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
Adversary to Hobbes of Malmesbury his Errours and that he had seen him openly oppose him so earnestly as either to depart from him or drive him out of the room c. JOHN MURCOT son of Job Murcot by Joane Townsend his Wife received his first being in the antient Borough of Warwick and his first learning in the Kings School there under Mr. Tho. Dugard who became Schoolmaster in 1633 and after 15 years spent in that employment was made Rector of Barford in that County At 17 years of age our Author Murcot was entred a Student in Merton Coll. in Easter Term 1642 being then committed to the tuition of Mr. Ralph Button Fellow of that house a good Scholar but rigid Presbyterian Soon after Oxford being garrison'd for the King he to avoid bearing Arms for him went thence in a disguise to Mr. Joh. Ley Vicar of Budworth in Cheshire where by continual lucubration for some years he did much improve himself in practical Divinity At length the Wars ceasing he returned to his College and continuing for some time there in godly exercise with his Tutor was admitted Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he returned to Mr. Ley again and became several ways useful to him in his Studies and Profession At length being called to the Ministry at Astbury in Cheshire where the said Mr. Ley had sometimes exercis'd his function he was ordained Minister according to the Presbyterian way at Manchester but continuing not long there he was called to Eastham in Wyrrall in Cheshire where before he was quite setled he took to wife at 25 years of age one Hester the daughter of Ralph Marsden Minister of West Kirby in the said County but before the consummation of Marriage the people of the said place Marsden being dead gave him a call where he preached the Gospel to the beloved people of God From thence after some time he removed to the City of Chester where by his severe carriage he became ridiculous to the wicked So that being in a manner weary of that place he did upon the receipt of another call go into Ireland and at length setled himself and his family at Dublin became one of the Preachers in ordinary to the Lord Deputy and Council and by his often preaching and praying obtained a great flock of People to be his Admirers especially Women and Children The things that he hath written are Several Sermons and Treatises as 1 Circumspect walking a Christians wisdom on Ephes 5.15.16 2 The parable of the ten Virgins on Math. 25. from the first to the 14 vers 3 Christ the Sun of righteousness hath healing in his wings for sinners on Malach. 4.2 4 Christ his willingness to accept humbled sinners on Joh. 6.37 all which were published after his death at London 1657. qu. together with his life cantingly written by Sam. Winter Rob. Chambers Sam. Eaton Joseph Caryll and Tho. Manton all or most Presbyterians From which a common Reader may easily perceive that our Author Murcot was a forward prating and pragmatical Precisian Another Sermon of his is published called Saving faith on John 5.44 Lond. 1656. qu. but that I have not yet seen He gave up the ghost very unwillingly at Dublin on the third day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried with great lamentation of the brethren who always held him to be a pretious young man in S. Maries Chappel joyning to the Choire of Christ Church in the said City of Dublin where as I have been informed is a Monument set up to his memory JOSHUA HOYLE was born at Sorby otherwise Sowerbie within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire received his first academical Education in Magd. Hall and afterwards being invited to Ireland became a Member of Trinity Coll. near Dublin where in his Studies and Writings he directed his course for the Schoolmen In short time he became profound in the fac of Divinity took his Doctors degree therein and at length was made Divinity Professor of the University of Dublin In which Office he expounded the whole Bible through in daily Lectures and in the chiefest books ordinarily a verse a day which work held him almost 15 years Some time before he had ended that Work he began the second Exposition of the whole Bible in the Church of Trin. Coll. and within ten years he ended all the New Testament excepting one book and a piece all the Prophets all Salomon and Job So that his Answer to Malone the Jesuit did in part concur with both these Labours He preached also and expounded thrice every Sabbath for the far greater part of the year once every Holyday and sometimes twice To these may be added his weekly Lectures as Professor in the Controversies and his Answers to all Bellarmine in word and writing concerning the real presence and his finishing in above 8 years time his tome of the 7 Sacraments for there he began and his last tome in 6 years and after that sundry years in the tome or tomes remaining Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1641 he went into England having always been a noted Puritan and retiring to London became Vicar of Stepney near that City but being too scholastical he did not please the Parishioners While he remained there Jerem. Burroughs preached every morning at 7 of the clock and Will. Greenhill at 3 in the afternoon Which two persons being notorious Schismaticks and Independents were called in Stepney Pulpit by Hugh Peters the Theological Buffoon the morning star of Stepney and the evening star but never took notice of Dr. Josh Hoyle About the same time he was constituted one of the Assembly of Divines and became a helper on of the evidence against Archb. Laud when he was to come to his trial as to matter relating to the University of Dublin while he was Chancellour thereof At length by the favour of the Committee of Parliament for the reformation of the Univ. of Oxon he became Master or Head of Univ. Coll. and the Kings Professor of Divinity He was a person of great reading and memory but of less judgment and so much devoted to his book that he was in a manner a stranger to the world and things thereof a careless person and no better than a mere scholar However that which was in made him respected by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland in whose Vindication he wrot A Rejoynder to Will Malone Jesuit his Reply concerning the real presence Dublin 1641. in a thick quar Which Reply was printed at Doway 1627. After which time the Author of it Malone was made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Rome which he presided 6 years then he went into Ireland where he was Superior of the whole mission of the Jesuits for 3 years Afterwards he was taken and committed by the Protestants from whom getting loose he went into Spain and being made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Sevil died there an aged man in
on Psal 4.9 Lond. in oct Heaven opened or a brief and plain discovery of the riches of Gods Covenant of Grace Being the third part of Vindiciae Pietatis Lond. in oct The World Conquered or a believers victory over the World laid open in several Sermons on 1. Joh. 5.4 Being the fourth part of Vind. Pietat Lond. 1668. oct All which pieces were printed together at London 1671 in oct and were entit The Works of Mr. Rich. Allein in four parts Dedicated to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Batcombe Godly feare or the nature and necessity of feare and and its usefulness both to the driving sinners to Christ and to the provoking Christians on in a godly life through the several parts and duties of it till they come to blessedness Lond. 1674. oct This book consists of Sermons preached on several texts A rebuke to Back-Sliders and a spur for Loiterers in several Sermons lately preached to a private Congregation Lond. 1677 c. oct A Companion for Prayer or directions for improvement in grace and practical godliness in times of extraordinarie danger Lond. 1680. in tw Instructions about Heart-work What is to be done on Gods part and ours for the cure and keeping of the Heart that we may live in the exercise and growth of Grace here and have a comfortable assurance of glory to eternity Lond. 1682 oct with a preface of Dr. Sam. Annesley alias Aneley to it To the second edit of this which came out in 1684 was added our author Alleins book entit A Companion for prayer c. He also had a hand in writing The life of Joseph Alleine his kinsman and digested fitted for the Press and published his Remaines c. See more in the said J. Alleine among these writers page 300.301 At length this our zealous author concluding his last day at Frome Selwood before mention'd in the house of one Rob. Smith wherein he had lived several years and had kept Conventicles on the 22. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried in the Church there in or about the midst of the middle alley At which time Rich. Jenkins M. of A. somtimes of Gloc. Hall a Luke-warm Conformist and Vicar of that place the same who married Tho. Thynne of Longleat Esq to Elizabeth Countess of Ogle heir to the illustrious Family of Percy preached his funeral Sermon containing many pathetical Encomiums of him having several times before also visited him in his sickness THOMAS HERBERT son of Christop Herbert son of Thomas Herbert somtimes Alderman of the City of York descended being a younger brother from Sir Rich. Herbert of Colebroke in Monmouthshire Knight was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive within the City of York admitted Commoner of Jesus Coll. in 1621. under the tuition of Mr. Jenkyn Lloyd his kinsman but before he took a degree his Uncle called Dr. Ambr. Aikroyd fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. brother to his mother Jane dau of Jo. Aikroyd of Folkerthorpe in Yorkshire invited him to that house where his continuance being short he went thence to London to wait upon that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke who owning him for his kinsman and intending his advancement he sent him to travel in 1626 with allowance to defray his charges So that spending some years in travelling into Africa and Asia the great he did at his return wait on the said noble Count who inviting him to dinner the next day at Baynards Castle in London died suddenly that night whereby his expectation of preferment from him being frustrated he left England a second time and visited several parts of Europe After his return he married and setling in his native Country delighted himself more with the converse of the Muses than in the rude and brutish pleasures which most Gentlemen follow In the time of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of the Parliament and by the endeavours of Philip Earl of Pembroke he became not only of the Commissioners of Parliament to reside in the Army of Sir Thomas Fairfax but also a Commiss to treat with those on the Kings side for the surrender of Oxford Garrison Afterwards he attended the said Count especially at that time in Jan. 1646 when he with other Commissioners were sent from the Parliament to the King at Newcastle to treat about peace and bring him nearer to London When his Majesty came thence and was setled at Holdenby in Northamptonshire jealousies increased which begat fears against which there was then no fence The Commissioners persuant to instructions addressed themselves altogether on a certain time unto the King and acquainted him therewith and humbly prayed his Majesty to dismiss such of his servants as were there and had waited upon him at Oxon. This their application was in no wise pleasing to the King he having had long experience of the loyalty and good affection of those his servants as it appeared by his countenance and the pause he made ere he gave the Commissioners any answer Howbeit after some expostulation and deliberation he condescended to what they proposed they not opposing the continuance of Mr. Jam. Maxwell and Mr. Patr. Maule their attendance upon his royal person as Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber in which place they had several years served the King Next day his Majesties servants came as at other times into the presence Chamber where all dinner time they waited but after his Majesty rose from dinner he acquainted them with what had passed 'twixt him and the Commissioners and thereupon they all knelt and kissed his Majesties hand and with great expressions of grief for their dismiss they poured fourth their prayers for his Majesties freedom and preservation and so left Holdenby All that afternoon the King withdrew himself into his Bedchamber having given order that none should interrupt him in his privacy Soon after this his Majesty purposing to send a message to the Parliament he after dinner called Philip Earl of Pembroke to him and told him that he would have Mr. Herbert come into his Chamber which the Earl acquainting the Commissioners with Mr. Tho. Herbert our author was brought into the Bedchamber by Mr. Maxwell and upon his knees desired to know the Kings pleasure He told him he would send a message to the Parliament and having none there that he usually employed and unwilling it should go under his own hand called him in for that purpose Mr. Herbert having writ as his Majesty dictated was enjoyn'd secrecy and not to communicate it to any until made publick by both Houses if by them held meet which he carefully observed This errand was as I conceive His Majesties message for Peace dated from Holdenby 12. May 1647. About a week after the King was pleased to tell the Commissioners that seeing that Mr. Jam. Levingston Hen. Moray John Ashburnham and Will. Legge were for the present dismist he had taken notice of Mr. Jam. Harrington and Mr. Tho. Herbert who had
favour he had free access Nor was he less careful to obtain the like access for him to the Records in the Tower of London by his interest with old Mr. Collet the chief Clerk at that time there under Sir John Burroughs whom he amply rewarded with sundry kind gratuities for his friendliness in assisting Mr. Dugdale with what he thought proper for his purpose from those rarities there reposed He also about that time was introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Sir Tho. Cotton Baronet whereby he had free access to that incomparable Library in his house near Westminster Hall began and set up by his father that noted Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton Baronet where finding rare MSS. and original Charters in that incomparable Treasury made such Collections thence as were of singular use in several Volumes which have since been made publick by the press He was likewise introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Mr. Scipio Squire then one of the Vicechamberlains of the Exchequer thro whose kindness and favour he had access to that venerable Record called Domesday-book as also to the Fines Plea-Rolls and sundry other Records remaining in the Treasury there Nor was Sir Christ Hatton backward in giving him all possible encouragement in those his studies For having seconded Sir H. Spelman in recommending him to the Earl of Arundel that Earl sent for him in Septemb. following an 1638 and obtained the Kings Warrant to create him a Pursevant at Arms extraordinary by the title of Blanch Lyon and thereupon so created him at the Kings royal Pallace of Richmond in Surrey upon the 24 of that instant Sept. Also upon the removal of Mr. Edw. Walker then Pursevant called Rogue-Croix to the Office of Chester Herald his Lordship obtained his Majesties Letters Pat. for creating him Rogue-Croix Pursevant in ordinary bearing date 18 of Mar. 1639. By which means having a Lodging in the Heralds Office and some benefit by funerals and other ways with the yearly Salary of 20 l. out of the Kings Exchequer for his support he thenceforth spent the greatest part of his time in London in order to the augmenting his Collections out of the Records in the Tower and other places in and near the said City till by the influence of a very forward and predominant Party in the most unhappy Parliam that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which aiming at the subversion of Religion established which came afterwards to pass and unjustifiable extirpation of monarchick Government whereby nothing less could be expected than the profaning of all places of Gods publick Worship destruction of monuments in Churches and defacing whatsoever was beautiful and ornamental therein the said Mr. Dugd. therefore receiving encouragement from Sir Chr. Hatton before mention'd then a member of the H. of C. for Higham-Ferres in Northamptonsh who timely foresaw the near approaching storm did in the summer time 1641 taking with him one Will. Sedgwick a skilful Arms-painter repair first to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London and next to the Abbey Church of Westminster and there made exact draughts of all the monuments in each of them copied the Epitaphs according to the very letter as also of all Arms in the Windows or cut in stone All which being done with great exactness Mr. Dugdale rode to Peterborough in Northamptonshire Ely Norwich Lincoln Newark upon Trent Beverley Southwell Kingston upon Hull York Selby Chester Lichfield Tanworth Warwick and did the like in all those cathedral collegiate conventual and divers other parochial Churches wherein any tombs and monuments were to be found to the end that the memory of them in case if that ruin then eminent might come to pass might be preserved for future and better times As it was feared so it soon after fell out all things thro the influence of the predominant party in that Parliament looking every day more and more that way insomuch as in the middle of January following the King himself his Queen and royal issue forc'd by tumults were constrained to betake themselves for safety to other places viz. the King Prince and Duke of York unto the City of York and the Queen to her own relations in France His Majesty being therefore necessitated at that time to continue in those northern parts where many of the Nobility attended him he did by his Warrant under his royal Signet manual bearing date 1 June 1642 command the said Mr. Dugdale forthwith to repair thither to him according to the duty of his place Upon the reception of which he obeyed and continued at York till about the middle of July at which time he received his Majesties farther command to attend Spencer Earl of Northampton then L. Lieutenant of the County of Warwick who was endeavouring to secure the chief places of that County and near it and to disperse the Forces under the Lord Brook which he had gathered together for the Parliament by the Trained-Band Soldiers and other loyal persons under him But they having secur'd the Castles of Banbury and Warwick Mr. Dugdale did by command from his Maj. who was advised at York of their proceedings in his Coat of Arms with a Trumpet sounding before him repair to those Castles and required them to disband and to deliver up their Arms requiring also the said L. Brook and his Adherents to disband c. Accordingly the Castle of Banbury with all the Arms and Ammunition therein were delivered up but the Castle of Warwick being a place of more strength and defended by a greater number of Soldiers under the command of Sir Edw. Peto of Chesterton in that County Knight they did contemn the said Summons c. Afterwards when the King marched southward from York and had taken up his quarters for some time at Stonley house about 4 miles distant from Coventry on the 19 of Aug. 1642 Mr. Dugdale did by his Majesties special Warrant dated the next day summon the said City of Coventry a little before taken in for the use of the Parliament with his Coat bearing the Kings Arms thereon and a Trumpet sounding before him to the end that the Defenders deliver up their Arms to his Majesty and depart peaceably to their respective homes c. but they obstinately denying his Summons he proclaimed them Traytors and forthwith returned Afterwards he attended the King at Kineton commonly called Edghill in Warwickshire where the grand battel between him and his Army and that belonging to the Parliament was fought on the 23 of Oct. 1642. Which battel being finished and the royal party victorious he attended his Maj. to Oxon and thence to Reading and Brainford his Maj. intending for London but finding the power of the Rebels much recruited by the Inhabitants of that populous City he did after some skirmishes had at Brainford where the royal party took many Prisoners return to Oxford fix his chief residence there and fortified that City with Bulwarks for the better
one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Afterwards Sir Edw. was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of indempnity or pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary dated 23. May 1690. May 6. Thomas Adderley of S. Johns Coll. This person who was a Warwickshire man born was a Servitour of the said Coll and after he had taken one degree in Arts he left it and became Chaplains as it seems to Sir Edw. Boughton of Warwickshire Bt. He hath written and published The care of the peace of the Church the duty of every Christian In a discourse on Psal 122.6 Lond. 1679. qu. To which is added A Letter shewing the great danger and sinfulness of popery written to a young Gentleman a Roman Cath. in Warwickshire May 27. Rich Roderick of Ch. Ch. May 27. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch. Jun. 15. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682 of the second among the Masters 1672 and of the third among the Bach. of Div. 1681. June 19. Rich. Leigh of Qu. Coll. This Gent who was a younger Son of Edw. Leigh mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 351. hath Poetry and other things extant and therefore he is to crave a place hereafter among the Writers Oct. 19. Humph. Humphreys of Jes Coll. He was afterwards B. of Bangor 26. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1681. Dec. 11. Richard Forster of Brasn Coll. See among the Masters in 1673. Feb. 1. Joh. Clerk of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll. See among the Mast an 1673. Mar. 15. Joh. Rogers of S. Joh. Coll. See among the Mast an 1672. Admitted 208 or thereabouts Doct. of Mus July 8. Benj. Rogers Organist of Magd. Coll was then admitted Doctor of Musick which degree he compleated in that great and solemn Act celebrated in Sheldons Theater on the 12 of the same month being the third day after the opening and dedication of the said Theater for a learned use This person who was Son of Peter Rogers belonging to his Majesties Chap. of S. George at Windsore in Berks was born at Windsore was when a boy a Choirester and when a Man Clerk or Singing-man of the said Chap. at Windsore Afterwards he became Organist of Ch Ch. in Dublin where continuing till the rebellion broke out in 1641 he was forced thence and going to Windsore he obtained a Singing mans place there But being soon after silenced by the great troubles occasion'd by the Civil Wars in England he taught his profession at Windsore and in the neighbourhood and by the favour of the men then in power got some annual allowance in consideration of his lost place In 1653 or thereabouts he being then famed for a most admirable Composer did at the request of great personages compose several sets of Airs of four parts to be performed by Violins and an Organ which being esteem'd the best of their kind that could be then composed were sent as great rarities into Germany to the Court of Archduke Leopold now Emperour and were tried and often played by his own Musitians to his very great content he himself being then a Composer and a great Admirer of Musick In 1658 his great favourer and encourager of his profession Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo Fellow of Eaton conducted him to Cambridge got the degree of Bach. of Mus to be confer'd on him as a member of Qu. Coll that Doctor having been sometimes Fellow thereof and at that time a Proceeder in Div. and giving great content by his song of several parts which was his exercise performed in the Commencement that year by several voices he gained the reputation there of a most admirable Musitian and had the greater part of his fees and entertainment defray'd by that noble and generous Doctor After his Majesties restauration the Lord Mayor Aldermen and chief Citizens of London being unanimously dispos'd to entertain the King the two Dukes and both Houses of Parliament with a sumptuous Feast it was ordered among them that there should be added to it the best Musick they could obtain And B. Rogers being then esteemed the prime Composer of the Nation he was desir'd of them to compose a song of several parts to be performed while the King and company were at dinner Whereupon in order to it Dr. Ingelo made Hymnus Eucharisticus the beginning of the prelude to which is Exultate Justi in Domino c. This also he translated into English and both were printed in single papers These things being done B. Rogers composed a song of four parts to that Hymne which was more than once tried in private At length on the 12. of July Thursday 1660 being the day that his Majesty James Duke of York Henry Duke of Glocester and both Houses of Parliament were at Dinner in the Guild-hall of the City of London the said printed papers in Latin and English being delivered to the King the two Dukes and dispersed among the Nobility c. purposely that they might look on them while the performance was in doing the song was began and carried on in Latin by twelve Voices twelve Instruments and an Organ mostly performed by his Majesties Servants Which being admirably well done it gave very great content and Mr. Rogers the author being present he obtained a great name for his composition and a plentiful reward Much about that time he became Organist of Eaton Coll where continuing till Theodore Colby a German was prefer'd to be Organist of Exeter Cathedral Dr. Thomas Pierce who had a great value for the man he himself being a Musitian invited him to Magd. Coll. and gave him the Organists place there and there he continued in good esteem till 1685 and then being ejected the reason why let others tell you the Society of that house allow'd him an yearly pension to keep him from the contempt of the world In which condition he now lives in his old age in a skirt of the City of Oxon unregarded He hath extant certain compositions in a book entit Cantica Sacra Containing Hymns and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Latin and English Lond. 1674. fol. As also in The Latine Psalmes and Hymns of four parts published by Joh. Playford His compositions for instrumental Musick whether in two three or four parts have been highly valued and were always 30 years ago or more first called for taken out and played as well in the publick Musick school as in private Chambers and Dr. Wilson the Professor the greatest and most curious Judge of Musick that ever was usually wept when he heard them well perform'd as being wrapt up in an extasie or if you will melted down while others smil'd or had their hands and eyes lifted up at the excellency of them c. But now le ts go on with the admissions Bach. of Law Five were admitted but not one of
in 64 and 74. in fol. with The Religion of Protestants Nine sermons printed at Lond. 1664. and 74. in fol. with his Apost Institution c. and The Religion of Protestants c. These I think are all the things he hath written except his Motives published by E. Knott which being answer'd by him as I have before told you were replyed upon by the Author of a book entit Motives maintained or a reply to Mr. Chillingworths answer to his own motives of his Conversion to Cath. Religion printed 1638 in three sh in qu. It must be now known that in the beginning of the civil distempers our Author Chillingworth suffer'd much for the Kings Cause and being forced to go from place to place for succour as opportunity served went at length to Arundell Castle in Sussex where he was in quality of an Engineer in that Garrison At length the Castle coming into the hands of the parliamentarian Forces on the sixth day of January 1643 he was by the endeavours of Mr. Franc. Cheynell about that time Rector of Petworth made to Sir Will. Waller the prime Governour of those forces conveyed to Chichester and there lodged in the Bishops house because that he being very sick could not go to London with the prisoners taken in the said Castle In the said house he remained to his dying day and tho civilly used yet he was much troubled with the impertinent discourses and disputes of the said Cheynell which the royal party of that City looked upon as a shortning of our Authors days He gave way to fate on the 24 of January or thereabouts in sixteen hundred forty and three and the next day his body being brought into the Cath. Church accompanied by the said royal party was certain service said but not common Prayer according to the Defuncts desire Afterwards his body being carried into the Cloyster adjoining Cheynell stood at the grave ready to receive it with the Authors book of The Religion of Protestants c. in his hand and when the company were all setled he spake before them a ridiculous speech concerning the Author Chillingworth and that book and in the conclusion throwing the book insultingly on the corps in the grave said thus Get thee gone then thou cursed book which hast seduced so many precious souls get thee gone thou corrupt rotten book earth to earth and dust to dust get thee gone into the place of rottenness that thou may'st rot with thy Author and see Corruption After the conclusion Cheynell went to the pulpit in the Cath. Church and preached a sermon on Luke 9.60 Let the dead bury the dead c. while the Malignants as he called them made a shift to perform some parts of the English Liturgy at his grave About the time of the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Oliver Whitby his great admirer sometimes M. A. of this University did put an inscription on the wall over his grave which being for the most part in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 297. b. should also have been here inserted but forasmuch as several faults are therein as that he was D. of Divinity Chauntor of Salisbury and that he died in 1642 I think it fit therefore to be omitted in this place In his Chancellourship of Salisbury succeeded the learned and godly Dr. Joh. Earl on the 10 of Feb. 1643 but who in the Mastership of Wygstans Hospital I cannot yet well tell By his Will dated 22 of Nov. 1643 he gave to the Mayor and Corporation of Oxon 400 l. to be paid by 50 l. per an in eight years And as it is paid he would have it lent to poor young Tradesmen by 50 l. a piece for ten years they giving good security to repay it at ten years end and to pay for it 40 s. per an consideration And the use and consideration so paid to be laid out in binding young poor Children boys or girls apprentices allowing 8 l. a piece to every one to bind him or her out c. HENRY FITZ-SIMON the most noted Jesuit of his time was matriculated as a member of Hart Hall 26 Apr. 1583 and in that of his age 14 said then and there in the matricula to be an Irishman born and the son of a Merchant in Dublin In Decemb. following I find one Henry Fitz-Simons to be elected Student of Ch. Ch. but whether he be the same with the former I dare not say it How long he continued in the University or whether he took a degree it no where appears Sure it is that he being in his mind then if not before a Rom. Catholick he went beyond the seas entred himself into the Society of Jesus and made so great a proficiency under the instruction of Leonard Lessius that he in short time became so eminent that he taught publickly among them Philosophy for several years At length retiring to his native Country he endeavoured to reconcile as many persons as he could to his Religion either by private conference or publick disputes with protestant Ministers In which work he persisted for two years without disturbance being esteem'd the chief Disputant among those of his party and so ready and quick that few or none would undertake to deal with him In fine he being apprehended for a dangerous person was committed to safe custody in Dublin Castle in the year 1599 where he continued about 5 years As soon as he was setled there which as 't is said he desired before that it might be so was several times heard to say That he being a Prisoner was like a beare tyed to a stake and wanted some to bait him which expressions being looked upon as a challenge Mr. Jam. Usher then 19 years of age did undertake and did dispute with him once or twice or more concerning Antichrist and was ready to have proceeded farther but our Author was as 't is said weary of it and him Afterwards at the term of the said five years being freed from prison upon condition that he would carry himself quietly and without disturbance to the K. and the Realm he went forthwith into voluntary exile into the Low Countries where he spent his time in performing Offices requisite to his Function and in writing books some of which have these titles A catholick confutation of Mr. Joh. Riders clayme of antiquity and a caulming comfort against his caveat Roan 1608. qu. Reply to Mr. Riders postscript and a discovery of puritan partiality in his behalf printed with the former book Answer to certain complaintive letters of afflicted Catholicks for Religion c. printed with the former also Justification and exposition of the sacrifice of the Mass in 2 books or more printed 1611. qu. Britannomachia Ministrorum in plerisque fidei fundamentis fidei articulis dissidentium Duac 1614. qu. See before in Franc. Mason p. 393 394. Catalogue of the Irish Saints This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell whether it
ready when this came out a full examination and confutation of the second part yet he thought not fit to publish it together with this for reasons given in the close of the work Afterwards Knott did publish Infidelity unmasked or a confutation of a book published by Mr. Will. Chillingworth under this title The religion of Protestants c. Gaunt 1652 in a large qu. Which is the last time that I find Knott mentioned for he dying at London on the fourth of January 1655 according to the Eng. accompt buried the next day in the S. Pancras Church near that City no body that I yet know vindicated Chillingworth against him Our Author Dr. Potter did also translate from Ital. into English The History of the quarrels of P. Paul 5. with the state of Venice Lond. 1626. qu. Pen'd by Father Paul Sarp And had lying by him at his death several MSS. fit to be printed among which was one intit A survey of the new platforme of predestination which coming into the hands of Twisse of Newbury was by him answer'd as also Three Letters of Dr. Potter concerning that matter At length departing this mortal life in Queens Coll. on the third day of March in sixteen hundred forty and five was buried about the middle of the inner Chappel belonging thereunto Over his grave was a marble monument fastned to the north Wall at the charge of his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Dr. Charles Sonibanke sometimes Canon of Windsore afterwards the Wife of Dr. Ger. Langbaine who succeeded Potter in the Provostship of the said College a Copy of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. In his Deanery of Worcester succeeded Dr. Rich. Holdsworth Archd. of Huntingdon and Master of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and in his Deanery of Durham Dr. Will. Fuller Dean of Ely but neither of them I presume were installed WILLIIAM LOE took the degrees in Arts as a Member of S. Albans Hall that of Master being compleated in 1600 at which time he was much in esteem for Lat. Gr. and humane learning Soon after he was made Master of the College School in Glocester in which office he was succeeded by John Langley Prebendary of the Church there Chaplain in ord to K. Jam. 1. and Pastor of the English Church at Hambrough in Saxony belonging to the English Merchant Adventurers there in 1618 in which year he accumulated the degree of Doctor of Div. as a member of Merton Coll. His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Come and see The Bible the brightest beauty c. being the sum of four sermons preached in the Cathedral of Glocester Lond. 1614. qu. 2 The Mysterie of mankind made into a Manual being the sum of seven sermons preached at S. Michaels in Cornhil on Tim. 1.3.16 Lond. 1619. oct 3 The Kings shoe or Edoms doome Sermon on Psal 60.8 Lond. 1623. qu. and another Serm. or Treatise called The Merchant real which I have not yet seen Vox clamantis A still Voice to the three Estates in Parliament Lond. 1621. qu. I find one Dr. Loe to administer comfort to Dr. Dan. Featley when he laid on his death bed and afterwards to preach his funeral Sermon at Lambeth printed at London 1645. qu. which Doctor I take to be the same with our Author who while he was Preb. of Gloc. did sometimes subscribe himself to certain Chapter-Acts by the name of Will. Leo. He died in the time of Usurpation when the Church was destroyed for the sake of Religion but where or when I cannot tell After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. one Hugh Nash M. of A. succeeded him in his Prebendship which for some years had lain void GABRIEL du GRES a Frenchman studied sometimes among the Oxonians afterwards went to Cambridge for a time as it seems and returning thence soon after taught privately for several years the French Tongue in this University His works are these Grammaticae Gallicae compendium Cantab. 1636. oct Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini Oxon. 1639. 1652. and 1660. oct Regulae pronunciandi ut verborum Gallicorum Paradigmata printed with the Dialogues Life of Jean Arman du plessis Duke of Richelieu and Peer of France Lond. 1643. oct and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen nor know any thing else of the Author THOMAS LYDYAT the son of Christop Lydyat Lord of the Mannour of Aulkryngton commonly called Okerton near Banbury in Oxfordshire and Citizen of London was born at Okerton in the beginning of the year 1572 and having pregnant parts while a youth was by the endeavours of his Father elected one of the number of the Children of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester at about 13 years of age where being soon ripened in Grammaticals was elected Probationer Fellow of New Coll. 1591. At which time being under the tuition of Dr. afterwards Sir Hen. Marten made great proficiency in Logicals and two years after was admitted verus Socius After he had taken the degrees in Arts he studied Astronomy Mathematicks the Tongues and Divinity in the last of which he had an eager desire to continue and improve himself but finding a great defect in his Memory and Utterance of which he often complained particularly to Dr. Bancroft Bishop of Oxon his Diocesan in his Epistle dedicatory to him of a Sermon preached at a Visitation while he was a rural Dean made choice rather to quit his place in the Coll. for the statutes thereof oblig'd him to Divinity and live upon that small patrimony he had than to follow and prosecute the said study of Divinity What farther I have to observe of him is 1 That the seven years next ensuing after he had left his Fellowship of New Coll. which was 1603. he spent in the finishing and setting forth such books that he had begun in the College especially that De emendatione temporum dedicated to Pr. Henry to whom he was Chronographer and Cosmographer Which Prince being solely given up to all vertue did gratiously accept of it and had so great a respect for the Author that had he lived he would have done great matters for him but dying in the flower of his youth the hopes of our Author were interr'd with that Prince in his grave 2 That at the end of those seven years Dr. Usher afterwards Archbishop of Armagh being in London found him out and had him with him into Ireland where he continued in the Coll. near Dublin about two years At the end of which he purposing to return for England the Lord Deputy and Chanc. of Ireland did upon his motion make him a joynt promise of a competent Maintenance upon his return back again thither When he came into England the Rectory of Okerton before mention'd falling void which he before had refused when Fellow of New Coll. upon the offer of it by his Father the Patron he did after several demurrs and not without much reluctancy of mind accept
c. He hath also written Lectures on the three books of the Punick War in Luc. Florus which are now about to be published At length departing this mortal life on the first of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and seven was buried on the third day of the same month in Exeter Coll. Chappel His study of books and collections in MS. came after his death into the hands of his old Friend Francis Rouse Provost of Eaton Coll. near to Windsore and his Lectures in MS. to Bodleys Library He left also behind him a Widow and Children who soon after became poor and whether the Females lived honestly 't is not for me to dispute it HENRY MASON was born in a Market Town in Lancashire called Wygan or Wiggin became a Servitour of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of 1592 elected one of Humph. Ogles Exhibitioners thereof 2. Nov. 1593 took one degree in Arts two years after entred into Holy Orders and became Chaplain of Corp. Ch. Coll. in 1602. The next year he proceeded in Arts and seven years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences At length being made Chapl. to Dr. Jo. King B. of Lond. was by his endeavours as I suppose made Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft in that City where by his exemplary life edifying and judicious preaching and writing he did great benefit and was by all that knew him accounted a true Son of the Church of England His writings are these The new art of lying covered by Jesuits under the veil of Equivocation Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1634. in tw Christian humiliation or a treatise of Fasting with a brief discourse of Lent Lond. 1625. qu. Epicures Fast or a short discourse discovering the licentiousness of the Rom. Ch. in her religious Fasts Lond. 1626. in qu. Tribunal of the conscience or a treatise of examination Lond. 1626. 27. qu. Short discourse declaring the condition of Worldly cares with some remedies appointed for them Lond. 1628. Certain passages in Mr. Sam. Hoards book entit Gods love to mankind c. Answer'd by Dr. Twisse under the name of Additions in his Riches of Gods love to the vessells of mercy c. as I have told you before in Dr. Twisse Hearing and doing the ready way to blessedness Lond. 1635. in tw Rules for right hearing of Gods word printed with the former book Several Sermons as 1 The Christians fast c. on Matth. 4.2 Lond. 1627. qu. 2 Contentment in Gods gifts or some Sermon notes leading to equanimitie and contentation on Joh. 20.3.4.5.6 Lond. 1630. in tw 3 Sermon on Luke 11.28 This I have not seen nor a MS. in fol. containing matters of Divinity which he left in the hands of his acquaintance Dr. Gilb. Sheldon afterwards Archb. of Cant. From whom it came to Dr. Dolben Bish of Roch. afterwards of York in whose possession it was when he died At length when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant in 1641 our Author Mason through vexation occasion'd by that Party was forced soon after to leave his Rectory of S. Andrew beforemention'd purposely to make room for a godly brother Afterwards he retired with his goods and books to Wygan his native place where living in obscurity for some years not without vexation by the Rebels surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to him that first gave it in his house situate and being in a street there called Scoles in the beginning of August in sixteen hundred forty and seven and in that of his age 74 or thereabouts and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in the yard or cemeterie close to the ground-work of the pillar or buttress at the east end of the Church at Wygan He had before given to the poor of that Town 13 l. per an to bind poor children apprentices his librarie of books to the School and a considerable number of Bibles to the poorer sort of people for their children there JOHN VERNEUIL Vernulius was born in the City of Bourdeaux in France educated in the University of Mountalban till he was M. of Arts flew from his country for religion sake being a Protestant and went into England where he had his wants supplied for a time by Sir Thom. Leigh Afterwards he retired to the University of Oxon. in 1608 and on the fourth day of Nov. in the same year being then 25 years of age he was matriculated in the University as a member of Magdalen Coll. from which House as from others he received relief In 1625 he was incorporated Master of Arts being then second-keeper of Bodleys Library where he performed good service for that place and wrot for the use of the Students there these things following Catalogus Interpretum S. Scripturae juxta numerorum ordinem quo extant in bibl Bodl. Oxon. 1635. qu. sec Edition The first was began by Dr. Tho. James Elenchus authorum tum recentium quam antiquorum qui in 4 libros sententiarum Thomae Aquinatis summas item in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni de casibus conscientiae nec non in orationem Dominicam Symbolum Apostolorum Decalogum scripserunt This is printed with the Cat. Interpretum c. an 1635. Nomenclator of such tracts and sermons as have been printed and translated into English upon any place or book of the Holy Scripture now to be had in Bodleys Library Oxon. 1637. 42. in tw He also translated from French into English A Tract of the Soveraign Judge of controversies in matters of religion Oxon. 1628. qu. written by Joh. Cameron D. D. of Saumaur Divinity Professor in the Academy of Mountalban afterwards Principal of Glascow in Scotland And from English into Latine a book entit Of the deceitfulness of mans heart Genev. 1634. oct written by Dan. Dyke of Cambridge The said Joh. Verneuil died in his house within and near the East-gate of the City of Oxon in the latter end of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty and seven and was buried on the last day of the same month in the Church of St. Peter in the East within the said City at which time our publick Library lost an honest and useful servant and his children a good Father ROBERT PINK Son of Hen. Pink of Kempshot in the Parish of Winslade in Hampshire was born there educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1596 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line was admitted Bach. in that faculty 1612 afterward studied Divinity was elected Warden of his Coll. 1617 proceeded in Divinity and was much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. for his dexterity in disputing as by K. Ch. 1. for his eminent loyalty He was a zealous defender of the University privileges and liberties especially when he performed the office of Vicechancellour and esteemed by all that knew him most eminent for his knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity He hath written Quaestiones selectiores in Logicâ Ethicâ
Scholars of this University was printed at Lond. again in 1682. fol. Expeditio Buckinghami Ducis in Ream insulam Written by the Author in 1630 published by Timothy Baldwin Doct. of Law and Fellow of All 's Coll. Lond. 1656. octav Occasional Verses or Poems Lond. 1665. oct published by Hen. Herbert his son and by him dedicated to Edward Lord Herbert Grandson to the Author Others of his Poems I have also seen in the books of other Authors occasionally written particularly in that of Joshua Silvester in t Lacrymae lacrymarum or the spirit of tears distilled for the untimely death of Pr. Henry Lond. 1613 qu. There be others also of Sir Hen. Goodyere Sir Will. Cornwallis Jos Hall c. De religione Gentilium errorumque apud eos causis Amst 1663. qu. At length after our Author Herbert had sided with the Long Parliament and had received satisfaction from the members thereof for their causing Mountgomery Castle to be demolished upon the declining of the Kings Cause he surrendred up his last breath in his house in Queen street near London in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of S. Giles Church in the Fields Over his grave which is under the south wall was laid a flat marble stone with this Inscription engraven thereon Heic inhumatur corpus Edwardi Herbert Equitis Balnei Baronis de Cherbury Castle-Island auctoris libri cui titulus est De veritate Reddor ut herbae vicessimo die Augusti anno domini 1648. He was Father to Rich. Lord Herbert and he to Edward which last dying 21 Apr. 1691. was buried on the 28 of the same month near to the grave of his Grandfather The Reader is to know that one Edward Herbert an Esquires son of the County of Mountgomery was matriculated in the University as a member of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of July 1608 aged 17 years but he is not to be taken to be the same with the former who was Lord Herbert tho Isaac Walton in the life of Mr. George Herbert doth and from him the society of the said Coll. I take him to be the same who was afterwards a Knight and Attorney General temp Car. 1. SAMUEL FELL was born within the Parish of S. Clements Danes without Temple-Barr near London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1601 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1608 elected Proctor of the University in 1614 admitted Bac. of Div. in the year after and about that time became Minister of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight In the month of May 1619 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and the same year proceeded in Divinity being about that time domestick Chaplain to King Jam. 1. In 1626 he was made Margaret Professor and so consequently Prebendary of Worcester which was about that time annected to the Professorship he being then a Calvinist At length leaving his opinion became after great seekings and cringings a Creature of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Canterbury by whose means he was made Dean of Lichfield upon the promotion of Dr. John Warner to the See of Rochester an 1637 Dean of Ch. Ch. in the year after in the place of Dr. Duppa promoted to the See of Chichester and would without doubt had not the Rebellion broke out been a Bishop In 1647 he was ejected from his Deanery and Vicechancellourship after he had suffered much for his Loyalty and for the preserving of the statutes and liberties of the University Afterwards retiring to his Rectory of Sunningwell near Abendon in Berks spent the short remainder of his life in obscurity He hath written and published Primitiae sive oratio habita Oxoniae in scholâ Theologiae 9 Nov. an 1626. Oxon 1627. qu. Concio Latina ad Baccalaureos die cinerum in Colos 2.8 Oxon. 1627. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the Parsonage-house at Sunningwell before mentioned on the first day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In his Deanery Edward Reynolds M. A. afterwards D. of Div. had violently been thrust in by the Authority of Parliament in April 1648 as I have at large told you elsewhere WILLIAM TIPPING second son of Sir George Tipp of Dreycot and Whitfield in Oxfordshire Knight by Dorothy his wife dau of Joh. Burlacy of Little-Marlow in Bucks Esq was born in Oxfordshire at Dreycot I think became a Commoner of Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Langhorne in the latter end of 1614 aged 16 years where making a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals took a degree in Arts. Afterwards he went to London and spent some time in one of the Inns of Court but his genie being theologically given he retired to Oxon lived a single life many years in Canditch in the north Suburbs thereof for the sake of scholastical company and of books and was a Justice of the peace for Oxfordshire In the beginning of the civil War he sided with the Presbyterians being always puritanically affected took the Covenant and at length was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by the power of Parliament an 1647 and the next year was actually created Master of Arts. He hath written A discourse of Eternity Oxon. 1633. qu. After the publication of which he obtained the name among Scholars of Eternity Tipping to distinguish him from others of his sirname A return of Thankfulness for the unexpected recovery out of a dangerous sickness Oxon 1640. oct A Fathers Counsel or directions to young persons Lond. 1644. oct The preachers plea or a short declaration touching the sad condition of our Clergy in relation to the smalness of their maintenance throughout the Kingdom Lond. 1646. in tw The remarkable life and death of the Lady Apollonia Hall widdow deceased in the 21 year of her age Lond. 1647. in tw He gave way to fate at Waterstock near to and in the County of Oxon on the second day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried on the eighth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there This person tho born to a fair estate and so consequently might have taken those pleasures which the generality of Gentlemen do yet he gave himself solely up to Learning Piety and Charity He gave 20 shillings yearly to Allsaints Parish in Oxon for a Sermon to be preached there every Good Friday and an hundred pounds towards the building of a Bridewell house without the north gate of the City some years before the Rebellion broke out JOHN GEREE a Yorkshire man born became either a Batler or Servitour of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615 and in that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 entred into holy orders and became Minister of a
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
degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1611 and about 3 years after leaving his College he became chief Master of Winchester School afterwards Archdeacon of Winton Canon of Wells D of Div. and Archdeacon of Glocester in the place as it seems of Sam. Burton deceased In the beginning of the Civil War when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant he sided with them took the Covenant and having lost in the War time the profits of his Canonry and Archdeaconry obtained the rectory of Hinton near Winchester in Hampshire whence a Loyal Person a little before had been ejected He was an excellent Linguist able Divine and very well seen in antient Histories His works are these Preces written for the use of the children of Winchester School in Lat. and Engl. Grammaticalia quaedam in Lat. and Engl. Antiquae Historiae Synopsis All which were printed at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct Scholae Wintoniensis Phrases Latinae The latine phrases of Winchester School c. Lond. 1654. 64. oct published by Nich. Robinson his Son Annalium mundi universalium c. Tomus Unicus lib. 14. absolutus c. Lond. 1677. fol. Which book coming into the hands of Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury he did by the Kings command revise amend and fill it up with many things that were wanting He hath also written something in vindication of the Scotch Covenant which I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying on the same day on which James Duke of Richmond died so have I been informed by his Daughter which was the 30 of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five was buried near to and within the North door of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near to London In his Archdeaconry of Gloc. succeeded one John Middleton in 1660. After him succeeded Edw. Pope who dying in Jan. 1671 John Gregory of Cambr. succeeded CHRISTOPHER BENNET Son of Joh. Bennet of Raynton in Somersetsh was born there or in that County became a Com. of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term in the year 1632 and that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line but doctorated in that faculty elsewhere Afterwards he was made a member of the Coll. of Physicians at London and much frequented for his practice in that City His works are Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum c. Lond. 1654 oct Exercitationes Dianocticae cum historias demonstrativis quibus alimentorum sanguinis vitia deleguntur in plerisque morbis c. Lond. 1655. He hath also corrected and inlarged Healths improvement or rules comprizing and discovering the nature method and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this Nation Lond. 1655. qu. Written originally by Tho. Moufet This Dr. Bennet was buried on the second day of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five in S. Gregories Church near to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London leaving then behind him as 't is said one or more things fit for the press EDWARD WOOD Son of Tho. Wood alias à Wood or Awood Bachelaur of Arts and of the Civ Law of this University by Maria la Petite commonly called Pettie his Wife descended from a gentile and antient Family in the County of Oxon was born in the Parish of S. John Bapt. in an house opposite to the forefront of Mert. Coll. within the University of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame under his kinsman Will. Burt M. A afterwards Warden of the Coll. near Winton and D. of D. elected Probationer Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1648 and in 1655 was installed one of the Proctors of the University being then noted for a good Disputant Orator and Preacher His works are Several Sermons as 1 Of the knowledge of God by the book of nature in two Sermons on Rom. 1.19.20 Oxon. 1656. and 74. oct 2 Of the knowledge of Jesus Christ by the book of Scripture in two Serm. on 2. Tim. 3.16.17 printed with the former two Sermons 3 His last Sermon Preached at S. Maries in Oxon 20. March 1654. on Philip. 3.8 first part printed also with the former Sermons All which were then acceptable to the generality for the good practical divinity contained in them but since not He died in his Proctorship on the 22 of the Month of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five aged 28 years he being then the eldest of my Brethren and was buried two days after in Mert. Coll. Church not far from the grave of his Father at which time were present the whole body of Convocation and Juniors of the University JOHN ANGELL was born as I conceive in Glocestersh where receiving part of his juvenile Education made his first entry into Magd. Hall about the beginning of the year 1610. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and holy Orders became a frequent and painful Preacher At length about 1630 being made a Lecturer at Leycester continued there several years a Man mighty in Word and Doctrine among the Puritannical Brethren of that place till about the year 1650 at which time being forced by the Independent faction to leave his place because he refused to take the Engagement the Company of Mercers in London gave him a call and chose him Lecturer of Grantham in Lincolnshire it being one of the Lectures that had been given to the said Company by Vicountess Camden whereupon setling at that place he shone as 't is said as a burning light until God translated him to shine above as a Star for ever To which may be added that as his name was Angell so saith another of his perswasion he was a man indeed of angelical understanding and holiness a burning and shining light c. He hath written The right government of the thoughts or a discovery of all vain unprofitable idle and wicked thoughts c. Lond. 1659. oct Four Sermons 1 The right ordering of the conversation two Sermons on Psal 50 last verse 2 Fun. Sermon at the burial of John Lord Darcey 27. Aug. 1636. on Psal 39.5 3 Preparation to the Communion on 1. Cor. 11.28 All printed at Lond. 1659. oct He was buried in the Church at Grantham beforemention'd on the sixth day of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five at which time being attended to his grave by many Divines of the neighbourhood Mr. Laur. Sarson Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. did then deliver before them a large oration of mortality and in praise of the Defunct This Mr. Angell who had the year before his death been appointed by Parliament an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lincolnshire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters was several times heard to say before he fell sick that it was his great desire to live to see the conclusion of the year 1660 hinting
act he was much blamed by his antient friends and acquaintance of the Orthodox Clergy yet commended by some for making provision for a second Wife that he a little before in his elderly years had taken and the Children to be had by her After the Kings restauration he left that Living to make room for the true owner returned to Eifley near Oxon. to live on his Archdeaconry and might had he not acted the vain man been made a Bishop or at least a Dean of a rich Church His poetry and sublime fancy were such that fam'd him second to none in his time in the University witness in some manner his smooth translation of rough Persius which he made before he was 20 years of age tho in these times much undervalued by Juniors As Scaliger said of Claudian and his works solo argumento ignobiliore oppressus addit de ingenio quantum deest materiae so may it be of Holyday and his Poem viz. whatsoever is mean in Persius is so choicely adorned by his Genie that if it stand out of the presence of ignorant and desperate emulation it may be graceful His Philosophy also expressed in his book De Anima and well languag'd Sermons speak him eminent in his generation and do enough shew him to have traced the rough as well as the pleasant pathes of Poetry His works are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Three Sermons upon the passion resurrection and ascension of our Saviour Lond. 1626. qu. The first at Ch. Ch. on Goodfriday 1621. on 1. Cor. 2.8 The second at S. Maries on Easter Tuesday 1623 on 1. Cor. 15.20 and the third at Ch. Ch. on Ascension day 1625 on 1. Pet. 3.22 2 Two Sermons at Pauls Cross the first preached 24. of Mar. 1624 on Ezech. 37.22 Lond. 1626. qu. The other preached the 5 of Aug. 1623 on Psal 18.48.49 Printed there the same year 3 Nature of Faith on Heb. 11.4 Lond. 1654. qu. 4 Motives to a godly life in 10. Sermons Oxon. 1657. qu. 5 Four Sermons against disloyalty preached in the times of the late troubles Oxon. 1661. oct The first of which is Of Obedience on Exod. 20.12 c. Technogamia or the marriage of Arts a Comedy Lond. 1630. qu. acted publickly in Ch. Ch. Hall with no great applause 13. Febr. 1617. But the wits of those times being minded to shew themselves before the King were resolved with leave to act the said Comedy at Woodstock whereupon the Author making some foolish alterations in it it was accordingly acted on a Sunday night 26. Aug. 1621. But it being too grave for the King and too Scholastick for the auditory or as some have said that the Actors had taken too much wine before they began his Majesty Jam. 1. after two Acts offer'd several times to withdraw At length being perswaded by some of those that were near to him to have patience till it was ended least the young men should be discouraged sate down tho much against his will Whereupon these verses were made by a certain Scholar At Christ Church Marriage done before the King Least that those Mates should want an offering The King himself did offer what I pray He offer'd twice or thrice to go away Several witty copies of verses were made on the said Comedy among which was that of Pet. Heylyn of Magd. Coll. called Whoop Holyday Which giving occasion for the making other Copies pro and con Corbert Dean of Ch. Ch. who had that day preached as it seems before the King with his band starch't clean did put in for one for which he was reproved by the graver sort but those that knew him well took no notice of it for they have several times said that he loved to the last boys-play very well Philosophiae polito-barbarae specimen in quo de animâ ejus habitibus intellectualibus quaestiones aliquot libris 2. illustrantur Oxon. 1633. qu. Survey of the World in 10 books a Poem Oxon. 1661. oct Which passing the censure of Scholars it was judged by them to be an inconsiderable piece and by some not to be his But so it was that it being published just before his death it was taken for a posthumus work which had been by him composed in his younger days 'T is said by some that he was Author of a Com. called The Gentile Craft but whether true I doubt it Sure I am he translated from Lat. into English 1 Satyrs of Persius Oxon. 1616. sec edit There again 1635. Reviewed and amended and also augmented with illustrations by the translator Oxon. 1673. fol. In this translation he consulted above a dozen Expositors yet in his preface to the translation he hath these words I may without ambition say it is a new thing Persius understood To have committed no faults in my translation saith he according to his elegant way of writing had been to translate my self and put off man 2 Satyrs of Juvenal illustrated with notes and sculptures Oxon. 1673. fol. At the end of which is the fourth Edit of Persius before mention'd both which were published by Will. Dewey of Tortdeane in Glocestershire Gent. whose Mother Dr. Holyday had taken to his second Wife 3 Odes of Horace Lond. 1652. oct Whether printed before that time I know not This translation is so near that of Sir Tho. Hawkins printed 1638. in oct or that of Hawkins so near this that whether of the two is the Author remains to me as yet undiscovered This Dr. Holyday who was highly conceited of his own worth especially in his younger days died in the house belonging to the Archdeacon of Oxon. situated and being in a village called Eisley near to that City on the second day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and one and was three days after buried at the foot of Bishop Kings monument under the South wall of the Isle joyning on the South side to the choire of Christ Church Cathedral At which time his bones being laid close on the right side to those of W. Cartwright and Jo. Gregory what had it been for an admirer of those learned and pious men to have put a memorial over their graves As for Sir Thom. Hawkins Kt. before mention'd he was an ingenious man was as excellent in the fac of Musick as in Poetry and translated from the original Unhappy prosperitie expressed in the history of Ael Sejanus and Philippa the Catanian with observations on the fall of Sejanus Lond. 1639 in oct or tw sec edit What other translations he hath made or what books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was of Nash Court in the Parish of Boughton under the Bleane in Kent where dying in the latter end of 1640 as it seems was buried in the Parish Church of Boughton near to the graves of his Father Sir Tho. Hawkins Kt and of Anne his Mother He had an ingenious Brother named John Hawkins Doctor of Physick of London and a
way and manner of her reformation c. part 1. 2 In the defence thereof in an historie of Episcopacie part 2. c. Lond. 1657. qu. Dedicated to Mr. Edw. Davys Vicar of Shilton in Berks near Burford in Oxfordshire somtimes his Master in the free-Grammar School at Burford It contains all those five pieces before-mentioned which I have told you were reprinted in Eccles Vindicata Respondet Petrus or the answer of Pet. Heylyn D.D. to so much of Dr. Bernards book entit The judgment of the late Primate of Ireland c. as he is made a party by the said Lord Primate in the point of the Sabbath c. Lond. 1658. qu. 'T was not burnt as the report was or answer'd An Appendix in answer to certain passages in Mr. Sandersons history of the life and raigne of K. Ch. c. Printed with Respondet Petrus whereupon Will. Sanderson Esq came out with a Pamphlet entit Post-haste A reply to Peter's Dr. Heylyns appendix to his treatise entit Respondet Petrus Lond. 1658. in 3. sheets in qu. Full of abusive language and little or nothing to the purpose Short view of the life and raigne of K. Charles the second Monarch of Great Britaine from his birth to his burial Lond. 1658. in 6. sheets or more in oct This life I take to be the same with that for they have the same beginning that was printed with and set before Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae Printed at the Hague 1648 9 in a large oct Examen Historicum or a discovery and examination of the mistakes and defects in some modern histories viz. 1 In the Church Hist of Britaine by Tho. Fuller To which is added An Apologie of Dr. Jo. Cosin Dean of Peterborough in answer to some passages in the Church Hist of Britaine in which he finds himself concern'd 2 In the Hist of Marie Qu. of Scots and of her Son K. Jam. 6. The Hist of K. Jam. 1. of Great Britaine and the Hist of K. Ch. 1. from his Cradle to his grave by Will. Sanderson Esq Lond. 1658. 9. in a large oct Appendix in answer to some passages in a scurrulous Pamphlet called A post-haste reply c. or Posthast a reply c. by Will. Sanderson Esq This Appendix is printed with Exam. Historicum Soon after Th. Fuller came out with a thin fol. full of submission and acknowledgment intit The appeal for injured innocence which was commonly bound with the remaining copies of his Ch. Hist in quires and a foolish and scurrilous Pamphlet entituled Peter persued or Dr. Heylyn overtaken arrested and arraigned upon his three appendixes 1 Respondet Petrus 2 Answer to the Post-hast reply 3 Advertisements on three Histories viz. of Mary Qu. of Scots K. James and K. Charles Lond. 1658 9. in 8 sh in qu. written by Will. Sanderson before mention'd of whom I desire the Reader to know these things following 1 That he was born in Lincolnshire 2 That in his younger days he was Secretary to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham while he was Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and therefore I presume graduated there tho scarce understood Latine 3 That he suffer'd for the cause of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. and after the restauration of his son in 1660 he was made Gent. in ordinary of his Majesties privy Chamber and from him received the honour of Knighthood 4 That dying in Whitehall on the 15 day of July 1676 aged 90 or more was buried in the north isle or transcept joyning to the Choire of S. Peters Church in the City of Westminster Over his grave was soon after a monument of Alabaster erected on the north wall with the bust of the defunct in the place of Colonel Sim. Mathews which had been set up in the wall by the Parliament but plucked down after the return of K. Ch. 2. at the charge of Briget his widow daughter of Sir Edw. Tyrell Knight His Histories before mention'd are not much valued because they are mostly taken from printed Authors and lying Pamphlets The parable of the Tares expounded and applied in ten sermons with three other sermons by the same Author Lond. 1659 and 61. qu. Certamen Epistolare or the letter combate managed by Pet. Heylyn and Mr. Rich. Baxter of Kederminster c. Lond. 1659. oct Intercourse of Letters betw Dr. Heylyn and Dr. Nich. Bernard of Greys Inn touching the intended burning of the book called Respondet Petrus Printed with Cert Epist Letter combate part 2. containing the intercourse of Letters between Pet. Heylyn and Mr. Hen. Hickman of Magd. Coll. relating to the historical part of a book intit A justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen c. Letter Combate part 3. containing a decertation about formes of Government the power of Spartan Ephori and the Jewish Sanhedrim managed letter-wise betw P. Heylyn and J. H. Jam. Harrington of Westminst Esq Appendix to the former Papers containing an Exchange of Letters between Mr. Tho. Fuller of Waltham and Dr. Pet. Heylyn of Abendon Examination of some passages in Mr. Fullers late Appeal for injured innocence These Letter Combates Append and Examination are printed with Certamen Epistolare which is the general title to them Historia Quinqu Articularis or a delaration of the judgment of the Western Churches and more particularly of the Church of England in the five controverted points reproached in these last times by the name of Arminianism c. part 3. Lond. 1660. qu. Postscript to the Reader concerning some particulars in a scurrulous Pamphlet intit A review of Certamen Epistolare In the same year 1660 was published a book intit Fratres in malo or the matchless couple represented in the writings of Mr. Edw. Bagshaw and Mr. Hen. Hickman in vindication of Dr. Heylyn and Mr. Tho. Pierce Lond. 1660. qu. said in the title to be written by M. O. Bach. of Arts but all then supposed that Dr. Heylyn or Mr. Peirce or both had a hand in it Sermon preached in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westm on Wednesday 29 May 1661 on Psal 31.21 Lond. 1661. qu. History of the Reformation of the Church of England from the first preparations to it made by K. Hen. 8. untill the legal setling and establishing of it under Qu. Elizab c. Lond. 1661. 1670 and 74. fol. A character of this book and its design is given by Dr. Gilb. Burnet in his Pref. to the first vol. of The Hist of the Reformation of the Church of England Lond. 1679 and 81. fol. answer'd at large by Mr. George Vernon in his Life of Pet. Heylyn D. D. Lond. 1682. oct p. 189. c. As for our Authors Hist. of the Reformation c. it was answer'd in a book intit Plus ultra or Englands reformation needing to be reformed Being an examination of Dr. Heylyns History of the reformation of the Church of England c. Lond. 1661. in 7 sh in qu. said in the title page to be written by
H. N. O. J. Oxon. which whether meant by Henry HickmaN I know not as yet Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the life and death of Will Laud Archb. of Canterbury c. Lond. 1668. and 71. fol. Aërius redivivus or the Hist of the Presbyterians c. Oxon. 1670. Lond. 1672. fol. Historical and miscellaneous Tracts Lond. 1681. fol. Several of these are mention'd before as 1 Eccl. Vindicata 2 Hist of the Sabbath in 2 parts 3 Hist Quinqu articularis 4 Stumbling block c. 5 Tract de jure paritatis c. with Dr. Heylyn's life before them written by George Vernon Rector of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire sometimes one of the Chaplains of All 's Coll. Which life being alter'd and mangled before it went to the Press by the B. of Linc. T. Barlow and the Bookseller that printed it Hen. Heylyn son of Dr. Heylyn made a protestation against it and Dr. Joh. Barnard who married Dr. Heylyn's daughter wrot his life to rectifie that of Vernon which was alter'd and Vernon wrot another published in oct Our Author Heylyn also composed A discourse of the African Schisme and in 1637 did upon Dr. Laud's desire draw up The judgment of Writers on those texts of Scripture on which the Jesuits found the Popedome and the Authority of the Rom. Church Both which things the said Dr. Laud intended as materials towards his large Answer to Fisher the Jesuit which came out the year following He also I mean Heylyn did translate from Lat. into Engl. Dr. Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath as I have before told you and put the Scotch Liturgy into Latine an 1639 partly that all the world might more clearly see upon what grounds the tumults in Scotland that then before brake out had been raised At length after our Author Heylyn had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in adversity paid his last debt to nature on Ascension day May 8. in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being buried before the Sub-deans stall within the choire of S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster had a monument soon after set up for him on the north wall of the Alley joyning on the north side of the said choire a copy of the inscription on which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 205. JOHN LEY was born in the antient Borough of Warwick on the 4 of Feb. an 1583 but descended from the Leys of Cheshire educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school in the said Borough became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1601 where continuing for some time after he was Master of Arts was presented by the Dean and Canons to the Vicaridge of Great Budworth in Cheshire and there continued several years a constant Preacher Afterwards he was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Chester Sub-dean thereof 1605 a weekly Lecturer on Friday in S. Peters Church in the said City and Clerk of the Convocation of the Clergy once or twice But he having always been puritanically inclined he sided with the Presbyterians upon the defection of the Members of the Long Parliament an 1641 took the Covenant was made one of the Assembly of Divines Examiner in Latine to the said Assembly Rector of Ashfield in Cheshire and for a time Rector of Astbury or Estbury in the said County Chairman of the Committee for the examination of Ministers and of the Committee for Printing one of the Ordainers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way c. President of Sion Coll. about 1645 and afterwards when Dr. Ed. Hyde was ejected from his rich Parsonage of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks he was appointed to succeed him by the Committee which if I mistake not he kept with other Benefices for a time In 1653 he was appointed one of the Tryers for the approbation of publick Ministers and in the year following an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks. for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Soon after upon pretence that he could enjoy but little peace or hope of settlement for after times at Brightwell for the truth is he was much hated while he lived there he obtained the rich Rectory of Solyhull in Warwickshire from the Patron thereof Sir Sim. Archer of Umberslade near Tamworth Knight before the year 1656 where he continued for some time At length breaking a vein within him by overstraining himself in speaking became very weak thereupon So that being not able to go on in the Ministry he resigned Solyhull upon some consideration given and went to Sutton Colfield in the said County where after he had lived privately for a short time gave up the ghost in a fair age He was esteemed in his time a man of note especially by those of the Presbyterian perswasion well vers'd in various Authors and a ready Preacher His works are these An Apology in defence of the Geneva Notes on the Bible which were in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon publickly and severely reflected on by Dr. Joh. Howson When printed I know not 'T was written about 1612 and submitted to the judgment of Bish Usher who did well approve of it Pattern of piety or the religious life and death of Mrs. Jane Ratcliff widow and Citizen of Chester Lond. 1640. oct Several sermons as 1 Serm. on Ruth 3.11 Lond. 1640. oct 2 A monitor of mortality in two funeral sermons occasion'd by the death of Joh. Archer son and heir of Sir Sim. Archer of Warwicksh Knight and of Mrs. Harper of Chester and her daughter Phebe of 12 years old The first on Jam. 4.14 and the other on Gen. 44.3 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Fury of war and folly of sin Fast serm before the H. of Com. on Jer. 4.21.22 Lond. 1643. qu. c. Sunday a sabbath or a preparative discourse for discussion of sabbatarie doubts Lond. 1641. qu. Assisted in this work by the MSS. and advice of Archb. Usher The Christian Sabbath maintained in answer to a book of Dr. Pocklington stiled Sunday no Sabbath Defensive doubts hopes and reasons for refusal of the Oath imposed by the sixth Canon of the Synod Lond. 1641. qu. Letter against the erection of an Altar written 29 June 1635 to John Bishop of Chester Case of conscience concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper These two last things were printed and go with Defensive doubts Comparison of the parliamentary protestation with the late canonical Oath and the difference between them as also the opposition between the doctrine of the Ch. of England and that of Rome c. Lond. 1641. quar Further discussion of the case of conscience touching receiving of the Sacrament Printed with the Comparison Examination of John Saltmarsh's new Query and determination upon it published to retard the establishment of the Presbyterial Government c. Lond. 1646. qu. Censure of what Mr. Saltmarsh hath produced to the same purpose in his other and
he was one of the pillars of Presbytery and by others a person learned and well read in the Fathers and Councils One Mr. Ley a learned Divine wrot a book about 1624. intit The Christian Nomenclator c. against the Papists mention'd in Joh. Gee's book intit The foot out of the snare c. Lond. 1624. qu. p. 17. in marg whether the same with our Author Joh. Ley I know not HENRY JACKSON Son of Hân Jacks Mercer was born in S. Maries parish within the City of Oxon admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. on the first of Dec. 1602 aged 17 years or thereabouts having for two years before been Clerk of the said house admitted probat Fellow thereof 5 of Sept. 1612 to the reading of the Sentences five years after and at length upon the death of Dr. Seb. Benefield sometimes his Tutor he became Rector of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire which was all the preferment he ever look'd after for being a studious and cynical person he never expected or desired more He was a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Joh. Rainolds whose memories being most dear to him he did for the sake of the first industriously collect and publish some of his small Treatises and of the latter several of his Epistles and Orations He also did diligently recognize and added marginal notes with a copious Index to the twelve books of Jo. Lud. Vives sometimes Rhetorick Reader of C. C. Coll. seven of the former of which are De corruptis Artibus the other five De tradendis disciplinis He had also made a Collection of several of the Works of Pet. Abaelard from antient MSS. of that Author had revised compared and collected them All which he did intend at his own charge to publish but the grand Rebellion breaking forth in 1642 the Soldiers belonging to the Parliament rifled his house scatter'd the said Collection and made it so imperfect that it could never be recovered He hath written Vita Ciceronis ex variis autoribus collecta Commentarii in Ciceronis Quaest lib. quintum Both which dedicated by the Author to Dr. Seb. Benefield are remaining under the Authors hand in my custody but whether they were ever printed I cannot tell He also translated from English into Latine Commentarii super 1 cap. Amos Openheim 1615. oct written by the said Dr. Benefield as I have elsewhere told you Also Joh. Fryth's book of Baptisme which he intituled De Baptismo cognitione sui next Joh. Hoopers Lectures on the Creed and lastly Hugh Latymers Oration to the Convocation concerning the state of the Kingdom to be reformed by the Gospel Which last Translation had before been done by Sim. Gryneus But whether these three last which are in MS. in my hands are published I cannot tell nor do I know any thing of the Translator besides only that he dying on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meis Hamp near to the grave of Dr. Benefield before mention'd I find another Hen. Jackson to be Author of The description of the little world or body of man printed 1660 in oct but of what University he was if of any I know not THOMAS MERRIOT was born at Steeple Langford in Wilts educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1610 aged 21 years or more took one degree in the Civil Law and for a time taught in the Grammar-school joyning to the Cloister there Afterwards being presented to the Vicaridge of Swaclyve near Banbury in Oxfordshire by the Warden and Society of the said Coll. he preached there and taught Grammar to the time of his death He hath written Vulgaria sive miscellanea prosaica hinc inde decerpta ad discipulos non vulgares è ludis literariis emittendos quà m maximè conducentia modo solerter edoceantur c. in novem classes distributa Oxon. 1652. oct Adagia selectissima c. Ib. eod an oct He died at Swaclyve on the 19 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and two after he had been Vicar of that place 38 years and was two days after buried in the Church there EDWARD STANLEY was born of gentile Parents in the Parish of S. Peter within the City of Chichester educated in Wykeham's School made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. 1608 aged 20 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts left the said Coll. in 1623 and was about that time made Master of the said School and afterwards Prebendary of Winchester and Doct. of Div. He hath published Several Sermons three of which were preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester The first on Sunday Aug. 19. an 1660 at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that Church on Psal 14.7 The second on Jan. 30. an 1661 being the Anniversary of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory on Jer. 4.20 And the third at the general Assize held at Winton 25 Feb. 1661. on Isay 1.26 Lond. 1662. in oct In which year the Author died and was buried at Winchester leaving then behind him the character of a learned godly and orthodox Minister of Gods word HENRY JEANES Son of Christop Jeanes of Kingston in Somersetshire was born at Allensay in that County as I have been informed by one of his rural disciples became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsomer term in the year 1626 aged 15 years where pecking and hewing continually at Logick and Physicks became a most noted and ready Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he removed to Hart Hall took holy Orders and soon after was cried up for a learned Preacher in the University In the beginning of Aug. 1635 he was presented by Sir Joh. Windham to the Rectory of Beer-Crocomb and Capland in Somersetshire and soon after became Vicar of Kingston in the same County At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians notwithstanding he had before while he continued in the University been a scoffer of them and when Dr. Walt. Raleigh was thrown out of Chedsey near Bridgwater he became Rector of the Church there where during the times of Usurpation he took into his family divers Youths designed for the University and read to them contrary to his Oath Logick and Philosophy and had often times set Disputations among them while he himself moderated He was a most excellent Philosopher a noted Metaphysitian and well grounded in polemical Divinity He was also a scholastical man a contemner of the World generous free-hearted jolly witty and facetious and in many things represented the humour of Dr. Rob. Wild the Poet. All which qualities do very rarely or seldom meet in men of the Presbyterian perswasion who generally are morose clownish and of sullen and reserved natures The books that he hath written and published are many the titles of most if not all follow Treatise concerning a Christians careful abstinence
Westminster near to the grave of his great Uncle Dr. Barnab Potter sometimes Bishop of Carlile While the said Ch. Potter was an Undergraduat of Ch. Ch Tho. Severne M. A. and Student thereof Son of Joh. Severne of Broadway afterwards of Powick in Woocestershire was his Tutor and wrot and composed the said Theses Quadragesimales and therefore he who is now living at Worcester is to be taken for the Author of that book much commended when it was first published JOHN HULETT Son of Silvester Hul. Gent. was born in London entred a Commoner in New Inn in the beginning of 1627 aged 20 took the degrees in Arts afterwards travelled into several parts of the World particularly into Russia and Muscovia and improved himself in several sorts of Learning especially in Geography and Mathematicks After his return he setled in Oxon taught Scholars those Arts and became a useful person in his generation He hath written and published Several Ephemerides Description and use of the Quadrant Quadrat Nocturnal Printed several times in octav He died in his Lodgings in Catstreet on the 21 day of December in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxford leaving then behind several written Specimens of his profession which without doubt might be useful if made extant JOHN TOY Son of Joh. Toy was born and bred in Grammar Learning within the City of Worcester became either a Servitor or Batler of Pembroke Coll. in 1627 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts entred into Orders and became Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford under which title he took the degree of Master of Arts in 1634. Afterwards he was made Master of the Free then of the Kings School within the place of his nativity which last he kept for 20 years space and furnished the Universities with several hopeful youths He hath written and published Worcesters Elegie and Eulogie Lond. 1638. quar a Poem Before which Will. Rowland the Poet mentioned among these Writers under the year 1659. hath two Lat. Copies of Verses Quisquiliae poeticae tyrunculis in re metrica non inutilis Lond. 1662. oct Fun. Serm. on Mrs. .... Tomkyns on Job 14.14 Printed 1642. qu. And whether he was Author of Grammatices Graecae Enchiridion in usum scholae Collegialis Wigooniae Lond. 1650. oct I know not yet to the contrary He gave up the ghost on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester Over his grave was a Mon. soon after put with an Inscription thereon wherein he is stiled Vir ingenii perpoliti industriae indefessae eruditionis singularis eximiae morum sanctitatis vitae integer pubis constituendae scientissimus pietate fide modestia gravitate nullâque non virtute spectabilis c. WILLIAM PAGE received his first breath in the Parish of Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex applied his mind to Academical Studies in Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1606 aged 16 took the degrees in Arts and in the year 1619 was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. Afterwards by the favour of Dr. Laud Bishop of London he succeeded Dr. Joh. Denison in the Rectory of the Free-school at Reading and about the same time was presented by the Society of the said Coll. to the Rectory of East Lockyng near to Wantage in Berks which he kept to the time of his death but his School not for he was sequestred of it by the Committee of Parliament in 1644. In the year 1â34 he proceeded Doctor of Divinity at which time and after he was esteemed well vers'd in the Greek Fathers a good Preacher and Disputant He hath written A Treatise of justification of bowing at the name of Jesus by way of answer to an Appendix against it Oxon. 1631. qu. An examination of such considerable reasons as are made by Mr. Prynne in a reply to Mr. Widdowes concerning the same Argument Printed with the former Of which Treatise or Treatises I find in a letter written by Will. Baker Secretary to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury directed to the Author Page these passages following Good Mr. Page my Lord of Canterbury is informed that you are publishing a Treatise touching the question of Bowing at the name of Jesus an Argument wherein Mr. Giles Widdowes foolishly and Mr. W. Prynne scurrilously have already to the scandal and disquiet of the Church exercised their pens His Grace hath formerly shewed his dislike of them both and hearing that you take up the bucklers in a theam of so small necessity and of so great heat and distemper which will draw a new Reply for Prynne will not sit down as an idle spectator and beget bitterness and intestine Contestations at home among our selves he is much offended that you do stickle and keep on foot such questions which may be better sopited and silenced than maintained and drawn into sidings and partakings And therefore I am wished to advise you to withdraw your self from these or the like domestick broyles and if your Treatise be at the press to gve it a stop and by no means suffer it to be divulged c. This Letter being written at Lambeth 31 May 1632 the Contents thereof flew to Fulham where finding Dr. Laud B. of London he wrot this following Letter to the Vicechanc. of the Univ. of Oxon dated 22 June following Sir these are to pray and require you in his Majesties name that a book lately printed at Oxon and made by Mr. Page of Allsoules College be presently set to sale and published It is as I am informed in defence of the Canon of the Church about bowing at the name of Jesus and modestly and well written And his Majesty likes not that a Book boldly and ignorantly written by Mr. Prynne against the Church should take place as the Churches opinion against her self or as unable to be answer'd by the Church c. What else our Author Page hath written are Certain Animadversions upon some passages in a Tract concerning Schisme and Schismatiques c. Oxon 1642. qu. Which Tract was written by J. Hales of Eaton The Peace-maker or a brief motive to Unity and Charity in Religion Lond. 1652. in 16o. He hath also published a Serm. on 1 Tim. 5.3.4.5 Printed in qu. which I have not yet seen and also translated from Lat. into Engl. Tho. à Kempis his Treatise De imitatione Christi in 4 books Oxon. 1639. in tw Before which Translation by him amended and corrected he hath set a large Epistle to the Reader This Dr. Page departed this mortal life in the Parsonoge-house of Lockyng before mentioned on the 24 of Febr. being then Ashwednesday in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by Mr. George Ashwell who had the care of his Library and Interment committed to him See more in Dr. Sam. Page under the year 1630.
Slingsby of Red-house in Yorksh and Dr. Joh. Hewit Jun. 2. an 1658. 3 Speech when he gave sentence of death on Colonel Edw. Ashton Edm. Stacy Oliv. Allen Will. Carrent Joh. Betteley Hen. Fryer and Joh. Sumner July 2. 1658 c. Which Speeches I have seen printed Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a conference had with Oliver L. Protector at Whitehall in Apr. 1657. Pr. at Lond. 1660. in oct with other Conferences and Speeches to the same purpose made by others among whom are Rog. Boyle Baron of Broghill in Ireland Sir Charles Wolseley Sir Rich. Onslow of Surrey c. all Oliver's Lords A little before the Return of K. Ch. 2. he with other Regicides fled beyond the seas and L'isle setling at Losanna he was treated by the Magistracy of that Town as Chancellour of England being always vested with the robe of that dignity At length certain Irish-men taking it as a grand Affront that the people of that place should harbour him as they did Edm. Ludlow Will. Goffe Edward Whaley c. for a time and shew him so much respect and honour as they did one of them ventred upon him as he was going to Church accompanied with the chief Magistracy and shot him with a Musquetoon dead in the place on the 21 of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and four Which done two more Irish men rode into the press and trampling on the body of L'isle with their horses feet fled into the Guards and escaped with little hurt Afterwards he was buried with solemnity in the said Church there as I have been credibly informed leaving then behind him a Widow named Alice who for entertaining one Joh. Hicks a Non-conformist Minister and a Follower of James Duke of Monmouth in the time of his Rebellion was for High Treason therefore beheaded at Winchester on the 2 of Sept. 1685. In like manner did before fall one Isaac Dorislaus or Dorislaw a Dutch-man born originally a Schoolmaster and afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law at Leyden Whence coming into England upon no good account was entertained by Fulk Lord Brook and by him appointed to read a History Lecture in Cambridge which he was about to found some years before his death But in his very first Lectures decrying Monarchy was upon the complaint of Dr. Jo. Cosin Master of Peter-house to the Vicechanc. which afterwards came to his Majesties knowledge silenced and about that time marrying an English woman near to Maldon in Essex lived there for some time Afterwards he became Judge Advocate in the King's Army in one of his Expeditions against the Scots Advocate in the Army against the King under Robert Earl of Essex afterwards under Sir Tho. Fairfax and at length one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and an Assistant in drawing up and managing the Charge against K. Ch. 1. in order to his Execution I say that this Dorislaus did fall as L'isle afterwards did for he being thought to be the only fit man to be sent by the Parliament as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute their designs he arrived at the Hague in good Equipage in the beginning of May 1649 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then there in his Exile Which bold and impudent act being much regretted by certain generous Royalists attending his said Majesty about 12 of them in disguise repaired to his Lodging and finding him at supper stab'd him in several places and cut his throat whereupon one of them said Thus dyes one of the Kings Judges This generous Action was performed on the 6 of May or thereabouts but reported by the generality to be performed by one Col. Walt. Whitford Son of Dr. Walt. Whitford of Monckland in Scotland by cleaving his head asunder with a broad sword Afterwards they quietly departed and 't was not known but privately for some time after who did the fact Within few days following this desperate Attempt coming to the knowledge of the Parliament they became so much enraged that they resolved to sacrifice the life of a certain Royalist of note then in their custody and certainly they had done it had he not made a timely escape Afterwards they caused the body of Dorislaus to be conveyed into England and to be buried with solemnity in the Abbey Church at Westminster on the 14 of June following where continuing till Sept. 1661 was then taken up with the bodies of other Cromwellians and buried in a hole in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning He hath published as 't is said several things but all that I have seen of his is De praelio Nuportano Lond. 1640. in 4 sheets and half in qu. JAMES LAMB Son of Rich. Lamb was born in All-saints Parish within the City of Oxon 2 Febr. 1598 bred in the Free-school joyning to Magd. Coll was a Communer for a time of Brasn Coll. and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1615 and then or soon after translated himself to S. Maries Hall Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Southampton and after the Kings restoration in 1660 he was not only actually created D. of D. as a member sometimes of the said Hall but for his sufferings as a Loyalist was made Canon of Westminster and Rector of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London He had a most exact stile in penning and in discoursing was a sententious and acute Preacher and above all had an excellent faculty in opening and explaining the Oriental Languages He hath written Grammatica Arabica In 3. vol. in qu. Danielis Prophetiae Liber Syriace In one vol. qu. Collectiones ad Lexicon Arabicum spectantia formâ oblonga In 4. vol. oct Flexio Verborum Arabicorum In one octavo All which are written with his own hand and are at this day kept as rarities in the Bodleian Library He died in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster near to the stairs going up to the Pulpit and not far from the grave of Dr. Samuel Bolton on the twentieth day of Octob. RICHARD BYFIELD half Brother to Nich. Byfield mentioned under the year 1622 was born in Worcestershire and at 16 years of age in 1615 became either a Servitour or Batler of Queens Coll. in Mich. term Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he left the University and through some petite employments of which the Curacy or Lectureship of Istleworth was one became Rector of Long Ditton in Surrey a leading man for carrying on the blessed cause a reformer of his Church of Superstition as he called it by plucking up the steps leading to the Altar and levelling it lower than the rest of the Chancel by denying his Parishioners particularly his Patron that gave him L. Ditton the Sacrament unless they would take it any way except kneeling c. He was one of the Assemb of Divines a great Covenantier an eager
last day was succeeded therein by Tho. Hyde of Qu. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Hyde B. of Salisbury This Dr. Wall was a quaint Preacher in the age he lived and Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincolne did use to give this character of him while he remained with him in his family that he was the best read in the Fathers of any he ever knew The truth is he was always a severe student lived a retired life and spent his time in celebacy and books His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Sermon at Shelford in Nottinghamshire on the death of Mr. John Stanhop Son and Heir to Philip Lord Stanhop Baron of Shelford whose Corps was translated from Ch. Ch. in Oxon to the sepulchers of his Fathers in the Church of Shelford on 2. Sam. 12.23 Lond. 1623. oct 2 Jacobs Ladder on 1. Pet. 5.6 Oxon. 1626. oct 3 Alae Seraphicae The Seraphins wings to raise us unto heaven in six sermons partly at S. Peters in Westminster partly at S. Aldates in Oxon. Lond. 1627. qu. The first of which is entit The Souls Ornament on Cantic 8.6 4 Christian progress serm at Shelford in Nott. on Matth. 21.9 Oxon. 1627. oct 5 The Lion in the Lamb or strength in weakness serm at Shelf in Not. on Rev. 7.10 Oxon. 1628. oct 6 Christian reconcilement or God at peace with man in Christ serm at S. Maries in Oxon. on Rom. 5.11 Lond. 1658. oct 7 Sermon on Rom. 10.15 Printed 1627. oct This last I have not yet seen Ramus Olivae sive concio habita ad clerum in templo B. Mariae Oxon 8. Junii pro inchoando termino in Luc. 24.36 Oxon. 1653. in a small oct Dedicated to Oliver Cromwell Solomon in solio Christus in Ecclesia sive concio latinè habita ad clerum in templo B. Mariae Oxon. primo Maii in Cantic 3.9.10 Oxon. 1660. oct He paid his last debt to nature in his Lodgings in Peckwater quadrangle belonging to Ch. Ch. on the 20 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in the second Isle joyning to Ch. Ch. choir on the North side See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 287. The Reader is now to know that this Person having got a plentiful estate in and from his College did a little before his death shew himself upon some small distast so ungrateful to it that instead of bestowing moneys thereon to carry on the publick buildings belonging thereunto he gave a thousand and twenty pounds to the City of Oxon to be employed for certain charitable uses and a greater sum to two flattering Persons that wanted it not or were any thing of kin to or cared a straw for him The picture of this Dr. Wall drawn to the life with his doctoral habit and square cap hangs at this day in the Council Chamber belonging to the City of Oxon joyning on the East side to the upper Gild-hall Besides this John Wall was another of both his names and time Bach. of Divinity somtimes Minister in Colchester afterwards Preacher of Gods word at S. Michaels Cornhill in London Author of None but Christ or a plain and familiar treatise of the knowledge of Christ exciting all men to study to know Jesus Christ and him crucified with a particular applicatory and saving knowledge in divers sermons on 1. Cor. 2.2 Lond. 1648 50. 56. oct But this John Wall who was a Presbyterian and much favoured by Sir Harbottle Grimstone was as it seems educated in Cambridge WILLIAM TOWERS son of Dr. Jo. Towers Bishop of Peterborough was born in Northamptonshire elected from Westm School Student of Ch. Ch. an 1634 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated an 1641. In the latter end of the year following he was made Prebendary of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Jo. Pocklington deceased and in 1644 Parson of Barnack in Northamptonshire Both which were only titular to him for some years In 1646 a little before the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred to the Parliament to which place he had retired for refuge he was actually created Bach. of Divinity and afterwards being deprived of all his spiritualities was patronized by Francis Lord Newport and lived upon mean places and employments the last of which before his Majesties restauration was the Curatship of Upton near Northampton Afterwards he was restored to his Preb. of Peterborough and Parsonage of Barnack and had that of Fisberton near Lincolne confer'd upon him His works of learning are these Atheismus Vapulans a treatise against Atheisme Lond. 1654. oct Published also before that time without the authors name to it Polytheismus Vapulans or a treatise proving that there is a God Printed with the former book Several Sermons as 1 Sermon against murder occasion'd by the Massacre of the Protestants in the Dukedome of Savoy on Exod. 20.13 Lond. 1655. qu. 2 Obedience perpetually due to Kings on Psal 21.1 Lond 1660. qu. 3 Thanksgiving Sermon for the blessed restauration of K. Ch. 2 on Psal 21. former part of the first verse Lond. 1660. qu. c. At length this loyal and religious Person W. Towers going from his rectory of Fisberton to visit some friends living at Uffington near to Stanford in Lincolnshire fell sick there and dying on the 20. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six was buried two days after in the Chancel of the Church at that place Soon after was a little inscription put over his grave but removed some years after when the Chancel was new paved after a burying vault had been made under part of it JAMES SHIRLEY the most noted drammatick Poet of his time did make his first entry on the stage of this transitory world in or near the Parish of S. Mary Wool-church where the Stocksâmarket now is within the City of London was descended from the Shirleys of Sussex or Warwickshire as by his Arms if he had right to them painted over his picture hanging in the School-gallery at Oxon appears educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Taylors School and transplanted thence to S. Johns Coll. but in what condition he lived there whether in that of a Servitour Batler or Commoner I cannot yet find At the same time Dr. Will. Laud presiding that house he had a very great affection for him especially for the pregnant parts that were visible in him but then having a broad or large mole upon his left cheek which some esteemed a deformity that worthy Doctor would often tell him that he was an unfit Person to take the sacred function upon him and should never have his consent so to do Afterwards leaving this University without a degree he went to Cambridge where I presume he took those in Arts so that soon after entring into holy Orders he became a Minister of God's word in or near to S. Albans in Hertfordshire But being then unsetled in his mind he changed his Religion for that of
settlement of such a government as he never intended Wr. in prose 15 Private address to Oliver offering things pertinent to his consideration This written in prose and verse was sealed up and given into his hands 16 Addr. to Oliver for the third of Sept. 1658. Given also into his own hands 17 Addr. to Rich. Cromwell Given into his own hands These four last things contained the duties and failings of Ol. and Richard and forewarnings of what soon after came to pass There also goes about in Ms his Poem of the History of the pestilence or proceedings of justice and mercy being the same I suppose which I have before mention'd He hath also translated from Greek into English with the help only of two copies The nature of man printed 1636 in tw Written originally by Nemesius At length after this our author George Wither had lived to the age of 79 years mostly spent in a rambling and unsetled condition concluded this life on the second day of May in sixteen hundred sixty and seven Whereupon his body was buried between the east door and south end of the Church which stands north and south belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the Strand near London One George Wither was a Dignitary in the Church and a Writer before the former George was born as I have told you in the Fasti an 1565 but what relation there was between them I cannot tell JAMES SMITH son of Tho. Smith Rector of Merston in Bedfordshire and Brother to Dr. Tho. Smith sometimes an eminent Physician of Brasn Coll was born in the said Town of Merston matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1622 3 aged 18 years and soon after was transplanted to Linc. Coll. where he continued for some years a Commoner Thence he was preferred to be Chaplain at Sea to Henry Earl of Holland who was Admiral of a squadron of Ships sent for a supply to the Isle of Ree Afterwards he was domestick Chaplain to Tho. Earl of Cleevland who had an especial respect for him for his ingenuity and excellent parts In his service he continued six years had a benefice in Lincolnshire which he kept for a time and in 1633 took the degree of Bach. of Div. by accumulation being then much in esteem with the poetical Wits of that time particularly with Philip Massenger who callâd him his Son Will. D'avenant John Mennes c. From his Benefice in Lincolnsh he removed to Kings Nimphton in Devons and leaving a Curat there he went as Chaplain to the before mention'd Earl of Holland Lieutenant General of the English Forces in the first expedition against the Scots Returning thence soon after he setled at Kings Nimphton where he resided during all the changes of government by compliance with the power that was uppermost After his Majesties return he was made one of the Canons of S. Peters Cathedral in Exeter Archdeacon of Barnstaple Chaplain to Edw. Earl of Clarendon and in July 1661 he was actually created Doct. of Divinity In the next year he became Chauntor of Exeter in the place of Dr. S. Ward promoted to the Episcopal See of that place and in 1663 was presented to the rectory of Alphyngton in Devonshire at which time he resigned Kings Nymphton and his Archdeaconry where he finished his course His chief works that are of Poetry are in Musarum delitiae or the muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656 oct second edit See more in John Mennes under the year 1670. and also in another book entit Wit restored in several select poems Lond. 1658. oct Which book I say is mostly of our author Smiths composition At the end of which is his translation or poem called The innovation of Penelope and Ulysses a mock poem Lond. 1658. oct And at the end of that also is Cleavlands Rebel Scot translated into Latine He also composed Certain Anthems Not the musical but poetical part of them which are to this day used and sung in the Cath. Ch. at Exeter At length paying his last debt to nature at Alphyngton on the 20. day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and seven his body was conveyed to Kings Nimphton before mention'd and was buried in the Chancel belonging to the Church there near to the body of Elizabeth his first Wife Over their graves was soon after put a comely monument with an inscription thereon enlarged after the death of his second Wife who died 4 years after him the contents of which shall now for brevity sake be omitted JOHN BERY or Bury was born in Devonshire admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 9. Feb. 1597 and in the year 1603 he being then Bach. of Arts became tanquam socius of Balliol Coll. or the first Fellow that was put in there to receive the benefaction of Peter Blundell by the appointment of Sir John Popham L. Ch. Justice of the Kings bench Afterwards he took the degree of Master and retiring to his own Country became Minister of Heavietree Canon of Exeter and Rector of Widworthie In Dec. 1643 were the Chancellors letters read in a Convocation of Doctors and Masters in the behalf of him the said Bury then Bach. of Div. as in the said letters is expressed that he might be actually created Doctor of that faculty but he being then absent in the Kings service he was to have that degree confer'd upon him when he should desire it but whether he did so or was diplomated it appears not in the registers He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The School of godly fear an Assize Sermon at Exeter 20. March 1614 on 1. Pet. 1.17 Lond. 1615. qu. 2 The moderate Christian preached at Exeter at a triennial visitation on 1. Cor. 10. vers ult Lond. 1631. qu. c. Gods method for mans salvation or a guide to heaven leading between errors on both hands c. Lond. 1661. in two sheets in oct 'T is a Catechisme for the use of his Parishioners at Widworthie What else he hath published I know not nor any thing besides of him only that he dying on the 5 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 87 years or thereabouts was buried in the Cathedral Church at Exeter having been before a liberal Benefactor to the Work-house belonging to that City as I have been informed by his Son Arthur GEORGE HUGHES distinguished while living from others of his sirname by the addition of Plymouth to his was born of a Plebeian family in Surrey particularly as I have been informed by a learned Nonconformist in the Borough of Southwark was sent by his relations to Corp. Ch. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1619 where continuing in the condition of a Clerk or Chorister till he had compleated his Bachelaurs degree by Determination translated himself to Pembroke Coll took the degree of Master of Arts as a member thereof entred into the sacred function and for a time exercised the Ministry in
by the death of Dr. Isaac Bargrave Dean of Canterbury Which being accordingly done as much as laid in the Arbishops power Mr. Reading did not receive any profit from it or from a Prebendship of Canterbury about that time bestowed on him because much opposed by Sir Nath. Brent Vicar-General In the month of July 1644 Sir Will. Brockman did freely bestow upon him the Parsonage of Cheriton in Kent and about the same time he was appointed by the Ass of Divines to be one of the nine Divines to write Annotations on the New Test Not long after upon the discovery of a plot for the taking of Dover Castle by the Cavaliers he was inhumanely seised on in a cold winter night in his house in Cheriton by the command of Major Boys Son of Sir Edw. before mention'd and hurried to Dover Castle and the next day sent to that of Leedes with many others of the Town of Dover Where continuing for some time he composed the book called The guide to the holy city At length being discharged from his imprisonment by the Committee of those parts they ordered also his Goods that had been plundered should be restored to him However Boys of Chilham a Sequestrator different from either of the former had money of him before he would part with them On the 10 of March 1650 he publickly disputed upon the receipt of a Challenge some days before with Sam. Fisher an Anabaptist in Folkston Church in Kent The subject of the debate was Whether all Christians indefinitely were equally and eternally obliged to preach the Gospel without ecclesiastical ordination or contrary to the commands of the civil Magistrate or to that purpose Fisher pleaded the affirmative fetching most of his Arguments from Jer. Taylors Discourse of the liberty of prophecying After the debate was ended our Author Reading thought himself obliged to answer several passages in the said book of Dr. Taylor which gave too great a seeming advantage to Fanaticism and Enthusiasm In the year 1660 May 25 about which time he was restored to his Cure at Dover he spake a short Speech to his Maj. Ch. 2 at his first landing there to take possession of those Kingdoms from whence he by a barbarous Usurpation had been ejected Which being done he presented to him a large Bible with gold Clasps in the name of the Corporation of Dover About that time he was restored to his Prebendship of Canterbury and Rectory of Chartham near it which he kept to his dying day He was in the opinion of many a severe Calvinist and one who had not only defended the irresistability of Grace in several Sermons in opposition to what Joh. Goodwin had delivered in the same Parish Ch. of S. Mary in Dover but in his oral disputes with Fisher the Anabaptist being then as zealous in disproving that mans tenet of Universal Redemption as he was in asserting Paedobaptism against Reading Farther since his Maj. return he did in a publick Sermon in the Cath. Ch. at Canterbury reprehend and disprove some doctrine to that effect which had been in the same place then lately delivered by Dr. Thom. Pierce Prebendary of that Church He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 A fair warning after sickness Lond. 1623. qu. 2 Job's hour a funeral Sermon at Dover 10 Mar. 1623. Lond. 1624. qu. 3 Moses and Jethro or the good Magistrate preached at S. Maries in Dover on the election day on Exod. 18.24 Lond. 1626. qu. 4 Davids soliloquy containing many comforts for afflicted minds in sundry sermons at S. Maries in Dover on Psal 42.11 Lond. 1627. in tw 5 Characters of true blessedness preached in the same Church 21 Sept. 1637 at the funeral of Mrs. Alice Percivall wife of Anth. Percivall Esq on Psal 84.4.5 Lond. 1638. in tw dedic to the said Anthony then Captain of Arcliff Bulwark near Dover Comptroller for his Majesties Customs in Kent c. with several other sermons printed 1621. 1642. c. which I have not yet seen Brief instruction concerning the holy Sacrament for their use who prepare themselves to receive the Lords Supper Lond. 1645. oct A guide to the holy city or directions and helps to an holy life c. Oxon. 1651. qu. An antidote against Anabaptisme in a reply to the plea for Anabaptists Or animadversions on that part of Liberty of prophecying which in sect 18. p. 223. beareth this title A particular consideration of the opinions of the Anabaptists Lond. 1654. qu. In another title of this book which bears date 1655 it runs thus A particular answer to all that is alledged in favour of the Anabaptists by Dr. Jer. Taylor in his book called The liberty of prophecying In the 18 Section of which the Doctor hath mention'd more or things in more plausible terms than ever the Anabaptists have alledged for their own opinions Survey of the controverted points concerning 1 Infant baptism 2 Pretended necessity of Dipping 3 The dangerous practice of reâbaptizing This was printed with the Antidote 1654. qu. and is sometimes called Anabaptisme routed c. An Evening sacrifice or prayers for a family in these times of calamity Speech made before K. Ch. 2. on the shore where he landed at Dover 25 May 1660. Lond. 1660. on one side of a sh of paper To which is added a Lat. copy of Verses with their English by Rich. Bradshaw This our Author Mr. Reading who had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in affliction surrendred up his last breath on the 26 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 30 of the said month in the chancel of his parish Church of Chartham near to Canterbury before mention'd leaving then behind him fit for the press 1 Several Sermons preach'd before the King 2 Comments on the whole Bible The former are in the hands of Joh. Reading his son living in Essex and the other in those of William another son living in Dover 3 A whip for sacriledge Written in answer to a Pamphlet of Anth. Parsons intit The great case of tithes This Whip is contained in 13 sheets and is now in the hands of Basil Kennet M. A. of the University of Dublin Rector of Dimchurch and Vicar of Postling in Kent 4 A Lat. MS. in fol. containing a large Comment Paraphrase and Explication on the whole New Testament dedic to General George Monke and sent to be printed at Lond. in 1666 but being prevented by the great fire that hapned there that year it was delivered into the hands of Dr. Wrenn Bishop of Ely and whether it be recovered from the hands of his heirs or executors I know not The said Mr. Kennet hath also another Tract concerning Proper sacrifice in vindication of Sir Edw. Deering from the attempts of a popish Priest or Jesuit but being imperfect 't was not design'd I presume by the Author Mr. Reading for the press WILLIAM THOMAS was born in a mercate Town in Shropshire called Whitchurch
author It was printed at the end of a second Edition of the said Certain verses c. with Hero and Leander a mock Poem The first days entertainment at Rutland house by Declamations and Musick Lond. 1657. oct Published in Sept. 1656 notwithstanding the nicety of those times Play-house to be let containing the History of S. Franc. Drake and the cruelty of the Spaniards at Perue Com. News from Plymouth Com. Law against Lovers Co. The Distresses Tr. The Siege Co. or Tr. Co. Fair favourite Co. A Panegyrick to his excellency the Lord Gener. Monk Lond. 1659. On one side of a sheet of paper printed in the beginning of March the same year A Poem upon his Majesties most happy return to his dominions Lond. 1660 qu. The Siege of Rhodes Tr. Com. in two parts Lond. 1663 qu. c. Poem on the Kings most sacred Majestie Lond. 1663. qu. Man 's the Master Com. Lond. 1669. qu. Poems on several occasions The Tempest or the enchanted Island Com. Lond. 1676. qu. This play was originally Shakespears whom and his works D'avenant much admired as those that have seen his Sea Voyage may easily discern The seventh or last canto of the third book of Gondibert Lond. 1685. oct never before printed Most of which Comedies Tragedies Trag. Com. Masques and Poems were printed together in a large folio Lond. 1672. 3. with the authors picture before them adorned with a wreath of Lawrel and a notch in his nose as over the first letter of his sirname At length this noted and celebrated author having lived to about his grand climecterical year made his last exit in his house in Little Lincolns-inn Fields in the Parish of S. Clement Danes near London on the seventh day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was two days after buried in the s Cross Isle or south trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster without any Lawrel upon his Coffin which I presume was forgotten His body was deposited in the very place or near it where his Antagonist Tho. May the English Lucan had been buried of whom I shall speak more anon and in the mean time give you the Epitaph of Sir Will. D'avenant made on him soon after his death which runs thus Here lies a Subject of immortal praise Who did from Phoebus hand receive his bayes Admir'd by all envied alone by those Who for his glories made themselves his foes Such were his virtues that they could command A general applause from every hand His Exit then this on record shall have A Clap did usher D'avenant to his grave In the office of Poet Laureat succeeded Joh. Driden Son of Erasmus Driden of Tichmersh in Northamptonshire third Son of Erasm Driden of Canons Ashby in the same County Baronet which John was born at Oldwincle called by some Aldwincle near to Oundle in the same County being the very same place that gave breath to Dr. Tho. Fuller the Historian educated in Grammar learning in the College School in Westminster elected thence a Scholar of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge an 1650 and is now highly celebrated among ingenious men for his poetry and other polite learning As for Tho. May before mentioned he was the Son of Tho. May of Mayfield in Sussex Knight by his Wife the Daughter of .... Rich of Hornden on the hill in Essex was educated in all kind of humane learning when he was a youth and in Academical in his manly years in Cambridge Afterwards his genie being chiefly enclined to Poetry he retired to and mostly lived in the City of Westminster where performing divers things for the honour of this nation never paralell'd by any English man before was graciously countenanced by K. Ch. 1. and his royal Consort but he finding not that preferment from either which he expected grew discontented sided with the Presbyterians upon the turn of the times became a Debauchee ad omnia entertained ill principles as to Religion spoke often very slightly of the Holy Trinity kept beastly and atheistical company of whom Tho. Chaloner the Regecide was one and endeavour'd to his power to asperse and invalidate the King and his cause Among several things that he hath written and translated some are these 1 The Trag. of Antigone the Theban Princess Lond. 1631. oct â The Heir a Com. Acted 1620. Lond. 1633. qu. 3 The victorious raign of K. Ed. 3. in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct Written in verse by the special command of K. Ch. 1. 4 The raign of Hen. 2. Lond. in oct Written also in verse and dedicated to K. Ch. 1. 5 Trag. of Cleopatra Qu. of Aegypt Acted 1626. Lond. 1639. oct Dedic to Sir Ken. Digby 6 Trag. of Julia Agrippina Empress of Rome Acted 1628. Lond. 1639. oct 7 Supplementum Lucani lib. vii Lugd. Bat. 1640. oct Written in so lofty and happy Lat. Hexameter that he hath attained to much more reputation abroad than he hath lost at home 8 The old couple Com. Lond. in qu. 9 Historiae Parliamenti Angliae Breviarium tribus partibus explicitum Lond. 1649 or thereabout in oct It was afterwards translated into English by the Author with this title Breviary of the History of the Parliament of England in three parts c. Lond. 1655. oct see edit Before which is the picture of the author in a cloak with a wreath of Laurel over his head He hath also translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 Lucans Pharsalia or the civil wars of Rome between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar In 10 books Lond. 1635. oct third edit with annotations made by Th. May on each book 2 A continuation of the subject of Lucans Historical poem till the death of Julius Caesar in 7. books Lond. 1635. oct sec edition with annotations made by Tho. May on each book 3 Virgils Georgicks four books Lond. 1622. oct with annotations on each book 4 Selected Epigrams of Martial Lond. 1629. oct At length this Person Tho. May who had been favoured by the rebellious Parliament so much as to be made their Historian going well to bed was therein found next morning dead an 1650 occasion'd as some say by tying his night-cap too close under his fat chin and cheeks which choak'd him when he turned on the other side Afterwards his body being conveyed to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster was buried on the west side of the large south Isle or transcept there And soon after had a large monument of white marble set in the w. Wall over his grave with this inscription thereon made by March Nedham Quem Anglicana Respub habuit vindicem ornamentum literaria secli sui Vatum celeberrimus deliciae futuri Lucanus alter plusquam Romanus Historicus fidus Equitis aurati filius primogenitus Thomas Maius h. s e. Qui paternis titulis claritatis suae specimen usque adeo superaddidit ut à supremo Anglorum senatu ad annales suos conscribendos fuerit ascitus Tandem fide
intemeratâ Parliamento praestitâ morte inopinâ noctu correptus diem suum obiit id Nov. A o libertatis humanae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo. A o libertatis Angliae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo. Aetatis suae Lv. Hoc in honorem servi tam bene meriti Parliament Reipub. Angl. P. P. Soon after was an Epitaph made in answer to it beginning thus Asta viator poetam legas Lucani interpretem quem ita feliciter Anglicanum fecerat ut Maius simul Lucanus videbatur c. But before his body had rested in the said South Isle eleven years 't was taken up with other bodies that had been unwarrantably buried there from 1641. to his Majesties restauration and buried in a large pit in the yard belonging to S. Margarets Church in Westminster where to this day it continueth At the same time his monument also was taken down and throw'd aside and in the place of it was set up that of Dr. Tho. Triplet an 1670. ALEXANDER HUISH was born in the Parish of S. Cuthbert within the City of Wells became either a Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall 1609 from whence being taken by the Foundress of Wadham Coll. was made by her one of the original Scholars thereof an 1613 and in the same year he took the degree of Bach. of Arts being the first of all that obtained that degree as a member of that College Afterwards being Master of his faculty he entred into holy Orders became a noted Preacher and in the year 1627 was admitted to the reading of the sentences Afterwards he was made Rector of Beckington and of Hornbloton in Sommersetshire the last of which he obtained on the death of Thom. Clarke by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Milbourne Esq in the beginning of Febr. 1638. Afterwards he became a sharer of afflictions for the Kings cause in the sad time of rebellion and tho driven from place to place yet in the quiet repose that he sometimes obtained he did improve his talent for the publick good of learning After the return of his Maj. Ch. 2. an 1660 he was restored to what he before had lost and the same year Sept. 12 he was collated to the Prebendship of Whitlackington in the Church of Wells the gift of which he had before obtained He was a person well read in the Fathers a noted Critick a good Linguist and a solid and sober Divine He hath written Lectures on the Lords Prayer in three parts Lond. 1626. qu. He also was much assisting to Dr. Brian Walton in the compleating the Polyglot Bible was one of the four correctors of it at the Press and took great pains in the Septuagint translation the Greek text of the New Testament and the vulgar latine compared with the most antient Alexandrian MS copy with the old edit of the Septuagint printed at Rome according to the Vatican copy and Rob. Stephens his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament and did diligently collect the various readings of the Alexandrian Copy which are throughout the work put under the Roman edition of the Septuagint and Stephens's edition of the Greek text of the New Testament In the sixth vol. of the said Polyglot Bible our author Huish hath a Greek Hymn with the latine to it written by him on S. Hilaries day 13. Janu. Styl vet 1657 8 in the year of his great climacteric 63. At length having lived beyond the age of man and done extraordinary benefit for the common good died in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried either at Beckington or Hornbloton In his Prebendship succeeded Henry Dutton Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon to which he was collated on the 22. of April in the same year See more of Alex. Huish in the first vol. an 1617 in John Flavell nu 447. GEORGE HALL son of Dr. Joseph Hall sometimes Bishop of Exeter and afterwards of Norwich was born at Waltham Abbey in Essex where his Father had been a constant Preacher for above 20 years had the seeds of virtue sown in him very early by his said Father who when this his Son was ripe for the Univ. sent him to Exeter Coll. an 1628 aged 16 years Where living in the condition of a commoner under a noted and careful Tutor he became Fellow of that house an 1632 and afterwards proceeding in Arts took holy Orders became Archdeacon of Cornwall and Vicar of Mayhenet in that County What his sufferings were in the time of rebellion I know not Sure I am that several years before his Majesties restauration he was first preacher of S. Barthelmews near to the Old Exchange and afterwards Vicar of S. Botolphs Church without Aldersgate in London and that after his Majesties restauration he became one of his Chaplains Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. G. Goodman who had held it in Commendam with the See of Glocester Doctor of Divinity actually created and Archdeacon of Canterbury At length upon the death of Dr. Hen. Ferne he was consecrated Bishop of Chester on the eleventh day of May an 1662 and about the same time had the rectory of Wigan in Lancashire confer'd on him by Sir Orlando Bridgman then chief Justice of the Common-pleas Which rich rectory he kept in Commendam with his See to his dying day He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 Gods appearing for the tribe of Levie Serm. preached at S. Pauls 8. Nov. 1655 to the Sons of the Ministers on Rom. 8.31 Lond. 1656. qu. 2 Serm. at Court on Psal 7.9 Lond. 1666. oct c. He hath also written a book against Papists and Popery entit The triumphs of Rome over despised protestancy Lond. 1655. qu. there again 1667. oct He paid his last debt to nature in the rectory house at Wigan before mentioned on the 23. of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried at the east end of the Rectors Chancel there Over his grave was soon after a large marble stone laid with this inscription thereon P. M. S. ejus repostus pulvere in sacro cinis expectat istic ultimae sonum Tubae mendace qui ne falleret titulo lapis sonum hoc sepulchro jussit incidi suo Georgius Hall S. Th. Pr. Ecclesiae dei servus inutilis sed cordatus D. Josephi Hall Praesulis pientissimi primo Exoniensis dein Norwicensis scriptis semper victuri filius imo umbra potius sex inter septemque annos sedit non meruit Cestriae Episcopus denatus aetatis suae anno LV. Christi vero MDCLXVIII Mirare lector Praesulis modestiam aliunde quaeras caetera By his last Will and Test he gave to Exeter Coll. after the decease of his Wife Gertrude who was afterwards buried under the same marble his Golden cup and all his Estate of land at Trethewen in S. Germans in Cornwall to the end that they be employed to the best commodity
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 ââttels 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
he wrot a scoffing ballad At length he having lived beyond the age of man concluded his last day in the Navy-Office in Seething-lane within the City of London on Saturday the 18. of Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventy Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chancel of the Church of S. Olaves in Hart-street on the 27 day of the same month Soon after was a neat monument erected over his grave with an inscription thereon much becoming the person for whom it was set up His eldest Brother which his Father had by his first Wife Elizabeth Warham was named Matthew who was created Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 1. The second was named Thomas who was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Sandwych in Janu. 1631. EDWARD LEIGH Esq Son of Hen. Leigh was born at Shawell in Leycestershire 24. of March 1602 being the day and year on which Qu. Elizabeth deceased bred in Grammar learning under one Mr. Loe of Walshall in Staffordshire became a Communer of Magd. Hall under the tuition of Will. Pemble an 1616 ran through the severe discipline then and there used and proceeded in Arts in 1623 But before his Regency was expired he went to the Middle Temple and studied the common Law wherein he made considerable progress yet before he had been there two years he with others were forced thence by tho great plague that violently raged in London an 1625. So that instead of retiring into the Country he went into France and spent there half an year with great improvement to himself and his studies After his return he spent some years in the said Temple not only in the study of the Laws but of Divinity and History in both which in his elder years he attained to some eminence Afterwards he retired to Banbury in Oxfordshire and became a constant hearer for some time of that noted puritanical preacher Will. Wheatley But he dying in 1639 our author Leigh receeded to London where continuing till the civil distempers broke forth was upon the withdrawing of divers members of that unhappy convention called the Long Parliament to the King at Oxon chose a Recruiter or Burgess for the Town of Stafford Afterwards upon a vacancy he was appointed one of the House of Commons to sit in the Ass of Divines as did Philip Earl of Pembroke Will. Visc Say c. of the House of Lords with Joh. Selden Franc. Rous Bulstr Whitlock c. other members of the said house where he behaved himself as learnedly as most of the Divines then sitting He was also then a Colonel of a regiment for the Parliament was Custos Rotulorum for the County of Stafford and afterwards was numbred among those Presbyterian members that were turned out of the House of Commons by the Army 6. Dec. 1648 and imprisoned thereupon in the publick Inn called the Kings head in the Strand From which time till towards the Kings restauration when he with the rest of the ejected members then living were restored by General Monk to their places in Parliament he had little else to do but to write books the titles of which among others which he wrot before that time do follow Selected and choice observations concerning the twelve first Caesars c. Oxon. 1635. oct To which he added six more making up the number 18 which were printed with the former in another Edition The observations on the rest that followed were made by Henry Leigh the authors eldest Son M. of A. of Magd. Hall which being printed with the former at Lond. 1657 in oct had this title put to them Analecta Caesarum Romanorum Afterwards they were illustrated with their several effigies and coines Lond. 1664. oct and in another Edit that came out in 1670 in oct they had observations of the Greek Emperours added to them by the same hand Treatise of Divine promises in 5. books Lond. 1633 there again the third time 1650 and the fourth in 1657. octavo Critica sacra on the Hebrew words of the old and on the Greek of the New Testament Lond. 1639 and 46. in qu. There again in two parts in fol. 1662. In which book the author expressing his great skill in the Languages was the reason therefore why the learned Usher primate of Ireland had a respect and kindness for him Supplement to the Critica sacra Lond. 1662. fol. A Treatise of Divinity in three books Lond. 1646. qu. The Saints encouragement in evil times or observations concerning the Martyrs in general Lond. 1648. 51. oct Annotations on all the New Test Lond. 1650. fol. A philological Commentary or an illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the Law with their distinctions and divers acceptations as they are found as well in Reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed Lond. 1652. 58. 71. oct A Systeme or body of Divinity in 10 books Lond. 1654. and 62. fol. Treatise of religion and learning in 6. books Lond. 1656. fol. Which book laying dead on the Booksellers hands had this title put to it in 1663. Faelix consortium or a fit conjuncture of religion and learning in one entire volume consisting of six books c. From which Treatise Will. Crowe of Suffolk Master of the Free-school at Croydon in Surrey took many things when he composed his Elenchus Scriptorum in sacram scripturam c. Lond. 1672. octavo Choice French proverbs Lond. 1657. 64. oct Annotations on the five poetical books of the old Test viz. Job Psalmes Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Canticles Lond. 1657. fol. Second considerations of the High Court of Chancery Lond. 1658. in 2 sh in qu. England described or the Counties and Shires thereof briefly handled Lond. 1659. oct Copied mostly from Camden Choice observations on all the Kings of England from the Saxons to the death of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. oct Three Diatriabes or discourses 1. Of travel 2. Of money 3. Of measuring c. Lond. 1671. oct This book is called in another edit 1680. The Gentlemans guide in the three discourses c. He also published The Magistrates Authority in two Sermons Lond. 1647 qu. penn'd by Christopher Cartwright B. of Div. and Minister at York To which our Author Leigh put a preface to vindicate himself against a lying pamphlet as he calls it which entitles him a man of a fiery disposition and one generally made chair-man upon any business that doth concern the Clergy He paid his last debt to nature in his house called Rushall Hall on the second day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Rushall near to Walshall a Market Town in Staffordshire before mention'd as I have been informed by letters written to me by his Son Henry EDMUND STANTON son of Sir Franc. Stanton Knight was born in Bedfordshire became a Communer of Wadham Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged about 14 years was
his place actually created M. of A made Fellow of the said Coll. in 1662 and afterwards Bach. of Div. and Preb. of Lincoln He hath written on a subject which he much delighted in and wherein he had spent a considerable part of his time but was not printed till after his death The title of which is A short and sure guide in the practice of raising and ordering Fruit-trees Oxon. 1672. oct A large and laudable account of which you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 86. p. 5049 c. He died on the 26. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried near to the grave of his Father in the Chancel of the Church of Comnore beforemention'd SAMUEL MATHER the eldest Son of Rich. Mather mention'd before under the year 1669. nu 289. was born at Much-Woolton in Lanc 13. May 1626 transported with his Father and Family to New England 1635 educated in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge there took the degrees in Arts returned into England in 1650 became one of the Chaplains of Madg. Coll. by the favour of Mr. Tho. Goodwin then President and was as t is said incorporated in the degree of M. of A. tho no such thing occurs in the publick register Afterwards being known be a man of parts and gifts he received a call to go to Leith in Scotland to be there a publick Preacher In 1655 he removed to Dublin in Ireland where he became a Senior Fellow of Trin. Coll. and preached as a Lecturer in S. Nicolas Church there and also before the L. Deputy and Council in his turn At which time tho he was a congregational man and in his Principles respecting Ch. Government a high Nonconformist yet he was observed by some to be civil to those of the Episcopal persuasion when it was in his power to do them a displeasure And when the L. Deputy Hen. Cromwell gave a Commission to him and others in order to the displacing of Episcopal Ministers in the Province of Mounster he declined it as he did afterwards to do the like matter in Dublin alledging that he was called into that County to preach the Gospel and not to hinder others from doing it He was a religious man in the way he professed and was valued by some who differed from him as to opinion in lesser and circumstantial points in religion After his Majesties restauration he was suspended from preaching till his Majesties pleasure should be known for two Sermons which were judged seditious and being afterwards ejected and silenced for Nonconformity preached to the brethren in privat so long as he lived He hath written Wholsome Caveat for a time of liberty Printed 1652. in oct A defence of the protestant religion in answer to Fiat Lux. Dubl 1671. qu. An Irenicum or an Essay for union among Reformers Lond. in qu. The figures or types of the old Testament explained and improved Dubl 1683. qu. He died on the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church of S. Nicolas within the City of Dublin where he used formerly to preach a morning Lecture OWEN PRICE a Mountgomeryshire man born was put in Scholar of Jesus Coll. by the Parl. Visitors 12. Oct. 1648 whence after he had continued 4 years therein he was called to the charge of a public School in Wales where he advanced his Scholars much in Presbyterian principles In the year 1655. making a return to the University he was entred into Ch. Ch of which if I mistake not he was made Student and in the year following did by the favour of the deligated power of the Chancellour accumulate the degrees in Arts. Soon after he became Master of the Free-School near Madg. Coll where by his industry and good way of teaching he drew many youths of the City whose Parents were fanatically given to be his Scholars But upon the Kings restauration being ejected for Nonconformity taught School in which he much delighted in several places as in Devonshire Besills-Lee near Abendon c became useful among the brethren and a noted Professor in the Art of Pedagogy He hath written and published The Vocal Organ or a new art of teaching Orthography by observing the instruments of pronunciation and the difference between words of like sound whereby any outlandish or meer Englishman woman or child may speedily attain to the exact spelling reading writing or pronouncing of any word in the English tongue without the advantage of its fountains the Greek and Latine Oxon. 1665. oct English Orthography teaching 1. The Letters of every sort of print 2. All Syllables made of Letters 3. Short Rules by way of question and answer for spelling reading pronouncing using the great letters and their points 4. Examples of all words of like sound c. Oxon. 1670. oct He died in his House near to Madg. Coll. 25. Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was two days after buried in the Church of S. Peter in the east near to the door leading into the belfry within the City of Oxon. JOHN WHITE was a Wiltsh man born became a Servitor of S. Albans Hall in Mich. terme an 1600 whence after he had continued for some time went to Mert. Coll. and there was entertain'd in the condition of a Servitour to Mr. afterwards Sir Isaac Wake but whether he made a longer stay in Merton Coll. or in S. Alb. Hall I know not we will not contend for and therefore let the Albanians take him After he had left the University without a degree confer'd on him he took holy orders and had a Cure bestowed on him in his own Country at Monkton-Deverel and at length became Vicar of Chertân near to the Devises From which place being ejected in the time of the Rebellion he practiced Physick at Conock Afterwards being restored in 1660 he set himself to the writing of poetry in his old age the effects of which are contained in three volumes full of fooleries and impertinencies entit Miscellanea Variegata Anagrammata Epigrammata Distica c. The first vol. contains Anagrams Epigrams c. on the Kings and Nobility of England Printed at Lond. 1663 in a large thin oct in the 79 year of the authors age The 2d Vol. is on the Bishops and Clergie Lond. 1664 in thin oct in the 80 year of the authors age The third is on the Gentry and other persons Lond 1665. in a thin oct in the 81. year of the authors age In all which books are also several copies of English verses He yeilded to nature at Cherton beforementioned on the 6 of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the north side of Communion Table near the wall Soon after was this inscription set up on the said wall John White Vicar of Cherton was buried neare this place the 8 th day of December An. Dom. 1671. EDWARD BAGSHAW son of Edw. Bagsh
Oxonii 1624. Printed with Balliofergus c. This Dr. Savage died in Ball. Coll. on the second day of June in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chappel belonging thereunto next below the steps leading to the altar being the first that was ever known to have received sepulture therein In his Headship of Ball. Coll. succeeded Dr. Thom. Good whom I shall mention elsewhere ABIEZER COPPE the Son of Walt. Coppe was born in the antient Borough of Warwick in Warwickshire 20. May 1619 educated in Grammar learning there and at about 17 years of age was sent to All 's Coll. in the beginning of 1636 where continuing but for a short time in the condition of a Servitor I think he became one of the number of Portionists commonly called Postmasters of Mert. College at which time tho he was put under the tuition of a good Tutor Ralph Button I think yet being naturally vitious all lectures or examples could not reform or make him live like a Christian And it was then notoriously known that he would several times entertain for one night or more a wanton huswife in his Chamber under that called Oxoniam quare as I have heard in the little or old quadrangle to whom carrying several times meat at the hour of refection he would make answer when being asked by the way what he would do with it that it was a bit for his cat At length the Civil War breaking forth he left the University without a degree adhered to the blessed Cause and at first was a Presbyterian But the gap being widened for all heresies to come in he became an Anabaptist and after a Ranter Muggletonian and what not to satisfie his wandring head and filthy lusts The stage of most of his villanies was Warwickshire where and in the neighbourhood and in other of his rambles he had while he was an Anabaptist baptized seven thousand People as he brag'd to some Oxford Scholars while he was a Prisoner in Coventry After he had left that opinion and had turned Ranter 't was usual with him to preach stark naked many blasphemies and unheard of villanies in the day-time and in the night be drunk and lye with a Wench that had been also his hearer stark naked He was wont to say when he was reprehended for swearing that tho it was usual with him in common discourse and in his preachings yet 't was not formally but materially as thus By Gods wounds I shall be saved and the like But he said these things when he was imprison'd for his rogueries and not before When also he was check'd by the Brethren of the Anabaptistical party for leaving them he would swear that he would rather hear an Arch Angel blaspheme and curse God than hear a Presbyterian or Anabaptist preach About the time of his publishing the Fiery flying Roll he was for that and other rascallities imprison'd at Coventry where 't was usual with him after he had swore and cursed most of the day to be drunk at night And when he was to be removed thence to London a Brother of his Religion brought a collection of fifty pounds to pay his debts there This brother while he remained in that City preached twice in one day and towards night he preached in the Prison to Coppe and others of his gang Which being done they enjoyed the creature so much that they were all down-right drunk To omit many other of his pranks that he acted then and before I shall tell you what he hath written viz. A fiery flying roll c. Lond. 1649. This book I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot give a full account of it In the month of January the same year he as a most notorious sectarist and author of that book was removed from Coventry to the Prison called Newgate in London where as before he did little else but swear and curse and obstinately held forth to all People that came to see him that God could not damn him and having smooth arguments for what he had said induced many to be of his Religion On the 2. of Feb. following it was voted by the members of Parliament who by their most imparallel'd actions had been and were then the occasion of all Englands woes and miseries and so let it stand upon eternal record to their eternal shame that the said book entit A fiery flying roll doth contain many horrid blasphemies and damnable and detestable opinions and that the said book and all the copies of it that could be found should be burnt by the hands of the common hangman c. which accordingly was done The errors that Coppe held which he afterwards recanted were these 1 That there is no sin 2 That there is no God 3 That man or the meer creature is very God 4 That God is in man or in the creature only and no where else 5 That cursing and swearing is no sin 6 That adultery fornication and uncleaness is no sin 7 That community of Wives is lawful c. Afterwards for fear of corporal punishment or perpetual exile in an obscure place Coppe recanted and published another book after he had been an year and an half in prison entit Copp's return to the way of truth in a zealous and sincere protestation against several errors and in a sincere and zealous testimony to several truths or truth asserted against and triumphing over error and the wings of the fiery flying roll clip't c. Lond. 1651. qu Before which is a large preface shewing what the author Coppe had been and was then to the Parliament Letter in answer to another of Mr. John Dury Printed with Copp's return as also another to March Nedham Afterwards Coppe was set at liberty was kindly entertained among those of his opinion and being at Burford in Oxfordshire preached there A recantation Sermon 23. Dec. 1651 but whether printed I cannot tell Sure it is that John Tickell a Minister of Abendon in Berks. somtimes of Ch. Ch. did write Animadversions on it which are printed at the end of his Bottomless pit smoaking in familisme Oxon. 1652. oct He the said Coppe published also a book written by J. F. entit John the Divines Divinity or the confession of the general assembly or Church of the first born in heaven Lond. 1649. Before which book Coppe hath put an Epistle dated at London 13 Jan. 1648 two or three days as he saith before the eternal God thundred at Great S. Ellens in Lond. This book is a silly thing full of blasphemies and more fit for a posterior use than to be read by any man of Reason or Sobriety Afterwards the Name of Coppe being odious he did upon the Kings restauration change it to Higham and practising Physick at Barnelms in Survey and sometimes preaching in Conventicles to maintain him and his went for divers years by the Name of Dr. Higham At length being brought low by certain Infirmities which he had contracted in
Archdeacon of Chichester in the place of Dr. Hammond deceased and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty All which he kept to his dying day and was ever accounted a witty and a facetious Companion He hath written and published The City match a Comedy Oxon. 1639 c. fol. The amorous War Tr. Com. Oxon. 1658. 59. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Sermon concerning Unity and Agreement in Carfax Church in Oxon. 9 Aug. 1646. on 1 Cor. 1.10 Printed 1646. qu. 2 Serm. against false Prophets on Ezek. 22.28 Pr. 1647. qu. 3 Serm. against Schisme or the separations of these times on Heb. 10.24.25 Preached in the Church of Watlington in Oxfordshire with some interruption 11 Sept. 1652 at a publick dispute held there betw Jasp Mayne D. D. and one Joh. Pendarves an Anabaptist Lond. 1652. qu. See more in J. Pendarves p. 127. A late Sermon against false Prophets vindicated by letter from the causeless Aspersions of Mr. Franc. Cheynell Printed 1647. qu. See more in Fr. Cheynell pag. 246. The Peoples Warr examined according to the Principles of Scripture and Reason c. In answer to a letter sent by a person of quality who desired satisfaction Pr. 1647. qu. These two last things with the three Sermons before mention'd were commonly bound together and sold with this general title to them Certain sermons and letters of defence and resolution c. Lond. 1653. qu. One J. M. D. D. wrot a book intit Difference about Church Government c. Lond. 1646. qu. Whether written by our Author Jasp Mayne I cannot justly tell neither whether J. M. of Oxon Author of Policy unveiled or maxims and reasons of State Printed in qu. in the times of Usurpation be the same with Jasp Mayne or another Qu. Concio ad Acad. Oxon. pro more habita inchoante Termino 27 Maii 1662 in Gal. 5.1 Sermon at the consecration of Herbert Lord Bishop of Hereford on 1 Tim. 4.14 Lond. 1662. qu. He also did render into English from the original part of Lucian's Dialogues an 1638 To which afterwards he adjoyned the other Dialogues as they were formerly translated by Franc. Hicks Lond. 1663. 64. fol And translated from Lat. into Engl. Dr. John Donn's Epigrams which our Author Mayne intit A sheaf of miscellany Epigrams Lond. 1652. oct He made his Exit on the 6 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the second isle joyning on the north side to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Over his grave was laid soon after a marble stone at the charge of his Executors Dr. Rob. South and Dr. Jo. Lamphire the short Epitaph on which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 282. b. The said Dr. Mayne by his will gave 500 l. towards the rebuilding of S. Pauls Cathedral and a 100 l. a piece to his Vicaridges of Cassington and Pyrton but nothing to the place of his Education because he as Dr. Jo. Wall had done had taken some distaste for affronts received from the Dean of his Coll and certain Students encouraged by him in their grinning and sauciness towards him JOHN DOUGHTIE was born of gentile Parents at Martley near Worcester in Worcestershire educated in Grammar learning in Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright as it seems and at 16 years of age or more became a Student in this Univ. in Lent Term 1613. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he was one of those many prime Scholars that were Candidates for a Fellowship in Merton Coll. an 1619 and being throughly sifted by Sir Hen. Savile the Warden was forthwith chosen and made senior of the Election After he had compleated the degree of M. of Arts he entred into Orders and became much frequented for his edifying Sermons In 1631 he was admitted to the procuratorial Office but before he had served four months of that year he was deprived of it and the reason why is told you elsewhere About that time he became Chaplain to the Earl of Northumberland and on the 11 of Jan. 1633 he was presented by the Warden and Society of Merton Coll. to the Rectory of Lapworth in Warwickshire where continuing till the beginning of the Civil War he left all there purposely to avoid sequestration and imprisonment and forthwith retired to the King at Oxon. Soon after meeting with Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury he preferred him to be Lecturer of S. Edmunds Church within that City where continuing about two years at which time the Kings Forces were routed in the West he retired to London and for some time found relief in the house of Sir Nath. Brent then living in Little Britaine After his Majesties Restauration he became one of the Prebendaries of Westminster Rector of Cheame in Surrey and was actually created Doct. of Divinity His works are these Discourse concerning the abstruseness of divine Mysteries together with our knowledge of them on Rom. 12.16 Oxon. 1628. qu. Disc touching Church schismes on Rom. 16.17 Printed with the former Discourse The Kings cause rationally briefly and plainly debated as it stands de facto against the irrational misprision of a deceived people Oxon. 1644 in 6 sh in qu. Phil-Iren-Alethius Velitationes polemicae Or polemical short discussions of certain particular and select Questions Lond. 1652. oct The two letters J. D. are only set to it and it was then and is taken to be of Doughties composition There is a great deal of good reading and skill in the Gr. tongue shew'd in the book Analecta sacra sive excursus philologici super diversis sacrae scripturae locis c. part 2. Lond. 1658. and 1660. in a thick oct He died at Westminster after he had lived to be twice a child on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Abbey Ch. of S. Peter there near to the body of Dr. Brian Duppa sometimes Bishop of Winchester in the Area on the north side of the Chappel of S. Edward Over his grave was soon after a stone laid with this inscription thereon Johannes Doughtie S. T. D. hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarius obiit xxv Decemb. MDCLXXII aetatis suae lxxv IMMANUEL BOURNE a Ministers son was born in Northamptonshire 27. Dec. 1590 entred in Ch. Ch. an 1607 but whether in the condition of a Student Commoner or Servitour I know not and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated not till 1616. About that time he by the favour of Dr. Will. Piers Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rector of S. Christophers Church near the Exchange in London became preacher there and was patronized in his studies and calling by Sir Sam. Tryon Kt. an Inhabitant in that parish In 1622 he was made Parson of Ashhover in Derbyshire which he kept several years and was resorted to much by the puritanical party At length when the rebellion broke forth in 1642 he sided with the Presbyterians and being
of Aldermary while he was Chapl. to Archb. Laud. Which Serm. being esteemed a blasphemous piece by the puritanical party of the said Parish they complained of it to the said Archbish who instead of having him punished was made said they Canon of Windsore and afterwards when the Archbishop's Writings were seized on at Lambeth the Sermon was found lying on his Table But this I presume was never printed He hath also written A Key to the Kings Cabinet or animadversions upon the three printed speeches of Mr. L'isle Mr. Tate and Mr. Brown Members of the H. of Commons spoken at a Common hall in London 3 July 1645 detecting the malice and falshood of their blasphemous Observations upon the K. and Queens letters Oxon 1645. qu. The said Speeches were spoken by Joh. L'isle Zouch Tate and Mr. Browne Our Author Th. Browne wrot also a treatise in defence of H. Grotius against an Epistle of Cl. Salmasius De posthumo Grotii published under the name of Simplicius Virinus Hag. 1646. in oct But the said Treatise or Answer I have not yet seen nor was he known to be the Author of it till after his death at which time Isaac Vossius to whom he had sent a printed copy of it formerly but never told him who was the Author found the Manuscript of it written with his own hand with a Title page owning himself therein to be the Author of it Dissertatio de Therapeutis Philonis adversus Henricum Valesium Lond. 1687. oct Put at the end under the name of Tho. Bruno of the interpretation of S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians made by Pat. Junius Gottifredus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius published by Paulus Colomesius Our Author Browne also did translate from Lat. into Engl. Camden's second Vol. of the Annals of Qu. Elizabeth from the beginning of the year 1589 to the end of 1602 Which Translation bears this Title Tomus alter idem Or the history of the life and raigne of that famous Princess Elizabeth c. Lond. 1629. qu. To which Translation our Author Browne added An Appendix containing Animadversions upon several passages corrections of sundry errours and additions of some remarkable matters of the History before mention'd never yet printed He died at Windsore on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried without and on the south side of the Kings Free-Chappel there dedicated to S. George Over his grave was soon after erected at the charge of Dr. Isaac Vossius Canon of that Chappel sole Executor to our Author Browne a monument of free stone with a plank of marble thereon joyning to the south wall between two Buttresses of the Chappel and an inscription engraven upon it made by the said Vossius from which I am informed that he the said Browne was esteemed by all that knew him Vir apprimè doctus eruditus Criticus acutus facundus Orator felix Philologus Antiquitatum Chronologiaeque cultor solertissimus Aenigmatum Dilemmatumque conscientiarum dubitantium Oedipus admodum Christianus c. One Tho. Browne was elected from Eaton School into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1550. was afterwards Master of Westminster School Prebendary of the collegiat Church there 1565 Doctor of Div. and a worthy and learned Divine He wrot a Tragedy called Thebais and dying in 1584 or thereabouts was buried at Westminster What relation there was between this and the former Thom. Browne I know not nor whether he was related to another Thom. Browne whom I shall mention among these writers under the year 1682. JAMES JANEWAY a Ministers son was born as it seems at Lilly or Lulley in Hertfordshire became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1655. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and became Tutor for a time to one George Stringer in his mothers house at Windsore the same I mean who was afterwards a Commoner and M. of A. of the said College So that our author who had all his education under Presbyterians and Independents did after his Majesties restauration set up a Conventicle at Redriff near London where to the time of his death he was much resorted to by those of his persuasion and admired for a forward and pretious young man especially by those of the female sex His works are Several Sermons as 1 Death unstung preached at the funeral of Tho. Mousley an Apothecary with a brief narrative of his life 2 Serm. at the funeral of Tho. Savage 3 The duties of Masters and Servants on Ephes 6. ver 5.6 7.8.9 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674 and 76. 4 Mans last end fun Serm. on Psal 89 48. Lond. 1675. oct Heaven upon Earth or the best friend in the worst of times Lond. 1670. c. oct Delivered in several Sermons A token for Children being an exact account of the conversion holy and exemplary Lives and joyful deaths of several young children Lond. 1671. the first part in oct The second part was printed there also in 8o. an 1672. Invisible realities demonstrated in the holy life and death of Mr. John Janeway Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge Lond. 1673. c. oct This Jo. Janeway who was elder brother to James our author was born at Lilly in Hertfordshire 27. Oct. 1633 bred in Paules School under Mr. Joh. Langley became a zealous Presbyterian and dying in June 1657 was buried in Kelsall Church in Hertfordsh This life is recommended to the world with an Epistle written by Mr. Rich. Baxter The Saints encouragement to diligence in Christs service with motives and meanes to Christian activity To which is added as an example to prove the point handled The death-bed experiences of Mistris B. Lond. 1673. oct Legacie to his Friends containing 27 famous instances of Gods providences in and about Sea-dangers and deliverances with the names of several that were Eye-witnesses to many of them Lond. 1674. 75 oct Before which book is the authors picture in a cloak aged 38 years and at the end of it is a Sermon intit Sea-dangers and deliverances on Acts 27.18.19.20 by Joh. Ryther a Nonconformist of Wapping near London The said Legacie is several times made use of by Increase Mather in his Essay for the recording of illustrious providences Saints memorials or words fitly spoken like apples of gold in pictures of silver Being a collection of divers sentences Lond. 1674. oct Edm. Calamy Ralph Venning and Jos Caryl had a hand besides Janeway in the said memorials He died on the sixteenth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried 4 days after in the Church of S. Mary in Aldermanbury within the City of London near to the grave of his father At which time his friend Mr. Nath. Vincent preached his funeral Sermon which being extant the reader may satisfie himself more of the character of Mr. Janeway therein Several Elegies I have seen that were made on his death as that by Ralph Venning who saith
and mostly lived in Somerset house in the Strand within the liberty of Westminster c. One of his Adversaries tell us that Cressy was an author grave and sober whose reason was very keen and sharp one that he was the Coripheus of the Roman party which is true but I must take leave here to tell the reader that while he continued in Oxon he was accounted a quick and accurate Disputant a man of a good nature manners and natural parts and when in Orders no inconsiderable preacher But after he had spent diâers years in a religious order and was returned into England his former acquaintance found great alterations in him as to parts and vivacity and he seemed to some to be possest with strange notions and to others a reserved Person and little better than a Melancholick Which mutation arose not perhaps known to him upon his solely giving himself up to religion the refinedness of his soul and the avoiding of all matters relating to humane and profane learning as vanities His works are these Exomologesis or a faithful narration of the occasions and motives of his conversion to Catholick unity Paris 1647. and 53. in oct In the last edition is an Appendix in which are cleared certain misconstructions of his Exomologesis published by J. P. author of the Preface to the Lord Falklands Discourse of infallibility This Exomologesis was the golden calf which the English Papists fell down to and worshipped They brag'd that book to be unanswerable and to have given a total overthrow to the Chillingworthians and book and tenents of Lucius Lord Falkland Sancta Sophia or directions for the prayer of contemplation c. extracted out of more than XL treatises written by the late rev Father Aug. Baker a Monk of the English congregation of the holy Order of S. Benedict Doway 1657. in 2. vol. in a large oct Certain patterns of devout exercises of immediate acts and affections of the will Printed with S. Sophia Roman-Catholick doctrines no novelties or an answer to Dr. Pierces Court Sermon miscalled The primitive rule of reformation Print 1663. in oct A non est inventus returned to Mr. Edw. Bagshaw's enquiry and vainly boasted discovery of weakness in the grounds of the Churches infallibility Pr. 1662. oct Letter written to an English Gent 16. July 1662 wherein Bishop Morley is concern'd Printed among some of the said Bishops treatises Lond. 1683. qu. The Church History of Britanny from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest c. Printed at Roan in Normandy 1668. fol. 'T is mostly taken from 1 Annales Ecclesiae Britannicae Printed at Leodes 1663 in 4. vol written by Mich. Alford alias Griffith a Jesuit 2 The first and 2 vol. of Monast Anglic. Printed at Lond. 1655. and 1661. fol. 3 The Decem Scriptores Hist Anglicanae Printed there also in 1652. fol. and the collection in Ms contained in several folios made from several antient Mss relating to English antiquities chiefly in the Cottonian Library by Aug. Baker before mention'd Many severe censures have been given by learned men of the author Cressy for publishing many Miracles and Monkish stories in the said Ch. Hist of Britanny particularly by that great Master of the English language Edward somtimes Earl of Clarendon who knew him well in the University to be much averse to such matters as also the author of Reflexions upon the devotions of the Rom. Church c. Lond. 1674. oct Yet let this be said of him that forasmuch that he doth mostly quote his authors for and leaves what he says to the judgment of the Readers he is to be excused and in the mean time to be commended for his grave and good stile proper for an Ecclesiastical Historian After it was published he went forward with a second volume which was to conclude about the time of the dissolution of Monasteries made by K. Hen. 8 but before he had finished 300 years after the Norman Conquest he died Answer to part of Dr. Stillingfleets book entit Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome Printed 1672. in oct Fanaticisme fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted c. Printed 1672. oct Question why are you a Catholick Pr. 1673. oct Qu. why are you a Protestant Pr. 1673. oct Epistle Apologetical to a Person of honour touching his vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet Print 1674. oct The Person of honour was Edw. E. of Clarendon Reflections on the Oath of Supremacy This I have not yet seen He also published Sixteen revelations of divine love shewed to a devout servant of our Lord called mother Juliana an Anchorete of Norwych who lived in the days of K. Ed. 3. Printed 1670. oct and dedic by Cressy to the Lady Mary Blount of Sodington Widow of Sir George Blount and also changed from old into modern English more compendiously a book written before the change of religion entit An abridgment of the book called the cloud of unknowing and of the counsel referring to the same This is not printed but in Ms and was shewed to me by Fath. Wilfrid R a Benedictine Monk See more in Maur. Chawney in vol. 1. p. 160. At length Mr. Cressey having lived to about the age of man he surrendred up his last breath at East Greensted in Sussex in the house of Rich. Caryl Esq on the tenth day of Aug. S. Laurence day in the year sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed by the Superior of his order on this side of the river Trent in England named Gregory Mallet alias John Jackson who dying in the Sheldonian Family on the 10. Sept. 1681 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Long Compton in Warwickshire THOMAS TRAHERNE a Herefordshire man born was entred a Communer of Brasn Coll. on the first day of March 1652 took one degree in Arts left the house for a time entred into the sacred function and in 1661 he was actually created Mast of Arts. About that time he became Rector of Credinhill commonly called Crednell near to the City of Hereford afterwards Domestick Chaplain to S. Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Minister of Tuddington called by some Teddington near Hampton Court in Middlesex and in 1669 Bach. of Divinity He hath written Roman forgeries or a true account of false records discovering the impostures and counterfeit antiquities of the Church of Rome Lond. 1673. oct Christian Ethicks or divine morality opening the way to blessedness by the rules of virtue and reason Lond. 1675. oct He died at Teddington before mention'd in the house of S. Orl. Bridgman and was buried on the tenth day of Octob. in the Church there under the reading desk in sixteen hundred seventy and four This Person who always led a single and a devout life was well read in primitive antiquity as in the Councils Fathers c. DAVID WHITFORD a
publicè in Academiâ Oxon professus est dignissimus etiam qui Theologiam in eodem loco profiteretur Poeta insuper Orator insignis atque in Mathematicis profundè doctus Reipublicae Literariae Ecclesiae Christianae flebilis obiit Maii 22. an 1676. aet suae 65. I find one Thom. Greaves a Minister to have written A brief summ of Christian Religion c. Lond. 1656. oct whether by the former or another Thomas Greaves I cannot yet tell JOHN TOMBES was born in a Market Town called Beaudley in Worcestershire became a Batler of Magd. Hall in the beginning of Lent term an 1617 aged 15 years where in short time after he shewed himself a most excellent Disputant a person of incomparable parts and well vers'd in the Greek and Hebrew Languages In 1623 he was appointed Catechisme Lecturer of the said Hall in the place of Will. Pemble deceased whose Pupil he had been and the next year proceeding M. of A he became a noted Tutor there About that time he entred into holy Orders and shortly after was esteem'd so famous for his preaching that he was much courted to be one of the Lecturers at S. Martins Ch. commonly called Carfax in Oxon which cure he at length taking was much followed for his excellent Sermons especially by the puritanical party who held him in great admiration In 1630 he left the University and became a Preacher in the City of Worcester and the next year after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences But he continuing at Worcester not long he went by vertue of a call to Leonminster commonly called Lemster a Market Town in Herefordshire of which place he became Vicar beloved of the Parishioners and Neighbourhood and resorted to far and near for his familiar and practical way of preaching As it was suspected while he was in Oxon so was it at Lemster and elsewhere confidently believed that he would in time having no preferment given to him sutable to his merits do a great deal of mischief to the Church of England as most great Scholars have done for want of it In the year 1641 when the restless fury of the Presbyterians vented out into a dismal rebellion this our author sided with them and in the following year when Nath. Fiennes managed Bristow for the Parliament and made mad work there in ejecting loyal Citizens from the Corporation and Orthodox Ministers from the Church he upon invitation came in to him and thereupon he and his followers made him Minister of Allsaints Church in the place of one Williamson an Orthodox man then ejected While he continued there which was till Aug. 1643 at which time the City was surrendred to the Kings party he did a great deal of hurt by his schismatical preaching Afterwards going to London he became Master of the Temple where he preached against the errors of the Antinomians ex male intellectâ doctrina as he says de justificatione peccatoris c. But being supplanted of that place by Rich. Johnson sometimes of Bras Coll. an 1647 he went to Beaudley at what time Mr. Rich. Baxter preached at Kidderminster another Market Town about three miles distant from that place And 't is verily thought that he was put upon the project of going there purposely to tame Baxter and his party who then carried all the Country before them They preached against one anothers doctrines Tombes being then a Preacher at Beaudley which he kept with Lemster newly restored to him being before forced thence by the royal party and published books against each other Tombes was the Coryphaeus of the Anabaptists and Baxter of the Presbyterians Both had a very great company of auditors who came many miles on foot round about to admire them Once I think oftner they disputed face to face and their followers were like two Armies And at last it came so to pass that they fell together by the ears whereby hurt was done and the Civil Magistrate had much ado to quiet them All Scholars there and then present who knew the way of disputing and managing arguments did conclude that Tombes got the better of Baxter by far In the year 1653 he being then as before frequently in London he was by ordinance appointed one of the Triers for the approbation of publick Ministers but what preferment he got by that employment which most of them had obtained I find not unless it was the Parsonage of Rosse and the Mastership of the Hospital at Ledbury both in Herefordshire which he kept with Lemster and Beaudley About the year 1658 he married Elizabeth the Widow of Wolstan Abbot of the City of Salisbury by whom enjoying an Estate lived mostly there to the time of his death At the Kings restauration in 1660 when he then saw to what a woful condition this poor Nation of England had been brought unto by restless men and their several opinions as to religion he willingly submitted sided with the Royal party but yet would never accept of either Benefice or Dignity which was offer'd to him Set aside his Anabaptistical Positions he was conformable enough to the Church of England would frequently go to Common prayers and receive the Sacrament at Salisbury and often visit Dr. Ward Bishop of that place who respected Tombes for his learning Dr. Sanderson sometimes the learned Bishop of Linc. had a great esteem for him and so had one of his successors Dr. Barlow but the same respect that the last bore to our author the same he paid to all of what sect soever that were learned In 1664 he was present at the Oxford Act and there in the Vespers he did modestly challenge to maintain against any person certain Anabaptistical Tenents but none there did think it then convenient to grapple with him and the rather for this reason that he had made those matters his study for more than 30 years and that none ever before went beyond him He seemed to many to be a very pious and zealous Christian and would never be violent especially in his latter days against any party that was opposite to his opinion but be charitable and complesant His body was little and neat limb'd he had a quick searching eye and was so exceeding apprehensive that he would find out the end upon the first entry of the Disputes He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Vae Scandalizantium or a treatise of scandalizing c. preached at Lemster in Herefordsh on Luke 17.1.2 Oxon. 1641. oct 2 Jehovah Jireth or Gods providence in delivering the godly in two Sermons in Bristol on a Thanksgiving day 14. March 1642 for the deliverance of that City from invasion and plot by the Malignants on 2. Pet. 2.9 Lond. 1643. qu. Before which is set by the author A short narrative of the said bloody and damnable plot 3 The Leaven of pharisaical Will-worship preached at Lemster 24. Nov. 1641 on Matth. 5.9 Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Anthropolatria The sin of glorying in
Soc. c. Lond. 1670. qu. Letter to Sir N. N. relating the cause of the quarrel between Hen. Stubbe and the Royall Society and an Apology against some of their cavills Printed with Campanella revived Postscript concerning the quarrel depending between Hen. Stubbe and Dr. Christop Merrett Pr. also with Campanella Reply unto the letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe in defence of The history of the Royal Society Oxon. 1671 quart Reply to a letter of Dr. Hen. More printed with Mr. Glanvill's Prefatory answer to Hen. Stubbe with a censure upon the Pythagorico-Cabbalistical Philosophy promoted by him Oxon. 1671. A Preface against Ecebolius alias Joseph Glanvill Fellow of the Royal Society c. These two last are printed with the Reply unto a letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe c. Medice cura te ipsum Or the Apothecaries plea in some short and modest animadversions upon a late Tract entit A short view of the fraudes and abuses of the Apothecaries c. by Christop Merrett Dr. of Phys Lond. 1671. quart An epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy in opposition to George Thomson Pseudo-Chymist a pretended disciple to the Lord Verulam Lond. 1671. qu. A discourse concerning the Sweating Sickness temp Hen. 7. Relation of the strange Symptoms hapning by the bite of an Adder and the cure thereof These two last are printed with the Epistolary discourse c. A caveat for the Protestant Clergy or an account of the sufferings of the English Clergy upon the restitution of Popery in the dayes of Qu. Mary Lond. 1671. 78. in two sh in oct This is said to be written by Hen. Stubbe but not I suppose by our author but by another of both his names whom I shall anon mention A justification of the present warr against the united Netherlands c. illustrated with Sculptures In answer to a Dutch treatise entit considerations upon the present state of the united Netherlands c. Lond. 1672. 73. qu. A farther justification of the present warr against the United Netherlands illustrated with several Sculptures Lond. 1673. qu. For the compiling of these two last books the author was allowed the use of the Paper Office at Whitehall and when they were both finished he had given him 200 l. out of his Majesties Exchequer and obtained a great deal of credit from all people especially from the Courtiers and all that belonged to the Kings Court. In the month of Octob. the same year 1673 when the marriage to be between James Duke of York and Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena was controverted in the House of Commons where were 180 voices for and 188 against it then did this our author Stubbe about the latter end of the said month write and publish The Paris Gazette Which being against the said marriage and for the breaking it off gave great offence to many It was printed in half a sheet as one of our Gazetts are now and was by the author with great confidence and impudence presented to several Parliament men Whereupon a Writ being issued out against him he was taken in the beginning of the next month hurried in the dark from one private Prison to another threatned with hanging and was put to a great deal of charge So that all the credit he had got before was lost among the generallity Directions for drinking the Bath-water Ars Cosmetica or beautifying Art These two go under his Stubbes name and are printed at the end of James Cook his translation from Lat. into English of a book written Originally by Joh. Hall entit Select observations on Eminent persons in desperate diseases Which translation was reprinted with additions in 8 o an 1679. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Introduction to Geography Oxon 1657 oct Written by Philip Cluver 2 The Arts of Grandure and submission Lond. 166â and 1665 oct Written by John Casa Archb. of Benevento 3 The History of the United Provinces of Achaia Lond. 1673. qu. in 4 sh and half written by Jacobus Gothofredus and others as it seems which I have not yet seen I have now no more to say of this learned person only that he being at Bathe attending several of his Patients living in and near Warwick then there he was sent for to come to another at Bristow in very hot weather to which place therefore going a by-way at 10 of the clock in the night on the twelfth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six his head being then intoxicated with bibbing but more with talking and snuffing of powder was drowned passing through a shallow River wherein as 't is supposed his horse stumbled two miles distant from Bathe So that his body being taken up the next morning and his death examined by the Coroner was the next day after that being Friday buried in the great Church at Bathe dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul in the grave of Dr. Pet. Wentworth joyning on the North side to the stately Tomb of Dr. Jam. Mountague somtimes Bishop of that City situat and being on the north side of the body of that Church At which time his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill preached his funeral Sermon but said no great matter of him and soon after a certain Physitian of that place who seemed to be glad for his death made this Epitaph following on him Which tho not yet put on his grave shall be here set down to his memory Memoriae Sacrum Post varios casus magna rerum discrimina tandem heic quiescunt mortalitatis exuviae Henrici Stubbe Medici Warwicensis quondam ex Aede Christi Oxon âei Medicae Historicae ac Mathematicae peritissimi judicii vivi Librorum heluonis qui quum multa scripserat plures sanaverat aliorum saluti sedulo prospiciens propriam neglexit Obiit aquis frigidis suffocatus 12 die July A.D. 1676. aetatis suae ... Besides this Hen. Stubbe was another of both his names and time a nonconforming Minister and somtimes a preacher in the City of Wells where I find him as an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliam to eject such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters who hath among several things pertaining to Divinity written 1 Great Treaty of peace exhort of making peace with God Lond. 1676. 77. oct 2 Disswasive from conformity to the world Lond. 1675. in 8o. 3 Gods severity against mans iniquity Printed with the Disswasive 4 Gods gracious presence the Saints great privilege a farewel Sermon to a Congreg in Lond on 2. Thes 3.16 Printed also with the Disswasive 5 Conscience the best friend or the happy Effects of keeping a good Conscience very useful for this age Lond. 1685. in tw and other things which I have not yet seen among which is his answer to the Friendly debate an 1669 in oct When he died I know not sure I am that after his death which was in London his books were exposed to sale by way of Auction 29. Nov.
Afterwards the said Duke made him Professor of the Greek Language in the University of Pisa where he was held in great veneration not only for his great sufficiencies in that Tongue but also in Divinity for his great knowledge in the Fathers and in polite and curious learning His works are Notae observationes in Apologiam L. Apulei Madaurensis Philosophi platonici Par. 1635. qu. To which are added certain fragments of Antiquity in copper cuts Matthaeus ex S. Paginâ sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus ex parte illustratus Par. 1646. oct Annotationes in epistolam Jacobi Par. 1646. in a little octav Acta Apostolorum ex S. pagina sanctis Patribus Graecisque ac Latinis Gentium scriptoribus illustrata Par. 1647. in tw In undecim Apuleianae metamorphoseos sive Milesiarum libros annotationes uberiores Goud 1650. in a large thick oct with Pricaeus his picture before it in a cloak Towards the publishing of this book he borrowed an ancient copy of it from Archb. Laud's MSS. Index scriptorum qui in Hesychii Graeco vocabulario laudantur confectus alphabetico dispositus This is printed at the end of the former book viz. In undecim c. 'T is also printed at the end of Hesychius's Lexicon published by Corn. Schrevelius an 1668. Commentarii in varios Novi Testamenti libros Involved in the fifth tome of the Criticks Lond. 1660. fol. Among these his Commentaries are those on Matthew Acts of the Apostles and James before mentioned remitted Annotationes in Psalmorum librum Involved in the said 5 tome of Criticks Lond. 1660. fol. Epistles to several learned men in Lat. and English This great Critick who had a rambling head left the territory of the Duke of Tuscany and went to Venice under pretence of putting out Hesychius his Lexicon there and afterwards going to Rome he was received as I have heard into the retinew or at least patronage of the famous Card. Franc. Barbarini the Protector of the English Nation lived in his last days in the Covent of S. Augustin in that great City where dying in sixteen hundred seventy and six or thereabouts was buried in the Church or Chappel there I have sent once or twice for the exact time of his obit and for a copy of his Epitaph if there be any over his grave but as yet I have received no answer I shall make mention of another John Price among the Incorporations in the Fasti under the year 1680 but he was Doctor of Divinity GASPER HICKS a Ministers son was born in Berks. entred a Batler or Com. of Trin. Coll. in Mich. term 1621 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Lanerake in Cornwall where he continued a constant Preacher under the name of a Puritan several years At length upon the change of the times he openly expressed his zeal for the Cause in his Sermons more than before he had done but finding that place uneasie to him when the Royalists were dominant in that County he retired to the great City became one of the Ass of Divines a frequent Preacher in London and sometimes a Holder-forth before the Members of the Long Parliament Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings Cause he returned again to his Vicaridge and had something added to it in consideration of his sufferings In 1654 he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners of Cornwall for the ejecting such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and ever after âll the Act of Conformity came forth he was esteemed there the chief of the Presbyterian Ministers He hath ââblished Several Sermons as 1 The glory and beauty of Gods portion Fast-sermon before the H. of Commons 26 June 1644 on Isay 28.5.6 Lond. 1644. qu. The Author complaining either in this or another sermon that he had been plundred and wanted books the H. of Commons gave him 30 l. to buy more 2 Serm. at the funeral of Will Strode Esq a member of the H. of Com. 22 Sept. 1645. on Acts 13.36 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 The advantage of afflictions Fast-serm before the H. of Lords 28 Jan. 1645 on Hosea 5.15 Lond. 1646. qu. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen After the Act of Conformity was published he was turn'd out of Lanerake lived there and near it several years not without keeping up private meetings for which he was sometimes brought into trouble At length giving way to fate in sixteen hundred seventy and seven was according to his desire buried in the porch of the Parish Church of Lanerake before mentioned At his interrment on the 10 of Apr. the same year were present very many of the godly Party living near to and remote from that place THOMAS CAWTON son of Tho. Cawton a learned and religious Puritan sometimes of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was born as it seems at Wivenhoe near to Colchester in Essex his Father being then Parson of that place educated in Hebrew Syriake and Arabick tongues at Roterdam in Holland under Mr. Rob. Sheringham then an Exile for his Loyalty as Tho. Cawton the Father was for preaching against the murder of K. Ch. 1 and for being in the same plot with Christop Love for the raising of moneys to supply the Army of K. Ch. 1 when he was about to come into England from Scotland to gain his right there Afterwards our Author Tho. Cawton was by his father setled in the University of Utrecht whence after he had spent 3 years in Academical learning he came into England and at length to Merton Coll. in Oxon. for the sake if I mistake not of Mr. Sam. Clark an eminent Orientalian where at his first coming and after he was much esteemed and held in great respect for his admirable knowledge in the oriental tongues In the beginning of the year 1660 he was admitted Bach. of Arts at which time was publickly read his Testimonial dated 18 May 1659 subscribed by Joh. Leusden the ordinary Professor of the Holy Tongue in Utrecht Where in among other things I find this of Cawton Totum vetus Testamentum Hebraicum partim punctatum partim non punctatum perlegit explicuit Regulas Grammaticae syntaxeos Hebraicae optime perdidiscit Deinde in lingua Chaldaica Danielis Paraphrasibus Chaldaicis in lingua Syriacâ Novi Test in lingua Arabica commentariis Rabbinorum strenuè sese exercuit Denique quaestiones philologico-Hebraicas circa Vetus Test Hebraeum movere solitas ita perdidiscit ut summo cum honore duas disputationes philologicas publicè defenderit priorem de versione Syriaca veteris Novi Test posteriorem vero de usu linguae Hebraicae in philosophia Theoretica illius fuit Respondens hujus vero author Respondens Certe in disputatione hac componenda in ejusdem strenua defensione ingenium eruditionem suam omnibus palam
fecit c. Afterwards our Author Cawton continuing for some time in Mert. Coll. was at length upon the resetling of the English Liturgy in the University called thence and afterwards setling within the City of Westminster lived a Nonconformist and kept religious meetings in private to his last His works besides the former are these Dissertatio de usu linguae Hebraicae in Philosophia theoretica Printed at Utrecht And wrot also the life of his Father intit The life and death of that holy and rev man of God Mr. Tho. Cawton sometimes Minister of the Gospel at S. Barthelmews behind the Royal Exchange and lately Preacher to the English Congregation of Rotterdam in Holland c. Lond. 1662. oct The Life tho it seemâ to be written by another person yet the son was the Author who caused to be added to it his fathers sermon intit Gods rule for a godly life c. preached before the Lord Mayor and his brethren the Aldermen of London at Mercers Chappel 25 of Feb. 1648 on Philip. 1.27 Lond. 1662 being the Sermon for which the Author was committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster Balaam's wish or the vanity of desiring without endeavouring to obtain the death of the upright Lond. 1670. 75. oct 't is a Sermon He died on the tenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 40 years or thereabouts and was buried in the new Church in Tuttle street within the City of Westminster at which time Mr. Hen. Hurst his friend and sometimes Fellow collegian spoke before a large Auditory a Funeral discourse in the latter end of which are many things deservedly said of the Defunct which being made publick I refer the Reader to it RICHARD HOLLAND was born within the City of Lincoln and for a time educated in this University but took no degree Afterwards he taught the grounds of Geography and Mathematicks among the young scholars for about 50 years grew wealthy and being always sedulous in his employment several afterwards became eminent by his instruction He wrot for their use Globe notes Oxon. 1678. oct sec edit Notes how to get the angle of the parallax or a Comet Oxon. 1668. oct He died on the first day of May in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 81 years and was buried very deep behind the south door of the Parish Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. His employment in instructing young scholars was afterwards taken up by Joh. Caswell M. A. of Wad Coll. afterwards Vice-principal of Hart Hall Besides this Rich. Holland is another of both his names M. of A. and Rector of S. George's Church in Stanford in Lincolnshire Author of one or more sermons BRUNO RYVES kinsman to Dr. Tho. Ryves mentioned under the year 1651. p. 83. was born in Dorsetshire made one of the Clerks of New Coll. in 1610 where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts became one of the Chaplains of Magd. Coll. 1616. Soon after he proceeded in Arts became a most noted and florid Preacher Vicar of Stanwell in Middlesex Rector of St. Martins de le Vintry in London Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 1. and in 1639 proceeded Doct. of Div. But the Rebellion breaking out soon after he was sequestred of his Rectory by the Presbyterians plunder'd and forced to fly and at length losing his Vicaridge he shifted from place to place and by the favour of his Majesty had the Deanery of Chichester and the Mastership of the Hospital there conferr'd upon him tho little or no profit accrued thence till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. About which time being sworn Chaplain in ord to him had the Deanery of Windsore confer'd on him in which he was installed 3 Sept. 1660 and so consequently was Dean of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire Afterwards he became Rector of Acton in Middlesex was sworn Scribe of the most noble order of the Garter 14 Jan. 1660 and about that time was made Rector of Haseley near to and in the County of Oxford which I think is annexed to his Deanery as the Deanery of Wolverhampton is but all separated by Mr. Baxter thereby to make him a great Pluralist without any consideration had to his great sufferings occasion'd by the Presbyterians He hath written Mercurius Rusticus or the Countries complaint recounting the sad events of this unparralel'd Warr. Which Mercuries in number at least 19 commencing from 22 Aug. 1642 came out in one sheet sometimes in two in qu. Merc. Rustic The second part in number 5 giving an account of Sacriledges in and upon several Cathedrals After the Warr was ended all these Mercuries were pr. an 1646 and 47. in oct and had to them added 1 A general bill of mortality of the Clergy of London c. Or a brief martyrologie and catalogue of the learned grave religious painful Ministers of the City of Lond. who have been imprison'd plundered c. for their constancy to the Protestant Religion and their Loyalty from 1641 to 1647 about which time it came out by it self in one sheet only pr. on one side 2 Querela Cantabrigiensis or a Remonstrance by way of Apology for the banished members of the flourishing University of Cambridge Written by a member thereof 3 Micro-Chronicon or a brief Chronologie of the time and place of the Battles Sieges Conflicts and other remarkable passages which have hapned betwixt his Majesty and the Parliament from the beginning of the unhappy dissentions to the 25 of Mar. 1647. Which Micro-Chron I take to be written by our Author Ryves and to have been partly collected by him from Englands Iliads in a Nuâ-shell written by George Wharton 4 A Catalogue of the names of all or most part of the Lords Knights Commanders and Persons of Quality slain or executed by law martial on both sides from the beginning of this unnatural War to the 25 of Mar. 1647. This also I take to be collected by Ryves The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that that edition of Merc. Rusticus which came out in 1647 had more in it than that of 1646. However Rich. Royston the Bookseller being minded to make another edition he followed only that which came out in 1646. so that the third edit which he made in 1685 hath less in it than that of 1647. Dr. Ryves hath also written and published Several sermons as 1 Serm. on 1 Tim. 6.10 Pr. in qu. 1652. 2 Fun. Serm. on 2 Tim. 4.7 Pr. 1656. qu. 3 Serm. before the H. of Commons 15 Jan. 1661. Whether printed I know not as yet for I have not seen it He died at Windsore on the 13 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Alley or Isle joyning on the south side to his Majesty's Chappel of S. George there Over his grave is this inscription engraven on a marble table fastned to the south Wall Brunus Ryves S. Theologiae Professor Reg. majestati Ã
to a senior Master Soon after he left Oxon and became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards tho not in Orders from a Bishop he was made Minister of S. Mary Magdalens Church in Milkstreet in London which place he keeping till the day of S. Barthelmew an 1662 left it because he would not conform Whereupon retiring to Hoxton alias Hogsden near London preached in a Conventicle there to his dying day being always held in great esteem for his piety by those of his perswasion He hath written Spiritual antidote for a dying soul Lond. 1665. oct Gods terrible voice in the City by plague and fire Lond. 1667. oct Of Christs certain and sudden appearance to judgment Lond. 1667. oct and several times after the sixth edit came out in 1683. and the book it self is grounded on Rev. 22.20 last part Answer to the sandy foundation of Will Pen the Quaker Defence of the Trinity Satisfaction by Christ and Justification of Sinners Lond. 1667. in tw or sixt Wells of salvation opened or words whereby we may be saved With advice to young men Lond. 1669. oct Explicatory Catechisme or an explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechisme wherein all the Answers are taken asunder under Questions and Answers the Truths explained and proved c. Lond. 1673 c. oct The true Christians love of the unseen Christ or a discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians Lond. 1677. 84. in tw Appendix concerning Christs manifestation of himself to them that love him Printed with The true Christians love c. Holy and profitable Sayings Lond. 1680. Printed on one side of a sh of paper Several sermons as 1 Fire and Brimstone from Heaven from Earth in Hell or three discourses 1. Concerning the burning of Sodome and Gomorrah formerly 2. Concerning c. Lond. 1670. oct contained in several sermons 2 Wherein doth appear the blessedness of forgiveness and how it may be attained on Psal 32.1 Lond. 1674. 76. qu. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate published by Sam. Aneley 3 Sermon on 1 Tim. 4.1.2 and part of the third verse This is the seventeenth sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in a Conventicle in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 Serm. on Isa 57.1.2 Printed 1667 oct This I have not yet seen nor certain controversial Writings between him and Dr. VVill. Sherlocke This Mr. Vincent died at Hogsden before mentioned in the Parish of S. Leonards Shoreditch in the month of Octob. the 15 day as it seems in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the new Churchyard belonging to Cripplegate Parish as his Brother Nathaniel hath informed me at which time Sam. Slater preached his funeral sermon on Heb. 13.7 afterwards published under the title of Vincentius redivivus in the beginning of which he tells us that the said Mr. Vincent was buried 27 of Oct. 1678. SILAS DOMVILLE or D'omvill alias Taylor son of Silvanus Taylor a Committee man for Herefordshire in the time of the rebellion a busie man against the Kings party and a Commissioner for Herefordshire and certain Counties in Wales for the ejecting of scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School-Masters was born at Harley near Muchwenlock in Shropshire on the 16 of July 1624 bred in the Free-Schools at Westminster and Shrewsbury became a Communer of New Inn in the beginning of the year 1641 but being soon after called thence without the taking of a degree upon the eruption of the Civil Wars he took part with the Rebels upon his fathers instance and at length became a Captain under Colonel afterwards Major General Edw. Massey and when the Wars ceased he was made by his fathers endeavours a Sequestrator of the Royalists in Herefordshire and had in those times great power there which he used so civilly and obligingly that he was beloved of all the Kings party His father setled upon him a good estate in Church Lands which he had bought and had the moity of the Bishops Pallace in Hereford setled on him the other part Col. John Birch had got into his clutches on which he laid out much mony in building and altering Upon the rising of Sir George Booth in Cheshire in the beginning of Aug. 1659 he received a Commission to be Captain of a Troop of Horse for the Militia of the City of Westminster and shew'd himself very active in that employment but at the Kings return he lost all and was in a manner ruined Soon after by the favour of certain persons whom he had before obliged he became Commissary of the ammunition and warlike provision at Dunkirke and five years after about 1665 he was by the endeavours of Sir Paul Neile and others made keeper of the Kings Store-houses for Shipping and other marine matters at Harwich a Sea-port Town in Essex where he continued to the time of his death This person being a great lover of Antiquities did in the times of usurpation ransack the Library belonging to the Church of Hereford of most or at least the best Mss therein and did also garble the Mss in the Library of the Church at Worcester and the evidences pertaining thereunto among which as I have heard he got the original grant of K. Edgar whence the Kings of England derive their right to the soveraignty of the Seas which is printed in Mr. Seldens book called Mare Clausum lib. 2. He had got also into his hands a quarto Ms of great antiquity which treated of the Philosophers stone in Hieroglyphicks with some few lat verses underneath And being limn'd with very great curiosity it was presented to the view of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 who offer'd 100 l. for it but was refused by the owner This person commonly called Captain Taylor hath written The History of Gavel-kind with the Etymology thereof containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the antient Britains notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans Saxons Danes and Normans Lond. 1663. qu. Observations and remarks upon many special occurrences of British and English History Printed with the former book At the end of which is an Anonymus Ms by him publish'd entit Brevis relatio de Willielmo Comite Normannorum c. The original of which is in the Archives of Bodlies Library communicated to him by Dr. Tho. Barlow the head keeper of that Library He had also written and published several pamphlets before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but his name being not put to would never after own them He also laboured four years or more in collecting various antiquities as Armes monumental Inscriptions c. in many places of Herefordshire during his employment there under the two Protectors Which being now or at least lately in the hands of Sir Edw. Harley of Brompton Brian may serve as an Apparatus for him who shall hereafter write the
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England ãâã also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to ãâ¦ã at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
Kent and married Jane the Daughter of one Dr. Edw. Simson who being antient resign'd his living Pluckley I think to him and then took the degrees in Divinity in this University But he being much vex'd with factious Parishioners and Quakers left his Benefice and in the year 1657 he procured himself to be made Fellow of the new erected Coll. at Durham where being appointed one of them that should teach Grammar he followed precisely the Jesuits method and the boys under him did by that course profit exceedingly But that Coll. being dissolved in the beginning of 1660 or rather a little before he returned into the South parts setled at Islington near London and in a large Gallery in a house belonging to Sir Thomas Fisher he taught boys after an easie method too large now to tell you He had also there a little Academy for Girls to be taught Latine and Greek and as I have been informed one of them at 14 years of age could construe a Greek Gospel Afterwards this person who had a restless and freakish head went with Coll. E. Harley to Dunkirk and was there a Chaplain for some time Which place with the garrison being sold by the English he returned and that Colonel setled him in the Vicaridge of Lentwarden in Herefordshire But that being a poor thing he soon after left it and by the favour of the Bishop of London he obtained the cure of S. Mary Stayning in that City scarce worth 20 l. per an unless benevolence make it more Being setled there the grand conflagration hapned which burnt down his Church and Parish to the ground an 1666. So that being for the present destitute of a subsistance he went soon after in the quality of a Chaplain to the garrison of Tangier where remaining till the Church of S. Michael in Woodstreet was rebuilt and the Parish of S. Mary united with it he was sent for home and made Rector of that Church which with a Lecture elsewhere he kept to his dying day He was a person very well vers'd in Lat. Gr. and Poetry and always took a very great delight to instruct youth He understood Chronology well and spent much time and money in the art of Alchimy He was a person cynical and hersute shiftles in the world yet absolutely free from covetousness and I dare say from pride But above all that he is to be remembred for is that he was the first discoverer to his Majesty of that Plot commonly called the Popish Plot and by many Oates his Plot about the 25. of Sept. 1678 having a little before been told of it by Titus Oates who conferr'd together what to do in that matter He hath written A short compendium of Grammar Printed in two sheets at most in oct Noun Substantives the names of things declare And Adjectives what kind of things those are c. And in 6 or 8 verses more are comprehended the concords c. Observations directions and enquiries concerning the motion of sap in trees Remitted into the Philosophical Transactions an 1670 num 57. Enquiries relating particularly to the bleeding of Walnuts Rem into the same Trans num 58. Letter about the retarding of the ascent of sap c. and concerning the running of sap in trees There also numb 68. The Royal Martyr Whether printed I cannot tell because Râg L'estrange refused to licence it an 1678. The Jesuits unmasked or political observations upon the ambitious pretences and subtile intreagues of that cunning society presented to all high powers as a seasonable discourse at this time Lond. 1678. qu. The new design of the Papists detected or an answer to the last speeches of the five Jesuits lately executed viz. Thom. White alias Whitebread Will. Harcourt alias Harison John Gavan alias Gawen Anthony Turner and John Fenwick Lond. 1679. in 2. sh in fol. An Answer to the objections against the Earl of Danby concerning his being accessary to the murdering of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey Lond. 1679 in one sh in folio There is no name to it but the general vogue then was that Dr. Tongue was the author An account of Romish doctrine in case of conspiracy and religion Lond. 1679. qu. Jesuits Assassins or the Popish Plot further declared and demonstrated in their murtherous practices and principles Lond. 1680 in 9. sh in fol. the first part Whether the second was ever published I know not The northern Star The British monarchy c. Being a collection of many choice antient and modern prophecies wherein also the fates of the Roman French and Spanish monarchies are occasionally set out Lond. 1680. fol. He also compleated and published the Chronicon written by the aforesaid Dr. Edward Simson sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge printed at Oxon 1652. folio see more in Thom. Jones an 1682. He also translated from French into English 1 Popish mercy and justice Being an account not of those massacred in France by the Papists formerly but of some later persecutions of the French Protestants Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Jesuitical Aphorismes or a summary account of the doctrine of the Jesuits and some other popish Doctors c. Lond. 1678. 79. qu. 3 The Jesuits morals or the principal errors which the Jesuits have introduced into Christian morality c. printed several times particularly at Lond. in 1680. fol. 4 Abridgment of controversie c. Written by Ch. Drelincourt 5 Combat Romaine c. by the same author and other things as I conceive which I have not yet seen He died in the house of that factious Dissenter called the Protestant Joyner alias Steph. Colledge who kept him in his house had much ado with him and had been at great charge to keep him in order for the carrying on of the cause then in hand on the eighteenth day of December in sixteen hundred and eighty and was on the 23 of the same month conveyed by a numerous train most of them of the godly party from Scotch-Hall in the Black Friers to St. Michaels Church in Woodstreet within the City of London where his funeral Sermon was preached by Thom. Jones sometimes of University Coll. in Oxon and therein highly characterized Afterwards the body was reposed in the Vault of the Churchyard of S. Mary Stayning before mentioned He the said Dr. Tongue left behind him at his death two written folio's touching Alchymy which was the art wherein he was most excellent and took delight besides certain MSS. of his composition concerning Divinity which he wrot at Durham and elsewhere but whether fit for the Press I know not Some time before his death he invented among other things the way of teaching Children to write a good hand in twenty days time after the rate of 4 hours in a day by writing over with black ink copies printed from copper Plates in red Inke After his death R. Moray Projector of the Penny-Post did cause to be engraven several Plates and then to be printed off with red ink by which means boys
East gate of Oxon for selling the said libel or libels Our Author Dobson hath also published Sermon at the funeral of the Lady Mary Farmor Relict of Sir Will. Farmor Bt who died at Lond. 18 Jul. 1670 and was buried 5 of Aug. following at Eston-Neston in Northamptonshire on 1 Thess 4.13 Lond. 1670. qu. He died in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred eighty and one but where he was buried unless at Corscomb I know not TIMOTHY TAYLOR son of Tho. Taylor of Hempsted in Hertfordshire was born in that County became a Student in Qu. Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1634 at which time he was of S. Maries Hall holy orders and then became Vicar of Almeley in Herefordshire where he preached twice every Sunday but the Chancellour of the Dioc. commanding him to turn his afternoons Sermon into a Catechisme Lecture he upon that occasion setled himself to study the second Commandment more elaborately and industriously than before he had done and so became dissatisfied concerning Episcopacy and the Ceremonies of the Church Afterwards being troubled in the Bishops Court for Nonconformity he did by consent leave Almeley and lived about three years in a small Peculiar exempt from Episcopal Jurisdiction called Longdon in Shropshire where continuing till the Rebellion began he sided with the Presbyterians afterwards with the Independents and became Pastor to a Congregational Church at Duckenfield in Cheshire Thence removing into Ireland about 1650 at which time he took the Engagement he became Minister of Carickfergus there and much resorted to by Presb. and Independents After the restauration of his Maj. Ch. 2 he was silenc'd and thereupon removing to his hired house called the Grange near Carickfergus carried on the trade of preaching in private whereby he gained a comfortable subsistance In 1668 he removed to Dublin took charge of a Church of Dissenters there as Colleague with Sam. Mather and after his death with Nath. Mather his botherâ and continued in that employment till his death He hath written A defence of sundry Positions and Scriptures alledged to justifie the congregational way Lond. 1645. qu. It contains about 130 pages Defence of sundry Positions and Scriptures for the congregational way justified the sec part Lond. 1646. It contains about 46 pages The running title on the top of every leaf is Congregational way justified In the composition of both which books he had the joint help of Sam. Eaton of Cheshire Soon after was published by a Presbyterian Minister called Rich. Hollingworth of Manchester in Lancashire a book intit Certain Queries propounded to such as affect the Congregationall way and especially to Mr. Sam. Eaton and Mr. Tim. Taylor c. Lond. 1646. qu. What other things our author Taylor hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died of a Lethargie on the 31 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and one and that he was buried on the third of June following in the Church of S. Michan in Oxmantowne near to Dublin GEORGE NEWTON a Ministers son was born in Devonshire entred a Batler of Exet. Coll. in Mich. tetm 1617 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1624 entred into holy orders became Minister of Hill-Bishops near Taunton and in Apr. 1631 was made Vicar of Taunton S. Magd. by the presentation of Sir Will. Portman Bt and Rob. Hill Gent. After his settlement in that Vicaridg he behaved himself conformible for a time but upon the breaking out of the rebellion he sided with the Presbyterians having alwaies been puritanically educated preached against the K. and his followers when Taunton was garrison'd for the Parliament and became a mighty man in that interest and much followed and adored by factious people In 1654. he was by ordinance appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom the godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in which employment he sufficiently gave an helping hand to the undoing of many loyal persons and afterwards by his and the preaching of other Presbyterians and Independents who ridiculously make preaching only their religion the said Town of Taunton became the most factious place in all the Nation In 1662 about S. Bartholmews day he was deprived of his Vicaridg for Nonconformity and for the present that place was supplied by Mr. Thom. James fellow of All 's Coll. in Oxon much frequented by the loyal party there and by the Gentry adjoyning Afterwards our author Newton preaching in several Conventicles very seditiously he was seised on imprison'd for several years and justly suffer'd as a mover of sedition He hath written and published An exposition with notes unfolded and applyed on Joh. 17 delivered in sermons preached weekly on the Lords day in the Congregration in Taunton Magdelene Lond. 1660 in a pretty large fol. It is dedicated to Col. John Gorges Governour of the City of London-Derry in Ireland whom the author calls his brother Several Sermons as 1 Magna Carta or the Christians charter epitomized on Psal 91.16 Lond. 1661. in tw 2 Serm. at the fun of Mr. Jos Allein on Luke 23.28 Lond. 1672. and 77. oct c. An account of the godly life and practice of Mr. Joseph Allein and of the course of his Ministrie in Taunton Lond. 1672. and 77. oct See more in Jos Allein among these writers p. 299.300 This G. Newton died in sixteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Taunton S. Magd. Soon after was a mon with inscription put over his grave the contents of which follow Hic jacet corpus Georgii Newton Artium Magistri qui obiit 12. Junii 1681 anno aetatis 79 postquam officium Evangelistae in hoc oppido viz. Taunton per 50 annos fideliter prestiterat Non fictis maestam lachrymis conspergite tumbam Pastoris vestri nam tegit ossa pii Vestra Salutifero planxit peccata flagello Delicti sensu corda gravata levans Absolvet pensum sancti mercede recepta Nunc caeli regno ut stella corusca micat GEORGE WHARTON descended from an antient and gentile family living in Westmorland richly posses'd with lands and inheritances therein was born at Kirbykendal in that County 4. Apr. 1617 spent some time in the condition of a Sojourner in Oxon. 1633. and after but his natural Geny to Astronomy and Mathematicks was so predominant that little or nothing of Logic and Philosophy could take place in him Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony prosecuted his genius which was assisted by Will. Milbourne Curate at Bransepeth near Durham and by the name of George Naworth Wharton of West-Awckland published Almanacks But being soon discontented at the then growing rebellion he turn'd all his inheritance into money espous'd his Majesties cause and interest and raised a gallant Troop of horse therewith After
the holy Feast of Easter c. Written 1665. Apotelesma or the nativity of the World and revolution thereof Short discourse of yeares months and dayes of yeares Somthing touching the nature of Ecclipses and also of their effects Of the Crises in diseases c. Of the mutations inclinations and eversions of Empires Kingdomes c. Discourse of the names Genus Species c. of all Comets Tract teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus c. Secret multiplication of the effects of the Starrs from Cardan Sundry rules shewing by what Laws the weather is governed and how to discover the various alterations of the same He also translated from Latin into English The art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the hand of man c. Written by John Rothman M. D. Lond. 1652. oct This is sometimes called Whartons Chiromancy Most of which foregoing treatises were collected together and publishd an 1683 in oct by John Gadbury born at Wheatley near to and in the County of Oxon 31. Dec. 1627 Son of Will. Gadb of that place farmer by his stoln Wife the Daughter of Sir John Curson of Water-perry Knight bound an Apprentice to Tho. Nicholls a Taylor living in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie in Oxon left him after the great fire hapned in that City 1644 and having a natural genius to the making of Almanacks improved it at London under Will. Lilly then called the English Merlin and afterwards set up the trade of Almanack-making and Fortune-telling for himself in which he became eminent Our author Wharton hath also written Select and choice poems Composed during the Civil War which I have before mention'd At length dying in his house at Enfield in Middlesex on the tenth day of Aug. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried on the 25 day of the same month in the Chappel of S. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London leaving then behind him the character of a most loyal and generous Chevalier JOHN TROUGHTON son of Nathan Trought a Clothier was born in the City of Coventry educated in the Free-School there under Sam. Frankland became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1655 afterwards Fellow and Bach. of Arts but upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 being ejected to make room for one who had been expel'd by the Visitors in 1648 he retired to a mercate town in Oxfordshire commonly called Bister where living a moderate Nonconformist read Academical learning to young men and somtimes preached in private whereby he got a comfortable subsistence Upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for the toleration of religion dat 15. Mar. 1671 this Mr. Troughton was one of those four Dr. Hen. Langley and Tho. Gilbert and Hen. Cornish Bachelaurs of Div. being the other three who were appointed by the principal heads of the Brethren to carry on the work of preaching within the City of Oxon. The place where they held their meetings was in Thamestreet without the north gate in an house which had been built a little before the Civil War began by Tom. Pun alias Tho. Aires where each person endeavouring to shew his parts this our author Troughton was by the auditory of Scholars who came among them meerly out of novelty held âhe best and was by them most applauded The truth is tho the man had been blind occasion'd by the small pox ever since he was four years old yet he was a good School Divine and Metaphysitian and was much commended while he was in the University for his disputations He was not of so busie turbulent and furious a spirit as those of his persuasion commonly are but very moderate And altho he often preached as occasions offer'd themselves in prohibited Assemblies yet he did not make it his business by employing all the little tricks and artifices too frequently practiced by other hot-headed zealots of his fraternity viz. by vilifying and railing at the established ordinances of the Church libelling the conformable ministry by keeping their meetings at the very time when the services and administrations of the Church are regularly performing c. He did not I say by these and such like most unwarrantable contrivances endeavour to withdraw weaker persons from the sacred bosome of the Church in order to fix and herd them in associated defying Conventicles He was respected by and maintain'd an amicable correspondence with some of the conformable Clergy because of his great knowledg and moderation He hath written and published Lutherus redivivus or the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith only vindicated And the plausible opinion of justification by faith and obedience proved to be Arminian Popish and to lead unavoidably to Socinianisme part 1. Lond. 1677. oct This is reflected on by Tho. Hotchkis in his preface to the second part of A discourse concerning imputed righteousness c. Lond. 1678. oct Luther Rediv. or the Protest doctr of justif by Christs righteousness imputed to believers explained and vindicated part 2. Lond. 1678. oct Letter to a Friend touching Gods providence about sinful actions in answer to a Letter intit The reconcilableness of Gods prescience c. and to a postcript of that Letter Lod. 1678. oct Popery the grand Apostasie Being the substance of certain Sermons preached on 2. Thess 2. from ver 1. to 12 on occasion of the desperate plot of the Papists against the K Kingdome and Protestant religion To which is added a Sermon on Rev. 18.4 preached 5. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1680. oct An Apologie for the Nonconformists shewing their reasons both for their not conforming and for their preaching publickly tho forbidden by Law Lond. 1681. quart An Answer to Dr. Stillingfleets sermon and his defence of it so much as concerneth the Nonconformists preaching Printed with the Apologie This learned and religious person Mr. Jo. Troughton died in an house of one of the Brethren situat and being in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon. on the 20 of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 44 years whereupon his body was carried to Bister before mentioned alias Burchester and buried in the Church there At which time Abrah James a blind man Master of the Free-school at Woodstock sometimes of Magd. Hall preaching his funeral sermon did take occasion not only to be lavish in the commendations of the Defunct but to make several glances on the government established by law So that an Auditor there named Sam. Blackwell M. A. and Vicar of Bister a zealous man for the Church of England complaining to the Diocesan of him James was glad to retract what he had said before him to prevent an ejection from his School which otherwise would inevitably have come to pass Now I am got fnto the name of Troughton I cannot without the guilt of concealment but let the Reader know this story of one of that name which is this While his Majesty K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was a
dispersed THOMAS BROWNE eldest son of Th. Br. Gent. was born in S. Michaels Cheap or in the parish of S. Michael in Cheapside in London on the 19 of Nov. an 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester entred a Commoner of Broadgates Hall soon after known by the name of Pembroke Coll in the beginning of the year 1623 took the degrees in Arts as a Member of the said Coll entred on the physick line and practised that faculty for some time in these parts Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas was made Doctor of Physick at Leyden and after his return he was incorporated in this University an 1637. About which time he by the perswasions of Tho. Lushington his somtimes Tutor retired to the City of Norwych where being setled he was much resorted to by Patients for his admirable skill in Physick which he practiced there with good success for many years was made Socius honorarius of the Coll. of Physitians at London and at length in the latter end of Sept. 1671. had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Maj. Ch. 2 then at and near the City of Norwych He hath written Religio Medici Lond. 1642. c. oct in English Answerd in a book intit Medicus Medicatus written by Alex. Ross a Scot and had English Observations put on it about the same time by Sir Ken. Digby and Annotations by another Afterwards the book it self was translated into Latine by Joh. Meryweather M. A. of Cambridge and had latine annotations put to it by a certain German who subscribes himself L. N. M. E. M. Printed at Strasburgh 1652. in oct whose preface to it tells us that the book it self which is translated into French Italian Dutch German c. hath been much taken into the hands of curious and learned men who have read it with great delight See more there of the author Browne and of his Relig. Med. in the said translat Pseud Epidem Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed truths or enquiries into common and vulgar errours Lond. 1646 in a little fol. There again 1650. and 57 c. The sixth edit in 1673 was enlarged by the author with many explanations additions alterations c. T was answer'd by the said Alex. Ross in his Arcana Microcosmi Or the hid secrets of mans body discovered c. Lond. 1652 oct c. And in a book written by Joh. Robinson M. D. entit Eudoxa seu questionum quarundam Miscelleniarum examen probabile c. Lond. 1656. oct The Reader may be pleased now to know that there hath been published under Dr. Tho. Brownes name a book bearing this title Natures Cabinet unlocked wherein is discovered the natural causes of Metalls Stones Pretious Earths c. Printed 1657 in tw A dull worthles thing stole for the most part out of the Physicks of Magirus by a very ignorant person a Plagiary so ignorant and unskilful in his rider that not distinguishing between Laevis and Levis in the said Magirus hath told us of the Liver that one part of it is gibbous and the other light And yet he had the confidence to call this scribble Natures Cabinet c an arrogant and fanciful title of which our authors Browne true humilitie would have no more have suffer'd him to have been the father than his great learning could have permitted him to have been the author of the said book For it is certain that as he was a Philosopher very inward with nature so was he one that never boasted his acquaintance with her Sir Tho. Browne hath written also Urn-burial or a discourse of Sepulchral Urns lately found out in Norfolke c. Lond. 1658. oct c. The Garden of Cyrus or the Quincunical Lozenge or Net-work plantations of the Antients artificially naturally mystically considered with sundry observations c. Printed with Urn-burial Certaine Miscellany Tracts 1 Observations upon several plants mention'd in Scripture 2 Of Garlands and coronary or garden-plants 3 Of the Fishes eaten by our Saviour with his Disciples after his resurrection from the dead 4 Answer to certain equeries relating to Fishes Birds Insects 5 Of Hawkes and falconry antient and moderne 6 Of Cymbals c. 7 Of ropalie or gradual verses c. 8 Of Languages and particularly of the Saxon tongue 9 Of artificial Hills mounts or burrowes in many parts of England 10 What place is meant by that name 11 Of the answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Croesus King of Lydia 12 A prophecie concerning the future state of several nations 13 Musaeum Clausum or Bibliotheca abscondita c. All these were printed at Lond. 1686 in oct with the authors picture before them shewing him to have been an handsome man and an Epistle written by Dr. Tho. Tennison the publisher of them who saith that there is on foot a design of writing the authors life and that there are already some memorialls collected for that purpose by one of his antient friends and puts the Reader in expectation of receiving hereafter some other remaining brief Discourses among which is his Repertorium or some account of the Tombes Monuments c. in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich This learned and worthy Physitian whose works were published in fol. 1686 with his picture also before them died in his house in Norwych on the 19 day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried within the Railes at the East end of the Chancell in the Church of S. Peter in Mancroft within the said City Over his grave was a Monument soon after erected by his Relict Dame Dorothy who had been his affectionate wife 41. years with this inscription thereon M. S. Hic situs est Thomas Browne M. D. Miles An. 1605 Londini natus generosâ familiâ apud Upton in agro Cestrensi oriundus Scholâ primum Wintoniensi postea in Coll. Pembr apud Oxonienses bonis literis haud leviter imbutus in urbe hâc Nordovicensi Medicinam arte egregiâ faelici successu professus Scriptis quibus tituli Religio Medici Pseudodoxia Epidemica aliissque per orbem notissimus Vir pientissimus integerrimus doctissimus Obiit Octob. 19 an 1682. Pie posuit maestissima conjux D a Dor. Br. There is also an English Epitaph which for brevity sake I shall now pass by THOMAS TANNER son of a wealthy Citizen of London was born in the Parish of S. Matthew in Friday-street within that City an 1630 educated in Paules School and thence sent to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge where he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon when the Visitours appointed by Parl. sate there he was incorporated in the said degree in Feb. 1650 and about that time was made one of the Fellows of New Coll. by the said Visitors In less than two years after he proceeded in Arts having some time before had the degree of M. of A. confer'd on him
questioning and censuring rebellious actions The running title of which in the Corollary it self is this Who can touch the Lords anointed and be guiltless 2 A singular Master-piece of furious Sedition preached Jan. 15. an 1642. on Psal 94.20 Printed with Disloyalty of Language questioned c. 3 The almighty his gracious token of love to his friend Abraham preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristow 3 Jan. 1674 on Acts 7.8 former part Lond. 1676. qu. c. He died in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the north isle of the choire at Bristow over against the tomb of Sir Charles Vaughan Soon after was a flat stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Richardus Towgood S. T. B. obiit Aprilis 21. An. Dom. 1683. aetatis suae octogesimo nono Spes mea reposita est in caelis In his Deanery succeeded Sam. Crossman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Bristow son of Sam. Crossm of Bradfield Monachorum in Suffolk who had it confer'd upon him by his Maj. in the beginning of May following He hath written and published several things as The young mans Monitor c. Lond. 1664. oct and several sermons among which are Two sermons preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol 30 Jan. 1679 and 30 Jan. 1680. being the days of publick humiliation for the execrable murder of K. Ch. 1. Printed at Lond. 1681. qu. Also A Serm. preached 23 Apr. 1680 in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol before the Gentlemen of the Artillery company newly raised in that City Pr. at Lond. 1680. qu. And An humble plea for the quiet rest of Gods ark preached before Sir Joh. Moore L. Mayor of Lond. at S. Mildreds Ch. in the Poultrey 5 Feb. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. c. He died 4 Febr. 1683 aged 59 years and was buried in the south isle of the Cath. Ch. in Bristow After him followed in the said Deanery Rich. Thompson as I shall tell you elsewhere MATHEW SMALWOOD son of Jam. Smal. of Middlewick in Cheshire was born in that County became a Student in this Univ. 1628 aged 16 years Scholar of Brasn Coll. two years after took the degrees in Arts and left the University for a time In 1642. Nov. 1. he was actually created Master of Arts being then in holy Orders and a sufferer in those times if I mistake not for the royal cause After his Majesties restauration in 1660 he was actually created D. of D. by vertue of the Kings Letters for that purpose was about that time made a Dignitary and in 1671 Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Tho. Wood promoted to the See thereof He hath published Several Sermons as one upon Gen. 5.24 another on Prov. 11.18 a third on Math. 5.34 c. All printed after his Maj. restauration He died at Market Bosworth in Leicestershire on the 26 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and three being then there to attend the funeral of Sir Wolstan Dixey and was some days after buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. in Oxon. JOHN DURELL son of Jo. Durell of S. Hillary in the Isle of Jersey was born there entred a Student in Merton Coll. in the latter end of the year 1640 aged 15 years having then a chamber in S. Albans Hall but before he had spent two years there which was under Mr. Tho. Jones he left that antient house Oxford being then garrison'd for his Majesty and the Scholars in arms for him and forthwith retired to France where at Caen in Normandy he took the degree of Master of Arts in the Sylvanian Coll. 8. of July 1644. About which time he studied Divinity carried it on for at least two years at Samaur under the famous Divine and Writer Moses Amyraldus Divinity Reader in that University Afterwards he retired to his own Country continued there for a time among his Relations but at length being expuls'd thence with Monsieur Le Conteur and Dan. Brevint both born in Jersey our author Durell who was the first that left that place took his journey to Paris and there received Episcopal Ordination in the Chappel of the honorable and truly noble Sir Rich. Browne Knight his Majesties then Resident in France from the hands of Thomas Bish of Galloway after the Kings restauration of Orkney about 1651. So that being a native of Jersey ordained in France and by a Scotch Bishop doth make a certain Writer doubt whether he was Ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter as our author stiles himself in his books Soon after he resided at S. Maloes and acquainting his friends with the condition he was then in he was thereupon kindly invited by the reformed Church at Caen by an express on purpose to come there and become one of their Ministers in the absence of Monsieur Sam. Bochart the famous Orientalian Philologist and Critick author of Geographia sacra c. and of that Latin Letter to Dr. George Morley at the end of that book who was then going into Sweden Not long after the Landtgrave of Hessen having written to the Ministers of Paris to send to him a Minister to preach in French at his Highness's Court he was by them recommended to that Prince from whom likewise he received a very kind invitation by Letters which he kept by him to the time of his death But the providence of God not permitting him to go to either of those places he became at length Chaplain to the Duke de la Force Father to the Princess of Turein Monsieur Le Couteur being invited likewise at the same time to the reform'd Church of Caen and Brevint to another Church in Normandy where he was prefer'd to be Chaplain to the Prince of Turein Before I go any farther I must tell you that about 1642 the Duke of Soubize living near to the Court at Whitehall and finding it troublesome and sometime impossible by reason of his infirmities to go to the VValloons Church in the City of London had commonly a French sermon preached before him in his own house every Sunday This being found very commodious to the French living near thereunto it was thought convenient upon the death of the said Duke to set up a French Church about the Strand And it being in a manner setled that in the City did so highly resent it that ever after the members thereof did endeavour by all means possible to pull it down Upon the Kings restauration the French Church in the City addressed his Majesty to have the French Congregation at VVestminster broken and forbidden to assemble because it was not established by lawful authority That at VVestminster did present an humble suit to his Majesty that he would be pleased to continue it His Maj. upon consideration of the matter granted both their requests by breaking the Congregation at VVestm and by setting up a new Church under the immediate jurisdiction of the Bishop of London wherein divine Service
found guilty at the Old Bayly and lastly that our Author Bampfield dying in the said Prison of Newgate on Saturday the sixteenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred eighty and three his body was two or three days after followed with a very great company of factious and schismatical people to his grave in the new burying place bought by the Anabaptists in Glass-house Yard joyning to Aldersgate street in London THOMAS GAWEN son of a Minister of the City of Bristow of both his names was born in a market Town in Glocestershire called Marifield educated in Wykehams School near VVinchester made perpetual Fellow of New Coll an 1632 aged 22 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders travelled was at Rome and accidently sometimes fell into the company of John Milton the Antimonarchist After his return he became Chaplain to Dr. Curl Bishop of VVinchester who gave him a Prebendship in that Church and the Rectory as I conceive of Exton in Hampshire he being then much valued for his Learning Greek and Latin Poetry About the latter end of 1642 he having the year before left his Fellowship he was appointed by the said Bishop to be Tutor to his son then a Commoner of Magd. Coll where being esteemed a person of admirable breeding his company was much desired and courted by reason of his travels and discourse which savoured at that time nothing of Popery but rather an aversion from it of which great notice was taken among those with whom he commun'd Afterwards upon the delivery up of his charge and a foresight of the ruine of the Ch. of England he travelled again to Rome with the heir of the Dorcestrian Pier ponts spent some time there and in other parts of Italy and returning thro France met with an intimate friend of his then lately of Magd. Coll. at Paris with whom having several conferences that person found his discourse changed and some tincture therein of the Romish dye Whereupon he acquainting Dr. Steph. Goffe of the person he desired his company but could not by any means perswade him to come within the verge of the Court of the Queen Mother of England then there and the reason of it was as they conceived because he would keep his opinion undiscovered to the end that he might afterwards gain some profit from the Ch. of England After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Rector of Bishops-stoke in Hampshire and of Fawley but the last he never enjoyed because not inducted thereunto About that time he being discovered to be what he was a Rom. Catholick he willingly left all he had and to prevent danger that might ensue from his clerical brethren he procured himself by the endeavours of Dr. Goffe and L. Abbat Mountague to be sworn a Servant to Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother before mentioned Afterwards he went a third time to Rome married an Italian woman well born and had a child by her but because he had nothing with left her and the child and returned to his native Country his wealth being kept for the children of his brother who was then P. of the P. P. at London About that time he took up his quarters in the City of VVestminster lived a retired life a perpetual Student in religionary Controversies and wrot many things of which some are extant as A brief explanation of the several mysteries of the holy Mass and of the actions of the Priest celebrating very necessary for all Roman Catholicks for the better understanding thereof Lond. 1686. oct Certain Reflections upon the Apostles Creed touching the Sacrament Divers Meditations and Prayers both before and after the Communion These two last go and are bound with the Brief Explanation c. Other things also which he left behind him that are not as yet I suppose extant are 1 A treatise of mental prayer 2 How to gain a Jubilee or Indulgence 3 Of the name of God Jehovah 4 Meditations belonging to spiritual exercise 5 Treatise touching the reading of Saints lives c. And among the Translations into Latine which he made was Joh. Cleavelands Poem called The Rebel Scot and among those from Spanish into English The life of S. Vincent of Caraffa the General of the society of Jesus He died in his house situated in the Pall-Mall within the Liberty of the City of VVestminster on the 8 day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields within the said City leaving then behind him the character among men especially those of his perswasion of a learned and religious person THOMAS GORE was born of an antient and gentile family living at Aldrington alias Alderton in VVilts an 1631 at which place his Ancestors who originally came from Whitlegh near Melkesham in the said County have lived about 300 years In the time of the Rebellion he was educated in Grammar learning at Tetbury in Glocestershire under Mr. Tho. Tully where being rip'ned for the University became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in the month of May 1647 under the tuition first of Joh. King Fellow of that House and afterwards with leave from the President under the said Mr. Tully Fellow of Qu. Coll. After he had continued in Magd. Coll. more than three years and had perform'd his exercise for the degree of Bach. of Arts he retir'd to Lincolns Inn whence after he had spent some time in the municipal Laws he receeded to his Patrimony at Alderton where prosecuting his natural Genius which he had to Heraldry and Antiquities wrot and published these things following A Table shewing how to blazon a coat of Arms ten several ways Printed 1655 on one side of a single sheet and taken verbatim as it seems from Joh. Fern's book called The blazon of Nobility c. Nomenclator Geographicus Latino Anglicus Anglico-Latinus alphabeticè digestus complectens plerorumque omnium M. Britanniae Hiberniae regionum Comitatum Episcopatuum Oppidorum Fluviorum c. nomina appellationes c. Oxon. 1667. oct To which the Author did afterwards add many other things with an intention to come out with another edition Series alphabetica Latino-Anglica nomina gentilitiorum sive cognominum plurimarum familiarum quae multos per annos in Angliâ floruere è libris quà manuscriptis quà typis excusis aliisque antiquioris aevi monumentis latinis collecta Oxon. 1667. oct This book was afterwards crept into a thick quarto by the additions of the etymologies of the words and many little annotations concerning the Arms of the said Families but before the Author could put it into the press he was snatch'd away by death Catalogus in certa capita seu classes alphabetico ordine concinnatus plerorúmque omnium authorum tam antiquorum quà m recentiorum qui de re heraldica Latinè Gallicè Ital. Hispan Germ. Anglicè scripserunt Oxon. 1668. in 4 sh and an half To which the Author making many
Communer of Magd. Hall in Easter Term an 1640 aged 18 years left it upon the eruption of the Civil Wars went to Cambridge and taking the Covenant became Fellow of Trin. Coll. there in the place of a Loyallist ejected and having the degree of Master of Arts in that University confer'd on him became a person of high repute as one of his perswasion tells us for his good life good learning and excellent gravity greatly beloved of the then Master who lov'd an honest man and a good Scholar with all his heart About that time taking Orders according to the Presbyterian way he retired to London and much about the same time that he became Minister of S. Martins Church joyning to Ludgate he became one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of London for the ejecting of such whom the faction then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters From that time to his silencing he was a very zealous person for promoting the cause and in very great esteem by those of his perswasion as the aforesaid author tells us for his piety parts prudence sound judicious practical spiritual substantial preaching yet another of a contrary perswasion who lived afterwards as now in very great esteem for his loyalty and learning represents him to have been the prettiest nonsensical trifling Goose cap that ever set pen to paper On the 14 of March 1659 he was one of those Zealots who by Act of Parliament were appointed Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way before they were to be setled in Church Livings but that being soon after laid aside upon his Majesties restauration he himself was ejected from S. Martins and laid aside also for Nonconformity at Bartholmew tide in 1662 he being about that time Doct. of Divinity Afterwards he followed the trade of Conventicling for which he was brought several times into trouble and at length became Chaplain to the Countess of Exeter in whose service he died He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Enochs walk and change funeral Sermon on Gen. 5.24 preached at the burial of Mr. Rich. Vines sometimes Master of Pembr Hall in Cambridge in the Church of S. Laurence Jewry London 7. Feb. 1655. Lond. 1657. qu. third edit To which our author Jacombe hath added A short account of the life and death of Mr. Rich. Vines 2 The active and publick spirit preached at S. Pauls 26. oct 1656 on Acts 13. former part of the 36 vers Lond. 1657. qu. 3 Gods mercy for mans mercy preached at the Spittle before the L. Mayor Aldermen c. of Lond. on Matth. 5.7 Lond. 1657. qu. 4 Two farewell Sermons at Bartholmew tide on John 8.29 Lond. 1662. oct His picture is before the title among other pictures of Nonconformists that preached farewell Sermons in London 5 Several Sermons preached on the whole eighth Chap. of the Epistle to the Romans eighteen of which were preached on the first 2.3 and fourth verses of the said eighth Chapt. Lond. 1672. 3. qu. This is sometimes called his Commentary on the eighth Chap. to the Romans 6 How Christians may learn in every state to be content on Phil. 4.11 This is in The supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 7 The Covenant of redemption on Isa 53.10 This is in The morning exercise methodized c. preached at St. Giles in the Fields in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. 8 The upright mans peace at his end opened in a fun discourse or Serm. 8. Dec. 1681. upon the death of Mr. Matth. Martyn Citizen of London Lond. 1682. qu. c. He hath also written A treatise of holy dedication both personal and domestick recommended to the Citizens of London upon their entring into their new habitations Lond. 1668. oct This was written after the grand conflagration of London and published after the Citizens had returned to their habitations when rebuilt A short account of the life of Mr. Will. Whittaker late Minister of S. Mary Magd. Bermondsey in Southwark Lond. 1674. 5. oct This is set before Mr. Whittakers eighteen Sermons preached upon several texts of Scripture Dr. Jacombe also was one of the eight Nonconforming Ministers that undertook in 1682 to finish the English Annotations on the Holy Scripture in two vol. in fol. began by Matthew Pool and by him carried on to the 58 Chapter of Isaiah and no doubt there is but that he did his share in that great work At length he giving way to fate in the house of Frances Countess of Exeter situat and being in Little Britaine on the 27. of March being then Easter Sunday in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried five days after in the Church of St. Anne within and near Aldersgate in the City of London in the presence of very many as well Conformist as Nonconformist Divines I find one Sam. Jacombe Bach. of Div to have been sometimes Fellow of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Minister of S. Mary Wolnoth in Lombardsârâet in London in times of Usurpation author of two or more Sermons of which one is entit Moses his death preached at Ch. Church in London at the funeral of Mr. Edw. Bright Minister there Lond. 1657. qu. Which S. Jacombe who was buried in his own Church of S. Mar. Woln. on the 17. June 1659 I take to have been brother of the before mention'd Dr. Tho. Jacombe EDWARD SHELDON a younger Son of Edw. Sheldon of Beoley in Worcestershire Esq was born there on the 23 of Apr. 1599 became a Gent. Com. of Gloc. Hall in the time of Dr. Hawley Principal thereof about 1613 where spending three or more years did afterwards travel beyond the Seas and became Master of two languages besides the Lat. at least Some years after his return he setled on his Patrimony at Stratton near to Cirencester in Glocestershire which at length he lost or was forced to quit for the cause of K. Ch. 1. and for his Religion in the time of the grand rebellion raised and carried on by restless people He hath translated from French into Engl. 1 The holy life of Gaston Joh. Bapt. de Renty a Nobleman of France Lond. 1658. oct mangled by an Irish Priest when it went to the press It was printed there again with corrections an 1683. oct 2 The rule of Cath. Faith c. Lond 1660 there again tho said in the title to be printed at Paris with its old date an 1672 both in oct This book was originally written by Franc. Veron D. D. 3 Christian thoughts for every day in the month Lond. 1680. in tw 4 The Counsels of wisdom or a Collection of the Maxims of Solomon c. with reflections on the Maxims Lond. 1680. oct in two parts Dedic by the Translator to Qu. Catherine This Mr. Sheldon who spent most of his time in studies and devotion paid his tribute common to the condition of the living in a good old age in his house situate and being in
S. James's street near to S. James's house within the liberty of Westminster on the 27 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven Whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said house of S. James's He had several Sons among whom Lionel Sheldon a Benedictine Doct. of Divinity and Chaplain to Anne Duchess of York after she had changed her religion for that of Rome was one and Dominick Sheldon another lately a Colonel of Horse of prudent and couragious conduct in Ireland in the Army of K. Jam. 2. against that of K. Will. 3. Among his daughters were Mary one of the Dressers belonging to Queen Catherine Wife of Sir Sam. Tuke of Cressing-Temple in Essex Kt and Bt a person sometimes of compleat honour and ingenuity a Colonel in the Army of his Majesty K. Ch. 1. and one of the prime Officers in that noble and generous expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 for which he had like to have lost his life afterwards a sufferer for his religion and loyalty author of that celebrated Trag. Com. called The adventures of five hours Lond. 1662 64 and 1671 qu. He died in his house in the Parish of S. Mary le Savoy in the Strand near London in May or June 1674 but where buried unless in the Church of that Parish or in the Chap. at Somerset-house I know not He the said Mr. Sheldon had another Dau. named Frances who was one of the Maids of honour to Qu. Catherine before mention'd and was Uncle to Ralph Sheldon of Beoley Esq commonly called Great Sheldon THOMAS WASHBOURNE a younger Son of Joh. Washbourne of Wychenford in Worcestershire Esq was born there entred a Communer of Balliol Coll in the beginning of the year 1622 aged 16 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts being then esteemed a tolerable Poet holy Orders and in 1636 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences In the time of the rebellion he had a Prebendship in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester confer'd upon him and suffer'd for the Royal cause but when his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was restor'd he was setled and installed in it actually created Doctor of Divinity and became Rector of Dumbleton in Glocestershire He hath written and published Divine Poems Lond. 1654. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the funeral of Charles Cocks Esq on Psal 90.9.10 Lond. 1655. qu. 2 The repairer of the breach preached in the Cathedral of Glocester 29 May 1661 being the anniversary of his Majesties birth day and happy entrance into his imperial City of London on Isa 58.12 Lond. 1661. qu. c. He died on the sixth day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in our Ladies Chappel within the Cathedral Church of Glocester Soon after was a little monument set up on the wall over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was Theologus vere Christianus vere primitivus per annos 44 Eccl. Cath. Gloc. Prebendarius and that he desired to have this written on his mon. that he was primus Peccatorum minimus Ministrorum Dei c. EDMUND HALL was born and educated in Grammar learning within the City of Worcester entred into Pemb. Coll. in 1636 aged 16 left the Univ. before he took a degree sided afterwards with the forces raised by the Parliament against his Majesty K. Ch. 1 took the Covenant and at length became a Captain among them When the Kings cause declined and the war ceased he retired to his Coll was made Fellow thereof and in 1649 he took the degree of Master of Arts much about which time he express'd himself an Enemy to Oliver for his diabolical proceedings and was thereupon committed to custody as I shall tell you anon About that time he became tho a Calvinist a conceited and affected preacher several years in these parts kept pace with the leading men during the Interval complemented with the times at his Majesties restauration and endeavoured to express his loyalty yet could not endure to be called Captain Afterwards he became Minister of a Market Town in Oxfordsh named Chipping-Norton where being much frequented by the neighbourhood obtained the character from some of a fantastical and from others of an edifying preacher About the latter end of 1680 the rectory of Great Risington near North Leech in Glocestershire falling void it was conferr'd upon him by Sir Edm. Bray Knight and soon after he took to him in his elderly years a fair and comely Wife His Sermons preached before the University of Oxon had in them many odd light and whimsical passages altogether unbecoming the gravity of the Pulpit And his gestures being very antick and mimmical did usually excite somewhat of laughter in the more youthful part of the auditory His works are these Lazarus's soares lick'd Written against Dr. Lazarus Seamon who affirmed in a book published about 1648 that an Usurper ought to be submitted to proving it from Christs paying tribute money to Caesar Lingua Testium Manus Test Digitus Test These three pamphlets the titles of which at large I could never get from the author were wrot by him against Oliver to shew that he had slain the Witnesses was very Antichrist and impossible for him to raign above three years and an half Whereupon being imprison'd by the Council of state continued there twelve months and then with much ado upon good Bail given he obtained his liberty A scriptural discourse of the Apostacy and the Antichrist by way of comment upon the twelve first verses of 2. Thes 2. c. in 4 parts Printed 1653. in about 20 sh in qu. with a Preface to it of about four Discourse of slaying the Witnesses and the immediat effects thereof Printed with the former These two last he wrot while he was a Prisoner Sermon at Staunton Harcourt Church in the County of Oxon at the funeral of the Lady Anne Harcourt who deceased 23. Aug. 1664 on Ezek. 24.16 Oxon. 1664. oct A funeral speech at her grave Printed with the Sermon This Lady Anne Harcourt Daughter of Sir Will. Waller sometimes a General of one of the Parliaments Armies was the Wife of Sir Philip Harcourt Knight son and heir of Sir Simon Which Philip dying at or near London was buried by her about the 12 of Apr. 1688 leaving then a son behind him named Simon Recorder of Abendon Our author Mr. Hall died in the month of August or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Great Risington before mention'd His elder Brother Thomas Hall I have at large mention'd already among these Writers under the year 1665. p. 233. WILLIAM PETTY son of Anthony Petty a Clothier was born in a little haven Town in Hampshire called Rumsey on the 26 of May 1623 and while a boy he took very great delight in spending his time among Artificers there as Smiths Carpenters Joyners c. whose trades in
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
there also and went on purpose out of curiosity to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York an 1640. Soon after when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began which was on the 3. of Nov. the same year he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings And both Houses having confidence in they sent their addresses by him to the King then at York being forced thither by their violent proceedings And it so fell out that he rode several times with that expedition between London and that City which is 150 miles that he performed the journey in 24 hours In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of antient extract he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces in which Office he obtained or at least might have so done what wealth he pleased which might had he husbanded it well have supported his necessities in his last days In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieg'd by the said Generalissimo his help was somtimes required and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues till it was concluded In 1649 he attended his Master then Lord Fairfax with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon where being all splendidly entertain'd by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent perswasion he was actually created Master of Arts and at the same time he as a Member of Queens Coll was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon and Members of the said University After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn and being in great esteem by the men of those times he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon Twede near to which place he had received his first breath to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parl which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and again for the same place for that which commenc'd 25. of Apr. 1660 but for that which began in May 1661 he was not In Sept. 1667 at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal he was by him made his Secretary and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678 as he was afterwards for that which commenc'd 17. Oct. 1679 and for the Oxford Parl. that followed he being then as alwaies before esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the Kings bench he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you His works are these Historical Collections of private passages of State weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments Beginning the 16 year of K. James an 1618 and ending the fifth year of K. Charles an 1629 digested in order of time Lond. 1659 fol. There again by stealth bearing the same date an 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr Whitlock one of Olivers Lords and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself but he having no leisure to peruse it he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657 and accordingly running it over more than once he made some alterations in and additions to it After it was finished at the Press he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwel then L. Protector Historical Collections The second part containing the principal matters which hapned from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628 9. until the summoning of the other Parliam which met at Westm 13. Apr. 1640 with an account of the proceedings of that Parl and the transactions and affairs from that time until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nov. following With some remarkable passages therein during the first sixth months c. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix containing Star-Chamber Reports for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628 Articles of Peace entercourses and Commerce with several other things The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England begun in Westm Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgment was given until the 10. of May 1641 c. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl precedent concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder But the publisher of the said Collections having as 't is said concealed truth endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times as well as their barbarous actions and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion an 1639. to the murther of K. Ch. 1. c. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an 1682 and the other to the said murther an 1683 both published by his Maj. special command c. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer printed with his Treatises of the life of man c. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian and otherwise well qualified hath written besides the former volumes 1 The Countermine or a short but true discovery of the dangerous principles and secret practices of the dissenting party especially the Presbyterians shewing that Religion is pretended but Rebellion is intended And
for the King intended it for him conditionally he would conform Dr. Frewen had the benefit of that too all the fines for renewing and for the filling up lives to his very great profit besides what he got from York At length Mr. Baxter the Coryphaeus of the Presbyterian party refusing it least he in an high manner should displease the Brethren it was offer'd to Dr. Richard Baylie President of S. Johns College and Dean of Sarum who had been a very great sufferer for the Kings cause but he refusing it because Dr. Frewen had skim'd it it was thereupon confer'd on Dr. John Hacket of Cambridge as I shall anon tell you This Dr. Frewen who was accounted a general Scholar and a good Orator but hath nothing extant only a Latin Oration with certain verses on the death of Prince Henry for his Moral Philosophy Lectures are not yet made publick died at his Mannour of Bishops Thorp near York on the 28 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried on the third day of May following under the great east window of the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in York Soon after was erected a splendid monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which being too large for this place shall now for brevity sake be omitted His Father John Frewen before mention'd was a learned Divine and frequent preacher of his time and wrot 1 Fruitful instructions and necessary doctrine to edifie in the fear of God c. Lond. 1587 in tw 2 Fruitful instructions for the general cause of reformation against the slanders of the Pope and League c. Lond. 1589. qu. 3 Certain choice grounds and principles of our Christian Religion with their several expositions by way of questions and answers c. Lond. 1621. in octav and other things He died in 1627 about the latter end and was buried in Nordiam Church leaving then behind these Sons viz. Accepted before mention'd Thankful Stephen Joseph Benjamin Thomas Samuel John c. which John seems to have succeeded his Father in the Rectory of Nordiham but whether the said Father was educated in Oxon I cannot yet tell Qu. As for Dr. Hacket before mention'd who was an eminent person in his time for learning and a publick spirit I shall now take this opportunity to speak at large of him tho I have partly mention'd him already in the Fasti under the year 1616. p. 824 and elsewhere in the first volume Born therefore he was in the Strand near Exeter-house in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of Westminster on the first day of Sept. 34. Elizab. Dom. 1592. His Father was Andr. Hacket of Putferin in Scotland a senior Burgess of the City of Westminster and afterwards of the Robes to Prince Henry who being a zealous Protestant took great care to breed up this his only Son to that religion When he was very young therefore he put him to the Coll. School at Westminster and his Master Mr. Ireland finding in him a great propensity to learning was very kind to him as also was Dr. Lanc. Andrews the Dean of the Ch. there who in the necessary absence of the Master being accustomed to come into the School and examine the boys took this youth into his particular favour and continued it to him as long as the Bishop lived Being made ripe for the University he was in the year 1608 with the pious Mr. George Herbert elected to go to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge by the favour of Dr. Tho. Nevill Master of that Coll who told his Father when he addressed to him about his Son that he should go to Cambridge or else he would carry him upon his back and being there entred he was put under the tuition of Dr. Edw. Simson author of Chronicon ab exordio mundi c. Soon after he was so much noted for his painful studies sober life and great proficiency in learning that he was elected Fellow of that House assoon as he was by the rules thereof fit for the same Afterwards he grew into that credit that he had many Pupils put to his charge and those of the best families in England and then betaking himself to the study of Divinity he took holy Orders in 1618 from the hands of Dr. John King B. of London who had a great affection for him and expressed the same on divers occasions but above all others Dr. John Williams Bishop of Linc observing his great learning and knowledge in the Tongues chose him his Chaplain immediatly after the Great Seal was committed to his charge an 1621. Two years he spent in that Bishops service before his time was come to commence Bach. of Divinity and then beg'd leave to go to Cambridge to keep the publick Act an 1623 which he performed according to expectation and then returning to Court to his Master he prefer'd him to be Chaplain to K. Jam. 1 before whom he preaching several times to that learned Prince's good liking he was the next year by the recommendations of his Master presented to the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourn near London then within his Majesties disposal by reason of the minority of Thomas Earl of Southampton and suddenly after he was by the same means made Parson of Cheame in Surrey fallen likewise in his Majesties gift by the promotion of Dr. Ric. Senhouse to the Bishoprick of Carlile which two Livings he held till the most execrable rebellion broke out in 1642 and was constantly resident upon one of them In 1628 he commenced Doct. of Div. at Cambridge where he preached a Sermon highly applauded by the learned auditory of that time And returning to Holbourne and his duty there he became very famous for excellent preaching and decent order in his charge In 1631 his old Master the Bishop of Lincoln gave him the Archdeaconry of Bedford void by the death or resignation of Nich. Walker D. D. who had succeeded therein one George Eland an 1629. To which charge he usually went once in a year commonly after Easter and exhorted the Clergy thereof to keep strictly the Orders of the Church Afterwards finding his Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne much in decay he eagerly sollicited his great friends and acquaintance to contribute to its reedification or at least repair and about the year 1639 he had obtained divers thousands of pounds for that purpose but the unparalell'd rebellion following soon after the members of the Long Parliament mostly a prevalent party of Presbyterians did seize on that and all the money collected for the repair of St. Pauls Cathedral in London to carry on their rebellion against their King In the beginning of the Civil War he was named one of the Committee with divers eminent Bishops and Pastors to consider of what was amiss in the English Liturgy and Church government and to rectifie the same in hopes by that means to expel the cloud then appearing over the Church but the Lords
more than what the King was pleased of his own bounty to confer upon him which was 100 l. per an in compensation of quadruple the loss he sustained This Person who hath been always an intimate friend and acquaintance as well of the antient Greek and Latine as of the choicest modern Poets both Italian French and Spanish hath written and translated 1 Medea a Tragedy Lond. 1648. oct translated from Lat. into English verse with annotations 'T is one of Seneca's Tragedies 2 Seneca's answer to Lucilius his Quaere why good men suffer misfortunes seeing there is a divine providence Lond. 1648. oct written originally in Lat. prose and translated into English verse It was dedicated by Mr. Sherburne to K. Ch. 1. during his captivity in the Isle of Wight which he was pleased most graciously to approve and accept of 3 Salmacis Lyrian and Sylva forsaken Lydia the rape of Hellen a comment thereon with several other Poems Lond. 1651. oct On which three translations as also annotations on each of them the most ingenious Thomas Stanley before remembred mention'd also in the Fasti 1640 did make an excellent copy of verses as also upon the mutual friendship between him and our author Ed. Sherburne the beginning of which is this Dear friend I question nor can I yet decide Whether thou more art my delight or pride 4 The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an english Poem Lond. 1675. fol. 'T is adorned with Cuts and an account thereof is in the Philosophical Transactions num 110. p. 233. It was chiefly intended by its author for the use of the young Gentry and Nobility of the Land to serve as their initiation in the first rudiment of spherical learning 5 A Catalogue with a character of the most eminent Astronomers antient and moderne Which with other matters as first Of the Cosmical System secondly A Cosmographical-Astronomical Synopsiâ c. are added by way of an Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Man before mention'd 6 Troades or the Royal Captives a Trag. Lond. 1679. oct Written originally in Lat. by L. An. Seneca englished with Annotations by Mr. Sherburne He had likewise laying by him another Trag. of Seneca Hippolitus and Phaedra long since by him translated with Annotations Which three Tragedies viz. Medea Troades and Hippolitus he endeavours to prove that they belong only to the Philosopher among all the rest that go under the name of Seneca The sixteenth Idillium of Theocritus in N. Tates Miscellanies is ascribed to him and perhaps other things in other books In 1682. Jan. 6. his Majesty K. Ch. 2 did in consideration of his great sufferings and the long and faithful services by him performed to his royal Father of blessed memory and to himself confer upon him the honor of Knighthood in his private Bedchamber at Whitehall having also suffered several indignities from the faction in the time of the Popish Plot who endeavoured to out him of his place for being as they supposed a Rom. Cath. After K. Jam. 2 had abdicated the Government and left the Nation he was outed for altogether and put to trouble So that whereas he before for 19 years together had suffered for his Loyalty to his Prince and had in some manner suffered after his restauration as I have told you before so now doth suffer upon account of his Religion being living near London in a retired yet cheerful and devout condition spending his time altogether in books and prayer Henry Sherburne younger Brother to Edw. before mention'd was then also Dec. 20. actually created Master of Arts He was soon after made Comptroller of the Ordnance in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton but how long he continued in that employment I know not While he continued in Oxon he drew an exact ichnography of the City of Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesty with all the fortifications trenches bastions c. performed for the use of Sir Tho. Glemham the Governour thereof who shewing it to the King he approved much of it and wrot in it the names of the bastions with his own hand This ichnography or another drawn by Rich. Rallingson was by the care of Dr. John Fell engraven on a copper plate and printed purposely to be remitted into Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. between p. 364. and 365. This Henry Sherburne who was an ingenious man was kill'd in a mutiny that hapned among some of the Soldiers in Oxon on the 12 of June 1646 Whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Chur. of S. Peter in the East in the said City January 16. In a Convocation then celebrated were these following persons actually created Masters of Arts by vertue of the Kings Mandamus then read viz. Henry Lord Seymour Son of Will Marq. of Hertford He was Knighted by his Maj. on the 17 of Jan. 1644. See among the Doctors of Phys an 1645. Sir John Stawell See among the Doctors of Physick this year Amiaâ Paulet Esq Joh. Stawell Esq Mr. Edw. Stawell Rob. Hawley a Captain Francis Lord Hawley one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York died 22 of Dec. 1684. aged 76 or thereabouts but whether Robert was nearly related to him I know not Joh. Stanhop He was Master of the Horse as it seems to the Marquess of Hertford George Strangwaies an Officer He was one of the antient and gentile family of his name in Dorsetshire Geor. Trimme Secretary to the Marq. of Hertf. Anth. Lightfoot Servant to Prince Charles Râg Sanders a Captain Rich. Knightley c. All which with others were lately come to Oxon among the forces under the conduct of the said William Marquess of Hereford In the same convocation were others also created by vertue of the Letters of the said Marq. soon after Chanc. of this Univ. which were then read The names of some of them follow Edw. Windham Esq Edw. Kirton Esq He was a Parliamentary Burgess for Milborne in Somersetsh to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it because of the violent proceedings of the members thereof he retired to his Majesty at Oxon and late in the Parl. there 1643. Tho. Lower Esq He was also a Burgess for Eastlow in Cornwall but leaving the said Parliament he retired to Oxon and sate there I take this person to be the same who was Son and Heir of Sir W. Lower of S. Winnow in Cornw. Knight which Thomas dying a Bachelaur 5. Feb. 1660 was buried in the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster as I have elsewhere told you ... Bampfield a Colonel Joh. Miller a Captain Hugh Windham Hugh Smith Franc. Chalk or Chock of Avington in Berks He was Knighted 26. Oct. 1643. All which with others did attend the said Marq. of Hertford when he came to Oxon. Feb. 1. Anth. Goslyng was then created by vertue of a dispensation pass'd in convocation Feb. 21. was another convocation celebrated and therein a
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotatiâns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
Luton-Hoe in Bedfordshire Bt was afterwards one of the first members of the Royal Society a great pretender to Vertue and Astrology made a great noise in the world yet did little or nothing towards the publick He died in the house of Sir John Lenthall at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks 17 Jan. 1675 and was buried in the Church at Linford before mentioned the Mannour of which did belong to him but after his death his son Thom. sold it for 19500 l. or thereabouts The said Sir Richard drew up a book containing A collection of Nativities which is now in MS. in the hands of Elias Ashmole Esq Nov. 1. Francis Smith of Brasn Coll. Nov. 1. Thom. Smith of Linc. Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Hinton Nov. 1. George Roe The said Joh. Hinton was afterwards a Kt and Physitian to K Ch. 2. and his Queen Dec. 20. Will. Hunt Dec. 20. Andr. Pindar Jan. 16. Joh. Merret a Captain in Cornwall Jan. 16. Walt. Charlton of Magd. Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Baylie lately of Hart Hall Jan. 31. Thom. Hayes a Physitian in the Kings Army Jan. 31. Sir Hen. Manwaring Kt. The first of these last three was son of Dr. Ralph Baylie sometimes Fellow of New Coll and afterwards a Physitian of note at Bathe which Thomas practising afterwards at Newbury in Berks died there of a high infection in the prime of his years As for the last Sir H. Manwaring I find one of both his Names and a Knight too author of The Seamens Dictionary or an exposition and demonstration of all the parts belonging to a ship Lond. 1670. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sir Joh. Terryngham Kt. High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire was created the same day He died on the second day of May 1645 and was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon. Sir John Stawell Kt. of the Bath sometimes Gent. Com. of Queens Coll was also created the same day He was one of the Knights for Somersetshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it when the King was forced to leave Westminster he retired to him at Oxon and sate there for a time in the Parliament conven'd there That which is chiefly memorable of this most worthy person is that he being one of the most eminent men in Somersetshire for Estate Wisdom and Prudence did after he had undergone all the principal services and employments for his Country viz. High Sheriff Deputy Lieutenant and Knight for the Shire in several Parliaments most loyally and courageously take up arms with three of his sons raised three Regiments of Horse and two of Dragoons and of Foot upon his sole charge in defence of his Maj. K. Ch. 1 as also of the Laws of this Kingdom and Rights of the Subject invaded by wicked Conspirators under colouâ of reformation an 1642. He was then a Colonel of Horse and soon after was made Governour of Taunton and continued there till remanded Upon the declining of the Kings Cause he was not admitted to his composition as others were tho comprized within the Articles of Exeter upon the surrender of that City to the Powers at that time prevailing and the reason was because they thirsted not only after his large Estate but conspired also to take away his life He endured in those times of affliction long and tedious Imprisonments in the Press-yard in Newgate and other Goales and after in the Tower of London And did with admirable Wisdom and Courage approve himself an eminent Assertor of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom by making such a defence in their several bloody Tribunals viz. at their Vpper Bench bar and High Court of Justice as that he put to silence those bold Judges who sate there with design to take away his life And tho he was reduced to the greatest want and misery which his severe opposers by sale of his Lands cutting down his Woods and demolishing the principal Seat of his family at Cotholstone could bring upon him yet by the subsistance which his aged Mother the Lady Elizabeth Griffin afforded him which was all he had he most chearfully underwent the same lived to see the happy restauration of K. Ch. 2 and to be again elected one of the Knights for the County of Somerset to sit in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 May 1661. After he had continued there some months his urgent affairs drew him to his house at Ham three miles distant from Somerton in his own Country where dying 21 Feb. 1661 aged 62 years was buried on the 23 of Apr. following on the south side of the Chancel of the Church at Cotholstone five miles distant from Taunton There goes under the name of this most loyal person his Petition and Remonstrance to the Parliament and O. Cromwel as also his Vindication printed 1653 and 55. fol. In the latter end of Jan. 1682 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. was graciously pleased to create Ralph Stawell Esq a Baron of England by the name and stile of Lord Stawell of Somerton in consideration of the eminent Loyalty and Sufferings of his father before mention'd during all the time of the Troubles and the many good and acceptable Services performed by him Jan. 31. Sir Rob. Lee Knights Jan. 31. Sir Joh. Paulet Knights The last who had been sometimes of Exeter Coll as it seems was a younger son of the Lord Paulet James Young lately of Qu. Coll in Oxon eldest son of Dr. John Young Dean of Winchester was created the same day Jan. 31. Nathan Heighmore sometimes of Trin. Coll. Jan. 31. Christop Merret sometimes of Gloc. Hall Mar. 4. Rob. Bosworth of Brasn Coll. He was chose Burgess for the City of Hereford to sit in Richards-Parliament began at Wesâminster 27 of January 1658. Doct. of Div. From the 1 of Nov. to the 21 Feb. were between 40 and 50 Doctors of Divinity actually created most of whom follow Nov. 1. Rob. Payne Canons of Ch. Ch. Nov. 1. George Morley Canons of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards successively Bishop of Worcester and Winchester Barten Holyday sometimes of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Oxford was created the same day Nov. 1. Hen. Stringer of New Coll. Nov. 1. Joh. Meredith of All 's Coll. Nov. 1. Jer. Taylor of All 's Coll. The first of these last three had been Greek Professor of this University and was afterwards Warden of his Coll whence being ejected he retired to London where dying in Febr. 1657 was buried in the Church of the Black Fryers The second was now or about this time Fellow of Eaton Col and Master of Wigstons Hospital at Leycester from both which being ejected in the times of Usurpation he suffered equally with other Loyalists At length upon his Majesties return he was not only restored to his Fellowship and Hospital but elected Warden of All 's Coll. in the place of Dr. Sheldon promoted to the See of London and made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the room of Dr. Nich. Monk
was made one of the Kings Serjeants being then esteemed an excellent Orator a great Lawyer and an ornament to his profession and on the 7. of Aug. 1641 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament he followed him to Oxon and was very serviceable to him in many respects In 1645 he was disinabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency as t was then called So that retiring to his home after the Kings cause declined he was committed to Prison where continuing till he had made his composition was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant 1 Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham an 1626. See in John Rushworths Collections under the year 1626. 2 Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628 wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Soveraign power Printed in qu. See in a book entit The Soveraigns Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3 d. and 4 th years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186 3 Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right 4 Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640 p. 1121.1123 5 Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances in Dec. 1640. c. with other things c. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Serjeant also and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661 was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire the Mannour of which he some years before had bought In Sept. 1673 Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake shall be now omitted One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622 and afterwards that of Master but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John because he was never bred in any University as his Son hath informed me The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock who when young being very vicious was disinherited by his Father and the Estate setled on Sir John But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man Sir John restored to him the Estate See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale c. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo p. 11. Feb. 19. Sir Rich. Vivian Knight He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there an 1643. Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon was created the same day In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter afterwards the Queens Sollicitor and now 1643 her Attorney and upon the declining of the Kings cause a great sufferer After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Recorder of Exeter again after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendred that office in 1676. Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires The first of these two was a Knight for Anglesie to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 sate in the Parl. at Oxon. March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires March 21. Peirce Edgecombe Esquires The first of these last two who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County and afterwards sate at Oxon suffered for the Kings cause and dying in 1650 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County and afterwards sate at Oxon for which also he suffered in his Estate This year was among others nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law one Colonel Bard but whether he was admitted I cannot tell I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eaton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631. Whilst he was Scholar he made an excursion to Paris upon the customary leave of absence which is but for 9 weeks in a year without the College or his Relations privity After he was made Fellow he travelled for some years into France Germany Italy Turkey Palestine Aegypt Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason After his return he lived high as he had done before without any visible income and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library supposed to be stoln by him out of a Mosque in Egypt which being valued but at 20 l he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventur'd his neck for it This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition yet proper robust and comely did upon the approach of the grand rebellion retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages especially of the French which the Queen took notice of he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel and afterwards to be Governour of Camden house in Glocestershire which when he quitted he burnt and then for a time of Worcester On the 22 of Nov. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood and soon after being made a Baronet his ambition was so great that being not content with that station he by his and the endeavours of others was created Baron of Brombry and Vicount Bellomont in Ireland 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesties unfortunate battles he wrot to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up armes neither for religion for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of nor for that moustrap the Laws but to re-establish the King in his Throne and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come he desired leave that they would discharge him that he might relinquish the Land which accordingly was done After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2 then ân Exile Embassador to the Emperour of Persia upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus But so it was that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire because he died in 1638. Thom. Some or Soame D. D. was incorporated also the same day Aug. 12. as he before had stood at Cambridge He had been Fellow of Peter House was now Canon of Windsore Preb. of S. Pauls in London Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex and if I mistake not Rector of Haseley near to and in the County of Oxon in which last Benefice he was succeeded by Dr. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll. This Dr. Some who hath one or more Sermons extant died at Stanes as it seems in the beginning of the year 1649 leaving a son then behind him called Henry Will. Beale D. D. sometimes of Pemb. Hall afterwards Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge now one of his Majesties Chaplains was incorporated the same day This most worthy person who had been much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and by him promoted and therefore esteemed an Arminian and popishly affected by the inveterate Puritans did suffer much in the beginning of the Rebellion raised by them as first for his having a hand in gathering and conveying the plate belonging to the University of Cambr. to his Majesty he was violently hurried thence Prisoner to London suffered great indignities from the Rabble in his way thro that City to the Tower where continuing some years was at length exchanged Secondly by being plunder'd and thrown out of his Headship of S. John's Coll. before mentioned for the same reason and for denying their wicked Covenant and lastly sequestred of all other his Spiritualities After his Exchange he fled to Oxon the common Asylum of afflicted Royalists where he exercised his function sometimes before his Majesty and at other times before the remnant or the royal Court there remaining After the Kings Cause declined he went beyond the Seas where he died heart-broken in 1651. or thereabouts David Stokes D. D. of the said Univ. was incorporated the same day This most loyal Doctor was educated in the College School at Westminster and thence elected into Trin. Coll. in the same University an 1610 afterwards he was Fellow of Peter House Fellow of Eaton Coll Canon of Windsore and Rector of Binfield in Berks All which preferments he losing in the time of the Rebellion was put to his shifts as other Royalists were retired to Oxon for refuge and there exercised his function for a time as others did After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost lived several years in great quiet and repose with much content to himself and died 10 of May 1669. He hath written and published 1 An explication of the twelve minor Prophets Hosea Joel c. wherein the difficult places are unfolded the seeming contradictions are reconciled according to the best Commentators now extant c. Lond. 1659. oct 2 Verus Christianus Or directions for private devotions and retirements with an Appendix containing some private Devotions of Bishop Andrews never before extant Oxon 1668 in tw 3 Several sermons which I have not yet seen nor his Truths champion c. pr. in oct George Bardsey D. D. of Qu. Coll. in the said Univers was also then Aug. 12. incorporated He died in Oxon in January 1645 and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in that chancel commonly called The College chancel in S. Michaels Church joyning to the north gate of the said City Aug. 12. .... Peake D. D. of Cambr. Aug. 12. .... Andrews D. D. of Cambr. The christian name of the first of these I cannot yet recover and therefore I can say nothing of him The other I take to be Nich. Andrews whom I have mention'd among the Incorporations in the first vol. an 1626. p. 853. Aug. 12. Brian Walton D. of D. of the same University was also then incorporated This most learned and loyal Doctor was born in Cleavland in the North Riding of Yorkshire an 1600 admitted first in Magd. Coll. under Mr. Joh. Gooch as a Sizer or Servitour and thence removing to Peter House under one Mr. Blake 4 Dec. 1616 took the degree of M. of A. as a member thereof an 1623. About that time or before he taught school in Suffolk and served as a Curate there Thence he removed to London and lived for a little time under the rev and learned Divine Mr. Rich Stock Rector of Allhallows Breadstreet in London After his death he became Rector of S. Martins Orgar in the said City and of Sandon in Essex at both which places he was highly valued by the orthodox party for his Learning and Religion In 1639 he commenced D. of D at which time he was Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral Chaplain to his Majesty and a person of great esteem especially for his skill in the Common Laws of this Realm so far I mean as they related to the patrimony and liberties of the Church as it appears by a little book written by him in defence of the Tithes within the City of London according to the proportion of two shillings and nine pence the pound rent Upon the breaking out of the diabolical Rebellion he was assaulted by the faction abused sequestred and forced to fly Whereupon retiring to Oxford he did there lay the ground of a most noble design which afterwards he did live to accomplish For upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he returned to London and residing with his father in law Dr. Will. Fuller then a great sufferer for the royal cause as he was he had time and leisure at command as being debar'd the exercising of his ministerial function tho often disturb'd for his loyalty of proceeding in the work with the advice of the most learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland his said father in law Dr. Bruno Ryves and some others residing in London yet not without the leave and license of Dr. Juxon Bishop of that City I say that this most worthy person Dr. B. Walton being most eminent for his learning especially in the holy Scriptures and Eastern Languages did undertake and happily perform the publishing of the Biblia Polyglotta printed at Lond. in six volumes in folio an 1657 wherein the sacred Text was by his singular care and oversight printed not only in the vulgar Latine but also in the Hebrew Syriake Chaldea Samaritan Arabick Aethiopick Persick and Greek Languages each having its peculiar Latin translation joyned therewith and an Apparatus fitted for each for the better understanding of those tongues In this great Work tho he met with infinite disturbances and discouragements by reason of the times wherein the Usurping Powers ruled and a multitude of other difficulties yet he most happily accomplished it in about four years space which when published was by the generality of Scholars esteemed the most absolute and famous edition of the Bible that the Christian World had or is like to enjoy In this most noble work so far as concerned the correcting of it while at the Press and in collating
of Exemplars he had the assistance of several learned persons of whom Edm. Castle or Castell Bach. of Div. was the chiefest Vir in quo eruditio summa magnaque animi modestia convenere c. as he doth characterize him yet if you 'll believe that learned person who was afterwards Doctor of Div Arabick Professor of Cambridge and Preb. of Canterbury he 'll tell you in his Preface to his Lexicân Heptaglotton printed in Lond. 1669 that he had more than an ordinary hand in that Work as indeed he had and therefore deserved more matter to be said of him than in the said Pref. to Bib. Polyglot is The other persons were Alex. Huish of Wadh. Coll. Sam. Clarke Clericus of Mert. Coll. of both whom I have spoken already and Thom. Hyde since of Qu. Coll. in this University He had also some assistance from Dr. D. Stokes Abr. Wheelock Herb Thorndyke Edw. Pocock Tho Greaves Dudly Loftus c. men most learned in their time Towards the printing also of the said great and elaborate work he had the contribution of moneys from many noble persons and Gentlemen of quality which were put into the hands of Sir Will. Humble Treasurer for the said Work as Charles Lodâwick Prince Elector William Marq. of Hertford Will. Earl of Strafford Will. E. of Bedford Will. Lord Petre Will. L. Maynard Arth. L. Capell John Ashburnham of his Maj. Bedchamber Sir Rob. Sherley Bt Will. Lenthall Mast of the Rolls Joh. Selden of the Inner Temple Esq Joh. Sadler of Linc. Inn Esq Joh. He le Esq Tho. Wendy Esq afterwards Kr. of the Bath and others as Mountague Earl of Lindsey L. Chamb. of England George E. of Rutland Mildmay E. of Westmorland John E. of Exeter Tho. L. Fairfax Bapt. L. Noel Visc Camden Sir Will. Courtney Sir Anth. Chester and Sir Will. Farmer Baronets Sir Franc. Burdet Kt. and Joh. Wall D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. After his Majesties restauration the Author Dr. Walton presented his said six vol. of Bib. Polyg to which being well received by him he not only made him his Chaplain in ordinary but for his great Vertues Learning Loyalty Sufferings and indefatigable industry for the public benefit of Learning did advance him to the See of Chester to which being consecrated in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the second day of December an 1660 sate there tho a little while to the time of his death In Sept. 1661 he with a good retinue went to take possession of his See and when he came to Lichfield many persons of very good worth who had ridden from Chester to that City which is 50 miles did meet and congratulate him there and very many others in his way thence to Chester On the tenth day of the said month all the Gentry almost of the whole County of Chester and the Militia both of Country and City went out to meet him and the day following the spiritual Militia the true Sons of the Church of England went to their reverend Diocesan upon the road All which and others having brought him to his Pallace with the loud acclamations of thousands of people blessing God for so happy a sight he forthwith put on his Episcopal robes and hasted to the performance of his devotions in the Choire When he entred the body of the Cathedral Church Dr. Hen. Bridgman the Dean and all the members of the Cathedral habited in their Albes received a blessing from his Lordship sung Te Deum and so compassing the Choir in manner of procession conveyed him to his chair This was on the eleventh of the said month of Sept. a day not to be forgotten by all the true Sons of the Church of England tho curs'd then in private by the most rascally faction and crop-ear'd whelps of those parts who did their endeavours to make it a maygame and a piece of foppery After his Lordship had made some continuance there and was highly caress'd and entertained by noble and generous spirits he return'd to London fell sick and died in his house in Aldersgate-street on the 29 of Nov. an 1661 to the great reluctancy of all learned and loyal persons On the 5 of Dec. following he was buried in the south side of the Cathedral Church of S. Paul of which he was Prebend opposite to the monument of Sir Christopher Hatton sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being then attended to his grave by three Heralds of Armes in their formalities Soon after was a noble monument put over his grave with a large inscription thereon running thus Manet heic novissimam c. Here awaiteth the sound of the last trump Brian Walton Lord Bishop of Chester Reader look for no farther epitaph on him whose very name was epitaph enough Nevertheless if thou lookest for a larger and louder one consult the vocal oracles of his fame and not of this dumb marble For let me inform thee if it be not a shame to be ignorant this was he that with the first brought succour and assistance to the true Church sick and fainting under the sad pressure of persecution This was he that fairly wiped of those foul and contumelious aspersions cast upon her pure and spotless innocence by those illiterate and Clergy-trampling Schismaticks This was he that brought more light and lustre to the true reformed Church here establish'd whilst maugre the malice of those hellish Machinators he with more earnest zeal and indefatigable labour than any carried on and promoted the printing of that great Bible in so many Languages So that the Old and New Testament may well be his monument which he erected with no small expence of his own Therefore he little needs the pageantry of pompous titles emblazoned or displayed in Heralds books whose name is written in the book of life He died on S. Andrews Eve in the 62 year of his age in the first year of his consecration and in the year of our Lord God 1661. This worthy person Dr. Walton hath written besides Bibl. Polyg these two books 1 Introductio ad Lectionem Linguarum Orientalium Lond. 1655. oct 2 The considerator considered or a brief view of certain considerations upon the Biblia Polyglotta the Prolegomena and Appendix thereof c. Ibid. 1659 oct See in Jo. Owen among the Writers under the year 1683. p. 561. Aug. 12. Richard Dukeson D. of D. of Cambr. He was Minister of the Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster of which being sequestred by the violent and restless Presbyterians because of his Orthodox principles as also plundered of his goods and forced to fly for his own security retired at length to Oxon where for a time he exercised his function After his Majesties return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost and lived several years after in a quiet repose Aug. 26. William Brough D. of D. of the said University He had been educated in Christs Coll. there was afterwards Rector of
our selves on Matth. 22.39 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate in London an 1674. 76. quart Joh. Flower of New Inn was also created the same day What preferment he had confer'd upon him by the Visitors I know not sure I am that he was soon after Preacher of God's Word at Ilmington in Warwickshire and afterwards at Staunton in the County of Nottingham where I find him in 1658 and that he was author of 1 The free and honorable servant set forth in his privileges and prerogatives c. Lond. 1652. oct 2 Several Queries concerning the Church of Jesus Ch. upon earth briefly explained and resolved c. Lond. 1658. oct What other things he hath published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he was son of Will. Flower of Cubley in Derbyshire Gent and that he became a Commoner of New Inn in Act term 1640 aged 16 years Jenkyn Lloyd of Jesus Coll was also created the same day See more among the created Doctors of Div. an 1661. Apr. 15. Rich. Werge of Trin. Coll was actually created in the second Pembrokian Creation This person who was a Shoomakers son was born at Witney in Oxfordshire became Servitour of the said Coll in the beginning of the year 1642 aged 17 years and this year was made Fellow thereof by the Visitors being by them taken to be a godly brother for the Cause as indeed he was Afterwards he became Rector of Nelson or Nailson in Leycestershire which he exchanged with Mr. Joh. Cave of Coleorton for Gateshead or Gateside near New Castle upon Tyne he being then a Conformist He hath written and published 1 A Sermon preached in S. Maries Church at Gateshead in the County Pal. of Durham on Hos 5.12 Lond. 1683. qu. 2 Sermon in S. Mar. at Gateshead c. at the funeral of George Johnson Gent. deceased 29 May 1683 on Heb. 9. part of the 27 ver printed in qu whereunto is added an Elegy by a friend This R. Werge died about Michaelmas 1687 and was buried in the Church of S. Mary at Gateshead Apr. 15. Rob. Gorges of S. Edm. Hall He was soon after made Fellow of S. Johns Coll. by the Visitors became one of the Proctors of the Univ. in 1653 afterwards Secretary to Hân Cromwell L. Lieutenant of Ireland Doct. of the Civil Law of Dublin and an enjoyer of several places of honor and trust as also of an estate in that Kingdom At length he became Secretary to Frederick Duke of Schomberg General of his Majesties Forces and Scout-master general in Ireland c. Ambrose Vpton of New Inn was created the same day He was soon after one of those many that were this and the next year made Fellows of All 's Coll. by the Visitors In 1651 he became by the favour of Ol. Cromwell Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon in the place of Dr. John Mills ejected for refusing the Engagement but being discharged of that place about the 13 of Mar. 1659 to make room for the said Mills then restored by the Rump Parl. and secluded Members added to them he retired to London and lived for some time there a Nonconformist Afterwards he went into Ireland got a place there belonging to the Customs and lived in good fashion for several years Afterwards returning into England he concluded his last day at Lond. about 7 or 8 years since and was buried at Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the said City as I have been enformed by one of his perswasion a congregational man who farther told me that he was of the antient family of the Vptons in Devonshire Jan. 6. George Kellam Secretary to the Committee of Lords and Com. for affairs of foreign concernment the Navy and Customs was then actually created by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which say that he is a Gent. whose parts and good affections to the Cause are very considerable and found no less useful in the way of his employment c. Bach. of Phys Apr. 14. Thom. Sydenham of Magd. Hall He was soon after put in Fellow of All 's Coll. by the Visitors There was but one more created who was of Ch. Ch. and ran with all mutations but good for nothing and not worth the naming unless it be for his antient and gentile extraction Bach. of Div. Apr. 12. Francis Cheynell of Mert. Coll. now one of the Visitors appointed by Parl. to reform the University was then actually created Bach. of Div. This person was to have been Bach. of Div. in Decemb. 1641 but unjustly as he said kept back from his degree because he preached against Arminianisme that is against the Kings Declaration for which his Grace was then denied It was then also 12 Apr. 1648. desired and granted in Convocation that he might be declared Bach. of Div he having performed his Exercise seven years before and not lose his seniority but be seated among the Bach. of Div. of that year c. The next day when the Chancellour and Visitors with a great rabble following them went from College to College to give the new Heads possession they put this Mr. Cheynell into possession of the Presidents Lodgings in S. Johns Coll. See more in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. p. 403. a. b. 404. a. Apr. 12. John Wilkins M. A. of Magd. Hall The next day the said Visitors gave him possession of the Wardens Lodgings of Wadham Coll. Henry Langley M. A Master of Pembr Coll. and one of the six or seven Ministers appointed by Parliament to preach the Scholars in to obedience to them was created the same day On the 26 of Aug. 1647 he was made Master of the said Coll by order of Parliament and on the 8 of Oct. following he was established therein by the Visitors In 1648 he became Canon of Ch Ch in the place of Dr. George Morley by the same power and had possession given to him thereof in this month of April See more of him among the created Doctors of Div. an 1649. Henry Cornish M. A. of New Inn another of the Ministers He was soon after put into possession of one of the Canonries of Ch. Ch. See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 260. a. See also among the created Doct. of Div. under the year 1649. The said four Bachelaurs of Div. were presented to the Vicech Dr. Reynolds by Dr. Joh. Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall the senior Theologist of the University and the design'd and nominated President of Magd. Coll. April 14. Henry Wilkinson junior of Magd. Hall April 14. Edw. Hinton of Merton Coll. April 14. Rob. Rogers of New Inn. May 19. Thom. Gilbert of S. Edm. Hall This person who hath written and published several things and is now living in Oxon a Nonconformist aged 80 years or more is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers Aug 4. Thomas Borrace a Student in Divinity for at least twenty years was then actually created This zealous
S. Maries on Tuesday a Lecture day 25 July 1654 he did then deliver a very offensive Sermon preached on Job 37.22 With God is terrible Majesty In which Sermon speaking of the attributes of God particularly of that in the text took a hint from the word terribilis which might as he said signifie with some terrae bilis to say that God was a Melancholy God c. and in the conclusion to maintain that those that had no teeth to gnash should gnash their gums c. For which Sermon he being call'd into question was in a fair way of expulsion but by the intercession of friends the business was compromised yet two years after he was forced to leave his Fellowship upon some quarrel between him and Dr. Greenwood Principal of his House Afterwards he was intrusted with a Commission from Oliver to be Chaplain to the English Forces in Jersey an 1656 where continuing for some time in preaching suffered soon after in his relations reputation salary c. by a new Governour placed there who forced him as it seems thence He hath published 1 Blood-thirsty Cyrus unsatisfied with blood Or the boundless cruelty of an Anabaptists tyranny manifested in a letter of Colonel John Mason Governour of Jersey 3. Nov. 1659 wherein he exhibits seven false ridiculous and scandalous articles against Quarter-Master Will. Swan c. Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. 2 Satan in Samuels mantle or the cruelty of Germany acted in Jersey containing the arbitrary bloody and tyrannical proceedings of John Mason of a baptized Church commissionated to be a Colonel and sent over into the Island of Jersey Governour in July 1656 against several Officers and Soldiers in that small place c. Lond. 1659 in 4. sh in qu. After his Majesties restauration the author was beneficed near Hertford in Hertfordshire where he soon after finished his restless course Dec. 11. Christoph Wren of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 21. Edward Veel or Veal of Ch. Ch. was admitted M. of A. in Convocation and at the same time was admitted ad regendum This person who had been elected Fellow of Trin. Coll. near Dublin between the time that he took the degree of Bach. and Master in this University I take to be the same Ed. Veel who is now or at least was lately a Nonconformist Minister in or near London and author of 1 What spiritual knowledge they ought to seek for that desire to be saved Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 2 Sermon on Psalm 62.12 'T is the eleventh Serm. in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwerk Lond. 1675. qu and perhaps of other things but such I have not yet seen See in Joh. Davenport and Steph. Charnock among the Writers p. 335 and 491. Adm. 63 or thereabouts â Not one Bach. of Phys or of Div or Doct. of the Civil Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 4. Tho. Waldron of Ball. Coll. 6. Will. Page of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Will. Coniers of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Thom. Cummyns of Wad Coll. The first of these four was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys and Physitian in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. 15. Martin Luellyn of Ch. Ch. Dec. 14. Rob. Fielding of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys â Not one Doct. of Div. was adm or licensed this year Incorporations May 14. Tho. Wolfius Doct. of Phys of Padua May 14. John Clerk Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Thomas Pepys Doct. of Phys of Padua The first was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and the second is the same I suppose with him who published Disputatie medica de Ilio vero I find one John Clark to have been Doct. of the Laws of Doctors Commons in Lond. who died in the latter end of the year 1672 but whether ever of Oxon I cannot yet tell See another Joh. Clerk among the created Doctors of Phys 1660. As for the third I know nothing of him June 13. Walt. Mills Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians 15. Will. Whitaker Doct. of the same faculty of Franaker in Wâst Freisen He was afterwards as I conceive one of the Coll. of Physitians and lived several years in good repute for his learning in the Parish of S. Andrew in Hoâbourne near London but died in the Parish of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster in the month of Dec. or beginning of January 1670. He hath written The tree of life or blood of the grape c. pr. in oct and perhaps other things Qu. I have made mention of a learned Divine of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 744 and another a Nonconformist in this in Tho. Jacombe under the year 1687. p. 607. July 12. John Sherman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards Archd. of Salisbury See in Josh Childrey among the Writers p. 339. Rob. Dixon M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the said day I take this person to be the same Rob. Dixon who was afterwards Doct. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester author of 1 The degrees of Consanguinity and affinity described and delineated Lond. 1675. oct 2 The nature of the two Testaments or the disposition of the Will and Estate of God to mankind c. In two volumes The first of the Will of God the second of the Estate of God Lond. 1676. 77. fol and of other things as 't is probable Isaac Barrow M. A. of Trin. Coll. in the same University was incorporated on the said day In the next year he took a long journey into several forreign Countries and returned a compleat Master of divers Languages In 1660 he was chose Greek Professor of Cambridge and two years after on the death of Laur. Rooke Geometry Lecturer in Gresham Coll. In 1672 he was elected Master of Trin. Coll being then in great esteem for his learning and accomplishments And dying on the fourth day of May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the South cross Isle of S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in the City of Westminster His works were afterwards collected and published by Dr. Joh. Tillotson an 1683 before the first of which is a full account of the life of the said Is Barrow to which I refer the Reader These three last Sherman Dixon and Barrow were of the number of 25 Cambridge Masters of Arts that were incorporated just after the Act this year July 12. Edw. Spark Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 2 and well beneficed if not dignified He hath written and published 1 The Christians map of the world drawn at the solemn funerals of Henry Chitting Esq Chester-Herald at Armes inter'd 11. January 1637. Lond. 1637. oct 'T is a Sermon preached at the said Chittings funeral 11. Jan. 1636 on Heb. 13. ver 14. 2 Scintilla
Marble and a stately urn placed thereon On the pedestal is a most elegant and befitting inscription engraven made by his great admirer Dr. Tho. Sprat before mention'd and all inviron'd with an iron grate where we shall now leave him Petrus Schumacherus a young Dane was a sojournour this and several years after in Oxon purposely to obtain literature in the publick library and was much favour'd and encouraged by Mr. Tho. Barlow the Keeper thereof Afterwards he became a man of note in his own Country and tho the Son of a Vintner Chancellour of Denmark c. He hath lately sent his picture to the University of Oxon and it now hangs in the School-Gallery An. Dom. 1658. An. 10. Car. 2. An. 5 1 Oliv. Protect An. 5 1 Rich. Protect Chanc. Rich. Cromwell usually called Lord Rich. Cromwell who on the death of his Father Oliver was proclaimed Protector of England c. 4. Sept. this year Vicechanc. Joh. Conant D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll Oct. 9. Proct. Sam. Byfield of C. C. Coll. Apr. 8. Sam. Conant of Exet Coll. Apr. 8. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 25. Nich. Billingsley of Mert. Coll. He was a Ministers Son at or near Bristow as I suppose and having had a long sickness hanging upon him was dispenced with by the Ven. Congreg for the absence of eight Terms In which time living in his Fathers house he wrot in vers Hagio Martyrologia Or an exact epitome of all the persecutions which have befall'n the People of God in all ages Lond. 1657. oct Of which Poetry and its author you may take this character from a very conceited Writer who was his contemporary thus Stand off thou Poetaster from the press Who pygni'st Martyrs with thy dwarf-like verse Whose white long bearded flame of zeal aspires To Wrack their ashes more than did their fiers Jun. 11. Tho. Trapham of Magd. Coll. Jun. 11. John Cave of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two who was senior collector of the determining Bachelaurs this year you may see more among the Masters an 1661. July 6. Sam. Jemmat of Vniv Coll. See among the Masters in 1661. Oct. 12. Rich. Burthogge of All 's Coll. He went afterwards to Linc. Coll compleated his degree by Determination as a member thereof and soon after left the University Afterwards he was doctorated in Physick elsewhere at Leyden I think lived at Bowden near Totness in Devonshire wrot several books of Divinity but nothing of his own faculty is a sider at this time with the fanatical crew and therefore he is hereafter to be number'd among Oxf. Writers Feb. 12. Nathaniel Alsop of Brasn Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1670. Joseph Constable of Magd. Hall He translated into English The Works of Jo. Bapt. Van Helmont Lond. 1664. fol. Feb. 12. Edw. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Feb. 12. Joh. Troughton of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these last two was lately one of the Savilian Professors and hath written and published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers Adm. 137. Bach. of Law Three were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards either a Writer or a Bishop Mast of Arts. Mar. 25. Joh. Franklin of C. C. Coll. Apr. 22. Tho. Branker of Exet. Coll. Jun. 11. Edm. Elys of Ball. Coll. Jun. 11. Joh. Williams of Magd. Hall 29. Nath. Crew of Linc. Coll. 29. Thom. Pittis of Linc. Coll. 29. Jos Glanvill of Linc. Coll. July 6. Nich. Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. July 6. Will. Annand of Vniv Coll. July 6. Tho. Tomkins of All 's Coll. 9. Joh. Price of Vniv Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son became soon after Curate of S. Cross alias Haâywel in the Suburbs of Oxon where preaching many Sermons he published four of them the titles of which follow 1 The Christians excellency on Matth. 5.47 2 Truth begets Eternity on Gal. 4.16 3 A Nations happiness in a good King on Eccles 10.17 4 The praise of charity on Heb. 13.16 These four Serm. were printed at Oxon. 1661. in oct and by him dedic to Dr. Hen. King Bishop of Chichester who taking him into his patronage confer'd a Cure on him near that City where soon after he finished his course in a craz'd condition occasion'd by a high conceit of his own worth and parts July 9. Rich. Stretton of New Coll. This person who was Chaplain of the said House was afterwards Chaplain to the L. Fairfax a Nonconformist Divine and a Traveller He hath written A true relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French upon the Englâsh Prisoners of War being a journal of their travels from Dinan in Britany to Thoulon and back again With a description of the situation and fortifications of all the eminent Towns on the road of their Prisons and Hospitals the number and names of them that dâed with the charity and sufferings of the Protestants Lond. 1690 qu. c. published under the name of Rich. Strutton an eye-witness of those things who perhaps hath written other matters Quaere This person who held forth among the godly for a time in an antiquated Dancing-school without the north gate of Oxon in the Winter season 1689 K. Will. 3. being then in the Throne lives now a Nonconformist-Preacher in Warwick lane in London Mar. 17. Nich. Horsman of C. C. Coll. Adm. 81. Bach. of Phys Three were admitted this year and one to practice Chirurgery but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Man of note Bach. of Div. May 29. Henry Hickman of Magd. Coll. Beside him were but two admitted but neither of them was then or afterwards a Writer â Not one Doctor of Law was this year admitted nor one of Phys or of Divinity Incorporations These Cambridge men following were incorporated 13 July being the next day after the solemnity of the Act was finished Benedict Rively M. A. of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Reynolds Bishop of Norwich and a Preacher in that City and author of A Sermon preached in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich at the funeral of Dr. Edw. Reynolds Lord Bish of Norw on Job 30.23 Lond. 1677. qu. Joh. Dowell M. A. of Christs Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leicestershire and author of The Leviathan heretical or the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified by the refutation of his book entit The historical narration of heresie and the punishments thereof Lond. 1683 in tw See more in Tho. Hobbes among the Writers an 1679. p. 481. Robert Sprackling M. of A. of Peter House This person who was born of a gentile family living at S. Lawrence and Ramsgate in the Isle of Thanet in Kent became afterwards Doctor of Physick at Anger 's in France in which degree being incorporated in Cambridge became one of the Coll. of Physitians and author of Medela ignorantiae or a just and plain vindication of Hypocrates and Galen from the groundless imputations of M. N wherein the
Merick died which hapned as it seems in Jan. 1668 he became Judge of the Prerogative In Nov. 1669 he was sent by his Majesty to the K. of France to claim the Jewels of Henrietta Maria the Qu. Mother of England then lately dead there and after his return he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty on the seventh of January the same year About which time he was a Recruiter for Hyeth one of the Cinque-Ports in that Parl. that began at Westminster 8 May 1661 wherein as his Enemies say who tell us that he was the son of a Taylour and indefatigably industrious in promoting a peace for France which has been our .... he affirmed That upon necessity the King might raise monies without Act of Parliament In the beginning of the year 1673 he resigned his Principality of Jes Coll. being then about to go to Colen in Germany with Henry Earl of Arlington and Sir Joseph Williamson in the quality of Plenipotentiaries from his Maj. of Great Britaine to mediate for a Peace between the Emperour and K. of France Afterwards being returned thence Sir Leolin was sent in the same quality by his Maj. to Neomagin in Dec. 1675 and in 1677 when Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterb. diâd all the report then was that he was to succeed him in that See being then esteemed eminent for his profession for his great Loyalty to his Prince love and care of the Church of England and its orthodox Clergy In Aug. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses of this University to sit in that Parl. which was to meet at Westm on the 17 of Octob. following and on the eleventh of Feb. following that he was sworn one of his Majesties Privy Council being then appointed to succeed Mr. Hen. Coventry in the place of Secretary of State On the 26 Apr. 1680 he was sworn Secretary and received the Seals which the said Mr. Coventry then delivered up to his Maj. and in the beginning of Feb. following he was chose Burgess again by the Members of this Univ. to serve in that Parl. which was to begin at Oxon on the 21 of March the same year But so it was that the Faction being then very high in their Proceedings and Designs which they carried on under pretence of prosecuting the Popish Plot Sir Leolin was so much oppressed with business and the more because his brother Secretary did not understand it that his body was in short time after so much broken followed with great and dangerous indispositions that he with leave obtained from his Maj. did at length on the 14 of Apr. 1684 deliver up the Seals of his Office to his Majesty Whereupon giving a farewell to all secular Employment he retired to a House at Hamersmith near London which he had hired and there spent the remainder of his days In the middle of March 1684 K. Jam. 2. being then in the throne he was elected Burgess again by the Members of this University to sit in that Parl. which began at Westm on the 19 of May 1685 but his body being then exceedingly out of order he did not sit He died on the first of Sept. 1685 aged 62 years whereupon his body being embalmed it was conveyed from Hammersmith towards Oxon being then attended by some of his friends and domestick servants When it came near the City several Doctors and principal Members of the University as also the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens some in Coaches and others on Horseback met it on the 15 of the same month and being conducted to the public Schools the Vicechanc Bish of the Diocese and whole body of the University received and placed it in the Divinity School which was fitted for that purpose On Thursday the 17 day the Vicechancellour Bishops together with the Noblemen Doctors Proctors and Masters met there in the said School in their formalities and the memory of the deceased being solemniz'd in a Latin Speech by the University Orator the Corps was removed to the Chappel of Jesus Coll where the Vicechanc. Principal thereof read the Offices of Burial and a Latin Speech was also spoken by one of the Fellows which was accompanied with Musick and Anthems suitable to the occasion He was a great Benefactor to the new Buildings in the Quadrangle on the West side of the Refectory of the said Coll. in his life time and when he died he gave to the said Coll. 700 l. per an and the advowson of two Churches There is a fair mon. over his grave in that Chappel with a large inscription thereon the contents whereof shall now for brevity sake be omitted while I tell you that under his name are printed Several Debates in the House of Commons at the Parl. held at Westm 21 of Oct. 1680. Printed in a book intit An exact Collection of the most considerable Debates in the honorable H. of Com. at the Parl. held at Westm 21 Oct. 1680. c. Lond. 1681. oct As also A Letter to K. James 2 to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion printed with Dr. Sam. Parkers Discourse on the same subject Jan. 16. Henr. Brunsell M. A. of Magd. Hall He had before been admitted to practise Physick but after his Majesties restauration laying aside that faculty he betook himself to Divinity and became Rector of Chaworth in Nottinghamshire Prebendary of Ely and of Southwell I shall make mention of his brother Sam. Brunsell among the created Doctors of Div. this year Mar. 9. Henr. Ailworth of New Coll. He was about this time Chanc. of the Dioc. of Oxon which Office he now enjoyeth Doct. of Phys Aug. 2. John Clerk of Trin. Coll. I have mention'd another Joh. Clerk Dr. of Phys of Padua among the Incorporations an 1653. Which of these two was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys I know not Will. Durston of Magd. Coll. was created the same day by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University which say that he appeared in Comitiis and performed his exercises for the degree of Dr. of Phys in Vniv of Dubl and that from the beginning of the late unhappy wars and more particularly in the City of Oxon when it was a Garrison he faithfully served his Majesty and afterwards for his loyalty was ejected out of Magd. Coll. for not submitting to the then Visitation 1648 Aug. 2. Thom. Wren second Son of Matthew B. of Ely and sometimes a Student of Cambridge was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that by force of the late unhappy times he was constrained to leave the Vniversity of Cambridge in divers Colleges whereof his Father was Visitor and for his proficiency in studies he was fain to settle himself in the verg of the Vnivers of Oxon that the pressures under which his Father lay for 17 years together were such that he could not his estate being taken away allow his Children bread much less supply their expences for living in Colleges and
Peter in the East in Oxon under the South wall joyning on the S. side of the tomb-stone of Silv. Wood. ROBERT WHITEHALL son of Rich. Whiteh somtimes Bach. of Div. of Ch. Church afterwards Rector of Agmundesham commonly called Amersham and of Addington in Bucks was born at Amersham educated mostly in Westminster School under Mr. Rich. Busby became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1644. or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 for giving this answer to when required of them whither he would submit to their authority My name 's Whitehall God bless the Poet If I submit the King shall know it But he cringing afterwards to his Countrymen and Neighbours the Ingoldesbies especially to Rich. Ingoldesbie the Regicide before whom he often acted the part of a Mimick and Buffoon purposely to make him merry he was upon submission made to the Committee for regulating the Univ. of Oxon put in by them Bachelaur-fellow of Merton Coll an 1650. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts was Terrae Filius with Joh. Glendall of Brasn Coll. 1655 entred on the Physick line and by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chancellour of this Univ. of Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Phys in 1657. Since which time he made divers sallies into the practice of Physick but thereby obtained but little reputation and lesser by his Poetry to which he much pretended having been esteemed no better than a meer Poetaster and time-serving-Poet as these things following partly shew The Marriage of Arms and Arts 12. Jul. 1651 being an accompt of the Act at Oxon to a friend Lond. 1651. 'T is a Poem in one sh in qu. and hath in the title the two Letters of R.W. set down being then as since generally reported to be his and he would never positively deny it The occasion of the writing of it was this viz. that an Act having not been solemnized for several years before it became such a novelty to the then Students of the University most of which had been put into places by the Visitors that there was great rudeness committed by them and the concours of people in getting into places and thrusting out strangers during all the time of that solemnity in S. Maries Church Whereupon the Vicechancellour Dr. Greenwood of Brasenose a severe and cholerick Governour was forced to get several Guards of Musquetiers out of the Parliament Garrison then in Oxon to keep all the doors and avenews and to let no body in only such whom the Vicech or his Deputies appointed There was then great quarrelling between the Scholars and Soldiers and thereupon blowes and bloody Noses followed Carmen gratulatorium Olivero Cromwell in Protectorem Angliae inaugurato 1653. Printed in half a sheet on one side Carmen Onomasticon Gratulatorium Richardo Cromwell in Cancellarii officium dignitatem faeliciter electo an 1657 Pr. in half a sh on one side The Coronation a Poem Lond. 1661. in one sh in qu. Carmen gratulatorium Edvardo Hide equiti aurato summo Angliae optato Oxoniae Cancellario c. Printed on one side of a sh in Lat. and English an 1660. Urania or a description of the painting of the top of the Theater at Oxon as the Artist lay'd his design Lond. 1669 in 3. sh in fol. c. Verses on Mris. Mary More upon her sending Sir Tho. Mores Picture of her own drawing to the Long Gallery at the public Schools in Oxon. Oxon. 1674. on one side of a large half sheet ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Iconicum quarundam extranearum numero 258 explicatio breviuscula clara apprimè Epheborum aliquot proenobilium in usum exculta quâ ad SS Scripturas alliciantur Quibus singulis accessit symbolum cum sententiolâ concinnâ ex autoribus Graecis Latinis depromptâ Being an Epigrammatical explanation of the most remarkable stories throughout the Old and New Testament after each Sculpture or cut Oxon. 1677 in a large and thick quarto It must be noted that the author had bought from Holland as many Cuts of the Old and New Test that cost him 14 l. Each Cut he caused to be neatly pasted in the middle of a large quarto paper on which before was printed a running title at the top and six English verses at the bottom to explain the Cut or Picture Which being so done in twelve copies only he caused each to be richly bound and afterwards presented a very fair copy to the King and the rest mostly to persons of quality of which number was Charles son and heir of Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester for whom he pretended 't was chiefly compos'd Gratulamini mecum Or a congratulatory Essay upon his Majesties recovery Lond. 1679. in one sh in fol. Written upon his Majesties being freed from an Ague at Windsore in Sept. 1679. The English Recabite or a defyance to Bacchus and all his Works A Poem in 67 Hexasticks c. Lond. 1681. in four sheets in fol. See more of him in his old friend Edm. Gayton p. 271 a Poet of the like stamp This Mr. Whitehall died on the eighth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five and was buried the next day in the south part or Isle of Merton College Church having for several years before hang'd on that house as an useless member JOHN ROBERTS son and heir of Richard Lord Roberts of Truro in Cornwall was born in that County entred a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Dr. John Prideaux an 1625 where he continued two years or more and after his fathers death he succeeded him in his honour In the beginning of the grand rebellion raised by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in that unhappy Convention afterwards called the Long Parliament he adhered to the cause that was then by them carried on was made a Colonel in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex and Governour for a time of the Garrison of Plymouth in Devonshire against his Majesties forces but when he afterwards beheld how things would terminate he withdrew and acted little or nothing during the times of Usurpation After his Majesties restauration he retired to the Court and in 1662 he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of William Lord Say deceased but giving not that content which was expected he was sent into Ireland to be Lord Lieutenant there in Sept. 1669 and his Government being disliked he was recalled in May following In Octob. 1679 he was made Lord President of his Majesties Council upon the removal of Anthony Earl of Shatfsbury and soon after he was made Earl of Radnor He hath written A discourse of the vanity of the creature grounded on Ecclesiast 1.2 Lond. 1673. oct and one or more books as I have been enform'd fit for the Press He died at Chelsey near London on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon about 8 days after his body was conveyed to Lanhedriock near Bodmin in Cornwall and buried
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
Translation of Dr. Is Barrow to the See of S. Asaph being nominated Bishop of the Isle of Man by the Earl of Derby he was consecrated thereunto at Chester on Sunday the second of Octob. 1671 having had liberty before granted to him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it What the merits of this person were except his Loyalty and his benefaction to the Deans house at Chester let others speak while I tell you that he giving way to fate on the 15 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and two after he had had two Wives was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. at Chester Qu. In his Deanery succeeded James Arderne or Arden D. D whom I shall mention in the Fasti an 1673 and in the See of Man succeeded Dr. John Lake who after nomination thereunto by William Earl of Derby and the issuing out of a Commission for his consecration in the beginning of Decemb. 1682 was accordingly soon after consecrated This person who was born in Yorkshire was educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge was afterwards Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Bishopsgate in London instituted Rector of Prestwych in Cheshire 17 Octob. 1668 collated to the Prebendship of Friday Thorp in the Church of York upon the resignation of Hen. Bagshaw Bach. of Div in Apr. 1670 was afterwards a Preacher in that City and on the death of Dr. Rob. Feild he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland 13. Oct. 1680. Before he had continued two years in the See of Man he was upon the death of Dr. Will. Goulson elected Bishop of Bristow to which he was translated in the Ch. of S. Mary le Bow in London on the 12 of Aug and on the first of Sept. following an 1684 he was installed by proxy with leave then allow'd him to keep his Prebendary c. in commendam with it See more of him in Guy Carleton an 1685. EDWARD RAINBOW son of Tho. Rainbow A Minister by Rebecca his wife dau of Dav. Allen Rector of Ludbrough in Lincolnshire was born at Bliton near Gainsborough in the said County 20. Apr. 1608 educated in Grammar learning successively at Gainsborough Peterborough and at Westminster entred a student in Corp. Christi Coll in Oxon in Jul. 1623 his elder brother John being about that time Fellow of the said House but before he had quite spent two years there he was translated to Madg. Coll. in Cambridge where he was adm one of the Scholars of Frances Countess Dowager of Warwick daugh of Sir Christop Wray L. Ch. Justice of England Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Fellow a noted Tutor in that House Master thereof in Oct. 1642 in the place of Dr. Hen. Smith deceased continued therein in the time of Rebellion without being ejected with others that denied the Covenant commenc'd Doctor of Div. in 1646 and in 1650 lost his Mastership for refusing a Protestation against the King that is the Oath called the Engagement Afterwards he became Minister of Chesterford near Audley inn in Essex married Elizabeth dau of his predicessor Dr. Hen. Smith and in the beginning of the year 1659 became Rector of Benefield in Northamptonshire which tho of considerable value yet by the favour of friends he did not undergo the examination of the Tryers of that time as he had not done for Chesterford Upon his Majesties return in 1660 he was restored to his Mastership was made Chaplain to his Majesty Dean of Peterborough the same year and in 1662 Vicech of Cambridge In 1664 he became Bishop of Carlile upon the Translation thence of Dr. Rich. Sterne to the See of York where sitting till the time of his death was then succeeded by Dr. Tho. Smith somtimes Fellow of Qu. Coll. in this University See in the Fasti in the first Vol. p. 861. but more in a book entit The life of the right rev fath in God Edw. Rainbow D. D. late L. Bishop of Carlile Lond. 1688. oct written by one Jonathan Banks Bach. of Arts of Cambridge and School-Master of Applebey in Westmorland who composed it by the help of some papers and a diary of the Bishop which the widow of the said Bishop furnished him with He the said Dr. Rainbow published Labour forbidden and commanded two Sermons at S. Paules Cross on Joh. 6.27 Lond. 1635 and another at the Funeral of Susanna Countess of Suffolk 13. May 1649 on Ecclesiastes 7.1 c. PETER GUNNING somtimes Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambridge afterwards one of the Chaplaines of New Coll. in Oxon c. became first Bishop of Chichester afterwards of Ely and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 577. he was succeeded in Ely by Dr. Franc. Turner B. of Rochester sometimes Fellow of New Coll who for refusing the Oath of Alleg. and Supremacy to K Will. 3. was deprived of it GEORGE MORLEY somtimes Dean of Ch. Church was first Bishop of Worcester where he was received and inthronized with very great solemnity on the 12. of Sept. 1661 and afterwards of Winchester on the death of Dr. Duppa who dying in the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 581. was succeeded in Winchester by Dr. Pet. Mews B. of Bathe and Wells GUY CARLETON was born of an antient and gentile family at Brampton Foot in Gilsland within the County of Cumberland educated in the Free-School at Carlile under Mr. Tho. Robson and admitted a poor serving child of Queens Coll under the tuition of Charles son of the said Tho. Robson an 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Tabarder Fellow and in 1635 one of the Proctors of the University Vicar of Bucklesbury near to Newbury in Berks c. At length upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he took part with his Majesty and did him good service being then accounted an excellent Horsman in a double sense for which he had his share in sufferings as other Loyallists had After the Kings Restauration he was made one of his Chaplaines was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of Aug. 1660 made Dean of Carlile in the place of Dr. Tho. Comber somtimes Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge some years before dead and on the 2. of Nov. the same year was installed Prebendary of Durham In 1671 he was nominated Bishop of Bristow on the death of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to which See being consecrated in S. Peters Church at Westm on the eleventh day of Febr. in the same year had much about that time liberty allowed him to keep his Prebendship in Commendam In 1678 he was translated to Chichester on the death of Dr. Brideloake and was confirmed therein on the eighth day of January the same year but had not the name there for a Scholar or liberal Benefactor as his predicessor and kinsman had
named Dr. George Carleton This Dr. Guy Carleton died in the City of Westminster during his attendance in Parliament on the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was conveyed as I have been informed to Chichester and buried in the Cath. Ch. there In the Bishoprick of Bristow succeeded Dr. Will. Goulson a Leicestershire man born educated in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards was Chaplaine to the Duchess of Sommerset He was consecrated at Lambeth on the ninth day of Febr. 1678 and dying at his Rectory of Symondsbury in Dorsetshire to which he had been presented by the said Duchess on the fourth day of Apr. an 1684 was buried on the 18. day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church of that towne In the See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Carleton the Bishop of Bristol viz. Dr. Joh. Lake in Aug. or Sept. 1685 who was one of the seven Bishops that were committed Prisoners to the Tower on the 8. of June 1688 for contriving making and publishing a Seditious Libel against his Majesty K. Jam. 2. and his Government that is for subscribing a petition to his Majesty wherein he and the rest shewed the great aversness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for Liberty of Conscience c. After K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he was one of the Bishops that denied the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him and on his death bed in the latter end of Aug. 1689. he did publickly declare against them In the said See succeeded Dr. Sim Patrick Dean of Peterborough who was consecrated thereunto on the 13. of Octob following This Bishop Lake who had been Rector of S. Botolphs Ch. without Bishopgate London hath written 1 A Serm. preached at Whitehall 29. of May 1670 being the day of his Majesties birth and restaurat Lond. 1671. qu. 2 The Character of a true Christian preached in the Parish Church of S. Botolph Bishopsgate at the funeral of Will Cade Deputy of the Ward Lond. 1690. qu and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen JOHN DOLBEN son of Dr. Will. Dolben by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Hugh Williams of Cyctiwillair in Caernarvanshire a Captain somtiemes in Holland son of Joh. Dolben of Haverford West in Pembrokshire descended from those of his name in Denbighshire by his wife Alice sister to Sir Tho. Middleton of Chirk Castle in the said County of Denbigh became Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner an 1666 and in 1683 was Translated to the Archiepiscopal See of York He died in the beginning of the yeer sixteen hundred eighty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 600. In the said See after it had laid void till Nov. 1688 did succeed Dr. Tho. Lamplugh Bishop of Exeter who upon the Prince of Aurang's arrival in the West left Exeter and retired to London to pay his respects to King Jam. 2 which being taken very kindly by that King he translated him to York on the 15 of the said month The said Dr. Joh. Dolben was great Nephew to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York and had much of his boldness and confidence in him but little of his learning And whereas I have told you that the said Archb. Williams was upon supposal buried at Aberconway where he had built an House in the place of that wherein he was born which he caused to be called Lincolns Inn is false for he was buried in the Church of Llandegay which signifies the Church of S. Gay in the British language near Bangor in Caernarvanshire in which parish Penhryn the Seat somtimes of Archb Williams is situated He died at Glodded of a Quinsey in his throat which being sudden he told his attendants then by him that nothing troubled him more than that he should dye like a beast that had alwaies liv'd like a Gentleman c. Afterwards his body being conveyed to Penhryn was thence carried to the Church at Llandegay and there buried in a little Vault at the upper end of the Chancel Some years after his Nephew and heir called Sir Griffith Williams erected on the north wall of the said Chancel a very fair monument containing the Effigies of the Archbishop kneeling carved and wrought from white marble with a large inscription under it made by Dr. Joh. Hacket his sometimes Chaplain the contents of which being large I shall now for brevity sake pass by But whereas the said Doctor saith that he died 25 March 1650 is false for he died on that day in 1649 aged 68 years or more JOHN FELL D. of D. and Dean of Christ Church in Oxon became Bishop of Oxford on the translation of Dr. Henry Compton to London in the latter end of the year 1675 and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 602. was succeeded in the said See by Dr. Samuel Parker as I have among the Writers told you and shall among these Bishops He the said Dr. Fell left behind him the character among some men of a Valde vult person who by his grasping at and undertaking too many affairs relating to the public few of which he throly effected brought him untimely to his end to the loss of learning c. JOHN LLOYD son of Morgan Lloyd was born of an antient family at Pentaine in Caermerthenshire became a Student in Merton Coll. in Lent term 1655 aged 15 years or thereabouts and took one degree in Arts as a member of that house Afterwards he became Fellow of that of Jesus Principal thereof on the resignation of Sir Leolin Jenkyns D. of D. and Treasurer of Landaff In 1682. 83. and 84 he did execute the Office of Vicechancellour of this University and on the death of Dr. Laur. Womack being nominated by K. Jam. 2. to succeed him in the See of S. David was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth on the 17 of Oct. 1686. Afterwards retiring to Oxon in a dropsical condition died in Jesus Coll. on the thirteenth day of Febr. following being then the first Sunday in Lent Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chappel belonging to that Coll near to the grave of Sir Leol Jenkyns before mention'd To the said See was nominated by the said King Dr. Tho. Watson of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 26 June 1687 and afterwards upon dislike of his person and for that he had been recommended by the L. Dover to the said King he did suffer and endure many affronts and intolerable abuses from the Rabble in Dec. 1688 just after the said King had left England for France JAMES ETKINS or Atkins son of Henr. Atkins Sheriff and Commissary of Orknay was born in the Town of Kirkwall in the Stewartry of Orknay in Scotland educated in