Colonel of the County of Essex was created Doct. of the Civ Law the same day I take this person to be the same with Thom. Coke of Pebmersh in Essex who was chosen one of the Knights for the said County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 1654. Sept. 9. Joachim Matthews created Doct. of the Civ Law Sept. 9. Will. Herlakinden created Doct. of the Civ Law Sept. 9. Christop Earle created Doct. of the Civ Law The first of these three was afterwards a Commissioner of the County of Essex for the ejecting of such whom the godly party then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Minsters and Schoolmasters and the same year he was chosen Burgess for Maldon of which he was Recorder in the same County to serve in Parliament being then a Justice of Peace and an Inhabitant of Havering In 1656 and 59 he was elected Burgess again for the same place to serve in the two Parliaments called in those years by Oliver and Richard being then a leading and forward man for the Cause then drove on and professed He was father to Philip Matthews of Great Gobions within the Liberty of Havering in Essex created Baronet 13 of June 1662. The second Herlakinden was a Commissioner or Committee man for the said County of Essex a godly brother and a leading man in the times of Usurpation as Earle was Sept. 9. Joh. Langley of Essex Sept. 9. Will. German Sept. 9. John Guy These three who are said to be well deserving of the Commonwealth were then actually created Masters of Arts. Feb. 27. Joh. Tickell of Ch. Ch. lately of New Inn was actually created M. of A. by vertue of a dispensation from Oliver Cromwell Chanc. of this Univ. George Croke of All 's Coll. was actually created Master the same day by vertue of the said dispensation This person who was made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors was son of Dr. Hen. Croke sometimes of Brasn Coll and heir to his Uncle Sir George Croke of Waterstoke near Oxon. After the return of his Maj. he was Knighted and in 1664 became High Sheriff of Oxfordshire At length having run out of his estate he died at London in 1680 whereupon his body being conveyed to Waterstock was buried in the Chancel of the Church there near to that of Sir George and that of his wife who died 4 years or more before him on the 21 of the said month Mar. 1. Lewis Atterbury of Ch. Ch. was admitted or created in Convoc by vertue of a dispensation from the Chanc. with liberty then allow'd to him to suffragate in Convoc and Congreg An. Dom. 1652. An. 4 Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. O. Cromwell who being now in Scotland and sensible how troublesome it was to the Academians to apply themselves to him about their concerns he did by an instrument dated 16 Octob. this year commissionate appoint and delegate Joh. Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll Dr. Jonath Goddard Warden of Mert. Coll Thom. Goodwin President of Magd. Coll and Pet. French Preb. of Ch. Ch or any three or more of them to take into consideration all and every matter of dispensation grant or confirmation whatsoever which required his assent as Chanc. of this University At the same time he delegated his power of hearing and determining College differences to the Vicechancellour and Heads of Houses for six months Vicechanc. Joh. Owen M. of A. Dean of Ch. Ch admitted 26 Sept. having been nominated by the Chancellours Letters dated 9. of the same month Proct. Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Apr. 28. Pet. Jersey of Pemb. Coll. Apr. 28. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 1. Dan. Nichols of S. Joh. Coll. May 15. Zachary Mayne of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1657 and of the other originally of Ch. Ch. among the Masters 1654. Oct. 12. Will. Sprigge of Linc. Coll. Oct. 12. Franc. Cross of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two hath several things extant but without his name set to them and being now or at least lately living he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers Of the other originally of S. Joh. Coll. you may see more among the Masters an 1655. Feb. 2. Tho. Lawrence lately of Mert. Coll now of S. Alb. Hall See more among the Masters an 1655. Feb. 4. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 4. George Boraston of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards successively Bishop of Bristow and Hereford Of the other you may see more among the Masters 1655 Feb. 3. Thom. Adams of Brasn Coll. 8. Thom. Frankland of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Mast an 1655. The other is mention'd among the Writers an 1690. p. 648. Feb. 17. Rich. Lower of Ch. Ch. Feb. 17. Tho. Cartwright of Qu. Coll. The last was afterwards B of Chester Rob. Harrison of Ch Ch. was adm the same day See more among the Masters 1655 Adm. 129. Bach. of Law Nine were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer Bishop or man of note in the Church or State Mast of Arts. May 6. John Rotheram of Linc. Coll. This person who was a Bedfordshire man born and of kin to Archb. Rotheram the second Founder of Linc. Coll was made Fellow thereof by the Visitors in 1648 and afterwards became a Barrester of Greys Inn. In June 1688 he was among other Counsellors Dissenters from the Church of England called by the Writ of K. Jam. 2. to take upon them the state and degree of Serjeant at Law and he being sworn at the Chancery Bar on the 18 of the same month was in the beginning of July following made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer and by the name of Baron Rotheram he went the Oxford Circuit in the latter end of the said month June 18. Theoph. Gale of Magd. Coll. 25. Will. Carpender of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Herefordshire man born was made Student of Ch. Ch. by the Visitors an 1648 became Proctor of the University in 1656 moral Philosophy Reader in the year following and much about the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Minister of Staunton super Wye or Waga in his native Country and afterwards benefic'd in Bucks He hath written Jura Cleri or an Apology for the rights of the Clergy proving out of antient and modern Records that the conferring of Revenues Honors Titles c. upon Ecclesiasticks is consistent to Scripture c. Oxon. 1661. qu. He was living in 1686 as the Seniors of Ch. Ch. tell me and perhaps may be so still George Annesley of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was son of the Viscount of Mount Norris in Ireland and had before obtained a Students place in the same House by the favour of the Visitors Jul. 9. Joh. How of Magd. Coll. 31. Thom. Tanner of New Coll. Nov. 18. Hen. Hurst Coll. Nov. 18. Rob. Whitehall
him Sir John Nicholas Kt. of the Bath Will. Blathwait and Charles Montague Esquires This Rich. Cooling was originally as it seems of All 's Coll. The said nine persons were actually created on the 8 of Sept. Doct. of Law Sept. 8. Sir Cyrill Wyche Kt son of Sir Pet. Wyche sometimes Controller of his Majesties Houshold now a Burgess in Parliament for Kellington in Cornwall He was M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in the times of Usurpation was afterwards Secretary to the Lieutenancy in Ireland one of the Royal Society and a Burgess in other Parliaments Nov. 7. Sir Henneage Finch Kt Sollicitor General and one of the Burgesses of the Univ. to sit in Parliament Col. Giles Strangwaies sometimes of Wadh. Coll. now a Knight for the County of Dorset to serve in Parl was created the same day This most loyal and worthy Gent. who was of Melbury Samford in the said County died 1675. The said two persons were created Doctors of the Civil Law in a Convocation held on that day Nov. 7. after they had communicated the thanks of the honorable House of Commons lately sitting in the said Convocation-house to the members of the University for their Reasons concerning the solemn League and Covenant negative Oath c. made 1647. Laurence Hyde Esq another Burgess for the University and Sir Joh. Birkenhead were the other two that were besides the two former appointed to return thanks and were then present in Convocation but the first of these last two was not created Doctor of the Civ Law because he had before been diplomated M. A which he then thought was sufficient and the other created Doctor as I have before told you Doct. of Phys Sept. 8. Robert Boyle Esq was created after Edw. E. of Manchester had been incorporated This honorable person who was the fourth son of Richard the first Earl of Cork was born at Lismore in Ireland whence after he had been well grounded in juvenile Learning he went to the Univ. of Leyden and spent some time there in good Letters Afterwards he travelled into France Switzerland Italy c. and spending some time in Rome he was so much satisfied with the curiosities there that afterwards he never had any desire to see or view the Curiosities or Antiquities of other places After his return into England being then accounted a well bred Gentleman he setled in Oxon in the time of Oliver about 1657 where he carried on his great delight in several studies especially in experimental Philosophy and Chimistry spent much money entertained Operators to work in his Elabratory which he had built for his own use and often did repair to the Club of Virtuosi in the Lodgings of Dr. Wilkins Warden of Wadh. Coll and they to him in his joyning to Vniv Coll. and opposite to that of Allsoules After his Majesties restauration when the Royal Society was erected he was made one of the first members thereof was one of the Council belonging thereunto and the greatest promoter of new Philosophy of any among them After he had left Oxon for London he setled in the house of his sister Catherine Lady Ranelaugh where he erected an Elaboratory kept men at work and carried on Chimistry to the last The books that he hath written are many some of which are printed beyond the Seas and are there highly valued In all which he hath done such things for the benefit of the world and increase of knowledge that none hath yet equall'd much less gone beyond him In them you 'll find the greatest strength and the gentilest smoothness the most generous knowledge and the sweetest modesty the noblest discoveries and the sincerest relations the greatest Self-denial and the greatest love of men the profoundest insight into philosophy and nature and the most devout affectionate sense of God and of Religion as in any Works whatsoever written by other men c. This worthy person died 30 of Decemb. 1691 aged 64 years or thereabouts and was buried on the 7 of Jan. following at the upper end on the south side of the Chancel of the Church of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster near to the body of his sister the Lady Ranelaugh before mention'd who dying about a week before him the grief for her death put him in convulsion fits which carried him off Soon after were Elegies and Epitaphs on him made public as also the Sermon at his funeral preached by Dr. Gilb. Burnet Bish of Sarum in all which you 'll find just Encomiums of him as no doubt you will in the life of him the said Mr. Boyle about to be published by the said Doctor The eldest brother of this Mr. Rob. Boyle was Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork The next was Roger Earl of Orery a great Poet Statesman Soldier and great every thing which merits the name of great and good He hath published four Plays in heroick verse highly valued and commended by ingenious men and died in Octob. 1679. The third was Francis Viscount Shannon whose Pocket Pistol as he stiled his book may make as wide breaches in the walls of the Capitol as many Canons These were his elder brothers and besides them he had seven Sister all married to noble persons This year in the month of Septemb. Andr. Marvel a Burgess for Kingston upon Hull to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8. May 1661 became a Sojourner in Oxford for the sake of the public Library and continued there I presume some months See in Sam. Parker among the Writers an 1687 p. 619 where you 'll find an account of him and his Works In the beginning of Dec. following was entred into the said Library Arthur Trevor an eminent and famous common Lawyer c. In January following Francis Sandford an Officer of Arms attending the King now in Oxon was entred also in the said Library with the liberty then allowed to him of a Student This person having published several books I must according to the method that I have hitherto followed let the Reader know that tho he was descended from the antient and gentile Family of the Sandfords of Sandford in Shropshire yet he was born in the Castle of Carnow in the County of Wicklow in Ireland and half Barony of Shelelak which half Barony was purchased of K. Jam. 1. by his mothers father called Calcot Chambre When the Rebellion broke out in Ireland Francis being then about eleven years of age his Relations carried him thence into England setled themselves at Sandford with intentions to breed him a Scholar but then the Rebellion breaking out there and his family afterwards Sufferers for the Royal Cause he had no other education than what Grammar Schools afforded On the 6 of June 13 Car. 2. he was by Letters Patent created Pursuivant at Arms by the name and title of Rouge Dragon and afterwards on the 16 of Nov. in the 27 of the said Kings Reign he was created Lancaster Herald of Arms Which office he held
the Elector of Brandeburg as also of the Hall and Judicial Chamber Chamberlain and Chieftain of the Province or County of Ruppin Knight of the order of Johamites and Envoy extraordinary to the King of Gr. Britaine from the said Elector of Brandeburg was created the same day Sir Joseph Williamson Kt Mast of Arts and Fellow of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son of the County of Cumberland had been Secretary under Sir Edw. Nicholas and afterwards under Hen. Earl of Arlington while they were Principal Secretaries of State and on the 24 Jan. 1671 he was sworn one of the Clerks of the Council in Ordinary and Knighted About that time he was Clerk of the papers or Keeper of the Paper Office at Whitehall and a Recruiter for Thetford in Norfolk to sit in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. May 1661. Afterwards he was sent twice in the quality of a Plenipotentiary once to Holland and another time to Colen in Germany and after his return he was sworn Principal Secretary of State upon the promotion of Henry Earl of Arlington to be Lord Chambeâ—lain of his Majesties Houshold and a Privy Counsellour on the eleventh of Sept. 1674. Both which offices he keeping till Feb. 1678 did on the 9 of the same month resign the seals of his Secretaryship into the hands of his Majesty who forthwith giving them to Rob. Earl of Sunderland he was sworn the next day Secretary and Privy Counsellour This Sir Jos Williamson who was then President of the Royal Society hath been a great Benefactor to his Coll. and may be greater hereafter if he think fit The illustrious Lord Ignatius Vitus Baron ot Vicque a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under his Catholick Majesty in Flanders was created the same day June 27. One Ignatius Vitus alias White second Son of Sir Dominick White of Limerick in Ireland was created a Baronet on the 29 of June 1677 and for want of issue male that title was to descend to his Nephew Ignatius Maximilian Vitus and to the heirs male of his body This Sir Ignat. White is the same as I conceive with him that was Baron of Vicque D. Car. Gabr. de la Salle Eq. Grome of the Chamber to the King of Sweedland was also then created In a Convocation held 30 of May this year were the Chancellours Letters read in behalf of Sam. Speed formerly a Student now Canon of Ch. Ch. to have the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him but whether he was created or admitted notwithstanding he had formerly suffer'd for his loyalty it appears not On the sixth of the said month of May this year he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Seb. Smith deceased and dying at Godalming in Surrey of which he was Vicar about the 22 of January 1681 Henry Aldrich M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. was installed Canon in his place on the 15. of Febr. following One Sam. Speed a pretender to Poetry hath written Prison-piety or meditations divine and moral c. Lond. 1677. in tw and other trivial things but he is not to be understood to be the same with the former In the month of January this year came to this University J. Secbaldus Frabricius an old Professor of Heidelberg who was forced to leave his Country because of the Wars between the Emperour and the King of France He lived for some time here in a studious condition had a collection of moneys made throughout the University to relieve his wants And while he continued among us he published De unitate Eccles Britannicae Meditationes Sacrae Oxon. 1676 oct and wrot and drew up another book entit Dissertatio Historica Dionis Cassii Scriptoris Graec. Selectiora Commata c. Lond. 1678. oct An. Dom. 1675. An. 27. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Ralph Bathurst Oct. 7. Proct. Joh. Jones of Ch. Ch. Apr. 14. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Arts. June 8. Thom. Tully of S. Edm. Hall See among the Masters an 1678. 10. Will. Gough commonly called Goff of S. Alb. Hall lately of Exeter Coll. Oct. 26. Will. Hallifax of Corp. Ch. Coll. Jan. 18. Tho. Pigott of Wad Coll. 29. Joh. Bagley of Ball. Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1687 and of the other two among the Masters 1678. Feb. 23. Will. Nicholson of Qu. Coll. He hath written and published several things and therefore he ought at large to be remerabred among the Oxford Writers hereafter Adm. 149. Bach. of Law Four were only admitted of whom Charles Hedges of Magd. Coll. was one See among the Doct. of Law following Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. Jonathan Trelawny of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Humph. Prideaux of Ch. Ch. June 8. Joh. Knight of New Inn He afterwards was made Vicar of Banbury in Oxfordshire upon the removal thence of Richard Knight sometimes Proctor of the University of Oxon to a good Parsonage in Worcestershire and was author of The Samaritan Rebels perjur'd by a Covenant of Association in a Sermon at the Assizes held at Northampton 30 March 1682 on Hosea 10 the former part of the 4th vers Lond. 1682 qu. He is a good Scholar very loyal and of good name and esteem where he lives and might have been Preb. of Linc. which he much deserves had not Dr. B. Bish thereof shew'd him a Dog-trick Nov. 23. Jam. Parkinson of Linc. Coll. Jan. 19. Joh. Massey or Measey of Mert. Coll. This person who was originally of Vniv Coll was one of the Proctors of the University in 1684 and then and after did not look for or expect preferment At length after K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown he was by the endeavours of Mr. Obad. Walker Master of Vniv Coll advanced by his Majesty on the death of Dr. Fell to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon about the middle of Octob. 1686. Whereupon renouncing his religion for that of Rome which he was so to do before he could be setled in it he received the Patent for it on his bended knees from his Majesty on the 19 of Decemb. and on the 29 of the same month 1686 he was installed in that Dignity in his own person Afterwards he set up and furnished a Chappel for the R. Cath. use in Canterbury Quadrangle within the Precincts of Ch. Ch and was put into the Commission of Peace for the County of Oxford At length upon the arrival of the Prince of Orange in the West parts of England and the committing thereupon by the Mobile great outrages in several parts of the Nation on R. Catholicks and their Houses the said Mr. Massey did to avoid them together with Mr. Thom. Deane a R. C. Fellow of Vniv Coll. withdraw himself privately before break of day on the 30 of Nov. 1688 went to London and there continued privately till an opportunity carried him over the Sea to France where I think
Scholars of this University was printed at Lond. again in 1682. fol. Expeditio Buckinghami Ducis in Ream insulam Written by the Author in 1630 published by Timothy Baldwin Doct. of Law and Fellow of All 's Coll. Lond. 1656. octav Occasional Verses or Poems Lond. 1665. oct published by Hen. Herbert his son and by him dedicated to Edward Lord Herbert Grandson to the Author Others of his Poems I have also seen in the books of other Authors occasionally written particularly in that of Joshua Silvester in t Lacrymae lacrymarum or the spirit of tears distilled for the untimely death of Pr. Henry Lond. 1613 qu. There be others also of Sir Hen. Goodyere Sir Will. Cornwallis Jos Hall c. De religione Gentilium errorumque apud eos causis Amst 1663. qu. At length after our Author Herbert had sided with the Long Parliament and had received satisfaction from the members thereof for their causing Mountgomery Castle to be demolished upon the declining of the Kings Cause he surrendred up his last breath in his house in Queen street near London in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of S. Giles Church in the Fields Over his grave which is under the south wall was laid a flat marble stone with this Inscription engraven thereon Heic inhumatur corpus Edwardi Herbert Equitis Balnei Baronis de Cherbury Castle-Island auctoris libri cui titulus est De veritate Reddor ut herbae vicessimo die Augusti anno domini 1648. He was Father to Rich. Lord Herbert and he to Edward which last dying 21 Apr. 1691. was buried on the 28 of the same month near to the grave of his Grandfather The Reader is to know that one Edward Herbert an Esquires son of the County of Mountgomery was matriculated in the University as a member of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of July 1608 aged 17 years but he is not to be taken to be the same with the former who was Lord Herbert tho Isaac Walton in the life of Mr. George Herbert doth and from him the society of the said Coll. I take him to be the same who was afterwards a Knight and Attorney General temp Car. 1. SAMUEL FELL was born within the Parish of S. Clements Danes without Temple-Barr near London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1601 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1608 elected Proctor of the University in 1614 admitted Bac. of Div. in the year after and about that time became Minister of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight In the month of May 1619 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and the same year proceeded in Divinity being about that time domestick Chaplain to King Jam. 1. In 1626 he was made Margaret Professor and so consequently Prebendary of Worcester which was about that time annected to the Professorship he being then a Calvinist At length leaving his opinion became after great seekings and cringings a Creature of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Canterbury by whose means he was made Dean of Lichfield upon the promotion of Dr. John Warner to the See of Rochester an 1637 Dean of Ch. Ch. in the year after in the place of Dr. Duppa promoted to the See of Chichester and would without doubt had not the Rebellion broke out been a Bishop In 1647 he was ejected from his Deanery and Vicechancellourship after he had suffered much for his Loyalty and for the preserving of the statutes and liberties of the University Afterwards retiring to his Rectory of Sunningwell near Abendon in Berks spent the short remainder of his life in obscurity He hath written and published Primitiae sive oratio habita Oxoniae in scholâ Theologiae 9 Nov. an 1626. Oxon 1627. qu. Concio Latina ad Baccalaureos die cinerum in Colos 2.8 Oxon. 1627. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the Parsonage-house at Sunningwell before mentioned on the first day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In his Deanery Edward Reynolds M. A. afterwards D. of Div. had violently been thrust in by the Authority of Parliament in April 1648 as I have at large told you elsewhere WILLIAM TIPPING second son of Sir George Tipp of Dreycot and Whitfield in Oxfordshire Knight by Dorothy his wife dau of Joh. Burlacy of Little-Marlow in Bucks Esq was born in Oxfordshire at Dreycot I think became a Commoner of Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Langhorne in the latter end of 1614 aged 16 years where making a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals took a degree in Arts. Afterwards he went to London and spent some time in one of the Inns of Court but his genie being theologically given he retired to Oxon lived a single life many years in Canditch in the north Suburbs thereof for the sake of scholastical company and of books and was a Justice of the peace for Oxfordshire In the beginning of the civil War he sided with the Presbyterians being always puritanically affected took the Covenant and at length was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by the power of Parliament an 1647 and the next year was actually created Master of Arts. He hath written A discourse of Eternity Oxon. 1633. qu. After the publication of which he obtained the name among Scholars of Eternity Tipping to distinguish him from others of his sirname A return of Thankfulness for the unexpected recovery out of a dangerous sickness Oxon 1640. oct A Fathers Counsel or directions to young persons Lond. 1644. oct The preachers plea or a short declaration touching the sad condition of our Clergy in relation to the smalness of their maintenance throughout the Kingdom Lond. 1646. in tw The remarkable life and death of the Lady Apollonia Hall widdow deceased in the 21 year of her age Lond. 1647. in tw He gave way to fate at Waterstock near to and in the County of Oxon on the second day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried on the eighth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there This person tho born to a fair estate and so consequently might have taken those pleasures which the generality of Gentlemen do yet he gave himself solely up to Learning Piety and Charity He gave 20 shillings yearly to Allsaints Parish in Oxon for a Sermon to be preached there every Good Friday and an hundred pounds towards the building of a Bridewell house without the north gate of the City some years before the Rebellion broke out JOHN GEREE a Yorkshire man born became either a Batler or Servitour of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615 and in that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 entred into holy orders and became Minister of a
which I take to be false because that his admission to that degree occurs not in the publick register and that in the book of Matriculation subtit Coll. Reginae he is matriculated as a Yorkshire man born his Father or Uncle having then Lands at Flamburg and Great Kelk in that County as his elder Brother Roger was an 1608. RICHARD STANWIX Son of James Stanw was born of an antient and gentile Family within the City of Carlile in Cumberland educated in the Free-school there under Mr. Tho. Robson somtimes of Queens College admitted a poor serving Child of the said House being then put under the tuition of Mr. Charles Robson Son of Thom. beforemention'd about 1625 aged 17 years where profiting much in good Letters was made one of the Tabarders about the time that he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts and Fellow when Master About that time entring into holy Orders he was soon after through the recommendations of his Provost Dr. Potter made Chaplain to Tho. Lord Coventry L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England and after his death to John Lord Finch who succeeded him in that honorable Office of L. K. our Author then being Bach. of Divinity Soon after the said L. Finch withdrawing himself to the Netherlands upon the approaching troubles in the Long Parliament which threatned his ruin our Author returned to his College where continuing for some time without expectation of any advancement in the Church was at length prefer'd by Sir Rich. Saltonstall somtimes of Qu. Coll. to the rectory of Chipping-Warden in Northamptonshire which he kept during the time of the Civil War to his death He hath written A holy life here the only way to Eternal life hereafter or a discourse grounded on 2. Cor. 10.4 Wherein this truth is especially asserted that a holy life or the habitual observing of the Laws of Christ is indispensably necessary to Salvation Lond. 1652. oct c. Appendix laying open the common neglect of the said Laws among Christians and vindicating such necessity of observing them from those general exceptions that are wont to be made against it printed with the former He had also prepared another book for the press concerning the Socinian controversies which is not yet made publick At length after he had submitted to the men in Power during the times of Usurpation yeilded to the stroke of death in sixteen hundred fifty and six or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Chipping-Warden beforemention'd To which place I did formerly send for his Epitaph thinking therein to receive more knowledge of the Person but no return hath been yet made STEPHEN GEREE elder Brother to Jo. Geree mention'd under the year 1648. was a Yorkshire man born and at 17 years of age an 1611 became a Student in Magd. Hall where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy took one degree in Arts afterwards Holy Orders and was either a Minister or Schoolmaster or both In the time of rebellion I find him Minister of Wonnersh near to Guildford in Surrey at which time being a zealous Brother for the cause that was then driven on by the Saints he was removed to a better place called Abinger in the said County His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The ornament of Women or a description of the true excellency of Women Serm. at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Machel 15. Apr. 1639 on Prov. 31.29.30 Lond. 1639. in tw and others which I have not yet seen The Doctrine of the Antinomians by Evidence of Gods truth plainly confuted In an answer to divers dangerous Doctrines in the seven first Sermons of Dr. Tob. Crisps fourteen which were first published c. Lond. 1644. qu. The golden meane being some considerations together with some cases of conscience resolved for a more frequent administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. qu. What other Books or Sermons he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him ALAN BLANE or Blaney a Cumberland man born Son of Tho. Blaney Rector of Acton or Ayketon in the same County became a poor serving Child of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1625 aged 16 years afterwards Tabarder but never Fellow took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1632 Holy Orders and had a Benefice confer'd on him but lost it in the time of Rebellion Afterwards he retired to Standish in Glocestershire lived there with the Tenant of the great farm belonging to Joh. Dutton of Shirburne in the said County Esq preached there and at Whitminster a small Curacy near it but never had any living or was a setled Incumbent in that Diocess only much countenanced in his labours by the said Dutton To whom he dedicated this book following Festorum Metropolis The Metropolitan feast or the birth day of our Saviour Jes Christ proved by Scriptures to be annually kept holy c. Lond. 1652. qu. published under the Name or Letter B. who calls himself Pastor fido in Exile It was printed there again in 1654. oct under the name of Alan Blaney and answered by John Collins Bachelaur afterwards Doctor of Divinity and Minister of S. Stephens Church in the City of Norwich in a book entit A Caveat for old and new profaneness c. Lond. 1653. quart In which book he also answers that of Edw. Fisher Esq entit A Christian Caveat to the old and new Sabbatarians or a Vindication of our old Gospel Festivals c. Our Author Blaney translated also from Latin into English Synagoga Judaica c. Written by Joh. Buxtorsius Lond. 1656. qu. and perhaps other things Much about that time he left Standish and lived near Birkley in Glocestershire At length retiring to London died there as I have been informed by the Chanc. of the Dioc. of Gloc. who made enquiry after him at or near Berkley WILLIAM HIGFORD an Esquires Son was born at or near to Alderton in Glocestershire became a Gent. Com. of Oriel Coll. in 1595. and being soon after translated to that of Corp. Ch. was put under the tuition of Seb. Benefeild where by the benefit of good discipline and natural parts he became a well qualified Gentleman Afterwards taking a degree in Arts he retired to his Fathers Seat became a Justice of Peace and much respected by the Lord Chandois and other Persons of quality in his Country He left behind him a large book in MS. of his own writing intit Institutions or advice to his Grandson in 3. parts Which being epitomized or contracted by Clem. Barksdale a Minister in Glocestershire was by him published at Lond. 1658. in oct Other matters fit for the press he left behind him which being not understood by his Children were lost He died in his House at Dixton near to Alderton beforemention'd and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Alderton on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and
degrees in Arts holy Orders and was made either a Reader or Curate of S. Margarets Church in the City of Westminster In the time of the rebellion when he saw the Church of England declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and went to Paris where by the name of Rolandus Palingenius he made a shift to get a livelyhood by his mendicant scribbles his lepid veine and art of Poetry among the English Gentlemen and other Grandies of France He hath written Varia Poemata Mostly in Lat. some in English and some in French to which he would somtimes make additions of copies to them on new Patrons as they came to his knowledg just as Payne Fisher afterwards did to shark money from those who delighted to see their names in print This Will. Rowland who wrot himself in the title of his Poems Gul. Rolandus Poeta Regius was a boon Droll a jolly companion and was generally called Doctor having had that degree conferâ—d on him as I have heard at Paris At length retiring for health sake to a village called Vambre near to that great City he having brought his body into a consumption by too much lifting ended his days there in sixteen hundred fifty and nine or thereabouts I have seen a Book intit Legenda lignea c. containing a character of some hopeful Saints revolted to the Church of Rome Lond. 1653. oct In which book p. 172 c. you may see a full if not too smart character of this Will. Rowland but whether all is true that is said of him there for the Book is full of scurrilities may be justly question'd Since I wrot this I find one Will. Rowland Master of Arts and Dr. of Physick as he writes himself to have translated into English besides several books of Physick that he hath written A Treatise of spirits and wind offending mans body Lond. 1668. qu. Written by Dr. Jo. Fienus but the translation being by him dedicated to the vertuosi of the Royal Society first founded 1660 I cannot take him to be the same with the former ROBERT DINGLEY Son of Sir Joh. Dingley of London Knight and Nephew by the Mother to Dr. Hen. Hammond was born in Surrey entred a Student in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1634 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a great observer of Church ceremonies and a remarkable Bower to the Altar when he came into the Chappel But soon after the Presbyterians carrying all before he as a vain man sided with them became an enemy to those things which he before had a zeal for and for the love he bore to the cause became by the favour of his Kinsman Coll. Robert Hammond Governour of the isle of Wight Rector of Brightestone alias Brixton or Brison in the said Isle where he was much frequented by the godly party for his practical way of preaching and hated by the Royallists for his activity in ejecting such that were by some called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters during the time that he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of Hampshire an 1654. 55. c. He hath written The Spiritual tast described or a Glimpse of Christ discovered in two parts grounded on Psal 34.8 and on Malac. 4 2. Lond. 1649. oct Before which book is the picture of the Author fat and jolly in a Presb. Cloak This book came out in 1651. with this title Divine relishes of matchless goodness c. The disputation of Angells or the Angell-Guardian 1 Proved by the divine light of nature c. 2 From many rubs and mistakes c. 3 Applied and improved for our information c. chiefly grounded on Acts 12.15 Lond. 1654. oct As the former book was perused and commended to the World by Tho. Goodwin Pres of Magd. Coll. and Will. Strong so this by Nich. Lockyer of New Inn afterwards Provost of Eaton Coll. Messiah's splendor or the glimpsed glory of a beauteous Christian printed in oct Divine Opticks or a treatise of the eye discovering the vices and virtues thereof as also how that Organ may be tuned chiefly grounded on Psal 119.37 Lond. 1655. in oct Philosophical Historical and Theological observations of Thunder with a more general view of Gods wonderful works Lond. 1658. oct in which year he had a Sermon published on Job 26.14 in oct which I have not yet seen But our Author Dingley having said and preached some things not pleasing to the Quakers he was animadverted upon by George Fox in his Great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 361. c. He died at Brightestone beforemention'd in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there with this inscription on his grave Here lieth the body of Mr. Robert Dingley Minister of this place second Son of Sir John Dingley Knight who died in the fortieth year of his age on the twelfth day of January 1659. JOHN SALKELD fourth Son of Edw. Salkeld Gent. second brother to George Salkeld somtimes of Corby Castle in Cumberland Esquire lineally descended from Sir Rich. Salkeld Kt Lord Warden of Carlile in the time of K. Ric. 3 was born at Corby Castle and when very young journied through Oxon beyond the Seas but in what house he was entred unless in Qu. Coll. I cannot tell His continuance there as I have been informed was so short occasion'd by his Religion that we can scarce reckon him among the Oxonians For so it was that his Father soon after conveyed him into Spain entred him among the Jesuits in the University of Conimbria where as also at Corduba and Complutum he continued among them in the condition of a Jesuit many years and was Assistant in the studies to the famous Jesuits Franc. Suarius who was his fellow student several years and Mich. Vasquez Afterwards he was sent into Portugall where he read Philosophy about six years then into the English mission but being taken and brought before K. Jam. 1 who had several times heard of him and his eminency for learning he entred into divers disputes with him at several times At length being overcome by his solid arguments Salkeld turned Protestant was recommended to Dr. King Bishop of London for maintenance and in Nov. 1613 became by the presentation of his Majesty Vicar of Wellington in Somersetshire being then Bach. of Div. where he used to boast of his conversion and to stile himself the Royal Convert In 1635 he was made Minister of Church Taunton in Devonshire worth to him about 200 l. per an whereupon one Walt. Travers was instituted Vicar of Wellington in his place on the 16. of July the same year But after the Civil Wars broke forth he suffer'd for the Royal cause being esteemed by the obstinate and incredulous Presbyterians a Papist in his heart or at least popishly affected He was a Person profoundly read in Theological and other Authors and K. Jam. 1. doth
1641. in qu. which I have not yet seen Catechisme for the use of the Parishoners of Gr. Greenford Lond. 1646. oct Sum of Religion Printed 1647. qu. Characters of a wicked heart hypocritical and sincere heart Printed in one sh◠Voyage to East India Wherein some things are taken notice of in his passage thither but many more in his abode there within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogul Lond. 1655. oct with the Authors picture before it The narrative of this voyage was written and disgested into order by the Author after his return thence and by him dedicated and presented in MS. to Prince Charles an 1622. Afterwards it was added to the Travels of Pet. de la Valle and abridged in Sam. Purchas his second part of Pilgrims book 9. Corolarie of serious and heedful but sad conclusions Printed at the end of the Voyage before mention'd Character of K. Ch. 2. with a short Apologie before it an introduction to it and conclusion after it Lond. 1660. qu. From which King he expected the Deanery of Windsore to be confer'd upon him but upon what ground seeing that he suffer'd neither for his or his fathers cause I know not He departed this mortal life on the 8. day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Greenford beforemention'd as I have been informed by his Son Edw. Terry a Non-conformist Divine somtimes Master of Arts and Fellow of University College THOMAS POWELL Son of Joh. Pow. Rector of Cantreffe near to and in the County of Brecknock was born there in 1608 made his first entrie into this University in 1625 elected Scholar of Jesus Coll. in 162◠took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Fellow of that House About which time applying his mind to the faculty of Theologie he entred into the sacred function and at length became Rector of the place of his nativity In the time of the Civil War he suffer'd much for the Kings cause and being sequestred of his spiritualities ship'd himself beyond the Seas for a time After the return of Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms he was restored to them was actually created D. of D. and made Canon of S David and would without doubt have risen higher in the Church had he not been untimely snatch'd away from it He was a Person well vers'd in several sorts of learning was an able Philosopher a curious Critick was well skill'd in various languages and not to be contemn'd for his knowledge in Divinity He hath written Elementa Opticae nova facili compendiosâ methodo explicata c. Lond. 1651. oct Commended to the World by the copies of verses of Olor Iscanus and Eugenius Philalethes his Brother Quadriga Salutis or the four general heads of Christian Religion surveyed and explained Lond. 1657. oct At the latter end of which are some annotations of the same Author in the Welsh tongue A Catechistical Tract of the Lords Prayer the Creed and ten Commandements This I have not yet seen and therefore I know not to the contrary but that it may be the same with his Catechisme in Welsh and English Humane industry or a history of most manual Arts deducing the original progress and improvement of them c. Lond. 1661. in oct This I have in my study but his name is not set to it He translated from Ital. into English Stoa Triumphans Two letters of the noble and learned Marquess Virgilio Malvezzi one in praise of banishment the other in contempt of honor and from French into English 1 Recueil de novellis Lettres or the last letters of Monsieur de Balsac 2 The unfortunate Politick or the life of Herod He left behind him a Ms of his composition unpublished intit Fragmenta de rebus Britannicis A short account of the lives manners and religion of the British Druids and the Bards c. As also two translations one from the Latine and another from the Italian tongue That from the Latine hath this title The Insubrian Historie containing an exact account of the various fates civil commotions battles and seiges acted upon the theater of Lombardie and the adjacent parts of Italy c. written originally by the learned Puteanus And that from the Ital. hath this The Christian politic Favourite or a vindication of the politic transactions of the Count-Duke de S. Lucar the great Minister of State and favourite counsellour to Philip the 4. of Spayne Written originally by Virg. Malvezzi before mention'd it was before traduced but in this translation all things were righted therein by our Author T. Powell who giving way to fate at London on the last day of December in sixteen hundred and sixty was the next day buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet Lond. leaving then behind him the character of a most ingenious and polite Person WALTER RUMSEY an Esquires Son was born in Monmouthshire at Llannover as I have been informed became a Gent. Com. of Glocester Hall in 1600 aged 16 years but leaving that house without a Scholastical degree retired to Greys-inn studied the municipal Law was made Barrester Bencher Lent-Reader 9. Car. 1 and at length a Judge in South Wales being then so noted for his profession that he was usually called The picklock of the Law In 1640 he was elected one of the Knights for Monmouthshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13. Apr. and might have been chosen again to serve in the Long Parliament but refused it He was an ingenious man had a Philosophical head was a good Musician and most curious for graftng inoculating and planting and also for ordering of Ponds But that which he is to be most noted for is that he having been always much troubled with flegme was the first that invented the Provangg or Whalebone instrument to cleanse the throat and stomack which hath not only been since used by noted Physicians and Vertuosi at home but by those beyond the Seas At length he wrot a book of it and its use entit Organon Salutis An instrument to cleanse the stomach Lond. 1657. 59 oct To which he added Divers new experiments of the vertue of Tobacco and Coffey Before both which are two Epistles written to the Author one by Sir Hen. Blount in praise of Tobacco and Coffey and the other by Jam. Howell in praise of those two and the Provangg What other books our Author Rumsey hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he dying in his house at Llannover about sixteen hundred and sixty was buried in the Parish Church there near to the bodies of his Relations He had a Son named Edward who was entred a Gentleman Communer of Broadgates Hall an 1623 21. Jacobi 1. RICHARD ZOUCHE or Zouchaeus as he somtimes writes himself the Cadet of an antient and noble Family was born of worthy parents in the Parish
of Ansley in Wiltshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1609 aged 19 years and after he had taken one degree in the Civil Law became an Advocate of note in Doctors Commons In the year 1619 he was admitted Doctor of the Civil Law became the Kings Professor of that fac in the year following was chosen by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward Lord Zouche L. Warden of the Cinque-ports a Burgess twice at least for Hyeth in Kent to serve in Parliaments in the latter end of K. Jam. 1 became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Oxon Principal of S. Albans Hall in 1625 and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament sate in the University he submitted to their power and so consequently kept his Principality and Professorship during the times of Usurpation After the Kings return he was restored to the Admiralty tho he kept that honorable office but for a small time was one of the Commissioners for regulating the University and might have risen higher than the Admiralty had he lived He was an exact Artist a subtile Logician expert Historian and for the knowledge in and practice of the Civil Law the chief Person of his time as his works much esteemed beyond the Seas where several of them are reprinted partly testifie He was so well vers'd also in the statutes of the University and controversies between the members thereof and the City that none after Twynes death went beyond him As his birth was noble so was his behaviour and discourse and as personable and handsome so naturally sweet pleasing and affable The truth is there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement but the interruption of the times which silenc'd his profession would have given a stop to his rise had he been of another disposition His works are these The Dove or passages of Cosmography Lond. 1613. oct This is a Poem which he wrot in his younger days and dedicated it to Edw. Lord Zouche his kinsman Elementa Jurisprudentiae definitionibus regulis sententiis selectioribus juris civilis illustrata Oxon. 1629. oct 1636. qu. in 7. parts Lugd. Bat. 1652. in 16o. Amstel 1681. in tw Descriptio Juris Judicii feudalis secundum consuetudines Mediolani Norman pro introductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam Oxon. 1634. and 36. oct Descript Jur. Judicii temporalis secundum consuetudines feudales Normanicos Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts Descript Juris Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum canones constitutiones Anglicanas Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts This book with Desc Juris Judicii tempor c. were reprinted with Dr. Mockets Tract De politia Eccl. Anglicanae Lond. 1683. oct Descr Juris Judicii sacri ad quam leges quae ad religionem piam causam respiciant referuntur Oxon. 1640. qu. Lugd. Bat. Amstel 1652. in 16o. Desc Jur. Jud. Militaris ad quam leges quae rem militarem ordinem personarum respiciunt referuntur Printed with the former Des Jur. Jud. Maritimi ad quam quae ad navigationem negotiationem maritimam respiciunt referuntur Printed also with the former Juris Judicii fecialis sive Juris inter gentes quaestionum de eodem explicato c. Oxon. 1650. qu. in two parts Cases and questions resolved in the Civil Law Oxon. 1652. oct In the year following was published a book entituled Specimen quaestionum Juris civilis cum designatione authorum Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to it and therefore I cannot yet say 't was written by Dr. Zouche It is now to be observed that Don Pantalion Sa Brother to the Portuguese Embassador having killed one Greeneway a Gentleman of Linc. Inn in the New Exchange within the liberty of Westm on the 22. of Nov. 1653 and thereupon imprisoned there was a dispute between Oliver Cromwell and his Council whether he might be tried for his life in the English Courts of Justice and how Whereupon our Author Zouche who was then the living Pandict of the Law being sent for from Oxon he cleared their doubts whereupon Sa being tried by the Civ Law and executed on Tower-hill 10. July 1654 our Author thereupon wrot this book following Solutio quaestionis de Legati delinquentis Judice competente Oxon. 1657. oct Afterwards he published these books following Eruditionis ingenuae specimina scil Artium Logicae Dialecticae Rhetoricae nec non Moralis Philosophiae M. T. Ciceronis definitionibus praeceptis sententiis illustrat Oxon. 1657. in tw Quaestionum Juris Civilis centuria in 10 classes destributa Ox. 1660. oct Lond. 1682. in tw the third Edit The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sir Edw. Cokes Articuli Admiralitatis in the 22 Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts Lond. 1663 in a large oct published by Dr. Tim. Baldwin Fellow of All 's Coll. It was afterwards once or more reprinted Our learned Author Dr. Zouche died in his Lodgings at Doctors Commons in Lond. on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex near to the grave of his eldest Daughter Catherine somtimes the Wife of William Powell alias Hinson Esquire He had a hand in the University Reasons against the Covenant as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard Langbaine num 150. HENRY CAREY or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name was born in Buckinghamshire became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161â— 1â— aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613 about which time he with Bevill Greenvill of Ex. Coll. also were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales in 1616 and about that time was sent to travel into forreign Counties In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth being then noted for a Person well skill'd in the modern languages and a general Scholar the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion when by a forced retiredness he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake He hath extant these things following Speech in the H. of Peers 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions and of his Majesties removal from Whitehall Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English 1 Romulus and Tarquin or de principe tyranno Lond. 1637. in tw written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses in his Fragm aurea c. Lond. 1648. p. 24. 2 Historical relations of the united
Nephew called John Kirton Doctor of the same faculty who is to be mentioned elsewhere JOHN GOUGHE commonly called Goffe Son of the Rector of Stanmer in Sussex was born in that County began to be conversant with the Muses in Merton Coll. an 1624 made Demie of that S. Mar. Magd. in 1627 aged 17 years or more perpetual Fellow 29. July 1630 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into Orders and became a Preacher in these parts In 1642. Sept. 26. he was inducted into the Vicaridge of Hackington alias S. Stephen near to the City of Canterbury in the place of James Hirst deceased From whence being ejected soon after for refusing the Covenant was with other loyal Clergy men cast into the County Prison in S. Dunstans Parish in the Suburbs of the said City In 1652 he by the endeavours of his Brother William whom I shall anon mention was inducted into the rectory of Norton near Sittingbourne in Kent on the thirteenth day of March and in the year 1660 he being restored to his Vicaridge of S. Stephen was actually created Doctor of Divinity in the beginning of December the same year and inducted again according to the Ceremonies of the Church of England into the rectory of Norton on the 4. of March following which were all the spiritualities he enjoyed He hath written a book intit Ecclesiae Anglicanae ΘΡΗÎΩΔΙ'Α in qua perturbatissimus regni ecclesiae status sub Anabaptistica tyrannide lugetur Lond. 1661. oct Also a large latine Epistle written to Dr. Edw. Simson set before a book written by him intit Chronicon Catholicum c. Lond. 1652. fol. He concluded his last day in the Parish of Norton beforementioned and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Alphage in Canterbury on the 26. day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and one This Person who was a zealous Son of the Church of England had an elder Brother named Steph. Goffe originally of Mert. Coll afterwards of S. Alb. Hall and a Bigot of the Church of Rome and another Brother named William whether elder or younger I know not who was originally a Trader in London afterwards a Presbyterian Independent one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and one of Olivers Lords who to save his neck from the Gallows did upon a foresight of the Kings return in 1660 leave the Nation and died obscurely in a strange Land The Father of the said Goffes was Steph. Goffe somtimes Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll a good Logician and Disputant but a very severe Puritan eminent for his training up while a Tutor several that proved afterwards very noted Scholars among whom must not be forgotten Rob. Harris D. of D. sometimes President of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. THOMAS LUSHINGTON a famous Scholar of his time was born at Sandwych in Kent matriculated in the University as a member of Broadgates Hall in Lent term 1606 7 aged 17 years but how long he stayed there it appears not Sure it is that he having had some publick employment in the Country or elsewhere did not take the degree of Bachelaur nor that of Master of Arts till 1618 in which year he was a Communer of Linc. Coll. Not long after he returned to Broadgates again and was there at the time when it was converted into the College of Pembroke where he spent some years in Theological studies took the degree of Bach. of Div. and soon after for the great respect that Corbet B. of Oxon had for made him one of his Chaplains In June 1631 he became Prebendary of Bemister Secunda in the Church of Salisbury on the promotion of the said Corbet to the See of Oxon and in the year following proceeding in his faculty the said Bishop took him with him when he was translated to Norwych bestowed on him the rectory of Burnham-Westgate in Norfolk and got him to be Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. When the grand rebellion broke out he lost his spiritualities and lived obscurely in several places publishing then divers books to gain money for his maintenance At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2 in 1660 he was restored to his spiritualities and had offers made to him of great dignities in the Church but being then aged and infirm he chose rather to keep what he had with quietness than be a Dean with riches He was esteemed a right reverend and learned Theologist yet in many matters imprudent and too much inclined to the opinions of Socinus His preaching also while he remained in the University was generally well esteemed and never gave distaste but in one Sermon which tho esteemed by some to be admirable yet by more blasphemous An account of which you shall have as it followeth In the year 1624 22. Jac. 1. nothing but War with Spain sounding in the ears of the vulgar upon the breaking off of the Spanish match with Prince Charles it pleased this our Author Lushington to utter in his Sermon on Matth. 28.13 at S. Maries on Easter Munday these words Now the Pesant thinks it comes to his turn under pretence of his priviledge in Parliament that he should dispose of Kings and Commonwealths c. Afterwards also thus Nothing now contents the Commonalty but war and contention c. For which as also for several other passages reflecting on the Spanish match he was called into question by Dr. Piers the Vicechancellour and by him was a time appointed for him to recant what he had said Which being done not without the consent of certain Doctors the Repetitioner was commanded to leave out divers passages of the said Sermon which he according to custome was to repeat the Sunday after commonly called Low Sunday His recantation Sermon on Acts 2.1 latter part which he preached the very next day after the Repetitioner had delivered his four Sermons I have seen and therein I find that his meaning for the first passage was only to reprehend the seditious doctrines of Knox Buchanan and others and the tumultuary practices of the common People formerly used both in town and country to affront their Prince because of their privilege to elect Parliamentarie Persons The word now hath the latitude of this age that in Parliament I intended not locally in relation to the vulgar who have a voice to elect Knights and Burgesses but at the present themselves hold no place personally in the Parliament c. As for other passages he said he had no intent to cross the present resolution for War but only to check the inordinate desire of it somwhat too frequent in most mens mouthes and it thought to him somewhat harsh to hear in the Chappel give peace in our time O Lord and presently in the Chambers God send us war again c. Besides this recantation which his friends caused to be put upon him least he should be called into question by the Parliament he was severely check'd by the Vicechancellour and Doctors for using
became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1628 aged 19 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Vicar of Box near Malmsbury in his own Country where continuing in good esteem in the greatest part of the interrupted times was at length ejected from his living in the Reign of Oliver whereupon he wrot A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walt. Bushnell Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts Which book being not permitted to be published after he had made it fit for the Press was at his Majesties return printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. About which time the Author being restored to his living continued there to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and seven was buried in the Church at Box having then laying by him one or more things fit to be printed as I have been informed by some of the neighbourhood GEORGE WITHER Son of George Wither the first Son by a second venter of the house of Wither of Manydowne near to Wotton S. Laurence in Hampshire was born at Bentworth near Alton in the said County on the eleventh day of June 1588 30 Eliz. educated in Gram. learning under the noted School-master of those parts called Joh. Greaves of Colemore sent to Magd. Coll. in the year 1604 or thereabouts where being put under the tuition of Joh. Warner afterwards B. of Roch. whom if I mistake not he serv'd made some proficiency with much ado in academical learning but his genie being addicted to things more trivial was taken home after he had spent about three years in the said house and thence sent to one of the Inns of Chancery in London and afterwards to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law But still his genie hanging after things more smooth and delightful he did at length make himself known to the world after he had taken several rambles therein by certain Specimens of Poetry which being dispersed in several hands became shortly after a publick Author and much admired by some in that age for his quick advancement in that faculty But so it was that he shewing himself too busie and satyrical in his Abuses stript and whipt was committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where continuing several months was then more cried up especially by the puritanical Party for his profuse powring forth of English rime and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical Poetry in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass which he pretended to predict In 1639 he was a Captain of Horse in the Expedition against the Scots and Quarter-master Gen. of the Regiment wherein he was Captain viz. of that Regiment of oâ— next under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the said expedition But this our Author who was always from his youth puritannically affected sufficiently evidenced in his Satyrs sided with the Presb. in the beginning of the Civil Wars rais'd by them an 1642 became an enemy to the King and Regality sold the estate he had and with the moneys received for it rais'd a Troop of Horse for the Parliament was made a Captain and soon after a Major having this motto on his Colours Pro Rege Lege Grege but being taken prisoner by the Cavaliers Sir Jo. Denham the Poet some of whose land at Egham in Surry Wither had got into his clutches desired his Majesty not to hang him because that so long as Wither lived Denham would not be accounted the worst Poet in England About that time he was constituted by the said Long Parliament a Justice of Peace in Quorum for Hampshire Surrey and Essex which office he kept 16 years and afterwards was made by Oliver Major Gen. of all the Horse and Foot in the County of Surrey in which employment he licked his fingers sufficiently gaining thereby a great Odium from the generous Royalist After the Kings Restauration in 1660 he lost all the lands that had belonged to Royalists and Bishops which he before had either bought or had confer'd upon him for the love and zeal he had to the blessed Cause And being then look'd upon as a dangerous person to the King and State especially for a scandalous and seditious libel that he had then dispersed was committed Prisoner to Newgate and afterwards upon his own confession and the oaths of two persons that he was the Author of it he by order of the H. of Commons was sent in custody and committed close prisoner to the Tower of London to be debarr'd Pen Ink and Paper and about the same time 24 of March 1661 2 an Impeachment was ordered to be drawn up against him In both which Prisons he continued three years and more wrot several things by the connivance of the Keeper of which some were afterwards made publick yet could never refrain from shewing himself a Presbyterian Satyrist He began very early being precisely educated from his childhood to express and publish those conceptions which the affections and inclinations to youth had awakened in him endeavouring to season them with morality and piety as subjects of that nature are capable of suiting them to the capacities of young-men who delight to see their own natural passions represented as 't were in a glass wherein they not only meet with some better things than they looked for but with such notions also therewith mixed as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems and rendred him so generally known that thousands especially such youths that were puritannically educated were desirous to peruse his future writings and to take better heed of that whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice while others of generous education and of more solid parts looked upon them as the effects of a crazed brain and esteemed Taylor the Water-Poet a fit match for him with his wild and rambling rimes The things that he hath written and published are very many accounted by the generality of Scholars meer scribbles and the fancies of a conceited and confident if not enthusiastical mind The titles of them follow Iter Hibernicum or an Irish Voyage Written in verse Iter Bor. or a northern Journey Written in verse Patricks Purgatory Written in verse Philaretes Complaint Written in verse These four were called his Juvenilia and tho the original MS. of them was lost yet they were recovered and printed more than once Prince Henries obsequies or mournful elegies upon his death Lond. 1612. and 1622. oct A supposed interlocution betw the ghost of Pr. Hen. and Great Britaine Printed with the former Abuses stript and whipt or satyrical essays in two books Lond. 1613. 14.15 and 22. in oct Satyr written to the King Jam. 1. when he was prisoner in the Marshalsea for his first book Lond. 1614. 15. 22. in
Afterwards being invited by the people of Toxteth to take upon him the ministry there he returned into his own Country and preached the first Sermon among them on the 30. of Nov. following and about that time married Catherine daughter of Edward Holt of Bury in Lancashire For 15 years or more he preached every Sunday at Toxteth and on Tuesdays at Prescot and was much frequented at both places by the precise party But so it was that he being a severe Calvinist and little or no friend to the Church of England he was suspended for nonconformity to ceremonies an 1633 but quickly restored and soon after was suspended again by the Visitors when they visited Chester Diocess In 1635 he with his family left Lancashire and removed to New England where putting in at Boston in Aug. the same year the People of Dorchester in that County gave him a call to be their Minister Whereupon setling at that place he continued among them in the labourious work of the Gospel to his dying day He hath written Answer to 32 Questions Lond. 1643. qu. Discourse about the Church Covenant Lond. 1643. qu. These two things pass under the name of the Elders of New England but Mather was the author of them Answer to Mr. Charl. Herle and to Mr. Sam. Rutherford wherein is defended the congregational way of Church Government and how it differs from the Presbyterian Lond. 1646. qu. An heart-melting exhortation together with a cordial consolation presented in a letter from New England to his dear Country-men of Lancashire c. Lond. 1650. in tw Tho the name of Will. Tomson a Lancashire man born and Pastor of Braintry in N. Engl. is set to this book with that of Mather yet Mather was the sole author of it as his Son hath informed me A Catechisme or the grounds and principles of Christian religion set forth by way of question and answer c. Lond. 1650. oct Sermons on the second Epistle of S. Peter They were transcribed by him for the press but are not yet made publick Treatise of justification Cambr. in N. E. 1652. qu. He also prepared for the press A defence of the Churches in New England Written against W. Rathbond Minister of the Gospel And had a principal hand in drawing up The platform of Church discipline agreed unto by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in N.E. an â—648 He also left behind him a Ms of his composition to prove that the power of rule and government in the Church belongs only to the Elders and not to the Fraternity At length after he had spent the greatest part of his time in the zealous Ministry of the Gospel surrendred up his pious Soul to him that first gave it on the 22. Apr. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine whereupon his body was buried at Dâ—rchester in New England before mention'd He had several Sons that were Nonconforming Ministers as 1 Samuel whom I shall mention among these writers under the year 1671. 2 Nathaniel sometimes Minister of Barnstaple in Devonsh afterwards at Rotterdam in Holland now Pastor of a congregation in London 3 Eleazer who died Pastor of the Church at Northampton in N. Engl. after he had been a preacher there eleven years 4 Increase or as he writes himself in his lat books Crescentius Matherus born at Dorchester in N. E. educated in Harwarden Coll. in Cambridge there and thence after six years standing removed to Ireland where in Trin. Coll. near Dublin he proceeded Mast of Arts 1658 aged 19 years or thereabouts In 1661 he returned to his native Country was elected President of the Coll. wherein he had been educated an 1681 and in May 1688 he came into England to acquaint K. Jam. 2. from the principal Gentlemen in N. Engl. the state of his Subjects in that territory whose civil liberties and properties were then invaded in an intolerable manner This person who is also now or at least was lately Pastor of a Church at Boston in his native Country hath written several things as 1 Discourse concerning the mystery of Israels salvation on Rom 11.26 Lond. 1669. oct 2 The first principles of N. Engl. concerning the subject of Baptisme and Communion of Churches Cambr. in N. E. 1675. qu. 3 A brief history of the war with the Indians in New England from the 24 of June 1675 when the first English man was murthered by the Indians to 12 of Aug. 1676 when Philip alias Metacomet was slain c. together with a serious exhortation to the Inhabitants of that land Boston in N. E. 1676 qu. Afterward reprinted at Lond. 4 Some important truths about conversion delivered in sundry Sermons Lond. 1674. oct 5 The divine right of Infant baptisme asserted and proved from scripture and antiquity Bost in N. E. 1680. qu. 6 Practical truths tending to promote godliness in the power of it Bost in N. E. 1682. 7 Diatriba de signo filii hominis de secundo Messiae adventu c. Amstel 1682. oct 8 An Essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned in this last age especially in N. England Boston in N. Engl. 1684. oct with his picture before it 9 Discourse concerning the person office and glory of Jesus Christ. Bost in N. E. 1686 oct 10 De successu Evangelii apud Indos in Nova Anglia Epistola ad cl virum D. Joh. Leusdenum Ling. Sanctae in Ultrajectanâ Academia professorem scripta Lond. 1688. in one sheet in oct 11 The wonders of free grace or a compleat History of all the remarkable Penitents that have been executed at Tyburn and elsewhere for these last thirty years To which is added a Sermon preached in the hearing of a condemned person immediatly before his execution Lond. 1690. in tw c. This Mr. Mather who is a person of learning candor and civility hath a son by his wife the daughter of the famous Mr. John Cotton of N. England named Cotton Mather now Pastor of a Church in Boston and in great reputation among the people in N. Engl author of Late memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions clearly manifesting not only that there are witches but that good men as well as others may possibly have their lives shortned by such evil instruments of Satan Lond. 1691. sec Edit HENRY BYAM son of Laur. Byam of Luckham alias East Luckham near Dunster in Somersetshire Clerk was born there on the last of Aug. 1580 and in Act term 1597 was sent to Exeter Coll. where he continued in the condition of a sojourner till he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. 21. Dec. 1599. In both which houses he by the advantage of an ingenious and liberal education joyned with his own diligence and industry soon became one of the greatest ornaments of this University and the most noted person there for his excellent and polite learning which
on his hat when the Lords Prayer was repeating by the preacher see in Mr. Tho. Longs book intit No Protestant but Dissenters plot c. p. 167. 168. See also in Apologia pro Ministris in Anglia ejectis written as 't is said by Mr. Hen. Hickman who blames him also for it This action is denied by Dr. Owen that he ever did it in a letter to Dr. Lew. du Moulin but therein he doth err much for several now living in Oxon know it well enough A King and his Subjects unhappily fallen out and happily reconciled in a Serm. at Canterbury on Hosea 3. ver 4.5 Lond. 1660. qu. The question to whom it belonged antiently to preach and whether all Priests might or did Discussed out of antiquity as also what preaching is properly Lond. 1663. qu. Notae emendationes in Diog. Laertium de Vitis c. Philosophorum Lond. 1664. fol. Of the necessity of reformation in and before Luthers time occasioned by some virulent books written by Papists but especially by that entit Labarinthus Cantuariensis Lond. 1664. qu. Answer concerning the new way of infallibility lately devised to uphold the Rom. cause the holy Scriptures the antient Fathers and Councils laid aside against J. S. the author of Sure-footing his letter lately published Lond. 1665. qu. The said letter by J. S. that is Joh. Sargeant contained exceptions against some passages in the former book viz. Of the necessity c. which letter was printed at the end of Sure footing in Christianity and follows the four Appendixes relating to Dr. Tho. Pierce Dr. Dan. Whitby Dr. J. Stillingfleet and Dr. Jer. Taylor Printed 1664 in a large oct Notae in duas posteriores Terentii Comaedias Amstel 1669. in tw Letter to Dr. Pet. du Moulin D. D. and Prebendary of Canterb. concerning natural experimental Philosophy and some books lately set out about it Cambr. 1669 in 5. sh in qu. Of credulity and incredulity in things natural and civil c. in two parts The first was printed at London 1668. oct The second in Things divine and spiritual was printed at the same place also 1670. oct In this last part he takes a view of John Wagstaff's book entit The question of witchcraft debated Lond. 1669. oct But these two parts lying dead on the Booksellers hands they printed a new title to them running thus A Treatise proving Spirits Witches and supernatural operations by pregnant instances and evidences c. Lond. 1672. oct the Author being then dead Notae in Polybium Amstel 1670. oct in the third Vol published by Jac. Gronovius Notae emendationes in Hieroclis commentarium Lond. 1673. oct Variae Epistolae ad Ger. Joh. Vossium alios He also enlarged and amended the third edition of his Fathers Commentary on Aul. Persius his Satyrs Lond. 1647. oct And made fit for the press a book entit A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee and some spirits c. Lond. 1659. fol. To which book M. Casaubon wrot a large preface confirming the reality as to the point of spirits in the said Relation At length after a life spent partly in adversity but mostly in prosperity he gave way to fate on the 14 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the south part of the first cross Isle joyning southward to Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Canterbury Over his grave was soon after erected a handsome monument the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon Lib. 2. p. 282. b. He had a design in his last days of writing his own life and would often confess that he thought himself obliged to do it out of gratitude to the divine providence which had preserv'd and delivered him from more hazardous occurrences than ever any man as he thought beside himself had encountred with particularly in his escape from a fire in the night time which hapned in the house where he lived while he was a boy in Geneva Also by his recovery from a sickness while of Ch. Ch. in Oxon when he was given over for a dead man Which recovery was made by a young Physitian that gave Chymical physick to him In his wonderful delivery from drowning when overset in a boat on the Thames near London the two Water-men being drowned and he bouyed up by the help of his priests coat In his bearing several abuses fines imprisonments c. laid upon him by the fanatical reformers in the time of his sequestration and other memorables But these things being by him deferred from time to time were at length hindred by death which seized on him sooner than he expected GILBERT IRONSIDE son of Ralph Ironside Bach. of Div. somtimes Fellow of Univ. Coll. afterwards Minister of Long Bridie by his wife dau of Will. Gilbert M. A. of Madg. Coll. and superior Beadle of Arts of the Univ. of Oxon was born at Hawksbury near to Sadbury in that County on the 25 of Nov. S Catherins day an 1588 admitted Scholar of Trin. Coll. 28 May 1605 Fellow 1613 being then M. of A and Bach. of Div. in 1619. At length he became Rector of Winterbourn Stepleton and Winterbourn Abbots joyning together in Dorsetshire both which he keeping till after the Kings restauration was made Preb. of Thokerington in the Church of York in Oct. 1660 about which time being nominated to the See of Bristow was consecrated thereunto being first created D. D. in S. Peters Church at Westm on the 6. of January 1660. That which I am to take notice of him further is that tho he was never Chaplain to any spiritual or temporal Lord or to any King or Prince or enjoyed any Dignity in the Church except the little Preb. beforemention'd yet being wealthy he was looked upon as the fittest person to enter upon that mean Bishoprick He hath written Seaven questions of the Sabbath Oxon. 1637. qu. Besides which and a Sermon printed in 1660 he had laid the foundation of other Theological treatises and had in some manner brought them to perfection but Civil Wars breaking forth and old age following the publication of them was hindred He died at Bristow on the 19. Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Cathedral there near to the entrance into the Bishops Stall as I have been enformed by his Son of both his names lately Bishop of that See See more in Joh. White among these writers an 1648. p. 61. FRANCIS DROPE a younger Son of Tho. Drope B. D. Vicar of Comnore near Abendon in Berks and Rector of Ardley near Bister in Oxfordshire was born in the Vicaridge House at Comnore made Demy of Madg. Coll. in 1645 and ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he assisted Mr. Will. Fuller in teaching a privat School at Twickenham or Twittenham in Middlesex where continuing till his Majesties return in 1660 was restored to
other uses belonging to different Glands as well for conservation of the individual as propagation of the species Amongst other things we ought particularly to take notice of his being the first who discovered the Ductus in the Glandulae Maxillares by which the Saliva is conveyed into the mouth He hath also given an admirable account of morbid Glands and their differences and particularly of Strumae and Scrophulae how new Glands are often generated as likewise of the several diseases of the Glands of the Mesentery Pancreas c. Which opinions of his he often illustrates by Anatomical observations What else he hath written I find not nor any thing besides of him only that he dying in his house in Aldersgate-street in the month of October in sixteen hundred seventy and three was as I suppose buried in the Church of S. Bottolph situat and being without Aldersgate in London GEORGE SWINNOCK was born in the antient Borough of Maidstone in Kent an 1627 brought up religiously when a Child in the family of Rob. Swinnock a most zealous Puritan of that Town educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts went to Oxon to get preferment in the latter end of 1647 at which time he entred himself a Communer of Magd. Hall Soon after he became one of the Chaplains of New Coll and on the sixth day of Octob. following 1648 he was made Fellow of Ball. Coll by the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament In 1650 he became Vicar of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire and thereupon resigning his Fellowship on the 24 of Nov. the same year took the degree of Master of Arts six days after In 1660 or thereabouts he was made Vicar of Great Kimbel in Bucks and in Aug. 1662 being ejected tor nonconformity he was received into the family of Rich. Hamden of Great Hamden in the said County of Bucks Esquire and continued with him for some time in the quality of a Chaplain At length upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience in the latter end of the year 1671 he retired to his native place where he continued in preaching and praying among the Godly till the time of his death His works are these The dore of Salvation opened by the key of regeneration or a Treatise containing the nature necessity marks and means of regeneration Lond. 1660. c. in oct and in qu. commended to the Readers by the Epistles of Edw. Reynolds D. D Tho. Watson of S. Stephens Walbroke in Lond. and Mr. Rich. Baxter written in Jan. 1659. This book was printed the third time at Lond. 1671. oct The Christian mans calling or a treatise of making Religion ones business wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered c. Lond. 1661. c. qu. The second part of this book which directeth Parents Children Husbands Wives Masters Servants in prosperity and adversity to do their duties was printed at Lond. 1663 c. qu. and the third part there in 1665 c. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The Pastors farewell and wish of welfare to his people or a valedictory Serm. on Acts 20.32 Lond. 1662. qu. It was preached as it seems at Gr. Kimbell before mention'd 2 The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith or one cast for eternity c. Funeral sermon on Mr. Caleb Swinnock of Maidstone on Psal 73.26 Lond. 1662. qu. To which is added by the said Author The gracious persons incomparable portion 3 Men are Gods Gods are Men two Assize sermons These I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you the Texts Heaven and Hell epitomized the true Christian characterized as also an exhortation with motives to be speedy about the work of Conversion Lond. 1663. qu. The beauty of Magistracy in an exposition of the 82 Psal wherein is set forth the necessity utility dignity duty and morality of Magistrates Lond. 1660. c. qu. Assisted therein by Tho. Hall of whom I have spoken under the year 1665. p. 235. Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being attributes works and word opened and applied Lond. 1672. oct The Sinners last sentence to eternal punishment for sins of omission wherein is discovered the nature causes and cure of those sins Lond. 1675 and 79. oct What other things this Mr. Swinnock who was accounted an eminent Preacher among those of his perswasion hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died on the tenth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried in the Church at Maidstone before mention'd In that most virulent and diabolical Pamphlet called Mirabilis annus secundus is a story of one Mr. Swinnock a Minister in S. Martins lane near Canon street in London sometimes Chaplain to one of the Sheriffs of that City who for his Conformity to the Ch. of England and for wearing a Surplice which he began to do on the 21 of Sept. 1662 after he had often said among the brethren he would rather burn than conform c. as the Author of the said Mirab. an saith it pleased the Lord as he further adds to strike him with sickness which proved a violent burning feaver whereof within a few days after before another Lords day came about he died c. Who this Mr. Swinnock was I cannot tell neither doth the Author set down his Christian Name otherwise we might have said something more of him and something to the disproof of that most vile Author THOMAS BROWNE was born in the County of Middlesex elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1620 aged sixteen years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1627 made Proctor of the University in 1636 and the year after domestick Chaplain to Archbishop Laud and Bach. of Divinity Soon after he became Rector of S. Mary the Great called Aldermary in London Canon of Windsore in 1639 and Rector of Oddington in Oxfordshire But upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he being forced from his Church in London by the impetuous Presbyterians he retired to his Majesty to whom he was Chaplain at Oxford By virtue of whose letters he was actually created Doct. of Div. in Feb. 1642 having then only the profits of Oddington coming in to maintain him Afterwards he lost all for his Loyalty lived partly beyond the Seas in the condition of Chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange at which time he became acquainted with divers learned men in Holland and suffered equally as other generous Royalists did After the return of his Majesty he was restored to what he had lost kept some of his Spiritualities especially Windsore to the time of his death without any other promotion in the Church He hath written and published A copy of the Sermon preached before the University at S. Maries in Oxon. 24 Dec. 1633 on Psal 130.4 Oxon. 1634. qu. I have seen a Serm. of his on Joh. 11.4 preached before his Parishiones
Several Speeches in Parl. during his office of L. Chancellour from his Majesties Restauration to 1667. They are in number at least 10 and were printed in fol. papers The difference and disparity between the Estates and Conditions of George Duke of Buckingham and Robert Earl of Essex See in Reliq Wottonianae c. Lond. 1672 octav Animadversions on a book intit Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted by Ser. Cressy Lond. 1674. oct It was printed twice in that year and once in 1685. oct Brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious Errors to Church and State in Mr. Hobbes book intit Leviathan Oxon. 1676. qu. Letter to his daughter Anne Duchess of York upon a report of her inclinations towards Popery and at the same time another to the Duke upon the same subject Written about 1670. It was printed at Lond. 1681. 82. He hath also written 1 A History or an Historical account of Ireland MS which Edm. Borlace made use of without acknowledgment in his book or books which he published of the affairs of that Kingdom so Dr. Jo. Nalson in his Pref. to his second vol. of his Impartial collection of Records c. 3 History from the beginning of K. Ch. 1. to the restauration of K. Ch. 2. MS as also an account of his own life which being hereafter to be published you may be pleased to take this present discourse of him only as a Specimen of a larger to come He died of the terrible disease of the Gout at Roan in Normandy on the ninth day of Decemb. according to our accompt in sixteen hundred seventy and four whereupon his body being conveyed into England 't was buried on the north side of the Capella Regum in S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster The Reader may be pleased now to know that besides this Edw. Hyde have been two more of both his names and time that have been Writers as Edw. Hyde jun. an enthusiastical person who among several things that he hath written hath published A wonder and yet no wonder A great red Dragon in Heaven c. Lond. 1651 And Edw. Hyde first cosin to our Author Edw. E. of Clarendon as I shall tell you at large elsewhere JOHN VAUGHAN a most noted and learned Lawyer of his time was born at Trowscoed in the County of Cardigan educated in Grammar learning in the Kings School within the City of Worcester whence after he had remained there 5 years he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this Univ. in the 15th year of his age and thence at 18 he went to the Inner Temple where for some time he chose rather to follow his Academical Studies of Poetry and Mathematicks than the municipal Laws of England At length falling into the acquaintance of the learned Selden and others was instructed by them in the value of civil learning so that soon after he applied himself closely to the course of that Study particularly of the said laws which he after made his profession but when he began to become noted and admired in the Parliament that began 3 Nov. 1640. of which he was a Burgess for the Town of Cardigan the Civil War broke forth and gave a stop to his Proceedings Whereupon leaving London he retired to his own Country and mostly lived there till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Afterwards being elected Knight for the County of Cardigan to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8 May 1661 his Majesty was about that time pleased to take notice of his great worth and experience Afterwards he confer'd the honour of Knighthood upon him and in few days after viz. May 22. an 1668 he was solemnly sworn Serjeant at Law in the Court of Chancery in Westm Hall and the next day was sworn L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas. He hath written and collected Reports and Arguments being all of them special Cases and many wherein he pronounced the resolution of the whole Court of Common Pleas at the time he was L. Ch. Justice there Lond. 1677. fol. Published by his son Edw. Vaughan Esq and other things as 't is said fit to be printed He died in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried in the Temple Church near the grave of Jo. Selden Over his grave was a large marble stone soon after put and over that was erected a marble Table in the south wall near the round walk with this Inscription thereon Hic situs est Johannes Vaughanus Eq. Aur. Capital Justiciar de Com. Banco filius Edwardi Vaughan de Trowscoed in agro Dimetarum Ar. Leticiae uxoris ejus filiae Johannis Stedman de Strata florida in eodem Com. Arm. unus è quatuor perdocti Seldeni Executoribus ei stabili amicitia studiorumque communione à tyrocinio intimus praecarus Natus erat xiiii die Sept. an Dom. 1608. denatus x. die Decemb. an Dom. 1674. qui juxta hoc marmor depositus adventum Christi propitium expectat Multum deploratus JOHN OXENBRIDGE son of Dan. Oxenb sometimes Doct. of Phys of Ch. Ch. in this University and a Practitioner of his faculty at Daventrey commonly called Daintrey in Northamptonshire and afterwards in London was born in that County became a Communer of Linc. Coll. in 1623 aged 18 years and thence translating himself to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts and soon after became a Tutor there but being found guilty of a strange singular and superstitious way of dealing with his Scholars by perswading and causing some of them to subscribe as Votaries to several articles framed by himself as he pretended for their better government as if the Statutes of the place wherein he lived and the authority of the then present government were not sufficient he was distutor'd in the month of May 1634. Afterward he left the Hall and shewing himself very scismatical abroad was forced to leave the Nation whereupon he with his beloved Wife called Jane Butler went to the Islands of Bermudas where he exercised his Ministry At length the Long Parliament making mad work in England in 1641. c. he as other Schismaticks did returned preached very enthusiastically in severally places in his travels to and fro while his dear Wife preached in the house among her Gossips and others So that he being looked upon as a zealous and forward brother for the cause he had some spirituality bestowed on him and at length was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore in the place of one Simonds deceased who had been thrust into the place of Dr. David Stokes in the time of the rebellion Upon his Majesties restauration Oxenbridge was outed of his Fellowship and afterwards retiring to Berwick upon Twede he held forth there till the Act of conformity silenced him an 1662. Afterwards he went to the West Indies and continued there at Syrenham for a time in preaching and praying At length
a great admirer of the said Hobbes with whom he was intimately acquainted doth speak freely of Dr. Wallis and why he doth so is because as he tells us he was Sub-scribe to the Tribe of Adoniram i. e. Adoniram Byfield was Scribe to Assembly of Divines and had been an active Preacher in the first War and decyphered besides others to the ruin of many loyal persons the Kings Cabinet taken at Naseby and as a monument of his noble performances deposited the original with the decyphering in the publick Library at Oxford He tells us also that he the said Doctor was then the glory and pride of the Presbyterian faction which our Author Stubbe hated for his Patrons sake In the said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a farther discourse upon that subject but that I suppose was never printed The Savilian Professours case stated Together with the several reasons urged against his capacity of standing for the publick office of Antiquary in the University of Oxon. Which are enlarged and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh. Wallis c. Lond. 1658. in 3 sh and an half in qu. The famous Dr. Rich. Zouche who had been an Assessor in the Chancellours Court for 30 years or more and well vers'd in the Statutes Liberties and Privileges of the University did upon great intreaties stand for the said place of Antiquary or Custos Archivorum thereof but he being esteemed a Royalist Dr. J. W. was put up and stood against him tho altogether uncapable of that place because he was one of the Savilian Professors a Cambridge man and a stranger to the usages of the University At length by some corruption or at least connivance of the Vicechancellour and perjury of the senior Proctor Byfield W. was pronounced elected Whereupon our Author Stubbe who was an eye and an ear-witness of all that had most unjustly passed he therefore wrot and published the said book The Commonwealth of Israel or a brief account of Mr. Prynne's anatomy of the Good old cause Lond. 1659. in oct An Essay in defence of the Good old Cause or a discourse concerning the rise and extent of the power of the Civil Magistrate in reference to spiritual Affairs c. Lond. 1659 oct Vindication of the honorable Sir Hen. Vane from the false Aspersions of Mr. Baxter Lond. 1659. oct The same year I find another book published to that purpose intit A Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Rich. Baxter Printed at Lond. A letter to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate mention'd by them in their proposals to the late Parliament Lond. 1659. qu. Miscellaneous positions concerning Government Lond. 1659. qu. They are I suppose the proposals of a model for the Government of the three Nations mention'd by his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill A light shining out of darkness or certain Queries c. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that year the second edition of which hath therein several Additions and an Apology for the Quakers written by the said Stubbe The Commonwealth of Oceana put in a ballance and found too light Or an account of the Republic of Sparta with occasional animadversions upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistical model Lond. 1660. qu. The Indian Nectar or a discourse concerning Chocolata c. Lond. 1662. oct Concerning the said subject one Antonio Colminero of Ledesma a Spaniard and Doct. of Physick hath learnedly written and not unlikely the first of all that hath so done It was rendred into English by one who call'd himself Capt. James Wadsworth under this title Chocolate or an Indian drink c. Lond. 1652. oct Which book our Author Stubbe had seen and has as I conceive followed him in some things As for the said Wadsworth the Reader may know that he was the same who wrot The English Spanish Pilgrim born in Suffolk son of Jam. Wadsworth Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. Cath. bred in puerile learning at Sivil and Madrid in Spain in Grammar and Academical among the Jesuits at S. Omers but at riper years left them and returned to the Church of England was living in Westminster in the time of Oliver an 1655 at which time he was characterized by an English Historian to be a Renegado Proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade and is now living 1655 a common hackney to the basest catch-pole Bayliffs and too boot a Justice of the Peace in his bench book enters him and his wife Pimp and Bawd in his Precinct The miraculous Conformist or an account of several marvellous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrak Oxon 1666. qu. with a Physical discourse thereupon c. Before I go any farther with the remaining titles of our Author Stubbes's books I must make a digression and tell you why this book was written and who the subject of it was Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes son of Will. Gr. Esq was born at Affane in the County of Waterford in Ireland on S. Valentines day 14 Feb. 1628 was bred a Protestant in the Free-school at Lismore and at 13 years of age was designed to be a Student in the Coll. at Dublin but the Rebellion breaking out in that Nation he was forced with his mother to fly for refuge into England where by the favour of his Uncle Edm. Harris brother to Sir Edw. Harris Knight his mothers father he was for the present time relieved After his death his mother for his farther progress in literature committed him to the charge of a certain Presbyterian called Joh. Daniel Getsius a High German Minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devonshire with whom he spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity and found from his hands much favour and love After 5 or 6 years absence he returned to his native Country at that time in a most miserable and deplorable Estate which made him retire to the Castle of Caperquin where he spent an years time in contemplation and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world as he saith that his life became a burthen to him and his soul was as weary of this habitation of clay as ever was Gally-slave of the oar which brought his life even to the threshold of death so that his legs had hardly strength to carry his enfeebled body about c. In 1649 or thereabouts he became a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Roger Earl of Orrery then acting in Munster against the Irish Papists and others then called the Rebels and in 1656 a great part of the Army there of the English being disbanded he retired to his native country of Affane the habitation of his Ancestors and by the favour of the then Governor he was made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Corke Register for Transplantation and Justice of the Peace After his Majesties Restauration he was removed as I have heard from
Teresa was born 28. Mar. 1515 died 4. Oct. 1582 and was buried first at Alva and afterwards in the Monastery of S. Joseph of Avila in Spain 4 Her Treatise of the manner of visiting the Monasteries of discalced Nunns These three last were printed with her Life 5 The second part of the works of S. Teresa of Jesus containing 1 The way of perfection 2. The Castle interior or the seven mansions c. Printed 1669. qu. 6 The holy life of Gregory Lopez a Spanish Hermit in the West Indies Printed 1675. in oct 2d edit This Greg. Lopez was born at Madrid 4. Jul. 1542 died at Sanctoâ—fe near Mexico 20. Jul. 1596 and had his life afterwards written by Franc. Loza and translated into several Langages Mr. Woodhead also changed the stile of a book called The Scale or Ladder of perfection written by Walt. Hilton a Carthusian in the time of K. Hen. 6. Which book having been printed an 1494 he I say changed many antiquated words therein and rendred them more intelligible for ordinary capacities Lond. 1679. oct He also changed the stile of another treatise of the same author written to a devout man of secular Estate teaching him how to lead a spiritual life therein Printed with The Scale c. At length after this most pious learned and retired person Mr. Woodhead had lived to the age of man surrendred up his most devout soul to God in his little Cell at Hogsden before mentioned in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body was conveyed to S. Pancras Church near Holbourn in Middlesex distant about half a mile from the back part of Greys Inn and was buried in the yard there about 22 paces distant from the Chancel of that Church on the south side Afterwards was a raised altar-monument built of brick covered with a thick planke of blew Marble put over his grave and on the said planke was this ingraven A. W. obiit Maii 4. A.D. 1678 aetatis suae LXX Elegi abjectus esse in domo Dei mansi in solitudine non quaerens quod mihi utilis est sed quod multis This monument being built 2 or 3 years after his death those that put it up caus'd his grave to be opened to view the coffin and body that they might be sure that it was the person for whom the said monument was erected And had K. Jam. 2. continued in his throne two years longer his body would have been removed to the Chappel in Univ. Coll. and there had a monument erected over him equal to his great merits and worth WILLIAM WHITE who writes himself Guliel Phalerius was born of plebeian parents in a market town called Witney in Oxfordshire in the month of June 1604 was entred a Student in Wadham Coll. in Act term 1620 took the degrees in Arts holy orders and preached for a time near Oxon. At length the Mastership of the Free-School joyning to Madg. Coll. falling void it was confer'd upon him some years before the Civil War began where being setled several persons by his care and industry proved afterwards eminent But being ejected thence in the fatal year of 1648 he did about that time privately obtain of Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury the Rectory of Pusey near Faringdon in Berks situated within his Diocess and kept it during the interval by the favour of friends and the smalness of its profits After the Kings return Dr. Th. Pierce President of Magd. Coll. who had sometimes been his Scholar procured the Rectory of Appleton near Abendon in the same County of the Society of that house to be confer'd upon him both which Livings he kept to his dying day and built houses on them having been always accounted a noted Philologist and a loyal and pious Divine He hath published several small tracts of which these only have come to my sight Ad Grammaticam ordinarium Supplementa paedagogica alia c. Lond. 1648 and 52. oct Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam Lond. 1660. qu. Paraphrasis cum annotatis ad difficiliora loca catechismi Anglicani Printed 1674 in Lat. and Engl. He died at Pusey before mention'd on the first day of June about the first hour of the morn in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been enformed by letters written from one of his quondam Scholars living in those parts HENRY GREISLEY son of Joh Gr. of Shrewsbury Gent. became a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1634 took the degrees in Arts adheer'd to his Majesties cause in the time of the rebellion for which he suffer'd by ejection from his house and expulsion from the University by the impetuous Visitors an 1648. He hath translated from French into English 1 The Prince Lond. 1648. oct Written by Sieur de Balsac 2 The Christian man or the reparation of nature by grace Lond. 1650. in a large qu. Written originally by Jo. Franc. Senault Besides which translations he hath certain Specimens of Poetry extant which have obtained him a place among those of that faculty After his Majesties restauration he became beneficed in the Church and on the 19 of Apr. 1672 he was installed Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Will. Owen M. A. deceased This Mr. Greisley died about the beginning of June in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was succeeded in his prebendship by Mr. Joseph Glanvill I find R. G. sometimes M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. to be the translator of A discourse of Constancy Lond. 1654. oct Written in Lat. by Just Lipsius but who he was unless Rob. Gomershall I know not Quaere NATHANIEL HOLMES commonly called Homes Son of George Hol. Minister of Kingswood in Glocestershire was born in Wilts became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 17 years whence after he had continued there for a little while he was translated to Exeter Coll. for the sake of John Prideaux whom he much admired and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards returning to Magd. Hall he took the degree of Master and became a frequent preacher for a time in these parts What his preferments were in the Church afterwards I find not unless it was a cure in Glocestershire Sure I am that he took the degrees in Divinity as a member of Exeter Coll. that of Bach. in 1633 and that of Doctor four years after and also that being a severe Calvinist he did upon the defection of the members of the Long Parliament close with the Presbyterians and when the rout of Orthodox Ministers in and near London was made in 1642 and 43 he obtained one or more cures of which the Church of S. Mary Stayning was one But being soon after delivered from the Presbyterian contagion as he call'd it he with Hen. Burton B. D. and Minister of Friday-street in London became great advancers of the faction set up their Independent
bred in Cambridge and was some years before reconcil'd to the Ch. of Rome by a R. Priest 3 Tr. of Will Ireland Thomas Pickering and Jo. Grove for conspiring to murder the King c. 17. Dec. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. 4 Tr. of Rob. Green Hen. Berry and Laur. Hill for the murder of Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey Kt. c. 10. Feb. 1678. Lond. 1679. fol. 5 Try. and condemnation of Tho. White alias Whitebread Provincial of the Jesuits in England Will. Harcourt pretended Rector of London John Fenwick Procurator of the Jesuits in Engl. John Gavan alias Gawen and Ant. Turner all Jesuits for High Treason in conspiring the death of the K. the subversion of government c. 13. and 14. of June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. 6 Try. of Rich. Langhorne Esq Counsellor at Law for conspiring the death of the King c. 14. June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. 7 Tr. of Sir George Wakeman Bt. Will. Marshall Will. Rumley and Jam. Corker Benedictine Monks for High Treason in conspiring the death of the King c. 18. Jul. 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. But the generality of people supposing that Scroggs had dealt very unjustly with Wakeman in letting him go free and not condemning him to be hang'd came out Observations on the tryals of the said persons by one that called himself Tom Tickle foot the Tabourer late Clerk to Justice Clodpate Lond. in 3 sh in fol. In which pamphlet the author intimates as if Scroggs was a Butchers Son Soon after this came out two other Pamphlets to the same purpose one entit The Tickler tickled in 2. sh and an half in fol. and the other A dialogue between Clodpate and Ticklefoot in 3 sh in fol. both reflecting on Scroggs as also a piece of poetry that was published at that time called Scroggs upon Scroggs in tw sh and an half in fol. 8 Tr. conviction and condemnation of Ad. Brommich and Will Atkins for being Romish Priests at Stafford Assize 13. Aug. 1679 and Of Charles Kerne another R. Priest at Hereford Assize 4. of Aug. the same year Lond. 1679. in 5. sh in fol. 9 Tr. and condemnation of Lionel Anderson alias Munson Will. Russel alias Napier Charles Parris alias Parry Hen. Starkey Jam. Corker and Will Marshall for High Treason as Romish Priests c. together with the trial of Alex. Lumsden a Scotch man and the arraignment of David Joseph Kemish for the same offence c. 17 Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680. fol. 10 Tr. of Sir Tho. Gascoigne Bt. for High Treason in conspiring c. 11. Feb. 1679. Lond. 1680. fol. Which Sir Thomas being found guiltless and set at liberty he left the Nation and feeling for a time among the Engl. Benedictine Monks at Lambspring in Germany was there seen and visited by Will. Carr an English Gent. sometimes Consul for the English Nation in Amsterdam in his rambles in those parts of whom he makes this mention From the Princes Court meaning of Hessen I directed my journey to Hanover taking Lambspring in my way a place where there is a Convent of English Monks and there I met with a very aged worthy and harmless Gent. Sir Tho. Gascoigne a person of more integrity and piety than to be guilty so much as in thought of what Miscreants falsly swore against him in the licentious time of plotting c. 11 Tr. of Roger Earl of Castlemaine for High Treason in conspiring the death of the King c. 23. Jun. 1680. Lond. 1681. fol. The reader is to note that this tryal was not published immediatly after it was done as all others were but in Janu. following which was more than half an year after the said Trial had been passed And 't is thought that it would never have been printed had it not been to bring an odium upon Scroggs to the end that he might be turned out of his office for his partiality as 't was by many thought in the said Tryal for his too much baiting of Titus Oates endeavouring as they farther added to lessen his evidence 12 Tr. of Hen. Care Gent. upon information brought against him c. charging him to be the author of a scandalous false and malicious book entit The weekly pacquet of advice from Rome or the History of Popery particularly of that of the first of Aug. 1680 wherein Scroggs is scandalized as to the Tryal of Sir Geor. Wakeman c. 2. Jul. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. 13 Tr. of Elizah Cellier c. 11. Jun. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. in 4 sh In all which Tryals our author Scroggs being chief Judge and Speaker they were by his authority printed At length he giving up the ghost at Weald-hall before mention'd on Thursday the 25 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and three was buried in the Parish Church belonging thereunto Southweald The late Industrious Garter Sir W. D. informed me by his Letters dat 28. Jun. 1684 that the said Sir Will. Scroggs was the son of an one ey'd Butcher near Smithfield Bars and his Mother was a big fat Woman with a red face like an Alewife that he was a very ill humour'd man and as I have heard he would never pay his tithes His boldness got him practice by the Law and some wealth wherewith he purchased a Lordship called Weald c. But the Reader must know that the said person Sir W. D. never speaking well of him after he had refused to pay the Fees of his Knighthood to the Coll. of Armes of which he was to have had a considerable share he is therefore desir'd to suspend his belief of the said character given of him the said Sir W. Scroggs till farther proof may be made to the contrary JOHN OLDHAM son of Joh. Oldham a Nonconformist Minister and he the son of Joh. Oldham sometimes Rector of Nun-eaton near Tetbury in Glocestersh was born at Shipton of which his Father was then Minister near the said Town of Tetbury and in the same County on the ninth day of Aug. 1653 bred in Grammar learning under his Father till he was nigh fit for the University afterwards sent to the School at Tetbury where he spent about two years under the tuition of Henry Heaven occasion'd by the desire of one Yeat an Alderman of Bristow who had a Son then there under the said Master whom Oldham accompanied purposely to advance him in his learning This occasion'd his longer stay at School than else he needed but conduced much to his after advantage In the beginning of June 1670 he became a Batler of S. Edmunds Hall under the tuition of Will. Stephens Bach. of Div where he was observed to be a good Latinist and chiefly to addict himself to Poetry and other studies tending that way to which the bent of his Genius led him more naturally than to any other Four years after he took the degree of Bach. of Arts but went away and did not compleat it by Determination So that living for some time after with his
for Plymouth to sit in that Parl. that began at Westm 20. Mar 1689 but being then grown very infirm by his great age he gave up his place of Commissioner soon after whereupon their Majesties did in the beginning of June 1690 constitute Sir Joh. Trevor Knight Speaker of the House of Commons the said W. Rawlinson then a Knight and Sir Geo. Hutchins Commissioners of the said Great Seal and on the third of the said month being all three sworn their Majesties were pleased to deliver to them the Seal with their Commissions This Sir Joh. Maynard was a person who by his great reading and knowledge in the more profound and perplexed parts of the Law did long since procure the known repute of being one of the chief Dictators of the Long Robe and by his great practice for many years together did purchase to himself no small Estate And however obnoxious he hath rendred himself on other accounts yet I judg my self out of the sense of public gratitude obliged to speak here thus much in his just vindication viz. that he did alwaies vigorously espouse the Interest and Cause of his Mother the University of Oxon contrary to what others of his Profession on whom she hath laid equal engagements have too commonly done by alwaies refusing to be entertained by any against her And when ever persons delegated by her authority for the management of her public litigious conceâ—ns have applyed themselves to him for his advice and assistance he did most readily yeild both by acting his best on her behalf This Sir Jo. Maynard hath these things following extant under his name Several discourses in the management of the evidence against Thom. Earl of Strafford Sev. disc in the man of the Ev. against Will Archb. of Cant. These Discourses you may see at large in the Collections Joh. Rushworth Speech to both Houses of Parliament 24. of Mar. 1640 in reply upon the Earl of Straffords Answer to his Articles at the Barr. Lond. 1641. qu. See in the Trial of the said Count upon an impeachment of High Treason published by Jo. Rushworth Esq wherein are many Arguings of this our author Maynard of whom and his actions relating thereunto are these verses extant The Robe was summon'd Maynard in the head In legal murder none so deeply read I brought him to the Bar where once he stood Stain'd with the yet un-expiated blood Of the brave Strafford when three kingdoms rung With his accumulative active tongue c. Other verses of him are also in mother poem entit A dialogue between the Ghosts of the two last Parliaments at their late interview published in the beginning of Apr. 1681 which for brevity sake I shall now omit Speech at the Committee at Guildhall in Lond. 6. Jan. 1641. concerning the breaches and priviledges of Parliament Lond. 1642 in 1. sh in qu. Londons Liberty or a learned argument of Law and Reason before the L. Mayor and Court of Aldermen at the Guildhall an 1650. Lond. 1682 fol. See more in more in Sir Matth. Hale p. 426. Reports and Cases argued and adjudged in the time of K. Ed. 2 and also divers memoranda of the Exchecquer in the time of K. Ed. 1. Lond. 1079. in fol. published according to the antient MSS. then remaining in the hands of him the said Sir Jo. Maynard Speech and Arguings in the Trial of Will Visc Stafford c. See the said Trial printed at Lond. in fol. 1680 1. wherein are also several of his Discourses At length after this Sir Joh. Maynard had lived to a great age and had acted Proteus like in all changes to gain riches and popularity he gave up the ghost in his house at Gonnersbury in the Parish of Elyng in the County of Middl. on the ninth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred and ninety whereupon his body attended by certain Officers of Arms and a large train of Coaches was in few days after buried in the Church at Elyng In his time lived also another Sir Joh. Maynard Knight of the Bath and second brother to the Lord Maynard chose Burgess for Lestithel or Lestuthiel in Cornwall to sit in that unhappy Parl. that began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 wherein expressing a pique to the Army by endeavouring to have them disbanded an 1647 he was by them impeached of High Treason turn'd out of the H. of Commons and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London He was a zealous Covenantier a sharp Antagonist to the Independent Faction and hath some little things extant going under his name Among which is A Speech in the H. of Commons wherein is stated the case of Lieu. Coll. Joh. Lilbourne c. Lond. 1648. qu. These things I thought fit to let the Reader know because both these Maynards have been taken for each other in History Whether this last be the same Sir Jo. Maynard who was of Graveney in Surrey and died in the beginning of the year 1664 or thereabouts I know not as yet Quaere Another Joh. Maynard I have mention'd under the year 1669 p. 335 but he was a Divine And another I find who was a Devonian born bred in Exeter Coll and afterwards was made Rector of Goodleigh in his own Country but this person who died at Goodleigh in 1627 hath not published any thing RICHARD LOWER the late eminent Physitian was born of a gentile family at Tremere near Blissland and Bodmin in Cornwal elected from the College School at Westminster a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1649 aged 18 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1655 entred upon the Physick Line and practised that Faculty under Dr. Tho. Willis whom he helped or rather instructed in some parts of Anatomy especially when he was meditating his book De Cerebro as I have elsewhere told you In Apr. 1664 he in his travels with the said Doctor to visit Patients made a discovery of the medicinal water at East Throp commonly Astrop near Kings-Sutton in Northamptonshire the Doctor being then as usually asleep or in a sleepy condition on horsback Afterwards our author Lower imparting his discovery to the Doctor they in their return or when they went that way again made experiments of it and thereupon understanding the virtue thereof the Doctor commended the drinking of it to his Patients Soon after the water was contracted into a Well and upon the said commendations 't was yearly as to this time it is frequented by all sorts of people In 1665 our author Lower took the degrees in Physick practised the transfusion of blood from one Animal into another and as if he had been the first discoverer took the invention of it to himself in his book De Corde but mistaken as I have told you elsewhere See my discourse of Franc. Potter under the year 1678. p. 454. However the members of the Royal Society took the hint from his practice and made experiments of it in the year following In
same with the other then was he created D. D. at 5 years standing in the degree of Bachelaur The said Matthew Fowler was now deeply engaged in his Majesties service for which afterwards he suffered as other Royallists did After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire in the place of Dr. Nich. Bernard deceased where he continued to his dying day He hath published besides Totum hominis mention'd in the Fasti an 1637 a Sermon entit The properties of heavenly wisdome preached at the Assizes held at Shrewsbury in the County of Salop. Lond. 1681-2 qu. He died on S. Stephens day 1683 aged 66 years and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Soon after was a black marble monument set up in the north wall over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was almost 22 years Rector of the said Church that he was descended of the antient family of his name living in Staffordshire that he was first of the Vniversity of Oxon and afterwards of Cambridge and the ornament and glory of both and that when he was a young man of Ch. Ch he was one of the chief of those many Scholars that stood up and valiantly defended the Kings cause c. Other persons also occur created the same day or at least were nominated by his Majesty to be promoted Doctors of Divinity when they were pleased to make intimation to the Vicechancellour as one Ramsdâ—n of Linc. Coll King of Magd. Hall Babington of Ch. Ch. c. Jan. 31. Rob. Marks of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Rich. Langston of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Will. Cox of New Coll. Jan. 31. John Jones of Bras Coll. Thom. Hook of Cambr. was created the same day Feb. 21. William Bayly a Dignitary in Ireland He was soon after made Bishop of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in that Country Feb. 21. Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. Feb. 21. Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. Feb. 21. Thom. Bourman of Cambr. One Rob. Boreman or Bourman Brother to Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Green-cloth to K. Ch. 2. was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards D. of D. and Rector of S. Giles Church in the Fields nâ—â—â— London but what relation he had to the said Thomas I cannot yet tell This Robert who seems to be of the family of the Boremans in the Isle of Wight hath written several things among which are 1 The Countrymans Catechisme or the Churches plea for tithes Lond. 1651. qu. 2 The triumph of learning over ignorance and of truth and falshood Being an answer to four quaeries first whether there be any need of Vniversities c. Lond. 1653. qu. 3 Life and death of Freeman Sonds Esq 4 Relation of Sir George Sonds narrative of the passages on the death of his two Sons Both printed at Lond. in qu. The said Freeman Son of Sir George was hanged for murdering his Brother 5 A mirrour of Christianity and a mirrour of charity or a true and exact narrative of the life and death of Alice Dutchess Duddeley c. Lond. 1669. qu. The said Dutchess who had been the Wise of Sir Rob. Dudley died in her house near the Church of S. Giles in the fields 22. Jan. 1668 aged 90 years 6 Sermon on Philip. 3.20 Ibid. 1669. qu. This person Dr. Boreman after he had spent his time in celebacy died at Greenwich in Kent in the Winter time 1675. Mar. 4. Laurence Hinton of Mert. Coll. Prebend of Winchester He died at Shilbolton or Chilbolton in Hampshire of which he was Rector an 1658. 24. Will. Sherbourne of S. John Coll. in this Univ. and Prebend of Hereford He suffered afterwards much for the Kings cause and lost all his spiritualities but being restored to them again after his Majesties return enjoyed himself in a quiet repose for almost 20 years He died at Pembridge in Herefordsh of which he was Rector in the month of Apr. 1679 aged 92 years An. Dom. 1643. An. 19. Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery c. but he being thought unworthy to bear the said office by the King and University forasmuch as he was actually against the former in the present War and altogether neglected the other the K. authorized the members thereof to make choice of another wherefore they calling a convocation on the 24 of Octob. did elect for their Chancellour one that had been formerly of Magd. Coll viz. Will. Marquess of Hertford Vicount Beauchamp Baron Seymour c and on the 31 of the said month they admitted and installed him in the House of convocation then in the north chap. joyning to S. Maries Church in the presence of the Bishops of Bathe and Wells Salisbury Rochester and divers of the Nobility that were then in the University Vicechanc. Joh. Tolson D. D. Provost of Oriel who continuing in his office till the 18 of Nov Dr. Pink before mention'd succeeded him Proct. George Wake of Magd. Coll. Apr. 12. Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. Apr. 12. The senior Proctor having sprain'd his leg or else put it out of joynt and therefore not able to come to the convocation house to be admitted that ceremony a dispensation being first granted was performed in his Chamber at Magd. Coll. As for the other Proctor he dying 29. Nov. Mr. Joh. Maplâ—t of the same house succeeded Dec. 9. This year in the month of Oct. the courts of Parliament assembled in the Schools and there sate for some time so that upon that account and that the other Schools were employed as Granaries all exercises and lectures if any at all were performed in S. Maries Church Bach. of Arts. July 4. Joh. Ahier of New Coll. See among the Masters an 1646. Dec. 2. John Lakenby of Magd. Coll. This person who was the Son of Simon Lakenby of Shadford in the County Pal. of Durham did afterwards retire to S. Edm. Hall and lived there a close student till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred an 1646. At which time perceiving the English Church tottering he went beyond the Sea changed his religion and was entred into the English Coll. at Doway After some time spent there he returned into England became Usher to James Shirley when he taught in the White Fryers at London in the time of Oliver but being seized on and imprisoned for some time was at length released and died in London in a mean condition He was accounted famous among those of his opinion for the Greek and Latin tongues and for ecclesiastical history Feb. 16. John Douch of Trin. Coll. This person who was a Dorsetshire man born hath extant A Serm. on 1. Sam. 10.24 Print 1660. qu. Adm. 73. Bach. of Law But two this year were admitted viz. John Jennings of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 20 and Thomas Godwin sometimes a member of this University Mast of Arts. Apr. 12. Gilb. Coles of New Coll. Apr. 12. Nich. Ward of Sydney
of Exemplars he had the assistance of several learned persons of whom Edm. Castle or Castell Bach. of Div. was the chiefest Vir in quo eruditio summa magnaque animi modestia convenere c. as he doth characterize him yet if you 'll believe that learned person who was afterwards Doctor of Div Arabick Professor of Cambridge and Preb. of Canterbury he 'll tell you in his Preface to his Lexicâ—n Heptaglotton printed in Lond. 1669 that he had more than an ordinary hand in that Work as indeed he had and therefore deserved more matter to be said of him than in the said Pref. to Bib. Polyglot is The other persons were Alex. Huish of Wadh. Coll. Sam. Clarke Clericus of Mert. Coll. of both whom I have spoken already and Thom. Hyde since of Qu. Coll. in this University He had also some assistance from Dr. D. Stokes Abr. Wheelock Herb Thorndyke Edw. Pocock Tho Greaves Dudly Loftus c. men most learned in their time Towards the printing also of the said great and elaborate work he had the contribution of moneys from many noble persons and Gentlemen of quality which were put into the hands of Sir Will. Humble Treasurer for the said Work as Charles Lodâ—wick Prince Elector William Marq. of Hertford Will. Earl of Strafford Will. E. of Bedford Will. Lord Petre Will. L. Maynard Arth. L. Capell John Ashburnham of his Maj. Bedchamber Sir Rob. Sherley Bt Will. Lenthall Mast of the Rolls Joh. Selden of the Inner Temple Esq Joh. Sadler of Linc. Inn Esq Joh. He le Esq Tho. Wendy Esq afterwards Kr. of the Bath and others as Mountague Earl of Lindsey L. Chamb. of England George E. of Rutland Mildmay E. of Westmorland John E. of Exeter Tho. L. Fairfax Bapt. L. Noel Visc Camden Sir Will. Courtney Sir Anth. Chester and Sir Will. Farmer Baronets Sir Franc. Burdet Kt. and Joh. Wall D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. After his Majesties restauration the Author Dr. Walton presented his said six vol. of Bib. Polyg to which being well received by him he not only made him his Chaplain in ordinary but for his great Vertues Learning Loyalty Sufferings and indefatigable industry for the public benefit of Learning did advance him to the See of Chester to which being consecrated in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the second day of December an 1660 sate there tho a little while to the time of his death In Sept. 1661 he with a good retinue went to take possession of his See and when he came to Lichfield many persons of very good worth who had ridden from Chester to that City which is 50 miles did meet and congratulate him there and very many others in his way thence to Chester On the tenth day of the said month all the Gentry almost of the whole County of Chester and the Militia both of Country and City went out to meet him and the day following the spiritual Militia the true Sons of the Church of England went to their reverend Diocesan upon the road All which and others having brought him to his Pallace with the loud acclamations of thousands of people blessing God for so happy a sight he forthwith put on his Episcopal robes and hasted to the performance of his devotions in the Choire When he entred the body of the Cathedral Church Dr. Hen. Bridgman the Dean and all the members of the Cathedral habited in their Albes received a blessing from his Lordship sung Te Deum and so compassing the Choir in manner of procession conveyed him to his chair This was on the eleventh of the said month of Sept. a day not to be forgotten by all the true Sons of the Church of England tho curs'd then in private by the most rascally faction and crop-ear'd whelps of those parts who did their endeavours to make it a maygame and a piece of foppery After his Lordship had made some continuance there and was highly caress'd and entertained by noble and generous spirits he return'd to London fell sick and died in his house in Aldersgate-street on the 29 of Nov. an 1661 to the great reluctancy of all learned and loyal persons On the 5 of Dec. following he was buried in the south side of the Cathedral Church of S. Paul of which he was Prebend opposite to the monument of Sir Christopher Hatton sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being then attended to his grave by three Heralds of Armes in their formalities Soon after was a noble monument put over his grave with a large inscription thereon running thus Manet heic novissimam c. Here awaiteth the sound of the last trump Brian Walton Lord Bishop of Chester Reader look for no farther epitaph on him whose very name was epitaph enough Nevertheless if thou lookest for a larger and louder one consult the vocal oracles of his fame and not of this dumb marble For let me inform thee if it be not a shame to be ignorant this was he that with the first brought succour and assistance to the true Church sick and fainting under the sad pressure of persecution This was he that fairly wiped of those foul and contumelious aspersions cast upon her pure and spotless innocence by those illiterate and Clergy-trampling Schismaticks This was he that brought more light and lustre to the true reformed Church here establish'd whilst maugre the malice of those hellish Machinators he with more earnest zeal and indefatigable labour than any carried on and promoted the printing of that great Bible in so many Languages So that the Old and New Testament may well be his monument which he erected with no small expence of his own Therefore he little needs the pageantry of pompous titles emblazoned or displayed in Heralds books whose name is written in the book of life He died on S. Andrews Eve in the 62 year of his age in the first year of his consecration and in the year of our Lord God 1661. This worthy person Dr. Walton hath written besides Bibl. Polyg these two books 1 Introductio ad Lectionem Linguarum Orientalium Lond. 1655. oct 2 The considerator considered or a brief view of certain considerations upon the Biblia Polyglotta the Prolegomena and Appendix thereof c. Ibid. 1659 oct See in Jo. Owen among the Writers under the year 1683. p. 561. Aug. 12. Richard Dukeson D. of D. of Cambr. He was Minister of the Church of S. Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster of which being sequestred by the violent and restless Presbyterians because of his Orthodox principles as also plundered of his goods and forced to fly for his own security retired at length to Oxon where for a time he exercised his function After his Majesties return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost and lived several years after in a quiet repose Aug. 26. William Brough D. of D. of the said University He had been educated in Christs Coll. there was afterwards Rector of
his rudeness so as with shame he mounted his horse and followed the Coach with his party or guard the Coachman driving as he directed and Captain Merriman a name ill suting with the occasion with another party went foremost The King in this passage shew'd no discomposure at all tho at parting he did and would be asking the Gentlemen in the Coach with him Whether they thought he was travelling they made some simple replies such that served to make his Majesty smile at their innocent conjectures Otherwhile he would comfort himself with what he had granted at the late Treaty with the Commissioners whom he highly praised for their ingenuity and fair deportment at Newport The Coach by the L. Colonels direction went Westward towards Worsley's Tower in Fresh-water Isle and a little beyond Yarmouth Haven About that place his Majesty rested until the Vessel was ready to take him aboard with those few his Attendants The King after an hours stay went aboard a sorrowful spectacle and great example of fortunes inconstancy The wind and tyde favoured him and his company and in less than three hours time they crost that narrow Sea and landed at Hurst Castle or Block-house rather erected by order of K. Hen. 8 upon a spot of earth thrust by nature a good way into the Sea and joyned to the firm land by a narrow neck of Sand which is constantly covered over with loose stones and pebbles Upon both sides of this passage the Sea beats so as at spring tydes and in stormy weather it is formidable and hazardous The Castle has very thick stone walls and the platforms are regular and both have Culverins and Sakers mounted A dismal receptacle it was for so great a Monarch as this King was the greater part of whose life and reign had been prosperous and full of earthly glory Nevertheless it was some satisfaction to his Majesty that his two Houses of Parliament abhor'd this force upon his person having voted that the seizing of the Kings Person and carrying him Prisoner to Hurst Castle was without the privity and consent of either House of Parliament c. The Captain of this wretched place was not unsutabâ—e to it At the Kings going on Shoar in the Evening of the said 30 of Nov. he stood ready to receive him with small observance His look was stern his hair and large beard were black and bushy He held a Partizan in his hand and Switz-like had a great Basket-hilt-sword by his side Hardly could one see a man of more grim aspect and no less robust and rude was his behaviour Some of his Majesties servants were not a little fearful of him and really thought that he was designed for mischief especially when he vapoured as being elevated with his command and puft up by having so royal a Prisoner so as probably he conceived he was nothing inferior to the Governour of the Castle at Millan But being complained off to L. Col. Cobbet his superior Officer he appeared a Bubble for being pretty sharply admonished he quickly became mild and calm whereby 't was visible that his humour or tumour rather was adulatory acted to curry favour wherein also he was much mistaken For to give the L. Colonel his due he was after his Majesty came under his custody very civil to him both in language and behaviour and courteous to those that attended him on all occasions Also that his disposition was not rugged towards such as in loyalty and love came to see and to pray for him as sundry persons out of Hampshire and the neighbouring Counties did His Majesty as it may be well granted was very slenderly accommodated at this place for the Room he usually eat in was neither large nor lightsome insomuch that at noon day in that Winter season candles were set up to give light and at night he had his wax Lamp set as formerly in a silver bason which illuminated the Bedchamber and Tho. Herbert then attending being the sole person at that time left as Groom thereof for Harrington was soon after dismist as I have elsewhere told you he could not otherwise but call to mind a relation well worth the observance which is this as by Letters with several other stories relating to the Kings last two years of his life he very kindly imparted to me When Mountague Earl of Lindsey one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Bedchamber did lay one night on a Pallet by the Kings bed-side a little before he left Oxon in a disguise to surrender his person up to the Protection of the Scots then laying seige to Newark upon Trent was placed at the end of his Majesties Bed as was usually every night a Lamp or round cake of wax in a bason set on a stool The Earl awaked in the night and observed the room to be perfectly dark and thereupon raising himself up he looked towards the Lamp and concluded that it might be extinguished by water got into the bason by some creek But he not hearing the King stir he forbore rising or to call upon those in the next chamber to bring in another light About half an hour after he fell asleep again and awaked not till morning but when he did awake he discerned the Lamp bright burning which so astonish'd him that taking the boldness to call to the King whom he heard by his stirring to be awake he told him what he had observed whereupon the King replied that he himself awaking also in the night took notice that all was dark and to be fully satisfied he put by the curtain to look on the Lamp but concluded that the Earl had risen and set it upon the bason lighted again The Earl assured his Majesty he did not The King then said he did consider it was a prognostick of Gods future favour and mercy towards him and his that tho he was at that time ecclipsed yet either he or they may shine out bright again c. But to return in this sad condition was the King at Hurst the place and military persons duly considered He was sequestred in a manner from the comfort that earth and air affordeth and the society of men The earth confin'd him to that promontorie or gravel walk overspread with loose stones a good depth on which when he walked as usually he did was very uneasie and offensive to his feet but endure it he did with his most admirable and accustom'd patience and serenity of spirit and more alacrity than they that followed him The air was equally noxious by reason of the marish grounds that were thereabouts and the unwholsome vapours arising from the â—argosses and weeds which the salt water constantly at tydes and stormes cast upon the shoar and by the foggs that those marine places are most subject to so that the dwellers thereabouts find by experience how that the air is insalubrious and disposing to diseases especially aguish distempers Notwithstanding all these things the King was content in this most
his proceedings James Baron lately made Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll. by the Com. and Visitors was created the same day He was Son of George Baron of Plymouth in Devons had been puritanically educated in Exeter Coll and closing with the dominant party in the time of the rebellion got besides his Readers place to be Minister of one of the Hendreths in Berks and by the name of Mr. James Baron of Hendreth he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of that County for the ejection of such whom the Saints called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Orthodox and Loyal Clergy After his Majesties restauration he retired to London and lived a Nonconformist mostly at or near Bunhill He hath published under the name of Jacobus Baronius a little thing printed on one side of a sheet entit Quaestiones Theologicae in usum Coll. Magd Oxon. Oxon. 1657 And with Thankful Owen did gather and publish the works of Thom. Goodwin in two vol. in fol. and set before them a canting preface He died in the beginning of the year 1683 and was buried as I have been informed near the graves of the Goodwin and Owen in the fanatical burial place near Bunhill-fields and the New Artillery-yard John Dale of Magd. Coll was created the same day June 8. As for Joshua Cross he was not created Bach. of Div. but Doct. of the Civil Law as I shall anon tell you Febr. 16. Sim. Ford of Ch. Ch. was created by dispensation of the Delegates On the 12. of Jan. going before the said Delegates decreed that the said Mr. Ford. sometimes of Magd. Hall who had been expelled the Vniversity with great injury as they said should be restored with all Academical honour imaginable and that his Grace be proposed for Bach. of Divinity c. He proceeded Doct. of Div. in 1665. Mar. 14. Will. Durham sometimes of New Inn now Chaplain to Will. Lenthall Master of the Rolls was created in Convocation by dispensation of the Delegates Doct. of Law May 19. Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Camerone in Scotland Generalissimo of all the Parliament Forces in England and Constable of the Tower of London was created Doctor of the Civil Law being then in Oxford and entertained by the members thereof as Cromwell and divers prime Officers were The ceremony of the Creation was thus After he had been adorned with a scarlet gown in the Apoditerium or Vestry belonging to the Convocation but without hood or cap the new Beadles who had not yet got their silver staves from those that were lately ejected conducted him with Cromwell towards the upper end of the Convocation House the members thereof then standing up bare whereupon Hierom Zanchy one of the Proctors rising from his seat which pro tempore was supplied by a Master and going to and standing on his left side took him by the right hand and presented him in a most humble posture to the Vicechanc. and Proctors standing with a short flattering Lat. speech such as 't was Which being done and he who then held the Chancellours Chair Dr. Chr. Rogers admitting him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him up to the next place on the right hand of the Chancellours Chair This person who made a great noise in his time not only in England but throughout a great part of the world was Son and Heir of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax a busie and forward man in Yorkshire in raising men and maintaining the Parliament cause against his Majesty by the Lady Mary his Wife Daughter of Edmund Lord Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave which Ferdinando dying 13. March 1647 aged 64 years was buried in the Church of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire As for his Son Thomas whom we are farther to mention he was born at Denton in the Parish of Otlay in the same County in January 1611 9. Jac. 1. and was baptized at Denton on the 25 of the said month After he had spent some time in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge to which afterwards in his latter days he was a benefactor he went beyond the Seas and spent the rest of his youth in martial discipline under the command of Horatio Lord Vere among whose forces he trailed a Pike in the Low Countries was at the considerable action of the taking of Busse in Flanders but had no command while he was there Afterwards he retired to his Fathers house and took to Wife Anne the Daughter and Coheir of the said Lord Vere by whom he had issue Mary born 3. July 1636 and Elizabeth The first of which was married to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham 19. Nov. 1657. In the beginning of the rebellion in 1642 when his Majesty was forced to raise a Guard at York for the defence of his Person this Sir Thomas Fairfax who was entrusted by his Country to prefer a petition to his Majesty the scope whereof was to beseech him to hearken to his Parliament and not raise Forces he did accordingly deliver it but his Majesty refusing it as a Parliamentarian Writer tells us he press'd it with that instance and intention following the King so close therewith in the Field call'd Heyworth-moor in the presence of near a hundred thousand People of the County the like appearance was ever hardly seen in Yorkshire that he at last did tender the same upon the pomel of his saddle But finding no propitiatory as the said author tells us and seeing a War could not be avoided he early paid the vows of his martial education and as soon as the unhappy troubles brake forth he took a Commission under his Father Ferdinando before mention'd whose timely appearance and performances for the Rebels in the North deserves a story of it self He had not served the Parliament in lower commands long but that the great Masters at Westminster did vote him their General 31. Dec. 1644 at which time they cashier'd Robert Earl of Essex of that high command with whom they had sworn 12. July 1642 to live and dye This making of a new General was done when the Parliament ordered their Army to be new modell'd So that victory in a manner being prepared to his hand he vigorously proceeded and what he did in a short time for the blessed cause which is too much here to be set down let the author of Englands recovery c. tell you who tho in the latter end of that book p. 321. he doth highly characterize him especially for his religion but little for policy yet a severe Presbyterian will tell you that he was a Gentleman of an irrational and brutish valour fitter to follow another mans counsel than his own and obnoxious to Cromwell and the Independent faction upon whose bottom he stood for his preferment it having been no dishonour to him to become the property of another mans faction c. adding these matters but what will not a fool in
lately made Principal of the said Coll. by the Committee and Visitors was then actually created Doct. of Div. He was a severe and good Governour as well in his Vicechancellourship as Principality continued in his Coll. till the Kings return and then being discharg'd by the Kings Commissioners to make room for Dr. Thom. Yate he and his wife retired to Studley near Oxford and continued there in a private condition till her death Afterwards he lived in the House of his Nephew Mr. Dan. Greenwood Rector of Steeple-Aston near Dedington in Oxfordshire where dying 29. January 1673 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there and soon after had a Mon. put over his grave July 24. Franc. Cheynell Presid of S. Joh. Coll. July 24. Hen. Wilkinson Senior Can. of Ch Ch. Dec. 18. John Wilkins Warden of Wadh. Coll. Henry Langley Master of Pembr Coll was created the same day This person who was originally Fellow of the same Coll was made Master thereof by order of Parliament 26. Aug. 1647 and established therein by the Visitors on the 8. of Octob. following he being then one of the six Ministers appointed by Parliament to preach at S. Maries and elsewhere in Oxon to draw off the Scholars from their Orthodox Principles In the beginning of the year following he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. G. Morley ejected by the Visitors but being forced to leave his two places after his Majesties restauration he retired to Tubney near Besills-Lee and Abendon in Berks where he instructed the sons of dissenting brethren in Academical Learning as 't was usually reported and oftentimes preached in Conventicles at Abendon of which place his father Thomas Langley had been a Shoomaker He died about the 10 of Sept. 1679 and was buried in S. Helens Church in Abendon One of both his names Minister of Treswell in Nottinghamshire hath written and published The Chariot and Horsemen of Israel A discourse of Prayer c. Lond. 1616. oct and other things but whether he was ever of Oxon I cannot tell About the same time when the two last persons were created it was granted to Henry Cornish Bach. of Div. and Canon of Ch. Ch that he if he please might be actually created Doct. of Div. but he refused it and was not This person who was Son of Will. Cornish of Ditthet in Somersetshire was originally a poor Scholar of New Inn and an Assistant to the Butler there to put on or enter battles in the buttery book and as he had been puritannically educated at home so more under Dr. Rogers Principal of the same Inn. Afterwards he took the degr in Arts and became a puling Preacher left Oxon when it was garrison'd for his Majesty preached among the Godly party and was appointed by the Parliament with Langley before mention'd Corbet Cheynell c. to preach the Scholars into obedience to the then Powers For which his service he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Rob. Sanderson ejected After his Majesties restauration he was removed and preached in these parts as a Nonconformist till the Five-mile-Act was made and then retiring to Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire where he was patroniz'd by Sir Philip Harcourâ— a favourer of such like persons as having been educated in their Principles by one of the Parl. Generals named Sir Will. Waller who had married his mother he lived and carried on the trade there for many years and took all occasions to preach elsewhere when the Indulgences for tender Consciences were granted and did sometimes after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown preach in an antiquated Dancing-School just without the north Gate of Oxon to which place many people did usually resort Afterwards this Meeting was translated to a house in S. Ebbes Parish where it now 1691 continueth and is chiefly carried on by a certain person who has received some education in Cambridge c. In the year 1690 Mr. Cornish left Stanton Harcourt and translated himself to a market Town in Oxfordshire called Bister where he now holds forth So that he who had been a licensed Preacher by the Blessed Parliament as it was by the Brethren so called and had been Canon of Ch. Ch and much respected by those of his perswasion while he lived in Oxon for a godly man doth now in his old age being about 80 years old preach in a Barn in the said Town of Bister for profit sake to silly women and other obstinate people such is the poor spirit of the person Feb. 16. Edward Hinton was then actually created Doctor of the said faculty by the favour of the Delegates of the University This person who was son of a father of both his names of Marlborough in Wilts Minister of Gods word was elected Prob. Fellow of Mert. Coll. 1629 having been before Post-master of that house took his Masters degree became Vicar of Maldon in Surrey by the presentation of his Coll an 1639 ran with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion and was a Preacher up of Sedition and Discontent among them After the War was ceased he became Rector of Islip in the County of Oxon in the place as I suppose of a Loyalist ejected which by conformity after his Majesties restauration and the death of the former Incumbent he kept to the day of his death He hath published The vanity of Self-boasters Sermon at the funeral of Joh. Hamnet Gent. late of Maldon in Surrey on Psal 52.1 Oxon. 1651. qu. He died 22 July 1678 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Islip Whereupon Rob. South D. D. and Preb. of Westminster succeeded him in that Rectory In the month of January this year the Delegates of the University gave leave to four persons thereof that they might supplicate the ven Congr or Convoc for the degr of Doctor of Div. viz. 1 Tho. Goodwin the new President of Magd. Coll. but he being not yet setled did not See more among the created Doctors of Div. 1653. 2 George Marshall the new Warden of New Coll who refused it 3 Edw. Pococke Canon of Ch. Ch but he being soon after turned out for denying the Engagement he did not then take that degree 4 Ralph Button M. or A Orator of the Univ. and Canon of Ch. Ch who being newly married or upon the point of Marriage refused to be at the charge and so continued in the degree of Master all his life time This person who was the son of Robert Button of Bishopston in Wiltshire was originally of Exeter Coll. where being put under the tuition of a puritannical Tutor he made so great a progress in philosophical and other Literature that when he was Bachelaur of Arts he was recommended by Dr. Prideaux his Rector to Sir Nath. Brent Warden of Merton Coll to stand for a Fellowship there Whereupon an Election being appointed in 1633 very many stood and twelve were chosen Probationer Fellows whereof the said Ralph Button being one