Coll. in Oxon and Trin. Coll. in Cambr besides great and large sums of money annually bestowed some to publick and some to private charities His Legacies at his death for charitable uses came to 1500 l which afterwards were paid part to All 's Coll part to the Church of Canterbury part to the Hospital of Harbledowne in Kent and the rest to indigent persons I have heard Sir Joseph Sheldon before mentioned say who was afterwards buried near to the body of his Uncle that from the time of Dr. Sheldon's being made Bishop of London to the time of his death it did appear in the book of his Accompts that he had bestowed upon publick pious and charitable uses about threescore and six thousand pounds In his Archbishoprick succeeded Will. Sancroft D. D. Dean of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in Lond. and sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge who after he had been nominated by the King thro the endeavours of James Duke of York was consecrated in the Abbey Ch. of S Peter at Westm on Sunday the 27 of Jan. 1677. What he hath written and published except 1 Modern policies taken from Machiavel Borgia and other choice authors by an eye witness Lond. 1652 in tw 2 Serm. on the first Sunday in Advent 1660 at the consecration of John Bishop of Durham William Bishop of S. Dav. c. Lond. 166â— qu. and 3 Serm. preached to the H. of Peers 13 Nov. 1678 being the Fast day appointed by the King c. Lond 1679. qu. I say what he hath published besides these things let others speak while I tell you that after he had sate in the said See without the exception of any and had behaved himself with great prudence and moderation was after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown deprived with five other Bishops for not swearing Allegiance and Supremacy to that Prince and his Queen JOHN PARRY sometimes of Trin. Coll. near Dublin afterwards Fell. of Jesus Coll. in this Univ was consecrated Bish of Ossory in Ireland on the death of Griff. Williams in the beginning of the year 1672 and died a little before the Nativity in sixteen hundred seventy and seven under which year you may see more among the Writers p. 448. In the said See succeeded his brother Ben. Parry as I am now about to tell you BENJAMIN PARRY sometimes of Trin. Coll. near Dublin afterwards of Jesus in this Univ and at length Fellow of Corp. Ch. was consecrated Bish of Ossory in Jan. 1677 and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 462. In the said See succeeded Dr. Michael Ward as I have elsewhere told you RALPH BRIDEOAKE son of Rich. Brid by Cicely his wife dau of John Booth of Lancashire and he the son of another Richard of Adbaston was born as I have been informed at Chitham Hill near Manchester in the said County was admitted a Student in Brasn Coll. 15 Jul. 1630 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and determining soon after his Disputations did so much please Dr. Pink Warden of New Coll then Vicechancellour of the Univ that he forthwith upon enquiry that his condition was mean made him a Pro-Chaplain of the said New Coll. In 1636 he among many others was actually created Mast of Arts by vertue of his Maj. Letters dated at Oxon he being then accounted a good Greecian and Poet But having nothing to keep up the degr of Master only his employment in the said Coll he became Curat of Wytham near Oxon for Dr. Joh. Brikenden sometimes of Magd. Coll and Corrector of the Press in Oxon. In which last employment hapning to correct a book of Dr. Tho Jackson President of C. C. Coll to whom he had often recess that Doctor had such an affection for him that upon the vacancy of the Free-school at Manchester founded by Bishop Hugh Oldham of which the President of the said Coll. for the time being is Patron he forthwith gave the government of it to him So that being soon after setled there he by his interest and great forwardness became Chaplain to the Earl of Derby whom and his family he much pleased And when Latham House in Lanc. belonging to the said Count was besieged by the Forces belonging to Parliament he was all the time in it and did good service When the Kings Cause declined he stuck close to the said family and managed as 't is said most of the Estate belonging to it In 1651 his Lord James Earl of Derby being engaged for K. Ch. 2. at Worcester fight and before he was after the loss of the day taken by the Parliamenteers in Cheshire Whereupon he being like to lose his life this his Chaplain Mr. Brideoake with others were desired to sollicit the Grandees at Westminster to save him and Will. Lenthall the Speaker of the House of Com. being much plyed by the said Chaplain with more than ordinary reason and application Lenthall thereupon when he saw nothing could save his Lords life finding him to be a man of parts and business made him his own proper Chaplain and soon after Preacher of the Rolls in Chancery lane Which act of his tho noble and generous yet he was clamour'd at and gained the ill will of divers members of Parliament for his entertaining openly and afterwards preferring a Malignant as they term'd him Soon after by Lenthall's endeavours he became Vicar of a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Witney where being setled he preached twice every Lords day and in the Evening catechised the Youth in his own house outvying in labour and vigilancy any of the godly Brethren in those parts He also by his Patron 's means got the Rectory of the said place which had been leased out to be annexed to the Vicaridge whereby it became one of the richest Rectories in Oxford Diocess and not long after he was made Minister of S. Bartholmew near the Royal Exchange in London where in holding forth preaching and laying about him in the Pulpit he equalled any of the holy Brethren of that City On the 14 of March 1659 he was appointed one of the Commissioners by Act of Parliament for the approbation and admission of Ministers of the Gospel after the Presbyterian mode but that Act soon after vanishing upon the approach of his Majesties restauration he by his unwearied diligence and application was made Chaplain to his Majesty installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thom. Howell B. of Bristow several years before dead on the 11 day of July and actually created Doct. of Div. in the beginning of Aug. following an 1660. About that time he became Rector of the rich Church of Standish in his native Country given formerly to him by the Earl of Derby but hindred from enjoying it by the Triers in Oliver's Reign between whom and him followed some controversie concerning that matter but how terminated I cannot tell
been admitted Bach. of Arts an 1638 was actually created Bach. of the Civil Law by vertue of the Chancellours letters directed formerly to the Convocation This person who should have been mention'd among the Writers could I have obtained full information of him was a Ministers Son of or near to the City of Glocester and nearly related to Dr. Miles Smith sometimes Bishop of that City was at his first coming to Magd. Coll. a Servitour as his contemporaries have informed me was now a sufferer for his Majesties cause and after his restauration a retainer and secretary to the Archb. of Canterbury He hath published The Psalmes of K. David paraphrased into English Meeter Lond. 1668. oct and perhaps other things He had a Son of both his names sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll who dying in the Parish of S. Peter in the East 17. Oct. 1682 aged 18 his body was conveyed thence to Lambeth near London I think and there buried The said Dr. Smith Bishop of Glocester had a Son called Miles as I have elsewhere told you which is all I know of him Mast of Arts. June 17. James Aston of S. Johns Coll a Captain in the Kings Army Afterwards he was a suffererer for his Majesties cause but after his restauration he became well beneficed and in Ap. 1682 Canon of Wells July 1. Nathaniel Reading of Mert. Coll. 20. Giles Oldisworth Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was then actually created Master by vertue of the Chancellours Letters written in his behalf and read in a Convocation held on the 21. of Feb. going before This loyal Divine who was the son of Robert Oldisworth Esq by Miriel his Wife Daughter of Nich. Overbury and Sister to Sir Thomas who was poyson'd in the Tower of London was born at Coln-Rogers in Glocestershire an 1619 educated in the College School at Westminster elected Scholar of Trinity Coll. in Cambridge 1639 forced thence for his allegiance to the King retired to Oxon and was there created Master as before I have told you he being then Rector of the Church of Bourton on the Hill near to Morton in the Marsh cammonly called Morton Henmarsh in Glocestershire He hath written and published 1 The stone roll'd away and life more abundant viz. The holy Royallist or secret discontents of Church and Kingdom reduced unto self-denial moderation and thankfulness Lond. 1663. 64. qu. Before it is his Majesties picture as being dedicated to him from whom he had received as it seems some kind of preferment after his restauration Into the body of this discourse p. 370 is haled in 2 A Sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Dorothie Rutter Wife of Mich. Rutter Esq who died in Child-bearing 'T is without a text and dedicated to Sir Joh. Hales of Warwick Bt Nephew to the said Dorothy In this volume the author inserts many trivial impertinent and weak passages yet seems to shew some considerable reading in the Fathers and other old authors to have been honest loyal and a zealous stickler to his capacity for the establishment of the Church of England in its whole constitution 3 The race set before us shewing the necessity laid upon Gospel believers to run with diligence thorow all Gospel duties Sermon preached at Mercers Chap. in Lond. on the 11 of May 1665 on 1. Cor. 9.24 Oxon. 1666. qu. He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen viz. 4 Visitation Sermon preached at Camden in Glocestershire on 2. Cor. 7.1 printed as it seems in 1662. qu. 5 The Father of the faithful tempted c. a funeral Sermon c. Oxon 1677. 6 Sir Tho. Overburies Wife unvail'd c. printed in tw 'T is a Poem and call'd by some The illustrious Wife c. This author Giles Oldisworth died 24. Nov. 1678 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Bourton on the Hill before mention'd Aug. 5. Tho. Vincent of Ch. Ch. lately in service for his Majesty in remote parts was then created by vertue of his Majesties Letters formerly sent to the University He was a Dorsetshire man born and afterwards a sufferer for the royal cause Dec. 17. Thom. Willis formerly of S. Johns Coll. in this University had then the degree of Master confer'd on him by vertue of the Letters of Sir Thomas Fairfax General of the Parliament Army which partly say that Of his approved ability and integrity for learning and life he had been sufficiently informed c. He was presented to his degree by Mr. Joh. Goad of the same Coll. See more of him among the created Doct. of Div. an 1670. Mar. 11. Rich. Mansell of Ball. Coll. who had been adm Bach. of Arts in 1643 was then created Master of that faculty by vertue of the Letters of the said Sir Tho. Fairfax wherein 't is said that he was then a Parliamentarian Officer He was one of the Guard belonging to the said Fairfax as a senior Fellow of Ball. Coll. hath informed me Bach. of Div. June 6. In a Convocation then held the Vicechancellour signified to the members thereof that several Preachers of this and the University of Cambridge had preached several laudable Sermons before the King Court and Parliament at Oxon For which their pains the Delegates appointed by the University could think of no other way to requite them but by conferring on them Degrees which matter being at length decreed by them and approved by the Chancellours Letters their names then were publickly read with liberty given to the said persons to be created when they pleased Among those that were created this year are these following Jun. 17. Rich. Sherlock Chapl. of New Coll. Jun. 17. James Masters of S. Alb. Hall Jun. 17. Joh. Castilion of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Will. Towers of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Tho. Joyce of Hart Hall Jun. 27. Rowland Nicolls of Magd. Coll. Jun. 27. Thom. Norgate of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last became Chancellour of the Diocess of lile in the room of one Hen. Marshall M. A an 1667 and the other was now Chaplain to Sir Thom. Glemham Governour of the Garrison of Oxon. June 22. Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall 23 Pet. Gunning Chaplain of New Coll. 23 George Ashwell of Wadh. Coll. 23 Will. Creed of S. Johns Coll. 23 Geor. Gisbie of S. Johns Coll. The last being afterwards ejected was restored to his Coll. in 1660 and dying 13. May 1664 was buried in the Chappel of S. Johns Coll. 'T is said that on the same day Isaac Barrow Chaplain of New Coll. afterwards B. of Man and S. Asaph was actually created also Bach. of Div yet he occurs not registred July 1. Joshua Mynne of Ch. Ch lately of Peter House in Cambridge 10. Josias How of Trin. Coll. This person who was now in good esteem for his ingenuity hath published A sermon before the King at Ch. Ch on Psal 4.7 Printed as 't is said in red letters an 1644 or thereabouts in qu but this I have not yet seen He hath also
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
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
their Vault at Felsted adjacent 9 Sept. following on Sam. 3.38 Lond. 1673. qu. 3 The virtuous Woman found her loss bewailed and character preached at Felsted in Essex 30. Apr. 1678 at the funeral of Mary Countess-Dowager of Warwick c. with so large additions which may be stiled the life of that noble Lady Lond. 1678. oct To which are annexed some of her Pious and useful meditations This book was afterwards reprinted twice at least in tw 4 Say on or a seasonable plea for a full hearing between man and man preached at Chelmsford in Essex at the general Assize holden for that County 8. July 1678. Lond. 1678. oct 5 Serm. at the Black-fryers before the Company of Apothecaries 8. Sept. 1681. Lond. 1681. 82. qu. 6 The true interest of nations impartially stated preached at the lent Assizes at Chelmsford in Essex 2. March 1690 proving that the c. Lond. 1691. qu. He hath also written and published The great evil of procrastination or the sinfulness and danger of deferring repentance in several discourses Lond. 1681 in tw And was as it seems the author of The holy life of Mrs. Eliz. Walker late Wife of him A. W.D. D. c. giving a modest and short account of her exemplary piety and charity c. Lond. 1680. oct with some Vseful papers and letters written by her on several occasions He hath other things extant which I have not seen as Serm. on 2. Chron. 23.11 printed 1660. qu. c. Joh. Dillingham Bach. of Div. of Sidney Coll. Joh. Browne Doct. of Phys of Camb. .... Bernard D. of D. of the fame Univ. The Christian name of this Doctor is not registred and therefore I do not know to the contrary but that he may be Nich. Bernard of whom I have spoken in the Fasti 1628. Qu. All which Cambridge men viz. Joh. and Edw. Stillingfleet Thomas White R. Cumberland M. Poole J. Meriton W. Williams A. Walker J. Diliingham Jo. Browne and ... Bernard were incorporated on the 14. of July There were 34 Masters of that University incorporated on the same day among whom besides those before mention'd was Tho. Wilson of Clare Hall one of both whose names was Rector of Arrow in Warwickshire after his Majesties restauration a Writer against the Quakers as Will. Pen G. Fox G. Whitehead c. an 1678 and author of Sermons in 1679. 83 c. whether the same I cannot tell One Will. Johnson also of the said Hall of Clare was then incorporated but not to be taken with one of both his names who was D. of D Chaplain and Sub-Almoner to K. Ch. 2 author of Deus nobiscum A narrative of a great deliverance at Sea Lond. 1659 c. oct and of other things He died 4. March 1666 aged 54 years and was buried in the north trancept or isle joyning on the north side of the choire of S. Peters Ch. in Westminster Creations July 9. Edw. Davenport of Vniv Coll. was created Bach. of Phys by dispensation from the Delegates I find this person to be admitted to the said degree 15 June 1661 and the same day admitted to practice his faculty July 29. Richard Cromwell Chanc. elected of the University of Oxon was actually created Mast of Arts in a Convocation of certain Doctors and Masters of the University held in Whitehall within the liberty of Westm and soon after in the same Convocation he was installed Chancellour of the said University which was the first publick honour done unto him in the nation He was the eldest Son of Oliver L. Protector and had no other breeding than in hawking hunting horse-racing c. He was a boon companion and had done no service in the Parliament Army unless it was the often drinking his Fathers Landlords K. Ch. 2. health His abilities in praying and preaching and love to the Sectaries was much like those of his cousin Rich. Ingoldesby mention'd among the Creations of M. of A. under the year 1649. However he being designed to be his Fathers successor in tne Protectorate was about the time that this honour was done to him sworn a Privy Counsellour made a Colonel in the Army when fighting was over to the end that he might have an interest in parties and parts of the Body politique and the first Lord of the Other House About that time he was commonly called the most noble Lord Richard and rife discourses there were of Richard the fourth but they proved no more than the story of Queen Dick. On the 4 of Sept. 1658 he was proclaimed Lord Protector his Father dying the day before at the usual places in London where Kings use to be and soon after had addresses flew to him at Whitehall from all parts of the three Nations to salute and magnifie his assumption to the Soveraignty wherein he was celebrated for his excellency of his wisdom and nobleness of mind for the lovely composition of his body c. as if he had been another Titus Deliciae Gentis Dominii Britanici c. In the latter end of Apr. 1659 he was as a pitiful thing laid aside and deposed Whereupon withdrawing to Hursley in Hampshire absconded there for a time He had before taken to Wife Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Rich. Maijor or Mager of Hursley before mention'd Son of Joh. Maijor sometimes Mayor and Alderman of Southampton by whom he had issue Oliver Cromwell and other Children The other Daughter and Coheir named Anne was married to John Dunch of Pusey in Berks Son of Sam. Dunch of North Baddisley in Hampshire Esq by whom he had a Son named Major or Maijor Dunch and other Children This Rich. Cromwell who was born in the antient Borough of Huntingdon has gone through no death as yet only a political one His younger Brother formerly called Lord Harry L. Lieut. of Ireland was born also at Hunt and died and was buried some years since at Wickhen in Cambridgshire Sept. 5. Robert Whitehall M. of A. of Mert. Coll. was created Bac. of Phys by vertue of the Letters of R. Cromwell Chanc. of the University Nov. 11. Jos Williamson of Qu. Coll now in France was diplomated M. of A. Dec. 2. Abraham Cowley the great ornament of our Nation as well by the candor of his life as the excellency of his writings was created Doctor of Phys This Gentleman who is justly characterized to be Anglorum Pindarus Flaccus Maro deliciae decus desiderium aevi sui was born in Fleetstreet near to the end of Chancery-lane in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London an 1618. His Father who was a Grocer dying before the Son was born the Mother by her endeavours and friends got him to be a Kings Scholar at Westminster where in the year 1633 being then going into the sixteenth year of his age he composed a book called Poetical Blossomes whereby the great pregnancy of his parts was discovered Soon after having obtained the Greek and Rom. Languages he was removed to Trin.
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
of that Imperial City 3. From Vienna to Hamburg 4. From Colen to London Wherein the Mines Bathes c. Lond. 1679. qu. An account of which also is in the Royal or Phil. Transact nu 130. He hath also several Discourses printed in the said Phil. Trans and in the Phil. Collections hath translated into English The life of Themistocles which is in Plutarchs lives translated from the Greek by several hands Lond. 1683. oct and The life of Sertorius in the Third vol. of Plutarchs lives Lond. 1684. oct c. Doct. of Div. July 2. Gilb. Coles of New Coll. July 2. Will. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. The last accumulated the degrees in Div. and was afterwards B. of S. Asaph Creations Mar. 28. Sir Joh. Huband of Qu. Coll. Bt. Apr. 17. William Julius Coyett Son of the Lord Peter Julius Coyett Lord of Lynbygord and Bengsboda Counsellour of the State and Chancellourship of Sweden now Embassador extraordinary with the Lord Baron Flemming from his Majesty of Sweden to the King of Great Britain was presented with a little Speech by Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Deputy-Orator and actually created and admitted Master of Arts by the Vicechancellour The said Pet. Jul. Coyett had been Resident for the K. of Sweden in the Court of Ol. Cromwell who confer'd on him the honour of Knighthood 3. May 1656 And afterwards before the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he was Envoy extraordinary from the said King to the States of Holland and West-Friesland Peter Trotzigh a young Nobleman companion to the former Son of the most noble John Trotzigh chief Governour or Master while he lived of the Copper Mines in Coperberg for his sacred Majesty of Sweden was also presented by the said Dep. Or. and actually created M. of A. on the said day Sir Will. Farmor of Magd. Coll. Bt. was also created M. of A. in the same convocation Apr. 23. Sir Edw. Acton of Qu. Coll. Bt was created M. A. July 4. Lewis Reness Pastor of the Church at Breda and the Professor of Div. in the Aurangian Coll. there was declared Doct. of Div. in a Convocation then held by vertue of the Chancellours Letters written in his behalf whereupon he was diplomated the day following July 4. Franc. Plant another Pastor of the said Church and Profess of the Heb. tongue in the said Coll. July 4. Anton. Hulsius Pastor of the Church belonging to the Low Countries at Breda Both which being then declared Doctors of Div were diplomated the next day An. Dom. 1668. An. 20. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Fell again continued in his office by the decree of the Delegates of Convocation Octob. 5 without any nomination thereunto by the Chancellour he being as yet not sworn or installed so that thereby all the Chancellours power rested in the Deputy Proct. Rich. White of S. Maries Hall Apr. 1. Will. Durham of C. C. Coll. Apr. 1. Balliol Coll. having not a statutable Master to undergo the procuratorial office this year which the Carolyne Cycle did appoint Mr. Benj. Woodroffe a Student of Ch. Ch. entred himself a Commoner in the said Coll. a day or two before the time of election And being elected by the Master and Masters of the said College he stirred so much in the matter for admission thereunto in Convocation as to have a hearing before the King and his Council But they finding it a litigious thing refer'd it to the University Wherefore the Doctors and Masters assembled in Convocation for the admission of the Proctors they did after Mr. Woodroffe had made an eloquent Speech before them in his own defence and for the obtaining of the office adjudg the matter to the Halls so that Mr. White who had been chosen before was then admitted Bach. of Arts. Apr. 16. Joh. Floyr of Qu. Coll. May 5. Rich. Peers of Ch. Ch. Octob. 22. Rich. Lucas of Jes Coll. Feb. 11. Jerem. Wells of S. Joh. Coll. 18 Joh. Shirley of Trin. Coll. 18 Rich. Banke of Linc. Coll. Of the last of these four you may see more among the Masters an 1671. Feb. ... Edward Palmer of Qu Coll. This Gent who was a younger Son of Sir Will. Palmer of Werdon in Bedfordshire wrot An Elegy on the death of Mr. James Bristow late Fellow of All 's Coll. Oxon. 1667 in one sh in qu. Adm. 171. Bach. of Law Apr. 1. Edward Yonge of New Coll. He hath published several things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. Apr. 8. Will. Hopkins of S. Maries Hall lately of Trin. Coll. June 5. Thom. Laurence of Vniv Coll. This person who was lately a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll but now Fellow of that of Vniv was eldest Son of Sir Joh. Laurence of Chelsey in Middâ—esex Bt and being esteemed an ingenious person he was elected Musick reader for the Act an 1671. While he was of S. Johns Coll he was appointed to speak a Speech in verse before the King Queen and Duchess of York when they in the afternoon of the 29 of Sept. 1663 went to visit that Coll which being well performed they were printed with this title Verses spoken to the King Queen and Duchess of York in S. Johns Library in Oxon printed at the end of Verses spoken c. by Thom. Ireland mention'd in these Fasti an 1657. July 9. Richard Reeve of Trin. Coll. Dec. 12. Joh. Wolley of Trin. Coll. The last of these two who was a Ministers Son of Oxfordsh was afterwards Rector of S. Mich. Church in Crooked-lane London and at length Rector of Monks-Risborow near Aylesbury in Bucks He hath published A Sermon preached at Oxfordshire Feast in Lond. 25. Nov. 1674 on Gen. 13.18 Lond. 1675. qu. He died at Monks-Risborow before mention'd on the 5. Jan. 1675 and was buried in the Church there Feb. 11. Abrah Markland of S. Joh. Coll. 18. John Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Only one was adm and another to practice that fac Bach. of Div. June 9. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. July 7. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. July 7. Nâ—than Biâ—bie of Ch. Ch. Adm 3. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 9. Thom. Jeamson of Wadh. Coll. This Physitian who was Son of a Father of both his names Rector of Shabbington in Bucks was born at Ricot in Oxfordshire and after he had been some years Scholar was made Fellow of his House He hath written Artificial Embellishments or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it Oxon. 1665 oct His name is not set to the book neither did he being then Bach. of Phys desire to be known to be the author of it But having taken vent by the pratling of the Bookseller the author was laugh'd at and commonly called Artificial Embellishments Afterwards the book sold well and I think it was printed a second time The author died in the great City of Paris in July
1674 and was there in some yard or burial place committed to the earth Doct. of Div. June 23. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. July 7. Nathan Bisbie of Ch Ch. The last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations June 5. Sir Theodore de Vaux Kt. Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes Physitian to Hen. Duke of Glocester afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society Physitian to the Queen Consort and honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Creations June 5. Henry Howard Heir to the Duke of Norfolk and a munificent Benefactor to this University by bestowing thereon Marmora Arundelliana or the marbles which for several years before had stood in the Garden of Arundel-house in the Strand near London was actually created with solemnity Doctor of the Civil Law He was afterwards made Earl of Norwich and Lord Marshall of England an 1672 and at length succeeded his Brother Thomas who died distracted at Padua in the Dukedom of Norfolk This Henry Duke of Norfolk died on the eleventh of January 1683 and was buried among his Ancestors at Arundel in Sussex He then left behind him a Widow which was his second Wife named Jane Daughter of Rob. Bickerton Gent. Son of James Bickerton Lord of Cash in the Kingdom of Scotland who afterwards took to her second Husband Tho. Maxwell a Scot of an antient family and Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons Under this Duke of Norfolks name was published History and relation of a journey from Lond. to Vienna and from thence to Constantinople in the company of his Excellency Count Lesley Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece counsellour of State to his Imperial Majesty c. Lond. 1671. in tw Henry Howard of Magd. Coll. Son and Heir of Henry Howard before mention'd was after his Father had been created Doct. of the Civ Law created Master of Arts. On the 28 of January 1677 he being then commonly called Earl of Arundel his Father being at that time Duke of Norfolk he was by writ called to the House of Lords by the name of the Lord Mowbray at which time Sir Robert Shirley was brought into the Lords House and seated next before Will Lord Stourton by the name of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This Hen. Howard was after his Fathers death Duke of Norfolk and on the 22 of July 1685 he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter c. See in the creations an 1684. After these two Henry Howards were created and seated one on the right and the other on the left hand of the Vicechancellour the publick Orator of the University stood up and in an excellent speech congratulated them especially the Father in the name of the University June 16. Thom. Howard of Magd. Coll. younger Brother to Henry before mention'd was then actually created Master of Arts This Thomas Howard who had the said degree given to him when the former two were created but was then absent was with his said Brother Henry Students in the said Coll. for a time under the inspection of Dr. Hen. Yerbury but they did not wear Gowns because both were then Rom. Catholicks The said Thomas afterwards called Lord Thomas Howard continuing in the Religion in which he was born and baptized became great in favour with K. James 2. who made him Master of his Robes in the place of Arthur Herbert Esq about the 12 of Mar. 1686 and afterwards upon the recalling of Roger Earl of Castlemaine was sent Embassadour to Rome where he continued till about the time that that King left England upon the coming in of William Prince of Orange Afterwards this Lord Howard adhered to K. Jam. 2. when in France and followed him into Ireland when he endeavoured to keep possession of that Kingdom against the Forces of the said Prince William then King of England but going thence about publick concerns to France in behalf of his Master the Ship wherein he was was cast away and he himself drowned about the beginning of the year 1690. June 23. Thom. Grey Lord Groby of Ch. Ch was created Mast of Arts He was Son of Thomas Lord Grey of Groby one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory and is now Earl of Stamford c. Thomas Lord Dacre of Dacre Castle in the North of Magd. Coll. was created M. of A. the same day July 2. Thom. Paybody of Oriel Coll of 20 years standing was created M. of A. One of both his names of Merton Coll. was a Writer in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. as I have told you in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 847 but whether this was I cannot yet tell Quaere In the beginning of this year Mich. Etmuller of Leipsick in Germany became a Student in the Bodleian Library where improving himself much in Literature he afterwards became famous in his Country for the several books of Medicine or Physick which he published An. Dom. 1669. An. 21. Car. 2. Chanc. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury who resigning all interest in the Chancellourship of the University being never sworn thereunto or installed by his Letter dated at Lambeth 31. of July the most high mighty and most noble Prince James Duke of Ormonde Earl of Ossory and Brecknock L. Steward of his Majesties Houshold c. was unanimously elected Chancellour on the 4. of Aug having on the 15 of July going before been created Doctor of the Civ Law and installed at Worcester-house within the liberty of Westminster on the 26 of the same month with very great solemnity and feasting Vicechanc. Peter Mews Doct. of the Civ Law and President of S. Johns Coll Sept. 23. Proct. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. Apr. 21. Jam. Davenant of Oriel Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. April 21. Edward Herbert of New Coll. This Gentleman who was a younger Son of Sir Edw. Herbert of London Kt was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester and thence elected Prob. Fellow of New Coll but before he took the degree of Master he went to the Middle Temple and when Barrister he became successively Attorney Gen. in Ireland Chief Justice of Chester in the place of Sir George Jeffries made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench a Knight 19 Feb. 1683 and upon Sir John Churchills promotion to be Mast of the Rolls in the place of Sir Harbottle Grimston deceased he was made Attorney to the Duke of York On the 16 of Oct. 1685 he was sworn L. Ch. Just of the Kings Bench and one of his Majesties K. Jam. 2. most honourable Privy Council whereupon Sir Edward Lutwich Serjeant at Law was made Chief Justice of Chester And about the 22 Apr. 1687 he was removed to the Common Pleas. He hath written in vindication of himself A short account of the authorities in Law upon which judgment was given in Sir Edward Hales his case Lond. 1689. qu. This was examined and answer'd by W. Atwood Barrester and animadverted upon by Sir Rob. Atkâ—ns Kt. of the Bath then late
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
temper great experience travels and modern Languages Our Author Warmstrey hath also written Various Poems And other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day on the 28 of May in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried among the Graves of the Warmstreys not far from the north door of and within the Cathedral Church of Worcester leaving then behind him a widdow named Isabell I shall make mention of his Brother Dr. Tho. Warmstrey under the year 1665. JOHN THORNBOROUGH Son of Giles Thornborough was born within the City of Salisbury became a Semi-Com or Demie of S. Mary Magd. Coll. in the year 1570 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and was made Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke with whom continuing for some time that Count bestowed upon him the Rectory of Chilmark in Wilts and thereby became the first that planted him in the Church of Christ Soon after he became Chaplain in Ordinary to Qu. Elizabeth by the endeavours of the said Count and beneficed in Yorkshire so that being put into the road of Preferment he had the Deanery of York confer'd on him upon the promotion of Dr. Mathew Hutton to the See of Durham to which being elected 28 Oct. 1589 was soon after install'd In 1593 he was made Bishop of Limerick in Ireland where peâ—forming many signal services for the Crown of England he was translated to the See of Bristow in 1603 with liberty then given to him to keep his Deanery of York in commendam But as for his Benefices in Yorkshire which were the Rectories of Brandesburton and Misperton alias Kirkby over Carr they were bestowed on Peter Rollocke Bishop of Dunkell in the month of Aug. the same year On the 17 Feb. 1616 was translated to Worcester whereupon his Deanery was given to Dr. George Meriton Dean of Peterborough elected thereunto 25 Mar. 1617 and his Bishoprick of Bristow to Dr. Nich. Felton Master of Pemb. Hall in Cambridge to which being consecrated 14 Dec. 1617 sate there till the 14 March 1618 on which day he was translated to Ely As for Thornborough he was a person well furnish'd with Learning Wisdom Courage and other as well episcopal as temporal Accomplishments beseeming a Gentleman a Dean and a Bishop But above all he was much commended for his great skill in Chymistry a study but seldom followed in his time And 't is thought that by some helps from it it was that he attained to so great an age A most learned Chymist of this mans time tells us that he knew a Bishop whose fame in Chymistry being celebrated of many he visited and after he had seen a little chymical tract written with his own hand he took him labouring in our gold whence he studied to extract Vitriol which he held his only secret whereupon he left him for that he knew that he had neither before him the proper matter nor the manner of working according to the doctrine of Philosophers c. But who this Bishop was unless our Author Thornborough or a Bishop in Germany whom he met in his Travels I know not nor doth it signifie much His writings are these The joyful and blessed reuniting the two mighty and famous Kingdoms of England and Scotland into their ancient name of Great Britain Oxon. 1605. qu. published under the name of John Bristoll But several things therein being conceived to be derogatory to the honor of both Houses of Parliament the Author was complained of only in the upper house which was soon after passed over In 1604 was printed at London A Treatise of Union of the two Realms of England and Scotland said in the title page to be written by J. H. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Nihil Aliquid Omnia in gratiam eorum qui artem auriferam physico-chymicè pie profitentur Oxon. 1621. qu. The last will and testament of Jesus Christ touching the blessed Sacrament of the body and blood c. Oxon. 1630. qu. A discourse shewing the great happiness that hath and may still accrue to his Maj. Kingdoms of Engl. and Scotland by reuniting them into one Great Britaine in two parts Lond. 1641. in tw published under the name of Joh. Bristoll but 't is not the same with the former 'T was afterwards printed at Edenburgh in the Latin Tongue Pax vobis concerning the Unity and Peace of the Church This I think is not printed nor other things that he had lying by him at the time of his death He departed this mortal life in the Castle called Hartilborough in Worcestershire after he had been twice married on the ninth day of July in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried on the north side of the Chappel behind the east end of the choire belonging to the Cath. Chur. of Worcester near to a fair alabaster monument which he had fourteen years before erected for himself with his Statua in his episcopal Robes curiously carved in stone lying thereon On the Canopy over his head I find this written on the side of it Denarius Philosophorum dum spiro spero And on the north side is this In uno 2 0 3 2 4 1 10. non spirans spero Over his head is this Qui dormis attolle caput quia in infirmitate virtus in morte vita in tenebris lux And over his feet mors nubecula transiens laborum finis vitae janua scala coeli mihi lucrum Besides these Sentences is a large Inscription painted on a table hanging above his feet which for brevity sake I now omit See more in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 200 b. He had issue by his first wife Sir Benj. Thornborough Kt. and Edw. Thornborough Archdeacon of Worcester who died in 1645 and by his second named Elizab. Bayles of Suffolk Sir Tho. Thornborough of Elmeley Lovet in Worcestershire Kt. c. He had also a Brother named Giles who was Subdean and one of the Canons of Sarum in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth as also Rector of Orcheston S. George in Wilts who died in 1637 leaving a Relict behind him named Jane He had also a nephew of the same name Preb. of Worcester in 1629 who dying in 1663 one Will. Owen M. A. was installed in his place 13 Feb. the same year A little before this Bishops death he told his Maj. K. Ch. 1. that he had outlived several that had expected to succeed him in the See of Worcester and now said he I am afraid I shall outlive my Bishoprick which almost had come to pass JOHN DAWSON a most eminent Preacher of his time was born in Oxfordshire particularly as it seems within the City of Oxon became first of all conversant with the Muses in Ch. Ch. in Mich. term 1620 aged about 15 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards entring into holy orders was made Vicar of Maydenhead in Berks where and in the neighbourhood he was much
place on the 13. Dec. 1594 and in that of his age 15 or thereabouts After he had taken the degrees in Arts he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of the said House 3. Jan. 1605 about which time entring into Holy Orders took the degree of Bach. of Div. five years after In 1614 he was made Greek Reader of his College performed his duty well and about 1623 left that and the House to avoid his being ingaged in a faction then between the President and Fellows knowing very well that if he favoured either side expulsion would follow because he had entred into a wrong County-place Afterwards he became Vicar of Rye in Sussex in which County at Lewes as 't is supposed by some he was born by the favour as it seems of the Earl of Dorset but being seldom resident on the place he spent the most part of his time in Oxon in certain hired Lodgings in Penverthingstreet in the Parish of S. Aldate where he continued to his dying day The genius of this person being naturally bent to the study of History and Antiquities he published a Book in vindication of the antiquity and dignity of the University of Oxon against such matters that Londinensis otherwise called John Cay had said in his book De antiquitate Acad Cantab. in derogation to Oxon the title of it is this Antiquitatis Academiae Oxoniensis Apologia in tres libros divisa Oxon. 1608. qu. To which books are these things added Miscellanea quaedam de antiquis aulis Studentium collegiis quondam hodie in universitate existentibus Summorum Oxoniensis Academiae Magistratuum hoc est Cancellariorum Commissariorum et Vicecancellariorum necnon Procuratorum c. catalogus In the aforesaid Apology tho sufficient judgment yet greater reading is shewed which hath occasioned many understanding men to suppose nay rather confidently believe that he had the helps of Tho. Allen and Miles Windsore in the composition of the work especially for this reason that when he had fitted it for the Press he was scarce 28 years of age Howsoever it is I shall not pretend to judge sure I am that notwithstanding several persons have endeavour'd to pick flaws and errors thence and have characteriz'd it to be rather a rude heap than an exact pile yet the body and general part of it remains as yet unanswer'd The Author intended to reprint the said Work with additions collected from many obscure places but the grand Rebellion breaking out in 1642 in the time of which he died his design was frustrated and the Book it self interleav'd and filled with additions together with many rarities were when the great fire hapned in Oxon which was soon after his death either burnt with the house wherein he died having been there left by his Executor or else then conveyed away by such who commonly seek advantage by such disasters I have heard some Masters of Arts who then bore Arms for his Majesty in Oxon say that six or seven Volumes of his collections in quarto either of Greek Mathematicks Philosophy Heraldry Antiquities c. in all which he was well read were offered to them by a beggerly Soldier for very inconsiderable prizes and Dr. Herb. Pelham sometimes of Madg. Coll. hath aver'd it for an unquestionable truth that two or three Vol. were offered to him by such indigent persons for six pence a peice such is the sordidness of ignorance and poverty Our Author Twyne was of a melancholick temper and sedentary life and wholly spent his time in reading writing and contemplation He made it his whole endeavour to maintain the University Privileges and Liberties against its oppugners and spent much mony and travel for that purpose especially for the obtaining copies of the antient Charters and Bulls which formerly had been granted thereunto He left no Library Office or place wherein he thought were reposed monuments of Literature and Antiquity unperused expecting in them something that might redound to the honor of his Mother making thereby an incredible pile of collections But so it was that most of them except some which he bequeathed to the University relating to controversial matters between the two Corporations were with great resentment let it be spoken lost in the said fire Had they or his interleav'd Book been saved the work of the Hist and Antiq. of Oxon which was some years since published might probably have been spared or at least have come sooner to light with much gratitude to the lucubrations of this industrious Antiquary but being lost as I have told you tho Dr. Langbaine of Qu. Coll. and one or more did make diligent search after it I was forced to peruse the records in all those places which he had done before nay each College treasury of muniments which were except one omitted by him to the end that all local antiquities in Oxford and other matters of Antiquity not well understood by him might be by me known and in future time described if ever the English Copy of the said Hist and Antiq. of Oxon may hereafter be published to which I intend to add the Antiquities of the Town or City of Oxon. Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. had an especial respect for our Author Twyne and employed him in drawing up the University Statutes now in use which were afterwards corrected methodized and furbisht over with excellent Latine by Dr. Pet. Turner one of the Savilian Professors as I shall tell you hereafter In the said noble work of gathering the Statutes together our Author being the chief if not the only Drudge for he transcribed them all under his own hand he was rewarded with the place of Custos Archivorum founded and established by the Chancellour and Scholars of the University after the Statutes were compleated an 1634. Which place he enjoying about ten years took his last farewell of this world in his Lodgings in S. Aldates Parish before mentioned on the fourth day of July in sixteen hundred forty and four Afterwards his body was buried in the inner Chappel or Choire of Corp. Ch. College to which House he had bequeathed in his last Will many choice Books whereof some were Mss of his own writing What I have further to observe of our Author is that tho he was accounted by divers persons an honest plain Man one rather industrious than judicious notwithstanding well skilled in the Mathematicks cynical than facetious morose than pleasant clownish than courteous close than communicative and that he was evilly spoken of by the Oxonian vulgar as a Conjurer or one busied in the Black Art a betrayer of their Liberties and I know not what yet he was a loving and a constant friend to his Mother the University and to his College a severe Student and an adorer of venerable Antiquity And therefore forasmuch as his love was so which none that knew him could ever say to the contrary his memory ought to be respected by all vertuous and good men REES PRICHARD was born as
and are printed in a book intit Gerard. Jo. Vossii clarorum virorum ad eum epistolae Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paul Colomesius I have seen and perused a Ms transcrib'd under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead containing all the passages which concern the University of Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the Chancellourship of the said University It commences 12 Apr. 1630 and ends 14 Dec. 1640 bound up in a vellam cover in fol. and endorsed thus Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This Ms was communicated to me when I was composing the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews President of S. Johns Coll. wherein finding many useful things for my purpose which another may do for his and therefore it escap'd Prynn's hands I thought it therefore not unworthy of a place here as I could do of many other things under his hand which I have seen reserved in private custody as choice monuments but time calls me away and I must hasten Yet I cannot but let the Reader know that there is a fol. Ms going from hand to hand entit Wholsome Queries resolved by Dr. Laud manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Principle for Protestants c. sed caveat lector At length in the beginning of the civil Distempers this worthy Archbishop was upon suspicion of introducing Popery into the Nation arbitrary Government and I know not what aggravated in an high degree committed Prisoner first to the Black-rod and afterwards to the Tower where remaining about four years was at length by the Votes of a slender house beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January in sixteen hundred forty and â—our Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of Allhallowes Barkin which he before had consecrated remained there entire till July 1663 at which time being removed to Oxon was on the 24 day of the same month deposited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick near to the high Altar of S. Johns Coll. Chappel Thus died and buried was this most reverend renowned and religious Arch-prelate when he had lived 71 years 13 weeks and four days if at least he may be properly said to dye the great example of whose vertue shall continue always not only in the minds of men but in the Annals of succeeding ages with renown and fame RICHARD BAKER son of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. by Cath. his wife daug of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt. a younger son of Sir Joh. Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt. Chancellour of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent particularly as I have been informed by his daughter at Sissingherst before mention'd entred a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584 and was matriculated in Mich. term that year as a Kentish man born and the son of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age at which time several of the family of the Scots before mention'd studied then in the said Hall After he had spent about 3 years in Logic and Philosophy in that house then flourishing with men of note in several Faculties he went to one of the Inns of Court afterwards beyond the seas and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accomplish'd person In 1594 after the celebration of a most solemn Act he was with other persons of quality actually created Master of Arts and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds at which time this our Author who lived at Highgate near London was esteem'd a most compleat and learned person the benefit of which he reaped in his old age when his considerable estate was thro suretiship very much impaired In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire being then Lord of Middle Aston and of other lands therein and if I mistake not a Justice of the Peace He was a person tall and comely of a good disposition and admirable discourse religious and well read in various Faculties especially in Div. and Hist as it may appear by these books following which he mostly composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions Cato variegatus Or Catoes moral disticks varied Lond. 1636. 'T is a Poem Meditations and disquisitions on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit qu. A copy of this book in Ms being sent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the press he returned this testimony of it I much admire the very character of your stile which seemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Austins age full of sweet raptures and of researching conceits nothing borrowed nothing vulgar and yet all flowing from you I know not how with a certain equal facility Med. and disq on the three last Psalmes of David Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the 50 Psal Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the seven penitent Psalmes Lond. 1639. qu. Med. and disq on the first Psal Lond. 1640. qu. Med. and disq on the seven consolatorie Psalmes of David namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103 and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu. Med. and Prayers upon the seven days of the week Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the same I suppose with his motives of prayer on the seven days of the week Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity Lond. 1641. in tw Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer printed with the Apology A solliloquy of the soul or a pillar of Thoughts c. Lond. 1641. in tw Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government unto the death of K. James c. Lond. 1641. c. fol. Which Chronicle as the Author saith was collected with so great care and diligence that if all other of our Chronicles were lost this only would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable or worthy to be known c. However the Reader must know that it being reduced to method and not according to time purposely to please Gentlemen and Novices many chief things to be observed therein as name time c. are egregiously false and consequently breed a great deal of confusion in the peruser especially if he be curious or critical There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58 in which last was added The history of the raigne of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps sometimes a student of Magd. Hall Afterwards in 1671 if I mistake not came out another edit in which was contained an addition of The first thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as also the Occurrences of his Restauration by George late Duke of Albemarle extracted from his Excellencies papers c. which as I have been informed were for the most part
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
his last will and testament He was an humble man of plain and downright behaviour careless of money and imprudent in worldly matters All that knew him esteem'd him a noted Artist a plentiful fountain of all sorts of learning an excellent Linguist a Person of a prodigious memory and so profound a Divine that they have been pleased to entitle him Columna fidei orthodoxae and Malleus Heresecus Patrum Pater and ingens Scholae Academiae oraculum In him also as an ingenious Author saith the heroical wits of Jewell Rainolds and Hooker as united into one seem'd to triumph anew and to have threatned a fatal blow to the Babylonish Hierarchy Insomuch that he might have justly challenged to himself that glory which sometimes Ovid speaking of his own Country Mantua Virgilium laudet Verona Catullum Romanae gent is gloria dicar ego As his learning was admired by forreigners Sext. Amama Rivet and others so were his books especially those written in Latine a cat of which and of the English follow Tabulae ad Grammaticam Graecam introductoriae c. Oxon. 1608. 1629. 39. c. qu. Tyrocinium ad Syllogismum legitimum contexendum Heptades Logicae sive monita ad ampliores tractatus introductoria These two last are printed and go with the Tabulae c. Castigatio cujusdem circulatoris qui R. P. Andream Eudaemon Johannem Cydonium E Soc. Jesu seipsum nuncupat Opposita ipsius calumniis in Epistolam Isaaci Casauboni ad Frontonem Ducaeum Oxon. 1614. oct Alloquium sereniss Reg. Jacobo Woodstochiae habitum 24. Aug. 1624. pr. in one sh in qu. Orationes novem inaugurales de totidem Theologiae apicibus prout in promotione Doctorum Oxoniae publicè proponebantur in Comitiis Oxon. 1626. qu. Lectiones decem de totidem religionis capitibus praecipuè hoc tempore controversis prout publicè habebantur Oxoniae in vesperiis Oxon. 1625. qu. Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the consecration of Exeter Coll. Chap. on Luke 19.46 Oxon. 1625. qu. 2 Purez Uzzah Serm. before the K. at Woodstock on 2. Sam. 6. ver 6.7 Oxon. 1625. qu. 3 Concio ad Art Baccalaureos pro more habita in ecclesia B. Mariae Oxon. in die cinerum in Act. 2.22 an 1616. Oxon. 1626. Twenty Sermons Oxon. 1636. qu. The two first of which are entit Christs counsell for ending law cases Among them are the Consecration Serm. and Perez-Uzzah beforementioned Nine Sermons on several occasions Oxon. 1641. qu. Lectiones XXII Orationes XIII Conciones VI Oratio ad Jacobum Regem Oxon. 1648 fol. Among which are contained the former Lections Orations and Speech to the K. Jam. at Woodst Fasciculus controversiarum ad Juniorum aut occupatorum captum collegatus c. Oxon. 1649. 51. 52. qu. Theologiae Scholasticae Syntagma Mnemonicum Oxon 1651. Conciliorum Synopsis Printed with the Syntagma before-mentioned Published in English at the end of An easie and compendious introduction c. mentioned before in Mathias Prideaux Historie of successions in states countries or families c. Oxon. 1653. c. Epistola de Episcopatu fol. a fragment of which I have seen in one folio sh Euchologia or the doctrine of practical praying being a legacy left to his daughters in private directing them to such manifold uses of our Common-prayer-book as may satisfie upon all occasions without looking after new lights from extemporal flashes Lond. 1655. 56. oct c. Dedicated to his daughters Sarah Hodges and Elizabeth Sutton The doctrine of conscience framed according to the form in the Common-prayer left as a legacy to his Wife Printed in tw Manuductio ad Theologiam polemicam Oxon. 1657. oct Published by Mr. Tho. Barlow with an Epistle before it in the name of the printer Hypomnemata Logica Rhetorica Phys Metaphys c. Oxon. in oct Sacred eloquence or the art of Rhetorick as it is laid down in Scripture Lond. 1659. oct What other things are published under his name I know not unless a Comment on the Church Catechisme pr. 1656. in oct and therefore I am to add that he departing this mortal life of a Feaver at Bredon in Worcestershire in the house of Dr. Hen. Sutton Son of Will. Sutton D. D. Chanc. of Glocester and Rector of Bredon who married his daughter Elizabeth on the twentieth day of July in sixteen hundred and fifty was accompanied to his grave in the Chancel of the Church there by many Persons of quality in the neighbourhood of that place on the 16. of August following Over his grave was a plain stone soon after laid with an Epitaph composed by himself the day and year of his death excepted engraven on a brass plate fixed thereunto the copy of which is already printed wherein you 'll find that he was sometimes Chaplain to Pr. Henry and afterwards to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. Before I go any farther I shall take leave upon the hint before-mentioned of Dr. Prideaux's making his College florish to set down the names of such Outlanders that have retired to Exeter Coll. for his sake have had Chambers there and diet purposely to improve themselves by his company his instruction and direction for course of studies Some of them have been Divines of note and others meer Lay-men that have been eminent in their respective Countries wherein afterwards they have lived most of them are these Joh. Combachius the Philosopher Phil. Cluver the Geographer Sixt. Amama Linguist Nichol Vignier and Dav. Primerose two learned Frenchmen All whom are already mentioned among these Writers Christian Rumphius an eminent Physician see in the Fasti an 1613. Jacobus Dorvilius commonly called D'Orville a Gentlemans Son of Heidelberg in Germany matriculated as a member of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term 1615 and in that of his age 19. Joh. Schermarius a learned German who occurs a member of Ex. Coll. 1613 in which year he had certain lat verses published at Oxon. Jacobus Aretius and Frederick Dorvilius two other Germans who are mentioned in the Fasti an 1613. and 15. Joh. Rodolphus Stuckius of Zurick in Helvetia was a Sojournour of the said Coll. in Mich. term 1615 and afterwards published some of Pet. Martyrs works as I have before told you Joh. Waserus a Native of the same place entred Soj. in the same term and year and afterwards the writer of Elementale Chaldaicum and other things Caesar Calendrinus entred into the said Coll. in the beginning of 1616. see in the Fasti 1620. Imanius Young or de Junge a Zelander in Mich. term 1619. Paul Amaraut or Amarant a Germ. matriculated among the Exonians 1619 aged 18. Christian Son of Herman Julius Viceroy to the K. of Denmark in the Isle of Gotland Gregory and Errick Sons of Pet. Julius Lord of Alsted Linberg c. in Denmark Which three young men were instructed in Logick and Philosophy by Dr. Prideaux Ovenius Julius elder brother to the said Christian was also a Student in the said Coll. under Prideaux who
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
of the superlative worth of that eminent servant of Christ Rowl Wilson beforementioned a member of the Parl. of England and of the honorable Counsell of state and one of the Aldermen and Sherriffs of the City of London by George Cokayne teacher of the Gospel at S. Pancras in Soper-lane in London This Rowl Wilson was Son of Rowl Wilson a Merchant of London was a Collonel in the Parliament Army was nominated one of the Kings Judges but refused to sit among them and dyed much lamented by the Citizens of London and those that were Lovers of the Parliaments cause in the beginning of March 1649 as having been a Gent. of excellent parts and great piety of a solid sober temper and judgment and very honest and just in all his actions 4 The fountain opened and the water of life flowing forth for the refreshing of thirsty sinners c. in several Sermons on Isay 55.1.2.3 Lond. 1657. qu. 5 The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of Salvation to poor Sinners c. in several Sermons on Rev. 3.20 Lond. 1658. in tw second edit 6 Elisha's Lamentation upon the suddain translation of Elijah preached at the funeral of Mr. Will. Strong Preacher of the Gospel at Westminster Abbey on 2. Kings 2.12 Lond. 1654. qu. This Will. Strong had been Fellow of Catherine Hall in Cambridge was afterwards Rector of More Chrichel in Dorsetshire which place he leaving in the time of the Rebellion upon pretence of being disturbâ—d by the Cavaliers he retired to London became Minister of S. Dunstans in the West one of the Assemb of Divines a holder forth before the Parliament and at length preacher of the Gospel at Westminst Abbey as before 't is said in which Church he was buried on the fourth day of July 1654. but removed to St. Margarets Church yard adjoining after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. as I have elsewhere told you He hath several Theological Treatises and many Sermons extant as also The Parabole of the Prodigal which I have not yet seen Parliamentarie Sermons as 1 Englands Preservation c. preached before the H. of Commons on Jer. 4 3. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Hamane Vanity on Esther 9.3 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Thanksgiving Sermon 9. Apr. 1644. on Psal 3.8 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 An Arke against a deluge c. Fast Sermon on Heb. 11.7 Lond. 1645. qu. 'T was preached 22. of Oct. 1644. for the uniting of the Army together 5 Nature and danger of Heresies fast Serm. on Rev. 12.15.16 Lond. 1647. qu. He also preached three more which I conceive were printed Speech in Guildhall in Lond. 6. oct 1643. to obtain money to carry on the warr and for the Scots assistance Lond. in qu. The best and worst malignant Printed 1648. qu. This I have not yet seen The doubting Christian resolv'd A treatise of the nature kinds springs and remedies of doubtings Lond. 1653. oct The humbled sinner resolved what he should do to be saved or faith in the Lord Jesus Christ the only way for sensible sinners discovering the quality objects acts c. of justifying faith c. Lond. 1656. qu. The Shepherd of Israel or an exposition of the 23 Psalme together with the Doctrine of providence practically handled Lond. 1658. Published by Humph. Chambers Simeon Ash Edm. Calamy and R. Byfield Presbyterian Ministers Synopsis of Christianity in a clear exposition of the Creed ten Commandements and the Lords Prayer Lond. in oct Anatomy of secret sins c. wherein divers weighty cases are resolved c. together with the remissibleness of all sin and the irremissibleness of the sin against the Holy Ghost Lond. 1660. qu. The bowells of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting Covenant c. Lond. 1661. fol. A short Catechisme What other things he hath written I know not nor any matter else of him only that he died very wealthy at Marlborough beforemention'd being Lord of the mannour of Ashmansworth in Hampshire about the beginning of January in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried near to the body of his Father in the Chancel of Ogbourne S. Andrew near to the said Town of Marlborough in Wiltshire not with his feet towards the East but towards the South because there wanted room to lay his body otherways GERARD LANGBAINE a great ornament of his time to this University was born at Barton kirke in Westmorland educated in the Free-school at Blencow in Cumberland became a Student in Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Wetherall in the beginning of 1626 aged 18 years where he was successively a poor serving Child Tabarder and at length Fellow being then Master of Arts. In 1644 he was unanimously elected Keeper of the Archives or Records of the University and in the latter end of the year following Provost of his College In June 1646 he was admitted D. of D. being then in general esteem for his great learning and honesty skill in satisfying doubts and discretion in the composure of controversies especially those between the two Bodies the University and City He was also an excellent Linguist able Philosopher and Divine a good common Lawyer a publick spirited man a lover of learning and learned men beloved of us Usher Selden and the great Goliahs of Literature He was also an excellent Antiquary and as judicious in his writings so indefatigable in his studies and of immense undertakings as by those rapsodies of collections that he left behind him appear As for those things that he hath written and published they are these Notae in librum Dionisii Longini de grandi eloquentiâ sive sublimi dicendi genere c. Oxon. 1636. and 38. oct The said Longinus is translated into Latin and hath the Greek on one side and the Lat. on the other and the notes which are in Lat. are at the end of the book These things I note because the same work being done by other hands this may be distinguished from it Brief discourse relating to the times of K. Ed. 6. Or the state of the times as they stood in the raigne of K. E. 6. by way of preface to a book entit The true Subject to the Rebell or the hurt of sedition c. written by Sir Joh. Cheek Knight Oxon. 1641. qu. Life of Sir Joh. Cheek Kt. Set also before the said book which Langbaine reviewed corrected and published upon a foresight that a Rebellion would break out as shortly after it did against K. Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory Episcopal inheritance or a Reply to the humble examination of a printed Abstract or the Answers to nine Reasons of the House of Commons against the Votes of Bishops in Parliament Oxon. 1641. qu. To which is added A Determination of the late learned Bishop of Salisbury Davenant englished These two were reprinted at Lond. 1680. Review of the Covenant wherein the original grounds means matter and ends of it are examined c. printed 1644 and at Lond. 1661. qu. Answer of the
minus dubiae fidei supersunt Lond. 1650. in a thick large oct Interiora regni dei Lond. 1665. in tw He also translated The Psalmes of David into English meeter Lond. 1646. oct This translation tho ordered by the H. of Commons to be printed 4. Nov. 1645 yet if I am not mistaken all or most of it was printed in 1641. The said Psalmes were also turned into Meter by Will. Barton pr. by order of Parl. 1645. oct Our Author Rous gave way to fate at Acton near London on the seventh day of January in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in Eaton Coll. Church near to the entrance of that Chappel joyning thereunto formerly built by Rog. Lupton Provost of the said College Soon after were hanged up over his grave a Standard Pennon c. and other Ensigns relating to Barons containing in them the arms of the several matches of his Family All which continuing there till 1661 were then pulled down with scorn by the loyal Provost and Fellows and thrown aside as tokens and badges of damn'd baseness and rebellion Those of his Party did declare openly to the World at his death that he needed no monument besides his own printed works and the memorials of his last will to convey his name to posterity And that the other works of his life were works of charity wherein he was most exemplary as the poor in many parts would after the loss of him tell you c. The Poet of Broadgates called Ch. Fitz Geffry did celebrate his memory while he was of that house and after his death Pembroke College built in the place of Broadg. did the like for his benefaction to the members thereof WILLIAM SANDBROOKE of Glocester Hall took one degree in the Civil Law in 1630 and about that time entring into Holy Orders became Rector of the Church of S. Pet. in the Baylie in Oxon 1635 where he was much frequented by Puritanical People and precise Scholars as Rogers Principal of New Inn was who had his turn in preaching there In the beginning of the Civil Wars he left the University and betook himself to a Sea employment in the quality of a Chaplain under the Earl of Warwick Admiral for the Parliament but being weary of it by the year 1644 he officiated as Vicar of S. Margarets Church in the City of Rochester by the leave of one Mr. Selvey the true Incumbent who having a good temporal estate allowed Sandbrooke the whole profits of the living Afterwards he was appointed by the Presbyterian Party one of three Lecturers in the Cathedral there purposely to preach down the Blasphemies and Heresies of Rich. Coppin and his besotted and begotted followers This Mr. Sandbrooke hath published The Church the proper subject of the new Covenant in three Sermons Lond. 1646. oct Several Sermons as 1 Fun. Sermon on Col. 2.6 printed 1657. in oct c. which and others I have not yet seen He died at Rochester in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was inter'd in the South Isle joyning to the Parish Church of S. Margaret beforemention'd remarkable for being the place of burial of one of the Saxon Kings as the People there say on the fifteenth day of March leaving then behind him the character of a godly and painful preacher WILLIAM RUSSELL Son of a Father of both his names was born at Wickware in Glocestershire educated in the Grammar School at Wotton Underedge in the said County became a Batler of Linc. Coll. in Lent term 1635 took one degree in Arts and then taught School for a time at Sadbury in his own Country At length John Langley being called away to be chief Master of S. Pauls School he became Master in his room of the publick College School in the City of Glocester where by his singular industry happy way of teaching and by his great skill in the Tongues and holy Scripture many learned youths were sent thence to the Universities His works are these The old Protestants conscientious enquiries concerning the new engagement printed in qu. 'T was written against the Oath called the Engagement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Holy Ghost vindicated in oct written against Joh. Biddle He gave way to fate on the 5. of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 42 years and was buried in S. Michaels Church within the City of Gloc. See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. p. 167. a. b. He left behind him three most ingenious Sons and excellent Scholars who were afterwards successively Masters of Arts and Fellows of Magd. Coll. The eldest was Samuel who died 22. July 1670. aged 22 the next was William who died 8. Dec. 1672 aged 22 and the third was Richard who dying 21. of Oct. 1681. aged 28 years was buried by his said two Brethren on the south side of Magd. Coll. outer Chappel One Rich. Russell a Rutlandsh man born as it seems bred in the English Coll. of Secular Priests at Lisbon in Portugal was by the K. of that Country designed to go into England as an interpreter to Don Francisco de Mello Earl of Ponte Embassador extraordinary from the said K. to K. Ch. 2 to settle the Marriage between him and Donna Catherina the Infanta of that Country After Russels return into Portugal he was rewarded for his pains with the Bishoprick of Portalegre where he now lives but whether of the same Family with Will. Russell beforemention'd I cannot tell HENRY EDMONDSON or as he writes himself Henricus Edmundus ab Edmundo was born in Cumberland and in the beginning of the year 1622 and in that of his age 15 he was entred a Student in Queens Coll. where after he had undergone the servile places of a poor Child and Tabarder was when Master of Arts admitted Fellow Afterwards he was made Usher of Tunbridge School in Kent under Dr. Nich. Grey and in 1655 when Thomas Widdowes died he was constituted by the Provost and Fellows of Qu. Coll. Master of the well endowed Free-school at Northleech in Glocestershire where he continued to the time of his death He hath written Lingua Linguarum The natural Language of Languages wherein it is desired and endeavoured that tongues may be brought to teach themselves and words may be best fancied understood and remembred c. Lond. 1655. oct c. Homonyma Synonyma Linguae Latinae conjuncta distincta Oxon. 1661. oct and other things as 't is probable He was buried in the Church of Northleech on the 15 day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine leaving then the character behind him of a most able Person in his profession and of one who had done great benefit for the publick by his sedulous and industrious education of youth MICHAEL JERMIN Son of Alex. Jerm Merchant and Sherriff of Exeter Son of Mich. Jermin somtimes twice Mayor of the said City was born at Knowston in Devonshire entred a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. in the beginning of
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
way and manner of her reformation c. part 1. 2 In the defence thereof in an historie of Episcopacie part 2. c. Lond. 1657. qu. Dedicated to Mr. Edw. Davys Vicar of Shilton in Berks near Burford in Oxfordshire somtimes his Master in the free-Grammar School at Burford It contains all those five pieces before-mentioned which I have told you were reprinted in Eccles Vindicata Respondet Petrus or the answer of Pet. Heylyn D.D. to so much of Dr. Bernards book entit The judgment of the late Primate of Ireland c. as he is made a party by the said Lord Primate in the point of the Sabbath c. Lond. 1658. qu. 'T was not burnt as the report was or answer'd An Appendix in answer to certain passages in Mr. Sandersons history of the life and raigne of K. Ch. c. Printed with Respondet Petrus whereupon Will. Sanderson Esq came out with a Pamphlet entit Post-haste A reply to Peter's Dr. Heylyns appendix to his treatise entit Respondet Petrus Lond. 1658. in 3. sheets in qu. Full of abusive language and little or nothing to the purpose Short view of the life and raigne of K. Charles the second Monarch of Great Britaine from his birth to his burial Lond. 1658. in 6. sheets or more in oct This life I take to be the same with that for they have the same beginning that was printed with and set before Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae Printed at the Hague 1648 9 in a large oct Examen Historicum or a discovery and examination of the mistakes and defects in some modern histories viz. 1 In the Church Hist of Britaine by Tho. Fuller To which is added An Apologie of Dr. Jo. Cosin Dean of Peterborough in answer to some passages in the Church Hist of Britaine in which he finds himself concern'd 2 In the Hist of Marie Qu. of Scots and of her Son K. Jam. 6. The Hist of K. Jam. 1. of Great Britaine and the Hist of K. Ch. 1. from his Cradle to his grave by Will. Sanderson Esq Lond. 1658. 9. in a large oct Appendix in answer to some passages in a scurrulous Pamphlet called A post-haste reply c. or Posthast a reply c. by Will. Sanderson Esq This Appendix is printed with Exam. Historicum Soon after Th. Fuller came out with a thin fol. full of submission and acknowledgment intit The appeal for injured innocence which was commonly bound with the remaining copies of his Ch. Hist in quires and a foolish and scurrilous Pamphlet entituled Peter persued or Dr. Heylyn overtaken arrested and arraigned upon his three appendixes 1 Respondet Petrus 2 Answer to the Post-hast reply 3 Advertisements on three Histories viz. of Mary Qu. of Scots K. James and K. Charles Lond. 1658 9. in 8 sh in qu. written by Will. Sanderson before mention'd of whom I desire the Reader to know these things following 1 That he was born in Lincolnshire 2 That in his younger days he was Secretary to George Villiers Duke of Buckingham while he was Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and therefore I presume graduated there tho scarce understood Latine 3 That he suffer'd for the cause of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. and after the restauration of his son in 1660 he was made Gent. in ordinary of his Majesties privy Chamber and from him received the honour of Knighthood 4 That dying in Whitehall on the 15 day of July 1676 aged 90 or more was buried in the north isle or transcept joyning to the Choire of S. Peters Church in the City of Westminster Over his grave was soon after a monument of Alabaster erected on the north wall with the bust of the defunct in the place of Colonel Sim. Mathews which had been set up in the wall by the Parliament but plucked down after the return of K. Ch. 2. at the charge of Briget his widow daughter of Sir Edw. Tyrell Knight His Histories before mention'd are not much valued because they are mostly taken from printed Authors and lying Pamphlets The parable of the Tares expounded and applied in ten sermons with three other sermons by the same Author Lond. 1659 and 61. qu. Certamen Epistolare or the letter combate managed by Pet. Heylyn and Mr. Rich. Baxter of Kederminster c. Lond. 1659. oct Intercourse of Letters betw Dr. Heylyn and Dr. Nich. Bernard of Greys Inn touching the intended burning of the book called Respondet Petrus Printed with Cert Epist Letter combate part 2. containing the intercourse of Letters between Pet. Heylyn and Mr. Hen. Hickman of Magd. Coll. relating to the historical part of a book intit A justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen c. Letter Combate part 3. containing a decertation about formes of Government the power of Spartan Ephori and the Jewish Sanhedrim managed letter-wise betw P. Heylyn and J. H. Jam. Harrington of Westminst Esq Appendix to the former Papers containing an Exchange of Letters between Mr. Tho. Fuller of Waltham and Dr. Pet. Heylyn of Abendon Examination of some passages in Mr. Fullers late Appeal for injured innocence These Letter Combates Append and Examination are printed with Certamen Epistolare which is the general title to them Historia Quinqu Articularis or a delaration of the judgment of the Western Churches and more particularly of the Church of England in the five controverted points reproached in these last times by the name of Arminianism c. part 3. Lond. 1660. qu. Postscript to the Reader concerning some particulars in a scurrulous Pamphlet intit A review of Certamen Epistolare In the same year 1660 was published a book intit Fratres in malo or the matchless couple represented in the writings of Mr. Edw. Bagshaw and Mr. Hen. Hickman in vindication of Dr. Heylyn and Mr. Tho. Pierce Lond. 1660. qu. said in the title to be written by M. O. Bach. of Arts but all then supposed that Dr. Heylyn or Mr. Peirce or both had a hand in it Sermon preached in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westm on Wednesday 29 May 1661 on Psal 31.21 Lond. 1661. qu. History of the Reformation of the Church of England from the first preparations to it made by K. Hen. 8. untill the legal setling and establishing of it under Qu. Elizab c. Lond. 1661. 1670 and 74. fol. A character of this book and its design is given by Dr. Gilb. Burnet in his Pref. to the first vol. of The Hist of the Reformation of the Church of England Lond. 1679 and 81. fol. answer'd at large by Mr. George Vernon in his Life of Pet. Heylyn D. D. Lond. 1682. oct p. 189. c. As for our Authors Hist. of the Reformation c. it was answer'd in a book intit Plus ultra or Englands reformation needing to be reformed Being an examination of Dr. Heylyns History of the reformation of the Church of England c. Lond. 1661. in 7 sh in qu. said in the title page to be written by
he was one of the pillars of Presbytery and by others a person learned and well read in the Fathers and Councils One Mr. Ley a learned Divine wrot a book about 1624. intit The Christian Nomenclator c. against the Papists mention'd in Joh. Gee's book intit The foot out of the snare c. Lond. 1624. qu. p. 17. in marg whether the same with our Author Joh. Ley I know not HENRY JACKSON Son of Hâ—n Jacks Mercer was born in S. Maries parish within the City of Oxon admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. on the first of Dec. 1602 aged 17 years or thereabouts having for two years before been Clerk of the said house admitted probat Fellow thereof 5 of Sept. 1612 to the reading of the Sentences five years after and at length upon the death of Dr. Seb. Benefield sometimes his Tutor he became Rector of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire which was all the preferment he ever look'd after for being a studious and cynical person he never expected or desired more He was a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Joh. Rainolds whose memories being most dear to him he did for the sake of the first industriously collect and publish some of his small Treatises and of the latter several of his Epistles and Orations He also did diligently recognize and added marginal notes with a copious Index to the twelve books of Jo. Lud. Vives sometimes Rhetorick Reader of C. C. Coll. seven of the former of which are De corruptis Artibus the other five De tradendis disciplinis He had also made a Collection of several of the Works of Pet. Abaelard from antient MSS. of that Author had revised compared and collected them All which he did intend at his own charge to publish but the grand Rebellion breaking forth in 1642 the Soldiers belonging to the Parliament rifled his house scatter'd the said Collection and made it so imperfect that it could never be recovered He hath written Vita Ciceronis ex variis autoribus collecta Commentarii in Ciceronis Quaest lib. quintum Both which dedicated by the Author to Dr. Seb. Benefield are remaining under the Authors hand in my custody but whether they were ever printed I cannot tell He also translated from English into Latine Commentarii super 1 cap. Amos Openheim 1615. oct written by the said Dr. Benefield as I have elsewhere told you Also Joh. Fryth's book of Baptisme which he intituled De Baptismo cognitione sui next Joh. Hoopers Lectures on the Creed and lastly Hugh Latymers Oration to the Convocation concerning the state of the Kingdom to be reformed by the Gospel Which last Translation had before been done by Sim. Gryneus But whether these three last which are in MS. in my hands are published I cannot tell nor do I know any thing of the Translator besides only that he dying on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meis Hamp near to the grave of Dr. Benefield before mention'd I find another Hen. Jackson to be Author of The description of the little world or body of man printed 1660 in oct but of what University he was if of any I know not THOMAS MERRIOT was born at Steeple Langford in Wilts educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1610 aged 21 years or more took one degree in the Civil Law and for a time taught in the Grammar-school joyning to the Cloister there Afterwards being presented to the Vicaridge of Swaclyve near Banbury in Oxfordshire by the Warden and Society of the said Coll. he preached there and taught Grammar to the time of his death He hath written Vulgaria sive miscellanea prosaica hinc inde decerpta ad discipulos non vulgares è ludis literariis emittendos quà m maximè conducentia modo solerter edoceantur c. in novem classes distributa Oxon. 1652. oct Adagia selectissima c. Ib. eod an oct He died at Swaclyve on the 19 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and two after he had been Vicar of that place 38 years and was two days after buried in the Church there EDWARD STANLEY was born of gentile Parents in the Parish of S. Peter within the City of Chichester educated in Wykeham's School made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. 1608 aged 20 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts left the said Coll. in 1623 and was about that time made Master of the said School and afterwards Prebendary of Winchester and Doct. of Div. He hath published Several Sermons three of which were preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester The first on Sunday Aug. 19. an 1660 at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that Church on Psal 14.7 The second on Jan. 30. an 1661 being the Anniversary of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory on Jer. 4.20 And the third at the general Assize held at Winton 25 Feb. 1661. on Isay 1.26 Lond. 1662. in oct In which year the Author died and was buried at Winchester leaving then behind him the character of a learned godly and orthodox Minister of Gods word HENRY JEANES Son of Christop Jeanes of Kingston in Somersetshire was born at Allensay in that County as I have been informed by one of his rural disciples became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsomer term in the year 1626 aged 15 years where pecking and hewing continually at Logick and Physicks became a most noted and ready Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he removed to Hart Hall took holy Orders and soon after was cried up for a learned Preacher in the University In the beginning of Aug. 1635 he was presented by Sir Joh. Windham to the Rectory of Beer-Crocomb and Capland in Somersetshire and soon after became Vicar of Kingston in the same County At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians notwithstanding he had before while he continued in the University been a scoffer of them and when Dr. Walt. Raleigh was thrown out of Chedsey near Bridgwater he became Rector of the Church there where during the times of Usurpation he took into his family divers Youths designed for the University and read to them contrary to his Oath Logick and Philosophy and had often times set Disputations among them while he himself moderated He was a most excellent Philosopher a noted Metaphysitian and well grounded in polemical Divinity He was also a scholastical man a contemner of the World generous free-hearted jolly witty and facetious and in many things represented the humour of Dr. Rob. Wild the Poet. All which qualities do very rarely or seldom meet in men of the Presbyterian perswasion who generally are morose clownish and of sullen and reserved natures The books that he hath written and published are many the titles of most if not all follow Treatise concerning a Christians careful abstinence
Pauls Cathedral and the question Whether Jesus Christ be the most High or Almighty God The time being come they appeared but Griffin being put to it for want of the true way of argumentizing the disputation was deferr'd to another day Whereupon Griffin being conscious to himself that he was not able to grapple with Biddle he and his party brought it so to pass that upon report of more blasphemies utter'd by Biddle he was by command from Oliver the Protector seized on the 3. of July being the day before they were to make an end of the Disputation an 1655 and forthwith committed Prisoner to the Poultry Compter Soon after being translated to Newgate Prison he suffered more misery was brought to a publick trial for his life at the Sessions house in the Old Baylie upon the obsolete and abrogated Ordinance called the Draconick Ordinance against blasphemy and heresie of May 2. an 1648. To the indictment hereupon he prays counsel might be allowed to him to plead the illegality of it which being denied him by the Judges and the sentence of a Mute threatned he at length gave into Court his exceptions ingrossed in parchment and with much strugling had counsel allowed him But Oliver the Protector well knowing it was not for the interest of his government either to have him condemned or absolv'd took him out of the hands of the law caused him to be detain'd in Prison with intentions to bestow him elsewhere At length several prime Persons of the Anabaptistical party remaining in London some of whom as 't is said had entertained his opinions drawing up a petition in his behalf in the month of Sept. an 1655 presented it to Oliver to obtain his mercy towards him under pretence of liberty of conscience On the 28. of the same month they were to receive an answer to it but before the said Oliver gave one the Petition was read in the hearing of divers of them under whose hands it had been presented which being done many of them did disown it as being alter'd both in the matter and title of since they signed it and so looked upon it as a forged thing They then desired that the original which they had signed might be produced but Jerem. Ives and some other of the contrivers and presenters of it were not able to do nor had any thing to say in excuse of so foul a miscarriage However his Highness Oliver did then open before them the great evil of such a practice and also how inconsistent it was for them who professed to be members of the Church of Christ and to worship him with the worship due to God to give any countenance to one who reproached themselves and all the Christian Churches in the World as being guilty of Idolatry shewing also that if it be true which Biddle holds viz. that Jesus Christ is but a creature then all those that worship him with the worship due to God are Idolaters and that the maintainers of that opinion of Biddle are guilty of great blasphemy against Christ who is God equal with the Father c. Afterwards the Petitioners being dismiss'd and Biddle understanding his doom he wrot a Letter to Oliver that he would be pleased to admit him into his presence for the hearing of his case But being denied and Oliver continually baited by Presb. and Indep Ministers to have him banished he the said Biddle as a reviver of the blasphemous opinion owned by Arrius was removed from Newgate to Plymouth 10. Oct. 1655 in order to his transportation to ths isle of Scilly beyond the lands end in Cornwall there to remain in S. Maries Castle in close custody during life where for the present we 'll leave him and in the mean time tell you that his Twofold Catechisme was answered by Dr. John Owen then Dean of Ch. Church and animadverted upon by Maresius before mention'd in his Preface to the Reader before his second tome of Hydra Socinianismi and by Nich. Arnoldus Professor of Divinity in Franeker in West-Frisen in the latter end of his Preface to the Reader before his book entit Religio Sociniana seu Catethesis Rucoviana major c. As for Maresius he is very large against him and deplores the sad condition of England that after all the contests that it hath had against the Hierarchy Arminianisme Popery and I know not what should at length be overwhelm'd with Socinianisme all sort of Sectaries Atheisme c. Which character as falling from the Pen of a Person well known to be no friend to Episcopacy seems to be a considerable argument to prove even in his perswasion that the pretended strictness and severity of the then established Church Government was not so an effectual remedy against all Libertisme in opinions and practice as was the Episcoparian Government then lately thrown out of doors After Biddle had continued Prisoner not without improvement as to and in his opinion to the beginning of the year 1658 he by the intercession of many friends was conveyed from S. Maries Castle by Habeas Corpus to the Upper Bench at Westm where appearing without any thing laid to his charge was set at liberty by the L. Ch. Justice Jo. Glynn While he was in Prison where the Protector allowed him a hundred Crowns per an for his subsistance he solely gave himself up to the studying of several intricate matters and of the various opinions concerning the Beast in the Apocalyps Antichrist and the personal raign of Christ on Earth which being digested according to his mind he explain'd them after his return in Conventicles held every Sunday in the afternoon before his Disciples Which being done he published them with this or the like title Learned notes on some of the Chapters of the Apocolyps Or thus An Essay to the explaining of the Revelation When or where printed or in what Vol. I know not for I have not yet seen them or it After Olivers death and Richard set in the Throne a Parliament was called mostly consisting of Presbyterians whom of all men he most dreaded Whereupon by the advice of a noble friend then in Authority he caused Biddle for whom he had a respect to be conveyed away privately into the Country where remaining till that Parliament was dissolved which was soon after he returned to the City and carried on his Conventicles and Disputes for some time without contradiction At length his Majest Ch. 2. being restored to his Dominions and with him the Church of England he took other measures held his meetings more private and but seldom However his waters being narrowly watch'd he was taken in the house of a certain Citizen while he was conventicling in the beginning of July 1662 whereupon being carried before Sir Rich. Browne then lately Lord Mayor was by him imprison'd and used as his party saith with great cruelty especially in this respect that he hindred all Sureties or Bail to be given for him So that by the filth of a
learning In Lent term 1593 he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. aged 18 years where going through all courses of Scholastical exercise with incredible industry was elected Fellow of that House in 1599 and the year after proceeded in Arts At which time his genie leading him to the study of medicine he entred on the Physick line practised that faculty and at length 1611 took both the degrees therein and resigned his Fellowship Afterwards he retired to the City of Exeter practised there and was much resorted to for his great knowledge and experience in Physick In his younger years he was esteemed a very good Poet Orator and Disputant and in his elder as eminent for Divinity as his proper faculty and might have honoured the World at that time with the issue of his brain but neglecting so to do for the sake of lucre and practice gave us nothing but scraps whimseys and dotages of old age which are these Theoremata Theologica Theological treatises in eight Theses of Divinity viz. 1 Production of Mans Soul 2 Divine Predestination 3 The true Church regiment 4 Predictions of Messiah 5 Christs two Genealogies 6 The revelation revealed 7 Christs Millenar reign 8 The Worlds dissolution Lond. 1654. qu. To which are added Supplements subjoyned as 1 A supply concerning Holy-days and Christs birth-days feast 2 An addition of Mans Soul 3 An Ecclesiastical Polity 4 Of Saints eternal raigne 5 Of Christs eternal raign 6 Several sorts of Essayes one of which is an Essay to Mr. Tho. Hobbes concerning his Leviathan To these the Author added A Postscript of all forms He also wrot A compend of Chronography containing four thousand thirty years compleat from Adams creation to Christs birth c. Lond. 1654. in 5. sh in qu. Enchiridium Epigrammatum Latino-Anglicum Or an Epitome of Essayes Englished out of Latine without elucidat explications containing six classes or centuries of 1 Theologicals 2 Historicals c. Lond. 1654 in a thick oct A Fardel of 76 Fragments Or additional Essayes which is the seventh classe Printed with the Enchiridium He was buried in the choire on the north side of the high Altar of the Cath. Church in Exeter in sixteen hundred sixty and two and soon after had this Epitaph put thereon the copy of which was sent to me by Rich. Izacke Esq Chamberlaine and Antiquary of that City Dormitorium Roberti Vilvaine Medicinae Doctoris qui obiit Vicesimo primo die Februarii an salut 1662 aetatis suae 87. He was a liberal benefactor to two Hospitals for poor Children in that City and in the year 1633 gave 32 l. per an for four poor Scholars each to have 8 l. per an to come from that free School in the said City founded by Hugh Crossing Esq sometimes twice Mayor thereof to Exeter Coll or any place else in Oxon either Coll. or Hall THOMAS BAYLIE a Wiltshire Man born was entred either a Servitour or Batler of S. Albans Hall in Mich. term 1600 43. Elizab. aged 18 years elected Demie of Magd. Coll. in 1602 and perpetual Fellow of that House 1611 he being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became Rector of Maningford Crucis near to Marlborough in his own Country and in 1621 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time and after he was zealously inclin'd to the puritanical party At length upon the change of the times in 1641 siding openly with them he took the Covenant was made one of the Assemb of Divines and soon after had for the love he bore to the righteous cause the rich Rectory of Mildenhall in his own Country then belonging to Dr. Geor. Morley a Royalist confer'd upon him Where being setled he preached up the tenets held by the Fifth-monarchy-men he being by that time one himself and afterwards became a busie Man in ejecting such that were then 1654 and after called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written De merito mortis Christi modo conversionis diatribae duo Oxon. 1626. qu. Concio ad clerum habita in Templo B. Mariae Oxon 5. Jul. 1622. in Jud. ver xi printed with the former He hath also as I have been informed one or more English Sermons extant but such I have not yet seen After the restoration of his Majesty he was turned out from Mildenhall and dying at Marlborough in sixteen hundred sixty and three was buried in the Church of S. Peter there on the 27 day of March the same year Whereupon his Conventicle at that place was carried on by another Brother as zealous as himself WILLIAM JAMES or Jamesius as he writes himself Son of Hen. James by Barbara his Wife Daugh. of Will. Sutton mention'd in the first Vol. p. 494. and he the Son of one James Citizen and Alderman of Bristow was born at Mahone in Monmouthshire educated in his first years of knowledge at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire under his Uncle Will. Sutton Son of the before mentioned Will. Sutton and being extraordinary rath ripe and of a prodigious memory was entred into his Accedence at five years of age In 1646 he was elected a Kings Scholar of the Coll. at Westminster where making marvellous proficiency under Mr. Busbye his most loving Master in the School there was elected thence a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1650. Before he had taken one degree in Arts his Master made him his Assistant in the said School and upon the removal of Adam Littleton into Edw. Bagshaw's place he was made Usher and at length second Master This Person while he was very young about 16 years of age wrot and published ' ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ' in Linguam Chaldaeam In usum Scholae Westmonast Lond. 1651 in 6 sheets or more in oct Dedic to Mr. Rich. Busby his Tutor Parent and Patron and also had a chief hand in the English introduction to the Lat. Tongue for the use of the lower forms in Westm School Lond. 1659. oct He died in the prime of his years to the great reluctancy of all that knew his admirable parts on the third day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried at the West end of S. Peters called the Abbey Church in Westminster near the lowest door going into the Cloister WILLIAM HAYWOOD a most excellent preacher of his time was born being a Coopers Son of Ballance street in the City of Bristow elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. by the endeavours of John Whitson Alderman of that City an encourager of his studies an 1616 aged 16 years and was soon after made Fellow of that House Dr. Laud had a respect for him and his learning made him one of his Domestick Chaplains Chaplain in Ord. to K. Ch. 1 and in 1636 he was by his endeavours actually created D. of D. About that time he became Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in Fields near London and in 1638 he was made Canon of the eleventh stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster in
the room of Gabr. Grant deceased But this Person being esteemed by the Puritan a Licenser of Popish books a purger of orthodox passages against Popery Papists Arminianisme a great creature of Dr. Laud and a practicer of Popish ceremonies he was in the beginning of the rebellion thrown out of his Vicaridge upon the Petition and Articles exhibited against him in the Long Parliament by his Parishioners â—as imprison'd in the Compter Ely house and in the Ships forced to fly and his Wife and Children turned out of doors At length being reduced to great want he was forced to keep a private School in Wiltshire under and in the name of his Son John afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. At length upon the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to his Vicaridge Canonry and other preferments which he before had lost enjoying them in quietness to his dying day He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Two Sermons preached in the Parish Ch. of S. Giles in the Fields by way of preparative upon the articles of the Creed The first is on 1. Cor. 13.13 and the other on Heb. 11.6 Lond. 1642. qu. Out of which were some of the Articles framed against charging him as guilty of Arminianisme 2 Sermon tending to Peace preached before his Maj. at Newport in the Isle of Wight during the time of the Treaty on Rom. 12.18 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 Funeral Sermon prepared to be preached at the funeral of Walt. Norbane Esq at Calne in Wilts 13. Apr. 1659 on Rom. 6.5 Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also printed a Serm. on Rom. 5.5 Lond. 1660. qu. and another on Acts 23.5 Lond. 1663. qu. But these two I have not yet seen Others also go from hand to hand in Ms and as I remember I have seen one or two in Dr. Barlowes Library He the said Dr. Haywood was buried in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter at Westminster near to the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Pulpit on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Tutor while he was Fellow of S. Johns Coll a general Scholar and a meek man in temper and conversation Near to his grave was his beloved Son John Haywood Master of Arts before mention'd who died 22. of Feb. following buried WILLIAM CREED Son of Joh. Creed wan born in the Parish of S. Laurence within the borough of Reading in Berks elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1631 age 16 years or thereabouts made the Senior Quadragesimal Collector when Bach. of Arts being then Fellow of that College Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty entred into the sacred function and became an eloquent Preacher In the beginning of the rebellion he adheer'd to the cause of his Majesty and in 1644 he was elected to and executed the procuratorial office of this University Two years after he was actually created Bach. of Div. for the Sermons he had preached at Oxon before the King and Parliament and in the time of Usurpation he became Rector of East-Codeford or Codeford S. Marie in Wiltshire In the month of June 1660 his Majesty K. Ch. 2. being then restored he was made the Kings Professor of Div. in this University in the beginning of July following Archdeacon of Wilts in the place of Tho. Leach some years before deceased and on the 13 of Sept. the same year Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisbury He was a defender of the Church of England in the worst of times was a good Schoolman Divine and a noted Disputant He hath written The Refuter refuted or Dr. Hen. Hammonds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 defended against the impertinent cavils of Mr. Hen. Jeanes Lond. 1659-60 qu. Several Sermons as 1 Judah's purging of the melting pot an Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Isay 1.25.26 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Judah's return to their Allegiance c. on 2. Sam. 19.14.15 Lond. 1660. qu. c. He gave way to fate in his lodgings at Ch. Ch. in Oxon of which Ch. he was Canon as being Reg. Prof. of Div. on the 19 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried with solemnity in the next North Isle joyning to the choire of the said Cathedral near to the reliques of Democritus Junior being then accompanied to his grave by all the Degrees of the University See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his Archdeaconry of Wilts succeeded Thom. Henchman very nearly related if not Son to Dr. Henchman Bishop of Sarum in the beginning of Aug. the same year and in his Professorship of Divinity Dr. Rich. Allestrie Canon of Ch. Ch. GEORGE KENDALL received his first being in this world at Cofton in the Parish of Dawlish or Dulish near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in Grammar learning in the said City where his Father George Kendall Gent mostly lived was entred a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1626 and was made Prob. Fellow in the fourth year following being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards by indefatigable industry he became a most noted Philosopher and Theologist a Disciple and Admirer of Prideaux and his Doctrine and as great an enemy to Arminius and Socinus as any At the change of the times in 1642 being then Bach. of Div he closed with the Presbyterians then dominant notwithstanding the King that year to mitigate his discontent had zealously recommended him to the Society to be elected Rector of Exeter Coll. on the promotion of Prideaux to the See of Worcester and about 1647 he became Rector of Blissland near to Bodmin in Cornwall But being eagerly bent against that notorious Independent John Goodwin left that Rectory some years after and obtained the Ministry of a Church in Gracious-street in London purposely that he might be in a better capacity to oppose him and his Doctrine In 1654 he proceeded D. of D. and upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. he left London and became Rector of Kenton near Exeter which he kept till the Act of conformity was published in 1662 at which time giving it up he retired to his House at Cofton where he spent the short remainder of his days in a retired condition His works are these Collirium or an ointment to open the eyes of the poor Caviliers This Pamphlet which I have not yet seen was published after the Cavaliers had been defeated in the West by the Forces belonging to the Parliament Vindication of the doctrine commonly received in Churches concerning Gods intentions of special grace and favour to his elect in the death of Christ Lond. 1653. fol. Of Christs prerogative power prescience providence c. from the attempts lately made against them by Mr. John Goodwin in his book entit Redemption redeemed Digressions concerning the impossibility of Faiths being an instrument of justification c. These two last things are printed with the Vindication of the doctrine c.
by divine right upon the Church is sacriledge This he confessed he did but he was put upon it suddenly by the H. of Commons in May 1641 and had no time given him but one hour However afterwards he was so zealous in that point that he before he had purchased such was a forward Preacher for it and after he had made purchases he wrot and published a book intit No sacrileege nor sin to aliene or purchase the Lands of Bishops or others whose offices are abolished Lond. 1659. 2 edit Also A Case concerning the lawfulness of buying Bishops Lands This last I have not yet seen nor another paper reported to be his wherein the Kings Majesty is attempted by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds to make good by an Act of Parliament the purchases of Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands for 99 years Printed 1660. See more in Joh. Gauden among these Writers an 1662. num 206. Apologie for purchases of Lands late of Bishops Deans and Chapters This is a sheet in fol. and therein is shewed a great deal of reading but whether it was all pen'd by Burges tho no doubt but he had a hand in it I know not Reasons shewing the necessity of Reformation of the publick 1 Doctrine 2 Worship c. Lond. 1660. qu. Which tho in the title it is said that divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England wrot yet Mr. Baxter saith that our Author Burges pen'd them They were answer'd by Dr. Joh. Pearson and Dr. Hen. Savage the former of which was replied upon by our Author Burges in a Postscript to a piece of his which I have not yet seen Answer'd or rejoyn'd by the said Pearson in a little thing intit Answer to Dr. Burges his word by way of Postscript in vindication of No necessity c. Antidote against Antisobrius Printed about 1660. Some of the differences and alterations in the present Common-prayer book from the book established by the Act in the fifth and sixth of Ed. 6. and first of Q. Eliz. Printed in one sh in qu. 1660. The book of Common-Prayer c. compared with the old Editions and all the Alterations noted down Lond. 1663. oct I shall make mention of this work more anon and in the mean time tell you that after the Kings Restauration our Author Burges being deprived of all the Church-lands that he had purchased at very easie rates and of his pension from S. Pauls Cathedral notwithstanding he tugged hard to keep some he retired to his house at Watford before mention'd where exercising himself much in penitence and in observing the duties of the Church was at length reduced to such poverty that he was forced to sell all or most part of his Library to buy bread But that was not all for about that time he was so much troubled with a cancer in his neck and cheek that all he could get could not in the least cure it or satisfie that hunger which it caused Insomuch that being brought very low in body and purse he sent to Sir Rich. Browne who was elected Lord Mayor of Lond. in 1660. for relief and in his letter told him that he was brought to great want and poverty and that he was eaten up with a cancer in his neck and cheek I am saith he reduced to want a piece of bread as this bearer my son may better inform you but Sir mistake me not I do not beg I only acquaint you with my condition and do you what is fit c. To which Sir Richard made return and told the Doctor that Tho he was the prime cause and motive of his Rebellion against the late King by his preaching and violent persuasions yet if he would preach a Recantation sermon in S. Pauls Cathedral he would take care that he should never want so long as he lived But the reply made to it being this that he was not then in a capacity to do it Sir Richard rewarded him with 3 l. only Afterwards dying obscurely and in want was obscurely buried in the middle of the body of the Church at Watford before mentioned on the ninth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and five About three weeks before his death he sent certain Common-prayer books to the publick Library at Oxon and in a spare leaf before the title of one of them he wrot this note following with his own hand dated at Watford 16 May 1665. I Cornelius Burges being an 1627 by my dear and much honoured mother the renowned University of Oxford made Doctor in Divinity am much grieved that I am able to do nothing worthy of her yet I humbly offer that I have viz. the first book of the first of Edw. 6 as also the second book of Common-prayer 5 and 6 of Ed. 6. wherein this hath several Alterations upon the censure of Bucer extant in his book Scripta Anglicana I also add a third book of Common-prayer renewed and established in 1 Elizab. which book is very hard to be had that was then printed I could never see any other of that edition I also add a fourth book of Common-prayer in 12 o wherein I have noted all the differences between that book established by this great Parliament an 1663 and the former book established before All these I most humbly and thankfully give to my said honorable mother of Oxford I being ready to dye beseeching her to account of these four small mites as our Lord and blessed Saviour did of the poor Widows two mites that by casting in that cast in all she had Cornelius Burges The Common-prayer book wherein this note was written was printed in fol. at Lond. 1549 in the month of May. At the bottom of the title of which is this written by Dr. Burges This is one of the very first books of Common Prayer in the beginning of Edw. 6. which book at the Request of Archb. Cranmar was reviewed and censured by Martin Bucer and then reformed accordingly in the 5 of Ed. 6. which latter is the book still in force by the statute of 1 Eliz. and this meaning the Common-Prayer-book printed 1549 is repealed KENELME DIGBY the magazine of all Arts or as one stiles him The ornament of this Nation son and heir of Sir Everard Digby of Dry-stoke in Rutlandshire Kt. by Mary his wife daughter and sole heir to Will. Mulsho of Gothurst commonly called Gadhurst in Buckinghamshire was born at Gothurst on the eleventh day of July 1603 1 Jac. 1. yet Ben. Johnson for rhyme-sake will have it June thus Witness thy action done at Scanderoon Upon thy birth day the eleventh of June About the year 1618 he was sent to Glocester Hall after he had been trained up in the Protestant Religion which afterwards he left for that of Rome and committed to the care of Tho. Allen who used to say that he was the Mirandula of his age but to the tuition of another where continuing
Lat. by Count Michael Maierus and put in English for the information of those who seek after the knowledge of that honorable and mysterious Society of wise and renowned Philosophers This English translation is dedicated to Elias Ashmole Esq by an Epistle subscribed by N. L. T. S. H. S. but who he is or they are he the said El. Ashmole hath utterly forgotten Euphrates A discourse of the Waters of the East or of that secret fountain whose water flows from fire and carries in it the beams of the Sun and Moon Lond. 1655. oct He hath also translated into English The Chymists key to open and shut or the true doctrine of Corruption and Generation Lond. 1655. Written by Hen. Nollius He hath also left several Lat. Poems behind him which are in the hands of his Brother Henry called by some Olor Iscanus esteemed by many fit to be published One Eugenius Philalethes hath written A brief natural history intermixed with variety of philosophical discourses upon the burning of Mount Aetna with refutations c. Lond. 1669. oct but by the language of it it seems not to be written by our Eug. Phil. but another and besides when Olor Iscanus sent me a Cat. of his Brothers works the title of that book was not put among them One who calls himself Eireneus Philalethes a Citizen of the World hath published Ripley redivivus c. and another who writes himself Eireneus Philoponos Philalethes hath published The marrow of Alchemy c. in two parts Lond. 1654. and 55. oct Both which parts the second containing two books are written in verse and so consequently the Author is to be numbred among the Poets As for our Author Eug. Phil. alias Thom. Vaughan he did accompany Sir Rob. Murrey before mention'd to Oxon at what time the great Plague at London drove their Majesties and their respective Courts to that place where he continued for a time Soon after taking up his quarters in the house of Sam. Kem Rector of Albury near to Thame and Ricot in Oxfordshire died there on the 27 of Febr. in sixteen hundred sixty and five and was buried on the first of March following in the Church belonging to the said Village of Albury alias Oldbury about 8 miles distant from Oxon by the care and charge of the said Sir Robert Murrey Of whom by the way I must let the Reader know these things viz. That he was born of an antient and noble family in or near the High-lands in Scotland that his youth was spent in good letters partly in the University of S. Andrew and partly in France where he had afterwards a military Employment in the service of Lewis 13 and was at length a Lieutenant-Colonel and an excellent Soldier That he was General of the Ordnance in Scotland against K. Ch. 1. when the Presbyterians of that Kingdom first set up and maintained their Covenant That at the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made one of the Privy Council of the said Kingdom and about the same time became one of the first Contrivers and Institutors of the Royal Society of which he was made the first President This person tho presbyterianly affected yet he had the Kings ear as much as any other person and was indefatigable in his undertakings He was a single man an abhorrer of Women a most renowned Chymist a great Patron of the Rosie-Crusians and an excellent Mathematician His several relations and matters of experiment which are in the Philosophical Transactions shew him to be a man well vers'd in experimental Philosophy He died suddenly in his Pavilion in the garden at Whitehall on the fourth day of July some hours after he had informed my friend of the death and burial of Eugen. Philalethes an 1673. 25 Car. 2. and was at the Kings charge buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster near to the grave of Sir Will. D'avenant sometimes Laureat Poet to the said King I find another Rob. Moray son of a Scotchman to be Author of a little Pamphlet intit Composition-credit or a bank of credit made currant by common consent in Lond. more useful than money Lond. 1682. in one sh in qu. and Author of An advertisement for the more easie and speedy collecting of debts and of other things But this person who was born in the Strand near London was a Milliner and of the company of Cloath-workers afterwards Clerk to the general Commissioners for the Revenue of Ireland then Clerk to the Commissioners of the grand Excise of England and in the latter end of 1679 the first inventer of the Penny-Post in London which was carried on by one .... Docwray GEORGE HOPKINS Son of Will. Hopk was born at Beaudley in Worcestershire 15 Apr. 1620 educated partly there in School learning under Joh. Graile and partly at Kinfare in Staffordshire became a Batler of New Inn in Lent Term 1637 took one degree in Arts in 1641 and then left the University for a time being puritannically affected Afterwards he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant retired to Oxon after the Garrison thereof was surrendred for the use of the Parliament submitted to the Visitors appointed by them took the degr of Master and soon after became Minister of Allsaints Parish in Evesham in Worcestershire In 1654 he was by the then Parliament appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Worcestershire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and soon after published Salvation from sin by Jesus Christ or the doctrine of Sanctification which is the greater part of our Salvation founded upon Christ who is both the meritorious and efficient cause of sanctifying grace c. Lond. 1655. oct This book which is levelled against Antinomianism was preached in seven sermons in a weekly lecture at Evesham on Math. 1.21 In the Authors dedication of the book to the Borough of Evesham he saith that to them he had dedicated himself to the work of the Gospel from his first beginning to be a constant Preacher of it and saith afterward that Dr. Bayly preached to them part of The practice of Piety before he publish'd it See among the Writers in the first Vol. p. 485 486. In 1662 our Author Hopkins left his Cure of Allsaints for want of Conformity and retiring to Dumbleton in Glocestershire died there at about one of the clock in the morning of the 25 of March Annunc day in sixteen hundred sixty and six whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there During the time he lived in that Town he constantly with his whole family frequented the Parish Church and publick Prayers on Holydays and Sundays in the Afternoons when there was no Sermon He never failed to receive the Holy Communion as oft as it was celebrated and did all things required of a Lay-member of the Ch. of England Besides his knowledge in Divinity he was a very good
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
settlement of such a government as he never intended Wr. in prose 15 Private address to Oliver offering things pertinent to his consideration This written in prose and verse was sealed up and given into his hands 16 Addr. to Oliver for the third of Sept. 1658. Given also into his own hands 17 Addr. to Rich. Cromwell Given into his own hands These four last things contained the duties and failings of Ol. and Richard and forewarnings of what soon after came to pass There also goes about in Ms his Poem of the History of the pestilence or proceedings of justice and mercy being the same I suppose which I have before mention'd He hath also translated from Greek into English with the help only of two copies The nature of man printed 1636 in tw Written originally by Nemesius At length after this our author George Wither had lived to the age of 79 years mostly spent in a rambling and unsetled condition concluded this life on the second day of May in sixteen hundred sixty and seven Whereupon his body was buried between the east door and south end of the Church which stands north and south belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the Strand near London One George Wither was a Dignitary in the Church and a Writer before the former George was born as I have told you in the Fasti an 1565 but what relation there was between them I cannot tell JAMES SMITH son of Tho. Smith Rector of Merston in Bedfordshire and Brother to Dr. Tho. Smith sometimes an eminent Physician of Brasn Coll was born in the said Town of Merston matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1622 3 aged 18 years and soon after was transplanted to Linc. Coll. where he continued for some years a Commoner Thence he was preferred to be Chaplain at Sea to Henry Earl of Holland who was Admiral of a squadron of Ships sent for a supply to the Isle of Ree Afterwards he was domestick Chaplain to Tho. Earl of Cleevland who had an especial respect for him for his ingenuity and excellent parts In his service he continued six years had a benefice in Lincolnshire which he kept for a time and in 1633 took the degree of Bach. of Div. by accumulation being then much in esteem with the poetical Wits of that time particularly with Philip Massenger who callâ—d him his Son Will. D'avenant John Mennes c. From his Benefice in Lincolnsh he removed to Kings Nimphton in Devons and leaving a Curat there he went as Chaplain to the before mention'd Earl of Holland Lieutenant General of the English Forces in the first expedition against the Scots Returning thence soon after he setled at Kings Nimphton where he resided during all the changes of government by compliance with the power that was uppermost After his Majesties return he was made one of the Canons of S. Peters Cathedral in Exeter Archdeacon of Barnstaple Chaplain to Edw. Earl of Clarendon and in July 1661 he was actually created Doct. of Divinity In the next year he became Chauntor of Exeter in the place of Dr. S. Ward promoted to the Episcopal See of that place and in 1663 was presented to the rectory of Alphyngton in Devonshire at which time he resigned Kings Nymphton and his Archdeaconry where he finished his course His chief works that are of Poetry are in Musarum delitiae or the muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656 oct second edit See more in John Mennes under the year 1670. and also in another book entit Wit restored in several select poems Lond. 1658. oct Which book I say is mostly of our author Smiths composition At the end of which is his translation or poem called The innovation of Penelope and Ulysses a mock poem Lond. 1658. oct And at the end of that also is Cleavlands Rebel Scot translated into Latine He also composed Certain Anthems Not the musical but poetical part of them which are to this day used and sung in the Cath. Ch. at Exeter At length paying his last debt to nature at Alphyngton on the 20. day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and seven his body was conveyed to Kings Nimphton before mention'd and was buried in the Chancel belonging to the Church there near to the body of Elizabeth his first Wife Over their graves was soon after put a comely monument with an inscription thereon enlarged after the death of his second Wife who died 4 years after him the contents of which shall now for brevity sake be omitted JOHN BERY or Bury was born in Devonshire admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 9. Feb. 1597 and in the year 1603 he being then Bach. of Arts became tanquam socius of Balliol Coll. or the first Fellow that was put in there to receive the benefaction of Peter Blundell by the appointment of Sir John Popham L. Ch. Justice of the Kings bench Afterwards he took the degree of Master and retiring to his own Country became Minister of Heavietree Canon of Exeter and Rector of Widworthie In Dec. 1643 were the Chancellors letters read in a Convocation of Doctors and Masters in the behalf of him the said Bury then Bach. of Div. as in the said letters is expressed that he might be actually created Doctor of that faculty but he being then absent in the Kings service he was to have that degree confer'd upon him when he should desire it but whether he did so or was diplomated it appears not in the registers He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The School of godly fear an Assize Sermon at Exeter 20. March 1614 on 1. Pet. 1.17 Lond. 1615. qu. 2 The moderate Christian preached at Exeter at a triennial visitation on 1. Cor. 10. vers ult Lond. 1631. qu. c. Gods method for mans salvation or a guide to heaven leading between errors on both hands c. Lond. 1661. in two sheets in oct 'T is a Catechisme for the use of his Parishioners at Widworthie What else he hath published I know not nor any thing besides of him only that he dying on the 5 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 87 years or thereabouts was buried in the Cathedral Church at Exeter having been before a liberal Benefactor to the Work-house belonging to that City as I have been informed by his Son Arthur GEORGE HUGHES distinguished while living from others of his sirname by the addition of Plymouth to his was born of a Plebeian family in Surrey particularly as I have been informed by a learned Nonconformist in the Borough of Southwark was sent by his relations to Corp. Ch. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1619 where continuing in the condition of a Clerk or Chorister till he had compleated his Bachelaurs degree by Determination translated himself to Pembroke Coll took the degree of Master of Arts as a member thereof entred into the sacred function and for a time exercised the Ministry 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
assuming to himself the office of a single person that is the Protectorship for which he was more than once imprison'd to the terror of his party In the latter end of 1654 he raised and headed a party of Phanaticks on the rising of the Cavaliers at Salisbury and did all his endeavours to keep down their rising in Wales So that by his great Authority and gains in those parts he from a poor boy a Groom or Ostler as the Author of Strena tells you became great and wealthy purchased some of the Kings Fee-farm Rents and Lordships for the most part in another mans name and to perpetuate his memory built for himself a very fair and sumptuous house in Kerry in Montgomeryshire In 1657 I find him in Oxford where being minded to shew his parts he did by the help of some of the Brethren there get into Allsaints Pulpit on Wednesday 15 July the same year and having got together a great Auditory in a very short time as well of Scholars as Layicks many of whom came purely out of novelty he did first of all very plentifully rail against the Universities and humane Learning and then against certain persons in Oxon among which was Mr. Hen. Hickman Fellow of Magd. Coll for whom he told the Auditory that the Pope would provide for him a Miter and the Devil a Frying-pan c. said upon no other account as was conceived but because the said Mr. Hickman spoke publickly in the Divinity-school in the last Vespers when he disputed upon this question An Ministri Anglicani habeant validam ordinationem that the Church of Rome for ought he knew was a true Church or to that effect not that he was drawn to say so by force of argument but opinion Upon the approach of the Kings restauration he was seized upon and imprison'd at Shrewsbury and according to the opinion of those of his perswasion he suffered much of which matter hear what one of his mind doth cantingly deliver Mr. Vav Powell who is accounted by many Ministers and others that knew him well to be a man of God mighty in Scriptures an able and painful Preacher of the Gospel in a great part of North and South Wales usually preaching as that learned eminent and holy man of God John Calvin did six or seven times or oftner every week to the saving of many from their sins and from hell and swift destruction thereby was seized upon and imprison'd at Shrewsbury as also many of his friends in several northern Counties in Wales not for any crime committed by him or them yea and divers of their houses plundered by Soldiers shewing no warrant for their proceedings therein This was about the latter end of Feb. 1659 c. He tells us also that in South Wales some of the Congregation with that precious man of God Mr. Jenkin Jones who preached the Gospel in several Counties as Mr. Vavasor Powell did was imprisoned also as was Thom. Gwinn a Gentleman Cavalier in Wales who about 1657 was wrought upon by the Ministry of the said Jones and brought over to his party But the said Jones and Gwinn were not imprisoned till his Maj. Restauration About that time all the lands and tenements that had been purchased by V. Powell were taken from him and he removed from Shrewsbury where he was much haunted by his party into Mountgomeryshire and there kept in close custody and from thence to the Prison called the Fleet in London In 1662 he was translated thence to Southsea Castle near Portsmouth where continuing 5 years became intimate with Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch who also was committed Prisoner to that place while Powel was there In 1667 he was removed by Habeas Corpus obtained in Mich term and being set at liberty he retired to Wales but before ten months end falling to the trade of conventicling and preaching Sedition he was made Prisoner again at Cardiff 1668 and the year following was sent to the Fleet again being then at Lambeth because not then rebuilt after it had been burnt down by the dismal Conflagration that hapned in Lond. 1666 where he continued till he was discharged by death He was a person of good natural parts but a grand Schismatick a busie body pragmatical bold and an indefatigable enemy to Monarchy and Episcopacy What his Religion was I cannot justly tell you some held him to be an Anabaptist others a Fifth-monarchy man and a Millinary sure it is he was neither Presbyterian or Independent but a most dangerous and pestilent man and one that did more mischief to his native Country of Wales than can be imagined As for those Books and Pamphlets which go under his name they are these Disputation between him and Joh. Goodwin concerning universal Redemption held in Colemanstreet Lond. 31 Dec. 1649. Lond. 1650. qu. The Reader may be pleased now to know that V. Powell upon this dispute supposing himself able to encounter any Minister in Wales did after his settlement there send a bold challenge to any Minister or Scholar that opposed him or his brethren to dispute on these two questions 1 Whether your calling or ours which you so much speak against be most warrantable and nearest to the word of God 2 Whether your mixt ways or ours of Separation be nearest the word of God This Challenge being sent flying abroad 11 of June 1652 it came into the hands of Dr. George Griffith of Llanymynech in Shropsh who looking upon it as sent to him he returned an answer in Latin two days after with promise on certain conditions to dispute with him either in private or publick On the 19 of the same month V. Powell returned a reply in Lat. from Redcastle but so full of barbarities that any School-boy of 10 years of age might have done better After this the Doctor made a rejoynder in elegant Latine wherein he corrected Powell for his false Grammar Barbarisms and Solecisms and did set a day whereon they should meet to dispute on the aforesaid questions but the time place and method with conveniences being discussed and delayed from time to time the disputation was not held till the 23 of July following At that time both parties meeting in the company of their frends Powell's cause fell to the ground meerly as 't was conceived for want of Academical learning and the true way of arguing So that he being then much guilty of his own weakness endeavoured to recover it and his reputation by putting a relation of the Dispute in the News-book called the Perfect Diurnal as if he had been the Conqueror Which relation redounding much to the dishonour of the Doctor he the said Doctor did publish a Pamphlet intit Animadversions on c. See more in George Griffith among these Writers an 1666. p. 270. V. Powell hath also written and published Scriptures concord or a Catechisme compiled out of the words of the Scripture c. Lond. 1647. oct sec edit ibid. 1653. fifth edit Several
admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. on the 4 of Oct. the same year and afterwards Fellow and M. of A. About which time taking holy Orders he became Minister of Bushy in Hertfordshire but his title to the Rectory being weak he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the Church of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey In 1634 he took the degrees in Divinity and being puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil distempers was made one of the Assembly of Divines 1643 became a frequent Preacher within the City of London and sometimes before the members of the Long Parliament In 1648 he was for the services done for the cause constituted President of Corp. Ch. Coll. by the authority then in being and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself a zealous brother for the carrying on of the Presbyterian discipline Soon after he took the oath called the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant but upon the restoration of K. Ch. 2. being ejected to make room for him whose bread he had eaten for 12 years he retired to a Market Town in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth where exercising his function among the Brethren till S. Barthelmews day an 1662 was then silenced for Nonconformity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Rupes Israelis the rock of Israel preached at S. Marg. Westm before the House of Com. at their monthly Fast 24. Apr. 1644 on Deut. 32.31 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Phinehas's zeal in execution of judgment Fast-serm before the House of Lords 30 oct 1644. on Psal 106.30 Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Sermon at Great Milton in the County of Oxon 9. Dec. 1654 at the funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Wilkinson late Wife of Dr. Hen. Wilkinson Princ. of Magd. Hall on 1. Thes 4.14 Oxon 1659. qu. To which is added 1. A narrative of her godly life and death 2 Verses and Elegies on her death made by certain Presbyterian Poets of the Univ. of Oxon. viz. John Wallis D.D. W. Carpender M. A. of Christ Church Edm. Hall of Pemb. Coll Dr. Hen. Wilkinson the Husband c. He the said Dr. Stanton hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen Dialogue or discourse between a Minister and a Stranger Lond. 1673. oct Treatise of Christian conference Pr. with the Dialogue He concluded his last day at Bovingden in Hertfordshire after he had exercised his gifts there in private for some years on the 14 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one and was buried in the Church there His life such as 't is was written by one Richard Mayow wherein the reader may satisfie himself more of the Doctor but not so fully as may be wished unless he reads the Appendix to it written by Will. Fulman of C. C. Coll. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed lives 1683 involves all or most of that written by Mayow without taking any notice of the Appendix either because he had not seen it or that it was too satyrical or made much against the Doctor as it doth with unquestionable veracity Mayow was sometimes Minister of Kingston upon Thames but ejected thence for nonconformity 1662 and was author of a book called A treatise of closet prayer Pr. in oct MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned Isaac son of Arnold Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau his Wife which Isaac married the Daughter of Henry Son of Rob. Stephan both eminent men of their times as their works manifest This Person Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention who was descended from both sides of learned Parents was born within the City of Geneva in France in the month of Sept. 1599 and at 9 years of age being brought into England by his Father was instructed by a private Master till 1614 at which time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this University where being put under a most careful Tutor Dr. Edw. Ã Meetkirk the Kings Hebr. Professor was soon after elected Student of that House and afterwards making a very considerable progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 at which time he was much noted for his sufficiences in the arts and sciences In the same year tho he was then young he published a Book in defence of his Father against the calumnies of a certain Rom. Catholick as I shall tell you in the Catalogue following Which making him known to K. Jam. 1 he ever afterwards had a good opinion of him That book brought him also into credit abroad especially in France whence he had offers and invitations for some promotion there his Godfather Meric de Vic sometimes Governor of Calis being then or soon after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom The next book that he published was Vindicatio patris c. written by command of K. James in defence of his Father and the Church of England against the Puritans of those days of which book he gave a farther account in his Necessity of reformation About that time he being beneficed in Somersetshire at Bledon by the favour of Dr. Andrews B. of Winton and Bach. of Div. did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off against Baronius his Annals but was diverted by some accidental occasions or provocations At length when he came to maturity of years for such a work and had acquainted Archb. Laud his great friend and patron with his design who was very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or Lond. according to his desire to the end that he might be furnished with books necessary for such a purpose the troubles and divisions began in England so that he having no certain place was forced to sell a good part of his books and in conclusion after 20 years sufferings more or less he was grown so old and crazy in body that he could not expect to live many years and thereupon was forced to give over that project Some years after his publication of the said two books he was made Prebendary of Canterbury by the favour of Dr. Laud if I mistake not Rector of Ickham 4 miles distant thence and in 1636 he was actually created Doct. of Div. by command from his Majesty when he and his Queen were entertained by the muses there In the beginning of the Civil War that followed he lost all his spiritual promotions and lived retiredly with that little he had left In 1649 one Mr. Greaves of Greys Inn an intimate acquaintance with our Author Casaubon brought him a message from Ol. Cromwell then Lieu. General of the Parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to confer with him about matters of moment but his Wife being then lately dead and not as he said buried he desired to be excused Afterwards Greaves came again and our author being in some disorder for it fearing that evil might follow he desired to tell him the meaning of the matter but Greaves refusing went away the second time At length
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
his Rambles by Drinking and Whoring died there in the month of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and two whereupon he was buried by the Name of Dr. Higham on the south side of the body of the Church there under the seats on the 23 day of the same month One Joh. Higham hath published a book called A Looking-glass for Loyalty printed 1675. oct but he is not to be taken for the same with the former nor for another Joh. Higham a R. C. Bookseller of S. Omers living in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 who translated from Spanish into English Meditations upon the Mysteries of our holy faith S. Omers 1619. in two or more tomes in qu. HENRY WHISTLER an Oxfordshire man born was elected Scholar of Trin. Coll. 1601 aged 16 years and four years after was made Fellow thereof So that taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into holy Orders became Rector of Little Whitnam in Berks Bach. of Div. 1615 and about that time Rector of Whitchurch in the south part of Oxfordshire near to which place he was born He hath written and published a rapsodical piece intit Aim at an Upshot for Infant baptism by the good will of Christ as Priest Prophet and King c. Lond. 1653. qu. He died in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Over his grave is this Inscription Here lieth the body of Henry Whistler Bachelaur of Divinity who departed this life the 24 day of Aug. in the year of our Lord 1672 in the 86 year of his age having been Rector of this Parish 56 years PHILIPP NYE was born of a gentile Family in Sussex entred a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 21. July 1615. aged 19 years or thereabouts but making no long stay there he removed to Madg. Hall where being put under the tuition of a puritanical Tutor continued till he had taken the degrees in Arts. About that time he entred into holy orders and had some cure bestowed on him but where unless in S. Michaels Church in Cornhill Lond. where I find him in 1630 I cannot justly tell But so it was that he being Schismatically enclined did with others of his perswasion leave his Cure purposely to avoid the censures of Episcopal Consistories and went beyond the Seas into Holland about 1633 where continuing for the most part at Arnheim in Gelderland till about the latter end of 1640 at which time the Members of the Parl. afterward called the Long Parl. were very dominant and prevailing he returned and became soon after by the favour of Edward Lord Kimbolton about that time Earl of Manchester Minister of Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire And tho he then and before shew'd himself a severe censurer of Bishops and those of the Episcopal Clergy for medling in civil affairs as excentrick to their calling yet he with Hugh Peters Steph. Marshall c. did go beyond any of them in that matter more than for 7 years together In 1643 he was appointed one of the Assembly of Divines became a great Champion for the Presbyterian cause and a zealous assertor of the solemn League and Covenant In July the same year he with Steph. Marshall whose Daughter he had taken to Wife were sent by the Parliament into Scotland to expedite their Covenant where in set speeches he told the People that they were to enter into such a Covenant and League as would never be forgotten by them and their posterity and both have occasion to remember it with joy Also that such an oath it is as for matter persons and other circumstances that the like hath not been in any age sufficiently warranted by both humane and divine story for as God did swear for the salvation of men and kingdoms so kingdoms must now swear for the preservation and salvation of kingdoms to establish a Saviour Jesus Christ in England c. After his return both houses of Parl. took the Covenant 25. of Sept. the same year at which time Nye made some observations from the Pulpit touching the said Covenant shewing the warrant of it from Scripture and was about the same time partly rewarded for his good service with the Rectory of Acton near London in the place of Dr. Dan. Featley ejected But soon after disliking the proceedings of the said Ass of Divines he dissented from them for a time as others did being incited thereunto by certain Politicians with promises of reward especially if they would oppose them and their intended discipline to be setled So that then closing with the rising party the Independents especially with the Grandees of the Army he did by their favour hold rich Offices and his counsel in political affairs was often used by them In Dec. 1647 he with Steph. Marshall were sent by them to the King at Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight with the Commissioners then appointed to carry the four bills the four dethroning votes and had for their pains 500 l. apiece given to them About that time also he was employed by the said Grandees to get subscriptions from the Apprentices in London and factious people against a personal treaty with the King while the Citizens of that place were petitioning for one See more in Jos Caryl In Apr. also the next year he with the said Marshall and Jos Caryl were employed by the Independents to invite the secured and secluded members to sit in the House again but they effected nothing In 1653 he was appointed one of the Triers or rather Spanish Inquisitors for the approbation of publick Preachers in which office he acted the Politician so much that he did not only get his Son to be Clerk to them but also enriched himself with bribes underhand-dealing and with a Living of 400 l. per an by the help of the said Marshall one of that number In 1654 he with Dr. Laz. Seamon Sam. Clark Rich. Vines Ob. Sedgwick Jos Caryl c. were appointed Assistants to the Commissioners appointed by Parl. to eject such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters in the City of London where he especially and they acted with no little rigor to the utter undoing of many loyal Persons In 1660 after his Majesties restauration it was debated by the Healing Parliament for several hours together whether he and John Goodwin that infamous and blackmouth'd Independent should be excepted for life because they had acted so highly none more except Hugh Peters against the King and had been instrumental in bringing all things into confusion At length it came to this result that if Philip Nye Clerk should after the first of Sept. in the same year accept or exercise any office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military should to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he had been totally excepted from life In Nov. 1662 he was vehemently suspected to be in that plot for which George Philips Thâ—m Tongue c. were executed but how he
office he lick'd his fingers sufficiently and in the year after he was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London appointed by Parliament for the ejecting of ignorant and scandalous Ministers and School-Masters as they were then by the godly party so called In 1659. Nov. 1. he with Whally Goffe c. began their journey towards Scotland to give George Monke General of the Army there a right understanding of affairs in England in order to the avoiding effusion of more blood but they returned unsatisfied and on the 14. of March following he was with Edw. Reynolds and others appointed by Act of Parliament to approve of and admit Ministers according to the Presbyterian way But that being null'd at the Kings restauration he receeded to his cure at S. Magnus where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The works of Ephesus explained in a Serm. before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 27. Apr. 1642 on Rev. 2. ver 2.3 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 The nature solemnitie grounds propertie benefits of a sacred Covenant c. preached to those that were to take the Covenant 6. Oct. 1643 on Nehem. 9.38 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 The Saints thankfull acclamation at christs resumption of his great power and the initials of his kingdome Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of C. 23 Apr. 1644 for the great victory given to the parl Army under the command of the Lord Fairfax at Selby in Yorks and to other of the parl forces in Pembrokesh on Rev. 11.16.17 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Arraignment of unbelief as the grand cause of our nationall non-establishment Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 28. May 1645 on Isay 7.9 Lond. 1645. qu 5 Heaven and earth embracing or God and man approaching Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 28. Jan. 1645 on Jam. 4.8 the former part of the vers Lond. 1646. qu. 6 Joy out-joyed c. Th. giv Serm. at S. Martins in the fields 19 Feb. 1645 for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Luke 10.20 Lond. 1646. qu. 7 Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies and required duties Th. giv Serm. before both Houses of parliament L. Mayor and Aldermen and Ass of Divines 2. Apr. 1646 for recovering of the West and disbanding 5000 of the Kings horse c. on Psal 118.17 Lond. 1646. qu. Hugh Peters was the other person that held out before the said auditory on the same day on Psal 31.23 which Sermon was printed twice in 1646. Besides these he hath other Sermons which I have not yet seen viz. 1 Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 29. July 1646 At which time Jeremiah Whitaker held forth before the said House as Sam. Bolton and Simeon Ash did before the Lords 2 Thanksgiving Serm. before the Parl. at S. Marg. West Oct. 8. on Psal 111.1.2.3.4.5 3 Fast Serm. before the Parl. 24. Sept. 1656 on Jer. 4. part of the ninth verse and 4 Fast and Thanksgiving Sermon bef the parl in Aug. and Oct. 1659 c. Sermons upon other occasions as 1 Davids prayer for Solomon Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Serm. pr. 1657. 3 Farewell Serm. at S. Magnus on Rev. 3.4 Lond. 1662 oct Printed with other Farewell Sermons of certain Lond. Ministers of the presb and Indep persuasion who were ejected from their respective Churches for nonconformity on S. Barth day 1662. The names of them were Edm. Calamy Dr. Th. Manton Tho. Case Will. Jenkins Rich. Baxter Dr. Th. Jacomb Dr. Will. Bates Thom. Watson Tho. Lye and Matth. Mead. The pictures of all which are in the title page and the title in the middle of them running thus The farewell Sermons of the late London Ministers preached 17. Aug. 1662 c. Our author Jos Caryl hath also written and published Exposition with practical Observations on the book of Job delivered in several Sermons and Lectures in S Magnus Church c. Printed at Lond. in 11 Volumes in qu. Afterwards published in two large folios The first of which was printed at Lond. 1676. and the other in 1677 with the authors picture before it Which volumes are epitomised in the second vol. of Math. Poole's Synopsis Criticorum The nature and principles of Love as the end of the commandment declared in some of his last Sermons Lond. 1674. oct with an Epist prefix'd by Jo. Owen D. D. Gospel-Love Heart-purity and the flourishing of the righteous being his last Sermons Lond. 1674 75. oct He also had a prime hand in a book entit An English Greek Lexicon containing the derivations and various significations of all the words in the New Testament c. Lond. 1661 oct The others that joyned with him in this work were George some call him Thomas Cockayne Ralph Venning Will. Dell Matth. Barker Will. Adderley Matth. Mead and Hen. Jessey all Nonconformists Also a hand in another book called Saints Memorials or Words fitly spoken like apples of gold in pictures of silver Being a collection of divine Sentences by several Presbyterian Ministers Lond. 1674. oct Those parts which Caryl composed are 1 The Palmtree Christian p. 51. 2 Practical and Experimental considerations and characters of the real Christian p. 57. 3 On Gospel Charity p. 65. 4 The heart anatomized p. 74. 5 Divine Sentences or a guide to a holy life p. 77. After which in p. 109 follows his Elegy and Epitaph The other persons that had hands in the said Saints Memorials were Edm. Calamy and James Janaway whom I have and shall mention elsewhere as also Ralph Venning sometimes of Emmanuel Coll. in Cambr. who among several things that he hath published are Orthodox Paradoxes or a beleiver clearing truth by seeming contradictions Lond. 1647. tw To which is added an Appendix or the triumph of assurance over the law sinn the world wants and present enjoyments He hath also several Sermons extant as A warning to backsliders c. preached at Paules before the L. Mayor and Alderm of Lond. on Rev. 2.5 Lond. 1654 qu. c. He died on the 10 of March 1673 and was buried in the presence of very many Nonconformists at which time Rob. Bragge preached his funeral Sermon entit A Cry for Labourers in Gods harvest on Matth. 9 38. Lond. 1674. qu. At the end of which Sermon are the titles of nine books which had been written and published by Ralph Venning As for our author Jos Caryl who was a learned and zealous Nonconformist he died in his house in Bury street in London on the 25. of Febr. in sixteen hundred seventy and two but where buried unless in the Church of S. Magnus before mention'd wherein he had for many years posses'd his auditors with many unworthy things against K. Ch. 1. and his Son their followers and the prelatical party I know not Several elegies were made on him after his death of which two or more I have seen extant JOHN RILAND son of Rich.
he bound himself by oath to observe the four vows Afterwards he taught Humanity for some years at S. Omers or was as a certain author tells us Reader of Poetry and Master of the Syntax an 1622. About that time being sent on the mission into England he setled in the City of Oxon. where and in the Neighbourhood he administred to the R. C. till towards the latter end of his life He lived many years in a poor cottage without the east gate of that City standing on the site of the habitation sometimes belonging to the brethren of the Holy Trinity In the said cottage did then live two Ro. Cath. Virgins of mean condition named Mary and Joan Meakyns who from their Childhood had dedicated themselves to piety and good works always lived singly and arrived both of them beyond the age of man These two antiquated Virgins were owners of the cottage and did very carefully attend this Father and took as much care of him as if he had been their own Father or Brother His fare was course his drink of a penny a gawn or gallon his bed was under thatching and the way to it was up a ladder With these two I say he lived in a most retir'd and devout condition till God was pleased to translate them to a better place and then the Father was removed to the Dolphin Inn in Magd. Parish in the suburb of Oxon the Hostes of which was one of his perswasion where he ended his days He was esteemed by all especially by those of his opinion a learned Man well vers'd in the Poets of a quiet disposition and gentile behaviour which made him therefore respected and his company to be desired by certain Scholars of the University especially by Tho. Masters and other ingenious men of New Coll. But this their civility to and esteem of him was not while the Presbyterians governed who made it a most dreadful and damnable thing to be seen in the company of Papists especially of Romish Priests but before the rebellion broke forth upon their account when then the Men of the Church of England had a respect for Papists as they now have for Presbyterians The things that this Father hath written are The judgment of an University man concerning Mr. Will. Chillingworth his late Pamphlet in answer to charity maintained Printed 1639. qu. Reprinted at Camb. in 1653 in oct in a preface to a book then and there published The character that Edw. Knot the Jesuit gives of this book is that it is a witty erudite and solid work Heantomachia Mr. Chillingworth against himself The total sum These two are printed at the end of The Judgment c. At length this Father Lacey who had lived to be twice a child died in the Dolphin Inn before mention'd on the seventeenth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and three aged 89 years and two days after his body being carried to Somerton near Dedington in Oxfordshire to which place he usually retired was buried in the Church there noted for the splendid monuments of the Fermours Lords of that Town and Roman Catholicks From the same family of this Will. Lacey was descended John Lacey the Comedian born near Doncaster in Yorks originally an apprentice to John Ogilby a Dancing master afterwards one of the best and most applauded of our English actors belonging to the Kings Play-house and from an Actor to be Author of these Comedies 1 The Old Troop or Monsieur Raggou Lond. 1672. qu. 2 The dumb Lady or the Farrier made Physitian Lond. 1672. qu. 3 Sir Hercules Buffoon or the poetical Squire Lond. 1684. qu. This Person who was of a rare shape of body and good complexion and had served his Majesty in the time of the rebellion in the quality of a Lieutenant and Quarter-master under Coll. Charles Gerard afterwards Earl of Macclesfield died on the 17. of Sept. 1681 and was two days after buried in the farther Church-yard of S. Martin in the Fields I mean in that yard on the other side of S. Martins-lane within the liberty of Westminster His Maj. Ch. 2. who had a great respect for caused several pictures of him to be drawn according to several postures which he acted in several parts and do now or else did lately remain at Windsore and Hampton Court JOHN THEYER was born of gentile Parents at Cowpers-hill in the Parish of Brockworth near to and in the County of Glocester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. an 1613 aged 16 years or thereabouts where continuing about three years partly under the tuition of John Harmur retired to an Inn of Chancery in London called New Inn where spending as many years in obtaining knowledge in the Common Law he receeded to his patrimony and as years grew on gave himself up mostly to the study of venerable antiquity and to the obtaining of the antient monuments thereof Manuscripts in which he did so much abound that no private Gentleman of his rank and quality did ever I think exceed him He was a bookish and studious Man a lover of learning and the adorers thereof a zealous Royallist and one that had suffer'd much in the rebellion that began 1642 for the Kings and Churches cause He hath written Aerio-Mastix or a vindication of the Apostolical and generally received government of the Church of Christ by Bishops against the scismatical Aerians of our time Wherein is evidently demonstrated that Bishops are jure divino c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Dedicated to King Ch. 1. who afterwards made use of it in his Writings to Alexander Henderson a Presbyterian Scot who died at Edenburg 31. Aug. 1646 of grief as some then said because he could not perswade the said King to sign the propositions for peace which the members of Parliament sent to him at Newcastle by their Commissioners to treat with him for that purpose In the same year 1643 our author Theyer was adorned with the degree of Master of Arts Ob merita sua in Rempub. literariam ecclesiam by virtue of the Kings Letters sent to the Vicechanc and Convocation dat 6. July the same year About which time he the said Theyer being discovered to be a man of parts was perswaded to embrace the Rom. Catholick Religion by Father Philipps a Scot confessor to Henrietta Maria the Queen Consort He hath also written A friendly debate between the Protestants and the Papists MS. But before it was quite fitted for the Press the author died and what became of it afterwards I know not His death hapned at Cowpers hill on the 25 of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and two days after was buried among his Ancestors in the Church yard at Brockworth before mention'd particularly near to the grave of his Grandfather ... Theyer who had married the Sister of one Hart the last Prior of Langthony near Glocester He then left behind him a Library of antient Manuscripts consisting of the number
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
when he was at Worcester which he did with so much vigour and confidence that Tichbourne the next day durst throw the Kings declaration into the fire made at the Exchange c. with other passages which for brevity sake I now omit At length he dying of the stone in his house at Chilton Park on the 28. of July in sixteen hundred seventy and five was buried in an isle joyning to the Church of Falley or Fawley near Marlow in Bucks which he had built for a burying place for his family Among the sons that he had by Rebecca his wife daughter of Thom. Benet Alderman of London was James Whitlock first a Captain afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll then a Colonel in the parliament Army one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3. of Sept. 1654 knighted by Oliver 6. Jan. 1656 Burgess for Aylesbury in Bucks to serve in the Parl. which began at West 27 Jan. 1658 c. THOMAS TOMKINS son of Joh. Tomk somtimes Organist of S. Pauls Cathedral was born in Aldersgate-street in the Parish of S. Botolph in London educated in Virtue and Learning from his cradle by the care of his Uncle Nathan Tomkins Prebendary of Worcester became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in Act term 1651 probat Fellow of All 's in 1657 and taking the degree of M. of A. was elected one of the Proctors of the University for year 1663. Afterwards he became Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury Rector of Lambeth in Surrey Monks-Risborow in Bucks and at length Chancellour of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and D. of D. The Archb. valued him so much that he kept him many years Chaplain in his house and resolving never to part with made him Rector of Lambeth before mention'd which he kept to his dying day The books that he hath published are these The Rebells plea examined or Mr. Baxters judgment concerning the late warr c. Lond. 1660. qu. Short Strictures or animadversions on so much of Mr. Zach. Croftons Fastning of S. Peters bounds as concern the reasons of the Univers of Oxon concerning the Covenant Lond. 1661. oct The inconveniencies of toleration or an answer to a book called A proposition made to the K. and parl c. Lond. 1667. qu. The modern pleas for toleration comprehension c. considered and discussed Lond. 1675. oct This book came out the second time with this title The new distemper or the Dissenters usual pleas for comprehension toleration and renouncing the Covenant considered and discussed Lond. 1680. oct To which is a large Preface written by Sam. Thomas Chantour of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. now Vicar of Chard in Sommersetsh The first edition of this book 1675 is reflected upon by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his Apol. for the Nonconformists ministry c. from p. 147. to p. 154. This Dr. Tomkins died at Exeter in sixteen hundred seventy and five and his body being carried into Wocestershire was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Marton near Droitwych Soon after was a marble table fastned to the wall over his grave with this inscripton thereon Thomas Tomkins SS Theologiae Professor Coll. Om. An. Oxon. olim Socius reverendiss Archi-Episcopo Cantuariensi à sacris Ecclesiae cathedralis Exon. Cancellarius Lambethanae c Rector Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra Schismaticos assertor exiimius Vir ingenio judicio memoriâ literaturâ eloquentiâ clarus Exoniae morbo correptus obiit Augusti 20 an Dom. 1675 aetat 37. Cujus corpus huc translatum hic subtus quiescit Over his grave is laid a flat stone with an inscription thereon containing his name dignity and death which for brevity sake I now omit In his Rectory of Lambeth succeeded Dr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch in Monks-Risborow John Wolley M. A. of Trin. Coll. and in his Chancellourship Dr. Joh. Copleston of Cambridge Canon of Exeter the same who was elected Provost of Kings Coll. in that University 24. Aug. 1681. THOMAS WILLIS the most famous Physitian of his time was born at Great Bedwyn in Wilts 27. Janu. 1621. His father was Tho. Willis of North Henxsey near Abendon in Berks somtimes a retainer to S. Johns Coll but no Graduat afterwards Baillive or Steward to Sir Walt. Smith of Bedwyn and in his last days a constant inhabitant of N. Henxsey before mention'd Which last Thomas was son of another Thomas a Taylor as I have been informed who mostly lived at Kennington near Abendon also As for Thomas our author he was bred in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester who taught a private School in Allsaints parish in Oxon to whom he went every day from N. Henxsey In 1636 he became a retainer to the family of Dr. Tho. Iles Canon of Ch. Ch. and was his Batler there where applying himself very severely to his studies took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1642. About that time Oxford being garrison'd for the King he among the Scholars that were then remaining bore arms in his defence and all the time that he could obtain he bestowed on his beloved study of Physick In 1646 the Garrison being then surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took the degree of Bachelaur of that faculty fell to the practice of it and every Munday kept Abendon Market So that by his great care and industry he in short time became famous in these parts setled in S. John Baptists parish in an house opposite to Merton Coll. Church and was sent for far and near for his help while in the mean time Mr. John Fell whose sister he had married Mr. Joh. Dolben and somtimes Mr. Rich. Allistry did constantly exercise in his house as they had partly before done in his lodgings in Canterbury quadrangle the Liturgy and Sacraments according to the Church of England to which most of the Loyallists in Oxon especially Scholars that had been ejected in 1648 did daily resort In 1660 after his Majesties restauration he became Sedlies professor of Natural Philosophy in the place of Dr. Josh Cross then ejected and shortly after he was created Doctor of his faculty and upon the foundation of the Royal Society was made fellow of it In 1666 after the dismal conflagration at London he upon the invitation of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Câ—nt went to the City of Westminster took a tenement in S. Martins Lane and in very short time after he became so noted and so infinitely resorted to for his practice that never any Physitian before went beyond him or got more mony yearly than he About that time he was made one of the Coll. of Physitians who for the most part had him in great esteem The truth is tho he was a plain man a man of no carriage little discourse complesance or society yet for his deep insight happy researches in natural and experimented Philosophy Anatomy and Chymistry for his wonderful success and repute in his practice the natural smoothness
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
Soc. c. Lond. 1670. qu. Letter to Sir N. N. relating the cause of the quarrel between Hen. Stubbe and the Royall Society and an Apology against some of their cavills Printed with Campanella revived Postscript concerning the quarrel depending between Hen. Stubbe and Dr. Christop Merrett Pr. also with Campanella Reply unto the letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe in defence of The history of the Royal Society Oxon. 1671 quart Reply to a letter of Dr. Hen. More printed with Mr. Glanvill's Prefatory answer to Hen. Stubbe with a censure upon the Pythagorico-Cabbalistical Philosophy promoted by him Oxon. 1671. A Preface against Ecebolius alias Joseph Glanvill Fellow of the Royal Society c. These two last are printed with the Reply unto a letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe c. Medice cura te ipsum Or the Apothecaries plea in some short and modest animadversions upon a late Tract entit A short view of the fraudes and abuses of the Apothecaries c. by Christop Merrett Dr. of Phys Lond. 1671. quart An epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy in opposition to George Thomson Pseudo-Chymist a pretended disciple to the Lord Verulam Lond. 1671. qu. A discourse concerning the Sweating Sickness temp Hen. 7. Relation of the strange Symptoms hapning by the bite of an Adder and the cure thereof These two last are printed with the Epistolary discourse c. A caveat for the Protestant Clergy or an account of the sufferings of the English Clergy upon the restitution of Popery in the dayes of Qu. Mary Lond. 1671. 78. in two sh in oct This is said to be written by Hen. Stubbe but not I suppose by our author but by another of both his names whom I shall anon mention A justification of the present warr against the united Netherlands c. illustrated with Sculptures In answer to a Dutch treatise entit considerations upon the present state of the united Netherlands c. Lond. 1672. 73. qu. A farther justification of the present warr against the United Netherlands illustrated with several Sculptures Lond. 1673. qu. For the compiling of these two last books the author was allowed the use of the Paper Office at Whitehall and when they were both finished he had given him 200 l. out of his Majesties Exchequer and obtained a great deal of credit from all people especially from the Courtiers and all that belonged to the Kings Court. In the month of Octob. the same year 1673 when the marriage to be between James Duke of York and Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena was controverted in the House of Commons where were 180 voices for and 188 against it then did this our author Stubbe about the latter end of the said month write and publish The Paris Gazette Which being against the said marriage and for the breaking it off gave great offence to many It was printed in half a sheet as one of our Gazetts are now and was by the author with great confidence and impudence presented to several Parliament men Whereupon a Writ being issued out against him he was taken in the beginning of the next month hurried in the dark from one private Prison to another threatned with hanging and was put to a great deal of charge So that all the credit he had got before was lost among the generallity Directions for drinking the Bath-water Ars Cosmetica or beautifying Art These two go under his Stubbes name and are printed at the end of James Cook his translation from Lat. into English of a book written Originally by Joh. Hall entit Select observations on Eminent persons in desperate diseases Which translation was reprinted with additions in 8 o an 1679. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Introduction to Geography Oxon 1657 oct Written by Philip Cluver 2 The Arts of Grandure and submission Lond. 166â— and 1665 oct Written by John Casa Archb. of Benevento 3 The History of the United Provinces of Achaia Lond. 1673. qu. in 4 sh and half written by Jacobus Gothofredus and others as it seems which I have not yet seen I have now no more to say of this learned person only that he being at Bathe attending several of his Patients living in and near Warwick then there he was sent for to come to another at Bristow in very hot weather to which place therefore going a by-way at 10 of the clock in the night on the twelfth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six his head being then intoxicated with bibbing but more with talking and snuffing of powder was drowned passing through a shallow River wherein as 't is supposed his horse stumbled two miles distant from Bathe So that his body being taken up the next morning and his death examined by the Coroner was the next day after that being Friday buried in the great Church at Bathe dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul in the grave of Dr. Pet. Wentworth joyning on the North side to the stately Tomb of Dr. Jam. Mountague somtimes Bishop of that City situat and being on the north side of the body of that Church At which time his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill preached his funeral Sermon but said no great matter of him and soon after a certain Physitian of that place who seemed to be glad for his death made this Epitaph following on him Which tho not yet put on his grave shall be here set down to his memory Memoriae Sacrum Post varios casus magna rerum discrimina tandem heic quiescunt mortalitatis exuviae Henrici Stubbe Medici Warwicensis quondam ex Aede Christi Oxon â—ei Medicae Historicae ac Mathematicae peritissimi judicii vivi Librorum heluonis qui quum multa scripserat plures sanaverat aliorum saluti sedulo prospiciens propriam neglexit Obiit aquis frigidis suffocatus 12 die July A.D. 1676. aetatis suae ... Besides this Hen. Stubbe was another of both his names and time a nonconforming Minister and somtimes a preacher in the City of Wells where I find him as an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliam to eject such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters who hath among several things pertaining to Divinity written 1 Great Treaty of peace exhort of making peace with God Lond. 1676. 77. oct 2 Disswasive from conformity to the world Lond. 1675. in 8o. 3 Gods severity against mans iniquity Printed with the Disswasive 4 Gods gracious presence the Saints great privilege a farewel Sermon to a Congreg in Lond on 2. Thes 3.16 Printed also with the Disswasive 5 Conscience the best friend or the happy Effects of keeping a good Conscience very useful for this age Lond. 1685. in tw and other things which I have not yet seen among which is his answer to the Friendly debate an 1669 in oct When he died I know not sure I am that after his death which was in London his books were exposed to sale by way of Auction 29. Nov.
fecit c. Afterwards our Author Cawton continuing for some time in Mert. Coll. was at length upon the resetling of the English Liturgy in the University called thence and afterwards setling within the City of Westminster lived a Nonconformist and kept religious meetings in private to his last His works besides the former are these Dissertatio de usu linguae Hebraicae in Philosophia theoretica Printed at Utrecht And wrot also the life of his Father intit The life and death of that holy and rev man of God Mr. Tho. Cawton sometimes Minister of the Gospel at S. Barthelmews behind the Royal Exchange and lately Preacher to the English Congregation of Rotterdam in Holland c. Lond. 1662. oct The Life tho it seemâ— to be written by another person yet the son was the Author who caused to be added to it his fathers sermon intit Gods rule for a godly life c. preached before the Lord Mayor and his brethren the Aldermen of London at Mercers Chappel 25 of Feb. 1648 on Philip. 1.27 Lond. 1662 being the Sermon for which the Author was committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster Balaam's wish or the vanity of desiring without endeavouring to obtain the death of the upright Lond. 1670. 75. oct 't is a Sermon He died on the tenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 40 years or thereabouts and was buried in the new Church in Tuttle street within the City of Westminster at which time Mr. Hen. Hurst his friend and sometimes Fellow collegian spoke before a large Auditory a Funeral discourse in the latter end of which are many things deservedly said of the Defunct which being made publick I refer the Reader to it RICHARD HOLLAND was born within the City of Lincoln and for a time educated in this University but took no degree Afterwards he taught the grounds of Geography and Mathematicks among the young scholars for about 50 years grew wealthy and being always sedulous in his employment several afterwards became eminent by his instruction He wrot for their use Globe notes Oxon. 1678. oct sec edit Notes how to get the angle of the parallax or a Comet Oxon. 1668. oct He died on the first day of May in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 81 years and was buried very deep behind the south door of the Parish Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. His employment in instructing young scholars was afterwards taken up by Joh. Caswell M. A. of Wad Coll. afterwards Vice-principal of Hart Hall Besides this Rich. Holland is another of both his names M. of A. and Rector of S. George's Church in Stanford in Lincolnshire Author of one or more sermons BRUNO RYVES kinsman to Dr. Tho. Ryves mentioned under the year 1651. p. 83. was born in Dorsetshire made one of the Clerks of New Coll. in 1610 where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts became one of the Chaplains of Magd. Coll. 1616. Soon after he proceeded in Arts became a most noted and florid Preacher Vicar of Stanwell in Middlesex Rector of St. Martins de le Vintry in London Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 1. and in 1639 proceeded Doct. of Div. But the Rebellion breaking out soon after he was sequestred of his Rectory by the Presbyterians plunder'd and forced to fly and at length losing his Vicaridge he shifted from place to place and by the favour of his Majesty had the Deanery of Chichester and the Mastership of the Hospital there conferr'd upon him tho little or no profit accrued thence till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. About which time being sworn Chaplain in ord to him had the Deanery of Windsore confer'd on him in which he was installed 3 Sept. 1660 and so consequently was Dean of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire Afterwards he became Rector of Acton in Middlesex was sworn Scribe of the most noble order of the Garter 14 Jan. 1660 and about that time was made Rector of Haseley near to and in the County of Oxford which I think is annexed to his Deanery as the Deanery of Wolverhampton is but all separated by Mr. Baxter thereby to make him a great Pluralist without any consideration had to his great sufferings occasion'd by the Presbyterians He hath written Mercurius Rusticus or the Countries complaint recounting the sad events of this unparralel'd Warr. Which Mercuries in number at least 19 commencing from 22 Aug. 1642 came out in one sheet sometimes in two in qu. Merc. Rustic The second part in number 5 giving an account of Sacriledges in and upon several Cathedrals After the Warr was ended all these Mercuries were pr. an 1646 and 47. in oct and had to them added 1 A general bill of mortality of the Clergy of London c. Or a brief martyrologie and catalogue of the learned grave religious painful Ministers of the City of Lond. who have been imprison'd plundered c. for their constancy to the Protestant Religion and their Loyalty from 1641 to 1647 about which time it came out by it self in one sheet only pr. on one side 2 Querela Cantabrigiensis or a Remonstrance by way of Apology for the banished members of the flourishing University of Cambridge Written by a member thereof 3 Micro-Chronicon or a brief Chronologie of the time and place of the Battles Sieges Conflicts and other remarkable passages which have hapned betwixt his Majesty and the Parliament from the beginning of the unhappy dissentions to the 25 of Mar. 1647. Which Micro-Chron I take to be written by our Author Ryves and to have been partly collected by him from Englands Iliads in a Nuâ—-shell written by George Wharton 4 A Catalogue of the names of all or most part of the Lords Knights Commanders and Persons of Quality slain or executed by law martial on both sides from the beginning of this unnatural War to the 25 of Mar. 1647. This also I take to be collected by Ryves The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that that edition of Merc. Rusticus which came out in 1647 had more in it than that of 1646. However Rich. Royston the Bookseller being minded to make another edition he followed only that which came out in 1646. so that the third edit which he made in 1685 hath less in it than that of 1647. Dr. Ryves hath also written and published Several sermons as 1 Serm. on 1 Tim. 6.10 Pr. in qu. 1652. 2 Fun. Serm. on 2 Tim. 4.7 Pr. 1656. qu. 3 Serm. before the H. of Commons 15 Jan. 1661. Whether printed I know not as yet for I have not seen it He died at Windsore on the 13 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Alley or Isle joyning on the south side to his Majesty's Chappel of S. George there Over his grave is this inscription engraven on a marble table fastned to the south Wall Brunus Ryves S. Theologiae Professor Reg. majestati Ã
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
one that would give it to him died with meat in his mouth that is suddenly in Chepstow Castle before mention'd in Sept. in sixteen hundred and eighty and was on the ninth day of the same month buried in the Church of Chepstow Some time before he died he made this Epitaph by way of Acrostick on himself which runs thus Here or elswhere all 's one to you to me Earth aire or water gripes my ghostless dust None knowing when brave fire shall set it free Reader if you an oft tryed rule will trust You 'l gladly doe and suffer what you must My life was worn with serving you and you And now death's my pay it seems and welcom too Revenge destroying but it self while I To birds of prey leave my old cage and fly Examples preach to the eye care then mine sayes Not how you end but how you spend your dayes Aged 78. Another Epitaph was made by his daughter who usually attended him which for brevity sake I now omit JOSEPH GLANVILL was born at a Sea-port Town in Devons called Plymouth became a Batler of and entred into Commons in Exeter Coll 19 Apr. 1652 aged 16 years where being put under a good Tutor Sam. Conant M. A. and severely disciplin'd in religion Logick and Philosophy makes me wonder considering that that House was then one of the chief nurseries for youth in the University why he should afterwards lament that his friends did not first send him to Cambridge because as he used to say that new Philosophy and the art of Philosophizing were there more than here in Oxon and that his first studies in this University did not qualifie him for the world of action and business After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Linc. Coll. in the beginning of July 1656 where taking the degree of M. of Arts in the beginning of 1658 was about that time made Chaplain to old Franc. Rous one of Olivers Lords and Provost of Eaton Coll. But he dying soon after Glanvill return'd to Oxon continued in Linc. Coll. for a time and became a great admirer of Mr. Rich. Baxter and a zealous person for a Commonwealth After his Majesties restauration he turned about became a Latitudinarian a great pretender to the new Philosophy wrot and published The vanity of Dogmatizing to gain himself a name among the Virtuosi was made a member of the Royal Society entred into holy orders according to the Church of England and by the favour of Sir James Thynne was presented to the Vicaridge of a Mercate Town in Somersetshire called Frome-Selwood in the beginning of Nov. 1662 in the place of John Humphrey a Non-conformist In 1666 Jun. 23 he was inducted Rector of the great Church in Bathe dedicated to S. Pet. and S. Paul and in July 1672 he changed Frome for the rectory of Streat with the Chappel of Walton annex'd in Somersetshire with Rich. Jenkins M. A. So that by vertue of the presentation to those two Churches by Tho. Thynne Esq Jenkins was instituted to Frome and Glanvill to Streat and Walton on one and the same day viz. 26. July 1672. About that time he was made one of the Chaplains in ordinary to K. Ch. 2. and at length by the endeavours of Henry Marquess of Worcester to whom our authors Wife pretended some alliance he became one of the Prebendaries of Worcester in the place of Hen. Greisley deceased in which dignity he was installed 22. June 1678. A certain author named Hen. Stubbe who wrot much against and did not care for him saith that Mr. Glanvill was the most impudent Lyer in the world that he would prove him a lyer and so ignorant and illiterate a fellow that he was not fit to come into any learned company or to open his mouth among them He tells us also that he did not understand Greek only to read it he could not construe Aristotle he knew not Logick either in the practice or notion that he was an ignorant and inconsiderate fellow that as much as he pretends to have studied Aristotle and the peripatetick Philosophy yet he did not know that Aristotle held the gravity of the air and was therefore followed by the Avicennists and Averroists c. that he was against the fertility of the way of notion and dispute concerning which he affirmed that it produced no practical useful knowledg He charged him with impiety and indiscretion with decrying the learning of the Lord Bacon yet to excuse his errour and insolence he made use of his great name and thought it a sufficient apology that he could shew that the subject of his most obnoxious periods and passages were to be found largely and often insisted on by so great and learned a man He tells us also that he was a renegado Presbyter Latitudinarian a proud and conceited person c. But all these things with many more having been spoken by a rash person and one that was well known not to abound with good nature and seldome to have spoken well of any body I shall take the liberty to give this character of him Glanvill with which those that knew him as I did partly will without doubt concur viz. that he was a person of more than ordinary parts of a quick warm spruce and gay-fancy and was more lucky at least in his own judgment in his first hints and thoughts of things than in his after-notions examined and disgested by longer and more mature deliberation He had a very tenacious memory and was a great Master of the English Language expressing himself therein with easie fluency and in a manly yet withal a smooth stile He catcht at all occasions as well in his discourse as in his writings of depreciating that renowned Master of reason and celebrated advancer of knowledge Aristotle and of undervaluing his philosophy altho it hath been received in the Schools for many ages as if great authority with general approbation and advantage and in the place of it he substituted many pretty new fangled and fantastical Hypotheses of that Philosophy which bidding defyance to the old boasts it self in the winning and glorious title of being new This also must be said that he did not blame the use of Aristotle in the Universities among the junior Students but did altogether disapprove the streightness and sloath of elder dijudicants from whom a more generous temper might be expected than to sit down in a contended despair of any farther progress into Science than hath been made by their idolized Sophy as he is pleased to term it and depriving themselves and all this world of their liberty in Philosophy by making a Sacramental adherence to an heathen authority And this it was together with the pedantry and boyishness of humour that drew from him those reflections he directed against Aristotle in the Letter which I shall anon mention He did more especially applaud and recommend that more free and generous
way as they call it of promoting learning now for some years carried on and professed tho not at this time 1690 and several years since with that active vigour as at first by the Royal Society The institution of which its religious tendency towards the advancement of true substantial and solid improvements and great benefit which hath and may accrue thence to humane life by that real and useful knowledge there aimed at and in part obtained he hath with some shew and appearance at least of reason defended against H. Stubbe and all this against the old way which he calls a bare formal Scheme of empty airy notions sensless terms and insignificant words fit only to make a noise and furnish men with matter of wrangling and contention c. His reflecting on his University education with such regret and disatisfaction declaring often in common discourse that his being trained up in that trite and beaten road was one of his greatest unhappinesses that had ever befalen him as it savoured plainly of too much arrogance thus rashly to condemn the statutable continued practice of such a learned body which doth not as is by our modern Virtuosi falsly pretended so slavishly tye up its youth to the magisterial dictates of Aristole as not to be permitted in any cases to depart from his somtimes erroneous sentiments but gives them free and boundless liberty of ranging and conversing with the many and different writers who set up with the specious name of new Philosophy referring still to the authority of Aristotle as unquestionable in the performance of public exercise So neither did it seem to consist with those grateful returns which his more benign mother the University might here reasonably looked for from him as some slender requital for her so frankly bestowing on him the ground-work or foundation at least of all that learning which afterwards rendred him so mightily known and famous to and among some people Mr. R. Baxter to whom our author wrote a large courting Letter dat 3. Sept. 1661 wherein it appears that he admired his preaching and writings saith that he was a man of more than ordinary ingeny that he was one of themselves here tho an Originist a most triumphant Conformist and not the greatest contemner of Nonconformists and famous for his great wit c. which last commendation is given of him by the most famous Th. de Albiis an eminent writer of another persuasion As for the books that this our author Glanvill hath written the titles of which follow some of them are new vamp'd have fresh titles and somtimes new dedications put to them which whether it was so contrived to make the world believe that he was not lazy but put out a book every year I leave to others to judge The vany of Dogmatizing or confidence in opinions manifested in a discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our knowledg and its causes with some reflections on Peripateticisme and an apologie for philosophy Lond. 1661. oct All or most of this book is contained in Scepsis scientifica c. as I shall tell you by and by It was answered by Thom. Anglus ex Albiis East-Saxonum in his book entit Sciri sive Sceptices Scepticorum a jure disputationis exâ—lusio Lond. 1663. in tw By this Tho. Anglus we are to understand to be the same with Tho. White second son of Rich. White of Hutton in Essex Esq by Mary his wife daughter of Edm. Plowden the great Lawyer in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth which Th. White having been alwaies from his childhood a Rom. Catholick became at length a Secular Priest and a most noted Philosopher of his time as his published writings much sought after and admired by many shew Hobbes of Malmsbury had a great respect for him and when he lived in Westminster he would often visit him and he Hobbes but seldom parted in cool blood for they would wrangle squabble and scold about philosophical matters like young Sophisters tho either of them was 80 years of age yet Hobbes being obstinate and not able to endure contradiction tho well he might seeing White was his Senior yet those Scholars who were somtimes present at their wrangling disputes held that the Laurel was carried away by White who dying in his lodging in Drury lane between the hours of two and three in the afternoon of the sixth day of July an 1676 aged 94 years was buried almost under the Pulpit in the Church of S. Martin in the fields within the liberty of Westminster on the ninth day of the same month By his death the R. Catholicks lost an eminent ornament from among them and it hath been a question among some of them whether ever any Secular Priest of England went beyond him in philosophical matters Our author Glanvill hath also written Lux Orientalis or an Enquiry into the opinion of the Easterne Sages concerning the pre-existence of Soules being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of Providence c. Lond. 1662. oct There again 1683. See at the end of this Cat. of our authors works Scepsis Scientifica or confest ignorance the way to Schisme in an Essay to the vanity of Dogmatizing and confident opinion Lond. 1665. qu. A reply to the exceptions of the learned Tho. Albius c. Or thus Scire i tuum nihil est or the authors defence of the vanity of Dogmatizing c. Printed with Scep Scient A Letter to a friend concerning Aristotle Printed also with Scep Scient Some philosophical considerations touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft In a letter to Rob. Hunt Esq Lond. 1666. qu. But all or most of the impression of this book being burnt in the great fier at Lond. in the beginning of Sept. the same year it was reprinted there again 1667. qu. The said Phil. consid were answer'd by John Webster practicioner in physick and chirurgery in the W. Riding of Yorshire in a book which I shall anon mention A blow at moderne Saducisme in some philosophical considerations about Witchcraft Lond. 1668 c. qu. See more towards the latter end of this Cat. of books Relation of the famed disturbance at the house of Mr. Mumpesson Printed with the Blow at Mod. Sad. This disturbance in the house of Tho. Mompesson of Tidworth in Wilts Esq was occasion'd by its being haunted with evil Spirits and the beating of a drum invisibly every night from Febr. 1662 to the beginning of the year following and after Reflections on drollery and Atheisme Pr. also with A Blow at Mod. Sad. Palpable evidence of Spirits and Witchcraft in an account of the famed disturbance by a Drummer in the house of Mr. Mumpesson c. Lond. 1668. This is most if not all the same with the former only the title alter'd A Whip for the Droll Fidler to the Atheist being reflections on Drollery and Atheisme Lond. 1668. This is also mostly the same with Rest on droll and Ath. before-mention'd 'T
relating only to himself in the margin of the Preface before his Body of Divinity Lond. 1674. fol. What other books our author Durell hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that dying on Friday the 8 day of June about 8 of the clock at night in sixteen hundred eighty and three was buried on the 12 day of the same month about the middle of the north isle joyning to the choire of the Chap. oâ— Ch. of S. George within the Castle at Windsore in a small Vault of brick built for that purpose and intended for his wife also after her decease Soon after was a flat black marble stone laid with a little inscription thereon containing his name title and obit as also his age when he died which was 58. In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Franc. Turner and in his Prebendship of Durham Dr. Jo. Montague Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Brother to the present Earl of Sandwych WILLIAM BELL was born in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London on the 4 of Feb. 1625 educated in Merch. Taylors School elected Scholar of St. Johns Coll. in 1643 afterwards Fellow but in 1648 ejected thence by the Visitors appointed by Parliament he being then Bach. of Arts and well skill'd in the practical part of Musick Afterwards he lived in several places as opportunity served was in France an 1649 and about 1655 he had a small benifice in Norfolk confer'd on him but could not pass the Triers When his Majesty was restored in 1660 he became Chaplain in the Tower of Lond. to Sir Joh. Robinson Lieutenant thereof and in the year after he was actually created Bach. of Divinity In 1662 he was presented by the President and Society of S. Johns Coll. to the Vicaridge of S. Sepulcher in London void by the Nonconformity of Tho. Gough sometimes of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who died 29 Oct. 1681 aged 77 years and in 65 he was made Prebendary of S. Pauls Cathedral by Dr. Henchman Bishop of London In 1667 he had the Archdeaconry of S. Alban confer'd upon him by the said Bishop was the same year sworn Chapl. in ord to his Majesty and in 1668 he proceeded Doctor of his faculty and was for his eminence in preaching made soon after one of the Lecturers of the Temple c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 City security stated preached at S. Pauls before the Lord Mayor on Psal 127. latter part of the first vers Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Joshuahs resolution to serve God with his family Recommended to the practice of the Inhabitants of S. Sepulchers Parish from 24 of Josh 15. latter part Lond. 1672. qu. sec edit 3 Serm. preached at the funeral of Mr. Anth. Hinton late Treasurer of S. Barthelmews Hospital 15 Sept. 1678 at S. Sepulchers Lond. 1679. qu. He the said Dr. Bell was buried in the Chancel of S. Sepulchers Church before mentioned on the 26 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and three leaving then behind him a precious name among his Parishoners for his Charity Preaching and other matters of which they could not speak enough and was soon after succeeded in the said Vicaridge by Edw. Waple Bac. of Div. of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon. On the marble stone which covers the said Dr. Bell's grave I find this written M. S. Heic jacet Gulielmus Bell SS Theologiae Professor Ecclesiae hujus Pastor vigilantissimus vir optimus ingens Ecclesiae Anglicanae ornamentum si primaevam spectes pietatem faelicissimum ingenii acumen morum suavitatem integritatem partibus regiis inconcussam fidelitatem vel charitatem denuo vix imitabilem Nec plus dicere decorum nec fas minus I tu fac similiter Pientissimam exhalavit animam Julii 19. an Chr 1683. aetatis 58. As for Th. Gough before mentioned who was D. D. he was buried in the Church of S. Ann Blackfriers 4 Nov. 1681 at which time Dr. Joh. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury preached his funeral sermon which with an account of his life therein being extant you may if you please satisfie your self more of the person who as t is said did translate several things into Welsh as the Bible Whole duty of man A catechisme c. Besides the said Will. Bell I find another of both his names Master of Arts and late preacher of the word at Hyton in Lancashire author of The excellency necessity and usefulnes of patience As also of The patience of Job and the end of the Lord or the glorious success of gracious suffering opened and applyed Both which were printed at Lond. 1674 in oct with a pteface to them written by Mr. Rich. Baxter Which Will. Bell who was a Nonconformist and living at Sinderland in the Parish of Ashton-Underline in Lancashire in June 1668 I take to be the same with him who was author of 1 Well doing well done to Serm. on Jer. 22.15 Printed 1650. qu. 2 Enucks Walk on Gen. 5.24 Printed 1658. oct 3 Incomparable company keeping or a conversation on earth in heaven Pr. in oct Whether this Will. Bell be the same W. Bell son of Joh. Bell of Chigwell in Essex who was matriculated in this University as a member of Ch. Ch. an 1634 aged 17. years but took no degree there I know not Quaere JOHN BARNARD or Bernard the son of a father of both his names Gent was born in a Market Town in Lincolnshire called Castor educated in the Grammar School there whence going to Cambridg he became a Pensioner of Queens Coll and thence journying to Oxon to obtain preferment from the Visitors there appointed by Parliament in the latter end of 1647 was actually created Bach. of Arts in the Pembrokian creation 15. Apr. 1648 and on the 29 of Sept. following he was by order of the said Visitors then bearing date made fellow of Linc. Coll. In 1651 he proceeded in Arts and about that time became a preacher in and near Oxon. At length wedding the dau of Dr. Pet. Heylyn then living at Abendon became Rector of a rich Church in his own Country called Waddington near Lincoln the perpetual advowson of which he purchased and held for some time with it the Sinecure of Gedney in the same County After his Majesties restauration he conformed and not only kept his Rectory but was made Preb. of Asgarby in the Church of Lincoln In 1669 he took the degrees in Divinity being then in some repute in his Country for his learning and orthodox Principles He hath written Censura Cleri or against scandalous Ministers not fit to be restored to the Churches livings in point of prudence piety and fame Lond. 1660 in 3 sh in qu. This was published in the latter end of 1659 or beg of 1660 to prevent such from being restored to their Livings that had been ejected by the Godly party an 1654. 55 c. His name is not set to this pamphlet and he did not care afafterwards when he saw how
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
among us jealousies in the people of the violent comming in of Popery make continual clamours after preferment as if they had deserv'd it as well as sufferers and I know not what But now to return to the worthy person whom we are further to mention Be it remembred therefore that upon the death of Dr. Hen. King he was promoted to the See of Chichester to which being Consecrated on the sixth day of March the third Sunday in Lent an 1669 sate there till the death of Dr. Benj. Lanâ—y Bishop of Ely which hapning towards the latter end of 1674 he was translated to that See on the fourth day of March the same year with a particular acknowledgement from his Majesty of his steaddiness to the Church having kept up the face thereof in the worst of times In all the several preferments that he went thro from the first to the last he was first thought of by his Prince or Patron before he himself made any application whatsoever While he continued in Cambridge he was a constant Preacher and looked upon as so umblameable in his life and practice that his schismatical and factious Adversaries were sorry that they could not possibly fasten the least spot on him He was admired by great Scholars as well abroad as at home for his profund Divinity was noted much also in England for his diffusive Charity for what he had not spent in his life time by supplying Scholars at Cambridge by his large endowments and bountiful benefactions in that place by his great summs laid out on his Sees as well as formerly on his Livings by his dayly relieving at his door from his Table all sorts of indigent and distressed persons and by privately supplying others with a plentiful hand he disposed the remainder by his last Will and Test to be laid out for the augmentation of poor Vicariges Under his name go these things following A contention for truth in two several publick disputations before thousands of people in the Church of S. Clement Danes without Temple Bar on the 19. and 26. of Nov. 1657 between Mr. Gunning on the one part and Mr. Hen. Denn on the other concerning the baptisme of Infants whether lawfull or unlawfull Lond. 1658. qu. Schisme unmasked or a late conference betwixt Mr. Pet. Gunning and Mr. John Pierson Ministers on the one part and two Disputants of the Rom. perswasion on the other Wherein is defin'd both what Schisme is and to whom it belongs c. Paris 1658. in tw This conference is said to have been began in May 1657. The large Preface to it was written by two Catholick Disputants who published the whole and 't is presum'd not so fairly on the Protestants side as in truth and justice they ought to have done View and corrections of the Common Prayer an 1662 At which Mr. Baxter if I mistake not carped The Paschall or Lent-Fast Apostolical and perpetuall Lond. 1662. qu. This at first was but a Sermon preached before the King who forced it into the Press by his repeated commands and thereupon he added so much to it as to make it a compleat Treatise on that subject Appendix containing an answer to the late printed objections of the Presbyterians against the Fast of Lent Printed with the former book See in the Fasti 1669 among the incorporations in Will. Saywell At length this worthy Bishop who continued single all his days wholly addicted to his studies and the service of God and had made preaching and doing all the good offices proper to a Bishop so much his delight that according to the usual saying he died in his calling did surrender up his pious soul to God on Sunday the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried with due solemnity in the Cathedral Church of Ely As Dr. Fr. Turner somtimes Fellow of New Coll succeeded him in the Mastership of that of S. Johns chiefly by his means so did he likewise in the Bishoprick of Ely between whom there passed many affectionate endearments Much more may be said of this most pious and learned Bishop but he being not totally ours I shall omit it and commend you to his large character given of him in a book entit A discourse delivered in two Sermons preached in the Cathedral at Ely in Sept. 1684 c. p. 4.5 c. Written spoken and published by Humph. Gower D. D. Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge in the place of Dr. Turner before mention'd and one of the Prebendaries of Ely printed 1685. in qu. WILLIAM DURHAM son of Joh. Durh. of Willersley near Camden in Glocestershire was born there educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. Sturby who kept a private School at Broadway in the same County became a Student of New Inn in 1626 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and when about an years standing in the degree of Master he was made Curat to Dr. Thom. Bunbury Rector of S. Maries Church in Reading In the beinning of the Civil War he left that place retired to London and there after some short stay was chosen preacher of the Rolls in Chancery Lane at which time he took the Covenant From thence by a presentation he went into Berks and became Rector of Burfield being about that time Bach. of Divinity and thence was translated to the rich Rectory of Tredington in Worcestershire which before I cannot say immediatly had been enjoyed by Dr. Will. Smith somtimes Warden of Wadham Coll. After his Majesties restauration he was ejected thence to make room for Dr. Joseph Crowther of S. Johns Coll. who before had obtained a presentation thereunto whereupon our author Durham retiring to London lived there for some time without a cure A length upon his Conformity to the Church of England Sir Nich. Crispe presented him to the Rectory of S. Mildred in Breadstreet within the City of London to which Parish that of S. Margaret Moses was joyned after the dreadful fire in the said City where he finished his course He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Maran-Atha The second Advent or Christs comming to jugdment an Assize Serm. at Warwick 25. of July 1651. on Jam. 5.9 Lond. 1652. qu. 2 Serm. before the Artillery Company at S. Andrews Undershaft 30 Aug. 1670. on 1. Cor. 16.13 Lond. 1671. qu. 3 Serm. before the L. Mayor and Court of Aldermen at at S. Mary le Bow 21. Nov. 1675. on Prov 29.1 Lond. 1676. qu. A serious exhortation to the necessary duties of families and personal instruction for the use of Tredington Parish Printed in 1659 in tw The life and death of that judicious Divine and accomplished preacher Rob. Harris D. D. lately President of Trinity Coll. in Oxon c. Lond. 1660. oct He died on the seventh day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Chancell of the Church of S. Mildred before mentioned in a vault belonging to the
Ministers thereof just under the Communion Table ROBERT SHARROCH a Ministers son was born at Adstock near to and in the County of Buckingham educated in Wyekhams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1649 or thereabouts took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1661 became afterwards Rector of Horewood in Buckinghamshire Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Bishops Waltham in Hampshire a Justice of Peace for that County and at length Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Dr. Walt. Darrell deceased in which Dignity he was installed 28. Apr. 1684 being then accounted learned in divinity in the Civ and Com. Law and very knowing in Vegitables and all pertaining thereunto He hath published The History of the propagating and improvement of Vegitables by the concurrence of Art and Nature shewing the several ways for the propagation of Plants usually cultivated in England as they are increased by Seeds Off-sets Suckers c. Oxon 1660 and 1672 oct An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical Transactions numb 84. p. 5002. Hypothesis de Officiis secundum humanae rationis dictata seu naturae jus unde casus omnes conscientiae quatenus notiones à naturâ supersunt dijudicari possint c. Oxon. 1660. oct In this he writes against the Principia and Rationes of Hobbes of Malmsbury belonging to Ethicks and Politicks This book came out at Oxon again in 1682 in a large octavo with many additions to it with the title a little alter'd and enlarg'd and dedicated to the King Judicia seu Legum censurae de variis in continentiae speciebus c. Oxon. 1662 in a large oct De finibus virtutis Christianae The ends of Christian religion c. justified in several discourses Oxon 1673. qu. contained in ten Sermons He also reviewed and compared with several copies Provinciale vetus provinciae Cantuariensis cum selectioribus Linwodi annotationibus Oxon. 1664. in a thick oct He concluded his last day on the eleventh of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Bishops Waltham before mention'd In his Archdeaconry was installed Tho. Clutterbook D. D. Rector and Vicar of South Stoneham near Southampton in his Prebendship Sam. Palmer M. A. somtimes of Mert. Coll. and in Bishops Waltham succeeded Franc. Morley M. A. of Ch. Ch. great Nephew to Dr. Morley Bishop of Winton who about the said time had a Prebendship bestowed on him in the said Church of Winton on the resignation of Dr. Geo. Beaumont by the said Bishop WILLIAM MASTERS second son of Sir Will. Mast of Cirencester in Glocestershire Knight was born there admitted Bach. Fellow of Mert. Coll. from that of Ch. Ch. by the the Committee of Parliament and Visitors of the University 25. Mar. 1650 being then an Undergraduat took the degree of Master of Arts about two years after and under the name of a Student in Theology did publish these two things following he being then 26 years of age Essayes and observations Theological and Moral Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered and characterized c. Lond. 1653. oct Drops of Myrrhe or Meditations and Prayers These are printed with the former book and are fitted to divers arguments in that work Afterwards the author was beneficed at Woodford Roe in Essex was Bach. of Divinity Rector of S. Vedastus in Foster Lane in Lond. and a Minor Preb. in S. Pauls Cathedral but what else he published I cannot yet find He died in the month of Sept. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church of Woodford before mention'd By his last will and test he gave to the Univ. of Oxon 5 l. per an to have two Sermons preached every year in S. Maries Church there viz one on Shrove Sunday and the other on the last Sunday in June GEORGE MORLEY son of Francis Morley Esq by Sarah Denham his wife sister to Sir Joh. Denham one of the Barons of his Majesties Exchecquer was born in Cheapside within the City of London on the 27. of Febr. 1597. He lost his father when he was six years of age his mother when 12 and that little Patrimony that he was born to by his father's being engaged in other mens debts At 14 years of age or thereabouts he was elected one of Kings Scholars of the Coll. at Westminster and in the beginning of the year 1615 he became Student of Ch. Ch where with very great industry running thro all the Classes of Logick and Philosophy he took the degrees in Arts. After he had continued in that royal foundation seven years in the degree of Master he was invited by Robert Earl of Caernarvon and his Lady to be Chaplain in their house where he lived till he was 43 years of age without having or seeking any preferment in the Church After this he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Hartfield in Sussex which being a Sinecure he exchanged with Dr. Rich. Steuart then Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty for the Parsonage of Mildenhall near Marlborough in Wiltshire But before he had that charge he had a Prebendship of Ch. Ch. bestowed on him by the K. to whom he was Chaplain in Ord. an 1641 which was the only preferment he ever desired and of which he gave the first years profit to the King towards the charge of his wars which were then commenc'd against him by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in the Long Parliament At the beginning of which he preached one of the first solemn Sermons before the Commons but so little to their gust and liking that they commanded all the rest of the Sermons but not his to be printed Yet after this he being then Doctor of Divinity he was nominated one of the Assembly of Divines by both Houses as Dr. Prideaux B. of Worcester Dr. H. Hammond c. were but neither he or either of them appeared among them As for his part he always remained with his Majesty did him what service he could as long as the war continued After which he was employed by his Majesty then a prisoner at Hampton Court to engage the University of Oxon not to submit to the illegal Visitation that had been began but for the present intermitted because of the violent proceedings of the Army Which affair he managed with such success that the Convocation did presently pass an Act for that purpose but with one dissenting voice only tho they were then under the power of the enemy that is the Parliament forces After this he was chosen by the Members of the University with some other Assistants named by himself to negotiate the making good of their Articles which were framed at the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the said forces which he did to that degree as to gain time for the getting in of their rents and to dispose of themselves I mean as many of them as were
Peter in the East in Oxon under the South wall joyning on the S. side of the tomb-stone of Silv. Wood. ROBERT WHITEHALL son of Rich. Whiteh somtimes Bach. of Div. of Ch. Church afterwards Rector of Agmundesham commonly called Amersham and of Addington in Bucks was born at Amersham educated mostly in Westminster School under Mr. Rich. Busby became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1644. or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 for giving this answer to when required of them whither he would submit to their authority My name 's Whitehall God bless the Poet If I submit the King shall know it But he cringing afterwards to his Countrymen and Neighbours the Ingoldesbies especially to Rich. Ingoldesbie the Regicide before whom he often acted the part of a Mimick and Buffoon purposely to make him merry he was upon submission made to the Committee for regulating the Univ. of Oxon put in by them Bachelaur-fellow of Merton Coll an 1650. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts was Terrae Filius with Joh. Glendall of Brasn Coll. 1655 entred on the Physick line and by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chancellour of this Univ. of Oxon he was actually created Bach. of Phys in 1657. Since which time he made divers sallies into the practice of Physick but thereby obtained but little reputation and lesser by his Poetry to which he much pretended having been esteemed no better than a meer Poetaster and time-serving-Poet as these things following partly shew The Marriage of Arms and Arts 12. Jul. 1651 being an accompt of the Act at Oxon to a friend Lond. 1651. 'T is a Poem in one sh in qu. and hath in the title the two Letters of R.W. set down being then as since generally reported to be his and he would never positively deny it The occasion of the writing of it was this viz. that an Act having not been solemnized for several years before it became such a novelty to the then Students of the University most of which had been put into places by the Visitors that there was great rudeness committed by them and the concours of people in getting into places and thrusting out strangers during all the time of that solemnity in S. Maries Church Whereupon the Vicechancellour Dr. Greenwood of Brasenose a severe and cholerick Governour was forced to get several Guards of Musquetiers out of the Parliament Garrison then in Oxon to keep all the doors and avenews and to let no body in only such whom the Vicech or his Deputies appointed There was then great quarrelling between the Scholars and Soldiers and thereupon blowes and bloody Noses followed Carmen gratulatorium Olivero Cromwell in Protectorem Angliae inaugurato 1653. Printed in half a sheet on one side Carmen Onomasticon Gratulatorium Richardo Cromwell in Cancellarii officium dignitatem faeliciter electo an 1657 Pr. in half a sh on one side The Coronation a Poem Lond. 1661. in one sh in qu. Carmen gratulatorium Edvardo Hide equiti aurato summo Angliae optato Oxoniae Cancellario c. Printed on one side of a sh in Lat. and English an 1660. Urania or a description of the painting of the top of the Theater at Oxon as the Artist lay'd his design Lond. 1669 in 3. sh in fol. c. Verses on Mris. Mary More upon her sending Sir Tho. Mores Picture of her own drawing to the Long Gallery at the public Schools in Oxon. Oxon. 1674. on one side of a large half sheet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iconicum quarundam extranearum numero 258 explicatio breviuscula clara apprimè Epheborum aliquot proenobilium in usum exculta quâ ad SS Scripturas alliciantur Quibus singulis accessit symbolum cum sententiolâ concinnâ ex autoribus Graecis Latinis depromptâ Being an Epigrammatical explanation of the most remarkable stories throughout the Old and New Testament after each Sculpture or cut Oxon. 1677 in a large and thick quarto It must be noted that the author had bought from Holland as many Cuts of the Old and New Test that cost him 14 l. Each Cut he caused to be neatly pasted in the middle of a large quarto paper on which before was printed a running title at the top and six English verses at the bottom to explain the Cut or Picture Which being so done in twelve copies only he caused each to be richly bound and afterwards presented a very fair copy to the King and the rest mostly to persons of quality of which number was Charles son and heir of Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester for whom he pretended 't was chiefly compos'd Gratulamini mecum Or a congratulatory Essay upon his Majesties recovery Lond. 1679. in one sh in fol. Written upon his Majesties being freed from an Ague at Windsore in Sept. 1679. The English Recabite or a defyance to Bacchus and all his Works A Poem in 67 Hexasticks c. Lond. 1681. in four sheets in fol. See more of him in his old friend Edm. Gayton p. 271 a Poet of the like stamp This Mr. Whitehall died on the eighth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five and was buried the next day in the south part or Isle of Merton College Church having for several years before hang'd on that house as an useless member JOHN ROBERTS son and heir of Richard Lord Roberts of Truro in Cornwall was born in that County entred a Fellow Commoner of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Dr. John Prideaux an 1625 where he continued two years or more and after his fathers death he succeeded him in his honour In the beginning of the grand rebellion raised by a prevalent party of Presbyterians in that unhappy Convention afterwards called the Long Parliament he adhered to the cause that was then by them carried on was made a Colonel in the Army of Robert Earl of Essex and Governour for a time of the Garrison of Plymouth in Devonshire against his Majesties forces but when he afterwards beheld how things would terminate he withdrew and acted little or nothing during the times of Usurpation After his Majesties restauration he retired to the Court and in 1662 he was made Lord Privy Seal in the place of William Lord Say deceased but giving not that content which was expected he was sent into Ireland to be Lord Lieutenant there in Sept. 1669 and his Government being disliked he was recalled in May following In Octob. 1679 he was made Lord President of his Majesties Council upon the removal of Anthony Earl of Shatfsbury and soon after he was made Earl of Radnor He hath written A discourse of the vanity of the creature grounded on Ecclesiast 1.2 Lond. 1673. oct and one or more books as I have been enform'd fit for the Press He died at Chelsey near London on the 17 day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon about 8 days after his body was conveyed to Lanhedriock near Bodmin in Cornwall and buried
in the Church there ARTHUR ANNESLEY son of Sir Franc. Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Viscount Valentia in Ireland was born in Fish-Shamble street in S. Johns Parish within the City of Dublin on the tenth day of July an 1614 became a Fellow Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1630 or thereabouts continued there under the tuition of a careful Tutor three years or more and having laid a sure foundation in literature to advance his knowledg in greater matters he returned to his native Country for a time In 1640 he was elected Knight for Radnorshire to serve in that Parliment which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but his election being questioned Charles Price Esq then elected also was voted by the Committee of Elections to stand as more lawfully elected yet soon after he left that Parliament and followed the K. to Oxon where he sate in that called by his Majesty In the time of the rebellion our author Annesley was entrusted by both Houses of Parliament or appointed by them one of the Commissioners for the ordering and governing the affairs in Ireland an 1645 or thereabouts and became instrumental there to preserve the British and Protestant Interest Country and Garrisons from being swallowed up by Owen Oneill's barbarous Army or falling into the body of Irish hands c. Afterwards he went into England complied with the Parliament Ol. Cromwell and his party took the Oath called the Engagement as before he had the Covenant But when he saw that K. Ch. 2. would be restored to his Kingdoms he then when he perceived that it could not be hindred struck in and became instrumental for the recalling of him home as many of his perswasion did and thereupon they soothed themselves up and gave it out publickly that they were as instrumental in that matter as the best of the Royal party nay they stuck not to say that if it was not by their endeavours his Majesty would not have been restored At that time he was made a Privy Counsellour and to shew his zeal for his Majesties cause he procured himself to be put in among the number of those Justices or Judges to sit first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Bayly on the Regicides where one of them named Adrian Scrope did reflect upon him as 't was by all there present supposed and of others too as having before been misled as well as himself as I have told you in Anthony E. of Shaftsbury under the year 1682. In the year following 1661 a little before his Majesties Coronation he was by Letters Pat. bearing date on the 20 of Apr. created a Baron of this Kingdom by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Paynel in Bucks of which Town one Thom Annesley Great Uncle to Sir Franc. Annesley before mention'd had been High Constable as also a Count by the title of Earl of Anglesey as comming more near to his name than another place or Town Afterwards he enjoying certain Offices of trust was at length made Lord Privy Seal about the middle of Apr. 1673 and kept it till Aug. 1682 at which time he was deprived of it some have thought unjustly for several reasons as I shall anon tell you whereupon retiring to his Estate at Blechingdon in Oxfordshire which he some years before had purchased vindicated himself by writing an account of the whole proceeding of that affair as I shall tell you by and by He was a person very subtle cunning and reserv'd in the managery and transacting his affairs of more than ordinary parts and one who had the command of a very smooth sharp and keen Pen. He was also much conversant in books and a great Calvinist but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different perswasions in matters of Religion hath left it somwhat difficult at least in some mens judgments peremptorily to determine among what sort of men as to point of Religion he himself ought in truth to have been ranked Yet it is to be observed that he did not dispense his favours with an equal hand to all these the dissenting party having still received the far largest share of them who did all along generally esteem him and his interest securely their own especially after the Popish Conspiracy broke out when then out of policy he avoided and shook off his numerous acquaintance of Papists as it was notoriously observed by them and of other pretenders to Politicks meerly to save themselves and to avoid the imputation of being Popishly affected As for his published writings they are these The truth unvailed in behalf the Church of England c. being a vindication of Mr. Joh. Standish's Sermon on 2 Cor. 5.20 preached before the King and published by his Majesties command Lond. 1676 in 3 sh in qu. This being an answer to some part of Mr. Rob. Grove's Vindication of the conforming Clergy from the unjust aspersions of heresie containing some reflections on the said Sermon was replied upon by the said Grove in a treatise intit Falshood unmask'd c. Lond. 1676 in 3. sh and an half in qu. Reflections on that discourse which a Master of Arts once of the Univers of Cambridge calls Rational Presented in Print to a person of honour an 1676 concerning Transubstantiation Printed with Truth unvailed c. Which discourse was also answer'd by another in a piece intit Roman tradition examined as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses reason and holy Scriture c. Lond. 1676. qu. A Letter from a person of honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven Being observations and reflections upon his Lordships Memoires concerning the Warrs in Ireland Lond. 1681. oct Which Letter coming into the hands of James Duke of Ormonde and finding himself and his Government of Ireland therein reflected upon with great disadvantage as he thought he wrot and published a Letter to the E. of Anglesey dated at Dublin 12 Nov. 1681 to vindicate himself Anglesey thereupon made a reply in another and printed it with Ormonde's Letter at Lond. about the beginning of Apr. 1682 both contained in two sh in fol. Ormonde therefore represented the case in writing to the King on the 17 of June following which being read openly before the Council then sitting at Hampton Court his Maj. declared that he would hear the matter thereof in Council and did order that a copy of the said Representation should be delivered to Anglesey and that he appear and make answer thereunto at a Council to be holden at Whitehall on the 23 of the said month In obedience to this Anglesey tho much troubled with the Gout appeared made a short speech to his Majesty in vindication of himself bandied the matter with Ormond and then put in his answer to Ormond's representation or complaint against him These things being done another Council was held 13 July at which time Ormond delivering a paper to the Board containing several charges against him it was then
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
endured many miseries on the first day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried in the Collegiat Church of Brecknock near to the high altar leaving then behind him some things fit for the press as I have been informed by one of his near Relations It is said that he was much resolved on three things 1. The redemption of Captives 2. The conversion of Recusants 3. The undeceiving of seduced Sectaries and that he kept three diaries one for the transactions of his own life another for the publick affairs of the Church and Kingdom and a third for the remarkable passages of providence that hapned in the World The see of S. David continuing void till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 it was then supplied by Dr. Will. Lucy as I shall tell you under the year 1677. GEORGE SINGE alias Millington sometimes a Com. of Balliol Coll was consecrated Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland an 1638 and dying in sixteen hundred fifty and three was buried at Bridgnorth in Shropshire He is characterized to be Vir gravis admodum doctus praesertim in Polemicae Theologiae juris utriusque scientia procerioris praeterea staturae formae decorae generosae conversationis c. See more of him among the Writers p. 97. THOMAS WINNIFF a grave learned and moderate Divine was born as 't is said at Shirebourne in Dorsetshire admitted a Batler or Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term an 1593 aged 18 years elected Prob. fellow thereof 30 June 1595 admitted Master of Arts in 1601 and about that time entring into holy Orders he became a noted Preacher and a Tutour In 1609 he left the College because he had an Ecclesiastical Benefice confer'd on him but the name of it I know not unless Lambourne in Essex which he enjoyed many years and at length bought the advowson thereof of Rob. Taverner Gent which he afterwards by his will gave to his Nephew Peter Mews About that time he was Chaplain to Pr. Henry and afterwards to Pr. Charles which last he much displeased in two matters first that in a certain harangue which he occasionally delivered in the beginning of Apr. 1622 he compared Frederick King of Bohemia to a Lamb and Count Spinola to a bloody Wolf which also displeased the King and secondly that in some little particulars he expressed himself an enemy to his marriage with the Infanta of Spain For these matters he had like to have lost his Spiritualities had not his Maj. K. Jam. 1. highly valued him for his learning In 1624 Nov. 10. he was installed Dean of Glocester in the place of Dr. Rich. Senhouse promoted to the See of Carlile and after the said Kings death being made Chaplain to his Successor Ch. 1. had the Deanery of S. Pauls Cathedral confer'd on him an 1631. Afterwards upon the translation of Dr. Williams to York in 1641 he was nominated by the King Bishop of Lincoln purposely to please the Puritan and was soon after consecrated But the rebellion breaking out the next year occasion'd by a prevalent party in both Houses of Parliament who silenced the Bishops and caused their Lands to be sold this holy Bishop received little or no profit from the Lands belonging to his See only trouble and vexation as a Bishop Afterwards he retired to Lambourne spent there for the most part the remainder of his days and justly obtained this character from a learned Bishop that none was more mild modest and humble yet learned eloquent and honest than Bishop Winniffe He died in the summer time in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried in the Church at Lambourne Soon after was erected a comly monument over his grave on which 't is said that he was made Bishop of Lincoln 1642 Ex eorum numero Episcoporum quibus incumbebat nutantis episcopatus molem pietatis ac probitatis suae fulcimine sustentare c. RICHARD SMITH sometimes a Student in Trinity College was made Bishop of Chalcedon by Pope Urban 8 an 1624 or thereabouts and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred fifty and four under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 114. HENRY TILSON a Yorkshire man born was entred a Student in Balliol Coll. in the beginning of the year 1593 took one degree in Arts as a member of that house four years after tho in the Fasti 1596 I have said by an errour of Univ. Coll and soon after was elected one of Skyrlawes Fellows of the said Coll. of University and took the degree of Master as a member of that house In Oct. 1615 he was made Vicar of Rachdale in Yorkshire by the death of R. Kenion and afterwards being made known to that most generous Count Thomas Earl of Strafford he became his Chaplain went with him in that quality to Ireland when that Count was made L. Lieutenant thereof Soon after he was by him made Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity commonly called Ch. Ch. in Dublin where continuing in good esteem for his learning and piety had the See of Elphine confer'd on him to which being consecrated on the 23. of Sept. 1639 endured soon after great misery by the rebellion that broke out in Ireland 1641. Afterwards he retired to his native Country setled at Southill hall in Yorkshire spent there the chief part of his time and dying in peace 31. of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five aged 80 years or thereabouts was buried in the Chancel of the neighbouring Church of Dewsbury In the said See of Elphine succeeded John Parker D. D. in the latter end of the year 1660. NICHOLAS MONKE or Le Moyne third Son of Sir Tho. Monke of Potheridge in Devonshire Knight Son of Tho. Monke of the said place Gent by Frances his Wife Widow of Joh. Basset of Umbersley in the said County Esq Daughter of Arthur Plantagenet natural Son of K. Edw. 4 by Elizabeth Lucy as is suppos'd his Concubine was born in Devonshire either at Potheridge or at Marton at the last of which places his Father lived when this Nich. Monke came first to Wadham Coll an 1626 aged 17 years or thereabouts After he had spent several years in that house in the condition of a Commoner he proceeded in Arts in 1634 entred into holy Orders was beneficed in his own Country and suffered in the time of the rebellion as other Loyallists did Afterwards he was permitted to keep some little cure by the endeavours of his Brother George while he was chief Commander under Oliver Cromwell in Scotland was persecuted as 't is said by the Triers appointed by Oliver but at length had the Rectory of Kilkhampton in Cornwall worth 300 l. per an bestowed on him by his kinsman Sir John Greenvill afterwards Earl of Bathe which he freely gave him without symony purposely to oblige him to serve the publick when ever he had occasion to make
of blessed memory in his most disconsolate condition and to administer comfort ghostly counsel and the Sacrament to him and to be also present with him on the Scaffold when he was beheaded before his own door by his most rebellious Subjects to the great horrour and amazement of all the world Afterwards this holy Bishop retired to his Mannour of Little Compton in Glocestershire near to Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire where he spent several years in a retired and devout condition and now and then for healths sake rode a hunting with some of the neighbouring and loyal Gentry After the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was translated to the See of Canterbury on Thursday 20 of Sept. 1660 to the rejoycing of all those that then loved order in the Church The solemnization was in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster where besides a great confluence of Orthodox Clergy many persons of honour and Gentry gave God thanks for the mercies of that day as being touched at the sight of that Good man whom they esteemed a Person of primitive sanctity of great wisdom piety learning patience charity and all apostolical Virtues He died in his Pallace at Lambeth on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and three aged 81 years whereupon his body being embalmed was conveyed to Oxon in great Pomp on the 7 of July following where laying in state the next day and part of the ninth in the Divinity School accompanied always by some of the Heralds of Arms was then after an eloquent speech had been openly spoken by the University Orator in the Convocation house adjoyning in praise of the defunct and dispraise of the Presbyterians and Independents conveyed in great state on mens shoulders the Heralds and all the Degrees of the University attending through Catstreet and so up the High-street to Quatervois and thence through the North gate to S. Johns Coll. After it was placed in the Chappel there an Anthem sung a speech delivered near the grave by Mr. Will. Levinz and the usual service for burial performed by Dr. R. Baylie the President of that College the body was solemnly inter'd at the upper end thereof before the altar in a grave wall'd with bricks adjoyning on the south side to that then made to receive the body of his Predecessor Dr. Will. Laud which in few days after was there reburied As for the benefaction of this worthy Arch-prelate Dr. Juxon besides that to S. Pauls Cathedral to the Archbishops Pallace at Lambeth c. is mention made elsewhere and as for his estate that which remained when all his benefactions were disposed went to his Brothers Son Sir Will. Juxon Baronet now living at Little Compton before mention'd This Dr. Juxon hath only extant one Sermon on Luke 18.31 HENRY HALL son of Thom. Hall sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards a Minister in the City of Wells whence he was prefer'd by the Dean and Canons of Ch. Ch. to the Vicaridge of Marcham near to Abendon in Berks was born in Somersetshire particularly as I conceive in the said City of Wells became a Batler of Linc. Coll an 1630 aged 16 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in Arts. In the beginning of the rebellion he became Chaplain to James Marquess of Ormonde in Ireland by whose favour he was made Prebendary of Ch. Ch. in Dublin and Dean of a certain Church in the said Kingdom After the ill success and declension of the Marquess there he return'd into England lived for a time at Badmington in Glocestershire with the Marquess of Worcester and in 1654 had the Vicaridge of Harwell in Berks confer'd on him by John Loder of Hinton in the said County Gentleman Where continuing till his Majesties restauration he returned to Ireland was actually created Doctor of Div. at Dublin and on the 27 of January 1660 he was consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry in the Church of S. Patrick near to the said City of Dublin He gave way to fate on the 23 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three in the Bishops house at Killala which he in a manner had rebuilt from the ground and was buried in the Cathedral Church there whereupon Thomas Bayly D. D. succeeded him in his Sees Besides the said Hen. Hall I find another of both his names Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge author of Heaven ravished or a glorious prize Fast Sermon before the H. of Com. 29. May 1644 on Matth. 11.12 Lond. 1644. qu. and of other things as I suppose ACCEPTED FREWEN the eldest Son of Jo. Frewen the puritanical Rector of Nordiam or Northiam in Sussex was born in Kent educated in the Free-school at Canterbury became a student and soon after a Demie of Magd. Coll about the beginning of the year 1604 aged 16 years where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy he was elected Probat Fellow of that House about S. Mary Magd. day an 1612 he being then Master of Arts. About that time he entred into the sacred function and became a frequent preacher as being puritanically enclin'd In 1622 he attended in the Court of Prince Charles while he was in Spain courting the Infanta and in 1625 he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to the said Prince then King In 1626 he was elected President of his Coll and in the next year he proceeded in Divinity In 1628 and 29 he executed the office of Vicechancellour of this University and on the 13. of Sept. 1631 he being then or about that time Prebendary of Canterbury he was installed Dean of Glocester upon the removal of Dr. George Warburton thence to the Deanery of Wells In 1638. and 39 he upon the sollicitations of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and Chancellour of this Univ. whose Creature then he was did undergo the said office of Vicechancellour again and on the 17 of August 1643 he was nominated by his Majesty to succeed Dr. Wright in the See of Lichfield and Coventry But so it was that the times being then very troublesome he was not consecrated till the next year that is to say on a Sunday in the month of Apr. following at which time the solemnity was performed in the Chappel of Magd. Coll by the Archb. of York Bishops of Winchester Oxford Salisbury and Peterborough But this preferment being then but little better than titular because that the Hierarchy was about that time silenc'd he retired to London and lived there and partly elsewhere among his Relations for several years At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was elected to the See of York on the 22. of Sept translated on the 4. of Octob and enthronized in the person of Tob. Wickham Preb. of that Church on the 11. of the same month an 1660. At that time the See of Lichfield being not supplied by another for about the space of an year in expectation that Mr. Rich. Baxter would take it
his Maj. K. Ch. 2 in his exile was by him sent Ambassador to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople and demanding audience in his name he was by bribes given delivered to some of the English Merchants there who shipping him in the Smyrna Fleet was conveyed into England Soon after he being committed to the Tower of London he was brought before the High Court of Justice where he desired to plead in the Italian Language which he said was more common to him than the English But it being denied him he was at length condemned to die whereupon he lost his head on a Scaffold erected against the Old Exchange in Cornhill on the fourth day of March an 1650. It was then said by the faction in England that he did by vertue of a Commission from Charles Stuart as K. of Great Britaine act in the quality of an Agent to the Court of the Great Turk with intent to destroy the trade of the Turkey Company and the Parliaments interest not only in Constantinople but also in Mitylene Anatolia and Smyrna That also he had a Commission to be Consul in that matter with an aim likewise to seize upon the Merchants goods for the use of Charles King of Scots For the effecting of which design he presumed to discharge Sir Tho. Bendish of his Embassie being Leiger there for the state of England c. The said faction also reported and would needs perswade the People in England that those that abetted Sir H. Hyde at Smyrna had the heavy hand of judgment fell upon them This Sir Hen. Hyde after his decollation was conveyed to Salisbury and buried there in the Cathedral among the graves of his Relations Another Brother younger than him was Edward Hyde D. D sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berkshire From which being ejected in the time of Usurpation he retired with his Wife and Children to Oxon and hiring an apartment within the precincts of Hart Hall lived there several years studied frequently in Bodlies Library and preached in the Church of Halywell in the suburbs of Oxon to the Royal Party till he was silenc'd by the Faction In 1658 he obtained of his exil'd Majesty by the endeavours of Sir Edw. Hyde before mention'd his kinsman then tho in banishment Lord Chancellour of England Letters Patents for the Deanery of Windsore in the place of Dr. Chr. Wren deceased dated in July the same year but he dying at Salisbury of the Stone a little before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was never installed in that Dignity He hath written and published several books which were taken into the hands of and perused by the Royal Party as 1 A Christian â—egacy consisting of two parts preparation for and consolation against death Lond. 1657. oct 2 Christ and his Church or Christianity explained under seven Evangelical and Ecclesiastical heads Oxon. 1658. qu. 3 Vindication of the Church of England Ibid. 1658. qu. 4 Christian vindication of truth against errour Printed 1659. in tw 5 The true Catholick tenure c. Cambr. 1662. oct and other things as you may see in Joh. Ley among these Writers an 1662. Another Brother the tenth in number was Sir Frederick Hyde Knight the Queens Serjeant an 1670 and one of the chief Justices of South Wales who dyed in 1676. Also another called Francis who was Secretary to the Earl of Denbigh Embassador and died at Venice without issue And among others must not be forgotten Dr. Thomas Hyde Fellow of New Coll afterwards Judge of the Admiralty and also the eleventh and youngest Brother of them all named James Hyde Dr. of Physick lately Principal of Magd. Hall HUGH LLOYD was born in the County of Cardigan became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Oriel Coll. an 1607 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts translated himself to Jesus Coll of which I think he became Fellow and in 1638 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Archdeacon of S. David and well beneficed in his own Country In the times of Usurpation and Rebellion he suffered much for the Kings cause was ejected and forced to remove from place to place for his own security In consideration of which and his episcopal qualities he was consecrated to the See of Landaffe on the second day of Decemb. being the first Sunday of that month an 1660 by the Archb. of York Bishops of London Rochester Salisbury and Worcester at which time six other Bishops were also consecrated He died in June or July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven and was as I suppose buried at Matherne in Monmouthshire where the House or Pallace pertaining to the Bishop of Landaff is situated In the said See succeeded Dr. Francis Davies as I shall tell you elsewhere JEREMY TAYLOR originally of the University of Cambridge afterwards Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in this University was consecrated Bishop of Downe and Conner in Ireland an 166â— and died in Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 282. GEORGE HALL sometimes Fellow of Exeter Coll became Bishop of Chester in the room of Dr. Henry Ferne deceased an 1662 and dying in sixteen hundred sixty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 297 was succeeded in that See by Dr. Joh. Wilkins of whom I have largely spoken elsewhere already HENRY KING sometimes Canon of Ch Church afterwards Dean of Rochester was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1641. and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 308. In the said See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Pet. Gunning as I have elsewhere told you HENRY GLEMHAM a younger Son of Sir Henry Glemham of Glemham in Suffolk Knight by Anne his Wife eldest daughter of Sir Tho. Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset was born in the County of Surrey became a Commoner of Trin. Coll in 1619 aged 16 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Robert Skinner Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became well beneficed before the rebellion broke out at which time suffering more for his loyalty than merits was upon his Majesties restauration made Dean of Bristow in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas promoted to the Deanery of S. Pauls Cath. in London where continuing till 1666 he was by the endeavours of Barbara Dutchess of Cleavland made Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of that year in the place of Dr. George Griffith deceased He gave way to fate at Glemham Hall in Suffolk on the seventeenth day of January in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Vault that belongs to the Family of Glemham in the Parish Church of Little Glemham in the said County To the said See of S. Asaph was translated Dr. Is Barrow Bishop of the Isle of
Man on the 21. of March 1669 to the great rejoycing of the true Sons of the Church in the Diocese thereof After he was setled he repaired several parts of the Cathedral Church especially the North and South Isles and new covered them with lead and caused the East part of the choir to be wainscoted He laid out a considerable sum of money in building and repairs about his Pallace at S. Asaph and the mill thereunto belonging In the year 1678 he built an Almes house for eight poor Widows and did endow it with twelve pounds per an for ever The same year he procured an Act of Parliament for the appropriating of the Rectories of Llaurhaiader and Mochnant in Denbighshire and Mountgomeryshire and of Skeiviog in the County of Flint for repairs of the Cathedral Church of S. Asaph and the better maintenance of the choire there and also for the uniting several Rectories that were Sinecures and the Vicaridges of the same Parishes within his said Diocese of S. Asaph He also intended to build a Free-school and to endow it but was prevented by death Yet since that time his successor Dr. Will Lloyd Bishop of S. Asaph did recover from Bishop Barrow's Executors 200 l. towards a Free-school at S. Asaph an 1687. This most worthy Bishop Dr. Barrow died at Shrewsbury about noon of the 24 of June Midsomer day an 1680 and on the 30 of the said month his Corps was lodged in his house called Argoed hall in Flintshire and from thence carried on the first of July to his Palace at S. Asaph and the same day to the Cathedral Church there where after Divine Service and a Sermon the said Corps was decently inter'd by Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph on the South side of the West door in the Cathedral Church yard which was the place he appointed Over his grave was soon after laid a large flat stone and another over that supported by Pedestals On the last of which is this inscription engraven Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita Obiit dictus reverendus Pater festo Divi Johannis Baptistae anno Domini 1680 Aetatis 67 Translationis suae undecimo On the lower stone which is even with the ground is this inscription following engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto which was made by the Bishop himself Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita O vos transeuntes in Domum Domini Domum orationis orate pro Conservo vestro ut inveniat miserecordiam in die Domini The said brass plate was fastned at first as 't is there reported over the said West door but afterwards taken down and fastned to the lower stone next the body But so it was that as soon as this last Epitaph was put up the contents thereof flew about the nation by the endeavours of the godly faction then plump'd up with hopes to carry on their diabolical designes upon account of the Popish Plot then in examination and prosecution to make the world believe that the said Bishop died a Papist and that the rest of the Bishops were Papists also or at least popishly affected and especially for this reason that they adhered to his Majesty and took part with him at that time against the said Faction who endeavoured to bring the Nation into confusion by their usual trade of lying and slandering which they have always hitherto done to carry on their ends such is the religion of the Saints But so it is let them say what they will that the said Bishop was a virtuous generous and godly man and a true Son of the Church of England And it is to be wished that those peering poor spirited and sneaking wretches would endeavour to follow his example and not to lye upon the catch under the notion of religion to obtain their temporal ends private endearments comfortable importances filthy lusts c. The said Bishop was Uncle to a most worthy religious and learned Doctor of both his names as I have elsewhere told you who dying 4. May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the great or south cross Isle of Westm Abbey near to the monument of the learned Camden sometimes Clarenceaux K. of Armes WILLIAM PIERS son of William Piers a Haberdasher of Hats Nephew or near of kin to Dr. John Piers sometimes Archb. of York and a Native of South Hinxsey near Abendon in Berks was born in the Parish of Allsaints within the City of Oxon in Aug and baptized there on the 3. of Sept. an 1580. In 1596 he was made Student of Ch. Church and taking the degrees in Arts fell to the study of Divinity and was for a time a Preacher in and near Oxon. Afterwards being made Chaplain to Dr. King Bishop of London he was prefer'd to the Rectory of S. Christophers Church near to the Old Exchange in London and Vicaridge of Northall in Middles In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Divinity Reader in S. Pauls Cathedral and in 1618 he was made Canon of Ch. Church and soon after Dean of Chester In 1621. 22. 23. he did undergo the office of Vicechancellour of this University wherein behaving himself very forward and too officious against such that were then called Anti-Arminians he gained the good will of Dr. Laud then a rising star in the Court and so consequently preferment In 1622 he was made Dean of Peterborough in the place of Hen. Beaumont promoted to that of Windsore and in 1630 had the Bishoprick thereof confer'd on him by the death of Dr. Tho. Dove to which being elected he had the temporalities thereof given to him on the 30 of Oct and installation on the 14 of Nov. the same year While he sate there which was but for a short time he was esteemed a man of parts knowing in Divinity and the Laws was very vigilant and active for the good both for the ecclesiastical and civil estate In Oct. 1632 he was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells upon the translation of Dr. Curle to Winchester the temporalities of which See being given to him on the 20 of December the same year he continued there without any other translation to the time of his death As for his actions done in his Diocese of Bath and Wells before the grand rebellion broke out which were very offensive to the puritanical party who often attested that he brought innovations therein and into his Church suppressed Preaching Lectures and persecuted such who refused to rail in the Lords Table c. in his Diocese let one of them named William Prynne a great enemy to the Hierarchy speak yet the reader may be pleased to suspend his judgment and not to believe all what that partial cropear'd and stigmatized person saith When the Bishops were silenc'd and their Lands sold by that
named Dr. George Carleton This Dr. Guy Carleton died in the City of Westminster during his attendance in Parliament on the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was conveyed as I have been informed to Chichester and buried in the Cath. Ch. there In the Bishoprick of Bristow succeeded Dr. Will. Goulson a Leicestershire man born educated in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards was Chaplaine to the Duchess of Sommerset He was consecrated at Lambeth on the ninth day of Febr. 1678 and dying at his Rectory of Symondsbury in Dorsetshire to which he had been presented by the said Duchess on the fourth day of Apr. an 1684 was buried on the 18. day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church of that towne In the See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Carleton the Bishop of Bristol viz. Dr. Joh. Lake in Aug. or Sept. 1685 who was one of the seven Bishops that were committed Prisoners to the Tower on the 8. of June 1688 for contriving making and publishing a Seditious Libel against his Majesty K. Jam. 2. and his Government that is for subscribing a petition to his Majesty wherein he and the rest shewed the great aversness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for Liberty of Conscience c. After K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he was one of the Bishops that denied the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him and on his death bed in the latter end of Aug. 1689. he did publickly declare against them In the said See succeeded Dr. Sim Patrick Dean of Peterborough who was consecrated thereunto on the 13. of Octob following This Bishop Lake who had been Rector of S. Botolphs Ch. without Bishopgate London hath written 1 A Serm. preached at Whitehall 29. of May 1670 being the day of his Majesties birth and restaurat Lond. 1671. qu. 2 The Character of a true Christian preached in the Parish Church of S. Botolph Bishopsgate at the funeral of Will Cade Deputy of the Ward Lond. 1690. qu and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen JOHN DOLBEN son of Dr. Will. Dolben by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Hugh Williams of Cyctiwillair in Caernarvanshire a Captain somtiemes in Holland son of Joh. Dolben of Haverford West in Pembrokshire descended from those of his name in Denbighshire by his wife Alice sister to Sir Tho. Middleton of Chirk Castle in the said County of Denbigh became Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner an 1666 and in 1683 was Translated to the Archiepiscopal See of York He died in the beginning of the yeer sixteen hundred eighty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 600. In the said See after it had laid void till Nov. 1688 did succeed Dr. Tho. Lamplugh Bishop of Exeter who upon the Prince of Aurang's arrival in the West left Exeter and retired to London to pay his respects to King Jam. 2 which being taken very kindly by that King he translated him to York on the 15 of the said month The said Dr. Joh. Dolben was great Nephew to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York and had much of his boldness and confidence in him but little of his learning And whereas I have told you that the said Archb. Williams was upon supposal buried at Aberconway where he had built an House in the place of that wherein he was born which he caused to be called Lincolns Inn is false for he was buried in the Church of Llandegay which signifies the Church of S. Gay in the British language near Bangor in Caernarvanshire in which parish Penhryn the Seat somtimes of Archb Williams is situated He died at Glodded of a Quinsey in his throat which being sudden he told his attendants then by him that nothing troubled him more than that he should dye like a beast that had alwaies liv'd like a Gentleman c. Afterwards his body being conveyed to Penhryn was thence carried to the Church at Llandegay and there buried in a little Vault at the upper end of the Chancel Some years after his Nephew and heir called Sir Griffith Williams erected on the north wall of the said Chancel a very fair monument containing the Effigies of the Archbishop kneeling carved and wrought from white marble with a large inscription under it made by Dr. Joh. Hacket his sometimes Chaplain the contents of which being large I shall now for brevity sake pass by But whereas the said Doctor saith that he died 25 March 1650 is false for he died on that day in 1649 aged 68 years or more JOHN FELL D. of D. and Dean of Christ Church in Oxon became Bishop of Oxford on the translation of Dr. Henry Compton to London in the latter end of the year 1675 and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 602. was succeeded in the said See by Dr. Samuel Parker as I have among the Writers told you and shall among these Bishops He the said Dr. Fell left behind him the character among some men of a Valde vult person who by his grasping at and undertaking too many affairs relating to the public few of which he throly effected brought him untimely to his end to the loss of learning c. JOHN LLOYD son of Morgan Lloyd was born of an antient family at Pentaine in Caermerthenshire became a Student in Merton Coll. in Lent term 1655 aged 15 years or thereabouts and took one degree in Arts as a member of that house Afterwards he became Fellow of that of Jesus Principal thereof on the resignation of Sir Leolin Jenkyns D. of D. and Treasurer of Landaff In 1682. 83. and 84 he did execute the Office of Vicechancellour of this University and on the death of Dr. Laur. Womack being nominated by K. Jam. 2. to succeed him in the See of S. David was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth on the 17 of Oct. 1686. Afterwards retiring to Oxon in a dropsical condition died in Jesus Coll. on the thirteenth day of Febr. following being then the first Sunday in Lent Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chappel belonging to that Coll near to the grave of Sir Leol Jenkyns before mention'd To the said See was nominated by the said King Dr. Tho. Watson of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 26 June 1687 and afterwards upon dislike of his person and for that he had been recommended by the L. Dover to the said King he did suffer and endure many affronts and intolerable abuses from the Rabble in Dec. 1688 just after the said King had left England for France JAMES ETKINS or Atkins son of Henr. Atkins Sheriff and Commissary of Orknay was born in the Town of Kirkwall in the Stewartry of Orknay in Scotland educated in
England who with Sir Hen. S. George then Richmond Herald were royally rewarded by her Majesty with the gift of a thousand French Crowns He was also employed to attend upon his Majesties Embassage which was sent in the year 1629 unto the French King Lewis 13 and at the Ceremonies done thereat he there performed his office in his Coat of Arms as it appears in a French relation about that time printed At his return from thence the King rewarded him with a Chain of gold of good value and a Medal of his Portraicture Afterwards he was made Norroy and at length Clarenceaux and closely adhering to his Majesties cause was not only several times in danger of his life by summoning certain Garrisons to be delivered up to his Majesty and afterwards upon denial by proclaiming the Soldiers of those Garrisons Traytors in his Coat of Arms and Trumpet sounding but also lost his Estate during the time of Usurpation I have seen several of his Collections concerning Ceremonies which are often quoted in the book of Elias Ashmole Esq intit The institution laws and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter I have also seen other of his Collections and fenestral Inscriptions which have been used and quoted by others and may be of great use to some that are curious and critical in those matters At length being craiz'd or distemper'd in his brain was kept up close in a house of Lunaticks at Hogsden alias Hoxton near London So that being not in a capacity of being restored to his place of Clarenceaux after his Majesties return much less at his Coronation in the beginning of 1661 his Office was confer'd on Sir Edw. Bysshe who kept it to his dying day This Sir Will. Le Neve who had been very knowing and well vers'd in matters of Arms Armory and all matters pertaining thereunto dyed at Hogsden before mention'd whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church of S. Bennet near Pauls Wharf in London in which Parish the Coll. of Arms is situated was therein buried 15 Aug. 1661. After his death most of his Collections came into the hands of Sir Edw. Walker some of which he gave to the said Coll. and others he left to Sir John Clopton who married the said Sir Edward's Daugh. and Heir Henry Hastings Esq was actually created also Doctor of the Civ Law on the same day Nov. 1. He was created Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leycestershire 22 Oct. 1643. Christopher Lewknore Esq He was a Burgess for the City of Chichester to serve in that Parl. that began 3 Nov 1640 but he leaving it because of the violent Proceedings of the Members thereof he retired to Oxon adher'd to his Majesties cause sate in the Parliament there 1643 and on the 18 of Dec. 1644 he being then a Colonel in his Majesties Army received the honour of Knighthood Thom. Hanmore His bare name only standing in the Register I can say nothing of him only by conjecture viz. That he was Sir Tho. Hanmer Baronet who had been Burgess for the Town of Flint in that Parliament that began at Westm on the 13 of Apr. 1640. Sir Rob Stapylton Knight This person who was the third son of Rich. Stapylton of Carleton in Moreland in Yorkshire Esq was educated a Rom. Cathol in the Coll. of the English Benedictines at Doway in Flanders and being too gay and poetical to be confin'd within a Cloyster he left them went into England turned Protestant was made one of the Gentlemen in ord of the privy Chamber to Prince Charles followed his Majesty when he left London was Knighted 13 Sept. 1642 followed him after Edghill Battel to Oxon where he was actually created Doct. of the Civil Law a before 't is told you suffered when the Royal Cause declined lived a studious life in the time of Usurpation and at length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. if not happily before he was made one of the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber belonging to him He hath written 1 The slighted maid a Comedy Lond. 1663. qu. 2 The step mother Trag. Com. Lond. 1664. qu. 3 Hero and Leander Trag. Lond. 1669. qu And translated into English 1 Pliny's Panegyrick a speech in Senate c. Oxon. 1644. qu. Illustrated with Annotations by Sir Robert Stap. 2 The first six Satyrs of Juvenal with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of History Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Oxon. 1644. oct Dr. Bart. Holyday used often to say that he made use of his Translation of Juvenal which Sir Robert borrowed of him in MS. when he was about to publish the said six Satyrs 3 The Loves of Hero and Leander a Greek Poem Oxon. 1645. qu. in 3 sh and at Lond. 1647. in oct It was written originally by Musaeus To which Translation he hath added Annotations upon the Original 4 Leanders letter to Hero and her answer Printed with The Loves c. 'T is taken out of Ovid and hath Annotations put to it by Sir Rob. 5 Juvenals sixteen Satyrs Or a survey of the manners and actions of mankind with arguments marginal Notes and Annotatiâ—ns clearing the obscure places out of the Hist Laws and Ceremonies of the Romans Lond. 1647. oct with Sir Rob. Picture before it It is dedicated to Henry Marquess of Dorchester as one or two of the former books are who seems to have been a favourer of his muse This last book being much enlarged by him was printed in a very fair fol. at Lond. 1660 bearing this title Mores Hominum The manners of men described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal as he is published in his most authentick copy lately printed by command of the King of France Whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designs in pictures with arguments to the Satyrs Before this book is the Effigies of Sir Robert curiously engraven but represented too young 6 The history of the Low Country Warrs or de Bello Galgico c. Lond. 1650. fol. Written in Lat. by Famianus Strada What other Books he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh day of July an 1669 was buried near to the Vestry door in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster He was Uncle to Sir Miles Stapylton of Yorkshire younger Brother to Dr. Stapylton a Benedictine Monk which last wrot himself and was usually called Benedictus Gregorius Stapylton being President of the English Benedictines He died in the Monastery of the English Benedictines at Delaware in Loraine 4 Aug. 1680 and was there inter'd Will. Kelligrew Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of several books and therefore to be mentioned at large hereafter he being now living Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire Baronet He was son and heir of Sir John Walter sometimes Chief Baron of the Exchequer and dying on the 23
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
Earl Marshal to whom he was then or lately Secretary was sworn Herald extraordinary by the title of Mowbray because no person can be King of Armes before he is Herald and on the 23 of Dec. the same year he was created Norroy King of Armes at Arundel-house in the Strand in the place of Sir Rich. S. George created Clarenceaux On the 17 of July 1624 he received the honour of Knighthood and in 1634 he was made Garter King of Armes in the place of Sir Will. Segar deceased This learned and polite person who writes his Sirname in Latine Burrhus hath written 1 Impetus juveniles quaedam sedatioris aliquantulum animi epistolae Oxon. 1643. oct Most of the epistles are written to Philip Bacon Sir Franc. Bacon afterwards Lord Verulam Thom. Farnabie Tho. Coppin Sir Hen. Spelman c. 2 The Soveraignty of the British Seas proved by records history and the municipal laws of the Kingdom Lond. 1651. in tw It was written in the year 1633. He hath also made A collection of records in the Tower of London which I have not yet seen He died in Oxon to which place he had retired to serve his Majesty according to the duty of his office on the 21. of Octob. 1643 and was buried the next day at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side to the choire of the Cath. of Ch. Church in the University Of Oxon. Octob 31. Sir George Radcliff Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Vniv Coll was after he had been presented by Dr. Rich. Steuart Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation celebrated in the north Chappel commonly called Ad. Bromes Chap of S. Maries Church He afterwards suffered much for the Kings cause as he in some part had done before for the sake of the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford was with him in his exile and died some years before his restauration You may read much of him in the Memoires of the lives actions c. of excellent personages c. by Dav. Lloyd M. A. pag. 148. 149 c. Nov. 18. Thom. Bird a Captain in the Kings Army and about this time Governour of Eccleshal in Staffordshire was then actually created After his Majesties restauration he became one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and on the 12 of May 1661 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty Jan. 31. Sir Rich. Lane Knight Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer was then actually created Doctor of the Civ Law with more than ordinary ceremony This worthy person who was the Son of Rich. Lane of Courtenhall in Northamptonshire by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Clem. Vincent of Harpole in the said County was educated from his youth in the study of the Com. Law in the Middle Temple where he made great proficiency beyond his contemporaries was called to the Bar and became a Counsellour of note In the 5. of Char. 1. he was elected Lent Reader of his Inn but did not read because of the pestilence and when the Long Parliament began he was so much esteemed for his great knowledge in the Law that the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford made use of him to manage his cause when he was tried for high treason in the latter end of 1640. Soon after he was made Attorney to Prince Charles at which time seeing what strange courses the members of Parliament took when the King had given them leave to sit he entrusted his intimate friend Bulstrode Whitlock a Counsellour of the Middle Temple with his Chamber there all his goods therein and an excellent Library and forthwith leaving London he retired to the King at Oxon where in 1643 he was made Serjeant at Law Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer a Knight on the 4 of Jan. the same year and about the same time one of his Majesties honourable Privy Council In the latter end of the next year he was nominated one of the Commissioners by his Maj. to treat of Peace with those of the Parliament at Vxbridge and on the 30 of Aug. 1645 he had the Great Seal delivered to him at Oxon on the death of Edward Lord Littleton In May and June 1646 he was one of the prime Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon and soon after conveyed himself beyond the Sea to avoid the barbarities of the Parliament In his absence his Son was conducted to the said B. Whitlock then in his greatness to the end that the said goods of his Father then in his possession might be delivered to him for the use of his said Father who then wanted them but Whitlock would not own that he ever knew such a Man as Sir Richard and therefore he kept what he had of his to the great loss of him the said Sir Richard who died as a certain author tells us in the Isle of Jersey before the month of Aug. 1650 but false as I presume because that on the 22 of Apr. 1651 a Commission issued forth from the Prerogative Court to the Lady Margaret his Relict to administer the goods chattels and debts of him the said Sir Richard late of Kingsthorp in Northamptonshire who died in the Kingdom of France This Sir Rich. Lane who was an eminent Professor of the Law hath written Reports in the Court of Exchecquer beginning in the third and ending in then ninth of K James 1. Lond. 1657 fol. On the 29 of Jan. 1657 the Great Seal was delivered by his Majesty at Bruges in Flanders to Sir Edw. Hyde Knight Sir John Glanvill Kt Serjeant at Law was created the same day Jan. 31. and admitted in the house of Congregation and Convocation as Sir Rich. Lane was This Sir John was a younger Son of John Glanvill of Tavistock in Devonshire one of the Justices of the Common Bench who died 27 July 1600 and he the third Son of another John of the same place where and in that County their name was gentile and antient When he was young he was not educated in this University but was as his Father before him bred an Attorney and afterwards studied the Common Law in Lincolns Inn and with the help of his Fathers notes became a great proficient When he was a Counsellour of some years standing he was elected Recorder of Plymouth and Burgess for that place to serve in several Parliaments In the 5. of Char. 1. he was Lent Reader of his Inn and on the 20 of May 1639 he was made Serjeant at Law at which time having engaged himself to be a better Servant to the King than formerly for in several Parliaments he had been an enemy to the Prerogative he was in the year following elected Speaker for that Parliament which began at Westm on the 13 of April in which he shew'd himself active to promote the Kings desires On the 6 of July the same year he
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
S. Michaels Ch. in Cornhill London Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and Canon of Windsore in which Dignity he was installed on the first of Feb. 1638. This person who had been much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and therefore esteemed by the Puritans an Arminian popishly affected and I know not what was in the beginning of the rebellion raised by them sequestred of his Rectory plundered his Wife and Children turned out of doors and he himself forced to fly Whereupon retiring to Oxon the common mother and refuge in those times of afflicted Royallists he was in considerations of his sufferings and loyalty promoted by his Majesty to the Deanery of Glocester upon the nomination of Dr. Frewen to the See of Lichfield and Cov. in Aug. 1643 and was possest of it as much as then could be in Apr. following in which month Dr. Frewen was consecrated He hath written 1 The holy Feasts and Fasts of the Church with meditations and prayers proper for Sacraments and other occasions leading to Christian life and death Lond. 1657. in tw They are grounded on certain texts of Scripture 2 Sacred principles services and soliloquies or a manual of devotions made up of three parts 1. The grounds of the Christian Religion c. 2. Dayly and weekly forms of prayer 3. Seven charges to conscience delivering if not the whole body the main Limbs of Divinity c. Lond. 1659. 1671. c. in tw and other things as it seems Quaere After the Kings return he had restored to him what he had lost had other preferments given to him and dying on the fifth day of July an 1671 was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Thomas Vyner and in his Canonry Peter Scott LL. D both of Cambridge CREATIONS The Creations made this year did partly consist of Military Officers and partly of Cantabrigians that had taken Sanctuary at Oxon most of all which follow Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Charles Fox Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Payne Fisher Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Joh. Beeton Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Nich. Bertie Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Rob. Johnson Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. The said Payne Fisher who was Son of Sir Will. Fisher and one of the Captains of the Life-guard to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon was Father to Payne Fisher an Officer also in the Kings Army and afterwards Poet Laureat to Oliver Protector being now living an aged man Nich. Bertie was of the noble Family of Bertie Earl of Lindsey and all afterwards sufferers for the royal cause Alexander Walwyn another Captain was also created the same day Aug. 26. Joh. Squire B. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Aug. 26. Joh. Pattison B. A. of S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr. These two Bachelaurs were then created Masters because they before had as they did this year bear armes for his Majesty in Oxon. Dec. 3. Matthias Prideaux of Exet. Coll. a Capt. in his Majesties service Mar. ... Rob. Bingham Secretary to the Marquess of Dorchester Bach. of Phys Dec. 3. Will Sparke of Magd. Coll. See more of him among the created Doctors of Physick an 1661. Bach. of Div. Feb. 21. John Barwick Mast of Arts of 19 years standing Priest and late Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge did then supplicate the ven congregation that he might have the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him Which being granted simpliciter he was without doubt then admitted and created tho it appears not in the register so to be He had been lately turn'd out of his fellowship being then I suppose Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Morton Bishop of Durham who as 't is said gave him about this time a Prebendship in that Church After his Majesties return he became Doct. of Div. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and was in consideration of his great sufferings installed Dean of Durham on the first of Nov. 1660 in the place of Dr. Will. Fuller who died in the year before going On the 15 of Oct. 1661 he was elected Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral in Lond in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas deceased whereupon being installed in that Dignity on the 19 day of the same month his Deanery of Durham was confer'd on Dr. Joh. Sudbury and accordingly was installed therein on the 15 of Feb. following This worthy person Dr. Barwick hath published 1 The fight victory and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to Thomas Morton late Lord Bishop of Duresme in a Sermon preached at his funeral in the par Church of S. Peter at Easton-manduit in Northamptonshire on Mich. day on 2. Tim. 4.7.8 Lond 1660. qu. 2 A summary account of the holy life and death of Thomas late Lord Bishop of Duresme printed with the said Sermon which Bishop died at Easton-manduit before mention'd on S. Matthews day an 1659. aged 95 years 3 Deceivers deceived or the mistakes of wickedness c. Sermon at S. Pauls Cathedral 20. Oct. 1661 on Prov. 14. part of the 8 ver Lond. 1661. qu. See more of him in Peter Gunning among the Writers an 1684. p. 577. and in his epitaph following which was set over his grave in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul within the City of London S. Amori Aeternitati c. in English thus that it might be understood by vulgar capacities Sacred to Love and to generations to come Thou that passest by whosoever thou art bring hither thine eyes and understanding also intuitively both to look and lament For within this marble Wardrobe are folded up the thin worn weeds of the valuable substantial and well accountred Soul of John Barwick Doctor of Divinity to whom Westmorland may well boast to have given first breath and being Next Cambr. may boast to have given him his first admission and S. Johns Coll. there a Fellowship in that foundation From which Fellowship which still makes more for his honour he was unjustly ejected by a pack of Parricides who notwithstanding regardless of the rage of those bloody times or his own blood-spitting malady equally pernicious boldly attempted and successfully managed matters of the greatest difficulty and danger in the behalf of the King and Church And for that cause was shut up in a dire and loathsome prison where he suffered inhumane and barbarous usage yet with a constant and undaunted spirit And in the end he saw by the miracle as it were of a new creation the revisal of both Crown and Mitre himself playing the Man-midwives part and vigorously assisting at the new birth of both Last of all for his active services and passive sufferings he was
was admitted Master See among the created Bach. of Phys 1649. Dec. 8. Joh. Rowe of Cambridge in Old England Two days after he was admitted Master as I have before told you Mast of Arts. Seven or more Masters of the said Univ. of Cambridge were incorporated but such obscure persons they were that nothing can be said of them Oct. 10. Will. Hamilton M. A. of the Univ. of Glascow in Scotland This person who was noted among the Presbyterians for a learned man was put in Fellow of All 's Coll. this year by the Visitors but left it in 1651 because he refused the Independent Oath called the Engagement Afterwards he took his rambles setled and had some place bestowed on him but what I cannot tell Among several things that he hath written is a Pamphlet intit Some necessity of reformation c. Printed 1660 1 in reply to a Pamphlet written by the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson intit No necessity of Reformation c. in answer to Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation c. See in Corn. Burges p. 237 in Hen. Savage p. 366 and in Jo. Biddle p. 198. There were also 4 English-men who were Masters of Arts of the University of S. Andrew incorporated but not one of them was afterwards a Writer Bishop or man of note Two of them were at present of Merton Coll who afterwards were prefer'd by the Visitors to be Fellows of Colleges in the places of Royalists ejected viz. one of Wadh. and another of Brasn Coll. Doct. of Phys Apr. 14. Edm. Trench Anglo-Nordovicensis Doct. of Physick of Bourges in France He took that degree there in 1638. John Micklethwait a Yorksh. man born who had taken the degree of Doct. of Phys at Padua in Italy 1638 was incorporated also the same day Apr. 14. He was now one of the Coll. of Physitians was several years after President thereof Physitian in ord to K. Ch. 2 from whom he received the honour of Knighthood and dying on Friday 28 July 1683 aged 70 years was buried in the lower end of the Church on the north side of S. Botolph without Aldersgate London George Rogers of Linc. Coll. Doct. of Phys of Padua was incorporated the same day Apr. 14. He is now as I conceive or at least was lately President of the Coll. of Physitians hath published certain things and therefore is to be remembred hereafter Oct. 13. Rob. Waydesden Doct. of Phys of Cambridge was then incorporated CREATIONS There were two or more Creations this year in all faculties which were called the Pembrockian Creations because they were made by the command of Philip Earl of Pembroke Chancellour of the University while he continued in Oxon to brake open Lodgings and give possession to the new Heads of the Presbyterian Gang. The Creations were made on the 12 14 and 15 of April and those that were not then created are not to be numbred among those of Pembrockian Creations Bach. of Arts. Twenty and three were created of which ten were of Magd. Hall yet but two were afterwards Writers as I can yet find viz. Apr. 15. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll. Apr. 15. Tho. Neast of Magd. Hall The last was afterwards made Fell. of New Coll. by the Visitors See more among the Masters an 1650. Bach. of Law Apr. 14. Benjamin Needler of S. Johns Coll. He was the only person that was created Bach. of Law He is mentioned among the Writers under the year 1682. Mast of Arts. Among 61 Masters that were created are these following Apr. 12. Charles Dormer Earl of Caernarvan Grandson by the Mother to Philip Earl of Pembroke Apr. 12. James Herbert Sons of the Earl of Pembroke Apr. 12. John Herbert Sons of the Earl of Pembroke Apr. 12. Sir Will. Cobbe of Adderbury in Oxfordshire Visitors of the Univ. appointed by the Parliam Apr. 12. Will. Tipping of Draycot Esq in Oxfordshire Visitors of the Univ. appointed by the Parliam Apr. 12. Joh. Cartwright of Aynoe in Northamptâ—shire sometimes of Brasn Coll. Visitors of the Univ. appointed by the Parliam Apr. 12. Joh. Wilkinson Gent. Visitors of the Univ. appointed by the Parliam All these besides three more whose Christian names occur not were presented by Sir Nath. Brent to the new Vicechanc. Dr. Reynolds at which time the Chancellour of the Univ. sate in the supream chair in the Convocation-house Apr. 14. Lieut. Col. Tho. Kelsey commonly called Colonel Kelsey now Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon for the Parliament was then actually created M. of A. This person who had been a mean Trader in Birchin-Lane in London a godly Button-maker as I have heard was a great Creature of Ol. Cromwell who made him a Commissioner of the Admiralty worth 500 l. per an and Major Gen. for Kent and Surrey the Salary for one of which Counties came to 666 l. 13 s. 4 d per an besides the Revenues due to him as being Governour of Dover Castle After his Majesties restauration when then he was deprived of all his places he took upon him the trade of Brewing in London lived at least 20 years after and died but in a mean condition as I have heard Francis Allen a Captain in Oxford Garrison was created the same day He afterwards lived at or near Abendon and died but in a sorry condition One of both his names a Goldsmith in Fleetstreet London son of the poor Vicar of Gretton in Northamptonshire was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. and a constant Rumper but whether of any kin to the Captain I cannot tell Thom. Wait another Judge of the said King was the son of an Ale-house Keeper of Market Overton but he was not created Latimer Cross lately Manciple of Magd. Hall now Steward of Magd. Coll. He died 3 Dec. 16â—7 and was buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel whereupon his Stewardship was bestowed by the then President on a godly brother called Elisha Coles Francis Howell of Exet. Coll. He was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University moral Philosophy Reader and at length Principal of Jesus Coll. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell as being an Independent to the purpose After his Majesties restauration he was turn'd out of his Principality so that living mostly in and near London a Nonconformist and a Conventicler died at Bednal Green in Middlesex on the 8 or 10 of Mar. 1679. Afterwards his body being conveyed to the phanatical Burying-place joyning to the New Artillery yard near London was there buried in the presence of a great many Dissenters Sam. Lee of Magd. Hall was created also the same day He was afterwards made Fellow of Wadham Coll became a Writer and Publisher of several Books and is now living in New England John Milward of New Inn was created the same day Apr. 14. This person who was soon after made Fell. of C. C. Coll. by the Visitors continued always after a Nonconformist and died so Under his name is published a Sermon intit How we ought to love our neighbour as
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
Prideaux said after his joking way that all the Election besides him was not worth a Button Afterwards he became a noted Tutor in the House and several of his Pupils became some of them famous and some infamous When the Rebellion began he left Oxon being puritannically affected and especially because he would not bear Arms for his Majesty while Oxford was a Garrison or be any way contributary thereunto When the War was ceased he returned took Pupils again became one of the Proctors tho out of course in 1648 as I have before told you and while he bore that office he was upon the refusal of Dr. E. Corbet made Canon of Ch. Ch. and Orator of the University in the place of the learned and religious Dr. H. Hammond After his Majesties restauration he was discharg'd of his Canonry and Oratorship and when he was in removing his goods from his lodgings in the Cloister at Ch. Ch to make room for Mr. Joh. Fell he would usually say when he heard the two little bells ring to canonical Prayers There now go the Mass-bells and let those that are affected that way go to the Church for be sure I shall not or words to that effect Afterwards retiring with his family to London he setled at Islington near to that City where he preached in Conventicles and taught youths to the time of his death which hapning in the latter end of Octob. 1680 was buried in the Church there with his son who died at or near the same time of a Consumption An. Dom. 1650. An. 2 Car. 2. Chanc. The place of Chancellour being void by the death of Philip E. of Pembroke the Visitors assumed the power thereof into their hands till the first of January this year On which day a Convocation being assembled the then members of the University did unanimously choose leave being first granted by the Committee to make choice of a fit person Oliver Cromwell Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces now on foot in England Which office after he had been acquainted what the Convocation had done by certain Doctors and Masters sent to him then at Edinburgh in Scotland he kindly accepted and forthwith promised to be a friend to the University by his canting Letter sent thereunto dated at that place on the 4 of Feb. following part of which runs thus But if these prevail not meaning some Exceptions for the refusal of the Office and that I must continue this honour until I can personally serve you you shall not want my prayers that that seed and stock of Piety and Learning so marvelously springing up among you may be useful to that great and glorious Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ of the approach of which so plentiful an effusion of the spirit upon those hopeful plants is one of the best presages And in all other things I shall by the divine assistance improve my poor abilities and interests in manifesting my self to the University and your selves c. Which Letter being read in Convocation the members thereof made the House resound with their cheerful Acclamations Vicechanc. Daniel Greenwod D. D. Principal of Brasn Coll. 12. Oct having been on the 12 of Sept. going before nominated and designed to that Office by the Committee for the reformation of the University the Chancellourship being then void Proct. Thankful Owen of Linc. Coll. Apr. 24. Philip Stephens of New Coll. Apr. 24. These Proctors were elected contrary to the Carolyne Cicle which appointed Trin. and Wadh. Colleges to elect this year So that the Cicle being interrupted for those Colleges did not choose till the year following it continued so till 1662 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Bach. of Arts. May 23. Hamlet Puleston of Jes Coll. Nov. 17. Will. Masters of Mert. Coll. Dec. 16. Rob. Lovel of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards an excellent Botanist wrot Enchiridion Botanicum c. and other things and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers being as I conceive now living Feb. 7. Thom. Ashton of Brasn Coll. Feb. 7. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters 1653. 18. Will. Cole of Mert. Coll. Mar. 11. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Bishop of Bristow 18. Christopher Wren of Wadh. Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll. and an eminent Mathematician Adm. 96. This year Thom. Clifford of Exeter Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Arts but whether he was admitted it appears not This person who was son of Hugh Clifford of Vgbrook in the Parish of Chudleigh in Devonsh Col. of a Regiment of Foot in the first Expedition against the Scots by Mary his wife dau of George Chudleigh of Ashton in the said County Baronet was born there at Vgbrook on the first of Aug. 1630 became Commoner of Ex. Coll. 25 May 1647 and afterwards went to one of the Inns of Court or to travel or both being then accounted by his Contemporaries a young man of a very unsetled head or of a roving shatter'd brain In the beginning of Apr. 1660 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Totness in his own Country to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm on the 25 of the same month and after his Majesties restauration he was chose Burgess again for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 8 May 1661 Wherein shewing himself a frequent and forward Speaker especially in behalf of the Kings Prerogative he was taken notice of by the great men at Court and thereupon taken into favour and had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him Afterwards he attended James D. of York at sea an 1665 in the battel fought against the Dutch in the beginning of June continued at sea also the same year when the Fleet was commanded by Edward E. of Sandwich and was in person at the Expedition at Bergen in Norway Which attempt upon the Dutch in that Port was made on the 2 of Aug. the same year He was also in that year sent Envoy to the two northern Kings of Sweden and Denmark with full power to conclude new Treaties and Alliances with them In 1666 he attended his Highness Pr. Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle at sea against the Dutch and was in that fight which continued on the 1.2.3 and 4. days of June being with the same Generals also upon the 25 of July following in another great fight with the Dutch On the 8 Nov. following his Maj. gave him the White staff of Comptroller of his Houshold in the place of Sir Hugh Pollard Kt. and Bt who died the day before and on the 5 of Decemb. following that he was sworn one of his Maj. Privy Council for his singular zeal wherein he had on all occasions merited in his Maj. service and more eminently in the honorable dangers in the then late War against the Dutch and French where he had been all along
S. Maries on Tuesday a Lecture day 25 July 1654 he did then deliver a very offensive Sermon preached on Job 37.22 With God is terrible Majesty In which Sermon speaking of the attributes of God particularly of that in the text took a hint from the word terribilis which might as he said signifie with some terrae bilis to say that God was a Melancholy God c. and in the conclusion to maintain that those that had no teeth to gnash should gnash their gums c. For which Sermon he being call'd into question was in a fair way of expulsion but by the intercession of friends the business was compromised yet two years after he was forced to leave his Fellowship upon some quarrel between him and Dr. Greenwood Principal of his House Afterwards he was intrusted with a Commission from Oliver to be Chaplain to the English Forces in Jersey an 1656 where continuing for some time in preaching suffered soon after in his relations reputation salary c. by a new Governour placed there who forced him as it seems thence He hath published 1 Blood-thirsty Cyrus unsatisfied with blood Or the boundless cruelty of an Anabaptists tyranny manifested in a letter of Colonel John Mason Governour of Jersey 3. Nov. 1659 wherein he exhibits seven false ridiculous and scandalous articles against Quarter-Master Will. Swan c. Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. 2 Satan in Samuels mantle or the cruelty of Germany acted in Jersey containing the arbitrary bloody and tyrannical proceedings of John Mason of a baptized Church commissionated to be a Colonel and sent over into the Island of Jersey Governour in July 1656 against several Officers and Soldiers in that small place c. Lond. 1659 in 4. sh in qu. After his Majesties restauration the author was beneficed near Hertford in Hertfordshire where he soon after finished his restless course Dec. 11. Christoph Wren of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 21. Edward Veel or Veal of Ch. Ch. was admitted M. of A. in Convocation and at the same time was admitted ad regendum This person who had been elected Fellow of Trin. Coll. near Dublin between the time that he took the degree of Bach. and Master in this University I take to be the same Ed. Veel who is now or at least was lately a Nonconformist Minister in or near London and author of 1 What spiritual knowledge they ought to seek for that desire to be saved Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 2 Sermon on Psalm 62.12 'T is the eleventh Serm. in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwerk Lond. 1675. qu and perhaps of other things but such I have not yet seen See in Joh. Davenport and Steph. Charnock among the Writers p. 335 and 491. Adm. 63 or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys or of Div or Doct. of the Civil Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 4. Tho. Waldron of Ball. Coll. 6. Will. Page of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Will. Coniers of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Thom. Cummyns of Wad Coll. The first of these four was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys and Physitian in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. 15. Martin Luellyn of Ch. Ch. Dec. 14. Rob. Fielding of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was adm or licensed this year Incorporations May 14. Tho. Wolfius Doct. of Phys of Padua May 14. John Clerk Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Thomas Pepys Doct. of Phys of Padua The first was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and the second is the same I suppose with him who published Disputatie medica de Ilio vero I find one John Clark to have been Doct. of the Laws of Doctors Commons in Lond. who died in the latter end of the year 1672 but whether ever of Oxon I cannot yet tell See another Joh. Clerk among the created Doctors of Phys 1660. As for the third I know nothing of him June 13. Walt. Mills Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians 15. Will. Whitaker Doct. of the same faculty of Franaker in Wâ—st Freisen He was afterwards as I conceive one of the Coll. of Physitians and lived several years in good repute for his learning in the Parish of S. Andrew in Hoâ—bourne near London but died in the Parish of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster in the month of Dec. or beginning of January 1670. He hath written The tree of life or blood of the grape c. pr. in oct and perhaps other things Qu. I have made mention of a learned Divine of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 744 and another a Nonconformist in this in Tho. Jacombe under the year 1687. p. 607. July 12. John Sherman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards Archd. of Salisbury See in Josh Childrey among the Writers p. 339. Rob. Dixon M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the said day I take this person to be the same Rob. Dixon who was afterwards Doct. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester author of 1 The degrees of Consanguinity and affinity described and delineated Lond. 1675. oct 2 The nature of the two Testaments or the disposition of the Will and Estate of God to mankind c. In two volumes The first of the Will of God the second of the Estate of God Lond. 1676. 77. fol and of other things as 't is probable Isaac Barrow M. A. of Trin. Coll. in the same University was incorporated on the said day In the next year he took a long journey into several forreign Countries and returned a compleat Master of divers Languages In 1660 he was chose Greek Professor of Cambridge and two years after on the death of Laur. Rooke Geometry Lecturer in Gresham Coll. In 1672 he was elected Master of Trin. Coll being then in great esteem for his learning and accomplishments And dying on the fourth day of May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the South cross Isle of S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in the City of Westminster His works were afterwards collected and published by Dr. Joh. Tillotson an 1683 before the first of which is a full account of the life of the said Is Barrow to which I refer the Reader These three last Sherman Dixon and Barrow were of the number of 25 Cambridge Masters of Arts that were incorporated just after the Act this year July 12. Edw. Spark Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 2 and well beneficed if not dignified He hath written and published 1 The Christians map of the world drawn at the solemn funerals of Henry Chitting Esq Chester-Herald at Armes inter'd 11. January 1637. Lond. 1637. oct 'T is a Sermon preached at the said Chittings funeral 11. Jan. 1636 on Heb. 13. ver 14. 2 Scintilla
brethren therefore did Hen. Stubbe write and publish The Savilian Professors case stated c. as I have told you in my discourse of him p. 415. July 4. George Kendall B. D. of Exet. Coll. Incorporations May 26. John Wybâ—rd Doct. of Phys of Franaker in West Friesen He was the Son of Walt. Wyberd of Tackley in Essex became a Commoner of Pemb. Coll. in the latter end of the year 1638 aged 24. years left it when the troubles began in England travelled and took the degree of Doct. at Franaker before mention'd in July an 1644 and at length became well vers'd in some parts of Geometry This person who in his certificate for his degree at Franaker is stiled Trinobans Anglus hath written Tactometria or Tetagmenometria Or the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed Lond. 1650 oct Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch. Doct. of Phys of Heidleberg was incorp the same day July 11. Joh. Mapletoft Bac. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge See among the Incorporations an 1669. Hezekiah Burton M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. in the same University He was afterwards D of D Chaplain to Sir Orlando Bridgman Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Rector of the Church of S. George in Southwark Prebend of Norwich in the place of John Rhodes deceased in Octob. 1667 and at length Rector of Bernes or Barnes in Surrey He died in Aug. or Sept. 1681 and afterwards had published under his name 1 Several discourses viz. first of piety and chastity secondly of repentance thirdly of seeking first the Kingdom of Christ Lond. 1684. oct 2 A second vol. of discourses Lond. 1685. oct the contents of which are in the next leaf following the title Both published by Joh. Tillotson D. D. Dean of Canterbury and Residentiary of S. Pauls Cathedral afterwards Dean of the said Church upon Dr. Stillingfleets promotion to the See of Worcester in Sept. 1689 Clerk of the royal Closet and at length Archbishop of Canterbury to which See he was consecrated in the Church of S. Mary le Bow 31. May 1691 upon the deprivation of that most conscientious and religious Archprelate Will Sancroft D. D. July 11. John Bodington M. A. of Sidney Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Rector of Newton-Blossomvile in Bucks and author of The Mystical Solomons coronation and espousals on Cant. 5.11 Lond. 1662 oct and perhaps of other things Qu. These three last Mapletoft Burton and Bodington were of the number of 32 Cantabrigians who were incorporated just after the Act whereof two were Bach. and the rest Mast of Arts. Among the Masters Samuel Clarke of Pemb. Hall was one and John Smith of Qu. Coll. another several of both whose names have been Writers and one Joh. Smith who writes himself M. of A. wrot Grammatica quadrilinguis or brief instructions for the French Italian Spanish and English tongues with the Proverbs of each language c. Lond 1673 74. oct and another who writes himself C. M. Coll. Med is author of several books among which is A compleat discourse of the nature use and right managing of the wonderful instrument the Baroscope c. Lond. 1688. oct See in p. 475. Creations Apr. 5. Joh. Windebanke M. A. sometimes Fellow of New Coll Son of Sir Franc. Windebanke formerly Secretary of State to K. Ch. 1 was then actually created Doct. of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters Ol. Cromwell which say that since he hath left the Vniversity he hath spent some time in forraign parts in the study of Phyâ—ick and hath been a practitioner in that faculty for some years with much credit and reputation c. He afterwards practised Physick at Guilford in Survey and became honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Apr. 20. Thom. Manton sometimes of Wadh. Coll. was created Bach. of Div. by vertue of a dispensation from the Doctors delegated by the Chanc. of the Univ. June 5. It was ordered by the Delegates that Nich. Lokyer sometimes of New Inn might have the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd on him which was confirmed by the Doctors delegated by the Chancellour yet it doth not appear that he was created or diplomated An. Dom. 1655. An. 7. Car. 2. An. 2 3 Ol. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Ol. Cromwell Vicechanc. Dr. Owen Sept. 18 Proct. Sam. Bruen of Bras Coll. Apr. 25. Edw. Ã Wood of Mert. Coll. Apr. 25. But the junior Proctor dying 22. May Mr. Richard Franklin of the same Coll. was admitted into his place on the first of June following Bach. of Arts. Apr. 4. Job Roys of Mert. Coll. 7. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. He is living and a Writer and therefore to be remembred hereafter June 15. Tho. Branker of Ex. Coll. 28 Joh. Bridall of Queens Coll. 28 Rob. Southwell of Queens Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards a Common Lawyer and hath published several things of his profession The other was created Doctor of the Civ Law in 1677 under which year you may see more of him July 5. Tho. Tregosse of Exet. Coll. Oct. 11. Joseph Glanvill of Exet. Coll. The first of these two who did not compleat his degree by Determination was born of an antient and gentile family at S. Ives near to the Lands end in Cornwall bred in the said Coll. in the condition of a sojourner under the tuition of Francis Howell and after he had left the University took orders according to the Presbyterian way and was a constant Preacher at the place of his nativity for two years In Oct. 1659 he removed to the Vicaridge of Milar and Mabe in Cornwall where continuing till 1662 was silenc'd because he would not conform according to the Act of Uniformity then published Afterwards preaching in private and in Conventicles he was several times brought into trouble and imprison'd At length giving way to fate at Penryn on the 18. of Jan. 1670 was published the next year a little book entit The life and death of Thomas Tregosse late Minister of the Gospel at Milar and Mabe in Cornwall with his character Lond. in oct and at the end are The Letters of Thomas Tregosse All written according to the Presbyterian mode Oct. 11. Edw. West of Ch. Ch. afterwards of S. Maries Hall 16. Edm. Elys of Ball. Coll. This person who is now living at Totness in Devon a Non-juror is to be remembred hereafter as a Writer because he hath written and published several books Dec. 14. John Williams of Magd. Hall He is now an eminent Minister in Lond. and a frequent Writer Jan. 16. Nich. Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. 21. Nich. Horsman of C. C. Coll. Jan. 30. John Fitwilliams of Magd. Coll. Jan. 30. Joh. Price of Vniv Coll. Jan. 30. Will. Annand of Vniv Coll. Of the first of these three you may see more among the Doct. of Div. 1677 Of the second among the Masters an 1658 and of the last among the Writers an 1689. p. 632. Feb. 1. Nath. Crew of Linc. Coll. He was afterwards successively Bish
in the busie and inquisitive age he lived in the Hist of the Animals alone to have been in a great measure neglected by English men he made the study thereof his province applying himself with all diligence to the cultivating and illustrating of it Which that he might the more effectually do he not only read what had been written by others but did himself accurately describe all the Animals he could find and procure either in England or beyond the Seas making a voyage into foreign Countries chiefly for that purpose to search out view and describe the several species of nature and tho he was not long abroad yet travelled he over a great part of France Spain Italy Germany and the Low Countries In all which places he was so inquisitive and successful that not many sorts of Animals described by others escaped his diligence He drew them out or describ'd them with a pencil which are with great curiosity engraven on copper plates at the charge of his Relict Emm and are printed in the Lat. and Engl. edition of the said Ornithologia He hath also written 2 Historiae piscium libri quatuor c. Oxon. 1686. fol. Which work was with great pains view'd review'd made fit for use and the two first books entirely compleated by the said most eminent Virtuoso Mr. Ray. It is adorned with very many cuts of several sorts of Fishies that were not ever before known in England 3 Letter containing some considerable observations about that kind of wasps called Ichneumones c. dat 24. Aug. 1671. See in the Philos Transact num 76. p. 2279. 4 Letter about the hatching a kind of Bee lodged in old Willows dat 10. July 1671. See in the said Transact num 74. p. 2221. At length this most worthy and learned person Mr. Willoughby dying to the great reluctancy of all curious and inquisitive persons especially those of the Royal Society of which he was an eminent member and ornament to his friends and all good men that knew him and the great loss of the Commonwealth of learning on the third day or July 1672 aged 37 years was buried as I presume at Middleton among the graves of his Ancestors An. Dom. 1661. An. 13. Car. 2. Chanc. Sir Edw. Hyde now Earl of Clarendon Viscount Cornbury and Baron of Hindon Vicechanc. Rich. Baylie D. D. President of S. Johns Coll. and Dean of Salisbury 9. August He had been Vicechancellour in 1636 and 37. Proct. Nich. Meese of Trin. Coll. Apr. 24. Henr. Hawley of Oriel Coll. Apr. 24. Bach. of Arts. May 3. Tho. Ken of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of B. and Wells and is now living a Nonjurer and a sequestred person He hath also published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred in a double respect June 14. Joh. March of S. Edm. Hall He hath published several things and therefore he ought to be hereafter remembred among the Writers 21. Henry Dolling of Wadham Coll. See among the Masters 1664. Oct. 15. Rob. Plot of Magd. Hall He is an eminent Virtuoso hath published several books and being living he is to be hereafter remembred among Oxford Writers Matthew Hole of Exet. Coll. was admitted the same day See more of him among the Bach. of Div. an 1674. Nov. 14. Will. Clark of Or Coll. Mar. 22. Rich. Rhodes of Ch. Ch. Adm. 164. Bach. of Law Four were admitted and several created but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 30. Joh. Cave lately of Magd. now of Linc. Coll. Apr. 30. Sam Jemmat of Vniv Coll. The last of these two who was Son of John Son of William Jemmat mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 449 was at this time Fellow of the said Coll and soon after taking holy Orders he became a florid preacher in these parts In 1665 he was the Repeater or Repetitioner in S. Maries Church on Low Sunday of the four Easter Sermons which being admirably well performed all to a word memoriter without any hesitation he obtained a great esteem among the Academians and in the same year he became Rector of Somerton in the Dioc. of Oxon and not long after Vicar of S. Nicholas Church in the Borough of Warwick where he now lives He hath published A Sermon preached at the Assizes held in Warwick 19 March 1682 on 2. Cor. 19.6 Oxon. 1683. qu. and may hereafter other things May 14. Tho. Trapham of Magd. Hall lately of Magd. Coll. This person who was Son of Tho. Trapham sometimes a Chirurgion living in Oxon and afterwards Bach. of Phys by Creation as I have told you under the year 1649 in these Fasti was afterwards a Traveller and Doctorated in Phys in another University and after his return became one of the Fellows of the Coll. of Physitians and author of A dâ—scourse of the state of health in the island of Jamaica with a provision therefore calculated from the Air the place and the water The customs and manner of living c. Lond. 1679. oct An account of which book is in the Philos Transact numb 141. p. 1030. May 28 Joh. Whitehall sometimes of Merton now of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards Preb. of Peterborough and Dean of Oundle in Northamptonshire He died in January 1685. July 2. Edmund Thorne of Oriel Coll. He hath published A funeral Sermon upon the much lamented death of Col. Edward Cook who died at London January 29 and was buried in the Chappel at Highnam or Higham near Glocester on the second of Feb. 1683 on Rev. 14.13 Lond 1684. qu. He is now living in those parts and may publish other things hereafter July 4. Thomas Marsden of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to the English Merchants trading at Lisbone in Portugal and after his return became Vicar of Walton in his native Country of Lancashire He hath written Roman Catholicks uncertain whether there be any true Priests or Sacraments in the Church of Rome evinced by an argument urg'd and maintain'd upon their own Principles against Mr. Edw. Goodal of Prescot in Lancashire printed in the reign of K. Jam. 2. He is now living and able to publish other matters July 10. Edward Wetenhall of Linc. Coll. He was afterwards a Writer and Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers and Bishops of this Univ. of Oxon. Oct. 15. Joh. Ellis Chaplain of New Coll lately a Student of Wadh. He was afterwards D. D. elsewhere and in 1678 was made Chantor of S. David in the place of Dr. Will. Thomas promoted to the See thereof He is also now a Dignitary in the Church of S. Asaph Adm. 68. Bach. of Phys There was only one that was admitted this year of whom I have made mention elsewhere Bach. of Div. July 3. Joh. Good M. A. of Ball. Coll. This person who is mention'd in the â—asti of the first Vol. p. 833.834 died early in the morning of the
26. of Feb. 1675 aged 54 years and was buried in Ball. Coll. Chappel There was an epitaph made for him but not put over his grave part of which runs thus Hic jacet Johannes Good â— T B. Coll. Ball XXX plus minus annos socius meritissimus omnigenâ oâ—natus eruditione neutiquam inflatus Sic excultus ipse alios pariter excoluit sedulitate usus adeò indefessâ ut celebriori Tutoris quam Johannis prenomine diu innotuerit c. Octob. 17. Thomas Ellis M. A. of Jesus Coll. He is at large mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 248. Adm. 4. Doct. of Law May 14. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll. He was then licensed to proceed but did not stand in the Act following to complete that degree ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was licensed this year only created Doct. of Div. July 3. George Escourt of Trin. Coll. a Compounder Incorporations May 21. George Smith Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who was lately of Qu. Coll. in this Univ took the said degree at Pad in Mar. 1651 8. He was afterwards of the Coll. of Phys June 18. Edw. Wetenhall Bach. of Arts of Cambridge In the next month he was admitted M. of A. as I have before told you 25. Joh. Parry Fellow of Jesus Coll. and M. of A. of 8 years standing who having performed all his exercise for Bach. of Div. in Trin. Coll. Chap. near Dublin on the 26. of January 1660 and the same day declared Bach. of Div. there was incorporated Bach. of Div. of this Univ. He was afterwards B. of Ossory as I have among the Writers told you p. 448. Ralph Whitfield B. A. of Dublin was incorporated the same day He took that degree at Dub. 7. Aug. 1655 which is all I know of him July 9. Tim. Puller M. A. and Fellow of Jes Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Rector of Sawcombe in Hertfordshire D. of D. of Cambr. an 1675 Rector of the Church of S. Mary de la Bow in London and author of The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted Lond 1679 oct c. At the same time when this worthy person Mr. Puller was incorporated which was just after the Act time nine Mast of Cambr. were incorporated also among whom Joh. Ellis of Caies Coll. was one Will. Williams of Emanuel another of both whose names have been several Writers and Tho. Leigh of the said Coll a third One Thom. Leigh Bach. of Div. and Vicar of Bishops Stortford in Hertfordsh hath published The keeping of Holydays Serm. preached at Hadham before Henry B. of London at his Lordships conference with the Clergy there Lond. 1684. 85. qu. Whether he be the same with the former Tho. Leigh I know not Quaere Hamnet Ward Doctor of Physick of Anger 's in France was incorporated on the same day July 9. This person who was a Dorsetshire man born had the said degree confer'd on him at Anger 's an 1646 and was now Vicar of Stourminster-Newton-Castle in his own Country and one of the Minor Preb. of Wells He hath published 1 The Protestant Soldier fighting under truths banner printed 1642. 2 Sermon preached at Shaftesbury in the primary visitation of Guy B. of Bristow on Ephes 3.8 Lond. 1674. qu and other things which I have not yet seen See more in Hen. Byam among the Writers p. 307. July 9. Tobias Dickson Doct. of Phys of Cambr. 11. Will. Bright Doct. of the same fac at Padua The same degree was confer'd on him at Pad an 1658. He was afterwards Hon. Fell. of the Coll. of Phys Sept. 9. Rob. Wishart M. of A. of S. Andrew in Scotland He was Son of the learned and famous George Wishart D. D of whom the Reader may be pleased to know that he was a Scotch man born and a Minister in the Church of S. Andrew in the same University that he had suffered in the time of the Covenant a long and tedious imprisonment in the nastiest part of the Tolbooth at Edinburgh called the Thiefs hole and afterwards did accompany the most victorious and noble James Marquess of Montross in his conquest of Scotland But upon the much lamented declension of that immortal person he became Chaplain to the Sister of K. Ch. 1. called the Queen of Bohemia and about the time of his Majesties restauration a Minister in Newcastle upon Tyne where he was held in great veneration for his unspotted Loyalty In 1662 Jun. 1 he was consecrated at S. Andrews Bishop of Edinburgh with Dr. Dav. Michell to Aberdene and dying at Edinburgh in Jul. or Aug. 1671 was buried in the Abbey Church of Halyrood house He was a person of great religion and very charitable to the poor and having been a Prisoner he was always careful at each dinner that he made to send the first dish from his table to the Prisoners He hath written The compleat Hist of the Wars of Scotland under the conduct of the illustrious and truly valiant James Marquess of Montross c. Printed several times in Lat. and English The first edit came out at the Hague in 1647. oct See in Dav. Whitford among the Writers pag. 389. Nov. 12. Rich. Trevor of Mert. Coll. Doct. of Phys of Padua This well-bred Gent. who was son of Sir Joh. Trevor Kt and younger brother to Sir Joh. Trevor who was made Secretary of State in the latter end of Oct. 1668 after his return from his Embassy in France died near the Temple Gate on the 17 of July 1676 and was buried in the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet Lond. 21. Levin Fludd Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Rob. Stapâ—ey Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two had that degree confer'd on him at Pad in Aug. 1639 and the other in May 1648. Dec. 7. John Downes Doct. of Phys of Leyden Mar. 4. Joh. Atfield Doct. of Phys of Caen. 13. Thom. Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these three was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at Lond. The second who was a Londoner born and had taken his degree at Caen in 1657 was also afterwards Fellow of the said Coll and the third who took his degree at Leyden in 1659 was afterwards a Knight and I think Fell. also CREATIONS Creations were made in all Faculties either by the favour of his Majesty or of Clarendon the Chancellour of the University when he was entertained by the Univ. in Sept. 1661. Bach. of Law About five were created but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Among them were Tho. Wilkins of Jes Coll a Sufferer for his Majesties Cause Sept. 12 Edm. Arnold of Mert. Coll. belonging to the Court of Arches Oct. 10. c. Mast of Arts. The Creations of Masters were mostly made in a Convocation held in the morn of the 9 of Sept at which time Edw. Earl of Clarendon Lord
there and I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same Franc. Fuller M. A. who published 1 A treatise of faith and repentance Lond 1684. 85. oct 2 Words to give to the young man knowledg and discretion or the law of kindness in the tongue of a Father to his Son Lond. 1685. oct c. These six last Masters were of the number of 31 Masters of Cambr. who were incorporated the next day after the conclusion of the Act July 14. Sept. 28. James Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth Visc Doncaster c. was incorporated M. A. as he had stood at Cambridge at which time the King Queen and their respective Courts were in Oxon He was presented by the University Orator with a flattering speech and in the plague year 1665 when the said King and Queen were at Oxon he was entred as a member in C. C. Coll. there This person who was the eldest natural Son of K. Ch. 2 was begotten on the body Mrs. Lucy Walters alias Barlow of Pembrokeshire as I have heard who as a spy was by Oliver imprisoned in the Tower of London in the beginning of 1656 but released thence in July the same year He was born at Roterdam in 1649 and for some time nurs'd there but when his Father K. Ch. 2. went into Scotland to be there crown'd by the Presbyterians he was being then known by the name of James Crofts committed to the care of his Grandmother Hen. Maria the Queen Mother of England then in France And what became of him afterwards a book written by S. T. a Novice and an unskilful author will tell you in his book entit An Historical Account of the heroick life and magnanimous actions of James Duke of Monmouth c. Lond. 1683. oct Which book câ—ming out in his life time I shall only add this that for raising a rebellion in the West parts of England in the beginning of K. Jam. 2 against whom he had acted several times very unworthily while he was Duke of York in order to the disinheriting him of the imperial Crown was taken carried to London committed to the Tower and at length on the 15 of July 1685 was beheaded on Tower-hill whereupon his body was buried in the Church or Chappel there dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula Having now this just opportunity laid before me I shall give you the names of all or most of the natural Children of the said K. Ch. 2. but before I begin with them you are to know that the said Mrs. Walters gave out that the said King did beget on her body a Daughter but because he would not own her I shall not number her among the Children She was first married to a Gentleman of Ireland and afterwards to Will. Fanshaw one of the Masters of the Requests The second was Charlott begotten on the body of ... Boyle Vicountess Shannon Sister to Tho. Killigrew Groom of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2 who was first married to .... Howard the only Son of Tho. Howard a younger Brother to the Earl of Suffolk and after his death to Will. Paston Son and Heir to Robert Vicount Yarmouth She died in her house in the Pall-Mall within the liberty of Westm 28. July 1684 and was buried without any Armes of her own because the King had not assign'd her any in the Abbey Church at Westminster 3 Charles Fitz-Charles commonly called Don Carlos Earl of Plymouth begotten on the body of Mrs. Catherine Pegge of Leycestershire afterwards the Wife of Sir Edw. Green of Essex Bt. This Ch. Fitz-Ch who had married one of the Daughters of Tho. Earl of Danby died of a Bloody-flux at Tangier a City in the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa which had been given to K. Ch. 2. when he took to Wife Catherine the Infanta of Portugal on the 17 of Octob. 1680 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried as I presume in the Abbey Ch. of Westminster Qu. 4 Charles Fitz-Roy Duke of Southampton begotten on the body of Barbara Wife of Roger Palmer Esq afterwards Earl of Castlemaine and Daughter of Will. Villiers Lord Grandison which Lord dying of his wounds received at Edghill Battle in 1642 was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon over whose grave a stately monument was erected some years after his Majesties restauration by his said Daughter Barbara This Charles Fitz-Roy who was born in Kingstreet in Westm and was for some time a Nobleman or Canon Commoner of Ch. Ch married the Daughter and Heir of Sir Henry Wood sometimes one of the Clerks of the Spicery in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. and afterwards one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth by his second Wife the Daughter of Sir Tho. Gardiner sometimes Recorder of London This Dutchess of Southampton died without Issue near Whitehall in Nov. or Dec. 1680 and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster 5 Henry Fitz-Roy Earl of Ewsion and Duke of Grafton begotten on the body of the said Barbara Wife of Rog. Palmer This Henry whom the K. for a considerable time would not own to be his Son and therefore the titles of Charles Fitz-Roy were in case he die without heirs male of his body to descend to George Fitz Roy whom I shall anon mention married Isabel the only Child of Henry Earl of Arlington He died at Cork in Ireland of a wound received while that place was besieged by the Forces of K. Will. 3 on the ninth of Octob. 1690 whereupon his body was conveyed into England and buried at Ewston in Suffolk near the body of the said Earl of Arlington 6 Geor. Fitz-Roy Earl of Northumberland begotten on the body of the said Barbara He was born in a Fellows Chamber in Merton Coll 28. Decemb. 1665 at which time the Queen and her Court lodged in that Coll as the King did at Ch. Ch to avoid the plague then raging in Lond. and Westm In the latter end of the year in Jan. or Feb. 1685 there was committed a clandestine marriage between him and a Woman of ordinary extract Widow of one Captain Lucy of Charlecot in Warwickshire a Captain in the Earl of Oxfords Regiment but were as it seems soon after parted 7 Charles begotten on the body of Eleanor Quinn or Gwinn a Comedian in the Kings Play-house c. was born in Lincolns-Inn-Fields about the 14 or 15 of May 1670 had the Sirname of Beauclere given to him 27. of Dec. 28 of K. Ch. 2 being then created Earl of Burford c. He is now Duke of S. Albans 8 Charles Lenos Duke of Richmond begotten on the body of Lovisa de Querovall a Lady of French extraction and an attendant on Henrietta Dutchess of Orleans when she came into England to give a visit to the K. her Brother an 1670. She was afterwards made Duchess of Portsmouth 9 Charlot a Daughter begotten on the body of Barbara before mention'd then Countess of Castlemaine afterwards Duchess of Cleveland The said Charlot was
He was of Trin. Coll. in that University was afterwards D. of D Chaplain to Dr. Pearson B. of Chester Archdeacon of Richmond in the place of Charles Bridgman mentioned under the year 1662 Minister of S. Brides Ch. in London and Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. Jam. 2. K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He hath published five or more Sermons May 6. Rich. Wroâ— M. A. of Camb. He was of Jesus Coll. in that University was afterwards Chaplain to the said Dr. Pearson B. of Chester Warden of the College at Manchester in the place of Dr. Nich. Stratford in the beginning of the year 1684 and Doct. of Div. He hath three or more Sermons extant May. 11. Joh. Beveridge M. A. of Cambr. He was of S. Johns Coll. in that University and I know not yet to the contrary but that the publick Registrary might mistake him for Wiâ—l Beveridge M. A. of the said Coll afterwards D. of D Archdeacon of Colchester Rector of S. Peters Cornhill in Lond. Canon of Canterbury and Chaplain to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary This Dr. W. Beveridge who denied the Bishoprick of B. and Wells in the beginning of the year 1691 of which Dr. Ken had then lately been deprived for not taking the Oathes to the said K. W. 3. and Queen Mary is a right learned man and hath published several books and sermons which shew him so to be June 15. Joh. North M. A. of Cambr. This Gentleman who was Fellow of Jesus Coll. in the said University but now of Trinity Coll. in this where he continued for some time was a younger Son of Dudley Lord North of Kirtlyng was afterwards Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge D. of D Clerk of the Closet and Preb. of Westminster He hath published one Sermon and made a strict review of Platoes select Dialogues De rebus divinis in Greek and Latin purged many superfluous and cabalistical things thence about the fourth part of them which being done he published them in 1673. He died at Cambridge in the month of April about the 12 day an 1683 being then esteemed a good Grecian July 8. Theoph. Howerth Doct. of Phys of Cambr. He was of Magd. Coll. in that University and of the Coll. of Phys at London This year Sheldons Theater being opened and dedicated for a learned use was a most splendid Act celebrated therein on the 12 of July and very many Cambridge men coming to the solemnity were 84 Masters of Arts of that Univ. incorporated in a Congregation held in the House of Convocation the next day The names of some of which follow Will. Saywell Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Peter Gunning B. of Chichester and afterwards of Ely was installed Chancellour of the Church of Chichester 5. Dec. 1672 became Master of Jesus Coll. in the said University D. of D and Archdeacon of Ely in the place of Barnab Oley deceased He hath written several things among which are Evangelical and Cath. unity maintained in the Church of England or an apology for her government liturgy subscriptions c. with answers to the objections of Mr. Baxter Dr. Owen and others against conformity Also the L. Bishop of Ely's Gunning Vindication shewing his way of true and christian concord And a Postscript in answer to Mr. Baxters late objections against my self concerning general Councils c. Lond. 1682. oct The book of Mr. Baxter which he answers is his Apology for the Non-conformist Ministry c. Lond. 1681. qu. and that or Dr. Owen is An enquiry into the Original of Evangelical Churches c. He hath also written The reformation of the Church of England justified according to the Canons of the Council of Nice c. being an answer to a paper reprinted at Oxford entit The Schism of the Church of England demonstrated c. Printed in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. c. Samuel Scattergood Fell. of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Blockley in Warwickshire an 1678 and is author of two or more Sermons Tho. Gale Fell. of the said Coll. of the holy Trinity In 1672 he became chief Master of S. Pauls School in London was afterwards D. of D Prebendary of Pauls Fellow of the Royal Society and much celebrated for his admirable knowledge in the Greek tongue for his great labour and industry in publishing Greek authors as well Mss as printed exemplars as also certain books of English antiquities He hath written Philosophia Generalis in duas partes disterminata c. Joh. Sharp of Christs Coll. He was made Archdeacon of Berks in the place of Dr. Peter Mews promoted to the See of B. and Wells an 1672 was afterwards Chaplain to Heneage Lord Finch Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Preb. of Norwich Rector of S. Giles in the Fields near London Dean of Norwich in which Dignity he was installed 8. June 1681 in the place of Herb. Astley deceased afterwards of Canterbury upon Dr. Jo. Tillotson's translation thence to that of S. Paul in London in Sept. 1689 and at length upon the death of Dr. Thom. Lamplugh Archbishop of York to which he was consecrated in the Church of S. Mary le Bow in London on Sunday the 5. of July 1691. He hath 10 Sermons or more extant Hen. Jenks Fellow of Gonvile and Caies Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of the Royal Society and author of The Christian Tutor or a free and rational discourse of the Sovereign good and happiness of man c. in a Letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies Lond. 1683. oct Rob. Wensley of Sydney Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Chesthunt in Hertfordshire Chaplain to James Earl of Salisbury and author of two or more Sermons and of The forme of sound words or the Catechisme of the Ch. of Engl. proved to be most Apostolical c. Lond. 1679. in tw Joh. Newton Fellow of Clare Hall He hath one or more Sermons extant See in Joh. Newton among the Writers in this Vol. p. 472. Jam. Lowde Fell. of Clare Hall He was afterwards Rector of Esington in Yorkshire Chaplain to John Earl of Bridgwater and author of one or more Sermons He hath also translated from French into English A discourse concerning divine dreams mention'd in Scripture together with the marks and characters by which they might be distinguished from vain elusions Lond. 1676. oct Written originally in a Letter by Moses Amyraldus to Monsieur Gaches Thom. Bambridge of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards a Doctor and author of An answer to a book entit Reason and authority or the motives of a late Protestants reconciliation to the Cath. Church With a brief account of Augustine the Monk and conversion of England Printed in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. Henry Anderson of Magd. Coll. He is the same I suppose who was afterwards Vicar of King sumburne in Hampshire and author of three or more Sermons All which Masters viz. Saywell Scattergood Gale Sharp Jenks
Wensley Newton Lâ—wde Bambridge and Anderson were incorporated on the 13 of July At the same time were five Bach. of Div. incorporated among whom were these Bryan Turner late Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. He was first Rector of S. Faiths Church under Pauls where he continued till the great fire in Lond. 1666 and in the year after he succeeded Mr. Will. Twyne deceased in the Rectory of Sculderne near Dedington in Oxfordshire He hath two Sermons extant and a small Tract entit De primi peccati introitu sive de lapsu Angelorum Hominum tentamen quo ratio reddatur amico postulanti Lond. 1691. qu. John Standish Fellow of Peter House He was afterwards Rector of Conington in Cambridgshire D. of D Master of Peter House Chaplain in ord to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and author of five or more Sermons which shew him to be no ordinary Calvinist He was second Son of David Standish one of the Vicars Choral of Peterborough and died in or near London about the last day of December an 1686 aged 51 years or thereabouts At the same time also July 13 were several Doctors of the same Univ. incorporated as Will. Fairbrether Doct. of the Laws of Qu. Coll. Joh. Browne Doct. of Phys of Jes Coll. Griffith Hatley Doct. of Phys of Pemb. Hall Clem. Townsend Doct. of Phys of Cath. Hall Joh. Mapletoft Dr. of Phys of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Professor of Phys in Gresham Coll. and Fellow of the Royal Society Henry Paman Doct. of Phys of S. Johns Coll. He was about this time Orator of Cambridge and Fellow of the Royal Society afterwards Honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and Professor of Phys in Gresham Coll. in London He hath written Epistola brevicula ad Tho. Sydenham M. D. See in Tho. Sydenh among the Writers under the year 1689. p. 639. Abrah Allen of Trin. Coll. D. D. Anth. Scattergood of Trin. Coll. D. D. Malach. Harrys of Eman. Coll. D. D. The said Doctor Scattergood who was Preb. of Linc. and Lichfield and Rector of Winwick and Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire and sometimes Chaplain to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York was eldest Son of Joh. Scattergood of Ellaston in Staffordshire was a learned man and hath extant several Sermons and other things He was living in 1681 aged 70 years or more All which Doctors from Will. Fairbrother to Mal. Harrys were incorporated on the 13. of July Dec. 1. Thom. Waterhouse Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was a Londoner born and had the degree of Dr. of the said fac confer'd on him at Leyd 1655. Dec. 17. Rob. Morison of Vniv Coll Dr. of Phys of Anger 's in France This eminent Botanist was born at and educated in Acad. learning in Aberdene in Scotland From which place he was forced to fly after the battle at Brigg of Dee near Aberdene wherein Middleton the General of the Covenantiers was conquerour Afterwards going to Paris he was employed in the education of a young Gent. called Monsieur Bizet the Son of a Counsellour and addicted his mind then to the study of Medicine for the obtaining of which faculty he began to learn the art of simpling or knowledge of plants and herbs under one Monsieur Roobin And in short time making a great progress therein to the wonder of all he was upon Roobins recommendations taken into the service of the D. of Orleans with whom he continued till that D. died and in the year 1648 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys at Anger 's At length upon the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 an 1660 he came with him into England was made his Botanick Professor and Overseer of all his Gardens and had a garden and a house allowed him and an ample Salary but enjoyed it with his appartment but for a short time While he was in that capacity he was chosen Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London and became highly valued and esteemed for his most admirable skill in Botany At length coming to the knowledge and acquaintance of Mr. Obad. Walker Sen. Fel. Master of Vniv Coll he recommended him to the Dean of Ch. Ch. and other leading men of the University to be chosen Botanick Professor Whereupon by the great testimonies and recommendations of his worth he was elected on the 16 of Dec. and incorporated Doctor on the day following an 1669 as I have before told you He made his first entrance on the Botanick lecture in the Medicine School on the 2. of Sept. 1670 and on the 5 of the same month he translated himself to the Physick Garden where he read in the middle of it with a table before him on herbs and plants thrice in a week for 5 weeks space not without a considerable auditory In the month of May 1673 he read again and so likewise in the Autumn following which course spring and fall he proposed always to follow but was diverted several years by prosecuting his large design of publishing the Universal knowledge of Simples He hath written 1 Praeludiorum Botanicorum pars prior seu Hortus Regius Blaesensis auctus c. Lond. 1669. oct 2 Praelud Botan pars secunda in qua Hallucinationes Casp Bauhini dialogus cum socio Regalis Societatiâ— Ibid. eod an 3 Plantarum umbelliferarum distributio nova per tabulas cognationis affinitatis ex libro naturae observata detecta Oxon. 1672 fol. A laudable account of this book is in the Philos Transact num 81. 4 Plantarum Historiae Vniversalis Oxoniensis pars secunda Seâ— Herbarum distributio nova per tabulas cognationis affinitâ—tis ex libro naturae observata detecta Oxon. 1681 fol adorned with many cuts The author designed to go forward with one or more volumes but being suddenly cut off the work ceased However there is now in the press at Oxford a Vol. in fol. in continuance or pursuit of the said last Vol. of Dr. Moryson written by Jacob Bobart keeper of the Phys Garden in Oxon with Annotations thereunto of the Eastern names by Dr. Tho. Hyde chief keeper of the Bodleian Library After which is done there will come out another Vol. of Trees by the same hand This Dr. Morison who was esteemed the best in the world for his profession taking a journey from Oxon to Lond. and Westm in order for the carrying on his great designs of publishing one or more Volumes of Plants did when in Westminster receive â— bruise on his breast by the pole of a Coach as he was crossing the street between the end of S. Martins-lane and Northumberland house near Charing cross on the ninth day of Novemb. 1683 whereupon being soon after carried to his house in Green-street in Leycester fields died the next day to the great reluctancy of all those that were lovers and admirers of his faculty Afterwards he was buried in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields within the liberty of Westminster Creations The Creations this year were in all
the Schoolmasters of the Charterhouse there and author of 1 A Serm. preached at Ch. Ch. Tabernacle on Sunday 9. Sept. 1683 being a day of Thanksgiving for the deliverance of his Maj. sacred Person and Government from the late fanatick conspiracy Lond. 1684. qu. 2 Josephs entertainment of his Brethren Sermon at the Herefordshire feast at S. Mary Le Bow 25 Jun. 1684. Lond. 1684. qu. Adm. 194. or thereabouts Bach. of Law June 8. Rob. Plot of Magd. Hall Besides him were 8 more admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 12. Sam. Bâ—nson of Ch. Ch. Apr. 12. Rich. Peers of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards Archdeacon of Hereford July 5. Henry Maurice of Jesus Coll. Nov. 28. Joh. Shirley of Trin. Coll. Jan. 18. Rich. Banke of Linc. Coll. He was the Son of a Father of both his names of Ilkley in Yorkshire and translated from French into English A discourse of Women shewing their imperfections alphabetically Lond. 1673. oct Mar. 21. Seth Ward of New Coll. This person who was Nephew to Seth Bishop of Salisbury became Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Henry Bankes deceased in Octob. 1672 and Archdeacon of Wilts in the room of Tho. Henchman deceased in the beginning of Feb. 1674 being about that time Prebendary of Winchester In the beginning of Nov. 1681 he was made Chanc. of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Rich. Drake and Can. resid thereof whereupon he resigned his Archdeaconry and was succeeded therein by Rob. Woodward Bach. of Law of New Coll. as also his Prebendship of Winton which was bestowed on Will. Harrison sometimes M. of A. of Wadh. Coll. and about that time Master of the Hospital of S. Cross In the latter end of 1686 he being then Rector of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks. as he had been some years before he was made Treasurer of the Chur. of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Tho. James deceased and dying in the month of May 1690 was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury near the body of his Uncle where there is a comly monument over their graves In his Treasurership succeeded a French man named Pet. Alex D. D. author of several English books pertaining to Divinity Adm. 102. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was adm this year Bach. of Div. Seven Bach. of Divinity were admitted but not one of them was a Writer or Bishop Doct. of Law June 8. Rob. Plot of Magd. Hall He accumulated July 4. John Harrison of New Coll. Bach of Phys July 1. Thom. Alvey of Mert. College He was afterwards Fellow of the College of Physitians at London and author of Dissertatiuncula Epistolaris unde pateat urinae materiam potiùs è sero sanguinis quà m è sero ad renes transmitti Lond. 1680 in two sheets and a half in qu. Doct. of Div. June 23. Narcissus Marsh of Exet. Coll. 28. Thom. Duncombe of Corp. Ch. Coll. The last of these two who went out Compounder was a Surrey man born and at this time Rector of Shere in that County He hath published The great efficacy and necessity of good example especially in the Clergy recommended in a Visitation Serm. at Guildford on 1. Tim. 4.12 Lond. 1671. qu. Nov. 28. Henry Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. Incorporations June 11. Henry James M. A. of Cambr. This person who was Fellow of Qu. Coll. in that University was about this time domestick Chapl. to Rob. Earl of Aylesbury afterwards Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Master of his College Vicechancellour of Cambridge 1684 c. He hath one or more Sermons extant After the conclusion of the Act were 20 Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated among which were these Jul. 11. Joh. Stripe of Cath. Hall This person who is a Londoner born of German Extraction was afterwards Vicar of Low-Leyton in Essex and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Hertford 8 Jul. 1689 on 1 of Sam. 12.7 Lond. 1689. qu. It must be now known that George Bright D. D. Rector of Loughborough in Leicestershire sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange and now Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Dr. N. Stratford promoted to the See of Chester did collect and publish the first vol. of Dr. Joh. Lightfoot's Works containing all those English Books which had been put out by the said Lightfoot in his life time Lond. 1684. fol. At the same time Mr. Stripe collected and published the second vol. of the said Works several of which having been written in Latin by the Author were translated into English by Stripe who also collected from Dr. Lightfoot's Papers several of his Sermons and made them fit for the Press which are the second part of the second vol Before which sec vol. is a Preface written by Mr. Stripe who also wrot the Appendix to the Life of Dr. Lightfoot written by Dr. Bright which Append. is larger than the Life it self Drue Cressener of Pembr Hall He was afterwards D. of D. and author of 1 The judgments of God upon the R. Cath. Ch. from its first rigid Laws for Vniversal Conformity to it unto its last end c. Lond. 1689. qu. 2 A demonstration of the first Principles of the Protestant applications of the Apocalypse together with the consent of the Ancients concerning the fourth beast in the seventh of Daniel and the beast in the Rev. Lond. 1690. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen Rich. Carr of Christs Coll. Besides the said Masters were also incorporated the same day July 11. two Bachelaurs of Div of whom Joh. Bradshaw of Eman. Coll. was one and as I conceive an Author See in the Bodleian Cat. Jul. 11. Mich. Geddes M A. of Edinburgh in Scotland Jul. 11. Will. Falconer M A. of Aberdene in Scotland Jul. 11. George Monypenny M A. of S. Andrew in Scotland Jul. 11. Stafford Wallys M A. of S. Andrew in Scotland These were the four first Scotchmen that did partake of the exhibition of Dr. Joh. Warner mention'd among the Writers in this Vol. p. 258. They lived first in Gloc. Hall and afterwards in Ball. Coll where their successors do yet remain Mr. Geddes was afterwards the only Writer of the said four persons and therefore he being now Chanc. of the Church of Salisbury ought to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Creations Jun. 7. Joh. Saumers of Pemb. Coll. was created D. of D. by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University which say that Mr. Joh. Saumers Dean of Guernsey is a person that hath done his Maj. and the Church very good and acceptable Service particularly in his prudent and successful endeavours in bringing the misled Subjects of that Island to be conformable to the Liturgy of the Church of Engl. during the space of 10 years c. On the 19 of Apr. going before he was installed Canon of Windsore in
of Magd. Hall The first of these two who was the celebrated Poet of his time I have mention'd among the Writers the other who was afterwards of All 's Coll. I shall mention among the Masters an 1677. 25. Joh. Kettlewell of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Linc. Coll. Nov. 3. Charles Allestree of Ch. Ch. Nov. 3. Joh. Caswell of Wadh. Coll. afterwards of Hart Hall Of these two you may see more among the Masters 1677. Jan. 19. Andr. Allam of S. Edm. Hall Feb. 6. George Tully of Qu. Coll. 13. Humph. Smith of Qu. Coll. Mar. 1. George Royse of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Oriel Coll. These three last Bachelaurs with J. Parkinson J. Kettlewell c. having since published several things ought therefore to be remembred at large hereafter Adm. 244. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Six were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 7. Charles Hickman of Ch. Ch. May 16. Joh. Barrow of S. Edm. Hall He was admitted Master two terms sooner than he ought to have been by vertue of the Chancellours Letters because he was to go Chaplain to Sir Will. Temple of Shene in Surrey Bt his Maj. Embassador to Holland After his return he became Lecturer of S. Mich. Cornhill in Lond. and Curat to Dr. George Hooper at Lambeth during the said Dottors attendance on Mary Princess of Orange in Holland Afterwards he became Vicar of New Windsore in Berks and on the 26. of Aug. 1682 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Butler deceased He hath published A Sermon preached at the triennial Visitation of Seth L. Bish of Sarum held at Reading 6. Sept. 1683 on Philip 1.15.16.17.18 Lond. 1683 qu. This person who was a Northamptonshire man born was esteemed while he continued in the University a man of polite parts a good Poet and Orator He died in 1684 or thereabouts June 26. Aaron Baker of Wadh. Coll. He was afterwards a Preacher at or near Putney in Surrey and at length beneficed in his own Country of Devonshire He hath published Achitophel befool'd Sermon preached 5. Nov. 1678 at S. Sepulchres in Lond. on 2. Sam. 15.31 Lond. 1678-79 qu. July 4. Francis Lloyd of Oriel Coll. 9. Matthew Morgan of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Archdeacon of Merioneth July 9. Jonath Blagrave of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Sub-Almoner to Qu. Mary Preb. of Worcester c. Oct. 24. Joh. Bennion of Hart lately of S. Edmunds Hall He was afterwards Vicar of Malmsbury in Wilts and author of Moses's charge to Israels Judges opened in an Assize Sermon at Salisbury 27. Feb. 1680 on Deut. 1.16 and part of the 17 vers Oxon. 1681. qu. Adm. 129. Bach. of Phys June 27. Joh. Floyer of Qu. Coll. Feb. 6. Joh. Locke of Ch. Ch. Adm. 5. Bach. of Div. July 9. Obad. Howe of Magd. Hall Oct. 13. Matthew Hole of Exet. Coll. This Divine who is now Vicar of Stogursey in Somersetshire hath two Sermons extant viz. 1 Our Saviours passion in a Serm. on Good Friday 1. Apr. 1670 in S. Peters Cath. Ch. Exon on Acts 2.23 Lond. 1670. qu. 2 Sermon preached at Taunton on the Feast of Epiphany before the Forces of the Militia of the County of Somerset met there for the preservation of the peace of the town on Luke 2.17 Lond. 1689. qu. Oct. 29. Thom. Smith of Magd. Coll. Nov. 3. Will. Moreton of Ch. Ch. 11 William Jane of Ch. Ch. 11 Joh. Morton of Linc. Coll. The last who was afterwards Preb. of Durham was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland on the death of Dr. William Turner sometimes of Trin. Coll on the 5 of Octob. 1685. The degree of Doct. of Div. was granted to him on the 6. of Apr. 1692. Mar. 24. Nathan Sterry of Mert. Coll. In the month of Sept. going before he was made Dean and Rector of Bocking in Essex Adm. 19. Doct. of Law May 30. Thom. Taylor of Magd. Hall Doct. of Phys June 25. Joh. Jacobeus a Dane Accumulators July 4. Franc. Eedes of Ch. Ch. Accumulators The first of these two had spent 14 years in study in several Universities and more than the last five in Oxon where he wholly addicted himself to the study of Physick He did not stand in the Act to compleat his degree neither was he licensed to practice his faculty tho sometimes he did it privately in these parts whereupon he returned to his Country of Denmark and practised there c. Doct. of Div. Apr. 6. Thomas Ryves of New Coll. June 4. Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. 17. Henry Smith of Ch. Ch. a Compounder In the month of Feb. 1675 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. upon the translation of Dr. Henry Compton from the See of Oxon to that of London who while he was B. of Oxon held his Canonry in Commendam with it 17. Timothy Halton of Queens Coll. a Comp. Archdeacon of Brecknock and Canon of S. David In 1675 he became Archdeacon of Oxford on the promotion of Dr. Thom. Barlow to the See of Linc and on the 7 of Apr. 1677 he was elected Provost of Queens Coll which place Dr. Barlow had kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick two years July 9. Obad. Howe of Magd. Hall He accumulated the degrees â—n Div. Incorporations From the 5. of May to the 14. of July were 12 Cambridge Masters of Arts incorporated whereof 9 of them were received into the bosom of this University on the said 14. of July being the next day after Act Munday but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop July 18. Michael Ward Doct. of Div. of Dublin and Cambridge was incorp in the said degree with liberty given him to suffragate in Congreg and Convoc He was afterwards Provost of Trinity Coll. near to and the Kings Professor of the Univ. of Dublin afterwards B. of Ossory and at length of London-Derry in which last he was succeeded by Ezek. Hopkins an 1681. CREATIONS In the month of June the Sweedish Embassador with other Forreigners accompanied by some English men coming to the University were Creations made in the two faculties of Arts and Civil Law Mast of Arts. June 27. David Macklier Captain of a prefectorian company belonging to the King of Sweedland Sam. Monsson Agriconius Secretary to the extraordinary Embassie from the K. of Sweedland was created the same day Christianus Fredericus Secretary to the Embassador or Envoy extraord from the Elector of Brandeburg was also created at the same time Doct. of Law June 27. The most illustrious and excellent Lord Peter Sparre free Baron in Croneberge Lord of Nynas Peuteberg and Tulgarne General of the Army of Foot belonging to the King of Sweedland Governour of Elfborglhen and Daal and extraordinary Embassador to the King of Gr. Britaine from the said King of Sweedland was with solemnity actually created Doct. of the Civil Law The illustrious Lord Otto free Baron of Schwerin Counsellour of the State of
which he delivered with much boldness gained him the esteem of his Auditors who for the most part charm'd with his eloquence and full of compassion for his misery soon cast about to put him into a condition of appearing in a decent habit and subsisting After this he was much favoured by some and as much hated by the Roman Catholicks particularly by St. Germaine a Jesuit in London who pretending to assassinate him as Luzancy gave out was a Proclamation issued forth for his protection and the taking of S. Germaine to bring him to condign punishment After this Luzancy's advancement being powerfully carried on the B. of London took care to have him ordained with a design of putting him in a condition of becoming one day a great Defender of the Church of England All which being done in a hurry 't was to little purpose for the Pastors and several Masters of Families of the Church at the Savoy to cry out against But while these things were in doing a Minister of the Church of England belonging to the French Church at the Savâ—y named Rich. du Marescq full of zeal to the truth printed a Sermon which he had preached during these bustles and in the preface to it doth give a true and just character of Luzancy not for his goodness but baseness lying dissimulation c. Which Serm. and Pref. as soon as they appeared in publick the B. of London caused all the copies to be seized and the author to be cited to the Bish Court interdicted the function of his charge because he refused to ask God forgiveness his neighbour the Church his Superior and to sign and seal a Declaration and at length openly suspended him for reasons reserved to the Bishop and his Officers After he had continued in that condition for some time he was at the intreaties of Dr. Jo. Durell and Monsieur Ruvigny who had a mind to oblige the Bishop restored to the exercise of his charge upon a bare acknowledgment that he was in the wrong to print his preface without license from his Superior or any else in authority c. After the following Christmas our author Luzancy went to Oxford where by vertue of several Letters of commendation he was received into Ch. Ch. by the Dean there had a Chamber allowed to him and such diet that belongs to Master-students at the charge I think of the Bishop of London On the 26 of Jan. following there was a Convocation of Doctors and Masters celebrated wherein the Letters of the Duke of Ormonde Chanc. of the University dat 2. Dec. were publickly read in his behalf which partly run thus This Gentleman Monsieur Luzancy was bred in the University of Paris in the Romish religion but having lately professed himself a member of the Church of England and given some testimonies of his adherence thereunto has made it his humble request for his encouragement to be recommended to the University for their favour in conferring upon him the degree of Master of Arts He has not his Testimonials from the University of Paris of the degree he took there but I doubt not when you shall discourse with him you 'll find him a person meriting that favour c. After the reading of that Letter Luzancy by the consent of the House was then actually created M. of A as I have before told you About the time of Easter in the beginning of Apr. 1676 was spread abroad by certain R. Catholicks a Pamphlet entit A Letter from a Gentleman at Lond. to his friend in the Country c. Printed at Lond in two sheets and an half in qu wherein are some of Luzancy's actions represented while he was in France but more while he was in England the Bishop of London and Dr. Franc. Durant de Brevall Preb. of Westm and Rochester sometimes a Capuchin Fryer reflected on severely and many things said which doth invalidate the K. Proclamation before mention'd At length some of the dispersers of that Pamph. it being discovered particularly Will. Rogers of Linc. Inn a zealous Proselyte for the R. Cath. cause he was seized on by a Messenger and brought before the Kings Council in Aug. following from whom receiving several checks and threatnings was at length released In the latter end of 1679 Luzancy left the University having before borrowed a considerable sum of money of one of the Chapl. of Ch. Ch. P. B. for whom he pretended kindness but he minding not the payment of he was sued for it by Law At the same time he became by the favour of the Bishop of London Vicar of Dover-Court in Essex to the Church of which place the Town of Harwich belongs so that he was Vicar of that also as well as of Dover-Court Soon after to prevent an unchast life he married a Gentlewoman in those parts where he was lately perhaps still living He hath written and pub 1 Serm. on the day of his abjuration at the Savoy 11. July 1675 on Joh. 8.32 Lond. 1675 qu. in French Translated into English Lond. 1676. qu. 2 Reflections on the Council of Trent Oxon. 1677. oct 3 Treatise against irreligion Lond. 1678. oct Justus Christop Schomerus and M. Meno Reich both of Lubeck in Saxony were Sojournours and Students this year in the University and afterwards learned men in their own Country The first who was Professor and Superintendent at Lubeck wrot one or more books against the Socinians and other things Besides them were also Sojournours Paul Bauldrey a Frenchman of note and Joh. Wandalinus of Copenhagen in Denmark both learned men the first of which hath written notes on Lanctantius de morte Persecutorum and the other who was afterwards Professor of Div. at Copenhagen De esu sanguinis c. An. Dom. 1676. An. 28. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Henry Clerk Doct. of Physick and Priest President of Magd. Coll. Oct. 9. Proct. Baptista Levinz of Magd. Coll. Apr. 5. Nathan Pelham of New Coll. Apr. 5. The Senior of these two Proctors was while Proctor elected and admitted moral Phil. Professor in the place of Mr. Abr. Campion 27. Mar. 1677 who enjoying it till the beginning of the year 1682 Will. Halton M. A. of Qu. Coll. was elected thereunto about the 7 of April the same year After his time was expir'd for he that is Professor enjoyeth the Lecture but for 5 years Joh. Barnard M.A. of Brasn Coll. was elected thereunto 28. Mar. 1687 by vertue of the Mandamus of K. Jam. 2 dated on the first of January going before After his removal thence for being a Papist tho since return'd to his former opinion which was after the said King left England Will. Christmas M. A. of New Coll. succeeded him in the latter end of Dec. 1688. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 6. Tho. Lyndesay of Wadh. Coll. See among the Masters in 1678. 29. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch. He hath published two or more books May 27. Nathaniel Williams of Jes Coll. He was
whether he was of this or of the University of Cambridge I cannot yet tell This year were 28 Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated after the Act on the 11 of July among whom were Thom. Lynford of Christs Coll. He had been lately the ingenious Prevaricator of Cambridge was afterwards Rector of S. Edm. Lumbardstreet in London D. of D Chapl. in ord to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary c. author of three or more Sermons and of four discourses against Popery in the time of K. Jam. 2. c. As for the rest that were then incorporated I cannot yet find one of them to be a Writer or Bishop Sim. Digby M. A. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin was incorporated the same day Jul. 11. He was son of Essex Digby Bish of Dromore See in the Creations under the year 1677. Besides these were two Bach. of Div. of Cambr. incorporated but neither of them was then or afterwards a Writer or afterwards a Bishop Creations Apr. 5. Steph. Le Moine one of the ordinary Preachers to the reformed Congregation of Roan in Normandy lately advanced by the Prince of Orange to the supreme Chair of the Theological Faculty in the Univ. of Leyden was declared in Convocation Doct. of Div by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the University and on the eleventh of the same month he was diplomated he being then in the University and well known to be one who had upon all occasions testified his great affections and zeal for the Ch. of England He hath written some things which I have not yet seen Jun. 22. Andrew Sall lately a Jesuit was actually created Doct. of Div. He was born in the County of Tipperary in Ireland educated from his Childhood in the Roman Faith and when he was in his riper years he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he became Professor of Divinity in the Colleges of Pamplona Polencia and Tudela in Spain Rector and Professor of Controversies in the Irish Coll. of the University of Salamanca Professor of Moral Theology in the Coll. of the Soc. of Jesus in the same University At length he being sent on the Mission into Ireland he was in his elder years by the unspeakable Constancy and indefatigable Charity as also solid Doctrine and Example of the pious and upright Life of Dr. Tho. Price Archb. of Cashells or Cashiels gained to the Church of England In testimony of which he made a public declaration on the 17 of May 1674 before the said Archbishop Hugh Bishop of Waterford and others in the Church of S. John in the City of Cashel On the 5 of Jul. following he preach'd a Sermon in Ch. Ch. in Dublin before Arthur Earl of Essex L. Lieutenant of Ireland and the Council there in detestation of the Church of Rome and its Doctrine and about the same time he became Chaplain to the said L. Lieut and had preferment there bestowed on him In the latter end of July or thereabouts an 1675 he came to Oxon and by Letters of Commendation was not only received into Wadh. Coll where he continued for some months but afterwards actually created not incorporated D. of D. as before I have told you and in the Act following as in that in 1677 he shew'd himself a smart Disputant in the Theological Vespers being then domestick Chaplain to his Majesty and dignified in Wales After he had remained in the said Coll. and in an House in Halywell adjoyning for some time in a weak and sickly condition he by the favour of Dr. Fell removed to convenient Lodgings in the Cloyster at Ch. Ch. near the Chaplains Quadrangle where he remained about two years In 1680 he went into Ireland to live upon his Preferments there which were a Prebendary of Swords the Rectory of Ard-Mulchan and the Chantorship of Cashels where he continued in a weak condition till the time of his death He hath writen and published 1 Declaration for the Church of England 2 Sermon preached at Ch. Ch. in Dubl before the L. Lieu and Council 5 Jul. 1674 on Matth. 24.15.16.17.18 Dubl 1674 oct After these two things were published came out The doleful fall of Andr. Sall a Jesuit of the fourth vow print in oct 1674 and The un-erring and un-errable Church in answer to the said Sermon Pr. 1675. oct c. 3 The Catholic and Apostolic Faith maintained in the Church of England being a Reply to several books published under the names of J. E. N. N. and J. S. against his Declaration for the Church of England and against the Motives for the Separation from the Rom. Church declared in a printed Sermon which he preached in Dublin Oxon. 1676. oct c. 4 Votum pro pace Christianâ quâ exponuntur amoventur praecipua obstacula pacis per Romanae Ecclesiae Ministros objecta ostenditur quam immerito pacem respiciant cum reliquis Christianis Ecclesiis praecipue vero cum Anglicanâ Oxon 1678. qu. 5 Ethica sive moralis Philosophia ex veterum recentiorum sententiis ad disputationem juxta ac concionem totiusque vitae humanae usum congruo ordine rerum apparatu concinnata Oxon. 1680. oct He paid his last debt to nature on the sixth day of Apr. an 1682 aged 70 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Patrick near Dublin leaving then behind him A body of Philosophy which he designed if he had lived to publish July 11. Rob. Digby Baron of Geashill in Ireland lately of Magd. Coll now of Coleshull in Warwicksh was actually created M. of A. The Reader may be pleased now to know that whereas Francis Junius had spent much time in Oxon in his younger years for the sake of study Libraries and Conversation of learned men as also in his elderly years in 1658 and 59 he did retire to Oxon in the month of Octob. this year purposely to dye there give his MSS. and Collections to the publ Libr. where he had spent much time and to have his bones laid in some Church or Chappel in Oxon. He came for the sake of Dr. Thom. Marshall Rector of Linc. Coll. a great Critick in the Gothick and Saxon Languages as Junius was from whom Marshall had formerly received instruction as to those studies and taking up his Lodging against the said Coll. he began to put his Collections in order but being troubled by often Visits he removed his Quarters to an obscure house in Beefhall lane in S. Ebbes Parish where he digested some notes for the Press and made a deed of gift of his MSS. and Collections to the publ Libr. He continued there till Aug. 1677 at which time he went upon the earnest invitation of his Nephew Dr. Is Vossius to Windsore and continued for a time in good health and cheerfulness there and near it At length being overtaken with a Fever died of it in his said Nephews house near Windsore on Munday the 19 of Novemb. 1677 whereupon
and the Epilogue by John late Earl of Rochester The Songs in this Trag. were printed by themselves in two sh in qu. In 1685 he was elected Burgess for S. Ives in Cornwall to sit in that Parl. that met at Westm 19. May the same year being the first of K. Jam. 2. c. July 5. Thom. Williams of Jes Coll. July 5. Thom. Walter of Jes Coll. The former of these two who is Son of Will. Williams who was adm M. of A. 1676 hath translated into the Welsh tongue Dr. W. Sherlocks book entit A practical discourse of death Oxon. 1691. oct The other who was Son of Joh. Walter of Percefield in Monmouthshire wrot The excommunicated Prince or the false Relique a Tragedy c. Lond. 1679 in a thin fol. To which Trag. tho the name of Capt. Will. Bedloe is put as author yet this Mr. Walter wrot all or the most part of it See more in a book entit An Account of the English Dramatick Poets c. Oxon. 1691. oct Written by Gerard Langbaine Son of the learned Dr. Ger. Langbaine sometimes Provost of Qu. Coll. lately a Com. of Vniv Coll. now superior Beadle of Law in the Univ. of Oxon wherein p. 15. he ascribes it to the said Captain without any notice at all of Tho. Walter Oct. 27. Joh Howell of Trin. Coll. He hath written and published A discourse of persecution or suffering for Christs sake c. Lond. 1685. qu. and may other things hereafter Mar. 11. Thom. Sawyer of Magd. Coll. This person who was Nephew to Sir Rob. Sawyer Attorney General was Musick Reader in the Act 1681 and author of a Poem called Antigamus Or a Satyr against Marriage Oxon. 1681. in one sh in qu. Written upon the denial of a certain Gentlewoman to whom he was a suiter for Marriage c. Adm. 127. Bach of Phys Three were admitted of whom Francis Smith M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. was one I set him down here not that he was a Writer but upon this account following viz. that after the death of Dr. James Hyde Principal of Magd. Hall which hapned on the 7 of May 1681 the Fellows of Magd. Coll. calling into question the power of the Chanc. of the University of putting in a Principal of the said Hall did thereupon the President being then absent elect to be principal the said Francis Smith 21 May 1681 and did intend to seal up the Hall gates against the Vicechancellour in case he should come to admit a Principal of the Chancellours nomination But the President in the mean time returning and the Fellows desir'd by the B. of Winchester to desist from these their proceedings the matter came to nothing So that the Vicechancellour finding no opposition he did forthwith admit Dr. Will. Levet of the Chancellours nomination as I shall tell you among the D. of D. following This Mr. Smith was afterwards Dr. of his faculty and Physitian in the Army of K. Will. 3. in Ireland where he died about the beginning of June 1691. Bach. of Div. May 8. Sam. Master of Exeter Coll. July 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. Feb. 1. Joh. Willes of Trin. Coll. Adm. 12. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 8. Joh. Floyer of Queens Coll. a Compounder He was afterwards a Knight and a publisher of certain matters in fol. and other vol. of his faculty and therefore he is to be hereafter numbred among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. May 8. Joh. Hammond of Ch. Ch. a Compounder On the 2 of May 1673 he was installed Preb. of Brampton in the Ch. of Lincolne and on the 23 of Sept. the same year Archdeacon of Huntingdon on the death of Dr. Rich. Perincheif both which he obtained by the favour of Dr. Will. Fuller Bish of Linc. to whom he was Chaplain and on the 8. July 1679 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon on the death of Dr. Thom. Lockey The said Dr. Perincheif who had been Minister of S. Mary Colechurch in London Preb. of Westminster and Subalmoner to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. was installed in the said Archdeaconry of Huntingdon on the death of Dr. Henry Downhall 2 Apr. 1670. and died at Westminster on the 3. of Sept. 1673. See more of him in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 2. p. 243. b and in Will. Fulman among the Writers in this vol. June 25. Will. Levett of Ch. Ch. a Comp. On the first of June 1681 he was admitted Principal of Magd. Hall after the death of Dr. James Hyde and on the 10 of January 1685 he was installed Dean of Bristow upon the death of Dr. Rich. Thompson Mar. 10. Alex. Pudsey a Comp. of Magd. Coll. Mar. 10. Hen. Fairfax of Magd. Coll. Mar. 10. Joh. Younger of Magd. Coll. Mar. 10. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. In the middle of Sept. 1689 Dr. Fairfax had the Deanery of Norwich confer'd on him by the promotion of Dr. Joh. Sharp to the Deanery of Canterb. upon the account of his sufferings in the raign of K. Jam. 2 whereupon he was installed in that Dignity on S. Andrews day 30. of Nov. following As for Dr. Younger he was afterwards Preb. of Canterbury as I have told you in Sam. Parker among the Writers p. 617. March 10. George Reynell of C. C. Coll. Incorporations On the 13 of July being the next day after the solemnity of the Act were 23. Masters one Bach. of Div. one Doct. of Law and one Doct. of Physick of the University of Cambridge incorporated Among the Masters I find only one as yet a Writer viz. Steph. Kay of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of Manton in Lincolnsh and author of A discourse teaching the excellency and usefulness of Christian Religion both in principles and practices chiefly designed by the author for the benefit of his Parishioners Printed at York 1686. qu. It is dedicated to Sir Joh. Kay of Woodsome Bt one of the Dep. Lieutenants of the West-Riding in Yorkshire who as it seems was a favourer of his studies The Bach. of Div. and Doctors were these following Nathan Shute Bach. of Div. of Kings Coll. He hath one or more Serm. extant Henry Hitch Doct. of Law of Jes Coll. Rob. Wittie Doct. of Phys of Kings Coll. This learned person hath written 1 Scarborough Spaw or a description of the nature and vertue of the Spaw at Scarborough in Yorkshire 2 Treatise of the nature and use of Water in general and the several sorts thereof as sea rain snow pond c. with their original causes and qualities c. 3 A short discourse concerning mineral waters especially that of the Spaw These three which go and are bound together were several times printed in oct and all or most of them which go under the general name of Scarborough Spaw were put into latine by the author with this tit Fons Scarburgensis sive tractatus de omnis aquarum generis origine usu c. Lond. 1678
resignation of Mr. Steph. Penton 15 Mar. 1683 and admitted thereunto on the 4 of Apr. following but he being outed thence for several reasons notwithstanding he had been re-elected by the majority of the Fellows of his Coll Dr. John Mill of the said Coll. was elected and adm in his place 5 May 1685. These things I set down purposely to carry on the succession of the Principals of S. Edm. Hall a printed Cat. of which to Dr. Thom. Tully you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. Feb. 6. Rob. Harsnett of Ch. Ch. Feb. 6. Charl. Hickman of Ch. Ch. 23. John Willes of Trin. Coll. Incorporations Thirteen Masters of the University of Cambridge were incorporated after the Act time but not one of them is a Writer as I can yet find Jun. 9. Joh. Chrysostom du Charoll M. A. of Avignion who had taken that degree there in 1669 was incorporated by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he had served in his Maj. Chap. royal as one of the daily Chaplains for 7 or eight years past c. Jul. 9. Bartholdus Holtzfus a Native of Pomerania and a Master of Arts of Frankfurt upon the Order in the Marquisate of Brandeburg was incorporated also by vertue of the said Letters which tell us that he was sent to the Vniversity of Oxon to study by his Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandeburg c. 14. Thom. Fryer Doct. of Phys of Pemb. Hall in Cambr. was incorporated as he had stood there after the Act time He was as it seems honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Creations Sept. 1. Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of Engl. c. was with solemnity created Doctor of the Civil Law after he had been presented with an encomiastical Speech by Dr. Rob. Plot Professor of Nat. History and Chymistry This person who was afterwards Knight of the most honorable Order of the Garter and L. Lieutenant of Berks Norfolk Surrey and the City of Norwich I have mentioned among the Creations under the year 1668. An. Dom. 1685. An. 1 Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Timothy Halton Provost of Queens Coll. Oct. 6. Proct. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Tho. Smith of Brasn Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 17. Francis Willis of New Coll. Jul. 9. Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. a Compounder Oct. 27. Philip Bertie of Trin. Coll. Oct. 27. Dav. Jones of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last is a younger son to Robert E. of Lindsey L. High Chamberlaine of England c. The other is a frequent Preacher in London and a Publisher of several Sermons Dec. 8. Will. King of Ch. Ch. a Comp. Adm. 167. Bach. of Law Five were admitted of whom Matthew Bryan of Magd. Hall was one Jul. 10. See among the Doctors of Law following Mast of Arts. Novemb. 24. John Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 17. Leop. William Finch of All 's Coll. The last of these two was elected Warden of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Tho. James deceased by vertue of a Mandamus from King Jam. 2 on the 21 of January 1686. Adm. 90. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted of whom Wilhelm Musgrave of New Coll. was one Dec. 8. lately admitted Bach. of the Civil Law Bach. of Div. July 7. Luke Beaulieu of Ch. Ch. This Divine was born in France educated for a time in the Univ. of Samur there came into England upon account of Religion 18 years or more before this time exercised his ministerial function was naturaliz'd made Divinity Reader in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore was a Student in this University for the sake of the public Library 1680 and after became Chaplain to Sir George Jeffreys L. Ch. Justice of England Rector of Whitchurch in the dioc of Oxon an 1685 and by his published Writings did usefully assert the Rights of his Majesty and Church of England This person who is called by some Dean Beaulieu who hath written several things in French and English chiefly against Popery is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers July 9. John Scot of New Inn. This learned Divine who is not yet mentioned in these Fasti because he took no degree in Arts or in any other faculty hath published divers books of Divinity some of which were against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. and therefore he is hereafter to crave a place among the Oxford Writers 11. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. a Comp. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law May 5. John Rudston of S. Joh. Coll. a Comp. Jul. 7. Rob. Woodward of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rich. Traffles of New Coll. The first of these two who was a Compounder became Archdeacon of Wilts upon the resignation of Mr. Seth Ward in Nov. 1681 Chanc. of the Dioc. of Salisbury upon the death of Sir Edw. Low in June 1684 Rector of Pewsie in Wilts on the death of Dr. Rich. Watson in Jan. the same year Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of the said Mr. S. Ward in Jan. 1686 Dean of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Pierce in Apr. 1691. c. July 7. Joh. Gibbs of All 's Coll. July 7. Steph. Waller of New Coll. July 7. Matth. Tindall of All 's Coll. July 7. Matth. Morgan of S. Joh. Coll. 10 Edm. Evans of Jes Coll. 10 Matth. Bryan of Magd. Hall The last of these two is a Divine and Non-Juror hath one or more Sermons and A perswasive to the stricter observance of the Lords day c. extant See in the first vol. of Athenae Oxon. p. 513. July 11. Ralph Bohun of New Coll. He hath written A discourse concerning the origine and properties of wind c. and may hereafter publish other books Doct. of Phys July 7. Steph. Fry of Trin. Coll. 9. Robert Conny of Magd. Coll. 10. Sam. Kimberley of Pemb. Coll. The last accumulated the degrees in Phys Doct. of Div. Jun. 26. Joh. Venn of Ball. Coll. Jun. 26. Thom. Dixon of Qu. Coll. The first of these two had been elected Master of his Coll on the death of Dr. Tho. Good 24 Apr. 1678. July 3. Fitzherbert Adams of Linc. Coll. July 3. Will. Johnson of Queens Coll. The first of these two was elected Rector of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Thom. Marshall deceased May 2. this year and was afterwards Prebendary of Durham July 4. Constant Jessop of Magd. Coll. a Comp. 9. Joh. Scott of New Inn He accumulated the degrees in Div. 11 Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. Comp. 11 Henry Godolphin of All 's Coll. Comp. The first of these two who hath published one or more books is now a Non-Juror The other Fell. of Eaton and can resid of S. Pauls c. Nov. 3. Will. Bernard of Merton Coll. Incorporations The Act being put off this year no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only one in the degree of Master July 9. Creations Apr. 29. Michael Morstin a Polonian Son of John Andr. Morstin
Translation of Dr. Is Barrow to the See of S. Asaph being nominated Bishop of the Isle of Man by the Earl of Derby he was consecrated thereunto at Chester on Sunday the second of Octob. 1671 having had liberty before granted to him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it What the merits of this person were except his Loyalty and his benefaction to the Deans house at Chester let others speak while I tell you that he giving way to fate on the 15 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and two after he had had two Wives was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. at Chester Qu. In his Deanery succeeded James Arderne or Arden D. D whom I shall mention in the Fasti an 1673 and in the See of Man succeeded Dr. John Lake who after nomination thereunto by William Earl of Derby and the issuing out of a Commission for his consecration in the beginning of Decemb. 1682 was accordingly soon after consecrated This person who was born in Yorkshire was educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge was afterwards Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Bishopsgate in London instituted Rector of Prestwych in Cheshire 17 Octob. 1668 collated to the Prebendship of Friday Thorp in the Church of York upon the resignation of Hen. Bagshaw Bach. of Div in Apr. 1670 was afterwards a Preacher in that City and on the death of Dr. Rob. Feild he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland 13. Oct. 1680. Before he had continued two years in the See of Man he was upon the death of Dr. Will. Goulson elected Bishop of Bristow to which he was translated in the Ch. of S. Mary le Bow in London on the 12 of Aug and on the first of Sept. following an 1684 he was installed by proxy with leave then allow'd him to keep his Prebendary c. in commendam with it See more of him in Guy Carleton an 1685. EDWARD RAINBOW son of Tho. Rainbow A Minister by Rebecca his wife dau of Dav. Allen Rector of Ludbrough in Lincolnshire was born at Bliton near Gainsborough in the said County 20. Apr. 1608 educated in Grammar learning successively at Gainsborough Peterborough and at Westminster entred a student in Corp. Christi Coll in Oxon in Jul. 1623 his elder brother John being about that time Fellow of the said House but before he had quite spent two years there he was translated to Madg. Coll. in Cambridge where he was adm one of the Scholars of Frances Countess Dowager of Warwick daugh of Sir Christop Wray L. Ch. Justice of England Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Fellow a noted Tutor in that House Master thereof in Oct. 1642 in the place of Dr. Hen. Smith deceased continued therein in the time of Rebellion without being ejected with others that denied the Covenant commenc'd Doctor of Div. in 1646 and in 1650 lost his Mastership for refusing a Protestation against the King that is the Oath called the Engagement Afterwards he became Minister of Chesterford near Audley inn in Essex married Elizabeth dau of his predicessor Dr. Hen. Smith and in the beginning of the year 1659 became Rector of Benefield in Northamptonshire which tho of considerable value yet by the favour of friends he did not undergo the examination of the Tryers of that time as he had not done for Chesterford Upon his Majesties return in 1660 he was restored to his Mastership was made Chaplain to his Majesty Dean of Peterborough the same year and in 1662 Vicech of Cambridge In 1664 he became Bishop of Carlile upon the Translation thence of Dr. Rich. Sterne to the See of York where sitting till the time of his death was then succeeded by Dr. Tho. Smith somtimes Fellow of Qu. Coll. in this University See in the Fasti in the first Vol. p. 861. but more in a book entit The life of the right rev fath in God Edw. Rainbow D. D. late L. Bishop of Carlile Lond. 1688. oct written by one Jonathan Banks Bach. of Arts of Cambridge and School-Master of Applebey in Westmorland who composed it by the help of some papers and a diary of the Bishop which the widow of the said Bishop furnished him with He the said Dr. Rainbow published Labour forbidden and commanded two Sermons at S. Paules Cross on Joh. 6.27 Lond. 1635 and another at the Funeral of Susanna Countess of Suffolk 13. May 1649 on Ecclesiastes 7.1 c. PETER GUNNING somtimes Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambridge afterwards one of the Chaplaines of New Coll. in Oxon c. became first Bishop of Chichester afterwards of Ely and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 577. he was succeeded in Ely by Dr. Franc. Turner B. of Rochester sometimes Fellow of New Coll who for refusing the Oath of Alleg. and Supremacy to K Will. 3. was deprived of it GEORGE MORLEY somtimes Dean of Ch. Church was first Bishop of Worcester where he was received and inthronized with very great solemnity on the 12. of Sept. 1661 and afterwards of Winchester on the death of Dr. Duppa who dying in the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 581. was succeeded in Winchester by Dr. Pet. Mews B. of Bathe and Wells GUY CARLETON was born of an antient and gentile family at Brampton Foot in Gilsland within the County of Cumberland educated in the Free-School at Carlile under Mr. Tho. Robson and admitted a poor serving child of Queens Coll under the tuition of Charles son of the said Tho. Robson an 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Tabarder Fellow and in 1635 one of the Proctors of the University Vicar of Bucklesbury near to Newbury in Berks c. At length upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he took part with his Majesty and did him good service being then accounted an excellent Horsman in a double sense for which he had his share in sufferings as other Loyallists had After the Kings Restauration he was made one of his Chaplaines was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of Aug. 1660 made Dean of Carlile in the place of Dr. Tho. Comber somtimes Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge some years before dead and on the 2. of Nov. the same year was installed Prebendary of Durham In 1671 he was nominated Bishop of Bristow on the death of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to which See being consecrated in S. Peters Church at Westm on the eleventh day of Febr. in the same year had much about that time liberty allowed him to keep his Prebendship in Commendam In 1678 he was translated to Chichester on the death of Dr. Brideloake and was confirmed therein on the eighth day of January the same year but had not the name there for a Scholar or liberal Benefactor as his predicessor and kinsman had