovered good damages with costs of suit The titles of such books touched on before which are published under Sir Will. Dugdales name are these 1 Monasticon Anglicanum sive Pandectae caenobiorum Benedictinorum Cluniacensium Cisterciensium Carthusianorum à primordiis ad eorum usque dissolutionem ex Mss ad Monasteria olim pertinentibus Archivis turrium Lond. Ebor. c. Lond. 1655. and 82. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. 2 Monastici Anglicani volumen alterum de Canonicis Regularibus Augustinianis scil Hospitaliariis Templariis Gilbertinis Praemonstratensibus Maturinis sive Trinitaniariis Cum appendice ad vol. primum de Caenobiis aliquot Gallicanis Hibernicis Scoticis necnon quibusdam Anglicanis antea omissis à primordiis c. Lond. 1661. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. These two large volumes tho they were published under the names of Roger Dodsworth of Yorkshire and Will. Dugdale of Warwickshire yet the chiefest now of the Coll. of Armes have several times informed me that they were both collected and totally written by Dodsworth as the original which they had seen do testifie And Dr. Barlow hath several times told me that much about the time of death of Dodsworth they were offer'd to him to be bought that he might take some order to have them published Howsoever it is sure I am that Sir William did take great pains to have them published did methodize and order them correct them when at the press and made several indexes to them This Roger Dodsworth was the Son of Matthew Dodsworth Esq Registrary as I have heard of the Church of York by Elianor his Wife Daughter of Ralph Sandwith Esq was born on the 24 July 1585 at Newton Grange in the Parish of S. Oswald in Ridale in Yorkshire being the house and possessions of his Mothers Father but whether he was ever educated in any University I could never learn This Person who had a natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities began early to make collections of them especially such that related to Yorkshire and afterwards was much encouraged in his labours by Sir Thomas afterwards Lord Fairfax who for several years allowed him a pension He was a Person of wonderful industry but less judgment was always collecting and transcribing but never published any thing He died in the month of August 1654 and was buried in the Church of Rufford in Lancashire After his death the said Lord Fairfax took into his possession not only all the old Mss which he had obtained from several hands but also all his proper collections which he had written from Mss Leigher books evidences in the Tower at York in the custody of many Gentlemen not only in Yorkshire but other northern Counties as also his collections of monumental and fenestral inscriptions c. which being done he communicated them to Dr. Nat. Johnston a Physit of Yorkshire with hopes that he would extract from them and make and compleat a book of Antiquities of the West Riding of Yorkshire which he hath not yet done being as I have been informed weary of the work When the said Lord Fairfax died he bequeathed the said old Mss and collections which last amounted to 122 volumes at least to the publick Library in Oxon but were not conveyed thither till June 1673 which being then a wet season most of them took wet and had it not been for the author of this book who with much ado obtained leave of the then Vicechancellour to have them conveyed into the muniment room in the School-Tower purposely to dry them on the leads adjoyning which cost him a months time to do it they had been utterly spoiled The other books that Sir William Dugdale hath published are there 3 The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records leiger-books manuscripts charters evidences tombes and armes Beautified with maps prospects and portraictures Lond. 1656. fol. The foundation of tnis book which is his Master piece was laid on the collections of divers antiquities for the said County made and gathered by Sir Simon Archer Knight whom I have mention'd in the first vol. of this work p. 504 which Sir Simon dying at Warwick about the beginning of 1666 was gathered to the graves of his Fathers in Tamworth Church 4 The History of S. Pauls Cathedral in London from its foundation till these times extracted out of original charters records leâ—ger-books and other Manuscripts Beautified with sundry prospects of the Church figures of tombes and monuments Lond. 1658. in a thin folio 5 The History of imbanking and draining of divers fens and marshes both in foreign parts and in this Kingdom and of the improvement thereby Extracted from recordâ— Mss and other authentick testimonies Lond. 1662. fol. Adorned with several Cuts 6 Origines juridiciales or historical memorials of the English laws Courts of Justice forms of Trial punishment in cases criminal law writers law books grants and settlements of estates degree of Serjeant inns of Court and Chancery Also a chronologie of the Lord Chancellours and Keepers of the great Seal L. Treasurers Justices itinerant Justices of
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotatiâ—ns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
of March 1674 aged 74 years was buried in the Parish Church of Churchill before mention'd Sir John Monson or Mounson of South Carleton in Lincolnshire Knight of the Bath and Baronet This person who was son of Sir Tho. Mounson of the same place Baronet was born in the Parish of S. Sepulcher in London not bred in any University only spent some time in one of the Inns of Court whereby he became as good a Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any now 1642 in Oxon when then he assisted in all Councils and was in all Treaties particularly in that concerning the surrender of the Garrison of Oxford to the Parliament an 1646. He afterwards suffered much for his Loyalty and at length was permitted a quiet retirement He hath written 1 An Essay of afflictions by way of advice to his only son Lond. 1661. 62. Written in the time of the unhappy Wars 2 Antidote against the errors of opinions of many in their dayes concerning some of the highest and chiefest duties of religion viz. Adoration Almes Fasting and Prayer Printed with the former book 3 Supream power and common right c. This I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot give you a fuller title nor the time when printed He died in the year 1684 aged 84 or more and was buried in the Church of South Carleton before mentioned among the graves of his Ancestors The report among his Relations at this day is that when he was in Oxon in the War time he was made Doctor of Physick but false for he being versed in the Common thought it convenient to be created Doctor of the Civil Law and among those doth his name stand Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath He was created Lord Hatton of Kirbye in Northamptonshire by Let. Pat. bearing date at Oxon 29 Jul. 1643 and about that time was made privy Counsellor to K. Ch. 1. and Controller of his Houshold he being then accounted a friend to all that loved the King and Ch. of England for which he suffered in a high degree Some time after the restauration his Majesty was pleased of his own accord in consideration of his vast Sufferings and eminent Loyalty to make him one of his privy Council and as a testimony of further favour he not only made him Governour of the Isle of Guernsey for his life but confer'd the reversion of that Government on his son as a lasting mark of honour on his family This Christop L. Hatton was a principal Mecaenas of Learning and more especially of Antiquities wherein his skill and knowledge did far surpass any within the compass of his orb the Nobility that I know Sir Brian Palmes of Ashwell or Astwell in Rutlandshire Kt. This loyal Knight son of Sir Guy Palmes who had been educated in Trin. Coll was chose a Burgess for Aldbuâ—g in Yorkshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 13 Apr. 1640 but whether he did sit in the Parl. at Oxon 1643 I know not He died in 1654. Sir Will. Brounker Kt late Commissary general of the Musters in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 now Vicechamberlain to Prince Charles and one of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1 was then also Nov. 1. actually created Doctor of the Civil Law This loyal Knight who was son of Sir Hen. Brounker President of Mounster in Ireland by Anne his wife sister of Henry Lord Morley was created Vicount of Castle-Lyon in the said Kingdom 12 Sept. 1645 and dying in Wadham Coll. in the middle of Nov. following was buried on the 20 of the said month in the isle joyning on the west side to the north Trancept of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon leaving then behind him a son named William aged 25 years or thereabouts of whom I shall speak at large under the year 1646. Winefrid the widow of the said L. Brounker dau of Will. Leigh of Newenham in Warwickshire died 20 July 1649 after she had lost and won vast sums of money by gaming whereupon her body was conveyed to Oxon and buried by that of her husband Many years after was a large marble stone laid over their graves and in the wall near it was erected a splendid monument of Aladaster containing their Statua's sitting both leaning on a table that stands between them Sir Nich. Byron of Norfolk was also then created Doctor of the Civ Law He was Uncle to John Lord Byron was a Colonel and an excellent Commander of foot K. Ch. 1. did so much value him that in all warlike engagements he would have him always near to him I have been told by persons that had degrees confer'd upon them in these Creations that Thomas Robert and William Byron all Knights valiant Colonels for his Majesty and brothers to the most couragious Lord Byron before mention'd had degrees confer'd on them but in what faculty they knew not nor are they registred For the truth is the public Scribe or Registrary of the University that now was being given more to bibbing and smoaking than the duty of his Office many learned and valiant persons are omitted by him Nay those also that are by him remembred have only their bare names and sometimes only their Sirnames set down without the addition of their Titles Quality Office or place of habitation Sir Tho. Byron before mentioned was buried on the left side of the grave of William Lord Grandison in a little isle joyning on the south side of the choire of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon 9 Feb. 1643. Wingfield Lord Cromwell He was after the death of his father Earl of Arglas in Ireland Sir Thom. Salisbury Baronet sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University Will. Chadwell Esq He was a Burgess for Michel in Cornwall to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which Parliament he leaving because of the violent proceedings therein retired to his Majesty at Oxon and sate in the Parl. there Ferdinando Stanhope Esq He was a Burgess for Tamworth in Staffordshire for the said Parliament but leaving it he retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliament This worthy person who was a younger son of Philip Earl of Chesterfield was made a Colonel of Horse in the Kings Army and was soon after slain at Bridgford in Nottinghamshire John Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq He was one of the Knights for that County to sit in the said Parliament but being frighted thence by the tumults that came up to the Parliament door as other Royalists were he conveyed himself away privately to Oxon and sate there He was a learned and a prudent man and as one of the richest so one of the meekest men in England He was active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxon when the Garrison was to be surrendred to the Parliament for which and his steddy Loyalty he afterwards was forced to pay a round sum in Goldsmiths Hall at London John Lufton of S. Johns Coll.
He was now Rector of Ibstock in Leycestershire where being always esteemed a great Royalist and Episcoparian was therefore forc'd thence by the faction So that flying to Oxon as an Asylum he was created Doctor of the Civil Law and often preached there He died at Ibstock I think an 1647. or thereabouts Daniel Vivian of New Coll. He was a Founders Kinsman and dying at Farndish in Bedfordshire an 1670 was there I suppose buried Brome Whorwood of Halton in Oxfordshire Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. This person tho he stuck close to K. Ch. 1. in his necessities yet he did not to his son K. Ch. 2 after whose restauration he was several times elected Burgess for the City of Ox. He died in the Old Pallace Yard at Westminster 12 Apr. 1684 and was buried in the Church of Halton near to the grave of his father Sir Thom. Whorwood Kt leaving then behind him a natural son named Thomas begotten on the body of his servant named Catherine daugh of Thom. Allen of the Parish of S. Peter in the East in Oxon Baker Sir Thom. He le of Devonsh Bt. He was Burgess for Plimpton in the Parl. that began 13 Apr. 1640 and with Sir Joh. Hele both Lords of great Estates in their Country and Walt. He le of Winston did retire to his Majesty at Oxon adhere to him and thereby brought his Cause into great credit for the justness of it as also rich contributions thereunto and many forces to maintain it Will. Dowdeswell of Pembr Coll. This person who was accounted a learned man among those of his Society became Preb. of Worcester in 1660 in the place of Francis Charlet M. A. some years before that dead and had if I mistake not other Spiritualities in the Church In his Prebendship succeeded Dr. George Benson Archdeacon of Hereford an 1671. On the same day Nov. 1. were also created Doctors of the Civil Law Joh. Knotsford a Knight I think Joh. Wandeston Will. Atkyns Joh. Palmer and one Peachy or at least were permitted to be created when they pleased which is all I yet know of them Nov. 10. Will. Smith Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. He was a Burgess for one of the Cinque-Ports called Winchelsey for that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but left it went to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there 1643. Dec. 20. Sir Tho. Manwaring Kt Recorder of Reading in Bâ—rks Hen. Moody sometimes a Gent. Com. of Magd. Hall I take this person to be the same with Sir Hen. Moody Bt son of Sir Hen. Moody of Garsdon in Wilts Knight and Baronet who was now in some esteem at Court for his poetical fancy The father who had been a well bred Gent died in 1630. Dec. 20. Tho. Thory Dec. 20. George Thorald Sir Joh. Heydon or Heyden Kt. Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance belonging to his Majesty He was of the family of the Heydens in Norfolk was as great a Scholar as a Soldier especially in the Mathematicks suffered much for his Majesties Cause and died in the Winter time an 1653. One Joh. Haydon Gent. was entred into the publick or Bodleian Library under the title of Juris Municipalis studiosas an 1627 Whether the same with the former I cannot tell I have made mention of Sir Christop Heyden who perhaps was father to Sir John in the first vol. of this work p. 278. Jan. 31. Edw. Lord Littleton Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Sir John Banks Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law the same day This worthy person was born of honest parents in Cumberland at Keswick as 't is said became a Commoner of Qu. Coll. in this University an 1604 aged 15 years left it before he took a degree entred himself a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London where applying himself most severely to the study of the Common Law became a Barrester and a Counsellor of note In the 6 of Car. 1. he being then a Knight and Attorney to Pr. Charles he was constituted Lent Reader of that house and in the 7 of Car. 1. he was made Treasurer thereof In 1640. 16 Car. 1. he was made L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and soon after following his Majesty when he was forc'd by tumults from Westm he was made one of his Privy Council at Oxon and L. Ch. Just of the Com. Bench or Pleas where dying 28 Dec. 1644 was buried in the north trancept joyning to Ch. Ch. Cathedral See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. p. 289. a. Sir Francis Crawley of Luton in Bedfordsh Kt one of the Justices of the Common Pleas was also then actually created Doct. of the Civ Law You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives and actions of excellent Personages c. published by Dav. Lloyd M. A. Lond. 1668. fol. Sir Rob. Forster Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas was then also created He was the youngest son of Sir Thom. Forster Kt. one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the time of K. Jam. 1 was after he had left the University a Student in the Inner Temple where he became a Barrester and Counsellor of note In the 7 of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of that House in the 12 he was made Serjeant at Law and in the 15 of the said Kings Raign one of the Justices of the Kings Bench and about that time a Knight Afterwards he followed his Majesty to Oxon sate in the Parl. there as Sir Joh. Banks and Sir Franc. Crawley did suffered as other Royalists when the Kings Cause declined and compounded for his Estate After his Majesties restauration he was made L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench 31 May 1660 and in Octob. following L. Ch. Just of the Common Pleas. He died on the fourth day of Octob. 1663 aged 74 years and was buried in the Church at Egham in Surrey where there is a comely monument in the wall over his grave in the body of the said Church Febr. 7. Sir Rob. Heath L. Ch. Just of the Com Pleas was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law This noted and loyal person was born in the Parish of Eatonbridge in Kent and baptized in the Church there educated in the knowledge of the Common Law in the Inner Temple made Recorder of London 10 Novemb. 1618 in the place of Rich. Martin deceased Summer Reader of the same Temple in 1619 Sollicitor General in the year following being then of Micham in Surrey and Justice of the Peace for that County Attorney General in 1625 Serjeant at Law 1632 one of the Justices of the Common Bench in 1640 and two years after or more Lord Chief Just of the Common Bench or Pleas he being then with his Maj. at Oxon. He hath extant Objections in a Conference discoursed by the Lords and held by a Committee of both Houses against the
same with the other then was he created D. D. at 5 years standing in the degree of Bachelaur The said Matthew Fowler was now deeply engaged in his Majesties service for which afterwards he suffered as other Royallists did After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire in the place of Dr. Nich. Bernard deceased where he continued to his dying day He hath published besides Totum hominis mention'd in the Fasti an 1637 a Sermon entit The properties of heavenly wisdome preached at the Assizes held at Shrewsbury in the County of Salop. Lond. 1681-2 qu. He died on S. Stephens day 1683 aged 66 years and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Soon after was a black marble monument set up in the north wall over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was almost 22 years Rector of the said Church that he was descended of the antient family of his name living in Staffordshire that he was first of the Vniversity of Oxon and afterwards of Cambridge and the ornament and glory of both and that when he was a young man of Ch. Ch he was one of the chief of those many Scholars that stood up and valiantly defended the Kings cause c. Other persons also occur created the same day or at least were nominated by his Majesty to be promoted Doctors of Divinity when they were pleased to make intimation to the Vicechancellour as one Ramsdâ—n of Linc. Coll King of Magd. Hall Babington of Ch. Ch. c. Jan. 31. Rob. Marks of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Rich. Langston of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Will. Cox of New Coll. Jan. 31. John Jones of Bras Coll. Thom. Hook of Cambr. was created the same day Feb. 21. William Bayly a Dignitary in Ireland He was soon after made Bishop of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in that Country Feb. 21. Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. Feb. 21. Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. Feb. 21. Thom. Bourman of Cambr. One Rob. Boreman or Bourman Brother to Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Green-cloth to K. Ch. 2. was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards D. of D. and Rector of S. Giles Church in the Fields nâ—â—â— London but what relation he had to the said Thomas I cannot yet tell This Robert who seems to be of the family of the Boremans in the Isle of Wight hath written several things among which are 1 The Countrymans Catechisme or the Churches plea for tithes Lond. 1651. qu. 2 The triumph of learning over ignorance and of truth and falshood Being an answer to four quaeries first whether there be any need of Vniversities c. Lond. 1653. qu. 3 Life and death of Freeman Sonds Esq 4 Relation of Sir George Sonds narrative of the passages on the death of his two Sons Both printed at Lond. in qu. The said Freeman Son of Sir George was hanged for murdering his Brother 5 A mirrour of Christianity and a mirrour of charity or a true and exact narrative of the life and death of Alice Dutchess Duddeley c. Lond. 1669. qu. The said Dutchess who had been the Wise of Sir Rob. Dudley died in her house near the Church of S. Giles in the fields 22. Jan. 1668 aged 90 years 6 Sermon on Philip. 3.20 Ibid. 1669. qu. This person Dr. Boreman after he had spent his time in celebacy died at Greenwich in Kent in the Winter time 1675. Mar. 4. Laurence Hinton of Mert. Coll. Prebend of Winchester He died at Shilbolton or Chilbolton in Hampshire of which he was Rector an 1658. 24. Will. Sherbourne of S. John Coll. in this Univ. and Prebend of Hereford He suffered afterwards much for the Kings cause and lost all his spiritualities but being restored to them again after his Majesties return enjoyed himself in a quiet repose for almost 20 years He died at Pembridge in Herefordsh of which he was Rector in the month of Apr. 1679 aged 92 years An. Dom. 1643. An. 19. Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery c. but he being thought unworthy to bear the said office by the King and University forasmuch as he was actually against the former in the present War and altogether neglected the other the K. authorized the members thereof to make choice of another wherefore they calling a convocation on the 24 of Octob. did elect for their Chancellour one that had been formerly of Magd. Coll viz. Will. Marquess of Hertford Vicount Beauchamp Baron Seymour c and on the 31 of the said month they admitted and installed him in the House of convocation then in the north chap. joyning to S. Maries Church in the presence of the Bishops of Bathe and Wells Salisbury Rochester and divers of the Nobility that were then in the University Vicechanc. Joh. Tolson D. D. Provost of Oriel who continuing in his office till the 18 of Nov Dr. Pink before mention'd succeeded him Proct. George Wake of Magd. Coll. Apr. 12. Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. Apr. 12. The senior Proctor having sprain'd his leg or else put it out of joynt and therefore not able to come to the convocation house to be admitted that ceremony a dispensation being first granted was performed in his Chamber at Magd. Coll. As for the other Proctor he dying 29. Nov. Mr. Joh. Maplâ—t of the same house succeeded Dec. 9. This year in the month of Oct. the courts of Parliament assembled in the Schools and there sate for some time so that upon that account and that the other Schools were employed as Granaries all exercises and lectures if any at all were performed in S. Maries Church Bach. of Arts. July 4. Joh. Ahier of New Coll. See among the Masters an 1646. Dec. 2. John Lakenby of Magd. Coll. This person who was the Son of Simon Lakenby of Shadford in the County Pal. of Durham did afterwards retire to S. Edm. Hall and lived there a close student till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred an 1646. At which time perceiving the English Church tottering he went beyond the Sea changed his religion and was entred into the English Coll. at Doway After some time spent there he returned into England became Usher to James Shirley when he taught in the White Fryers at London in the time of Oliver but being seized on and imprisoned for some time was at length released and died in London in a mean condition He was accounted famous among those of his opinion for the Greek and Latin tongues and for ecclesiastical history Feb. 16. John Douch of Trin. Coll. This person who was a Dorsetshire man born hath extant A Serm. on 1. Sam. 10.24 Print 1660. qu. Adm. 73. Bach. of Law But two this year were admitted viz. John Jennings of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 20 and Thomas Godwin sometimes a member of this University Mast of Arts. Apr. 12. Gilb. Coles of New Coll. Apr. 12. Nich. Ward of Sydney
Earl Marshal to whom he was then or lately Secretary was sworn Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray because no person can be King of Armes before he is Herald and on the 23 of Dec. the same year he was created Norroy King of Armes at Arundel-house in the Strand in the place of Sir Rich. S. George created Clarenceaux On the 17 of July 1624 he received the honour of Knighthood and in 1634 he was made Garter King of Armes in the place of Sir Will. Segar deceased This learned and polite person who writes his Sirname in Latine Burrhus hath written 1 Impetus juveniles quaedam sedatioris aliquantulum animi epistolae Oxon. 1643. oct Most of the epistles are written to Philip Bacon Sir Franc. Bacon afterwards Lord Verulam Thom. Farnabie Tho. Coppin Sir Hen. Spelman c. 2 The Soveraignty of the British Seas proved by records history and the municipal laws of the Kingdom Lond. 1651. in tw It was written in the year 1633. He hath also made A collection of records in the Tower of London which I have not yet seen He died in Oxon to which place he had retired to serve his Majesty according to the duty of his office on the 21. of Octob. 1643 and was buried the next day at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side to the choire of the Cath. of Ch. Church in the University Of Oxon. Octob 31. Sir George Radcliff Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Vniv Coll was after he had been presented by Dr. Rich. Steuart Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation celebrated in the north Chappel commonly called Ad. Bromes Chap of S. Maries Church He afterwards suffered much for the Kings cause as he in some part had done before for the sake of the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford was with him in his exile and died some years before his restauration You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives actions c. of excellent personages c. by Dav. Lloyd M. A. pag. 148. 149 c. Nov. 18. Thom. Bird a Captain in the Kings Army and about this time Governour of Eccleshal in Staffordshire was then actually created After his Majesties restauration he became one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and on the 12 of May 1661 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty Jan. 31. Sir Rich. Lane Knight Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law with more than ordinary ceremony This worthy person who was the Son of Rich. Lane of Courtenhall in Northamptonshire by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Clem. Vincent of Harpole in the said County was educated from his youth in the study of the Com. Law in the Middle Temple where he made great proficiency beyond his contemporaries was called to the Bar and became a Counsellour of note In the 5. of Char. 1. he was elected Lent Reader of his Inn but did not read because of the pestilence and when the Long Parliament began he was so much esteemed for his great knowledge in the Law that the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford made use of him to manage his cause when he was tried for high treason in the latter end of 1640. Soon after he was made Attorney to Prince Charles at which time seeing what strange courses the members of Parliament took when the King had given them leave to sit he entrusted his intimate friend Bulstrode Whitlock a Counsellour of the Middle Temple with his Chamber there all his goods therein and an excellent Library and forthwith leaving London he retired to the King at Oxon where in 1643 he was made Serjeant at Law Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer a Knight on the 4 of Jan. the same year and about the same time one of his Majesties honourable Privy Council In the latter end of the next year he was nominated one of the Commissioners by his Maj. to treat of Peace with those of the Parliament at Vxbridge and on the 30 of Aug. 1645 he had the Great Seal delivered to him at Oxon on the death of Edward Lord Littleton In May and June 1646 he was one of the prime Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and soon after conveyed himself beyond the Sea to avoid the barbarities of the Parliament In his absence his Son was conducted to the said B. Whitlock then in his greatness to the end that the said goods of his Father then in his possession might be delivered to him for the use of his said Father who then wanted them but Whitlock would not own that he ever knew such a Man as Sir Richard and therefore he kept what he had of his to the great loss of him the said Sir Richard who died as a certain author tells us in the Isle of Jersey before the month of Aug. 1650 but false as I presume because that on the 22 of Apr. 1651 a Commission issued forth from the Prerogative Court to the Lady Margaret his Relict to administer the goods chattels and debts of him the said Sir Richard late of Kingsthorp in Northamptonshire who died in the Kingdom of France This Sir Rich. Lane who was an eminent Professor of the Law hath written Reports in the Court of Exchecquer beginning in the third and ending in then ninth of K James 1. Lond. 1657 fol. On the 29 of Jan. 1657 the Great Seal was delivered by his Majesty at Bruges in Flanders to Sir Edw. Hyde Knight Sir John Glanvill Kt Serjeant at Law was created the same day Jan. 31. and admitted in the house of Congregation and Convocation as Sir Rich. Lane was This Sir John was a younger Son of John Glanvill of Tavistock in Devonshire one of the Justices of the Common Bench who died 27 July 1600 and he the third Son of another John of the same place where and in that County their name was gentile and antient When he was young he was not educated in this University but was as his Father before him bred an Attorney and afterwards studied the Common Law in Lincolns Inn and with the help of his Fathers notes became a great proficient When he was a Counsellour of some years standing he was elected Recorder of Plymouth and Burgess for that place to serve in several Parliaments In the 5. of Char. 1. he was Lent Reader of his Inn and on the 20 of May 1639 he was made Serjeant at Law at which time having engaged himself to be a better Servant to the King than formerly for in several Parliaments he had been an enemy to the Prerogative he was in the year following elected Speaker for that Parliament which began at Westm on the 13 of April in which he shew'd himself active to promote the Kings desires On the 6 of July the same year he
was choak'd by the Sands giving thereby a period to his vain hopes of being the grand Master of Malta having been a Roman Catholick several years before he died He left behind him a Widow not so rich but that she received relief upon her petition after his Majesties return from Kings Coll. in Cambridge and two Daughters who were of his religion one of which was afterwards Mistress to Prince Rupert as I have elsewhere told you He had also a Brother called Maximilian Bard a rich Milliner in London who was employed by the Long Parliament to buy for them Horses in the time of their rebellion This Brother as 't is supposed furnished him with money in his travels and high living being a great admirer of his accomplishments and as much despised by him Doct. of Phys May 9. Sir Henry St. George Knight Garter Principal K. of Arms was then actually created Doctor of Physick This person who was the eldest Son of Sir Rich. St. George Clarenceaux King of Armes was born of an antient family at Hadley St. George in Cambridgshire bred up to Heraldry and by the endeavours of his Father became first of all Rouge-Rose extraordinary in the Office or Coll. of Armes commonly called the Heralds Office afterwards Blewmantle and in the latter end of 1615 Richmond Herald of Armes In 1627 he was joynt Embassador with the Lord Spencer and Peter Yonge Gent. Usher and dayly waiter to K. Ch. 1 to invest the King of Sweden with the order of the Garter which being done that King not only knighted him and Pet. Yonge at Darsaw in Prussia but gave them the Armes of the King of Sweden to be used by them and their posterity for ever as an augmentation to their own Armes Afterwards he was Norroy King of Armes and at length Garter and dying in Brasnose Coll. 5. Nov. 1644 was buried in the north west corner of the west isle joyning to the north transcept of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon leaving then Issue behind him a Son named Thomas afterwards a Knight Norroy and now 1691 Garter Principal King of Armes Henry another Son afterwards Norroy a Knight and now 1691 Clarenceaux King of Armes and lastly a third named Richard an Esq who became Vlster King of Armes of the Realm of Ireland in the place of Will. Roberts of Lincolns Inn Esq and Doctor of the Civil Law of Dublin an 1660 which place he surrendring in 1683 was succeeded therein by Athlone Pursevant or Officer of Armes named Rich. Carney who before while he was Athlone had received the honor of Knighthood from the Earl of Arran and is the first King of Armes of that Kingdom that had that honour confer'd on him The said Sir H. S. George Garter King of Armes who died at Oxon hath published nothing only made collections of several matters relating to his profession particularly A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their Creations as they were in 1628 c. Ms fol. It begins with George Villers Duke of Buckingham and ends with Sir Franc. Cottington Kt and Bt Lord Cottington of Hanworth This Cat. is involved in A new Catalogue of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons c. Lond. 1658. oct Collected and published by Tho. Walkley May 9. Thom. Johnson whom I have mention'd among the created Bachelaurs of Phys an 1642 was actually created also Doct. of Physick in consideration of the large Testimony of his industry before this year published He was born near Hull in Yorkshire bred an Apothecary in London and afterwards lived and kept a shop on Snow hill where by his unwearied pains advanced with good natural parts he attained to be the best Herbalist of his age in England His works as to his profession are 1 Mercurius Botanicus in duabus partibus c. Lond. 1634. oct 2 Thermae Bathonicae 3 His enlarging and amending Joh. Gerards Herball or general History of Plants Lond. 1636. fol. 4 His translation of Ambr. Parey his Works of Chirurgery Lond. 1634. fol. c. This Dr. Th. Johnson was now 1643 a Lieutenant Coll. in the Garrison of Basing house in Hampshire whence going with a party on the 14. of Sept. 1644 to succour certain of the Forces belonging to that house which went to the Town of Basing to fetch provision thence but beaten back by the enemy headed by that notorious Rebel Col. Rich. Norton he received a shot in his shoulder whereby contracting a feaver he died in a fortnight after in the said House At which time his worth did justly challenge funeral tears being then no less eminent in the garrison for his valor and conduct as a Sold than famous through the Kingdom for his excellency as an Herbarist and Physitian Nov. 18. Spencer Lucie a Colonel in the Kings Army Son of Sir Tho. Lucie of Charlcot in Warwickshire Knight Jan. 31. Henry Nisbett who had spent several years in the study of Physick in the University of Padua was then actually created Doctor of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University He was a Scot born or at least of Scotch extract but what he hath extant relating to his faculty I know not Feb. 27. Hen. Hanks His bare name only stands in the reg as created Doctor of Physick and therefore I can say no more of him Mar. 21. Will. Glanvill Esq He was Burgess for Cameilford in Cornwall to serve in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Novemb. 1640 but leaving it he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parliament there Doct. of Div. Apr. 12. Evan Owen Bach. of Div. of Jes Coll. in Oxon was then created D. of D. May 29. Jeb Weeks Preb. of Bristow and Bach. of Div. of Cambr. above 20 years standing This Doctor a jocular person was now a Preacher in Oxon sometimes either before the King or Parliament and suffered much for the royal Cause Afterwards he was made Dean of S. Burian in Cornwal upon the promotion of Dr. Creighton to that of Wells and after his death the said Deanery was annex'd to the Bishoprick of Exeter June 15. Joseph Goulson Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Winchester was created in Congregation by vertue of the Kings Letters as Owen and Weeks were In his last Will and Test proved 3 Apr. 1674 he is said to be Nuper Decanus Ecclesiae Cath. S. Trinitatis Cicestrensis in Com. Sussex June 16. Matthew Griffith Priest sometimes of Brasn Coll afterwards of Gloc. Hall July 18. Will. Stampe of Pembr Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Langham Of him I know nothing Thom. Hyde Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum sometimes of Ball. Coll now as it seems of S. Edm. Hall was actually created the same day This person who was of the family of the Hydes of Wiltshire became not only Preb. of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the said Church of Salisbury but also Chauntor thereof in Nov. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Humph. Henchman to be Bishop
S. Michaels Ch. in Cornhill London Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and Canon of Windsore in which Dignity he was installed on the first of Feb. 1638. This person who had been much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and therefore esteemed by the Puritans an Arminian popishly affected and I know not what was in the beginning of the rebellion raised by them sequestred of his Rectory plundered his Wife and Children turned out of doors and he himself forced to fly Whereupon retiring to Oxon the common mother and refuge in those times of afflicted Royallists he was in considerations of his sufferings and loyalty promoted by his Majesty to the Deanery of Glocester upon the nomination of Dr. Frewen to the See of Lichfield and Cov. in Aug. 1643 and was possest of it as much as then could be in Apr. following in which month Dr. Frewen was consecrated He hath written 1 The holy Feasts and Fasts of the Church with meditations and prayers proper for Sacraments and other occasions leading to Christian life and death Lond. 1657. in tw They are grounded on certain texts of Scripture 2 Sacred principles services and soliloquies or a manual of devotions made up of three parts 1. The grounds of the Christian Religion c. 2. Dayly and weekly forms of prayer 3. Seven charges to conscience delivering if not the whole body the main Limbs of Divinity c. Lond. 1659. 1671. c. in tw and other things as it seems Quaere After the Kings return he had restored to him what he had lost had other preferments given to him and dying on the fifth day of July an 1671 was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Thomas Vyner and in his Canonry Peter Scott LL. D both of Cambridge CREATIONS The Creations made this year did partly consist of Military Officers and partly of Cantabrigians that had taken Sanctuary at Oxon most of all which follow Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Charles Fox Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Payne Fisher Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Joh. Beeton Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Nich. Bertie Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Rob. Johnson Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. The said Payne Fisher who was Son of Sir Will. Fisher and one of the Captains of the Life-guard to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon was Father to Payne Fisher an Officer also in the Kings Army and afterwards Poet Laureat to Oliver Protector being now living an aged man Nich. Bertie was of the noble Family of Bertie Earl of Lindsey and all afterwards sufferers for the royal cause Alexander Walwyn another Captain was also created the same day Aug. 26. Joh. Squire B. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Aug. 26. Joh. Pattison B. A. of S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr. These two Bachelaurs were then created Masters because they before had as they did this year bear armes for his Majesty in Oxon. Dec. 3. Matthias Prideaux of Exet. Coll. a Capt. in his Majesties service Mar. ... Rob. Bingham Secretary to the Marquess of Dorchester Bach. of Phys Dec. 3. Will Sparke of Magd. Coll. See more of him among the created Doctors of Physick an 1661. Bach. of Div. Feb. 21. John Barwick Mast of Arts of 19 years standing Priest and late Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge did then supplicate the ven congregation that he might have the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him Which being granted simpliciter he was without doubt then admitted and created tho it appears not in the register so to be He had been lately turn'd out of his fellowship being then I suppose Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Morton Bishop of Durham who as 't is said gave him about this time a Prebendship in that Church After his Majesties return he became Doct. of Div. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and was in consideration of his great sufferings installed Dean of Durham on the first of Nov. 1660 in the place of Dr. Will. Fuller who died in the year before going On the 15 of Oct. 1661 he was elected Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral in Lond in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas deceased whereupon being installed in that Dignity on the 19 day of the same month his Deanery of Durham was confer'd on Dr. Joh. Sudbury and accordingly was installed therein on the 15 of Feb. following This worthy person Dr. Barwick hath published 1 The fight victory and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to Thomas Morton late Lord Bishop of Duresme in a Sermon preached at his funeral in the par Church of S. Peter at Easton-manduit in Northamptonshire on Mich. day on 2. Tim. 4.7.8 Lond 1660. qu. 2 A summary account of the holy life and death of Thomas late Lord Bishop of Duresme printed with the said Sermon which Bishop died at Easton-manduit before mention'd on S. Matthews day an 1659. aged 95 years 3 Deceivers deceived or the mistakes of wickedness c. Sermon at S. Pauls Cathedral 20. Oct. 1661 on Prov. 14. part of the 8 ver Lond. 1661. qu. See more of him in Peter Gunning among the Writers an 1684. p. 577. and in his epitaph following which was set over his grave in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul within the City of London S. Amori Aeternitati c. in English thus that it might be understood by vulgar capacities Sacred to Love and to generations to come Thou that passest by whosoever thou art bring hither thine eyes and understanding also intuitively both to look and lament For within this marble Wardrobe are folded up the thin worn weeds of the valuable substantial and well accountred Soul of John Barwick Doctor of Divinity to whom Westmorland may well boast to have given first breath and being Next Cambr. may boast to have given him his first admission and S. Johns Coll. there a Fellowship in that foundation From which Fellowship which still makes more for his honour he was unjustly ejected by a pack of Parricides who notwithstanding regardless of the rage of those bloody times or his own blood-spitting malady equally pernicious boldly attempted and successfully managed matters of the greatest difficulty and danger in the behalf of the King and Church And for that cause was shut up in a dire and loathsome prison where he suffered inhumane and barbarous usage yet with a constant and undaunted spirit And in the end he saw by the miracle as it were of a new creation the revisal of both Crown and Mitre himself playing the Man-midwives part and vigorously assisting at the new birth of both Last of all for his active services and passive sufferings he was
his proceedings James Baron lately made Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll. by the Com. and Visitors was created the same day He was Son of George Baron of Plymouth in Devons had been puritanically educated in Exeter Coll and closing with the dominant party in the time of the rebellion got besides his Readers place to be Minister of one of the Hendreths in Berks and by the name of Mr. James Baron of Hendreth he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom the Saints called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Orthodox and Loyal Clergy After his Majesties restauration he retired to London and lived a Nonconformist mostly at or near Bunhill He hath published under the name of Jacobus Baronius a little thing printed on one side of a sheet entit Quaestiones Theologicae in usum Coll. Magd Oxon. Oxon. 1657 And with Thankful Owen did gather and publish the works of Thom. Goodwin in two vol. in fol. and set before them a canting preface He died in the beginning of the year 1683 and was buried as I have been informed near the graves of the Goodwin and Owen in the fanatical burial place near Bunhill-fields and the New Artillery-yard John Dale of Magd. Coll was created the same day June 8. As for Joshua Cross he was not created Bach. of Div. but Doct. of the Civil Law as I shall anon tell you Febr. 16. Sim. Ford of Ch. Ch. was created by dispensation of the Delegates On the 12. of Jan. going before the said Delegates decreed that the said Mr. Ford. sometimes of Magd. Hall who had been expelled the Vniversity with great injury as they said should be restored with all Academical honour imaginable and that his Grace be proposed for Bach. of Divinity c. He proceeded Doct. of Div. in 1665. Mar. 14. Will. Durham sometimes of New Inn now Chaplain to Will. Lenthall Master of the Rolls was created in Convocation by dispensation of the Delegates Doct. of Law May 19. Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Camerone in Scotland Generalissimo of all the Parliament Forces in England and Constable of the Tower of London was created Doctor of the Civil Law being then in Oxford and entertained by the members thereof as Cromwell and divers prime Officers were The ceremony of the Creation was thus After he had been adorned with a scarlet gown in the Apoditerium or Vestry belonging to the Convocation but without hood or cap the new Beadles who had not yet got their silver staves from those that were lately ejected conducted him with Cromwell towards the upper end of the Convocation House the members thereof then standing up bare whereupon Hierom Zanchy one of the Proctors rising from his seat which pro tempore was supplied by a Master and going to and standing on his left side took him by the right hand and presented him in a most humble posture to the Vicechanc. and Proctors standing with a short flattering Lat. speech such as 't was Which being done and he who then held the Chancellours Chair Dr. Chr. Rogers admitting him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him up to the next place on the right hand of the Chancellours Chair This person who made a great noise in his time not only in England but throughout a great part of the world was Son and Heir of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax a busie and forward man in Yorkshire in raising men and maintaining the Parliament cause against his Majesty by the Lady Mary his Wife Daughter of Edmund Lord Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave which Ferdinando dying 13. March 1647 aged 64 years was buried in the Church of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire As for his Son Thomas whom we are farther to mention he was born at Denton in the Parish of Otlay in the same County in January 1611 9. Jac. 1. and was baptized at Denton on the 25 of the said month After he had spent some time in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge to which afterwards in his latter days he was a benefactor he went beyond the Seas and spent the rest of his youth in martial discipline under the command of Horatio Lord Vere among whose forces he trailed a Pike in the Low Countries was at the considerable action of the taking of Busse in Flanders but had no command while he was there Afterwards he retired to his Fathers house and took to Wife Anne the Daughter and Coheir of the said Lord Vere by whom he had issue Mary born 3. July 1636 and Elizabeth The first of which was married to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham 19. Nov. 1657. In the beginning of the rebellion in 1642 when his Majesty was forced to raise a Guard at York for the defence of his Person this Sir Thomas Fairfax who was entrusted by his Country to prefer a petition to his Majesty the scope whereof was to beseech him to hearken to his Parliament and not raise Forces he did accordingly deliver it but his Majesty refusing it as a Parliamentarian Writer tells us he press'd it with that instance and intention following the King so close therewith in the Field call'd Heyworth-moor in the presence of near a hundred thousand People of the County the like appearance was ever hardly seen in Yorkshire that he at last did tender the same upon the pomel of his saddle But finding no propitiatory as the said author tells us and seeing a War could not be avoided he early paid the vows of his martial education and as soon as the unhappy troubles brake forth he took a Commission under his Father Ferdinando before mention'd whose timely appearance and performances for the Rebels in the North deserves a story of it self He had not served the Parliament in lower commands long but that the great Masters at Westminster did vote him their General 31. Dec. 1644 at which time they cashier'd Robert Earl of Essex of that high command with whom they had sworn 12. July 1642 to live and dye This making of a new General was done when the Parliament ordered their Army to be new modell'd So that victory in a manner being prepared to his hand he vigorously proceeded and what he did in a short time for the blessed cause which is too much here to be set down let the author of Englands recovery c. tell you who tho in the latter end of that book p. 321. he doth highly characterize him especially for his religion but little for policy yet a severe Presbyterian will tell you that he was a Gentleman of an irrational and brutish valour fitter to follow another mans counsel than his own and obnoxious to Cromwell and the Independent faction upon whose bottom he stood for his preferment it having been no dishonour to him to become the property of another mans faction c. adding these matters but what will not a fool in
thus Mr. Waterhouse went over into Ireland as Physitian to the Army there of whose diligence fidelity and abilities I had much experience while I was there He constantly attended the Army and had to my knowledge done very much good to the Officers and Soldiers by his skill and industry Whether this Joh. Waterhouse hath published any-thing I know not sure I am that Edw. Waterhouse Esq of the same family hath in order to which he had spent some time as a Sojourner in Oxon for the sake of the public Library in the time of Oliver He hath written A discourse and defence of Arms and Armory shewing the natures and rises of Arms and Honour in England from the Camp the Court the City c. Lond. 1660. oct and wholly composed as Sir Will. Dugdale hath enformed me a book intit The Sphere of Gentry deduced from the principles of nature An historical and genealogical work of Arms and Blazon in 4 books Lond. 1661. fol published under the name of a busie and pragmatical person called Sylvanus Morgan an Arms-Painter living sometimes near the Old Exchange in London 'T is a rapsodical indigested and whimsical work and not in the least to be taken into the hands of any sober Scholar unless it be to make him either laugh or wonder at the simplicity of some people This Edw. Waterhouse Esq one of the Royal Society and a cock-brain'd man who hath published other things as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you did afterwards by the perswasion of the Archb. of Canterbury take holy orders on him and became a fantastical Preacher He died near London an 1671. An. Dom. 1651. An. 3 Car. 2. Chanc. Oliv. Cromwell Gen. of the Parliament Forces now on foot in England Vicech Dr. Greenwood again Nov. 6 nominated and recommended to his Office by the Chancellours Letters dat 2. Octob. this year Proct. Matth. Vnit of Trin. Coll. Apr. 9. Sam. Lee of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 9. The junior Proctor being not of sufficient standing in the degr of Master for the taking on him the Procuratorial Office at which time he was elected by the Society of his Coll the Visitors dispensed with it by their order dat 22 Mar. 1650. Bach. of Arts. Oct. 16. Rowl Stedman lately of Balâ— now of Vniv Coll. Feb. 10. Benj. Parry of Jes Coll. The last of these two was afterwardâ— of C. C. Coll. and at lâ—â—gth Bishop of Ossory Feb. 13. Nathan Hodges of Ch. Ch. Feb. 13. Hen. Thurman of Ch. Ch. Feb. 13. Edw. Veel of Ch. Ch. The first of these three was afterwards an eminent Physitian in London and the last whom I shall mention among the Masters 1653 a Nonconformist and both as I presume now living Feb. 28. Joh. Cawley lately of Magd. Coll now 1651 Fellow of that of All 's See among the Doctors of Div. in 1666. Mar. 2. Tho. Woâ—lnough of Magd. Hall 16. Thom. Vincent of Ch. Ch. Adm. 112. ☞ But one Bach. of Law was admitted this year Mast of Arts. May 29. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. This person who was son of Joh. Greenwood was born at Sowerby in the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorksh became Scholar of Christs Coll. in Cambr. an 1645 or thereabouts where spending as much time as made him capable for the degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon and by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Dan. Greenwood Principal of Brasn Coll was made Fellow of that House in 1648 in which year several of the antient Fellows thereof were ejected for their Loyalty In 1653 he became Rector of Steeple Aston near Dedington in Oxfordshire by the presentation thereunto of the Princ. and Fellows of his Coll. and wrot and published 1 Sermon at Steeple-Aston in Oxfordshire at the funeral of Mr. Franc. Croke of that place 2 Aug. 1672 on Isay 57.1.2 Oxon. 1680. qu. 2 Serm. at the funeral of Alex. Croke of Studley in Oxfordsh Esq buried at Chilton in Bucks 24 Oct. 1672 on 2 Cor. 6. ver 7.8 Oxon. 1680. qu. He the said Dan. Greenwood died suddenly of an apoplexy at Woodstock an 1679 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Steeple-Aston before mention'd near to the body of his Uncle Dr. Dan. Greenwood Over his grave is a table of marble fix'd to the north wall of the said Chancel containing an Epitaph for the said Doctor and another for this his Nephew Which last runs thus Heic etiam deponuntur reliquiae rev viri Danielis Greenwood hujus Ecclesiae per anno xxv Rectoris qui singulari erga Deum pietate pauperes munificentia omnibus quibus innotuit humanitate feliciter decurso hujus vitae stadio in caelest Patriam festinans tristi sui desiderium moriens reliquit Octob. xiv an Dom. MDCLXXIX aet suae LI. May 29. Rich. Adams of Brasn Coll. He was a Ministers son in Worral in Chesh and originally of Cambridge where he was examined and admitted in Arts 26 Mar. 1644. Afterwards he went to Oxon when the Garrison thereof was surrendred to the Parliament was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. 24 Mar. 1646 aged 20 years and soon after made Fellow thereof In 1655 he left his Fellowship being about that time beneficed in Breadstreet in London and in 1662 he was removed for Nonconformity from which time to this he hath continued a Nonconformist Preacher and now liveth if I mistake not in Southwark Under his name hath been published several Sermons as 1 The duties of Parents and Children on Col. 3.20.21 'T is in the Supplement to the Morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Of Hell on Mat. 24.41 'T is in The Morning exercise methodized c. preached at S. Giles in the Fields in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. 3 The earthly and heavenly building on 2 Cor. 5.1 at the funeral of Hen. Hurst M. A. c. Lond. 1690. qu. c. He also and Edw. Veel or Veale did publish Steph. Charnock's book intit A treatise of divine providence c. Before which they put an Epist to the Reader giving a short but imperfect account of the said Charnock's life See among the Writers in Steph. Charnock an 1680. p. 491. Jun. 18. Edw. Baâ—shaw of Ch. Ch. Jun. 18. Hen. Eedes of Linc. Coll. Of the last of these two is large mention made among the Writers The other was originally of Cambridge where he performed his exercise for Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he entred himself into Magd. Hall where continuing till the ejection of loyal Fellows of Linc. Coll was made by the Visitors in 1648 he was by them put in Fellow there where he behaved himself very factious and turbulent On the first of May 1660 he resign'd his Fellowship otherwise had he tarried there a little longer he had been expell'd About which time by money and friends he obtained one or two rich Parsonages and in 1662 became Canon residentiary of Chichester and afterwards Doctor of Div. at Cambridge This is the person
depos'd from his Protectorship in the beginning of this year Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. Conant 8. Oct Proct. George Philipps of Qu. Coll. Ap. 13. Thomas Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Ap. 13. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 14. Franc. Turner of New Coll. July 11. Charles Bridgman of Qu. Coll. Oct. 12. Joh. Lloyd of Mert. Coll. The first of these three was afterwards successively B. of Rochester and Ely and having written and published several things he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers and Bishops The second was afterwards an Archdeacon as I shall tell you among the Masters an 1662 and the last who was afterwards of Jesus Coll was at length B. of S. David Oct. 12. Jam. Janeway of Ch. Ch. 14. Sam. Hardye of Wadham Coll. He was the author of The Guide to Heaven c. printed at several times in two parts in oct the last part of which was published 1687. 88. and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Nov. 1. Benj. Woodroff of Ch. Ch. He hath published several things and therefore he is also hereafter to be remembred Jan. 16. Thom. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 28. Sam. Parker of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two who is now a Physitian of note is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers The other who was afterwards of Trin. Coll. was at length B. of Oxon. I have mention'd him at large among the Writers in this vol. Feb. 28. Joh. Langford of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Ruthyn man born in Denbighshire did afterwards translate into good welsh The whole duty of man Lond. 1672. oct He took no higher degree in this University but elsewhere and is now living and beneficed in Wales Mar. 15. Sam Holding or Holden or Linc. Coll. This person who hath published several things is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers Adm. 148. Bach. of Law May 18. Thomas Jones of Mert. Coll. Oct. 12. Will. Trumbull of All 's Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doct. of the Civil Law 1667. Adm. 4. Mast of Arts. June 2. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. 4. Joh. Skelton of Queens Coll. The last was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Barlow Bishop of Lincolne who collating him to the Archdeaconry of Bedford was installed therein 22. Mar. 1678 and afterwards to the Prebendship of Biggleswade in the Church of Linc. was installed also therein 3. May 1684. June 21. Thomas Hockin of Magd. Coll. This person who was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll hath written A discourse of the nature of Gods decrees Being an answer to a Letter from a person of quality concerning them Lond. 1684. oct In the title of this book he writes himself Bach. of Div sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and late Preacher at Great S. Barthelmews in London But whether he took the said degree of B. of D in this University it appears not June 21. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and at length Rector of Stockport in Cheshire and author of The Christians triumph over death Sermon at the funeral of Rich. Legh of Lime in the County Pal of Chester Esq at Winwick in Lancashire 6. Sept. 1687 on 1. Cor. 15.55 Oxon. 1688. qu. He is Doct. of Divinity not of this University but by the Diploma if I mistake not of Dr. W. Sancroft Archbishop of Canturbury June 25. Henry Foulis of Qu. Coll. June 25. Capel Wiseman of Qu. Coll. June 25. Henry Denton of Qu. Coll. The last of these three who was Son of Thomas Denton of the antient and gentile family of his name living at Warnel-Denton in Cumberland travelled afterwards to Constantinople in the quality of a Chaplain to the English Embassador and after his return did translate into English A description of the present state of Samos Nicaria Patmos and Mount-Athos Lond. 1678. oct Which book was written by Joseph Georgirines Archbishop of Samos living then 1678 in London who the year before had for some weeks been in Oxon about the Act time to obtain money from the Academians towards the finishing the Greek Church in London This Mr. Denton who was Fellow of Queens Coll and presented by the Provost and Fellows thereof to the Rectory of Blechingdon in Oxfordshire on the death of Joh. Hook B. D. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll which hapned 20. of Feb. 1673 was buried in the Church there 19 Aug. 1681. July 2. Arthur Brett of Ch. Ch. 4. Dav. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. 8. Rich. Morton of New Coll. Adm. 78. Bach of Phys June 4. Nath. Hodges of Ch Ch. July 9. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. Adm. 6. Two also were licensed to practise Physick of whom Hen. Brunsell M. A. of Magd. Hall was one ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year Doct. of Law May 18. Nicholas Staughton of Exet. Coll. Esq was adm Doctor of the Civ and Can. Law being then dispensed with for certain Terms and on the 27 of June following after he had spoken a formal Speech before the Members of the University for which he was laughed at because not at all desired or required he was admitted ad suffragandum in domo Convocationis Congreg About a month or two after was printed a sharp Libel intit Sundry things from several hands concerning the Vniversity of Oxford c. And at the end of it were printed 25 Queries the last of which runs thus Whether the Boy Dr. Staughton of Exeter Coll. did well to lye in his scarlet Gown that night he was made Doctor since his degree was a thing he ought not to have dreamed of He was then Lord of the ancient Mannour of Staughton in Surrey which unexpectedly fell to him after the death of divers persons of that name and on the 29 of January 1660 he was created a Baronet May 18. Tho. Jones of Mert. Coll who accumulated the degrees of Law by vertue of the Chanc. Letters was then adm to proceed Doct. of Phys Jun. 2. Thom. Jeanes of Magd. Coll. This person who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. did while he was a Junior there with Joh. Fidoe and Will. Shaw his Contemporaries of the said House write and publish The Parliament justified in their late proceedings against Charles Stuart Or a brief discourse concerning the nature and rise of Government together with the abuse of it in Tyranny and the peoples reserve To which is added An answer to a certain paper entit The humble advice to the Lecturers of Banbury in Oxfordshire and of Brackley in Northamptonshire Lond. 1648 in 2 sh and an half in qu. Afterwards Jeanes going to Oxon was made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors and always after during his stay there he was esteem'd by all that knew him a good Scholar and a generous and stour man But so it fell out that after Dr. Tho. Pierce became President of the said Coll. he found means to expell him thence an 1662 under pretence of
Dr. Alex. Hyde in the beginning of Aug. 1661 and at length Preb. of Winchester Rich. Owen B. D. of Oriel Coll. Tho. Good B. D. of Ball. Coll. Thomas Powell M. A. of Jes Coll. Will. Thomas M. A. of Jes Coll. The first of these two had performed his exercise for Bach. of Div. 20 years before this time The other was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say thus of him I have heard of the great worth and deserts of him as well in respect of his learning and orthodox judgment as of his most exemplary life and conversation who for divers years together hath lived in S. Wales c. He was afterwards B. of St. Dav. and Worc. successively These four last Doctors I have mention'd at large among the Writers in their respective places Byrom Eaton of Brasn Coll. He was soon after Principal of Gloc. Hall and when Dr. Barlow became Bish of Linc. he gave him first the Archdeaconry of Stow and afterwards that of Leycester in which last he was installed 8. Sept. 1683. All the said Doctors before mention'd from Guy Carleton to Byr. Eaton were created on the 2. of Aug. At the same time were letters from the Chancellor read for George Jay of Ch. Ch. to be created D. of D but being not present he was to be admitted when he made his appearance The said Letters speak thus of him He continued a Student of Ch. Ch. for the space of 20 years and upwards and in the year 1614 he proceeded M. of A and was first made Grammar Reader then Terrae filius at the publick Act and afterwards was made Chaplain to the Earl of Anglesie and after to the Duke of Bucks and then to Dr. White B. of Ely lately deceased And now his Majesty taking special notice of Mr. Jayes worth and abilities as also of his services done to him and his sufferings for him hath been graciously pleased without any privity or seeking of his own to give unto him an eminent preferment in the Church By reason of the late troubles he was forced beyond the Seas to save his life c. This Mr. Jay who was born of gentile parents in Dorsetshire but not admitted Doctor hath several Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Aug. 7. Raphael Throckmorton of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Linc. was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which say that we are well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings for us and the Church c. He was installed Archdeacon of Linc. in the place of Morgan Wynne deceased an 1645 and dying on the second day of Febr. 1666 was buried in S. Andrews Church in Holbourne near London Aug. 7. Tho. Pierce M. A. of Magd. Coll. Aug. 7. Will. Creed B. D. of S. Joh. Coll. Aug. 7. Will. Owen of Mert. Coll. Aug. 7. Joh. Priaulx of Mert. Coll. The former of these two last was Treasurer of the Cathedral Ch. of S. David afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan and died in 1680. The other who was fourth Son of Peter Priaulx of Southampton and born and educated in Grammar there was admitted Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. of Merton an 1635 proceeded in Arts and soon after entred into the sacred function In the time of the rebellion he left the College sided with the men that were uppermost became Rector of Fovant in Wilts and afterwards Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom the Presbyterians and Independents called ignorant scandalous and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters an 1654. After his Majesties restauration he became Preb. of Netherbury in terra in the Church of Salisbury D. of D. as before 't is said and being then esteem'd an excellent Theologist the Kings Professorship of Divinity was offer'd to him upon Dr. Sandersons promotion to the See of Linc but he modestly refusing it it was confer'd on Dr. William Creed In May 1671 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury in the place of Joh. Sherman deceased and dying at Salisbury on the second day of June 1674 was buried in the Cathedral Church there whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Thomas Lambert on the 12 day of the said month of June This Dr. Priaulx hath written Confirmation confirmed and recommended from Scripture antiquity and reason in a Sermon preached in the Cathedral Ch. of S. Mary in Salisbury at a solemn confirmation there administred by Humph. B. of Sarum on Acts 8.17 Lond. 1662 qu. Aug. 10. Jam. Lamb M. A. of S. Maries Hall 16 Thomas Washbourne Bac. of Div. of Ball. Coll. He was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he is a learned pious and orthodox person Sept. 11. Matthew Smalwood B. D. of Brasn Coll. 20 Edw. Pocock B. D. Can. of Ch. Ch. 20 Rob. Townsend M. A. of New Coll. The last was installed Preb. of Bedford Minor in the Church of Linc. 9. Nov. 1660. Oct. 3. Joh. Fell M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch. Oct. 3. Rich. Allestry M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch. Oct. 3. Joh. Dolben M. A. and Canon of Ch. Ch. 10. Joh. Arthur a noted Theologist was diplomated by vertue of the Kings Letters written to the University in his behalf and unknown to him This Diploma was to pass because Mr. Arthurs great age would not permit him to take a journey to Oxon to be there presented in person He was Son if I mistake not of Laur. Arthur of Springfield in Essex and had been mostly educated in Eman. Coll. in Cambridge but ejected from his living at Capham in Surrey for Nonconformity an 1662. 17. Mirth Waferer of S. Alb. Hall Oct. 19. Joh. Doughtie B. D. of Mert. Coll. Preb. of Westm Oct. 19. Walter Jones B. D. of Ch. Ch. Preb. of Westm Oct. 19. Rich. Busby M. A. of Ch. Ch. Preb. of Westm The last of these is now living in the Coll. at Westminster and is an author and therefore he is hereafter to have a place among the Oxford Writers 30. Rich. Parr of Ex. Coll. In the month of Octob. were the Kings Letters dated 27 of Sept read in behalf of one Herbert Astley to be Doct. of Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not He was afterwards Dr. of Law of Cambridge as it seems Preb. and at length Dean of Norwich in which last Dignity he was installed on the second day of Sept. 1670 in the place of Dr. Joh. Croft deceased This person who was Son of Herb. Astley or Ashley rather of Plymouth in Devonshire was upon his accidental coming into Nâ—rfolk taken into the patronage of Sir Jac. and Sir Isaac Astley and by them who took him to be their kinsman was prefer'd to several Livings in those parts and marrying with a Hobart he was by the endeavours of that family promoted to the said Deanery He died in the month of May as it seems in 1681 and was inter'd in the Cath Ch. at Norwych near to the monument of Sir Hen. Hobart Nov. 9. Walter Dayrel or Darrell M.
from the antient family of his name in Cornwall was elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1651 where he continued till his Majesties restauration under Presbyterian and Independ discipline Afterwards getting into the service of the said Sir Henry he was chose a Recruiter for Camelford in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. May 1661 wherein shewing himself zealous for the prerogative had several Boons bestowed on him On the 28. of Aug. 1668 his Majesty confer'd on him the honour of Knighthood he being then about to send him to the Catholick King and Qu. Regent of Spain to reside as his Embassador in that Court upon the return thence of Edward Earl of Sandwich his Maj. late Embassador extraordinary there So that going and continuing there several years he changed his Religion for that of Rome Doct. of Phys Mar. 26. Rich. Keurden sometimes known by the name of Jackson M. A. of S. Maries Hall was then actually created Doctor of Phys He was the Son of Gilbert Keurden who died in 1662 Son of Rich. Keurden who died 1630 Son of Gilb. Jackson of Keurden near to Preston in Lancashire and was at this time and several years after a practitioner of his faculty at Preston and in the Country adjacent But his genie being more adaquat to antiquities than his proper profession he neglected his practice and wrot in honor of his Country Brigantia Lancastriensis restaurata Or History of the honorable Dukedom or County Palatine of Lancaster in 5. vol. in fol. The method of which he printed in certain proposals by him scattered among his friends in July and Aug. 1688 wherein it appears that he had then obtained several sums of money from some of the Gentry of Lancashire and elsewhere to print that work Sir Hen. de Vic of the Isle of Guernsey Bt. He had been Resident at Bruxells for K. Ch. 1. near 20 years and after that he was made Chancellour of the noble order of the Garter He died 20. of Nov. 1672 and was buried in the north cross Isle of the Abbey Church dedicated to St. Peter in Westminster About that time his Chancellourship went to Seth B. of Sarum and his Successors in that See Doct. of Div. Oct. 1. Rob. Powell M. A. of All 's Coll. was then created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters This person who had been made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 was now Archdeacon of Shrewsbury and afterwards Chancellour of S. Asaph and took all advantages to thrust himself into other places tho he himself had been no sufferer for the Kings cause but rather an enemy to him and his friends After the Letters of the Chancellor had been read for his creation the generality of the members of Convocation cried non and protested with great clamours against his creation whereupon a scrutiny being made he was by the falseness of one of the Proctors pronounced passed Afterwards Dr. Joh. Wallis presenting him to the Vicechancellour he was admitted Bach. of Div. and after another presentation by the said person Doct. of that faculty Rob. South M. of A. of Ch. Ch. of six years standing was created at the same time This Gent. who had been bred in the said House during the times of Usurpation was now Orator of the University and Chaplain to the Chanc. thereof After the Letters of the said Chanc. had been read for his creation the Bachelaurs of Divinity and Masters of Arts were against it as they were against that of Powell but at length after a scrutiny the said Proctor pronounced him virtute juramentiâ—â—ui as he had done Powell passed by the Major part of the House Whereupon by the double presentation of Dr. Joh. Wallis he was first admitted Bachelaur then Doct. of Divinity James Sessions Bach. of Div. of Magd. Hall was also then Oct. 1. created but not at all denied At the same time the Chancellour commended to the members of Convocation one Mr. Joh. Clegge of S. Alb Hall a person of good affections to the King and Church to be also created D. D but he did not then appear Mar. 21. Thomas Barton of Magd. Hall was then created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters then read which say that he is Master of Arts and hath been throughout the War Chaplain to Prince Rupert in the Army c. This year became a Sojourner in the University to improve himself in Literature one Laurence Son of Nich. Fessius a Dane born in the City of Schaane sometimes belonging to the K. of Sweedland afterwards to the K. of Denmark which Laurence after his return to his own Country wrot several Panegyricks on the K. of Denmark and other things An. Dom. 1664. An. 16. Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon Vicechanc. Rob. Say D. D. Provost of Oriel Coll. Sept. 1. Proct. Joh. Hearne of Exet. Coll. Apr. 20. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. Apr. 20. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 23. John Prince of Brasn Coll. This person who was afterwards Mast of Arts of Caies Coll. in Cambridge is now Vicar of Berry-Pomery near Totness in Devonsh and having published a Serm. and two other things as he may more hereafter he is therefore in future time to be remembred among the Writers of Oxon. Apr. 30. Will. Basset of Magd. Coll. He hath published four Sermons at least and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred June 14. Nathan Wilson of Magd. Hall He was afterwards B. of Limerick in Ireland 16. Will. Jane of Ch. Ch. He has several things extant and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred Octob. 15. Thom. Wagstaff of New Inn He hath four Sermons at least extant and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers 20. Sam. Dugard of Trin. Coll. 22. Joh. Hinton of Ch. Ch. Feb. 3. Edw. Pocock of Ch. Ch. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1667. 23. Tho. Laurence of S. Johns afterwards of Vniv Coll. See among the Masters 1668. Mar. 16. Morgan Godwin of Ch. Ch. Several things are extant under his name and therefore he ought hereafter to be remembred among Oxford Writers Adm. 165. Doct. of Musick July 7. Christoph Gibbons one of the Organists of his Majesties Chap. was then licensed to proceed Doctor of Musick which degree was compleated in an Act celebrated in S. Maries Church on the eleventh of the said month with very great honour to himself and his faculty He was licensed by vertue of his Majesties Letters written in his behalf which say that the bearer Christopher Gibbons one of our Organists of our Chap. royal hath from his youth served our Royal Father and our self and hath so well improved himself in Musick as well in our own judgment as the judgment of all men well skill'd in that science as that he may worthily receive the honour and degree of Doctor therein c. This person who was Son of Orl. Gibbons mention'd in
1677 he travelled with Joh. Norbourne of Caln in the same County Gent but before he had spent 12 months in France with him he was recalled and had the Church of Bedminster near Bristow confer'd on him and afterwards the Vicaridge of St. Mary Radcliff At both which places expressing himself a most zealous and orthodox man for the Church of England especially when the Popish Plot broke out the Faction aspers'd him with the name of Papist and more particularly for this reason when he said in his Prayer or Sermon in the Church of S. Thomas in Saâ—isbury 30. of Jan. 1679 that there was no Popish Plot but a Presbyterian Plot. About which time shewing himself a great stickler against petitions to his Majesty for the sitting of a Parliament which the Faction with all their might drove on he was brought into trouble for so doing and when the Parliament sate he was among those many that were against petitioning brought on his knees in the H. of Commons and blasted for a Papist whereupon to free himself from that imputation he wrot and published The Visor pluckt off from Rich. Thompson of of Bristol Clerk in a plain and true character of him Printed in one sh in fol. in 1681 wherein he takes occasion to shew that while he was in his travels he did not study at S. Omers or Doway as the Faction gave out but sojourned in Protestant Houses in Paris Glen Blois and frequented Protestant Chappels Company c. Afterwards in consideration of these his sufferings his Majesty gave him the Deanery of Bristow void by the death of Mr. Sam. Crossman in which being installed on Trinity Sunday 1684 had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him about that time at Cambridge He hath published besides the Visor before mention'd A Sermon in the Cath. Ch. of Bristow before Henry Duke of Beaufort L. Lieutenant of Glocestershire c. on Titus 3.1 Lond. 1685. qu. He died on the 29 of Nov. 1685 and was buried in the South Isle joyning to the said Cath. Ch whereupon Dr. Will. Levett of Oxon succeeded him in his Deanery Jan. 28. Henry Maurice of Jes Coll. Jan. 28. Joh. Garbrand of New Inn. Jan. 28. Joh. Graile of Exet. Coll. Jan. 28. Thom. Salmon of Trin. Coll. The first of these four was afterwards an author of note and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The others are Writers also have published several things and if living may more hereafter Adm. 193. Bach. of Law Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. May 2. Nathan Wilson of Magd. Hall May 2. Will. Harrison of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards B. of Limerick in Ireland as I have before told you The other Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester and Preb. of Winchester and well beneficed by the favour of B. Morley whose near Kinswoman he had married He is called Doctor but took no higher degree than Master of Arts in this University 7. Joh. Rainstropp of S. Joh. Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son was afterwards Master of the City Free-school in Bristow and published Loyalty recommended in a Sermon preached before the Merchant Adventures at S. Stephens Ch. in Bristol 10. Nov. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15.21 Lond. 1684. qu. June 20. Tho. Wagstaff of New Inn. 27. Joh. Hinton of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Rector of Newbury and Preb. of Sarum and published A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Newbury in Berks 26. July 1685 being a day of Thanksgiving for his Majesties late victory over the Rebels on 2. Sam. 18.28 Lond. 1685. qu. Oct. 31. Sam. Dugard of Trin. Coll. Mar. 10. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. Mar. 14. Edw. Pocock of Ch. Ch He was Son of Dr. Edward Pocock Canon of Ch. Ch. and published Philosophus Autodidactus seu Epistola Abi Giaaphar fil Tophail de Hai fil Jokdhan Arab. Lat. Oxon 1671. qu. Adm. 89. ☞ Not one Each of Physick was admitted this year Bach. of Div. July 2. Will. Lloyd of Jes Coll. Oct. 21. Joh. Rosewell of C. C. C. Oct. 21. Nich. Horsman of C. C. C. The first or these two who was at this time and after in great esteem for his Greek and Latin learning was afterwards made Master of Eaton School and continued there in a sedulous instruction of the youth for several years In 1678 Oct. 26 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. R Brideoake deceased and in Aug. or Sept. 1683. he became Fellow of Eaton Coll. on the death of Dr. Nathan Ingelo He died at Eaton 30. Oct. 1684 and was buried in the Chap. or Collegiat Church there leaving then most of his choice Library to C. C. Coll. Nov. 7. Hen. Foulis of Linc. Coll. Dec. 12. Franc. Drope of Magd. Coll. Dec. 12. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. Dec. 12. Narciss Marsh of Ex. Coll. Adm. 11. Doct. of Law Jun. 27. Edw. Low of New Coll. Jun. 27. Will. Oldys of New Coll. July 4. Tho. Musprat of New Coll. The first of these three was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery and a Knight and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Saliâ—bury in the place of Dr. Joh. Elliot deceased an 1671. He died in the latter end of May 1684. The second Dr. Oldys was afterwards Advocate for the office of Lord high Admiral of England and to the Lords of the Prizes his Majesties Advocate in the Court Martial and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Lincolne and of the third I know nothing July 6. Will. Trumbull of All 's Coll. This person who was originally of that S. Johns Coll. was afterwards an Advocate in Doctors Commons Chancellour of the Dioc. of Rochester and one of the Clerks of the Signet On the 21. Nov. 1684 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and in Nov. in the year following he was sent Envoy extraordinary into France In the beginning of 1687 he was sent Embassador to the Ottoman Port in the place of James L. Shandois where he continued till 1691. c. Doct. of Phys July 4. Edward Browne of Mert. Coll. This Gent who was Son of Sir Tho. Browne the famous Physitian of Norwych was afterwards a great Traveller and after his return became Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians of which he was censor 1683 and Physitian in ord to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. He hath written and published 1 A brief account of some travels in Hungaria Servia Bulgaria Macedonia Thessaly Austria Styria Carinthia Carniola and Friuli As also some observations on the gold silver c. Mines Baths and Mineral waters in those parts c. Lond. 1673. qu afterwards with additions in fol. An account of which is in the Phil. Transactions nu 95. 2 An account of several travels through a great part of Germany in four journeys 1. From Norwich to Colen 2. From Colen to Vienna with a particular description
the River of Boyne in the County of Lowth to fight the Forces belonging to K. James 2 and soon after he expir'd at or near Tredagh An. Dom. 1690. An. 2. Will. 3. An. 2. Qu. Mary Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Edwards again Oct. 6. Proct. Franc. Browne of Mert. Coll. Apr. 30. Franc. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 30. Bach. of Arts. July 10. Edward Wells of Ch. Ch. He hath published Two Geographical Tables containing the principal Countries Kingdoms Provinces Islands c. of the now known world c. one in English and another in Latine and both printed at Oxon. 1690. Adm. 156. Bach. of Law Four were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or person of note Mast of Arts. May 5. Joh. Meddens of Wadh. Coll. He is author of Tabellae Dialectorum in Graecis Declinationibus c. Lond. 1691. oct c. 8. James Harrington of Ch. Ch. He is now a Barrister of the Inner Temple and hath written and published several books July 8. Will. Watson of S. Maries Hall He was afterwards author of An amical call to repentance and the practical belief of Gospel as being the only way to have peace and content here c. Lond. 1691. 2. in tw c. Adm. 71. Bach. of Phys Eight were admitted but not one is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Seven were admitted of whom Rob. Wynn of Jesus Coll a Compounder and Chancellour of the Diocese of S. Asaph was one June 26. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 28. Nich. Stanley of All 's Coll. He compounded and accumulated July 10. Will. Boyse of C. C. Coll. He accum Doct. of Div. May 31. Tho. Dunster of Wadh. Coll. He was elected Warden of his Coll upon the promotion of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Bristow on the 21 of Octob. 1689. June 21. Matthew Hutton of Brasn Coll. Comp. July 8. Joh. Price of Ch. Ch. July 8. Franc. Morley of Ch. Ch. July 8. Thom. Burton of Ch. Ch. The two first of these three were Compounders and Accumulators Incorporations The Act being the sixth time put off not one Cambr. Master was incorporated only one which was before the time of Act. Two also were incorporated from Dublin Creations May 22. George Royse of Oriel Coll was actually created Doct. of Div. On the first of Dec. 1691 he was elected Provost of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Rob. Say deceased Dec. 11. Francis Lord North Baron of Guilford a Nobleman of Trin. Coll was after he had been presented by the Dep. Orator actually created Master of Arts being then about to leave the University His Father Sir Francis North second Son of Dudâ—ey Lord North was from being L. Ch. Just of the Common-pleas advanced to the honorable office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England on the 20 of Dec. 1682 and in Sept. 1683 he was for his great and faithful services that he had rendred the Crown created a Baron of this Kingdom by the name and stile of Baron of Guilford in Surrey He died at Wroxton near Banbury in Oxfordshire on the 5 of Sept. 1685 and was privately buried in a vault under part of the Church there among the ancestors of his Wife named Frances the second daughter and coheir of Thomas Pope Earl of Downe in Ireland uncle to Thomas the last Earl of Downe of the straight or linial descent of that family who died at Oxon in the year 1660 as I have told you in the 397 page of this book But whereas 't is said there that he married the eldest daughter and coheir is an errour for it was the second the first named Beata having been married to Will. Some of Suffolk Esquire and the youngest named Finetta to Robert Hyde Esq Son of Alexander sometimes Bishop of Salisbury Sir George Makenzie of Rosehaugh de Valle Rosarum in the County of Rosse in Scotland having left that Country upon the change of the Government there and violent proceedings of the Kâ—rk party an 1689 he retired to Oxon in the month of Sept. that year became a Sojournour there for a time a frequenter of the publick Library and on the second day of June 1690 he was by the favour of the Ven. Congregation of Regents admitted a Student therein where he continued all that Summer This most worthy and loyal Gentleman Son of Simon Makenzie Brother to the Earl of Seaforth by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of a Gentleman of an antient and heroick Extraction named Dr. And. Bruce Rector of the University of S. Andrew was born at Dundee in the County of Angus an 1636 and having an ardent desire from his Childhood for the obtaining of good Letters he was at about 10 years of age at which time he had conquered his Grammar and the best classical authors sent to the University of Aberdene where and afterwards in that of S. Andrew he ran through the Classes of Logick and Philosophy under the tuition of several eminent Masters before he was scarce 16 years of age Afterwards applying his studies with great zeal to the Civil Law he travelled into France and in the University of Bourges he continued in an eager pursuit of that faculty for about three years time After his return to his native Country he became an Advocate in the Courts at Edenburgh being then scarce 20 years of age and in 1661 he was made choice of to be an Advocate for pleading the causes of the Marquess of Argyle and afterwards became a Judge in the criminal Court which office he performed with great faith justice and integrity In 1674 or thereabouts he was made the Kings Lord Advocate and one of his Privy Council and notwithstanding the great troubles and molestations that arose from the fanatical party yet he continued in those places and stood steady faithful and just in the opinion of all good and loyal men till the beginning of the raign of K. James 7 at which time being averse in lending his assistance to the taking away of the penal laws he was removed and Sir Joh. Dalrimple now Secretary of State in Scotland under K. Will. 3. was put into his place Some time after his removal he was restored and continued L. Advocate and Privy Counsellour till K. Will. 3. made a revolution in Scotland and then he went into England as I have before told you He was a Gentleman well acquainted with the best authors whether antient or modern of indefatigable industry in his studies great abilities and integrity in his profession powerful at the Bar just on the Bench an able Statesman a faithful Friend a loyal Subject a constant Advocate for the Clergy and Universities of strict honour in all his actions and a zealous Defender of piety and religion in all places and companies His conversation was pleasant and useful severe against vice and loose principles without regard to quality or authority a great lover of the Laws
Chaplain to his Majesty in his Exile was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury by Bishop Duppa in January 1657 in the place of Will. Buckner deceased and about the same time to a Prebendship in the same Church After his Majesties restoration he was installed Canon of Windsore 18. July 1660 in the place of Joh. Hales some years before dead and had two good rectories bestowed on him in Wilts He died on the 16 of Jan. 1663 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Josh Childrey and his Canonry on Joh. Durell Joh. Lloyd M. A. of All 's Coll. Chaplain also to his Majesty in his Exile who on the 18 of July going before had been installed Canon of Wind. in the place of Hugh Cressey who in the War time had changed his Religion This Dr. Lloyd died on the 9 of April 1671 and thereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Joh. Saumares M. A. of Pemb. Coll and Dean of Guernsey One Joh. Lloyd wrot A Treatise of Episcopacy Liturgies and Ecclesiastical Ceremonies Pr. in 1660. qu. but whence he was I cannot yet tell And Joh. Lloyd D. D. was of Hombleston in Kent and died about the beginning of the year 1679. Joseph Crowther Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll and Chaplain to James Duke of York He was about this time Chantor and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in the diocese of Worcester On the 7. of March 1661 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Herbert Croft promoted to the See of Hereford and on the 26. of Dec. 1664 he was admitted Principal of S. Maries Hall In his last days he was committed Prisoner to the Prison call'd the Fleet in London by the endeavours of Sir Tho. Draper because he refused to renew a Corps belonging to S. Pauls Cath. then in the possession of Sir Thomas which the Doctor intended to wear out for the benefit of the said Cathedral He died in the Fleet on the 16 of Dec. 1689 and was buried in S. Pauls Cathedral Whereupon his Chantorship was bestowed on Dr. Tho. Turner President of C. C. Coll his Preb. of Worc. on Jonathan Blagrave of Magd. Hall Sub-Almoner to the Queen his rectory of Tredington on Tho. Kerry of Ch. Ch. and his principality on Will. Wyat M. A. of the same House George Benson M. A. of Qu. Coll and about this time Archdeacon of Hereford On the 16. of June 1671 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Will. Dowdeswell deceased and in the year following he became Dean of Hereford on the death of Tho. Hodges Ralph Brideoake M. A. of New Coll. He was afterwards B. of Chichester Edw. Fulham Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. This person who had been Rector of Hampton Poyle in Oxfordshire in the times of Usurpation was installed Canon of Windsore on the 12 of July this year in the place of Dr. Thomas Some some years before deceased who had been of Peter House in Cambridge and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and about the same time he became Preb. of Chichester George Hall of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester Nath. Hardy of Hart sometimes of Magd. Hall Joh. Townson of Magd. Coll. Joh. Lee M. A. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll. This person who was Son of Thom. Lee of London by Anne his Wife Daughter of Harman Warner and Sister and Heir of Dr. John Warner Bishop of Rochester was now Preb. of Rochester and Archdeacon thereof in the place of Elizeus Burges some years before deceased He afterwards wrot himself Joh. Lee alias Warner because he was heir to the said Bishop hath published one or more Sermons which I have not yet seen and dying about the beginning of June 1679 at which time he left behind him a Son named Hen. Lee Esq was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Thom. Plume D. of D. of Cambr installed therein on the 10 of the said month and in the same year Henry Bridgman M. A. of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he hath done his Majesty faithful service c. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Mich. Woodward B. D. Warden of New Coll. Tho. Barlow B. D. Provost of Qu. Coll. Rob. Say M. A. Provost of Oriel Coll. Walt. Blandford M. A. Warden of Wadham Coll. Thomas Yate B. D. Principal of Brasn Coll. The first of these five dying on the 16 of June 1675 was succeeded in his Wardenship by Joh. Nicholas M. A. and Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester The second was afterwards B. of Linc and was succeeded in his Provostship by Tim. Halton D. D. The third dying on the 24 of Oct. 1691 was succeeded in his Provostship by George Royse D. D. The fourth was afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Worcester and was succeeded ih his Wardenship by Gilbert Ironside Bach. of Div and the last dying on the 22 of Apr. 1681 was succeeded in his principality by Joh. Meare M. A. But this the Reader is to know that tho all five were created as Loyalists yet none of them suffered for their Loyalty in the times of Rebellion and Usurpation only the last Rob. Davenant of S. Johns Coll Bach. of Div. of 28 years standing and now Preb. elect of Salisbury as 't is said in the publick register He was Brother to Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet. Ralph Cooke of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester Rich. Harwood B. D. of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of a Father of both his names was born in the City of Glocester educated in Grammar learning there became a Com. of the said Hall in Mich. term 1631. aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and being accounted a learned Preacher was appointed by the Delegacy of the Univ. to be one of those persons to preach before K. Ch. 1 at Ch. Ch. in the time of the rebellion Afterwards upon the death of that King he suffer'd as all Divines that adhered to him did but upon his Sons restauration he became Chaplain in Ord. to him was created Doctor as before 't is said made Preb. of Glocest and Rector of a Church near Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire He hath written and published 1 King Davids Sanctuary Sermon before his Majesty at Ch. Ch. on Psal 73.25 Oxon. 1644. qu. 2 The Royal Subjects retiring-room Serm. at S. Maries 13. July being Act Sunday on Esay 26.20.21 Oxon. 1645. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the year 1669 and was succeeded in his Preb. by Will. Washbourne M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll. Rich. Hyde M. A. of S. Edm. Hall He was sometimes a Chaplain in the Kings Army was now Preb. of Warmister in the Church of Salisbury afterwards Sub-dean of the said Church by the resignation of