a Coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes alias Fines alias Fenys alias Fienes but by the intercession of his father and others of his relations he was pardoned and by the palpable flattery and prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March Nedham he was justified for what he had done as to that matter See more in the Works of W. Prynne Afterwards tho he the said N. Fiennes was not trusted in any military matter yet he became an active man in the Parliament and was made a Commissioner in several matters But when he saw the Cause of the Presbyterians decline especially upon the purging of the House of 40 of them whereof he was one by Col. Tho. Pride he struck in with the Independents took the Engagement became great with Oliver a Member of all or at least of most of the Parliaments held between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and the return of his Maj. King Ch. 2 was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal after Oliver was installed L. Protector one of his Privy Council Lord Privy Seal in June 1655 a Member and Speaker of the other House alias House of Lords and tho before he had shew'd himself an Antimonarchist yet then when he saw what Oliver aimed at became a lover of Kingship and Monarchy purposely to gain honor and riches for the establishing a family which he and the rest of the godly party aimed at His Works are these Several Speeches in Parliament as 1 Speech in the House of Commons in answer to the third Speech of Lord Geo. Digby concerning Bishops and the City of Londons petition spoken 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1641 in 4 sh in qu. The beginning is Mr. Speaker two things have fallen into debate this day c. 2 Second Speech in the Com. House of Parl. touching the Subjects liberty against the late Canons and the new oath Lond. 1641. in tw sh and an half in qu. 3 Speech concerning the proffer of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse 6000 l. towards the suppressing of the Rebellion in Ireland Lond. 1641. qu. 4 Speech containing unparallel'd reasons for the abolishing of Episcopacy c. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his Speech against Bishops before mention'd and shews that Episcopacy is an Enemy to Monarchy 5 Speech or relation made in the H. of Com. concerning the surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow 5 Aug. 1643 with the transcripts and extracts of certain letters wherein his care for the preservation of the City doth appear Lond. 1643 in 3 sh and an half in qu. This was answer'd by Clem. Walker True and exact relation of both the â—â—ttels fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his forces against the bloody Cavaliers The one of the 23 of Oct. last near Keynton below Edghill in Warwicksh the other at Worcester by Col. Browne Capt. Nath. and Joh. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and some others c. Lond. Nov. 9. an 1642. in two sh in qu. Letter to the Lord General Essex concerning Bristoll Lond. 1643. in 1 sh in qu. Reply to a Pamphlet intit An answer to Col. Nath. Fiennes's relation concerning his surrender of the City of Bristol Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. Other Speeches in Parl. as 1 Speech before his Highness Ol. Protector and both Houses of Parl. 20 Jan. 1657 being the first day of their sitting Lond. 1657. in 3 sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to both Houses of Parl. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference had at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Committee of Parliament c. in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct He also had an especial hand in a certain book called by an author a Legend or Romance intit Anglia rediviva being the Hist of the motions actions and successes of the Army c under Sir Tho. Fairfax c. published by Joshua Sprigge as I shall elsewhere tell you but how true that report is I cannot tell At length our Author Fiennes retiring after his Majesties return to Newton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts where he had an estate that came to him by his second wife Frances daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderley in Hampshire continued there to the time of his death which hapning on the 16 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave to his memory as also to his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth who both died in the flower of their age This Nath. Fiennes had a younger brother called John who was a Colonel for the Parliament and afterwards one of Oliver's Lords and tho a Sectary yet he was no great stickler notwithstanding guided partly by Nathaniel but more by old subtilty the Father Another there was who was the fourth brother named Richard of whom I know no great matter only that he had a daughter named Mary who was married to William the only surviving son of Nath. Fiennes which Mary dying in child-bed 23 Oct. 1676 was buried in the Church at Broughton near to the grave of her Grandfather William Vic. Say and Sele HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of Sir Henry son of Sir Dav. Foulis of an antient family in Scotland Baronets was born at Ingleby Mannour in Clievland in Yorkshire educated in Grammar learning and in the Presbyterian way within the City of York became a Communer of Qu. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully 6 June 1654 aged 16 years and thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1659 and on the 31 of Jan. the same year he was elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. Afterwards entring into holy orders he applied himself for a time to the study of Divinity and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1667. But his genie being naturally inclin'd to the study of certain parts of History he waved his proper profession and betook himself to the writing and publishing of books of that faculty The products of which do evidently shew him to have been a true son of the Church of England a hater of Popery Presbytery and Sectarism He was endowed with a most happy memory understood books and the ordering of them so well that with a little industry he might have gone beyond the great Philobiblos Jamesius He had also in him a most generous and public spirit a carelesness of the world and things thereof as most bookish men have a most becoming honesty in his dealings a just observance of collegiate discipline and a hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his time He hath written and published The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints the Presbyterians c. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674 both in fol. Which book tho full of notable girds against that party yet it hath been
in his Gondibert which cost him his nose and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him and his accident as Sir Jo. Mennes Sir Jo. Denham c. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureat an 1637 At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan a candidate for that place was put aside which ever after especially when the times were changed caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament he absconded but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent and committed to the custody of a Serjeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris Hen. Jermyn Esq afterwards E. of S. Alban Sir John Suckling Kt. c. were two more who all escaped But D'avenant being bailed in July following he fled towards France and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury and strictly examined upon which Sir John Mennes hath a pleasant Poem After he had spent some time there he returned was entertained by William Marquess of Newcastle and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance In Sept. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Glocester that City being then besieg'd at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry But upon the declining of the Kings cause and all things thereupon especially the Church being visibly tending to ruine he retir'd again into France changed his Religion for that of Rome and setling for a time in Paris where Charles Prince of Wales then was he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert and had not wrot scarce two books but being very fond of did print them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury and Hobbes's excellent Epistle to him before them The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece which was the reason why some there George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham c. made Satyrical verses on him and his poem Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers chiefly Weavers from France to Virginia being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France he did effect it so far that he and his company were ship'd in their way thither and had got on the main Ocean but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England he was carried Prisoner first to the Isle of Wight an 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice an 1651 but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others especially two godly Aldermen of York to whom he had shewed great civility when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquess of Newcastle he was saved and had liberty allow'd him as a prisoner at large At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians and therefore by them silenced he contriv'd a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Musick And that they might be performed with all decency seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness John Maynard Serjeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard and was afterward translated to the Cock-pit in Drewry-lane and delighting the eye and ear extreamly well was much frequented for several years So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas when plays were as damnable things forbidden did after his Majesties restauration revive and improve it by painted sceenes at which time he erected a new company of Actors under the patronage of James Duke of York who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincolns inn Fields He hath written and published The tragedie of Albovine King of the Lombards Lond. 1629 qu. Just Italian Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. Cruel Brother Trag. Lond. 1630. qu. Coelum Britannicum Masque at Whitehall 18. of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up Triumphs of Prince D'amour A masque presented by his highness at his pallace in the middle Temple the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu. Platonick Lovers Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. c. The Wits Com. Lond. 1636 c. Britannia Triumphans A masque presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night an 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesties works Temple of Love Masque before the Queen at Whitehall Salmacida Spolia A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones the invention ornament scenes c. by the said Jones and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesties servant and the musick belonging to it composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesties Musick Unfortunate Lovers Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu. Madagascar with other poems Lond. 1648. oct 2d Edit Love and honour Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu. A discourse upon Gondibert an heroick poem Par. 1650. in tw This was written by way of pref to his Gondibert in prose dat at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649 50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury Gondibert an heroick poem in 3. Books Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses and so hath Edm. Waller which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167 The third book of the said Gondibert or most part of it was finish'd during his imprisonment in Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight an 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time as Sir Joh. Denham Jo Donne Sir Allen Brodrick c. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem in a little book entit Certain verses written by several of the authors friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh and an half whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack pudding Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh Which tho it seems to be written by D'avenants friend yet he himself was the
in the Church there ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland was born in Fish-Shamble street in S. Johns Parish within the City of Dublin on the tenth day of July an 1614 became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630 or thereabouts continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more and having laid a sure foundation in literature to advance his knowledg in greater matters he returned to his native Country for a time In 1640 he was elected Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliment which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but his election being questioned Charles Price Esq then elected also was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon where he sate in that called by his Majesty In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland an 1645 or thereabouts and became instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army or falling into the body of Irish hands c. Afterwards he went into England complied with the Parliament Ol. Cromwell and his party took the Oath called the Engagement as before he had the Covenant But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms he then when he perceived that it could not be hindred struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home as many of his perswasion did and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publickly that they were as instrumental in that matter as the best of the Royal party nay they stuck not to say that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored At that time he was made a Privy Counsellour and to shew his zeal for his Majesties cause he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bayly on the Regicides where one of them named Adrian Scrope did reflect upon him as 't was by all there present supposed and of others too as having before been misled as well as himself as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury under the year 1682. In the year following 1661 a little before his Majesties Coronation he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks of which Town one Thom Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mention'd had been High Constable as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey as comming more near to his name than another place or Town Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust was at length made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673 and kept it till Aug. 1682 at which time he was deprived of it some have thought unjustly for several reasons as I shall anon tell you whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire which he some years before had purchased vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair as I shall tell you by and by He was a person very subtle cunning and reserv'd in the managery and transacting his affairs of more than ordinary parts and one who had the command of a very smooth sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books and a great Calvinist but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different perswasions in matters of Religion hath left it somwhat difficult at least in some mens judgments peremptorily to determine among what sort of men as to point of Religion he himself ought in truth to have been ranked Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out when then out of policy he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists as it was notoriously observed by them and of other pretenders to Politicks meerly to save themselves and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected As for his published writings they are these The truth unvailed in behalf the Church of England c. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon on 2 Cor. 5.20 preached before the King and published by his Majesties command Lond. 1676 in 3 sh in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie containing some reflections on the said Sermon was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit Falshood unmask'd c. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh and an half in qu. Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts once of the Univers of Cambridge calls Rational Presented in Print to a person of honour an 1676 concerning Transubstantiation Printed with Truth unvailed c. Which discourse was also answer'd by another in a piece intit Roman tradition examined as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses reason and holy Scriture c. Lond. 1676. qu. A Letter from a person of honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven Being observations and reflections upon his Lordships Memoires concerning the Warrs in Ireland Lond. 1681. oct Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein reflected upon with great disadvantage as he thought he wrot and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey dated at Dublin 12 Nov. 1681 to vindicate himself Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682 both contained in two sh in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King on the 17 of June following which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey and that he appear and make answer thereunto at a Council to be holden at Whitehall on the 23 of the said month In obedience to this Anglesey tho much troubled with the Gout appeared made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself bandied the matter with Ormond and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him These things being done another Council was held 13 July at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him it was then
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
studies had brought his body into great indisposition did some weeks before his end retire with the advice of friends to the City of Canterbury in the month of Sept. an 1652 where being kindly entertained by Dr. Will. Jacob a noted Physician of that place but of no kin to did from him receive a cure of a gangreen in his foot But soon after a tumour breaking out from one of his Legs his radical moisture did as from a flood-gate violently run forth and so ended his life on the 5 of Nov. following about the year of his age 44. The next day the said Doctor buried him answerable to his quality in the midst of the Parish Church of Allsaints in that City Soon after in a bright Moon-shining night the resemblance of Hon. Jacob came into the bed-chamber of the Doctor who being asleep the resemblance laid his cold hand upon his face Whereupon the Doctor awaking looked up and saw H. Jacob staring upon him with his beard turned up as he used to wear it living whereat being strangely surprised stirred himself thinking that it might be a dream but still the resemblance stood still so that the Doctor having not courage to speak to it turned on the other side and laid in a cold sweat After some time he looked again and saw him sitting on a little table near to his bed but before morning he vanished Another night the Maid going out of the house saw the said resemblance standing on a Wood-pile and was thereupon much affrighted These stories the Doctor did confidently aver to be true not only to Dr. Pet. Moulin Preb. of Canterbury but to others of note among whom if I am not mistaken Dr. Meric Casaubon was one They were sent to me by a second hand from Dr. Jacob and whether true or not you may judge I shall not NATHANIEL BRENT Son of Anchor Brent of Little Wolford in Warwickshire a younger Son of Rich. Brent Gentleman eldest Son of John Brent of the House of Brent of Cosington in Sommersetshire was born at Little Wolford beforemention'd became Portionist commonly called Postmaster of Merton Coll in 1589 admitted Probationer-Fellow of the said Coll. in 94. being then Bach. of Arts proceeded in that faculty four years after entred himself on the Law Line became Proctor of the University in 1607 travelled into several parts of the learned World in 1613. 14. c. and underwent dangerous adventures in Italy to procure the History of the Council of Trent which he translated into English as I shall anon tell you and therefore to be remembred by posterity with an honorable mention After his return he married Martha Dau. and Heir of Dr. Rob. Abbot Bish of Salisbury and neice to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury by the favour of which last he had the Wardenship of Merton Coll. conferr'd on him was made Commissary to him Vicar general of England being then Doctor of the Civ Law and at length judge of the Prerogative on the death of Sir Henry Marten by another hand In 1629 Aug. 23 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Woodstock he being then and after accounted a zealous man for the Church and Prelacy But when he saw the Presbyterians begin to be dominant he sided with them and because of a Pique that had been between the Abbots and Bishop Laud he therefore became a frequent witness against the last at his trial deserted Oxon and his College when K. Ch. 1. garrisoned that place for his use took the Covenant and ran altogether with the rebellious rout About the same time he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. by his Majesties command but restored again when Oxford Garison was surrendred for the Parliaments use an 1646. In the years 1647. and 48. he was appointed Arch-visitor of this University and what he did there to promote the Presbyterian cause the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. will tell you under those years When an order was made against pluralities he was forced to leave Mert. Coll. in 1650 at which time if I mistake not he refused also the oath called the Engagement He translated into English as I have intimated before The History of the Council of Trent containing eight books In which besides the ordinary Acts of Council are declared many notable occurrences which hapned in Christendom during the space of 40 years and more c. Lond. 1616. there again 1619. 1677. fol. Sir Nath. Brent did also review Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae examine the quotations and compare them with the originals as I have told you before in Fr. Mason under the year 1621 And what else he hath translated and written is yet if any in Ms At length after he had lived 79 years he gave way to fate in his house in Little Britaine in the City of London on the sixth day of November in sixteen hundred fifty and two Whereupon his body was buried with great solemnity on the 17. of the same month in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew within the said City I have seen a printed Epitaph made on him by John Sictor a Bohemian Exile who if I mistake not had for some time before been exhibited to by Brent The contents of which being large I shall now for brevity sake pass by I find one William Brent a writer whose Great Grandfather William Brent of Stoke-lark in Glocestershire was younger Brother to Richard Brent Grandfather to Sir Nathaniel Of which William Brent the Writer I shall make some mention in Hen. Carey Earl of Monmouth under the year 1661. CHRISTOPHER ELDERFIELD son of Will. Elderf by Margaret his Wife was born at Harwell near to Wantage in Berks baptized there on the eleventh of Apr. 1607 educated in School learning under Hugh Lloyd M. A. of Oxon Vicar of Harwell and sometimes Chaplain to the Bishop of Bangor which Hugh built a considerable part of the Vicaridge-house standing near the Churchyard and was buried in the Chancel of Harwell on the 17 of May 1654. As for our Author Elderfield he was entred a Batler in S. Maries Hall in Mich. term 1621 and being naturally inclin'd to good letters made great proficiency in them took the degrees in Arts entred into Orders and through several petit Employments became Chaplain to Sir Will. Goring Baronet and Rector of a depopulated Town near to Petworth in Sussex called Burton having then only the House of the said Goring standing there In the said House he spent his time in great retiredness and wrot these books following which shew him to have been well read in the Civil Canon and Common Law in School Divinity and other profound matters The civil right of Tithes c. Lond. 1650. qu. Of Regeneration and Baptism Lond. 1654. qu. The Author of these was a man of a single life only wedded to his book and so had only a spiritual issue to keep up his name He was left both Father and Mother to the two
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
Redeeming the time serm on Ephes 5.16 Lond. 1658. qu. Looking unto Jesus A view of the everlasting Gospel or the Souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation Lond. 1658. qu. Printed with the former In the penning of which he took most delight as being a subject as he complains almost wholly neglected by all others Warre with Devils Ministration of and Communion with Angells Printed also with the former At the end of this Treatise are subjoined two Letters the first written by Rich. Baxter dat at Lond. 29 Nov. 1661. and the other by Will. Cole dat at Preston 8 Oct. 1661. He hath also a Sermon extant preached at the funeral of the Lady Houghton which I have not yet seen nor others He died suddenly of an Apoplexy as I have heard but when I know not JAMES HEATH Son of Rob. Heath the Kings Cutler living in the Strand leading from London to Westminster was born I presume there educated in Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term 1646 aged 17 ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 lived afterwards upon his Patrimony and adhered to K. Ch. 2. in his Exile till it was almost spent and then married which hindred his restoration to his Students place in 1660. About that time having several Children he was forced to write books and correct the Press for bread to maintain them He was a good School-scholar had a command of his Engl. and Lat. pen but wanted a head for a Chronologer and was esteemed by some a tolerable Poet. He hath communicated to the World A brief Chronicle of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland c. Lond. 1661. oct enlarged by the Author and compleated from 1637 to 1663 in four parts Lond. 1663. in a thick octavo Some Copies have in them the pictures of the most eminent Soldiers in the said War which makes the book valued the more by some Novices But this Chronicle being mostly compiled from lying Pamphlets and all sorts of News-books are innumerable Errors therein especially as to name and time things chiefly required in History To this Chronicle is added a Continuation from the end of 1662 to 1675. by Joh. Philipps Nephew by the Mother to Joh. Milton Lond. 1676. fol. Which Continuation is mostly made up from Gazets Another Edit is continued to 1691. Elegy upon Dr. Tho. Fuller that most incomparable Writer who deceased 15 of Aug. 1661. Lond. 1661. on one side of a sheet This Dr. Th. Fuller was Author of The Ch. Hist from the time of Christ till the year 1648 and and of divers other things The glories and magnificent triumphs of the blessed restitution of K. Ch. 2. from his arrival in Holland 1659 till this present c. Lond. 1662. in a large oct It reaches to the month of May 1661 and hath added to it the names of the then Companions of the Order of the Gaâ—ter the Nobility Archb. and Bishops Judges Baronets and the Marriage of Catherina of Portugal to K. Ch. 2. and their noble reception by the City of Lond. by water from Hampton Court to their Landing at Whitehall 23 Aug. 1662. Flagellum or the Life and Death Birth and Burial of Ol. Cromwell the late Usurper Lond. 1663. The third Edit came out with additions at Lond. 1665. all in oct Elegy with Epitaph on the much lamented death of Dr. Sanderson late L. Bishop of Lincolne who deceased in the latter end of Jan. 1662. Lond. 1663. on one side of a sh of paper A new book of Loyal English Martyrs and Confessors who have endured the pains and terrors of death arraignment c. for the maintenance of the just and legal Government of these Kingdoms both in Church and State Lond. 1663. in tw Brief but exact survey of the Affairs of the United Netherlands comprehending more fully than any thing yet extant all the particulars of that Subject c. Printed in tw but when I know not for I have not yet seen it He died of a Consumption and Dropsie in Well-Close near to the Lame Hospital in the Parish of S. Barthelmew the Less in London on the 16 of August in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was the third day after buried in the Church of that Parish near to the Skreen-door leaving then behind him several Children to be maintained by the Parish as also the foundation of other matters which he intended to have published if life had been spared JOHN L'ISLE son of Sir Will. L'isle of Wootton in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire Knight was born there became a Communer of the upper Order of Magd. Hall in the year 1622 aged 16 or thereabouts took a degree in Arts went to one of the Temples and at length became a Barrister and Counsellor of note In the year 1640 he was chose a Burgess for Winchester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13 of Apr. and again for the same place in that unhappy Convention that met on the 3 of Nov. following In which last Parl. he improved his interest to the purpose bought State lands good cheap was made Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester which belongs to a Divine upon the Ejectment of Dr. Will. Lewis which Office he voluntarily surrendring up into the hands of the Parliament in the latter end of June 1649 it was confer'd upon John Cook the then Sollicitor General In Dec. 1647 he was appointed one of the Commons to carry to his Maj. in the Isle of Wight the four Bills dethroning Bills and in Jan. 1648 was one of the Judges to condemn to death his said Majesty Soon after he was constituted a Member of the Council of State and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal helped in Parliament to change the Government from Kingly to Parliamentary and from that to Kingly again and did swear Oliver Protector at his first installing chief Magistrate contrary to the four Acts of Parliament which he helped to make with others that made it Treason so to do In 1654 he by the name of John L'isle one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal and Recorder of Southampton was chose Burgess for that place to serve in the Parliament which began 3 of Sept. the same year was afterwards taken out of the House to have a negative Voice in the other House that is House of Lords and made President of the High Court of Justice for a time by whose violence acted there fell many gallant and heroick Spirits some of which I am now about to mention He hath extant under his name Several Speeches as 1 Speech spoken in a common Hall London 3 Jul. 1645. concerning observations on the Kings Cabinet of Letters See more in Tho. Browne under the year 1673. 2 Speech while he was Pres. of the High Court of Justice at the pronouncing of sentence of death on Sir Hen.
became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647 and afterwards did all or most of his Exercise with much ado for the degree of Bach. of Arts and so abruptly left the College But while he continued there he shew'd himself a Dunce a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University and a factious person Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man and a wife the first of which he keeping till his Majesties Restauration was then ejected and put to his shifts At length repairing to London he fell into the company of desperate Fanaticks as Fifth-Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents c. and did seemingly plot with them to surprize the King at Whitehall the Lord Chancellor Clarendon George Duke of Albemarle Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne c. to have the Tower Windsore Castle and other Holds delivered to them and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state These things being freely imparted to him by one or more of the said Fanaticks knowing that he and his Father had been Vilâ—ains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed aâ— to the said Sir Rich. Browne Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence which he accordingly did draw'd them on till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day an 1662. But two days before that time when all things were in a manner made ready some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London according to the directions of the said Will. Hill viz. Tho. Tonge George Phillips Franc. Stubbs Jam. Hind Joh. Sallers and Nath. Gibbs All which coming afterwards to a Trial at Justiceâ—Hall in the Old Baily four of them were condemned and afterwards suffer'd at Tybourne on the 22 of Dec. following viz. Tongue Phillips Gibbs and Stubbs Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the Kings Majesty c. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty and in the Pamphlet following wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons Hill is one of the principal speakers as being a chief witness Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire but being hated by one party for his falsness and by another for his factiousness did enjoy it but few years he dying upon the place JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes was born in the City of Salisbury entred a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely House and other miseries At length returning to his native Country he became Curate of Broadchalke which with much ado he held for about two years and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith asserted and vindicated Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie but continued at Hale which is not far from Surum where he was first rob'd in his own house and then murdered by Thieves in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there What other things he hath published or left behind him fit for the press I cannot tell WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following an 1605 6 he received baptism in the Church of that Parish His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown wherein our Poet was born and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman of a good wit and conversation in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers especially Shakespeare who frequented his house in his journies between Warwickshire and London was of a melancholick disposition and was seldom or never seen to laugh in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son afterwards Fellow of S. Johns Coll and a venerable Doct. of Div. As for William whom we are farther to mention and may justly stile the sweet Swan of Isis was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester whom I shall elsewhere mention and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough in 1620. 21 or thereabouts and obtained there some smattering in Logic but his genie which was always opposite to it lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry so that tho he wanted much of University learning yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty as fancy could advance without it After he had left the said Coll wherein I presume he made but a short stay he became servant to Frances the first Duchess of Richmond and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook who being poetically given especially in his younger days was much delighted in him After his death an 1628. he being free from trouble and attendance betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry which he did with so much sweetness and grace that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban to both which he dedicated his poem which he afterwards published called Madagascar Sir John Suckling also was his great and intimate friend who exercis'd his fancy on that book and other of his Poems but could not let him pass without this censure in his Session of Poets Will. Davenant asham'd of a foolish mischance That he had got lately travelling into France Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse Might any deformity about him excuse Thus Sir John son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight sometimes one of the Secretaries of State afterwards Controller of the Houshold to K Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council who dying 27 March 1627 at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych The said mischance which Sir John mentions hapned to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga
so pleasing to the Royalists who have found much wit and mirth therein that some of them have caused it to be chained to desks in publick places and in some country Churches to be read by the vulgar But as by the publishing of this book he hath much displeased the Presbyterians of whom some have fallen foul upon him in their Writings for so doing so hath he more displeased another party for the writing of this book following The history of the Romish Treasons and Usurpations with an account of many gross corruptions and impostures of the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1671 and 81. fol. Which book had it not fallen into the hands of a knavish Bookseller might have been extant in the life time of the author and so consequently more compleat and exact than now it is At its first publication I was enformed by a letter written by a noted man of that party that the Papists did look upon the said book as a simple thing That he the Author fought against his own shadow and that all sober Catholicks did disallow much of what he combats against That he prayed much to the Lord that he might live to see his book published and then nunc dimittis but it was not granted him c. This Mr. Foulis had laid the foundations of other books which he intended to advance and have them published but the day before he died he committed them to the flames as many other notes he did which would have been serviceable to some scholars He ended his days in the prime of his years occasion'd by a generous and good natur'd intemperance on the Vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried under the north wall at the upper end of the Chancel of S. Michaels Church within the City of Oxon. on the 26 of Dec. being S. Steph. day In his grave was afterwards buried William Stone LL. Bach. sometimes Principal of New Inn who died 22 June 1685. SAMUEL CLARKE right famous for oriental learning son of Thom. Clarke of Brackley a market town in Northamptonshire was born there or at least in that County became a Student in Mert. Coll. in Lent term 1638 aged 15 years where continuing about three years left the University then with the City about to be garrison'd for the Kings use Some time after the surrender thereof to the Parliament he returned to his College submitted to the Visitors and the same year 1648 he took the degree of M. of Arts. The next year July 24 he was designed the first Architypographus of the University and for his better encouragement in that Office had the grant of the superior Beadleship of the Civil Law when it should fall void given to him and after his death to his Successors in that place for ever In 1650 he was Master of a Boarding-school at Islington near London where continuing for some time did give his assisting hand towards the correcting and publishing of the Polyglott Bible In 1658 he made another return to the University and upon a foresight of the death of him that held the superior Beadleship of Law was elected Architypographus 14 May 1658 and on the 29 of the same month superior Beadle of the Civil Law both which places he kept to his dying day and shew'd himself a most necessary and useful person in the concerns thereof belonging to the University Vir Graecis latinisque literis probe instructus in studiis philologicis versatissimus c. His Works are these Variae lectiones observationes in Chaldaicum Paraphrasin These are in the sixth Vol. of the Polyglott Bible beginning in pag. 17. You are to understand that in this Vol. which consists chiefly of notes on the many versions of the other precedent Volumes there are divers number of pages and therefore I cannot better refer you to his Notes than I have done already Scientia metrica rhythmica seu tractatus de Prosodia Arabica ex authoribus probatiss eruta Oxon. 1661. oct Septimum Bibliorum Polyglott 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen cum versionibus antiquissimis non Chaldaica tantum sed Syriacis Aethiopicis Copticis Arabicis Persicis contextum This is yet in MS and not printed He did also accurately describe and turn into Latine from the original Autographe in Cambridge publick Library Paraphrastes Chaldaeus in lib. Paralipomen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n. Which book Dr. Edm. Castell consulted when he composed his Lexicon Heptaglotton as he tells you in the Preface to the first Vol. of that elaborate work And it is mention'd to be the labour of Mr. Sam. Clarke in the Proposals of the University of Oxon for printing of MS published in Sept. in half a sheet of paper an 1681 Our Author Clarke also took great pains in the Hebrew Text Chaldee Paraphrase and the Persian Gospells in the Polyglott Bible which last he translated into Latine This Translation is placed next after the several Versions of the Apocryphal books There also goes under his name a Translation out of Hebrew into Latine the Mishna of the first Massěceth or Tract of the Talmud called Beracoth i. e. about their prayers and forms of blessing See more in Tho. Greaves an 1676. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the Suburb of Oxon on the 27 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the middle of the body of the Church belonging to the said Parish of Halywell dedicated to the Holy Cross Two days after his death was an election made for his successor in the place of Beadle and Architypographus for which stood Tho. Bennet M. A. of Ch. Ch. then Corrector of the University press being put up by his Dean Dr. Joh. Fell as being the most fit person that could be then thought on But Bennet stirring little in the matter supposing the Masters could not otherwise but choose tho then they had little or no respect for him they elected a boon companion not at all fit to be Archityp named Norton Bold M. A. and Fellow of C. C. Coll. who had been put aside from being elected when he stood after the death of Edm. Gayton mention'd under the year 1666. This being done to the discontent of Dr. Fell as Lichfields Election was after Gayton's death who could not otherwise but look upon it as a great contempt of his generous design he upon a foresight of the short life of the then superior Beadle of Div. Tim. Wilkins obtained a Mandamus that Mr. Bold should be translated to that place and thereby make his once more vacant and so consequently bring his man therein Soon after Wilkins died and a Convocation thereupon being called Oct. 6. an 1671 Bold was translated to that place by virtue of the said Mandamus to his advantage and somewhat of disgrace At that time were Candidates for the supply of that vacancy Mr. Bennet before mention'd Noah
Witchcraft vindicated Lond. 1670. oct written by R.T. and reflections made on it by Dr. Casaubon in his book of Credulity and Incredulity our Author Wagstaffe came out with a second edition and additions therein Lond. 1671. oct For the writing of which book he was also laughed at by wags of this University because as they said he himself look'd like a little Wizard It was also frequently reported that he was Author of a libellous Pamphlet intit Sundry things from several hands concerning the University of Oxford viz. 1 A petition from some well affected therein 2 A model for a Colledge reformation 3 Queries concerning the said University and several persons therein Lond. 1659 in one sheet and half in qu. But I think to the contrary that he was not the Author but rather one of the Students of Ch. Ch. that sedulously endeavoured to lay it at the door of Wagstaffe who dying in his Lodgings opposite to the end of Chancery-lane in Holbourn on the second day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 44 or thereabouts was buried in Guildhall Chappel within the City of London under the Seats on the left hand as you enter into that Chappel This person died in a manner distracted occasion'd by a deep conceit of his own parts and by a continual bibbing of strong and high tasted Liquors WILLIAM SQUIRE or Esquire whose Father was a Proctor in the Archbishops Court at York was born in Yorkshire entred a Student in Trin. Hall in Cambridge an 1647 took the degree of Bach. of Arts in that University 1650. went thence to Oxon for preferment and entring himself a Batler in Brasn Coll. was incorporated in this University in the same degree in 1652. Soon after obtaining a Chaplainship in All 's Coll and taking the degree of Master of Arts he was elected Fellow of Univ. Coll where continuing for some time after his Majesties Restauration was by the favour of Dr. Sheldon B. of London promoted to the Rectory of Raulaston or Rolleston in Derbyshire near Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire Afterwards being sensible of the increase of Popery in the Nation he published these two books The unreasonableness of the Romanists requiring our Communion with the present Romish Church or a discourse drawne from the perplexity and uncertainty of the Principles and from the contradictions betwixt the Prayers and Doctrine of the present Romish Church to prove that it is unreasonable to require us to joyne in Communion with it Lond. 1672. oct Some more considerations proving the unreasonableness of the Romanists in requiring us to return to the Communion of the present Romish Church Lond. 1674. in oct He died at Raulaston before mentioned in the beginning of September in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the chancel of the Church there under a black marble stone which had been laid over the grave of one of his Predecessors on the fourth day of the same month In his Rectory succeeded Tho. Wickham Mast of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. JAMES HARRINGTON Esq was born at Upton in Northamptonshire on the first Friday in January an 1611 became Gent. Commoner of Trin. Coll. in 1629 left it before he took a degree travelled into France Germany and Italy learned the Languages of those Countries returned an accomplish'd Gentleman and afterwards for some years waited upon the Prince Elector Palatine in his Chamber In the beginning of the Civil War 1642 he sided with the Presbyterians and endeavoured to get into the H. of Commons to sit as a member there but could not In January 1646 he went as a Volunteire with the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to go to the King at Newcastle to treat for a Peace and Settlement and bring him nearer to London In the month of May 1647 he with Thom. Herbert were admitted Grooms of the Bed-chamber to the said King then at Holdenbie in Northamptonshire upon the dismissing first of some of his old Servants and secondly upon the desire of the Commissioners they being ordered so to do by the Parliament His Majesty it seems had taken notice that those two persons had followed the Court since his coming from Newcastle and being satisfied with the report he had received concerning them as to their sobriety and good education was willing to receive them into his service to wait upon his person in his Bed-chamber with Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patrick Maule afterwards Earl of Penmaure in Scotland who were then the only persons of the Bed-chamber that were remaining While our Author Harrington was in this capacity his Maj. loved his company and did choose rather finding him to be an ingenious man to discourse with him than with others of the chamber They had often discourses concerning Government but when they hapned to talk of a Commonwealth the K. seemed not to endure it At that time it was that Harrington finding his Maj. quite another person as to his parts religion morals c. than what were represented by the faction who gained their ends by lyes and scandals he became passionately affected with and took all occasions to vindicate him in what company soever he hapned to be but then again it being sometimes imprudently done he did suffer for it in those captious times as by this story 't will appear His Majesty being hurried away from Holdenby to the Head-quarters of the Army and from thence conveyed by slow paces to Hampton Court and thence jugled into the Isle of Wight where he treated with the Commissioners of Parliament for peace and from Newport there hurried away by Lieut. Coll. Ralph Cobbet to Hurst Castle in Hampshire on the last of Nov. 1648 it hapned that Harrington who was then with his Maj. as one of the Grooms of the Chamber did one morning fall into discourse with the Governour of that Castle and some other Officers of the Parl. Army concerning the late Treaty at Newport wherein he magnified the Kings wisdom in his arguments with the Commissioners upon the propositions for Peace and Satisfaction the Parliament had in his concessions and probability in a happy event if this force in removing him to Hurst Castle had not interven'd and made an unhappy fracture which created parties enlarging also upon his Majesties learned disputes with Mr. Rich. Vines and other Presbyterian Divines with such moderation as gained applause from all those that heard him argue Which discourse how inoffensive soever and without exception at any other time or place truth is not at all times seasonable nor safe to be spoken as by our Authors example was evidenced For those captious persons with whom he held discourse being full of jealousie and apt to wrest his words to the worst sense they withdrew a little and at their return they told him plainly they were dissatisfied with what he had said He desired them to instance wherein they replied in all particulars which when he began to repeat for his own satisfaction
provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum Manuale Missionariorum Regularium praecipuè Anglorum S. Francisci c. Printed 1658 and at Doway 1661. in octav Apologia episcoporum seu sacri magistratus propugnatio c. Col. Agrip. 1640. oct Liber dialogorum seu summa veteris Theologiae dialogismis tradita Duac 1661. in oct Problemata scholastica controversialia speculativa c. Corollarium dialogi de medio statu animarum c. Paralipomena philosophica de mundo peripatetico This was published at Doway under the name of Francisc Coventriensis an 1652. in oct All these except the three first most of which had been printed in little volumes by themselves were printed in two volumes in fol. at Doway an 1665 which cost the author having no contribution given him towards the press 220 l. Religio philosophiae Peripati discutienda in qua offertur epitome processus historiae celeberrimi miraculi à Christo nuperrimè patrati in restitutione Tibiae abscissae sepultae ab Aristotile in suis principiis examinati Duac 1662. oct Supplementum Historiae Provinciae Angliae in quo est chronosticon continens catalogum praecipua gesta Provincialium Fr. Min. Provinciae Angliae Duac 1671. fol. to be put at the end of Fragmenta seu Hist Min. c. Disputatio de antiqua Provinciae praecedentia Printed there also the same year and to be put in the same vol. at the end of Supplementum Hist This Disputatio was also printed in qu. in two sh an 1670. Enchiridion of Faith in a dialogue concerning christian religion Printed under the name of Franc. Coventrie 1655. oct Explanation of the Romane Catholic belief Printed 1656 and 1670 in one sh in oct 'T is reported by a nameless author that he S. Clara wrot and published The Christian Moderator or persecution for Religion condemned c. Lond. 1652. in qu. sec edit and that he whom he calls that famous or rather infamous Priest presented one of them to a Lady who told it to a reverend Minister of this City London that he was the author of that book But let this Anon. say what he will sure I am that I have been informed by R. Catholicks of unquestionable veracity that neither he nor William Birchley was the author but one John Austen born at Walpole in Marshland in the County of Norfolk and bred in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge which house he leaving and his religion too about 1640 entred himself into the Society of Lincolns Inn with intentions to follow the municipal Laws but the Rebellion breaking out soon after he was driven thence It is to be noted by the way that this Austen being a man of good parts and much in esteem with the R. Catholicks he did write and publish several books that is to say besides the three parts of The Christian Moderator which he put out under the name of W. Birchley 1 Two vol. of Devotions after the old way printed in octavo and afterwards reprinted in 1672 with a preface to them written by Joh. Sergeant He also wrot a third volume which is not yet published 2 Treatise in behalf of the oath of Allegiance 3 Letter from a Cavalier in Yorkshire to a friend written in the time of war and other things among which must not be forgotten A punctual Answer to Dr. Joh. Tillotsons book called The rule of Faith c. Six or seven sheets of which were printed off but for what reason all were not finished I cannot tell He died in his house in Bow street in Cov. Garden near London in the summer time an 1669 and was buried in the Ch. of S. Paul there Two parts of the said Christian Moderator being esteemed by certain Protestants to be like a venemous potion as full of dangerous Ingredients c. was examin'd and animadverted upon in a book called Legend◠lignea c. p. 29.30 c. One Will. Austen of Linc. Inn Esq who died 16 Jan. 1633 wrot Devotionis Augustinianae flamma or certain devout and learned Meditations c. printed at Lond. after his death 1637. fol. but of what kin he was to John I know not As for our author Christop Davenport alias Sancta Clara who mostly went by the name of Francis Hunt and sometimes by that of Coventrie died in Somerset house in the Strand near London on the 31 of May early in the morning being then Whitmunday in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried not according to his desire in the Vault under Somerset house Chappel which the Queen opposed but in the Church belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the said Strand It was his desire many years before his death to retire to Oxon in his last days there to die purposely that his bones might be laid in S. Ebbes Church to which the mansion of the Franciscans or Grey Friers sometimes joyned and in which several of the Brethren were antiently interred particularly by those of his old friend Joh. Day a learned Frier of his order born at the Mill in the Parish of S. Cross alias Halywell near Oxon who was buried at the west end of the said Church near the Font an 1658 but troubles coming on by the breaking out of the Popish Plot his design was frustrated JOHN WILMOT Earl of Rochester Viscount Athlone in Ireland and Baron of Adderbury in Oxfordshire was born at Dichley near Wodstock in the said County .... Apr. 1648 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Burford under a noted Master called John Martin became a Nobleman of Wadham Coll. under the tuition of Phineas Bury Fellow and inspection of Mr. Blandford the Warden an 1659 actually created Master of Arts in Convocation with several other noble persons an 1661 at which time he and none else was admitted very affectionately into the fraternity by a kiss on the left cheek from the Chancellour of the University Clarendon who then sate in the supreme chair to honour that Assembly Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and at his return frequented the Court which not only debauched him but made him a perfect Hobbist and was at length made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. and Controller of Wodstock Park in the place of Sir W. Fleetwood deceased He was a person of most rare parts and his natural talent was excellent much improved by learning and industry being throly acquainted with all classick Authors both Greek and Latine a thing very rare if not peculiar to him among those of his quality He knew also how to use them not as other Poets have done to transcribe and steal from but rather to better and improve them by his natural fancy But the eager tendency and violent impulses of his natural temper unhappily inclining him to the excesses of Pleasure and Mirth which with the wonderful pleasantness of his unimitable humour did so far engage the affections of the Dissolute towards him that to
1667 at which time William Albert Count of Dona Embassador from Sweedland was here in England was broken and thereupon an alliance was made with France In which act we are to thank Henry Coventry Secretary of State for his pains if his own affirmation may be credited when he went into Sweedland 1671. In the same Session of Parliament Shaftesbury had a principal hand in promoting and establishing the Test to render Papists uncapable of publick employments And this he did as 't is thought because he perceiving the Court to be sick of him provided himself by having a hand therein with a retreat to the favour and applause of the populacy On the 9. of Nov. 1673 he being then President of his Majesties Council for trade and plantations the Great Seal was taken from him by the endeavours of James Duke of York who found him untractable and not fit according to moderation for that high place or as another tells us for his zeal and activity in promoting the Bill for the aforesaid Test and thereupon he grew much discontented and endeavoured several times to make a disturbance On the 16. of Feb. 1676 he with George Duke of Buckingham James Earl of Salisbury and Philip Lord Wharton were sentenced by the H. of Lords to be committed Prisoners to the Tower under the notion of contempt for that they refused a recantation for what the day before was spoken by them viz. that Buckingham just after the King had ended his Speech to both Houses at their then meeting endeavouring to argue from Law and reason that the long prorogation was null'd and that the Parliament was consequently dissolved was seconded by Salisbury Shaftesbury and Wharton For which reason I say and for endeavouring to raise sedition they were sent to the Tower Buckingham Salisbury and Wharton were by petition to his Majesty freed thence in the beginning of May following but Shaftesbury remained there till the beginning of Dec. next ensuing notwithstanding he before Jun. 22. an 1677 had moved for a Habeas Corpus to the Kings Bench which was granted yet the Judges declared they could not release him In Sept. 1678 upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot he became head of the factious party who making it more terrible than 't was endeavoured all ways imaginable to promote their interest thereby To stop Shaftesbury's mouth therefore and so consequently please his party his Majesty vouchsafed to constitute him Lord President of his Privy Council consisting then but of 30 21. Apr. 1679 but he shewing himself too busie and forward and little or not at all to keep pace with the Kings moderate humour he was laid aside on the 5 of Octob. following and was succeeded in that honorable office by John Lord Roberts who behaving himself much like a Gentleman was soon after created Earl of Radnor After this Shaftesbury plays his old game by recurring to the People remov'd into the City and to vent his spleen became the most bitter enemy in the H. of Lords against the Duke of York especially at that time 15. of Nov. 1680 when William Lord Russell eldest Son of William Earl of Bedford did in the head of more than 200 of the House of Commons carry up a Bill to the House of Lords for the disinheriting the said Duke of the Imperial Crown of Britaine Then and there I say he was so heated with passion being excellently well opposed in what he then said by George Earl of Halyfax that he talked almost all the time being ten of the Clock at night before they gave over But all that he then and afterwards said effecting nothing he wrot or caused to be written abusive Pamphlets and endeavoured with others by an Association to depose the King in case he and his Parliament held at Oxon in Mar. 168â— should disagree which he fully expected But his trayterous designs being discovered he was seized on in his House in London by one of his Majesties Serjeants at armes on the 2. Jul. 1681 examined by the Council the K. being then present and forthwith was committed close Prisoner to the Tower for High Treason in compassing and imagining the death of the King and endeavouring to depose him from his Crown and Dignity and to raise armes to that purpose On the 24. of Nov. following there was a Bill of indictment of High Treason against him read before his Majesties Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer in the Sessions-house in the Old Baylie London and afterwards proved by several sufficient Witnesses but the fanatical Jury pack'd on purpose by the then fanatical Sheriffs Tho. Pilkington and Sam. Shute they returned the Bill Ignoramus and so forthwith Shaftesbury was set at liberty Upon which deliverance the seditious party made Bonefires and caused a medal to be cast of which medal Dryden the Poet Laureat made a witty Poem In Octob. 1682 when Dudley North and Pet. Rich the loyal Sheriffs of London were sworn a Warrant was issued out against to apprehend him Whereupon he sculk'd for a time till an opportunity wafted him over the Seas to Holland where he remained to the time of his death He hath written divers things of which these are some The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Lond. in 7. sh in fol. These constitutions are in number 120 and at the end are eleven rules of precedence to be observed in Carolina When these constitutions were printed it appears not either in the title or at the end of the book They are dated on the first of March 1669 and so I presume they were soon after printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the Lord Treasurers Clifford taking his Oath in the Exchecquer 5. Dec. 1672. Printed in one sh in fol. 1672. 2 Several Speeches to both Houses at the opening of the Parliament 4 and 5. of Feb. 1672. Printed in fol. papers 1672. 3 Speech to Serj. Edw. Thurland in the Exchecquer Chamber when he was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer 24. January 1672. Pr. in one sh in fol. Reprinted afterwards in half a sheet in fol. at Lond. 1681 because it was much for the Kings Prerogative and contained therein as 't is said a good character of the Duke of York shewing thereby the great mutability in opinion of this our author who then 1681 was a severe enemy against both 4 Speech to both Houses of Parliament 27. oct 1673. pr. in a fol. sheet 5 Speech in the House of Lords 20. Octob. 1675. upon the debate of appointing a day for the hearing Dr. Thom. Sherley's ease Lond. 1675. qu. This case of Dr. Sherley was against Sir John Fagge who detained a large Estate from him in Sussex With the said Speech was printed that of George Duke of Bucks spoken in the House of Lords on the 16. of Nov. the same year for leave to bring in a Bill for Indulgence to all Protestant Dissenters together with the protestation and reasons of several Lords for the dissolution of that Parliament
Transact nu 129.147 in which the author hath one or more Discourses Dec. 20. John Vlacq Doct. of the Civil Law of Orange was incorporated in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange was entertain'd with the delights of the Muses there He was the Son of Cornelius Vlacq chief Amanuensis or Scribe or Secretary to the said Pr. of Orange Edw. Halsius Doct. of Phys of Leyden and Physitian in the Court of the said Prince was then and there also incorporated Sam. Morrys Doct. of Physick of the said University was also then and there incorporated He was Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall an 1662. These three last were nominated by the Pr. of Orange to be incorporated CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of the Prince of Aurange or Orange Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Joshua Stopford of Brasnose lately of Magd. Coll. He was soon after admitted Bach. of Div. as I have before told you Dec. 20. Rich. Lauder of S. Johns Coll was actually created in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange sate in a chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour This noble person was son of Charles Maitland Baron of Haltown in Scotland by his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Lauder younger Brother to John Maitland Duke of Lauderdale and was afterwards Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland where he was called Lord Maitland so long as his Father Charles was Earl of Lauderdale for by that title he was known after the said Joh. Maitland Duke of Lauderdale died which was at Tunbridge in Kent on S. Barthelmews day 1682 and after the said Charles his death which hapned about the ninth day of May an 1691 the said Richard Lauder became Earl of Lauderdale and is now living in Scotland After him were these persons following created in the said Convocation Will. Scharp of Ch. Ch who was allowed to wear the gown of a Noble man during his stay in the University was next after Lauder created He was the eldest Son of Dr. James Scharp sometimes Professor of Divinity and Rector of the University of S. Andrew afterwards consecrated Archbishop of S. Andrew in S. Peters Church commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster 15 of Decemb. 1661 at which time were also consecrated Andr. Fairfoâ—d Minister of Dâ—nce to the Archiepiscopal See of Glascow James Hamilton late Minister of Cambusnethum to the See of Gaâ—loway and Rob. Leighton Dean of his Majesties Chappel Royal in Scotland and late Principal of the Coll. at Edinburgh to the See of Dâ—mblayne This most worthy Archbishop Scharp who is justly characterized to have been Pietatis exemplum pacis Angelus sapientiae oraculum gravitatis imago c. was most barbarously murdered for his function sake near the City of S. Andrew by a pack of Hell-hounds enemies to God Man and all kind of Religion to the great horror and amazement of all the christian world on the 3 of May 1679 aged 61 years whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Andrew and had soon after put over it a stately monument with a most noble inscription thereon the contents of which being now too large for this place they shall for brevity sake be omitted George Sheild a Scot Governour to the before mention'd John Lauder Andrew Bruce a Scot of an antient family I have made mention of another Andrâ—w Bruce among the Incorporations an 1660. Joh. Trevor Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll. Son of Sir Joh. Trevor one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and of his most honorable Privy Council The said Sir Joh. Trevor died on the 28 of June 1672 aged 47 years and was buried in the Church of S. Barthelmew in Smithfield London whereupon Hen. Coventrie Esq was sworn Principal Secretary in his place on the 3. of July following The said Sir Joh. Trevâ—r was Son of another Sir John Trevor of the City of Westminster Kt who after he had kept pace with the dominant party in the times of Usurpation as his said Son had done for they were both halters in the Presbyterian Rebellion and adherers to the Usurper died full of years in the said City in the Winter time before the month of Dec. an 1673. Besides the aforesaid persons were then actually created William Tayler Joh. Dan Franc. Anshenhurst Jam Innys Clem. Dolby Joh. Mathew and James Waddyng of all whom I know nothing Febr. 1. Altham Annesley of Magd. Coll. Febr. 1. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. These were the Sons of Arthur Earl of Anglesey and were to have been created had they not been absent in the Orangian Creation I shall make mention of the said Rich. Annesley among the Doct. of Div. an 1689. Mar. 21. Sir Will. Ellis of Linc. Coll. Bt. He was also nominated to be created when the Pr. of Orange honored the degree of Doct. of the Civil but was then absent Bach. of Div. Jan. 13. Joseph Sayer of Wadh. Coll. This Divine who was Son of Franc. Sayer sometimes Minister of Yattenden in Berks became Servitour of Wadh. Coll. in 1647 left it without a degree took holy Orders but from whom I know not succeeded his Father in Yattenden an 1656 resign'd it to his Brother Francis sometimes of Mert. Coll. an 1665 at which time Joseph Sayer became Minister of Newbury and of Sulham in his own Country of Berks. In the month of May 1670 he became Preb. of Bishopston in the Church of Salisbury by the death of one Will. Hobbes and under pretence of being ejected for his loyalty from his Coll which is false he got himself to be put in the roll of those which the Prince of Orange desired to be created while he was entertain'd at Oxon. About which time he by the endeavours of one Sayâ—r his Majesties chief Cook procured the rich Rectory of North-Church in Hertfordshire He hath published A Sermon preached at Reading 25 Feb. 1672 at the Assizes there holden for the County of Berks c. on Rom. 13. part of the 5 vers Lond. 1673. qu. On the 8 of Decemb. 1681 he was installed Archdeacon of Lewes in Sussex which is all that I hitherto know of him Doct. of Law Sept. 16. Isaac Vossius Son of the famous Joh. Gerard Vâ—ssius was then actually created Doct. of the Civil Law after he had been with great humanity and friendship entertained by some of the chief Heads of Colleges as his Father had been before in 1629 much about which time he was installed Canon of Canterbury This Dr. Vossius was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Tho. Viner deceased 12 May 1673 and dying in his Lodgings in Windsore Castle on the 10 of Feb. 1688 was buried there leaving then behind him the best private library as it was then supposed in the whole world He hath published several books the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodâ—eian
May 14. Jacob. Sartreus Mast of Arts of the Univ. of Puy-Laurence in Languedock He is now Prebendary of Westminster in which Dignity he succeeded if I mistake not Dr. George Stradling 21. Henry Dodwell M. of Arts of the Univ. of Dublin who had been generously elected by the University of Oxford Camden's Professor of History in his absence and without his privity after the death of Dr. Joh. Lamphire on the 2 Apr. this year was then May 21. incorporated in the same degree This learned person who was the Son of Will. Dodwell of Ireland Son of Hen. Dodwell of the City of Oxon Son of William supposed to be Brother to Alderman Hen. Dodwell Mayor of the said City in the 34. of Q. Eliz. dom 1592 was born in the Parish of S. Warburgh commonly called S. Warborough within the City of Dublin in the beginning of the grand rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom in Octob. 1641 educated in Grammar learning under Christopher Wallis in the Free-school situated in the Bederew within the City of York from 1649 to 1654 and afterwards for a years time in Dublin entred a Student in Trin. Coll. there an 1656 and when Bach. of Arts was made Fellow thereof After he had proceeded in that faculty he left his Fellowship to avoid entring into holy Orders and in 1666 I find him a Sojournour in Oxon purposely to advance himself in learning by the use of the publick Library Thence he return'd to his native Country for a time and published a posthumous book ent De obstinatione Opus posth pietatem Christiano-stoicam Scholastico more suadens Dubl 1672 oct Before which book written by his sometimes Tutor named Joh. Stearne M. D. and publ Professor in the University of Dublin Mr. Dodwell put of his own composition Prolegomena Apolegetica de usu Dogmatum Philosophicorum c. In the beginning of this book is Dr. Stearne's Epitaph without date insculp'd on a marble on the north side of the Altar in Trin. Coll. Chappel near Dublin part of which is this Philosophus Medicus summusque Theologus idem Sternius hic c. Afterwards Mr. Dodwell returned into England spent his time there in divers places in a most studious and retired condition and wrot and published these books following 1 Two letters of advice 1. For the susception of holy orders 2. For studies Theological c. Printed at Dubl first and afterwards twice at Lond. in oct At the end of the first letter is added A Catalogue of Christian Writers and genuine works that are extant of the first three Centuries And to both in the 2d and 3d edit is added A discourse concerning Sanchoniathans Phoenician History 2 Considerations of present concern how far the Romanists may be trusted by Princes of another Communion Lond. in oct 3 Two short discourses against the Romanists 1. An account of the fundamental principles of Popery and of the insufficiency of the proofs which they have for it 2. An answer to 6 Queries proposed to a Gentlewoman of the Ch. of England by an Emissary of the Church of Rome Lond. 1676. oct To another edition of this which came out at Lond. in 1689 in qu. was added by the author A preface relating to the Bishop of Meaux and other modern complaints of misrepresentation 4 Separation of Churches from Episcopal government as practiced by the present Non-conformists proved Schismatical from such principles as are least controverted and do withal most popularly explain the sinfulness and mischief of Schisme Lond. 1679. qu. In this Treatise the sin against the Holy Ghost the sin unto death and other difficult Scriptures are occasionally discoursed of and some useful rules are given for explication of Scripture 5 A reply to Mr. Baxters pretended confutation of a book entit Separation of Churches from Episcopal government c. Lond. 1681. oct To which are added Three Letters written to him in the year 1673 Concerning the possibility of discipline under a diocesan government which tho relating to the subject of most of his late books have never yet been answered 6 A discourse concerning the one Altar and the one Priesthood insisted on by the Ancients in their disputes against Schisme c. Being a just account concerning the true nature and principles of Schisme according to the Ancients Lond. 1682. 3. oct 7 Dissertationes Cypriniacâ—e There were two editions of these viz. one in fol. at the end of S. Cyprians works published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxon an 1682 and another in oct printed in Sheldons Theater 1684 purposely for the sake of such Scholars who could not spare money to buy those in fol. which were to go and were always bound with S. Cyprians works before mention'd 8 Dissertatio de Ripa Striga ad Lanctant de morte Persecutorum Printed at the end of Lanctantius Firm. his works with commentaries on them made by Thomas Spark M. A. of Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1684. oct 9 De jure Laicorum sacerdotali c. This book which is written against Hug. Grotius was printed at Lond. in oct at the end of a piece of that author entit De Caenae administratione ubi Pastores non sunt c. Much about which time was published Antidodwellisme being two curious tracts formerly written by Hug. Grotius concerning a solution of these two questions 1. Whether the Eucharist may be administred in the absence of or want of Pastors c. Made English by one who calls himself Philaratus 10 Additiones dissertatio singularis in the Opera posthuma chronologica of the famous Dr. Jo Pearson sometimes Bish of Chester Lond. 1687-8 in qu. 11 Dissertationes in Irenaeum Oxon. è Theat Sheldon 1689. oct To which is added a Fragment of Phil. Sideta de Catechistatum Alexandrinorum successione with notes Besides these books the author now in the prime of his years designs others which in good time may be made extant for the benefit of the Church of Engl. for which he hath a zealous respect and commonwealth of learning His universal knowledge and profound judgment in all sciences and books has rendred him famous amongst all the learned men of France and Italy and the great sanctity and severity of his life has gain'd him a veneration very peculiar and distinguishing among all sorts of people His greatest study has been to assert the honour and interest of religion and the Clergy and his writings in defence of the Church of England against Papists and Presbyterians have been esteemed perfect pieces in their kind But notwithstanding all this the Reader may be pleased to know that whereas he suffered much in his Estate in his native Country for not coming in and taking part with the Forces of K. Jam. 2 when they endeavoured to keep possession of Ireland against K. Will. 3. and his Forces an 1689 c. for which he was proclaimed Rebel Or had he been there as he was not they would have imprison'd him if not worse so soon after did