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
market Town in Glocestershire called Tewkesbury But being schismatically inclined he refused to conform to certain Ceremonies in the Church of England whereupon being silenced by Goodman his Diocesan he lived by the helps of the Brethren At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he was restored by the Committee of Religion to his said Cure where continuing till about 1645 became Preacher of the Word at S. Albans in Hertfordshire and in two years after or less at S. Faiths under Pauls in London At all which places he was much resorted to by those of the Presbyterian Perswasion He hath written and published these things following Several Sermons viz. 1 The downfal of Antichrist c. Sermon on 2 Thes 2.8 Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to John White Esq and the rest of the Committee for Religion 2 Judahs joy at the oath Covenant Serm. on 2 Cor. 15.15 Lond. 1641. qu. 3 The red horse or the bloodiness of war Serm. at Pauls 16 Jul. 1648. on Rev. 6.4 Lond. 1648. qu. c. Vindiciae voti or a Vindication of the true sense of the national Covenant in answer to the Protestation protested Lond. 1641. qu. Vindiciae Eccles Anglicanae or ten cases resolved which discover that tho there be need of Reformation in yet not of Separation from the Churches of Christ in England Lond. 1644. qu. ded to Mr. Rich. Capell sometimes of Magd. Coll. Proofs that the King may without impeachment of his Oath touching the Clergy at his Coronation consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy and the Objections against it in two several Treatises printed at Oxon fully answered Lond. 1646. qu. in one sheet Or thus as 't is in another Title Case of Conscience resolved Wherein it is cleared that the King may without impeachment of his oath touching the Clergy at his Coronation consent to the abrogation of Episcopacy Lond. 1646. qu. in one sh and half Astrologo-mastix The vanity of judicial Astrology Lond. 1646. qu. Vindiciae Paedo-Baptismi or a Vindication of Infant Baptism in a full answer to Mr. Tombes 12 Arguments alledged against it in his Exercitation c. Lond. 1646. quart Character of an old English Puritan or Nonconformist Lond. 1646. in 1 sh in qu. Vindiciae vindiciarum or a Vindication of his vindication of Infant Biptism from the Exceptions of Mr. Harrison in his Paedo-Baptisme oppugned and from the exceptions of Mr. Tombes c. Lond. 1647. qu. A Catechisme in brief questions and answers c. Lond. 1647. oct Touching Supremacy in Causes ecclesiastical shewing how that the Power civil and ecclesiastical may act without encroachment of each other Written 1647. printed in qu. An Exercise wherein the evil of Health-drinking is by clear and solid Arguments convinced Lond. 1648. in two sh in qu. The Sifters sieve broken or a Reply to Dr. Boughen's sisting his Case of Conscience c. touching the Kings Coronation Oath Lond. 1648. qu. Answer to Mr. John Goodwins Might and Right well met wherein is cleared that the action of the Army in secluding many Parliament men from the place of their discharge of trust and the imprisoning of some of them is neither defensible by the rules of solid reason nor religion Lond. 1649. qu. in 5 sheets Whereupon Jo. Goodwin came out with a Reply the same year intit Might overcoming Right c. What other things our Author Joh. Geree hath written I know not See more of him in Will. Pemble among these Writers in 1623. p. 405. All that I have more to say of him is that he died in his house in Ivey lane near to Pater-noster-row in London in the latter end of the year in Febr. as it seems sixteen hundred forty and eight but where buried unless in S. Faiths Church before mentioned I cannot tell The Minister who preached his funeral Sermon told the Auditory that he died poor whereupon there was a Collection of money made among the Brethren for his Children This is the same Mr. Geree a Minister whom a noted Author reports to have died with grief and trouble for the Murder of K. Ch. 1. ROBERT WELDON a man of parts during his stay in the University took the degrees in Arts as a Student of Ch. Ch. that of Master being compleated in 1615. Afterwards he became Rector of Stony-Stratford in Leicestershire wrot and published The Doctrine of the Scriptures concerning the original of Dominion Wherein Gods perpetual propriety in the sovereignty of the whole earth and the Kings great charter for the administration thereof by authoritative Records in both the Testaments c. is jure divino Lond. 1648. qu. In which book the Author shews himself to be well read in various sorts of Learning and by some passages therein a Loyalist and a sufferer for the Kings cause GEORGE HAKEWILL son of John Hakewill of the City of Exeter Merchant was born in the parish of S. Mary Arches within the said City and educated in Grammar learning there became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in the beginning of the year 1595 and in that of his age 16 where he became so noted a Disputant and Orator that he was unanimously elected Fellow of Exeter Coll. at two years standing Afterwards he proceeded in Arts applyed himself to the deep researches in Philosophy and Divinity entred into the sacred function travelled beyond the seas and at his return became as noted for his Preaching and Disputes as before he was for Philosophy In 1610 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and the next year proceeded in Divinity Afterwards he became the first sworn Chaplain that attended Prince Charles by whose endeavours I presume he became Archdeacon of Surrey an 1616 which was the highest dignity that he enjoyed being hindred I presume from rising higher for his zealous opposing the match of the Infanta of Spain with his Master the Prince The story of which was this After he had with some pains written a small Tract against that match not without some Reflections on the Spaniard which could not be pleasing to the King he caused it to be fairly transcribed by another hand Which done he unknown to the King presented it to the Prince The Prince after he had perused it shew'd it to the King who being offended at it commanded Tho. Murrey the Princes Tutor and Secretary the Author Hakewill William his brother and all others who knew of or were consenting to it to be committed to custody in Aug. 1621 whence being soon after released our Author Hakewill was dismist from his attendance on the Prince So that tho his Learning was accounted by the generality polite his Philosophy subtile and Divinity profound yet in this particular he was esteemed very rash and imprudent A certain Author tells us that when he presented the said MS. to the Prince he should say Sir I beseech you make use of this by reading it your self but if you shew it to your Father I shall be undone for my
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
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
Ap. 1646. and once as it seems before the Commons 30. July 1645 and his sermons without doubt were published but such I have not yet seen nor a little thing printed in tw going under the name of Thom. Ford entit The Anatomy of the times This Tho. Ford of Exeter died in the latter end of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried on the 28 day of the same month in the Church of S. Lawrence before mention'd near to the bodies of his Wife Bridget and several of his Children that had been there buried before him I find one Thomas Ford who entitles himself Philothal to be author of Virtus rediviva A Panegyrick on our late K. Ch. 1. c. attended with several other pieces from the said pen viz. 1 A theatre of Wits being a collection of Apothegms 2 A century of familiar Letters 3 Loves Laberynth a Trag. Comedy 4 Fragmenta Poetica or poetical diversions concluding with a Panegyrick on his sacred Majesties return Lond. 1660. oct But whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot yet tell nor whether he was the same T. Forde who translated into English Lusus fortunae c. Lond. 1649. oct GEORGE DIGBY son and heir of John Digby Earl of Bristow was born in the City of Madrid in Spain in the month of Oct. 1612 made his first entry into Magd. Coll. 15. Aug. 1626 and was then entred a Noble man there At which time and so long as he continued there he was very familiar and held great correspondence with Pet. Heylyn Fellow of that House by whose directions and conversation he improved himself much in several sorts of learning In 1636 just after his Majest had left Oxon where he had been splendidly entertained by the members of the University and by the Archbishop at S. Johns Coll he was among other Persons of honor actually created Master of Arts being then esteemed a Person of good parts and in hopes to do the State service In the beginning of the Long Parliament of which he was a member he became one of the eminent Darlings of the People as being a Person discontented and therefore was appointed one of the Committee to prepare a charge against the most noble and eminently conspicuous Thomas Earl of Strafford 11. Nov. 1640 and appointed one of the managers of the evidence against him But upon a discovery of the unjust practices against him he became his Advocate tho all the advantage he got by it was that he lost his own esteem both among the House of Commons and among the Faction From that time he became their declared enemy by being a bold friend of truth and justice which he shewed in a Speech at the passing of the Bill of Attainder against the said Earl 21. Apr. 1641 ordered to be burnt as I shall tell you anon and therefore was posted up by some in the head of those called Straffordians He was also a friend to the Bishops and their function when both were called into question about that time and a zealous enemy to the Covenant All which do appear in speeches uttered in good language and sweetness On the 10. of June 1641. he was expell'd the House of Commons not only for exceptions taken by them for words spoken concerning an oath which Colonel G. Goring confessed he had taken to be secret to saying he was a perjur'd Person but because he was the day before made a Baron and introduced into the upper House the very same 10. of June In the beginning of January following he went on a message from his Maj. to Kingston upon Thames to certain Gentlemen there some say to give Coll. Tho. Lundsford a visit in a Coach with 6 horses and no other equipage with him save only a servant riding by him and a Companion in a Coach But his appearance there being represented to the Parliament as in a warlike manner and every Coach horse reckoned for a Troop the House of Commons made a complaint thereof on the 10. of the same month to the House of Lords Whereupon it being voted that he then took up Arms for his Majesty he was proclaimed Traitor banished and made the publick hatred of the Puritans or Presbyterians But the King soon after leaving the Parliament because of their desperate proceedings he drew by degrees many Lords and Commons after him together with this Lord from beyond the Seas and therefore he was excepted by the Parliament in a treaty of peace with the King at Oxon in the latter end of the year 1642. In 1643 he was made one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty and high Steward of this University in the place of Will Lord Say who adher'd to the Parliament and in the next year he would have been question'd for an Incendiary by the Parliament sitting at Oxon because of a Mutiny that hapned among the Soldiers of the Garrison there but it was dissolved before the members could do any thing in the matter In the latter end of 1645 he being then a stirring active man he went into Ireland where he did good service for his Majesty and underwent great hazards of his life but upon the declining of the Kings cause he left that place and on the 24. of Oct. 1648 he was exempted from pardon by the Parliament Afterwards upon the death of his Father he became Earl of Bristow and Knight of the Garter being then in exile beyond the Seas suffering much by the loss of his Estate After the Kings return he was restored to what he had lost and the year after was installed with others Knight of the said Order became a frequent Speaker in Parliaments and an enemy to Clarendon while he was Lord Chancellour Under his name were printed these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in Parl. 9. Nov. 1640. concerning grievances and a triennial Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Printed in the 1. vol. of John Nalson's Impartial Collection c. p. 505. 2 Speech in the H. of Com. to the bill of triennial Parliaments 19. Jan. 1640. Lond. 1641. qu. Remitted into the third part of Joh. Rushworth's Historical Collections 3 Sp. in the H. of Com. concerning Bishops and the City Petition 9. Feb. 1640. Lond. 1640. in 4. sh in qu. Remitted into the said 3d. part of Hist Coll. with other discourses of our author Digby This Sp. spoken 9. Feb. is called the L. Digby's third speech 4 Sp. in the House of Com. to the bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford 21. Apr. 1641. Lond. 1641. in two sh in qu. Remitted into John Rushworth's Trial of the E. of Strafford p. 50. and into Joh. Nalson's Impart Coll. vol. 2. p. 175. On the 13 of July following it was ordered by the H. of Com. that one part of the said speech should be publickly burnt on Friday after at 10. of the clock in the morn by the hands of the common hangman in the Pallace-yard at Westminster and another part
to a senior Master Soon after he left Oxon and became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards tho not in Orders from a Bishop he was made Minister of S. Mary Magdalens Church in Milkstreet in London which place he keeping till the day of S. Barthelmew an 1662 left it because he would not conform Whereupon retiring to Hoxton alias Hogsden near London preached in a Conventicle there to his dying day being always held in great esteem for his piety by those of his perswasion He hath written Spiritual antidote for a dying soul Lond. 1665. oct Gods terrible voice in the City by plague and fire Lond. 1667. oct Of Christs certain and sudden appearance to judgment Lond. 1667. oct and several times after the sixth edit came out in 1683. and the book it self is grounded on Rev. 22.20 last part Answer to the sandy foundation of Will Pen the Quaker Defence of the Trinity Satisfaction by Christ and Justification of Sinners Lond. 1667. in tw or sixt Wells of salvation opened or words whereby we may be saved With advice to young men Lond. 1669. oct Explicatory Catechisme or an explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechisme wherein all the Answers are taken asunder under Questions and Answers the Truths explained and proved c. Lond. 1673 c. oct The true Christians love of the unseen Christ or a discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians Lond. 1677. 84. in tw Appendix concerning Christs manifestation of himself to them that love him Printed with The true Christians love c. Holy and profitable Sayings Lond. 1680. Printed on one side of a sh of paper Several sermons as 1 Fire and Brimstone from Heaven from Earth in Hell or three discourses 1. Concerning the burning of Sodome and Gomorrah formerly 2. Concerning c. Lond. 1670. oct contained in several sermons 2 Wherein doth appear the blessedness of forgiveness and how it may be attained on Psal 32.1 Lond. 1674. 76. qu. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate published by Sam. Aneley 3 Sermon on 1 Tim. 4.1.2 and part of the third verse This is the seventeenth sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in a Conventicle in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 Serm. on Isa 57.1.2 Printed 1667 oct This I have not yet seen nor certain controversial Writings between him and Dr. VVill. Sherlocke This Mr. Vincent died at Hogsden before mentioned in the Parish of S. Leonards Shoreditch in the month of Octob. the 15 day as it seems in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the new Churchyard belonging to Cripplegate Parish as his Brother Nathaniel hath informed me at which time Sam. Slater preached his funeral sermon on Heb. 13.7 afterwards published under the title of Vincentius redivivus in the beginning of which he tells us that the said Mr. Vincent was buried 27 of Oct. 1678. SILAS DOMVILLE or D'omvill alias Taylor son of Silvanus Taylor a Committee man for Herefordshire in the time of the rebellion a busie man against the Kings party and a Commissioner for Herefordshire and certain Counties in Wales for the ejecting of scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School-Masters was born at Harley near Muchwenlock in Shropshire on the 16 of July 1624 bred in the Free-Schools at Westminster and Shrewsbury became a Communer of New Inn in the beginning of the year 1641 but being soon after called thence without the taking of a degree upon the eruption of the Civil Wars he took part with the Rebels upon his fathers instance and at length became a Captain under Colonel afterwards Major General Edw. Massey and when the Wars ceased he was made by his fathers endeavours a Sequestrator of the Royalists in Herefordshire and had in those times great power there which he used so civilly and obligingly that he was beloved of all the Kings party His father setled upon him a good estate in Church Lands which he had bought and had the moity of the Bishops Pallace in Hereford setled on him the other part Col. John Birch had got into his clutches on which he laid out much mony in building and altering Upon the rising of Sir George Booth in Cheshire in the beginning of Aug. 1659 he received a Commission to be Captain of a Troop of Horse for the Militia of the City of Westminster and shew'd himself very active in that employment but at the Kings return he lost all and was in a manner ruined Soon after by the favour of certain persons whom he had before obliged he became Commissary of the ammunition and warlike provision at Dunkirke and five years after about 1665 he was by the endeavours of Sir Paul Neile and others made keeper of the Kings Store-houses for Shipping and other marine matters at Harwich a Sea-port Town in Essex where he continued to the time of his death This person being a great lover of Antiquities did in the times of usurpation ransack the Library belonging to the Church of Hereford of most or at least the best Mss therein and did also garble the Mss in the Library of the Church at Worcester and the evidences pertaining thereunto among which as I have heard he got the original grant of K. Edgar whence the Kings of England derive their right to the soveraignty of the Seas which is printed in Mr. Seldens book called Mare Clausum lib. 2. He had got also into his hands a quarto Ms of great antiquity which treated of the Philosophers stone in Hieroglyphicks with some few lat verses underneath And being limn'd with very great curiosity it was presented to the view of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 who offer'd 100 l. for it but was refused by the owner This person commonly called Captain Taylor hath written The History of Gavel-kind with the Etymology thereof containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the antient Britains notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans Saxons Danes and Normans Lond. 1663. qu. Observations and remarks upon many special occurrences of British and English History Printed with the former book At the end of which is an Anonymus Ms by him publish'd entit Brevis relatio de Willielmo Comite Normannorum c. The original of which is in the Archives of Bodlies Library communicated to him by Dr. Tho. Barlow the head keeper of that Library He had also written and published several pamphlets before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but his name being not put to would never after own them He also laboured four years or more in collecting various antiquities as Armes monumental Inscriptions c. in many places of Herefordshire during his employment there under the two Protectors Which being now or at least lately in the hands of Sir Edw. Harley of Brompton Brian may serve as an Apparatus for him who shall hereafter write the
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
East gate of Oxon for selling the said libel or libels Our Author Dobson hath also published Sermon at the funeral of the Lady Mary Farmor Relict of Sir Will. Farmor Bt who died at Lond. 18 Jul. 1670 and was buried 5 of Aug. following at Eston-Neston in Northamptonshire on 1 Thess 4.13 Lond. 1670. qu. He died in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred eighty and one but where he was buried unless at Corscomb I know not TIMOTHY TAYLOR son of Tho. Taylor of Hempsted in Hertfordshire was born in that County became a Student in Qu. Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1634 at which time he was of S. Maries Hall holy orders and then became Vicar of Almeley in Herefordshire where he preached twice every Sunday but the Chancellour of the Dioc. commanding him to turn his afternoons Sermon into a Catechisme Lecture he upon that occasion setled himself to study the second Commandment more elaborately and industriously than before he had done and so became dissatisfied concerning Episcopacy and the Ceremonies of the Church Afterwards being troubled in the Bishops Court for Nonconformity he did by consent leave Almeley and lived about three years in a small Peculiar exempt from Episcopal Jurisdiction called Longdon in Shropshire where continuing till the Rebellion began he sided with the Presbyterians afterwards with the Independents and became Pastor to a Congregational Church at Duckenfield in Cheshire Thence removing into Ireland about 1650 at which time he took the Engagement he became Minister of Carickfergus there and much resorted to by Presb. and Independents After the restauration of his Maj. Ch. 2 he was silenc'd and thereupon removing to his hired house called the Grange near Carickfergus carried on the trade of preaching in private whereby he gained a comfortable subsistance In 1668 he removed to Dublin took charge of a Church of Dissenters there as Colleague with Sam. Mather and after his death with Nath. Mather his botherâ— and continued in that employment till his death He hath written A defence of sundry Positions and Scriptures alledged to justifie the congregational way Lond. 1645. qu. It contains about 130 pages Defence of sundry Positions and Scriptures for the congregational way justified the sec part Lond. 1646. It contains about 46 pages The running title on the top of every leaf is Congregational way justified In the composition of both which books he had the joint help of Sam. Eaton of Cheshire Soon after was published by a Presbyterian Minister called Rich. Hollingworth of Manchester in Lancashire a book intit Certain Queries propounded to such as affect the Congregationall way and especially to Mr. Sam. Eaton and Mr. Tim. Taylor c. Lond. 1646. qu. What other things our author Taylor hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died of a Lethargie on the 31 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and one and that he was buried on the third of June following in the Church of S. Michan in Oxmantowne near to Dublin GEORGE NEWTON a Ministers son was born in Devonshire entred a Batler of Exet. Coll. in Mich. tetm 1617 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1624 entred into holy orders became Minister of Hill-Bishops near Taunton and in Apr. 1631 was made Vicar of Taunton S. Magd. by the presentation of Sir Will. Portman Bt and Rob. Hill Gent. After his settlement in that Vicaridg he behaved himself conformible for a time but upon the breaking out of the rebellion he sided with the Presbyterians having alwaies been puritanically educated preached against the K. and his followers when Taunton was garrison'd for the Parliament and became a mighty man in that interest and much followed and adored by factious people In 1654. he was by ordinance appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners for the ejecting of such whom the godly party called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in which employment he sufficiently gave an helping hand to the undoing of many loyal persons and afterwards by his and the preaching of other Presbyterians and Independents who ridiculously make preaching only their religion the said Town of Taunton became the most factious place in all the Nation In 1662 about S. Bartholmews day he was deprived of his Vicaridg for Nonconformity and for the present that place was supplied by Mr. Thom. James fellow of All 's Coll. in Oxon much frequented by the loyal party there and by the Gentry adjoyning Afterwards our author Newton preaching in several Conventicles very seditiously he was seised on imprison'd for several years and justly suffer'd as a mover of sedition He hath written and published An exposition with notes unfolded and applyed on Joh. 17 delivered in sermons preached weekly on the Lords day in the Congregration in Taunton Magdelene Lond. 1660 in a pretty large fol. It is dedicated to Col. John Gorges Governour of the City of London-Derry in Ireland whom the author calls his brother Several Sermons as 1 Magna Carta or the Christians charter epitomized on Psal 91.16 Lond. 1661. in tw 2 Serm. at the fun of Mr. Jos Allein on Luke 23.28 Lond. 1672. and 77. oct c. An account of the godly life and practice of Mr. Joseph Allein and of the course of his Ministrie in Taunton Lond. 1672. and 77. oct See more in Jos Allein among these writers p. 299.300 This G. Newton died in sixteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Taunton S. Magd. Soon after was a mon with inscription put over his grave the contents of which follow Hic jacet corpus Georgii Newton Artium Magistri qui obiit 12. Junii 1681 anno aetatis 79 postquam officium Evangelistae in hoc oppido viz. Taunton per 50 annos fideliter prestiterat Non fictis maestam lachrymis conspergite tumbam Pastoris vestri nam tegit ossa pii Vestra Salutifero planxit peccata flagello Delicti sensu corda gravata levans Absolvet pensum sancti mercede recepta Nunc caeli regno ut stella corusca micat GEORGE WHARTON descended from an antient and gentile family living in Westmorland richly posses'd with lands and inheritances therein was born at Kirbykendal in that County 4. Apr. 1617 spent some time in the condition of a Sojourner in Oxon. 1633. and after but his natural Geny to Astronomy and Mathematicks was so predominant that little or nothing of Logic and Philosophy could take place in him Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony prosecuted his genius which was assisted by Will. Milbourne Curate at Bransepeth near Durham and by the name of George Naworth Wharton of West-Awckland published Almanacks But being soon discontented at the then growing rebellion he turn'd all his inheritance into money espous'd his Majesties cause and interest and raised a gallant Troop of horse therewith After
the 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
be in Latine or in another Language In the year 1608 he went according to summons to Rome where being appointed for the mission of Ireland he published his profession of the four vows and then being sent back to the Low Countries he went again into Ireland where he spent many years in confirming the Rom. Catholicks in their antient Religion and in gaining proselytes to his opinion At length the Rebellion breaking out there in 1641 of which he was a great Abettor and Encourager was after the Rebels began to be subdued forced to fly for shelter into Woods and on Mountains and to creep and sculk into every place for fear of being taken and hanged by the English Soldiers In the beginning of the year 1643 he was forced to change his place and retire for safety to a moorish and boggy ground where sheltring himself under a Shepherds cote no better than a hovel which could not keep out the wind and rain lived there in a very sorry condition and had for his bedding a pad of straw which would be often wet by the rising and coming in of the water Notwithstanding all this misery he seemed to be very cheerful and was ready to instruct the young ones about him and comfort others But being in a manner spent and his age not able to bear such misery long was with much ado taken away And being conveyed to some of the brethren into a better place expired among them on the Calends of Febr. the same year but where or in what place buried my informer tells me not By his death the R. Catholicks lost a pillar of their Church being esteem'd in the better part of his life a great ornament among them and the greatest defender for their Religion in his time GEORGE SANDYS a younger son of Edwin Archb. of York was born at Bishops Thorpe in that County and as a member of S. Maries Hall was matriculated in the University in the beginning of Dec. 1589 and in that of his age eleven at which time Henry his elder brother was remitted into the said Matricula but both as I conceive received their tuition in Corp. Ch. Coll. How long George tarried there or whether he took a degree it appears not In the month of Aug. 1610 he began a long journey and after he had travelled thro several parts of Europe visited divers Cities particularly Constantinople and Countries under the Turkish Empire as Greece Egypt and the Holy Land Afterwards he made a view of the remote parts of Italy and the Islands adjoyning That being done he went to Rome the Antiquities and Glories of which place were in four days time shew'd unto him by Nich. Fitzherbert sometimes an Oxford student who as I have before told you ended his days in 1612. Thence our Author went to Venice from whence he first set out and so to England Where digesting his notes and enterlarding them with various parts of Poetry according to the fashion of that time published them in English under this title Sandys Travailes c. in four books Lond. 1615. 1621. 27. 32. 52. 58. 70. 73. c. all in folio and illustrated with several Maps and Figures except the first edit The said Travailes are contracted in the second part of Sam. Parchas his books of Pilgrims lib. 8. The Author upon his return in 1612 or after being improved in several respects by this his large journey he became an accomplish'd Gent. as being Master of several Languages of a fluent and ready discourse and excellent Comportment He had also naturally a poetical fancy and a zealous inclination to all humane learning which made his company desir'd and acceptable to most vertuous men and Scholars of his time He also wrot and published A paraphrase on the Psalms of David and upon the Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testam Lond. 1636. oct reprinted there in fol. 1638 with other matters following under this title Paraphrase upon the divine Poems which contain a paraphrase on Job Psalmes of David Ecclesiastes Lamentations of Jeremiah and songs collected out of the Old and New Test The said Paraphrase on Davids Psalmes was one of the books that K Ch. 1. delighted to read in as he did in G. Herberts Divine poems Dr. Hammonds Works Hookers Ecclesiast policy c. while he was a Prisoner in Carisbroke Castle in the Isle of Wight Paraphrase on the divine Poems viz. on the Psalmes of David on Ecclesiastes and on the Song of Solomon Lond. 1676. oct Some if not all of the said Ps of David had vocal Compositions set to them by the incomparable Hen. and Will. Lawes with a thorough bass for an Organ in 4 large books or volumes in qu. He the said G. Sandys translated also into English 1 The first five books of Ovids Metamorphosis Lond. 1627. 32. 40. fol. methodized and expressed in figures 2 Virgils first book of Aeneis printed with the former 3 Tragedy of Christs passion Lond. 1640. written in lat by Hug. Grotius to which Trag. Sandys put also notes What other things he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he being then or lately one of the Gent. of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. gave way to fate in the house of his neice the Lady Margaret Wyat dau of Sir Sam. Sandys and widdow of Sir Francis Wyat Kt. Grandson to Sir Tho. Wyat beheaded in Qu. Maries Reign called Boxley abbey in Kent in the beginning of March in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the parish Church there near to the door on the south side but hath no remembrance at all over his grave nor any thing at that place only this which stands in the common Register belonging to the said Church Georgius Sandys Poetarum Anglorum sui saeculi facile princeps sepultus fuit Martii 7. stilo Anglic. an dom 1643. One Tho. Philpot M. A. of Clare Hall in Cambr. hath in his Poems printed at Lond. 1646. in oct a copy of verses not to be contemn'd on his death I find another George Sandys contemporary with the former and a Knight who having committed felony was executed at Tybourne as it seems on the fourth of March 1617. HANNIBAL GAMMON a Londoner born and a Gentlemans Son became a Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1599. and in that of his age 17 took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Minister of S. Maugan in Cornwall where he was much frequented by the puritannical party for his edifying and practical way of preaching He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Gods smiting to amendment c. preached at the Assizes in Launceston 6. Aug. 1628. on Esay 1.5 Lond. 1629. qu. 2 Praise of a godly woman a wedding Sermon c. Lond. 1627. q. 3 Sermon at the Lady Roberts funeral 10. Aug. 1626. c. These two last I have not yet seen nor another Sermon preached at the Assizes in Launceston
c. He hath also written Lectures on the three books of the Punick War in Luc. Florus which are now about to be published At length departing this mortal life on the first of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and seven was buried on the third day of the same month in Exeter Coll. Chappel His study of books and collections in MS. came after his death into the hands of his old Friend Francis Rouse Provost of Eaton Coll. near to Windsore and his Lectures in MS. to Bodleys Library He left also behind him a Widow and Children who soon after became poor and whether the Females lived honestly 't is not for me to dispute it HENRY MASON was born in a Market Town in Lancashire called Wygan or Wiggin became a Servitour of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of 1592 elected one of Humph. Ogles Exhibitioners thereof 2. Nov. 1593 took one degree in Arts two years after entred into Holy Orders and became Chaplain of Corp. Ch. Coll. in 1602. The next year he proceeded in Arts and seven years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences At length being made Chapl. to Dr. Jo. King B. of Lond. was by his endeavours as I suppose made Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft in that City where by his exemplary life edifying and judicious preaching and writing he did great benefit and was by all that knew him accounted a true Son of the Church of England His writings are these The new art of lying covered by Jesuits under the veil of Equivocation Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1634. in tw Christian humiliation or a treatise of Fasting with a brief discourse of Lent Lond. 1625. qu. Epicures Fast or a short discourse discovering the licentiousness of the Rom. Ch. in her religious Fasts Lond. 1626. in qu. Tribunal of the conscience or a treatise of examination Lond. 1626. 27. qu. Short discourse declaring the condition of Worldly cares with some remedies appointed for them Lond. 1628. Certain passages in Mr. Sam. Hoards book entit Gods love to mankind c. Answer'd by Dr. Twisse under the name of Additions in his Riches of Gods love to the vessells of mercy c. as I have told you before in Dr. Twisse Hearing and doing the ready way to blessedness Lond. 1635. in tw Rules for right hearing of Gods word printed with the former book Several Sermons as 1 The Christians fast c. on Matth. 4.2 Lond. 1627. qu. 2 Contentment in Gods gifts or some Sermon notes leading to equanimitie and contentation on Joh. 20.3.4.5.6 Lond. 1630. in tw 3 Sermon on Luke 11.28 This I have not seen nor a MS. in fol. containing matters of Divinity which he left in the hands of his acquaintance Dr. Gilb. Sheldon afterwards Archb. of Cant. From whom it came to Dr. Dolben Bish of Roch. afterwards of York in whose possession it was when he died At length when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant in 1641 our Author Mason through vexation occasion'd by that Party was forced soon after to leave his Rectory of S. Andrew beforemention'd purposely to make room for a godly brother Afterwards he retired with his goods and books to Wygan his native place where living in obscurity for some years not without vexation by the Rebels surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to him that first gave it in his house situate and being in a street there called Scoles in the beginning of August in sixteen hundred forty and seven and in that of his age 74 or thereabouts and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in the yard or cemeterie close to the ground-work of the pillar or buttress at the east end of the Church at Wygan He had before given to the poor of that Town 13 l. per an to bind poor children apprentices his librarie of books to the School and a considerable number of Bibles to the poorer sort of people for their children there JOHN VERNEUIL Vernulius was born in the City of Bourdeaux in France educated in the University of Mountalban till he was M. of Arts flew from his country for religion sake being a Protestant and went into England where he had his wants supplied for a time by Sir Thom. Leigh Afterwards he retired to the University of Oxon. in 1608 and on the fourth day of Nov. in the same year being then 25 years of age he was matriculated in the University as a member of Magdalen Coll. from which House as from others he received relief In 1625 he was incorporated Master of Arts being then second-keeper of Bodleys Library where he performed good service for that place and wrot for the use of the Students there these things following Catalogus Interpretum S. Scripturae juxta numerorum ordinem quo extant in bibl Bodl. Oxon. 1635. qu. sec Edition The first was began by Dr. Tho. James Elenchus authorum tum recentium quam antiquorum qui in 4 libros sententiarum Thomae Aquinatis summas item in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni de casibus conscientiae nec non in orationem Dominicam Symbolum Apostolorum Decalogum scripserunt This is printed with the Cat. Interpretum c. an 1635. Nomenclator of such tracts and sermons as have been printed and translated into English upon any place or book of the Holy Scripture now to be had in Bodleys Library Oxon. 1637. 42. in tw He also translated from French into English A Tract of the Soveraign Judge of controversies in matters of religion Oxon. 1628. qu. written by Joh. Cameron D. D. of Saumaur Divinity Professor in the Academy of Mountalban afterwards Principal of Glascow in Scotland And from English into Latine a book entit Of the deceitfulness of mans heart Genev. 1634. oct written by Dan. Dyke of Cambridge The said Joh. Verneuil died in his house within and near the East-gate of the City of Oxon in the latter end of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty and seven and was buried on the last day of the same month in the Church of St. Peter in the East within the said City at which time our publick Library lost an honest and useful servant and his children a good Father ROBERT PINK Son of Hen. Pink of Kempshot in the Parish of Winslade in Hampshire was born there educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1596 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line was admitted Bach. in that faculty 1612 afterward studied Divinity was elected Warden of his Coll. 1617 proceeded in Divinity and was much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. for his dexterity in disputing as by K. Ch. 1. for his eminent loyalty He was a zealous defender of the University privileges and liberties especially when he performed the office of Vicechancellour and esteemed by all that knew him most eminent for his knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity He hath written Quaestiones selectiores in Logicâ Ethicâ
on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Laurence in the Jewry before mention'd At which time Mr. Tho. Manton one of the chief Presbyterians in London preached his Funeral Sermon which was afterwards made publick It was observed by many and looked upon as miraculous by the Brethren that when the members of the Rump Parliament had passed their votes for his death did happen one of the most terrible thunder claps that was ever heard Also that that day on which he suffer'd was seen a most clear sky but soon after his death which was about two of the clock in the afternoon the sky began to thicken and at last was envelop'd in a black and dismal Cloud and all that night and till the next morning such thunder lightning and tempest hapned as if the machine of the world had been dissolving This was the observation of the Presbyterian who stuck not to say thereupon that God was angry at these things that had passed c. Yet the Independent Anabaptist and others made another construction of the matter which was published soon after in the common Mercury called Politicus viz. That on the 22 of Aug. the old Tyrant Ch. 1. did first erect his Standard at Nottingham and then Mr. Love and his Brethren did well to cry it down But it being down and themselves not set up as they expected then they deserted their first principles and cryed up his son whose interest however disguised is the same with his fathers and he by their instigation making way into England entred and erected his Standard at Worcester also upon the 22 of Aug. 1651 upon which very day likewise it was that Mr. Love who having help'd to beat down the old malignant Standard and then turning Apostate to set up the new one lost his head upon Tower-hill as a just judgment of God for his implacable Apostacy and Enmity and for a terror to all the men of his Confederacy c. At the same time and upon the same Scaffold was beheaded Mr. Jo. Gibbons engaged in the same plot but as for others engaged therein and to be brought to their tryal viz. Col. Joseph Vaughan sometimes a Leather-seller in London Lieut. Col. ..... Jackson Capt. Hugh Massey brother to Maj. Gen. Edw. Massey Dr. Drake Mr. Th. Case Mr. Arthur Jackson Mr. W. Jenkyns Minister of Ch. Church in London Mr. Th. Watson Mr. Ralph Robinson Mr. Rich. Heyrick c. were upon the motion of a certain noble person pardoned for Life and Estate and freed both from Sequestration and Imprisonment CLEMENT WALKER was born at Cliffe in Dorsetshire educated in Acad. learning in Ch. Church as I have been informed by his son Joh. Walker sometimes a Gent. Com. of Linc. Coll. but in what year or years of the Lord I know not for his name occurs not in the Matricula either under Ch. Church or Broadgates Hall adjoyning a receptacle mostly in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for Dorsetshire men Afterwards leaving the University without a degree he retired to an Estate he had at Charterhouse near Wells in Somersetshire where living in good repute was esteem'd among the Gentry in those parts for his knowledge in secular affairs and always taken to be as really he was an enemy to the Puritans as making it his frequent theme to declaim against them Before the Civil War commenc'd he was made Usher of the Exchequer but when the Puritans or Presbyterians were like to carry all before he closed with them was elected one of the Burgesses for the City of Wells upon the retreat to his Maj. of Sir Ralph Hopton and Sir Edw. Rodney who were elected to serve for that City in the Parliament began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640. Afterwards he became a zealous Covenantier and was Advocate to that Congregation of Murderers that adjudged Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher Citizens of Bristow to death having had as 't is said his hands stayned with his own Wives blood before he dipped them so deep in those Martyrs at Bristow About that time he and W Prynne inseparable Brethren became great Enemies to Col. Nath. Fiennes for his cowardly surrendring up the City of Bristow and were the chief men that brought him to a tryal for his life for the same During the time that our Author Walker sate in the Parliament he was a curious Observer and diligent Enquirer after not only the Actions but the Counsels of those times He was well read also and notably vers'd in the Liberties and Privileges of Parliaments and in the Statute Law of this Kingdom as those that knew him well have often affirmed it And when he saw how the Independent Faction began to sway and govern all things then did he become a bitter enemy to Fairfax the General for his folly to be led by the nose by O. Cromwell and to Cromwell for his devilish hypocrisie falsness tyranny c. and an indefatigable enemy in his Writings and Prayers against the said Independents that were then the Saints militant But so it was that tho he shew'd himself a zealous Presbyterian yet he was very serviceable in many things to the Parliament and did not at all get as others did as his own words which I believe are true averr it thus I have served you the Parliament faithfully from the beginning and have taken as much pains and run as many hazards as most men in your service wherein I have lost my health and above seven thousand pounds of my estate without any penny of compensation as other men have had Nor have I laid my hands upon any mans money or goods or had any gainful Imployments from you I was contented to serve my Country gratis and some little honor I had gotten thereby whereof you have now rob'd me c. by a roaving Accusation shot at random at me c. Thus our Author which service of his was performed till 1647 when he saw the Independent Faction to grow mighty he being then an elderly man and of a low stature His works that are published are these An Answer to Col. Nathan Fiennes relation concerning his surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow printed 1643 in 2 sheets in qu. But for some misconstruction made of a clause in the said answer the Author was suddenly seiz'd and sent Prisoner to the Tower of Lond. by the Parliament where he continued for some time Articles of impeachment and accusation exhibited in Parliament against Col. Nath. Fiennes touching his dishonorable surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. W. Prynne had a hand also in drawing up of the said articles at the end of which is his letter to the said Fiennes True and full relation of the prosecution arraignment tryal and condemnation of Nath. Fiennes late Colonel and Governour of the City and Castle of Brist before a Counsel of War held at S. Albans during 9 days space in
hundred fifty and one Afterwards Col. Edm. Ludlow who was Lieut. Gen. of the Army there did execute the Office of Deputy for a time by the appointment of the superior Power On the 9 of Dec. the Parliament ordered a Bill to be brought in for the setling of 2000 l. per an on the Wife and Children of Ireton out of the Lands belonging to George Duke of Bucks and on the 17 of the said month his carcass being landed at Bristow was pompously conveyed towards London and laying in state for a time in Somerset house in the Strand all hung with black was hung over the common gate an Atchievment commonly called a Hatchment with this Motto under his Arms depicted thereon Dulce est pro patria mori which was englished by an honest Cavalier thus It is good for his Country that he is dead On the sixth day of Febr. following his body was interr'd with great state in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster at which time John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. preached not without some blasphemy on Dan. 12.13 and had about that time Elegies made on his death and a stately tomb erected over his grave with the Effigies of him and his wife thereon After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. his body with that of Oliv. Cromwell were taken up on Saturday 26 Jan. 1660 and on Munday night following were drawn in two several Carts from Westminster to the Red Lyon in Holbourne where they continued that Evening The next morning the carcass of Joh. Bradshaw President of the High Court of Justice which had been with great solemnity buried in S. Peter's Church at Westminster 22 Nov. 1659. was carried in a cart to Holbourn also and the next day following that which was the 30 of January on which day K. Ch. 1. was beheaded in 1648. they were drawn to Tybourne on three several Sledges followed by the universal outcry of the people Afterwards they being pulled out from their Coffins were hanged at the several angles of that triple tree where they hung till the sun was set After which they were taken down their heads cut off to be set on Westminster Hall and their loathsome trunks thrown into a deep hole under the Gallowes where they now remain At the same time Iretons tomb was broken down and what remained over the Graves of Cromwell and Bradshaw were clean swept away and no footstep left of their remembrances in that royal and stately burial place of our English Kings While this Ireton lived came out a Pamphlet intit Independency stript and whipt or Ireton's Petition c. 1648. qu. and after his death another called The Kingdom of Christ to the Parliament from 1649 to 1652 with the name of Hen. Ireton Deputy of Ireland in the Title page But these I have not yet seen FRANCIS WOODCOCK son of Rob. Woodcock was born in the City of Chester applied his mind to Academical studies in Brasn Coll. in Easter term 1629 aged 15 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders from a Bishop and then left the House and had a Cure of Souls bestowed on him But being always puritannically affected he sided with the Presbyterians upon a defection of a predominant party in the Long Parliament an 1641 became a Lecturer of S. Laurence Ch. in the Jewry in London a Covenantier one of the Assembly of Divines and at length by ordinance of Parliament dat 10. Jul. 1646 was made Parson of S. Olaves in Southwark having for some time before exercised his function in that place He hath written and published The two Witnesses in several Lectures at S. Laurence Jewry on Rev. 11. with the great question discussed Whether the two Witnesses were slain or no. Lond. 1643. qu. made extant by vertue of an order of the Committee of the H. of Commons bearing date 27 of Apr. the same year This book was afterwards reprinted Several Sermons as 1 Christs warning-piece giving notice to every one to watch and keep their garments Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 30 Oct. 1644. on Rev. 16.15 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Lex Talionis or God paying every man in his own coine Fast-serm before the H. of C. 30 Jul. 1645 on 1 Sam 2.30 latter part Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Joseph parallel'd by the present Parliament in his sufferings and advancement Thanksgiving sermon before the H. of C. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. Forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Gen. 49.23 24. Lond. 1646. qu. What other things he hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and one or thereabouts was buried in the Church of S. Olaves befotementioned One of his sirname was by Act of Parl. dat in Mar. 1659 60 appointed among several other Ministers to approve of Ministers of the Gospel according to the Presbyterian way which Act came soon after to nothing He is the same person who was afterwards a frequent Conventicler and has one or more Sermons extant in The morning exercise methodized Lond. 1676. qu. THOMAS RYVES who writes himself in some of his books Rivius was the fourth son of John Ryves of Damery Court in Dorsetshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. as a native of Langton in the said County of Dorset after he had served two years of probation an 1598 where applying his studies to the faculty of the Civil Law took the degrees therein that of Doctor being compleated 1610 about which time he was an eminent Advocate in Doctors Commons and the Court of Admiralty Afterwards he was one of the Masters of Chancery and Judge of the Faculties and Prerogative Court in Ireland where he was held in great esteem for his knowledge in the Laws At length upon the coming to the Crown of K. Ch. 1. he was made his Advocate and by him knighted was engaged in his Cause when the grand Rebellion broke out wherein he gave good evidence of his Valour and notwithstanding he was then well stricken in years yet he received several wounds in Fights and Skirmishes for his Cause He was accounted a thorough-pac'd Scholar in all polite learning was a pure Latinist and Master of a smooth stile He understood also the Common Law so well that he was as fit to plead in Westminster Hall as in his proper Courts and therefore his and the assistance of Dr. Duck were required by his Maj. at the Treaty for Peace in the Isle of Wight He hath written and published The Vicars plea or that a competency of means is due to Vicars out of the several Parishes Lond. 1620. quart Regiminis Anglicani in Hiberniâ defensio adversus Analecten lib. 3. Lond. 1624. qu. Imperatoris Justiniani defensio contra Alemannum Lond. 1626. oct Historia navalis antiqua lib. 4. Lond. 1633. oct Hist navalis media lib. 3. Lond. 1640.
the room of Gabr. Grant deceased But this Person being esteemed by the Puritan a Licenser of Popish books a purger of orthodox passages against Popery Papists Arminianisme a great creature of Dr. Laud and a practicer of Popish ceremonies he was in the beginning of the rebellion thrown out of his Vicaridge upon the Petition and Articles exhibited against him in the Long Parliament by his Parishioners â—as imprison'd in the Compter Ely house and in the Ships forced to fly and his Wife and Children turned out of doors At length being reduced to great want he was forced to keep a private School in Wiltshire under and in the name of his Son John afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to his Vicaridge Canonry and other preferments which he before had lost enjoying them in quietness to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Two Sermons preached in the Parish Ch. of S. Giles in the Fields by way of preparative upon the articles of the Creed The first is on 1. Cor. 13.13 and the other on Heb. 11.6 Lond. 1642. qu. Out of which were some of the Articles framed against charging him as guilty of Arminianisme 2 Sermon tending to Peace preached before his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight during the time of the Treaty on Rom. 12.18 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 Funeral Sermon prepared to be preached at the funeral of Walt. Norbane Esq at Calne in Wilts 13. Apr. 1659 on Rom. 6.5 Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also printed a Serm. on Rom. 5.5 Lond. 1660. qu. and another on Acts 23.5 Lond. 1663. qu. But these two I have not yet seen Others also go from hand to hand in Ms and as I remember I have seen one or two in Dr. Barlowes Library He the said Dr. Haywood was buried in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Pulpit on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Tutor while he was Fellow of S. Johns Coll a general Scholar and a meek man in temper and conversation Near to his grave was his beloved Son John Haywood Master of Arts before mention'd who died 22. of Feb. following buried WILLIAM CREED Son of Joh. Creed wan born in the Parish of S. Laurence within the borough of Reading in Berks elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1631 age 16 years or thereabouts made the Senior Quadragesimal Collector when Bach. of Arts being then Fellow of that College Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty entred into the sacred function and became an eloquent Preacher In the beginning of the rebellion he adheer'd to the cause of his Majesty and in 1644 he was elected to and executed the procuratorial office of this University Two years after he was actually created Bach. of Div. for the Sermons he had preached at Oxon before the King and Parliament and in the time of Usurpation he became Rector of East-Codeford or Codeford S. Marie in Wiltshire In the month of June 1660 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then restored he was made the Kings Professor of Div. in this University in the beginning of July following Archdeacon of Wilts in the place of Tho. Leach some years before deceased and on the 13 of Sept. the same year Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisbury He was a defender of the Church of England in the worst of times was a good Schoolman Divine and a noted Disputant He hath written The Refuter refuted or Dr. Hen. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 defended against the impertinent cavils of Mr. Hen. Jeanes Lond. 1659-60 qu. Several Sermons as 1 Judah's purging of the melting pot an Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Isay 1.25.26 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Judah's return to their Allegiance c. on 2. Sam. 19.14.15 Lond. 1660. qu. c. He gave way to fate in his lodgings at Ch. Ch. in Oxon of which Ch. he was Canon as being Reg. Prof. of Div. on the 19 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried with solemnity in the next North Isle joyning to the choire of the said Cathedral near to the reliques of Democritus Junior being then accompanied to his grave by all the Degrees of the University See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his Archdeaconry of Wilts succeeded Thom. Henchman very nearly related if not Son to Dr. Henchman Bishop of Sarum in the beginning of Aug. the same year and in his Professorship of Divinity Dr. Rich. Allestrie Canon of Ch. Ch. GEORGE KENDALL received his first being in this world at Cofton in the Parish of Dawlish or Dulish near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in Grammar learning in the said City where his Father George Kendall Gent mostly lived was entred a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1626 and was made Prob. Fellow in the fourth year following being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards by indefatigable industry he became a most noted Philosopher and Theologist a Disciple and Admirer of Prideaux and his Doctrine and as great an enemy to Arminius and Socinus as any At the change of the times in 1642 being then Bach. of Div he closed with the Presbyterians then dominant notwithstanding the King that year to mitigate his discontent had zealously recommended him to the Society to be elected Rector of Exeter Coll. on the promotion of Prideaux to the See of Worcester and about 1647 he became Rector of Blissland near to Bodmin in Cornwall But being eagerly bent against that notorious Independent John Goodwin left that Rectory some years after and obtained the Ministry of a Church in Gracious-street in London purposely that he might be in a better capacity to oppose him and his Doctrine In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. and upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. he left London and became Rector of Kenton near Exeter which he kept till the Act of conformity was published in 1662 at which time giving it up he retired to his House at Cofton where he spent the short remainder of his days in a retired condition His works are these Collirium or an ointment to open the eyes of the poor Caviliers This Pamphlet which I have not yet seen was published after the Cavaliers had been defeated in the West by the Forces belonging to the Parliament Vindication of the doctrine commonly received in Churches concerning Gods intentions of special grace and favour to his elect in the death of Christ Lond. 1653. fol. Of Christs prerogative power prescience providence c. from the attempts lately made against them by Mr. John Goodwin in his book entit Redemption redeemed Digressions concerning the impossibility of Faiths being an instrument of justification c. These two last things are printed with the Vindication of the doctrine c.
Sancti Sanciti or the common doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints as who are kept by the power of God through faith unto Salvation vindicated from the attempts lately made against it by John Goodwin in his book entit Redemp redeemed Lond. 1654. fol. This book is animadverted upon by the said John Goodwin in his Triumviri or the Genius Spirit and deportment of three men Mr. Rich. Resbury Mr. John Pawson and Mr. George Kendall in their late writings against the free grace of God in the redemption of the world c. A fescu for a Horn-book or an Apologie for University learning as necessary to Country preachers Being an answer to Mr. Hornes books wherein he gores all University learning Printed in fol. with Sancti Sanciti before mention'd Fur pro Tribunali Examen Dialogismi cui inscribitur Fur praedestinatus Oxon. 1657. oct De doctrina Neopelagiana Oratio habita in Comitiis Oxon. 9. Jul. 1654. Twissii vita victoria De scientia media brevicola dissertatio in qua Twissii nomen à calumnis Francisci Annati Jesuitae vindicatur Dissertatiuncula de novis actibus sint ne Deo ascribendi These three last things are printed and go with Fur pro Tribunali At length after a great deal of restless agitation carried on for the cause our Author died at Cofton before mention'd on the 19 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Chappel joyning to his house there leaving then behind him the character of a Person well read in Polemical Divinity the character also of a ready Disputant a noted Preacher a zealous and forward Presbyterian but hot-headed and many times freakish I shall make mention of another George Kendall by and by NICHOLAS CLAGETT was born within the City of Canterbury entred a Student of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the year 1628 took one degree in Arts went afterwards to Magd. Hall and as a member of that House took the degree of Master of that faculty being then esteemed by the generality thereof a very able Moderator in Philosophy Afterwards at two years standing in that degree he became Vicar of Melbourne in Derbyshire and some years after Rector of S. Maries Church at S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolk where he was held in great veneration by the precise party for his edifying way of preaching and for his singular piety He hath written The abuses of Gods grace discovered in the kinds causes c. proposed as a seasonable check to the wanton libertisme of the present age Oxon. 1659. qu. He paid his last debt to nature on the twelfth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and three aged 56 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Chancel of S. Maries Church before mentioned He left behind him a Son named William Clagett educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge of which Univ. he was Doct. of Divinity afterwards Preacher to the honourable Society of Greys inn Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty and Lecturer of S. Mich. Basinghaugh This Person who died at London in the beginning of the year latter end of March 1688 hath published several things as 1 A discourse concerning the operations of the holy spirit with a confutation of some part of Dr. Owens book upon that subject In three parts In the second part of which is An answer to Mr. Jo. Humphreys animadversions on the first part 2 Notion of Idolatry considered and confuted Lond. 1688. c. Another Son also he left behind him named Nich. Claget M. of Arts who is now or at least was lately Preacher at S Maries in S. Edm. Bury before mentioned Author of a Serm. intit A perswasive to peaceableness and obedience c. Lond. 1683. qu. and of another preached at S. Edm. Bury before William Bishop of Norwich c. 4. May 1686. c. JOB ROYS Son of a Father of both his names a Scrivener of London and he the Son of another Job of Lubenham in Leycestershire was born in the County of Middlesex in the Parish as it seems of S. Giles Cripplegate an 1631 educated partly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks founded by John Royse 1563 became a Student in Pembroke Coll. 1650 and soon after was elected one of the Postmasters of Mert. Coll. where continuing under the tuition of a severe Presbyterian became well qualified with the spirit took one degree in Arts an 1655 left the Coll. soon after and retiring to the great City became a puling Levite among the Brethren for whose sake and at their instance he wrot and published The spirits Touchstone or the teaching of Christs spirit on the hearts of Believers being a clear discovery how a man may certainly know whether he be really taught by the spirit of God c. Lond. 1657 in a pretty thick octavo What other books he published besides this which was esteemed an inconsiderable canting piece I know not nor any thing else of the Author only that first if you had set aside his practical Divinity you would have found him a simple shiftless and ridiculous Person and secondly that dying in sixteen hundred sixty and three was buried in some Church in or near London being then weary of the change of the times and the wickedness forsooth that followed DAVID JENKYNS received his first being in this world at Hensol in the Parish of Pendeylwyn called by some Pendoylon in Glamorganshire became a Commoner of S. Emunds Hall in the year 1597 at which time several Welshmen were Students there After he had taken one degree in Arts he retired to Greys-Inn studied the Common Law and when Barrester was resorted to by many for his Counsel In the first of Car. 1. he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader but refused to read Afterwards he was made one of the Judges for South Wales continued in that office till the Rebellion broke out at which time he either imprison'd divers persons in his Circuit or condemn'd them to dye as being guilty of High Treason for bearing Arms against the King At length being taken Prisoner at Hereford when that City was surprized by the Parliament Forces in Decemb. 1645 he was hurried up to London and committed Prisoner to the Tower Afterwards being brought to the barr in Chancery he denied the Authority of that Court because their Seal was counterfeited and so consequently the Commissioners thereof were constituted against Law whereupon being committed to Newgate prison he was impeached of Treason and brought to the barr of the Commons house but denying their Authority and refusing to kneel was for his contempt fined 1000 l. and remitted to his prison and thence translated to Wallingford Castle About that time he used his utmost endeavours to set the Parliament and Army at odds thereby to promote the Kings Cause but it did not take effect according to his desire Afterwards passed an Act for his Tryal in the High Court of Justice an 1650 so that our
mention'd in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in the Ch. yard there belonging to S. Maries Church aforesaid In his Rectory succeeded his Kinsman Tho. Ellis Bac. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll Son of Griffin Ellis of Dolbehman in Caernarvanshire who having been well vers'd in British Histories and a singular lover of Antiquities made many additionals to the Historie of Cambria published by Dav. Powell as I have before told you which being so done the book was licensed and put into the Press at Oxon. But by that time he had printed 20 sheets or more out came Percie Enderbie with his book entit Cambria triumphans c. Or antient and modern British and Welsh Historie Lond. 1661. fol. In which book Tho. Ellis finding that Enderbie had seized upon those materials that he had collected for the fabrick of his work he did desist from going any further and caused what had been printed of his work to be sold for wast paper He died at Dolbehman in the beginning of the year in Apr. 1673 and was buried in the Church belonging to that town As for Enderbie who was an Author of no considerable note as having not had that just education which is requisite for a genuine Historian hath done his work but very meanly being mostly a scribble from late Authors and gives not that satisfaction which curious men desire to know And therefore I am perswaded that had Ellis finished his work 't would have been more acceptable to Scholars and intelligent Persons as having had more opportunities and advantages by reason of his birth and a continual succession of his family in Wales to know such matters than Enderbie who was a stranger for he was born at or near to the City of Lincoln and knew little or nothing of Wales till he setled there by a clandestine Marriage with the Daughter of Sir Edw. Morgan of Lantarnam in Monmouthshire Baronet but upon some encouragement received from certain Gentlemen and from the Library at Lantarnam he undertook it partly for fame but more for money sake This Person who translated into English The Astrologer anatomiz'd or the vanity of Star-gazing Art discovered written by Benedict Pererius died at or near Carleon in Apr. 1670 leaving some other things as 't was said fit for the press but if they be no better than his Cambria triumphans 't is no matter if they suffer the same fate as the papers of Tho. Ellis did Besides the before-mention'd John Ellis was another of both his names and a writer bred in Cambridge and afterwards Vicar of Waddesdon in Bucks Father to Philip Ellis bred in Westminster School but in no University in England because he had changed his Religion for that of Rome consecrated a titular Bishop in the Chappel belonging to S. James house in Westminster on Sunday 6. of May 1688. MATTHEW GRIFFITH was born of gentile Parents in London became a Commoner of Brasn Coll. in the beginning of May 1615 aged 16 years or more took one degree in Arts as a member of Glouc. Hall then holy Orders and soon after became Lecturer of St. Dunstans Church in the West under the inspection as 't is said of Dr. John Donne whose favourite he was Afterwards he was made Rector of S. Mary Magd. near Old Fish-street in London by the presentation of the Dean and Chapt. of S. Paul where shewing himself a grand Episcoparian was in the beginning of the rebellion sequestred from his Rectory plundered and imprison'd in Newgate whence being let out he was forced to fly but taken and afterwards imprison'd in Peter-house At length getting loose thence he retired to the King at Oxon by virtue of whose letters he was actually created D. of D. in June 1643 and made one of his Chaplains Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings cause he returned to London and there by stealth read and continued prayers and other ordinances according to the Ch. of England to the poor Cavaliers during the Usurpation for which he suffer'd seven violent assaults as 't is said and five imprisonments the last of which was in Newgate in the beginning of the year 1660. After the Kings return he was restored to his Rectory was made Preacher to the honorable Societies of the Temples and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire but whether he was made a Prebend of a Church or a Dean which he much deserved I know not He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Sermon on Psal 37. ver 1. Lond. 1633. oct 2 Pathetical perswasion to pray for publick peace on Psal 122.6 Lond. 1642. qu. For several passages in which Sermon he suffered imprisonment 3 Sermon touching the power of the King on Eccles 8.4 Lond. 1643. qu. His name is not set to it but the general report then and after was that 't was his 4 The fear of God and the King pressed in a Serm. at Mercers Chappel 25. March 1660 on Prov. 24.21 Lond. 1660. qu. c. In which Serm. shewing himself too zealous for the Royal cause before Gen. George Monk durst own it was to please and blind the fanatical party imprison'd in Newgate but soon after released There was an answer made to this by John Milton entit Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled The fear of God c. Whereupon came out a little thing called No blind guides c. addressed to the Author in two sheets in Rog. Lestrange his Apologie Lond. 1660. qu. 5 Communion Serm. preached at Serjeants inn before the Judges on Rom. 12.4.5 Lond. 1661. qu. 6 Catholic Doctor and his spiritual Catholicon on 1. John 1.7 Lond. 1662. qu. 8 The Kings life-guard an anniversary Sermon preached to the honorable society of both the Temples 30. Jan. 1664. on 1. Sam. 26.9 Lond. 1665. qu. Besides which he hath others that are extant but such I have not yet seen as The Samaritan revived another called The blessed birth c. He hath also written Bethel or a forme for families in which all sorts of both sexes are so squared and framed by the word as they may best serve in their several places for useful pieces in Gods building Lond. 1654. qu. Brief historical account of the causes of our unhappy distractions and the only way to heal them Lond. 1660. oct This is added to a second edition of the Sermon called The fear of God and the King c. This most zealous and loyal Person departed this mortal life at Bladon before mention'd on the 14. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there He had before broken a vein in the earnest pressing of that necessary point study to be quiet and follow your own business In the said Rectory of Bladon Woodstock being a Chappel of ease to it succeeded Henry Savage D. D. Master of Balliol Coll. of whom I shall make mention among these writers under the year 1672. THOMAS WARMESTRY son
but such I have not yet seen But all this by the by as for Jam. Howell he published Cottoni posthuma Divers choice pieces of that renowned Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton c. Lond. in oct and the late Kings Declaration in lat Fr. and Engl. an 1649. At length after he had taken many rambles in this world in his younger years and had suffered confinement in his last gave way to fate in the beginning of Novemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried on the north side of the Temple Church in London near the round walk Soon after was a monument set up in the wall over his grave with this inscription thereon Jacobus Howell Cambro-Britannus Regius Historiographus in Anglia primus qui post varias peregrinationes tandem naturae cursum peregit satur annorum famae domi forisque huc usque erraticus hic fixus 1666. This monument was pulled down in 1683 when the said Temple Church was beautified and repaired JOHN GLYNNE third Son of Will. Glynne Esq was born at Glyn-Llyvon in Caernarvanshire the antient seat of his Ancestors bred in the Coll. school at Westminster went full ripe in Grammar learning to Hart Hall in Mich. term 1621 aged 18 years where continuing about 3 years he retired to Lincolns Inn became Barrister a Counsellor of note and Bencher Afterwards he was made Steward of Westminster Recorder of London and in 1640 was elected twice a Burgess for Westminster to serve in those two Parliaments called that year In the last of which commencing 3. of Nov. he was appointed one of those doughty Champions to bait the most noble and worthy Thomas Earl of Strafford in order to bring him to the Block which being done he shewed himself a great enemy to the Bishops and their function a zealous Covenantier a busie man in the Assembly of Divines among whom he sometimes sate and what not to promote his interest and gain wealth So that being then well known to be an useful member for carrying on the blessed cause he was made Clerk of the Petty bag in Sir Edw. Wardour's place a known Royalist esteemed to be then worth 1000 l. per an and what other places he could not take because of his profession he got them to be confer'd on his creatures and kindred In 1647 he with other Parliament men took a Pique against the Army and would needs have them disbanded whereupon they impeached him and ten more of high treason on the 16 of June the same year and forthwith by order of Parliament they were sent Prisoners to the Tower In January following he was deprived of his Recorders place but then wheeling about and flattering the Independents he was made Serjeant at Law in Oct. 1648 and in July following Will. Steel Esq was elected Recorder in his place not as 't is supposed without consideration given to Glynne In the beginning of the year 1655 he was sent into the West Hen. Rolls Ch. Justice refusing to arraign that brave and valiant Gent. Col. John Penruddock and others his Associats taken at South Moulton after the rising of the Cavaliers at Salisbury by Article-breaking Unton Croke For which good service as 't was then called and his complying principles to advance the Protectors interest he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Upper Bench To which office he was sworn 15 June 1655 by Fiennes and L'isle Commissioners of the Great Seal The last of which did then make a learned speech wherein he spoke much in commendation of the good government as he term'd it that they then lived under About that time our Author Glynne was made one of Olivers other House that is House of Lords and so long as that Person lived he was much favoured by him After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made his eldest Serjeant at Law by the corrupt dealing of the then L. Chancellor and on the 16. of Novemb 1660 he by the name of John Glynne of Henley Park in Surrey c. received the honour of Knighthood Under his name are these things following extant Divers discourses in the managing of the evidence against Tho. E. of Strafford See Joh. Rushworth's Trial of the said Earl Replication in the name of all the Commons of England to the general Answer of Tho. Earl of Strafford c. 13 July 1641. Lond. 1641. in 2 sh and half in qu. Several Speeches as 1 Speech at the presenting the Sheriffs of London in Octob. 1644. 2 Speech to the point of Jus divinum and the Presbyterian Government This was spoken for an whole hour together in Nov. 1644 upon the advice of the Ass of Divines that the Presbyterian Government was jure divino c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most ancient and legal form of Government in a conference had at Whitehall with Oliver Lord Protector and a Committee of Parliament in Apr. 1658 and made good by several arguments Lond. 1660. oct besides other things which I have not yet seen He departed this mortal life in his house situated in Portugal Row in Linc. Inn Fields near London on the 15 of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried with great solemnity being accompanied to his grave by three Heralds of Arms in his own Vault under the Altar in the chancel of the Church of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster as I have been informed by his son Sir Will. Glynne of Bisseter alias Burncester in Oxfordshire Baronet who dying 28 of Aug. 1690 was buried also in the same Vault See more of Sir Jo. Glynne in Sir Will. Jones in the first Vol. under the year 1640. p. 544. I have seen a book intit A true accompt given of the proceedings of the right honorable Lord Glyn the Lord Ch. Justice of England and the honorable Baron Rog. Hill one of the Barons of the Exchequer in their Summer Circuit in the Counties of Berks Oxon c. Lond. 1658. qu. But the Reader must know that this being writ in drolling verse by one that called himself Joh. Lineall the L. Glynne was so far from having any knowledge of it or consenting to its writing that there was great enquiry after the Author to have him punished for his Abuses of and smart Reflections on him GEORGE GRIFFITH was born at Penrhyn in Caernarvanshire 30 Sept. 1601 educated in Westm School elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1619 took the degrees in Arts became an eminent Tutor in his house and a Preacher in these parts Afterwards Dr. John Owen Bishop of S. Asaph to whom he was Chaplain conferr'd on him the Rectory of Llanvechen in Montgomeryshire which he changed for Llanymynech situated partly in Shropshire and partly in Montgomeryshire In 1635 he proceeded D. D. being then or about that time Canon and as some say Archdeacon of S. Asaph and Minister of Llanchinio in the said County of Montgom In the time of the Rebellion he lost all or most of his
in his Gondibert which cost him his nose and thereupon some Wits were too cruelly bold with him and his accident as Sir Jo. Mennes Sir Jo. Denham c. After the death of Ben. Johnson he was created Poet Laureat an 1637 At which time Tho. May the translator of Lucan a candidate for that place was put aside which ever after especially when the times were changed caused him in his writings to be an enemy to the King and his Cause In the month of May 1641 our author D'avenant being accused to be one of the conspirators to seduce the Army against the Parliament he absconded but upon the issuing out of a Proclamation to have him and others taken he was apprehended at Faversham in Kent and committed to the custody of a Serjeant at Arms. Among the said conspirators Hen. Percy Esq Brother to the Earl of Northumberland was one who afterwards lived and died a perfect Hobbist at Paris Hen. Jermyn Esq afterwards E. of S. Alban Sir John Suckling Kt. c. were two more who all escaped But D'avenant being bailed in July following he fled towards France and in his way thither he was seized on by the Mayor of Canterbury and strictly examined upon which Sir John Mennes hath a pleasant Poem After he had spent some time there he returned was entertained by William Marquess of Newcastle and by him made Proprefect or Lieutenant General of his Ordnance In Sept. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. near to Glocester that City being then besieg'd at which time Sir William was in great renown for his Loyalty and Poetry But upon the declining of the Kings cause and all things thereupon especially the Church being visibly tending to ruine he retir'd again into France changed his Religion for that of Rome and setling for a time in Paris where Charles Prince of Wales then was he began to write his Romance in verse called Gondibert and had not wrot scarce two books but being very fond of did print them with a large Epistle to Hobbes of Malmsbury and Hobbes's excellent Epistle to him before them The Courtiers who were then with the said Prince could never be at quiet for the discourse had about this piece which was the reason why some there George Duke of Buckingham Sir John Denham c. made Satyrical verses on him and his poem Afterwards having laid an ingenious design to carry a considerable number of Artificers chiefly Weavers from France to Virginia being encouraged thereunto by Henr. Maria the Qu. Mother of England who got leave for him so to do from the K. of France he did effect it so far that he and his company were ship'd in their way thither and had got on the main Ocean but being soon after seized on by certain Ships belonging to the Parliament of England he was carried Prisoner first to the Isle of Wight an 1650 and afterwards to the Tower of London in order to be tried for his life in the High Court of Justice an 1651 but upon the mediation of Joh. Milton and others especially two godly Aldermen of York to whom he had shewed great civility when they had been taken prisoners in the North by some of the Forces under William Marquess of Newcastle he was saved and had liberty allow'd him as a prisoner at large At that time Tragedies and Comedies being esteemed very scandalous by the Presbyterians and therefore by them silenced he contriv'd a way to set up an Italian Opera to be performed by Declamations and Musick And that they might be performed with all decency seemliness and without rudeness and profaneness John Maynard Serjeant at Law and several sufficient Citizens were engagers This Italian Opera began in Rutland-house in Charterhouse-yard and was afterward translated to the Cock-pit in Drewry-lane and delighting the eye and ear extreamly well was much frequented for several years So that he having laid the foundation of the English Stage by this his Musical Drammas when plays were as damnable things forbidden did after his Majesties restauration revive and improve it by painted sceenes at which time he erected a new company of Actors under the patronage of James Duke of York who acted several years in a Tennis court in Little Lincolns inn Fields He hath written and published The tragedie of Albovine King of the Lombards Lond. 1629 qu. Just Italian Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. Cruel Brother Trag. Lond. 1630. qu. Coelum Britannicum Masque at Whitehall 18. of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones drew it up Triumphs of Prince D'amour A masque presented by his highness at his pallace in the middle Temple the 24 of Feb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu. Platonick Lovers Tr. Co. Lond. 1636. c. The Wits Com. Lond. 1636 c. Britannia Triumphans A masque presented at Whitehall by the Kings Maj. and his Lords on Sunday after Twelfth night an 1637. Lond. 1637. qu. In this Masque Sir W. Davenant was assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his Majesties works Temple of Love Masque before the Queen at Whitehall Salmacida Spolia A Masque presented to the K. and Qu. at Whitehall 21. Jan. 1639 Lond. 1639. qu. The Subject was set down by D'avenant and Inigo Jones the invention ornament scenes c. by the said Jones and what was spoken or sung was by the said D'avenant then her Majesties servant and the musick belonging to it composed by Lewis Richard Master of her Majesties Musick Unfortunate Lovers Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu. Madagascar with other poems Lond. 1648. oct 2d Edit Love and honour Tr. Co. Lond. 1649 qu. A discourse upon Gondibert an heroick poem Par. 1650. in tw This was written by way of pref to his Gondibert in prose dat at the Lower in Paris 2. Jan. 1649 50. To which is added the answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury Gondibert an heroick poem in 3. Books Lond. 1651. qu. On the first two finished before the author took his voyage towards Virginia Abr. Cowley hath an excellent copy of verses and so hath Edm. Waller which is remitted into his Poems on several occasions printed at Lond. 1668. p. 166.167 The third book of the said Gondibert or most part of it was finish'd during his imprisonment in Cowes Castle in the Isle of Wight an 1650. But such who took themselves to be the Wits of that time as Sir Joh. Denham Jo Donne Sir Allen Brodrick c. did club together and made abusive verses on that poem in a little book entit Certain verses written by several of the authors friends to be reprinted with the second edition of Gondibert Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh and an half whereupon Sir W. D'avenant came out with a little thing intit The incomparable Poem Gondibert vindicated from the Wit-cabals of four Esquires Clinias Dametas Sancho and Jack pudding Lond. 1653. oct in 1. sh Which tho it seems to be written by D'avenants friend yet he himself was the
Lat. and Greek and such books having too few buyers in England none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory mostly consisting of Dissenters wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies To God and you a sacrifice Not long after was published his life written by Mr. Rich. Baxter who wrot also the introduction Rich. Alleine Rich. Faireclough George Newton his Widow Theodosia Alleine and two conforming Ministers who conceal their names From which Sermon and canting farce or life especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos Alleine was and how his life was spent in actions busie forward if not pragmatical and medling without intermission The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a meer Zantippe finding Jos Alleine to be a meer Scholar and totally ignorant of Womens tricks did flatter sooth him up and woe and soon after married and brought him to her Luer After she had buried him and being not able to continue long without a consort she freely courted a lusty Chaundler of Taunton alienated his affections by false reports from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with and by three days courting they were the fourth day married as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton and so obtained him meerly to supply her salacious humour In 1â—91 our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit A sure Guide to heaven c. printed in tw RICHARD GOVE a Gentlemans Son was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1604 aged 18 years where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degree of M. of A. an 1611. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet and in Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire at which place much about the same time he taught a Grammar School In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty as some of his relations have said but I think false and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter closed so much with the Presbyterians that he became Minister of S. Davids Church there and for several years was much frequented by them About the time of his Majesties restauration he went to East Coker in Somersetshire where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter at which place he taught School for some time and afterwards was made Minister of it His works are The Saints hony-comb full of Divine truths touching both Christian belief and a Christian life in two cent Lond. 1652. oct The Communicants guide directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1654. oct Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations Lond. 1658. oct as also A Catechisme print in oct which I have not yet seen He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mention'd but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight sometimes chief Baron of the Exchecquer in and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of Ireland by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom was born within the City of Dublin but being brought thence very young at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer in England an 1617 he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster and being made full ripe for the University was sent to Trinity Coll where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm term an 1631. aged 16 years But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries and given more to cards and dice than his study they could never then in the least imagine that he could ever inrich the World with his fansie or issue of his brain as he afterwards did From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years and had been examined in the publick Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Lincolns inn where tho he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons yet he would game much and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters who rook'd him sometimes of all he could wrap or get But his Father having received notice of these matters took him severely to task with many threatnings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing Whereupon he wrot a Little Essay against Gaming shewing the vanities and inconveniencies which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation of it After his Fathers death who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey he fell to gaming again and shortly after squandred away several thousands of pounds that were left him c. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong when no body was aware or in the least suspected it Shortly after he was prick'd High Sherriff for Surrey and made Governour of Farnham Castle for the King But he being an inexpert soldier soon after left that office and retired to his Maj. at Oxon where he printed his poem called Coopers hill which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead hath a very noble prospect and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there which he mentions in that most celebrated poem In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James's in Westminster then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother and not long after was sent with William afterwards Lord Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts he return'd into England and being in some streights for by gaming and the War he had squandred away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651 he was kindly entertain'd by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton where
Archdeacon of Chichester in the place of Dr. Hammond deceased and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty All which he kept to his dying day and was ever accounted a witty and a facetious Companion He hath written and published The City match a Comedy Oxon. 1639 c. fol. The amorous War Tr. Com. Oxon. 1658. 59. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Sermon concerning Unity and Agreement in Carfax Church in Oxon. 9 Aug. 1646. on 1 Cor. 1.10 Printed 1646. qu. 2 Serm. against false Prophets on Ezek. 22.28 Pr. 1647. qu. 3 Serm. against Schisme or the separations of these times on Heb. 10.24.25 Preached in the Church of Watlington in Oxfordshire with some interruption 11 Sept. 1652 at a publick dispute held there betw Jasp Mayne D. D. and one Joh. Pendarves an Anabaptist Lond. 1652. qu. See more in J. Pendarves p. 127. A late Sermon against false Prophets vindicated by letter from the causeless Aspersions of Mr. Franc. Cheynell Printed 1647. qu. See more in Fr. Cheynell pag. 246. The Peoples Warr examined according to the Principles of Scripture and Reason c. In answer to a letter sent by a person of quality who desired satisfaction Pr. 1647. qu. These two last things with the three Sermons before mention'd were commonly bound together and sold with this general title to them Certain sermons and letters of defence and resolution c. Lond. 1653. qu. One J. M. D. D. wrot a book intit Difference about Church Government c. Lond. 1646. qu. Whether written by our Author Jasp Mayne I cannot justly tell neither whether J. M. of Oxon Author of Policy unveiled or maxims and reasons of State Printed in qu. in the times of Usurpation be the same with Jasp Mayne or another Qu. Concio ad Acad. Oxon. pro more habita inchoante Termino 27 Maii 1662 in Gal. 5.1 Sermon at the consecration of Herbert Lord Bishop of Hereford on 1 Tim. 4.14 Lond. 1662. qu. He also did render into English from the original part of Lucian's Dialogues an 1638 To which afterwards he adjoyned the other Dialogues as they were formerly translated by Franc. Hicks Lond. 1663. 64. fol And translated from Lat. into Engl. Dr. John Donn's Epigrams which our Author Mayne intit A sheaf of miscellany Epigrams Lond. 1652. oct He made his Exit on the 6 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the second isle joyning on the north side to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Over his grave was laid soon after a marble stone at the charge of his Executors Dr. Rob. South and Dr. Jo. Lamphire the short Epitaph on which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 282. b. The said Dr. Mayne by his will gave 500 l. towards the rebuilding of S. Pauls Cathedral and a 100 l. a piece to his Vicaridges of Cassington and Pyrton but nothing to the place of his Education because he as Dr. Jo. Wall had done had taken some distaste for affronts received from the Dean of his Coll and certain Students encouraged by him in their grinning and sauciness towards him JOHN DOUGHTIE was born of gentile Parents at Martley near Worcester in Worcestershire educated in Grammar learning in Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright as it seems and at 16 years of age or more became a Student in this Univ. in Lent Term 1613. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he was one of those many prime Scholars that were Candidates for a Fellowship in Merton Coll. an 1619 and being throughly sifted by Sir Hen. Savile the Warden was forthwith chosen and made senior of the Election After he had compleated the degree of M. of Arts he entred into Orders and became much frequented for his edifying Sermons In 1631 he was admitted to the procuratorial Office but before he had served four months of that year he was deprived of it and the reason why is told you elsewhere About that time he became Chaplain to the Earl of Northumberland and on the 11 of Jan. 1633 he was presented by the Warden and Society of Merton Coll. to the Rectory of Lapworth in Warwickshire where continuing till the beginning of the Civil War he left all there purposely to avoid sequestration and imprisonment and forthwith retired to the King at Oxon. Soon after meeting with Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury he preferred him to be Lecturer of S. Edmunds Church within that City where continuing about two years at which time the Kings Forces were routed in the West he retired to London and for some time found relief in the house of Sir Nath. Brent then living in Little Britaine After his Majesties Restauration he became one of the Prebendaries of Westminster Rector of Cheame in Surrey and was actually created Doct. of Divinity His works are these Discourse concerning the abstruseness of divine Mysteries together with our knowledge of them on Rom. 12.16 Oxon. 1628. qu. Disc touching Church schismes on Rom. 16.17 Printed with the former Discourse The Kings cause rationally briefly and plainly debated as it stands de facto against the irrational misprision of a deceived people Oxon. 1644 in 6 sh in qu. Phil-Iren-Alethius Velitationes polemicae Or polemical short discussions of certain particular and select Questions Lond. 1652. oct The two letters J. D. are only set to it and it was then and is taken to be of Doughties composition There is a great deal of good reading and skill in the Gr. tongue shew'd in the book Analecta sacra sive excursus philologici super diversis sacrae scripturae locis c. part 2. Lond. 1658. and 1660. in a thick oct He died at Westminster after he had lived to be twice a child on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Abbey Ch. of S. Peter there near to the body of Dr. Brian Duppa sometimes Bishop of Winchester in the Area on the north side of the Chappel of S. Edward Over his grave was soon after a stone laid with this inscription thereon Johannes Doughtie S. T. D. hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarius obiit xxv Decemb. MDCLXXII aetatis suae lxxv IMMANUEL BOURNE a Ministers son was born in Northamptonshire 27. Dec. 1590 entred in Ch. Ch. an 1607 but whether in the condition of a Student Commoner or Servitour I know not and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated not till 1616. About that time he by the favour of Dr. Will. Piers Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rector of S. Christophers Church near the Exchange in London became preacher there and was patronized in his studies and calling by Sir Sam. Tryon Kt. an Inhabitant in that parish In 1622 he was made Parson of Ashhover in Derbyshire which he kept several years and was resorted to much by the puritanical party At length when the rebellion broke forth in 1642 he sided with the Presbyterians and being
office he lick'd his fingers sufficiently and in the year after he was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London appointed by Parliament for the ejecting of ignorant and scandalous Ministers and School-Masters as they were then by the godly party so called In 1659. Nov. 1. he with Whally Goffe c. began their journey towards Scotland to give George Monke General of the Army there a right understanding of affairs in England in order to the avoiding effusion of more blood but they returned unsatisfied and on the 14. of March following he was with Edw. Reynolds and others appointed by Act of Parliament to approve of and admit Ministers according to the Presbyterian way But that being null'd at the Kings restauration he receeded to his cure at S. Magnus where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The works of Ephesus explained in a Serm. before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 27. Apr. 1642 on Rev. 2. ver 2.3 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 The nature solemnitie grounds propertie benefits of a sacred Covenant c. preached to those that were to take the Covenant 6. Oct. 1643 on Nehem. 9.38 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 The Saints thankfull acclamation at christs resumption of his great power and the initials of his kingdome Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of C. 23 Apr. 1644 for the great victory given to the parl Army under the command of the Lord Fairfax at Selby in Yorks and to other of the parl forces in Pembrokesh on Rev. 11.16.17 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Arraignment of unbelief as the grand cause of our nationall non-establishment Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 28. May 1645 on Isay 7.9 Lond. 1645. qu 5 Heaven and earth embracing or God and man approaching Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 28. Jan. 1645 on Jam. 4.8 the former part of the vers Lond. 1646. qu. 6 Joy out-joyed c. Th. giv Serm. at S. Martins in the fields 19 Feb. 1645 for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Luke 10.20 Lond. 1646. qu. 7 Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies and required duties Th. giv Serm. before both Houses of parliament L. Mayor and Aldermen and Ass of Divines 2. Apr. 1646 for recovering of the West and disbanding 5000 of the Kings horse c. on Psal 118.17 Lond. 1646. qu. Hugh Peters was the other person that held out before the said auditory on the same day on Psal 31.23 which Sermon was printed twice in 1646. Besides these he hath other Sermons which I have not yet seen viz. 1 Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 29. July 1646 At which time Jeremiah Whitaker held forth before the said House as Sam. Bolton and Simeon Ash did before the Lords 2 Thanksgiving Serm. before the Parl. at S. Marg. West Oct. 8. on Psal 111.1.2.3.4.5 3 Fast Serm. before the Parl. 24. Sept. 1656 on Jer. 4. part of the ninth verse and 4 Fast and Thanksgiving Sermon bef the parl in Aug. and Oct. 1659 c. Sermons upon other occasions as 1 Davids prayer for Solomon Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Serm. pr. 1657. 3 Farewell Serm. at S. Magnus on Rev. 3.4 Lond. 1662 oct Printed with other Farewell Sermons of certain Lond. Ministers of the presb and Indep persuasion who were ejected from their respective Churches for nonconformity on S. Barth day 1662. The names of them were Edm. Calamy Dr. Th. Manton Tho. Case Will. Jenkins Rich. Baxter Dr. Th. Jacomb Dr. Will. Bates Thom. Watson Tho. Lye and Matth. Mead. The pictures of all which are in the title page and the title in the middle of them running thus The farewell Sermons of the late London Ministers preached 17. Aug. 1662 c. Our author Jos Caryl hath also written and published Exposition with practical Observations on the book of Job delivered in several Sermons and Lectures in S Magnus Church c. Printed at Lond. in 11 Volumes in qu. Afterwards published in two large folios The first of which was printed at Lond. 1676. and the other in 1677 with the authors picture before it Which volumes are epitomised in the second vol. of Math. Poole's Synopsis Criticorum The nature and principles of Love as the end of the commandment declared in some of his last Sermons Lond. 1674. oct with an Epist prefix'd by Jo. Owen D. D. Gospel-Love Heart-purity and the flourishing of the righteous being his last Sermons Lond. 1674 75. oct He also had a prime hand in a book entit An English Greek Lexicon containing the derivations and various significations of all the words in the New Testament c. Lond. 1661 oct The others that joyned with him in this work were George some call him Thomas Cockayne Ralph Venning Will. Dell Matth. Barker Will. Adderley Matth. Mead and Hen. Jessey all Nonconformists Also a hand in another book called Saints Memorials or Words fitly spoken like apples of gold in pictures of silver Being a collection of divine Sentences by several Presbyterian Ministers Lond. 1674. oct Those parts which Caryl composed are 1 The Palmtree Christian p. 51. 2 Practical and Experimental considerations and characters of the real Christian p. 57. 3 On Gospel Charity p. 65. 4 The heart anatomized p. 74. 5 Divine Sentences or a guide to a holy life p. 77. After which in p. 109 follows his Elegy and Epitaph The other persons that had hands in the said Saints Memorials were Edm. Calamy and James Janaway whom I have and shall mention elsewhere as also Ralph Venning sometimes of Emmanuel Coll. in Cambr. who among several things that he hath published are Orthodox Paradoxes or a beleiver clearing truth by seeming contradictions Lond. 1647. tw To which is added an Appendix or the triumph of assurance over the law sinn the world wants and present enjoyments He hath also several Sermons extant as A warning to backsliders c. preached at Paules before the L. Mayor and Alderm of Lond. on Rev. 2.5 Lond. 1654 qu. c. He died on the 10 of March 1673 and was buried in the presence of very many Nonconformists at which time Rob. Bragge preached his funeral Sermon entit A Cry for Labourers in Gods harvest on Matth. 9 38. Lond. 1674. qu. At the end of which Sermon are the titles of nine books which had been written and published by Ralph Venning As for our author Jos Caryl who was a learned and zealous Nonconformist he died in his house in Bury street in London on the 25. of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and two but where buried unless in the Church of S. Magnus before mention'd wherein he had for many years posses'd his auditors with many unworthy things against K. Ch. 1. and his Son their followers and the prelatical party I know not Several elegies were made on him after his death of which two or more I have seen extant JOHN RILAND son of Rich.
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
II. felicissimo Norvicensis Episcopus quod honoris fastigium uti minime ambivit ita pietate prudentiâ comitate modestiâ loco non animo elatus maxime decoravit Pastorum merentium pater amantissimus pacis pietatisque culior devotissimus potestatis arbiter equus mitissimus Quantus fuerit Theologus tam multifaria lectione instructus quam Scripturis potens tam felix eorundem interpres fidelis Praeco silente hoc marmore Scripta eloquuntur caput eruditum os facundum cor caeleste spirantia expirante authore suavissimo cui nihil inerat duri acerbi praeter calculi stranguriaeque cruciatus quos christiana adeo atque invicta tulit side patientia ut albi lapilli licet mortis instrumenta tessera forent vitae victoriae immortalitatis ascriptus est Jul. XXIIX A. D. 1676 aetatis suae 76. Mortalitatis exuviae prope hinc depositae Augusti IX Sacellum hoc ab ipso fundatum dicatumque denuo consecravit In his Deanery of Ch. Ch. succeeded Dr. George Morley afterwards the most worthy Bishop of Winchester in his Wardenship of Merton Coll. Sir Tho. Clayton a Physitian and in his Bishoprick Dr. Anthony Sparrow of Cambridge translated from the See of Exeter THOMAS BRANKER son if I mistake not of Tho. Branker somtimes Bach. of Arts of Exeter Coll. was born in Devonshire admitted Batler of said Coll. 8. Nov. 1652 aged 17 years or thereabouts elected Probationer Fellow 30. June 1655 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards taking the degree of Master he became a Preacher but refusing to conform to the Ceremonies of the Church of England left his fellowship in 1662 retired into Cheshire where conforming and takâ—ng upon him Orders from a Bishop became Minister of Whitegate At which time being well known to William Lord Brereton for his sufficiencies in Mathematicks and Chimistry he gave him the Rectory of Tilston but he keeping that not long was afterwards made master of the well endowed School at Macclesfield in the said County where he finished his course He hath written Doctrinae Sphaericae adumbratio Ox. 1662. Usus Globorum artificialium Ox. 1662. A Table of odd numbers less than one hundred thousand shewing those that are incomposit and reâ—â—â—ving the rest into their Factors or coefficients c. This is added by Branker to a translation which he made from High-Dâ—â—ch into English of An introduction to Algebra Lond. 1668. qu. written by Rhonnius A laudable account of which Table and of the translation you may see in the Philosophical Transactions num 35. p. 688.689 See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 871. He gave way to fate in Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church at Macclesfield before mention'd leaving then behind the character of an able Mathematician WILLIAM MORICE son of Evan alias John Morice a Native of Caernarvanshire and Chancellour of the Diocess of Exeter by Mary his wife daugh of Joh. Castle of Devonshire was born in the Parish of S. Martin in the City of Exeter educated in Grammar learning there and in the beginning of the year 1619 or thereabouts he was sent to Exeter Coll. through his Mothers motion by Sir Nich. Prideaux of Souldon in that County who some years before had taken her to be his third wife where continuing in the state of a Sojourner under the tuition of Mr. Nath. Carpenter not without considerable proficiency in learning till he was Bach. of Arts was sent for home and married to one of the Grand-daughters of the said Sir Nicholas by Humph. Prideaux his eldest son deceased In the year 1640 he was put into the Commission of Peace for the aforesaid County and five years after was elected Knight for that Shire upon a recruit to serve in the Long Parliament In 1651 he was made High Sheriff of the said County in 1656 he setled himself and his family at Werington which he then or lately had purchased of Sir Franc. Drake and in 1658 he was chose a Burgess for Westport in Cornwall to serve in Richard's Parliament that began at Westminster 27. of Jan. the same year And being related by his wife to General George Monke he was intrusted by him with all his concerns in Devonshire while he was Governour of Scotland and discharged himself so faithfully and prudently therein as to recommend himself so far to the Generals esteem that on his coming into England he made choice of him for his chief if not only Confident in the management of that great affair of the Kings restauration and the rather for this reason that our author being generally esteemed a Presbyterian it would please the great Masters at Westminster who were most of that Religion Upon the said Monke's coming to London the secluded Members from all parts of the Kingdom came thither and were by his means restored to the House of Commons of which number our author Mr. Morice was one This Gentleman was somewhat allied to him as I have told you but more in his favour than his blood for he had a great opinion of his prudence and integrity He was one that much conversed with books and had then lately written one against the practice of Independent teachers who would admit none in Parochial Cures to the Lords Supper but such only as being distinguished by their separation were most peculiarly their own flock This had rendred him very grateful to the Presbyterians whose cause he seemed most to serve for the Ministers of the Church of England were generally contented with the exercise of their Religion in private Houses tho even these also were often disturbed by Soldiers and Constables who used to hale them from their very Communion Tables upon the more solemn Festivals of their despised Church rending their Surplices where any were used and tearing their Mass-Book for that was the name by which the crafty Statesman and the more jugling Gospeller taught the undiscerning multitude to call the English Liturgy into pieces The General from and before the beginning of his enterprize had pretended to be a Presbyterian and had not then renounced his faith but at that time it most behoved him to appear one and to act his part well in it for it was his last wherefore our author Morice was received into his house which much pleased the Masters at Westminster who were mostly of that Religion as I have before told you some few only excepted who by beholding the calamities of the Church and their own errors had been converted to a better esteem of Episcopacy which the learning of our author could not but favour So that he was looked upon to have the good repute only of a Presbyterian Him the General retained as his Elbow-Counsellor and a State-Blind concealing his own sense of things and very often speaking contrary to his own thoughts that so he might better understand the sense of others and take his measures accordingly About the same time Mr.
the late Wars to satisfie Sir Franc. Nethersole by what reasons he was moved to engage himself in the Parliaments War contains very many most pernicious Principles and dangerous Tenets and therefore were afterwards retracted by the Author as having been unseasonably printed Many Principles are taken out thence by many of his Adversaries and thrown in his dish and objected against him And in 1683 Jul. 21 the book was publickly burnt in the School-Quadrangle at Oxon by a decree then passed in the Convocation-house as containing several matters therein destructive to the sacred persons of Princes their State and Government and of all humane society Our Author Harrington hath also written these things following The use and manner of the Ballot Pr. on one side of a sheet of paper In the middle of which is a fair cut representing the Session of Magistrates belonging to a Commonwealth The prerogative of popular Government A political discourse in two books the former containing the first preliminary of Oceana enlarged interpreted and vindicated from all such mistakes or slanders as have been alledged against under the notion of Objections The second concerning Ordination against Dr. Hen. Hammond Dr. Lazarus Seaman and the Authors they follow Lond 1658. qu. The said Lazarus Seaman had been one of the Ass of Divines was Master of Peterhouse in Cambridge and Minister of Allhallowes Breadstreet in London Which two last places he lost after his Majesties return lived afterwards a Nonconformist mostly in Warwick-Court near Warwick-Lane in London where he died about the 9 of Sept. 1675 much lamented by the Brethren in regard he was a learned man He hath two or more Sermons extant preached before the Long Parliament and A vindication of the judgment of the reformed Churches concerning Ordination and laying on of hands c. Lond. 1647. qu. and other things Aphorismes political Lond. 1659. sec edit in two sh and an half They are in number 120. Politicaster or a comical discourse in answer to Mr. Wrenns book intit Monarchy asserted against Mr. Harringtons Oceana Lond. 1659. Brief direction shewing how a fit and perfect model of popular Government may be made found or understood Lond. 1659. in two parts The first contains 10 models the second part proposeth a model of a Commonwealth fitted unto the present state of this nation under five propositions or heads Printed in 3 sh and a half The Art of Law-giving Lond. 1659 in a little oct Pour Enclouer le canon Ibid. 1659. in one sh in qu. Discourse upon this saying The Spirit of the nation is not yet to be trusted with liberty lest it introduce monarchy or invade the libertie of Conscience Ibid. 1659. in two sh in qu. A proposition in order to the proposing of a Common-wealth or Democracie Pr. on one side of a sh of paper Discourse shewing that the spirit of Parliaments with a Councill in the intervals is not be trusted for a settlement lest it introduce monarchy and persecution for conscience Lond. 1659 in one sh and an half At the end are Certain maxims calculated unto the present state of England by the same hand A parallel of the Spirit of the people with the Spirit of Mr. Rogers And an appeal thereupon unto the reader whether the Spirit of the people or the Spirit of men like Mr. Rogers be the fitter to be trusted with the Government Lond. 1659 in one sh in qu. Of this Mr. Rogers who was a noted Anabaptist of his time I shall speak more at large in the conclusion of our author Harrington Valerius and Publicola or the true forme of a popular Commonwealth extracted è puris naturalibus Lond. 1659. in 5. sh in qu. written by way of dialogue At the end of which is A sufficient answer to Mr. Stubbe his Letter to an officer concerning a select Senate These last seven things with his Aphorismes Politicall I have seen bound all together with this general title put to them Political discourses tending to the introduction of a free and equal Commonwealth in England Lond. 1660. qu. Before which is the authors picture which shews him to be an handsome man and of a delicate curl'd head of hair Letters between him and Dr. Pet. Heylyn containing a decertation about forms of Government the power of the Spartan Ephori and the Jewish Sanhedrim Lond. 1659 in oct These letters are printed in the third part of The Letter Combate published by the said Dr. Heylyn The Rota or a model of a free state or Equal Commonwealth once proposed and debated in brief and to be again more at large proposed to and debated by a free and open Societie of ingenious Gentlemen Lond. 1660 in 4. sh in qu. Published in the beginning of Feb. 1659. About which time John Milton published a Pamphlet called The readie and easie way to Establish a Free Commonwealth Lond. 1659 60 in two sh and an half In answer to which came out a waggish censure pretended to be made by the Rota Printed in two sh in the latter end of March 1660. And a little before was a sh in qu. printed intit Decrees and Orders of the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of Oceana purposely to make the Junto of the Commonwealths men ridiculous it being then newly dispers'd upon Monks restitution of the Secluded Members of Parliament The Stumbling-block of disobedience cunningly imputed by P. H. unto Calvin removed in a Letter to the said P. H. Pet. Heylyn This Letter which hath J.H. set to it was printed in two sheets in qu. about 1659. The wayes and meanes whereby an equall and lasting Commonwealth may be suddenly introduced and perfectly founded c. Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. published in the beginning of Feb. 1659. He also translated from Lat. into English two of Virgils Eclogues and Aeneis which he thus entituled An Essay upon two of Virgils Eclogues and two of his Aeneis towards the translation of the whole Lond 1657. 58. oct and in 1659 was printed in 8o. his translation of the third fourth fifth and sixth books of the said Virgil's Aeneis This eminent author died within the City of Westminster in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Chancel of S. Margarets Church there next to the grave of Sir Walt. Raleigh under the south side of the Altar where the Priest stands Over his grave was this inscription soon after put Hic jacet Jacobus Harrington Armiger filius maximus natu Sapcoti Harrington de Rand in Com. Linc. Equitis Aurati Janae uxoris ejus filiae Gulielmi Samuel de Upton in Com. Northampton Militis qui obiit Septimo die Septembris aetatis suae sexagessimo sexto an Dom 1677. Nec Virtutes nec animi dotes Arrha licet aeterni in animam amoris dei coruptione eximere queant corpus c. The said Sir Sapcote Harrington was younger brother to Sir Jam. Harrington of Ridlington in Rutlandshire Baronet sons of Sir Edw. Harrington Baronet
that t was no character of an Assembly but of themselves At length after it had slept several years the author publish'd it to avoid false copies It is also reprinted in a book entit Wit and Loyaltie revived in a collection of some smart Satyres in verse and prose on the late times Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr. Cowley Sir Joh. Birkenhend and Hudibras alias Sam Butler He hath also several scatter'd copies of verses and translations extant to which are vocal compositions set by Hen. Lawes as 1 Anacreons Ode called The Lute Englished from Greek and to be sung by a Bass alone 2 An anniversary on the nuptials of John Earl of Bridgwater 22. Jul. 1652. He hath also extant A Poem on his staying in London after the Act of banishment for Cavaliers and another called The Jolt made upon the Protectors Cromwell being thrown out of the Coach seat or box of his own Coach at what time for recreation sake who would needs forsooth drive the Coach himself in Hyde Park drawn by six great German horses sent him as a present by the Count of Oldenburgh while his Secretary John Thurloe sate in the Coach in July 1654 He the said Sir Jo. Birkenhead died within the Precincts of Whitehall on the 4. of Dec. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried on the sixth day of the same month near to the School door in the Church-yard of S. Martin in the fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a choice Collection of Pamphlets which came into the hands of his Executors Sir Rich. Mason and Sir Muddiford Bramston See more of him in Rob. Waring among these writers an 1658. p. 143. Besides this Joh. Birkenhead was another of both his names a Divine who published a Sermon in 1644. on Rom. 13.5 in qu. THOMAS HOBBES son of Tho. Hobbes Vicar of Westport within the liberty of Malmsbury and of Charlton in Wilts was born at Westport on the 5. of Apr. 1588 which day was then Goodfriday by a memorable token that such whom the world call Hobbists have several times said that as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them or to that effect After he had been educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under one Rob. Latymer he was sent to Madg. Hall in 1602 where being puritanically educated took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1607 which being compleated by Determination was upon the recommendations of the then Principal taken into the service of Will. Cavendish Baron of Hardwick afterwards Earl of Devonshire with whom being in great estimation for his sedulity temperate and jocund humour was by him appointed to wait on his eldest son the Lord Will. Cavendish several years younger than Hobbes Soon after he travelled with him into France and Italy where he not only improved himself much by learning the languages belonging to those Countries but also as to men and manners In the mean time he finding the foundation of that learning which he had laid in the University to decay and in some manner to be forgotten made use of all the spare houres that he could obtain to retrieve it first and then to build upon it afterwards minding more the Gr. and Lat tongue than Logick and Philosophy because these two last seemed to be neglected as vain matters by prudent men After his return into England he diligently applied himself to the perusal of Histories and the Poets and somtimes to the Commentaries of the most eminent Grammarians not that he might write floridly but in a good latine stile and with more consideration find out the congruity of words and so to dispose of them that his reading might be perspicuous and easie Amongst the Greek Historians he had Thucidides in more esteem than the rest which at spare hours he translating into English was after it had been approved by several persons published about the year 1628 to the end that the follies of the Democratic Athenians might be laid open to the men of our Country The same year William Earl of Devonshire before mention'd dying after this our author had served him 20 years partly in the office of Secretary he travelled the next into France with the son of Sir Gervas Clifton in which peregrination he began to make an inspection into the elements of Euclid and to be delighted in his method not only for the Theorems therein but for the art of reasoning In 1631 he was recalled home by the Earl of Devonshire to the end that he might instruct his eldest son of 13 years of age in several sorts of juvenile Literature After he had served in that office three years he travelled with him as his governour into France and Italy While he remained at Paris he began to make diligent search into the fundamentals of natural science which when he perceived to be contained in the nature and variety of motion he first of all sought after what motion that might be which causes sense understanding representations and other proprieties of Animals And what he did in this he once or twice in a week communicated to Marinus Marsennus a Minim conversant in all kind of Philosophy and a good man as to life and conversation In 1637 he returned into England with his Pupil since his benevolent Patron and remained with him in great respect in his family from whence he continued Commerce by letters concerning natural knowledg with Marsennus In the mean time the Scots after they had ejected there Bishops took up arms against their King being encouraged thereunto and favoured by the Presbyterian Ministers and others of the Laâ—-party of England To stop their careere a Parliament was called in England began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 from the proceedings of which Convention our author Hobbes perceiving in the beginning that a Civil war would suddenly follow he retired forthwith to Paris that he might with peace and quietness follow his studies there and converse with Marsennus Gassendus and other eminent persons for learning and reasoning While he remained at Paris he wrote his book De cive which afterwards he reviewed and added many things thereunto Soon after the Parliamenteers prevailing many Royallists of great note particularly the Prince of Wales retired to Paris About which time a Nobleman of the Province Languedoc invited our author to go with him there to live and to be maintained with necessaries by him but being commended to the Prince that he might teach him the Elements of Mathematicks he continued of Paris followed that employment very diligently and all the spare time that he could obtain he spent in writing a book entit Leviathan not only most known in England 〈◊〉 also in neighbouring Nations which he procured to 〈…〉 at London while he remained at Paris in the 63 year of his age Soon after being recalled
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
Laud Archb. of Cant. and a fourth upon Sir Hen. Spelman the Antiquary Verses on the return of K. Ch. 2 James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Glocester Lond. 1660. in 3 sh in folio Elegie on the death of Henry Duke of Glocester Printed 1660. in a fol. paper Wickham wakened or the Quakers Madrigall in rime dogrell Printed 1672 in one sheet in qu. Written while he was Mayor of Wycombe against a Practitioner of Phys who was a Quaker and took much from his practice He died on the 17 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the middle of the north isle joyning to the Chancel of the Church of Gr. Wycombe before mentioned Over his grave was soon after a black marble stone laid with this inscription thereon Hic jacet Martinus Lluelyn eruditus Medicinae Doctor ex Aede Christi olim Alumnus saeviente Civilis belli incendio dum Oxonium praesidio muniebatur cohorti Academicorum fideli Praefectus erat adversus ingruentem Rebellium ferociam posteaquam sereniss Carolo secundo inter juratos Medicus Colleg. Med. Lond. socius Aulae sanctae Mariae dudum Principalis dein hujusce comitatus Irenarcha necnon municipii hujus semel Praetor Regiae authoritatis religionis Eccles Angliae legibus stabilitae strenuus assertor inconcussus amator celeberrimus insignis Poeta Qui res egregias sublimes pari ingenio facundia depinxit Bino matrimonio foelix septem liberos superstites reliquit Laetitiam Martinum ex priore Georgium Ricardum Mauritium Martham Mariam ex posteriore nuper amantissima conjuge Georgii Long de Penn Generosi filiâ Heu quam caduca corporis humani fabrica qui toties morbos fugavit ipse tandem morbo succumbit Anhelus doctorum proborum maximum desiderium Obiit xvii Martii MDCLXXXI annoque aetatis LXVI THOMAS CASE son of George Case Vicar of Boxley in Kent was born in that County became Student of Ch Ch. upon the recommendations of Tob. Mathew Archb. of York in the year 1616 aged 17 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders preached for some time in these parts and afterwards in Kent at or near the place of his nativity At the turn of the times in 1641 he closed with them and being schismatically addicted he became an enemy to the Bishops and Liturgy a great Boutifieu and firebrand in the Church a leader and abettor of the pretended reformation and what not to vent his spleen to become popular in the City of London and so consequently to get preferment and wealth which before he wanted and therefore discontented About the same time he was made Minister of S. Mary Magd. Ch. in Milkstreet in Lond upon the sequestration thence of a Loyalist where it was usual with him at his invitation of the people to the Lords table for the receiving of the sacrament to say You that have freely and liberally contributed to the Parliament for the defence of Gods Cause and the Gospel draw near instead of You that do truly and earnestly repent c. To the rest he threatned damnation as coming unwillingly to the holy sacrament In 1643 he as a grand lover of the cause was made by ordinance of Parliament one of the Ass of Divines being then as before and after a frequent Preacher before the members of the said Parliament and about that time the Thursdays Lecturer at S. Martins in the Fields He was so zealous a Covenanteer also that he published a Sermon about the solemn League and Covenant advised all to take it and was angry with those that did not tho they understood it not He was during the War as most of the Brethren were a common Preacher of Rebellion Atlength he and they being cozened of their King and the designs they had upon him by the Independents he became a bitter enemy to that party plotted with Love Jenkyns c. and with the Scots to bring in his son K. Ch. 2 an 1651 Case being about that time Minister of S. Giles in the Fields near London but their Plot being discovered and Love the Corypheus suffering for the rest our author Case with his Brethren that were in the Conspiracy made a Petition to Oliver by way of acknowledgment and submission for what they had done In the year 1653 he made it his endeavours to be one of the Triers for the approbation of Ministers appointed by Oliver but was rejected yet when the Presbyterians began to lift up their heads in the latter end of 1659 upon the generous proceedings of General Monk he was constituted by Act of Parl. dated 14 of Mar. that year one of the Ministers for the approbation and admission of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way But that foppery being soon after laid aside he himself upon the coming out of the Act of Conformity an 1662 was laid aside also yet ever after so long as he lived he was not wanting to carry on the beloved Cause in Conventicles for which he sometimes suffer'd He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 Two Serm. before the House of Commons on Ezek. 20.25 and on Ezra 10.2.3 Lond. 1642. sec edit 2 Gods rising his Enemies scattering before the H. of C. at their Fast 26 Oct. 1642 on Psal 68.1.2 Lond. 1644. qu. 3 The root of Apostasy and fountain of true Fortitude Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of C. 9 Apr. 1644 for the great Victory given to Sir Will. Waller and the Forces with him against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton on Dan 11.32 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Deliverance-obstruction or the set-backs of Reformation Fast Serm. before the H. of Lords 26 Mar. 1646 on Exod. 5.22.23 Lond. 1646. qu. 5 A model of true spiritual Thankfulness Thanksgiving Serm. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Psal 107.30.31 Lond. 1646. qu. 6 Spiritual whoredome discovered in a Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 26 May 1647 on Hosea 9.1 Lond. 1647. qu. 7 Serm. before the H. of C. 22 Aug. 1645 being the day appointed for the solemne Thanksgiving unto God for the Parliament forces their gaining of Bathe and Bridgwater Scarborough and Sherburne Castle and for the dispersing of the Club-men and the good success in Pembrokshire on Isa 43.14 Lond. 1645. qu. Other Sermons as 1 Gods waiting to be gracious unto his people together with Englands encouragements and cautions to wait on God delivered in certain Sermons at Milk-street in Lond. on Isa 30.18 Lond. 1642. qu. 3 Sermon on Ezek. 50.5 Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Jehosaphats caution to his Judges on 2 Chron. 19.6.7 Lond. 1644. 45. qu. This Sermon which I have not yet seen was preached if I mistake not in Aug. 1644 upon the occasion of a Court Martial From the Epistle before which and from the Sermon it self the Independents took great advantage and quoted it when the
dispersed THOMAS BROWNE eldest son of Th. Br. Gent. was born in S. Michaels Cheap or in the parish of S. Michael in Cheapside in London on the 19 of Nov. an 1605 educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester entred a Commoner of Broadgates Hall soon after known by the name of Pembroke Coll in the beginning of the year 1623 took the degrees in Arts as a Member of the said Coll entred on the physick line and practised that faculty for some time in these parts Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas was made Doctor of Physick at Leyden and after his return he was incorporated in this University an 1637. About which time he by the perswasions of Tho. Lushington his somtimes Tutor retired to the City of Norwych where being setled he was much resorted to by Patients for his admirable skill in Physick which he practiced there with good success for many years was made Socius honorarius of the Coll. of Physitians at London and at length in the latter end of Sept. 1671. had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Maj. Ch. 2 then at and near the City of Norwych He hath written Religio Medici Lond. 1642. c. oct in English Answerd in a book intit Medicus Medicatus written by Alex. Ross a Scot and had English Observations put on it about the same time by Sir Ken. Digby and Annotations by another Afterwards the book it self was translated into Latine by Joh. Meryweather M. A. of Cambridge and had latine annotations put to it by a certain German who subscribes himself L. N. M. E. M. Printed at Strasburgh 1652. in oct whose preface to it tells us that the book it self which is translated into French Italian Dutch German c. hath been much taken into the hands of curious and learned men who have read it with great delight See more there of the author Browne and of his Relig. Med. in the said translat Pseud Epidem Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed truths or enquiries into common and vulgar errours Lond. 1646 in a little fol. There again 1650. and 57 c. The sixth edit in 1673 was enlarged by the author with many explanations additions alterations c. T was answer'd by the said Alex. Ross in his Arcana Microcosmi Or the hid secrets of mans body discovered c. Lond. 1652 oct c. And in a book written by Joh. Robinson M. D. entit Eudoxa seu questionum quarundam Miscelleniarum examen probabile c. Lond. 1656. oct The Reader may be pleased now to know that there hath been published under Dr. Tho. Brownes name a book bearing this title Natures Cabinet unlocked wherein is discovered the natural causes of Metalls Stones Pretious Earths c. Printed 1657 in tw A dull worthles thing stole for the most part out of the Physicks of Magirus by a very ignorant person a Plagiary so ignorant and unskilful in his rider that not distinguishing between Laevis and Levis in the said Magirus hath told us of the Liver that one part of it is gibbous and the other light And yet he had the confidence to call this scribble Natures Cabinet c an arrogant and fanciful title of which our authors Browne true humilitie would have no more have suffer'd him to have been the father than his great learning could have permitted him to have been the author of the said book For it is certain that as he was a Philosopher very inward with nature so was he one that never boasted his acquaintance with her Sir Tho. Browne hath written also Urn-burial or a discourse of Sepulchral Urns lately found out in Norfolke c. Lond. 1658. oct c. The Garden of Cyrus or the Quincunical Lozenge or Net-work plantations of the Antients artificially naturally mystically considered with sundry observations c. Printed with Urn-burial Certaine Miscellany Tracts 1 Observations upon several plants mention'd in Scripture 2 Of Garlands and coronary or garden-plants 3 Of the Fishes eaten by our Saviour with his Disciples after his resurrection from the dead 4 Answer to certain equeries relating to Fishes Birds Insects 5 Of Hawkes and falconry antient and moderne 6 Of Cymbals c. 7 Of ropalie or gradual verses c. 8 Of Languages and particularly of the Saxon tongue 9 Of artificial Hills mounts or burrowes in many parts of England 10 What place is meant by that name 11 Of the answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Croesus King of Lydia 12 A prophecie concerning the future state of several nations 13 Musaeum Clausum or Bibliotheca abscondita c. All these were printed at Lond. 1686 in oct with the authors picture before them shewing him to have been an handsome man and an Epistle written by Dr. Tho. Tennison the publisher of them who saith that there is on foot a design of writing the authors life and that there are already some memorialls collected for that purpose by one of his antient friends and puts the Reader in expectation of receiving hereafter some other remaining brief Discourses among which is his Repertorium or some account of the Tombes Monuments c. in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich This learned and worthy Physitian whose works were published in fol. 1686 with his picture also before them died in his house in Norwych on the 19 day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried within the Railes at the East end of the Chancell in the Church of S. Peter in Mancroft within the said City Over his grave was a Monument soon after erected by his Relict Dame Dorothy who had been his affectionate wife 41. years with this inscription thereon M. S. Hic situs est Thomas Browne M. D. Miles An. 1605 Londini natus generosâ familiâ apud Upton in agro Cestrensi oriundus Scholâ primum Wintoniensi postea in Coll. Pembr apud Oxonienses bonis literis haud leviter imbutus in urbe hâc Nordovicensi Medicinam arte egregiâ faelici successu professus Scriptis quibus tituli Religio Medici Pseudodoxia Epidemica aliissque per orbem notissimus Vir pientissimus integerrimus doctissimus Obiit Octob. 19 an 1682. Pie posuit maestissima conjux D a Dor. Br. There is also an English Epitaph which for brevity sake I shall now pass by THOMAS TANNER son of a wealthy Citizen of London was born in the Parish of S. Matthew in Friday-street within that City an 1630 educated in Paules School and thence sent to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge where he took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon when the Visitours appointed by Parl. sate there he was incorporated in the said degree in Feb. 1650 and about that time was made one of the Fellows of New Coll. by the said Visitors In less than two years after he proceeded in Arts having some time before had the degree of M. of A. confer'd on him
questioning and censuring rebellious actions The running title of which in the Corollary it self is this Who can touch the Lords anointed and be guiltless 2 A singular Master-piece of furious Sedition preached Jan. 15. an 1642. on Psal 94.20 Printed with Disloyalty of Language questioned c. 3 The almighty his gracious token of love to his friend Abraham preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristow 3 Jan. 1674 on Acts 7.8 former part Lond. 1676. qu. c. He died in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the north isle of the choire at Bristow over against the tomb of Sir Charles Vaughan Soon after was a flat stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Richardus Towgood S. T. B. obiit Aprilis 21. An. Dom. 1683. aetatis suae octogesimo nono Spes mea reposita est in caelis In his Deanery succeeded Sam. Crossman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and Preb. of Bristow son of Sam. Crossm of Bradfield Monachorum in Suffolk who had it confer'd upon him by his Maj. in the beginning of May following He hath written and published several things as The young mans Monitor c. Lond. 1664. oct and several sermons among which are Two sermons preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol 30 Jan. 1679 and 30 Jan. 1680. being the days of publick humiliation for the execrable murder of K. Ch. 1. Printed at Lond. 1681. qu. Also A Serm. preached 23 Apr. 1680 in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol before the Gentlemen of the Artillery company newly raised in that City Pr. at Lond. 1680. qu. And An humble plea for the quiet rest of Gods ark preached before Sir Joh. Moore L. Mayor of Lond. at S. Mildreds Ch. in the Poultrey 5 Feb. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. c. He died 4 Febr. 1683 aged 59 years and was buried in the south isle of the Cath. Ch. in Bristow After him followed in the said Deanery Rich. Thompson as I shall tell you elsewhere MATHEW SMALWOOD son of Jam. Smal. of Middlewick in Cheshire was born in that County became a Student in this Univ. 1628 aged 16 years Scholar of Brasn Coll. two years after took the degrees in Arts and left the University for a time In 1642. Nov. 1. he was actually created Master of Arts being then in holy Orders and a sufferer in those times if I mistake not for the royal cause After his Majesties restauration in 1660 he was actually created D. of D. by vertue of the Kings Letters for that purpose was about that time made a Dignitary and in 1671 Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Tho. Wood promoted to the See thereof He hath published Several Sermons as one upon Gen. 5.24 another on Prov. 11.18 a third on Math. 5.34 c. All printed after his Maj. restauration He died at Market Bosworth in Leicestershire on the 26 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and three being then there to attend the funeral of Sir Wolstan Dixey and was some days after buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. in Oxon. JOHN DURELL son of Jo. Durell of S. Hillary in the Isle of Jersey was born there entred a Student in Merton Coll. in the latter end of the year 1640 aged 15 years having then a chamber in S. Albans Hall but before he had spent two years there which was under Mr. Tho. Jones he left that antient house Oxford being then garrison'd for his Majesty and the Scholars in arms for him and forthwith retired to France where at Caen in Normandy he took the degree of Master of Arts in the Sylvanian Coll. 8. of July 1644. About which time he studied Divinity carried it on for at least two years at Samaur under the famous Divine and Writer Moses Amyraldus Divinity Reader in that University Afterwards he retired to his own Country continued there for a time among his Relations but at length being expuls'd thence with Monsieur Le Conteur and Dan. Brevint both born in Jersey our author Durell who was the first that left that place took his journey to Paris and there received Episcopal Ordination in the Chappel of the honorable and truly noble Sir Rich. Browne Knight his Majesties then Resident in France from the hands of Thomas Bish of Galloway after the Kings restauration of Orkney about 1651. So that being a native of Jersey ordained in France and by a Scotch Bishop doth make a certain Writer doubt whether he was Ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter as our author stiles himself in his books Soon after he resided at S. Maloes and acquainting his friends with the condition he was then in he was thereupon kindly invited by the reformed Church at Caen by an express on purpose to come there and become one of their Ministers in the absence of Monsieur Sam. Bochart the famous Orientalian Philologist and Critick author of Geographia sacra c. and of that Latin Letter to Dr. George Morley at the end of that book who was then going into Sweden Not long after the Landtgrave of Hessen having written to the Ministers of Paris to send to him a Minister to preach in French at his Highness's Court he was by them recommended to that Prince from whom likewise he received a very kind invitation by Letters which he kept by him to the time of his death But the providence of God not permitting him to go to either of those places he became at length Chaplain to the Duke de la Force Father to the Princess of Turein Monsieur Le Couteur being invited likewise at the same time to the reform'd Church of Caen and Brevint to another Church in Normandy where he was prefer'd to be Chaplain to the Prince of Turein Before I go any farther I must tell you that about 1642 the Duke of Soubize living near to the Court at Whitehall and finding it troublesome and sometime impossible by reason of his infirmities to go to the VValloons Church in the City of London had commonly a French sermon preached before him in his own house every Sunday This being found very commodious to the French living near thereunto it was thought convenient upon the death of the said Duke to set up a French Church about the Strand And it being in a manner setled that in the City did so highly resent it that ever after the members thereof did endeavour by all means possible to pull it down Upon the Kings restauration the French Church in the City addressed his Majesty to have the French Congregation at VVestminster broken and forbidden to assemble because it was not established by lawful authority That at VVestminster did present an humble suit to his Majesty that he would be pleased to continue it His Maj. upon consideration of the matter granted both their requests by breaking the Congregation at VVestm and by setting up a new Church under the immediate jurisdiction of the Bishop of London wherein divine Service
Father much against his humour and inclinations got to be Usher of Croyden Free-school in Surrey where he continued for about three years In which time he became acquainted with John Earl of Rochester who seemed much delighted in the mad ranting and debauched specimens of Poetry of this author Oldham Afterwards he was Tutor to the Grandsons of Sir Edw. Thurland a late Judge living in Surrey with whom he continued till 1681 and then being out of all business and employ he retired to the great City set up for a Wit and soon after became Tutor to a Son of Sir Will. Hicks near London where at his leisure hours by the advice and encouragement of Dr. Rich. Lower he applyed himself to the study of Physick At length being made known to that most generous and truly noble William Earl of Kingston he was taken into his patronage lived with him in great respect at Holme-Pierpont in Nottinghamshire where he made his last exit as I shall tell you anon This noted Poet hath written Satyrs upon the Jesuits in number four with a prologue written in the year 1679 upon occasion of the plot Popish Plot together with the Satyr against vertue and some other pieces by the same hand Lond. 1681. 82. oct The first Satyr is called Garnets Ghost c. which was printed against the authors consent Lond. 1679 in one sh in fol. The Satyr against vertue was committed to the privacy of two or three friends from whose hands it stole out in print against the authors knowledge Lond. 1679. qu. Some new pieces never before published viz. 1 Horace his art of poetry imitated in English 2 Paraphrase upon Horace Book 1. Ode 31. and Book 2. Ode 14. 3 The praise of Homer an Ode 4 Two pastorals out of Greek Bion. One in imitation of the Greek of Moschius bewailing the death of the Earl of Rochester the other in lamentation of Adonis imitated out of the Greek of Byon of Smyrna 5 Paraphrase upon the 137 Psalme 6 Paraph. on the Hymne of S. Ambrose ode 7 A letter from the Country to a friend in Town giving an account of the authors inclinations to Poetry in vers 8 Upon a Printer that exposed him by printing a piece of his grosly mangled and faulty All these were printed in one Vol. in oct at Lond. 1681. He wrot also a Satyr in Pindarique verse supposed to be spoken by a Court-Hector inserted in the Poems of John Earl of Rochester printed 1680. p. 115 Which is the same with his Satyr against Vertue before mention'd Poems and Translations Lond. 1683. oct Remains in verse and prose Lond. 1684. oct Which Remains consist of 1 Counterpart to the Satyr against Vertue in person of the author 2 Virg. Eclogue 8 the enchantment 3 Verses to Madam L. E. upon her recovery from a late sickness 4 El. on the death of Mrs. Catherine Kingscourt a child of excellent parts and piety 5 A Sunday thought in sickness 6 To the memory of his dear friend Mr. Charles Morwent a large Pindarique 7 To the memory of the worthy Gent. Mr. Harman Atwood Pindarique 8 Character of a certain ugly old Parson This last is the worst and most offensive of all the rest These Remains are usher'd into the world by the commendatory Poems of Joh. Dryden Esq Thom. Flatman Naham Tate Tho. Durfey Tho. Andrews and Tho. Wood of New Coll. There is also an Anonym with an Eclogue and another with an Epitaph on the Author As for Charles Morwent on whom the large Pindarique before mention'd was made which makes about the third part of the Remaines was born at Tetbury in Glocestershire his father being an Attorney there bred up in Grammar learning under Mr. Th. Byrton M. A. of Linc. Coll at Wotton under Edg in the said County became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in 1670 and Bach. of Arts four years after Soon after he retired to Glocester fell sick of the Small Pox died of it and was inter'd in the Cathedral there where there is a monument over his grave He was a handsome gentile and good natur'd man and very well beloved in the said Hall Our Author Oldham made also a little Poem to which Musick was set by a Doctor of that faculty bearing this title A second Musical Entertainment on Cecilia's day 22 Nov. 1684. The words by the late ingenious Mr. Joh. Oldham c. set to Musick in two three four and five parts Lond. 1685. qu. By Dr. Joh. Blow Master of the Children and Organist to his Majesties Chappel Royal. To conclude this most celebrated Poet died in the house of his munificent Patron at Holme Pierpont before mentioned in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave with this inscription thereon M. S. Jo. Oldhami Poetae quo nemo sacro furore plenior nemo rebus sublimior aut verbis felicius audax cujus famam omni aevo propria satis consecrabunt carmina Quem inter primos Honoratissimi Gulielmi Comitis de Kingston Patroni sui amplexus Variolis correptum heu nimis immatura mors rapuit in caelestem transtulit chorum Natus apud Shipton in agro Glocestrensi in Aula S. Edmunti Graduatus Obiit die Decembris nono An. Dom. 1683. Aetatis 30 ROBERT CROSSE son of Will. Crosse of Dunster in Somerseishire was born there or at least in that County became either Batler or Commoner of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term 1621 aged 16 years where employing his Studies in Philosophy and Disputation took the degree of Bach. of Arts. On the 14 of Dec. 1627 he was elected Fellow of the said Coll so that taking the degree of Master the next year he entred into holy Orders became a great Tutor and Aristotelian and much noted in the University for a learned man In 1637 he was admitted â—o the reading of the Sentences and being puritannically inclined sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars In 1643 he was nominated one of the Ass of Divines took the Covenant and sometimes sate among them and in 1648 submitting to the Parliamentarian Visitors he was named and appointed by the Committee for the reformation of the University to succeed Dr. Sanderson in the Kings Professorship of Divinity of this University but he refusing to accept it had soon after the rich Vicaridge of Great Chew near Pensford in Somersetshire confer'd on him So that resigning his Fellowship in 1653 he setled at Chew and in the next year he was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliament for the ejecting of ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters as they were then called by the Faction in Somersetshire In 1660 at the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he conformed and because there was no body to claim his Living he continued there to the time of his death While he remained in the University he was accounted a noted Philosopher and
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
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
there also and went on purpose out of curiosity to see and observe the passages at the Camp at Berwick at the fight at Newborne upon Tyne with the Scots at the Treaty at Rippon and at the great Council at York an 1640. Soon after when that Parliament called the Long Parliament began which was on the 3. of Nov. the same year he was chosen an Assistant to Hen. Elsing Clark of the Commons House by which means he was privy afterwards to all circumstances in their proceedings And both Houses having confidence in they sent their addresses by him to the King then at York being forced thither by their violent proceedings And it so fell out that he rode several times with that expedition between London and that City which is 150 miles that he performed the journey in 24 hours In 1643 he took the Covenant and was a great man among the Presbyterians and being near of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax for his father and mother were Natives of Yorkshire of antient extract he became Secretary to him when he was made Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces in which Office he obtained or at least might have so done what wealth he pleased which might had he husbanded it well have supported his necessities in his last days In 1646 when the Garrison of Oxon was besieg'd by the said Generalissimo his help was somtimes required and when the Treaty for the delivery of it up for the use of the Parliament was in agitation he was often posting to London upon intermessages and fatigues till it was concluded In 1649 he attended his Master then Lord Fairfax with several great Officers of note to the University of Oxon where being all splendidly entertain'd by the then chief Members thereof of the Presbiterian and Independent perswasion he was actually created Master of Arts and at the same time he as a Member of Queens Coll was made one of the Delegates to take into consideration the affairs then depending between the Citizens of Oxon and Members of the said University After his Lord had laid down his Commission as General he took up his quarters for some time in Linc. Inn and being in great esteem by the men of those times he was in January 1651 constituted one of the Committee to consult about the Reformation of the Common Law In 1658 he was chosen a Burges for Berwick upon Twede near to which place he had received his first breath to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parl which began at Westm 27. Jan. the same year and again for the same place for that which commenc'd 25. of Apr. 1660 but for that which began in May 1661 he was not In Sept. 1667 at which time Sir Orl. Bridgman was made L. Keeper of the Great Seal he was by him made his Secretary and continuing in that Office so long as his Lord kept his he was then again in a capacity of enriching himself or at least to lay up some thing for a wet day Afterwards when the Popish Plot broke out and the Presbyterians and other discontented people began to be dominant he was elected Burges for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 6. Mar. 1678 as he was afterwards for that which commenc'd 17. Oct. 1679 and for the Oxford Parl. that followed he being then as alwaies before esteemed no great friend to the Church of England and Prelacy After the dissolution of Oxford Parliament he lived very retiredly and obscurely within the City of Westminster but at length being committed prisoner for debt to the Kings bench he finished his course there as I shall anon tell you His works are these Historical Collections of private passages of State weighty matters in Law and remarkable proceedings in five Parliaments Beginning the 16 year of K. James an 1618 and ending the fifth year of K. Charles an 1629 digested in order of time Lond. 1659 fol. There again by stealth bearing the same date an 1675. When the author was fitting this book for the Press he made use of certain Manuscripts in the hands of Bulstr Whitlock one of Olivers Lords and when it was finished he presented it to the view of Oliver himself but he having no leisure to peruse it he appointed the said Whitlock to do it Jan. 1657 and accordingly running it over more than once he made some alterations in and additions to it After it was finished at the Press he dedicated the book to Richard Cromwel then L. Protector Historical Collections The second part containing the principal matters which hapned from the dissolution of the Parl. on the 16. of Mar. 4. Car. 1. 1628 9. until the summoning of the other Parliam which met at Westm 13. Apr. 1640 with an account of the proceedings of that Parl and the transactions and affairs from that time until the meeting of another Parl. on the 3. of Nov. following With some remarkable passages therein during the first sixth months c. Lond. 1680. in two vol. in fol. At the end of the last is a large Appendix containing Star-Chamber Reports for the years 1625. 26. 27 and 1628 Articles of Peace entercourses and Commerce with several other things The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland upon an impeachment of High Treason by the Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England begun in Westm Hall 20. Mar. 1640 and continued before judgment was given until the 10. of May 1641 c. Lond. 1680. fol. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both Houses of Parl precedent concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal with some special arguments in Law relating to a bill of attainder But the publisher of the said Collections having as 't is said concealed truth endeavoured to vindicate the then prevailing distractions of the late times as well as their barbarous actions and with a kind of rebound to libel the government at second hand it pleased Joh. Nalson LL. D. of Cambridge to publish in vindication of the real truth An impartial Collection of the great affairs of State from the beginning of the Scotch Rebellion an 1639. to the murther of K. Ch. 1. c. Printed at Lond. in two vol. in fol. The first extending to the end of 1641. was printed an 1682 and the other to the said murther an 1683 both published by his Maj. special command c. Afterwards were Reflections made on the said Impartial Collection by Rog. Coke Esq a Descendant from Sir Edw. Coke the great Lawyer printed with his Treatises of the life of man c. Lond. 1685. fol. This Dr. Nalson who was an eminent Historian and otherwise well qualified hath written besides the former volumes 1 The Countermine or a short but true discovery of the dangerous principles and secret practices of the dissenting party especially the Presbyterians shewing that Religion is pretended but Rebellion is intended And
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
named Dr. George Carleton This Dr. Guy Carleton died in the City of Westminster during his attendance in Parliament on the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was conveyed as I have been informed to Chichester and buried in the Cath. Ch. there In the Bishoprick of Bristow succeeded Dr. Will. Goulson a Leicestershire man born educated in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards was Chaplaine to the Duchess of Sommerset He was consecrated at Lambeth on the ninth day of Febr. 1678 and dying at his Rectory of Symondsbury in Dorsetshire to which he had been presented by the said Duchess on the fourth day of Apr. an 1684 was buried on the 18. day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church of that towne In the See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Carleton the Bishop of Bristol viz. Dr. Joh. Lake in Aug. or Sept. 1685 who was one of the seven Bishops that were committed Prisoners to the Tower on the 8. of June 1688 for contriving making and publishing a Seditious Libel against his Majesty K. Jam. 2. and his Government that is for subscribing a petition to his Majesty wherein he and the rest shewed the great aversness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for Liberty of Conscience c. After K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he was one of the Bishops that denied the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him and on his death bed in the latter end of Aug. 1689. he did publickly declare against them In the said See succeeded Dr. Sim Patrick Dean of Peterborough who was consecrated thereunto on the 13. of Octob following This Bishop Lake who had been Rector of S. Botolphs Ch. without Bishopgate London hath written 1 A Serm. preached at Whitehall 29. of May 1670 being the day of his Majesties birth and restaurat Lond. 1671. qu. 2 The Character of a true Christian preached in the Parish Church of S. Botolph Bishopsgate at the funeral of Will Cade Deputy of the Ward Lond. 1690. qu and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen JOHN DOLBEN son of Dr. Will. Dolben by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Hugh Williams of Cyctiwillair in Caernarvanshire a Captain somtiemes in Holland son of Joh. Dolben of Haverford West in Pembrokshire descended from those of his name in Denbighshire by his wife Alice sister to Sir Tho. Middleton of Chirk Castle in the said County of Denbigh became Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner an 1666 and in 1683 was Translated to the Archiepiscopal See of York He died in the beginning of the yeer sixteen hundred eighty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 600. In the said See after it had laid void till Nov. 1688 did succeed Dr. Tho. Lamplugh Bishop of Exeter who upon the Prince of Aurang's arrival in the West left Exeter and retired to London to pay his respects to King Jam. 2 which being taken very kindly by that King he translated him to York on the 15 of the said month The said Dr. Joh. Dolben was great Nephew to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York and had much of his boldness and confidence in him but little of his learning And whereas I have told you that the said Archb. Williams was upon supposal buried at Aberconway where he had built an House in the place of that wherein he was born which he caused to be called Lincolns Inn is false for he was buried in the Church of Llandegay which signifies the Church of S. Gay in the British language near Bangor in Caernarvanshire in which parish Penhryn the Seat somtimes of Archb Williams is situated He died at Glodded of a Quinsey in his throat which being sudden he told his attendants then by him that nothing troubled him more than that he should dye like a beast that had alwaies liv'd like a Gentleman c. Afterwards his body being conveyed to Penhryn was thence carried to the Church at Llandegay and there buried in a little Vault at the upper end of the Chancel Some years after his Nephew and heir called Sir Griffith Williams erected on the north wall of the said Chancel a very fair monument containing the Effigies of the Archbishop kneeling carved and wrought from white marble with a large inscription under it made by Dr. Joh. Hacket his sometimes Chaplain the contents of which being large I shall now for brevity sake pass by But whereas the said Doctor saith that he died 25 March 1650 is false for he died on that day in 1649 aged 68 years or more JOHN FELL D. of D. and Dean of Christ Church in Oxon became Bishop of Oxford on the translation of Dr. Henry Compton to London in the latter end of the year 1675 and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 602. was succeeded in the said See by Dr. Samuel Parker as I have among the Writers told you and shall among these Bishops He the said Dr. Fell left behind him the character among some men of a Valde vult person who by his grasping at and undertaking too many affairs relating to the public few of which he throly effected brought him untimely to his end to the loss of learning c. JOHN LLOYD son of Morgan Lloyd was born of an antient family at Pentaine in Caermerthenshire became a Student in Merton Coll. in Lent term 1655 aged 15 years or thereabouts and took one degree in Arts as a member of that house Afterwards he became Fellow of that of Jesus Principal thereof on the resignation of Sir Leolin Jenkyns D. of D. and Treasurer of Landaff In 1682. 83. and 84 he did execute the Office of Vicechancellour of this University and on the death of Dr. Laur. Womack being nominated by K. Jam. 2. to succeed him in the See of S. David was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth on the 17 of Oct. 1686. Afterwards retiring to Oxon in a dropsical condition died in Jesus Coll. on the thirteenth day of Febr. following being then the first Sunday in Lent Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chappel belonging to that Coll near to the grave of Sir Leol Jenkyns before mention'd To the said See was nominated by the said King Dr. Tho. Watson of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 26 June 1687 and afterwards upon dislike of his person and for that he had been recommended by the L. Dover to the said King he did suffer and endure many affronts and intolerable abuses from the Rabble in Dec. 1688 just after the said King had left England for France JAMES ETKINS or Atkins son of Henr. Atkins Sheriff and Commissary of Orknay was born in the Town of Kirkwall in the Stewartry of Orknay in Scotland educated in
in a solemn chapter held by the Soveraign and certain of the Knights Companions of that most noble Order in the red room at Whitehall which Oath was administred to him by Seth Bishop of Salisbury Chancellour of the Garter one of the Officers of that order then kneeling on his Majesties left hand As to the exercise of his office of Norroy when he was Provincial K. of Armes for the northern parts of this Realm the books of his visitation of the several Counties under his charge remaining in the Coll. of Armes will sufficiently manifest his care therein as by taking exact notice of all collaterals viz. Uncles Aunts Brothers and Sisters in the descents there drawn Also by publickly disclaiming all such as did take upon them the titles of Esquire or Gentlemen without just right and truly registring the Armes of all such as could shew any justifiable right thereto His care also was manifested in defacing such Tablets of Armes as he found in any publick places which were fictitious and by pulling down several Atchievments commonly called Hatchments irregularly and against the law of Armes hung up in any Churches or Chappels within the precincts of his Province the particulars whereof are expressed in that large book in the Office or Coll. of Armes covered with russet leather and called the Earl Marshalls book Further also to vindicate the just rights of his said office he commenced a sute at the common law against one Randal Holme a Painter of the City of Chester who had boldly invaded the office of him the said Norroy by preparing Atchievments for the funeral of Sir Ralph Ashton of Middleton in the County of Lancaster Kt and giving directions for a formal proceeding at the solemnity thereof whereupon he had a verdict against him the said Holme at the general Assizes held at Stafford in March an 1667 and recovered good damages with costs of suit The titles of such books touched on before which are published under Sir Will. Dugdales name are these 1 Monasticon Anglicanum sive Pandectae caenobiorum Benedictinorum Cluniacensium Cisterciensium Carthusianorum à primordiis ad eorum usque dissolutionem ex Mss ad Monasteria olim pertinentibus Archivis turrium Lond. Ebor. c. Lond. 1655. and 82. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. 2 Monastici Anglicani volumen alterum de Canonicis Regularibus Augustinianis scil Hospitaliariis Templariis Gilbertinis Praemonstratensibus Maturinis sive Trinitaniariis Cum appendice ad vol. primum de Caenobiis aliquot Gallicanis Hibernicis Scoticis necnon quibusdam Anglicanis antea omissis à primordiis c. Lond. 1661. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. These two large volumes tho they were published under the names of Roger Dodsworth of Yorkshire and Will. Dugdale of Warwickshire yet the chiefest now of the Coll. of Armes have several times informed me that they were both collected and totally written by Dodsworth as the original which they had seen do testifie And Dr. Barlow hath several times told me that much about the time of death of Dodsworth they were offer'd to him to be bought that he might take some order to have them published Howsoever it is sure I am that Sir William did take great pains to have them published did methodize and order them correct them when at the press and made several indexes to them This Roger Dodsworth was the Son of Matthew Dodsworth Esq Registrary as I have heard of the Church of York by Elianor his Wife Daughter of Ralph Sandwith Esq was born on the 24 July 1585 at Newton Grange in the Parish of S. Oswald in Ridale in Yorkshire being the house and possessions of his Mothers Father but whether he was ever educated in any University I could never learn This Person who had a natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities began early to make collections of them especially such that related to Yorkshire and afterwards was much encouraged in his labours by Sir Thomas afterwards Lord Fairfax who for several years allowed him a pension He was a Person of wonderful industry but less judgment was always collecting and transcribing but never published any thing He died in the month of August 1654 and was buried in the Church of Rufford in Lancashire After his death the said Lord Fairfax took into his possession not only all the old Mss which he had obtained from several hands but also all his proper collections which he had written from Mss Leigher books evidences in the Tower at York in the custody of many Gentlemen not only in Yorkshire but other northern Counties as also his collections of monumental and fenestral inscriptions c. which being done he communicated them to Dr. Nat. Johnston a Physit of Yorkshire with hopes that he would extract from them and make and compleat a book of Antiquities of the West Riding of Yorkshire which he hath not yet done being as I have been informed weary of the work When the said Lord Fairfax died he bequeathed the said old Mss and collections which last amounted to 122 volumes at least to the publick Library in Oxon but were not conveyed thither till June 1673 which being then a wet season most of them took wet and had it not been for the author of this book who with much ado obtained leave of the then Vicechancellour to have them conveyed into the muniment room in the School-Tower purposely to dry them on the leads adjoyning which cost him a months time to do it they had been utterly spoiled The other books that Sir William Dugdale hath published are there 3 The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records leiger-books manuscripts charters evidences tombes and armes Beautified with maps prospects and portraictures Lond. 1656. fol. The foundation of tnis book which is his Master piece was laid on the collections of divers antiquities for the said County made and gathered by Sir Simon Archer Knight whom I have mention'd in the first vol. of this work p. 504 which Sir Simon dying at Warwick about the beginning of 1666 was gathered to the graves of his Fathers in Tamworth Church 4 The History of S. Pauls Cathedral in London from its foundation till these times extracted out of original charters records leâ—ger-books and other Manuscripts Beautified with sundry prospects of the Church figures of tombes and monuments Lond. 1658. in a thin folio 5 The History of imbanking and draining of divers fens and marshes both in foreign parts and in this Kingdom and of the improvement thereby Extracted from recordâ— Mss and other authentick testimonies Lond. 1662. fol. Adorned with several Cuts 6 Origines juridiciales or historical memorials of the English laws Courts of Justice forms of Trial punishment in cases criminal law writers law books grants and settlements of estates degree of Serjeant inns of Court and Chancery Also a chronologie of the Lord Chancellours and Keepers of the great Seal L. Treasurers Justices itinerant Justices of
more than what the King was pleased of his own bounty to confer upon him which was 100 l. per an in compensation of quadruple the loss he sustained This Person who hath been always an intimate friend and acquaintance as well of the antient Greek and Latine as of the choicest modern Poets both Italian French and Spanish hath written and translated 1 Medea a Tragedy Lond. 1648. oct translated from Lat. into English verse with annotations 'T is one of Seneca's Tragedies 2 Seneca's answer to Lucilius his Quaere why good men suffer misfortunes seeing there is a divine providence Lond. 1648. oct written originally in Lat. prose and translated into English verse It was dedicated by Mr. Sherburne to K. Ch. 1. during his captivity in the Isle of Wight which he was pleased most graciously to approve and accept of 3 Salmacis Lyrian and Sylva forsaken Lydia the rape of Hellen a comment thereon with several other Poems Lond. 1651. oct On which three translations as also annotations on each of them the most ingenious Thomas Stanley before remembred mention'd also in the Fasti 1640 did make an excellent copy of verses as also upon the mutual friendship between him and our author Ed. Sherburne the beginning of which is this Dear friend I question nor can I yet decide Whether thou more art my delight or pride 4 The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an english Poem Lond. 1675. fol. 'T is adorned with Cuts and an account thereof is in the Philosophical Transactions num 110. p. 233. It was chiefly intended by its author for the use of the young Gentry and Nobility of the Land to serve as their initiation in the first rudiment of spherical learning 5 A Catalogue with a character of the most eminent Astronomers antient and moderne Which with other matters as first Of the Cosmical System secondly A Cosmographical-Astronomical Synopsiâ— c. are added by way of an Astronomical Appendix to The Sphere of Marc. Man before mention'd 6 Troades or the Royal Captives a Trag. Lond. 1679. oct Written originally in Lat. by L. An. Seneca englished with Annotations by Mr. Sherburne He had likewise laying by him another Trag. of Seneca Hippolitus and Phaedra long since by him translated with Annotations Which three Tragedies viz. Medea Troades and Hippolitus he endeavours to prove that they belong only to the Philosopher among all the rest that go under the name of Seneca The sixteenth Idillium of Theocritus in N. Tates Miscellanies is ascribed to him and perhaps other things in other books In 1682. Jan. 6. his Majesty K. Ch. 2 did in consideration of his great sufferings and the long and faithful services by him performed to his royal Father of blessed memory and to himself confer upon him the honor of Knighthood in his private Bedchamber at Whitehall having also suffered several indignities from the faction in the time of the Popish Plot who endeavoured to out him of his place for being as they supposed a Rom. Cath. After K. Jam. 2 had abdicated the Government and left the Nation he was outed for altogether and put to trouble So that whereas he before for 19 years together had suffered for his Loyalty to his Prince and had in some manner suffered after his restauration as I have told you before so now doth suffer upon account of his Religion being living near London in a retired yet cheerful and devout condition spending his time altogether in books and prayer Henry Sherburne younger Brother to Edw. before mention'd was then also Dec. 20. actually created Master of Arts He was soon after made Comptroller of the Ordnance in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton but how long he continued in that employment I know not While he continued in Oxon he drew an exact ichnography of the City of Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesty with all the fortifications trenches bastions c. performed for the use of Sir Tho. Glemham the Governour thereof who shewing it to the King he approved much of it and wrot in it the names of the bastions with his own hand This ichnography or another drawn by Rich. Rallingson was by the care of Dr. John Fell engraven on a copper plate and printed purposely to be remitted into Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. between p. 364. and 365. This Henry Sherburne who was an ingenious man was kill'd in a mutiny that hapned among some of the Soldiers in Oxon on the 12 of June 1646 Whereupon his body was buried the next day in the Chur. of S. Peter in the East in the said City January 16. In a Convocation then celebrated were these following persons actually created Masters of Arts by vertue of the Kings Mandamus then read viz. Henry Lord Seymour Son of Will Marq. of Hertford He was Knighted by his Maj. on the 17 of Jan. 1644. See among the Doctors of Phys an 1645. Sir John Stawell See among the Doctors of Physick this year Amiaâ— Paulet Esq Joh. Stawell Esq Mr. Edw. Stawell Rob. Hawley a Captain Francis Lord Hawley one of the Gent. of the Bedchamber to James Duke of York died 22 of Dec. 1684. aged 76 or thereabouts but whether Robert was nearly related to him I know not Joh. Stanhop He was Master of the Horse as it seems to the Marquess of Hertford George Strangwaies an Officer He was one of the antient and gentile family of his name in Dorsetshire Geor. Trimme Secretary to the Marq. of Hertf. Anth. Lightfoot Servant to Prince Charles Râ—g Sanders a Captain Rich. Knightley c. All which with others were lately come to Oxon among the forces under the conduct of the said William Marquess of Hereford In the same convocation were others also created by vertue of the Letters of the said Marq. soon after Chanc. of this Univ. which were then read The names of some of them follow Edw. Windham Esq Edw. Kirton Esq He was a Parliamentary Burgess for Milborne in Somersetsh to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it because of the violent proceedings of the members thereof he retired to his Majesty at Oxon and late in the Parl. there 1643. Tho. Lower Esq He was also a Burgess for Eastlow in Cornwall but leaving the said Parliament he retired to Oxon and sate there I take this person to be the same who was Son and Heir of Sir W. Lower of S. Winnow in Cornw. Knight which Thomas dying a Bachelaur 5. Feb. 1660 was buried in the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster as I have elsewhere told you ... Bampfield a Colonel Joh. Miller a Captain Hugh Windham Hugh Smith Franc. Chalk or Chock of Avington in Berks He was Knighted 26. Oct. 1643. All which with others did attend the said Marq. of Hertford when he came to Oxon. Feb. 1. Anth. Goslyng was then created by vertue of a dispensation pass'd in convocation Feb. 21. was another convocation celebrated and therein a
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 Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
dignified with the Deanery of Durham which he held a few months and afterwards of S. Pauls which he enjoyed three years tho either of them too short a season yet discharged both with singular care and fidelity living and dying a Batchellour and strictly chast and sanctimonious both in soul and body And being much debilirated by a long and lingring consumption here he rests in the Lord and deposits his last remains among those ruinous ones of S. Pauls Church being confident of the resurrection both of the one and other He died in the 53 year of his age and of our Lord 1664. Reader if thou desirest to know more of this reverend Church-man go home and learn by the conspicuous copy of his sincere devotion what it is to be a true Christian indeed After his death succeeded in the Deanery of S. Pauls Dr. Will. Sancroft Dean of York in Oct. or thereabouts in 1664. Doct. of Law Apr. 16. Colonel Will. Legge Governour of the Garrison of Oxford He was afterwards one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 1. and 2. Apr. 16. Colonel George L'isle Governour of the Garrison of Faringdon in Berkshire On the 21. of Dec. following he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him being then as 't is said Master of the Kingsâ—Houshold and highly valued for his great valour and prudent conduct in martial affairs This person I take to be the same with the most magnanimous Sir George L'isle who was afterwards deeply engaged in that as honorable as unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 in which last place he with the Forces under him for his Majesty being besieged by Fairfax the Parliament General and those under his conduct he was after the surrender thereof shot to death in cold blood with the most renowned Sir Charles Lucas on the 28 of Aug. the same year At which time they being both obscurely buried their funeral was afterwards viz. on June the 7 an 1661 with great solemnity celebrated at Colchester by the loyal Inhabitants thereof and Gentry adjoyning The particulars being too many for this place must for brevity sake be now omitted Apr. 22. Colonel Will. Leighton who hath this character given of him in the publick register fide fortitudine pro Principe pro Patria insignis was actually created with due solemnity on that day in Convocation He was descended from or at least near of kin to Sir Will. Leighton Kt an excellent Musitian author of a Poetical piece entit Vertue triumphant or a lively description of the four Cardinal vertues Published in 1603 and dedic to K. Jam. 1. See more of him in the first vol. p. 342. Nov. 28. Sir Thomas Gemham Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University now Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was actually created in the House of Convocation with very great solemnity At which time the Vicechancellour spoke a short and pithy speech to the assembly before he was presented shewing to them the holiness of his life and conversation the invincibleness of him and his party at York and Carlile of which Cities he was successively Governour and tho brought to famine and pestilence yet yielded neither but upon honourable conditions c. This right valiant and prudent commander was the Son of Sir Hen. Glemham of Little Glemham in Suffolk Kt by Anne his Wife eldest Daugh of Sir Thomas Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset and after he had thrown off his gown betook himself to the German Wars then the great nursery for English Gentlemen where gaining much experience was made fit for the service in the Wars at home In 1639 he was a Lieutenant Col. in the regiment of the Earl of Arundell in the Scotch expedition then undertaken as also in the next if I am not mistaken that was took in the year following Afterwards taking part with his Majesty against his rebellious Subjects in England did him admirable service in the Garrisons before mention'd and was highly venerated by all military Men. When he died I cannot justly say sure I am that by his last Will and Test dated 22. Jan. 1647 and proved 13 Mar. 1649 he appointed his younger Brother Dr. Hen. Glemham his Executor who caused his body to be buried at Little Glemham before mention'd as I have been enformed by some of his relations Doct. of Phys May 6. Adrian Metcalfe Bach. of Phys was then created Doct. of that faculty In 1642 Nov. 1. he was actually created M. of Arts and perhaps is the same but mistaken by the Registrary with Franc. Metcalf created Bach. of Phys an 1643 as before 't is told you Aug. 12. the most noble ... Seymour was then actually created and admitted to give his suffrage in the house of Congregation and Convocation Whether this person be the same with Henry Lord Seymour who was created M. of A. an 1642 as I have before told you I know not nor yet to the contrary but that he may be Robert Seymour another Son of William Marquess of Hertford who became a Noble man of Christ Church an 1635. aged eleven years Oct. 30. Edward Buckoake Bach. of Phys was created Doctor by vertue of the Chancellours letters which say that his Majesty hath thought him worthy to serve his Highness Prince Charles in the place of Physitian and therefore that he might be the more capable of that honour he desires that the Convocation would confer on him the honour of Doctor of Physick c. He was afterwards a Physitian of some note in Yorkshire Doct. of Div. July 10. Edward Aylmer or Elmer M. A. of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was created D. D. by vertue of the Letters from the Chanc. of the University and Prince Rupert This person who was Grandson to John Aylmer or Elmer sometimes Bishop of London being forced from his station by the barbarities of the Presbyterians took refuge in Oxon and under the said Prince He had a kinsman named Joh. Aylmer Rector of Bletneso and Melchbourne in Bedfordshire before the Civil Wars broke out who was Son of Tobell the fifth Son of the said Bishop Aylmer Dec. 17. Philip King was then actually created D. of D. This person who was a younger Son of Dr. John King sometimes Bishop of London was originally a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Orator of the University Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Billingsgate in London Prebend of S. Pauls Cathedral Church and Archdeacon of Lewes But being sequestred of S. Botolphs and forced to fly by the faction he took sanctuary at Oxon lived afterwards in a retired condition till his Majesties return at which time being restored to what he had lost lived for some time in a quiet and sedate repose At length paying his last debt to nature on the 4 of March 1666 was buried at Langley in Bucks where he had a Sister married to Sir Rich. Hobart Besides this Ph. King I find another of Cambr. who was incorporated M.
thus Mr. Waterhouse went over into Ireland as Physitian to the Army there of whose diligence fidelity and abilities I had much experience while I was there He constantly attended the Army and had to my knowledge done very much good to the Officers and Soldiers by his skill and industry Whether this Joh. Waterhouse hath published any-thing I know not sure I am that Edw. Waterhouse Esq of the same family hath in order to which he had spent some time as a Sojourner in Oxon for the sake of the public Library in the time of Oliver He hath written A discourse and defence of Arms and Armory shewing the natures and rises of Arms and Honour in England from the Camp the Court the City c. Lond. 1660. oct and wholly composed as Sir Will. Dugdale hath enformed me a book intit The Sphere of Gentry deduced from the principles of nature An historical and genealogical work of Arms and Blazon in 4 books Lond. 1661. fol published under the name of a busie and pragmatical person called Sylvanus Morgan an Arms-Painter living sometimes near the Old Exchange in London 'T is a rapsodical indigested and whimsical work and not in the least to be taken into the hands of any sober Scholar unless it be to make him either laugh or wonder at the simplicity of some people This Edw. Waterhouse Esq one of the Royal Society and a cock-brain'd man who hath published other things as the Bodleian Catalogue will tell you did afterwards by the perswasion of the Archb. of Canterbury take holy orders on him and became a fantastical Preacher He died near London an 1671. An. Dom. 1651. An. 3 Car. 2. Chanc. Oliv. Cromwell Gen. of the Parliament Forces now on foot in England Vicech Dr. Greenwood again Nov. 6 nominated and recommended to his Office by the Chancellours Letters dat 2. Octob. this year Proct. Matth. Vnit of Trin. Coll. Apr. 9. Sam. Lee of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 9. The junior Proctor being not of sufficient standing in the degr of Master for the taking on him the Procuratorial Office at which time he was elected by the Society of his Coll the Visitors dispensed with it by their order dat 22 Mar. 1650. Bach. of Arts. Oct. 16. Rowl Stedman lately of Balâ— now of Vniv Coll. Feb. 10. Benj. Parry of Jes Coll. The last of these two was afterwardâ— of C. C. Coll. and at lâ—â—gth Bishop of Ossory Feb. 13. Nathan Hodges of Ch. Ch. Feb. 13. Hen. Thurman of Ch. Ch. Feb. 13. Edw. Veel of Ch. Ch. The first of these three was afterwards an eminent Physitian in London and the last whom I shall mention among the Masters 1653 a Nonconformist and both as I presume now living Feb. 28. Joh. Cawley lately of Magd. Coll now 1651 Fellow of that of All 's See among the Doctors of Div. in 1666. Mar. 2. Tho. Woâ—lnough of Magd. Hall 16. Thom. Vincent of Ch. Ch. Adm. 112. ☞ But one Bach. of Law was admitted this year Mast of Arts. May 29. Daniel Greenwood of Brasn Coll. This person who was son of Joh. Greenwood was born at Sowerby in the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorksh became Scholar of Christs Coll. in Cambr. an 1645 or thereabouts where spending as much time as made him capable for the degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon and by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Dan. Greenwood Principal of Brasn Coll was made Fellow of that House in 1648 in which year several of the antient Fellows thereof were ejected for their Loyalty In 1653 he became Rector of Steeple Aston near Dedington in Oxfordshire by the presentation thereunto of the Princ. and Fellows of his Coll. and wrot and published 1 Sermon at Steeple-Aston in Oxfordshire at the funeral of Mr. Franc. Croke of that place 2 Aug. 1672 on Isay 57.1.2 Oxon. 1680. qu. 2 Serm. at the funeral of Alex. Croke of Studley in Oxfordsh Esq buried at Chilton in Bucks 24 Oct. 1672 on 2 Cor. 6. ver 7.8 Oxon. 1680. qu. He the said Dan. Greenwood died suddenly of an apoplexy at Woodstock an 1679 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Steeple-Aston before mention'd near to the body of his Uncle Dr. Dan. Greenwood Over his grave is a table of marble fix'd to the north wall of the said Chancel containing an Epitaph for the said Doctor and another for this his Nephew Which last runs thus Heic etiam deponuntur reliquiae rev viri Danielis Greenwood hujus Ecclesiae per anno xxv Rectoris qui singulari erga Deum pietate pauperes munificentia omnibus quibus innotuit humanitate feliciter decurso hujus vitae stadio in caelest Patriam festinans tristi sui desiderium moriens reliquit Octob. xiv an Dom. MDCLXXIX aet suae LI. May 29. Rich. Adams of Brasn Coll. He was a Ministers son in Worral in Chesh and originally of Cambridge where he was examined and admitted in Arts 26 Mar. 1644. Afterwards he went to Oxon when the Garrison thereof was surrendred to the Parliament was admitted a Student of Brasn Coll. 24 Mar. 1646 aged 20 years and soon after made Fellow thereof In 1655 he left his Fellowship being about that time beneficed in Breadstreet in London and in 1662 he was removed for Nonconformity from which time to this he hath continued a Nonconformist Preacher and now liveth if I mistake not in Southwark Under his name hath been published several Sermons as 1 The duties of Parents and Children on Col. 3.20.21 'T is in the Supplement to the Morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Of Hell on Mat. 24.41 'T is in The Morning exercise methodized c. preached at S. Giles in the Fields in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. 3 The earthly and heavenly building on 2 Cor. 5.1 at the funeral of Hen. Hurst M. A. c. Lond. 1690. qu. c. He also and Edw. Veel or Veale did publish Steph. Charnock's book intit A treatise of divine providence c. Before which they put an Epist to the Reader giving a short but imperfect account of the said Charnock's life See among the Writers in Steph. Charnock an 1680. p. 491. Jun. 18. Edw. Baâ—shaw of Ch. Ch. Jun. 18. Hen. Eedes of Linc. Coll. Of the last of these two is large mention made among the Writers The other was originally of Cambridge where he performed his exercise for Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he entred himself into Magd. Hall where continuing till the ejection of loyal Fellows of Linc. Coll was made by the Visitors in 1648 he was by them put in Fellow there where he behaved himself very factious and turbulent On the first of May 1660 he resign'd his Fellowship otherwise had he tarried there a little longer he had been expell'd About which time by money and friends he obtained one or two rich Parsonages and in 1662 became Canon residentiary of Chichester and afterwards Doctor of Div. at Cambridge This is the person
A. of Ch. Ch. and Preb. of Winchester Nov. 9. Tho. Lamplugh B. D. of Qu. Coll. Nov. 9. Tho. Tully B. D. of Qu. Coll. The first of these three became Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Tho. Gorges deceased and dying on the 29 of March 1684 aged 74 years his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Rob. Sharrock 19. Thom. Manton of Wadh. Coll. the noted Presbyterian 29. Thom. Lockey B. D. and Student of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Canon of that House and dying on the 29 of June 1679 aged 78 years was buried in the second isle joyning on the north side to the Choire of Ch. Ch. where there is a neat monument over his grave He was a retired and studious person had been a great Tutor in his house in the time of Usurpation a Collector of pictures coines medals c. All or most of which with his choice Library came into the hands of Dr. Hen. Killigrew Preb. of Westminster Tho. Hacket M. A. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin was actually created the same day He was Dean of Cork in Ireland afterwards Vicar of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty and at length Bishop of Downe He hath extant A Convocation Sermon at Dublin on 1. Cor. 14.16 printed 1662 in qu. and A Sermon preached at the Spittle upon Tuesday in Easter week 1672 printed the same year at Lond. in qu and perhaps other things Dec. 1. Nich. Cordel of All 's Fellow of Eaton Coll. Dec. 1. Joh. Gough commonly called Goffe M. A. of Magd. Coll. Dec. 1. Rich. West M. of A. of Ch. Ch. The last of these three who was Son of Thomas West of the antient Borough of Northampton Priest was elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1632 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being completed in 1639 and afterwards suffer'd for the Royal cause Much about the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of Shillingston in Dorsetshire and afterwards Preb. of Wells He hath published The profitableness of piety opened in an Assize Sermon preached at Dorchester 24 of March 167 0 1 before Sir Rich. Rainsford Kt one of the Judges of the Kings Bench on 1. Tim. 4. latter part of the 7. and 8 verses Lond. 1671. qu. Dec. 1. Edw. Clerke M. A. of Hart Hall Dec. 1. Edm. Morgan M. A. of Magd. Hall Dec. 1. Edw. Hicks of Oriel Coll. The last of these three who was Son of Joh. Hicks Minister of Barrington in Glocestershire became a Student in the said Coll. of Oriel in 1639 aged 15 years left it when the War began without taking the degree of B. of A sided with the predominant party return'd to his house after the War was ended submitted to the Visitors and then took the degree of Master Afterwards he became Rector of Hartingfordbury in Hertfordshire procured by his interest as certain other Presbyterians did to be created D. D. among the Royallists and afterwards being ejected from his living for Nonconformity as a printed Catalogue of the generality of Nonconformists in England informs me did afterwards conform and became Rector of S. Margaret Patens in the City of London He hath published The righteous Judge Sermon preached at Hertford Assize 10. March 1681 2 on Gen. 18.25 last part Lond. 1682. qu. It is dedicated by the author to Sir Nich. Miller Kt High Sherriff of Hertfordshire by his Epist dated at Buckland in the same County 29 of March 1682 of which place he was then as I suppose Rector What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in the latter end of the said year 1682. Dec. 1. Gilb. Ironside the designed B. of Bristow B. of D. of Trin. Coll. Diplomated D. of D. Dec. 1. Will. Nicolson the desig B. of Gloc. B. of D. of Magd. Coll. Diplomated D. of D. 11. Tho. Smith afterwards Bishop of Carlile B. of D. of Queens Coll. Diplomated D. of D. 15. Joh. Gurgany of Mert. Coll. was created for his several laudable Sermons preached before the King and Parliament while Oxon was a Garrison for his Majesty This person who had been outed of his Chaplainship of Merton Coll. by the Visitors in 1648 suffered afterwards as other Loyallists did but after his Majesties restauration he became Preb. of Winterbourne Earles in the Church of Salisbury Preb. of Chichester and Rector of Clapham in Surrey at which place he died in Aug. or thereabouts an 1675. See more of him in Joh. Gregory among the Writers p. 50. John Castillion M. A. of Ch. Ch. and Preb. of Canterbury was created the same day On the 15 of Nov. 1676 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Thom. Lamplugh promoted to the See of Exeter and dying about the latter end of Octob. 1688 his Majesty K. Jam. 2. nominated Mr. Sim. Lowth to succeed him but he being not then D. D and not in a possibility to obtain that degree before the said K. left the Nation K. Will. 3. gave it to one Dr. ... Vllock January 16. Sam. Brunsell of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of Oliver Brunsell of Wroughton in Dorsetshire became a Com. of the said Hall 1636 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts 1641 and then left the University because the rebellion soon after broke out After his Majesties restauration if not before he became Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire and at length Preb. of Southwell c. He hath published Solomons blessed Land Sermon before an extraordinary assembly at Newark upon Trent on the 29 May 1660 on Ecclesiast 10.17 Lond. 1660. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 24. Joshua Childrey of Magd. Coll. Mar. 1. Edw. Cotton M. A. of Ch. Ch. now Archdeacon of Cornwall in the place of Dr. Rob. Hall I have made mention of his Father of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 813. James Stermont a Dutch Divine was diplomated the same day by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which partly run thus While his Majesty was in the parts beyond the Sea he had evidence of the affections of this Mr. James Stermont Minister of the Hague in Holland who has a great repute for piety and learning with those among whom he lives And by the affections he has declared to the Church and Crown of England deserves the acknowledgment of all who wish well to either c. This person being a high Royalist for the cause of the King of England 't was frequent with him to have several passages in his Sermons at the Hague esteemed by those that were not lovers of his Majesty to be extravagancies invectives and strange digressions which being looked upon as much tending to the prejudice of peace and the intended treaties between England and Holland he was forced to recant before the high and mighty States general an 1651. Mar. 12. William Holder of Cambridge This worthy person who
Majesty recommended to me by the L. Chief Just Hale as a person that hath been always truly loyal and was by reason thereof deprived of the Vicaridge of Kings Cleere in the usurped times c. One Hadrian Beverland who entitles himself Dominus Zelandiae became a Sojourner in Oxon this year for the sake of the public Library He was afterwards Doctor of the Law and a Publisher of prohibited obscene and profane books In the same year and before was a Student in Divinity in the said Library one Andreas Fredericus Forneretus of Lausanna in Switzerland who wrot and published Dissertatio Theologica de persona officio Christi mediatorio Oxon. 1673. qu. dedicated to Peter Bish of Bathe and Wells who was an encourager of his Studies An. Dom. 1673. An. 25 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Ralph Bathurst Doct. of Phys and Priest President of Trin. Coll. and Dean of Wells Oct. 3. Proct. Abrah Campion of Trin. Coll. Apr. 9. Nathaniel Salter of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 9. The senior of these two Proctors was elected and admitted while Proctor Moral Philos Professor in the place of Mr. Nath. Hodges 21 Nov. 1673. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 9. Thom. Mannyngham of New Coll. 10. John Hough of Magdalen Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. 30. Daniel Pratt of S. Joh. Coll. See among the Masters 1677. Jun. 28. Joh. Knight of New Inn. See among the Masters in 1675. Jul. 9. Charles Hutton of Trin. Coll. See also among the Masters in 1676. Jan. 17. Will. Howell of New Inn sometimes of Wadh. Coll. Mar. 23. Pet. Birch of Ch. Ch. See among the Doctors of Div. 1688. As for Mannyngham and Howell they have written and published several things and therefore they are to be remembred hereafter among the Writers Adm. 211. Bach. of Law Jul. 9. Joh. Jones of Jes Coll. Besides him were 9 more admitted of whom Charles Hales of Vniv Coll. was one son of Sir Edw. Hales of Kent Mast of Arts. Apr. 9. Tho. Cradock of Magd. Coll. He was elected Orator of the University on the resignation of Dr. Rob. South 10 of Nov. 1677 and dying 22 of March 1678 Will. Wyat of Ch. Ch. was elected into his place 26 March 1679. This I set down to carry on the Succession of Orators from Dr. South who is the last Orator mention'd in the printed Cat. of them in the 2 book of Hist Antiq Vniv Oxon. May 31. Rob. Cooper of Pemb. Coll. Jul. 1. Benj. Hoffman of Ball. Coll. The last of these two who was son of John Hoffman a German Rector of Wotton near Woodstock in Oxfordshire was afterwards Lecturer of S. George's Church in Botolph lane London and at length by the favour of Nottingham L. Chanc. of Engl he became Rector of a Church in Sussex He hath published Some considerations of present use wherein is shewn that the strong ought to bear with the weak and the weak not clamour against or censure the strong c. Delivered in a Sermon at S. George Botolph lane on Rom. 15.5.6.7 Lond. 1683. qu. Jul. 9. Rich. Forster of Brasn Coll. This Divine who was son of Clem. Forster of the City of Chester was afterwards Rector of Beckley in Sussex and author of Prerogative and Priviledge represented in a Sermon in the Cath. Church of Rochester in Kent 18 March 1683 at the Assizes holden there c. on Prov. 17.26 Lond. 1684. qu preached and published at the request of Archibald Clinkard Esq in the third year of his Shrievalty of Kent Oct. 15. Joh. Clerke of All 's Coll. This Gent who was son of Sir Franc. Clerke of Rochester and had been Proctor of the Univ. was afterwards Rector of Vlcomb and Haristsham in Kent and Author of A Sermon preached in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester on the 29 of May 1684 on 1 Cor. 10.10 Lond. 1684. qu. He died about 3 years after Nov. 4. Edw. Tyson of Magd. Hall Nov. 4. Gilb. Budgell of Trin. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Rector of Simondsbury in Dorsetshire and Author of A Discourse of Prayer Sermon at S. Clem. Danes Lond. 28 July 1689 on Jam. 4.3 Lond. 1690. qu. Jan. 29. Jonathan Kimberley of Pemb. Coll. He was in the year following Junior of the Act and soon after a famed Preacher in the University which carried him to the Vicaridge of Trinity Church in the City of Coventry He hath published Of Obedience for conscience sake Sermon preached at the Assizes held at Warwick 7 Aug. 1633 on Rom. 13.5 Lond 1683. qu. Feb. 19. Tho. Stripling of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards one of the Chaplains of New Coll. and author of A Sermon preached before the Vniversity of Oxford on S. Andrews day Lond. 1681. qu. He died on the 6 of Mar. 1678 aged 27 years and was buried near the north end of the west Cloister of that Coll. Feb. 26. Joh. Okes of S. Maries Hall He was before of Oriel Coll and after this time became Vicar of Shinfield in Berks and Author of An Assize Sermon at Reading on Mark 12.19 Lond. 1681. qu. Adm. 117. Bach. of Div. Jul. 9. Rob. Feild of Trin. Coll. a Comp. Jul. 9. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these two you may see among the D. of D. following Mar. 23. Joh. March of S. Edm. Hall Adm. 5. Doct. of Law Apr. 19. Rob. Holte of Allsoules sometimes of Brasnose Coll. Doct. of Phys Jul. 11. Joh. Luffe of S. Maries Hall sometimes of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of Physick of this Univ. On the 3 of Oct. were the Chancellours Letters read in Convocation in behalf of Joh. Harford M. A. of S. Johns Coll that he might accumulate the degrees in Physick but whether he did so it appears not Doct. of Div. May 15. Thom. Tomkins of All 's Coll. a Comp. Jul. 8. Rob. Frampton of Ch. Ch. Dean of Gloc. 9. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll. Compounders 9. Rob. Feild of Trin. Coll. Compounders The first of these two was now Warden of the Coll. at Manchester and soon after Dean of S. Asaph and at length B. of Chester The other was Sub-dean of York to which he had been collated on the 3 of Sept. 1670 on the death of Dr. Anth. Elcocke and on the 27 of Apr. 1675 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Clievland on the death of Joh. Neile D. D. who was also Dean of Rippon and Preb. of York He died on the 9 of Sept. 1680 aged 42 years and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of York in that Chap. wherein his Patron and Benefactor Dr. Rich. Sterne Archb. of that place was afterwards buried In his Subdeanery succeeded George Tully M. A. of Qu. Coll. in this University and in his Archdeaconry Joh. Lake D. D. of Cambridge afterwards B. of the isse of Man c. Jan. 23. Will. Asshtâ—n of Brasn Coll He had 9 Terms granted to him by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc.
and Astrology He is now Schoolmaster of Carlile Adm. 266. Bach. of Law Four were admitted this year of whom Wilhelm Musgrave of New Coll. was one June 14. He was afterwards Secretary to the Royal Society for a time and wrot the Philosophical Transact from numb 167. to num 178 inclusive at which time followed Mr. Ed. Halley who began with nu 179. This Mr. Musgrave was afterwards Doctor of Physick Mast of Arts. May 24. Rawlins Dring of Wadh. Coll. June 19. Humph. Hody of Wadh. Coll. July 5. Thomas Rogers of Hart Hall Author of a Poem called Lux occidentalis c. 6. Rob. Burscough of Qu. Coll. 6. Humph. Smith of Qu. Coll. The first of these two is Vicar of Totness the other of Dartmouth in Devonshire and both authors and writers and persons of good repute in that Country for their learning and zeal for the Ch. of England Mar. 6. Hen. Hellier of C. C. Coll. Adm. 101. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Apr. 3. Tho. Hyde of Qu. Coll. Compounder July 18. George Walls of Ch. Ch. He hath published A Sermon preached to the Natives of the City and County of Worcester in the Church of S. Lawrence Jewry at their solemn meeting 28 June 1681. on Nehem. 8.10 Lond. 1681. qu. He was afterwards or about that time Chaplain to the Company of English Merchants trading at Hamborough Nov. 15. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. Mar. 12. Rich. Roderick of Ch. Ch. The last of these two who was Vicar of Blandford forum in Dorsetshire published A Serm. preached 19 of Aug. 1684 at the consecration of the Lord Weymouths Chappel in Longleat on 2. Chron. 7.16 Lond. 1684 qu. Dedicated to Thom. L. Thynne Baron of Warmister Viscount Weymouth c. Adm. 16. Doct. of Law Apr. 26. Thomas Wainewright of All 's Coll. July 21. Rich. Maris of S. Johns Coll. The first of these two is Chancellour of the Diocess of Chester Doct. of Phys May 24. Joh. Bateman of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Fellow and Censor of the Coll. of Phys July 5. Joh. Radcliff of Linc. Coll. July 5. Charles Lybbe of Magd. Hall The first of these two is now Fellow of the said Coll. of Physitians Dec. 1. Phineas Ellwood of C. C. Coll. Doct. of Div. Apr. 3. Thom. Hyde of Queens Coll an Accumulator and Compounder July 5. Humph. Humphreys of Jesus Coll. 7. Thom. Seddon alias Sidney of All 's Coll. The first of these two is now the worthy Bishop of Bangor Incorporations Three and twenty Masters of Arts of Cambridge were incorporated this year mostly after the Act among whom I find these July 11. Charles Mountague of Trin. Coll a younger Son of Edward Earl of Sandwich He was this year Gent. Com. for a time of Linc. Coll afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Durham in the place of Sir R. Lloyd deceased and is now High Sherriff of Durham Michael Altham of Christs Coll. was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Vicar of Latton in Essex and author of A dialogue between a Pastor and Parishioner touching the Lords Supper c. printed several times in tw As also of 3. or more Discourses against Popery in the raign of K. Jam. 2. Tho. Browne of S. Johns Coll was incorporated also the same day He was afterwards Bach. of Div. and published Concio ad clerum habita coram Acad. Cantab. 11. Junii 1687 pro gradu Bach. in S. Theol. ubi vindicatur vera valida Cleri Anglicani ineunte reformatione ordinatio Lond. 1688. qu. To which is added an English Sermon of the same author turn'd by him into Lat. intit Concio habita 3 Julii 1687 de Canonica Cleri Anglicani Ordinatione as also the Instruments of the consecration of Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury Besides the said Masters were also incorporated these persons following Jul. 11. James Fulwood Doctor of the Laws of Queens Coll. in Cambridge John Worth Doct. of Div. of Dublin and Dean of the Cath. Ch. of S. Patrick there was incorporated the same day c. Creations Jul. 11. John Pooley M. of A. Chapl. to James Duke of Ormonde and Dean of the Cath. Ch. of Kilkenny in Ireland was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of the said Duke Chanc. of this Univ. Hugh Drysdale of the Univ. of Dublin Preacher in the Cath. Ch. at Kilkenny Chapl. to the said Duke and Archdeacon of Ossory was actually created Doct. of Div. on the same day by vertue of the Letters of the said Duke Feb. 12. Samuel De Langle or Del ' Angle was actually created D. of Div. without paying any fees by vertue of Chancellours Letters written in his behalf which partly runs thus Mr. Sam. De Langle Minister of the reformed Church at Paris is retired into England with his whole family with intentions to live here the remainder of his time He hath exercised his function 35 years partly at Roven and partly at Paris He is only Mast of Arts which the Protestant Divines usually take and no farther c. When he was conducted into the house of Convoc by a Beadle and the Kings Professor of Div all the Masters stood up in reverence to him and when the Professor presented him he did it with an harangue Which being done and Mr. De Langle had taken his place among the Doctors he spoke a polite Oration containing thanks for the honour that the most famous University of Oxon had done unto him c. He had been Preacher of the chief Church of the reformed Religion in France called Charenton near Paris and was afterwards made Prebendary of Canterbury c. This year was a Sojourner in the University and a Student in the public Library Fredericus Deatsch of Conigsberg in Prussia who is now or at least was lately Professor of Divinity and of the Tongues at Conigsberg and there held in great esteem for his learning c. An. Dom. 1683. An. 35 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. Lloyd Princ. of Jes Coll. Proct. Henr. Gandy of Oriel Coll. Apr. 18. Arthur Charlet of Trin. Coll. Apr. 18. Bach. of Arts. May 9. Francis Lee of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 20. Thom. Sowtherne of Pemb. Coll. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. 26. Thom. Armestead of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters in 1686. Nov. 27. Will. Nicholls of Wadham afterwards of Merton Coll. Adm. 161. Bach. of Law Five were admitted of whom Charles Finch of All 's Coll. was one a younger son of Heneage late Earl of Nottingham Mast of Arts. Apr. 24. Joh. Bennet of Ch. Ch. Apr. 24. Joh. Barnard or Bernard of Brasnose Coll. Jun. 13. Thom. Creech of Wadh afterwards of All 's Coll. Oct. 10. Miles Stapylton of All 's Coll. The last of these two hath translated into English The Life of Caius Marius Printed in the Third vol. of Plutarch's Lives Lond. 1684. oct Dec. 13. Tho. Lane of Mert. Coll. Mar. 22.
and Customs of his Country a contemner of popularity and riches frugal in his expences abstemious in his diet c. His works as to learning are these 1 Aretina a Romance printed in oct 2 Religio Stoici Edenb 1663 c. in oct The running title at the top of the pages is The Virtuoso or Stoick 3 Solitude prefer'd to publick employment printed at Edenb in oct 4 Moral Gallantry printed several times in oct It is a discourse wherein the author endeavours to prove that point of honour abstracting from all other ties obliges men to be virtuous and that there is nothing so mean or unworthy of a Gent. as vice 5 A moral Paradox maintaining that it is easier to be virtuous than vitious printed with Moral Gall. 6 Pleadings in some remarkable cases before the supreme Courts of Scotland since 1661 printed in qu. 7 Observations upon the 28 Act of the 23 Parl. of K. Jam. 6. against Dispositions made in defraud of Creditors Printed at Edenburg in oct 8 Of the laws and customs of Scotland in matters criminal Edenb 1678. qu. 9 Observations on the laws and customs of nations as to precedency with the science of Heraldry treated as a part of the Civil Law of Nations wherein reasons are given for its principles and etymologies for its harder terms Edenb 1680. fol. 10 Idea eloquentiae forensis hodieâ—nae una cum Actione forensi ex unaquaque juris parte Ed. 1681. oct 11 Jus Regium or the just and solid foundations of Monarchy 〈◊〉 general and more especially of the Monarchy of Scotland maâ—â—tained against Buchanan Napthali Dolman Milton c. Loâ—â— 1684 c. in oct This book being dedicated and presented by 〈◊〉 author to the University of Oxon the Members thereof assembâ—â— in Convocation 9 June 1684 ordered a Letter of thanks to be 〈◊〉 to him for the said book and his worthy pains therein c. 〈◊〉 The discovery of the Fanatick plot Printed 1684. fol 13 Insâ—â—tutions of the Laws of Scotland printed in 1684. oct 14 〈◊〉 against Bayly of Jerviswood 15 A defence of the antiquity of 〈◊〉 Royal line of Scotland With a true account when the Scots were â—â—verned by Kings in the Isle of Britaine Lond. 1685 oct Writte◠〈◊〉 answer to An historical account of Church government c. published by Dr. William Lloyd Bish of S. Asaph This Defence of Sir G. Makenzie was published in the latter end of June an 1685 but before it was extant it was animadverted upon by Dr. Edw. Stillingster who had before seen the Ms of it in his preface to his book 〈◊〉 Origines Britannicae published in fol. at Lond. in the beginning 〈◊〉 June 1685. 16 The antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland 〈◊〉 cleared and defended against the exceptions lately offer'd by Dr. Siâ—â—lingfleet in his Vindication of the Bishop of S. Asaph Lond. 16â—â— oct 17 Observations upon Acts of Parliament Edenb 1686. 〈◊〉 18 Oratio inauguralis habita Edenburgi id Mar. 1689 de structâ—â—â— Bibliothecae pure juridicae hinc de vario in jure scribendi 〈◊〉 Printed 1690 in oct 19 Moral History of Frugality with 〈◊〉 opposite vices covetousness and prodigality niggardliness and 〈◊〉 Lond. 1691. oct Dedic to the Univ. of Oxon. 20 〈◊〉 humanae rationis in oct printed also in English at Lond. 1690 〈◊〉 21 Vindication of the government of Scotland during the 〈◊〉 K. Ch. 2 against the misrepresentations made in several 〈◊〉 Pamphlets Lond. 1691. qu. 22 The method of proceeding 〈◊〉 Criminals as also some of the fanatical Covenants as they were 〈◊〉 and published by themselves in that K. Ch. 2. raign printed 〈◊〉 the Vindication 23 Answer to the Scotch Ministers Being a Vindication of the proceedings against Argyle Pr. at Edenb 24 Defence of the proceedings of the Privy Council in Scotland 25 Memorial about the Bishops to the Prince of Orange c. The said Sir George Makenzie hath also left behind him about 14 Mss of his composition which in good time may see light At length this good Gentleman dying much lamented by all the friends of the Church Monarchy learning and religion in S. James's street near S. James's House within the liberty of Westminster on the eighth day of May an 1691 his body was thereupon conveyed by Land to Scotland and being lodged for a time in the Abbey Church of Halyrood house at Edenburgh was on the 26 of June following buried in great state and pomp being attended by all the Council Nobility Colleges of Justice University Gentry and Clergy and so great a concourse of people that hath not yet been seen on such an occasion in a Vault made some time before by himself with a Cupulo of free-stone over it in the yard of the Franciscan or Grey-fryers Church in the said City At the same time was fastned to his Coffin a large inscription in Latin for him the said Sir George part of which runs thus Patriae decus religionis vindex justitiae propugnator juris Regii Assertor strenuus indefessus Collegii Juridici sive Jurisprudentiam summam sive eloquentiam eximimu sive in instruenda Jurisconsultorum Bibliotheca curam locupletanda munificentiam Spectes ornamentum imprimis illustre Comitatis exemplar eruditorum Mecaenas eruditissimus omnibus charus si perduellium colluviem excipias A quorum violentia patriam patriaeque patrem cum ore tum calamo acerrimè vindicavit virulentiam jure justitia temperavit ferociam rationis viribus retudit ac tantum non domuit Monarchiae Genius tutelaris fama eloquio morum integritate factis scriptis clarus Ecclesiae Regi Reipublicae Literis amicis vixit Maii die octavo an 1691 in Dom. obiit desideratissimus TABLE or INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF Athenae and Fasti Oxonienses A. ACton Edw. 844. Adams Fitzherb 593.897 Rich. 491.775 Adderley Thom. 847. Will. 377. Adee Nich. 824. Adelsheim Jo. Phil. 886. Addison Lanc. 784. Adolph Joh. Co. Pal. of the Rhine 893.894 Agas Dan. 151. Agriconius Sam. Mon. 869. Ahier Josh 735. Ailmer Jo. 365. Airay Christop 341. Akroid Ambr. 515. S. Alban Cha. Duke of 829. Albiis de Tho. 161.240.480.497 Aldrich Hen. 457.869.889 Aldworth Char. 898. Alfred King 228. Allam Andr. 594. Allason Edw. 743. Allein Jo. 858. Jos 299.300 Rich. 513.301 Theodosia 301. Allen Franc. 745. Rich. 68. Tho. 871. Allestree Char. 878. Rich. 505. Aleyn Cha. 702. Allibond Joh. 723. Allington Lord 622. Allured Tho. 66. Alix Pet. 860. Allmagne Jam. 899. Alonso 487. Alsop Ben. 561.563.564.620 Nath. 855. Altham Mich. 890. Rog. 891. Alvey Tho. 860. Ambrose Is 225.226.152 Amherst Arth. 825. Amidei Alex. 232. Amyraldus Mos 550. Anderson Hen. 851. Andrew Geo. 657. Andrews Lanc. 215 216.5â—5 Nich. 730. Aneley Sam. 335.514.747 Angell Joh. 118. Angier Joh. 226. Anglesey Arth. Earl of 597.401.542 See Annesley Annand Will. 632. Annesley Altham 856. Geor. 778. Rich. 856.903 See Anglesey and Aneley Anselme St. 316. Apsley Allen 830. Archer Sim. 693.