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
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
favour he had free access Nor was he less careful to obtain the like access for him to the Records in the Tower of London by his interest with old Mr. Collet the chief Clerk at that time there under Sir John Burroughs whom he amply rewarded with sundry kind gratuities for his friendliness in assisting Mr. Dugdale with what he thought proper for his purpose from those rarities there reposed He also about that time was introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Sir Tho. Cotton Baronet whereby he had free access to that incomparable Library in his house near Westminster Hall began and set up by his father that noted Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton Baronet where finding rare MSS. and original Charters in that incomparable Treasury made such Collections thence as were of singular use in several Volumes which have since been made publick by the press He was likewise introduced by the said Mr. Roper into the acquaintance of Mr. Scipio Squire then one of the Vicechamberlains of the Exchequer thro whose kindness and favour he had access to that venerable Record called Domesday-book as also to the Fines Plea-Rolls and sundry other Records remaining in the Treasury there Nor was Sir Christ Hatton backward in giving him all possible encouragement in those his studies For having seconded Sir H. Spelman in recommending him to the Earl of Arundel that Earl sent for him in Septemb. following an 1638 and obtained the Kings Warrant to create him a Pursevant at Arms extraordinary by the title of Blanch Lyon and thereupon so created him at the Kings royal Pallace of Richmond in Surrey upon the 24 of that instant Sept. Also upon the removal of Mr. Edw. Walker then Pursevant called Rogue-Croix to the Office of Chester Herald his Lordship obtained his Majesties Letters Pat. for creating him Rogue-Croix Pursevant in ordinary bearing date 18 of Mar. 1639. By which means having a Lodging in the Heralds Office and some benefit by funerals and other ways with the yearly Salary of 20 l. out of the Kings Exchequer for his support he thenceforth spent the greatest part of his time in London in order to the augmenting his Collections out of the Records in the Tower and other places in and near the said City till by the influence of a very forward and predominant Party in the most unhappy Parliam that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which aiming at the subversion of Religion established which came afterwards to pass and unjustifiable extirpation of monarchick Government whereby nothing less could be expected than the profaning of all places of Gods publick Worship destruction of monuments in Churches and defacing whatsoever was beautiful and ornamental therein the said Mr. Dugd. therefore receiving encouragement from Sir Chr. Hatton before mention'd then a member of the H. of C. for Higham-Ferres in Northamptonsh who timely foresaw the near approaching storm did in the summer time 1641 taking with him one Will. Sedgwick a skilful Arms-painter repair first to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London and next to the Abbey Church of Westminster and there made exact draughts of all the monuments in each of them copied the Epitaphs according to the very letter as also of all Arms in the Windows or cut in stone All which being done with great exactness Mr. Dugdale rode to Peterborough in Northamptonshire Ely Norwich Lincoln Newark upon Trent Beverley Southwell Kingston upon Hull York Selby Chester Lichfield Tanworth Warwick and did the like in all those cathedral collegiate conventual and divers other parochial Churches wherein any tombs and monuments were to be found to the end that the memory of them in case if that ruin then eminent might come to pass might be preserved for future and better times As it was feared so it soon after fell out all things thro the influence of the predominant party in that Parliament looking every day more and more that way insomuch as in the middle of January following the King himself his Queen and royal issue forc'd by tumults were constrained to betake themselves for safety to other places viz. the King Prince and Duke of York unto the City of York and the Queen to her own relations in France His Majesty being therefore necessitated at that time to continue in those northern parts where many of the Nobility attended him he did by his Warrant under his royal Signet manual bearing date 1 June 1642 command the said Mr. Dugdale forthwith to repair thither to him according to the duty of his place Upon the reception of which he obeyed and continued at York till about the middle of July at which time he received his Majesties farther command to attend Spencer Earl of Northampton then L. Lieutenant of the County of Warwick who was endeavouring to secure the chief places of that County and near it and to disperse the Forces under the Lord Brook which he had gathered together for the Parliament by the Trained-Band Soldiers and other loyal persons under him But they having secur'd the Castles of Banbury and Warwick Mr. Dugdale did by command from his Maj. who was advised at York of their proceedings in his Coat of Arms with a Trumpet sounding before him repair to those Castles and required them to disband and to deliver up their Arms requiring also the said L. Brook and his Adherents to disband c. Accordingly the Castle of Banbury with all the Arms and Ammunition therein were delivered up but the Castle of Warwick being a place of more strength and defended by a greater number of Soldiers under the command of Sir Edw. Peto of Chesterton in that County Knight they did contemn the said Summons c. Afterwards when the King marched southward from York and had taken up his quarters for some time at Stonley house about 4 miles distant from Coventry on the 19 of Aug. 1642 Mr. Dugdale did by his Majesties special Warrant dated the next day summon the said City of Coventry a little before taken in for the use of the Parliament with his Coat bearing the Kings Arms thereon and a Trumpet sounding before him to the end that the Defenders deliver up their Arms to his Majesty and depart peaceably to their respective homes c. but they obstinately denying his Summons he proclaimed them Traytors and forthwith returned Afterwards he attended the King at Kineton commonly called Edghill in Warwickshire where the grand battel between him and his Army and that belonging to the Parliament was fought on the 23 of Oct. 1642. Which battel being finished and the royal party victorious he attended his Maj. to Oxon and thence to Reading and Brainford his Maj. intending for London but finding the power of the Rebels much recruited by the Inhabitants of that populous City he did after some skirmishes had at Brainford where the royal party took many Prisoners return to Oxford fix his chief residence there and fortified that City with Bulwarks for the better
one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Afterwards Sir Edw. was one of those many persons that were excepted out of the Act of indempnity or pardon of their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary dated 23. May 1690. May 6. Thomas Adderley of S. Johns Coll. This person who was a Warwickshire man born was a Servitour of the said Coll and after he had taken one degree in Arts he left it and became Chaplains as it seems to Sir Edw. Boughton of Warwickshire Bt. He hath written and published The care of the peace of the Church the duty of every Christian In a discourse on Psal 122.6 Lond. 1679. qu. To which is added A Letter shewing the great danger and sinfulness of popery written to a young Gentleman a Roman Cath. in Warwickshire May 27. Rich Roderick of Ch. Ch. May 27. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch. Jun. 15. Will. Cade of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682 of the second among the Masters 1672 and of the third among the Bach. of Div. 1681. June 19. Rich. Leigh of Qu. Coll. This Gent who was a younger Son of Edw. Leigh mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 351. hath Poetry and other things extant and therefore he is to crave a place hereafter among the Writers Oct. 19. Humph. Humphreys of Jes Coll. He was afterwards B. of Bangor 26. Sam. Barton of C. C. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1681. Dec. 11. Richard Forster of Brasn Coll. See among the Masters in 1673. Feb. 1. Joh. Clerk of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll. See among the Mast an 1673. Mar. 15. Joh. Rogers of S. Joh. Coll. See among the Mast an 1672. Admitted 208 or thereabouts Doct. of Mus July 8. Benj. Rogers Organist of Magd. Coll was then admitted Doctor of Musick which degree he compleated in that great and solemn Act celebrated in Sheldons Theater on the 12 of the same month being the third day after the opening and dedication of the said Theater for a learned use This person who was Son of Peter Rogers belonging to his Majesties Chap. of S. George at Windsore in Berks was born at Windsore was when a boy a Choirester and when a Man Clerk or Singing-man of the said Chap. at Windsore Afterwards he became Organist of Ch Ch. in Dublin where continuing till the rebellion broke out in 1641 he was forced thence and going to Windsore he obtained a Singing mans place there But being soon after silenced by the great troubles occasion'd by the Civil Wars in England he taught his profession at Windsore and in the neighbourhood and by the favour of the men then in power got some annual allowance in consideration of his lost place In 1653 or thereabouts he being then famed for a most admirable Composer did at the request of great personages compose several sets of Airs of four parts to be performed by Violins and an Organ which being esteem'd the best of their kind that could be then composed were sent as great rarities into Germany to the Court of Archduke Leopold now Emperour and were tried and often played by his own Musitians to his very great content he himself being then a Composer and a great Admirer of Musick In 1658 his great favourer and encourager of his profession Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo Fellow of Eaton conducted him to Cambridge got the degree of Bach. of Mus to be confer'd on him as a member of Qu. Coll that Doctor having been sometimes Fellow thereof and at that time a Proceeder in Div. and giving great content by his song of several parts which was his exercise performed in the Commencement that year by several voices he gained the reputation there of a most admirable Musitian and had the greater part of his fees and entertainment defray'd by that noble and generous Doctor After his Majesties restauration the Lord Mayor Aldermen and chief Citizens of London being unanimously dispos'd to entertain the King the two Dukes and both Houses of Parliament with a sumptuous Feast it was ordered among them that there should be added to it the best Musick they could obtain And B. Rogers being then esteemed the prime Composer of the Nation he was desir'd of them to compose a song of several parts to be performed while the King and company were at dinner Whereupon in order to it Dr. Ingelo made Hymnus Eucharisticus the beginning of the prelude to which is Exultate Justi in Domino c. This also he translated into English and both were printed in single papers These things being done B. Rogers composed a song of four parts to that Hymne which was more than once tried in private At length on the 12. of July Thursday 1660 being the day that his Majesty James Duke of York Henry Duke of Glocester and both Houses of Parliament were at Dinner in the Guild-hall of the City of London the said printed papers in Latin and English being delivered to the King the two Dukes and dispersed among the Nobility c. purposely that they might look on them while the performance was in doing the song was began and carried on in Latin by twelve Voices twelve Instruments and an Organ mostly performed by his Majesties Servants Which being admirably well done it gave very great content and Mr. Rogers the author being present he obtained a great name for his composition and a plentiful reward Much about that time he became Organist of Eaton Coll where continuing till Theodore Colby a German was prefer'd to be Organist of Exeter Cathedral Dr. Thomas Pierce who had a great value for the man he himself being a Musitian invited him to Magd. Coll. and gave him the Organists place there and there he continued in good esteem till 1685 and then being ejected the reason why let others tell you the Society of that house allow'd him an yearly pension to keep him from the contempt of the world In which condition he now lives in his old age in a skirt of the City of Oxon unregarded He hath extant certain compositions in a book entit Cantica Sacra Containing Hymns and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Latin and English Lond. 1674. fol. As also in The Latine Psalmes and Hymns of four parts published by Joh. Playford His compositions for instrumental Musick whether in two three or four parts have been highly valued and were always 30 years ago or more first called for taken out and played as well in the publick Musick school as in private Chambers and Dr. Wilson the Professor the greatest and most curious Judge of Musick that ever was usually wept when he heard them well perform'd as being wrapt up in an extasie or if you will melted down while others smil'd or had their hands and eyes lifted up at the excellency of them c. But now le ts go on with the admissions Bach. of Law Five were admitted but not one of
sixteen hundred forty and two was buried in a Vault pertaining to his Family situated and being under part of the Church of S. Mildrid in Breadstreet wherein his Father E. Crisp Alderman who died in his Shrivalty of London 13. Nov. 1625. was buried Dr. Crisp left behind him many children begotten on the body of his wife the daughâ—er of Rowl Wilson Alderman and Sheriff of London one of the Members of the Long Parliament and of the Council of State 1648-9 See more in Obad. Sedgwick THOMAS GODWIN second Son of Anthony Godw. of Wookey in Somersetshire and he the second Son of Will. Godw. of the City of Wells was born in that County became a Student in Magd. hall in the beginning of the year 1602. and in that of his age 15. Four years after he was made Demie of Magd. Coll where following the studies of Philology and the Tongues with unwearied industry became at length after he was Master of Arts chief Master of Abendon School in Berks Where by his sedulous endeavours were many educated that were afterwards eminent in the Church and State In the year 1616 being then and some years before Chaplain to Dr. Montague Bishop of Bathe and Wells he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1636 was licensed to proceed in Divinity Before which time he being as 't were broken or wearied out with the drudgery of a School had the Rectory of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day He was a person of a grave and reverend aspect was a grace to his Profession was most learned also in Latin Greek and Hebrew antiquity and admirably well versed in all those matters trequisite for the accomplishment of a Rector of an Academy He hath transmitted to Posterity Romanae Historiae Anthologia An English exposition of the Roman antiquities wherein many Roman and English offices are parallel'd and divers obscure phrases explained In 3 books Oxon 1613 c. qu. Synopsis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum ad explicationem utriusque Testamenti valde necessaria c. lib 3. Oxon. 1616. c. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Jam. Montague B. of B. and Wells and Dean of his Majesties Chappel Moses and Aaron Civil and Ecclesiastical rites used by the ancient Hebrews observed and at large opened for the clearing of many obscure texts throughout the whole Scripture in six books Printed 1625. in qu. Florilegium Phrasicon Or a Survey of the Latine Tongue When this book was first printed I know not for I do not remember that I ever yet have seen the first edition Three arguments to prove Election upon foresight of Faith which coming in Ms into the hands of Twisse of Newbury were by him answered Soon after that answer being sent to our Author Godwin he made a Reply which was confuted by the Rejoynder of Twisse The Presbyterian writers say that tho Dr. Godwin was a very learned Man in the antiquities of the Hebrews Greeks and Latines yet he was fitter to instruct Grammarians than deal with Logicians and had more power as Master of a School at Abendon than as a Doctor of Divinity They further add also that Twisse did by his writings and disputes whip this old Schoolmaster and wrested that Ferula out of his hands which he had enough used with pride and expos'd him to be derided by boyes Dr. Godwin after he had for some years enjoyed himself in great repose in requital of his many labours surrendred up his soul to God 20. March in sixteen hundred forty and two and was buried in the Chancel belonging to his Church of Brightwell before-mention'd He then left behind him a wife named Philippa Tesdale of Abendon who at her own charge caused a Marble stone to be laid over his grave the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 201. a. JAMES MABBE was born of gentile Parents in the County of Surrey and Dioc. of Winchester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. in Lent term an 1586 7 aged 16 years made Demie of that house in 87 perpetual Fellow in 95 Mast of Arts in 98 one of the Proctors of the University in 1606 and three years after supplicated the ven congreg of Regents that whereas he had studied the Civil Law for six years together he might have the favour to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty but whether he was really admitted it appears not At length he was taken into the service of Sir Joh. Digby Knight afterwards Earl of Bristow and was by him made his Secretary when he went Embassadour into Spaine where remaining with him several years improved himself in various sorts of Learning and in the Customs and Manners of that and other Countries After his return into England he was made one of the Lay-prebendaries of the Cath. Ch. of Wells being then in orders was esteemed a learned man good Orator and a facetious conceited Wit He hath translated from Spanish into English under the name of Don Diego Puede-Ser that is James may be 1 The Spanish bawd represented in Celestina or the tragick comedy of Calisto and Melibea c. Lond. 1631. fol. 2 The Rogue or the life of Guzman de Alfarache Lond. 1634. fol. 3d edit Written in Span. by Matth. Aleman 3 Devout contemplations expressd in 42 Sermons upon all the Quadragesimal Gospels Lond. 1629. fol. Originally written by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca 4 The Exemplarie Novels of Mich. de Cervantes Saavedra in six books Lond. 1640. fol. There was another book of the said Cervantes entit Delight in several Shapes c. in six pleasant Histories Lond. 1654. fol. but who translated that into English I cannot tell nor the name of him who translated his Second part of the History of Don Quixot Lond. 1620. qu. As for our Translator Mabbe he was living in sixteen hundred forty and two at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire in the family of Sir John Strangewaies and dying about that time was buried in the Church belonging to that place as I have been informed by one of that name and family lately fellow of Wadham College in Oxon. DAVID PRIMEROSE second Son of Gilb. Primerose a Scot and D. D. mention'd in the Fasti an 1624. was born in the City of S. Jean d' Angely within the Province of Xantoigne in France educated in Philosophical learning in the University of Bordeaux made an Excursion to this University of Oxon in his younger years for the sake of the Bodleian Library and conversation of protestant Theologists returned to Bordeaux where he proceeded Master of Arts and visited other places of learning Afterwards he went to Oxon again to improve his knowledge and studies by the learning and doctrine of Dr. Prideaux the Kings Professor of Divinity entred himself a Sojourner of Exeter Coll. in 1623 was incorporated Mr. of Arts in the latter end of that year and soon after performed the
in 1642. quarto 2 Speech in the House of Commons at the passing of two Bills Lond. 1641. qu. c. Several Arguments and Discourses See in Joh. Rushworths Append. p. 28. and in a book intit The Sovereigns Prerogative and Subjects Privileges discussed c. Lond. 1657. fol. Reports in the Common Pleas and Exchequer in the 2.3.4.5.6 and 7. of King Charles I. Lond. 1683. fol. These things I think are all that he hath extant except his Humble submission and supplication to the House of Lords 28. Sept. 1642. which is more than once printed under his name yet whether genuine I cannot tell He was untimely taken from this world to the sorrow of his Majesty on the 27. of Aug. in sixteen hundred forty and five being then a Colonel of a Foot Regiment in Oxon and Privy Counsellor to his Majesty and was buried between the two lower Pillars which divides the first North isle from the second on the North side of the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church in Oxon. At which time Dr. Hen. Hammond the University Orator did lay open to the large Auditory then present the great Loyalty prudence knowledge virtue c. that had been in the person that then lay dead before them Over his grave was a costly monument of black and white marble erected in the month of May an 1683 at the charge of his only daughter and Heir Anne Littleton the Widdow of Sir Thom. Littleton Bt with a noble inscription thereon wherein 't is said that this Edward Lord Littleton was descended from Tho. Littleton Knight of the Bath qui sub Edwardo IV. Justiciarius Leges Angliae municipales prius indigestas in Enchiridion feliciter reduxit Opus in omne aevum Jc tis venerandum c. GILES WIDDOWES was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1610 being then Bac. of Arts of that House of two years standing or more Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty entred into Orders and became a noted Preacher At length being made Rector of S. Martins Church in Oxon he resign'd his Fellowship in 1621 and lived in the condition of a Commoner for several years in Gloc. Hall of which he was for the most part of his time Viceprincipal He was a harmless and honest man a noted Disputant well read in the Schoolmen and as conformable to and zealous in the established discipline of the Church of England as any Person of his time yet of so odd and strange parts that few or none could be compared with him He was also a great enemy to the schismatical Puritan in his Sermons and Writings which being much offensive to his quondam Pupil Will. Prynne a controversie therefore fell out between them an 1630 and continued for some time very hot till Prynne was diverted by other matters He hath written The schismatical Puritan Serm. at Witney concerning the lawfulness of Church authority for ordaining c. on 1. Cor. 14. ver ult Oxon. 1630. qu. Which being unadvisedly written and much displeasing to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. was as scurrilously answer'd by Prynne in his appendix to his Ante Arminisme The lawless kneeless schismatical Puritan Or a confutation of the Author of an appendix concerning bowing at the name of Jesus Oxon. 1631. qu. and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He was buried in the Chancel of S. Martins Church before-mention'd on the fourth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and five having been before much valued and beloved and his high and loyal Sermons frequented by the Royal Party and Soldiers of the garrison of Oxford to the poorer sort of whom he was always beneficial as also ready at all turns to administer to them in their distressed condition CHRISTOPHER POTTER Nephew to Dr. Barn Potter mention'd under the year 1641 received his first breath within the Barony of Kendall in Westmorland became Clerk of Queens Coll. in the beginning of 1606 and in that of his age 15 afterwaâ—ds Tabarder M. of Arts and Chaplain in 1613 and at length Fellow of the said College He was then a great admirer of Hen. Ayray Provost of that House some of whose works he published and a zealous puritanical Lecturer at Abendon in Berks. where he was much resorted to for his edifying way of preaching In 1626 he succeeded the said Dr. Barn Potter in the Provostship of his Coll. and the next year proceeded in Divinity Soon after when Dr. Laud became a rising favourite in the Royal Court he after a great deal of seeking was made his creature and therefore by the precise Party he was esteemed an Arminian In the latter end of 1635 he being then Chapl. in Ord. to His Maj. he was made Dean of Worcester upon Dr. Rog. Manwarings promotion to the See of S. David having before had a promise of a Canonry of Windsore but never enjoyed it and in the year 1640 he executed the office or Vicechancellour of this University not without some trouble from the members of the Long Parliament occasion'd by the puritanical and factious party of the Univ. and City of Oxon. Afterwards the grand rebellion breaking out he suffer'd much for the Kings cause and therefore upon the death of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall he was designed and nominated by his Maj. to succeed him in the Deanery of Durham in the month of January 1645 but died before he was installed He was a Person esteemed by all that knew him to be learned and religious exemplary in his behavior and discourse courteous in his carriage and of a sweet and obliging nature and comely presence He hath written and published A Sermon at the consecration of Barnab Potter D. D. Bish of Carlile at Ely House in Holbourne 15. March 1628 on John 21.17 Lond. 1629. oct It must be now noted that a certain Jesuit known sometimes by the name of Edw. Knott and sometimes by that of Nich. Smith and at other times by Mathew Wilson which was his true name born at Pegsworth near Morpeth in Northumberland did publish a book intit Charitie Mistaken c. whereupon our Author Potter answered it in another intit Want of charity justly charged on all such Romanists as dare affirme that protestancie destroyeth salvation c. Oxon. 1633. oct Which book being perus'd by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. he caused some matters therein to be omitted in the next impression which was at Lond. 1634. oct But before it was quite printed Knott before-mention'd put out a book intit Mercy and truth or charity maintained by Catholiques By way of reply upon an answer fram'd by Dr. Potter to a treatise which had formerly proved that charity was mistaken by Protestants c. printed beyond the Sea 1634. in qu. Whereupon Will. Chillingworth undertook him in his book called The religion of Protestants c. which contains an answer only to the first part of Mercy and truth c. For tho Chillingworth had made
Scholars of this University was printed at Lond. again in 1682. fol. Expeditio Buckinghami Ducis in Ream insulam Written by the Author in 1630 published by Timothy Baldwin Doct. of Law and Fellow of All 's Coll. Lond. 1656. octav Occasional Verses or Poems Lond. 1665. oct published by Hen. Herbert his son and by him dedicated to Edward Lord Herbert Grandson to the Author Others of his Poems I have also seen in the books of other Authors occasionally written particularly in that of Joshua Silvester in t Lacrymae lacrymarum or the spirit of tears distilled for the untimely death of Pr. Henry Lond. 1613 qu. There be others also of Sir Hen. Goodyere Sir Will. Cornwallis Jos Hall c. De religione Gentilium errorumque apud eos causis Amst 1663. qu. At length after our Author Herbert had sided with the Long Parliament and had received satisfaction from the members thereof for their causing Mountgomery Castle to be demolished upon the declining of the Kings Cause he surrendred up his last breath in his house in Queen street near London in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of S. Giles Church in the Fields Over his grave which is under the south wall was laid a flat marble stone with this Inscription engraven thereon Heic inhumatur corpus Edwardi Herbert Equitis Balnei Baronis de Cherbury Castle-Island auctoris libri cui titulus est De veritate Reddor ut herbae vicessimo die Augusti anno domini 1648. He was Father to Rich. Lord Herbert and he to Edward which last dying 21 Apr. 1691. was buried on the 28 of the same month near to the grave of his Grandfather The Reader is to know that one Edward Herbert an Esquires son of the County of Mountgomery was matriculated in the University as a member of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of July 1608 aged 17 years but he is not to be taken to be the same with the former who was Lord Herbert tho Isaac Walton in the life of Mr. George Herbert doth and from him the society of the said Coll. I take him to be the same who was afterwards a Knight and Attorney General temp Car. 1. SAMUEL FELL was born within the Parish of S. Clements Danes without Temple-Barr near London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1601 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1608 elected Proctor of the University in 1614 admitted Bac. of Div. in the year after and about that time became Minister of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight In the month of May 1619 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and the same year proceeded in Divinity being about that time domestick Chaplain to King Jam. 1. In 1626 he was made Margaret Professor and so consequently Prebendary of Worcester which was about that time annected to the Professorship he being then a Calvinist At length leaving his opinion became after great seekings and cringings a Creature of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Canterbury by whose means he was made Dean of Lichfield upon the promotion of Dr. John Warner to the See of Rochester an 1637 Dean of Ch. Ch. in the year after in the place of Dr. Duppa promoted to the See of Chichester and would without doubt had not the Rebellion broke out been a Bishop In 1647 he was ejected from his Deanery and Vicechancellourship after he had suffered much for his Loyalty and for the preserving of the statutes and liberties of the University Afterwards retiring to his Rectory of Sunningwell near Abendon in Berks spent the short remainder of his life in obscurity He hath written and published Primitiae sive oratio habita Oxoniae in scholâ Theologiae 9 Nov. an 1626. Oxon 1627. qu. Concio Latina ad Baccalaureos die cinerum in Colos 2.8 Oxon. 1627. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the Parsonage-house at Sunningwell before mentioned on the first day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In his Deanery Edward Reynolds M. A. afterwards D. of Div. had violently been thrust in by the Authority of Parliament in April 1648 as I have at large told you elsewhere WILLIAM TIPPING second son of Sir George Tipp of Dreycot and Whitfield in Oxfordshire Knight by Dorothy his wife dau of Joh. Burlacy of Little-Marlow in Bucks Esq was born in Oxfordshire at Dreycot I think became a Commoner of Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Langhorne in the latter end of 1614 aged 16 years where making a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals took a degree in Arts. Afterwards he went to London and spent some time in one of the Inns of Court but his genie being theologically given he retired to Oxon lived a single life many years in Canditch in the north Suburbs thereof for the sake of scholastical company and of books and was a Justice of the peace for Oxfordshire In the beginning of the civil War he sided with the Presbyterians being always puritanically affected took the Covenant and at length was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by the power of Parliament an 1647 and the next year was actually created Master of Arts. He hath written A discourse of Eternity Oxon. 1633. qu. After the publication of which he obtained the name among Scholars of Eternity Tipping to distinguish him from others of his sirname A return of Thankfulness for the unexpected recovery out of a dangerous sickness Oxon 1640. oct A Fathers Counsel or directions to young persons Lond. 1644. oct The preachers plea or a short declaration touching the sad condition of our Clergy in relation to the smalness of their maintenance throughout the Kingdom Lond. 1646. in tw The remarkable life and death of the Lady Apollonia Hall widdow deceased in the 21 year of her age Lond. 1647. in tw He gave way to fate at Waterstock near to and in the County of Oxon on the second day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried on the eighth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there This person tho born to a fair estate and so consequently might have taken those pleasures which the generality of Gentlemen do yet he gave himself solely up to Learning Piety and Charity He gave 20 shillings yearly to Allsaints Parish in Oxon for a Sermon to be preached there every Good Friday and an hundred pounds towards the building of a Bridewell house without the north gate of the City some years before the Rebellion broke out JOHN GEREE a Yorkshire man born became either a Batler or Servitour of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615 and in that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 entred into holy orders and became Minister of a
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.
Adversary to Hobbes of Malmesbury his Errours and that he had seen him openly oppose him so earnestly as either to depart from him or drive him out of the room c. JOHN MURCOT son of Job Murcot by Joane Townsend his Wife received his first being in the antient Borough of Warwick and his first learning in the Kings School there under Mr. Tho. Dugard who became Schoolmaster in 1633 and after 15 years spent in that employment was made Rector of Barford in that County At 17 years of age our Author Murcot was entred a Student in Merton Coll. in Easter Term 1642 being then committed to the tuition of Mr. Ralph Button Fellow of that house a good Scholar but rigid Presbyterian Soon after Oxford being garrison'd for the King he to avoid bearing Arms for him went thence in a disguise to Mr. Joh. Ley Vicar of Budworth in Cheshire where by continual lucubration for some years he did much improve himself in practical Divinity At length the Wars ceasing he returned to his College and continuing for some time there in godly exercise with his Tutor was admitted Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he returned to Mr. Ley again and became several ways useful to him in his Studies and Profession At length being called to the Ministry at Astbury in Cheshire where the said Mr. Ley had sometimes exercis'd his function he was ordained Minister according to the Presbyterian way at Manchester but continuing not long there he was called to Eastham in Wyrrall in Cheshire where before he was quite setled he took to wife at 25 years of age one Hester the daughter of Ralph Marsden Minister of West Kirby in the said County but before the consummation of Marriage the people of the said place Marsden being dead gave him a call where he preached the Gospel to the beloved people of God From thence after some time he removed to the City of Chester where by his severe carriage he became ridiculous to the wicked So that being in a manner weary of that place he did upon the receipt of another call go into Ireland and at length setled himself and his family at Dublin became one of the Preachers in ordinary to the Lord Deputy and Council and by his often preaching and praying obtained a great flock of People to be his Admirers especially Women and Children The things that he hath written are Several Sermons and Treatises as 1 Circumspect walking a Christians wisdom on Ephes 5.15.16 2 The parable of the ten Virgins on Math. 25. from the first to the 14 vers 3 Christ the Sun of righteousness hath healing in his wings for sinners on Malach. 4.2 4 Christ his willingness to accept humbled sinners on Joh. 6.37 all which were published after his death at London 1657. qu. together with his life cantingly written by Sam. Winter Rob. Chambers Sam. Eaton Joseph Caryll and Tho. Manton all or most Presbyterians From which a common Reader may easily perceive that our Author Murcot was a forward prating and pragmatical Precisian Another Sermon of his is published called Saving faith on John 5.44 Lond. 1656. qu. but that I have not yet seen He gave up the ghost very unwillingly at Dublin on the third day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried with great lamentation of the brethren who always held him to be a pretious young man in S. Maries Chappel joyning to the Choire of Christ Church in the said City of Dublin where as I have been informed is a Monument set up to his memory JOSHUA HOYLE was born at Sorby otherwise Sowerbie within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire received his first academical Education in Magd. Hall and afterwards being invited to Ireland became a Member of Trinity Coll. near Dublin where in his Studies and Writings he directed his course for the Schoolmen In short time he became profound in the fac of Divinity took his Doctors degree therein and at length was made Divinity Professor of the University of Dublin In which Office he expounded the whole Bible through in daily Lectures and in the chiefest books ordinarily a verse a day which work held him almost 15 years Some time before he had ended that Work he began the second Exposition of the whole Bible in the Church of Trin. Coll. and within ten years he ended all the New Testament excepting one book and a piece all the Prophets all Salomon and Job So that his Answer to Malone the Jesuit did in part concur with both these Labours He preached also and expounded thrice every Sabbath for the far greater part of the year once every Holyday and sometimes twice To these may be added his weekly Lectures as Professor in the Controversies and his Answers to all Bellarmine in word and writing concerning the real presence and his finishing in above 8 years time his tome of the 7 Sacraments for there he began and his last tome in 6 years and after that sundry years in the tome or tomes remaining Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in Ireland in 1641 he went into England having always been a noted Puritan and retiring to London became Vicar of Stepney near that City but being too scholastical he did not please the Parishioners While he remained there Jerem. Burroughs preached every morning at 7 of the clock and Will. Greenhill at 3 in the afternoon Which two persons being notorious Schismaticks and Independents were called in Stepney Pulpit by Hugh Peters the Theological Buffoon the morning star of Stepney and the evening star but never took notice of Dr. Josh Hoyle About the same time he was constituted one of the Assembly of Divines and became a helper on of the evidence against Archb. Laud when he was to come to his trial as to matter relating to the University of Dublin while he was Chancellour thereof At length by the favour of the Committee of Parliament for the reformation of the Univ. of Oxon he became Master or Head of Univ. Coll. and the Kings Professor of Divinity He was a person of great reading and memory but of less judgment and so much devoted to his book that he was in a manner a stranger to the world and things thereof a careless person and no better than a mere scholar However that which was in made him respected by the learned Usher Primate of Ireland in whose Vindication he wrot A Rejoynder to Will Malone Jesuit his Reply concerning the real presence Dublin 1641. in a thick quar Which Reply was printed at Doway 1627. After which time the Author of it Malone was made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Rome which he presided 6 years then he went into Ireland where he was Superior of the whole mission of the Jesuits for 3 years Afterwards he was taken and committed by the Protestants from whom getting loose he went into Spain and being made Rector of the Irish Coll. at Sevil died there an aged man in
minus dubiae fidei supersunt Lond. 1650. in a thick large oct Interiora regni dei Lond. 1665. in tw He also translated The Psalmes of David into English meeter Lond. 1646. oct This translation tho ordered by the H. of Commons to be printed 4. Nov. 1645 yet if I am not mistaken all or most of it was printed in 1641. The said Psalmes were also turned into Meter by Will. Barton pr. by order of Parl. 1645. oct Our Author Rous gave way to fate at Acton near London on the seventh day of January in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in Eaton Coll. Church near to the entrance of that Chappel joyning thereunto formerly built by Rog. Lupton Provost of the said College Soon after were hanged up over his grave a Standard Pennon c. and other Ensigns relating to Barons containing in them the arms of the several matches of his Family All which continuing there till 1661 were then pulled down with scorn by the loyal Provost and Fellows and thrown aside as tokens and badges of damn'd baseness and rebellion Those of his Party did declare openly to the World at his death that he needed no monument besides his own printed works and the memorials of his last will to convey his name to posterity And that the other works of his life were works of charity wherein he was most exemplary as the poor in many parts would after the loss of him tell you c. The Poet of Broadgates called Ch. Fitz Geffry did celebrate his memory while he was of that house and after his death Pembroke College built in the place of Broadg. did the like for his benefaction to the members thereof WILLIAM SANDBROOKE of Glocester Hall took one degree in the Civil Law in 1630 and about that time entring into Holy Orders became Rector of the Church of S. Pet. in the Baylie in Oxon 1635 where he was much frequented by Puritanical People and precise Scholars as Rogers Principal of New Inn was who had his turn in preaching there In the beginning of the Civil Wars he left the University and betook himself to a Sea employment in the quality of a Chaplain under the Earl of Warwick Admiral for the Parliament but being weary of it by the year 1644 he officiated as Vicar of S. Margarets Church in the City of Rochester by the leave of one Mr. Selvey the true Incumbent who having a good temporal estate allowed Sandbrooke the whole profits of the living Afterwards he was appointed by the Presbyterian Party one of three Lecturers in the Cathedral there purposely to preach down the Blasphemies and Heresies of Rich. Coppin and his besotted and begotted followers This Mr. Sandbrooke hath published The Church the proper subject of the new Covenant in three Sermons Lond. 1646. oct Several Sermons as 1 Fun. Sermon on Col. 2.6 printed 1657. in oct c. which and others I have not yet seen He died at Rochester in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was inter'd in the South Isle joyning to the Parish Church of S. Margaret beforemention'd remarkable for being the place of burial of one of the Saxon Kings as the People there say on the fifteenth day of March leaving then behind him the character of a godly and painful preacher WILLIAM RUSSELL Son of a Father of both his names was born at Wickware in Glocestershire educated in the Grammar School at Wotton Underedge in the said County became a Batler of Linc. Coll. in Lent term 1635 took one degree in Arts and then taught School for a time at Sadbury in his own Country At length John Langley being called away to be chief Master of S. Pauls School he became Master in his room of the publick College School in the City of Glocester where by his singular industry happy way of teaching and by his great skill in the Tongues and holy Scripture many learned youths were sent thence to the Universities His works are these The old Protestants conscientious enquiries concerning the new engagement printed in qu. 'T was written against the Oath called the Engagement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Holy Ghost vindicated in oct written against Joh. Biddle He gave way to fate on the 5. of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 42 years and was buried in S. Michaels Church within the City of Gloc. See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. p. 167. a. b. He left behind him three most ingenious Sons and excellent Scholars who were afterwards successively Masters of Arts and Fellows of Magd. Coll. The eldest was Samuel who died 22. July 1670. aged 22 the next was William who died 8. Dec. 1672 aged 22 and the third was Richard who dying 21. of Oct. 1681. aged 28 years was buried by his said two Brethren on the south side of Magd. Coll. outer Chappel One Rich. Russell a Rutlandsh man born as it seems bred in the English Coll. of Secular Priests at Lisbon in Portugal was by the K. of that Country designed to go into England as an interpreter to Don Francisco de Mello Earl of Ponte Embassador extraordinary from the said K. to K. Ch. 2 to settle the Marriage between him and Donna Catherina the Infanta of that Country After Russels return into Portugal he was rewarded for his pains with the Bishoprick of Portalegre where he now lives but whether of the same Family with Will. Russell beforemention'd I cannot tell HENRY EDMONDSON or as he writes himself Henricus Edmundus ab Edmundo was born in Cumberland and in the beginning of the year 1622 and in that of his age 15 he was entred a Student in Queens Coll. where after he had undergone the servile places of a poor Child and Tabarder was when Master of Arts admitted Fellow Afterwards he was made Usher of Tunbridge School in Kent under Dr. Nich. Grey and in 1655 when Thomas Widdowes died he was constituted by the Provost and Fellows of Qu. Coll. Master of the well endowed Free-school at Northleech in Glocestershire where he continued to the time of his death He hath written Lingua Linguarum The natural Language of Languages wherein it is desired and endeavoured that tongues may be brought to teach themselves and words may be best fancied understood and remembred c. Lond. 1655. oct c. Homonyma Synonyma Linguae Latinae conjuncta distincta Oxon. 1661. oct and other things as 't is probable He was buried in the Church of Northleech on the 15 day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine leaving then the character behind him of a most able Person in his profession and of one who had done great benefit for the publick by his sedulous and industrious education of youth MICHAEL JERMIN Son of Alex. Jerm Merchant and Sherriff of Exeter Son of Mich. Jermin somtimes twice Mayor of the said City was born at Knowston in Devonshire entred a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. in the beginning of
a Republick and I know not what to advance himself In the month of Aug. the same year he was made Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire by the Parliament and was persuaded almost to fortifie the City of Oxon for their use and to make Bulstrode Whitlock sometimes of S. Johns Coll. then a Member of Parliament Governour thereof but for what reasons he could not be overcome it appears not At the same time he did endeavour to engage the People of the said County in a Rebellion not only at Oxon but afterwards at Woodstock where he did protest upon his honour after Edghill Fight that the King had neither men nor money nor arms but the Parliament had all these c. On the 27 of Dec. and 8 of Febr. in 1642 his Maj. published two Proclamations commanding all the Officers of the Court of Wards to attend him at Oxon but this Lord Say refusing to come was outlaw'd and attainted of Treason So that he being put out of his place and a new Seal made for the use of the said Court it was ordered then to remain in the custody of the said Francis Lord Cottington In 1646 the Court of Wards was taken away by the Parliament sitting at Westminster the Members of which did recompence the Lord Say for his loss as being Master with the sum of 10000 l and Sir Ben. Rudyard the Surveyour of the said Court with the sum of 6000 l and both with Lands from the Earl of Worcester's Estate In 1648 he shew'd himself a zealous enemy in the House against a personal Treaty with his Majesty and the same year was present with the Parliament Commissioners in the Isle of Wight when they treated in order for Peace with the King At which time this Lord Say did boldly urge to his Maj. a passage out of the three last and corrupted books of Mr. Rich. Hocker's Ecclesiastical Polity that tho the King was singulis major yet he was universis minor which was answer'd with great prudence and dexterity by his Maj. as may be elsewhere seen At that time the Kings Arguments concerning several matters did so much work upon him that at his return to London he sided with that party in the House that voted that the Kings Answers to the Propositions were a firm ground for them to proceed upon for a Peace After the King's death he altogether sided with the Independents as before he had done with the Presbyterians became great with Oliver who made him one of the other House that is House of Lords After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. at what time he had acted as a grand Rebell for his own ends almost 20 years he was rewarded forsooth with the honorable Office of Lord Privy Seal while others that had suffered in estate and body and had been reduced to a bit of bread for his Maj. cause had then little or nothing given to relieve them for which they were to thank a hungry and great Officer who to fill his own Coffers was the occasion of the utter ruin of many A person of the Lord Say's persuasion who had run with the times as he did purposely to raise a family saith that he was a person of great parts wisdom and integrity and another who was taken to be a Puritan in his time tells us that Say and Sele was a seriously subtil piece and always averse to the Court ways something out of pertinaciousness his temper and constitution ballancing him altogether on that side which was contrary to the wind so that he seldom tack'd about or went upright though he kept his course steady in his way a long time c. As for the things that he hath published the titles of them are these Several Speeches as 1 Two Speeches in Parliament One upon the Bill against the Bishops and the other touching the Liturgy of the Church of Engl Lond. 1641. in two sh in quart 2 Sp. in the Guildhall London 27 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1642. qu. This was spoken just after Edghill Fight to encourage the Citizens to raise more money to carry on the War At which time also were very earnest in their Speeches for that purpose Philip Lord Wharton Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Earl of Holland and Will. Strâ—de one of the 5 Members 3 Speech in Parliament against the Supremacy of the Bishops and their power in civil Affairs Lond. 1642. qu. This with the former against the Bishops were much applauded among the patriotical Party whose sense they spoke out to the full and were the core of the Canker bred in them against the Church These Speeches also did the Clergy take to be their chief reason of their several years of Persecution that followed and why they were banished from their Livings for fear forsooth they should preach the People then in a great manner deceived into obedience to the King After the War was ceased and no Malignants there were as he called the Cavaliers to oppose him he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Quakers with whom he was much troubled at or near Broughton and thereupon wrot certain books against them as I shall tell you by and by The Scots designe discovered relating their dangerous attempts lately practised against the English Nation with the sad consequence of the same Wherein divers matters of publick concernment are disclosed and the book called Truths manifest is made apparent to be Lies manifest Lond. 1653 qu. This is usually called Vindiciae veritatis or an Answer to a Discourse intit Truth it 's manifest c. Folly and madness made manifest Or Some things written to shew how contrary to the word of God and practice of the Saints in the Old and New Testament the doctrines and practices of the Quakers are c. Oxon. 1659. qu. This I think was printed before The Quakers reply manifested to be rayling or a pursuance of those by the light of the Scriptures who through their dark imaginations would evade the truth c. Oxon. 1659 60. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen At length this noble Author after he had spent 80 years mostly in an unquiet and discontented condition had been a grand promoter of the Rebellion which began in 1642 did die quietly in his bed but whether in conscience I cannot tell on the fourteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two whereupon his body was buried in Broughton Church among the graves of his Ancestors and had over it soon after a rich and costly monument erected more befitting a Hero than a Rebell He left behind him several sons living at the time of his death among whom James his eldest son was one who succeeding him in his Honours was made L. Lieutenant of Oxfordshire having always been reputed an honest Cavalier and a quiet man Nathaniel the second son whom I shall mention elsewhere c. ROBERT SIBTHORPE was initiated in Academical Learning in Linc. Coll. as it seems but leaving the University
and of the repulse given to the Rebels at the Town of Newark Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh in qu. View of the proceedings in the West for a pacification Letter to a Gent. in Leycestershire about the Treatie at Uxbridge shewing that all the overtures which have been made for peace and accommodation have proceeded from his Majestie only Printed 1643 in 4. sh in qu. The Roundheads remembrancer or a true and particular relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by his Maj. Subjects of Cornwall under the command of Sir Ralph Hopton in Tuesday 16. May 1643. Printed 1643 in one sh in qu. This Pamphlet is generally said to have been written by Heylyn Relation of the proceedings of S. Joh. Gell. This is the same if I mistake not with a Pamph. intit Theeves Theeves or a relation of Sir Jo. Gells proceedings in Derbyshire in gathering up the rents of the Lords and Gentlemen of that Country by pretended authority from the two Houses of Parliament printed 1643. qu. This Sir John Gell who was Son of Tho. Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire Gent. became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1610 left it without a degree exercised himself in martial seats beyond the Seas retired to his patrimony was made a Baronet in Jan. 1641 and being then a Presbyterian took up arms soon after for the Parliament became a Colonel and one of their Champions Afterwards hating the proceedings of the Independents when they had murder'd the King he entred into a plot against the Parliament in which Coll. Euseb Andrews being engaged suffer'd death an 1650. for which being imprison'd was at length tried for his life before the High Court of Justice but being found only guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it he was condemn'd to loose his estate and to perpetual imprisonment from the last of which he was released by order of Parliament 5. of Apr. 1653. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster in Nov. 1671 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was as I suppose buried at Hopton Quaere having had this character given of him by the Presbyterians while they were dominant that he was a man beloved of his Country and feared by his enemies valiant in his actions and faithful in his ends to promote truth and peace Of the same family was Rob. Gell D. D. of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire and sometimes Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury which Doctor died in the very beginning of the year 25. of March or thereabouts 1665. The black ✚ Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of this present rebellion c. The Rebells Catechisme composed in an easie and familiar way to let them see the hainousness of their offence c. Printed 1643. in 4. sh in qu. Discourse in answer to the common but groundless clamour of the Papists nick-naming the religion of the Church of England by the name of a Parliament Religion Written in 1644 at the request of George Ashwell of Wadham Coll. But when this book was printed it had this title following put to it Parliaments power in Lawes for religion or an answer to that old and groundless calumny of the Papists nick-naming c. Oxon. 1645. in 6. sh in qu. In another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7. sh in qu. it hath this title The way of reformation of the Church of England declared and justified against the clamours of our Adversaries reproaching the religion here by law established by the name of a Parliament religion c. This was afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Brief relation of the death and sufferings of the most reverend and renowned Prelate the L. Archb. of Canterbury with a copie of his speech and other passages on the Scaffold more perfect than hath been hitherto imprinted Oxon. 1644 in 4 sh in qu. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library c. Lond. 1649. 50. and 59. oct Heylyns name is not set to it but 't is generally known to be his collection from some of the works of K. Ch 1. In this book is inserted the conference between K. Ch. 1. and the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland which by many is taken to be authentick because published by Heylyn See more among the Writers in the first vol. in Lewis Bayly p. 486. Stumbling block of disobedience c. in answer to and examination of the two last sections in Calvins institutions against Soveraigne Monarchy MS. written in 1644. printed at Lond. 1658. qu. with this title The Stumbling block of disobedience and rebellion cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way discovered censured and removed The promised seed Written in vers The undeceiving the People in the point of Tithes c. Lond. 1648. 51. Published under the name of Ph. Treleinie which is an Anagram for Peter Heylyn Reprinted at Lond. in qu. 1657. in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Theologia Veterum The sum of Christian Theologie contained in the Creed according to the Greeks and Latines c. lib. 3. Lond. 1654. and 1673. fol. Full relation of two journies The one into the main Land of France The other into some of the adjacent Islands in 5 Books Lond. 1656. qu. These adjacent Islands are Guernsey and Jersie c. Survey of the estate of the two Islands Guernsey and Jersie with the isles depending c. in one book Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the former and both were published by their Author Pet. Heylyn because a little before a false copy of them had crept abroad under the title of France painted to the life as I shall farther tell you anon Observations on The Historie of the raigne of K. Charles published by Hamon L'estrange Esq for illustration of the storie c. Lond. 1656. oct Upon the coming out of which observations L'Estrange printed another edit of the said Hist Lond. 1656. fol. and at the end added a book intit The Observator observed or animadversions upon the observations on the History of K. Charles c. Whereupon our Author Heylyn came out with this book following entit Extraneus Vapulans or the Observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L'Estrange Esq and the back blows of Dr. Nich. Bernard an Irish Dean Lond. 1656. oct In our Authors Epist to the reader before this book dat 7. June 1656 he tells us that in one week of the last term he was plundered twice first of his name and secondly of his good name Of his name by one Will. Leak a Bookseller who publishing a discourse of his Dr. Heylyns under the title of France painted to the life by a false and imperfect copy hath fathered it in Stationers Hall on one Rich. Bignall a Fellow to him utterly unknown Secondly plundered of his good name by Ham. L'Estrange Esq by loading him with abusive language Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified 1 In the
from all appearance of evil c. Oxon 1640. 1660. oct and qu. Want of Church-government no warrant for a total omission of the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1650. qu. Ox. 1653. oct Vindication of Dr. Will. Twysse from the Exceptions of Mr. Joh. Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed Oxon. 1653. fol. The Examiner examined or a Reply to Mr. Fulwoods Examination of want of Church-Government no warrant for omission of the Lords Supper Lond. 1653. This Mr. Fulwood is the same with Franc. Fulwood sometimes of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Minister of West Alvington in Devonshire Archdeacon of Totness D. of D. and Canon of Exeter an eminent Writer of his time A mixture of scholastical Divinity with practical in several Tractates Oxon. 1656. qu. The titles of those Tracts are 1 Concerning the sinful fear of man 2 Of Christs incarnation 3 Of the resurrection of Christ 4 Concerning the fulness of Christ and 5 Of the excellency of Praise and Thanksgiving being all the effect of certain Sermons Dr. Hammond's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a greater ardency of Christs love of God at one time than another proved to be utterly irreconcileable with his fulness of habitual grace and perpetual happiness and impeccability of the Soul Oxon. 1657. qu. Replyed upon by a third person in a book intit The Refuter refuted See in Will. Creed under the year 1663. Treatise concerning the indifferency of humane actions Oxon. 1659. qu. Brief and scholastical discourse touching the nature of Thanksgiving on Ephes 5.20 Oxon 1660. qu. Mostly the same mention'd in the fifth head of A mixture of scholastical Divinity c. Of original righteousness and its contrary concupisence Oxon. 1660. qu. Written against Dr. Jer. Taylor Sermon enlarged into a Treatise concerning the last and general judgment c. on Rom. 2.16 Oxon. 1660. qu. Certain Letters between him and Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning a passage of his Hen. Jeanes in his farther explication of original sin Oxon 1660. qu. Uniformity in humane doctrinal Ceremonies grounded on 1 Cor. 14.40 Or a reply to Dr. Hammonds Vindication of his grounds of Uniformity Oxon. 1660. qu. Dr. Creed's voluminous defence of Dr. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 briefly examined and the weakness thereof fully discovered Lond. 1661. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The work of heaven upon earth c. Serm. at Taunton in Somersetsh 11 May 1648 being a day set apart for the annual commemoration of the deliverance of that Town by the relief which they received on the 11 of May 1645 on Psal 92. ver 1. Lond. 1649. qu. and others besides what are before mention'd as also an Answer to John Milton's book intit Iconoclasies c. printed 1651. qu. and said to be written by one Jeans which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in the City of Wells some few days before the fatal day of S. Barthelmew in the month of August in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Cathedral Church there At which time one of his perswasion intended to preach a Sermon of Mortality but Dr. Piers the then Bishop of that place who had no affection for Jeanes because he knew him to have been an Heretick and often had call'd him so examined the Sermon least any thing therein might be spoken in commendation of him and his opinions JOHN BIDDLE or Biddellus as he is by some Authors written Son of Edw. Bid. a Taylor was born at Wotton Under Edge in Glocestershire baptized on the 14. of January 1615 and afterwards being a youth of great hopes was by the benevolence and exhibition of George Lord Berkley educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there by John Rugg and John Turner successive Masters thereof Under the last he made so great proficiency in his studies that he englished Virgils Bucolicks and the Two first Satyrs of Juvenal Both which were printed at Lond. in 1634 in oct and dedicated to John Smith of Nibley in the said County Esq Mecaenas of the Wottonian Muses In the beginning of that year having a little before composed and recited before a full auditory an elaborate oration in Latine for the gracing the funeral of an honorable School fellow he was entred a Student of Magd. Hall and for a time if I mistake not was put under the tuition of John Oxenbridge a Person then noted to be of no good principles Before he had taken the degree of Master of Arts being about that time a Tutor in the said Hall he was invited to take upon him the care of teaching the School wherein he had been educated by the Overseers thereof but refused it and after he had compleated the said degree which was in 1641 he became Master of Crypt School within the City of Glocester where for a time he was much esteemed for his diligence in his profession severity of manners and sanctity of life At length the Nation being brought into confusion by the restless Presbyterians the said City garrison'd for the use of the Parliament and every one vented his or their opinions as they pleased he began to be free of his discourses of what he had studied there at leisure hours concerning the Trinity from the holy Scriptures having not then as he pretended convers'd with Socinian Books But the Presbyterian Party then prevalent there having notice of these matters and knowing full well what mischief he might do among his disciples the Magistrate summoned him to appear before him and after several interrogatories a form of confession under three heads was proposed to him to make which he accordingly did 2. May 1644 but not altogether in the words proposed Which matter giving then no satisfaction he made another confession in the same month more evident than the former to avoid the danger of imprisonment which was to follow if he should deny it Afterwards being more satisfied in his mind by reading various Authors he drew up several arguments against the generally received deity of the Holy Ghost which he intended shortly after to print but being betrayed by one whom he took to be his sure friend who had as it seems a copy of them he acquainted the Magistrate and Parliament Committee then in the said City of the matter Whereupon after they had perused them they committed the Author then labouring under a feaver to the common Goal there on the 2. of Decemb. 1645 to remain in that place till the Parliament should take cognizance of the matter But a certain Person of note dwelling in Glocester who had a respect for Biddle for the truth is except his opinions there was little or nothing blame worthy in him he procured his liberty by giving sureties for his appearance when it should please the Parliament to send for him About the month of June in 1646 the learned Usher Primate of Ireland travelled through that City in his way to London and having before heard of spake to and used him with all fairness and
Pauls Cathedral and the question Whether Jesus Christ be the most High or Almighty God The time being come they appeared but Griffin being put to it for want of the true way of argumentizing the disputation was deferr'd to another day Whereupon Griffin being conscious to himself that he was not able to grapple with Biddle he and his party brought it so to pass that upon report of more blasphemies utter'd by Biddle he was by command from Oliver the Protector seized on the 3. of July being the day before they were to make an end of the Disputation an 1655 and forthwith committed Prisoner to the Poultry Compter Soon after being translated to Newgate Prison he suffered more misery was brought to a publick trial for his life at the Sessions house in the Old Baylie upon the obsolete and abrogated Ordinance called the Draconick Ordinance against blasphemy and heresie of May 2. an 1648. To the indictment hereupon he prays counsel might be allowed to him to plead the illegality of it which being denied him by the Judges and the sentence of a Mute threatned he at length gave into Court his exceptions ingrossed in parchment and with much strugling had counsel allowed him But Oliver the Protector well knowing it was not for the interest of his government either to have him condemned or absolv'd took him out of the hands of the law caused him to be detain'd in Prison with intentions to bestow him elsewhere At length several prime Persons of the Anabaptistical party remaining in London some of whom as 't is said had entertained his opinions drawing up a petition in his behalf in the month of Sept. an 1655 presented it to Oliver to obtain his mercy towards him under pretence of liberty of conscience On the 28. of the same month they were to receive an answer to it but before the said Oliver gave one the Petition was read in the hearing of divers of them under whose hands it had been presented which being done many of them did disown it as being alter'd both in the matter and title of since they signed it and so looked upon it as a forged thing They then desired that the original which they had signed might be produced but Jerem. Ives and some other of the contrivers and presenters of it were not able to do nor had any thing to say in excuse of so foul a miscarriage However his Highness Oliver did then open before them the great evil of such a practice and also how inconsistent it was for them who professed to be members of the Church of Christ and to worship him with the worship due to God to give any countenance to one who reproached themselves and all the Christian Churches in the World as being guilty of Idolatry shewing also that if it be true which Biddle holds viz. that Jesus Christ is but a creature then all those that worship him with the worship due to God are Idolaters and that the maintainers of that opinion of Biddle are guilty of great blasphemy against Christ who is God equal with the Father c. Afterwards the Petitioners being dismiss'd and Biddle understanding his doom he wrot a Letter to Oliver that he would be pleased to admit him into his presence for the hearing of his case But being denied and Oliver continually baited by Presb. and Indep Ministers to have him banished he the said Biddle as a reviver of the blasphemous opinion owned by Arrius was removed from Newgate to Plymouth 10. Oct. 1655 in order to his transportation to ths isle of Scilly beyond the lands end in Cornwall there to remain in S. Maries Castle in close custody during life where for the present we 'll leave him and in the mean time tell you that his Twofold Catechisme was answered by Dr. John Owen then Dean of Ch. Church and animadverted upon by Maresius before mention'd in his Preface to the Reader before his second tome of Hydra Socinianismi and by Nich. Arnoldus Professor of Divinity in Franeker in West-Frisen in the latter end of his Preface to the Reader before his book entit Religio Sociniana seu Catethesis Rucoviana major c. As for Maresius he is very large against him and deplores the sad condition of England that after all the contests that it hath had against the Hierarchy Arminianisme Popery and I know not what should at length be overwhelm'd with Socinianisme all sort of Sectaries Atheisme c. Which character as falling from the Pen of a Person well known to be no friend to Episcopacy seems to be a considerable argument to prove even in his perswasion that the pretended strictness and severity of the then established Church Government was not so an effectual remedy against all Libertisme in opinions and practice as was the Episcoparian Government then lately thrown out of doors After Biddle had continued Prisoner not without improvement as to and in his opinion to the beginning of the year 1658 he by the intercession of many friends was conveyed from S. Maries Castle by Habeas Corpus to the Upper Bench at Westm where appearing without any thing laid to his charge was set at liberty by the L. Ch. Justice Jo. Glynn While he was in Prison where the Protector allowed him a hundred Crowns per an for his subsistance he solely gave himself up to the studying of several intricate matters and of the various opinions concerning the Beast in the Apocalyps Antichrist and the personal raign of Christ on Earth which being digested according to his mind he explain'd them after his return in Conventicles held every Sunday in the afternoon before his Disciples Which being done he published them with this or the like title Learned notes on some of the Chapters of the Apocolyps Or thus An Essay to the explaining of the Revelation When or where printed or in what Vol. I know not for I have not yet seen them or it After Olivers death and Richard set in the Throne a Parliament was called mostly consisting of Presbyterians whom of all men he most dreaded Whereupon by the advice of a noble friend then in Authority he caused Biddle for whom he had a respect to be conveyed away privately into the Country where remaining till that Parliament was dissolved which was soon after he returned to the City and carried on his Conventicles and Disputes for some time without contradiction At length his Majest Ch. 2. being restored to his Dominions and with him the Church of England he took other measures held his meetings more private and but seldom However his waters being narrowly watch'd he was taken in the house of a certain Citizen while he was conventicling in the beginning of July 1662 whereupon being carried before Sir Rich. Browne then lately Lord Mayor was by him imprison'd and used as his party saith with great cruelty especially in this respect that he hindred all Sureties or Bail to be given for him So that by the filth of a
Jo. Stow's Survey of London and his continuators Discourse of the Empire and of the election of the King of the Romans c. Lond. 1658. oct Lexicon tetraglotton An English-French-Italian-Spanish-Dictionary Lond. 1659. 60. fol. A particular vocabulary or nomenclature in English Italian French and Spanish of the proper terms belonging to several Arts and Sciences to common professions and callings both liberal and mechanick c. in 52 Sections Lond. 1659. Printed with the former book Proverbs or old sayed sawes and adages in English or the Saxon tongue Italian French and Spanish Whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added This is also printed with Lex tetragl A cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Answer'd as soon as it peep'd abroad by Rog. L'estrange in a book entit A caveat for the Cavaliers which having given offence to divers Persons he published a second edition of it with his name and a preface to it Soon after our author Howell set forth a vindication of his Cordial under this title Some sober inspections made into those ingredients that went to the composition of a late Cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Upon which L'estrange briefly reflects in the close of a piece of his intit A modest plea both for the Caveat and Author of it A French Grammar and a dialogue consisting of all Gallicismes with additions of the most useful and significant proverbs c. Printed at London twice the last time was in 1673 fol. He also added to A French and English Dictionary composed by Randle Cotgrave Sundry animadversions with supplements of many hundreds of words never before printed with accurate castigations throughout the whole work The parley of Beasts or Morphandra Qu. of the enchanted Island c. Tom. 1. Lond. 1660 fol. The second part of casual discourses and interlocutions between Patritius and Peregrin c. Lond. 1661. oct Printed in a book intit Divers historical discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britaine and Ireland Apology for Fables mythologiz'd Printed in the said book also Twelve treatises of the late revolutions Lond. 1661. octav New English Grammar for Forreigners to learn English with a Grammar for the Spanish or Castilian tongue with special remarques on the Portugues dialect for the service of her Majesty Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning the precedency of Kings Lond. 1663. fol. Translated into Latine by B. Harris L. P. Lond. 1664. oct Poems on several choice and various subjects occasionally composed Lond. 1663. oct Collected and published by one who calls himself Serjeant Major Payne Fisher somtimes Poet laureat to Oliver Treatise concerning Embassadors Translated into Lat. by John Harmer of Magd. Coll. Lond. 1664. oct Concerning the surrender of Dunkirk that it was done upon good grounds Lond. 1664. oct He also translated from Italian into English 1 S. Pauls late progress upon earth about a divorce 'twixt Christ and the Church of Rome by reason of her dissoluteness and excesses c. Lond. 1644. oct The Author of it whose name I cannot yet learn made it publick about the year 1642 and being forced to fly from Rome for so doing in the company and under the conduct of one that pretended friendship to him was betrayed at Avignion and there first hanged and then burned 2 A Venetian looking-glass or a letter written very lately from Lond. to Card. Barbarini at Rome by a Venetian Clarissimo touching the present distempers in England Printed 1648. in 3 sh in qu. 3 An exact history of the late Revolutions in Naples and of their monstrous successes not to be parallel'd by any antient or modern History Lond. 1650. oct Published in Ital. by Lord Alex. Giraffi The second part of this History came out soon after by the same hand who also translated it from Ital. In both which it appears that the said Revolutions were occasion'd by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles which exciting the Mobile headed by Tomaso Anello commonly called Masaniello a Fisherman all things in Naples were for some time turn'd topsie turvy 4 A letter of Advice sent from the prime Statesmen of Florence how England may come to her self again Dated at Flor. 12. Mar. 1659 Printed at the end of The second part of casual discourses c. before mention'd He also Ja. Howell translated from French into English The nuptials of Peleus and Thetis consisting of a Mask and Comedy or the great royal Ball acted lately in Paris six times c. Lond. 1654. qu. and from Spanish into Engglish The process and pleadings in the Court of Spain upon the death of Anthony Ascham Resident for the Parliament of England and of Joh. Baptista Riva his Interpreter c. Lond. 1651. fol. The said A. Ascham who was born of a gentile family was educated in Eaton School and thence elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1633 Afterwards taking the degree of M. of Arts closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion took the Covenant sided with the Independents became a great creature of the Long Parliament by whose authority he was made Tutor to James Duke of York and an active Person against his Soveraign At length being looked upon as sufficiently Antimonarchical was by the Rump Parliament sent their Agent or Resident to the Court of Spain in the latter end of the year 1649. In the beginning of June following he arrived at Madrid and had an appartment appointed him in the Court but certain English Royallists then in that City taking it in great disdain that such a notorious Rebel one of the destroyers of their Nation as they call'd him should come there from the murtherers of his sacred Majesty of England six of them named Joh. Guillim Will. Spark Valentine Progers Jo. Halsal Will. Arnet and Hen. Progers repaired to his lodging Two of them stood at the bottom of the stairs two at the top and two entred his Chamber of whom Spark being the first drew up to the table where Ascham and another were sitting and pulling off his hat said Gentlemen I kiss your hands pray which is the Resident Whereupon the Resident rising up Guillim took him by the hair of the head and with a naked dagger gave him a thrust that overthrew him Then came in Spark and gave him another and because they would make sure of their work they gave him five stabs of which he instantly dyed Whereupon Jo. Bap. Riva his Interpreter thinking to retire to his Chamber four others that were without the Chamber gave him four wounds whereof he presently expired Afterwards five of the Englishmen took sanctuary but were haled thence imprison'd and Spark suffered The sixth Person named Hen. Progers fled to the Venetian Embassadors house and so escaped The said Anth. Ascham who was slain 6. June 1650 hath written A discourse wherein is examined what is particularly lawful during the confusions and revolutions of government c. Lond. 1648. oct and other things as 't is probable
speech in vindication of himself and the rest of the Bishops from any design to bring in Popery or innovating in the Government and forms of Worship here by Law established On the 30 of the said month the Lords censure was put in execution in the Pallace-yard at Westminster at which time suffer'd also by clipping of ears John Bastwick Dr. of Physick not of this but of another University and Hen. Burton Bac. of Div. Minister of S. Mathews Church in Friday-street in London On the 27 of July following our Author Prynne was removed from the Tower to the Fleet and the same day being guarded he began his journey towards Caernarvan Castle in Wales from which time till the 5 of Aug. when then he arrived at Caernarvan he was met saluted bless'd and exhibited to by the godly party in all chief Towns that he passed thro But such a haunt there was to the said Castle when he was there that for the prevention of all intelligence and correspondence to be held between him and Burton in Lancaster Castle or with the said Party the State found it necessary to remove him to Mount Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey So that by vertue of a warrant dated 27 Aug. Prynne was conveyed thither not without great danger in January following where being well used tho closely shut up he exercised his pen in writing divine and profitable Meditations In 1640 Nov. 7. an order issued out from the blessed House of Commons as by the said godly party it was called for his releasment from his prison as also for the releasment of Bastwick who was then in S. Maries Castle in the Isle of Scilly and for Burton in Castle Cornet in the Isle of Guernsey So that our Author Prynne and Burton who were Prisoners at no great distance met together at Guernsey and travelled in each others company to London In whose passage thither divers of the godly party met them at Dartmouth Exeter Lime Dorchester Salisbury Andover Basing and elsewhere visited them blest them and accompanied them on horse-back some part of their way On the 28 of the same month they triumphantly entred London being then accompanied by thousands on foot and horse-back and in coaches with rosemary and bays in their hats crying Welcome home welcome home God bless you God be thanked for your return c. to the great defiance and contempt of Authority and Justice On the 30 of the said month they were both presented by their Keepers who came with them to the Commons House where they had liberty granted to frame new Petitions in their own names according to their own liking and to present them to the house as soon as they could prepare them The 3 of Dec. following Prynne presented a large Petition fully shewing his sufferings and the grand tyranny as he call'd it of the Archbishop c. for which afterwards he had a large requital Not long after upon the leaving of the House of Commons by divers Members purposely to adhere to his Majesty he was elected a Recruiter for a Borough in Cornwall to serve in that most unhappy Parliament So that being setled in the House he became the most busie and pragmatical person of the Herd and so inveterate and implacable against the Bishops but more in an especial manner against Laud in private action and speech with him while he was Prisoner in the Tower in publick speeches against him in the Parliament-house and in writing and publishing books and Pamphlets of and against him that he could scarce take quiet rest till he had fetch'd off his head in requital of his ears that he as Prynne pretended had taken off before But of these matters when it was too late and that he had fully seen to what great woe misery and confusion the godly party had brought the King and the Nation he did heartily repent and wished that when they had cut off his ears they had cut off his head During the sitting of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous Covenantier in ordering and setling Presbytery but when the Independents began to overtop the Brethren he shew'd himself a bitter enemy to them and advanced much the Kings Cause especially in his declension In 1647 he was appointed one of the Visitors for the Univ. of Oxon by the said Parliament and how busily he behaved himself theâ—e in Apr. 1648 I have told you elsewhere See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. sub an 1648. On the 6 of Dec. 1648 he with other members of the H. of Com. were turn'd out from the House by the Army and imprison'd for that they were zealous for peace and in bringing the King to his Parliament Whereupon he became a bitter enemy to the said Army and Oliver their Leader doing them also much mischief by publishing divers Pamphlets against them and their tyranny Soon after he conveyed his Estate away to one or more of his Relations and thereupon denied the paying of taxes and stood in open defiance to Oliver for which he was imprison'd in Dunster Castle in Somersetshire and brought into trouble He then stood much upon Magna Charta the liberty of the Subject for which he was beloved by several Cavaliers and I know not what But all that he did being to little purpose he bent his mind and pen for some time against the Papists Jews Quakers c. and in writing books of Divinity which being not answer'd or seem'd to be regarded he grew as 't were weary of himself began to look up at last and to settle on more moderate and quiet courses On the 21 of Feb. 1659 he as a secluded Member of the Commons house being restored to sit again became instrumental for the Kings Restauration and so forward and bold that he openly spoke in the house when it was not then seasonable for such expressions that if the King must come in it was safest for them that he should come in by the Votes who had made the War against his father c. Which I say being then unseasonably spoken he was sent for by General Monk and his privy Counsellors and admonished to be quiet and then it was the business of Mr. Will. Morice to keep the then expiring Parliament steddy and clear from intermedling in the change of Government in which case he did excellent service punctually observing the directions of the General who passionately longed for their dissolution In Apr. 1660 he the said Prynne was chose a Burgess for the City of Bathe to sit in the Healing Parliament that began at Westm 25 of the said month and after his Maj. Restauration he instead of being made one of the Barons of the Exchequer which as 't is said he sought after was made chief Keeper of his Maj. Records in the Tower of London with 500 l. per an salary but afterwards much lessened purposely to employ his head from scribling against the State and Bishops But so it
should have known whether he was the same who was afterwards the famed Author of Hudibras After Sam. Butler had continued in Cambridge about 6 or 7 years but in what Coll. or Hall his brother knows not he was taken into the service of Elizabeth Countess of Kent in whose family living several years he did for a diversion exercise his parts in Painting and Musick and at length became so noted for the first that he was entirely beloved of Sam. Cooper the Prince of Limners of his age Great Selden who was much conversant in the family of that Countess had an esteem for and would often employ him to write letters beyond sea and translate for him At riper years he studied the Common Law but did not practise it only lived on the jounture of a widow that he had married After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Secretary to Richard Earl of Carbury L. President of the Principality of Wales and of the Marches thereof who as 't is said made S. Butler Steward of Ludlow Castle when the Court there was revived Afterwards he became Secretary to George Duke of Buckingham when he was made Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and had promises of places and employments of greater value and credit from Edward Earl of Clarendon when he was L. Chanc. of England especially for this cause that his Majesty had a respect for him and the more for his poem called Hudibras the first part of which came out in 8o. an 1663 and was not only taken into his Majesties hands and read by him with great delight but also by all Courtiers loyal Scholars and Gentlemen to the great profit of the Author and Bookseller Afterwards came out a second part and both printed together with several additions and annotations And at length a third and last part but without annotations as by the copy printed 1678 appears In 1682 was published in 8o. Butlers Ghost or Hudibras The fourth part with reflections on these times But whether he was the Author of I know not for I have not yet seen it This Sam. Butler who was a boon and witty companion especially among the company he knew well died of a Consumption 25 of Sept. 1680 and was according to his desire buried six foot deep in the yard belonging to the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster viz. at the west end of the said yard on the north side and under the wall of the Church and under that wall which parts the yard from the common high way As for our voluminous Author Will. Prynne he died in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 24 of Oct. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Walk under the Chappel there which stands upon Pillars Over whose grave tho there is no Epitaph only his name and Obit which are now worn out yet I shall venture to give you this Epitaph that was then made upon him Here lies the corps of William Prynne A Bencher late of Lincolns Inn Who restless ran through thick and thin This grand scripturient paper-spiller This endless needless margin-filler Was strangly tost from post to pillar His brains career were never stopping But pen with rheume of gall still dropping Till hand o're head brought ears to cropping Nor would he yet surcease such theams But prostitute new virgin-reams To types of his fanatick dreams But whilst he this hot humour hugs And for more length of tedder tugs Death fang'd the remnant of his lugs NATHANIEL FIENNES second son to Will. Fiennes Vicount Say and Sele of whom I have made mention before was born at Broughton in Oxfordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. at his first entry therein because he was a Founders kinsman an 1624 aged 16 years where continuing about 5 years departed without a degree and went to the Inns of Court or to travel or both In 1640 he was elected Burgess for Banbury to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm in Apr. the same year and again for the same place to sit in that that commenc'd the 3 of Nov. following wherein shewing himself very busie and zealous for the Cause had a Commission given to him to be Captain of a Troop and afterwards to be Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under Robert Earl of Essex the Capt. Gen. of the Parliament Forces raised to fight against the King Afterwards shewing himself a zealot for the Covenant and professing himself in all respects to be a thorough-paced Parliamenteer was made Governour of the Garrison of Bristow when first taken in for the use of the Parliament Where being no sooner setled but he used many insolencies and barbarities too many here to be named among which was 1 His causing the Kings Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Marriners and all Officers of his Navy to take employment under Robert Earl of Warwick lately made Admiral of the Kings royal Navy by the Parliament to be burnt in the publick market-place there 4 March 1642 by the hands of one of the City Sargeants being then the chief market-day notwithstanding he connived at the publishing it the day before 2 In causing to be murdered under the notion of Plotters against the Parliament two eminent Citizens of Bristow Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher notwithstanding his Maj. sent letters in their behalf to have their lives spared to the extream horror and amazement of all honest men and the great grief of his Majesty who could not choose but look upon it as the most barbarous act which the impudence and cruelty of the said Rebellion had produced against him 3 In his and his murtherous Crews contempt and profanation of Gods holy Worship and Service and permitting the rending of Surplices tearing the book of Common-Prayer breaking down Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of the Congregations c. 4 His discountenancing and driving away the orthothodox Ministers and substituting in their places the most infamous and notorious Schismaticks that he could pick out of Bristow and other places as Joh. Tombes of Lemster Edm Cradock .... Bacon .... Walter .... Simonds and one Mathew Hazard whom tho I name last yet deserves to have precedency of all the rest as being a main Incendiary in the Rebellion violently egged on by his wife whose disciple the silly man was But at length the said City of Bristow being by Col. Fiennes surrendred to Pr. Rupert for the use of his Majesty 27 July 1643 he was thereupon called into question and articles were drawn up against him by the restless proceedings of Will. Prynne and Clem. Walker So that he being tryed for his life for the same before a Council of War sitting at S. Alban in Dec. the same year notwithstanding he had made a large defence for what he had done in open Parliament on the 5 of Aug. going before he was sentenced to lose his head for
a Coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes alias Fines alias Fenys alias Fienes but by the intercession of his father and others of his relations he was pardoned and by the palpable flattery and prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March Nedham he was justified for what he had done as to that matter See more in the Works of W. Prynne Afterwards tho he the said N. Fiennes was not trusted in any military matter yet he became an active man in the Parliament and was made a Commissioner in several matters But when he saw the Cause of the Presbyterians decline especially upon the purging of the House of 40 of them whereof he was one by Col. Tho. Pride he struck in with the Independents took the Engagement became great with Oliver a Member of all or at least of most of the Parliaments held between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and the return of his Maj. King Ch. 2 was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal after Oliver was installed L. Protector one of his Privy Council Lord Privy Seal in June 1655 a Member and Speaker of the other House alias House of Lords and tho before he had shew'd himself an Antimonarchist yet then when he saw what Oliver aimed at became a lover of Kingship and Monarchy purposely to gain honor and riches for the establishing a family which he and the rest of the godly party aimed at His Works are these Several Speeches in Parliament as 1 Speech in the House of Commons in answer to the third Speech of Lord Geo. Digby concerning Bishops and the City of Londons petition spoken 9 Feb. 1640. Lond. 1641 in 4 sh in qu. The beginning is Mr. Speaker two things have fallen into debate this day c. 2 Second Speech in the Com. House of Parl. touching the Subjects liberty against the late Canons and the new oath Lond. 1641. in tw sh and an half in qu. 3 Speech concerning the proffer of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse 6000 l. towards the suppressing of the Rebellion in Ireland Lond. 1641. qu. 4 Speech containing unparallel'd reasons for the abolishing of Episcopacy c. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his Speech against Bishops before mention'd and shews that Episcopacy is an Enemy to Monarchy 5 Speech or relation made in the H. of Com. concerning the surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow 5 Aug. 1643 with the transcripts and extracts of certain letters wherein his care for the preservation of the City doth appear Lond. 1643 in 3 sh and an half in qu. This was answer'd by Clem. Walker True and exact relation of both the â—â—ttels fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his forces against the bloody Cavaliers The one of the 23 of Oct. last near Keynton below Edghill in Warwicksh the other at Worcester by Col. Browne Capt. Nath. and Joh. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and some others c. Lond. Nov. 9. an 1642. in two sh in qu. Letter to the Lord General Essex concerning Bristoll Lond. 1643. in 1 sh in qu. Reply to a Pamphlet intit An answer to Col. Nath. Fiennes's relation concerning his surrender of the City of Bristol Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. Other Speeches in Parl. as 1 Speech before his Highness Ol. Protector and both Houses of Parl. 20 Jan. 1657 being the first day of their sitting Lond. 1657. in 3 sh and an half in qu. 2 Speech to both Houses of Parl. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. c. Monarchy asserted to be the best most antient and legal form of Government in a Conference had at Whitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Committee of Parliament c. in Apr. 1657. Lond. 1660. oct He also had an especial hand in a certain book called by an author a Legend or Romance intit Anglia rediviva being the Hist of the motions actions and successes of the Army c under Sir Tho. Fairfax c. published by Joshua Sprigge as I shall elsewhere tell you but how true that report is I cannot tell At length our Author Fiennes retiring after his Majesties return to Newton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts where he had an estate that came to him by his second wife Frances daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderley in Hampshire continued there to the time of his death which hapning on the 16 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave to his memory as also to his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth who both died in the flower of their age This Nath. Fiennes had a younger brother called John who was a Colonel for the Parliament and afterwards one of Oliver's Lords and tho a Sectary yet he was no great stickler notwithstanding guided partly by Nathaniel but more by old subtilty the Father Another there was who was the fourth brother named Richard of whom I know no great matter only that he had a daughter named Mary who was married to William the only surviving son of Nath. Fiennes which Mary dying in child-bed 23 Oct. 1676 was buried in the Church at Broughton near to the grave of her Grandfather William Vic. Say and Sele HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of Sir Henry son of Sir Dav. Foulis of an antient family in Scotland Baronets was born at Ingleby Mannour in Clievland in Yorkshire educated in Grammar learning and in the Presbyterian way within the City of York became a Communer of Qu. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully 6 June 1654 aged 16 years and thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1659 and on the 31 of Jan. the same year he was elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. Afterwards entring into holy orders he applied himself for a time to the study of Divinity and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1667. But his genie being naturally inclin'd to the study of certain parts of History he waved his proper profession and betook himself to the writing and publishing of books of that faculty The products of which do evidently shew him to have been a true son of the Church of England a hater of Popery Presbytery and Sectarism He was endowed with a most happy memory understood books and the ordering of them so well that with a little industry he might have gone beyond the great Philobiblos Jamesius He had also in him a most generous and public spirit a carelesness of the world and things thereof as most bookish men have a most becoming honesty in his dealings a just observance of collegiate discipline and a hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his time He hath written and published The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints the Presbyterians c. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674 both in fol. Which book tho full of notable girds against that party yet it hath been
of about 800 which he himself had for the most part collected The foundation of it was laid by his Grandfather who had them from Prior Hart and he from the library of Langthony when it was dissolved besides houshold stuff belonging to that Priory Afterwards Charles Theyer Grandson to our author John Theyer who in his last will had bequeathed them to him did offer to sell them to the University of Oxon but the price being too great they were sold to Robert Scot of London Bookseller who soon after sold them to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. to be reposed in his library at S. James he having first as I have been informed cull'd them ROWLAND STEDMAN was born at Corfton in the Parish of Didlebury in Shropshire 1630 admitted Communer of Ball. Coll. 13. Mar. 1647 and the year following removed to Univ. Coll. In 1655 he was admitted Master of Arts and soon after became Minister of Hanwell near Brentford in Middlesex where continuing till 1660 he removed to Okingham or Wokingham in Berks and thence two years after was ejected for Nonconformity Afterwards he was entertained in the condition of a Chaplain by Philip Lord Wharton in whose service he died He hath written The mystical Union of believers with Christ or a treatise wherein the great mysterie and priviledg of the Saints Union with the Son of God is opened c. Lond. 1668. oct Sober Singularity or an antidote against infection by the example of a multitude being practical meditations on Exod. 23.2 c. Lond. 1668. oct He died at Ubourne or Wobourne where the Lord Wharton hath a Seat near to Beaconsfield in Bucks on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried two days after in the Church there leaving then behind him the character of a zealous Nonconformist GEORGE CASTLE son of John Castle sometimes Doctor of Physick of this University was born in the County of Middlesex in London as it seems educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire while Dr. Will. Burt was the Master admitted a Communer of Ball. Coll. 8. Apr. 1652 aged 17 years or thereabouts elected Probationer Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1655 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he applied his Studies to Medicine with the help of his Fathers notes took the degrees in that faculty that of Doctor being compleated in the year 1665 being about that time a member of the Royal Society and a Candidate as it seems of the Coll. of Physitians He hath written The Chymical Galenist A treatise wherein the practice of the Ancients is reconciled to the new discoveries in the Theory of Physick c. Lond. 1667. oct Reflections on a book intit Medela Medicinae Printed with the former book Afterwards by the favour of his intimate and dear friend Martin Clifford Master of Suttons Hospital alias the Charter-house he became Physitian there and practised his faculty with good success But giving himself the liberty of too frequent indulgments either to please his friend or patient or both was taken away by death in the prime of his years on the twelfth day of Octob. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was I suppose buried in the Chap. belonging to the said Hospital By the way I must tell you that the said Mart. Clifford had been educated in Westminster School and thence elected into Trin. Coll. in Cambridge an 1640 where he arrived to good learning and might have been eminent had not the Wars hindred his progress He was the author of A treatise of humane reason Lond. 1675 in 4. sh in tw Which book being made publick in Aug. 1674 it hapned that Dr. B. Laney Bishop of Ely dined with many persons of quality in Octob. following in the Charterhouse and whether he then knew that Mart. Clifford the Master was author of it is uncertain However he being then asked what he thought of that book answer'd that 't was no matter if all the copies were burnt and the author with them knowing by what he had read in the book that the author makes every mans private fancy judge of religion which the Rom. Catholicks have for these 100 years cast upon protestantisme In Decemb. following were published Observations upon a treat intit Of hum reason Lond. 1675. in 3. sh in tw commonly reported then to be written by the same hand and soon after another thing intit Plain dealing or a full and particular examination of a late treatise intit Humane reason Lond. 1675 in 7. sh in tw said in the title to be written by A. M. a Country Gentleman Whereupon came out a reply called An Apology for the discourse of humane reason c. Lond. 1680 in 7. sh in tw with a Review of and an appendix to it written by Alb. Warren who at the end of all hath added Cliffords Epitaph and just character to which I refer the reader This Mr. Clifford died on the 10. of Decemb. or thereabouts an 1677 and was buried in the Chap. belonging to Suttons Hospital Soon after was elected into his place of Master of that Hospital William Erskyne Esq a member of the Royal Society Cupbearer to his Majesty and a younger Son of John Earl of Marr. THOMAS WHARTON was descended from the antient and gentile family of his name living in Yorkshire educated in Pemb. Hall in Cambridge retired to Trin. Coll. in Oxon. before the Civil Wars broke out being then Tutor or Governour to John Scrope the natural and only Son of Emanuel Earl of Sunderland whom he begat on the body of his servant-maid named Martha Jeanes Daughter of John Jeanes a Taylor living sometimes in the Parish of Turfield near to Great Wycomb in Bucks When the rebellion began our author Wharton left the Univ. and retired to London where he practised Physick under Dr. John Bathurst a noted Physitian of that place After Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament in 1646 he retired to Trin. Coll. again and as a member thereof was actually created Doctor of Physick in the beginning of the year 1647 by virtue of the letters of Sir Thomas Fairfax Generalissimo of the Parliament Army Afterwards he retired to London was admitted a Candidate of the Coll of Physitians the same year Fellow thereof an 1650 and for 5. or 6. years was chosen Censor of the said Coll he being then a person of eminent esteem and practice in the City He hath written Adenographia seu descriptio Glandularum totius corporis Lond. 1656. oct Amstel 1659. oct In which book he hath given a more accurate description of the Glands of the whole body than was formerly done And whereas authors have ascribed to them very mean uses as supporting the divisions by vessels or imbibing the superfluous humidities of the body he assigns them more noble and considerable uses as the preparation and depuration of the Succus nutritius with several
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
in Cheapside and the rest or third part in Smithfield All which was accordingly done because the said speech contained matters untrue and scandalous so the predominant party in the House said as they had reference to the proceedings of the Committees of the Lords of the House and that of the Commons and to the evidence of the Witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford c. 5 His last speech concerning the Earl of Strafford occasioned upon the reading of the bill of Attainder touching the point of treason 23. Apr. Lond. 1641 in two sh and half in qu. This also was burnt 6 Sp in the H. of Lords 20. July 1660 upon the bill of Indempnity Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. 7 Two speeches with some observations upon them Lond. 1674. qu. The first was spoken in the H. of Peers at the first reading of the bill against Popery 15. Mar. 1672 the King being then present The other in the H. of Com. 1. July 1663 in vindication of himself and Sir Rich. Temple Several Letters as 1 Letter to the Queens Majesty dated at Middleborough in Zealand 21. Jan. 1641 to which place he fled when he was banished wherein he intimates that he would willingly wait upon his Majesty from thence as well as from any place in England over and above the service which he might do for him there and accordingly he returned into England not to London notwithstanding the vote of the H. of Peers that if he appeared not in 20 days he should be proclaimed Traytor but to his Majesty at or near York The said Letter was printed in 1642. qu. 2 Letter to the Qu. Majesty dated at the Hague 10. Mar. 1642. This also was printed at Lond. 1642. qu. Which Letter with another from Tho. Eliot Esq written to the said Lord Digby dated at York 27. May 1642 being intercepted by the Rebels were ordered to be printed by the Parliament 1. Aug. 1642 with envious observations written upon them by Anonymus 3 Divers Letters written at Oxon in Dec. 1643 tending to divide the Parliament at London They were intercepted by the Rebels and printed at Lond. 16 of Jan. following in a pamphlet entit A cunning plot to divide and destroy the Parliament and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6. sh in qu. 4 Divers Letters written in design to betray Abendon for the Kings use Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1644. qu. There was an intercourse of Letters for about 10. weeks between our author the Lord Digby and Sergeant Major General Rich. Browne afterwards a Baronet and Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660 for the delivery of the Garrison of Abendon in Berks. to the King then at Oxon but after Browne in a false manner had dril'd the said Lord on so long which he could not in honour do longer then did he communicate the Letters to the Parliament and they to a Committee who caused them to be printed 5 Letter in the Kings name to the Irish Commissioners Lond. 1645. qu. Answered by the Lord Muskerry one of those Commissioners They were both intercepted by the forces belonging to the Parliament and printed with this title Two remarkable letters concerning the Kings correspondence with the Irish Rebels 6 Several other Letters c. These also were intercepted and with others had this title put to them The Lord Digby's Cabinet and Dr. Steph. Goffs negotiations together with his Majesties the Queen and the Lord Jermins and other letters taken at the battel at Sherborn in Yorks about the 15 of Oct. last 1645 Also observations on the said Letters Lond. 1646. qu. 'T is a villanous pamphlet and much like the horrid publication of the martyr'd Kings Cabinet by the malicious machination of the Juncto of Rebels 7 Two Letters to the Lord Taaff the Rebels General in Munster Lond. 1647. qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny 20. Aug. and the other at Wexford on the last of the said month an 1647. Which Letters being found in the Lord Taaff's Cabinet after a fight in Ireland were sent to the Parliament in England who caused them forthwith to be published I have seen also a letter of the Lord Digby sent to John Lord Roberts for the surrender of Plymouth to the King an 1644 and others to General Leven for peace an 1645 but whether printed I know not Sure I am that those Letters that were taken in his Cabinet at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire an 1645 by the Parliament forces were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same year Letters between him and Sir Ken. Digby Kt. concerning religion Lond. 1651. oct Elvira or the worst not always true a Comedy Upon the writing of which he the L. Digby and not Sir Kenelm was brought into the poem called The session of Poets made by Sir John Suckling Excerpta è diversis operibus patrum latinorum MS. He also translated from French into English The three first books of Cassandra the famed Romance Printed in oct At length this eminent Count having lived to the age of 64. years or more died at Chelsey near London in Middlesex having been much afflicted with the Gout on Tuesday the 20. of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Garter was given to Sir Thomas Osbourn Earl of Danby Lord Treasurer of England JOHN PRICE or Pricaeus as he writes himself in his books wherein he shews himself the greatest Critick of his time was born in London as one of his contemporaries hath enformed me elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1617 aged 17 years or thereabouts left the University without a degree or being matriculated otherwise I might have spoken of his Parentage and was taken into the retinew of Mr. Howard one of the sons of Tho. Earl of Arundel he being then a R. Catholick At length he went beyond the Seas and settling for a time in a certain University there took the degree as t is said of Doctor of Law for by that name or title he was written when he borrowed an old MS. copy of L. Apuleius from Archb. Lauds MSS. in Bodlies Library Afterwards he returned into England where continuing for some time he went into Ireland and was taken into the service of Tho. Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of that Realm and then became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and religious Primat thereof But the said most noble Count being brought into trouble and question'd by the Parliament in 1640 he returned into England and published certain Pamphlets for the Kings cause but what the titles of them are I could never learn certain it is that he for so doing was cast into prison and remained there for some time Afterwards being enlarged he went beyond the Seas and at length into Italy about 1652 and setling in Florence was received into the Court of Cosmo the great Duke of Tuscany who made him Supervisor of his Medals yet enjoyed little health there and much solitude
both express'd the greatness of their Founders and preserved the splendor of the Kingdom which might at the reformation have in some measure been kept up and converted to sundry pious uses Upon consideration thereof those Gent. declined it and pitch'd upon the Vault where K. Ed. 4. had been inter'd being on the north side of the Choire near the Altar that K. being one his late Maj. would oftentimes make honorable mention of and from whom his Maj. was lineally propagated That therefore induced Mr. Herbert to give order to N. Harrison and Hen. Jackson to have that Vault opened partly covered with a fair large stone of Touch raised within the Arch adjoyning having a range of iron bars gilt curiously cut according to Church work c. But as they were about this work some Noble-men came thither namely the Duke of Richmond the Marq. of Hertford the Earl of Lindsey and with them Dr. Juxon B. of London who had license from the Parliament to attend the Kings body to his grave Those Gent. therefore Herbert and Mildmay thinking fit to submit and leave the choice of the place of burial to those great persons they in like manner viewed the Tomb-house and the Choir and one of the Lords beating gently upon the Paâ—ement with his staff perceived a hollow sound and thereupon ordering the stones and earth to be removed they discovered a descent into a Vault where two Coffins were laid near one another the one very large of an antique form and the other little These they supposed to be the bodies of K. Hen. 8. and Qu. Jane Seymour his third wife as indeed they were The Velvet Palls that covered their Coffins seemed fresh tho they had laid there above 100 years The Lords agreeing that the Kings body should be in the said Vault inter'd being about the middle of the Choir over against the eleventh stall upon the Soveraigns side they gave order to have the Kings name and year he died cut in lead which whilst the Work-men were about the Lords went out and gave Puddifant the Sexton order to lock the Chappel door and not suffer any to stay therein till farther notice The Sexton did his best to clear the Chappel nevertheless Isaac the Sextons man said that a Foot Soldier had hid himself so as he was not discern'd and being greedy of prey crept into the Vault and cut so much of the Velvet Pall that covered the great body as he judged would hardly be missed and wimbled also a hole thro the said Coffin that was largest probably fancying that there was something well worth his adventure The Sexton at his opening the door espied the sacrilegious person who being searched a bone was found about him with which he said he would haâ—t a knife The Governour being therefore informed of he gave him his reward and the Lords and others present were convinc'd that a real body was in the said great Coffin which some before had scrupled The girdle or circumscription of capital letters of lead put about the Kings Coffin had only these words King Charles 1648. The Kings body was then brought from his Bed-chamber down into S. George's Hall whence after a little stay it was with a slow and solemn pace much sorrow in most faces being then discernable carried by Gentlemen of quality in mourning The Noblemen in mouring also held up the Pall and the Governour with several Gentlemen and Officers and Attendants came after It was then observed that at such time as the Kings body was brought out from S. George's Hall the sky was serene and clear but presently it began to snow and the snow fell so fast that by that time the corps came to the west end of the royal Chappel the black velvet Pall was all white the colour of innocency being thick covered over with snow The Body being by the Bearers set down near the place of burial the Bishop of London stood ready with the Service book in his hands to have performed his last duty to the K. his Master according to the order and form of burial of the Dead set forth in the book of Common Prayer which the Lords likewise desired but would not be suffer'd by Col. Whitchcot the Governour of the Castle by reason of the Directory to which said he he and others were to be conformable Thus went the White King to his grave in the 48 year of his age and 22 year and 10 month of his Reign To let pass Merlins Prophecy which some allude to the White Sattin his Maj. wore when he was crowned in Westm Abbey former Kings having on purple Robes at their Coronation I shall conclude this Narrative with the Kings own excellent expression running thus Crownes and Kingdoms are not so valuable as my honor and reputation Those must have a period with my life but these survive to a glorious kind of immortality when I am dead and gone a good name being the embalming of Princes and a sweet consecrating of them to an eternity of love and gratitude amongst posterity MARTIN LLEWELLIN Lluellyn or Lluelyn so many ways I find him written the seventh son without any daughter between of Mart. Lluellyn was born in London on the 12 of Decemb. 1616 and on the 22 of the said month was baptized in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew near Smithfield In 1636 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1643 at which time he bore arms for his Majesty and was at length a Captain In 1648 he was ejected by the Visitors appointed by Parliament so that afterward going to the great City he prosecuted then his genius as much to Physick as before it had to Poetry In 1653 he obtained the favour of the men in power then in the University to be admitted Doctor of Physick and so consequently took the Oaths that were then required and afterwards became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians In 1660 he was sworn Physitian to his Majesty at that time newly return'd to his Kingdoms and in the same year he was not only made Principal of the Hall of S. Mary the Virgin but one of the Commissioners appointed by the King for regulating the University of Oxon in which office he shew'd himself active enough In 1664 he left the University and setling with his wife and family in a market Town in Bucks called Great Wycombe practised his faculty there was made a Justice of the Peace for that County and in 1671 was elected Mayor of that Corporation in which offices he behaved himself severe against the Phanaticks He hath written Men-miracles A Poem Printed 1656. in oct Divers Poems Printed 1656. in oct Satyrs Printed 1656. in oct Elegies Printed 1656. in oct Divine Poems Printed 1656. in oct Among his Elegies is one upon Rob. Burton alias Democritus Junior of Ch. Ch another upon the eminent Poet and Orator Will. Cartwright a third upon Dr.
grave or jocose as also noted for one whose extraordinary parts and indefatigable industry and study promised great things After he was Master of Arts he took upon him the cure of Little S. Maries Church in Cambridge chosen to it by the Master and Fellows of Peter House all Colleges being ambitious some way or other to make him theirs When the grand rebellion began or at least about to begin he was very zealous in opposing the attempts of the then spreading Schism and troubles and did not forbear to protest publickly against the faction when it was most formidable In a Sermon also at S. Maries in Cambr. he vehemently and convincingly urged the University to publish a formal protestation against the rebellious League And being occasionally about that time in Kent upon a short visit to his mother lately then a widow he was hunted about and forced to lye in Woods and at length was imprison'd for having assisted some Forces belonging to the King at Tunbridge with the charity he had moved a neighbouring Congregation to by two Sermons Thence he was forced to his College to take the Covenant which he resolutely denying so to do was thrown out of his Fellowship and soon after one John T ... n who took it was put therein But before he left Cambridge he with Mr. Barrow afterwards B. of S. Asaph Mr. Ward afterwards B. of Salisbury and Mr. John Barwick with two or three others did write a resolute and well pen'd Treatise against the Covenant which was afterwards published In the beginning of the year 1644 if not before he with the said Mr. Barrow his great companion and fellow-sufferer journied to Oxon then his Majesties head-quarter and being forthwith made known to that most worthy patron of learning Dr. Rob. Pink Warden of New Coll he entred them Chaplains of that House where they had lodging and diet In July the same year Mr. Gunning was incorporated Master of Arts of this University but whether Mr. Barrow was or took any other degree it appears not in the publick register About the same time Mr. Gunning became Curat for Mr. Jasp Mayne at Cassington four Miles North-west distant from Oxon in which service continuing about two years he endured several affronts and abuses by the Parliamentarian Soldiers from Abendon and elsewhere either by interrupting him with base Language or by pulling him out of the Church Besides the constant duty at New Coll. and his reading Prayers and Preaching every Sunday at Cassington he somtimes preached either before the King or Parliament sitting at Oxon. In consideration of which he was one of those many that had the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him and accordingly he was admitted on the day before the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament So that he having been incorporated and afterwards admitted to a superior degree with us is the reason why I now put him among the Oxford Writers tho indeed Cambridge is more properly his Mother After the surrender of Oxon. he undertook the charge and tuition of Christopher afterwards Lord Hatton and Sir Franc. Compton in both whom he instill'd most excellent Principles of Loyalty Afterwards he was Chapl. to Sir Rob. Shirley father of Rob. which last was made Lord Ferrers of Chartley who setled on him about an 100 l per an for his life being more particularly moved thereunto for his great abilities and the learning which he shew'd in the silencing a Popish Priest with whom he held two or three set disputations for the satisfaction of his Patron and others that engaged him in them Not long after Sir Rob. Shirley dyed in the Tower having been committed to that place for his Loyalty so that thereupon Mr. Gunning betaking himself to the holding a constant Congregation in the Chappel at Exeter house in the Strand did by his reading the English Liturgy Preaching and administring assert the cause of the Church of England with great pains and courage when the Parliament was most predominant And his Sermons and Prayers being performed very regularly according to the antient usuage of the Church great numbers of well affected and honest people flocked to them as others did to other Loyal Preachers in several parts in and near the City of London whereby thousands being confirmed in the communion of the Church of England as in other parts of the Nation was thereby frustrated and taken away the groundless reproach cast upon the true Protestants by the Romanists that their Church was lost Besides these his Labours for which he was often sent for and reprov'd by the Usurper Oliver he would on the week days look out all sorts of Sectaries and dispute with them openly in their own Congregations Nor was there any considerable Sect whether Presbyterian Independent Anabaptist Quaker Brownist Socinian c. but that he held with them some time or other a set publick disputation in defence of the Church of England About the time of the Kings restauration he was posses'd of the Rectories of Cotesmore in the County of Rutland and of Stoke-Brewen in Northamptonshire which he long before had title to but kept out for his Loyalty The Vicaridge of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster was first design'd him and a Prebendship of Canterbury The last he had but the other not as being thought more for the service of the publick to fix him for a while in the University of Cambridge where being first made D. of D. and Master of Corp. Ch. Coll. and soon after of S. Johns he was for a little while Margaret Professor and as soon as Dr. Ant. Tuckney was removed he was made Reg. Professor of Divinity as the fittest man for that Chaire that could be then chosen to settle the University right in their Principles again after many corruptions had crept in there by means of the Rebellion I say that he did not only succeed the said Tuckney in the Divinity Chaire but also in the Mastership of S. Johns Coll who having been lawfully ejected from both as having had no right title to either yet such was the goodness of Dr. Gunning that he allowed him a very considerable annuity during his life Which act of his being excellent and singular is here remembred to his everlasting fame and the rather for this reason that no Presbyterian or Independent was ever known to allow any Loyallist whose places they had occupied for several years the least farthing but rather rejected and avoided them vilified scorn'd and exposed them to the Plebeians as empty formal and starch'd nothings These things I have known and do remember them as done in this University and the like without all doubt was used at Cambridge and yet so it is that some of the dreggs of these men that yet remain among us have not been content with the Kings clemency to keep their places to this day but take all occasions upon the least interruption in the Nation to breed faction
some respects he understood so well in short time at 12 years of age that he could work at them At that time he went to the Grammar School there had some smattering in the latin and at about 15 years of age he entred into the Greek tongue Soon after he went to Caen in Normandy and with a little stock of Merchantdizing that he then improved maintained himself there learned the French tongue and at 18 years of age the Arts and Mathematicks Afterwards he retired to Paris studied Anatomy and read Vesalius with Hobbes of Malmsbury who lov'd his company exceeding well and was not wanting on all occasions to forward his pregnant genie So that in short time being accomplished with such parts of learning that began then to be in great esteem in England he returned after he had visited the Netherlands into England and on the 6. of March 1647 a patent was ordered for him by the members of Parliament to endure for 17 years to teach his art of double writing At that time being a man of fortune he sided with the people then in authority went to Oxon when the great rout of loyal Scholars was made by the Parliamentarian Visitors setled there for some time followed the faculty of Physick exercised Anatomy and Chymistry much among young Scholars to his and their great benefit and became deputy professor of Anatomy for Dr. Thom. Clayton who being possest with a timorous and effeminate humour could never endure the sight of a mangled or bloody body On the 7. of March 1649 he by the commendatory letters of certain persons then in authority written to the Delegates of the University was actually created Doctor of Physick he being about that time made Fellow of Brasn Coll. in the place of Nath. Hoyle Bach. of Divinity and in Dec. 1650 his name was wonderfully cried up for being the chief person in the recovery to life of one Anne Green who was hang'd in Oxford Castle on the 14 of the same month for making away her bastard child at which time instead of recovering her he intended to have her made an Anatomy In the beginning of January following he was unanimously elected Anatomy professor of the University upon Claytons renouncing his interest therein purposely to serve him and shortly after he was not only made one of the Coll. of Physitians at London but Musick professor of Gresham Coll which last place he obtained by the interest of his dear friend Capt. Joh. Graunt In 1652 he being recommended to the Parliament to be one of the surveyors of Ireland he procured a patent for that purpose and in Aug. the same year he took a voyage thither practiced his faculty in Dublin among the chief of that City got to be Clerk of the Council there and Secretary to the L. Lieutenant In Dec. 1654 he began to survey for which he received 365 l. per an which was done in ten months time or thereabouts with that exactness that there was no estate to the value of 60 l. per an but he did exactly shew it to its true value and made maps of all that he had done Those that he employed for the Geometrical part were ordinary persons that circumambulated with their box and needle not knowing what they did but our author Petty knew right well how to make use of their Labours 'T is said that by this employment he obtained an estate in Ireland worth about 10000 l. per an but a great part of it being refunded because their former owners were declared innocent as to the then late rebellion he had left him about 5 or 6000 l. yearly and could from Mount-Mangorton in Kerry behold 50000 acres of his own Land But this survey was but a single proof of the great elâ—vation of his understanding genius which like a meteor moved above the spheer of other Mortals In Jan. 1658 he was elected one of the Burgesses of Westlow in Cornwall to serve in Richards Parliament which began at Westm on the 27 of the same month wherein he was a considerable actor as I have heard but that Parliament being soon after dissolved and Richard laid aside he went into Ireland whence returning after his Majesties restauration and introduced into his presence his Majesty was much pleased with his ingenious discourses and seemed to be delighted in him About that time the Royal Society being instituted he was appointed one of its first members and afterwards one of the Council belonging thereunto being then esteemed the prime person to advance experimental Philosophy and Mechanicks On the 11. of Apr. 1661 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and did afterwards as some say design to be Earl of Kilmore in Ireland but that project which he knew the effect would cause great envy came to nothing In the beginning of the year 1663 he became famous in Ireland by the success of his new invention of the Double bottom'd Ship against the judgment and resolution of almost all mankind for in July the same year when first the Ship adventur'd from Dublin to Holyhead she stayed there many days before her return and 't was pleasant to consider how her Adversaries insulted and having first established the conclusion that she was cast away did afterwards discourse the several necessities why it should be so Some said it was impossible her Mast could be sufficiently planted against a strong gale others said she was gone to Land at O Brasile c. But her return in triumph with those visible advantages above other vessels did check the derision of some and becalm'd the violence of others the first point having been clearly gain'd that she could bear the Seas She then turned in against wind and tide into that narrow harbour Holyhead amongst the rocks and ships with such dexterity as many antient Sea-men did then confess they had never seen the like About the same time Thomas Earl of Ossory and other persons of honour were imbarqued in her and drove to and again within the bar near Dublin It then blew very hard insomuch that a small Holland vessel famous for a good sailer which set sail with her was in appearance after looked upon to be over set whilst she inclined not above half a foot more to one side than another so that it was truly then called The pad of the Sea It appeared very much to excel all other forms of ships in sailing in carriage in security and many other such benefits but at length in its return home from a certain voyage it was destroyed by a common fate and by such a dreadful tempest as overwhelmed a great Fleet the same night So that the antient fabrick of Ships had no reason to triumph over that new model when of 70 sail that were in the same storm there was not one escaped to bring the news In a word tho this invention succeeded not while it was only supported by private purses it will as one observes undoubtedly produce
called to Bar. This person hath written and published The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland collected from records antient Manuscripts Monuments on the place and other authorities illustrated with Sculpture Lond. 1684 in a thin fol. To which was put an Addition Lond. 1687 in 2 sh and an half in fol. He hath also published little trivial things of History and Poetry meerly to get a little money which he will not own THEODORE HAAK was born at Newhausen near Wormes in the Palatinate on the day of S. James S. V. an 1605 educated in Grammar and in the Reform'd Religion in those parts travelled into England in 1625 retired to Oxon about the beginning of Aug. the same year while the two Houses of Parliament were sitting there continued half an year in obtaining Academical learning and afterwards at Cambridg as much Thence he went and visited several Cities and recesses of the Muses beyond the Seas returned in 1629 became a Communer of Glocester Hall continued there near three years but took no degree and soon after was made a Deacon by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter In the time of the German Wars he was appointed one of the Procurators to receive the benevolence money which was raised in several Diocesses in England to be transmitted into Germany which he usually said was a Deacons work and when the Wars broke out in this Nation he seemed to favour the interest of Parliament having been alwaies Calvinistically educated The Prince Elector did afterwards kindly incite him to be his Secretary but he loving Solitude declined that employment as he did the Residentship at London for the City of Hamburgh and for Fred. 3. King of Denmark c. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that when the Synod of Dort was celebrated in 1618 care was then taken that the most learned and pious Divines of the United Provinces should make a new and accurate Translation of the Bible and Annotations to be put thereunto In which work they were assisted by many eminent and able Divines from most of the reformed Churches and particularly from England by Dr. Geo. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Jo. Davenant B. of Sarum Dr. Hall B. of Exon Dr. Sam. Ward of Cambr. c. by whose great and assiduous Labours jointly for many years together the said Annotations were compleated and came forth in print first an 1637. These Annotations I say commonly called the Dutch Annotations being thought very fit and of great use by the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westm to be translated into English by the hand of Th. Haak it was ordered and ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parl. 30. of March 1648. for the encouragement of the said undertaker Theod. Haak that he or whom he should assign should have the priviledge of printing and vending the said Annotations for the space of 14 years which terme should begin from the time of the first impression So that none else under what pretence soever should be permitted to intermeddle in printing the whole or any part thereof upon the pain of forfeiting a thousand pounds to the said Theod. Haak c. Afterwards the work going forward and the whole Englished by Haak it came out with this title The Dutch Annotations upon the whole Bible together with their translation according to the direction of the Synod of Dort 1618. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. Before which is an exact narrative touching the work and the said translation Besides the translation of this great work Mr. Haak hath translated into High Dutch several English books of practical Divinity as 1 Of the deceitfulness of mans heart written by Dan. Dyke 2 The Christians daly walke c. written by Hen. Scudder 3 The old Pilgrim being the Hist of the Bible written by Anon. but not yet printed as other translations which he had made are not He also translated into High Dutch in blank verse half the Poem called Paradise lost written by Joh. Milton which comming into the hands of J. Secbald Fabricius the famous Divine at Heidelberg he was so much taken with it that in a Letter sent to the Translator he tells him incredible est quantum nos omnes afficerit gravitas stili copia lectissimorum verborum c. He also made ready for the Press before his death about 3000 Proverbs out of the Germ. into the English tongue and as many into the Germ from the Language of the Spaniard who are famous for wise sayings and had most part of them from the Arabians This Mr. Haak who was several years Fellow of the Royal Society hath Observations and Letters in the Philosophical Collections which were published in the beginning of May 1682 and perhaps in the Transactions Quaere At length this virtuous and learned person departing this mortal life in the house of his kinsman Fred. Slare or Slear M. D situate and being in an Alley joyning to Fetter Lane on Sunday the ninth day of May in sixteen hundred and ninety was buried three days after in a vault under the Chancel of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London At which time Dr. Anth. Horneck a German preached his Funeral Sermon wherein were delivered several remarks of Mr. Haaks life but that Sermon being not yet extant I cannot therefore refer you to it Among the many great and learned acquaintance which Mr. Haak had were Prince Rupert Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland Dr. Williams Archb. of York Joh. Selden Dr. Hall Bishop of Exeter Dr. Predeaux B. of Worc. Dr. Walton B. of Chester Dr. Wilkins B. of the same place Briggs and Pell Mathematicians Dr. W. Alabaster the Poet whose Manuscript called Elisaeis he had by him and kept it as a choice relique of his deceased friend to the time of his death Sir Will. Boswell Ambassador at the Hague who encouraged him to keep and continue his correspondence with the learned Marseanus and others of later time JOHN RUSHWORTH was born of Gentile Parents in the County of Northumberland educated for a time in this University in the latter end of the Raign of K. Jam. 1 but left it soon after without being matriculated and retiring to London he entred himself a Student in Lincolns Inn of which he became a Barrister But his Geny then leading him more to State affairs than the Common Law he began early to take in Characters Speeches and passages at conferences in Parliament and from the Kings own mouth which he speak to both the Houses and was upon the stage continually an eye and an ear witness of the greatest transactions He did also personally attend and observe all occurrences of moment during the eleven years interval of Parliament in the Star-Chamber Court of Honour and Exchecquer Camber when all the Judges of England met there upon extraordinary cases and at the Council Table when great causes were tried before the K. and Council Afterwards when matters were agitated at a great distance he was
authors Son Doct. of Phys July 14. Lewis du Moulin Doct. of Physick of the University of Leyden incorporated in the same degree at Cambridge 10. Oct. 1634 was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon This person who was a French man born and Son of the famous Peter du Moulin a French Protestant was lately establish'd Camdens Professor of History in this University by the Committee of Parliament for the reformation thereof After the restauration of his Majesty he was turned out of his Professorship by his Majesties Commissioners for the regulating of the University Whereupon retiring to the City of Westminster lived there a most violent Nonconformist The books that he hath written are these 1 Epistola ad Renatum Veridaeum i. e. Andream Rivetum in qua aperitur Mysterium iniquitatis novissimè in Angliâ redivivum excutitur liber Josephi Hall quo asseritur episcopatum esse juris divini Eleutheropoli alias Lond. 1641. qu. Published under the name of Irenaeus Philadelphus An answer to this book written by the said Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter came out soon after entit Theophili Iscani ad calumniosam Ir. Philadelphi Epistolam responsio Quâ Anglicanae Ecclesiae sana fides pietasque episcopalis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 institutio Apostolico-divina à D. Jos Hallo Exon. Episcopo pridem defensa asseritur Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Apologia pro Epistola ad Renat Veridaeum Lond. 1641. qu. 3 The power of the Christian Magistrate in sacred things c. Lond. 1650. oct 4 Oratio auspicalis cui subjuncta est Laudatio Clariss Viri Guil. Camdeni Oxon. 1652. qu. Dedicated to Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. 5 Paraenesis ad Aedificatores imperii in imperio in qua defenduntur jura Magistratus adversus Moseum Amyraldum caeteros Vindices potestatis ecclesiasticae Presbyterianae In praefatione excurritur in Joh. Dallaei Apologiam pro duabus Synodis Lond. 1656. Dedicated to Oliver Cromwell It was the opinion then of some eminent and judicious persons that the said book did give a notable blow to those severe ones of the Presbyterian way who build a jurisdiction within a jurisdiction And also that it did conduce to the uniting of all interests rendring the Magistrate his due and stating the right of Churches 6 Corollarium ad Paraenesim suam ad Aedificatores imp in imp c. Lond 1657. oct 7 Epistola ad Amicum in qua gratiam divinam seque defendit adversus objecta clariss Viri Johan Dallaei in prefatione libri in Epicritam Ibid. 1658. in tw 8 Of the right of Churches and of the Magistrates Power over them Wherein it further made out first the nullity and vanity of ecclesiastical power c. secondly the absurdity of the distinctions of power and laws in ecclesiastical and civil c. Ibid. 1658. oct Dedicated to the Parliament of England 9 Proposals and reasons whereon some of them are grounded humbly presented to the Parliament towards the setling of a religious and godly government in a Commonwealth with a short account of the compatibility of the congregational way with the Magistrates ordering all-matters of religion in a national publick way c. Lond. 1659. qu. 10 Morum exemplar seu characteres c. Hag. Com. 1662 in tw 11 Patronus bonae fidei in causa Puritanorum contra Hierarchos Anglos ut disceptatur in specimine confutationis vindiciarum clariss Viri Joh. Durelli c. Lond. 1672 oct See in Joh. Durell among the Writers under the year 1683. p. 553. That this book Patronus c. might escape the searchers of the Press as the author saith in his Admonitio he was forced five times to change the running title of the book and the number of pages each new title beginning with a new number The titles are after two Admonitions to the Reader 1. Praefatio sive epistola ad rev Pastores Ecclesiarum reformat in Gallia c. 2. Specimen confutationis Vindiciarum Durellianarum 3. Prodromus 4. Defensor Veritatis and then Patronus bonae fidei For the writing and publishing of this book he was committed to Custody 12 Jugulum causae seu nova unica compendiaria unâ propemodum periodo comprehensa ratio per quam totus doctrinarum Romanensium complexus de quibus lis est inter protestantes Pontificios c. Lond. 1671. oct To this are prefix'd about 60 Epistles to several persons 13 Papa Vltrajectinus 14 Fascieulus 15 A short and true account of the several Advances the Church of England hath made towards Rome or a model of the grounds upon which the Papists for these 100 years have built their hopes and expectations that England would ere long return to Popery Lond. 1680. qu. Soon after came out an answer to this book entit A lively picture of Lewis du Moulin drawn by the incomparable hand of Monsieur D'aille late Minister of Charenton c. Lond. 1680. qu. 16 The conformity of the discipline and government of those who are commonly called Independents to that of the antient Primitive Christians Ibid. 1680. qu. 17 Moral reflections upon the number of the Elect proving plainly from Scripture evidence c. that not one in a hundred thousand nay probably not one in a Million from Adam down to our times shall be saved Ibid. 1680. qu. To this one Edw. Lane mention'd in the Fâ—sti 1639 made a quick answer entit Mercy triumphant c. 18 His last words being his retraction of all the personal reflections he had made on the Divines of the Church of England in several of his signed by himself on the 5 and 17 of Oct. 1680. Lond. 1680. in 2 sh and an half in qu. Published after his death by Dr. Gilb. Burnet as it seems The chief Divines that he had abused were Dr. Edward Stillingfleet Dean of S. Pauls now Bishop of Worcester Dr. Joh. Durell Dean of Windsor and Dr. Simon Patrick Dean of Peterborough now Bishop of Ely 19 An additional account of the Church of Englands advances towards Porery This was published by a Fanatick after the authors death without the knowledge of his Wife or other Relations See His last words p. 15.16 20 An Appeal to all the Nonconformists in England to God and all the Protestants in order to manifest their sincerity in point of obedience to God and the King Lond. 1681. qu. 21 A sober and unpassionate Reply to the Author of The lively picture of Lewis du Moulin Printed with the Appeal 22 An Ecclesiastical History The design of this being known to several of his perswasion before his death the book it self came afterwards into the hands of a Nonconformist which whether published I know not See more in His last words p. 17. He also fil'd smooth'd and polished a book entit Celeusma c. written mostly by Will. Jenkins of whom I have made mention in John Durell among the Writers an 1683. What other books this Lew. du Moulin hath written I know not nor
whole substance of his illiterate plea entit Medela Medicinae is occasionally considered Lond. 1665. See more in March Nedham among the Writers p. 470. Afterwards upon some controversie that hapned between his Father and Mother the last of which was made away he became much discontented turned Papist went into Lancashire setled at Preston in Amunderness practised among the Roman Catholicks and by them cried up tho as 't is said there he led a drunken and debauch'd life Some time before his death he was reconciled to the Church of England and dying at Preston was buried there but when my author a Physitian of those parts tells me not only that 't was after or about the year 1670. Rich. Kidder M. A. of Eman. Coll. This learned person a Suffolk man born I think was afterwards Rector of S. Martins Outwich in London installed Preb. of Noâ—wich in the place of Hezek Burton deceased on the 16 of Sept. 1681 being then D. of D. Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Sim. Patrick promoted to the See of Chichester an 1689 and at length became Bish of Bath and Wells upon the deprivation of the religious and conscientious Dr. Tho. Ken for not taking the usual Oaths to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He was nominated thereunto about the 14 of June 1691 upon the refusal of it by Dr. William Beveridge and on the 30 of Aug. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary Le Bâ—w in London by John Archb. of Cant Gilbert B. of Sarum Peter B. of Wâ—nton John B. of Norwich and Edward B. of Glocester At which time were also consecrated Dr. Rob. Grove of Cambridge to the See of Chichester upon the translation thence of Dr. Patrick to Ely and Dr. Joh. Hall Master of Pemb. Coll. in Oxon to the See of Bristow upon the translation thence of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Hereford Dr. Kidder hath written 1 The young mans duty A discourse shewing the necessity of seeking the Lord betimes as also the danger and unreasonableness of trusting to a late or death-bed repentance Designed especially for young persons before they are debauched by evil company and evil habits Lond. 1663 and several times after in tw The sixth edition was publish'd in 1690. 2 Convivium coeleste A plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Suppor shewing at once the nature of that Sacrament as also the right way of preparing our selves for the receiving of it c. Lond. 1674. oct and afterwards again with additions 3 Charity directed or the way to give almes to the greatest advantage In a Letter to a friend Lond. 1677. qu. 4 The Christian sufferer supported or a discourse concerning the grounds of Christian fortitude shewing at once that the sufferings of good men are not inconsistent with Gods special providence c. Ibid. 1680. oct 5 Reflections on a French Testam printed at Bourdeaux 1626 pretended to be translated into the French by the Divines of Lovain Ibid. 1691. qu. He hath also published several Sermons as 1 A discourse concerning the education of youth on Ephes 1.4 Lond. 1673. 2 Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-hall Chap. 16. July 1682. Ibid. 1682. qu. 3 Serm. at the funeral of Mr. Will. Allen 17. Aug. 1686. on Heb. 13.4 Ibid. 1686. qu. This Will. Allen had been a Citizen and Trader of London and had written 10 books chiefly for conformity against Quakers Anabaptists c. Dr. Kidder hath published several books against popery during the reign of K. Jam. 2 and other things which for brevity sake I now pass by James Arderne M. A. of Christs Coll. See among the Incorporations an 1673. All the said Cambridge men viz. B. Rively J. Dowell R. Sprackling R Kidder and J. Arderne were incorporated on the 13 of July at which time were incorporated 15 other Masters of the said University among whom were Joh. Quarles and Joh. Gosling of Peter House Jan. 2. Henry Yerbury Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had been turn'd out of his Fellowship of Magd. Coll. in this University by the Visitors in 1648 did afterwards travel and took the said degree at Pad in the beginning of Apr. 1654. After his Majesties return he was restored by his Commissioners an 1660 was a Candidate of the Coll. of Phys and dying on the 25 of March 1686 was buried in the Chappel belonging to Magd. Coll near to the north door which leads from the cloister therein I shall make farther mention of this person when I come to speak of Dr. Thomas Pierce Creations Apr. 16. Will. Burt M. of A. chief Master of Wykehams School near Winchester was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chanc. of the Univ. This person who was Son of Will. Burt sometimes belonging to the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll in 1627 took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Master of the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire In 1647 he was made Rector of Whitfield in the said County and soon after became chief Master of Wykehams School before mentioned in the place of Dr. Jo. Pottinger On the 9. of Sept. 1658 he was admitted Warden of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Harris deceased and after his Majesties restauration was made Prebendary of the Cathedral there He hath published Concio Oxoniae habita postridie Comitiorum 13 Julii 1678 pro gradu Doctoris in Psal 72.17 Oxon. 1659 in tw Dedic to Rich. Cromwell Lord Protector of England with whom and the great men going before in the interval he kept pace This being all the exercise that he performed for the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div I do therefore put him under the Creations He died at Winchester 3 July an 1679 and was buried on the South side of the altar in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of Wykeham near Winchester May 14. Rob. Woseley or Wolseley who had been a Student in this Univ. for 8 years time and a Burgess as 't is said in the register in the late Parliament was actually created Master of Arts I cannot find his name in the Catalogues of Parliament men that sate in the three Parliaments going before this time only Charles Wolseley Esq who was one of Olivers Lords July 7. Paul Hartman of the City of Thorne in Prussia was actually created Mast of Arts He was afterwards one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch and is now or else was lately Rector of Shillingford in Berks This person who is Brother to Ad. Sam. Hartman mentioned among the Incorporations an 1680 hath written and published certain matters pertaining to Grammar as I have heard An. Dom. 1659. An. 11. Car. 2. An. 1 â— Rich. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell
true which he delivers Duppa an Englishman cannot be the Author yet Quaere He surrendred up his pious soul to the great God that first gave it on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred sixty and two having the day before been visited by his Maj. out of his wonted piety and goodness He died as he lived honoured and beloved of all that knew him a person of so clear and eminent candor that he left not the least spot upon his life or function maugre the busie sedition of those Brethren who then as before black'd the very Surplice and made the Liturgy profane He had a more than ordinary affection to live at Richmond where he privately resided several years in the late broken times as I have before told you but especially because it was the place where first he conveyed the Principles into the Prince Afterwards his body being conveyed to York-house in the Strand where it laid in state for some time was decently conveyed thence on the 24 of April following to the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster where it was buried in the Area on the North side of the Chappel of S. Edward the Confessor At which time Dr. Hen. King B. of Chichester a most admirable and florid Preacher in his younger days preached a Sermon to the great content of the Auditory containing many Elogiums of the Defunct which as also his monuments of piety and charity I shall for brevity sake now pass by Soon after was a fair mon. mostly of white marble fastned to the Wall over his grave with an inscription thereon In the Church Register of Lewsham in Kent I find one Brian Son of Jeffry Duppa to be baptized there 18 March 1580 having been born in the Vicaridge-house of that place Which Jeffry Duppa who was Vicar I take to be Father of Dr. Duppa and Brian to be his elder brother deceased HAMLETT PULESTON was born at Old Ailresford in Hampshire admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 20 Aug. 1647 aged 16 years took a degree in Arts and then was made Fellow of Jesus Coll. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a Preacher in these parts He hath written a book intit Monarchiae Britannicae singularis protectio or a brief historical Essay tending to prove God's especial Providence over the British Monarchy c. Lond. 1660. qu. He died at London in a poor condition and in an obscure house in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two but where buried I cannot tell His Father Rich. Puleston was a learned Doct. of Div. was Parson of Abbotsworthy in Hampshire and tho born at Bircot in the Parish of Dorchester in Oxfordshire yet he was descended from the antient and gentile Family of the Pulestons commonly called Pilstons in Flintshire WILLIAM FIENNES was the nearest Kinsman to William of Wykeham Founder of New Coll as being lineally descended from William Lord Say killed in the battle at Barnet 2 Ed. 4. Dom. 1471 by his Wife Margaret dau and heir of Will. de Wykeham Lord of the Mannour of Broughton near Banbury in Oxfordshire Son of Sir Tho. de Wykeham Knight Son of Will. Perot by Alice his Wife Daughter of Will. Champneis by Agnes his Wife Sister to Will of Wykeham B. of Winton and Founder of New Coll. before mention'd This person Will. Fiennes whom we are farther to mention was born at Broughton aforesaid being the eldest Son of Sir Rich. Fiennes to whom King Jam. 1. in the first year of his Reign had recognized and confirmed the dignity and honour of the Baron Say and Sele was trained up in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winton became a Fellow Commoner of New Coll. at about 14 years of age in 1596 where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals was called home for a time Afterwards he travelled beyond the seas and at his return being invested in a fair Estate did some years after give and obtain a vast sum of money towards the Waâ— in the Palatinate which was very pleasing to his â— â— K. Jam. 1. yet shewing kindness to his neighbours by leaving it to their pleasure to pay towards that War what they thought fit he was on notice given to his Majesty committed to custody in the month of June 1â—22 whence being soon after released he was on the 7 of July 22 Jac. 1. Dom. 1624. advanced from a Baron â—o be Viscount Say and Sele at which time he stood up 〈◊〉 the Privileges of Magna Charta but after the grand Rebellion broke out he looked upon it as a ridiculous 〈◊〉 such was the mutability of the man The truth is he being ill natur'd cholerick severe and rigid and withal highly conceited of his own worth did expect great matters at Court but they failing he sided therefore with the discontented party the Puritan and took all occasions cunningly to promote a Rebellion For so it was that several years before the Civil War began he being looked upon at that time the Godfather of that Party had meetings of them in his house at Broughton where was a room and passage thereunto which his Servants were prohibited to come near and when they were of a compleat number there would be great noises and talkings heard among them to the admiration of those that lived in the house yet could they never discern their Lords Companions At other times he would be present at their meetings in the house of Knightley at Fawsley in Northamptonshire where as at other places in the Kingdom they had their Council Chambers and chief Speakers And what Embryo's were conceived in the Country were shaped in Greys-Inn-Lane near London where the Undertakers for the Isle of Providence did meet brought them to pass and put them out to Nurse in London In 1639 he was a great Favourer of the Scotch Covenant and had much correspondence with the Scotch Commissioners and when the Long Parliament began in 1640 for the continuance of which he perswaded as 't is said his Majesty to consent shewed himself soon after so active therein as in others before that he with Pym Hamden and Strode three of the five Members were esteemed Parliament-drivers or Swayers of all the Parliaments wherein they sat Whereupon his Majesty being fully satisfied that he was discontented as indeed he was for want of Offices he had ran himself much into debt he confer'd upon him the Mastership of the Court of Wards 17 May 1641 in the place of Francis Lord Cottington who some months before had given it up to please a new Favourite and admitted him to be one of his Privy Council But all this satisfying not he grew more active in the House when it was to be continued and when the King was forced from his Parliament to take up Arms in his own defence then did he cause his House at Broughton to be fortified for the use of the Parliament shewed himself an enemy to Prelacy to Archb. Laud an incliner to