learning In Lent term 1593 he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. aged 18 years where going through all courses of Scholastical exercise with incredible industry was elected Fellow of that House in 1599 and the year after proceeded in Arts At which time his genie leading him to the study of medicine he entred on the Physick line practised that faculty and at length 1611 took both the degrees therein and resigned his Fellowship Afterwards he retired to the City of Exeter practised there and was much resorted to for his great knowledge and experience in Physick In his younger years he was esteemed a very good Poet Orator and Disputant and in his elder as eminent for Divinity as his proper faculty and might have honoured the World at that time with the issue of his brain but neglecting so to do for the sake of lucre and practice gave us nothing but scraps whimseys and dotages of old age which are these Theoremata Theologica Theological treatises in eight Theses of Divinity viz. 1 Production of Mans Soul 2 Divine Predestination 3 The true Church regiment 4 Predictions of Messiah 5 Christs two Genealogies 6 The revelation revealed 7 Christs Millenar reign 8 The Worlds dissolution Lond. 1654. qu. To which are added Supplements subjoyned as 1 A supply concerning Holy-days and Christs birth-days feast 2 An addition of Mans Soul 3 An Ecclesiastical Polity 4 Of Saints eternal raigne 5 Of Christs eternal raign 6 Several sorts of Essayes one of which is an Essay to Mr. Tho. Hobbes concerning his Leviathan To these the Author added A Postscript of all forms He also wrot A compend of Chronography containing four thousand thirty years compleat from Adams creation to Christs birth c. Lond. 1654. in 5. sh in qu. Enchiridium Epigrammatum Latino-Anglicum Or an Epitome of Essayes Englished out of Latine without elucidat explications containing six classes or centuries of 1 Theologicals 2 Historicals c. Lond. 1654 in a thick oct A Fardel of 76 Fragments Or additional Essayes which is the seventh classe Printed with the Enchiridium He was buried in the choire on the north side of the high Altar of the Cath. Church in Exeter in sixteen hundred sixty and two and soon after had this Epitaph put thereon the copy of which was sent to me by Rich. Izacke Esq Chamberlaine and Antiquary of that City Dormitorium Roberti Vilvaine Medicinae Doctoris qui obiit Vicesimo primo die Februarii an salut 1662 aetatis suae 87. He was a liberal benefactor to two Hospitals for poor Children in that City and in the year 1633 gave 32 l. per an for four poor Scholars each to have 8 l. per an to come from that free School in the said City founded by Hugh Crossing Esq sometimes twice Mayor thereof to Exeter Coll or any place else in Oxon either Coll. or Hall THOMAS BAYLIE a Wiltshire Man born was entred either a Servitour or Batler of S. Albans Hall in Mich. term 1600 43. Elizab. aged 18 years elected Demie of Magd. Coll. in 1602 and perpetual Fellow of that House 1611 he being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became Rector of Maningford Crucis near to Marlborough in his own Country and in 1621 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time and after he was zealously inclin'd to the puritanical party At length upon the change of the times in 1641 siding openly with them he took the Covenant was made one of the Assemb of Divines and soon after had for the love he bore to the righteous cause the rich Rectory of Mildenhall in his own Country then belonging to Dr. Geor. Morley a Royalist confer'd upon him Where being setled he preached up the tenets held by the Fifth-monarchy-men he being by that time one himself and afterwards became a busie Man in ejecting such that were then 1654 and after called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written De merito mortis Christi modo conversionis diatribae duo Oxon. 1626. qu. Concio ad clerum habita in Templo B. Mariae Oxon 5. Jul. 1622. in Jud. ver xi printed with the former He hath also as I have been informed one or more English Sermons extant but such I have not yet seen After the restoration of his Majesty he was turned out from Mildenhall and dying at Marlborough in sixteen hundred sixty and three was buried in the Church of S. Peter there on the 27 day of March the same year Whereupon his Conventicle at that place was carried on by another Brother as zealous as himself WILLIAM JAMES or Jamesius as he writes himself Son of Hen. James by Barbara his Wife Daugh. of Will. Sutton mention'd in the first Vol. p. 494. and he the Son of one James Citizen and Alderman of Bristow was born at Mahone in Monmouthshire educated in his first years of knowledge at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire under his Uncle Will. Sutton Son of the before mentioned Will. Sutton and being extraordinary rath ripe and of a prodigious memory was entred into his Accedence at five years of age In 1646 he was elected a Kings Scholar of the Coll. at Westminster where making marvellous proficiency under Mr. Busbye his most loving Master in the School there was elected thence a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1650. Before he had taken one degree in Arts his Master made him his Assistant in the said School and upon the removal of Adam Littleton into Edw. Bagshaw's place he was made Usher and at length second Master This Person while he was very young about 16 years of age wrot and published ' ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ' in Linguam Chaldaeam In usum Scholae Westmonast Lond. 1651 in 6 sheets or more in oct Dedic to Mr. Rich. Busby his Tutor Parent and Patron and also had a chief hand in the English introduction to the Lat. Tongue for the use of the lower forms in Westm School Lond. 1659. oct He died in the prime of his years to the great reluctancy of all that knew his admirable parts on the third day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried at the West end of S. Peters called the Abbey Church in Westminster near the lowest door going into the Cloister WILLIAM HAYWOOD a most excellent preacher of his time was born being a Coopers Son of Ballance street in the City of Bristow elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. by the endeavours of John Whitson Alderman of that City an encourager of his studies an 1616 aged 16 years and was soon after made Fellow of that House Dr. Laud had a respect for him and his learning made him one of his Domestick Chaplains Chaplain in Ord. to K. Ch. 1 and in 1636 he was by his endeavours actually created D. of D. About that time he became Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in Fields near London and in 1638 he was made Canon of the eleventh stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster in
Slingsby of Red-house in Yorksh and Dr. Joh. Hewit Jun. 2. an 1658. 3 Speech when he gave sentence of death on Colonel Edw. Ashton Edm. Stacy Oliv. Allen Will. Carrent Joh. Betteley Hen. Fryer and Joh. Sumner July 2. 1658 c. Which Speeches I have seen printed Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a conference had with Oliver L. Protector at Whitehall in Apr. 1657. Pr. at Lond. 1660. in oct with other Conferences and Speeches to the same purpose made by others among whom are Rog. Boyle Baron of Broghill in Ireland Sir Charles Wolseley Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey c. all Oliver's Lords A little before the Return of K. Ch. 2. he with other Regicides fled beyond the seas and L'isle setling at Losanna he was treated by the Magistracy of that Town as Chancellour of England being always vested with the robe of that dignity At length certain Irish-men taking it as a grand Affront that the people of that place should harbour him as they did Edm. Ludlow Will. Goffe Edward Whaley c. for a time and shew him so much respect and honour as they did one of them ventred upon him as he was going to Church accompanied with the chief Magistracy and shot him with a Musquetoon dead in the place on the 21 of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and four Which done two more Irish men rode into the press and trampling on the body of L'isle with their horses feet fled into the Guards and escaped with little hurt Afterwards he was buried with solemnity in the said Church there as I have been credibly informed leaving then behind him a Widow named Alice who for entertaining one Joh. Hicks a Non-conformist Minister and a Follower of James Duke of Monmouth in the time of his Rebellion was for High Treason therefore beheaded at Winchester on the 2 of Sept. 1685. In like manner did before fall one Isaac Dorislaus or Dorislaw a Dutch-man born originally a Schoolmaster and afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law at Leyden Whence coming into England upon no good account was entertained by Fulk Lord Brook and by him appointed to read a History Lecture in Cambridge which he was about to found some years before his death But in his very first Lectures decrying Monarchy was upon the complaint of Dr. Jo. Cosin Master of Peter-house to the Vicechanc. which afterwards came to his Majesties knowledge silenced and about that time marrying an English woman near to Maldon in Essex lived there for some time Afterwards he became Judge Advocate in the King's Army in one of his Expeditions against the Scots Advocate in the Army against the King under Robert Earl of Essex afterwards under Sir Tho. Fairfax and at length one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and an Assistant in drawing up and managing the Charge against K. Ch. 1. in order to his Execution I say that this Dorislaus did fall as L'isle afterwards did for he being thought to be the only fit man to be sent by the Parliament as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute their designs he arrived at the Hague in good Equipage in the beginning of May 1649 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then there in his Exile Which bold and impudent act being much regretted by certain generous Royalists attending his said Majesty about 12 of them in disguise repaired to his Lodging and finding him at supper stab'd him in several places and cut his throat whereupon one of them said Thus dyes one of the Kings Judges This generous Action was performed on the 6 of May or thereabouts but reported by the generality to be performed by one Col. Walt. Whitford Son of Dr. Walt. Whitford of Monckland in Scotland by cleaving his head asunder with a broad sword Afterwards they quietly departed and 't was not known but privately for some time after who did the fact Within few days following this desperate Attempt coming to the knowledge of the Parliament they became so much enraged that they resolved to sacrifice the life of a certain Royalist of note then in their custody and certainly they had done it had he not made a timely escape Afterwards they caused the body of Dorislaus to be conveyed into England and to be buried with solemnity in the Abbey Church at Westminster on the 14 of June following where continuing till Sept. 1661 was then taken up with the bodies of other Cromwellians and buried in a hole in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning He hath published as 't is said several things but all that I have seen of his is De praelio Nuportano Lond. 1640. in 4 sheets and half in qu. JAMES LAMB Son of Rich. Lamb was born in All-saints Parish within the City of Oxon 2 Febr. 1598 bred in the Free-school joyning to Magd. Coll was a Communer for a time of Brasn Coll. and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1615 and then or soon after translated himself to S. Maries Hall Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Southampton and after the Kings restoration in 1660 he was not only actually created D. of D. as a member sometimes of the said Hall but for his sufferings as a Loyalist was made Canon of Westminster and Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London He had a most exact stile in penning and in discoursing was a sententious and acute Preacher and above all had an excellent faculty in opening and explaining the Oriental Languages He hath written Grammatica Arabica In 3. vol. in qu. Danielis Prophetiae Liber Syriace In one vol. qu. Collectiones ad Lexicon Arabicum spectantia formâ oblonga In 4. vol. oct Flexio Verborum Arabicorum In one octavo All which are written with his own hand and are at this day kept as rarities in the Bodleian Library He died in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster near to the stairs going up to the Pulpit and not far from the grave of Dr. Samuel Bolton on the twentieth day of Octob. RICHARD BYFIELD half Brother to Nich. Byfield mentioned under the year 1622 was born in Worcestershire and at 16 years of age in 1615 became either a Servitour or Batler of Queens Coll. in Mich. term Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he left the University and through some petite employments of which the Curacy or Lectureship of Istleworth was one became Rector of Long Ditton in Surrey a leading man for carrying on the blessed cause a reformer of his Church of Superstition as he called it by plucking up the steps leading to the Altar and levelling it lower than the rest of the Chancel by denying his Parishioners particularly his Patron that gave him L. Ditton the Sacrament unless they would take it any way except kneeling c. He was one of the Assemb of Divines a great Covenantier an eager
author It was printed at the end of a second Edition of the said Certain verses c. with Hero and Leander a mock Poem The first days entertainment at Rutland house by Declamations and Musick Lond. 1657. oct Published in Sept. 1656 notwithstanding the nicety of those times Play-house to be let containing the History of S. Franc. Drake and the cruelty of the Spaniards at Perue Com. News from Plymouth Com. Law against Lovers Co. The Distresses Tr. The Siege Co. or Tr. Co. Fair favourite Co. A Panegyrick to his excellency the Lord Gener. Monk Lond. 1659. On one side of a sheet of paper printed in the beginning of March the same year A Poem upon his Majesties most happy return to his dominions Lond. 1660 qu. The Siege of Rhodes Tr. Com. in two parts Lond. 1663 qu. c. Poem on the Kings most sacred Majestie Lond. 1663. qu. Man 's the Master Com. Lond. 1669. qu. Poems on several occasions The Tempest or the enchanted Island Com. Lond. 1676. qu. This play was originally Shakespears whom and his works D'avenant much admired as those that have seen his Sea Voyage may easily discern The seventh or last canto of the third book of Gondibert Lond. 1685. oct never before printed Most of which Comedies Tragedies Trag. Com. Masques and Poems were printed together in a large folio Lond. 1672. 3. with the authors picture before them adorned with a wreath of Lawrel and a notch in his nose as over the first letter of his sirname At length this noted and celebrated author having lived to about his grand climecterical year made his last exit in his house in Little Lincolns-inn Fields in the Parish of S. Clement Danes near London on the seventh day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was two days after buried in the s Cross Isle or south trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster without any Lawrel upon his Coffin which I presume was forgotten His body was deposited in the very place or near it where his Antagonist Tho. May the English Lucan had been buried of whom I shall speak more anon and in the mean time give you the Epitaph of Sir Will. D'avenant made on him soon after his death which runs thus Here lies a Subject of immortal praise Who did from Phoebus hand receive his bayes Admir'd by all envied alone by those Who for his glories made themselves his foes Such were his virtues that they could command A general applause from every hand His Exit then this on record shall have A Clap did usher D'avenant to his grave In the office of Poet Laureat succeeded Joh. Driden Son of Erasmus Driden of Tichmersh in Northamptonshire third Son of Erasm Driden of Canons Ashby in the same County Baronet which John was born at Oldwincle called by some Aldwincle near to Oundle in the same County being the very same place that gave breath to Dr. Tho. Fuller the Historian educated in Grammar learning in the College School in Westminster elected thence a Scholar of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge an 1650 and is now highly celebrated among ingenious men for his poetry and other polite learning As for Tho. May before mentioned he was the Son of Tho. May of Mayfield in Sussex Knight by his Wife the Daughter of .... Rich of Hornden on the hill in Essex was educated in all kind of humane learning when he was a youth and in Academical in his manly years in Cambridge Afterwards his genie being chiefly enclined to Poetry he retired to and mostly lived in the City of Westminster where performing divers things for the honour of this nation never paralell'd by any English man before was graciously countenanced by K. Ch. 1. and his royal Consort but he finding not that preferment from either which he expected grew discontented sided with the Presbyterians upon the turn of the times became a Debauchee ad omnia entertained ill principles as to Religion spoke often very slightly of the Holy Trinity kept beastly and atheistical company of whom Tho. Chaloner the Regecide was one and endeavour'd to his power to asperse and invalidate the King and his cause Among several things that he hath written and translated some are these 1 The Trag. of Antigone the Theban Princess Lond. 1631. oct ◠The Heir a Com. Acted 1620. Lond. 1633. qu. 3 The victorious raign of K. Ed. 3. in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct Written in verse by the special command of K. Ch. 1. 4 The raign of Hen. 2. Lond. in oct Written also in verse and dedicated to K. Ch. 1. 5 Trag. of Cleopatra Qu. of Aegypt Acted 1626. Lond. 1639. oct Dedic to Sir Ken. Digby 6 Trag. of Julia Agrippina Empress of Rome Acted 1628. Lond. 1639. oct 7 Supplementum Lucani lib. vii Lugd. Bat. 1640. oct Written in so lofty and happy Lat. Hexameter that he hath attained to much more reputation abroad than he hath lost at home 8 The old couple Com. Lond. in qu. 9 Historiae Parliamenti Angliae Breviarium tribus partibus explicitum Lond. 1649 or thereabout in oct It was afterwards translated into English by the Author with this title Breviary of the History of the Parliament of England in three parts c. Lond. 1655. oct see edit Before which is the picture of the author in a cloak with a wreath of Laurel over his head He hath also translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 Lucans Pharsalia or the civil wars of Rome between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar In 10 books Lond. 1635. oct third edit with annotations made by Th. May on each book 2 A continuation of the subject of Lucans Historical poem till the death of Julius Caesar in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct sec edition with annotations made by Tho. May on each book 3 Virgils Georgicks four books Lond. 1622. oct with annotations on each book 4 Selected Epigrams of Martial Lond. 1629. oct At length this Person Tho. May who had been favoured by the rebellious Parliament so much as to be made their Historian going well to bed was therein found next morning dead an 1650 occasion'd as some say by tying his night-cap too close under his fat chin and cheeks which choak'd him when he turned on the other side Afterwards his body being conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster was buried on the west side of the large south Isle or transcept there And soon after had a large monument of white marble set in the w. Wall over his grave with this inscription thereon made by March Nedham Quem Anglicana Respub habuit vindicem ornamentum literaria secli sui Vatum celeberrimus deliciae futuri Lucanus alter plusquam Romanus Historicus fidus Equitis aurati filius primogenitus Thomas Maius h. s e. Qui paternis titulis claritatis suae specimen usque adeo superaddidit ut à supremo Anglorum senatu ad annales suos conscribendos fuerit ascitus Tandem fide
1971. On the plank of black marble which covers the monument are the Armes of Bagshaw impaling the pretended Armes of Peacock the said Bagshaw having some years before his death taken to wife a virtuous and superannuated maid but perfectly blind named Margaret the daugh of John Peacock of Chawley in the parish of Comnore near Abendon in Berks but had no issue by her WILLIAM NICOLSON son of Christop Nicolson a rich clothier was born at Stratford near to Hadleigh in Suffolk on the first day of Nov. 1591 educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Madg. Coll being then choirester of that House Afterwards having made an entrance into the Logical Class he was made one of the Clerks took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1615 at which time I conceive he was Chaplain to Henry Earl of Northumberland then a prisoner in the Tower of London and Tutor to his son the Lord Percy But his cheif delight being exercised in the fac of Grammar and therefore noted by many for it he was made Master of the Free-School at Croydon in Surrey to which office he was admitted 3 Jul. 1616 in the place of one Robert Davys Bach. of Arts of Oxon then displaced for his frequent hunting with dogs and neglecting the School From that time to the beginning of 1629 he continued there doing great benefit by his instruction and then being succeeded by one Joh. Webb M. of A. of Madg. Hall our author retired into Wales where having a little before obtained the rectory of LLandilo-vaour or LLandellovar in Caermerthenshire was made soon after Residentiary of S. David and Archdeacon of Brecknock in the place of one Isaac Singleton in the beginning as it seems of the rebellion In 1643 he was elected one of the Ass of Divines but never as I conceive sate among them and soon after loosing his spiritualities he taught a private School in Caermerthenshire and by his writings defended and maintained the Church of England then exceedingly clouded against its Adversaries After the Kings restauration he was by the endeavours of Edward Earl of Clarerdon L. Chanc. of England designed Bishop of Glocester by his Majesty by vertue of whose letters he was diplomated Doct. or Div. in the beginning of Dec. 1660. and on the sixth of Jan. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster after it had laid void several years by the death of Godfrey Goodman Which Bishoprick he kept without any translation to another See to his dying day keeping in Commendam with it the Archdeaconry of Brecknock and the Rectory of Bishops-Cleeve in Glocestershire He was a right learned Divine well seen and read in the Fathers and Schoolmen but above all most excellent he was in the critical part of Grammar in which faculty none in his time or perhaps before went beyond him His writings which shew him to be a person of great erudition prudence modesty and of a moderate mind are these A plain but full exposition of the Catechisme of the Church of England enjoyned to be learned of every child before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop Lond. 1655. 61. 63. 71. qu. c. Apologie for the discipline of the antient Church intended especially for the Church of England Lond. 1659. qu. Exposition on the Apostles Creed delivered in several Sermons Lond. 1661. fol. An easie Analysis of the whole book of Psalmes Lond. 1662. fol. He died in the Bishops Pallace at Glocester on the fifth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried on the eigth day of the same month in a little isle joyning on the South side to the Virgin Maries Chappel in the Cathedral there Over his grave was afterwards a blew stone laid and on the wall near it a table of black marble erected with this inscription following in golden letters Aeternitati S. In spe beatae resurrectionis hîc reverendas exuvias deposuit Theologus insignis Episcopus verè primitivus Gulielm Nicolson in agro Suffolciano natus apud Magdalenenses educatus ob fidem Regi Ecclesiae affictae praestitam ad sedem Glocestrensem meritò promotus an 1660. In concionibus frequens in Scriptis nervosus legenda scribens faciens scribenda Gravitas Episcopalis in fronte emicuit pauperibus quotidianâ Charitate beneficus comitate erga Clerum literatos admirandus gloriae ac dierum satur in palatio suo ut vixit piè decessit Febr. 5. anno aetatis LXXXII Dom. MDCLXXI Elizabetha conjux praeivit in hoc sacello sepulta Apr. xx an Dom. MDCLXIII Owenus Brigstock de Lechdenny in Comitatu Caermerthen Armiger praedictae Elizabethae nepos hoc grati animi monumentum executore recusante propriis sumptibus erexit an MDCLXXIX The said Brigstock was Grandson to the said Elizabeth GRIFFITH WILLIAMS was born in the parish of Llanruc near to Caernarvon in Caernarvonshire educated in a private School in Caernarvon applyed his muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church in the latter end of 1603. aged 16 years but before he was honoured with a degree he left that House and by the perswasions of John Williams afterwards B. of Lincoln he removed to Cambridg where he prefer'd him to a Tutor patroniz'd him further'd his entrance into the Ministry and after he had attained to the degree of M. of A. got him to be Chaplain to Philip Earl of Montgomery being about that time also 1614. Parson of S. Bennet Sherhogg in London About the time that he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences he was made Parson of Lhan-Lhechid in Wales where he received good encouragement in the Ministry from Sir John Wynne Baronet and Sir Rich. Wynne his son and was infinitely admired for his excellent way in preaching and for his religious life and conversation He was then accounted a person very well read in scholastical and historical Divinity as also in the Fathers Schoolmen and Councils and therefore it was that he was made one of the Chaplains to K. Ch. 1. he being then D. D. In 1628 he became Prebendary of the eighth Stall in the collegiate Church of Westminster in the room of Dr. Laud who till then had kept it in commendam with his Bishopricks and in 1633 he was made Dean of Banger installed therein 28 Mar. 1634. and Archdeacon of Anglesy which Deanery had before been enjoyed by Edm. Griffith Afterwards he was designed to be Tutor to Pr. Charles but Archb. Laud commending to his Majesty Dr. Duppa for that Employment our Author Williams who had been Tutor to the Lord Charles Herbert Son to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery I mean that Charles who died at or near Florence an 1634. was then put aside to his great discontent In 1641 he was at the motion of his ever honored Lord the said Earl made to the King constituted Bishop of Ossory in Ireland to which See being consecrated
born at Husboorne as 't is said in Hampshire became a Commoner of and was entred as a Knights son in Trin. Coll. an 1610 took one degree in Arts and then went to Lincols Inn and studied the Municipal Laws for some time Afterwards upon second thoughts and perhaps a desire of a sedate and Academical life he went to Caies College in Cambridge lived several years there on his Estate and at length took the degree of Bach. of Divinity About which time being made Chaplain to George Duke of Bucks by his Majesties special recommendations who then told the Duke that he should have an eye on him as occasion served he was admitted Dr. of Div. at which time some scruples being made the K. by his letters to the Univ. of Cambridge approved of what was done Much about the same time he became Rector of Burgh-cleere and High-cleere in Hampshire where continuing in a quiet repose till the grand Rebellion broke out was often disturb'd for his Loyalty and at length sequestred After his Majesties restauration he became Bishop of S. David by his nomination to which being Consecrated in S. Peters Church in Westminster on the second day of Decemb. 1660 sate there till the time of his death He was a person of signal Candor and vertues requisite in a Church man which in the worst of times gained him great esteem from the very enemies of his Order and Function He hath written and published Observations censures and confutations of notorious errors in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his books Lond. 1663. qu. put out under the name of Theophilus Pyke Lucius Occasional animadversions on some writings of the Socinians and such Hereticks of the same opinion with Mr. Hobbes Printed with the Observations c. Treatise of the nature of a Minister in all its Offices Lond. 1670. qu. Answer to Dr. Patr. Forbes concerning the necessity of Bishops to Ordaine in answer to a question proposed in these late unhappy times by the author what is a Minister Pr. with the Treatise of c. besides one or more Sermons which are extant He died on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Collegiat Church of Brecknock in Wales Over his grave is the Effigies of the Defunct to the middle part in a Gown and Lawn Sleves curiously fram'd from Alabaster with the right hand holding a book and the left resting on a deaths head All set up in the wall near his grave with this inscription in golden letters on a black Marble M.S. Vigilantissimi Praesulis Gulielmi Lucy qui veterum natalium prosapiâ morum candore miro ingenii acumine perspicaci literaturae reconditioris claritate integritate vitae spectabili virtutis emnigenae praesidio ad amussim ornatus ad gradus episcopalis apicem faeliciter evectus voce praesidebat exemplo meritis pietate sacrâ infulâ dignissimus Aequum servavit in utraque sorte mentem adversis fulvi probatus instar auri non fractus unquam fuit nec epatus rebus prosperis Ecclesiae Anglicanoe fulgebat sidus lucidum verbi divini dum res tulit concionator assiduus veritatis orthodoxae vindex acerrimus ordinis hierarchi decus propugnaculum sedis Menevensis per annos octodecim ingens ornamentum Satur dierum maturus coelo huic mundo placidè nec invitus valedixit Octobris die quarto anno aetatis 86 Dom. MDCLXXVII JOHN ROWE son of Joh. Rowe of Crediton in Devonshire was born there or at least in that County entred a Batler in New Inn in the beginning of 1642 aged 15 years but being soon after taken thence because the City of Oxon was garrison'd for his Majesties use and the said Inn made a Mint-house his friends sent him to Cambridge where taking the degree of Bach. of Arts retired to Oxon in 1648 to get preferment by the Visitation then and there made by order of Parliament So that setling himself in that Inn againe was incorporated in the same degree in the beginning of Dec. and on the 12 of the said month was admitted M. of Arts as a Member of the said Inn or Hall and much about the same time was put in Fellow of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Lincolnshire place by the Visitors then sitting in Oxon. Afterwards he was Lecturer at Witney in Oxfordshire where his Sermons were much frequented by persons of the Presbyterian persuasion but leaving his fellowship soon after he became preacher at Tiverton in his own Country for a time and as a Minister of Devonshire he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners thereof for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School Masters Thence upon the death of Will. Strong an 1654 he was called to succeed him as preacher in St. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church within the City of Westminster At which place his Sermons being constant and much taking with the men of those times he was frequented by the chiefest of the Quakers to the conversion as t is said of some On the 14 of March 1659 he was appointed by Act of Parl. one of the Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way but the vigour of that Act soon after ceasing and he after his Majesties restauration being deprived for want of Conformity he set up a privat meeting in the parish I think of S. Andrew in Holborn near London where he was assisted by Theoph. Gale His works are these Tragi-Comoedia A relation of the strange and wonderful hand of God discovered at Witney in the Comedy acted on the 3. Feb. 1652. Oxon. 1653. qu. The said Comedy was acted by young men of the Country in an old upper room in a public Inn there but the floor falling under them in the middle of Play some were slain and many hurt Three Sermons preached on that occasion on Rom. 1. 18. Printed with the Relation In which Sermons the author takes great liberty in speaking against Plays and the Actors of them Several other Sermons as 1 Mans duty in magnifying Gods work Sermon on a public day of Thanksgiving before the Parliament 8. oct 1656 on Job 36.24.25 Lond. 1657. qu. The said Thanksgiving was celebrated for the great victory obtained against the Spanish West-India Fleet. 2 The Saints temptations wherein the nature kinds occasion of temptation and the duty of the Saints under temptation are laid forth As also the Saints fence c. in Sermons Lond. 1674 oct 3 Emanuel or the Love of Christ explicated and applied in his incarnation being made under the Law and his satisfaction in 30 Sermons Lond. 1680. Published by Sam. Lee somtimes Fellow of Wadham Coll. He also preached a Sermon at the interment of Joh. Bradshaw President of the H. Court of Justice that condemned K. Ch. 1. to die in the Abbey Ch. at West 22. of Nov. 1659 on Isay 57.1 but whether it was ever printed I cannot tell Sure
then arrived in the West parts of England In the month of Feb. following the said Prince being then K. of England by the name of Will 3. he was by him appointed to be one of his Privy Council among divers honorable persons then named and appointed also and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was created Earl of Marlborough at which time were also created and advanced to great honours these persons following viz. 1 Prince George of Denmark and Norway to be Baron of Okingham Earl of Kendal and Duke of Cumberland 2 Charles Marquess of Winchester to be Duke of Bolton 3 William Bentick Esq a Dutch man Groom of the stole to his Maj. to be Baron of Cirencester Visc Woodstock and Earl of Portland 4 Thom. Visc Fauconberg to be Earl of Fauconberg 5 Charles Visc Mordant to be Earl of Monmouth 6 Ralph L. Mountague Visc Mount Hermer to be Earl of Mountague 7 Henry Sidney Esq to be Baron of Milton and Visc Sidney of Sheppy in the County of Kent 8 Rich. Visc Lumley of Waterford in Ireland to be Visc Lumley of Lumley Castle in the County Pal. of Durham and 9 Hugh Visc Cholmondley of Kellis in Ireland to be Baron Cholmondley of Namptwich in Cheshire Afterwards John Earl of Marlborough went into Ireland was a Lieut. Gen. there and did his Maj. good service in the Wars had against the Army of K. James 2. in that Country and afterwards returned full fraught with honour and glory and continued in the good opinion of many for some time At length upon some distast taken against him the reason why let the Statesmen and Polititians tell you he was deprived of all his Places and Employments by his Maj. K. Will. 3 about the middle of January 1691 viz. of his place of Lieut. General his command of Captain of the third Troop of Guards of his Reg. of Phusileers and of his place of Gent. of the Bedchamber GEORGE STRADLING fourth son of Sir John Stradling of S. Donats Castle in Glamorganshire Kt was born there became a Com. of Jesus Coll. in Lent term 1636 aged 15 years took one degree in Arts was elected junior Collector of the Bachelaurs in Lent 1640 1 chosen Fellow of All 's Coll. two years after proceeded in Arts and kept his Fellowship during the times of trouble and usurpation being then accounted a rare Lutinist and much valued by Dr. Wilson the Musick Professor After the Kings Restauration he was made Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon B. of London and was actually created D. of D. in 1661. On the 30. of July 1663 he was install'd a Preb. of Westminst On the 22 of Jul. 1671 he was installed Chantor of the Cath. Ch. of Chichester and on the 21 of Dec. 1672 he was installed Dean thereof in the place of Dr. Nath. Crew promoted to the See of Oxon. He hath written Sermons and Discourses upon several occasions Lond. 1692. oct Sermon on Joh. 19.15 Lond. 1675. qu. He died on the 19 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight and was buried near the choire of S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church within the City of Westminster In his Deanery succeeded one Dr. J. Hawkins Minister in the Tower of London HENRY KEEPE son of Charles Keepe sometimes an Officer in the Exchecquer and in the Army of K. Ch. 1. against his Rebels was born in Feuter commonly called Fetter lane in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London entred a Gent. Com. in New Inn in Midsomer term an 1668 aged 16 years departed without a degree confer'd on him went to the Inner Temple studied the municipal Law and wrot Monumenta VVestmonasteriensia or an historical account of the original increase and present state of S. Peter's or the Abby-church of Westminster With all the Epitaphs Inscriptions Coats of Armes and Atchivements of honour to the tombes and grave-stones c. Lond. 1682. oct In which book is involved Reges Reginae Nobiles alii in Ecclesia collegiatâ B. Petri VVestmonasterii sepulti usque ad an 1600 published by VV. Camden as I have elsewhere told you These Monumenta VVestm were afterwards describ'd at full with a pencil and were design'd to be engraven on copper plates and the book to be enlarged to a folio Which work being very chargeable to be carried on there were papers of proposals printed to obtain money from such that would subscribe to them but what the event of the matter was I cannot tell The Genealogies of the high-born Prince and Princess George and Anne of Denmark c. shewing the lineal descent of those two noble and illustrious families c. from the year of Grace M to this present year MDCLXXXIV c. Lond. 1684. oct A true and perfect Narrative of the strange and unexpected finding the Crucifix and gold chain of that pious Prince St. Edward the King and Confessor which was found after 620 years interment c. Lond. 1688. in 5 sh in qu. Published under the name of Charles Taylour Gent and by him dedicated to K. James the 2 by an Epist set before it wherein the Author tells us that his father had served in the quality of a Cornet of Horse in Sir VV. Courtney's Regiment in all the Wars against his Enemies And in the book it self p. 5 he tells us that he had belonged to the Quire of VVestminster 18 years He the said H. Keepe hath also made some collection of Antiquities relating to York as some Booksellers have told me but such I have not yet seen He died in Carter lane near S. Pauls Cath. in London about the latter end of the month of May in sixteen hundred eighty and eight and was buried in the Church of S. Gregory joyning to the said Cathedral This person had changed his name with his Religion for that of Rome in the Raign of K. Jam. 2 his lodgings also several times and died as I have heard but in a mean condition JOHN BARBON son of Euseb Barbon of Holcott in Northamptonshire was born there admitted a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll 7 Sept. 1640 aged 16 years and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd on him in Febr. 1647. The next year he was expel'd by the Visitors and living afterwards in a mean condition became much about the time of his Majesties Restauration Vicar of Dallington and at length Rector of Pitchford commonly called Pisford in Northamptonshire where he ended his days He hath written The Liturgie a most divine service in answer to a late Pamphlet stiled Common prayer-book no divine service Wherein that Authors 27 reasons against Liturgies are wholly and clean taken away his 69 Objections against our ven Service-book are fully satisfied c. Oxon. 1663. qu. with a large preface to it Defence of Episcopacy This is printed with the former and was wrot in way of answer to the said author's 12 Arguments against the Bishops This Writer Mr. Barbon who was well read in various
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
S. Maries on Tuesday a Lecture day 25 July 1654 he did then deliver a very offensive Sermon preached on Job 37.22 With God is terrible Majesty In which Sermon speaking of the attributes of God particularly of that in the text took a hint from the word terribilis which might as he said signifie with some terrae bilis to say that God was a Melancholy God c. and in the conclusion to maintain that those that had no teeth to gnash should gnash their gums c. For which Sermon he being call'd into question was in a fair way of expulsion but by the intercession of friends the business was compromised yet two years after he was forced to leave his Fellowship upon some quarrel between him and Dr. Greenwood Principal of his House Afterwards he was intrusted with a Commission from Oliver to be Chaplain to the English Forces in Jersey an 1656 where continuing for some time in preaching suffered soon after in his relations reputation salary c. by a new Governour placed there who forced him as it seems thence He hath published 1 Blood-thirsty Cyrus unsatisfied with blood Or the boundless cruelty of an Anabaptists tyranny manifested in a letter of Colonel John Mason Governour of Jersey 3. Nov. 1659 wherein he exhibits seven false ridiculous and scandalous articles against Quarter-Master Will. Swan c. Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. 2 Satan in Samuels mantle or the cruelty of Germany acted in Jersey containing the arbitrary bloody and tyrannical proceedings of John Mason of a baptized Church commissionated to be a Colonel and sent over into the Island of Jersey Governour in July 1656 against several Officers and Soldiers in that small place c. Lond. 1659 in 4. sh in qu. After his Majesties restauration the author was beneficed near Hertford in Hertfordshire where he soon after finished his restless course Dec. 11. Christoph Wren of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 21. Edward Veel or Veal of Ch. Ch. was admitted M. of A. in Convocation and at the same time was admitted ad regendum This person who had been elected Fellow of Trin. Coll. near Dublin between the time that he took the degree of Bach. and Master in this University I take to be the same Ed. Veel who is now or at least was lately a Nonconformist Minister in or near London and author of 1 What spiritual knowledge they ought to seek for that desire to be saved Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 2 Sermon on Psalm 62.12 'T is the eleventh Serm. in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwerk Lond. 1675. qu and perhaps of other things but such I have not yet seen See in Joh. Davenport and Steph. Charnock among the Writers p. 335 and 491. Adm. 63 or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys or of Div or Doct. of the Civil Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 4. Tho. Waldron of Ball. Coll. 6. Will. Page of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Will. Coniers of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Thom. Cummyns of Wad Coll. The first of these four was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys and Physitian in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. 15. Martin Luellyn of Ch. Ch. Dec. 14. Rob. Fielding of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was adm or licensed this year Incorporations May 14. Tho. Wolfius Doct. of Phys of Padua May 14. John Clerk Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Thomas Pepys Doct. of Phys of Padua The first was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and the second is the same I suppose with him who published Disputatie medica de Ilio vero I find one John Clark to have been Doct. of the Laws of Doctors Commons in Lond. who died in the latter end of the year 1672 but whether ever of Oxon I cannot yet tell See another Joh. Clerk among the created Doctors of Phys 1660. As for the third I know nothing of him June 13. Walt. Mills Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians 15. Will. Whitaker Doct. of the same faculty of Franaker in Wâ—st Freisen He was afterwards as I conceive one of the Coll. of Physitians and lived several years in good repute for his learning in the Parish of S. Andrew in Hoâ—bourne near London but died in the Parish of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster in the month of Dec. or beginning of January 1670. He hath written The tree of life or blood of the grape c. pr. in oct and perhaps other things Qu. I have made mention of a learned Divine of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 744 and another a Nonconformist in this in Tho. Jacombe under the year 1687. p. 607. July 12. John Sherman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards Archd. of Salisbury See in Josh Childrey among the Writers p. 339. Rob. Dixon M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the said day I take this person to be the same Rob. Dixon who was afterwards Doct. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester author of 1 The degrees of Consanguinity and affinity described and delineated Lond. 1675. oct 2 The nature of the two Testaments or the disposition of the Will and Estate of God to mankind c. In two volumes The first of the Will of God the second of the Estate of God Lond. 1676. 77. fol and of other things as 't is probable Isaac Barrow M. A. of Trin. Coll. in the same University was incorporated on the said day In the next year he took a long journey into several forreign Countries and returned a compleat Master of divers Languages In 1660 he was chose Greek Professor of Cambridge and two years after on the death of Laur. Rooke Geometry Lecturer in Gresham Coll. In 1672 he was elected Master of Trin. Coll being then in great esteem for his learning and accomplishments And dying on the fourth day of May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the South cross Isle of S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in the City of Westminster His works were afterwards collected and published by Dr. Joh. Tillotson an 1683 before the first of which is a full account of the life of the said Is Barrow to which I refer the Reader These three last Sherman Dixon and Barrow were of the number of 25 Cambridge Masters of Arts that were incorporated just after the Act this year July 12. Edw. Spark Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 2 and well beneficed if not dignified He hath written and published 1 The Christians map of the world drawn at the solemn funerals of Henry Chitting Esq Chester-Herald at Armes inter'd 11. January 1637. Lond. 1637. oct 'T is a Sermon preached at the said Chittings funeral 11. Jan. 1636 on Heb. 13. ver 14. 2 Scintilla
this University unless in the condition of a Sojourner I cannot tell Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena he became by his endeavours Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos Maria Dutchess of York both which places he quitted some time before his death This worthy person who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry hath written and published 1 An Essay on translated Verse Lond. 1680. 1684 c. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verses in praise of it as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others The second edit of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit An Essay upon Poetry written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse is added by the said Earl of Roscommon A specimen of blank Verse being the fight between the Angels taken out of Joh. Milton's book call'd Paradise lost 2 Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations which are publish'd with the respective Plays themselves and in the Miscellany Poems c. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English Horace's Art of Poetry Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Waâ—ler Esq hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers c. Lond. in oct written by Dr. Will. Sherlock At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January or thereabouts an 1684 was buried in the Church of S. Peter commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3 from which place going into England was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mention'd father to Wentworth the Poet was when young reclaim'd from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland and thereupon was sent by him into England as a Jewel of Price to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley in the beginning of the year 1628 in which Coll. continuing some years became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law but were not were James Boteler Earl of Ossory Franc. Visc Newport George Savile Lord Elande eldest son of George Marquess of Halyfax Robert Lord Lexinton who with Anth. Visc Falkland were sworn of their Majesties Privy Council 17 Mar. 169â— Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King being then a Major General He died in Red-lyon-Square near London on S. James day or thereabouts 1690. The next who was in Oxon but not created was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke and after him James Graham Esq younger brother to Rich. Visc Preston which James was afterwards Privy Purse to and a Colonel under K. Jam 2 to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled to avoid imminent danger in England into France c. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made the said Duke Dutchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon the Vicechancellour with other Doctors went to to take their leave of them at which time the Vicechancellour did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv of Oxon with the Cuts belonging thereunto to the Dutchess the said Cuts by themselves and the Natural History of Oxfordshire written by Dr. Plot and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne All which books were richly bound On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria aged 20 years or thereabouts son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day after he had viewed most places in the University and the Theater he went thence to the Apodyterium where he with such of his retinew that were to be created Doctors being habited in Scarlet were conducted into the Convocation house and created as now I am about to tell you Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan Count Pal. of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator Which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another Doct. of the Civ Law and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour Afterwards were these following presented D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Fred. Harder a Noble German Created Doctors of the Civ Law Andr. Fleman Secret to Pr. Adolph Created Doctors of the Civ Law It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne Doct. of Phys Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned was created Doctor while the said Prince sate in his chair of State Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq was declared Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent to the members of the ven Convocation then assembled partly running thus He was lately a Practitioner of Physick at York now here in London a person of exemplary Loyalty and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars Coins and other Antiquities together with a great number of Curiosities of nature whereof several cannot be matched for any price which yet he declares to be but an earnest
Nephew called John Kirton Doctor of the same faculty who is to be mentioned elsewhere JOHN GOUGHE commonly called Goffe Son of the Rector of Stanmer in Sussex was born in that County began to be conversant with the Muses in Merton Coll. an 1624 made Demie of that S. Mar. Magd. in 1627 aged 17 years or more perpetual Fellow 29. July 1630 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into Orders and became a Preacher in these parts In 1642. Sept. 26. he was inducted into the Vicaridge of Hackington alias S. Stephen near to the City of Canterbury in the place of James Hirst deceased From whence being ejected soon after for refusing the Covenant was with other loyal Clergy men cast into the County Prison in S. Dunstans Parish in the Suburbs of the said City In 1652 he by the endeavours of his Brother William whom I shall anon mention was inducted into the rectory of Norton near Sittingbourne in Kent on the thirteenth day of March and in the year 1660 he being restored to his Vicaridge of S. Stephen was actually created Doctor of Divinity in the beginning of December the same year and inducted again according to the Ceremonies of the Church of England into the rectory of Norton on the 4. of March following which were all the spiritualities he enjoyed He hath written a book intit Ecclesiae Anglicanae ΘΡΗÎΩΔΙ'Α in qua perturbatissimus regni ecclesiae status sub Anabaptistica tyrannide lugetur Lond. 1661. oct Also a large latine Epistle written to Dr. Edw. Simson set before a book written by him intit Chronicon Catholicum c. Lond. 1652. fol. He concluded his last day in the Parish of Norton beforementioned and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Alphage in Canterbury on the 26. day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and one This Person who was a zealous Son of the Church of England had an elder Brother named Steph. Goffe originally of Mert. Coll afterwards of S. Alb. Hall and a Bigot of the Church of Rome and another Brother named William whether elder or younger I know not who was originally a Trader in London afterwards a Presbyterian Independent one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and one of Olivers Lords who to save his neck from the Gallows did upon a foresight of the Kings return in 1660 leave the Nation and died obscurely in a strange Land The Father of the said Goffes was Steph. Goffe somtimes Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll a good Logician and Disputant but a very severe Puritan eminent for his training up while a Tutor several that proved afterwards very noted Scholars among whom must not be forgotten Rob. Harris D. of D. sometimes President of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. THOMAS LUSHINGTON a famous Scholar of his time was born at Sandwych in Kent matriculated in the University as a member of Broadgates Hall in Lent term 1606 7 aged 17 years but how long he stayed there it appears not Sure it is that he having had some publick employment in the Country or elsewhere did not take the degree of Bachelaur nor that of Master of Arts till 1618 in which year he was a Communer of Linc. Coll. Not long after he returned to Broadgates again and was there at the time when it was converted into the College of Pembroke where he spent some years in Theological studies took the degree of Bach. of Div. and soon after for the great respect that Corbet B. of Oxon had for made him one of his Chaplains In June 1631 he became Prebendary of Bemister Secunda in the Church of Salisbury on the promotion of the said Corbet to the See of Oxon and in the year following proceeding in his faculty the said Bishop took him with him when he was translated to Norwych bestowed on him the rectory of Burnham-Westgate in Norfolk and got him to be Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. When the grand rebellion broke out he lost his spiritualities and lived obscurely in several places publishing then divers books to gain money for his maintenance At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2 in 1660 he was restored to his spiritualities and had offers made to him of great dignities in the Church but being then aged and infirm he chose rather to keep what he had with quietness than be a Dean with riches He was esteemed a right reverend and learned Theologist yet in many matters imprudent and too much inclined to the opinions of Socinus His preaching also while he remained in the University was generally well esteemed and never gave distaste but in one Sermon which tho esteemed by some to be admirable yet by more blasphemous An account of which you shall have as it followeth In the year 1624 22. Jac. 1. nothing but War with Spain sounding in the ears of the vulgar upon the breaking off of the Spanish match with Prince Charles it pleased this our Author Lushington to utter in his Sermon on Matth. 28.13 at S. Maries on Easter Munday these words Now the Pesant thinks it comes to his turn under pretence of his priviledge in Parliament that he should dispose of Kings and Commonwealths c. Afterwards also thus Nothing now contents the Commonalty but war and contention c. For which as also for several other passages reflecting on the Spanish match he was called into question by Dr. Piers the Vicechancellour and by him was a time appointed for him to recant what he had said Which being done not without the consent of certain Doctors the Repetitioner was commanded to leave out divers passages of the said Sermon which he according to custome was to repeat the Sunday after commonly called Low Sunday His recantation Sermon on Acts 2.1 latter part which he preached the very next day after the Repetitioner had delivered his four Sermons I have seen and therein I find that his meaning for the first passage was only to reprehend the seditious doctrines of Knox Buchanan and others and the tumultuary practices of the common People formerly used both in town and country to affront their Prince because of their privilege to elect Parliamentarie Persons The word now hath the latitude of this age that in Parliament I intended not locally in relation to the vulgar who have a voice to elect Knights and Burgesses but at the present themselves hold no place personally in the Parliament c. As for other passages he said he had no intent to cross the present resolution for War but only to check the inordinate desire of it somwhat too frequent in most mens mouthes and it thought to him somewhat harsh to hear in the Chappel give peace in our time O Lord and presently in the Chambers God send us war again c. Besides this recantation which his friends caused to be put upon him least he should be called into question by the Parliament he was severely check'd by the Vicechancellour and Doctors for using
to print his Sermons which much deserve to be publish'd but such as are set forth are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon before his Majesty on Good Friday at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1664. on Joh. 19. part of the 19 ver Lond. 1665. qu. 2 Serm. before the K. on Tuesday 20 June 1665 being the day of solemn Thanksgiving for the late Victory at sea on Psal 54.6.7 Lond. 1665. qu. 3 Serm. before the K. 1666 on the like occasion on Psal 18.1.2.3 Land 1666. qu. c. He died of the Small Pox on the eleventh day of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed from Bishops Thorp to York and there inter'd in the Cathedral When he was promoted to the See of York Dr. Franc. Turner succeeded him in Rochester and Dr. Tho. Sprat in the Deanery of Westminster and an year and a half after his death Dr. Tho. Lamplugh B. of Exeter succeeded him in the See of York as I shall tell you elsewhere Soon after was put a large and comely Monument over his grave with this inscription thereon Hic situs est Johannes Dolben filius Gulielmi S. Th. Professoris Ex antiqua familia in Cambria septentrionali oriundus Natus Stanvici in Agro Northampton Mart. 20. A. D. 1624. Anno aetatis 12 Regiam scholam Westmonast auspicato ingressus Singulari istius loci genio plenus 15 exivit In numerum Alumnorum Aedis Christi Oxon electus Exardente bello civili Partes regias secutus est in pugna Marstonensi Vexillarius In defensione Eboraci graviter vulneratus Effuso sanguine consecravit locum Olim morti suae destinatum A. D. 1656. à Rev. Episc Cicestrensi sacris ordinibus initiatus Instaurata Monarchia factus est Aedis Christi Canonicus Deinde Decanus Westmonasteriensis Mox Carolo II. Regi optimo ab Oratorio Clericus Episcopus postea Roffensis Et post novennium Regis Eleemosynarius Anno denique 1683. Metropol Eboracens honore cumulatus est Hanc provinciam ingenti animo pari industria administravit Gregi Pastoribus exemplo Intra 30 circiter menses seculi laboribus exhaustis Caelo tandem maturus Lethargia Variolis per quatriduum lecto affixus A. D. 1686 aet 62 Potentis Princ. Jac. II. altero die dominico Eodem die quo praeeunte anno sacras Synaxes In Eccles sua Cathed septimanatim celebrandas instituerat Caelo fruebatur Maestissima conjux magni Gilberti Cantuariensis Archiep. Neptis Ex qua tres liberos suscepit Gilbertum Catharin Johan Monumentum hoc posuit Desideratissimo Marito In aede Christi sub illius auspiciis partim extructâ Bromleiensi Palatio reparato in Caenobio Westmon conservato In Senatu Ecclesiis Eloquentiae gloriâ In Diocoesibus suis Episcopali diligentia In omnium priorum animis justâ veneratione semper Victuro WILLIAM COVENTRIE fourth son of Tho. Lord Coventrie sometimes Keeper of the Great Seal of England by Elizabeth his wife daughter of John Alderley of London was born either in the City or Suburb of London became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1642 aged 14 years but leaving that house without a degree he travelled beyond the Seas and at his return seemed to adhere to the cause of K. Ch. 2. After his restauration he was elected a Burgess for the Town of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8 May 1661 and two years after was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University being about that time Secretary to his Royal Highness James Duke of York In 1665 Jun. 26 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and was afterwards sworn one of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council being then esteemed upon all accounts qualified for noble employments for at that time if I mistake not he was Secretary to the Navy the said Duke being then General at Sea in the Wars against the Dutch by which employment he got a considerable estate in money which ever after kept up his port according to his quality But at length behaving himself displeasing to the said Duke when there was need of him he was removed from his service whereupon setling at Minster Lovel near Witney in Oxfordshire became much respected by the neighbouring Gentry for whose sake he was the first that found out a way for the ease of him or them that should bear the Office of Shrievelty For whereas before it was usual for the High Sheriff to expend four or five hundred pounds ere he could be quit of his Office he then in Octob. 1675 by certain Articles which he framed and were afterwards subscribed by the Gentry to stand to brought that sum to 50 or 60 l and the first High Sheriff of Oxfordshire that enjoyed the benefit of the said Articles was Sir Edm. Fetyplace of Swinbroke near Burford Baronet who was elected to that office in Nov. the same year Among several things which the said Sir Will. Coventrie wrot and published without his name set to them were these Englands appeal from the private Cabal at Whitehall to the great Council of the Nation the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled Printed 1673. in 7 sh in qu. Letter written to Dr. Gilb. Burnet giving an account of Cardinal Pole's secret powers From which it appears that it was never intended to confirm the alienation which was made of the Abbey-Lands To which are added two Breves that Card. Pole brought over and some other of his Letters that were never before printed Lond. 1685. in 5 sh in qu. He hath also written another thing to which his name was set intit The Character of a Trimmer His opinion of 1. The Laws and Government 2. Protestant Religion 3. The Papists 4. Forraign Affairs Lond. 1689. in 6 sh in qu. sec edit the first of which had not his name set to it At length this honorable Knight retiring to Tunbridge Wells in Kent for the sake of the Water there to cure his distemper died at Somerhill near thereunto of the gout in the Stomach which the Physitians took to be the Stone on Wednesday 23 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body was conveyed to Penshurst in the said County and buried in the Church there He bequeathed 2000 l. to the French Protestants that were then lately come into England upon their expulsion from their own Country upon account of Religion and 3000 l. for the redemption of Captives at Algiers as the current report then went appointing Dr. Compton B. of London and Dr. Jo. Fell B. of Oxon Overseers of his gift JOHN FELL son of Dr. Sam. Fell sometime Dean of Ch. Ch. by Margaret his wife daughter of Tho. Wyld of the Commandery in the Suburbs of Worcester Esq was born at Suningwell near to Abendon in Berks educated mostly in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire founded by John Lord Williams made Student of Ch.