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
world within the City of York was admitted Probationer fellow of Merton Coll. in 1620 aged 19 years or thereabouts and proceeded in Arts four years after His younger years were adorned with Oratory Poetry and witty fancies and his elder with quaint preaching and subtile disputes In 1631 he was one of the Proctors of the University and about that time Chaplain to Philip Earl of Pembroke who for his service and merits bestowed upon him the Rectory of Byshopston in Wilts Afterwards he was constituted Chaplain and Tutor to Charles Prince of Wales after Dr. Duppa was made Bishop of Salisbury was actually created Doct. of Div. in 1642 elected one of the Ass of Divines in the year following but refused to sit among them and Chancellour of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury in the place of Will. Chillingworth deceased in the latter end of the same year 1643. Afterwards he suffered and was deprived of all he had for adhering to his Majesty K. Ch. 1 suffered in exile with his Son K. Ch. 2 whom after his defeat at Worcester he saluted at Roan upon his arrival in Normandy and thereupon was made his Chaplain and Clerk of the Closet After the Kings return he was made Dean of Westminster keeping his Clerkship still was consecrated Bishop of Worcester after the death of Dr. Gauden on the last of Novemb. S. Andrews day 1662 and at length was translated to the See of Salisbury 28. Sept. 1663 void by the translation thence to London of Dr. Humph. Henchman This Dr. Earl was a very gentile Man a contemner of the world religious and most worthy of the office of a Bishop He was a Person also of the sweetest and most obliging nature as one that knew him well tho of another perswasion saith that lived in our age and since Mr. Rich. Hooker died none have lived whom God had blest with more innocent wisdom more sanctified learning or a more pious peaceable primitive temper than he so that this excellent Person seem'd to be only like himself and venerable Mr. Hooker and only the fit man to make the learned of all nations happy in knowing what hath been too long confin'd to the language of our little Island I mean by his translation of the said Mr. Hooker's book called Eccles Politie as I shall tell you anon He hath written An Elegy upon Mr. Franc. Beaumont the Poet. Afterwards printed at the end of Beaumonts Poems Lond. 1640. qu. Put out with a poetical Epistle before them subscribed by Laur. Blaikâ—lock a Bookseller near Temple-bar afterwards an informer to the Committees of sequestration at Haberdashers and Goldsmiths-hall and a beggar defunct in Prison Micro-cosmography or a piece of the world characteriz'd in essays and characters Lond. 1628. c. in tw Published under the name of Edw. Blount He also translated from English into Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he entituled Imago Regis Caroli primi in aerâ—â—mnis solitudine Hag. com 1649 in tw and also The Laws of Eccles Polity in 8. books written by Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. This is in Ms and not yet printed Dr. Earl being esteemed a witty man while he continued in the University several copies of his ingenuity and poetry were greedily gathered up some of which I have seen particularly that Lat. Poem entit Hortus Mertonensis The beginning of which is Hortus delitiae domus politae c. He had also a hand in some of the Figures of which about 10 were published but which Figure or Figures claim him as Author I know not The Figure of six I have bearing this title The figure of six containing these six things wit mirth pleasure pretty observations new conceits and merry jests These Figures were not published all at once but at several times At length this worthy Bishop retiring to Oxon when the King Queen and their respective Courts setled there for a time to avoid the plague then raging in London and Westminster took up his quarters in University Coll. where dying on the 17. of Novemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five was buried near the high altar in Mert. Coll. Church on the 25 day of the said month being then accompanied to his grave from the publick Schools by an Herald at Arms and the principal persons of the Court and University In the See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Alexander Hyde sometimes Fellow of New Coll. of whom will be large mention made in his proper place GEORGE WILDE son of Hen. Wilde a Citizen of London was born in the County of Middlesex elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. from Merchant Taylors School in 1628 aged 19 years entred on the Civ Law line took one degree in that fac 1634 became one of the Chaplains to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant who had an especial respect for him and would have prefer'd him above the Vicaridge of S. Giles Church in Reading had not the Civil distempers broke forth In the heat of the rebellion he adhered to the cause of his Majesty was an appointed Preacher before him and the Parliament in Oxon being then in great esteem for his eloquent preaching and therefore had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd upon him Afterwards being turned out of his Fellowship by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he suffer'd much yet kept up a religious meeting for the Loyalists in Fleetstreet London After his Majesties restauration he was in requital for his loyalty made Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland where he was highly valued for his publick spirit religious conversation and exemplary piety In his younger years he was accounted a Person of great ingenuity and in his elder a man of singular prudence a grace to the pulpit and when in Ireland as worthy of his function as any there He hath written The Hospital of Lovers or Loves Hospital a Comedy Acted in S. Johns Coll. publick refectory before the K. and Qu. 30. Aug. 1636 but 't was not as I conceive printed Hermophus a Com. written in Lat. and several times acted but not printed Sermon preached upon the 3. of March in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. before the House of Commons on Psal 122.8.9 Oxon. 1643. qu. and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He departed this mortal life at Dublin on Friday 29. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried in Christ Church there at which time Mr. George Seignior his Chaplain sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge preached his funeral Sermon to which I refer the Reader for his farther character being as 't is said made publick In London-Derry succeeded Dr. Rob. Mossom Dean of Ch. Ch. in Dublin THOMAS VAUGHAN who stiles himself in all or most of his writings which he published Eugenius Philalethes was the Son of Tho. Vaughan of Llansomfreid but born at Newton in the Parish of S. Bridget near Brecknock in Brecknockshire an 1621 educated in Grammar learning under one Matthew Herbert
Lat. and Greek and such books having too few buyers in England none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory mostly consisting of Dissenters wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies To God and you a sacrifice Not long after was published his life written by Mr. Rich. Baxter who wrot also the introduction Rich. Alleine Rich. Faireclough George Newton his Widow Theodosia Alleine and two conforming Ministers who conceal their names From which Sermon and canting farce or life especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos Alleine was and how his life was spent in actions busie forward if not pragmatical and medling without intermission The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a meer Zantippe finding Jos Alleine to be a meer Scholar and totally ignorant of Womens tricks did flatter sooth him up and woe and soon after married and brought him to her Luer After she had buried him and being not able to continue long without a consort she freely courted a lusty Chaundler of Taunton alienated his affections by false reports from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with and by three days courting they were the fourth day married as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton and so obtained him meerly to supply her salacious humour In 1â—91 our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit A sure Guide to heaven c. printed in tw RICHARD GOVE a Gentlemans Son was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1604 aged 18 years where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degree of M. of A. an 1611. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet and in Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire at which place much about the same time he taught a Grammar School In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty as some of his relations have said but I think false and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter closed so much with the Presbyterians that he became Minister of S. Davids Church there and for several years was much frequented by them About the time of his Majesties restauration he went to East Coker in Somersetshire where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter at which place he taught School for some time and afterwards was made Minister of it His works are The Saints hony-comb full of Divine truths touching both Christian belief and a Christian life in two cent Lond. 1652. oct The Communicants guide directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1654. oct Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations Lond. 1658. oct as also A Catechisme print in oct which I have not yet seen He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mention'd but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight sometimes chief Baron of the Exchecquer in and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of Ireland by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom was born within the City of Dublin but being brought thence very young at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer in England an 1617 he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster and being made full ripe for the University was sent to Trinity Coll where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm term an 1631. aged 16 years But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries and given more to cards and dice than his study they could never then in the least imagine that he could ever inrich the World with his fansie or issue of his brain as he afterwards did From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years and had been examined in the publick Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Lincolns inn where tho he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons yet he would game much and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters who rook'd him sometimes of all he could wrap or get But his Father having received notice of these matters took him severely to task with many threatnings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing Whereupon he wrot a Little Essay against Gaming shewing the vanities and inconveniencies which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation of it After his Fathers death who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey he fell to gaming again and shortly after squandred away several thousands of pounds that were left him c. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong when no body was aware or in the least suspected it Shortly after he was prick'd High Sherriff for Surrey and made Governour of Farnham Castle for the King But he being an inexpert soldier soon after left that office and retired to his Maj. at Oxon where he printed his poem called Coopers hill which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead hath a very noble prospect and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there which he mentions in that most celebrated poem In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James's in Westminster then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother and not long after was sent with William afterwards Lord Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts he return'd into England and being in some streights for by gaming and the War he had squandred away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651 he was kindly entertain'd by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton where
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
the year 1592 aged 19 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1600 elected Probationer-Fellow of Exeter Coll. in 1602 and six years after leaving that House travelled into several Countries beyond the Seas whereby he obtained as well learning as experience At his return he was entertain'd by the Lord Chandois and by him respected and exhibited to After his death our Author with his Wife retired to Gloc. Hall where Dr. Hawley the Principal demised to him Lodgings and then became acquainted so well with Mr. Tho. Allen that by his endeavours the Learned Camden made him his first Reader of the History Lecture which he founded in this University Soon after he was made Principal of that Hall the which with his Lecture he kept to his dying day and was esteemed by some a learned and gentile man and by others a Calvinist He hath written De ratione methodo legendi Historias dissertatio Oxon. 1625. oct printed there again in 1637. in oct with this title Relectiones hyemales de ratione methodo legendi utriusque historias civiles ecclesiasticas c. At length Nich. Horsman M. A. and Fellow of C. C. C. making a review of the second Edition and adding thereunto Mantissa de Historicis gentium particularium c. was printed a third time at Oxon 1662. in oct and had at the end this Speech of our Author printed with it viz. Oratio auspicalis habita in Scholis publicis cum primum L. An. Flori interpretationem aggrederetur author The said Relectiones with the Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1684 in oct with Gabr. Naudaeus his Bibliographia Politica added thereunto and Justus Lipsius his Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill De Historia set before it They were rendred into English I mean the Relectiones and Mantissa only by Edmund Bohun of Westhall in the County of Suffolk Esq of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know these things following viz. that he was born at Ringsfield in the said County being the only Son of Baxter Bohun who with his ancestors have been Lords of the mannour of Westhall ever since 25. Hen. 8. that in the year 1663 he was admitted Fellow-commoner of Queens Coll. in Cambridge and continued there till the latter end of 1666 when then he was driven out of that University by the plague that raged there to his great hindrance in Learning In 1675 he was made one of the Commissioners of the Peace for the County of Suffolk and continued so till the 2 of K. James 2. and then he was discharg'd In the first year of K. Will. and Qu. Mary he was restored to that office upon the recommendations of the members of Parliament then sitting without his seeking and he now serves their Majesties in the said employment This worthy Person hath written An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the nation in three parts being the History of three Sessions of Parliament The first of which began the 21. of Oct. 1678. and the last of them ended the 10. of Janu. 1680. Lond. 1682. and 83. qu. 2 A defence of the Declaration of King Ch. 2. against a pamphlet stiled A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments printed with and added to the Address 3 A defence of Sir Rob. Filmer against the mistakes and representations of Algernoon Sidney Esq in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill on Friday Dec. 7. 1683. before his Execution there Lond. 1684. in 4. sh and an half in fol. 4 The Justice of Peace his calling a moral Essay Lond. 1684. oct 5 A preface and a conclusion to Sir Rob. Filmers book entit Paetriarcha or the natural Law of Kings c. Added to the second and perfect edition of that book Lond. 1685. oct 6 A Geographical Dictionary representing the present and antient names of all the Countries Provinces remarkable Cities c. of the whole world with a short historical account of the same and their present state Lond. 1688. oct 7 The history of the desertion or an account of all the publick affairs in England from the beginning of Sept. 1688. to the 12 of Feb. following Lond. 1689. oct 8 An answer to a piece called The Desertion discussed in a letter to a country Gentleman printed at the end of The Hist of desertion The said Pamphlet called The Desertion discussed was written by Jer◠Collier of Cambridge 10 The Doctrine of Passive Obedience or Non-resistance no way concern'd in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and Jacobites Lond. 1689. qu. In the 24 pag. of which book is a passage concerning Dr. Ken Bishop of Bathe and Wells which Mr. Bohun is satisfied is not true and therefore he desires that and the whole paragraph in which it is may be cancel'd 11 Life of Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury as I shall tell you by and by He hath also translated into English several things among which is 1 The origen of Atheisme in the Popish and Protestant Churches shewn by Dorotheus Sicurus Lond. 1684. qu. 2 An Apologie of the Church of England and an Epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian Gent. concerning the Council of Trent Lond. 1685. in oct written by Joh. Jewell sometimes B. of Salisbury To which is added a brief of the Life of the said Jewell collected by Mr. Bohun from the large life of the said Person written by Dr. Laur. Humphrey 3 The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical Histories as I have told you before 4 The universal Historical Bibliotheque or an account of the most considerable books printed in all languages wherein a short account is given of the design of almost every book and the quality of the author if known For Jan. Feb. and Mar. of the year 1687 Discontinued by the death of George Wells a Bookseller lately living in S. Pauls Ch. yard in London 5 The 25. and 26 th book of the general History of the Reformation of the Church from the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome began in Germany by Mart. Luther Lond. 1689. written in latin by Joh. Sleidan LL. D. with a continuation in three books from the year 1556. to the year 1562. 6 The present state of Germany or an account of the extent rise forme wealth c. of that Empire c. Lond. 1690. oct written in lat by Sam. Pufendorf under a borrowed name What other things he hath written and translated I know not sure I am that our Author Whear hath besides the before-mentioned things published these following Parentatio Historica Sive commemoratio vitae mortis V. C. Guliel Camdeni Clarentii facta Oxoniae in Schola Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Dedicatio imaginis Camdenianae in Scholâ Historicâ 12. Nov. 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct Epistolarum Eucharisticarum fasciculus Charisteria These two last are printed and go with Dedicatio Imaginis
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
were printed together with the two Speeches before mention'd of an accommodation at Caen in the year 1647. in a thin fol. reprinted 1656. qu. Answer to the Declaration of the H. of Commons of the eleventh of Febr. 1647 in which they express the Reasons for their Resolution of making no more Addresses or receiving any from his Majesty Printed at Caen 1648. qu. Dedicated to his good Country-men of England and Fellow-subjects of Scotland and Ireland After this Answer was printed it came into the mind of our Author the Earl of Bristow to make some additions thereunto as well to the Preface as Work it self Which being so done they were not printed only reserved in MS being larger than the Answer it self as a copy of them which I have perused shew Besides these things he hath 1 Several Letters in the book called Cabala Mysteries of State c. Lond. 1654. quart 2 Several Letters in the Cabala or Scrinia sacra Lond. 1663. fol. and also hath translated from French into English Pet. du Moulins book Concerning the Protestants Faith which he published in the name of Joh. Sanford his Chaplain He hath also several scatter'd Copies of English Verses flying abroad to one of which is an Ayre of 3 Voices set by the incomparable Hen. Lawes in his Ayres and Dialogues c. Lond. 1653. fol. This great Count yielded to Nature at Paris on Friday the 21 of January in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried there in a piece of ground then or before a Cabbage Garden as 't is said which Sir Rich. Browne Clerk of the Council had a little before bought to bury the bodies of Protestants that die in or near that City A scurrulous Writer saith that He was buried in a mean Churchyard with little solemnity not one Lord appearing at his funeral nor any other person of quality except his second Son Mr. Joh. Digby and a certain Knight His eldest the Lord George Digby absented himself tho he was in town and not only so but 't is said he forbore inviting any to save funeral expences which being talked abroad hath much crak'd his Reputation because he is observed lavish enough upon other occasions c. But let the truth of these things remain with the Author while I proceed to speak of other matters This Earl left behind him his eldest son named George whom I shall at large mention elsewhere and another son named John born in London entred a Nobleman into Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1634 aged 16 sided with the King in the beginning of the Civil War an 1642 and being esteemed a valiant and good man was made General of the Horse in the Army of Ralph Lord Hopton When the King's Cause declined he went into France and sometimes followed the Court of K. Ch. 2. but getting nothing thence he lived very obscurely and came into England in 1654 where continuing for a time among the afflicted Royalists retired afterwards to Pontoise in France entred himself among the Religious there became a secular Priest and said Mass daily there to the English Nuns in which condition he was living there after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. as I have been informed by a Servant who then belonged to Walter Montague Abbat of Pontoise ROBERT MEAD Son of Rob. Mead a Stationer was born at the Black Lyon in Fleetstreet London elected Student of Ch. Church from Westminster School in the year 1634 and that of his age 18 took the degrees in Arts bore Arms for his Maj. in the Garrison of Oxon and at length was made a Captain In May 1646 he was appointed by the Governor thereof one of the Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces then besieging Oxon for the surrender thereof and in June following he was actually created Doctor of Physick In 1648 he was deprived of all right he had to his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament so that going into France he was employ'd by our exil'd King as an Agent into Sweedland Afterwards he returned into England took up his Quarters in the house of his Father where being overtaken by a malignant fever died soon after He was tho little a stout and learned man and excellent in the faculty of Poetry and making Plays His eminent and general Abilities were also such that they have left him a character pretious and honorable to our Nation He hath written The Combate of Love and Friendship a Comedy Lond. 1654 qu. formerly presented by the Gentlemen of Ch. Ch. in this University He is also said by one or more Writers to have been the Author of The costly Whore a Com. But whether true I cannot justly say because a late Author very knowing in such matters doubts it This worthy person Captain Mead who hath also written several Poems some of which are occasionally printed in the books of other Authors died in his Fathers house before mentioned on the 21 of Feb. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Church of S. Dunstans in the West in Fleetstreet on the 23 of the same month being then Ashwednesday RICHARD JONES son of John Pew of Hentllan in Denbighshire was born in that County entred a Student in Jesus Coll. in the year 1621 and in that of his age 18 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and was afterwards a Preacher This is the person that wrot a book in his own Country Language containing with admirable brevity all the Books and Chapters of the Bible This book is called Gemma Cambricum c. Oxon. 1652. Before which Jam. Howell hath a short Epistle in commendation of it The Author died in Ireland but when 't is not known as I have been informed by Dr. Mich. Roberts sometimes Principal of Jesus College RICHARD PARR a Lancashire man born was entred a Student in Brasn Coll. on the 2 of Sept. 1609 aged 17 elected Fellow thereof in 1614 being then Bac. of Arts Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he entred into the sacred Function and became a frequent Preacher in these parts In 1624 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and two years after became Rector of Ladbrook in Warwickshire But giving that place up two years after upon the obtaining of the rich Parsonage of Eccleston where as they say he was born did proceed Doctor of his Faculty in 1634 and about an year after became Bishop of the Isle of Man in the place of Will. Forster deceased He was a person very painful in reading the Arts to young Scholars while he was of Brasn Coll and afterwards having a Cure of Souls he was no less industrious in the Ministry especially after he was made a Bishop He hath written and published Concio ad clerum habita Oxoniae in Comitiis 12 July 1625 in Apocal. 3.4 Oxon 1628. oct Several Sermons as 1 The end of the
was usually stiled the great Dictator of Learning of the English Nation The truth is his great parts did not live within a small ambit but traced out the Latitudes of Arts and Languages as it appears by those many books he hath published He had great skill in the divine and humane Laws he was a great Philologist Antiquary Herald Linguist Statesman and what not His natural and artificial memory was exact yet his fancy slow notwithstanding he made several sallies into the faculties of Poetry and Oratory to ease his severer thoughts and smooth his rough stile which he mostly used in the Books by him published in Latine The verses that he wrot scatter'd in various books were in Latine and English and sometimes in Greek and was thereupon numbred among our Poets which perhaps may be the reason why he is brought into the Session of them thus There was Selden and he sate close by the Chaire Wainman not far off which was very faire He seldom or never appeared publickly at the Bar tho a Bencher but gave sometimes Chamber-Counsel and was good at conveyance He was chosen a Burgess for several Parliaments wherein he shewed himself profound by speeches and debates yet mostly an enemy to the Prerogative The first Parliament he appeared in was that which began at Westm 19. Feb. 1623. wherein he served for the Burrough of Lancaster And in another which began 6. Feb. 1625. he served for Bedwin in Wilts and was a constant member in all or most Parliaments following during the Reign of K. Ch. 1. But that in which he became most noted was held in the beginning of 1628 wherein for contemptuous and seditious words then uttered he was imprisoned for several months to the great regret of his fellow Members He was a Burgess also of that unhappy Parliament that began at Westm 3. Novemb. 1640 which breaking forth into a rebellion Selden adhered to it and accepted from the members thereof a Commission to do them service In 1643 he was one of those Lay-men that were appointed to sit in the Assembly of Divines at which time he took the Covenant and silenced and puzled the great Theologists thereof in their respective Meetings In Nov. the same year he was appointed by Parliament Chief Keeper of the Rolls and Records in the Tower of London and on the 15. of Apr. 1645 he was one of the 12 Commoners appointed to be a Commissioner of the Admiralty In Jan. 1646 it was voted that 5000 l. should be given to him for his sufferings that he endured for what he had said or done in Parliament an 1628 which money was paid in May following tho some there are that say that he refused and could not out of conscience take it and add that his mind was as great as his learning full of generosity and harbouring nothing that seemed base He got his great knowledge in the Oriental Languages after he fell to the study of the Law wherein arriving to eminence as in other Learning he is oftentimes mention'd not only by learned Authors of our own Nation but by Foreigners He had a very choice Library of Books as well Mss as printed in the beginning of all or most of which he wrot either in the title or leaf before it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Above all liberty to shew that he would examine things and not take them upon trust His works are these Original of a Duel or single combate Lond. 1610. qu. Jani Anglorum facies altera Lond. 1610. oct rendred into English with large notes on it by Redman Westcot alias Adam Littleton Gent. Lond. 1683. fol. Notes and Illustrations on the first eighteen Songs in Mich. Draytons Poly-olbion Lond. 1612. fol. The second part of this Poly-olbion was printed at Lond. in 1622 but without any notes or illustrations Titles of honour Lond. 1614. in qu. There again in 1631 and 1671. fol. This book is in great esteem with Lay-Gentlemen Analect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anglo-Britannic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. lib. 2. Francof 1615. qu. c. Notes on Joh. Fortescue de laudibus legum Angliae Lond. 1616. oct c. Which book having been before translated into English by Rob. Mulcaster a Lawyer had notes then put to it by our Author Selden Notes on the sums of Sir Ralph Hengham L. Ch. Justice to K. Ed. 1. These are printed with the former notes This Sir Ralph died 1308 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul within the City of London De Diis Syris Syntagmata duo Lond. 1617. corrected and amended with additions of copious indices thereunto by M. Andr. Beyer Lugd. Bat. 1629. in oct Lips 1672. Amst 1680. in oct History of Tithes Lond. 1618. qu. In the preface the Author reproaches the Clergy with ignorance and laziness and upbraids them with having nothing to keep up their credit but beard title and habit and that their studies reached no farther then the Breviary the Postills and Polyanthea But the best of the Clergy being provoked by those expressions he was so effectually answer'd by Tillesley of Oxon Rich. Montague and Steph. Nettles of Cambridge that he never came off in any of his undertakings with more loss of credit There were Arguments about tithes written against it by Will. Sclater of Cambridge and printed 1623. qu. but such I have not yet seen Soon after Mr. Selden had published his History he was called before the High Commission about the 22 of Dec. 1618. and forced to make a publick acknowledgment of his error and offence given unto the Church in the said book Which usage sunk so deep into his stomack that he did never after effect the Bishops and Clergy or cordially approve their calling tho many ways were tried to gain him to the Churches interest The said Book or History was reprinted in 1680 in qu. with the old date put to it at which time the press and fanatical Party were too much at liberty occasion'd by the Popish Plot. Whereupon Dr. Thom. Comber answer'd it in a book intit An historical vindication of the Divine right of Tithes c. Lond. 1681. qu. Spicilegium in Edmeari 6 libros Historiarum Lond. 1623. fol. Which book is much commended by Antiquaries and Criticks Marmora Arundelliana cum aliquot inscriptionibus veteris Latii Lond. 1628. in qu. Involved into Marmora Oxoniensia publish'd by Humph. Prideaux M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. now Prebendary of Norwych Mare clausum seu de dominio maris lib. 2. Lond. 1635. fol. c. First written as 't is said in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. in answer to a book published by Hugo Grotius called Mare liberum But the Author Selden stomaching the submission and acknowledgment which he was forced to make in the High Commission for his book of Tithes as I have before told you did not only suppress his Mare clausum which he had written in the Kings defence but carried an evil eye to the Court
in that of his age 77. His Father also had been educated in C. C. Coll. under the tuition of Will. Cole and his Grandfather Sir John Higford under Joh. Jewell both whom were afterwards zealous puritans as the Son was JAMES CRANFORD Son of Jam. Cranford Master of the Free-school at Coventry was born in that City became either Commoner or Batler of Ball. Coll. in Lent term 1617 aged 15 years or thereabouts took the Degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function became Rector of Brookhall or Brockold in Northamptonshire and at length of S. Christopher Le Stocks near to the Old Exchange in London which if I mistake not he obtained upon the ejection of a Loyalist in the beginning of the grand Rebellion He was a painful Preacher as to the Doctrine he professed being a zealous Presbyterian an exact Linguist well acquainted with the Fathers not unknown to the Schoolmen and familiar with the modern Divines He hath written Confutation of the Anabaptists Lond. in qu. Exposition on the Prophesies of Daniel Lond. 1644. qu. Haereseo-Machia or the mischief which heresies do and the means to prevent them Serm. in Pauls before the Lord Mayor 1 Febr. 1645 on 2. Tim. 2.17 Lond. 1646. qu. What other books he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he concluding his last day on the 27. of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven was buried in the Church of S. Christopher beforemention'd In the beginning of the Rebellion he was appointed by the Presbyterians a Licenser of the Press in London which gave him occasion to write several Epistles before Books that were to be published one of which was set before a Book intituled The tears of Ireland wherein is represented a list of the unheard off cruelties of blood thirsty Jesuits and the Popish faction Lond. 1642. oct Which Book as I have been informed by one of his perswasion was also collected by him Quaere THOMAS BLAKE a Staffordshire man born was entred into Ch. Church in the year 1616 and in that of his age 19 but whether in the condition of a Student or Servitour I know not took the degrees in Arts Holy Orders and had some petite employment in the Church bestowed on him At length when the Presbyterian began to be dominant he adhered to that Party took the Covenant and soon after shewing himself a zealous Brother while he was Pastor of S. Alkmonds in Shrewsbury where I find him in 1647 he received a Call and was made Minister of Tamworth in Staffordshire and Warwickshire where also being a constant Preacher up of the cause was thought fit by Oliver and his Council to be nominated one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Staffordshire for the ejecting of such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters His works are these Births priviledg or right of Infants Baptisme Lond. 1644. qu. In which year one Charles Blackwood having published a Book intit The storming of Antichrist in his two strong garrisons of compulsion of conscience and Infants baptisme c. Our Author came out with another book intit Infants Baptisme freed from Antichristianisme against Mr. Blackwood c. Lond. 1645. qu. Afterwards our Author published An answer to Mr. Tombes his Letter in vindication of the birth priviledge or covenant holyness of believers and their issue in the time of the Gospel together with the right of Infants to Baptisme c Lond 1646. See more in Jo. Tombes Vindiciae Foederis A treatise of the Covenant of God with mankind in the several kinds and degrees of it wherein the condition of the Covenant of grace on mans part is asserted c. several corollaries containing many controverted heads of Divinity c. Infant Baptisme maintained in its Latitude c. Lond 1653. qu. The Covenant sealed or a treatise of the Sacrament of both Covenants polemical and practical especially of the Sacrament of the Covenant of grace c. Lond. 1655. qu. Commended to the Reader by the Epistles of Rich. Vines of S. Laurence Jewry in Lond. and Christop Cartwright of York Postscript to the rev and learned Mr. Rich. Baxter in which these following questions are friendly debated c. With an enquiry into the judgment of antiquity about several things in reference to justification This Postscript is added to The Covenant sealed c. Mr. Joh. Humphreys second Vindication of a disciplinary anti-erastian orthodox free admission to the Lords Supper taken into consideration Lond. 1656. qu. This is written by way of Letter Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Gal. 2.15 Printed 1644. qu. 2 Serm. on Acts 20.36 c. printed 1658. qu. and others which I have not yeâ— seen nor his answer to B. Cox about Free admission to the Sacrament and his meditations called Living truths in dying times Printed 1665. in tw He was buâ—ied in the Church at Tamworth beforementioned on the eleventh day of June in sixteen hundred fifty and seven at which time being many of the Ministers and others of the neighbourhood present Mr. Anth. Burgess of Sutton Colfield stept up into the Pulpit and preached his Funeral Sermon wherein in the conclusion he said many things of the Defunct relating to his learning and godliness The Sermon is scarce and I could never see a copie of it otherwise I might have been more large of our learned Author GILBERT WATS of kin to Rotherham the second Founder of Linc. Coll. became either a Batler or Servitor of that house in the year 1607 took the degrees in Arts and in 1616. Nov. 9. was elected Fellow thereof for the County of York Afterwards he became a very florid Preacher tho seldom appear'd in publick and in 1642 when the K. and his Court were in Oxon he was actually created Doct. of Divinity He was a Person that understood several Languages well was esteem'd an excellent wit and a Master of so smooth a Pen whether in Lat. or English that no man of his time exceeded him He hath translated from Lat. into English the Lord Bacons Book intituled De augmentis scientiarum Lond. 1633. Oxon. 1640. qu. c. In which work he hath come so near that English part which was originally written by the said Lord that it is a hard matter to discover any difference in their stiles as was the general vogue of Scholars living when the translation first came out Since that time but many years after have been some who have wished that a translation had been set forth in which the genie and spirit of the Lord Bacon had more appeared And in a letter written and subscribed by certain Gentlemen to Dr. Will. Rawley his sometimes Chaplain it appears that they were importunate for another version It is our humble sute to you say they and we do earnestly sollicite you to give your self the trouble to correct the too much defective translations of the book De aug Scientiarum which Dr. Wats hath
set forth It is a thousand pities that so worthy a piece should lose its grace and credit by an ill expositor since those Persons who read that translation taking it for genuine and upon that presumption not regarding the Latine Edition are thereby rob'd of that benefit which if you would please to undertake the business they might receive This tendeth to the dishonour of that noble Lord and the hindrance of the advancement of learning c. The said Dr. Wats also did translate from Ital. into Engl. Davila's book containing The History of the Civil Wars of France but Sir Ch. Cotterell and William Aylesbury Esq having had the start of him in that work prevented him from printing it He died at Erinsham near to Oxon in his return from the City of Bathe where he had overcome his antient body by too much sweating on the ninth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in that Chancel of Allsaints Church in Oxon commonly called the College Chancel as belonging to Linc. Coll. and not to the Parish of Allsaints At which time he left behind him these three MSS. of his composition which would have been published by the Author had he lived a little longer viz. 1 Digressions on the advancement to learning 2 An Apologie for the instauration of sciences 3 Imperial Politicks JOHN LANGLEY was born near Banbury in Oxfordshire became a Com. or Batler of Magd. Hall about the year 1612 took the degrees in Arts and some years after was made Master of the College School in and Prebendary of the Cath. Church of Glocester In which School teaching about 20 years was elected Chief Master of that of S. Paul in Lond. in the room of Dr. Alex. Gill in Jan. 1640 where as at Gloc. he educated many who were afterwards serviceable in Church and State He was learned in the whole body of learning and not only an excellent Linguist Grammarian Historian Cosmographer and Artist but a most judicious Divine and so great an Antiquary that his delight and knowledge in antiquities especially those of our own Nation doth deserve greater commendation than I can now in a few lines express He was beloved of learned men particularly of Selden and those that adhered to the Long Parliament but had not much esteem from the Orthodox Clergy because he was a Puritan and afterwards a witness against Archb. Laud at his trial as may be elsewhere seen He hath written Totius Rhetoricae adumbratio in usum Scholae Paulinae Lond. 1644. Camb. 1650. c. oct Introduction of Grammar Several times printed He also translated from Lat. into English the Book of Polid. Virgil intit De rerum inventoribus which book had been translated by Joh. Bale in the time of K. Ed. 6. but in old and rude English Our Author Langley also had made several collections of Histories and Antiquities that he had gathered in his travels through several parts of England which after his death coming into the possession as 't is said of his Brother living near Banbury he sold them with his collection of Coins merely for money sake He died in his house joyning to S. Pauls School on the 13. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in Mercers Chappel in Cheapside At which time a Funeral Sermon on Acts 7.22 touching the use of humane learning was preached by Dr. Edw. Reynolds sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. wherein he said much to the honor of the Defunct The reader is to note that one John Langley was Minister of West Tuderley in Hampshire was elected one of the Ass of Divines in 1643 and afterwards became a publisher of several matters of Divinity but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former Joh. Langley JOHN GUMBLEDEN a Hampshire man born was entred a Batler of Broadgates Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 18 years made Student of Ch. Ch. soon after took the Degrees in Arts preached at Longworth in Berkshire several years and was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1632. Upon the turn of the times he sided with the Presbyterians became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards for a short time Rector of Coytie in Glamorganshire He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Gen. 6.5.6.7 printed 1626. qu. 2 Serm. on Gen. 22.1.2 print 1627. qu. 3 Gods great mercy to mankind in Jesus Christ at Pauls cross 1628 on Isa 53.6 Oxon. 1628. qu. 4 Two Sermons preached before the Univ. of Oxon on Matth. 11.28 and on Acts 10.3.4 Lond. 1657. qu as also another on Acts 1. from 1. to 5 which I have not yet seen Christ tempted the Devil conquered or a short exposition on a part of the fourth chapt of S. Mathews Gospel Lond. 1657. qu. He concluded his last day in Sept. or Oct. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Coytie beforemention'd He had other things of the like nature fit for the press laying by him which had he lived he would have published JOHN FRENCH Son of Joh. Fr. of Broughton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire was born at Broughton entred into New Inn 1633 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line practiced his faculty in the Parliament Army by the encouragement of the Fiennes men of Authority in the said Army and at length became one of the two Physicians to the whole Army under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight In 1648 at which time the Earl of Pembroke visited this University he was actually created Doctor of Physick being about that time Physician to the Hospital called the Savoy and one of the Coll. of Physicians His works are these The Art of Distillation or a treatise of the choicest spagirical preparations performed by way of Distillation c. in 6. books Lond. 1651. 53. c. qu. The London Distiller exactly and truly shewing the way to draw all sorts of Spirits and Strong-waters printed with The Art of Distillation c. The Yorkshire Spaw or a treatise of four medicinal Wells viz. the Spaw or Vitrilone Well c. their causes virtues and use Lond. 1652. in tw One J. F. Med. Doct. hath translated from Lat. into Engl. 1 A new light to Alchymie and a treatise of Sulphure Lond. 1650. qu. written by Mich. Sandivogius 2 Nine books of the nature of things Lond. 1650. qu. written by Paracelsus 3 A Chymical Dictionary explaining hard places and words met withal in the writings of Paracelsus c. Lond. 1650. qu. Which J. F. this translator I take to be the same with our Author Joh. French who died in Oct. or Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven at or near Bullogne in France he being then Physician to the English Army there He had a Brother named William French of Caies Coll. in Cambridge said also to be Doctor of Physick and Physician
65 places of holy Scripture Lond. 1643. qu. Written originally by Jo. Hen. Alstedius Professor of the University at Herborne Our Author Will. Burton gave way to fate on the 28. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried the same day in a Vault belonging to the Students of S. Clements Inn under part of the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near London leaving then behind him several Papers and Collections of Antiquity Manuscripts and Coines which came into the hands of Tho. Thynne Esq sometimes his Scholar at Kingston afterwards Gent. Com. of Ch. Church then of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York a Bt. after the death of his Father Sir Hen. Fred. Thynne of Kemsford in Glocestershire possessor of the large estate belonging to Tho. Thynne of Longleet in Wilts murdered by certain Forreigners 12. Feb. 1681 and at length Viscount Weymouth There have been several Writers of both our Authors names as Will. Burton of Leicestershire Will. Burton a Divine and Will. Burton a Pretender to Astronomy a Specimen of which he gave us in an Ephemeris for 1655 which was printed at Oxon. WILLIAM AYLESBURY Son of Sir Thom. Aylesbury of the City of Westminster Bâ— was born in that City became a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1628 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards was by K. Ch. 1. made Governour to the Duke of Buckingham and his Brother the Lord Francis Villiers with whom he travelled beyond the Seas While he continued in Italy it hapned that walking in the Garden of the House where he lodged he was shot with a brace of bullets in his thigh by men who watched him on the other side of the wall a usual adventure in that Country and assoon as he fell the men who had done it leaped over the wall and looking upon him beg'd his pardon and said they were mistaken for he was not the man that they intended to kill which was all the satisfaction he had After his return into England and had delivered up his charge of the two noble Brothers to the King who highly approved of the care he had taken of their education as it appears by the grant his Maj. was pleased to give him of the first place of Grome of his Bed-chamber which should become void the King was pleased to command him to translate Davila's History he being a perfect Master of the Italian Language which he did with the assistance of his constant Friend Sir Charles Cotterel and published it under this title The History of the Civil Wars of France written in Italian by Henry Canterino de Avila Lond. 1647. fol. written in 15 Books to which was a continuation of 15 books more In the year following our Translator Aylesbury went beyond the Sea and dwelt at Antwerp with his Relations till 1650 at which time being reduced to great straights stole over into England where he lived for some time among his friends and acquaintance and sometime at Oxon. among certain Royalists there At length Oliver Cromwell sending a second supply to the Island of Jamaica he engaged himself in that expedition in the quality of a Secretary to the Governour as I have heard where he died in the year sixteen hundred fifty and seven otherwise had he lived till the Restauration of K. Charles 2. he might have chosen what preferment in the Court he pleased by the help of Edward E. of Clarendon who married his Sister OBADIAH SEDGWICK elder Brother to John mentioned under the year 1643. was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Marlborough in Wilts and there or near it was educated in Grammar learning In 1616 he was sent to Qu. Coll. being then 16 years of age but making no long stay there he retired to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and became Chaplain to Sir Horatio Vere Baron of Tilbury with whom he went into the Low Countries in quality of a Chaplain After his return he retir'd to Oxon. and performing certain exercise he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in the latter end of 1629. Afterwards he was Preacher to the Inhabitants of S. Mildrids Parish in Breadstreet within the City of London which he quitting upon no good account before the beginning of the rebellion he became the scandalous and seditious Minister as one calls him of Cogshall in Essex But soon after upon appearance of the said rebellion he retired to the said City again and being a voluble Preacher he was thought fit not only to exercise his parts at S. Mildrids beforemention'd but also before both Houses of Parliament the Members of which constituted him one of the Assembly of Divines as being a Covenanteer to the purpose While he preached at S. Mildrids which was only to exasperate the People to rebel and confound Episcopacy 't was usual with him especially in hot weather to unbutton his doublet in the Pulpit that his breath might be the longer and his voice more audible to rail against the Kings Party and those that were near to him whom he called Popish Counsellors This he did in an especial manner in Sept. 1644 when he with great concernment told the People several times that God was angry with the Army for not cutting off Delinquents c. Afterwards about 1646 he became Minister of the Church of S. Paul in Convent Garden where as also sometimes in the Country he kept up the vigour of a Presbyterian Ministry which for divers years prospered according to his mind to the converting of many and conviction of more In 1653 he was appointed one of the number of triers or examiners of Ministers appointed by Parliament and the year after he was by the members thereof constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters At length finding himself decayed by his too zealous carrying on the Covenanting work he resigned his charge in Convent Garden about two years before his death and retired to Marlborough Soon after the Earl of Bedford upon some consideration confer'd the said Church on the Son-in-law of our Author Sedgwick called Thomas Manton as zealous a Presbyterian as the former where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him as I shall tell you when I come to him As for our Author Sedgwick he hath these things following going under his name Several Sermons as 1 Military discipline for a Christian Soldier on 1. Cor. 16.13.14 Lond. 1639. oct 2 Christs counsell to his languishing Church of Sardis or the dying and decaying Christian c. being the effect of certain Sermons on Rev. 3.2.3 Lond. 1640. in a large oct 3 Christ the life and death the gaine at the funeral of Rowl Wilson a member of Parliament on 1. Philip. 1.21 Lond. 1650. qu. Before which is An account given of some years more than ordinary experience
learning In Lent term 1593 he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. aged 18 years where going through all courses of Scholastical exercise with incredible industry was elected Fellow of that House in 1599 and the year after proceeded in Arts At which time his genie leading him to the study of medicine he entred on the Physick line practised that faculty and at length 1611 took both the degrees therein and resigned his Fellowship Afterwards he retired to the City of Exeter practised there and was much resorted to for his great knowledge and experience in Physick In his younger years he was esteemed a very good Poet Orator and Disputant and in his elder as eminent for Divinity as his proper faculty and might have honoured the World at that time with the issue of his brain but neglecting so to do for the sake of lucre and practice gave us nothing but scraps whimseys and dotages of old age which are these Theoremata Theologica Theological treatises in eight Theses of Divinity viz. 1 Production of Mans Soul 2 Divine Predestination 3 The true Church regiment 4 Predictions of Messiah 5 Christs two Genealogies 6 The revelation revealed 7 Christs Millenar reign 8 The Worlds dissolution Lond. 1654. qu. To which are added Supplements subjoyned as 1 A supply concerning Holy-days and Christs birth-days feast 2 An addition of Mans Soul 3 An Ecclesiastical Polity 4 Of Saints eternal raigne 5 Of Christs eternal raign 6 Several sorts of Essayes one of which is an Essay to Mr. Tho. Hobbes concerning his Leviathan To these the Author added A Postscript of all forms He also wrot A compend of Chronography containing four thousand thirty years compleat from Adams creation to Christs birth c. Lond. 1654. in 5. sh in qu. Enchiridium Epigrammatum Latino-Anglicum Or an Epitome of Essayes Englished out of Latine without elucidat explications containing six classes or centuries of 1 Theologicals 2 Historicals c. Lond. 1654 in a thick oct A Fardel of 76 Fragments Or additional Essayes which is the seventh classe Printed with the Enchiridium He was buried in the choire on the north side of the high Altar of the Cath. Church in Exeter in sixteen hundred sixty and two and soon after had this Epitaph put thereon the copy of which was sent to me by Rich. Izacke Esq Chamberlaine and Antiquary of that City Dormitorium Roberti Vilvaine Medicinae Doctoris qui obiit Vicesimo primo die Februarii an salut 1662 aetatis suae 87. He was a liberal benefactor to two Hospitals for poor Children in that City and in the year 1633 gave 32 l. per an for four poor Scholars each to have 8 l. per an to come from that free School in the said City founded by Hugh Crossing Esq sometimes twice Mayor thereof to Exeter Coll or any place else in Oxon either Coll. or Hall THOMAS BAYLIE a Wiltshire Man born was entred either a Servitour or Batler of S. Albans Hall in Mich. term 1600 43. Elizab. aged 18 years elected Demie of Magd. Coll. in 1602 and perpetual Fellow of that House 1611 he being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became Rector of Maningford Crucis near to Marlborough in his own Country and in 1621 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time and after he was zealously inclin'd to the puritanical party At length upon the change of the times in 1641 siding openly with them he took the Covenant was made one of the Assemb of Divines and soon after had for the love he bore to the righteous cause the rich Rectory of Mildenhall in his own Country then belonging to Dr. Geor. Morley a Royalist confer'd upon him Where being setled he preached up the tenets held by the Fifth-monarchy-men he being by that time one himself and afterwards became a busie Man in ejecting such that were then 1654 and after called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written De merito mortis Christi modo conversionis diatribae duo Oxon. 1626. qu. Concio ad clerum habita in Templo B. Mariae Oxon 5. Jul. 1622. in Jud. ver xi printed with the former He hath also as I have been informed one or more English Sermons extant but such I have not yet seen After the restoration of his Majesty he was turned out from Mildenhall and dying at Marlborough in sixteen hundred sixty and three was buried in the Church of S. Peter there on the 27 day of March the same year Whereupon his Conventicle at that place was carried on by another Brother as zealous as himself WILLIAM JAMES or Jamesius as he writes himself Son of Hen. James by Barbara his Wife Daugh. of Will. Sutton mention'd in the first Vol. p. 494. and he the Son of one James Citizen and Alderman of Bristow was born at Mahone in Monmouthshire educated in his first years of knowledge at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire under his Uncle Will. Sutton Son of the before mentioned Will. Sutton and being extraordinary rath ripe and of a prodigious memory was entred into his Accedence at five years of age In 1646 he was elected a Kings Scholar of the Coll. at Westminster where making marvellous proficiency under Mr. Busbye his most loving Master in the School there was elected thence a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1650. Before he had taken one degree in Arts his Master made him his Assistant in the said School and upon the removal of Adam Littleton into Edw. Bagshaw's place he was made Usher and at length second Master This Person while he was very young about 16 years of age wrot and published ' ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ' in Linguam Chaldaeam In usum Scholae Westmonast Lond. 1651 in 6 sheets or more in oct Dedic to Mr. Rich. Busby his Tutor Parent and Patron and also had a chief hand in the English introduction to the Lat. Tongue for the use of the lower forms in Westm School Lond. 1659. oct He died in the prime of his years to the great reluctancy of all that knew his admirable parts on the third day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried at the West end of S. Peters called the Abbey Church in Westminster near the lowest door going into the Cloister WILLIAM HAYWOOD a most excellent preacher of his time was born being a Coopers Son of Ballance street in the City of Bristow elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. by the endeavours of John Whitson Alderman of that City an encourager of his studies an 1616 aged 16 years and was soon after made Fellow of that House Dr. Laud had a respect for him and his learning made him one of his Domestick Chaplains Chaplain in Ord. to K. Ch. 1 and in 1636 he was by his endeavours actually created D. of D. About that time he became Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in Fields near London and in 1638 he was made Canon of the eleventh stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster in
by the death of Dr. Isaac Bargrave Dean of Canterbury Which being accordingly done as much as laid in the Arbishops power Mr. Reading did not receive any profit from it or from a Prebendship of Canterbury about that time bestowed on him because much opposed by Sir Nath. Brent Vicar-General In the month of July 1644 Sir Will. Brockman did freely bestow upon him the Parsonage of Cheriton in Kent and about the same time he was appointed by the Ass of Divines to be one of the nine Divines to write Annotations on the New Test Not long after upon the discovery of a plot for the taking of Dover Castle by the Cavaliers he was inhumanely seised on in a cold winter night in his house in Cheriton by the command of Major Boys Son of Sir Edw. before mention'd and hurried to Dover Castle and the next day sent to that of Leedes with many others of the Town of Dover Where continuing for some time he composed the book called The guide to the holy city At length being discharged from his imprisonment by the Committee of those parts they ordered also his Goods that had been plundered should be restored to him However Boys of Chilham a Sequestrator different from either of the former had money of him before he would part with them On the 10 of March 1650 he publickly disputed upon the receipt of a Challenge some days before with Sam. Fisher an Anabaptist in Folkston Church in Kent The subject of the debate was Whether all Christians indefinitely were equally and eternally obliged to preach the Gospel without ecclesiastical ordination or contrary to the commands of the civil Magistrate or to that purpose Fisher pleaded the affirmative fetching most of his Arguments from Jer. Taylors Discourse of the liberty of prophecying After the debate was ended our Author Reading thought himself obliged to answer several passages in the said book of Dr. Taylor which gave too great a seeming advantage to Fanaticism and Enthusiasm In the year 1660 May 25 about which time he was restored to his Cure at Dover he spake a short Speech to his Maj. Ch. 2 at his first landing there to take possession of those Kingdoms from whence he by a barbarous Usurpation had been ejected Which being done he presented to him a large Bible with gold Clasps in the name of the Corporation of Dover About that time he was restored to his Prebendship of Canterbury and Rectory of Chartham near it which he kept to his dying day He was in the opinion of many a severe Calvinist and one who had not only defended the irresistability of Grace in several Sermons in opposition to what Joh. Goodwin had delivered in the same Parish Ch. of S. Mary in Dover but in his oral disputes with Fisher the Anabaptist being then as zealous in disproving that mans tenet of Universal Redemption as he was in asserting Paedobaptism against Reading Farther since his Maj. return he did in a publick Sermon in the Cath. Ch. at Canterbury reprehend and disprove some doctrine to that effect which had been in the same place then lately delivered by Dr. Thom. Pierce Prebendary of that Church He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 A fair warning after sickness Lond. 1623. qu. 2 Job's hour a funeral Sermon at Dover 10 Mar. 1623. Lond. 1624. qu. 3 Moses and Jethro or the good Magistrate preached at S. Maries in Dover on the election day on Exod. 18.24 Lond. 1626. qu. 4 Davids soliloquy containing many comforts for afflicted minds in sundry sermons at S. Maries in Dover on Psal 42.11 Lond. 1627. in tw 5 Characters of true blessedness preached in the same Church 21 Sept. 1637 at the funeral of Mrs. Alice Percivall wife of Anth. Percivall Esq on Psal 84.4.5 Lond. 1638. in tw dedic to the said Anthony then Captain of Arcliff Bulwark near Dover Comptroller for his Majesties Customs in Kent c. with several other sermons printed 1621. 1642. c. which I have not yet seen Brief instruction concerning the holy Sacrament for their use who prepare themselves to receive the Lords Supper Lond. 1645. oct A guide to the holy city or directions and helps to an holy life c. Oxon. 1651. qu. An antidote against Anabaptisme in a reply to the plea for Anabaptists Or animadversions on that part of Liberty of prophecying which in sect 18. p. 223. beareth this title A particular consideration of the opinions of the Anabaptists Lond. 1654. qu. In another title of this book which bears date 1655 it runs thus A particular answer to all that is alledged in favour of the Anabaptists by Dr. Jer. Taylor in his book called The liberty of prophecying In the 18 Section of which the Doctor hath mention'd more or things in more plausible terms than ever the Anabaptists have alledged for their own opinions Survey of the controverted points concerning 1 Infant baptism 2 Pretended necessity of Dipping 3 The dangerous practice of reâ—baptizing This was printed with the Antidote 1654. qu. and is sometimes called Anabaptisme routed c. An Evening sacrifice or prayers for a family in these times of calamity Speech made before K. Ch. 2. on the shore where he landed at Dover 25 May 1660. Lond. 1660. on one side of a sh of paper To which is added a Lat. copy of Verses with their English by Rich. Bradshaw This our Author Mr. Reading who had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in affliction surrendred up his last breath on the 26 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was buried on the 30 of the said month in the chancel of his parish Church of Chartham near to Canterbury before mention'd leaving then behind him fit for the press 1 Several Sermons preach'd before the King 2 Comments on the whole Bible The former are in the hands of Joh. Reading his son living in Essex and the other in those of William another son living in Dover 3 A whip for sacriledge Written in answer to a Pamphlet of Anth. Parsons intit The great case of tithes This Whip is contained in 13 sheets and is now in the hands of Basil Kennet M. A. of the University of Dublin Rector of Dimchurch and Vicar of Postling in Kent 4 A Lat. MS. in fol. containing a large Comment Paraphrase and Explication on the whole New Testament dedic to General George Monke and sent to be printed at Lond. in 1666 but being prevented by the great fire that hapned there that year it was delivered into the hands of Dr. Wrenn Bishop of Ely and whether it be recovered from the hands of his heirs or executors I know not The said Mr. Kennet hath also another Tract concerning Proper sacrifice in vindication of Sir Edw. Deering from the attempts of a popish Priest or Jesuit but being imperfect 't was not design'd I presume by the Author Mr. Reading for the press WILLIAM THOMAS was born in a mercate Town in Shropshire called Whitchurch
became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647 and afterwards did all or most of his Exercise with much ado for the degree of Bach. of Arts and so abruptly left the College But while he continued there he shew'd himself a Dunce a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University and a factious person Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man and a wife the first of which he keeping till his Majesties Restauration was then ejected and put to his shifts At length repairing to London he fell into the company of desperate Fanaticks as Fifth-Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents c. and did seemingly plot with them to surprize the King at Whitehall the Lord Chancellor Clarendon George Duke of Albemarle Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne c. to have the Tower Windsore Castle and other Holds delivered to them and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state These things being freely imparted to him by one or more of the said Fanaticks knowing that he and his Father had been Vilâ—ains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed aâ— to the said Sir Rich. Browne Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence which he accordingly did draw'd them on till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day an 1662. But two days before that time when all things were in a manner made ready some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London according to the directions of the said Will. Hill viz. Tho. Tonge George Phillips Franc. Stubbs Jam. Hind Joh. Sallers and Nath. Gibbs All which coming afterwards to a Trial at Justiceâ—Hall in the Old Baily four of them were condemned and afterwards suffer'd at Tybourne on the 22 of Dec. following viz. Tongue Phillips Gibbs and Stubbs Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the Kings Majesty c. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty and in the Pamphlet following wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons Hill is one of the principal speakers as being a chief witness Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire but being hated by one party for his falsness and by another for his factiousness did enjoy it but few years he dying upon the place JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes was born in the City of Salisbury entred a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely House and other miseries At length returning to his native Country he became Curate of Broadchalke which with much ado he held for about two years and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith asserted and vindicated Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie but continued at Hale which is not far from Surum where he was first rob'd in his own house and then murdered by Thieves in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there What other things he hath published or left behind him fit for the press I cannot tell WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following an 1605 6 he received baptism in the Church of that Parish His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown wherein our Poet was born and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman of a good wit and conversation in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers especially Shakespeare who frequented his house in his journies between Warwickshire and London was of a melancholick disposition and was seldom or never seen to laugh in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son afterwards Fellow of S. Johns Coll and a venerable Doct. of Div. As for William whom we are farther to mention and may justly stile the sweet Swan of Isis was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester whom I shall elsewhere mention and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough in 1620. 21 or thereabouts and obtained there some smattering in Logic but his genie which was always opposite to it lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry so that tho he wanted much of University learning yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty as fancy could advance without it After he had left the said Coll wherein I presume he made but a short stay he became servant to Frances the first Duchess of Richmond and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook who being poetically given especially in his younger days was much delighted in him After his death an 1628. he being free from trouble and attendance betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry which he did with so much sweetness and grace that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban to both which he dedicated his poem which he afterwards published called Madagascar Sir John Suckling also was his great and intimate friend who exercis'd his fancy on that book and other of his Poems but could not let him pass without this censure in his Session of Poets Will. Davenant asham'd of a foolish mischance That he had got lately travelling into France Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse Might any deformity about him excuse Thus Sir John son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight sometimes one of the Secretaries of State afterwards Controller of the Houshold to K Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council who dying 27 March 1627 at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych The said mischance which Sir John mentions hapned to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga
and keeping Sir Gilb. Gerard and other members by force of Arms out of the Commons house of Parl. on 27. Dec. 1659. Lond. 1660. Three seasonable Queries proposed to all those Cities Counties and Burroughs whose respective Citizens c. have been forcibly excluded unjustly ejected and disabled to sit in the Commons H. by those now acting at Westm Ibid. 1660. It was published about the latter end of Dec. 1659 on one side of a sh of paper Humble petition and address of the Sea-men and Water-men in and about the City of Lond. to the L. Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of Lond. in Com. Council assembled for a free and legal Parliament c. Ibid. 1660. Seasonable and healing instructions humbly tendered to the Free-holders Citizens and Burgesses of England and Wales to be seriously commended by them to their respective Knights Citizens Burgesses elected and to be elected for the next Parliament 25 Apr. 1660. Books and Pamphlets written after the restauration of his Maj. K. Ch. 2. Second part of a brief Register Kalendar and Survey of the several kinds of Parliamentary Writs relating to the H. of Commons c. Lond. 1660. qu. Bathonia rediviva The humble address of the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Bathe to the Kings most excellent Maj. presented by Mr. Prynne 16 June 1660. Lond. 1660. The first part of the signal loyalty of Gods true Saints and pious Christians as likewise of Pagans towards their King both before and under the Law and Gospel expressed in and by their constant public prayers supplications intercessions thanksgiving for them Lond. 1660. quart The 2 part of â—ig Loyalty together with various forms of prayers supplications votes acclamations ceremonies and solemnities used at the Coronations of Emperors and Kings especially of the Kings of England Ibid. 1660. quart Vindication of Christian Kings transcribed out of Joh. Hus Ibid. 1660. qu. Sundry reasons humbly tendered to the most honorable H. of Peers by some Citizens and Members of Lond. and other Cities Burroughs Corporations and Ports against the new intended bill for governing and reforming Corporations Some few of these reasons were published and the rest suppressed A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common Prayer c. Lond. 1661. qu. Brevia parliamentaria rediviva in 13 sections containing several catalogues of the numbers dates of all bundles of original Writs of summons and elections newly found or formerly extant in the Tower of London c. Ibid. 1662. qu. Apology for tender consciences touching not bowing at the name of Jesus Ibid. 1662. qu. The fourth part of a register and survey of the several kinds and forms of Parliamentary Writs c. Lond. 1664. qu. The first Tome or an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction in over all spiritual or religious affairs causes persons c. within their Realms of England Scotland Ireland and other dominions from the original planting of Christian Religion c. to the death of K. Rich. 1. an 1199. Lond. 1666 in a large fol. The second Tome of an exact chronological vindication c. from the first year of K. John 1199 to the death of K. Hen. 3. dom 1273 c. Ibid. 1665. in a large fol. This second Tome came out before the first Aurum Reginae or concerning Queen-gold c. Lond. 1668. qu. Animadversions on the fourth part of Sir Edw. Cokes Institutes of the Laws of England c. Lond. 1669. fol. The History of K. John K. Hen. 3. and K. Edw. 1. wherein the antient Soveraign dominion of the Kings of England Scotland France and Ireland c. is asserted and vindicated against all incroachments and innovations whatsoever c. Lond. 1670. in a thick fol. He also did revise rectifie in sundry mistakes and supplied with a preface marginal notes several omissions and exact tables a book intit An exact abridgment of the Records of the Tower of London from the Reign of K. Ed. 2. unto K. Rich. 3. of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign and the several Acts in every Parliament c. Collected by Sir Rob. Cotton Kt. and Bar. Lond. 1657. fol. c. Besides these and others which I have not yet seen our Author Prynne hath published the works of other persons as 1 Truth gloriously appearing from under the sad cloud of Obloquy or a vindication of the practice of the Church of Christ in the Summer Islands c. Lond. about 1650. Written by Nath. White Bac. of Div. and Pastor of the Church of Christ at Summer Islands 2 A discourse of the Spanish Monarchy Written by Tho. Campanella which having been translated into English by Edm. Chilmead and published 1654 had a new Preface put to it by Prynne with a Title bearing the date of 1659. 3 A breviat of the life of Will Laud Archb. of Cant. published purposely to make him odious to the vulgar sort of people yet the rational part I mean those persons that were not guided by Presbyterian clamours entertained other kind of thoughts of the Archb. than they had before The original of this Diary was found after his death by Mr. Will. Dugdale and others who were commanded by Authority to search for that and other matters which he the said Prynne unwarrantably got into his custody Several Pamphlets also are fathered upon him of which he was not in the least Author among which are 1 Mola Asinaria or the unreasonableness and insupportable burden now pressed upon the shoulders of this groaning Nation by the headless head and unruly rulers c. held forth in a remonstrance c. Lond. 1659. in 1 sh in qu. 2 Two letters one from Joh. Audland a Quaker to Will Prynne the other Will. Prynne's Answer Lond. 1672. in 3 sh in fol. written by Samuel Butler Author of the much celebrated Poem called Hudibras of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know that he was born in the Parish of Strensham in Worcestershire and baptized there 13 Feb. 1612. His father named Sam. Butler was a person of a fair estate near 300 l. per an but most of it lease-lands held of Sir Tho. Russell Grandfather to Sir Franc. Russell Bt Lord of the Mannour of Strensham before mention'd The son Sam. Butler whom we are farther to mention was educated in Grammar learning in the Coll. School at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright and from thence went as his brother now living affirms to the University of Cambridge yet others of the neighbourhood say to Oxon but whether true I cannot tell Sure I am that one Sam. Butler was elected from Westm school a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1623 but making little stay there he was not matriculated and so consequently the place of his nativity and age are not remaining on record otherwise had he been made a member of the University we
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
Davenports perswasion Whereupon Best came out with The Churches plea for her right or a reply to an answer c. Amst 1635. qu and soon after our author Davenport with An Apolegetical reply to the answer of W. B. Roterd. 1636. qu. About the same time Davenport who took these matters very ill refused to joyn with the Ministers in their meetings took away many of their disciples such especially that had an esteem for his notable learning and singular parts and preached and prayed to them in private houses In the beginning of the rebellion he returned into England as other Nonconformists did and had a cure bestowed on him but finding matters not to go current with his humour he by the perswasive letters of Mr. John Cotton of New England who was esteemed the misleader of him and John Goodwin went into that Country and became Pastor of Newhaven there where he continued in great esteem with those of his perswasion to the time almost of his death His other writings are these Catechisme containing the chief heads of Christian religion Lond. 1659. oct Published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ at Newhaven in New England In this Catechisme one Will. Hook a teacher there had a hand I mean the same Will. Hook who was sometimes Minister of Axmouth in Devonshire author of 1 New Englands tears for old Englands fears c. Print 1640-1 qu. 2 The privileges of the saints on earth above those in heaven Pr. in oct 3 Sermon in New England in behalf of old England Pr. 1645. qu. and other Sermons He died in or near London 21. March 1677. aged 77 years and was committed to the earth in the burial place situated on the north side of the New Attillery-yard or Garden near to the said City See more of him in Jerom Turner an 1655. Several Sermons as 1 The Messiah is already come on Acts 2.36 Lond. 1653. qu. 2 Gods call to his people to turn unto him c. in two Sermons on two publick fasting days in N. England Lond. 1670. qu. 3 Saints Anchor-hold in all Storms and Tempests on Lam. 3.26 Printed 1661 in tw and others among which is his Sermon on 2. Sam. 1.18 Lond. 1629. qu. The power of congregational Churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. Jo. Paget entit The defence of Church government exercised in classes and synods Lond. 1672. oct He also had a considerable hand in writing The life of Mr. John Cotton before mention'd published by John Norton Minister of Boston in N. England and had formerly with Dr. Rich. Sibbs published certain works of Dr. John Preston viz. his New Covenants or Saints portion in 14. sermons with four other added an 1629. qu. c. At length he having lived beyond the age of man surrendred up his Soul to God at Boston in New England to which place he had removed from Newhaven in 1668 on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was inter'd there in the tomb of the said Mr. Cotton for whom in his life time he had an extraordinary respect He left behind him An Exposition on the Canticles contained in an 100 sheets in a small hand-writing Which being esteemed very fit for the press was recommended by Dr. Sam. Anely and Mr. Ed. Veal and accordingly proposals were made for the printing it to be sold for 7. sh in quires in Mich. term an 1687. But soon after the printing of it was stop'd and the merchant who design'd afterwards to publish it died so 't is question'd now whether ever it will see light JOHN MAYNARD esteemed by those of his perswasion an eminent and judicious Divine was born of a gentile family in Sussex at or near Riverfield became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 compounded for the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of that house and afterwards translated himself to Magd. Hall In 1622 he took the degree of Mast of Arts as a Compounder entred into holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Maighfield in his own Country But when the rebellion broke out he shew'd himself more a Puritan and preached with more liberty than he did before whereupon being appointed one of the Ass of Divines he took the Covenant held forth several times before the members of the Long Parliament had other preferments I presume bestowed upon him and in 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Sussex for the ejection of such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters His writings are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 26 Feb. 1644. on Prov. 23. ver 23. Lond. 1645. qu. 2 A shadow of the victory of Christ Fastâ—serm before the H. of C. 28. Oct. 1646. on Phil. 3.21 Lond. 1646. qu. c. The young mans remembrancer and old mans monitor Lond. 1669 oct The Law of God ratified by the Gospel of Christ or the harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded c. delivered in several sermons Lond. 1674. oct What became of this reverend author after his Majesties restauration I mean whether he conformed or was ejected I know not nor any thing else of him only that about 1670 he became a benefactor to Magd. Hall and that his Library was exposed to sale by way of auction several years after his death 13. June 1687. I find another John Maynard who published a book entit The XII wonders of the world set and composed for the Viol de Gambo the Lute and the voice to sing the verse c. Lond. 1661. fol. But this was no Divine but a most admired Lutenist at the famous School of S. Julians in Hertfordshire Another John Maynard who was an eminent Lawyer I shall mention hereafter under the year 1690. WILLIAM SEDGWICK son of Will. Sedgw. of Lond. Gent. was born in Bedfordshire became a Com. of Pemb. Coll. in Mich. term an 1624 aged 15 years Where being put under the tuition of George Hughes profited more in Div. than Philosophy After he had taken the degrees in Arts he entred into the sacred function and became Rector of Farnham in Essex where he behaved himself conformable to the Ch. of England but upon the turn of the times in 1â—41 he closed with the Presbyterians having before been instructed in their principles by his Tutor put in a Curate into Farnham and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Sir Will. Constable a Parliamentarian Commander the same who was afterwards one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After the loyal Clergy had been ejected from their Livings he became the chief Preacher of the City of Ely and was commonly called The Apostle of the isle of Ely but what he enjoyed there and elsewhere for several years he lost after his Maj.
fecit c. Afterwards our Author Cawton continuing for some time in Mert. Coll. was at length upon the resetling of the English Liturgy in the University called thence and afterwards setling within the City of Westminster lived a Nonconformist and kept religious meetings in private to his last His works besides the former are these Dissertatio de usu linguae Hebraicae in Philosophia theoretica Printed at Utrecht And wrot also the life of his Father intit The life and death of that holy and rev man of God Mr. Tho. Cawton sometimes Minister of the Gospel at S. Barthelmews behind the Royal Exchange and lately Preacher to the English Congregation of Rotterdam in Holland c. Lond. 1662. oct The Life tho it seemâ— to be written by another person yet the son was the Author who caused to be added to it his fathers sermon intit Gods rule for a godly life c. preached before the Lord Mayor and his brethren the Aldermen of London at Mercers Chappel 25 of Feb. 1648 on Philip. 1.27 Lond. 1662 being the Sermon for which the Author was committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster Balaam's wish or the vanity of desiring without endeavouring to obtain the death of the upright Lond. 1670. 75. oct 't is a Sermon He died on the tenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 40 years or thereabouts and was buried in the new Church in Tuttle street within the City of Westminster at which time Mr. Hen. Hurst his friend and sometimes Fellow collegian spoke before a large Auditory a Funeral discourse in the latter end of which are many things deservedly said of the Defunct which being made publick I refer the Reader to it RICHARD HOLLAND was born within the City of Lincoln and for a time educated in this University but took no degree Afterwards he taught the grounds of Geography and Mathematicks among the young scholars for about 50 years grew wealthy and being always sedulous in his employment several afterwards became eminent by his instruction He wrot for their use Globe notes Oxon. 1678. oct sec edit Notes how to get the angle of the parallax or a Comet Oxon. 1668. oct He died on the first day of May in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 81 years and was buried very deep behind the south door of the Parish Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. His employment in instructing young scholars was afterwards taken up by Joh. Caswell M. A. of Wad Coll. afterwards Vice-principal of Hart Hall Besides this Rich. Holland is another of both his names M. of A. and Rector of S. George's Church in Stanford in Lincolnshire Author of one or more sermons BRUNO RYVES kinsman to Dr. Tho. Ryves mentioned under the year 1651. p. 83. was born in Dorsetshire made one of the Clerks of New Coll. in 1610 where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts became one of the Chaplains of Magd. Coll. 1616. Soon after he proceeded in Arts became a most noted and florid Preacher Vicar of Stanwell in Middlesex Rector of St. Martins de le Vintry in London Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 1. and in 1639 proceeded Doct. of Div. But the Rebellion breaking out soon after he was sequestred of his Rectory by the Presbyterians plunder'd and forced to fly and at length losing his Vicaridge he shifted from place to place and by the favour of his Majesty had the Deanery of Chichester and the Mastership of the Hospital there conferr'd upon him tho little or no profit accrued thence till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. About which time being sworn Chaplain in ord to him had the Deanery of Windsore confer'd on him in which he was installed 3 Sept. 1660 and so consequently was Dean of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire Afterwards he became Rector of Acton in Middlesex was sworn Scribe of the most noble order of the Garter 14 Jan. 1660 and about that time was made Rector of Haseley near to and in the County of Oxford which I think is annexed to his Deanery as the Deanery of Wolverhampton is but all separated by Mr. Baxter thereby to make him a great Pluralist without any consideration had to his great sufferings occasion'd by the Presbyterians He hath written Mercurius Rusticus or the Countries complaint recounting the sad events of this unparralel'd Warr. Which Mercuries in number at least 19 commencing from 22 Aug. 1642 came out in one sheet sometimes in two in qu. Merc. Rustic The second part in number 5 giving an account of Sacriledges in and upon several Cathedrals After the Warr was ended all these Mercuries were pr. an 1646 and 47. in oct and had to them added 1 A general bill of mortality of the Clergy of London c. Or a brief martyrologie and catalogue of the learned grave religious painful Ministers of the City of Lond. who have been imprison'd plundered c. for their constancy to the Protestant Religion and their Loyalty from 1641 to 1647 about which time it came out by it self in one sheet only pr. on one side 2 Querela Cantabrigiensis or a Remonstrance by way of Apology for the banished members of the flourishing University of Cambridge Written by a member thereof 3 Micro-Chronicon or a brief Chronologie of the time and place of the Battles Sieges Conflicts and other remarkable passages which have hapned betwixt his Majesty and the Parliament from the beginning of the unhappy dissentions to the 25 of Mar. 1647. Which Micro-Chron I take to be written by our Author Ryves and to have been partly collected by him from Englands Iliads in a Nuâ—-shell written by George Wharton 4 A Catalogue of the names of all or most part of the Lords Knights Commanders and Persons of Quality slain or executed by law martial on both sides from the beginning of this unnatural War to the 25 of Mar. 1647. This also I take to be collected by Ryves The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that that edition of Merc. Rusticus which came out in 1647 had more in it than that of 1646. However Rich. Royston the Bookseller being minded to make another edition he followed only that which came out in 1646. so that the third edit which he made in 1685 hath less in it than that of 1647. Dr. Ryves hath also written and published Several sermons as 1 Serm. on 1 Tim. 6.10 Pr. in qu. 1652. 2 Fun. Serm. on 2 Tim. 4.7 Pr. 1656. qu. 3 Serm. before the H. of Commons 15 Jan. 1661. Whether printed I know not as yet for I have not seen it He died at Windsore on the 13 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Alley or Isle joyning on the south side to his Majesty's Chappel of S. George there Over his grave is this inscription engraven on a marble table fastned to the south Wall Brunus Ryves S. Theologiae Professor Reg. majestati Ã
to a senior Master Soon after he left Oxon and became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards tho not in Orders from a Bishop he was made Minister of S. Mary Magdalens Church in Milkstreet in London which place he keeping till the day of S. Barthelmew an 1662 left it because he would not conform Whereupon retiring to Hoxton alias Hogsden near London preached in a Conventicle there to his dying day being always held in great esteem for his piety by those of his perswasion He hath written Spiritual antidote for a dying soul Lond. 1665. oct Gods terrible voice in the City by plague and fire Lond. 1667. oct Of Christs certain and sudden appearance to judgment Lond. 1667. oct and several times after the sixth edit came out in 1683. and the book it self is grounded on Rev. 22.20 last part Answer to the sandy foundation of Will Pen the Quaker Defence of the Trinity Satisfaction by Christ and Justification of Sinners Lond. 1667. in tw or sixt Wells of salvation opened or words whereby we may be saved With advice to young men Lond. 1669. oct Explicatory Catechisme or an explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechisme wherein all the Answers are taken asunder under Questions and Answers the Truths explained and proved c. Lond. 1673 c. oct The true Christians love of the unseen Christ or a discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians Lond. 1677. 84. in tw Appendix concerning Christs manifestation of himself to them that love him Printed with The true Christians love c. Holy and profitable Sayings Lond. 1680. Printed on one side of a sh of paper Several sermons as 1 Fire and Brimstone from Heaven from Earth in Hell or three discourses 1. Concerning the burning of Sodome and Gomorrah formerly 2. Concerning c. Lond. 1670. oct contained in several sermons 2 Wherein doth appear the blessedness of forgiveness and how it may be attained on Psal 32.1 Lond. 1674. 76. qu. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate published by Sam. Aneley 3 Sermon on 1 Tim. 4.1.2 and part of the third verse This is the seventeenth sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in a Conventicle in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 Serm. on Isa 57.1.2 Printed 1667 oct This I have not yet seen nor certain controversial Writings between him and Dr. VVill. Sherlocke This Mr. Vincent died at Hogsden before mentioned in the Parish of S. Leonards Shoreditch in the month of Octob. the 15 day as it seems in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the new Churchyard belonging to Cripplegate Parish as his Brother Nathaniel hath informed me at which time Sam. Slater preached his funeral sermon on Heb. 13.7 afterwards published under the title of Vincentius redivivus in the beginning of which he tells us that the said Mr. Vincent was buried 27 of Oct. 1678. SILAS DOMVILLE or D'omvill alias Taylor son of Silvanus Taylor a Committee man for Herefordshire in the time of the rebellion a busie man against the Kings party and a Commissioner for Herefordshire and certain Counties in Wales for the ejecting of scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School-Masters was born at Harley near Muchwenlock in Shropshire on the 16 of July 1624 bred in the Free-Schools at Westminster and Shrewsbury became a Communer of New Inn in the beginning of the year 1641 but being soon after called thence without the taking of a degree upon the eruption of the Civil Wars he took part with the Rebels upon his fathers instance and at length became a Captain under Colonel afterwards Major General Edw. Massey and when the Wars ceased he was made by his fathers endeavours a Sequestrator of the Royalists in Herefordshire and had in those times great power there which he used so civilly and obligingly that he was beloved of all the Kings party His father setled upon him a good estate in Church Lands which he had bought and had the moity of the Bishops Pallace in Hereford setled on him the other part Col. John Birch had got into his clutches on which he laid out much mony in building and altering Upon the rising of Sir George Booth in Cheshire in the beginning of Aug. 1659 he received a Commission to be Captain of a Troop of Horse for the Militia of the City of Westminster and shew'd himself very active in that employment but at the Kings return he lost all and was in a manner ruined Soon after by the favour of certain persons whom he had before obliged he became Commissary of the ammunition and warlike provision at Dunkirke and five years after about 1665 he was by the endeavours of Sir Paul Neile and others made keeper of the Kings Store-houses for Shipping and other marine matters at Harwich a Sea-port Town in Essex where he continued to the time of his death This person being a great lover of Antiquities did in the times of usurpation ransack the Library belonging to the Church of Hereford of most or at least the best Mss therein and did also garble the Mss in the Library of the Church at Worcester and the evidences pertaining thereunto among which as I have heard he got the original grant of K. Edgar whence the Kings of England derive their right to the soveraignty of the Seas which is printed in Mr. Seldens book called Mare Clausum lib. 2. He had got also into his hands a quarto Ms of great antiquity which treated of the Philosophers stone in Hieroglyphicks with some few lat verses underneath And being limn'd with very great curiosity it was presented to the view of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 who offer'd 100 l. for it but was refused by the owner This person commonly called Captain Taylor hath written The History of Gavel-kind with the Etymology thereof containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the antient Britains notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans Saxons Danes and Normans Lond. 1663. qu. Observations and remarks upon many special occurrences of British and English History Printed with the former book At the end of which is an Anonymus Ms by him publish'd entit Brevis relatio de Willielmo Comite Normannorum c. The original of which is in the Archives of Bodlies Library communicated to him by Dr. Tho. Barlow the head keeper of that Library He had also written and published several pamphlets before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but his name being not put to would never after own them He also laboured four years or more in collecting various antiquities as Armes monumental Inscriptions c. in many places of Herefordshire during his employment there under the two Protectors Which being now or at least lately in the hands of Sir Edw. Harley of Brompton Brian may serve as an Apparatus for him who shall hereafter write the
of another because Byrd had been dead several years before Whereupon Charnock began anew with the help of a servant and again by himself alone in which work continuing 9 months which was within a month of his reckoning the Crows head began to appear black but a War being proclaimed against the French an 1557 and he thereupon by the malice of a Gentleman who was his neighbour prest for a Soldier his operations were frustrated and all cast aside On the first of January the same year he began to write The Breviary of natural Philosophy and on the 20. of July following he ended it In the title and end of which he stiles himself an unlettered Scholar and Student in the most worthy science of Astronomy and Philosophy This Breviary is written in old English verse which in the next Century coming into the hands of the most renowned Mercuriophilus Anglicus who sometimes writes himself James Hasolle Elias Ashmole was among other authors of the like nature published by him under this title Theatrum Chemicum Britanicum In 1562 Charnock married Agnes Norden at Stokeland-Bristow four miles from Bridgwater in Somersetshire being then or soon after setled there but afterwards at a place called Comadge and in the year after he buried Absolon his Son In 1566 he finished his book called The principal rules of natural Philosophy figuratively set forth to the obtaining of the Philosophers stone In which year also he dedicated a book of The Science to Qu. Elizabeth and dated the Rolle at Stockland as he himself saith which Rolle is written in Latine being the same I presume with the Emblematical Scrowle supposed to be invented by George Ripley the inside of which was composed as Charnock says by a great Master of the Hermetick Philosophy and written by a Master of his pen. Some notes in the void spaces of it were written by Charnock's hand which shew that he did not or at least throughly understand it In 1572 he wrot the Poesie of the Rolle which Rolle seems to me to have been a kind of a Vade mecum or a Manual that the Students of the Hermetick Science carried about with them and also to be taken from Raymandus Lullius The same year he wrot Aenigma ad Alchimiam and Aenigma de Alchimia both in English Verse and printed in Theat Chem. before mention'd In 1573 he wrot as himself saith the fragment Knock the Child on the head See Theat Chem. pag. 425 and in the year after he confessed that he never saw The white ferment to the red till the fiftieth year of his age In 1576 appeared The difficulty of the Philosophical number in the Rolle This Rolle so often mentioned is religiously kept to this day in a house at Comadge before mention'd where for his Studies and carrying on of his Operations he made a little room and contrivance for the keeping his Work and so ingeniously ordered that no accident of fire could befall him as it did on New-years day 1555. It joyns as a Closet to that which was his Chamber to make a Servant needless and the work of giving attendance more easie to himself On the door was drawn by his own hand with course Colours but rudely an Emblem of his Work So likewise about the walls in his Chamber are several pieces of his painting differing from each other some of which are obscure and almost woren out Several fragments written by him are published in the said Theat Chem Brit. but therein are omitted Charnocks Poesie upon the white and red rose and verses on the Philosophers Dragon which eateth up her owne tale c. This Rosacrucian Charnock paid his last debt to nature in his house at Comadge and was buried within the precincts of the Church at Otterhampton near to Bridgwater 21. Apr. 1581. HENRY MARTEN commonly called Harry Marten son of Sir Hen. Mart. mention'd among these writers under the year 1641 p. 4. was born within the City of Oxford particularly as I conceive in the parish of S. John Bapt in an house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church then lately built by Hen. Sherburne Gent. and possess'd at the time of Harry's birth by Sir Henry his father After he had been instructed in Grammar learning in Oxon he became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in the beginning of 1617 aged 15 years where and in public giving a manifestation of his pregnant parts had the degree of Bach. of Arts confer'd upon him in the latter end of 1619. Afterwards he went to one of the Inns of Court travelled into France and at his return his father found out a rich wife for him whom he married somthing unwillingly and therefore afterwards living a part from her and following other creatures she was for sometime distemper'd In the beginning of the year 1640 he was elected one of the Knights of Berks to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr and again tho not legally in Oct. to serve in that unhappy Parliament that began at the same place on the 3. of Novemb. following In which last Parliament he shew'd himself out of some little pique the most bitter enemy against the K. in all the House as well in action as speech for which being first reprimanded while the Presbyterians swayed therein was afterwards for the incontinence of his tongue committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but soon after released He was an enemy also to the Kingly Office and all belonging thereunto especially the Regalia which he caused to be sold for being authorized by the said Parliament about 1642 he forced open a great iron Chest within the College of Westminster and thence took out the Crown Robes Sword and Scepter belonging antiently to K. Edw. the Confessor and used by all our Kings at their inaugurations and with a scorn greater than his lusts and the rest of his vices he openly declared that there should be no further use of those toyes and trifles c. And in the jollity of that humour he invested George Wither an old puritan Satyrist in the royal habiliments who being crown'd and royally arrayed as well right became him did first march about the room with a stately garb and afterwards with a thousand apish and rediculous actions exposed those sacred ornaments to contempt and laughter Had the abuse been stript and whip'd as it should have been the foolish fellow possibly might have passed for a Prophet tho he could not be reckoned for a Poet. The said H. Marten was a taker of all Oaths whether that of Allegiance Covenant Engagement c. The last of which being by him taken he would by all means as the Independent Gang did make the Covenant an old Almanack out of date to the end that he and they might be rid of that tie of preserving his Majesties person and authority c. as the Presbyterians would with regret frequently say He was also an eager enemy against Lords Gentry Lawyers and Clergy and a
the holy Feast of Easter c. Written 1665. Apotelesma or the nativity of the World and revolution thereof Short discourse of yeares months and dayes of yeares Somthing touching the nature of Ecclipses and also of their effects Of the Crises in diseases c. Of the mutations inclinations and eversions of Empires Kingdomes c. Discourse of the names Genus Species c. of all Comets Tract teaching how Astrology may be restored from Morinus c. Secret multiplication of the effects of the Starrs from Cardan Sundry rules shewing by what Laws the weather is governed and how to discover the various alterations of the same He also translated from Latin into English The art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the hand of man c. Written by John Rothman M. D. Lond. 1652. oct This is sometimes called Whartons Chiromancy Most of which foregoing treatises were collected together and publishd an 1683 in oct by John Gadbury born at Wheatley near to and in the County of Oxon 31. Dec. 1627 Son of Will. Gadb of that place farmer by his stoln Wife the Daughter of Sir John Curson of Water-perry Knight bound an Apprentice to Tho. Nicholls a Taylor living in the Parish of S. Peter in the Baylie in Oxon left him after the great fire hapned in that City 1644 and having a natural genius to the making of Almanacks improved it at London under Will. Lilly then called the English Merlin and afterwards set up the trade of Almanack-making and Fortune-telling for himself in which he became eminent Our author Wharton hath also written Select and choice poems Composed during the Civil War which I have before mention'd At length dying in his house at Enfield in Middlesex on the tenth day of Aug. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and one was buried on the 25 day of the same month in the Chappel of S. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London leaving then behind him the character of a most loyal and generous Chevalier JOHN TROUGHTON son of Nathan Trought a Clothier was born in the City of Coventry educated in the Free-School there under Sam. Frankland became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1655 afterwards Fellow and Bach. of Arts but upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 being ejected to make room for one who had been expel'd by the Visitors in 1648 he retired to a mercate town in Oxfordshire commonly called Bister where living a moderate Nonconformist read Academical learning to young men and somtimes preached in private whereby he got a comfortable subsistence Upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for the toleration of religion dat 15. Mar. 1671 this Mr. Troughton was one of those four Dr. Hen. Langley and Tho. Gilbert and Hen. Cornish Bachelaurs of Div. being the other three who were appointed by the principal heads of the Brethren to carry on the work of preaching within the City of Oxon. The place where they held their meetings was in Thamestreet without the north gate in an house which had been built a little before the Civil War began by Tom. Pun alias Tho. Aires where each person endeavouring to shew his parts this our author Troughton was by the auditory of Scholars who came among them meerly out of novelty held â—he best and was by them most applauded The truth is tho the man had been blind occasion'd by the small pox ever since he was four years old yet he was a good School Divine and Metaphysitian and was much commended while he was in the University for his disputations He was not of so busie turbulent and furious a spirit as those of his persuasion commonly are but very moderate And altho he often preached as occasions offer'd themselves in prohibited Assemblies yet he did not make it his business by employing all the little tricks and artifices too frequently practiced by other hot-headed zealots of his fraternity viz. by vilifying and railing at the established ordinances of the Church libelling the conformable ministry by keeping their meetings at the very time when the services and administrations of the Church are regularly performing c. He did not I say by these and such like most unwarrantable contrivances endeavour to withdraw weaker persons from the sacred bosome of the Church in order to fix and herd them in associated defying Conventicles He was respected by and maintain'd an amicable correspondence with some of the conformable Clergy because of his great knowledg and moderation He hath written and published Lutherus redivivus or the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith only vindicated And the plausible opinion of justification by faith and obedience proved to be Arminian Popish and to lead unavoidably to Socinianisme part 1. Lond. 1677. oct This is reflected on by Tho. Hotchkis in his preface to the second part of A discourse concerning imputed righteousness c. Lond. 1678. oct Luther Rediv. or the Protest doctr of justif by Christs righteousness imputed to believers explained and vindicated part 2. Lond. 1678. oct Letter to a Friend touching Gods providence about sinful actions in answer to a Letter intit The reconcilableness of Gods prescience c. and to a postcript of that Letter Lod. 1678. oct Popery the grand Apostasie Being the substance of certain Sermons preached on 2. Thess 2. from ver 1. to 12 on occasion of the desperate plot of the Papists against the K Kingdome and Protestant religion To which is added a Sermon on Rev. 18.4 preached 5. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1680. oct An Apologie for the Nonconformists shewing their reasons both for their not conforming and for their preaching publickly tho forbidden by Law Lond. 1681. quart An Answer to Dr. Stillingfleets sermon and his defence of it so much as concerneth the Nonconformists preaching Printed with the Apologie This learned and religious person Mr. Jo. Troughton died in an house of one of the Brethren situat and being in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon. on the 20 of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 44 years whereupon his body was carried to Bister before mentioned alias Burchester and buried in the Church there At which time Abrah James a blind man Master of the Free-school at Woodstock sometimes of Magd. Hall preaching his funeral sermon did take occasion not only to be lavish in the commendations of the Defunct but to make several glances on the government established by law So that an Auditor there named Sam. Blackwell M. A. and Vicar of Bister a zealous man for the Church of England complaining to the Diocesan of him James was glad to retract what he had said before him to prevent an ejection from his School which otherwise would inevitably have come to pass Now I am got fnto the name of Troughton I cannot without the guilt of concealment but let the Reader know this story of one of that name which is this While his Majesty K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory was a
Father much against his humour and inclinations got to be Usher of Croyden Free-school in Surrey where he continued for about three years In which time he became acquainted with John Earl of Rochester who seemed much delighted in the mad ranting and debauched specimens of Poetry of this author Oldham Afterwards he was Tutor to the Grandsons of Sir Edw. Thurland a late Judge living in Surrey with whom he continued till 1681 and then being out of all business and employ he retired to the great City set up for a Wit and soon after became Tutor to a Son of Sir Will. Hicks near London where at his leisure hours by the advice and encouragement of Dr. Rich. Lower he applyed himself to the study of Physick At length being made known to that most generous and truly noble William Earl of Kingston he was taken into his patronage lived with him in great respect at Holme-Pierpont in Nottinghamshire where he made his last exit as I shall tell you anon This noted Poet hath written Satyrs upon the Jesuits in number four with a prologue written in the year 1679 upon occasion of the plot Popish Plot together with the Satyr against vertue and some other pieces by the same hand Lond. 1681. 82. oct The first Satyr is called Garnets Ghost c. which was printed against the authors consent Lond. 1679 in one sh in fol. The Satyr against vertue was committed to the privacy of two or three friends from whose hands it stole out in print against the authors knowledge Lond. 1679. qu. Some new pieces never before published viz. 1 Horace his art of poetry imitated in English 2 Paraphrase upon Horace Book 1. Ode 31. and Book 2. Ode 14. 3 The praise of Homer an Ode 4 Two pastorals out of Greek Bion. One in imitation of the Greek of Moschius bewailing the death of the Earl of Rochester the other in lamentation of Adonis imitated out of the Greek of Byon of Smyrna 5 Paraphrase upon the 137 Psalme 6 Paraph. on the Hymne of S. Ambrose ode 7 A letter from the Country to a friend in Town giving an account of the authors inclinations to Poetry in vers 8 Upon a Printer that exposed him by printing a piece of his grosly mangled and faulty All these were printed in one Vol. in oct at Lond. 1681. He wrot also a Satyr in Pindarique verse supposed to be spoken by a Court-Hector inserted in the Poems of John Earl of Rochester printed 1680. p. 115 Which is the same with his Satyr against Vertue before mention'd Poems and Translations Lond. 1683. oct Remains in verse and prose Lond. 1684. oct Which Remains consist of 1 Counterpart to the Satyr against Vertue in person of the author 2 Virg. Eclogue 8 the enchantment 3 Verses to Madam L. E. upon her recovery from a late sickness 4 El. on the death of Mrs. Catherine Kingscourt a child of excellent parts and piety 5 A Sunday thought in sickness 6 To the memory of his dear friend Mr. Charles Morwent a large Pindarique 7 To the memory of the worthy Gent. Mr. Harman Atwood Pindarique 8 Character of a certain ugly old Parson This last is the worst and most offensive of all the rest These Remains are usher'd into the world by the commendatory Poems of Joh. Dryden Esq Thom. Flatman Naham Tate Tho. Durfey Tho. Andrews and Tho. Wood of New Coll. There is also an Anonym with an Eclogue and another with an Epitaph on the Author As for Charles Morwent on whom the large Pindarique before mention'd was made which makes about the third part of the Remaines was born at Tetbury in Glocestershire his father being an Attorney there bred up in Grammar learning under Mr. Th. Byrton M. A. of Linc. Coll at Wotton under Edg in the said County became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in 1670 and Bach. of Arts four years after Soon after he retired to Glocester fell sick of the Small Pox died of it and was inter'd in the Cathedral there where there is a monument over his grave He was a handsome gentile and good natur'd man and very well beloved in the said Hall Our Author Oldham made also a little Poem to which Musick was set by a Doctor of that faculty bearing this title A second Musical Entertainment on Cecilia's day 22 Nov. 1684. The words by the late ingenious Mr. Joh. Oldham c. set to Musick in two three four and five parts Lond. 1685. qu. By Dr. Joh. Blow Master of the Children and Organist to his Majesties Chappel Royal. To conclude this most celebrated Poet died in the house of his munificent Patron at Holme Pierpont before mentioned in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Church there Soon after was a monument put over his grave with this inscription thereon M. S. Jo. Oldhami Poetae quo nemo sacro furore plenior nemo rebus sublimior aut verbis felicius audax cujus famam omni aevo propria satis consecrabunt carmina Quem inter primos Honoratissimi Gulielmi Comitis de Kingston Patroni sui amplexus Variolis correptum heu nimis immatura mors rapuit in caelestem transtulit chorum Natus apud Shipton in agro Glocestrensi in Aula S. Edmunti Graduatus Obiit die Decembris nono An. Dom. 1683. Aetatis 30 ROBERT CROSSE son of Will. Crosse of Dunster in Somerseishire was born there or at least in that County became either Batler or Commoner of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term 1621 aged 16 years where employing his Studies in Philosophy and Disputation took the degree of Bach. of Arts. On the 14 of Dec. 1627 he was elected Fellow of the said Coll so that taking the degree of Master the next year he entred into holy Orders became a great Tutor and Aristotelian and much noted in the University for a learned man In 1637 he was admitted â—o the reading of the Sentences and being puritannically inclined sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Civil Wars In 1643 he was nominated one of the Ass of Divines took the Covenant and sometimes sate among them and in 1648 submitting to the Parliamentarian Visitors he was named and appointed by the Committee for the reformation of the University to succeed Dr. Sanderson in the Kings Professorship of Divinity of this University but he refusing to accept it had soon after the rich Vicaridge of Great Chew near Pensford in Somersetshire confer'd on him So that resigning his Fellowship in 1653 he setled at Chew and in the next year he was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliament for the ejecting of ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters as they were then called by the Faction in Somersetshire In 1660 at the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he conformed and because there was no body to claim his Living he continued there to the time of his death While he remained in the University he was accounted a noted Philosopher and
among us jealousies in the people of the violent comming in of Popery make continual clamours after preferment as if they had deserv'd it as well as sufferers and I know not what But now to return to the worthy person whom we are further to mention Be it remembred therefore that upon the death of Dr. Hen. King he was promoted to the See of Chichester to which being Consecrated on the sixth day of March the third Sunday in Lent an 1669 sate there till the death of Dr. Benj. Lanâ—y Bishop of Ely which hapning towards the latter end of 1674 he was translated to that See on the fourth day of March the same year with a particular acknowledgement from his Majesty of his steaddiness to the Church having kept up the face thereof in the worst of times In all the several preferments that he went thro from the first to the last he was first thought of by his Prince or Patron before he himself made any application whatsoever While he continued in Cambridge he was a constant Preacher and looked upon as so umblameable in his life and practice that his schismatical and factious Adversaries were sorry that they could not possibly fasten the least spot on him He was admired by great Scholars as well abroad as at home for his profund Divinity was noted much also in England for his diffusive Charity for what he had not spent in his life time by supplying Scholars at Cambridge by his large endowments and bountiful benefactions in that place by his great summs laid out on his Sees as well as formerly on his Livings by his dayly relieving at his door from his Table all sorts of indigent and distressed persons and by privately supplying others with a plentiful hand he disposed the remainder by his last Will and Test to be laid out for the augmentation of poor Vicariges Under his name go these things following A contention for truth in two several publick disputations before thousands of people in the Church of S. Clement Danes without Temple Bar on the 19. and 26. of Nov. 1657 between Mr. Gunning on the one part and Mr. Hen. Denn on the other concerning the baptisme of Infants whether lawfull or unlawfull Lond. 1658. qu. Schisme unmasked or a late conference betwixt Mr. Pet. Gunning and Mr. John Pierson Ministers on the one part and two Disputants of the Rom. perswasion on the other Wherein is defin'd both what Schisme is and to whom it belongs c. Paris 1658. in tw This conference is said to have been began in May 1657. The large Preface to it was written by two Catholick Disputants who published the whole and 't is presum'd not so fairly on the Protestants side as in truth and justice they ought to have done View and corrections of the Common Prayer an 1662 At which Mr. Baxter if I mistake not carped The Paschall or Lent-Fast Apostolical and perpetuall Lond. 1662. qu. This at first was but a Sermon preached before the King who forced it into the Press by his repeated commands and thereupon he added so much to it as to make it a compleat Treatise on that subject Appendix containing an answer to the late printed objections of the Presbyterians against the Fast of Lent Printed with the former book See in the Fasti 1669 among the incorporations in Will. Saywell At length this worthy Bishop who continued single all his days wholly addicted to his studies and the service of God and had made preaching and doing all the good offices proper to a Bishop so much his delight that according to the usual saying he died in his calling did surrender up his pious soul to God on Sunday the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried with due solemnity in the Cathedral Church of Ely As Dr. Fr. Turner somtimes Fellow of New Coll succeeded him in the Mastership of that of S. Johns chiefly by his means so did he likewise in the Bishoprick of Ely between whom there passed many affectionate endearments Much more may be said of this most pious and learned Bishop but he being not totally ours I shall omit it and commend you to his large character given of him in a book entit A discourse delivered in two Sermons preached in the Cathedral at Ely in Sept. 1684 c. p. 4.5 c. Written spoken and published by Humph. Gower D. D. Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge in the place of Dr. Turner before mention'd and one of the Prebendaries of Ely printed 1685. in qu. WILLIAM DURHAM son of Joh. Durh. of Willersley near Camden in Glocestershire was born there educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. Sturby who kept a private School at Broadway in the same County became a Student of New Inn in 1626 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and when about an years standing in the degree of Master he was made Curat to Dr. Thom. Bunbury Rector of S. Maries Church in Reading In the beinning of the Civil War he left that place retired to London and there after some short stay was chosen preacher of the Rolls in Chancery Lane at which time he took the Covenant From thence by a presentation he went into Berks and became Rector of Burfield being about that time Bach. of Divinity and thence was translated to the rich Rectory of Tredington in Worcestershire which before I cannot say immediatly had been enjoyed by Dr. Will. Smith somtimes Warden of Wadham Coll. After his Majesties restauration he was ejected thence to make room for Dr. Joseph Crowther of S. Johns Coll. who before had obtained a presentation thereunto whereupon our author Durham retiring to London lived there for some time without a cure A length upon his Conformity to the Church of England Sir Nich. Crispe presented him to the Rectory of S. Mildred in Breadstreet within the City of London to which Parish that of S. Margaret Moses was joyned after the dreadful fire in the said City where he finished his course He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Maran-Atha The second Advent or Christs comming to jugdment an Assize Serm. at Warwick 25. of July 1651. on Jam. 5.9 Lond. 1652. qu. 2 Serm. before the Artillery Company at S. Andrews Undershaft 30 Aug. 1670. on 1. Cor. 16.13 Lond. 1671. qu. 3 Serm. before the L. Mayor and Court of Aldermen at at S. Mary le Bow 21. Nov. 1675. on Prov 29.1 Lond. 1676. qu. A serious exhortation to the necessary duties of families and personal instruction for the use of Tredington Parish Printed in 1659 in tw The life and death of that judicious Divine and accomplished preacher Rob. Harris D. D. lately President of Trinity Coll. in Oxon c. Lond. 1660. oct He died on the seventh day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Chancell of the Church of S. Mildred before mentioned in a vault belonging to the
Ministers thereof just under the Communion Table ROBERT SHARROCH a Ministers son was born at Adstock near to and in the County of Buckingham educated in Wyekhams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1649 or thereabouts took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1661 became afterwards Rector of Horewood in Buckinghamshire Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Bishops Waltham in Hampshire a Justice of Peace for that County and at length Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Walt. Darrell deceased in which Dignity he was installed 28. Apr. 1684 being then accounted learned in divinity in the Civ and Com. Law and very knowing in Vegitables and all pertaining thereunto He hath published The History of the propagating and improvement of Vegitables by the concurrence of Art and Nature shewing the several ways for the propagation of Plants usually cultivated in England as they are increased by Seeds Off-sets Suckers c. Oxon 1660 and 1672 oct An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 84. p. 5002. Hypothesis de Officiis secundum humanae rationis dictata seu naturae jus unde casus omnes conscientiae quatenus notiones à naturâ supersunt dijudicari possint c. Oxon. 1660. oct In this he writes against the Principia and Rationes of Hobbes of Malmsbury belonging to Ethicks and Politicks This book came out at Oxon again in 1682 in a large octavo with many additions to it with the title a little alter'd and enlarg'd and dedicated to the King Judicia seu Legum censurae de variis in continentiae speciebus c. Oxon. 1662 in a large oct De finibus virtutis Christianae The ends of Christian religion c. justified in several discourses Oxon 1673. qu. contained in ten Sermons He also reviewed and compared with several copies Provinciale vetus provinciae Cantuariensis cum selectioribus Linwodi annotationibus Oxon. 1664. in a thick oct He concluded his last day on the eleventh of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Bishops Waltham before mention'd In his Archdeaconry was installed Tho. Clutterbook D. D. Rector and Vicar of South Stoneham near Southampton in his Prebendship Sam. Palmer M. A. somtimes of Mert. Coll. and in Bishops Waltham succeeded Franc. Morley M. A. of Ch. Ch. great Nephew to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winton who about the said time had a Prebendship bestowed on him in the said Church of Winton on the resignation of Dr. Geo. Beaumont by the said Bishop WILLIAM MASTERS second son of Sir Will. Mast of Cirencester in Glocestershire Knight was born there admitted Bach. Fellow of Mert. Coll. from that of Ch. Ch. by the the Committee of Parliament and Visitors of the University 25. Mar. 1650 being then an Undergraduat took the degree of Master of Arts about two years after and under the name of a Student in Theology did publish these two things following he being then 26 years of age Essayes and observations Theological and Moral Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered and characterized c. Lond. 1653. oct Drops of Myrrhe or Meditations and Prayers These are printed with the former book and are fitted to divers arguments in that work Afterwards the author was beneficed at Woodford Roe in Essex was Bach. of Divinity Rector of S. Vedastus in Foster Lane in Lond. and a Minor Preb. in S. Pauls Cathedral but what else he published I cannot yet find He died in the month of Sept. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Woodford before mention'd By his last will and test he gave to the Univ. of Oxon 5 l. per an to have two Sermons preached every year in S. Maries Church there viz one on Shrove Sunday and the other on the last Sunday in June GEORGE MORLEY son of Francis Morley Esq by Sarah Denham his wife sister to Sir Joh. Denham one of the Barons of his Majesties Exchecquer was born in Cheapside within the City of London on the 27. of Febr. 1597. He lost his father when he was six years of age his mother when 12 and that little Patrimony that he was born to by his father's being engaged in other mens debts At 14 years of age or thereabouts he was elected one of Kings Scholars of the Coll. at Westminster and in the beginning of the year 1615 he became Student of Ch. Ch where with very great industry running thro all the Classes of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts. After he had continued in that royal foundation seven years in the degree of Master he was invited by Robert Earl of Caernarvon and his Lady to be Chaplain in their house where he lived till he was 43 years of age without having or seeking any preferment in the Church After this he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Hartfield in Sussex which being a Sinecure he exchanged with Dr. Rich. Steuart then Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty for the Parsonage of Mildenhall near Marlborough in Wiltshire But before he had that charge he had a Prebendship of Ch. Ch. bestowed on him by the K. to whom he was Chaplain in Ord. an 1641 which was the only preferment he ever desired and of which he gave the first years profit to the King towards the charge of his wars which were then commenc'd against him by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in the Long Parliament At the beginning of which he preached one of the first solemn Sermons before the Commons but so little to their gust and liking that they commanded all the rest of the Sermons but not his to be printed Yet after this he being then Doctor of Divinity he was nominated one of the Assembly of Divines by both Houses as Dr. Prideaux B. of Worcester Dr. H. Hammond c. were but neither he or either of them appeared among them As for his part he always remained with his Majesty did him what service he could as long as the war continued After which he was employed by his Majesty then a prisoner at Hampton Court to engage the University of Oxon not to submit to the illegal Visitation that had been began but for the present intermitted because of the violent proceedings of the Army Which affair he managed with such success that the Convocation did presently pass an Act for that purpose but with one dissenting voice only tho they were then under the power of the enemy that is the Parliament forces After this he was chosen by the Members of the University with some other Assistants named by himself to negotiate the making good of their Articles which were framed at the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the said forces which he did to that degree as to gain time for the getting in of their rents and to dispose of themselves I mean as many of them as were
in the Church there ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland was born in Fish-Shamble street in S. Johns Parish within the City of Dublin on the tenth day of July an 1614 became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630 or thereabouts continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more and having laid a sure foundation in literature to advance his knowledg in greater matters he returned to his native Country for a time In 1640 he was elected Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliment which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but his election being questioned Charles Price Esq then elected also was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon where he sate in that called by his Majesty In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland an 1645 or thereabouts and became instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army or falling into the body of Irish hands c. Afterwards he went into England complied with the Parliament Ol. Cromwell and his party took the Oath called the Engagement as before he had the Covenant But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms he then when he perceived that it could not be hindred struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home as many of his perswasion did and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publickly that they were as instrumental in that matter as the best of the Royal party nay they stuck not to say that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored At that time he was made a Privy Counsellour and to shew his zeal for his Majesties cause he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bayly on the Regicides where one of them named Adrian Scrope did reflect upon him as 't was by all there present supposed and of others too as having before been misled as well as himself as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury under the year 1682. In the year following 1661 a little before his Majesties Coronation he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks of which Town one Thom Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mention'd had been High Constable as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey as comming more near to his name than another place or Town Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust was at length made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673 and kept it till Aug. 1682 at which time he was deprived of it some have thought unjustly for several reasons as I shall anon tell you whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire which he some years before had purchased vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair as I shall tell you by and by He was a person very subtle cunning and reserv'd in the managery and transacting his affairs of more than ordinary parts and one who had the command of a very smooth sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books and a great Calvinist but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different perswasions in matters of Religion hath left it somwhat difficult at least in some mens judgments peremptorily to determine among what sort of men as to point of Religion he himself ought in truth to have been ranked Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out when then out of policy he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists as it was notoriously observed by them and of other pretenders to Politicks meerly to save themselves and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected As for his published writings they are these The truth unvailed in behalf the Church of England c. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon on 2 Cor. 5.20 preached before the King and published by his Majesties command Lond. 1676 in 3 sh in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie containing some reflections on the said Sermon was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit Falshood unmask'd c. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh and an half in qu. Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts once of the Univers of Cambridge calls Rational Presented in Print to a person of honour an 1676 concerning Transubstantiation Printed with Truth unvailed c. Which discourse was also answer'd by another in a piece intit Roman tradition examined as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses reason and holy Scriture c. Lond. 1676. qu. A Letter from a person of honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven Being observations and reflections upon his Lordships Memoires concerning the Warrs in Ireland Lond. 1681. oct Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein reflected upon with great disadvantage as he thought he wrot and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey dated at Dublin 12 Nov. 1681 to vindicate himself Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682 both contained in two sh in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King on the 17 of June following which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey and that he appear and make answer thereunto at a Council to be holden at Whitehall on the 23 of the said month In obedience to this Anglesey tho much troubled with the Gout appeared made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself bandied the matter with Ormond and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him These things being done another Council was held 13 July at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him it was then
great effects if ever it shall be retrieved upon the publick stock of the Nation c. A model of it tho lost was given by the inventor thereof to the Royal Society made with his own hand and it is at this day kept in the repository at Gresham College To conclude he was a person of an admirable inventive head of a prodigious working wit and of so great worth and learning that he was both fit for and an honour to the highest preferment He hath written Advice concerning the education of youth c. Lond. 1647. qu. Written to Mr. Sam. Hartlib under the two letters of W. P. Advice for the advancement of some particular parts of learning Lond 1648. written to Sam. Hartlib This title which I have received from a second hand may be for I have not yet seen it the same with the Advice before mentioned A brief of proceedings between Sir Hierom Zanchy and him with the state of the controversie between them Lond. 1659. in 2 or 3. sh in fol. The articles then put up against him relating to his actions in Ireland were 1 That he the said Doctor Petty had received great bribes 2 That he had made a trade of buying debenters in vast numbers against the statute 3 That he had gotten vast summs of money and scopes of land by fraud 4 That he had used many foul practices as Surveyor and Commissioner for setting out lands 5 That he and his fellow Commissioners had placed some debenters in better places than they could claim denying right to others 6 That he and his fellow Commissioners had totally disposed of the Armies security the debt still remaining chargeable on the state All which were according to the said Brief of proceedings cleared by Petty what the event of the matter was I cannot have Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland by letters to and from him Doct. Petty with Sir Hierom Zanchy's speech in Parliament Lond. 1660. oct written mostly against his busie and envious Antagonist Zanchy of whom I shall speak elsewhere A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of Crown-lands assessments customs poll-moneys lotteries benevolence c. Lond. 1662 and 67. in about 10. sh in qu. Discourse made before the Royal society 26. Nov. 1674 concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars Lond. 1674 in tw See in the Philosoph Transact nu 109. p. 209. A new Hypothesis of springing or elastique motions Printed at the end of the said Discourse An apparatus to the history of the common practices of Dying See in The Hist of the Royal Society written by Tho. Sprat Lond. 1667. qu. part 2. p. 284. c. Treatise or discourse about the building of Ships It was presented by the author in MS to the R. Society about 1665 contained in about a quire of paper of his own writing but William Lord Brounker President of the Council pertaining to that Society took it away and kept it in his possession till 1682 and after perhaps to the time of his death saying it was too great an Arcanum of state to be commonly perused The author tho he had no copy of it by him yet Dr. Rob. Wood who lived in Ireland had one Colloquium Davidis cum anima sua accinente paraphrasim in 104 psalmum de magnalibus dei Lond. 1679 in two sh in fol. This thing which is in latin Hexameter was composed by the author 25 of March 1678 under the name of Cassid Aureus Minutius Political Arithmetick or a discourse concerning the extent and value of land people buildings husbandry manufacture commerce fishery artizans seamen soldiers publick revenues c. as the same relates to every County in general and more particularly to the territories of his Majesty of Great Britain and his neighbours of Holland and France This was presented in MS by the author to his Majesty Ch. 2 and Sir Joseph Williamson had a copy of it but was not printed till Mich. term 1690 'T is in oct as the other volumes of Pol. Arithm. are Another Essay in political Arithmetick concerning the growth of the City of London with the measures periods causes and consequences thereof an 1682. Lond. 1683. 86 in 3 sh in oct Observations upon the Dublin-bills of mortality 1681. and the state of that City Lond. 1683 in 3. sh in oct He had also long before assisted or put into a way John Graunt in his writing of Nat. and Pol. Observations of the bills of mortality of Lond. Maps of Ireland being his actual survey of that whole kingdom These were printed in fol. 1685. and were then valued at 2 l. 10 s. in quires Essay concerning the multiplication of mankind Lond. 1686. oct With this was printed the second edit of Another Essay in Pol. Arith. c. Further observations upon the Dublin bills or accompts of the houses hearths baptismes and burials of the City Lond. 1686. oct Two Essays in Political Arithmetick concerning the people housing hospitals of London and Paris with observations on the Cities of London and Rome Lond. 1686. 7. oct Five Essays in political Arithmetick viz. 1. Objections from the City of Rey in Persia and from Monsieur Aurout against two former Essays answer'd and that London hath as many people as Paris Rome and Rouen put together 2. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars 3. Proofs that in London within its 134. Parishes in the bills of mortality there live about six hundred ninety six thousand People 4. An estimate of the people c. Lond. 1687. oct A treatise of taxes and contributions particularly fitted for the state of Ireland Lond. 1691. qu. Printed in a book entit A Collection of three state Tracts c. Treatise of naval philosophy c. Lond. 1691 oct Qu. whether the same with the Treatise or disc about building of Ships before mention'd The Political Anatomy of Ireland c. Lond. 1691. oct Verbum Sapienti or an account of the wealth and expence of England c. Ibid. 1691. oct This is animadverted upon in a pamph intit A letter from a Gent. in the Country to his friend in the City c. Lond. 1692. qu. This learned Vertuoso Sir Will. Petty died in his house in Piccadilly-street almost opposite to S. James's Church within the liberty of Westminster of a Gangreen in his foot occasion'd by the swelling of the Gout on the sixteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was carried to Rumsey the place of his nativity and buried in the Church there near the bodies of his father and mother By his wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Hardress Waller Kt and Relict of Sir Maurice Fenton he had issue two sons viz. Charles created Baron of Shelborne in Ireland soon after his fathers death and Henry and a daughter named Anne He had also a natural daughter more like to him than any other of his children who was an
is entit Apologia pro Renato Descartes c. Lond. 1679. oct A Demonstration of the divine authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in two parts Lond. 1681. qu. The case of the Church of England briefly stated in the three first and fundamental principles of a Christian Church 1. The obligation of Christianity by divine right 2. The jurisdiction of the Church by div right 3. The institution of Episc superiority by div right Lond. 1681. oct An account of the government of the Christian Ch. in the first six hundred years Particularly shewing 1. The Apostolical practice of diocesan and metrapolitical Episcopacy 2. The Usurpation of patriarchal and papal Authority 3. The War of 200 years between the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople of universal Supremacy Lond. 1683. oct Religion and Loyalty or a demonstration of the power of the Christian Church within it self Supremacy of soveraign Powers over it and duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their commands exemplified out of the Records c. Lond. 1684. oct Religion and Loyalty The second part Or the History of the concurrence of the imperial and ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Government of the Church from the beginning of the Raign of Jovian to the end of Justinian Lond. 1685. oct Reasons for abrogating the Test imposed upon all Members of Parliament 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1688. qu. This book was licensed by Rob. Earl of Sunderland Sec. of State under K. Jam. 2 on the 10 of Dec. 1687 and on the 16 of the said month it being published all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day Several Answers full of girds and severe reflections on the Author were soon after published among which was one bearing this title Samuel L. Bishop of Oxon his celebrated reasons for abrogating the Test and notions of Idolatry answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury Lond. 1688 in about six sh in qu. Written by John Philipps Nephew by the mother to John Milton A discourse sent to the late K. James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion with a letter to the same purpose Lond. 1690. in about 5 sh in qu. It was usually said that he was also author of A modest answer to Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicum Lond. 1680. oct and of another thing called Mr. Baxter baptized in blood and reported by A Marvell to be author also of Greg. Father Greybeard before mentioned but let the report of these matters remain with their authors while I tell you that this our celebrated Writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the Presidents Lodgings in Magd. Coll. about seven of the clock in the evening of the twentieth day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and seven was buried on the 24 of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer Chappel belonging thereunto In the See of Oxford succeeded Timothy Hall as I shall tell you elsewhere in his Presidentship Bonaventure Gifford a Sorbon Doctor and a secular Priest Bishop elect of Madaura in partibus Infidelium who being installed therein by proxy 31. of March 1688 took possession of his seat in the Chappel and Lodgings belonging to him as President on the 15 of June following and in his Archdeaconry succeeded in the beginning of 1688 one Dr. John Battleley of Cambridge WINSTON CHURCHILL son of John Churchill of Wotton Glanvile in Dorsetshire descended from those of his name living sometimes at Churchill in Somersetshire was born in London became a Convictor of S. Joh. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1636 aged 16 years left it without a degree adher'd to the Cause of his Maj. in the time of the Rebellion and afterwards suffer'd for it In the beginning of the year 1661 he was chose a Burgess for Weymouth in Dorsetshire being then of Minterne in that County to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 of May the same year was made Fellow of the Royal Society soon after and in the latter end of 1663 a Knight About that time he became a Commissioner of the Court of Claimes in Ireland and had afterwards a Clerkship of the Green-Cloth confer'd upon him from which being removed in the latter end of 1678 was soon after restored to it again This person tho accounted a worthy Gent. in many respects a great Royalist and a sincere lover of his Majesty and the Church of England yet a nameless and satyrical author tells us that he was a Pentioner in the aforesaid Parl. which continued till July 1679 and a principal labourer in the great design of Popery and arbitrary Government that he preferred his own daughter to the Duke of York and had got in Boons 10000 l also that he had published in print that the King may raise money without his Parliament The book wherein he mentions that passage is intit Divi Britannici Being a remark upon the lives of all the Kings of this Isle from the year of the World 28â—5 unto the year of grace 1660. Lond. 1675. fol. In the said book which is very thin and trite are the Arms of all the Kings of England which made it sell among Novices rather than for the matter therein The aforementioned passage of raising of money being much resented by several Members of Parl. then sitting the leaf of the remaining copies wherein it was was reprinted without that passage purposely to please and give content This worthy Gent. Sir Winst Churchill died on the 26 of March in sixteen hundred eighty and eight being then eldest Clerk-Comptroller of the Greencloth and was buried three days after in the Ch. of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster He had a son commonly called Colonel John Churchill who had been much favoured by James Duke of York and by him and his endeavours first promoted in the Court and State This person was by the favour of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron by the name and title of John Lord Churchill of Aymouth in Scotland in the latter end of Nov. 1683 at which time were also created 1 Edward Viscount Camden Earl of Ganesborough 2 Coniers Lord Darcy Earl of Holderness 3 Thomas Lord Windsore Governour of his Maj. Town and Garrison of Kingston upon Hull Earl of Plymouth 4 Horatio Lord Townsend Viscount Townsend of Raynham 5 Sir Tho. Thynne Baronet Baron Thynne of Warmister and Viscount Weymouth 6 Col. George Legg of his Majesties most honorable Privy Council and Master General of the Ordnance Baron of Dartmouth and 7 William Lord Allington Constable of his Majesties Tower of London Baron of Wymondley in England After the decease of K. Ch. 2 the said Lord Churchill was much favoured by the said Duke then K by the name of Jam. 2 and by him promoted to several Places of trust and honour but when his help was by him required he deserted him in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and adhered to the Prince of Aurange
c. Lond. 1677. oct c. 2 The common interest of King and people shewing the original antiquity and excellency of Monarchy compared with Aristocracy and Democracy and particularly of our English Monarchy and that absolute Papal and Presbyterian popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative property and liberty Lond. 1678 oct 3 A true copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the trial of K. Ch. 1. as it was read in the H. of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps Clerk to that infamous court Lond. 1684. fol. With a large introduction by the said Nalson He hath also translated into Engl. The History of the Crusade or the expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land Lond. 1685 fol. Written originally in French by the fam'd Monsieur Maimbourgh What other things he hath written or translated I know not as yet or any thing else of him only that he died at or near the City of Ely on the 19. of March or thereabouts according to the English accompt an 1685. to the great loss of the true Sons of the Church of England of which he had been a zealous Member Our author Rushworth hath also written The History of the Civil War of England This which is the fift vol. is in MS and not yet published Several Letters to the Parliament and to particular Members thereof These he wrote while the War continued and were subscribed by himself and not by Gen. Fairfax as the printed copies shew What other books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he spent the six last years or thereabouts of his life in the Prison called the Kings bench in Southwark where being reduced to his second childship for his memory was quite decayed by taking too much Brandy to keep up his spirits he quietly gave up the Ghost in his lodging in a certain Alley there call'd Rules Court on Munday the twelfth of May in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 83 years or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried on Wednesday following behind the Pulpit in the Church of S. George within the said Borough of Southwark He had no son only daughters virtuous women of which one was married to Sir Franc. Vane of the North. HENRY WILKINSON junior commonly called Dean Harry son of Will. Wilk of Adwick or Adwickstreet in the West Riding of Yorkshire Priest was born there an 1616 instructed mostly in Grammar learning in Edw. Sylvesters School in Allsaints Parish within the City of Oxon entred a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1631 took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in and moderator or Dean of his House At length upon the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 he left the University adher'd to the Parliament party took the Covenant and became a forward and frequent preacher among them After the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred to the Parliament Forces he returned to the University and by the authority of the then dominant party he was created Bach of Divinity made Principal of his Hall and Moral Philosophy Reader of the University Afterwards we find him one of the most frequent and active preachers among the Presbyterians in the University whether at S. Maries S. Martin commonly called Carfax S. Pet. in the East c. being then Doct. of Divinity and took all the ways imaginable to make his House flourish with young Students At length the Act of Conformity being published in 1662 he rather than conform left his Principallity tho perswaded to the contrary by some of the Heads of the University purposely to keep him there because he was a good Disciplinarian and lived for some time in these parts Afterwards upon the receipt of a Call he lived by the help of the Brethren at Buckminster in Leycestershire where he exercised his gifts in Conventicles as he did afterwards at Gosfield in Essex and in 1673 and after at Sybill-Hennyngham near to that place and a length at Great Connard near Sudbury in Suffolke at which last place he finished this mortal life as I shall tell you by and by having before suffered by imprisonments mulcts and loss of his Goods and Books for preaching in Conventicles against the Act. He was a zealous person in the way he professed but oversway'd more by the Principles of education than reason He was very courteous in speech and carriage communicative of his knowledge generous and charitable to the poor and so publick spirited a rare thing in a Presbyterian that he alwaies minded the common good more than his own concerns His works as to learning are these Conciones tres apud Academicos Oxonii nuper habitae Oxon. 1654. oct The first is on Psal 119.9 The second on Eccles 2.1 and the third on 1. Pet. 4.11 Brevis tractatus de jure divino diei dominici Ibid. 1654. 58. oct Conciones sex ad Academicos Oxonienses Ib. 1658. oct Among which are the former three De impotentia liberi arbitrii ad bonum spiritale Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Epistolarum decas Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Oratio habita in schola moralis philosophiae Oxon 1658. oct Print with Conc. Sex Conc. duae ap Ox. nuper habitae Ibid. 1659. qu. Both on 1. Cor. 16.22 Concio de brevitate opportuni temporis Oxon habita ad Bac. die Cinerum 7. Mar. 1659. Ib. 1660. qu preached on 1. Cor. 7.29 Several English Sermons as 1 Sermon at Haseley in the County of Oxon at the funeral of Margaret late wife of Dr. Edw. Corbet Pastor of Hasely on Col. 1.27 Ox. 1657. oct 2 Three decads of Sermons lately preached to the University in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Ox. 1660. qu. 3 Several Sermons concerning Gods All-Sufficiency and Christs preciousness Lond. 1681. oct c. Catalogus librorum in Bibl. Aul. Madg. Oxon. Ox. 1661. oct The doctrine of contentment briefly explained and practically applied in a Treatise on 1. Tim. 6.8 Lond. 1671. oct Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the word of God Lond. 1674. oct Two treatises concerning 1 Gods All-Sufficiency 2 Christs Preciousness Being the substance of some Sermons long since preached in the Univ. of Ox. Lond. 1681. oct These two treatises are the same with the Several Sermons before mention'd with some alterations in and additions to them purposely to please his friend and favourer one of his perswasion called Joh. Clark of S. Edm. Bury Esq by a dedication to him set before them Praelectiones Morales MS. in Magd. Hall Libr. They are his Lectures that he read in the Moral Philosophy School while he was public Reader of that Lecture At length after the latter part of the life of this zealous Theologist had been spent in trouble and adversity for the cause he professed he very devoutly surrendred up his soul to God at Great Connard before mention'd on the 13 day
of blessed memory in his most disconsolate condition and to administer comfort ghostly counsel and the Sacrament to him and to be also present with him on the Scaffold when he was beheaded before his own door by his most rebellious Subjects to the great horrour and amazement of all the world Afterwards this holy Bishop retired to his Mannour of Little Compton in Glocestershire near to Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire where he spent several years in a retired and devout condition and now and then for healths sake rode a hunting with some of the neighbouring and loyal Gentry After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was translated to the See of Canterbury on Thursday 20 of Sept. 1660 to the rejoycing of all those that then loved order in the Church The solemnization was in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster where besides a great confluence of Orthodox Clergy many persons of honour and Gentry gave God thanks for the mercies of that day as being touched at the sight of that Good man whom they esteemed a Person of primitive sanctity of great wisdom piety learning patience charity and all apostolical Virtues He died in his Pallace at Lambeth on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and three aged 81 years whereupon his body being embalmed was conveyed to Oxon in great Pomp on the 7 of July following where laying in state the next day and part of the ninth in the Divinity School accompanied always by some of the Heralds of Arms was then after an eloquent speech had been openly spoken by the University Orator in the Convocation house adjoyning in praise of the defunct and dispraise of the Presbyterians and Independents conveyed in great state on mens shoulders the Heralds and all the Degrees of the University attending through Catstreet and so up the High-street to Quatervois and thence through the North gate to S. Johns Coll. After it was placed in the Chappel there an Anthem sung a speech delivered near the grave by Mr. Will. Levinz and the usual service for burial performed by Dr. R. Baylie the President of that College the body was solemnly inter'd at the upper end thereof before the altar in a grave wall'd with bricks adjoyning on the south side to that then made to receive the body of his Predecessor Dr. Will. Laud which in few days after was there reburied As for the benefaction of this worthy Arch-prelate Dr. Juxon besides that to S. Pauls Cathedral to the Archbishops Pallace at Lambeth c. is mention made elsewhere and as for his estate that which remained when all his benefactions were disposed went to his Brothers Son Sir Will. Juxon Baronet now living at Little Compton before mention'd This Dr. Juxon hath only extant one Sermon on Luke 18.31 HENRY HALL son of Thom. Hall sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards a Minister in the City of Wells whence he was prefer'd by the Dean and Canons of Ch. Ch. to the Vicaridge of Marcham near to Abendon in Berks was born in Somersetshire particularly as I conceive in the said City of Wells became a Batler of Linc. Coll an 1630 aged 16 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in Arts. In the beginning of the rebellion he became Chaplain to James Marquess of Ormonde in Ireland by whose favour he was made Prebendary of Ch. Ch. in Dublin and Dean of a certain Church in the said Kingdom After the ill success and declension of the Marquess there he return'd into England lived for a time at Badmington in Glocestershire with the Marquess of Worcester and in 1654 had the Vicaridge of Harwell in Berks confer'd on him by John Loder of Hinton in the said County Gentleman Where continuing till his Majesties restauration he returned to Ireland was actually created Doctor of Div. at Dublin and on the 27 of January 1660 he was consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry in the Church of S. Patrick near to the said City of Dublin He gave way to fate on the 23 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three in the Bishops house at Killala which he in a manner had rebuilt from the ground and was buried in the Cathedral Church there whereupon Thomas Bayly D. D. succeeded him in his Sees Besides the said Hen. Hall I find another of both his names Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge author of Heaven ravished or a glorious prize Fast Sermon before the H. of Com. 29. May 1644 on Matth. 11.12 Lond. 1644. qu. and of other things as I suppose ACCEPTED FREWEN the eldest Son of Jo. Frewen the puritanical Rector of Nordiam or Northiam in Sussex was born in Kent educated in the Free-school at Canterbury became a student and soon after a Demie of Magd. Coll about the beginning of the year 1604 aged 16 years where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy he was elected Probat Fellow of that House about S. Mary Magd. day an 1612 he being then Master of Arts. About that time he entred into the sacred function and became a frequent preacher as being puritanically enclin'd In 1622 he attended in the Court of Prince Charles while he was in Spain courting the Infanta and in 1625 he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to the said Prince then King In 1626 he was elected President of his Coll and in the next year he proceeded in Divinity In 1628 and 29 he executed the office of Vicechancellour of this University and on the 13. of Sept. 1631 he being then or about that time Prebendary of Canterbury he was installed Dean of Glocester upon the removal of Dr. George Warburton thence to the Deanery of Wells In 1638. and 39 he upon the sollicitations of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and Chancellour of this Univ. whose Creature then he was did undergo the said office of Vicechancellour again and on the 17 of August 1643 he was nominated by his Majesty to succeed Dr. Wright in the See of Lichfield and Coventry But so it was that the times being then very troublesome he was not consecrated till the next year that is to say on a Sunday in the month of Apr. following at which time the solemnity was performed in the Chappel of Magd. Coll by the Archb. of York Bishops of Winchester Oxford Salisbury and Peterborough But this preferment being then but little better than titular because that the Hierarchy was about that time silenc'd he retired to London and lived there and partly elsewhere among his Relations for several years At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was elected to the See of York on the 22. of Sept translated on the 4. of Octob and enthronized in the person of Tob. Wickham Preb. of that Church on the 11. of the same month an 1660. At that time the See of Lichfield being not supplied by another for about the space of an year in expectation that Mr. Rich. Baxter would take it
for the King intended it for him conditionally he would conform Dr. Frewen had the benefit of that too all the fines for renewing and for the filling up lives to his very great profit besides what he got from York At length Mr. Baxter the Coryphaeus of the Presbyterian party refusing it least he in an high manner should displease the Brethren it was offer'd to Dr. Richard Baylie President of S. Johns College and Dean of Sarum who had been a very great sufferer for the Kings cause but he refusing it because Dr. Frewen had skim'd it it was thereupon confer'd on Dr. John Hacket of Cambridge as I shall anon tell you This Dr. Frewen who was accounted a general Scholar and a good Orator but hath nothing extant only a Latin Oration with certain verses on the death of Prince Henry for his Moral Philosophy Lectures are not yet made publick died at his Mannour of Bishops Thorp near York on the 28 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried on the third day of May following under the great east window of the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in York Soon after was erected a splendid monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which being too large for this place shall now for brevity sake be omitted His Father John Frewen before mention'd was a learned Divine and frequent preacher of his time and wrot 1 Fruitful instructions and necessary doctrine to edifie in the fear of God c. Lond. 1587 in tw 2 Fruitful instructions for the general cause of reformation against the slanders of the Pope and League c. Lond. 1589. qu. 3 Certain choice grounds and principles of our Christian Religion with their several expositions by way of questions and answers c. Lond. 1621. in octav and other things He died in 1627 about the latter end and was buried in Nordiam Church leaving then behind these Sons viz. Accepted before mention'd Thankful Stephen Joseph Benjamin Thomas Samuel John c. which John seems to have succeeded his Father in the Rectory of Nordiham but whether the said Father was educated in Oxon I cannot yet tell Qu. As for Dr. Hacket before mention'd who was an eminent person in his time for learning and a publick spirit I shall now take this opportunity to speak at large of him tho I have partly mention'd him already in the Fasti under the year 1616. p. 824 and elsewhere in the first volume Born therefore he was in the Strand near Exeter-house in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of Westminster on the first day of Sept. 34. Elizab. Dom. 1592. His Father was Andr. Hacket of Putferin in Scotland a senior Burgess of the City of Westminster and afterwards of the Robes to Prince Henry who being a zealous Protestant took great care to breed up this his only Son to that religion When he was very young therefore he put him to the Coll. School at Westminster and his Master Mr. Ireland finding in him a great propensity to learning was very kind to him as also was Dr. Lanc. Andrews the Dean of the Ch. there who in the necessary absence of the Master being accustomed to come into the School and examine the boys took this youth into his particular favour and continued it to him as long as the Bishop lived Being made ripe for the University he was in the year 1608 with the pious Mr. George Herbert elected to go to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge by the favour of Dr. Tho. Nevill Master of that Coll who told his Father when he addressed to him about his Son that he should go to Cambridge or else he would carry him upon his back and being there entred he was put under the tuition of Dr. Edw. Simson author of Chronicon ab exordio mundi c. Soon after he was so much noted for his painful studies sober life and great proficiency in learning that he was elected Fellow of that House assoon as he was by the rules thereof fit for the same Afterwards he grew into that credit that he had many Pupils put to his charge and those of the best families in England and then betaking himself to the study of Divinity he took holy Orders in 1618 from the hands of Dr. John King B. of London who had a great affection for him and expressed the same on divers occasions but above all others Dr. John Williams Bishop of Linc observing his great learning and knowledge in the Tongues chose him his Chaplain immediatly after the Great Seal was committed to his charge an 1621. Two years he spent in that Bishops service before his time was come to commence Bach. of Divinity and then beg'd leave to go to Cambridge to keep the publick Act an 1623 which he performed according to expectation and then returning to Court to his Master he prefer'd him to be Chaplain to K. Jam. 1 before whom he preaching several times to that learned Prince's good liking he was the next year by the recommendations of his Master presented to the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourn near London then within his Majesties disposal by reason of the minority of Thomas Earl of Southampton and suddenly after he was by the same means made Parson of Cheame in Surrey fallen likewise in his Majesties gift by the promotion of Dr. Ric. Senhouse to the Bishoprick of Carlile which two Livings he held till the most execrable rebellion broke out in 1642 and was constantly resident upon one of them In 1628 he commenced Doct. of Div. at Cambridge where he preached a Sermon highly applauded by the learned auditory of that time And returning to Holbourne and his duty there he became very famous for excellent preaching and decent order in his charge In 1631 his old Master the Bishop of Lincoln gave him the Archdeaconry of Bedford void by the death or resignation of Nich. Walker D. D. who had succeeded therein one George Eland an 1629. To which charge he usually went once in a year commonly after Easter and exhorted the Clergy thereof to keep strictly the Orders of the Church Afterwards finding his Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne much in decay he eagerly sollicited his great friends and acquaintance to contribute to its reedification or at least repair and about the year 1639 he had obtained divers thousands of pounds for that purpose but the unparalell'd rebellion following soon after the members of the Long Parliament mostly a prevalent party of Presbyterians did seize on that and all the money collected for the repair of St. Pauls Cathedral in London to carry on their rebellion against their King In the beginning of the Civil War he was named one of the Committee with divers eminent Bishops and Pastors to consider of what was amiss in the English Liturgy and Church government and to rectifie the same in hopes by that means to expel the cloud then appearing over the Church but the Lords
Thomas Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom at which time he was esteem'd well vers'd in the Ecclesiastical Laws On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin and going soon after into England was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there and suffer'd much for the royal cause but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesties return was in requital of his sufferings made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom to which Sees being consecrated in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapned in sixteen hundred sixty and five as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus Marsh now Archb. of Cashiells who also told me that Dr. Rich. Boyle succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees JOHN EARLE sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll afterwards Dean of Westminster was consecrated Bishop of VVorcester on the death of Gauden in the latter end of Nov. 1662 and thence translated to Salisbury in the latter end of Sept. an 1663. He died in Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 251. In VVorcester succeeded Dr. Skinner and in Salisbury Dr. Hyde as I shall tell you hereafter GEORGE WILDE sometimes Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland on the 27. of January 1660 by John Archb. of Armagh Griffin Bishop of Ossory and Robert B. of Kilmore He departed this mortal life in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 252. In the said See succeeded Robert Mossâ—m author of The Preachers Tripartite in 3 books c. and him Dr. Mich. Ward and him Dr. Ezek. Hopkins JOHN WARNER sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in January 1637 the temporalities of which See were delivered to him on the 30 of the said month and died in Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 258. In the said See succeeded John Dolben D. D of whom I have made mention among the said Writers GEORGE GRIFFITH sometimes Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of Octob. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 270. He succeeded in the said See after it had laid void 9 years one Dr. Joh. Owen of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in the first vol. of this work p. 628. But whereas I have said there that he was author of Herod and Pilate reconciled c. which I took from Mercurius Publicus published 4. June 1663 wherein 't is said that Dr. Owen late Bishop of S. Asaph was the author it proves an errour for David Owen was the writer of it as I have told you in the said vol in the Fasti p. 803 wherein the first part of the title is omitted for whereas the title there is The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings it should be Herod and Pilate reconciled or the concord of a Papist c. Camb. 1610. qu reprinted under Dr. John Owens name in 1663 and so it was put in the said News book called Merc. Pub. which caused the errour by me made ALEXANDER HYDE fourth Son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury Knight second Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Michael in Dorsetshire third Son of Robert Hyde of Northbury in Cheshire was born in S. Maries Parish within the said City of Salisbury educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1617 aged 20 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1632. In the month of May 1637 he was made Subdean of Salisbury on the death of Giles Thornborough and on the 5 of Jan. 1638 he was collated to the Prebendship of South Grantham in the said Church upon the resignation of Dr. Humph. Henchman he being then possest of a Benefice elsewhere What were his sufferings in the time of the rebellion if any or his merits afterwards to be advanced to a Bishoprick let others speak while I tell you that after his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England not only made Dean of Winchester an 1660 in the place of Dr. Joh. Yonge some years before dead who had succeeded in that Deanery Dr. Thomas Morton an 1616 but also advanced upon the death of Dr. Joh. Earle to the See of Salisbury To which receiving consecration in New Coll. Chappel 31. Dec. 1665 the K. and Qu. with their Courts being then in Oxon from the Hands of the Archb. of Cant assisted by the Bishops of Winchester Gloc Peterb Limerick and Oxon enjoyed it but a little while to his detriment In his Deanery succeeded Will. Clark D. D. of Cambridge who dying in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London Rich. Meggot D. D. of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge Canon of Windsore Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and Vicar of Twittenham in Middlesex was installed in his place 9. Oct. 1679. As for Dr. Hyde he died to the great grief of his Relations on the 22 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 70 years and was buried in the South isle near the Choir of the Cath. Church of Salisbury Afterwards was a black marble stone laid over his grave with an inscription thereon the beginning of which is this Siste viator hac itur in patriam hisce vestigiis in coelum c. His eldest Brother Laur. Hyde Esq was of Heale near Salisbury whose Widow Mrs. Mary Hyde did for a time conceal in her house there K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester battle an 1651 when then he removed incognito from place to place till he could obtain a passage over Sea into France The next was Sir Rob. Hyde who by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. before mention'd was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas He died suddenly on the Kalends of May 1665 aged 70 and was buried in the said Isle Soon after was erected on the wall near his grave a splendid monument with his bust in white marble and a large inscription thereon beginning thus H. S. E. ordini par paterno fraternoque Robertus Hyde Eq. aur Laurentii Hyde militis filius secundus c. Another Brother he had called Sir Hen. Hyde who adheering to
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotatiâ—ns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
was made one of the Kings Serjeants being then esteemed an excellent Orator a great Lawyer and an ornament to his profession and on the 7. of Aug. 1641 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament he followed him to Oxon and was very serviceable to him in many respects In 1645 he was disinabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency as t was then called So that retiring to his home after the Kings cause declined he was committed to Prison where continuing till he had made his composition was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant 1 Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham an 1626. See in John Rushworths Collections under the year 1626. 2 Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628 wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Soveraign power Printed in qu. See in a book entit The Soveraigns Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3 d. and 4 th years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186 3 Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right 4 Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640 p. 1121.1123 5 Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances in Dec. 1640. c. with other things c. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Serjeant also and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661 was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire the Mannour of which he some years before had bought In Sept. 1673 Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake shall be now omitted One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622 and afterwards that of Master but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John because he was never bred in any University as his Son hath informed me The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock who when young being very vicious was disinherited by his Father and the Estate setled on Sir John But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man Sir John restored to him the Estate See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale c. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo p. 11. Feb. 19. Sir Rich. Vivian Knight He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there an 1643. Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon was created the same day In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter afterwards the Queens Sollicitor and now 1643 her Attorney and upon the declining of the Kings cause a great sufferer After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Recorder of Exeter again after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendred that office in 1676. Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires The first of these two was a Knight for Anglesie to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 sate in the Parl. at Oxon. March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires March 21. Peirce Edgecombe Esquires The first of these last two who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County and afterwards sate at Oxon suffered for the Kings cause and dying in 1650 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County and afterwards sate at Oxon for which also he suffered in his Estate This year was among others nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law one Colonel Bard but whether he was admitted I cannot tell I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eaton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631. Whilst he was Scholar he made an excursion to Paris upon the customary leave of absence which is but for 9 weeks in a year without the College or his Relations privity After he was made Fellow he travelled for some years into France Germany Italy Turkey Palestine Aegypt Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason After his return he lived high as he had done before without any visible income and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library supposed to be stoln by him out of a Mosque in Egypt which being valued but at 20 l he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventur'd his neck for it This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition yet proper robust and comely did upon the approach of the grand rebellion retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages especially of the French which the Queen took notice of he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel and afterwards to be Governour of Camden house in Glocestershire which when he quitted he burnt and then for a time of Worcester On the 22 of Nov. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood and soon after being made a Baronet his ambition was so great that being not content with that station he by his and the endeavours of others was created Baron of Brombry and Vicount Bellomont in Ireland 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesties unfortunate battles he wrot to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up armes neither for religion for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of nor for that moustrap the Laws but to re-establish the King in his Throne and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come he desired leave that they would discharge him that he might relinquish the Land which accordingly was done After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2 then â—n Exile Embassador to the Emperour of Persia upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus But so it was that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
I shall anon set down In 1639 he was made one of the Kings Privy Council in Ireland and when the Rebellion broke out there he suffered much in his Estate In 1644 he with the Lord Edward Brabason afterwards Earl of Meath and Sir Hen. Tichbourne Kt were sent by James Marquess of Ormonde then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon about the affairs of that Kingdom Which being concluded to their minds they returned but in their way they were taken on the seas by a Parliament Ship just after Sir James had flung over board the Kings packet of Letters directed to Ormonde Whereupon being all conveyed to London were committed Prisoners to the Tower where continuing eleven months were then released upon exchange Afterwards Sir James returned to Dublin continued there for some time and was one of the hostages for the delivery of that City to Coll. Mich. Jones for the use of the Parliament of England Afterwards the said Colonel thinking it not convenient for several reasons that he should remain there commanded him to depart so that by vertue of his pass he went into France where he continued an year and an half mostly at Caen and partly at Paris In 1651 he left that Country went into England and setling in London wrot several books and published one or more there Upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he went into Ireland and by special order was restored to his place of Auditor General and continued a privy Counsellor there His works are these 1 Archiepiscoporum Casseliensium Tuamensium vitae duobus expressae commentariolis Dubl 1626. qu. This book was afterwards involved in his De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius 2 Caenobia Cisterciensia Hiberniae Included afterwards in his Disquisitiones de Hibernia c. 3 De praesulibus Lageniae sive provinciae Dubliniensis lib. unus Dubl 1628. qu. Included also in his Comment de praesulibus Hib. 4 De scriptoribus Hiberniae libri duo Dubl 1639. qu. A great part of which is taken out of the book of Joh. Bale intit De script maj Britan. and from Rich. Stanyhurst his book intit The Description of Ireland 5 De Hibernia Antiquitatibus ejus disquisitiones Lond. 1654 and 1658. in a thick oct 6 De praesulibus Hiberniae commentarius à prima gentis Hibernicae ad fidem Christianam conversione ad nostra usque tempora Dubl 1665. fol. 7 Note ad Bedae epist Apologeticam Dubl 1664. oct 8 Notae ad Historiam Abbatum Weremuthensium Girwicensium per Bedam composit Dubl 1664. oct 9 Notae ad Bede Epistolam ad Egbertum Ib. eod an oct 10 Notae ad Egberti dialogum de institutione ecclesiastica Ib. eod an oct 11 Notae ad rem Historicam Antiquariam spectantes ad opuseula S. Patricio qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit adscripta c. Lond. 1656. oct He also wrot and published Rerum Hibernicarum Henrico 7 regnante Annales Pr. at the end of his Disquisit de Hibernia and De praesul Hib. comment Also Rerum Hib. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Maria regnantibus Annales which are at the end of the said book De praesul besides the publication of Campians Hist of Ireland the Chronicle of Mered. Hanmer that of Hen. Marleburrough and The view of Ireland by Edm. Spenser At length Sir James having lived beyond the age of man and by his endeavours had gotten a fair estate departed this mortal life at Dublin on Saturday Decemb. the first an 1666 and was buried on Tuesday following in a burying place appointed for his Family within the Church of S. Warborough in the said City He had a choice Collection of antient MSS many of which related to Irâ—sh affairs procured from many persons as well in Engl. as Irel a catalogue of which was printed at Dublin an 1648. in â— sh and an half in qu. All or most of which MSS. came into the hands of Hen. Earl of Clarendon when he was Lord Lieutenant of Irel. an 1686 who soon after brought them with him into Engl. and deposited them in the custody of Dr. Tho. Tenison Vicar of S. Martins Church in the Fields in Westm a Catalogue of which is lately made extant by Edm. Gibson B. A. of Qu. Coll. in Ox. This year also about the beginning thereof as it seems was a proposal made by vertue of a letter sent to the Vicechancellour that Rich. Fanshaw Esq Servant to Prince Charles should have the degr of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd upon him but whether he was presented thereunto tho diplomated he might be it appears not in the publick Register Howsoever it is sure I am that certain Masters now living in the University did many years after report that he had that degree confer'd on him here yet whether personally presented thereunto they could not positively affirm This right worthy and loyal person Richard Fanshaw originally of the University of Cambr. was descended of the family of Fanshaw of Fanshaw gate in Derbyshire being the great Grandchild of John Fanshaw of that place brother of Henry Fanshaw and father of Tho. Fanshaw Esquires who were successively Remembrancers of the Exchequer to Qu. Elizabeth Which Thomas was father to Sir Hen. Fanshaw Kt who died of an Apoplexy at the Assizes in Hertford 10 Mar. 1615. father of Thomas sometimes Lord Viscount Fanshaw of Dromore in Ireland father of him who is now or at least was lately L. Visc Fanshaw Which three last have also been Remembrancers of the Exchecquer to K. Jam. 1. K. Ch. 1. and 2. The said Rich. Fanshaw brother to Lord Thomas of whom we are farther to speak was for his early abilities taken into the Employment of the State by K. Ch. 1. an 1635 and then sent Resident to the Court of Spain Whence being recall'd in the beginning of the Troubles 1640 1 into Engl. he followed the royal interest during all the calamitous times that followed and was employed in several weighty matters of State In 1644 he was appointed Secretary at War to Charles Prince of Wales afterwards King whom he attended into the Western parts of Engl and thence into the Isles of Scilly and Guernsey In 1648 he was appointed Treasurer of the Navy under the command of Prince Rupert which he managed till the year 1650 when then he was prefer'd by his Majesty to the dignity of a Baronet and sent Envoy extraordinary to the Crown of Spain and being thence recalled into Scotland he there served in the quality of Secretary of State Which weighty and difficult Employment he performed in that conjuncture with great satisfaction of all parties notwithstanding he never took Covenant or Engagement Thence he attended his Maj. at Worcester was at the battel there 1651 taken Prisoner and conveyed to Lond. by the Rebels where continuing in close custody till he contracted a great sickness had liberty allow'd him upon Bayle given for the recovery of his health to go to any place he
esteem'd forsooth pedantick and ridiculous to the decay in some respects of disputation He died on the 16 of Oct. 1654 aged 71 years being then or some time before Rector of Chilton Cantlow in the Dioc. of Wells and was buried in the outer Chappel of Wadham Coll. He had written much but published nothing yet left behind a book by him written in latine treating of the Holy Eucharist which by the judgment of some was thought fit to be published He was the only person that was admitted this year having several years before performed all his exercise in order thereunto ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or created this year Doct. of Phys June 17. James Hyde of C. C. Coll. This person who was the eleventh Son of Sir Laur. Hyde of the City of Salisbury Knight became after his Majesties restauration the Kings Professor of Physick of this University and Principal of Magd. Hall He dyed 7. May 1681 aged 64 years and was buried in the isle joyning to the north side of the Chancel of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. In the month of January 1641 the members of Parliament sent the Oath called the Protestation made by them to the University of Oxon to be taken by all there of the University that were upward of 18 years of age whereupon the generality of the Academians did take it yet some with limitations and exceptions Others absented themselves because they did not rightly understand it but this Mr. Jam. Hyde then Fellow of C. C. Coll. did plainly refuse it which none else did beside 'T is true that Dr. Ralph Kettle President of Trin. Coll did wave it yet for no other reason but that he was an old man and had taken many oathes already c. Nov. 16. John Wilby of Mert. Coll. was then admitted into the House of Congregation and Convocation In 1638 he took the degree of Bach. of the said fac at Cambridge ☞ Not one Doctor of Div. was adm or licensed this year only created Incorporations Apr. 9. Joh. Wedderbourne Doct. of Phys of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland was then incorporated by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which tell us that he is one of his Majesties Physitians in ordinary and a Gentleman of known learning and vast experience He was originally a Professor of Philosophy in the said University but that being too narrow a place for so great a person he left it travelled into various Countries and became so celebrated for his great learning and skil in Physick that he was the chief man of his Country for many years for that faculty Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood and was highly valued when he was in Holland with the Prince 1646. 47. At length tho his infirmities and great age forced him to retire from publick practice and business yet his fame contracted all the Scotch Nation to him And his noble hospitality and kindness to all that were learned and vertuous made his conversation no less loved than his advice was desired One of his name and family named James Wedderbourne had spent some time in Oxon for the sake of the publick Library but the particular year when I cannot justly tell He was afterwards Doct. of Div Prebendary of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells upon the resignation of Dr. Joh. Harrys of Winchester in May 1631 and being some years after made Bishop of Dumblayne in his own Country Tho. Row Bac. of Div. was adm to his Prebendship 30. June 1638. Octob. ... Edmund Wilson Anglus-Oxoniensis Son of John Wilson was incorporated Doct. of Phys as he had stood in the University of Padua This person who was admitted to the degree of Bach. of that faculty at Cambridge 9. Apr. 1638 and to that of Doctor at Padua in Jan. 1641 2 I take to be the same with E. Wilson author of Spadacrene Dunelmensis Or a short treatise of an antient medicinal fountain or vitrioline spaw near the City of Durham Together with the constituent principles virtues and use thereof Lond. 1675. c. oct as also the same who published The spirit of salt with the true oyle or spirit of sulphure c. Printed in qu. 1665. Oct. 15. Thomas Cox Doct. of Phys of Padua Son of Thom. Cox of Somersetshire This Gentleman who had taken the said degree at Padua in Decemb. 1641 was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and President thereof but being whiggishly inclined was deprived of that office in Octob. 1683 whereupon Dr. Daniel Whistler was put into his place about S. Lukes day in the same month Afterwards Dr. Cox put himself in prison purposely to compound for his debts and died as Dr. Whistler did Nov. ... Will. Currer of Yorkshire Doct. of Phys of Leyden where he took that degree in 1643 was then incorporated Dec. 17. Will. Marshall Mast of Arts of Sydney Coll. in Cambridge was then incorporated in the same degree Feb. 12. Edw. Emilie of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys of Leyden was then incorporated Dr. of Phys In 1652 or 53 he held up his hand at the bar at an Assize held in Oxon for coyning but being freed he went to London practiced his faculty in the Parish of S. Olaves Silver-street and died there in the beginning of the year 1658 leaving then a relict behind him named Elizabeth Mar. 22. Richard Jackson alias Keurden Bach. of Arts of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge In 1638 he became a Communer of S. Maries Hall in this University but upon the breaking out of the rebellion he went to Cambridge where continuing till Oxford Garrison was surrendred he retired to his Hall again and was incorporated Bach. of Arts. See more among the created Doctors of Physick 1663. CREATIONS The Creations this year did mostly consist of Scholars not of those only that were factious after the Garrison was surrendred but of those that were Orthodox or had suffered for their Loyalty Bach. of Law June 17. Noah Bridges of Ball. Coll. lately Clerk of the Parliament that sate at Oxon 1643. and 44 was then actually created Bach. of the Civil Law being at that time esteemed a most faithful Subject to his Majesty He was afterwards author of Lux Mercatoria Arithmetick natural and decimal digested into a more easie and exact method for resolving the most practical and useful questions that hath been yet published Lond. 1661 and perhaps of other things This person who had a lodging allowed him in Ball. Coll during the time of the War is not to be taken to be the same as some blundering persons that understand but little of authors and books have done with Noah Biggs the author of The vanity of the craft of Physick c. Lond. 1650. 51. qu. Alexander Dyer of Wadh. Coll who for many years together had been trained in the Courts Ecclesiastical and Civil at London c. was created the same day Aug. 4. Miles Smith of Magd. Coll who had
Coll. Nov. 18. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch. 19. Will. Master of Mert. Coll. Feb. 17. Hen. Leigh of Magd. Hall See more of him in Edw. Leigh among the Writers an 1671. p. 352. Mar. 17. Josiah Lane of C. C. Coll. In 1664 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys at Leyden and published his Disputatio med inaug de cholera morbo the same year Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or man of note Bach. of Div. June .... Thom. Hall sometimes of Pembr Coll. had liberty allow'd him by the Delegates of the University to take the degree of Bach. of Div. See more among the Writers p. 234. But one besides him doth occurr really admitted Doct. of Law Jul. 6. Tobias Swinbourne of Linc. Coll. Dec. 6. Timothy Baldwin of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was a younger son of Charles Baldwin of Burwarton in Shropshire Gent became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in 1634 and Fellow of that of All 's in 1640 being then Bach. of Arts where continuing till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Principal of Hart Hall afterwards Chancellour of the diocesses of Hereford and Worcester in which last he succeeded James Littleton one of the Masters of the Chancery and a Knight in July 1670. being then of Stokecastle in Shropshire He hath published The privileges of an Embassador written by way of Letter to a Friend who desired his opinion concerning the Portugal Embassador Printed in 1654 in one sh and an half in qu. See more of Tim. Baldwin in Edward Lord Herbert among the Writers of this second vol. p. 62 and in Dr. Rich. Zouche p. 167. where you 'll find the matter about the Portugal Emb brother who was beheaded and a book of Dr. Zouche which T. Baldwin published He had an elder Brother named Sam. Baldwin bred in Balliol Coll. also afterwards a Common Lawyer and by writ called to be Serjeant at Law an 1669 and in 1672. made the Kings Serjeant Doct. of Phys May 27. Henry Clerk of Magd. Coll who accumulated the degrees in Physick by vertue of the Chancellours Letters He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll of Physitians succeeded Dr. Pierce in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll and dying in the house of his Son-in-law Sir Rich. Shuttleworth called Gawthorp hall in Lancashire 24. March 1686. was buried in the Church at Willoughby in Warwickshire among the graves of his ancestors In his Presidentship was elected â—ch Hough Bach. of Div. 15. Apr. 1687. July 9. Petâ—r Eâ—ioâ— of S. Maries Hall sometimes Chapl. of C. C. Coll. and a Preacher He afterwards practised his faculty many years in and near Oxon and dying 5. Mar. 1681 was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. 20. Tim. Clarke of Ball. Coll. Doct. of Div. July 31. Henry Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall a Compounder On the 28. of Oct. following the Vicechancellour admitted him in Convocation as compleat Doctor and on the 3. of May 1676 his degree was confirm'd by a Diploma This person was usually called Deane Harry as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1690. p. 646. Incorporations April 8. Samuel Collins Doct. of Phys of Padua April 8. George Mede Doct. of Phys of Padua These two had been Travellers together and took their degree of Doct. of Phys in the said Univ. of Padua in Aug. 1651. See in the year 1659. June 24. Henr. Saltonstal a Knights Son Fellow of New Coll by the favour of the Visitors and Doct. of Physick of Padua was then incorporated The said degree he took at Padua in October 1649. 29. Tho. Janes or Jeanes Bach. of Arts of Cambr now of Magd. Coll. in this Univ was then incorporated He was adm Mast of that faculty 6. of Jul. this year See among the Doctors of Physick an 1659. Aug. 9. Thom. Horton D. of D. of Cambr. and Master of Queens Coll. therein was then incorporated in Convocation This person who was Son of Laur. Horton Citizen of London was born in that City bred in Emanuel Coll of which he became Fellow and a noted Tutor to young Presbyterian Scholars among whom John Wallis was one In 1637 he was constituted one of the publick Preachers of the Univ. of Cambr. and in 1638 or thereabouts he became Minister of S. Mary Cole church in the City of his nativity Afterwards he was preacher to the Society of Greys Inn Reader of Div. in Gresham Coll a holder forth sometimes before the Long Parliament Vicar of Great S. Helens in London and one of the Triers or Commissioners appointed for the approbation of publick Preachers an 1653. He was esteemed by those of the Presbyterian perswasion a sound and solid Divine a good Textuary and well skill'd in the original Languages Under his name hath been published 1 Forty six Sermons upon the whole eighth Chapter of the Epist of the Apost Paul to the Romans Lond. 1674. fol. 2 Choice and practical exposition on four select Psalms viz. the 4. Psalm in 8 Sermons the 42 Psal in 10 Sermons the 51. Psal in 20 Sermons the 63 Psal in 7 Sermons Lond. 1675. fol. 3 One hundred select Sermons upon several Texts fifty upon the Old Test and fifty on the New Lond. 1679. fol. He also with William Dillingham D. D. and Master of Emanuel Coll. did publish A chain of principles or an orderly concatenation of theological Aphorismes and Exercitations wherein the chief Heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved Lond. 1660 written by John Arrowsmith D. D. Master of S. Johns and Trin. Coll. successively and the Kings Professor of Div. in the University of Cambridge Published since his death according to his own Manuscript This Dr. Horton died in 1673 and was I presume buried in the Church of S. Helen before mention'd leaving then behind him a relict called Dorothy who administred 28. Aug. the same year Nov. 19. Steph. Charnock M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. now Fellow of New Coll. by the favor of the Visitors Dec. 6. Tho. Croyden Doct. of Phys of Padua The same degree he took at Pad 30. Oct. 1648. Jan. 14. Will. Harrington Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr. 16. Will. Squire lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Hall in Cambr. 27. Gabriel de Beauvoir of the Isle of Guernsey Doct. of Physick of Padua This person who was the Son of Charles de Beauvoir took the said degree at Pad in the latter end of Octob. 1648. Creations June 17. Jonathan Maud a Student in Phys 17 years was then actually created Doctor of that fac by vertue first of an order from the Committee and secondly by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the Univ. dated 29. May 1650 rather 51 which say that his conversation is pious and sober and that he hath been a constant friend to the Parliament c. July 9. Thomas Danson of Magd. Coll. was
Physick one of the Coll. of Phys and eminent for the practice of it in London He paid his last debt to nature on the 31 of Oct. 1679 aged 57 years Whereupon his body was buried in the middle of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget near Fleetstreet in the said City There is a monument not over his grave but on the south wall at the upper end of the south alley or isle joyning to the said Church One of his sirname and family called Walter Needham Doct. of Phys honorary Fellow of the said Coll. of Physitians and Physitian to Sutton's Hospital called the Charter house near Lond did spend also some time in Oxon for the sake of the public Library but whether ever incorporated it appears not He hath written Disquisitio Anatomica de formato Foetu Lond. 1667. oct with Sculptures He died on the 16 of Apr. 1691 and was buried obscurely in the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near Lond having for several years before not lived in Sutton's Hospital for the relief of the poor Pensioners as he ought according to the Founders will to have done but in Great Queenstreet within the Liberty of Westm where he died as honest a man as Dr. Th. Cox and Dr. D. Whistler did elsewhere and yet he as both the others had great practice Executions were out against him to seize both body and goods c. Jul. 11. Rob. Sawyer M. A. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was a younger son of Sir Edm. Sawyer living sometimes near Windsore in Berks and was now or soon after a Barrester of the Inner Temple of which he at length became Treasurer grew eminent for his practice in Lond and in Oxford Circuit which he frequented several years Afterwards he was a Recruiter for Great Wycomb in Bucks to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 May 1661 was Knighted and on the 14 of Feb. 1680 was sworn Attorney Gen. in the place of Sir Creswell Levinz or Levens made one of the Judges of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Will. Ellis deceased In the beginning of Dec. 1687 he was removed from that honorable place of Attorney by K. James 2 and Sir Tho. Powis was put in his room and in his of Solicitor Gen. Will. Williams Esq on whom his Maj. at that time confer'd the honour of Knighthood Under the name of this person Sir R. Sawyer and under those of Mr. Heneage Finch Sir Geo. Treby and Mr. Hen. Polexfen are extant Pleadings and Arguments with other Proceedings in the Court of Kings Bench upon the Quo Warranto touching the Charter of the City of London with the Judgment entred thereupon c. Lond. 1690. fol. In the year following he built and finished the Church of High-Cleere in Hampshire where he hath a plentiful Estate Jul. 11. Hen. Paman M. A. and Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. in the said Univ. of Cambr. was then also incorporated See more among the Incorporations an 1669. Thom. Viner M. A. of Catherine Hall in the same Univ. was incorporated on the said day This person who was brother to Sir Rob. Viner of Lond. Goldsmith was afterwards Rector of Bradwell in Essex Bach. and Doct. of Div Preb. of Gloc. in the place of Dr. Tho. Warmstry deceased an 1665 Canon of Windsore in the room of Dr. Joh. Heaver sometimes of Clare Hall in Cambr. deceased in Jul 1670 and at length Dean of Glocester on the death of Dr. Will. Brough an 1671. He died on the eleventh of Apr. 1673 aged 44 years and was buried in our Ladies Chap. at the east end of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Glocester where there is a monument with an inscription thereon over his grave In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Rob. Frampton and in his Canonry of Windsore Dr. Isaac Vossius c. The said 4 Cambr. men who were incorporated were of the number of 26 Masters of Arts of the said Univ. that were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act. Octob. 31. Abel Collier Doct. of Phys of Padua He had that degree confer'd on him at Padua in Jan. 1654. Dec. 13. Lodovic de Lambermont of Sedan a young man of great hopes and learning son of Joh. Lambermont of the same place and Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Valence was then incorporated Doctor of that faculty His Diploma for the taking of that degree at Valence bears date 8 Mar. 1651. Under the name of Lambermontius is extant Anthologia Graec. Lat. Lond. 1654. oct Whether published by the said Lod. Lamberm I know not Qu. Jan. 18. George Beare Doct. of Phys of Padua The said degr was confer'd upon him at Pad in Octob. 1652. He was originally of Exeter Coll. Creations Jul. 16. Steph. Budaeus a Transylvanian who had spent some years in the Univ. of Groning Vtrecht and Franaker was actually created Master of Arts. At this time and before were several Hungarians that studied in Oxon for the sake of the publ Library some of which being poor had Commons daily allowed to them in Ch. Ch. Hall by the favour of Dr. Joh. Owen the Dâ—an and the then Canons of that House Jul. 18. It was then granted by the Delegates of the University and afterwards by the Convocation that Sam. Smith late Fellow of S. Joh. Coll who was admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts 12 years before this time since which he was a constant Preacher partly in Essex but mostly in London might be actually created M. of A. in any Convoc or Congreg This person is now or at least was lately Ordinary of the Prison in Lond. called Newgate and hath published several things Nov. 23. Sam. Birch of S. Maries Hall who had been several years a Captain in the Parl. Army was actually created M. of A. being then between 30 and 40 years of age He was about this time made one of the Chaplains of C. C. Coll and afterwards being averse to Conformity he taught a private School at Shilton in Berks near Burford in Oxfordshire where he had constantly under his tuition the sons of divers persons of quality and those too who were good Loyalists He died at that place 22 Jan. 1679 leaving behind him the character of a good man among the precise people but otherwise among the neighbouring Royalists who esteem'd him an instiller of evil Principles into youth Feb. 12. Gustavus Queckfeldt a noble Sweed of high birth and eminent for his learning lately commended to the favour of the University by an Englishman called Sir George Fleetwood a Baron of Sweedland was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Benedict Queckfeldt brother to Gustavus commended also by the said Sir Geo. Fleetwood was at the same time created Doct. of the Civ Law These two persons with Joh. Stuart another Sweed were then Sojourners and Students in this University as they had been about a year before purposely to have the benefit of the publ Library The said two brothers are now or at least were lately
D. of D. and Bish of Cloyne in Irel. 1679 on the death of Dr. Edw. Singe who being Bish of Cloyne Cork and Ross the two last Sees were then the same year confer'd on Dr. Edw. Wâ—tenhall sometimes of Linc. Coll. Aug. 4. Nich. Stanley Doct. of Phys of Leyden 7. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these two who was son of Dr. Edw. Stanley mention'd among the Writers p. 195 was Fellow of New Coll and afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London Edmund Borlase Doct. of Phys of Leyden was incorporated the same day Aug. 7. This person who was son of Sir Joh. Borlaso Kt Master of the Ordnance and one of the Lords Justices of Irel. 1643 Sir Hen. Tichborne being the other was educated in the Coll. near Dubl and going afterwards to Leyden had the said degr of Doct. of Phys confer'd on him there 1650. Afterwards he setled in the City of Chester where he practised his faculty with good success to his dying day Among the several books which he hath written and published I find these 1 Latham Spaw in Lancashire with some remarkable Cases and Cures effected by it Lond. 1670. oct dedicated to Charles Earl of Derby 2 The reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England With the Governours since the Conquest by K. Hen. 2 an 1172 with some passages in their Government A brief account of the Rebellion an Dom. 1641. Also the original of the Vniv of Dublin and the Coll. of Physitians Lond. 1675. in a large oct 3 The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion traced from many preceeding Acts to the grand eruption 23 Oct. 1641. And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement 1672. Lond. 1680. fol. Much of this book is taken from another intit The Irish Rebellion or the History of the beginnings and first progress of the general Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland 23 Oct. 1641 c. Lond. 1646. qu. Written by Sir Joh. Temple Kt Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties honorable privy Council in Irel. 4 Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires of his engagement and carriage in the War of Ireland By which the Government at that time and the Justice of the Crown since are vindicated from aspersions cast on both Lond. 1682. oct In the third p. of the Epist to the Reader before the book is a pretty severe reflection made on the design of the eighth Chapt. of Sir Will. Dugdale's book intit A short view of the late Troubles in England as was a little before by another person in A Letter in answer to a friend upon notice of a book entit A short view c. Wherein in the eigth Chapter the occasion of the execrable Irish Rebellion in 1641 is egregiously mistaken This Letter which is dated on the last of Apr. 1681 was printed at Lond. in 1 sh in fol. the same year What other things Dr. Borlase hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Chester after the year 1682. Sept. 20. Joh. Bidgood Doct. of Phys of Padua was â—hen incorporated This person who had been Fellow of Exeter Coll was ejected thence in 1648 by the then Visitors appointed by Parl first for Non-submission and secondly for drinking of healths to the confusion of Reformers This last reason was mention'd in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 397. a. under the tenth head next following the matter of Nich. Braine there mention'd which is under the ninth But the author communicating the copy of that book before it went to the Press to a certain Doctor in Oxon of Bidgood's faculty he upon the perusal of that passage did falsly unknowing to the author acquaint by another hand the said Bidgood then living at Exeter of it Whereupon Bidgood a covetous person fearing that such a passage as that might when made public hinder his practice among the godly party at Exeter and near it he made application by letters to the said Doctor of Oxon and to Dr. Fell the publisher of the History to have it taken out Whereupon Dr. Fell wondring that he should scruple at such a passage which made much for his Loyalty the sheet wherein it was was reprinted and the eleventh head in the said p. 397. a was made the tenth in its place This Health tho said by his Contemporaries in Exeter Coll to be a Cup of Devils to Reformers yet the author of the aforesaid History finding it not so in the Visitors Register of their actions but as it is word by word before mention'd therefore did he set it so down without any invention of his own as some did surmise This Dr. Bidgood who was honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at Lond died very rich at Exeter on the 13 of Jan. 1690 after he had cashier'd and disinherited his nat son call'd Joh. Sommers sometimes M. A. of Trin. Coll. His Estate was computed to be worth between 25 and 30000 l the main bulk of which he left to one Humph. Bidgood his Kinsman and some to pious uses And having been a person of a surley and proud nature and offensive in word and action he did a little before his death desire pardon and forgiveness of all the world especially of several persons with whom he had any animosities Oct. 17. Robert Henchman Doct. of Phys of Padua Oct. 17. Christop Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two who was son of Onuphrius Henchman had the degree of Doct. confer'd on him at Pad an 1654 the other in 1659 and afterwards practised his fac in Lincolnshire Nov. 19. Franc. Giffard M. A. of Cambr One of both his names and Mast of Arts hath written and published The wicked Petition or Israels sinfulness in asking a King explained in a Serm. at the Assizes held at Northampton first of March 1680. Lond. 1681. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sure I am that the Sermon was seasonably delivered the K. being then tired our by factious people with Petitions relating to Parliaments CREATIONS After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 it was his and the pleasure of the Marquess of Hertford Chanc. of the Univ. of Ox and of Sir E. Hyde who succeeded him in that Office this year that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had suffer'd for his Majesties Cause and had been ejected from the University by the Visitors appointed by Parl. an 1648. 49. c. Mast of Arts. Seventy and one Masters of Arts at least were actually created among whom some that had not been Sufferers thrust themselves into the crowd for their money Others yet few were Gentlemen and were created by the favour of the Chancellours Letters only Among the 70 and odd Masters which were created I shall mention these following Aug. 2. Charles Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely Aug. 2. Will. Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely
Chaplain to his Majesty in his Exile was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury by Bishop Duppa in January 1657 in the place of Will. Buckner deceased and about the same time to a Prebendship in the same Church After his Majesties restoration he was installed Canon of Windsore 18. July 1660 in the place of Joh. Hales some years before dead and had two good rectories bestowed on him in Wilts He died on the 16 of Jan. 1663 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Josh Childrey and his Canonry on Joh. Durell Joh. Lloyd M. A. of All 's Coll. Chaplain also to his Majesty in his Exile who on the 18 of July going before had been installed Canon of Wind. in the place of Hugh Cressey who in the War time had changed his Religion This Dr. Lloyd died on the 9 of April 1671 and thereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Joh. Saumares M. A. of Pemb. Coll and Dean of Guernsey One Joh. Lloyd wrot A Treatise of Episcopacy Liturgies and Ecclesiastical Ceremonies Pr. in 1660. qu. but whence he was I cannot yet tell And Joh. Lloyd D. D. was of Hombleston in Kent and died about the beginning of the year 1679. Joseph Crowther Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll and Chaplain to James Duke of York He was about this time Chantor and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in the diocese of Worcester On the 7. of March 1661 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Herbert Croft promoted to the See of Hereford and on the 26. of Dec. 1664 he was admitted Principal of S. Maries Hall In his last days he was committed Prisoner to the Prison call'd the Fleet in London by the endeavours of Sir Tho. Draper because he refused to renew a Corps belonging to S. Pauls Cath. then in the possession of Sir Thomas which the Doctor intended to wear out for the benefit of the said Cathedral He died in the Fleet on the 16 of Dec. 1689 and was buried in S. Pauls Cathedral Whereupon his Chantorship was bestowed on Dr. Tho. Turner President of C. C. Coll his Preb. of Worc. on Jonathan Blagrave of Magd. Hall Sub-Almoner to the Queen his rectory of Tredington on Tho. Kerry of Ch. Ch. and his principality on Will. Wyat M. A. of the same House George Benson M. A. of Qu. Coll and about this time Archdeacon of Hereford On the 16. of June 1671 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Will. Dowdeswell deceased and in the year following he became Dean of Hereford on the death of Tho. Hodges Ralph Brideoake M. A. of New Coll. He was afterwards B. of Chichester Edw. Fulham Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. This person who had been Rector of Hampton Poyle in Oxfordshire in the times of Usurpation was installed Canon of Windsore on the 12 of July this year in the place of Dr. Thomas Some some years before deceased who had been of Peter House in Cambridge and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and about the same time he became Preb. of Chichester George Hall of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester Nath. Hardy of Hart sometimes of Magd. Hall Joh. Townson of Magd. Coll. Joh. Lee M. A. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll. This person who was Son of Thom. Lee of London by Anne his Wife Daughter of Harman Warner and Sister and Heir of Dr. John Warner Bishop of Rochester was now Preb. of Rochester and Archdeacon thereof in the place of Elizeus Burges some years before deceased He afterwards wrot himself Joh. Lee alias Warner because he was heir to the said Bishop hath published one or more Sermons which I have not yet seen and dying about the beginning of June 1679 at which time he left behind him a Son named Hen. Lee Esq was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Thom. Plume D. of D. of Cambr installed therein on the 10 of the said month and in the same year Henry Bridgman M. A. of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he hath done his Majesty faithful service c. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Mich. Woodward B. D. Warden of New Coll. Tho. Barlow B. D. Provost of Qu. Coll. Rob. Say M. A. Provost of Oriel Coll. Walt. Blandford M. A. Warden of Wadham Coll. Thomas Yate B. D. Principal of Brasn Coll. The first of these five dying on the 16 of June 1675 was succeeded in his Wardenship by Joh. Nicholas M. A. and Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester The second was afterwards B. of Linc and was succeeded in his Provostship by Tim. Halton D. D. The third dying on the 24 of Oct. 1691 was succeeded in his Provostship by George Royse D. D. The fourth was afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Worcester and was succeeded ih his Wardenship by Gilbert Ironside Bach. of Div and the last dying on the 22 of Apr. 1681 was succeeded in his principality by Joh. Meare M. A. But this the Reader is to know that tho all five were created as Loyalists yet none of them suffered for their Loyalty in the times of Rebellion and Usurpation only the last Rob. Davenant of S. Johns Coll Bach. of Div. of 28 years standing and now Preb. elect of Salisbury as 't is said in the publick register He was Brother to Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet. Ralph Cooke of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester Rich. Harwood B. D. of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of a Father of both his names was born in the City of Glocester educated in Grammar learning there became a Com. of the said Hall in Mich. term 1631. aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and being accounted a learned Preacher was appointed by the Delegacy of the Univ. to be one of those persons to preach before K. Ch. 1 at Ch. Ch. in the time of the rebellion Afterwards upon the death of that King he suffer'd as all Divines that adhered to him did but upon his Sons restauration he became Chaplain in Ord. to him was created Doctor as before 't is said made Preb. of Glocest and Rector of a Church near Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire He hath written and published 1 King Davids Sanctuary Sermon before his Majesty at Ch. Ch. on Psal 73.25 Oxon. 1644. qu. 2 The Royal Subjects retiring-room Serm. at S. Maries 13. July being Act Sunday on Esay 26.20.21 Oxon. 1645. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the year 1669 and was succeeded in his Preb. by Will. Washbourne M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll. Rich. Hyde M. A. of S. Edm. Hall He was sometimes a Chaplain in the Kings Army was now Preb. of Warmister in the Church of Salisbury afterwards Sub-dean of the said Church by the resignation of
there and I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same Franc. Fuller M. A. who published 1 A treatise of faith and repentance Lond 1684. 85. oct 2 Words to give to the young man knowledg and discretion or the law of kindness in the tongue of a Father to his Son Lond. 1685. oct c. These six last Masters were of the number of 31 Masters of Cambr. who were incorporated the next day after the conclusion of the Act July 14. Sept. 28. James Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth Visc Doncaster c. was incorporated M. A. as he had stood at Cambridge at which time the King Queen and their respective Courts were in Oxon He was presented by the University Orator with a flattering speech and in the plague year 1665 when the said King and Queen were at Oxon he was entred as a member in C. C. Coll. there This person who was the eldest natural Son of K. Ch. 2 was begotten on the body Mrs. Lucy Walters alias Barlow of Pembrokeshire as I have heard who as a spy was by Oliver imprisoned in the Tower of London in the beginning of 1656 but released thence in July the same year He was born at Roterdam in 1649 and for some time nurs'd there but when his Father K. Ch. 2. went into Scotland to be there crown'd by the Presbyterians he was being then known by the name of James Crofts committed to the care of his Grandmother Hen. Maria the Queen Mother of England then in France And what became of him afterwards a book written by S. T. a Novice and an unskilful author will tell you in his book entit An Historical Account of the heroick life and magnanimous actions of James Duke of Monmouth c. Lond. 1683. oct Which book câ—ming out in his life time I shall only add this that for raising a rebellion in the West parts of England in the beginning of K. Jam. 2 against whom he had acted several times very unworthily while he was Duke of York in order to the disinheriting him of the imperial Crown was taken carried to London committed to the Tower and at length on the 15 of July 1685 was beheaded on Tower-hill whereupon his body was buried in the Church or Chappel there dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula Having now this just opportunity laid before me I shall give you the names of all or most of the natural Children of the said K. Ch. 2. but before I begin with them you are to know that the said Mrs. Walters gave out that the said King did beget on her body a Daughter but because he would not own her I shall not number her among the Children She was first married to a Gentleman of Ireland and afterwards to Will. Fanshaw one of the Masters of the Requests The second was Charlott begotten on the body of ... Boyle Vicountess Shannon Sister to Tho. Killigrew Groom of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2 who was first married to .... Howard the only Son of Tho. Howard a younger Brother to the Earl of Suffolk and after his death to Will. Paston Son and Heir to Robert Vicount Yarmouth She died in her house in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westm 28. July 1684 and was buried without any Armes of her own because the King had not assign'd her any in the Abbey Church at Westminster 3 Charles Fitz-Charles commonly called Don Carlos Earl of Plymouth begotten on the body of Mrs. Catherine Pegge of Leycestershire afterwards the Wife of Sir Edw. Green of Essex Bt. This Ch. Fitz-Ch who had married one of the Daughters of Tho. Earl of Danby died of a Bloody-flux at Tangier a City in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa which had been given to K. Ch. 2. when he took to Wife Catherine the Infanta of Portugal on the 17 of Octob. 1680 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried as I presume in the Abbey Ch. of Westminster Qu. 4 Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton begotten on the body of Barbara Wife of Roger Palmer Esq afterwards Earl of Castlemaine and Daughter of Will. Villiers Lord Grandison which Lord dying of his wounds received at Edghill Battle in 1642 was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon over whose grave a stately monument was erected some years after his Majesties restauration by his said Daughter Barbara This Charles Fitz-Roy who was born in Kingstreet in Westm and was for some time a Nobleman or Canon Commoner of Ch. Ch married the Daughter and Heir of Sir Henry Wood sometimes one of the Clerks of the Spicery in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth by his second Wife the Daughter of Sir Tho. Gardiner sometimes Recorder of London This Dutchess of Southampton died without Issue near Whitehall in Nov. or Dec. 1680 and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster 5 Henry Fitz-Roy Earl of Ewsion and Duke of Grafton begotten on the body of the said Barbara Wife of Rog. Palmer This Henry whom the K. for a considerable time would not own to be his Son and therefore the titles of Charles Fitz-Roy were in case he die without heirs male of his body to descend to George Fitz Roy whom I shall anon mention married Isabel the only Child of Henry Earl of Arlington He died at Cork in Ireland of a wound received while that place was besieged by the Forces of K. Will. 3 on the ninth of Octob. 1690 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried at Ewston in Suffolk near the body of the said Earl of Arlington 6 Geor. Fitz-Roy Earl of Northumberland begotten on the body of the said Barbara He was born in a Fellows Chamber in Merton Coll 28. Decemb. 1665 at which time the Queen and her Court lodged in that Coll as the King did at Ch. Ch to avoid the plague then raging in Lond. and Westm In the latter end of the year in Jan. or Feb. 1685 there was committed a clandestine marriage between him and a Woman of ordinary extract Widow of one Captain Lucy of Charlecot in Warwickshire a Captain in the Earl of Oxfords Regiment but were as it seems soon after parted 7 Charles begotten on the body of Eleanor Quinn or Gwinn a Comedian in the Kings Play-house c. was born in Lincolns-Inn-Fields about the 14 or 15 of May 1670 had the Sirname of Beauclere given to him 27. of Dec. 28 of K. Ch. 2 being then created Earl of Burford c. He is now Duke of S. Albans 8 Charles Lenos Duke of Richmond begotten on the body of Lovisa de Querovall a Lady of French extraction and an attendant on Henrietta Dutchess of Orleans when she came into England to give a visit to the K. her Brother an 1670. She was afterwards made Duchess of Portsmouth 9 Charlot a Daughter begotten on the body of Barbara before mention'd then Countess of Castlemaine afterwards Duchess of Cleveland The said Charlot was
Transact nu 129.147 in which the author hath one or more Discourses Dec. 20. John Vlacq Doct. of the Civil Law of Orange was incorporated in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange was entertain'd with the delights of the Muses there He was the Son of Cornelius Vlacq chief Amanuensis or Scribe or Secretary to the said Pr. of Orange Edw. Halsius Doct. of Phys of Leyden and Physitian in the Court of the said Prince was then and there also incorporated Sam. Morrys Doct. of Physick of the said University was also then and there incorporated He was Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall an 1662. These three last were nominated by the Pr. of Orange to be incorporated CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of the Prince of Aurange or Orange Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Joshua Stopford of Brasnose lately of Magd. Coll. He was soon after admitted Bach. of Div. as I have before told you Dec. 20. Rich. Lauder of S. Johns Coll was actually created in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange sate in a chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour This noble person was son of Charles Maitland Baron of Haltown in Scotland by his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Lauder younger Brother to John Maitland Duke of Lauderdale and was afterwards Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland where he was called Lord Maitland so long as his Father Charles was Earl of Lauderdale for by that title he was known after the said Joh. Maitland Duke of Lauderdale died which was at Tunbridge in Kent on S. Barthelmews day 1682 and after the said Charles his death which hapned about the ninth day of May an 1691 the said Richard Lauder became Earl of Lauderdale and is now living in Scotland After him were these persons following created in the said Convocation Will. Scharp of Ch. Ch who was allowed to wear the gown of a Noble man during his stay in the University was next after Lauder created He was the eldest Son of Dr. James Scharp sometimes Professor of Divinity and Rector of the University of S. Andrew afterwards consecrated Archbishop of S. Andrew in S. Peters Church commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster 15 of Decemb. 1661 at which time were also consecrated Andr. Fairfoâ—d Minister of Dâ—nce to the Archiepiscopal See of Glascow James Hamilton late Minister of Cambusnethum to the See of Gaâ—loway and Rob. Leighton Dean of his Majesties Chappel Royal in Scotland and late Principal of the Coll. at Edinburgh to the See of Dâ—mblayne This most worthy Archbishop Scharp who is justly characterized to have been Pietatis exemplum pacis Angelus sapientiae oraculum gravitatis imago c. was most barbarously murdered for his function sake near the City of S. Andrew by a pack of Hell-hounds enemies to God Man and all kind of Religion to the great horror and amazement of all the christian world on the 3 of May 1679 aged 61 years whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Andrew and had soon after put over it a stately monument with a most noble inscription thereon the contents of which being now too large for this place they shall for brevity sake be omitted George Sheild a Scot Governour to the before mention'd John Lauder Andrew Bruce a Scot of an antient family I have made mention of another Andrâ—w Bruce among the Incorporations an 1660. Joh. Trevor Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll. Son of Sir Joh. Trevor one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and of his most honorable Privy Council The said Sir Joh. Trevor died on the 28 of June 1672 aged 47 years and was buried in the Church of S. Barthelmew in Smithfield London whereupon Hen. Coventrie Esq was sworn Principal Secretary in his place on the 3. of July following The said Sir Joh. Trevâ—r was Son of another Sir John Trevor of the City of Westminster Kt who after he had kept pace with the dominant party in the times of Usurpation as his said Son had done for they were both halters in the Presbyterian Rebellion and adherers to the Usurper died full of years in the said City in the Winter time before the month of Dec. an 1673. Besides the aforesaid persons were then actually created William Tayler Joh. Dan Franc. Anshenhurst Jam Innys Clem. Dolby Joh. Mathew and James Waddyng of all whom I know nothing Febr. 1. Altham Annesley of Magd. Coll. Febr. 1. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. These were the Sons of Arthur Earl of Anglesey and were to have been created had they not been absent in the Orangian Creation I shall make mention of the said Rich. Annesley among the Doct. of Div. an 1689. Mar. 21. Sir Will. Ellis of Linc. Coll. Bt. He was also nominated to be created when the Pr. of Orange honored the degree of Doct. of the Civil but was then absent Bach. of Div. Jan. 13. Joseph Sayer of Wadh. Coll. This Divine who was Son of Franc. Sayer sometimes Minister of Yattenden in Berks became Servitour of Wadh. Coll. in 1647 left it without a degree took holy Orders but from whom I know not succeeded his Father in Yattenden an 1656 resign'd it to his Brother Francis sometimes of Mert. Coll. an 1665 at which time Joseph Sayer became Minister of Newbury and of Sulham in his own Country of Berks. In the month of May 1670 he became Preb. of Bishopston in the Church of Salisbury by the death of one Will. Hobbes and under pretence of being ejected for his loyalty from his Coll which is false he got himself to be put in the roll of those which the Prince of Orange desired to be created while he was entertain'd at Oxon. About which time he by the endeavours of one Sayâ—r his Majesties chief Cook procured the rich Rectory of North-Church in Hertfordshire He hath published A Sermon preached at Reading 25 Feb. 1672 at the Assizes there holden for the County of Berks c. on Rom. 13. part of the 5 vers Lond. 1673. qu. On the 8 of Decemb. 1681 he was installed Archdeacon of Lewes in Sussex which is all that I hitherto know of him Doct. of Law Sept. 16. Isaac Vossius Son of the famous Joh. Gerard Vâ—ssius was then actually created Doct. of the Civil Law after he had been with great humanity and friendship entertained by some of the chief Heads of Colleges as his Father had been before in 1629 much about which time he was installed Canon of Canterbury This Dr. Vossius was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Tho. Viner deceased 12 May 1673 and dying in his Lodgings in Windsore Castle on the 10 of Feb. 1688 was buried there leaving then behind him the best private library as it was then supposed in the whole world He hath published several books the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodâ—eian
the place of Dr. Joh. Lloyd sometimes of All 's Coll. deceased and was about that time Rector of Hartley Westpoll in Hampshire 27. Sam. Jackson M. A. of Ch. Ch. and a Practitioner in Physick for several years in this University and near it was created Doct. of that faculty by vertue of the Kings Letters This person who had been an Officer in the Kings Army during the grand Rebellion died 3 of March 1674 and was buried in the body of S. Maries Church in Oxon near that of his Father sometimes an Apothecary of that City Joh. Henr. Otho of Berne in Switzerland became a Sojournour in the University in the latter end of this year where improving himself much in Literature by the use of the public Libr. did afterwards write a Talmudical Lexicon and a book De autoribus Mishnae that is of the Talm. Text or of those old Jewish Doctors who wrot the parts of the Mishna which is the Text of the Talmud and other things An. Dom. 1672. An. 24 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Mews made this year Bish of Bathe and Wells Proct. George Verman of Ex. Coll. Apr. 19. Tho. Crosthwaite of Qu. Coll. Apr. 19. Which Proctors were not admitted till the third day of Easter term because on the first was observed a public Fast for a prosperous War against our Enemies the Dutch and on the second was preached a Lat. Sermon and other Preparations made for the beginning of the Term. Bach. of Arts. May 14. Rob. Burscough of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters an 1682. Jun. 22. Jonath Trelawny of Ch. Ch. Jun. 22. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards successively Bishop of Bristow and Exeter the other hath published several books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers Adm. 213. Bach. of Law Eight were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Among them Rob. Rigby of Ch. Ch. was one a person of good rank and a Traveller as the Chancellors Letters written in his behalf tell us Mast of Arts. Mar. 28. Rich. Lucas of Jesus Coll. Jun. 12. Joh. Williams of Jesus Coll. Jun. 12. Humph. Humphreys of Jesus Coll. The second of these three was afterwards Archdeacon of Cardigan 19. Joh. Walker of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Curate for Dr. George Hooper at Woodhay in Hampshire and Author of The Antidote or a seasonable discourse on Rom. 13.1 shewing the necessity and reasonableness of subjection to the higher Powers with an account of the divine right or original of Government Lond. 1684. oct Mar. 22. Joh. Rogers of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to George Earl of Berkley and published A Sermon preached before the Corporation of Trinity-House in Deptford Strand at the election of their Master 30 May 1681 on Jonah 1.6 Lond. 1681. quart Adm. 120. Bach. of Phys Two were admitted this year but neither of them was afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. Jul. 1. Henr. Rose of Linc. Coll. He was about this time Minister of Allhallowes Church in Oxon and afterwards wrot A philosophical Essay for the re-union of the Languages or the art of knowing all by the Mastery of one Oxon. 1675 in about 5 sheets in oct He afterwards went into Ireland and whether he be there now living I cannot tell Jul. 10. Moses Pengry of Brasn Coll. He was about this time Chaplain to Will Earl of Devonshire to whose son Will. Lord Caâ—endish he dedicated his Translation into excellent Latin Verse of Sir John Denham's English Poem called Coopers hill which Mr. Pengry intituled Coopers hill latine redditum c. Oxon 1676. in 3 sh 〈…〉 This Mr. Pengry who was born in the City of Glocester was an ingenious man well read in the Poets and humane Literature And had not death untimely snatch'd him away he might have given us larger Specimens of his curious fancy He died on the fourth day of Octob. an 1678 being then Minister of Gillingham in Kent and was buried in the Cath. Church of Rochester Jul. 10. Will. Ashton of Brasn Coll. Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. Adm. 8. This year Oct. 22 Anth. Saunders M. A. of Ch. Ch. was created Bach. of Div. by the Diploma of Gilbert Archb. of Canterbury See among the Doct. of Div. 1677. Doct. of Law May 11. Hugh Wynne of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chanc. of the dioc of S. Asaph and is now a Non-juror 14. Hen. Jones of Magd. Coll. He was now Chanc. of the dioc of Bristow Jun. 7. Franc. Lennard of All 's Coll. 12. Joh. Edisbury of Brasn Coll. The last of these two was chose a Burgess for the University of Oxon to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 6 Mar. 1678 and was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery Doct. of Phys Jul. 4. Joh. Master of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Physick and was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. Doct. of Div. Jun. 27. Seth Bushell of S. Maries Hall Sept. 13. Dan. Whitby of Trin. Coll. Jan. 14. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. The two last were Accumulators Incorporations Jun. 22. Edward Chamberlayne Doctor of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge was then incorporated as he had stood at Cambridge This person who was originally of S. Edm. Hall and M. of A. of this University hath written several things among which is Angliae Notitia and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred among the Oxford Writers In the month of July were 15 Masters of Arts of Cambr. incorporated among which were Nathan Bacon of Qu. Coll. Joh. Gregory of Pemb. Hall The first of which was a Writer as it seems for one of both his names hath published several things The other is the same I presume with Joh. Gregory mention'd among the Creations of D. of D. in Franc. Gregory an 1661. Besides them was one Bach. of Phys and two Bach. of Div. of the same University incorporated also Creations Jul. 17. Thom. Skynner of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon was actually created Doct. of Phys by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which say that he was for some time bred in Cambridge but was forced to leave that Vniversity in the times of Vsurpation by reason of the illegal Oaths and other impositions offer'd to him whereby he was prevented the taking his degree c. This Doctor hath added a third Lat. part to Dr. G. Bate his Elenchus motuum c. Lond. 1676. oct which he calls Motus compositi afterwards translated into English by another hand with a Preface to it by a person of quality Lond. 1685. oct See in George Bate among the Writers in this vol. p. 304. Mar. 19. Edmund Webbe of Ball. Coll. was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Chancellors Letters which say that he is Master of Arts and now Chaplain in ord to his
to his own Country became a Professor and published Secalim and other Talmudical Authors in Hebrew and Latin An. Dom. 1677. An. 29 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he being made L. Lieut. of Ireland he did by his instrument dated 20 of Aug. delegate the Vicechanc. for the time being and certain Doctors to manage and execute in his absence the Powers and Jurisdiction belonging to him in the University Vicechanc. Joh. Nicholas D. D. Warden of New Coll nominated by the Vicechancellors Letters dated at Chester 16 Aug. confirmed by Convocation 8 Octob. Proct. Nathan Wight of Mert. Coll. Apr. 25. Rich. Warburton of Brasn Coll. Apr. 25. Bach. of Arts. May 3. Jo. Webb of Wadh. Coll. 10. Nich. Kendall of Exet. Coll. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1679. Jun. 26. Will. Coward of Wadh afterwards of Mert. Coll. See among the Doctors of Phys 1687. Jul. 4. Hugh Todd of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. Francis Digby of Qu. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards of Vniv Coll. and a Writer The other a Translator from the original Greek into English of the first four books of The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great Lond. 1685. oct written originally by that famous Philosopher Xenophon of Athens The other four books were translated by Joh. Norris M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. Jul. 19. Will. Davenant of Magd. Hall Oct. 16. Joh. Gilbert of Hart Hall Of both these you may see among the Masters an 1680. Oct. 16. Will. Talbot of Oriel Coll. Nov. 20. Thom. Williams of Jes Coll. 27. Thom. Walter of Jes Coll. Of these three you may see more among the Mast an 1680. Jan. 29. John Howell of Trin. Coll. Feb. 14. Obad. Dana of Trin. Coll. The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an 1680. The other was afterwards a Monk among the English Benedictines at Doway Adm. 211. Bach. of Law Jun. 30. Rob. Woodward of New Coll. Jun. 30. Charles Morley of All 's Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctors of Law an 1685. The other was afterwards Vicar General of the Spiritualities or Chancellour to the Bish of Winton by the favour of his great Uncle Dr. Morley Bishop thereof c. Aug. 2. James Astrey of Brasn Coll a Compounder In 1682 he became High Sheriff of his native County of Bedford where he enjoyeth Lands of antient Inheritance and in the beginning of 1683 one of the Masters in Chancery and in Nov. the same year a Knight This person who is now one of the Gent. of the Privy Chamber in ord to his Maj. K. Will. 3 hath augmented and corrected the third Edition of Glossarium Archaiologicum of Sir Henry Spelman and before it hath put a large Epistle of the Life Manners and Writings of the said Sir Henry Adm. 6. Mast of Arts. Apr. 7. Daniel Pratt of S. Joh. Coll. This person who was son of a father of both his names of London wrot as 't was generally reported The Life of the blessed S. Agnes Virgin and Martyr in Prose and Verse Lond. 1677. oct published under the name of L. Sherling He died in 1679 or thereabouts May 3. Joh. Kettlewell of Linc. Coll. 14. John Hutton of Queens Coll. The last of these two was installed Archdeacon of Stow 21 Feb. 1684 in the place of Byrom Eaton translated to the Archdeaconry of Leycester Jun. 16. Charles Allestree of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Vicar of Cassington in Oxfordsh and Author of A Sermon at Oxon before Sir Will. Walker Mayor of the said City 26 Jul. 1685 being the day of Thanksgiving for the defeat of the Rebels in Monmouths Rebellion on Judges the 5.51 Oxon. 1685. qu. Soon after he became Vicar of Great Budworth in Cheshire where he now lives He hath also made a Translation of one of the Lives Eumenes in Corn. Nepos Oxon. 1684. oct Jun. 26. Joh. Caswell of Wadh. Coll. afterwards of Hart Hall He hath written A brief but full account of the doctrine of Trigonometry both plain and spherical Lond. 1689. in 4 sh in fol at the end of Dr. Jo. Wallis his Treatise of Algebra Jul. 3. Sam. Synge of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was eldest son of Dr. Edw. Synge Bishop of Cloyne Cork and Ross and in the year 1681 he was Dean of Kildare Oct. 16. Will. Guise of All 's Coll. Oct. 16. Andrew Allam of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 13. Villiers Bathurst of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Judge Advocate of the Navy Jan. 17. Thom. Baker of All 's Coll lately of Magd. Hall He was Author of The head of Nile or the turnings and windings of the Factious since sixty in a Dialogue between Whigg and Barnaby Lond. 1681. in 6 sh in qu. He is now Rector of Haritsham in Kent in the place of Mr. Joh. Clerke deceased whom I have mentioned among the Masters in these Fasti an 1673. Adm. 134. Bach. of Phys But two were admitted one of which was Ch. Twysden as I shall tell you among the Doct. of Phys this year Bach. of Div. May 22. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll. Jun. 22. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. The last of these two became by the favour of Dr. Mews Bish of B. and Wells Prebendary a golden Preb. of the Church of Wells on the death of Dr Grindal Sheaf in May 1680 and Archdeacon of Taunton with the Preb. of Kilverton prima in the said Ch. of Wells annexed to it on the death of Dr. Will. Piers In which Archdeaconry he was installed 22 Apr. 1682. Soon after he was made Vicar of S. Sepulchers Church in London on the death of Dr. Will. Bell. Jul. 3. Thom. Staynoe of Trin. Coll. Jul. 3. Thom. Sykes of Trin. Coll. The first of these two is now a Minister in London hath published two Sermons and may hereafter publish more or at least other things The other was elected Margaret Professor of the Univ. of Oxon 6 Nov. 1691 on the sudden death of Dr. Hen. Maurice of Jesus Coll who had been elected thereunto upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Hall to the See of Bristow on the 18 of July the same year He the said Mr. Sykes was admitted Doctor of his faculty 12 May 1692. Doct. of Law Jul. 21. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. On the 13 June 1678 he was licensed to practice Physick which afterwards he did at Windsore and hath since published one or more books of that faculty and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxf. Writers Nov. 20. Joh. Irish of All 's Coll. 27. Charles Trumbull of All 's Coll. Jan. 17. Joh. Clotterbuck of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys May 22. Charles Twysden of Ch. Ch. an Accumulator and Compounder This person who had spent several years in foreign parts was son of Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent and Nephew to Judge Tho. Twysden Jan. 17. Will. Coker of All 's Coll. Doct. of Div. Jun. 30. Steph. Philipps of Brasn
this University unless in the condition of a Sojourner I cannot tell Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena he became by his endeavours Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos Maria Dutchess of York both which places he quitted some time before his death This worthy person who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry hath written and published 1 An Essay on translated Verse Lond. 1680. 1684 c. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verses in praise of it as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others The second edit of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit An Essay upon Poetry written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse is added by the said Earl of Roscommon A specimen of blank Verse being the fight between the Angels taken out of Joh. Milton's book call'd Paradise lost 2 Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations which are publish'd with the respective Plays themselves and in the Miscellany Poems c. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English Horace's Art of Poetry Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Waâ—ler Esq hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers c. Lond. in oct written by Dr. Will. Sherlock At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January or thereabouts an 1684 was buried in the Church of S. Peter commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3 from which place going into England was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mention'd father to Wentworth the Poet was when young reclaim'd from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland and thereupon was sent by him into England as a Jewel of Price to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley in the beginning of the year 1628 in which Coll. continuing some years became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law but were not were James Boteler Earl of Ossory Franc. Visc Newport George Savile Lord Elande eldest son of George Marquess of Halyfax Robert Lord Lexinton who with Anth. Visc Falkland were sworn of their Majesties Privy Council 17 Mar. 169â— Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King being then a Major General He died in Red-lyon-Square near London on S. James day or thereabouts 1690. The next who was in Oxon but not created was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke and after him James Graham Esq younger brother to Rich. Visc Preston which James was afterwards Privy Purse to and a Colonel under K. Jam 2 to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled to avoid imminent danger in England into France c. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made the said Duke Dutchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon the Vicechancellour with other Doctors went to to take their leave of them at which time the Vicechancellour did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv of Oxon with the Cuts belonging thereunto to the Dutchess the said Cuts by themselves and the Natural History of Oxfordshire written by Dr. Plot and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne All which books were richly bound On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria aged 20 years or thereabouts son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day after he had viewed most places in the University and the Theater he went thence to the Apodyterium where he with such of his retinew that were to be created Doctors being habited in Scarlet were conducted into the Convocation house and created as now I am about to tell you Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan Count Pal. of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator Which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another Doct. of the Civ Law and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour Afterwards were these following presented D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Fred. Harder a Noble German Created Doctors of the Civ Law Andr. Fleman Secret to Pr. Adolph Created Doctors of the Civ Law It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne Doct. of Phys Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned was created Doctor while the said Prince sate in his chair of State Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq was declared Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent to the members of the ven Convocation then assembled partly running thus He was lately a Practitioner of Physick at York now here in London a person of exemplary Loyalty and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars Coins and other Antiquities together with a great number of Curiosities of nature whereof several cannot be matched for any price which yet he declares to be but an earnest