severe Puritans and under a puritanical discipline And being esteemed a plain honest man a Person of great integrity and profound in the Law he was entertained by both as well loyal as Presbyterian parties In 1643 he took the Covenant and as I have been often informed he appeared several times with other Lay-persons among the Assembly of Divines He was then in great esteem with the Parliament and was employed by the members thereof as to his counsel about several matters particularly in the reducing the Garrison of Oxford to their service who as a Lawyer was added to the Commissioners appointed by them to treat with those appointed by the King And in that capacity he did good service by advising them especially Fairfax the Generalissimo to have in his eye a preservation of that place Oxon so famous for learning from ruin Afterwards tho the loss of the blessed K. Ch. 1. was a great grief to him yet he took the oath called the Engagement and thereby was the more enabled to plead and practice his profession In Jan. 1651. he with Will. Steel Esq Recorder of the City of London Charles George Cock Esq Sir Hen. Blount Kt John Fountaine Esq a common Lawyer Hugh Peters Clerk Joh. Rushworth of Linc. inn Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper Bt c. were appointed by the Parliament to consider of the reformation of the Law and accordingly they met several times in the room formerly called the House of Lords but what the result of their meeting was I cannot yet tell On the 25. of Jan. 1653. our author Hale was by writ made Serjeant at Law and soon after one of the Justices of the Common Bench in which place he acted with great justice and integrity not without the displeasure sometimes as 't is said of the Protector In 1654 he was one of those 5 Knights who were elected for the County of Glocester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Sept. purposely as 't is said to obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot by two parties that had very different principles and ends In 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of the Univ. of Oxon to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and in Ap. 1660 he was elected one of the Knights for Glocestershire to serve in that Parliament called the Healing and blessed Parliament which began at the same place on the 25 of the said month Which Parliament calling the King home from his Exile he was soon after made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Knighted In the month of May 1671 he was upon the death of Sir John Keeling advanced to the place of L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Kings Bench and on the 18 of the said month took the usual Oathes before the Lord Keeper and his seat accordingly on that Bench. He was an unwearied Student a prudent man a solid Philosopher a famous Lawyer the Pillar and Basis of justice who would not have done an unjust act for any worldly price or motive the ornament of his Majesties Government and honour of England the highest faculty of the soul of Westminster Hall and pattern to all the reverend and honorable Judges a godly serious practical Christian the lover of goodness and all good men a lamenter of the Clergies selfishness and unfaithfulness c. a great contemner of riches pomp and vanity of the world a pattern of honest plainess and humility c. As for his works relating to learning they are these An essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies and the reasons thereof Lond. 1674. oct Difficiles nugae or observations on the Torricellian experiment Lond. 1674. oct Upon which two ingenious discourses Dr. Hen. More of Cambridge hath written Remarks so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridion Metaphysicorum c. Lond. 1676. oct Contemplations moral and divine In two parts Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Directions touching and keeping the Lords day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Poems on Christmas day Lond. 1676 c. in a large oct Contemplations mor. and div The sec part Lond. 1677. oct They were both printed together at Lond. 1679. oct The primitive origination of mankind considered and explained according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. This book came out a little before the authors death and why he published it I shall give you these three reasons 1 Because that some writings of his Contempl. mor. and divine did without his privity come abroad in print which he never intended And this book might have had the same fate if not in his life time yet after his death 2 Because possibly there had been some more care been used by him in the digesting and writing thereof than of some others that have gone abroad in publick 3 That altho he could never be brought to value the writings of his that were then published as worthy of publick view yet he found them well accepted by many which encouraged him to let this book come abroad under his own name wherein he used more care than in those lesser tracts c. Observations touching the principles of natural motion and especially touching rarefaction and condensation together with a reply to certain Remarks touching the gravitation of Fluids Lond. 1677. oct These observations being in answer to Dr. Hen. Mores Remarks before mention'd were replied upon by the said Doctor Lond. 1678. The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature Lond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions nu 136. p. 917. Londons liberty or a learned argument of law and reason an 1650 This came out afterwards with this title Londons liberties or the opinions of those great Lawyers Lord Ch. Justice Hale Mr. Justice will Wild and Mr. Serjeant Maynard about the election of Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen and Common council men of London and concerning their charter c. Lond. 1682. fol. At which time the press was at liberty without control Discourse touching provision for the poor Lond. 1683. in tw Short treatise touching Sherriffs accompts Lond. 1683. oct To which is joyned his Tryal of witches at the Assizes held at Bury S. Edmonds on the 10. of March 1664 which was published by its self in oct in 4. sh an 1682. Pleas of the Crown or a methodical summary of the principal matters relating to the subject Lond. 1685. sec edit in oct The first edit came out in 1678. oct His judgment of the nature of true religion the causes of its corruption and the Churches calamity by mens additions and violences with the desired cure Lond. 1684. qu. Written in three discourses at several times published by his great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter and by him dedicated to the honourable Judges To this book is annex'd The judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon
learning In Lent term 1593 he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. aged 18 years where going through all courses of Scholastical exercise with incredible industry was elected Fellow of that House in 1599 and the year after proceeded in Arts At which time his genie leading him to the study of medicine he entred on the Physick line practised that faculty and at length 1611 took both the degrees therein and resigned his Fellowship Afterwards he retired to the City of Exeter practised there and was much resorted to for his great knowledge and experience in Physick In his younger years he was esteemed a very good Poet Orator and Disputant and in his elder as eminent for Divinity as his proper faculty and might have honoured the World at that time with the issue of his brain but neglecting so to do for the sake of lucre and practice gave us nothing but scraps whimseys and dotages of old age which are these Theoremata Theologica Theological treatises in eight Theses of Divinity viz. 1 Production of Mans Soul 2 Divine Predestination 3 The true Church regiment 4 Predictions of Messiah 5 Christs two Genealogies 6 The revelation revealed 7 Christs Millenar reign 8 The Worlds dissolution Lond. 1654. qu. To which are added Supplements subjoyned as 1 A supply concerning Holy-days and Christs birth-days feast 2 An addition of Mans Soul 3 An Ecclesiastical Polity 4 Of Saints eternal raigne 5 Of Christs eternal raign 6 Several sorts of Essayes one of which is an Essay to Mr. Tho. Hobbes concerning his Leviathan To these the Author added A Postscript of all forms He also wrot A compend of Chronography containing four thousand thirty years compleat from Adams creation to Christs birth c. Lond. 1654. in 5. sh in qu. Enchiridium Epigrammatum Latino-Anglicum Or an Epitome of Essayes Englished out of Latine without elucidat explications containing six classes or centuries of 1 Theologicals 2 Historicals c. Lond. 1654 in a thick oct A Fardel of 76 Fragments Or additional Essayes which is the seventh classe Printed with the Enchiridium He was buried in the choire on the north side of the high Altar of the Cath. Church in Exeter in sixteen hundred sixty and two and soon after had this Epitaph put thereon the copy of which was sent to me by Rich. Izacke Esq Chamberlaine and Antiquary of that City Dormitorium Roberti Vilvaine Medicinae Doctoris qui obiit Vicesimo primo die Februarii an salut 1662 aetatis suae 87. He was a liberal benefactor to two Hospitals for poor Children in that City and in the year 1633 gave 32 l. per an for four poor Scholars each to have 8 l. per an to come from that free School in the said City founded by Hugh Crossing Esq sometimes twice Mayor thereof to Exeter Coll or any place else in Oxon either Coll. or Hall THOMAS BAYLIE a Wiltshire Man born was entred either a Servitour or Batler of S. Albans Hall in Mich. term 1600 43. Elizab. aged 18 years elected Demie of Magd. Coll. in 1602 and perpetual Fellow of that House 1611 he being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became Rector of Maningford Crucis near to Marlborough in his own Country and in 1621 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time and after he was zealously inclin'd to the puritanical party At length upon the change of the times in 1641 siding openly with them he took the Covenant was made one of the Assemb of Divines and soon after had for the love he bore to the righteous cause the rich Rectory of Mildenhall in his own Country then belonging to Dr. Geor. Morley a Royalist confer'd upon him Where being setled he preached up the tenets held by the Fifth-monarchy-men he being by that time one himself and afterwards became a busie Man in ejecting such that were then 1654 and after called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written De merito mortis Christi modo conversionis diatribae duo Oxon. 1626. qu. Concio ad clerum habita in Templo B. Mariae Oxon 5. Jul. 1622. in Jud. ver xi printed with the former He hath also as I have been informed one or more English Sermons extant but such I have not yet seen After the restoration of his Majesty he was turned out from Mildenhall and dying at Marlborough in sixteen hundred sixty and three was buried in the Church of S. Peter there on the 27 day of March the same year Whereupon his Conventicle at that place was carried on by another Brother as zealous as himself WILLIAM JAMES or Jamesius as he writes himself Son of Hen. James by Barbara his Wife Daugh. of Will. Sutton mention'd in the first Vol. p. 494. and he the Son of one James Citizen and Alderman of Bristow was born at Mahone in Monmouthshire educated in his first years of knowledge at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire under his Uncle Will. Sutton Son of the before mentioned Will. Sutton and being extraordinary rath ripe and of a prodigious memory was entred into his Accedence at five years of age In 1646 he was elected a Kings Scholar of the Coll. at Westminster where making marvellous proficiency under Mr. Busbye his most loving Master in the School there was elected thence a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1650. Before he had taken one degree in Arts his Master made him his Assistant in the said School and upon the removal of Adam Littleton into Edw. Bagshaw's place he was made Usher and at length second Master This Person while he was very young about 16 years of age wrot and published ' ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ' in Linguam Chaldaeam In usum Scholae Westmonast Lond. 1651 in 6 sheets or more in oct Dedic to Mr. Rich. Busby his Tutor Parent and Patron and also had a chief hand in the English introduction to the Lat. Tongue for the use of the lower forms in Westm School Lond. 1659. oct He died in the prime of his years to the great reluctancy of all that knew his admirable parts on the third day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried at the West end of S. Peters called the Abbey Church in Westminster near the lowest door going into the Cloister WILLIAM HAYWOOD a most excellent preacher of his time was born being a Coopers Son of Ballance street in the City of Bristow elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. by the endeavours of John Whitson Alderman of that City an encourager of his studies an 1616 aged 16 years and was soon after made Fellow of that House Dr. Laud had a respect for him and his learning made him one of his Domestick Chaplains Chaplain in Ord. to K. Ch. 1 and in 1636 he was by his endeavours actually created D. of D. About that time he became Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in Fields near London and in 1638 he was made Canon of the eleventh stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster in
Ministers thereof just under the Communion Table ROBERT SHARROCH a Ministers son was born at Adstock near to and in the County of Buckingham educated in Wyekhams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1649 or thereabouts took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1661 became afterwards Rector of Horewood in Buckinghamshire Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Bishops Waltham in Hampshire a Justice of Peace for that County and at length Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Walt. Darrell deceased in which Dignity he was installed 28. Apr. 1684 being then accounted learned in divinity in the Civ and Com. Law and very knowing in Vegitables and all pertaining thereunto He hath published The History of the propagating and improvement of Vegitables by the concurrence of Art and Nature shewing the several ways for the propagation of Plants usually cultivated in England as they are increased by Seeds Off-sets Suckers c. Oxon 1660 and 1672 oct An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 84. p. 5002. Hypothesis de Officiis secundum humanae rationis dictata seu naturae jus unde casus omnes conscientiae quatenus notiones à naturâ supersunt dijudicari possint c. Oxon. 1660. oct In this he writes against the Principia and Rationes of Hobbes of Malmsbury belonging to Ethicks and Politicks This book came out at Oxon again in 1682 in a large octavo with many additions to it with the title a little alter'd and enlarg'd and dedicated to the King Judicia seu Legum censurae de variis in continentiae speciebus c. Oxon. 1662 in a large oct De finibus virtutis Christianae The ends of Christian religion c. justified in several discourses Oxon 1673. qu. contained in ten Sermons He also reviewed and compared with several copies Provinciale vetus provinciae Cantuariensis cum selectioribus Linwodi annotationibus Oxon. 1664. in a thick oct He concluded his last day on the eleventh of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Bishops Waltham before mention'd In his Archdeaconry was installed Tho. Clutterbook D. D. Rector and Vicar of South Stoneham near Southampton in his Prebendship Sam. Palmer M. A. somtimes of Mert. Coll. and in Bishops Waltham succeeded Franc. Morley M. A. of Ch. Ch. great Nephew to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winton who about the said time had a Prebendship bestowed on him in the said Church of Winton on the resignation of Dr. Geo. Beaumont by the said Bishop WILLIAM MASTERS second son of Sir Will. Mast of Cirencester in Glocestershire Knight was born there admitted Bach. Fellow of Mert. Coll. from that of Ch. Ch. by the the Committee of Parliament and Visitors of the University 25. Mar. 1650 being then an Undergraduat took the degree of Master of Arts about two years after and under the name of a Student in Theology did publish these two things following he being then 26 years of age Essayes and observations Theological and Moral Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered and characterized c. Lond. 1653. oct Drops of Myrrhe or Meditations and Prayers These are printed with the former book and are fitted to divers arguments in that work Afterwards the author was beneficed at Woodford Roe in Essex was Bach. of Divinity Rector of S. Vedastus in Foster Lane in Lond. and a Minor Preb. in S. Pauls Cathedral but what else he published I cannot yet find He died in the month of Sept. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Woodford before mention'd By his last will and test he gave to the Univ. of Oxon 5 l. per an to have two Sermons preached every year in S. Maries Church there viz one on Shrove Sunday and the other on the last Sunday in June GEORGE MORLEY son of Francis Morley Esq by Sarah Denham his wife sister to Sir Joh. Denham one of the Barons of his Majesties Exchecquer was born in Cheapside within the City of London on the 27. of Febr. 1597. He lost his father when he was six years of age his mother when 12 and that little Patrimony that he was born to by his father's being engaged in other mens debts At 14 years of age or thereabouts he was elected one of Kings Scholars of the Coll. at Westminster and in the beginning of the year 1615 he became Student of Ch. Ch where with very great industry running thro all the Classes of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts. After he had continued in that royal foundation seven years in the degree of Master he was invited by Robert Earl of Caernarvon and his Lady to be Chaplain in their house where he lived till he was 43 years of age without having or seeking any preferment in the Church After this he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Hartfield in Sussex which being a Sinecure he exchanged with Dr. Rich. Steuart then Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty for the Parsonage of Mildenhall near Marlborough in Wiltshire But before he had that charge he had a Prebendship of Ch. Ch. bestowed on him by the K. to whom he was Chaplain in Ord. an 1641 which was the only preferment he ever desired and of which he gave the first years profit to the King towards the charge of his wars which were then commenc'd against him by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in the Long Parliament At the beginning of which he preached one of the first solemn Sermons before the Commons but so little to their gust and liking that they commanded all the rest of the Sermons but not his to be printed Yet after this he being then Doctor of Divinity he was nominated one of the Assembly of Divines by both Houses as Dr. Prideaux B. of Worcester Dr. H. Hammond c. were but neither he or either of them appeared among them As for his part he always remained with his Majesty did him what service he could as long as the war continued After which he was employed by his Majesty then a prisoner at Hampton Court to engage the University of Oxon not to submit to the illegal Visitation that had been began but for the present intermitted because of the violent proceedings of the Army Which affair he managed with such success that the Convocation did presently pass an Act for that purpose but with one dissenting voice only tho they were then under the power of the enemy that is the Parliament forces After this he was chosen by the Members of the University with some other Assistants named by himself to negotiate the making good of their Articles which were framed at the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the said forces which he did to that degree as to gain time for the getting in of their rents and to dispose of themselves I mean as many of them as were
Dauphine of whom the Qu. was delivered Nov. 1. stilo novo About that time he the said Laurence Hyde was made by the endeavours of his father Master of the Robes to his Majesty and in 1676 or thereabouts was sent Embassador to Poland In Oct. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Wotton Basset in his own Country of Wilts to serve in that Parl. which was to begin on the 17 of the said month and on the 19 of Nov. following he became the first Commissioner of the Treasury being the second of the four that were by his Majesty appointed on the 26 of March going before upon the removal of Tho. Earl of Danby from the office of Lord Treasurer and being then sworn a Privy Counsellor he took his place accordingly at the Board This was done when his Majesty on the same day was pleased to declare in Council that he had given leave to Arthur Earl of Essex to resign his place of first Commissioner of the said Treasury and that he intended his Lordship should continue of his Privy Council In the month of Apr. 1681 his Maj. was pleased in consideration of his faithful Services in that Office and other Employments of eminent trust to create him Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in Warwickshire and Baron of Wotton Basset in Wilts and soon after upon the death of Charles the young E. of Rochester to make him an Earl by the title of Earl of that City in Nov. or thereabouts 1682. On the 24 of Aug. 1684 his Maj being then at Windsore did declare in Council the said Earl of Rochester Lord President of his Council in the place of John Earl of Radnor whom his Majesty had given in consideration of his great age leave to retire Wnereupon Sidney Godolphin Secretary of State was made first Commissioner of the Treasury in his place and Charles Earl of Middleton in Scotland Secretary in Godolphin's place In Feb. following K. Jam. 2 who was then newly proclaimed King did constitute him L. High Treasurer of England and on the 16 of the said month his Majesty gave him the White Staff On the 29 of June 1685 he was elected Kr. Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter and was then invested with the George and Garter having been first Knighted by the Soveraign and on the 22 of July following he was installed in the Royal Chappel of S. George at Windsore at which time were also installed Henry Duke of Nâ—rfolk Earl Marshal of England and Hâ—nry Earl of Peterborough Groom of the Stole to his Majesty In the beginning of Jan. 1686 he was discharged of his place of Lord Treasurer and soon after John Lord Bellasyse Sidney Lord Godolphin Henry Lord Dover Sir John Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were constituted Commissioners for executing the said Office On the first of March 1691 he was with Richard Earl of Ranelagh Charles Lord Cornwallis and Sir Edw. Seymour Bt sworn of their Majesties hon Privy Council c. Bach. of Phys Aug. 7. Will Cole of Gloc. Hall Aug. 7. Will. Hawkins of Pemb. Coll. The first of these two hath published several things of his faculty and therefore hereafter he is to be remembred among the Writers The other had practised Phys 20 years before this time but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell Bach. of Div. Eighteen were created of whom were these Aug. 2. Thom. Smith M. of A. of Qu. Coll. He is now B. of Carlile 7. Henr. Pigot of Linc. Coll. This person who was a Staffordshire man born was afterwards Minister of Rochdale in Lancashire and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Lancaster 19 Mar. 1675. Lond. 1676. qu. Sept. 20. Thom. Long of Exet. Coll. Doct. of Law Aug. 2. Will. Fuller sometimes of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards B. of Limerick and at length of Linc. 7. Will. Parsons of New Coll. He had been a great Sufferer by the Presbyterians and had been kept in Jayl at Cambridge 19 weeks for his Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. during the Rebellion Afterwards retiring to his small Living at Birchanger in Essex did usually read the Common Prayer there in the times of Usurpation and therefore beloved of the loyal Gentry in those parts After his Majesties restauration he became Prebendary of Chichester Rector of Lambourne and Vicar of Great Dunmow in Essex At the last of which places he dying of an Apoplexy was buried there on the eleventh of July 1671 aged 72 years This person tho said in the Register to be actually created Doct. of the Civil Law yet in the Letters of the Chanc. of the University written in his behalf it is said that when he was Subwarden of New Coll. and Bachelaur of Law he read his Lectures for Doctorship according to the Statutes an 1635. Joh. Lowen of Ch. Ch. who had been ejected thence for his Loyalty by the Parl. Visitors in 1648 was actually created the same day Aug. 7. He was afterwards of Doctors Commons and usually lived at Rainham in Essex where I think he died in the latter end of 1677. Dec. 6. Pet. Mews of S. Johns Coll. Feb. 16. Leolin Jenkyns of Jesus Coll. This person who was the son of a father of both his names living at Llanblethian in Glamorganshire was born at Llanthrished in the same County and at 16 years of age in 1641 he became a Student in Jesus Coll but the Troubles in the Nation soon after following he retired to his own Country and afterwards became a Tutor to several Welsh Gentlemen of Quality in the house of Joh. Aubrey at Llantrithied in Glamorganshire Esq which was then left void by Sequestration where continuing from 1648 to 1651 he removed with his charge to Oxon and there sojourned in an house opposite to Vniv Coll then possess'd by Sampson White a Mercer afterwards Mayor of the City and a Knight where he educated them as in Glamorganshire before according to the way of the Church of England In 1655 they were dispersed because they were obnoxious to the then schismatical Members of the University and forthwith travelled beyond the seas for 2 or 3 years After Mr. Jenkyns his return and delivery up of his Pupils to their respective Parents and Relations he was invited by the most loyal Sir Will. Whitmore of Apley in Shropshire to live with him an 1658 the most ingenious Rob. Waring whom he had for some years kept in his Family being then dead where continuing till his Majesties restauration in 1660 he then returned to Jesus Coll of which he was first made Fellow and soon after upon the resignation of Dr. Fr. Mansell Principal and Dr. of the Civ Law as before 't is told you Afterwards he retired to London and in the time of the Dutch War he executed the office of Judge of the Admiralty for Dr. Joh. Exton which he managed with great dexterity and prudence and at length was Judge in his own right and when Dr. Will.
but a little while had reparations made for his losses and became a witness against Archbishop Laud when the Presbyterians were sedulously raking up all things against in order to bring him to his Trial. Our Author Smart hath written and published The vanity and downfal of Superstition and popish Ceremonies in two Sermons in the Cathedral Church of Durham preached in July 1628 on Psal 13. part of the 7. verse They were twice printed in that year one impression whereof was at Edinburgh A brief but true historical narrative of some notorious acts and speeches of Mr. John Cozens and some other of his Companions contracted into Articles Various Poems in Lat. and Engl. These which are called in one or more Auction Catalogues Old Smarts Verses I have not yet seen nor other matters of his composition He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred forty and two or thereabouts having several years before been the senior Prebendary of the Church of Durham leaving then behind him this Character given by the Presbyterian that he was a godly and judicious Minister and a zealous enemy against superstition and the maintainers thereof Also that he was the Protomartyr of these latter days of Persecution c. ALEXANDER GILL Son of A. Gill mentioned among the writers under the year 1635. was born in London particularly if I mistake not in S. Anns Parish became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1612. and in that of his age 15 exhibited to in his studies by the Society of Mercers in London took the degrees in Arts became an Usher under his Father in S. Pauls School and under Tho. Farnabie the famous Schoolmaster in Goldsmiths-Rents under both which he spent more than ten years I find one Dr. Gill to have been Master of Okeham School in Rutlandshire but whether the same with our Author who was of an unsetled and inconstant temper I know not At length after many changes rambles and some imprisonments he succeeded his Father in the Office of chief Master of S. Pauls School an 1635. and in the latter end of the next year took the degree of Doct. of Divinity being then accounted one of the best Latin Poets in the Nation In 1640. he was removed from the said School with an allowance of 25 l. per an allotted to him in requital of it whereupon he taught certain youths privatly in Aldersgatestreet in London to the time of his death His works are Arithmeticorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Printed at the end of N. Simpsons book called Arithmeticae Compendium 1623. oct Panthea In honorem illustriss spectatiss omnibus animi corporisque dotibus instructiss Heroinae qua mihi in terris c. Printed in one sheet in qu. A Song of victorie upon the proceedings and success of the wars undertaken by the most puissant King of Sweeden This was written in Latine also but I have not yet seen it And was englished and explained with marginal notes by W. H. Lond. 1632. qu. ΠΑΡΕΓΑ Sive Poetici conatus ab aliquammultis antehaec expetiti c. Lond. 1632. in 5. sheets in tw Elegy on Thom. Earl of Strafford beheaded on Tower-hill May 12. an 1641. Besides these I have also seen a Ms Book of Verses of his composition made on these Subjects following 1 Sylva Ducis made 1629 afterwards remitted among his poems in Poetici conatus 2 Suedus Ren an 1631. 3 In ejus obit 1632. 4 Annivers 1633. 5 Annivers 2. an 1634. 6 Ann. 3. 1635. 7 In caedem Wallest 1634. 8 Arx Skinkiana 1635. 9 In Navarr Reg. 10 Coopnelli Cingulum 1629. 11 Ad eundem 1629. 12 Epitaphium Rich. Pates 1633. This Rich. Pates was a Master Commoner of Trin. Coll. who dying in that year had a long Epitaph in prose set over his grave in the parish Church of S. Marie Magd. within the North Suburb of Oxon. 13 In obitum Gulielmi Paddy Eq. Aur. et M. D. 14 Ad D. Christoph Yelverton 15 In Obitum Edw. Vaughan 1637. c. At length after our Author Gill had made many rambles in this World he did quietly yet not without some regret lay down his head and dye towards the latter end of the year sixteen hundred forty and two and was buried in the Church of S. Botolph without Aldergate in London His Successor in S. Pauls School was Joh. Langley sometimes Master of the College School in the City of Glocester as I have elsewhere told you TOBIAS CRISP third Son of Ellis Crisp of London Esq was born in Breadstreet in the same City an 1600 partly educated in Grammaticals in Eaton School near Windsore and in Academicals in the University of Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards for the accomplishment of certain parts of Learning he retired to Oxon and in the begining of Febr. 1626. was incorporated in that degree as a Member of Balliol Coll. and towards the latter end of the said month he was admitted to proceed in that Faculty Which degree being by him compleated as a Member of the said house in the Act following celebrated in Jul. 1627. he became about that time Rector of Brinkworth in Witltshire where being setled he was much followed for his edifying way of preaching and for his great hospitality to all persons that resorted to his house Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion at which time he was Doctor of Divinity of some years standing he left his Rectory in Aug. 1642 and being puritanically affected he did to avoid the insolencies of the Soldiers especially of the Cavaliers for whom he had but little affection retire to London where his opinions being soon discovered was baited by 52 opponents in a grand Dispute concerning the freeness of the grace of God in Jesus Christ to poor sinners c. By which encounter which was eagerly managed on his part he contracted a disease that brought him to his grave as I shall anon tell you After his death were published of his composition these things following Christ alone exalted in 14. Sermons Lond. 1643. in oct Vol. 1. Some of which Sermons savouring much of Antinomianisme were answered by Steph. Geere as I shall elsewhere tell you and if I mistake not by one or two more Ch. alone exalted in 17. Sermons on Phil. 3.8 9. Lond. 1644. oct Vol. 2. Ch. alone exalted in the perfection and encouragement of his Saints notwithstanding sins and trials in eleven Sermons Lond. 1646. ctc. oct Vol. 3. Before which is the authors picture in a cloak At length many years after viz. in 1683. were as an addition to the three former volumes published in oct Christ alone exalted in two Sermons found written with his own among several of his writings in the custody of his Son Mr. Sam. Crisp one of the Governors of Ch. Ch. Hospital in London who lately with great Civility informed me by his Letters that his Father Dr. Tobias Crisp dying of the Small Pox on the 27. of Feb. in
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
against the Holy Ghost At length having lived to the age of seventy and two years concluded his last day at Eaton in the house of Hannah Powney before mentioned on Munday the nineteenth day of May at about eight of the clock at night in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was according to his desire buried but little better than in private in Eaton College Churchyard Over his grave was afterwards an Altar Monument erected at the charge of one Pet. Curwen sometimes a Scholar of Eaton and his great Admirer with an Inscription thereon which partly runs thus Musarum charitum amor Johannes Halesius nomen non tam hominis quam scientiae hic non jacet at lutum quod assumpsit optimum infra ponitur nam certe supra mortales emicuit moribus suavissimis ingenio subtilissimo pectore pleno sapuit mundo sublimior adeoque aptior Angelorum choro c. WILLIAM HOWE son of Will. Howe was born in London educated in Merchant Taylors School became a Commoner of S. Johns Coll. in 1637 and in that of his age 18 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line bore Arms for his Maj. King Ch. 1. in Oxon at what time the generality of Scholars then remaining in the University did the like and being very forward in expressing his Loyalty was afterwards made Captain of a Troop of Horse But upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he desisted prosecuted his study in Physick retired to London practised that Faculty first in S. Laurence Lane and then in Milkstreet and was commonly called by the name of Doctor Howe This person being a noted Herbalist or Simpler of his time wrot and published Phytologia Britannica natales exhibens indiginarum stirpium sponte emergentium Lond. 1650. oct and obtained coâ—rected and published a book of Mathew de L'obell the Kings Botanist intit Stirpium illustrationes plurimas elaborantes inauditas plantas subreptitiis Jo. Parkinsoni rapsodiis ex codice Ms insalutato sparsim gravatae c. Lond. 1655. qu. before which our Author Howe put an Epistle to the Reader He died in his house in Milkstreet in the month of Aug. or beginning of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six and was buried according to his will I suppose in the Church of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in a grave at least six foot deep on the left side of the body of his Mother He left behind him a choice Library of books of his Faculty but how they were bestowed I cannot tell JOHN PENDARVES son of Jo. Pend. of Crowan in the County of Cornwal was born there or at least in that County admitted a poor Scholar or Servitour of Exeter Coll. on the eleventh of Decemb. in the year 1637 and in that of his age 15 where by the benefit of a good Tutor he became a tolerable Disputant In the latter end of 1641 he took the degree of Bach. of Arts and compleated it by Determination At which time all things in the Nation tending to a confusion he left the Coll. in July 1642 sided with the rout and by a voluble tongue having obtained the way of canting went up and down unsent for preaching in houses barns under trees hedges c. At length after several changes he setled his mind on Anabaptism and having got a numerous multitude of Disciples made himself head of them defied all Authority contradicted and opposed all orthodox Ministers in their respective Offices and Employments challenged them to prove their calling and spared not many times to interrupt them in their Pulpits and to urge them to disputes At length after several Challenges Jasp Mayne D. D. of Ch. Church who had been much troubled with him at Pyrton near Watlington in Oxfordshire undertook to be his Respondent So that the eleventh of Sept. 1652 being appointed for the Encounter in the Church at Watlington were present innumerable people on each side but Pendarves being back'd with a great party of Anabaptists and the scum of the People who behaved themselves very rude and insolent the Disputation was so interrupted that it came to nothing This Fellow who was Lecturer at Wantage and Pastor to the Anabaptists at Abendon in Berkshire tho he accounted himself a true born English man yet he was so ill deserving to be reckoned so as that like to another Herostratus he with his brethren did endeavour by raising a desperate combustion to utterly undo the distressed and tottering Church of England which in few years before was accounted glorious and renowned And as we may really suppose that he did these things to no other end but to gain wealth and make himself famous to posterity so would it I know be accounted worthy by some if my omission of his name could bury him in oblivion But so it is that his Works are fled abroad and have been and are yet entertained by and taken into the hands of many and therefore if I should do it 't would be to little purpose The titles of such that I have seen are these Arrowes against Babylon or Queries serving to a clear discovery of the Mystery of iniquity Lond. 1656. qu. Answerâ—d by Will. Ley Minister of Wanting alias Wantage Christop Fowler of Reading and Joh. Tickell of Abendon in Berks. Endeavours for reformation in Saints apparel Queries for the People called Quakers These last two are printed with the Arrows against Babylon Prefatory Epistle to a book intit The Prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophecying to the Saints and Professors of this generation c. Lond. 1656. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Of the fear of the Lord on Rev. 15. former part of the fourth verse Lond. 1657. qu. c. with others and other theolog Tracts which I have not yet seen particularly the Disputation between him and Doctor Mayne which Pendarves and his party printed as I have heard to their own advantage At length after a short life spent in continual agitation he surrendred up his last breath at London about the beginning of September in sixteen hundred fifty and six Whose body thereupon being embowelled and wrap'd up in Sear-cloth by the care of the Brethren and afterwards Preparations made for his Funeral the body was some weeks after conveyed by water to Abendon in Berks. before mentioned where being lodged in a Grocers house on a Saturday was Praying and Preaching by the Anabaptists in the said house on Sunday Munday and Tuesday not without Reflections on the then Government by Oliver and endeavours made to raise Mutinies About three of the clock in the Afternoon of the said Tuesday being the 30 of Sept. and the next day after that of S. Michael his body was conducted from the said house by the Brethren to a little garden ground then lately purchased for a Burial-place for the Anabaptists situate and being in Oxstreet at the west end of the said Town where it was with great lamentation by them deposited At
set forth It is a thousand pities that so worthy a piece should lose its grace and credit by an ill expositor since those Persons who read that translation taking it for genuine and upon that presumption not regarding the Latine Edition are thereby rob'd of that benefit which if you would please to undertake the business they might receive This tendeth to the dishonour of that noble Lord and the hindrance of the advancement of learning c. The said Dr. Wats also did translate from Ital. into Engl. Davila's book containing The History of the Civil Wars of France but Sir Ch. Cotterell and William Aylesbury Esq having had the start of him in that work prevented him from printing it He died at Erinsham near to Oxon in his return from the City of Bathe where he had overcome his antient body by too much sweating on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in that Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon commonly called the College Chancel as belonging to Linc. Coll. and not to the Parish of Allsaints At which time he left behind him these three MSS. of his composition which would have been published by the Author had he lived a little longer viz. 1 Digressions on the advancement to learning 2 An Apologie for the instauration of sciences 3 Imperial Politicks JOHN LANGLEY was born near Banbury in Oxfordshire became a Com. or Batler of Magd. Hall about the year 1612 took the degrees in Arts and some years after was made Master of the College School in and Prebendary of the Cath. Church of Glocester In which School teaching about 20 years was elected Chief Master of that of S. Paul in Lond. in the room of Dr. Alex. Gill in Jan. 1640 where as at Gloc. he educated many who were afterwards serviceable in Church and State He was learned in the whole body of learning and not only an excellent Linguist Grammarian Historian Cosmographer and Artist but a most judicious Divine and so great an Antiquary that his delight and knowledge in antiquities especially those of our own Nation doth deserve greater commendation than I can now in a few lines express He was beloved of learned men particularly of Selden and those that adhered to the Long Parliament but had not much esteem from the Orthodox Clergy because he was a Puritan and afterwards a witness against Archb. Laud at his trial as may be elsewhere seen He hath written Totius Rhetoricae adumbratio in usum Scholae Paulinae Lond. 1644. Camb. 1650. c. oct Introduction of Grammar Several times printed He also translated from Lat. into English the Book of Polid. Virgil intit De rerum inventoribus which book had been translated by Joh. Bale in the time of K. Ed. 6. but in old and rude English Our Author Langley also had made several collections of Histories and Antiquities that he had gathered in his travels through several parts of England which after his death coming into the possession as 't is said of his Brother living near Banbury he sold them with his collection of Coins merely for money sake He died in his house joyning to S. Pauls School on the 13. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in Mercers Chappel in Cheapside At which time a Funeral Sermon on Acts 7.22 touching the use of humane learning was preached by Dr. Edw. Reynolds sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. wherein he said much to the honor of the Defunct The reader is to note that one John Langley was Minister of West Tuderley in Hampshire was elected one of the Ass of Divines in 1643 and afterwards became a publisher of several matters of Divinity but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former Joh. Langley JOHN GUMBLEDEN a Hampshire man born was entred a Batler of Broadgates Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 18 years made Student of Ch. Ch. soon after took the Degrees in Arts preached at Longworth in Berkshire several years and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1632. Upon the turn of the times he sided with the Presbyterians became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards for a short time Rector of Coytie in Glamorganshire He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Gen. 6.5.6.7 printed 1626. qu. 2 Serm. on Gen. 22.1.2 print 1627. qu. 3 Gods great mercy to mankind in Jesus Christ at Pauls cross 1628 on Isa 53.6 Oxon. 1628. qu. 4 Two Sermons preached before the Univ. of Oxon on Matth. 11.28 and on Acts 10.3.4 Lond. 1657. qu as also another on Acts 1. from 1. to 5 which I have not yet seen Christ tempted the Devil conquered or a short exposition on a part of the fourth chapt of S. Mathews Gospel Lond. 1657. qu. He concluded his last day in Sept. or Oct. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Coytie beforemention'd He had other things of the like nature fit for the press laying by him which had he lived he would have published JOHN FRENCH Son of Joh. Fr. of Broughton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire was born at Broughton entred into New Inn 1633 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line practiced his faculty in the Parliament Army by the encouragement of the Fiennes men of Authority in the said Army and at length became one of the two Physicians to the whole Army under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight In 1648 at which time the Earl of Pembroke visited this University he was actually created Doctor of Physick being about that time Physician to the Hospital called the Savoy and one of the Coll. of Physicians His works are these The Art of Distillation or a treatise of the choicest spagirical preparations performed by way of Distillation c. in 6. books Lond. 1651. 53. c. qu. The London Distiller exactly and truly shewing the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Strong-waters printed with The Art of Distillation c. The Yorkshire Spaw or a treatise of four medicinal Wells viz. the Spaw or Vitrilone Well c. their causes virtues and use Lond. 1652. in tw One J. F. Med. Doct. hath translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 A new light to Alchymie and a treatise of Sulphure Lond. 1650. qu. written by Mich. Sandivogius 2 Nine books of the nature of things Lond. 1650. qu. written by Paracelsus 3 A Chymical Dictionary explaining hard places and words met withal in the writings of Paracelsus c. Lond. 1650. qu. Which J. F. this translator I take to be the same with our Author Joh. French who died in Oct. or Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven at or near Bullogne in France he being then Physician to the English Army there He had a Brother named William French of Caies Coll. in Cambridge said also to be Doctor of Physick and Physician
1606 aged 15 years admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 23. Sept. 1608 Master of Arts in the latter end of 1614 and Probat Fellow of the said House 25 of Apr. in the year following Afterwards he was made Chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth Consort to the Pr. Elector Palatine of Rheine made D. of Div. of the University of Leyden in his passage thither or return thence incorporated in the same degree at Oxon in 1624 constituted Chaplain to K. Ch. 1 and at length in 1638 or thereabouts he was made Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate within the City of London which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed He was always reputed a pious and laborious man in his calling learned and well read in most parts of Divinity as in these his labours following is evident Paraphrastical meditations by way of commentarie on the Proverbs c. Lond. 1638. fol. Commentarie on Ecclesiastes c. Lond. 1639. fol. Exemplary life and death of Mr. ... Jurdaine printed in qu. One Ferdin Nicolls Minister of S. Marie Arches in Exeter hath written The life and death of Ignat. Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of the City of Exeter Whether he be the same Jurdaine whose life Dr. Jermin wrot I know not for I have not yet seen it nor The Fathers instruction to his Child printed at Lond. 1658. oct said to be written by Jermin At length after he had suffer'd much for the royal cause in the time of the rebellion by sequestration of his rectory plundering and other miseries lived as opportunity served and on the benevolence of some generous Loyallists Afterward retiring to Kemsing near to Sevenoke in Kent lived obscurely with his Son in law for about 7 years before his death In fine preaching at Sevenoke on the 14 day of August being then the Lords day in sixteen hundred fifty and nine dropt dead from his horse in his return thence to Kemsing Whereupon he was buried on the north side of the Altar in the Chancel belonging to the Church of Kemsing Over his grave was a marble monument set up near to the East Window with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 243. a. ZACHARIE BOGAN Son of Will. Bogan Gent. was born at Little Hempston in Devonshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term under the tuition of Ralph Button a Puritannical Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year 1640 and that of his age 15 admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. of Nov. the year following left the University when the City of Oxon was garrison'd for the King return'd after the surrender thereof to the Parliament took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Mich. term 1646 elected Prob. Fellow of the said Coll. in the year following and afterwards proceeding in his faculty became a retired and religious Student and much noted in the University for his admirable skill in the Tongues He hath written Additions to Franc. Rous his Archeologiae Atticae Printed several times before 1674. in qu. Of the threats and punishments recorded in Scripture alphabetically composed with some brief observations on sundry texts Oxon. 1653. oct dedicated to his Father Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life Oxon. 1653. oct grounded on Psal 32.11 and on Phil. 4.4 dedicated to his Mother Joan. Comparatio Homeri cum scriptoribus sacris quoad Normam loquendi Oxon. 1658. oct Help to prayer both extempore and by a set forme as also to meditation c. Oxon. 1660. oct published after the Authors death by Dan. Agas Fellow of C. C. Coll. He also wrot a large and learned Epistle to Edm. Dickinson M. A. of Mert. College set before a book going under his name entit Delphi Phaenicizantes c. Oxon. 1655. oct At length this our Author Bogan who had contracted an ill habit of body by studying surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the first day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine whereupon his body was committed to the Earth about the middle of the north cloister belonging to the Coll. of Corp. Christi joyning to the S side of the Chappel there At that time and before the Nation being very unsetled and the Universities expecting nothing but ruin and dissolution it pleased Mr. Bogan to give by his will to the City of Oxon 500 l. whereas had the nation been otherwise he would have given that money to his College His picture drawn to the life hangs in the Council Chamber joyning to the Guild-hall of the City of Oxon. CHARLES HERLE third Son of Ed. Herle Esq by Anne his Wife Daugh. of John Trefrie was born at Prideaux Herle near Lystwithyel in Cornwall where tho his ancestors have lived several generations in gentile fashion yet they were originally of West Herle in Northumberland At 14 years of age in 1612 he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1618 and afterwards Holy Orders but what were his employments or preferments that immediatly followed I know not Sure I am that he was Rector of one of the richest Churches in England which is at Winwick in Lancashire before the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 that at the eruption he having always been esteemed a Puritan sided with the Presbyterian Party took the Covenant was elected one of the Assemb of Divines in 1643 being then a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament and in the year 1646 July 22 he was voted by the members of the said Parliament Prolocutor of that Assembly after the death of Twysse In 1647 he with Steph. Marshall went with certain Commissioners appointed by the Parliament into Scotland to give them a right understanding of the affairs in England but what he did there was chiefly to give constant notice of the Scots resolutions and the forwardness of their Levies After the King was beheaded he retired to his rectory of Winwick having first received satisfaction from the Parliament for his Service and losses he sustained at Winwick after he had fled to London for protection during the heat of the War where he was esteemed by the factious party the prime man of note and power among the Clergy In 1654 he was by the Authority of Parl. appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Lanc. for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters in which office he with Is Ambrose of Preston Edw. Gee of Eccleston c. shewed great severity against them This Mr. Herle hath extant under his name these things following Several Sermons as 1 A pair of Compasses for the Church and State Sermon before the House of Com. at their monthly fast ult Nov. 1642 on Zach. 8.19 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Davids Song of three parts Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of Lords for Gods great deliverance of the Parl. City and Kingdom
concerning the water of S. Vincents Rocks near Bristol Brief and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of Tobacco These four last were printed with Via recta Philosophical discourse of dieterical Observations for the preserving of health Printed 1620. qu. He died at Bathe on the 27 day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the great Church there dedicated to S. Peter Over his grave was soon after put a very fair Monument with the bust of the defunct in the east wall with a large inscription thereon made by Dr. Rob. Peirce a Physician of Bathe sometimes a Com. of Linc. College a copy of which with most envious notes on it you may see in a book intit A discourse of Bathe c. printed 1676. in oct p. 170. 171. written by a Physician of note in that City HENRY HAMMOND son of Dr. John Hammond Physitian to Prince Henry was born at Chersey in Surrey on the 26 of Aug. 1605 educated in Grammar Learning in Eaton School near to Windsore where he was much advantaged in the Greek Tongue by Mr. Tho. Allen Fellow of that College In the year 1622 Jul. 30 he was made Demie of Magd. Coll. and the same year was admitted Bach. of Arts. In 1625 he proceeded in that faculty and on the 26 of July the same year he was elected Fellow of that house being then Philosophy Reader and a singular ornament thereunto In 1633 he had the Rectory of Penhurst in Kent confer'd on him by the Earl of Leicester who a little before had been deeply affected with a Sermon that he had delivered at Court and in the latter end of the same year he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences In 1638 he was licensed to proceed in the faculty of Divinity and in 1640 he was made a member of the Convocation of the Clergy called with the short Parliament that began the 13 of April the same year In 1643 he had the Archdeaconry of Chichester confer'd upon him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof and the same year he was nominated one of the Ass of Divines but sate not About which time being forced to leave his Rectory by the Presbyterians he retired to Oxon for shelter and the year following was entertained by the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Southampton to go as their Chaplain with them to London to treat with the Parliament for a composure of the unhappy differences in Church and State so that behaving himself with great zeal and prudence was also the same year appointed to attend the Kings Commissioners at Uxbridge for peace where it being his lot to dispute with Rich. Vines a Presbyterian Minister that attended the Commissioners appointed by Parliament he did with ease and perfect clearness disperse all the Sophisms that had been brought by him or others against him In the beginning of 1645 he was upon the death of Dr. VVill. Strode made one of the Canons of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty then there by vertue of which place I mean the Canonry he became Orator of the University but had seldom an opportunity to shew his parts that way In 1647 he attended the King in his restraint at VVoobourne Caversham Hampton Court and the Isle of VVight but he being sequestred from the office of Chaplain to him about Christmas the same year he retired to his Canonry in Oxon and being elected Sub dean of his house continued there till the Visitors appointed by Parliament first thrust him out without any regard had to his great Learning and Religion and then imprison'd him for several weeks in a private house in Oxon. Afterwards he was confin'd to the house of Sir Philip Warwick at Clapham in Bedfordshire where continuing several months was at length released Whereupon retiring to Westwood in Worcestershire the seat of the loyal Sir John Packington to which place he had received a civil invitation remained there doing much good to the day of his death in which time he had the disposal of great Charities reposed in his hands as being the most zealous promoter of Alms giving that lived in England since the change of Religion Much more may be said of this most worthy person but his life and death being extant written by Dr. Jo. Fell his great Admirer I shall only now say that great were his natural abilities greater his acquired and that in the whole circle of Arts he was most accurate He was also eloquent in the Tongues exact in antient and modern Writers was well vers'd in Philosophy and better in Philology most learned in school Divinity and a great Master in Church Antiquity made up of Fathers Councils ecclesiastical Historians and Lyturgicks as may be at large seen in his most elaborate Works the Titles of which follow A practical Catechism Oxon 1644. and Lond. 1646. qu. There again in 1652 in two vol. in qu. This Catechism was first of all published upon the importune Request of Dr. Christop Potter Provost of Queens Coll. to whom he had communicated yet could never get him to set his name to it Of Scandal Oxon. 1644. qu. Of Conscience Lond. 1650. qu. Of resisting the lawful Magistrate under colour of Religion Oxon. 1644. Lond. 1647. qu. Of Willâ—worship Oxon. 1644. qu. Considerations of present use concerning the danger resulting from the change of our Church Government Printed 1644 and 46. Lond. 1682. qu. Of Superstition Ox. 1645. Lond. 1650. qu. Of sins of weakness and wilfulness Oxon. 1645 50. quart Explication of two difficult texts Heb. 6. and Heb. 10. Printed with Sins of weakness c. Of a late or death-bed repentance Ox. 1645. qu. View of the Directorie and vindication of the Liturgie Ox. 1645. 46. c. qu. Of Idolatry Ox. 1646. Lond. 1650. qu. The Reader â—s now to understand that after the Lord Falklands book called A discourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome was published came out a book written by a Rom. Cath. intit A Treatise apologetical touching the infallibility of the Church Catholick c. printed 1645. Whereupon our Author Dr. Hammond wrot and published A view of the Exceptions which have been made by a Romanist to the Lord Viscount Falklands Discourse of the infallibility of the Ch. of Rome Oxon. 1646. quart The power of the keys or of binding and loosing Lond. 1647. 51. qu. Of the word KRIMA Of the Zelots among the Jews and the liberty taken by them of taking up the Cross Lond. 1647. qu. joyned with the second Edit Of resisting the lawful Magistrate Vindication of Christs representing S. Peter from the Exceptions of Mr. Steph. Marshall Lond. 1647. qu. joyned with the second Edit Of resisting the lawful Magistrate Of fraternal admonition and correption Lond. 1647. 50. qu. Copie of some papers past at Oxon between Dr. Hammond the Author of the Practical Catechism and Mr. Franc. Cheynell Lond. 1647 and 50 in qu. View of some
a Republick and I know not what to advance himself In the month of Aug. the same year he was made Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire by the Parliament and was persuaded almost to fortifie the City of Oxon for their use and to make Bulstrode Whitlock sometimes of S. Johns Coll. then a Member of Parliament Governour thereof but for what reasons he could not be overcome it appears not At the same time he did endeavour to engage the People of the said County in a Rebellion not only at Oxon but afterwards at Woodstock where he did protest upon his honour after Edghill Fight that the King had neither men nor money nor arms but the Parliament had all these c. On the 27 of Dec. and 8 of Febr. in 1642 his Maj. published two Proclamations commanding all the Officers of the Court of Wards to attend him at Oxon but this Lord Say refusing to come was outlaw'd and attainted of Treason So that he being put out of his place and a new Seal made for the use of the said Court it was ordered then to remain in the custody of the said Francis Lord Cottington In 1646 the Court of Wards was taken away by the Parliament sitting at Westminster the Members of which did recompence the Lord Say for his loss as being Master with the sum of 10000 l and Sir Ben. Rudyard the Surveyour of the said Court with the sum of 6000 l and both with Lands from the Earl of Worcester's Estate In 1648 he shew'd himself a zealous enemy in the House against a personal Treaty with his Majesty and the same year was present with the Parliament Commissioners in the Isle of Wight when they treated in order for Peace with the King At which time this Lord Say did boldly urge to his Maj. a passage out of the three last and corrupted books of Mr. Rich. Hocker's Ecclesiastical Polity that tho the King was singulis major yet he was universis minor which was answer'd with great prudence and dexterity by his Maj. as may be elsewhere seen At that time the Kings Arguments concerning several matters did so much work upon him that at his return to London he sided with that party in the House that voted that the Kings Answers to the Propositions were a firm ground for them to proceed upon for a Peace After the King's death he altogether sided with the Independents as before he had done with the Presbyterians became great with Oliver who made him one of the other House that is House of Lords After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. at what time he had acted as a grand Rebell for his own ends almost 20 years he was rewarded forsooth with the honorable Office of Lord Privy Seal while others that had suffered in estate and body and had been reduced to a bit of bread for his Maj. cause had then little or nothing given to relieve them for which they were to thank a hungry and great Officer who to fill his own Coffers was the occasion of the utter ruin of many A person of the Lord Say's persuasion who had run with the times as he did purposely to raise a family saith that he was a person of great parts wisdom and integrity and another who was taken to be a Puritan in his time tells us that Say and Sele was a seriously subtil piece and always averse to the Court ways something out of pertinaciousness his temper and constitution ballancing him altogether on that side which was contrary to the wind so that he seldom tack'd about or went upright though he kept his course steady in his way a long time c. As for the things that he hath published the titles of them are these Several Speeches as 1 Two Speeches in Parliament One upon the Bill against the Bishops and the other touching the Liturgy of the Church of Engl Lond. 1641. in two sh in quart 2 Sp. in the Guildhall London 27 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1642. qu. This was spoken just after Edghill Fight to encourage the Citizens to raise more money to carry on the War At which time also were very earnest in their Speeches for that purpose Philip Lord Wharton Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Earl of Holland and Will. Strâ—de one of the 5 Members 3 Speech in Parliament against the Supremacy of the Bishops and their power in civil Affairs Lond. 1642. qu. This with the former against the Bishops were much applauded among the patriotical Party whose sense they spoke out to the full and were the core of the Canker bred in them against the Church These Speeches also did the Clergy take to be their chief reason of their several years of Persecution that followed and why they were banished from their Livings for fear forsooth they should preach the People then in a great manner deceived into obedience to the King After the War was ceased and no Malignants there were as he called the Cavaliers to oppose him he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Quakers with whom he was much troubled at or near Broughton and thereupon wrot certain books against them as I shall tell you by and by The Scots designe discovered relating their dangerous attempts lately practised against the English Nation with the sad consequence of the same Wherein divers matters of publick concernment are disclosed and the book called Truths manifest is made apparent to be Lies manifest Lond. 1653 qu. This is usually called Vindiciae veritatis or an Answer to a Discourse intit Truth it 's manifest c. Folly and madness made manifest Or Some things written to shew how contrary to the word of God and practice of the Saints in the Old and New Testament the doctrines and practices of the Quakers are c. Oxon. 1659. qu. This I think was printed before The Quakers reply manifested to be rayling or a pursuance of those by the light of the Scriptures who through their dark imaginations would evade the truth c. Oxon. 1659 60. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen At length this noble Author after he had spent 80 years mostly in an unquiet and discontented condition had been a grand promoter of the Rebellion which began in 1642 did die quietly in his bed but whether in conscience I cannot tell on the fourteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two whereupon his body was buried in Broughton Church among the graves of his Ancestors and had over it soon after a rich and costly monument erected more befitting a Hero than a Rebell He left behind him several sons living at the time of his death among whom James his eldest son was one who succeeding him in his Honours was made L. Lieutenant of Oxfordshire having always been reputed an honest Cavalier and a quiet man Nathaniel the second son whom I shall mention elsewhere c. ROBERT SIBTHORPE was initiated in Academical Learning in Linc. Coll. as it seems but leaving the University
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 1â—34 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.
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 Stocksâ—market 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
became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647 and afterwards did all or most of his Exercise with much ado for the degree of Bach. of Arts and so abruptly left the College But while he continued there he shew'd himself a Dunce a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University and a factious person Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man and a wife the first of which he keeping till his Majesties Restauration was then ejected and put to his shifts At length repairing to London he fell into the company of desperate Fanaticks as Fifth-Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents c. and did seemingly plot with them to surprize the King at Whitehall the Lord Chancellor Clarendon George Duke of Albemarle Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne c. to have the Tower Windsore Castle and other Holds delivered to them and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state These things being freely imparted to him by one or more of the said Fanaticks knowing that he and his Father had been Vilâ—ains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed aâ— to the said Sir Rich. Browne Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence which he accordingly did draw'd them on till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day an 1662. But two days before that time when all things were in a manner made ready some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London according to the directions of the said Will. Hill viz. Tho. Tonge George Phillips Franc. Stubbs Jam. Hind Joh. Sallers and Nath. Gibbs All which coming afterwards to a Trial at Justiceâ—Hall in the Old Baily four of them were condemned and afterwards suffer'd at Tybourne on the 22 of Dec. following viz. Tongue Phillips Gibbs and Stubbs Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the Kings Majesty c. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty and in the Pamphlet following wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons Hill is one of the principal speakers as being a chief witness Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire but being hated by one party for his falsness and by another for his factiousness did enjoy it but few years he dying upon the place JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes was born in the City of Salisbury entred a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely House and other miseries At length returning to his native Country he became Curate of Broadchalke which with much ado he held for about two years and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith asserted and vindicated Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie but continued at Hale which is not far from Surum where he was first rob'd in his own house and then murdered by Thieves in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there What other things he hath published or left behind him fit for the press I cannot tell WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following an 1605 6 he received baptism in the Church of that Parish His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown wherein our Poet was born and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman of a good wit and conversation in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers especially Shakespeare who frequented his house in his journies between Warwickshire and London was of a melancholick disposition and was seldom or never seen to laugh in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son afterwards Fellow of S. Johns Coll and a venerable Doct. of Div. As for William whom we are farther to mention and may justly stile the sweet Swan of Isis was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester whom I shall elsewhere mention and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough in 1620. 21 or thereabouts and obtained there some smattering in Logic but his genie which was always opposite to it lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry so that tho he wanted much of University learning yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty as fancy could advance without it After he had left the said Coll wherein I presume he made but a short stay he became servant to Frances the first Duchess of Richmond and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook who being poetically given especially in his younger days was much delighted in him After his death an 1628. he being free from trouble and attendance betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry which he did with so much sweetness and grace that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban to both which he dedicated his poem which he afterwards published called Madagascar Sir John Suckling also was his great and intimate friend who exercis'd his fancy on that book and other of his Poems but could not let him pass without this censure in his Session of Poets Will. Davenant asham'd of a foolish mischance That he had got lately travelling into France Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse Might any deformity about him excuse Thus Sir John son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight sometimes one of the Secretaries of State afterwards Controller of the Houshold to K Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council who dying 27 March 1627 at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych The said mischance which Sir John mentions hapned to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga
True and full relation of the prosecution arraignment tryal and condemnation of Nath. Fiennes late Colonel and Governour of the City of Bristol c. Ibid. 1644. qu. Clem. Walker was half author of this pamphlet Just defence of John Bastwick Dr. of Physick against the calumnies of John Lilbourne Lieut. Col. and his false accusations written in way of reply to a letter of Mr. Vicars c. Lond. 1645. in 5. sh in qu. The lyer confounded or a brief refutation of John Lilbourne c. Ibid. 1645. Truth triumphing over falshood antiquity over novelty or a seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiastical jurisdiction right legislative and coercive power of Christian Emperors Kings Magistrates Parliaments in matter of Religion Church government c. in summoning of and presiding in Councils c. in refutation of John Goodwins Innocencies triumph and his dear brother Bâ—rtons Vindication of Churches commonly called Independent c. Lond. 1645. qu. Hidden works of darkness brought to publick light or a necessary introduction to the history of the Archbish of Cant. Tryal c. Ibid. 1645. fol. Suspension suspended or the Divines of Sion Coll. late claim of the power of suspending scandalous persons from the Lords Supper c. is briefly examined discussed refuted c. Lond. 1646 in 6. sh in qu. Vindication of four serious questions of grand importance concerning excommunication and suspension from the Lords Supper c. against a rev brother of Scotland in a Sermon at S. Margarets Westminster 5. Sept. 1645. Ibid. 1645. 6. in 9. sh in qu. Answer'd by Joh. Saltmarsh in his pamph intit The opening of Mr. Prynns new book called a Vindication or light breaking out from a cloud of differences or late controversies wherein are inferences upon the Vindication c. Lond. 1645 in 6 sh in qu. Fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring blazing stars and firebrands stiling themselves New lights firing our Church and State into new combustions Divided into 10 sections comprising c. Lond. 1646. qu. 2d edit To which are added of Prynn's collection Letters papers and a petition lately sent from the summer Islands touching the schismatical illegal tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there c. Diatrophes catechised or 16 important questions touching the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and censures c. Ibid. 1646. in two sh in qu. 3d edit Twelve questions of publick concernment touching the regulation of some abuses in the law and legal proceedings Lond. 1646. qu. Scotlands antient obligation to England and publick acknowledgment thereof for their brotherly assistance and deliverance of them Ibid. 1646. qu. Scotlands publick acknowledgment of Gods just judgments upon their nation for their frequent breach of faiths leagues oathes c. Lond. 1646. qu. Canterburies Doom or the first part of a compleat history of the commitment charge tryal condemnation execution of William Laud late Archb. of Cant. c Ibid. 1646. fol. Minors no Senators Lond. 1646. in 2. sh in qu. Written against young men under age sitting in the House of Commons A Gag for Longhaird Rattle heads Lond. 1646. qu. Plain and short expedient to settle the distractions of the Kingdom Ibid. 1647. Counter-plea to the cowards apologie Ibid. 1647. Account of the Kings Majesties revenues and debts Ibid. 1647. Declaration of the Officers and Armies illegal injurious proceedings and practices against the XI impeached members Lond. 1647. Eight queries upon the declaration and late letter of the Army Ibid. 1647. Nine queries upon the printed charge of the Army against the XI members Ibid. 1647. The Hypocrites unmask'd Lond. 1647. New Presbyterian light springing out of Independent darkness Ibid. 1647. The total and final demands of the Army Ibid. 1647. Brief justification of the XI accused members from a scandalous Libel Ibid. 1647. A plea for the Lords Ibid. 1647. The levellers levell'd c. Lond. 1647. A pamphlet with such a title March Nedham published the same year The sword of Christian Magistracy supported or a full vindication of Christian Kings and Magistrates authority under the Gospel to punish Idolatry Apostacy Heresie Blasphemy and obstinate Schisme with pecuniary corporal and in some cases with capital punishments Lond. 1647 qu. Translated into latine by Wolfgangus Meyerus and printed in Germany an 1650. Vindication of Sir Will. Lewes from his charge Ibid. 1647. The said Sir William was one of the XI accused members Full vindication and answer of the XI accused members viz. Denz Hollis c. to a late printed pamphlet entit A particular charge or impeachment in the name of Sir Tho Fairfax and the Army against the XI members Ibid. 1647. in 6. sh in qu. 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Bagshaw The said Refutation of Oxf. plea published by Prynne was all taken from the papers of Dr. Laud Archb. which he had seized upon at Lambeth some years before I mean the very same papers which he the said Archb. had collected and framed in 1635 when he endeavoured to visit the Univers of Oxon. as Archbishop of Canterbury Nine proposals by way of interrogation to the General Officers and Soldiers of the Army concerning the justice of their proceedings in law or conscience against the Parliament Lond. 1647. qu. Twelve Queries of publick concernment Ibid. 1647 in half a sh in qu. Publick declaration and solemn protestation of the Freemen of England against the illegal intollerable undoing grievance of Free-quarter Ibid. 1648. in 8. sh in qu. The Machevillian Cromwellist Ibid. 1648. 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his place actually created M. of A made Fellow of the said Coll. in 1662 and afterwards Bach. of Div. and Preb. of Lincoln He hath written on a subject which he much delighted in and wherein he had spent a considerable part of his time but was not printed till after his death The title of which is A short and sure guide in the practice of raising and ordering Fruit-trees Oxon. 1672. oct A large and laudable account of which you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 86. p. 5049 c. He died on the 26. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried near to the grave of his Father in the Chancel of the Church of Comnore beforemention'd SAMUEL MATHER the eldest Son of Rich. Mather mention'd before under the year 1669. nu 289. was born at Much-Woolton in Lanc 13. May 1626 transported with his Father and Family to New England 1635 educated in Harwarden Coll. at Cambridge there took the degrees in Arts returned into England in 1650 became one of the Chaplains of Madg. Coll. by the favour of Mr. Tho. Goodwin then President and was as t is said incorporated in the degree of M. of A. tho no such thing occurs in the publick register Afterwards being known be a man of parts and gifts he received a call to go to Leith in Scotland to be there a publick Preacher In 1655 he removed to Dublin in Ireland where he became a Senior Fellow of Trin. Coll. and preached as a Lecturer in S. Nicolas Church there and also before the L. Deputy and Council in his turn At which time tho he was a congregational man and in his Principles respecting Ch. Government a high Nonconformist yet he was observed by some to be civil to those of the Episcopal persuasion when it was in his power to do them a displeasure And when the L. Deputy Hen. Cromwell gave a Commission to him and others in order to the displacing of Episcopal Ministers in the Province of Mounster he declined it as he did afterwards to do the like matter in Dublin alledging that he was called into that County to preach the Gospel and not to hinder others from doing it He was a religious man in the way he professed and was valued by some who differed from him as to opinion in lesser and circumstantial points in religion After his Majesties restauration he was suspended from preaching till his Majesties pleasure should be known for two Sermons which were judged seditious and being afterwards ejected and silenced for Nonconformity preached to the brethren in privat so long as he lived He hath written Wholsome Caveat for a time of liberty Printed 1652. in oct A defence of the protestant religion in answer to Fiat Lux. Dubl 1671. qu. An Irenicum or an Essay for union among Reformers Lond. in qu. The figures or types of the old Testament explained and improved Dubl 1683. qu. He died on the 29. of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church of S. Nicolas within the City of Dublin where he used formerly to preach a morning Lecture OWEN PRICE a Mountgomeryshire man born was put in Scholar of Jesus Coll. by the Parl. Visitors 12. Oct. 1648 whence after he had continued 4 years therein he was called to the charge of a public School in Wales where he advanced his Scholars much in Presbyterian principles In the year 1655. making a return to the University he was entred into Ch. Ch of which if I mistake not he was made Student and in the year following did by the favour of the deligated power of the Chancellour accumulate the degrees in Arts. Soon after he became Master of the Free-School near Madg. Coll where by his industry and good way of teaching he drew many youths of the City whose Parents were fanatically given to be his Scholars But upon the Kings restauration being ejected for Nonconformity taught School in which he much delighted in several places as in Devonshire Besills-Lee near Abendon c became useful among the brethren and a noted Professor in the Art of Pedagogy He hath written and published The Vocal Organ or a new art of teaching Orthography by observing the instruments of pronunciation and the difference between words of like sound whereby any outlandish or meer Englishman woman or child may speedily attain to the exact spelling reading writing or pronouncing of any word in the English tongue without the advantage of its fountains the Greek and Latine Oxon. 1665. oct English Orthography teaching 1. The Letters of every sort of print 2. All Syllables made of Letters 3. Short Rules by way of question and answer for spelling reading pronouncing using the great letters and their points 4. Examples of all words of like sound c. Oxon. 1670. oct He died in his House near to Madg. Coll. 25. Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was two days after buried in the Church of S. Peter in the east near to the door leading into the belfry within the City of Oxon. JOHN WHITE was a Wiltsh man born became a Servitor of S. Albans Hall in Mich. terme an 1600 whence after he had continued for some time went to Mert. Coll. and there was entertain'd in the condition of a Servitour to Mr. afterwards Sir Isaac Wake but whether he made a longer stay in Merton Coll. or in S. Alb. Hall I know not we will not contend for and therefore let the Albanians take him After he had left the University without a degree confer'd on him he took holy orders and had a Cure bestowed on him in his own Country at Monkton-Deverel and at length became Vicar of Chertâ—n near to the Devises From which place being ejected in the time of the Rebellion he practiced Physick at Conock Afterwards being restored in 1660 he set himself to the writing of poetry in his old age the effects of which are contained in three volumes full of fooleries and impertinencies entit Miscellanea Variegata Anagrammata Epigrammata Distica c. The first vol. contains Anagrams Epigrams c. on the Kings and Nobility of England Printed at Lond. 1663 in a large thin oct in the 79 year of the authors age The 2d Vol. is on the Bishops and Clergie Lond. 1664 in thin oct in the 80 year of the authors age The third is on the Gentry and other persons Lond 1665. in a thin oct in the 81. year of the authors age In all which books are also several copies of English verses He yeilded to nature at Cherton beforementioned on the 6 of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the north side of Communion Table near the wall Soon after was this inscription set up on the said wall John White Vicar of Cherton was buried neare this place the 8 th day of December An. Dom. 1671. EDWARD BAGSHAW son of Edw. Bagsh
his Rambles by Drinking and Whoring died there in the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and two whereupon he was buried by the Name of Dr. Higham on the south side of the body of the Church there under the seats on the 23 day of the same month One Joh. Higham hath published a book called A Looking-glass for Loyalty printed 1675. oct but he is not to be taken for the same with the former nor for another Joh. Higham a R. C. Bookseller of S. Omers living in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 who translated from Spanish into English Meditations upon the Mysteries of our holy faith S. Omers 1619. in two or more tomes in qu. HENRY WHISTLER an Oxfordshire man born was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. 1601 aged 16 years and four years after was made Fellow thereof So that taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into holy Orders became Rector of Little Whitnam in Berks Bach. of Div. 1615 and about that time Rector of Whitchurch in the south part of Oxfordshire near to which place he was born He hath written and published a rapsodical piece intit Aim at an Upshot for Infant baptism by the good will of Christ as Priest Prophet and King c. Lond. 1653. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Over his grave is this Inscription Here lieth the body of Henry Whistler Bachelaur of Divinity who departed this life the 24 day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1672 in the 86 year of his age having been Rector of this Parish 56 years PHILIPP NYE was born of a gentile Family in Sussex entred a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 21. July 1615. aged 19 years or thereabouts but making no long stay there he removed to Madg. Hall where being put under the tuition of a puritanical Tutor continued till he had taken the degrees in Arts. About that time he entred into holy orders and had some cure bestowed on him but where unless in S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lond. where I find him in 1630 I cannot justly tell But so it was that he being Schismatically enclined did with others of his perswasion leave his Cure purposely to avoid the censures of Episcopal Consistories and went beyond the Seas into Holland about 1633 where continuing for the most part at Arnheim in Gelderland till about the latter end of 1640 at which time the Members of the Parl. afterward called the Long Parl. were very dominant and prevailing he returned and became soon after by the favour of Edward Lord Kimbolton about that time Earl of Manchester Minister of Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire And tho he then and before shew'd himself a severe censurer of Bishops and those of the Episcopal Clergy for medling in civil affairs as excentrick to their calling yet he with Hugh Peters Steph. Marshall c. did go beyond any of them in that matter more than for 7 years together In 1643 he was appointed one of the Assembly of Divines became a great Champion for the Presbyterian cause and a zealous assertor of the solemn League and Covenant In July the same year he with Steph. Marshall whose Daughter he had taken to Wife were sent by the Parliament into Scotland to expedite their Covenant where in set speeches he told the People that they were to enter into such a Covenant and League as would never be forgotten by them and their posterity and both have occasion to remember it with joy Also that such an oath it is as for matter persons and other circumstances that the like hath not been in any age sufficiently warranted by both humane and divine story for as God did swear for the salvation of men and kingdoms so kingdoms must now swear for the preservation and salvation of kingdoms to establish a Saviour Jesus Christ in England c. After his return both houses of Parl. took the Covenant 25. of Sept. the same year at which time Nye made some observations from the Pulpit touching the said Covenant shewing the warrant of it from Scripture and was about the same time partly rewarded for his good service with the Rectory of Acton near London in the place of Dr. Dan. Featley ejected But soon after disliking the proceedings of the said Ass of Divines he dissented from them for a time as others did being incited thereunto by certain Politicians with promises of reward especially if they would oppose them and their intended discipline to be setled So that then closing with the rising party the Independents especially with the Grandees of the Army he did by their favour hold rich Offices and his counsel in political affairs was often used by them In Dec. 1647 he with Steph. Marshall were sent by them to the King at Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight with the Commissioners then appointed to carry the four bills the four dethroning votes and had for their pains 500 l. apiece given to them About that time also he was employed by the said Grandees to get subscriptions from the Apprentices in London and factious people against a personal treaty with the King while the Citizens of that place were petitioning for one See more in Jos Caryl In Apr. also the next year he with the said Marshall and Jos Caryl were employed by the Independents to invite the secured and secluded members to sit in the House again but they effected nothing In 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors for the approbation of publick Preachers in which office he acted the Politician so much that he did not only get his Son to be Clerk to them but also enriched himself with bribes underhand-dealing and with a Living of 400 l. per an by the help of the said Marshall one of that number In 1654 he with Dr. Laz. Seamon Sam. Clark Rich. Vines Ob. Sedgwick Jos Caryl c. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parl. to eject such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters in the City of London where he especially and they acted with no little rigor to the utter undoing of many loyal Persons In 1660 after his Majesties restauration it was debated by the Healing Parliament for several hours together whether he and John Goodwin that infamous and blackmouth'd Independent should be excepted for life because they had acted so highly none more except Hugh Peters against the King and had been instrumental in bringing all things into confusion At length it came to this result that if Philip Nye Clerk should after the first of Sept. in the same year accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted from life In Nov. 1662 he was vehemently suspected to be in that plot for which George Philips Thâ—m Tongue c. were executed but how he
born there or at least in that County entred a Student in Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 entred into the sacred function and had some little cure bestowed on him but what I cannot tell Sure I am that he being always puritanically affected closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars went to London took the Covenant and became Minister of S. Augustins there in the place of a noted Loyalist ejected In 1649 Feb. 12 he was presented to the rectory of Wrington in Somersetshire by his especial Patron Arthur Lord Capell Son of the most loyal and generous Arthur Lord Cap. then lately beheaded which rectory was then void by the death of another Presbyterian called Samuel Crook In this rectory our author Roberts shewing himself a zealous man of those times was among several Ministers of his County of whom Richard Fairclough was one and Ralph Farmer another constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners for the ejectment of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties return he rather than loose his living and so consequently the comforts of this world did turn about took the Oathes again whereby he denied all those that he had taken in the interval and conform'd himself without hesitation to the ceremonies of the Church of England and was nominated the first Chaplain by his Patron to serve him after he was made Earl of Essex 13. Car. 2. What preferments he had afterwards confer'd upon him I know not only that the degree of Doctor of Div. was confer'd on him by the University I think of Dublin at what time his Patron a favourer of such people was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the place of John Lord Roberts an 1670. Under the said Dr. Robert's name were these things following published Several sermons as 1 A broken spirit Godâ—â— sacrifice Fast sermon before the House of Lords 9. Dec. 1646. on Psal 51.17 Lond. 1647. qu. Preached for the removing of the great judgment of rain and waters then upon the Kingdom 2 Checquer of Gods providences made up of black and white fun Serm. on Psal 68.13 Lond. 1657. qu. and others which I have not yet seen Believers evidences for eternal life collected out of the first epistle of S. John which is Catholick c. Lond. 1649. 55. oct Clavis Bibliorum The Key of the Bible unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures Whereby 1. The Order 2. Names 3. Times 4. Penmen 5. Occasion 6. Scope and 7. Principal parts containing the subject matter of the books of the Old and New Test are familiarly and briefly opened c. Edinburg and Lond. 1649. oct with the authors picture before it aged 40. Afterwards it was printed in qu. and fol. and the fourth Edit was published 1675. The communicant instructed or practical directions for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper Lond. 1651. oct with the authors picture before it This was afterwards reprinted at least three times Mysterium Medulla Bibliorum The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible viz. Gods Covenant with man in the first Adam before the fall and in the last Adam Jesus Christ after the fall from the beginning to the end of the world unfolded and illustrated in positive aphorismes and their explanations c. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. The true way to the tree of Life or the natural man directed unto Christ Lond. 1673. oct What other things he hath written unless A Synopsis of Theology or Div. which is mentioned by the author of the Cat. of books in the Libr. at Sion Coll. Lond. I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Wrington before mention'd in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and five was as I presume buried in the Church there On the 28. of Jan. the same year his immediate successor Mr. Joh. Powell was instituted to the rectory of Wrington then void by the late death of Dr. Fr. Roberts THOMAS TULLY son of George Tully was born in S. Maries parish in the City of Carlile in Cumberland 22. Jul. 1620 educated partly in the Free-school there under Mr. John Winter and afterwards at Barton Kirk in Westmorland entred in Queens Coll. in Mich. term an 1634 where by the benefit of a good Tutor Ger. Langbaine and a severe discipline he became a noted Disputant and at length through several advances Fellow of the said College In 1642 he was actually created Master of Arts and soon after Oxford being garrison'd he became Master of the Grammar School at Tetbury in Glocestershire After the surrender of the Garrison he returned to his College and became a noted Tutor and Preacher and in 1657 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity Soon after he was made Principal of S. Edm. Hall so that whereas from the surrender of the said Garrison and before there were very few or no Students in that House only some of Queens Coll. that lodged there he by his diligence and severe government made it flourish equal with if not beyond any Hall in Oxon. After his Majesties return to his Kingdoms he obtained a Doctorship of Divinity by creation a Chaplainship to his Majesty by a friend the rectory of Grigleton alias Grittleton near Malmsbury in Wilts by a quondam Pupil and at length in the month of Apr. 1675 the Deanery of Rippon in Yorksh from his Maj. by the death of Dr. John Neile who had that Deanery confer'd upon him in the month of May an 1674. by the death of the preceeding Incumbent This Dr. Tully was a pious man and many ways very learned chiefly read in the more antient Writers yet not so wholly addicted to the perusal of them but that at some time he took delight to converse with later authors Those that knew him and his constitution accounted it his great misfortune that he did betake himself to write controversie when as throughout the whole managery of it he laboured under many bodily ills and infirmities which first by lingring decays did sensibly impair and at last wholly shatter his weaker frame and constitution He was a Person of severe morals puritanically inclin'd and a strict Calvinist which as may be reasonably presum'd was some stop to him in his way to preferment the want of which he did in some degree resent seeing so many of his juniors in the University and all the Kings Chaplains twice told over during the time he served him not more deserving than himself advanced before him He hath written Logica Apodictica sive tractatus brevis dilucidus de Demonstratione cum dissertatiunculâ Gassendi eodem pertinente Oxon. 1662 in 2 sh in oct Which tract is commonly bound up at the end of Manuductio ad Logicam written by Philip de Trieu sometimes chief professor of Philosophy in the Jesuits Coll. at Doway
1663 and for which several suffered death at York and elsewhere But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet Sure I am that his name was in his Majesties Proclamation for his apprehension and was therein described to be a tall man flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex descended from those of his name in Cheshire was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond educated in Merchant-Taylors School became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621 aged 18 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristow In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew in London In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Div. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching but when the nation was turn'd topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people he was dispoyl'd of all suffered much for the royal cause was a brand snatch'd out of the fire and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet At length after his Majesties restauration he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsore and by vertue of the Kings Conge d' eslire being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663 upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln was soon after consecrated and on the 28. of May Ascension day installed He hath written and published Horae Succissivae or spare houres of meditations upon our duty to God others and our selves Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw being the fifth edit In the year 1620 was published in â—â— a book entit Horae Subsecivae Observations and discourses but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish who died before his father Will. Earl of Devonshire which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written Dayly thoughts or a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane Lond. 1651. oct the third edit with enlargements He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street Coventâ—Garden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex was buried in the Church of Eastâ—Lavant near Chichester close by the body of his only wife Jane somtimes daughter of Thomas May of that place and near to a son that he had buried there JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called Hyghâ—Wycombe in Bucks became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts left the University about two years after entred into the sacred function and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant he put in for one having alwaies been precisely educated closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark took the Engagement was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough confer'd on him as I have been informed by those that knew the man where or else at S. Thomas continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity He hath written and published The glorious mystery of Gods mercy or a pretious cordial for fainting soules c. Lond. 1647. oct This book is the effect of certain Sermons The grand trial of true conversion or sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in mans thoughts c. Lond. 1655. oct This also as it seems is the effect of certain Sermons The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel and mystery of the Gospel in the Law Printed in oct Whether he hath any other things extant I cannot tell sure I am that after his ejection he removed to several places and preached in Conventicles and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity High Wicombe concluded his last there to the great lamentation of the brethren in sixteen hundred seventy and nine whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place was buried on thâ— ninth day of June the same year in the north isle joyning thereunto JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born bred in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1665 junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of Sheldons Theater an 1669. Afterwards being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House he was made Lecturer of St. Michaels Cornhill and Curat to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin in London He hath written Poems upon several occasions Lond. 1667. oct Character of a London Scrivener Printed with the Poems He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mention'd 24 of August in sixteen hundred seventy and nine having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mention'd widdow of Sir John Mennes and alwaies accounted an ingenious man JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet London admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years choâ—e probationerâ—fellow of All 's Coll. soon after upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq one of the Secretaries of State where tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law yet he studied Physick and became noted for his practice therein especially in the Summer time in the City of Bathe but better known by these books which shew the pregnancy of his parts De Respiratione tractatus unus Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct De Rachitide tract un Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions nu 41. p. 833. an 1668. De Sal-nitro spiritu nitro-acerbo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De Respiratione Faetûs in utero ovo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De motu musculari spiritibus ani malibus Ox. 1674. in a large oct Of these three last with which were printed again the two first is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact nu 105. p. 101. c. And all five were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet
Sir Ed. Bysshe also gave out among his acquaintance before the Kings restauration that he wouâ—d write The Survey or Antiquities of the County of Surrey â—ut when after that time he was fix'd in his Clarenceauxship and had got a Knighthood he did nothing but deturpate and so continued worse and worse till his death which hapning in the Parish of S. Paul in Covent-garden on the 15 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine was obscurely buried late in the night in the Church of S. Olaves in the Jewry within the City of London by Mr. Green the Minister of that Church Nephew to the Relict of the Defunct JOHN SHIRLEY son of Jo. Shiâ— of London Bookseller was born in the Parish of S. Botolph Aldersgate in London 7. Aug. 1648 entred into Trin. Coll. in Lent term 1664 became Scholar of that House in 1667 took the degrees in Arts made Terrae filius in 1673 but came off dull Soon after he was elected Probationer Fellow of his Coll. being then esteemed a person of some parts but behaving himself very loosely was expell'd when the year of his Probationship was expir'd or rather before So that retiring to the great City he married an Inn-keepers Daughter of Islington corrected the Press and wrot and scribled for bred several trite things as A short compendium of Chirurgery containing its grounds and principles more particularly treating of impostumes wounds ulcers fractures and dissolutions Lond. 1683. sec edit in oct In the title of which he writes himself Med. Doctor though never took it in this Univ. or any other degree in that faculty Discourse of the generation and birth of man c. Printed with the former The art of Rowling and Bolstring that is the method of dressing and binding up the several parts c. Lond. 1682. oct printed with the sec edit of the Compendium before mention'd Life of the valiant and learned Sir Walt Raleigh Kâ— with his trial at Winchester Lond. 1677. oct 'T is the same that was a little before prefix'd to the works of the said Sir Walter printed in fol. He hath also written and published little things of a sheet and half a sheet of paper but what they treat of I know not He died at Islington near London before mention'd on the 28. of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Ch. yard there two days after One John Shirley Gent. hath written The History of the Wars of Hungary or an account of the miseries of that Kingdome c. Lond. 1685. in tw and one John Shurley M. A. and Gent. hath written Ecclesiastical History epitomized containing a faithful account of the birth life and doctrine c. of the holy Jesus with the lives of the Apostles c. in two parts Lond. 1682. oct But whether either of these two was of Oxon I cannot yet tell nor whether J. Shirley author of The renowned History of the life and death of Guy Earl of Warwick c. Lond. 1681. qu. be the same with our author John Shirley of Oxon. DANIEL CAPEL son of Rich. Capel mention'd under the year 1656 was born in the City of Glocester educated in the Coll. School there under Will. Russell was first Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll and about the time that he took the degree of M. of A. which was in 1651 he became a preacher Afterwards he was successively Minister of Morton Alderley and Shipton in his own Country which last he resigning because as I presume he would not conform he fell to the practice of Physick in the Town of Strowd in Glocestershire where he continued to the time of his death He hath written Tentamen medicum de variolis and one or two little things besides which I have not yet seen He died at Strowde in sixteen hundred seventy and nine or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there The next that follows a most excellent School Divine and Philosopher is Fr. à S. Clara not known or called Christop Davenport after he had entred into a religious order CHRISTOPHER DAVENPORT son of Joh. Dav. by Elizabeth Wolley his Wife the fifth Son of Hen. Dav. Alderman of Coventry Grandson to a younger Brother of the Davenports of Henbury in Cheshire was born in the antient City of Coventry in Warwickshire and in Grammar learning there educated At about 15 years of age he and his Brother John were sent to Merton College in the beginning of the year 1613 and became Pupils to Mr. Sam. Lane Fellow of that House They were only Batlers and took the Cooks Commons but the Warden Sir Henry Savile having received notice of them and their condition he dismiss'd them unless they would become Commoners But their Parents being unwilling John thereupon went to Magd. Hall and became afterwards a noted Puritan and at length an Independent but Christopher continued longer in the Coll. especially upon Sir Henries recess to Eaton but upon his return withdâ—ew So that having spent about two years among the Mertonians he by the invitation of some Rom. Priest then living in or near Oxon went to Doway an 1615 where remaining for some time went to Ypres and entred into the Order of Franciscans among the Dutch there 7. Oct. 1617. Afterwards he returned to Doway and was entred into the House of the English Recollects there of the same order 18. Oct. 1618 which was then built for them and dedicated to S. Bonaventure the same year After he had ran a course there and had read for some time a Lecture he went into Spain and in an University there Salamanca I think he improved himself much in the supreme faculty Thence he returned to Doway where he read first Philosophy and afterwards became chief Reader of Divinity in the said Coll. of S. Bonaventure and in fine was made Doctor of Divinity of his order but not of any University At length he became a Missionary in England where he went by the name of Franciscus à Sancta Clara and at length was made one of the Chaplains to Henrietta Maria the Royal Consort of K. Ch. the first and became highly honored of all of his profession and of many Scholars too whether Protestants or Papists for his great learning After his settlement in England where he continued going and coming more than 50 years he did very great service for the R. Cath. cause by gaining disciples raising money among the English Catholicks to carry on publick matters beyond the Seas in writing of books for the advancement of his Religion and Order by his perpetual and unwearied motion day and night to administer among the Brethren and by tendring his service to consult and help warping Protestants c. When Dr. Laud was made Archb. of Canterbury he became his acquaintance not to make use of him as an instrument to reconcile us to the Church of Rome as inveterate Prynne would have it but for that he was much
provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum Manuale Missionariorum Regularium praecipuè Anglorum S. Francisci c. Printed 1658 and at Doway 1661. in octav Apologia episcoporum seu sacri magistratus propugnatio c. Col. Agrip. 1640. oct Liber dialogorum seu summa veteris Theologiae dialogismis tradita Duac 1661. in oct Problemata scholastica controversialia speculativa c. Corollarium dialogi de medio statu animarum c. Paralipomena philosophica de mundo peripatetico This was published at Doway under the name of Francisc Coventriensis an 1652. in oct All these except the three first most of which had been printed in little volumes by themselves were printed in two volumes in fol. at Doway an 1665 which cost the author having no contribution given him towards the press 220 l. Religio philosophiae Peripati discutienda in qua offertur epitome processus historiae celeberrimi miraculi à Christo nuperrimè patrati in restitutione Tibiae abscissae sepultae ab Aristotile in suis principiis examinati Duac 1662. oct Supplementum Historiae Provinciae Angliae in quo est chronosticon continens catalogum praecipua gesta Provincialium Fr. Min. Provinciae Angliae Duac 1671. fol. to be put at the end of Fragmenta seu Hist Min. c. Disputatio de antiqua Provinciae praecedentia Printed there also the same year and to be put in the same vol. at the end of Supplementum Hist This Disputatio was also printed in qu. in two sh an 1670. Enchiridion of Faith in a dialogue concerning christian religion Printed under the name of Franc. Coventrie 1655. oct Explanation of the Romane Catholic belief Printed 1656 and 1670 in one sh in oct 'T is reported by a nameless author that he S. Clara wrot and published The Christian Moderator or persecution for Religion condemned c. Lond. 1652. in qu. sec edit and that he whom he calls that famous or rather infamous Priest presented one of them to a Lady who told it to a reverend Minister of this City London that he was the author of that book But let this Anon. say what he will sure I am that I have been informed by R. Catholicks of unquestionable veracity that neither he nor William Birchley was the author but one John Austen born at Walpole in Marshland in the County of Norfolk and bred in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge which house he leaving and his religion too about 1640 entred himself into the Society of Lincolns Inn with intentions to follow the municipal Laws but the Rebellion breaking out soon after he was driven thence It is to be noted by the way that this Austen being a man of good parts and much in esteem with the R. Catholicks he did write and publish several books that is to say besides the three parts of The Christian Moderator which he put out under the name of W. Birchley 1 Two vol. of Devotions after the old way printed in octavo and afterwards reprinted in 1672 with a preface to them written by Joh. Sergeant He also wrot a third volume which is not yet published 2 Treatise in behalf of the oath of Allegiance 3 Letter from a Cavalier in Yorkshire to a friend written in the time of war and other things among which must not be forgotten A punctual Answer to Dr. Joh. Tillotsons book called The rule of Faith c. Six or seven sheets of which were printed off but for what reason all were not finished I cannot tell He died in his house in Bow street in Cov. Garden near London in the summer time an 1669 and was buried in the Ch. of S. Paul there Two parts of the said Christian Moderator being esteemed by certain Protestants to be like a venemous potion as full of dangerous Ingredients c. was examin'd and animadverted upon in a book called Legend◠lignea c. p. 29.30 c. One Will. Austen of Linc. Inn Esq who died 16 Jan. 1633 wrot Devotionis Augustinianae flamma or certain devout and learned Meditations c. printed at Lond. after his death 1637. fol. but of what kin he was to John I know not As for our author Christop Davenport alias Sancta Clara who mostly went by the name of Francis Hunt and sometimes by that of Coventrie died in Somerset house in the Strand near London on the 31 of May early in the morning being then Whitmunday in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried not according to his desire in the Vault under Somerset house Chappel which the Queen opposed but in the Church belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the said Strand It was his desire many years before his death to retire to Oxon in his last days there to die purposely that his bones might be laid in S. Ebbes Church to which the mansion of the Franciscans or Grey Friers sometimes joyned and in which several of the Brethren were antiently interred particularly by those of his old friend Joh. Day a learned Frier of his order born at the Mill in the Parish of S. Cross alias Halywell near Oxon who was buried at the west end of the said Church near the Font an 1658 but troubles coming on by the breaking out of the Popish Plot his design was frustrated JOHN WILMOT Earl of Rochester Viscount Athlone in Ireland and Baron of Adderbury in Oxfordshire was born at Dichley near Wodstock in the said County .... Apr. 1648 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Burford under a noted Master called John Martin became a Nobleman of Wadham Coll. under the tuition of Phineas Bury Fellow and inspection of Mr. Blandford the Warden an 1659 actually created Master of Arts in Convocation with several other noble persons an 1661 at which time he and none else was admitted very affectionately into the fraternity by a kiss on the left cheek from the Chancellour of the University Clarendon who then sate in the supreme chair to honour that Assembly Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and at his return frequented the Court which not only debauched him but made him a perfect Hobbist and was at length made one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. and Controller of Wodstock Park in the place of Sir W. Fleetwood deceased He was a person of most rare parts and his natural talent was excellent much improved by learning and industry being throly acquainted with all classick Authors both Greek and Latine a thing very rare if not peculiar to him among those of his quality He knew also how to use them not as other Poets have done to transcribe and steal from but rather to better and improve them by his natural fancy But the eager tendency and violent impulses of his natural temper unhappily inclining him to the excesses of Pleasure and Mirth which with the wonderful pleasantness of his unimitable humour did so far engage the affections of the Dissolute towards him that to
of another because Byrd had been dead several years before Whereupon Charnock began anew with the help of a servant and again by himself alone in which work continuing 9 months which was within a month of his reckoning the Crows head began to appear black but a War being proclaimed against the French an 1557 and he thereupon by the malice of a Gentleman who was his neighbour prest for a Soldier his operations were frustrated and all cast aside On the first of January the same year he began to write The Breviary of natural Philosophy and on the 20. of July following he ended it In the title and end of which he stiles himself an unlettered Scholar and Student in the most worthy science of Astronomy and Philosophy This Breviary is written in old English verse which in the next Century coming into the hands of the most renowned Mercuriophilus Anglicus who sometimes writes himself James Hasolle Elias Ashmole was among other authors of the like nature published by him under this title Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum In 1562 Charnock married Agnes Norden at Stokeland-Bristow four miles from Bridgwater in Somersetshire being then or soon after setled there but afterwards at a place called Comadge and in the year after he buried Absolon his Son In 1566 he finished his book called The principal rules of natural Philosophy figuratively set forth to the obtaining of the Philosophers stone In which year also he dedicated a book of The Science to Qu. Elizabeth and dated the Rolle at Stockland as he himself saith which Rolle is written in Latine being the same I presume with the Emblematical Scrowle supposed to be invented by George Ripley the inside of which was composed as Charnock says by a great Master of the Hermetick Philosophy and written by a Master of his pen. Some notes in the void spaces of it were written by Charnock's hand which shew that he did not or at least throughly understand it In 1572 he wrot the Poesie of the Rolle which Rolle seems to me to have been a kind of a Vade mecum or a Manual that the Students of the Hermetick Science carried about with them and also to be taken from Raymandus Lullius The same year he wrot Aenigma ad Alchimiam and Aenigma de Alchimia both in English Verse and printed in Theat Chem. before mention'd In 1573 he wrot as himself saith the fragment Knock the Child on the head See Theat Chem. pag. 425 and in the year after he confessed that he never saw The white ferment to the red till the fiftieth year of his age In 1576 appeared The difficulty of the Philosophical number in the Rolle This Rolle so often mentioned is religiously kept to this day in a house at Comadge before mention'd where for his Studies and carrying on of his Operations he made a little room and contrivance for the keeping his Work and so ingeniously ordered that no accident of fire could befall him as it did on New-years day 1555. It joyns as a Closet to that which was his Chamber to make a Servant needless and the work of giving attendance more easie to himself On the door was drawn by his own hand with course Colours but rudely an Emblem of his Work So likewise about the walls in his Chamber are several pieces of his painting differing from each other some of which are obscure and almost woren out Several fragments written by him are published in the said Theat Chem Brit. but therein are omitted Charnocks Poesie upon the white and red rose and verses on the Philosophers Dragon which eateth up her owne tale c. This Rosacrucian Charnock paid his last debt to nature in his house at Comadge and was buried within the precincts of the Church at Otterhampton near to Bridgwater 21. Apr. 1581. HENRY MARTEN commonly called Harry Marten son of Sir Hen. Mart. mention'd among these writers under the year 1641 p. 4. was born within the City of Oxford particularly as I conceive in the parish of S. John Bapt in an house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church then lately built by Hen. Sherburne Gent. and possess'd at the time of Harry's birth by Sir Henry his father After he had been instructed in Grammar learning in Oxon he became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in the beginning of 1617 aged 15 years where and in public giving a manifestation of his pregnant parts had the degree of Bach. of Arts confer'd upon him in the latter end of 1619. Afterwards he went to one of the Inns of Court travelled into France and at his return his father found out a rich wife for him whom he married somthing unwillingly and therefore afterwards living a part from her and following other creatures she was for sometime distemper'd In the beginning of the year 1640 he was elected one of the Knights of Berks to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr and again tho not legally in Oct. to serve in that unhappy Parliament that began at the same place on the 3. of Novemb. following In which last Parliament he shew'd himself out of some little pique the most bitter enemy against the K. in all the House as well in action as speech for which being first reprimanded while the Presbyterians swayed therein was afterwards for the incontinence of his tongue committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but soon after released He was an enemy also to the Kingly Office and all belonging thereunto especially the Regalia which he caused to be sold for being authorized by the said Parliament about 1642 he forced open a great iron Chest within the College of Westminster and thence took out the Crown Robes Sword and Scepter belonging antiently to K. Edw. the Confessor and used by all our Kings at their inaugurations and with a scorn greater than his lusts and the rest of his vices he openly declared that there should be no further use of those toyes and trifles c. And in the jollity of that humour he invested George Wither an old puritan Satyrist in the royal habiliments who being crown'd and royally arrayed as well right became him did first march about the room with a stately garb and afterwards with a thousand apish and rediculous actions exposed those sacred ornaments to contempt and laughter Had the abuse been stript and whip'd as it should have been the foolish fellow possibly might have passed for a Prophet tho he could not be reckoned for a Poet. The said H. Marten was a taker of all Oaths whether that of Allegiance Covenant Engagement c. The last of which being by him taken he would by all means as the Independent Gang did make the Covenant an old Almanack out of date to the end that he and they might be rid of that tie of preserving his Majesties person and authority c. as the Presbyterians would with regret frequently say He was also an eager enemy against Lords Gentry Lawyers and Clergy and a
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 â—he 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
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
With the said Letters which the author of these Athenae Oxon. received from Sir Tho. Herbert he received from him an account of the last days of K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory with an earnest desire that if he should have any occasion to make mention of that most pious and good King that he would by no means omit him for these reasons 1 Because in the said account there are many things that have not been yet divulg'd 2 That he was grown old and not in such a capacity as he could wish to publish it and thirdly that if he should leave it to his Relations to do it they out of ignorance or partiality may spoil it Upon his desire and these reasons given he did then promise him to find some place to receive it in a work that he was then consulting which is this of the Athenae Oxonienses And this place under Tho. Herbert the author of that account being most proper as I conceive shall be here set down How therefore the said King was taken out of the Scots hands at Newcastle and thence carried to Holdenby in Northamptonshire and thence hurried away to the Army and to Hampton Court and thence frighted or jugled into the Isle of Wight and thence hurried to Hurst Castle and afterwards to Windsore I shall tell you hereafter in the Fasti following in the history or characters of those men that I shall there mention who were actors in those matters When his Majesty was conveyed from Hurst Castle to that of Windsore and there for a time setled just before Christmas day an 1648 he seemed to take more delight than in any place he had been since his leaving Hampton Court For there he had the liberty to walk when and where he pleased within the Castle and on the large Tarras without which looks towards the Coll. of Eaton and hath a delightful view of the River Thames of many pleasant hills and valleys villages and fair houses far and near so as no place in this Kingdom may compare with it save the little Castle or Lodge in Greenwich Park which has the sight of the great and noble City of London the Thames and Ships of great burden dayly under sail passing to and fro with other things enumerated by John Barclay in his Argenis The greatest part of the forenoon the K. spent in prayer and other exercises of piety and part of the afternoon he appointed for health by recreating himself in walking usually in the Tarras before mentioned the Governour of the said Castle Coll. Chr. Whitchcot as in other places being for the most part in his company for want of others to discourse with None of the Nobility and but few of the Gentry were suffered to come into the Castle to see the King save only upon the Sundays to Sermons in S. Georges Chappel where the Chaplain to the Governour and Garrison preached Collonel Whitchcot behaved himself nevertheless very civilly towards the King and his observance was taken notice of by his Majesty The Soldiers also there gave no offence either in language or behaviour towards or any that serv'd him Whilst his Majesty continued at Windsore little passed worth the taking notice of only 1 That one night as the King was preparing to go to bed he wound up both his watches as his custom was one being gold the other silver and missing his diamond seal a table that had the Kings armes cut with great curiosity and fix'd to the gold watch by a gold chain he could not imagine when or where he dropt it yet thought he had it the day before when he looked upon his watch as he walked in the long Tarras At length after Mr. Herbert had made great search for it in the walks that his Majesty frequented but in vain his Majesty the next night discern'd it sparkling at one end of his Chamber by the help of the Charcole fire and the wax-lights then burning in the said Chamber 2 That on another night his Majesty appointed Mr. Herbert to come into his Bedchamber an hour sooner than usual the next morning but so it hapned he overslept his time and awakened not till the Kings silver bell hastned him in Herbert said the King you have not observed the command I gave last night and thereupon he acknowledged his fault Well said the K. I will order you for the future you shall have a gold alarum-watch which as there may be cause shall awake you write to the Earl of Pembroke to send me such an one presently He wrot and the Earl immediatly sent to Edw. East his Watch-maker in Fleetstreet about it of which more will be said at his Majesties coming to S. James's 3 That on a third night an accident hapned which might have proved of ill consequence if God in his mercy had not prevented it Mr. Herbert lodged in a little back room near his Majesties Bedchamber towards Eaton Coll. It had a back stair which was at that time ramb'd up with earth to prevent any passage that way In this room he had a pallet which for that the weather was very sharp he laid somewhat too near the Chimney near which were two baskets fill'd with Charcoal for the use of his Maj. Bedchamber While Mr. Herbert was asleep a basket took fire either from some sparkle from the charcoal in the Chimney or some other way he knew not off but the room was soon hot and the fire got to the Pallet-bed which quickly rouzed Mr. Herbert out of his sleep who thereupon ran to the Kings Bedchamber door and in a frightful manner with that noise awakened the King Those without being Soldiers hearing the Kings Chamber was on fire desired entrance that they might help to quench it but through the goodness of God those within without other assistance did suppress it by stifling it with clothes and confining it to the Chimney which was spacious Mr. Herbert did humbly beg his Majesties pardon for the disturbance he gave not knowing how to help it the King said he did but his duty Soon after the Governour acquainted his Majesty that he was in few days to be removed thence to Whitehall To which his Majesty made little or no reply seeming nothing so delighted with his remove as he was with the former viz. from Hurst to Windsore Castles and turning himself about said God is every where alike in wisdom power and goodness Some information he had received how preposterously things went in both Houses of Parliament and how that the Officers of the Army were hatching a thing called The agreement of the people designing thereby an alteration of the government and trial of his Person by some way that was extraordinary and unpresidented So that immediatly he retired into his Bedchamber and was a good while private in his addresses to God ever having recourse to him by prayer and meditation in what condition soever he was as being the surest way to find comfort The day
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
great effects if ever it shall be retrieved upon the publick stock of the Nation c. A model of it tho lost was given by the inventor thereof to the Royal Society made with his own hand and it is at this day kept in the repository at Gresham College To conclude he was a person of an admirable inventive head of a prodigious working wit and of so great worth and learning that he was both fit for and an honour to the highest preferment He hath written Advice concerning the education of youth c. Lond. 1647. qu. Written to Mr. Sam. Hartlib under the two letters of W. P. Advice for the advancement of some particular parts of learning Lond 1648. written to Sam. Hartlib This title which I have received from a second hand may be for I have not yet seen it the same with the Advice before mentioned A brief of proceedings between Sir Hierom Zanchy and him with the state of the controversie between them Lond. 1659. in 2 or 3. sh in fol. The articles then put up against him relating to his actions in Ireland were 1 That he the said Doctor Petty had received great bribes 2 That he had made a trade of buying debenters in vast numbers against the statute 3 That he had gotten vast summs of money and scopes of land by fraud 4 That he had used many foul practices as Surveyor and Commissioner for setting out lands 5 That he and his fellow Commissioners had placed some debenters in better places than they could claim denying right to others 6 That he and his fellow Commissioners had totally disposed of the Armies security the debt still remaining chargeable on the state All which were according to the said Brief of proceedings cleared by Petty what the event of the matter was I cannot have Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland by letters to and from him Doct. Petty with Sir Hierom Zanchy's speech in Parliament Lond. 1660. oct written mostly against his busie and envious Antagonist Zanchy of whom I shall speak elsewhere A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of Crown-lands assessments customs poll-moneys lotteries benevolence c. Lond. 1662 and 67. in about 10. sh in qu. Discourse made before the Royal society 26. Nov. 1674 concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars Lond. 1674 in tw See in the Philosoph Transact nu 109. p. 209. A new Hypothesis of springing or elastique motions Printed at the end of the said Discourse An apparatus to the history of the common practices of Dying See in The Hist of the Royal Society written by Tho. Sprat Lond. 1667. qu. part 2. p. 284. c. Treatise or discourse about the building of Ships It was presented by the author in MS to the R. Society about 1665 contained in about a quire of paper of his own writing but William Lord Brounker President of the Council pertaining to that Society took it away and kept it in his possession till 1682 and after perhaps to the time of his death saying it was too great an Arcanum of state to be commonly perused The author tho he had no copy of it by him yet Dr. Rob. Wood who lived in Ireland had one Colloquium Davidis cum anima sua accinente paraphrasim in 104 psalmum de magnalibus dei Lond. 1679 in two sh in fol. This thing which is in latin Hexameter was composed by the author 25 of March 1678 under the name of Cassid Aureus Minutius Political Arithmetick or a discourse concerning the extent and value of land people buildings husbandry manufacture commerce fishery artizans seamen soldiers publick revenues c. as the same relates to every County in general and more particularly to the territories of his Majesty of Great Britain and his neighbours of Holland and France This was presented in MS by the author to his Majesty Ch. 2 and Sir Joseph Williamson had a copy of it but was not printed till Mich. term 1690 'T is in oct as the other volumes of Pol. Arithm. are Another Essay in political Arithmetick concerning the growth of the City of London with the measures periods causes and consequences thereof an 1682. Lond. 1683. 86 in 3 sh in oct Observations upon the Dublin-bills of mortality 1681. and the state of that City Lond. 1683 in 3. sh in oct He had also long before assisted or put into a way John Graunt in his writing of Nat. and Pol. Observations of the bills of mortality of Lond. Maps of Ireland being his actual survey of that whole kingdom These were printed in fol. 1685. and were then valued at 2 l. 10 s. in quires Essay concerning the multiplication of mankind Lond. 1686. oct With this was printed the second edit of Another Essay in Pol. Arith. c. Further observations upon the Dublin bills or accompts of the houses hearths baptismes and burials of the City Lond. 1686. oct Two Essays in Political Arithmetick concerning the people housing hospitals of London and Paris with observations on the Cities of London and Rome Lond. 1686. 7. oct Five Essays in political Arithmetick viz. 1. Objections from the City of Rey in Persia and from Monsieur Aurout against two former Essays answer'd and that London hath as many people as Paris Rome and Rouen put together 2. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars 3. Proofs that in London within its 134. Parishes in the bills of mortality there live about six hundred ninety six thousand People 4. An estimate of the people c. Lond. 1687. oct A treatise of taxes and contributions particularly fitted for the state of Ireland Lond. 1691. qu. Printed in a book entit A Collection of three state Tracts c. Treatise of naval philosophy c. Lond. 1691 oct Qu. whether the same with the Treatise or disc about building of Ships before mention'd The Political Anatomy of Ireland c. Lond. 1691. oct Verbum Sapienti or an account of the wealth and expence of England c. Ibid. 1691. oct This is animadverted upon in a pamph intit A letter from a Gent. in the Country to his friend in the City c. Lond. 1692. qu. This learned Vertuoso Sir Will. Petty died in his house in Piccadilly-street almost opposite to S. James's Church within the liberty of Westminster of a Gangreen in his foot occasion'd by the swelling of the Gout on the sixteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was carried to Rumsey the place of his nativity and buried in the Church there near the bodies of his father and mother By his wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Hardress Waller Kt and Relict of Sir Maurice Fenton he had issue two sons viz. Charles created Baron of Shelborne in Ireland soon after his fathers death and Henry and a daughter named Anne He had also a natural daughter more like to him than any other of his children who was an
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 28â—5 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
volebat cum vita merita ejus laudes omnes longe superarent In the Rectory of Winwick succeeded Thom. Benet M.A. Fellow of Univ. Coll lately one of the Proctors of this University now Master of the said Coll. WILLIAM THOMAS son of John Thomas was born on the bridge in the Parish of S. Nicholas in the City of Bristow on the second day of Feb. 1613 educated in Grammar learning at Caermethen in Wales by the care of his Grandfather Recorder of that Town became a Student in S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term 1629 thence translated to that of Jesus of which he was made Fellow when Bach. of Arts proceeded in that faculty took holy Orders and before the Civil War began he became Vicar of Penbryn in Cardiganshire Afterwards being sequestred for his loyalty he taught School at Laughern in Caermerthenshire where after a while he read the common prayer and preached yet not without some disturbance occasioned by Olivers Itinerant preachers After his Majesties restauration in 1660 he became Chauntor of the Cathedral Church of St. David in the place of Dr. Griff. Higges deceased was actually created Doct. of Divinity made Chaplain to James Duke of York and about that time had the Living of Llanbedder in the Valley in Pembrokshire confer'd upon him In 1665 Nov. 25. he was installed Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Tho. Warmestry deceased and about that time he gave up Llanbedder for the Rectory of Hampton Lovet six miles distant from Worcester On the 27. of January 1677 he was consecrated with Dr. Sancroft to the See of Cant. Bishop of S. David at which time liberty was given him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it and in the middle of Aug. 1683 he was translated to the See of Worcester in the place of Dr. James Fleetwood deceased where he sate to the time of his death in good respect from the Clergy and Laity He hath written Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the Assize at Caermerthen on Exod. 20.16 Lond. 1657. qu. 2 Serm. before the right honorable the Lords assembled in Parliament in the Abbey Ch. of S. Pet. Westm upon the Fast-day appointed 10. Apr. 1678. on Luke 13.3 Lond. 1678. qu. 3 The mammon of unrighteousness detected and purified preached in the Cathedral of Worcester 19 Aug. 1688 on Luke 16.9 Lond. 1689. qu. Apology for the Church of England in point of separation from it Lond. 1678. 9 oct Written in the time of Usurpation A pastoral letter to his Clergy of Worcester Dioc. about catechising Printed with many things expung'd since his death It was as 't is said written in answer to Dr. G. Burnet Bishop of Salisbury his Pastoral letters about Oathes an 1689. Roman Oracles silenced or the prime testimonies of antiquity produced by Hen. Turbervil in his Manual of controversies Lond. 1691. Published in the beginning of Mar. 1690. This worthy Bishop Dr. Thomas died on the 25 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried according to his desire in the north east corner of the Cloyster belonging to the Cathedral Church of Worcester at the foot of the steps in the way from the Deanery to the Cathedral Soon after was a plain stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Depositum Gulielmi Thomas S. T. P. olim Decani Wigorniensis indigni postea Episcopi Menevensis indignioris tandem Episcopi Wigorniensis indignissimi meritis tamen Christi ad vitam aeternam resurrectionis candidati Sanctissimus doctiss Praesul pietatis erga Deum erga Regem fidelitatis charitatis erga Proximos illustre exemplum expiravit An. redemptionis MDCLXXXIX Aetatis LXXVI Junii XXV moribundus hoc quicquid supra est epitaphii pro modestia sua tumulo inscribi jussit THOMAS MANWARING a younger Son of Philip Manwaring Esq was born of an antient and gentile family in Cheshire either at Over-Peover or Baddily on the 7 of Apr. 1623 became a Commoner of Brasn Coll. 24. of Apr. 1637 where continuing about 3 years receeded without an Academical degree to his Fathers house and after the death of his elder Brother became Heir to the Lands of his Ancestors In the time of the grand rebellion he sided with the dominant party took the usual Oathes then prescribed was Sherriff of Chester in the reign of Oliver an 1657 and after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was created a Baronet 22. Nov. 1660. He hath written and published A Defence of Amicia daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester wherein is proved that she was not a Bastard Lond. 1673. oct Written against Sir Pet. Leycester A reply to an answer to The defence of Amicia wherein is proved that the reasons alledged by Sir Pet. Leycester concerning her illegitimacy are invalid c Lond. 1673. oct An answer to Sir Pet. Leycester's Addenda Lond. 1673 4. oct He died in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried by his Wife Father and Mother in a vault under a Chappel on the North side of the Chancel of the Church of Over-Peover before mentioned See more in Peter Leycester under the year 1678 p. 463. SAMUEL DERHAM son of Will. Derham of Weston called by some Weston Subter Wethele near Camden in Glocestershire was born in that County entred a Student in Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1672 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line took one degree in Physick and published Hydrologia Philosophica Or an account of Ilmington waters in Warwickshire with directions for drinking of the same Oxon. 1685. oct Experimental observations touching the original of compound bodies Printed with Hydr. Philos Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty had then and before some practice in it and dying of the small pox on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine in his house in S. Michaels parish within the City of Oxon was buried at the upper end of the north Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Parish OBADIAH GREW was born at Atherston in the Parish of Manceter in Warwickshire in Nov. 1607 partly educated in Grammaticals under Mr. Joh. Denison his Uncle admitted a Student in Ball. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Trimnell an 1624 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders at 28 years of age from the hands of Dr. Rob. Wright Bishop of Cov. and Lichfield and had some cure I presume bestowed on him in his own Country In the beginning of the Civil War he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and about that time became upon the desire of the Mayor Aldermen and principal Citizens of Coventry Minister of the great Parish of S. Michael in that City In which place The soundness of his doctrine as those of his perswasion have told me the sanctity and prudence of his conversation the vigilancy and tenderness of his care were of that constant tenor that he seemed to do all that which S.
of May in sixteen hundred and ninety Whereupon his body being conveyed to Mildin or Milding near Lavenham in Suffolk by very many persons of his perswasion and by some others too was buried in the Church there on the 15 day of the same month Soon after was a stone laid over his grave with a short inscription thereon EZEKIEL HOPKINS son of the Curat of Sandford a Chappel of ease to Crediton in Devonshire was born there became a Choirister of Magd. Coll. 1649. aged 16 years or thereabouts Usher of the School adjoyning when Bach. of Arts Chaplain of the said Coll. when Master and would have been elected Fellow had his County been elegible in all which time he lived and was educated under Presbyterian and Independent discipline About the time of his Majesties restauration he became Assistant to Dr. Will. Spurstow Minister of Hackney near London with whom he continued till the Act of Conformity was published in which time being noted for his fluent and ready preaching some of the parishioners of S. Mattew Fridaystreet in London would have chosen him to be their Rector but Mr. Henr. Hurst another Candidate carried that place away from him by a majority Afterwards the parishioners of Allhallows or else of S. Edmund in Lombardstreet did elect him to be their Preacher but the Bishop of London would not admit him because he was a popular preacher among the Fanaticks Afterwards he went to the City of Exeter where he became Minister of S. Maries Church there and much approved and applauded for his elegant and dexterous preaching by Seth Bishop of that City At length John Lord Roberts hearing him accidentally preach to his very great delight he did afterwards freely offer to him the place of Chaplain when he went in the quality of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland an 1669. Which Office he very freely accepting went accordingly with him and in the latter end of that year or in the beginning of the next he was by that Lord made Dean of Raphoe Soon after the said Lord being recalled into England he recommended his Chaplain to his Successor who also taking especial notice of confer'd on him the Bishoprick of Raphoe an 1671 so that by vertue of Letters Pat. dat 27. of Oct. the same year he was Consecrated thereunto 29. of the same month In the latter end of Octob. 1681 he was translated to London Derry in the place of Dr. Mich. Ward deceased where continuing till the Forces in Ireland under the Earl of Tirconnel stood up in the defence of K. Jam. 2. against K. William 3 he retired into England in 1688 and in Sept. 1689 he was by the parishioners of S. Mary Aldermanbury in London elected to be their Minister upon the removal of Dr. Stratford to the See of Chester He hath written Several Sermons as 1 The Vanity of the World on Eccles 1.2 Lond. 1661. oct 2 Serm. at the funeral of Algernon Grevill Esq second brother to the right hon Rob. Lord Brook who departed this life Jul. 21. at Magd. Coll. in Oxon and was buried at Warwick on the 6. of Aug. 1662 on Ecles 9.5 Lond. 1663. qu. 3 Sermon preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin Jan. 31. an 1669. on 1. Pet. 2.13.14 Dubl 1671. qu. All which were reprinted at Lond. 1685. oct 4 Serm. on John 7.19 5 Serm. on Gal. 3.10 These two last were printed at the end of the Exposition fâ—llowing An Exposition on the 10 Commandments Lond. 1692. qu. Published in the beginning of Aug. 1691. with his picture before it by the care of Dr. Edw. Wetenhall Bishop of Cork and Ross author of the Epistle before it dated at Peckham place 3. Jul. 1671. This Bishop Hopkins died on the 19. day of June in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried on the 24. of the said month in the Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury before mention'd He had an elder brother named John Bach. of Arts of Wadham Coll who died before he took the degree of Master and a younger called James Bach. of Arts of Corp. Ch. Coll. who dying also before he was Master of Arts in Octob. or thereabouts an 1663 was buried at Hackney near London They were all three comly and ingenious persons and beloved of their Contemporaries in their respective Colleges THOMAS FRANKLAND a Lancashire man born was entred a Student in Brasnose Coll. on the first of May an 1649 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and in 1654 was made Fellow thereof Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty he became a preacher tho not in Episcopal Orders in these parts In 1662 he was admitted one of the Proctors of the University and in the year after being then in holy Orders he was with much adoe his Grace being denied three times as I shall till you elsewhere admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards he applied his studies to the Faculty of Physick setled in London and pretended to be a Doctor of that Faculty of Oxon when he was in the company of Cambridg men and to be Doctor of Cambridg when in the company of Oxford men At length being a Candidate to be Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians which he could not be without being Doctor he produced a forged Certificate or Diploma to attest that he was Doctor of that Faculty and thereupon he was at length admitted Fellow of the said Coll and afterwards was Censor thereof But he being of an haughty turbulent and huffing spirit and therefore much dislik'd by the Society especially the Juniors some of them whom he had much displeased were resolv'd to take him shorter and humble him Whereupon they having received a hint that he was no Doctor they sent privately to Dr. Jam. Hyde the Kings Professor of Physick and Mr. Ben. Cooper the public Registrary of the Univ. of Oxon that they would search the Registers thereof and certifie them whether he the said Tho. Frankland ever took the degree of Doctor of Phys among them whereupon they upon their search finding no such matter did accordingly certifie them of it Afterwards they sent a Latine Letter to the Vice-chancellour Doctors Proctors and Masters of the University to acquaint them with the forgery of the said Thom. Frankland desiring them withall that they would certifie the President and Community of the Coll. of Physitians that he was no Doctor of Phys of their University which they accordingly did in Nov. 1677. However this being a just reason for his ejection yet notwithstanding by the connivance of the Seniors of the said College he did continue afterwards among them but lost much of his Credit and Practice too as I have heard This person who was esteemed a good Scholar while he continued in Oxon hath written and published The Annals of K. James and K. Charles the first containing a faithful History and impartial account of the great affairs of State and transactions of Parliament in England from the tenth of K. James 1612 to the eighteenth of K. Charles
1642. Wherein several passages relating to the late Civil Wars omitted in former Histories are made known Lond. 1681. in a large folio It was also commonly reported that he was author of a book entit The honors of the Lords Spiritual asserted and their privileges to vote in Capital Cases in Parl. maintained by Reason and Precedents c. Lond. 1679. in 7. sh in fol. but how true I cannot tell Quaere He died in the Prison called the Fleet in London about Midsomer in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried in the middle Isle of the Church of S. Vedastus in Foster-Lane within the said City as I have been lately enformed thence JOHN CAVE son of Joh. Cave Impropriator and Vicar of Great Milton in Oxfordshire was born at Stoke-Line near Bister in the same County educated in the Free School at Thame became Demy of Magd. Coll. an 1654 and on the 24. Sept. 1660 he being then Bach. of Arts was elected Fellow of that of Lincoln At which time conforming himself to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England notwithstanding he had been disciplin'd under Presbyterians and Independents he afterwards took the degree of Master and entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was made Rector of Cold Overton commonly call'd Coleorton in Leicestershire and Chaplain to Dr. Crew when he was made Bishop of Durham Which Doctor bestowing on him the Church of Gateside near Newcastle upon Tyne he afterwards changed it with Rich. Werge for Nailston in Leicestershire which with Coleorton and a Prebendship of Durham which he also obtained by the favour of the said Bishop he kept to his dying day He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A Serm. preached at the Assizes in Leicester 31. Jul. 1679. on Micah 4.5 Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Serm. to a country audience on the late day of Fasting and Prayer Jan. 30. on Tim. 1.2 ver 1.2 Lond. 1679. qu. 3 The Gospell preached to the Romans in four Sermons of which two were preached on the 5. of Nov. and two on the 30. of Jan all on Rom. 1.15 Lond. 1681. oct 4 The duty and benefit of submission to the will of God in afflictions two Serm. on Heb. 12.9 Lond. 1682. qu. 5 King Davids Deliverance and Thanksgiving applyed to the case of our King and Nation in two Sermons the one preached on the second the other on the ninth of Sept. 1683 the first on Psal 18.48 the second on Psal 18.49 Lond. 1684. qu. 5 Christian tranquility Or the Government of the passion of joy and grief Serm. upon the occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young Gent. Mr. Franc. Wollatson Wollaston an only son and heir to a very fair estate preached at Shenton in Leycestersh Lond. 1685. qu. This Mr. Cave died in the beginning of Oct. in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 52 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Coleorton before mention'd In his Prebendship succeeded Sam. Eyre D. D. of Lincolne Coll. JOHN MAYNARD the eldest son of Alex. Mayn of Tavistock in Devons Esq was born there became a Communer of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts but before he determined or completed that degree by Determination in Schoolstreet he went to the Middle Temple studied the Municipal Law was called to the Bar and being a favourite of Will. Noy Attorney General was much resorted to for his Counsel In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totness in his County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. and again for the same place to serve in that Parl that began there 3. Nov. following In which last he being noted for his activity and readiness in pleading he was appointed on of the Committee to draw up Evidence against the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford whom afterwards he baited to some purpose in the name of the Commons of England Afterwards he managed the Evidence against Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant took the Covenant was one of the Lay-men nominated in the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons to sit with the Ass of Divines got then much by his practice and became a considerable gainer in a Circuit that was appointed by order of Parliament an 1647. In 1653 1. Oliv. Protect he was by Writ dated 4. Feb called to the degree of Serjeant at Law having before taken the Engagement and on the first of May following he was by Patent made the Protectors Serjeant and pleaded in his and the then Causes behalf against several Royallists that were tried in the pretended High Court of Justice wherein several generous Cavaliers and noble Hearts received the dismal Sentence of death Afterwards he continued in great repute under that Usurper was setled in his place of the Protectors Serjeant by Let. Pat. under the Great Seal of England continued so in Richards Raigne and obtained wealth as he pleased After his Maj. Restauration in 1660 he wheeled about struck in with his party took those Oaths that he had done before to K. Ch. 1 and by Writ dated in the beginning of June he was called again to the degree of Serjeant was made the Kings Serjeant by the corrupt dealing of a great man of the Law on the 9. of Nov and Knighted on the 16 of the same mouth an 1660 at which time he was appointed one of the Judges but by several excuses he got clear off from that employment In the beginning of 1661 he was elected Burgess of Beralston in Devonshire to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May in the same year wherein for some time he shewed himself a Loyal person But when he saw to what end the several affairs and interests of men tended to the increase of Pensioners therein and Popery in the Nation he stood up for the good of this Country and thereupon was esteemed by some a Patriot After that Parliament was dissolv'd he was elected a Burgess in his own Country to serve in the next three Parliaments that were called by K. Ch. 2 and in that which began on the 17. of Oct. 1679 which because of several Prorogations did not sit till 21. of Oct. 1680 he was one of the Committee appointed to mannage the Evidence against William Viscount Stafford impeached of High Treason relating to the Popish Plot but he being then an aged man he was not so eager in that employment as he was before against Strafford When K. Jam 2. came to the Crown he was chosen Burgess for Beralston again to sit in that Parliament that begun at Westm 19. May 1685 and when the Prince of Aurange became King by the name of Will 3 he with Anth. Kecke of the Inner Temple Esq and Will. Rawlinson Sergeant at Law were on the 2. of Mar. or thereabouts an 1688 constituted Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England In the year following he was chosen Burges
a Bishop and one promoted by Laud much about the time of whose death this Dr. Owen died also By his Will dated 14 Dec. 1644 and proved 12 of Dec. 1645 it appears that he was rich and possessed of several Lands which went I presume to Morgan Owen his brothers son He endowed the Free-school at Caermerthen where in his younger years he had taught with 30 l. per an charged upon the Impropriation of St. Ismaels in the said County about which time the present Fabrick of the said School was erected THOMAS HOWELL elder brother to Jam. Howell mention'd among the Writers under the year 1666 was born in Caermerthenshire admitted into Jesus Coll. of which he was Scholar and afterwards Fellow an 1604 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a painful Preacher in these parts for a time and soon after elsewhere Afterwards he was made Chaplain in ord to K. Ch. 1 Rector of VVest Horsley in Surrey of S. Stephens in VValbroke near London D. of D. and Canon of VVindsore an 1636 in the place of Dr. Tho. Horne deceased But in the beginning of the Troubles he being forced thro vexation to leave S. Stephens tho by many accounted a puritannical Preacher and afterwards VVest Horseley his Maj. thereupon nominated him to the See of Bristow on the death of Dr. Tho. VVestfield in July 1644 and soon after was consecrated at Oxon Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland assisting then at the Ceremony This worthy person who was accounted a meek man and a good Preacher died in sixteen hundred forty and six whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Bristow near to the entrance out of the south isle into the Choire Soon after was a plain stone laid over his grave but no inscription thereon only Expergiscar One Mr. Thom. Howell published A sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Rob. Butler an 1622 3. Whether the same with him who was afterwards Bishop of Bristow I know not LEWES JONES was born in Merionithshire became a Student in this University in 15â—2 or thereabouts but in what house I cannot tell In 1569 he being then Bach. of Arts he was elected Fellow of Allsoules Coll. and about that time taking holy Orders went without the taking of any other degree in this University into Ireland where he was made Dean of Casshels and afterwards being nominated to the See of Killaloa in that Country was consecrated thereunto on the 23 of Apr. 1633. In 1641 when the rebellion broke out there and great miseries followed thereupon he retired to Dublin where dying on the second of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and six aged 104 years was buried in the Church of S. Werburgh commonly called S. Warborough in the said City In the See of Killoloa succeeded Dr. Edw. Parry Father to John and Benjamin successively Bishops of Ossory and after him succeeded Dr. Edward Worth who dying at Hackney near London in the beginning of Aug. 1669 was buried on the sixth day of the same month in the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet in London GEORGE ANDREW received his first breath in a Market Town called Daventry commonly Daintry in Northamptonshire became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1588 aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts as a member of that Hall and about that time holy Orders Afterwards journying into Ireland he was made Dean of Limerick and thence being advanced to the See of Ferns and Laighlin was consecrated thereunto in S. Patricks Church of which he was Chauntor near Dublin on the 14 of May 1635. In the beginning of the rebellion he was forced thence and retiring to London lived for some time there in an obscure condition At length he giving way to fate in the month of Octob in sixteen hundred forty and eight was buried in the Church of S. Clement Danes without Temple bar within the liberty of the City of Westminster In his Bishoprick succeeded Robert Price in the latter end of 1660 of whom mention shall be made hereafter LANCELOT BULKLEY the eleventh Son of Sir Rich. Bulk was born at Beaumarish in the Isle of Anglesie entred a Communer of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of 1587 aged 18 years where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts translated himself to S. Edm. Hall and as a member thereof he took the degree of Master in the same faculty an 1593. Afterwards he went into Ireland became Archdeacon of Dublin Doctor of Divinity there and at length Archb. of the said City to which being consecrated in the Church of S. Peter at Tredagh on the 3. of Oct. 1619 was soon after made by K. Jam. 1. Privy Counsellour of that Kingdom He lived to be spectator of the miseries that befell that Realm occasion'd by the rebellion that broke out in 1641 at which time securing himself in the City of Dublin escaped the malice of the Rebels and lived in a disconsolate condition several years after At length arriving to 82 years of age departed this mortal life at Taulaughta on the eighth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred and fifty whereupon his body being conveyed to Dublin was buried in S. Patricks Church there In his Archbishoprick succeeded Dr. Jam. Margetson sometimes of Peter House in Cambridge in the latter end of 1660 after the said See had laid void 10 years JOHN PRIDEAUX Rector of Exeter Coll and the Kings Professor of Divinity of the Univ. of Oxon was consecrated Bishop of Worcester in the month of Decemb. 1641 and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred and fifty under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 68.69 c. After his death the See lay void till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. and then Dr. George Morley succeeded as I have told you among the said Writers NATHANIEL CONOPIUS a Cretan born trained up in the Greek Church and became Primore to Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople who for his religious life and conversation had a respect for him When the said Cyrill was strangled by the Visier the Grand Signior of the Turks being not then returned from the Siege of Babylon Conopius to avoid the like barbarity fled thence and went into England and addressing himself with credentials from the English Agent at Constantinople to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant that worthy person sent him to Balliol Coll and allowed him a comfortable subsistance during his abode there Afterwards he became one of the Chaplains or Petty Canons of Ch. Church but whether he took a degree in this University I know not In the beginning of Nov. 1648 he was expelled the University by the Barbarians I mean the Parliamentarian Visitors and had nothing left to maintain him as a Scholar and Divine So that because of the barbarity of such who called themselves Saints he returned into his own Country among the Barbarians and was made Bishop of Smyrna commonly called Le
use of him he having then an eye upon his Brother George in Scotland whom his family had obliged likewise I say that this good benefice being bestowed on him he was by his Brothers interest fix'd therein and ready to perform what laid in his power to serve the interest of the Royal Family In 1659 he agitated with his said Brother by Letters to and soon after in Person in Scotland in order to influence him for the restauration of K. Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms being put upon it chiefly by the said Sir Jo Greenvill and some of the Gentry in the West who were of kin to Monke So happy it was for his Maj. to employ the said Sir John and so lucky for him to send his Clerk Mr. Monke thither where he omitted nothing of his instructions but prudently managed them as may reasonably be inferred from the good effect they had Thus did the sense of allegiance and the love of his Country prevail with his Brother against all hazards And if I should speak right the revenge of slights was some part of grain in the Scales In the year following 1660 his endeavours and desires being effected he was by the interest of the said Sir John minded thereunto by Gen. Monke made Provost of Eaton Coll in the month of June then or lately enjoyed by Nich. Lockyer sometimes Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell lately Protect In the beginning of Aug. following he was actually created Doctor of Divinity by vertue of the Kings Letters sent to the University for that purpose and soon after being nominated by his Majesty to the See of Hereford which had laid void for 14 years by the death of George Cook he was consecrated thereunto on the sixth day of January Epiphany day in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster by the Archb. of York Bishops of Durham Chichester Lincolne and Peterborough But before he had enjoyed that See a full year he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in the Old Pallace-yard in Westminster on the seventeenth of December in sixteen hundred sixty and one whereupon his body was buried on the twentieth of the said month in S. Edmunds Chappel within the Precincts of the said Church of S. Peter In the See of Hereford succeeded Dr. Herbert Croft of whom may future mention be made and of his works as to learning BRIAN DUPPA sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll afterwards Dean of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1638 translated to Salisbury in 1641 and thence to Winchester in 1660. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 176. He was so bountiful in his Legacies to Ch. Church that the money might serve to found a new and not to compleat an old College He left Legacies to Allsouls Coll to the Cath. Churches of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester and erected an Hospital at his own charge in the place of his nativity as I have elsewhere told you Over the door of which may this be engraven That a poor Bishop vowed this House but a great and wealthy one built it In the See of Winchester succeeded Dr. George Morley of whom I have made large mention among the Writers under the year 1684. p. 581. JOHN GAUDEN sometimes of Wadham College was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the 2. of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent an 1660 and translated thence to Worcester on Morleys going to Winchester in the beginning of 1662 in which year in Septemb. he died See more of him among the Writers under the same year p. 207. In the said See of Worcester succeeded Dr. John Earle and him Dr. Rob. Skinner as I shall tell you anon under the year 1670. ROBERT SANDERSON sometimes Fellow of Lincolne College was consecrated Bishop of Lincolne on the 28 of Octob. 1660 and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 213. He was succeeded in the said Bishoprick by Dr. Benj. Laney Bishop of Peterborough who after he had sate there four years was translated to Ely WILLIAM JUXON son of Rich. Juxon of Chichester son of John Juxon of London was born as 't is said within the City of Chichester in Sussex educated in Merchant Taylors School became Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in 1598 and Bach. of the Civil Law in 1603 being about that time a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London Soon after he took holy Orders and in the latter end of the year 1609 he was made Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon where continuing about six years he was much frequented for his edifying way of preaching In 1621 he was elected President of his College and in the next year he proceeded in the Civil Law In 1626 and after he did execute the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in January 1627 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Jos Hall promoted to the See of Exeter On the 10. of July 1632 he was at Dr. Lauds suit then Bishop of London sworn Clerk of his Majesties Closet which office was by that great person procured for him to the end that he might have one that he might trust near his Majesty if he grew weak or infirm In the beginning of the year 1633 he was elected Bishop of Hereford in the place of Dr. Franc. Godwin deceased was about that time made Dean of the Kings Chappel and on the translation of Dr. Laud to the See of Cant. which was on the 19 of Sept. the same year he was translated to London that City being then in its height of giddiness and faction About that time he was called to be one of his Majesties Privy Council who finding him to be a person of uprightness and justice did confer upon him the great office of Lord Treasurer on Sunday the sixth of Mar. 1635. Which office no Churchman had since Hen. 7 time as Doct. Laud observes who adds this I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honour and the King and the state service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more In this office which he enjoyed till 1641 he kept the Kings Purse when necessities were deepest and clamours loudest to the great content of all that had to do with him In the time of the rebellion began and carried on by the restless Presbyterians he suffer'd as other Bishops did was outed of the House of Lords with his Brethren and lost the Lands belonging to his Bishoprick as the rest did In 1648 he had the honour and happiness if it may be so called to attend K. Ch. 1.
in the Parliament sitting at Westminster being then Serjeant Major and in the next year he sate as a member in the Parl. held at Oxon. George Wentworth another Parliament Man for Pomfraict in Yorkshire He also left that Parliament retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliam 1643. On the said first of Nov. were more than 70 persons actually created Master of Arts among whom towards the latter end of the solemnity when it grew dark some did obtrude themselves that were not in the Catalogue of those to be created which was signed by his Majesty One of them was named Henry Leighton a Scot mostly educated in France but at this time 1642 actually in Armes for his Majesty and soon after was an Officer Some years after the declining of the Kings cause he setled for altogether in Oxon read and taught the French language to young Scholars and for their use wrot and published 1 Linguae Gallicae addiscendae regulae Oxon 1659. in tw Published afterwards again with many additions to the great advantage of the learner 2 Dialogues in French and English c. This Person who might have been more beneficial to mankind than he was had his principles been sound which were not and therefore in some respects he debauched young men died by a fall down stairs in S. Johns Coll. where he had a Chamber allowed him by the society on the 28. of January 1668 whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon. Dec. 20. Tho. Penruddock of S. Maries Hall He was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Penruddock whom I shall mention among the created Doctors of the Civ Law Edward Sherburne Commissary General of his Majesties Attillery in Oxon was actually created Master of Arts on the same day This Person who hath been greatly venerated for his polite learning was born in his Fathers house in Goldsmiths Rents near Red-cross-street in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate in London on the 18. of Sept. 1618 Son of Edw. Sherburne Esq a Native of the City of Oxon and Clerk of his Majesties Ordnance within the Kingdom of England Son of Hen. Sherburne Gent a Retainer to C. C. Coll. in this University but descended from the antient and gentile family of his name now remaining at Stanyhurst in Lancashire After our author Edw. Sherburne whom I am farther to mention had been mostly trained up in Grammar learning under Mr. Thomas Farnabie who then taught in Goldsmiths-rents before mentioned he was privately instructed for a time in his Fathers house by one Charles Aleyn then lately Usher to the said Mr. Farnabie but originally a member of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge I mean the same Ch. Aleyn who wrot a Poem entit The battle of Crescy and Poictiers and afterwards The History of Hen. the seventh Lond. 1638 oct written in verse also with The battle of Bosworth who dying about 1640 was buried under the north wall of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London In 1640 his Father thinking it fit for his better education to send him abroad to travel he set forward at Christmas that year and continued beyond Sea till about three quarters of a year having spent his time in viewing a considerable part of France and was intended for a journey into Italy but then unfortunately called back by occasion of his Fathers sickness who not many weeks after his return dyed some few days before Christmas 1641. Immediatly after his death he succeeded his Father in the Clerkship of his Majesties Ordnance granted him by patent 5. Feb. 13. Car. 1. and about the months of Apr. and May he was outed by warrant of the then House of Lords and committed to the Black rod for only adhering to the duty of his place and allegiance to his Prince where he lay for several months at great expences and charge of fees till having in the beginning of Oct. following gain'd his Liberty he went immediatly to the King who made him Commissary General of his Artillery In which condition he served him at the battle of Edghill and during the four years Civil War while in the mean time he was depriv'd of an estate of 160 l. per an till a debt of 1500 l. was satisfied by way of extent out of the Land of Ord of Ord in Northumberland his house plundered and all his personal estate and houshold goods taken away among which was the loss of a study of books as considerable in a manner that he bought and obtained after his Majesties restauration which was great and choice and accounted one of the most considerable belonging to any Gent. in or near London After Edghill battle he retired with his Majesty to Oxon where he was created M. of A. as I have before told you and was not wanting while he continued there to improve himself in learning as other Gentlemen did After the rendition of Oxford to the Parliament forces he lived for some time in the Middle Temple at London in the Chamber of a near Relation of his called Tho. Stanley Esquire at which time he published some pieces which I shall anon mention While he continued there you cannot but imagine that he was liable as indeed he was to frequent midnight scarches and proclamation banishments out of the Lines of communication as being a Cavalier which the godly party then called Malignant till at the return of Sir George Savile afterwards Marquess of Halyfax from his travels about 1651. or 52 he was invited to take upon him the charge of his concerns and sometime after by his honorable Mother the Lady Savile her good favour he was recommended to undertake the tuition of her Nephew Sir John Coventry in his travels abroad In the beginning of March therefore in 1654 he left England with his charge ran through all France Italy some part of Hungary the greater part of Germany Holland and the rest of the Low Countries and returned about the end of Oct. 1659. By which voyage he did advance and promote his bookish inclination by conference with learned persons when he came to such places that could afford him their desired converse more than what he could obtain at home After his Majesties restauration he found a person put into his place of Clerk of his Maj. Ordnance within the Kingdom of England after his old sequestrators were dead by a Relation of the Gent. whose care and tuition he had undertaken I mean by that busie man Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury so that he was forced to plead the â—ight of his Patent before the House of Lords e're he could get readmittance After some time of the Kings settlement he met with a discouragement worse than the former for by the politick Reducers of the charge of his Majesties revenue and treasure he was retrenched from the best perquisites of his office to the value of no less than 500 l. per an and never received any consideration
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotatiâ—ns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
He was now Rector of Ibstock in Leycestershire where being always esteemed a great Royalist and Episcoparian was therefore forc'd thence by the faction So that flying to Oxon as an Asylum he was created Doctor of the Civil Law and often preached there He died at Ibstock I think an 1647. or thereabouts Daniel Vivian of New Coll. He was a Founders Kinsman and dying at Farndish in Bedfordshire an 1670 was there I suppose buried Brome Whorwood of Halton in Oxfordshire Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. This person tho he stuck close to K. Ch. 1. in his necessities yet he did not to his son K. Ch. 2 after whose restauration he was several times elected Burgess for the City of Ox. He died in the Old Pallace Yard at Westminster 12 Apr. 1684 and was buried in the Church of Halton near to the grave of his father Sir Thom. Whorwood Kt leaving then behind him a natural son named Thomas begotten on the body of his servant named Catherine daugh of Thom. Allen of the Parish of S. Peter in the East in Oxon Baker Sir Thom. He le of Devonsh Bt. He was Burgess for Plimpton in the Parl. that began 13 Apr. 1640 and with Sir Joh. Hele both Lords of great Estates in their Country and Walt. He le of Winston did retire to his Majesty at Oxon adhere to him and thereby brought his Cause into great credit for the justness of it as also rich contributions thereunto and many forces to maintain it Will. Dowdeswell of Pembr Coll. This person who was accounted a learned man among those of his Society became Preb. of Worcester in 1660 in the place of Francis Charlet M. A. some years before that dead and had if I mistake not other Spiritualities in the Church In his Prebendship succeeded Dr. George Benson Archdeacon of Hereford an 1671. On the same day Nov. 1. were also created Doctors of the Civil Law Joh. Knotsford a Knight I think Joh. Wandeston Will. Atkyns Joh. Palmer and one Peachy or at least were permitted to be created when they pleased which is all I yet know of them Nov. 10. Will. Smith Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. He was a Burgess for one of the Cinque-Ports called Winchelsey for that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but left it went to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there 1643. Dec. 20. Sir Tho. Manwaring Kt Recorder of Reading in Bâ—rks Hen. Moody sometimes a Gent. Com. of Magd. Hall I take this person to be the same with Sir Hen. Moody Bt son of Sir Hen. Moody of Garsdon in Wilts Knight and Baronet who was now in some esteem at Court for his poetical fancy The father who had been a well bred Gent died in 1630. Dec. 20. Tho. Thory Dec. 20. George Thorald Sir Joh. Heydon or Heyden Kt. Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance belonging to his Majesty He was of the family of the Heydens in Norfolk was as great a Scholar as a Soldier especially in the Mathematicks suffered much for his Majesties Cause and died in the Winter time an 1653. One Joh. Haydon Gent. was entred into the publick or Bodleian Library under the title of Juris Municipalis studiosas an 1627 Whether the same with the former I cannot tell I have made mention of Sir Christop Heyden who perhaps was father to Sir John in the first vol. of this work p. 278. Jan. 31. Edw. Lord Littleton Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Sir John Banks Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law the same day This worthy person was born of honest parents in Cumberland at Keswick as 't is said became a Commoner of Qu. Coll. in this University an 1604 aged 15 years left it before he took a degree entred himself a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London where applying himself most severely to the study of the Common Law became a Barrester and a Counsellor of note In the 6 of Car. 1. he being then a Knight and Attorney to Pr. Charles he was constituted Lent Reader of that house and in the 7 of Car. 1. he was made Treasurer thereof In 1640. 16 Car. 1. he was made L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and soon after following his Majesty when he was forc'd by tumults from Westm he was made one of his Privy Council at Oxon and L. Ch. Just of the Com. Bench or Pleas where dying 28 Dec. 1644 was buried in the north trancept joyning to Ch. Ch. Cathedral See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. p. 289. a. Sir Francis Crawley of Luton in Bedfordsh Kt one of the Justices of the Common Pleas was also then actually created Doct. of the Civ Law You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives and actions of excellent Personages c. published by Dav. Lloyd M. A. Lond. 1668. fol. Sir Rob. Forster Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas was then also created He was the youngest son of Sir Thom. Forster Kt. one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the time of K. Jam. 1 was after he had left the University a Student in the Inner Temple where he became a Barrester and Counsellor of note In the 7 of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of that House in the 12 he was made Serjeant at Law and in the 15 of the said Kings Raign one of the Justices of the Kings Bench and about that time a Knight Afterwards he followed his Majesty to Oxon sate in the Parl. there as Sir Joh. Banks and Sir Franc. Crawley did suffered as other Royalists when the Kings Cause declined and compounded for his Estate After his Majesties restauration he was made L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench 31 May 1660 and in Octob. following L. Ch. Just of the Common Pleas. He died on the fourth day of Octob. 1663 aged 74 years and was buried in the Church at Egham in Surrey where there is a comely monument in the wall over his grave in the body of the said Church Febr. 7. Sir Rob. Heath L. Ch. Just of the Com Pleas was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law This noted and loyal person was born in the Parish of Eatonbridge in Kent and baptized in the Church there educated in the knowledge of the Common Law in the Inner Temple made Recorder of London 10 Novemb. 1618 in the place of Rich. Martin deceased Summer Reader of the same Temple in 1619 Sollicitor General in the year following being then of Micham in Surrey and Justice of the Peace for that County Attorney General in 1625 Serjeant at Law 1632 one of the Justices of the Common Bench in 1640 and two years after or more Lord Chief Just of the Common Bench or Pleas he being then with his Maj. at Oxon. He hath extant Objections in a Conference discoursed by the Lords and held by a Committee of both Houses against the
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
Coll. Nov. 18. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch. 19. Will. Master of Mert. Coll. Feb. 17. Hen. Leigh of Magd. Hall See more of him in Edw. Leigh among the Writers an 1671. p. 352. Mar. 17. Josiah Lane of C. C. Coll. In 1664 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys at Leyden and published his Disputatio med inaug de cholera morbo the same year Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or man of note Bach. of Div. June .... Thom. Hall sometimes of Pembr Coll. had liberty allow'd him by the Delegates of the University to take the degree of Bach. of Div. See more among the Writers p. 234. But one besides him doth occurr really admitted Doct. of Law Jul. 6. Tobias Swinbourne of Linc. Coll. Dec. 6. Timothy Baldwin of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was a younger son of Charles Baldwin of Burwarton in Shropshire Gent became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in 1634 and Fellow of that of All 's in 1640 being then Bach. of Arts where continuing till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Principal of Hart Hall afterwards Chancellour of the diocesses of Hereford and Worcester in which last he succeeded James Littleton one of the Masters of the Chancery and a Knight in July 1670. being then of Stokecastle in Shropshire He hath published The privileges of an Embassador written by way of Letter to a Friend who desired his opinion concerning the Portugal Embassador Printed in 1654 in one sh and an half in qu. See more of Tim. Baldwin in Edward Lord Herbert among the Writers of this second vol. p. 62 and in Dr. Rich. Zouche p. 167. where you 'll find the matter about the Portugal Emb brother who was beheaded and a book of Dr. Zouche which T. Baldwin published He had an elder Brother named Sam. Baldwin bred in Balliol Coll. also afterwards a Common Lawyer and by writ called to be Serjeant at Law an 1669 and in 1672. made the Kings Serjeant Doct. of Phys May 27. Henry Clerk of Magd. Coll who accumulated the degrees in Physick by vertue of the Chancellours Letters He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll of Physitians succeeded Dr. Pierce in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll and dying in the house of his Son-in-law Sir Rich. Shuttleworth called Gawthorp hall in Lancashire 24. March 1686. was buried in the Church at Willoughby in Warwickshire among the graves of his ancestors In his Presidentship was elected â—ch Hough Bach. of Div. 15. Apr. 1687. July 9. Petâ—r Eâ—ioâ— of S. Maries Hall sometimes Chapl. of C. C. Coll. and a Preacher He afterwards practised his faculty many years in and near Oxon and dying 5. Mar. 1681 was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. 20. Tim. Clarke of Ball. Coll. Doct. of Div. July 31. Henry Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall a Compounder On the 28. of Oct. following the Vicechancellour admitted him in Convocation as compleat Doctor and on the 3. of May 1676 his degree was confirm'd by a Diploma This person was usually called Deane Harry as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1690. p. 646. Incorporations April 8. Samuel Collins Doct. of Phys of Padua April 8. George Mede Doct. of Phys of Padua These two had been Travellers together and took their degree of Doct. of Phys in the said Univ. of Padua in Aug. 1651. See in the year 1659. June 24. Henr. Saltonstal a Knights Son Fellow of New Coll by the favour of the Visitors and Doct. of Physick of Padua was then incorporated The said degree he took at Padua in October 1649. 29. Tho. Janes or Jeanes Bach. of Arts of Cambr now of Magd. Coll. in this Univ was then incorporated He was adm Mast of that faculty 6. of Jul. this year See among the Doctors of Physick an 1659. Aug. 9. Thom. Horton D. of D. of Cambr. and Master of Queens Coll. therein was then incorporated in Convocation This person who was Son of Laur. Horton Citizen of London was born in that City bred in Emanuel Coll of which he became Fellow and a noted Tutor to young Presbyterian Scholars among whom John Wallis was one In 1637 he was constituted one of the publick Preachers of the Univ. of Cambr. and in 1638 or thereabouts he became Minister of S. Mary Cole church in the City of his nativity Afterwards he was preacher to the Society of Greys Inn Reader of Div. in Gresham Coll a holder forth sometimes before the Long Parliament Vicar of Great S. Helens in London and one of the Triers or Commissioners appointed for the approbation of publick Preachers an 1653. He was esteemed by those of the Presbyterian perswasion a sound and solid Divine a good Textuary and well skill'd in the original Languages Under his name hath been published 1 Forty six Sermons upon the whole eighth Chapter of the Epist of the Apost Paul to the Romans Lond. 1674. fol. 2 Choice and practical exposition on four select Psalms viz. the 4. Psalm in 8 Sermons the 42 Psal in 10 Sermons the 51. Psal in 20 Sermons the 63 Psal in 7 Sermons Lond. 1675. fol. 3 One hundred select Sermons upon several Texts fifty upon the Old Test and fifty on the New Lond. 1679. fol. He also with William Dillingham D. D. and Master of Emanuel Coll. did publish A chain of principles or an orderly concatenation of theological Aphorismes and Exercitations wherein the chief Heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved Lond. 1660 written by John Arrowsmith D. D. Master of S. Johns and Trin. Coll. successively and the Kings Professor of Div. in the University of Cambridge Published since his death according to his own Manuscript This Dr. Horton died in 1673 and was I presume buried in the Church of S. Helen before mention'd leaving then behind him a relict called Dorothy who administred 28. Aug. the same year Nov. 19. Steph. Charnock M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. now Fellow of New Coll. by the favor of the Visitors Dec. 6. Tho. Croyden Doct. of Phys of Padua The same degree he took at Pad 30. Oct. 1648. Jan. 14. Will. Harrington Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr. 16. Will. Squire lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Hall in Cambr. 27. Gabriel de Beauvoir of the Isle of Guernsey Doct. of Physick of Padua This person who was the Son of Charles de Beauvoir took the said degree at Pad in the latter end of Octob. 1648. Creations June 17. Jonathan Maud a Student in Phys 17 years was then actually created Doctor of that fac by vertue first of an order from the Committee and secondly by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the Univ. dated 29. May 1650 rather 51 which say that his conversation is pious and sober and that he hath been a constant friend to the Parliament c. July 9. Thomas Danson of Magd. Coll. was
whole substance of his illiterate plea entit Medela Medicinae is occasionally considered Lond. 1665. See more in March Nedham among the Writers p. 470. Afterwards upon some controversie that hapned between his Father and Mother the last of which was made away he became much discontented turned Papist went into Lancashire setled at Preston in Amunderness practised among the Roman Catholicks and by them cried up tho as 't is said there he led a drunken and debauch'd life Some time before his death he was reconciled to the Church of England and dying at Preston was buried there but when my author a Physitian of those parts tells me not only that 't was after or about the year 1670. Rich. Kidder M. A. of Eman. Coll. This learned person a Suffolk man born I think was afterwards Rector of S. Martins Outwich in London installed Preb. of Noâ—wich in the place of Hezek Burton deceased on the 16 of Sept. 1681 being then D. of D. Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Sim. Patrick promoted to the See of Chichester an 1689 and at length became Bish of Bath and Wells upon the deprivation of the religious and conscientious Dr. Tho. Ken for not taking the usual Oaths to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He was nominated thereunto about the 14 of June 1691 upon the refusal of it by Dr. William Beveridge and on the 30 of Aug. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary Le Bâ—w in London by John Archb. of Cant Gilbert B. of Sarum Peter B. of Wâ—nton John B. of Norwich and Edward B. of Glocester At which time were also consecrated Dr. Rob. Grove of Cambridge to the See of Chichester upon the translation thence of Dr. Patrick to Ely and Dr. Joh. Hall Master of Pemb. Coll. in Oxon to the See of Bristow upon the translation thence of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Hereford Dr. Kidder hath written 1 The young mans duty A discourse shewing the necessity of seeking the Lord betimes as also the danger and unreasonableness of trusting to a late or death-bed repentance Designed especially for young persons before they are debauched by evil company and evil habits Lond. 1663 and several times after in tw The sixth edition was publish'd in 1690. 2 Convivium coeleste A plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Suppor shewing at once the nature of that Sacrament as also the right way of preparing our selves for the receiving of it c. Lond. 1674. oct and afterwards again with additions 3 Charity directed or the way to give almes to the greatest advantage In a Letter to a friend Lond. 1677. qu. 4 The Christian sufferer supported or a discourse concerning the grounds of Christian fortitude shewing at once that the sufferings of good men are not inconsistent with Gods special providence c. Ibid. 1680. oct 5 Reflections on a French Testam printed at Bourdeaux 1626 pretended to be translated into the French by the Divines of Lovain Ibid. 1691. qu. He hath also published several Sermons as 1 A discourse concerning the education of youth on Ephes 1.4 Lond. 1673. 2 Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-hall Chap. 16. July 1682. Ibid. 1682. qu. 3 Serm. at the funeral of Mr. Will. Allen 17. Aug. 1686. on Heb. 13.4 Ibid. 1686. qu. This Will. Allen had been a Citizen and Trader of London and had written 10 books chiefly for conformity against Quakers Anabaptists c. Dr. Kidder hath published several books against popery during the reign of K. Jam. 2 and other things which for brevity sake I now pass by James Arderne M. A. of Christs Coll. See among the Incorporations an 1673. All the said Cambridge men viz. B. Rively J. Dowell R. Sprackling R Kidder and J. Arderne were incorporated on the 13 of July at which time were incorporated 15 other Masters of the said University among whom were Joh. Quarles and Joh. Gosling of Peter House Jan. 2. Henry Yerbury Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had been turn'd out of his Fellowship of Magd. Coll. in this University by the Visitors in 1648 did afterwards travel and took the said degree at Pad in the beginning of Apr. 1654. After his Majesties return he was restored by his Commissioners an 1660 was a Candidate of the Coll. of Phys and dying on the 25 of March 1686 was buried in the Chappel belonging to Magd. Coll near to the north door which leads from the cloister therein I shall make farther mention of this person when I come to speak of Dr. Thomas Pierce Creations Apr. 16. Will. Burt M. of A. chief Master of Wykehams School near Winchester was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chanc. of the Univ. This person who was Son of Will. Burt sometimes belonging to the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll in 1627 took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Master of the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire In 1647 he was made Rector of Whitfield in the said County and soon after became chief Master of Wykehams School before mentioned in the place of Dr. Jo. Pottinger On the 9. of Sept. 1658 he was admitted Warden of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Harris deceased and after his Majesties restauration was made Prebendary of the Cathedral there He hath published Concio Oxoniae habita postridie Comitiorum 13 Julii 1678 pro gradu Doctoris in Psal 72.17 Oxon. 1659 in tw Dedic to Rich. Cromwell Lord Protector of England with whom and the great men going before in the interval he kept pace This being all the exercise that he performed for the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div I do therefore put him under the Creations He died at Winchester 3 July an 1679 and was buried on the South side of the altar in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of Wykeham near Winchester May 14. Rob. Woseley or Wolseley who had been a Student in this Univ. for 8 years time and a Burgess as 't is said in the register in the late Parliament was actually created Master of Arts I cannot find his name in the Catalogues of Parliament men that sate in the three Parliaments going before this time only Charles Wolseley Esq who was one of Olivers Lords July 7. Paul Hartman of the City of Thorne in Prussia was actually created Mast of Arts He was afterwards one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch and is now or else was lately Rector of Shillingford in Berks This person who is Brother to Ad. Sam. Hartman mentioned among the Incorporations an 1680 hath written and published certain matters pertaining to Grammar as I have heard An. Dom. 1659. An. 11. Car. 2. An. 1 â— Rich. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell
the taking of their degrees only to have the benefit of the publick Library c. This person who was much addicted to Musick while he studied in Oxon which was about 8 years was made Archdeacon of Ely by his Father after his Majesties restauration had other spiritualities as I conceive confer'd upon him and became a member of the Royal Society He died in 1679 being then of Wilberton in the Isle of Ely and whether he was Doctor of the Laws at Cambridge I cannot tell Aug. 7. Daubigney Tarbervill of Oriel Coll. Aug. 7. Degorie Pollwhele of Exet. Coll. The first who afterwards practised Phys in the City of Salisbury was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters the other who had been ejected his Fellowship of Exeter Coll. by the Parliament Visitors in 1648 was also created by vertue of the said Letters which say that he the said D. Pollwhele had from the beginning of the late unhappy troubles vigorously and faithfully served his Majesty under the command of Ralph Lord Hopton then of Sir Jam. Smith in the quality of a Major of Horse and continued in Armes until the surrender of Pendennis Castle from whence he went to his late Majesty of blessed memory and afterwards followed his now Majesty for some time in Holland and Flanders And in or about the year 1650 he returned into Cornwall his native Country where he betook himself to the study and practice of Physick c. Aug. 10. Edw. Duke of Gloc. Hall Aug. 10. Augustus or Augustine Caesar of the Univ. of Cambr. 16. Will. Jacob of Ch. Ch. He was created by vertue of the Kings Letters which say We have received good testimony of his abilities in the Theorie and practice of Physick He hath been formerly a Graduate in Oxon and hath studied in Foreign Countries c. This person who was Son of John Jacob a Physitian of Canterbury was bred in Ch. Ch afterwards practised his faculty with good success for many years in the said City and was if I mistake not a Burgess to serve in one of the Parliaments that began after the discovery of the Popish Plot. Oct. 17. Edw. Hawtaine M. A. of Magd. Coll. 30. John Lamphire M. A. of New Coll. and Camdens Professor of History This person who was Son of George Lamphire an Apothecary of the City of Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Wykehams School there made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1636 entred on the Physick line when Master of Arts ejected his Fellowship by the Parl. Visitors and afterwards practised his faculty with good success in and near Oxford After his Majesties return he was restored to his Fellowship became Camdens Professor of History upon the ejection of Lewis du Moulin Principal of New Inn in the place of Dr. Rogers ejected for Non-conformity and soon after Principal of Hart Hall He hath published of other mens works with Epistles before corrections on and sometimes additions to them these following 1 Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris commentariis c. and Dictata Both written by Hugh Lloyd See in the first Vol. of the Athenae Oxon. p. 269. 2 Monarchia Britannica c Written by Tho. Master See in this sec Vol. of Athenae pag. 19. 3 Rev. Patris Lanc. Andrews Episcopi Winton preces privatae Graecè Latinè Oxon. 1675 in tw Afterwards Dr. Lamphire obtained a more perfect copy of the said prayers which he was about to publish but hindred by other affairs 4 Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita 1592. 'T is the oration of Sir Hen. Savile and 't was published by Dr. Lamphire with the sec edit of Monarchia Britannica See in the first Vol. of Ath. Oxon. p. 397. 5 Questiones selectiores in Logica Ethica c. See in Dr. Pink among the Writers of this Vol. p. 58. This Dr. Lamphire who was Justice of the Peace for the County and City of Oxon a good generous and fatherly man of a publick Spirit and free from pharasaical leven or the modish hypocrisie of the age he lived in died in his Lodgings in Hart Hall on the 30 of March 1688 aged 73 years and was buried in the outer Chappel near the W. door belonging to New Coll. The next day Will. Thornton M. A. of Wadh. Coll. was admitted Principal of the said Hall in his place and on the 2. of Apr. following the learned Hen. Dodwell M. of A. of Dublin was elected Camdens Professor of History to the great content of the generality of the members of the University Oct. 30. Thom Willis of Ch. Ch. Nov. 29. Rich. Franklin of Qu Coll. He was put in among the rest tho no sufferer for the royal cause Dec. 6. Henry Wyat of Pemb. Coll. He was no sufferer but was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors in 1648 and by vertue of the Letters sent to the Convocation by Lenthall the Speaker of the H. of Commons he was created M. of A. in 1649. Afterwards he went Physitian with the Lord Rutherford lately made Earl of Tiveot in Scotland to the Garrison of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa and practised his faculty there with good success At length he accompanying the said Count with a select party of horse out of that Garrison to view the Moors Country on the 3. of May 1664 were all some very few excepted cut off after they had passed the Jews River some Miles distant from Tangier by Gayland the chief of the Moors and his party who having had notice by the treachery of a certain person that they would take a view of the Country there was an Ambuscade planted to receive them by Gayland and sheltred by a thick wood and seconded as 't was supposed by his whole Army March 12. Joh. Fisher M. A. of Cambridge Steph. Bowden of Magd. Coll. was nominated by the Chancellors Letters dat 1. Dec. this year to be created Doct. of Physick but whether he was so it appears not Doct. of Div. Aug. 1. Nich. Monke sometimes of Wadh. Coll now Provost of Eaton Brother to Gen. George Monke Duke of Albemarle at this time in high value by the King Church University and all British People was presented by Dr. Rob. Sanderson the Kings Professor of Div. to the degree of Doct. of that faculty and actually created by the Vicechancellour in Convocation by vertue of the Kings Letters which say that we are well satisfied of the full standing sufficiency and merit of Nich Monke M. of A as duly qualified for the degree of D. of D and also well assured of his particular and eminent sufferings and service for our self and the Church during the late distractions c. These persons following till you come to Byrom Eaton were actually created Doctors on the second day of Aug tho several of them had not suffered for the Kings cause Guy Carleton M. A. of Qu. Coll. Anth. Hawles M. A. of Qu. Coll. The last was
Transact nu 129.147 in which the author hath one or more Discourses Dec. 20. John Vlacq Doct. of the Civil Law of Orange was incorporated in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange was entertain'd with the delights of the Muses there He was the Son of Cornelius Vlacq chief Amanuensis or Scribe or Secretary to the said Pr. of Orange Edw. Halsius Doct. of Phys of Leyden and Physitian in the Court of the said Prince was then and there also incorporated Sam. Morrys Doct. of Physick of the said University was also then and there incorporated He was Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall an 1662. These three last were nominated by the Pr. of Orange to be incorporated CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of the Prince of Aurange or Orange Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Joshua Stopford of Brasnose lately of Magd. Coll. He was soon after admitted Bach. of Div. as I have before told you Dec. 20. Rich. Lauder of S. Johns Coll was actually created in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange sate in a chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour This noble person was son of Charles Maitland Baron of Haltown in Scotland by his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Lauder younger Brother to John Maitland Duke of Lauderdale and was afterwards Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland where he was called Lord Maitland so long as his Father Charles was Earl of Lauderdale for by that title he was known after the said Joh. Maitland Duke of Lauderdale died which was at Tunbridge in Kent on S. Barthelmews day 1682 and after the said Charles his death which hapned about the ninth day of May an 1691 the said Richard Lauder became Earl of Lauderdale and is now living in Scotland After him were these persons following created in the said Convocation Will. Scharp of Ch. Ch who was allowed to wear the gown of a Noble man during his stay in the University was next after Lauder created He was the eldest Son of Dr. James Scharp sometimes Professor of Divinity and Rector of the University of S. Andrew afterwards consecrated Archbishop of S. Andrew in S. Peters Church commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster 15 of Decemb. 1661 at which time were also consecrated Andr. Fairfoâ—d Minister of Dâ—nce to the Archiepiscopal See of Glascow James Hamilton late Minister of Cambusnethum to the See of Gaâ—loway and Rob. Leighton Dean of his Majesties Chappel Royal in Scotland and late Principal of the Coll. at Edinburgh to the See of Dâ—mblayne This most worthy Archbishop Scharp who is justly characterized to have been Pietatis exemplum pacis Angelus sapientiae oraculum gravitatis imago c. was most barbarously murdered for his function sake near the City of S. Andrew by a pack of Hell-hounds enemies to God Man and all kind of Religion to the great horror and amazement of all the christian world on the 3 of May 1679 aged 61 years whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Andrew and had soon after put over it a stately monument with a most noble inscription thereon the contents of which being now too large for this place they shall for brevity sake be omitted George Sheild a Scot Governour to the before mention'd John Lauder Andrew Bruce a Scot of an antient family I have made mention of another Andrâ—w Bruce among the Incorporations an 1660. Joh. Trevor Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll. Son of Sir Joh. Trevor one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and of his most honorable Privy Council The said Sir Joh. Trevor died on the 28 of June 1672 aged 47 years and was buried in the Church of S. Barthelmew in Smithfield London whereupon Hen. Coventrie Esq was sworn Principal Secretary in his place on the 3. of July following The said Sir Joh. Trevâ—r was Son of another Sir John Trevor of the City of Westminster Kt who after he had kept pace with the dominant party in the times of Usurpation as his said Son had done for they were both halters in the Presbyterian Rebellion and adherers to the Usurper died full of years in the said City in the Winter time before the month of Dec. an 1673. Besides the aforesaid persons were then actually created William Tayler Joh. Dan Franc. Anshenhurst Jam Innys Clem. Dolby Joh. Mathew and James Waddyng of all whom I know nothing Febr. 1. Altham Annesley of Magd. Coll. Febr. 1. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. These were the Sons of Arthur Earl of Anglesey and were to have been created had they not been absent in the Orangian Creation I shall make mention of the said Rich. Annesley among the Doct. of Div. an 1689. Mar. 21. Sir Will. Ellis of Linc. Coll. Bt. He was also nominated to be created when the Pr. of Orange honored the degree of Doct. of the Civil but was then absent Bach. of Div. Jan. 13. Joseph Sayer of Wadh. Coll. This Divine who was Son of Franc. Sayer sometimes Minister of Yattenden in Berks became Servitour of Wadh. Coll. in 1647 left it without a degree took holy Orders but from whom I know not succeeded his Father in Yattenden an 1656 resign'd it to his Brother Francis sometimes of Mert. Coll. an 1665 at which time Joseph Sayer became Minister of Newbury and of Sulham in his own Country of Berks. In the month of May 1670 he became Preb. of Bishopston in the Church of Salisbury by the death of one Will. Hobbes and under pretence of being ejected for his loyalty from his Coll which is false he got himself to be put in the roll of those which the Prince of Orange desired to be created while he was entertain'd at Oxon. About which time he by the endeavours of one Sayâ—r his Majesties chief Cook procured the rich Rectory of North-Church in Hertfordshire He hath published A Sermon preached at Reading 25 Feb. 1672 at the Assizes there holden for the County of Berks c. on Rom. 13. part of the 5 vers Lond. 1673. qu. On the 8 of Decemb. 1681 he was installed Archdeacon of Lewes in Sussex which is all that I hitherto know of him Doct. of Law Sept. 16. Isaac Vossius Son of the famous Joh. Gerard Vâ—ssius was then actually created Doct. of the Civil Law after he had been with great humanity and friendship entertained by some of the chief Heads of Colleges as his Father had been before in 1629 much about which time he was installed Canon of Canterbury This Dr. Vossius was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Tho. Viner deceased 12 May 1673 and dying in his Lodgings in Windsore Castle on the 10 of Feb. 1688 was buried there leaving then behind him the best private library as it was then supposed in the whole world He hath published several books the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodâ—eian
as yet Bach. of Div. May 22. Humph. Humphreys of Jes Coll. Jul. 9. Joh. Hinckley of S. Alb. Hall Nov. 29. Henr. Maurice of Jes Coll. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law July 2. Rich. Jones of Jes Coll. Dec. 17. Hen. Davies of S. Joh. Coll. Both these were Compounders Doct. of Phys July 10. Edw. Wrigglesworth of S. Joh. Coll. Dec. 17. Joshua Lasher of S. Joh. Coll. Doct. of Div. June 30. Thom. Ken of New Coll. July 4. Will. Jane Can. of Ch. Ch. Compounder On the 19 of May 1680 he was admitted in Convocation the Kings Professor of Div. upon the resignation of Dr. Allestree 9. Joh. Hinckley of S. Albans Hall He accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations After the conclusion of the Act were 17 Mast of Arts of Cambr. incorporated among whom were Rich. Holland of Eman. College mentioned as a Writer of both his names among the Writers in this vol. p. 433. and Tho. Wright another one of both whose names of S. Peters Coll. in Cambr. hath published The glory of Gods revenge against the bloody and detestable sin of murder and adultery c. print in 1685 and other things Creations Dec. 17. George Hickes Bach. of Div. of Linc. Coll. was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc which say that he hath been several years attendant upon the Duke of Lauderdale in his Majesties service in the Kingdom of Scotland as well as in England that he hath done remarkable service to the Church of England during his abode in that other Kingdom and hath received several marks of honour from the late Archb. of S. Andrew and the Clergy of Scotland c. Joh. Snell born at Comonell in Carrick in the Sherriffdome of Ayre in Scotland bred in the University of Glascow under Jam. Darumpley Prof. of Philosophy of which he was afterwards diplomated Mast of Arts died in the house of Mr. Benj. Cooper in Halywell in the suburb of Oxon on the sixth day of Aug. this year aged 50 years after he had spent some time there and was buried at the upper end of the Chancel under the north wall of the Chap. or Church of S. Cross of Halywell This I mention because that in his last Will and Testament he bequeathed the Mannour of Vffeton alias Olufeton alias Vlveton in the County of Warwick worth about 450 l. per an to be employed after certain years spent and moneys rais'd and paid thence for the maintenance of certain Scotch Scholars in such Coll. or Hall in Oxon that the Vicechancellour of the Univ. of Oxon Provost of Qu. Coll Master of Ball. Coll. and President of S. Johns Coll for the time being shall think fit Their number is not to be above twelve or under five to be chosen from Glascow Coll. from the number of such that had spent 3 years or two at the least there or one or two in some other Coll. in Scotland c. They are to enjoy the said exhibition about ten or eleven years and then they are to return into their own Country to get preferment there c. This estate Mr. Snell got by being first a Clerk under Sir Orlando Bridgman while he had Chamber-practice in the time of Usurpation Secondly by being Cryer of the Court of Exchecquer while the said Sir Orl. was L. Chief Baron thereof and of the Common-pleas when Sir Orl. was Ch. Justice of that Court and lastly by being Seal-bearer when he was Lord Keeper Afterwards being much esteemed for his great diligence and understanding he was employed sometimes into Scotland for James Duke of Monmouth and bore the Seal again when Anth. E. of Shaftesbury was L. Chancellour of England c. An. Dom. 1680. An. 32. Car. 2. Chanc. James D. of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Tim. Halton nominated by the Chancellours Letters dat at Kilkenny 19. Aug confirmed by Convoc 2. Oct. Proct. Charles Hawles of Magd. Coll. Apr. 21. Robert Balche of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. May 12. Thomas Hoy of S. Joh. Coll. 12. Henry Hellier of C. C. Coll. June 15. Joh. Norris of Exeter Coll. The last of these three was afterwards of All 's Coll. Joh. Barnard or Bernard of Linc afterwards of Brasn Coll. He hath published several things but such is his modesty that he 'll acknowledge none June 15. Joh. Bennet of Ch. Ch. Oct. 27. Thom. Creech of Wadh. afterwards of All 's Coll. c. Adm. 224. Bach. of Law Four were admitted whereof one was a Compounder Mast of Arts. June 23. Will. Talbot of Oriel Coll. This Divine who is Son of Will. Talbot of the City of Lichfield Gent became Dean of Worcester in the place of the most worthy and learned Dr. G. Hickes deprived for not taking the Oathes of Alleg. and Supremacy to King W. 3. and Qu. Mary in Apr. 1691. and was afterwards author of 1 A Serm. in the Cathedral Ch. of Worcester upon the monthly fast day 16. Sept. 1691 on Amos 4.21 Lond. 1691. qu. 2 A Serm. pr. before the Qu. at Whitehall 26. Feb. 1691. on Haback 1.13 Lond. 1692. qu. c. June 23. Will. Hayley or Healey of All 's Coll. He was afterward Chaplain to Sir Will. Trumbull Embass to Constantinople or to the Ottoman Port and author of A Serm. preached before the right hon George E. of Berkley Governour of the Company of Merchants trading to the Levant Seas at S. Peters Ch. in Bâ—oadstreet Lond. Jan. 30. 1686. on Prov. 8.18 Lond. 1687. qu. June 25. Joh. Gilbert of Hart Hall He was afterwards Minister of Peterborough and author of An answer to the Bishop of Condom now of Meaux his Exposition of the Cath. Faith c. Wherein the doctrine of the Church of Rome is detected and that of the Church of England expressed c. Lond. 1686. qu. To which are added Reflections on his pastoral Letter Both these are contained in 17. printed sheets July 5. Will. Davenant of Magd. Hall This Gent. was the fourth Son of Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet and taking holy Orders about the time he was Master was presented to a Living in Surrey by Rob. Wymondsold of Putney Esq with whom travelling into France in the quality of a Tutor was drown'd in the Summer time in the presence of his Pupil as he was recreating himself by swimming in a River near the City of Paris an 1681. He translated from French into English with some additions Notitia Historicorum selectorum Or animadversions upon the famous Greek and Latine Historians c. Oxon. 1678. oct Written by Franc. La Mothe Le Vayer Counsellour of State to the present King of France The eldest Brother of this Will. Davenant is Charles who became a Gent. Com. of Ball. Coll. in 1671 but receding without the taking a degree here had the degree of Doct. of the Civ Law confer'd upon him elsewhere He is author of Circe a Tragedy Lond. 1677. qu. The Prologue to it was written by Mr. Jo. Dryden