Parliament to the H. of Commons c. on Jerem. 8.11 Lond. 1660. qu. Therein is somewhat added above what was preached 6 God's great demonstration and demands of justice mercy c. Serm. on Micah 6.8 before the H. of Com. at their solemn Fast before their first sitting 30 Apr. 1660. Lond. 1660. qu. And other Sermons which I have not yet seen Certain scruples and doubts of conscience about taking the solemn League and Covenant tendered to the consideration of Sir Laur. Bromfield and Zach. Crofton Lond. 1643 and 1660. qu. Hierapistes or a defence by way of Apology of the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England Lond. 1653. qu. Christ at the Wedding or the pristine sanctity and solemnity of Christian Marriages Lond. 1654. qu. The case of the Ministers maintenance by tithes plainly discussed in conscience and prudence c. Lond. 1653. qu. It must be now known that Oliver Cromwell by his Declaration did require all persons not to entertain in any capacity whatsoever any person engaged in the late Wars for the King or who were any way assistant to his cause prohibiting then also all such persons the exercise of any part of their Ministry Whereupon this severity moved our Author to write this Pamphlet A petitionary remonstrance presented to Oliver Protector 4 Feb. 1655 in behalf of his distressed brethren of the Church of England deprived of all publick Employment by his Declaration 1 Jan. 1655. Lond. 1659. qu. At the same time Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland went from Riegate to Whitehall on purpose to the said Protector to interceed for his indulgence towards them He took also the safest opportunities for mediating for them for the space of more than a month but was forced at last to retreat to his Country retirement and so to his grave with little success and less hope to his great grief and sorrow using this expression to our Author Dr. Gauden that he saw some men had only guts and no bowells c. But if another Author may be believed his intercessions did take effect Ecclesiae Anglicanae suspiria setting forth her former Constitution compared with her present condition in 4 books Lond. 1659. fol. Antisacrilegus or a Defensative against the plausibleness or guilded poyson of that nameless Paper supposed to be the plot of Dr. Cornelius Burges and his Partners which attempts the Kings Maj. by the offer of five hundred thousand pounds to make good by an Act of Parliament to the Purchasers of Bishops c. Lands their illegal bargain for 99 years Lond. 1660. in 2 sh and an half in qu. Account of the life and death of Dr. Ralph Brownrig lately B. of Exeter This is at the end of his funeral Sermon before mention'd The loosing of S. Peters bonds setting forth the true sense and solution of the Covenant in point of conscience Lond. 1660. qu. Answer'd by one Joh. Rowlands in a pamphlet printed in qu. the same year Analysis of the Covenant Lond. 1660. qu. Soon after came out two answers The first of which was intit after this rude manner An anatomy or confutation of that idolized piece of nonsense and blasphemy of Dr. Gauden c. No name is set to it The second was St. Peters bonds abide by Zach. Crofton Both which were printed at Lond. 1660. qu. These two were soon after replyed upon by John Russell of Chinkford in Essex in a little piece in qu. intit The solemn League and Covenant discharged or S. Peters bonds not only loosed but annihilated c. attested by our Author Gauden Lond. 1660. in 3 sh and half in qu. Whether the said Joh. Russell be the same with him who became Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. 1630 in which year Will. and Franc. Russell before mentioned were entred Students of the same house I cannot yet tell About the same time came out another book intit An Anonymus Questionist in defence of Dr. Gauden c. And soon after this Analepsis Analeptica The fastning of S. Peters bonds in seaven links or proportions or the efficacy and extent of the solemn league and covenant asserted and vindicated against the doubts and scruples of Dr. Joh. Gaudens Anonym Questionist Mr. Joh. Russells St. Peters bonds not only loosed c. Dr. Featley his League illegal falsly fathered on him and The University of Oxon their reasons for not taking the Covenant c. Written by Zach. Crofton Minister of S. Botolphs Aldgate in London After this our Author Gauden came out with Anti Baal-Berith or the binding of the Covenant and all Covenantiers to their good behaviour By a just vindication of Dr. Gaudens Analysis that is his resolving the Covenant to law and justice to duty and conscience to reason and religion or to his dissolving it against the cacotomy of a nameless and shameless Libeller the worthy Hyperaspites of Dr. Burges Also against the pitiful cavils and objections of Mr. Zach. Crofton a rigid Presbyter with an answer to that monstrous paradox of No sacriledge no sin to alienate Church lands without and against all laws of God and man c. Lond. 1661. qu. The said Crofton came out soon after with a reply intit Anti-Bereth-Baal c. Lond. 1661. qu. Considerations touching the Liturgy of the Church of England in reference to his Maj. late Declaration c. Lond. 1661. qu. Answer'd by a vain and idle book intit Rhetorick restrained or Dr. Joh. Gauden Lord B. elect of Exeter his considerations of the liturgy of the Church of England considered and clouded Published under the name of Tho. Bold of Exon attested by Zach. Crofton and printed at London the same year Counsell delivered to 44 Presbyters and Deacons after they had been ordained by him in the Cath. Ch. of Exeter c. 13 Jan. 1660. Lond. 1661. in Lat. and Engl. in 2 or 3 sh in fol. printed also at Lond. in Lat. by it self Life of Mr. Richard Hooker This is written in a large Preface before Mr. Hooker's works which Dr. Gauden pablished at Lond. 1661. fol. In the said life and preface he doth with great confidence use divers Arguments to satisfie the world that the three books joyned to the five genuine books of the said Mr. Hooker are genuine and pen'd by him notwithstanding those poysonous assertions against the regal power which are to be found therein He hath also committed many errors as to several matters relating to his life and actions which being made evident elsewhere I shall now pass them by and proceed A pillar of gratitude humbly dedicated to the glory of God the honour of his Majesty c. for restoring of Episcopacy Lond. 1661 2 in a thin fol. On which book hangs an old story written by a Presbyterian but whether all true I must leave it to the judgment of the Reader He tells us that About the month of January 1661 a reverend gaudy Prelate did put forth A pillar of gratitude c. wherein having
Jo. Stow's Survey of London and his continuators Discourse of the Empire and of the election of the King of the Romans c. Lond. 1658. oct Lexicon tetraglotton An English-French-Italian-Spanish-Dictionary Lond. 1659. 60. fol. A particular vocabulary or nomenclature in English Italian French and Spanish of the proper terms belonging to several Arts and Sciences to common professions and callings both liberal and mechanick c. in 52 Sections Lond. 1659. Printed with the former book Proverbs or old sayed sawes and adages in English or the Saxon tongue Italian French and Spanish Whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added This is also printed with Lex tetragl A cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Answer'd as soon as it peep'd abroad by Rog. L'estrange in a book entit A caveat for the Cavaliers which having given offence to divers Persons he published a second edition of it with his name and a preface to it Soon after our author Howell set forth a vindication of his Cordial under this title Some sober inspections made into those ingredients that went to the composition of a late Cordial for the Cavaliers Lond. 1661. Upon which L'estrange briefly reflects in the close of a piece of his intit A modest plea both for the Caveat and Author of it A French Grammar and a dialogue consisting of all Gallicismes with additions of the most useful and significant proverbs c. Printed at London twice the last time was in 1673 fol. He also added to A French and English Dictionary composed by Randle Cotgrave Sundry animadversions with supplements of many hundreds of words never before printed with accurate castigations throughout the whole work The parley of Beasts or Morphandra Qu. of the enchanted Island c. Tom. 1. Lond. 1660 fol. The second part of casual discourses and interlocutions between Patritius and Peregrin c. Lond. 1661. oct Printed in a book intit Divers historical discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britaine and Ireland Apology for Fables mythologiz'd Printed in the said book also Twelve treatises of the late revolutions Lond. 1661. octav New English Grammar for Forreigners to learn English with a Grammar for the Spanish or Castilian tongue with special remarques on the Portugues dialect for the service of her Majesty Lond. 1662. oct Discourse concerning the precedency of Kings Lond. 1663. fol. Translated into Latine by B. Harris L. P. Lond. 1664. oct Poems on several choice and various subjects occasionally composed Lond. 1663. oct Collected and published by one who calls himself Serjeant Major Payne Fisher somtimes Poet laureat to Oliver Treatise concerning Embassadors Translated into Lat. by John Harmer of Magd. Coll. Lond. 1664. oct Concerning the surrender of Dunkirk that it was done upon good grounds Lond. 1664. oct He also translated from Italian into English 1 S. Pauls late progress upon earth about a divorce 'twixt Christ and the Church of Rome by reason of her dissoluteness and excesses c. Lond. 1644. oct The Author of it whose name I cannot yet learn made it publick about the year 1642 and being forced to fly from Rome for so doing in the company and under the conduct of one that pretended friendship to him was betrayed at Avignion and there first hanged and then burned 2 A Venetian looking-glass or a letter written very lately from Lond. to Card. Barbarini at Rome by a Venetian Clarissimo touching the present distempers in England Printed 1648. in 3 sh in qu. 3 An exact history of the late Revolutions in Naples and of their monstrous successes not to be parallel'd by any antient or modern History Lond. 1650. oct Published in Ital. by Lord Alex. Giraffi The second part of this History came out soon after by the same hand who also translated it from Ital. In both which it appears that the said Revolutions were occasion'd by the excessive Gabells laid upon common Vendibles which exciting the Mobile headed by Tomaso Anello commonly called Masaniello a Fisherman all things in Naples were for some time turn'd topsie turvy 4 A letter of Advice sent from the prime Statesmen of Florence how England may come to her self again Dated at Flor. 12. Mar. 1659 Printed at the end of The second part of casual discourses c. before mention'd He also Ja. Howell translated from French into English The nuptials of Peleus and Thetis consisting of a Mask and Comedy or the great royal Ball acted lately in Paris six times c. Lond. 1654. qu. and from Spanish into Engglish The process and pleadings in the Court of Spain upon the death of Anthony Ascham Resident for the Parliament of England and of Joh. Baptista Riva his Interpreter c. Lond. 1651. fol. The said A. Ascham who was born of a gentile family was educated in Eaton School and thence elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1633 Afterwards taking the degree of M. of Arts closed with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion took the Covenant sided with the Independents became a great creature of the Long Parliament by whose authority he was made Tutor to James Duke of York and an active Person against his Soveraign At length being looked upon as sufficiently Antimonarchical was by the Rump Parliament sent their Agent or Resident to the Court of Spain in the latter end of the year 1649. In the beginning of June following he arrived at Madrid and had an appartment appointed him in the Court but certain English Royallists then in that City taking it in great disdain that such a notorious Rebel one of the destroyers of their Nation as they call'd him should come there from the murtherers of his sacred Majesty of England six of them named Joh. Guillim Will. Spark Valentine Progers Jo. Halsal Will. Arnet and Hen. Progers repaired to his lodging Two of them stood at the bottom of the stairs two at the top and two entred his Chamber of whom Spark being the first drew up to the table where Ascham and another were sitting and pulling off his hat said Gentlemen I kiss your hands pray which is the Resident Whereupon the Resident rising up Guillim took him by the hair of the head and with a naked dagger gave him a thrust that overthrew him Then came in Spark and gave him another and because they would make sure of their work they gave him five stabs of which he instantly dyed Whereupon Jo. Bap. Riva his Interpreter thinking to retire to his Chamber four others that were without the Chamber gave him four wounds whereof he presently expired Afterwards five of the Englishmen took sanctuary but were haled thence imprison'd and Spark suffered The sixth Person named Hen. Progers fled to the Venetian Embassadors house and so escaped The said Anth. Ascham who was slain 6. June 1650 hath written A discourse wherein is examined what is particularly lawful during the confusions and revolutions of government c. Lond. 1648. oct and other things as 't is probable
the event proved to be known that he was the author Theologo-Historicus or the true life of the most rev Divine and excellent Historian Peter Heylyn D. D. Sub-Dean of Westminster Lond. 1683 oct Published as the author pretended to correct the errours supply the defects and confute the calumnies of a late writer viz. George Vernon M. A. Rector of Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire who had before published the said Doctors life Answer to Mr. Baxter's false accusations of Dr. Heylyn Printed with the Theologo-Historicus c. Catechisme for the use of his Parish This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell you when or where 't was printed This Dr. Barnard died at Newarke in his journey to the Spaw on the 17. of August in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Waddington before mention'd as I have been enformed by his son of both his names lately Fellow of Brasn Coll who also told me that he left behind him a Manuscript chiefly against Socinianisme which is not yet printed JOHN OWEN son of Hen. Owen sometimes a petty Schoolmaster at Stokenchurch afterwards Vicar of Stadham near Watlington in Oxfordshire was born in the said Town of Stadham bred in Grammar learning mostly under Edw. Sylvester who taught School for many years in Allsaintes Parish in Oxon entred a Student in Queens Coll. in 1628 instructed in Logic and Philosophy by Tho. Barlow Fellow thereof and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being taken and compleated in 1635 at which time as the cumstom and statute is he swore allegiance and fidelity to the King his heirs and lawful successors Which Oath is taken by all who take but one degree And this for one is to be noted of all such whom I have and shall mention in this Work About the same time he entred into holy Orders and when made Priest swore canonical Obedience to the Bishop his Diocesan Afterwards he became Chaplain to Sir Rob. Dormer of Ascot in the Parish of Great Milton near the place of his nativity where he served and did all things requisite to his Office according to the Church of England and taught also the eldest son of the said Knight About that time he became Chaplain to John L. Lovelace of Hurley in Berkshire where continuing till the turn of the times he sided then with the rebellious rout preached against Bishops and their Courts Common Prayer Book Ceremonies c. Afterwards he was made Minister of Fordham in Essex took the Covenant became Pastor of factious Coggeshall in the same County where lately that noted Presbyterian Ob. Sedgwick had held forth But then he perfectly beholding that the Independents grew prevalent he changed his mind adhered to them and endeavoured to ruin the Presbyterians He violated all Oathes as of canonical Obedience Solemne League and Covenant c. and being a man of parts was more enabled to do greater mischief by them especially in preaching up Sectarisme as he did ever and anon wheresoever he came By the doing of these things he became endeared to Ol. Cromwell who had him ever after in great respect and in some things relied on his Council In the latter end of 1648 when K. Ch. 1. was beheaded he in his discourses and Sermons applauded the Regicides and declared the death of that most admirable King to be just and righteous preached against K. Ch. 2. and against all the Loyal party In 1649 June 7. was a Thanksgiving by the Parliament Officers of the Army Lord Mayor and Citizens at Ch. Ch. in London for Cromwells victory over the Levellers at which time Tho. Goodwin and this our author Owen who had about that time taken the Engament preached to them out of the Politicks and on the day after a Committee was appointed to consider how to prefer those two Preachers to be Heads of Colleges in this University as a reward for asserting the late proceedings of Parliament and Cromwell upon the aforesaid Thanksgiving day It was not then thought fit that such men should serve God for nothing In the times of S. Peter and S. Paul Godliness was great gain but in the days of the late Saints Gain was great godliness On the 17. Sept. 1650 it was ordered by the Parliament according to the desire of Ol. Cromwell then General of the forces that he and Joseph Caryl should go into Scotland and on the 18 of March following it was ordered by them that he should be Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. In which place being soon after setled he with Tho. Goodwin President of Madg. Coll. the two Atlases and Patriarchs of Independency did with some others who were their admirers endeavour to setle Independency in the University according to Cromwells mind but in their designs they found much opposition from the Presbyterians with whom they had several clashes concerning the promoting of their doctrine In the year 1652 he was made Vicechancellour in which Office he being then also one of the Visitors for by that time several Independents had been added to them he endeavoured to put down Habits Formalities and all Ceremony notwithstanding he before had taken an Oath to observe the Statutes and maintain the Privileges of the University but opposed in this also by the Presbyterians While he did undergo the said Office he instead of being a grave example to the University scorned all formality undervalued his office by going in quirpo like a young Scholar with powdred hair snake-bone bandstrings or bandstrings with very large tassels lawne band a large set of ribands pointed at his knees and spanish leather boots with large lawne tops and his hat mostly cockâ—d On the 10. of Dec. 1653 he the said Owen Tho. Goodwin R. Fairclough the elder Nich. Lockyer Jos Caryl c. were presented to the Parliament to be sent Commissioners by three in a Circuit for ejecting and setling Ministers according to the rules then prescrib'd but that project taking not effect there were Commissioners appointed by Oliver for approbation of publick preachers whereof John Owen was one of the chiefest and in the year following Commissioners from the Layty and Assistants to them from the Clergy in every County for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters that is Loyal and Orthodox Divines At which time John Owen and Tho. Goodwin were appointed for the County of Oxon together with Thankful Owen Pres of S. Jo. Coll Sam. Wells Minister of Banbury Joh. Taylor Min. of Broughton Cristoph Rogers Ambr. Upton Pet. French Hen. Wilkinson Ralph Batton Hen. Cornish Canons of Ch. Ch. Edm. Stanton Pres of C CC. Rob. Harris Pres of Trin. Coll. Franc. Howell of Ex. Coll. Mr. Brice of Henley c. In 1654 Owen stood to be elected Burges for the University of Oxon to sit in a Parliament then called and rather than he would be put aside because he was a Theologist he renounced
hands of Dr. G. Kendall to perfect and afterwards to publish it but never done 2 Answer to a book intit A Conference with a Lady about choice of Religion Written by Sir Ken. Digby 3 Answer to the respective books concerning the Sabbath written by Dr. Fr. White Dr. Gilb. Ironside and Mr. E. Breerword He hath also either answer'd or animadverted upon certain matters of Nich. Fuller Jos Mede the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker Dr. Christ Potter Dr. Tho. Godwin Dr. Tho. Jachson and Mr. Joh. Goodwin the Titles of which I shall now pass by for brevity sake At length after he had lived 71 years departed this mortal life in Holborn in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried on the 24 of July the same year near to the upper end of the poor folks Table next the Vestry in the Collegiat Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster On the 14 of Sept. 1661 his body â—ith those of Thom. May the Poet Will. Strong Steph. Marshall Ministers c. which were buried in the said Church of S. Peter were taken up and buried in one large pit in the Ch. yard of S. Margaret just before the back door of the Lodgings belonging to one of the Prebendaries of Westminster having been unwarrantably buried there during the times of Rebellion and Usurpation THOMAS HAYNE Son of Rob. Hayne was born in a Town commonly but corruptly called Thurciston near to and in the County of Leicester At the last of which places having received his juvenile learning was sent to the University and matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Coll. in Mich. Term 1599 and in that of his age 17 where being put under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor obtained great knowledge in Philosophy and the more for this reason that he was taken off from various Recreations and Rambles by a lameness in his Legs from his Cradle After he had taken a degree in Arts 1604 he became one of the Ushers of the School in the Parish of S. Laurence Pountney in London erected by the Merchant Taylors and afterward being M. of Arts Usher of the School belonging to the City of London in Ch. Church Hospital He was a noted Critick an excellent Linguist and a solid Divine beloved of learned Men and particularly respected by Selden He hath written Grammatices Latinae Compendium an 1637 c. Lond. 1640. in oct To which are added two appendices Linguarum cognatio seu de linguis in genere de variarum linguarum harmoniâ dissertatio Lond. 1639. oct It was also printed if I mistake not in 1634. Pax in terrâ seu tractatus de pace ecclesiasticâ c. Lond. 1639. oct The equal ways of God in rectifying the unequal ways of man Lond. 1639 c. in oct General view of the holy Scriptures or the times places and persons of holy Scripture c. Lond. 1640 fol. sec Edit Life and death of Dr. Mart. Luther Lond. 1641. qu. He gave way to fate on the 27. of July in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Parish Church of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the City of London Soon after was put a monument over his grave about the middle of the Church on the North side and a large inscription thereon which about 20 years after was consumed and defaced with the Church it self when the great fire hapned in London In the said inscription he is stiled Antiquitatis acerrimus investigator antiquitatem praematuravit suam Publicis privatisque studiis sese totum communi bono coelebem devovit Pacis Ecclesiae Irenicus pacificus jure censendus c. In the Library at Leicester is another inscription put up to his memory which being perfect you may take instead of the other See Hist et Antiq Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 166. a. b. By his will which I have seen he gave to the said Library all his Study of books except some few which he gave to the Library at Westminster He gave also 400 l. to be bestowed in buying Lands or Houses in or near Leycester of the yearly Rent of 24 l. for ever for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster in Thurciston alias Thrushington or some Town near thereunto to teach ten poor Children c. and for the maintenance of two poor Scholars in Linc. Coll. to come from the Free-School at Leycester or in defect of that from the School at Milton c. The Schoolmaster to have 12 l. yearly and the two Scholars six pounds yearly c. In the said Will are other acts of Charity mentioned which for brevity sake I now pass by EDWARD LITTLETON Son and Heir of Sir Edw. Littleton of Henley in Shropshire Knight was born in that County an 1589. became a Gentleman Commoner of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of the year 1606 where by the care of an eminent Tutor he became a proficient in Academical learning took a degree in Arts an 1609 and from Ch. Ch. removed to the Inner Temple where he made such admirable progress in the Municipal Laws and was of such eminence in his Profession in a short time that the City of London took early notice of and chose him their Recorder being also about that time Counsellor to University of Oxon. In the 8. of Car. 1. he was elected Summer Reader of his Society and in the 10. of the said King Oct. 17. he was made Sollicitor-General After which upon the 6. of June next ensuing he received the honor of Knighthood at Whitehall at which time and some years before he was a Member of the Commons House of no small reputation On the 27. of Jan. 15. Car. 1. he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and on the 23. of Jan. the next year his Majesty confer'd upon him the utmost honor belonging to his Profession by giving the Great Seal into his custody In less than a month after upon the 18. of Feb. he made him a Peer of England by the name of the Lord Littleton Baron of Mounslow in his Native Country being then in great esteem for integrity and eminence in his Profession Shortly after the troubles in this Realm taking their rise partly from the insurrection of the Scots and their entrance into this Realm which hapned in Aug. next ensuing an 1640 and partly from the predominancy of certain Members in the Long Parliament then called by reason of that invasion he retired to the King at York in June 1642 having first conveyed the Seal thither From which time to his death which hapned in Oxon where in 1642 he was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law he constantly attended his Majesty with great fidelity He was Author of Several Speeches as 1 Speech at a conference with the Lords in Parliament concerning the Liberty of the Subject and propriety in their Goods 3. Apr. 1628. See in Jo. Rushworths Collections Vol. 1. p. 528. an 1628. This with other Conferences were published by themselves
endeavours to answer the four Arguments of Bishop Andrews which are in his Sermon on 2 Phil. 7.11 Answer to Mr. Joseph Mede's treatise of the name of Altar or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 antiently given to the holy table Written in Feb. 1637. Answer to the defence of the coal from the Altar Evangelium contractum ex quatuor Evangeliis c. Written in Hebrew Annales Ecclesiae Christi inchoati secundum methodum Baronii This is written in Lat. but imperfect Chronicon Regum Judaeorum methodo magis perspicu◠Written in Hebr. Mesolabum Geometricum Chronicon mundi emendatum Divina sphaera humanorum eventuum The beginning is Etiam absque eo foret c. dedic to the King 1632. Problema Astronomicum de solis eccentricitate The beginning is Ternis Diatribis c. Diatribae animadversiones Astronomicae ternae Circuli dimensio Lydyatéa Archimidéa Marmoreum chronicon Arundelianum cum annotationibus c. This was afterwards printed in a book intit Marmora Oxoniensia published by Humph. Prideaux All which Mss with others treating of Divinity Mathematicks and Astronomy amounting to the number of 38 at least were bound up in 22 Volumes and reserved as rarities in the hands of Dr. Joh. Lamphire lately Principal of Hart Hall At length after our Author had lived at Okerton several years very poor and obscurely surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the third day of April in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried the next day being the same day on which he had above 70 years before been baptized by the bodies of his Father and Mother in the Chancel of the Church at Okerton which he before had rebuilt Over his grave near to the south Window and not far from the east end of the said Chancel the Warden and Society of New Coll. did cause a stone to be laid at their charge an 1669. The inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 149. a as also the Inscription on his honorary monument in New Coll. Cloyster pag. 155. WALTER RALEIGH second son of Sir Carew Raleigh of Downton in Wilts Knight by Dorothy his wife daugh of Will. Wroughton of Broadhinton in the same County relict of Sir Joh. Thynne Knight elder Brother to the famous Sir Walter Raleigh and both the Sons of Walter Raleigh of Furdell or Fardell in Devon Esq was born at Downton before mention'd educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in Mich. Term 1602 ult Eliz. being then 16 years of age Afterwards proceeding in Arts he was thought worthy being a noted Disputant to undergo the Office of Junior of the Act celebrated in 1608. About that time taking holy Orders he became Chaplain to that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke in whose family spending some time had the Rectory of Chedsey near Bridgwater in Somersetshire conferred upon him on the death of George Mountgomery in the latter end of 1620 and afterwards a minor Prebendship in the Church of Wells and the Rectory of Streat with the Chappel of Walton in the same County Much about the time of the lamented death of the said Count he became one of the Chaplains in ord to K. Ch. 1. and by that title he was actually created D. of D. in 1636. On the 13 of January 1641 he was admitted Dean of Wells on the death of Dr. George Warburton and on the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after which hindred his farther advance in the Church he was persecuted plunder'd and forced to abscond for his Loyalty to his Prince At length being taken Prisoner at Bridgwater by the Rebels 21 Jul. 1645 he was sent to Banwell house as a Captive and after several removes to his own at Wells where being committed to the custody of a Shoe-maker David Barret a Constable of that City by the Committee of the County of Somerset was treated by him far beneath his quality and function Soon after having occasion to write a letter to his Wife the rude Keeper endeavoured to take it from him and read it supposing it might be a letter of intelligence to be sent to some noted Cavalier But the Doctor preventing his sauciness the Keeper thrust his sword into his groyn shedding his blood as the blood of a dog of which wound he died about six weeks after to the great grief of the loyal party His papers after his death such as could be kept were for more than 30 years reserved in obscurity At length they coming into the hands of the worthy and learned Dr Simon Patrick then Rector of S. Paul in Covent Garden Preb. of Westm and Dean of Peterborough now Bish of Ely he viewed amended and methodized them which being done they were made publick under this title Reliquiae Raleighanae Being discourses and Sermons on several subjects Lond. 1679. qu. The number of Sermons are 13. What other things he left worthy of publication were kept in Dr. Charles Gibbes's hands whose sister Mary our Author had married but whether any of them are yet made publick I know not 'T is said that he wrot a Tract of Millinanism he having for some time been much addicted to that opinion but that as I have been informed was long since lost Those that remember him have often said that he was a person not only of gentile behaviour but of great wit and elocution a good Orator and a Master of a strong reason which won him the familiarity and friendship of those great men who were the envy of the last age and wonder of this viz. Lucius Lord Falkland Dr. Hen. Hammond and Mr. Will. Chillingworth The last of which was wont to say that Dr. Raleigh was the best Disputant that ever he met withal He departed this mortal life on the tenth day of Octob. being Saturday in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried on the thirteenth of the same month before the Deans stall in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Andrew in Wells Over his grave is not yet an inscription only a rough marble stone which had probably been laid there many years before the Doctors death One Standish a Clergy-Vicar of that Cathedral was afterwards questioned by the aforesaid Committee for burying him in the Church and his death being soon after call'd into question at an Assize or Sessions there was a Jury of Rebels that brought in his murder either Ignoramus or at least but Man slaughter for they said that the Doctor to shun the Keepers reading of a letter which he wrot to his Wife ran upon the Keepers sword c. Much about that time the Committee turned the Doctors Wife and Children out of doors and his Son as 't is said was forced to fly the Country for that he would have farther prosecuted the Law against the murderer of his Father MATHIAS PRIDEAUX son of Dr. Joh. Prideaux Rector of Exeter Coll. was
the aforesaid Merchants as I have been informed by Dr. Tho. Marshall lately Rector of Linc. College who succeeded him in that office of Preacher there HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an antient and gentile family in a Market Town in Sommersetshire called Dulverton became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 1606 took a degree in Arts as a member of that House made Fellow of Wadham Coll. by the Foundress thereof an 1613 and the year after proceeded in Arts being the first of all that Coll. that took that degree Afterwards he entred into the sacred function was made Priest by Lewis Bishop of Bangor in 1621 had the Rectory of Ashbrittle in Sommersetshire bestowed on him by the presentation of his Majesty an 1627 and three years after that of Pokington in the said County by the same hand About that time he was made Chaplain to Edward Lord Howard of Escrick so that thereby being capacitated to hold several Benefices had the Rectory of Odcombâ— in the same County given to him by his Maj. in Dec. 1644 Sir Joh. Sydenham Bt. to whom that Rectory did belong being then in his minority and a Ward Which three Benefices or at least two he lost soon after by the Parliamentarian commissioners of Sommersetshire He was a Person of a quaint and curious stile better at practical than School Divinity and was so eloquent and fluent a Preacher that he was commonly called Silver-tongue Sydenham He hath published these Sermons following Five Sermons preached upon several occasions Lond. 1627. qu. 1 The Athenian Babler on Acts 17.18 2 Jacob and Esau c. on Rom. 9.18 3 Arraignment of an Arrian on Joh. 8.58 4 Moses and Aaron c. on Exod. 4.12 5 Natures overthrow and deaths triumph on Eccles 12.5 preached at the funeral of Sir Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimpton 15. Dec. 1625. Other Sermons Lond. 1630. qu. The first of which is called The passing bell on Psal 32.6 2 The rich mans warning peece on Psal 62.10 3 The waters of Marah and Meribah on Rom. 12.1 Sermons upon solemn occasions preached in several auditories Lond. 1637. qu. They are 8 in number and the first is entit The well-tun'd Cymbal on Psal 15.16 preached at the dedication of an Organ lately set up at Bruton in Sommersetshire All which Sermons were at their preaching and publishing wonderfully cried up by most People of understanding but books have their credit or discredit from the fancy of their readers as they please to like or dislike He paid his last debt to nature in Sommersetshire in sixteen hundred and fifty or thereabouts but where buried unless at Dulverton I cannot tell nor whether he had any other Sermons published after his death JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Maries Hall where he was observed by his contemporaries to be studious and a good Disputant Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Minister of Broadclist in Devonshire and wrot A discovery of the World to come according to the Scriptures c. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick oct What other things he hath publish'd I know not nor any thing else of him SAMUEL YERWORTH or Jeruvorthus as he writes himself in the title of the book following was born in Dorsetshire became a Student in Oriel Coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards being noted for his excellency in the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue taught and read it privately divers years in Oxon to young Students and for their benefit wrot Introductio ad linguam Ebraeam brevissima praecipua duntaxat ejus documenta eaque ex optimis Grammaticis collecta complectens c. Oxon. 1650. oct At the time when it was published he gave notice to the Reader that if the said introduction should be kindly received he would put forth a more full and compleat Grammar with Scholia added to each Chapter as need should require but whether the Grammar was acceptable among Scholars and so consequently the Author stood to his promise I know not WILLIAM HEMMINGS Son of John Hemmings a Comedian or Actor of playes with Will. Shakespear was born in London elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1621. aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1628 and at hours of recess from happier employments than the delight of poetry composed The fatal contract comedie Lond. 1653. qu. printed from the original copy by the care of A. T. and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was revived not many years since under the title of Love and revenge with some alterations and in 1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the title of The Eunuch a Trag. This being founded on a French Chronicle was said in the first edition of it 1653. to be a French Comedie The Jewes Tragedy or their fatal and final overthrow by Vespasian and Titus his Son Lond. 1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentick History of Josephus Our Author Hemmings left behind him greater monuments of his worth and ability but whether they are yet published I cannot tell However the Fatal contract having justly gained an esteem with men of excellent judgments by several copies of it that flew abroad in Ms was therefore published for the satisfaction of all Persons especially such who had lighted upon imperfect copies CHRISTOPHER LOVE Son of a Father of both his names was born at Cardiff in Glamorganshire became a Servitour of New Inn in Midsommer or Act term 1635 aged 17 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders and would with great impudence and conceitedness ascend the pulpit in the Church of S Peter in the Baylie joyning to the said Inn and there hold out prating for more than an hour before Academical as well as Lay auditors In 1642 he proceeded Master of Arts and was Junior of the Act then celebrated at which time he performed the exercise of that office with more confidence than was seemly He himself tells us that when he was a Scholar in Oxon and Master of Arts he was the first Scholar that he knew of or ever heard of in Oxon that did publickly refuse in the Congregation house to subscribe unto those impositions or Canons imposed by the Archb. touching the Prelates and Common prayer For which tho they would not denie him his degree yet he was expelled the congregation never to sit as a member among them c. About that time he left the University went to or near London and became a sedulous preacher up of treason and rebellion About the beginning of the Wars saith he I was the first Minister that I knew of in England who was accused of preaching treason and rebellion meerly for maintaining in a Sermon in Kent at Tenterden the lawfulness of a defensive War at the first breaking out and irruption of our troubles c So that being
hundred fifty and one Afterwards Col. Edm. Ludlow who was Lieut. Gen. of the Army there did execute the Office of Deputy for a time by the appointment of the superior Power On the 9 of Dec. the Parliament ordered a Bill to be brought in for the setling of 2000 l. per an on the Wife and Children of Ireton out of the Lands belonging to George Duke of Bucks and on the 17 of the said month his carcass being landed at Bristow was pompously conveyed towards London and laying in state for a time in Somerset house in the Strand all hung with black was hung over the common gate an Atchievment commonly called a Hatchment with this Motto under his Arms depicted thereon Dulce est pro patria mori which was englished by an honest Cavalier thus It is good for his Country that he is dead On the sixth day of Febr. following his body was interr'd with great state in the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster at which time John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. preached not without some blasphemy on Dan. 12.13 and had about that time Elegies made on his death and a stately tomb erected over his grave with the Effigies of him and his wife thereon After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. his body with that of Oliv. Cromwell were taken up on Saturday 26 Jan. 1660 and on Munday night following were drawn in two several Carts from Westminster to the Red Lyon in Holbourne where they continued that Evening The next morning the carcass of Joh. Bradshaw President of the High Court of Justice which had been with great solemnity buried in S. Peter's Church at Westminster 22 Nov. 1659. was carried in a cart to Holbourn also and the next day following that which was the 30 of January on which day K. Ch. 1. was beheaded in 1648. they were drawn to Tybourne on three several Sledges followed by the universal outcry of the people Afterwards they being pulled out from their Coffins were hanged at the several angles of that triple tree where they hung till the sun was set After which they were taken down their heads cut off to be set on Westminster Hall and their loathsome trunks thrown into a deep hole under the Gallowes where they now remain At the same time Iretons tomb was broken down and what remained over the Graves of Cromwell and Bradshaw were clean swept away and no footstep left of their remembrances in that royal and stately burial place of our English Kings While this Ireton lived came out a Pamphlet intit Independency stript and whipt or Ireton's Petition c. 1648. qu. and after his death another called The Kingdom of Christ to the Parliament from 1649 to 1652 with the name of Hen. Ireton Deputy of Ireland in the Title page But these I have not yet seen FRANCIS WOODCOCK son of Rob. Woodcock was born in the City of Chester applied his mind to Academical studies in Brasn Coll. in Easter term 1629 aged 15 years took a degree in Arts holy Orders from a Bishop and then left the House and had a Cure of Souls bestowed on him But being always puritannically affected he sided with the Presbyterians upon a defection of a predominant party in the Long Parliament an 1641 became a Lecturer of S. Laurence Ch. in the Jewry in London a Covenantier one of the Assembly of Divines and at length by ordinance of Parliament dat 10. Jul. 1646 was made Parson of S. Olaves in Southwark having for some time before exercised his function in that place He hath written and published The two Witnesses in several Lectures at S. Laurence Jewry on Rev. 11. with the great question discussed Whether the two Witnesses were slain or no. Lond. 1643. qu. made extant by vertue of an order of the Committee of the H. of Commons bearing date 27 of Apr. the same year This book was afterwards reprinted Several Sermons as 1 Christs warning-piece giving notice to every one to watch and keep their garments Fast-sermon before the H. of Com. 30 Oct. 1644. on Rev. 16.15 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 Lex Talionis or God paying every man in his own coine Fast-serm before the H. of C. 30 Jul. 1645 on 1 Sam 2.30 latter part Lond. 1645. qu. 3 Joseph parallel'd by the present Parliament in his sufferings and advancement Thanksgiving sermon before the H. of C. 19 Feb. 1645. for reducing the City of Chester by the Parl. Forces under the command of Sir Will. Brereton on Gen. 49.23 24. Lond. 1646. qu. What other things he hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and one or thereabouts was buried in the Church of S. Olaves befotementioned One of his sirname was by Act of Parl. dat in Mar. 1659 60 appointed among several other Ministers to approve of Ministers of the Gospel according to the Presbyterian way which Act came soon after to nothing He is the same person who was afterwards a frequent Conventicler and has one or more Sermons extant in The morning exercise methodized Lond. 1676. qu. THOMAS RYVES who writes himself in some of his books Rivius was the fourth son of John Ryves of Damery Court in Dorsetshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. as a native of Langton in the said County of Dorset after he had served two years of probation an 1598 where applying his studies to the faculty of the Civil Law took the degrees therein that of Doctor being compleated 1610 about which time he was an eminent Advocate in Doctors Commons and the Court of Admiralty Afterwards he was one of the Masters of Chancery and Judge of the Faculties and Prerogative Court in Ireland where he was held in great esteem for his knowledge in the Laws At length upon the coming to the Crown of K. Ch. 1. he was made his Advocate and by him knighted was engaged in his Cause when the grand Rebellion broke out wherein he gave good evidence of his Valour and notwithstanding he was then well stricken in years yet he received several wounds in Fights and Skirmishes for his Cause He was accounted a thorough-pac'd Scholar in all polite learning was a pure Latinist and Master of a smooth stile He understood also the Common Law so well that he was as fit to plead in Westminster Hall as in his proper Courts and therefore his and the assistance of Dr. Duck were required by his Maj. at the Treaty for Peace in the Isle of Wight He hath written and published The Vicars plea or that a competency of means is due to Vicars out of the several Parishes Lond. 1620. quart Regiminis Anglicani in Hiberniâ defensio adversus Analecten lib. 3. Lond. 1624. qu. Imperatoris Justiniani defensio contra Alemannum Lond. 1626. oct Historia navalis antiqua lib. 4. Lond. 1633. oct Hist navalis media lib. 3. Lond. 1640.
degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1611 and about 3 years after leaving his College he became chief Master of Winchester School afterwards Archdeacon of Winton Canon of Wells D of Div. and Archdeacon of Glocester in the place as it seems of Sam. Burton deceased In the beginning of the Civil War when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant he sided with them took the Covenant and having lost in the War time the profits of his Canonry and Archdeaconry obtained the rectory of Hinton near Winchester in Hampshire whence a Loyal Person a little before had been ejected He was an excellent Linguist able Divine and very well seen in antient Histories His works are these Preces written for the use of the children of Winchester School in Lat. and Engl. Grammaticalia quaedam in Lat. and Engl. Antiquae Historiae Synopsis All which were printed at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct Scholae Wintoniensis Phrases Latinae The latine phrases of Winchester School c. Lond. 1654. 64. oct published by Nich. Robinson his Son Annalium mundi universalium c. Tomus Unicus lib. 14. absolutus c. Lond. 1677. fol. Which book coming into the hands of Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury he did by the Kings command revise amend and fill it up with many things that were wanting He hath also written something in vindication of the Scotch Covenant which I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying on the same day on which James Duke of Richmond died so have I been informed by his Daughter which was the 30 of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five was buried near to and within the North door of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near to London In his Archdeaconry of Gloc. succeeded one John Middleton in 1660. After him succeeded Edw. Pope who dying in Jan. 1671 John Gregory of Cambr. succeeded CHRISTOPHER BENNET Son of Joh. Bennet of Raynton in Somersetsh was born there or in that County became a Com. of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term in the year 1632 and that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line but doctorated in that faculty elsewhere Afterwards he was made a member of the Coll. of Physicians at London and much frequented for his practice in that City His works are Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum c. Lond. 1654 oct Exercitationes Dianocticae cum historias demonstrativis quibus alimentorum sanguinis vitia deleguntur in plerisque morbis c. Lond. 1655. He hath also corrected and inlarged Healths improvement or rules comprizing and discovering the nature method and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this Nation Lond. 1655. qu. Written originally by Tho. Moufet This Dr. Bennet was buried on the second day of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five in S. Gregories Church near to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London leaving then behind him as 't is said one or more things fit for the press EDWARD WOOD Son of Tho. Wood alias à Wood or Awood Bachelaur of Arts and of the Civ Law of this University by Maria la Petite commonly called Pettie his Wife descended from a gentile and antient Family in the County of Oxon was born in the Parish of S. John Bapt. in an house opposite to the forefront of Mert. Coll. within the University of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame under his kinsman Will. Burt M. A afterwards Warden of the Coll. near Winton and D. of D. elected Probationer Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1648 and in 1655 was installed one of the Proctors of the University being then noted for a good Disputant Orator and Preacher His works are Several Sermons as 1 Of the knowledge of God by the book of nature in two Sermons on Rom. 1.19.20 Oxon. 1656. and 74. oct 2 Of the knowledge of Jesus Christ by the book of Scripture in two Serm. on 2. Tim. 3.16.17 printed with the former two Sermons 3 His last Sermon Preached at S. Maries in Oxon 20. March 1654. on Philip. 3.8 first part printed also with the former Sermons All which were then acceptable to the generality for the good practical divinity contained in them but since not He died in his Proctorship on the 22 of the Month of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five aged 28 years he being then the eldest of my Brethren and was buried two days after in Mert. Coll. Church not far from the grave of his Father at which time were present the whole body of Convocation and Juniors of the University JOHN ANGELL was born as I conceive in Glocestersh where receiving part of his juvenile Education made his first entry into Magd. Hall about the beginning of the year 1610. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and holy Orders became a frequent and painful Preacher At length about 1630 being made a Lecturer at Leycester continued there several years a Man mighty in Word and Doctrine among the Puritannical Brethren of that place till about the year 1650 at which time being forced by the Independent faction to leave his place because he refused to take the Engagement the Company of Mercers in London gave him a call and chose him Lecturer of Grantham in Lincolnshire it being one of the Lectures that had been given to the said Company by Vicountess Camden whereupon setling at that place he shone as 't is said as a burning light until God translated him to shine above as a Star for ever To which may be added that as his name was Angell so saith another of his perswasion he was a man indeed of angelical understanding and holiness a burning and shining light c. He hath written The right government of the thoughts or a discovery of all vain unprofitable idle and wicked thoughts c. Lond. 1659. oct Four Sermons 1 The right ordering of the conversation two Sermons on Psal 50 last verse 2 Fun. Sermon at the burial of John Lord Darcey 27. Aug. 1636. on Psal 39.5 3 Preparation to the Communion on 1. Cor. 11.28 All printed at Lond. 1659. oct He was buried in the Church at Grantham beforemention'd on the sixth day of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five at which time being attended to his grave by many Divines of the neighbourhood Mr. Laur. Sarson Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. did then deliver before them a large oration of mortality and in praise of the Defunct This Mr. Angell who had the year before his death been appointed by Parliament an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lincolnshire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters was several times heard to say before he fell sick that it was his great desire to live to see the conclusion of the year 1660 hinting
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
to the Army in Scotland where he died in the beginning of the year 1650. THOMAS LAURENCE a Ministers Son was born in Dorsetshire became Scholar of Ball. Coll. in 1614 aged 16 years elected Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1618 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he became a noted Preacher in the University was made Prebendary of Lichfield Doct. of Div Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. by the endeavours of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Cant with whom he was in much esteem Master of Ball. Coll. and Marg. professor of the University 1637 At which time he was accounted famous for Scholastical Divinity a profound Theologist and Exquisite in the excellencies of the Greek and Lat. Tongues After the declining of the cause of K. Ch. 1. and upon a foresight thereupon of the ruin of all things that would follow he grew melancholy careless and did much degenerate in his life and conversation At length when the Commissioners appointed by Parliament came to visit the University he resigned his Headship to prevent expulsion Afterwards he submitted to their Authority had a certificate under the Commissioners or Visitors hands dated 3. Aug. 1648 whereby they attested that he had engaged to observe the Directory in all Ecclesiastical administrations to preach practical Divinity to the People and to forbear preaching of any of those Opinions that the reformed Church hath condemned Being thus dismissed with the loss of all he had in the University he retired to his Friend Coll. Valentine Walton one of the Kings Judges to whom he had shew'd many singular curtesies while he was a Prisoner of War in Oxford Garrison and at length by exchange had procured his release I say that he retiring to the said Collonel and laying open his condition before him he did commiserate it so much that he did not only exhibit to his wants for the present but soon after setled upon him a little Chappelrey called Colne in the Parish of Somersham in Huntingdonshire which he enjoyed to the time of his death The Reader may be pleased here to note that Somersham with its appurtenances being part of the Qu. jounture the said Col. Walton got it to be setled on him and his posterity for ever for the services he had done for the Parliament And tho the Church thereof did belong to the Margaret professor of Cambridge yet by his power he got the tithes of Colne to be separated from it and be setled on the Chappel of Colne whereby he made it a little rectory purposely as 't is thought for the sake of his learned Friend Laurence who hath these things following going under his name viz. Several Sermons as 1 The duty of the Layty and Priviledge of the Clergy preached at S. Maries in Oxon 13. July 1634 being then Act-Sunday on Exod. 20.21 Oxon. 1635. qu. 2 Of Schisme in the Church of God preached in the Cath. Ch. at Sarum at the Visitation of Will Archb. of Canterbury 23. May 1634 on 1. Cor. 1.12 Oxon. 1635. qu. 3 Serm. before the Kings Maj. at White-hall 7 Feb. 1636 on Exod. 3.5 Lond. 1637. qu. In this Sermon he moderately stated the real presence and thereupon suffered trouble for it Also for other passages therein he was charged by the Puritans to be a grand Arminian He hath also written Index Materiarum Authorum MS. fol. in the Bodleian Library and other things fit for the press as I have been credibly informed by those that well knew the Author who dying in great obscurity at Colne in Huntingdonshire beforemention'd was buried in the Chappel there on the tenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven Had he lived 3 years longer he would have been consecrated Bishop of a certain See in Ireland to which he had been nominated some years before his death but the name of the See I cannot now tell you WILLIAM BURTON Son of Will. Burt. sometimes of Atcham in Shropshire second Son of Tho. Burt. of Longnore near to Shrewsbury Son and Heir of Edw. Burton of the same place who died in 1558 was born within the precincts of the Austin Friers in London as his Daughter hath informed me educated in Pauls School under Alex. Gill Senior became a Student in Qu. Coll. in Easter term 1625 aged 16 years being then accounted a good Grecian But having not wherewithal to maintain him the learned Mr. Allen who found him to be an ingenious youth took him to him to Gloc. Hall and confer'd on him the Greek Lecture there which he kept during his continuance in the University In 1630 he took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law but indigence which commonly attends good wits forcing him to leave the University he became the Assistant or Usher of Mr. Tho. Farnabie the famous Schoolmaster of Kent with whom remaining some years was at length made Master of the Free-School at Kingston upon Thames in Surrey where he continued till two years before his death at which time being taken with the dead palsie he retired to London where he lived to see the most part of his last book called A Com. on Antoninus his Itinerary printed He was an excellent Latinist noted Philologist was well skill'd in the tongues was an excellent Critick and Antiquary and therefore beloved of all learned men of his time especially of the famous Usher Archb. of Armagh He hath written and published these things following Laudatio funebris in obitum viri excellentiss D. Thomae Alleni Lond. 1632. Ox. 1633. qu. The said speech was spoken by the Author in the Refectory of Gloc. Hall before the body was carried thence Afterwards another was spoken at the Grave in Trin. Coll. Chap. by George Bathurst as I have elsewhere told you which with Burtons were both printed together Annotations on the first Epistle of Clement the Apostle to the Corinthians Lond. 1647. and 52 in qu. Wherein as much reading is shew'd by the Author so some things therein do rankly smell of Presbytery The said first Epistle being set forth in Latine by Patrick Yong in 1633 was translated into English by our Author who thereunto did add the said Annotations as a very proper and sutable remedy if rightly attended to to cure the many distracting schismes of those loose and dissolute times when published Graecae Linguae Historia Lond. 1657. oct 'T is the sum of one or more speeches delivered in the refectory of Gloc. Hall 1631. Veteris Linguae Persicae Historia Lond. 1657. oct This printed with the former book and before them is an Epistle written by way of commendations by the learned Langbaine friend to our Author Burton A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary or journeys of the Rom. Empire so far as it concerneth Britain c. Lond. 1658. fol. with the Authors Picture before it He also translated from Lat. into English a Book intit The beloved City or the Saints Raign on Earth a thousand years asserted and illustrated from
65 places of holy Scripture Lond. 1643. qu. Written originally by Jo. Hen. Alstedius Professor of the University at Herborne Our Author Will. Burton gave way to fate on the 28. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried the same day in a Vault belonging to the Students of S. Clements Inn under part of the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near London leaving then behind him several Papers and Collections of Antiquity Manuscripts and Coines which came into the hands of Tho. Thynne Esq sometimes his Scholar at Kingston afterwards Gent. Com. of Ch. Church then of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York a Bt. after the death of his Father Sir Hen. Fred. Thynne of Kemsford in Glocestershire possessor of the large estate belonging to Tho. Thynne of Longleet in Wilts murdered by certain Forreigners 12. Feb. 1681 and at length Viscount Weymouth There have been several Writers of both our Authors names as Will. Burton of Leicestershire Will. Burton a Divine and Will. Burton a Pretender to Astronomy a Specimen of which he gave us in an Ephemeris for 1655 which was printed at Oxon. WILLIAM AYLESBURY Son of Sir Thom. Aylesbury of the City of Westminster Bâ— was born in that City became a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1628 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards was by K. Ch. 1. made Governour to the Duke of Buckingham and his Brother the Lord Francis Villiers with whom he travelled beyond the Seas While he continued in Italy it hapned that walking in the Garden of the House where he lodged he was shot with a brace of bullets in his thigh by men who watched him on the other side of the wall a usual adventure in that Country and assoon as he fell the men who had done it leaped over the wall and looking upon him beg'd his pardon and said they were mistaken for he was not the man that they intended to kill which was all the satisfaction he had After his return into England and had delivered up his charge of the two noble Brothers to the King who highly approved of the care he had taken of their education as it appears by the grant his Maj. was pleased to give him of the first place of Grome of his Bed-chamber which should become void the King was pleased to command him to translate Davila's History he being a perfect Master of the Italian Language which he did with the assistance of his constant Friend Sir Charles Cotterel and published it under this title The History of the Civil Wars of France written in Italian by Henry Canterino de Avila Lond. 1647. fol. written in 15 Books to which was a continuation of 15 books more In the year following our Translator Aylesbury went beyond the Sea and dwelt at Antwerp with his Relations till 1650 at which time being reduced to great straights stole over into England where he lived for some time among his friends and acquaintance and sometime at Oxon. among certain Royalists there At length Oliver Cromwell sending a second supply to the Island of Jamaica he engaged himself in that expedition in the quality of a Secretary to the Governour as I have heard where he died in the year sixteen hundred fifty and seven otherwise had he lived till the Restauration of K. Charles 2. he might have chosen what preferment in the Court he pleased by the help of Edward E. of Clarendon who married his Sister OBADIAH SEDGWICK elder Brother to John mentioned under the year 1643. was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Marlborough in Wilts and there or near it was educated in Grammar learning In 1616 he was sent to Qu. Coll. being then 16 years of age but making no long stay there he retired to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and became Chaplain to Sir Horatio Vere Baron of Tilbury with whom he went into the Low Countries in quality of a Chaplain After his return he retir'd to Oxon. and performing certain exercise he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in the latter end of 1629. Afterwards he was Preacher to the Inhabitants of S. Mildrids Parish in Breadstreet within the City of London which he quitting upon no good account before the beginning of the rebellion he became the scandalous and seditious Minister as one calls him of Cogshall in Essex But soon after upon appearance of the said rebellion he retired to the said City again and being a voluble Preacher he was thought fit not only to exercise his parts at S. Mildrids beforemention'd but also before both Houses of Parliament the Members of which constituted him one of the Assembly of Divines as being a Covenanteer to the purpose While he preached at S. Mildrids which was only to exasperate the People to rebel and confound Episcopacy 't was usual with him especially in hot weather to unbutton his doublet in the Pulpit that his breath might be the longer and his voice more audible to rail against the Kings Party and those that were near to him whom he called Popish Counsellors This he did in an especial manner in Sept. 1644 when he with great concernment told the People several times that God was angry with the Army for not cutting off Delinquents c. Afterwards about 1646 he became Minister of the Church of S. Paul in Convent Garden where as also sometimes in the Country he kept up the vigour of a Presbyterian Ministry which for divers years prospered according to his mind to the converting of many and conviction of more In 1653 he was appointed one of the number of triers or examiners of Ministers appointed by Parliament and the year after he was by the members thereof constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters At length finding himself decayed by his too zealous carrying on the Covenanting work he resigned his charge in Convent Garden about two years before his death and retired to Marlborough Soon after the Earl of Bedford upon some consideration confer'd the said Church on the Son-in-law of our Author Sedgwick called Thomas Manton as zealous a Presbyterian as the former where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him as I shall tell you when I come to him As for our Author Sedgwick he hath these things following going under his name Several Sermons as 1 Military discipline for a Christian Soldier on 1. Cor. 16.13.14 Lond. 1639. oct 2 Christs counsell to his languishing Church of Sardis or the dying and decaying Christian c. being the effect of certain Sermons on Rev. 3.2.3 Lond. 1640. in a large oct 3 Christ the life and death the gaine at the funeral of Rowl Wilson a member of Parliament on 1. Philip. 1.21 Lond. 1650. qu. Before which is An account given of some years more than ordinary experience
1606 aged 15 years admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 23. Sept. 1608 Master of Arts in the latter end of 1614 and Probat Fellow of the said House 25 of Apr. in the year following Afterwards he was made Chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth Consort to the Pr. Elector Palatine of Rheine made D. of Div. of the University of Leyden in his passage thither or return thence incorporated in the same degree at Oxon in 1624 constituted Chaplain to K. Ch. 1 and at length in 1638 or thereabouts he was made Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate within the City of London which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed He was always reputed a pious and laborious man in his calling learned and well read in most parts of Divinity as in these his labours following is evident Paraphrastical meditations by way of commentarie on the Proverbs c. Lond. 1638. fol. Commentarie on Ecclesiastes c. Lond. 1639. fol. Exemplary life and death of Mr. ... Jurdaine printed in qu. One Ferdin Nicolls Minister of S. Marie Arches in Exeter hath written The life and death of Ignat. Jurdaine sometimes Alderman of the City of Exeter Whether he be the same Jurdaine whose life Dr. Jermin wrot I know not for I have not yet seen it nor The Fathers instruction to his Child printed at Lond. 1658. oct said to be written by Jermin At length after he had suffer'd much for the royal cause in the time of the rebellion by sequestration of his rectory plundering and other miseries lived as opportunity served and on the benevolence of some generous Loyallists Afterward retiring to Kemsing near to Sevenoke in Kent lived obscurely with his Son in law for about 7 years before his death In fine preaching at Sevenoke on the 14 day of August being then the Lords day in sixteen hundred fifty and nine dropt dead from his horse in his return thence to Kemsing Whereupon he was buried on the north side of the Altar in the Chancel belonging to the Church of Kemsing Over his grave was a marble monument set up near to the East Window with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 243. a. ZACHARIE BOGAN Son of Will. Bogan Gent. was born at Little Hempston in Devonshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in Mich. term under the tuition of Ralph Button a Puritannical Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year 1640 and that of his age 15 admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. of Nov. the year following left the University when the City of Oxon was garrison'd for the King return'd after the surrender thereof to the Parliament took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Mich. term 1646 elected Prob. Fellow of the said Coll. in the year following and afterwards proceeding in his faculty became a retired and religious Student and much noted in the University for his admirable skill in the Tongues He hath written Additions to Franc. Rous his Archeologiae Atticae Printed several times before 1674. in qu. Of the threats and punishments recorded in Scripture alphabetically composed with some brief observations on sundry texts Oxon. 1653. oct dedicated to his Father Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life Oxon. 1653. oct grounded on Psal 32.11 and on Phil. 4.4 dedicated to his Mother Joan. Comparatio Homeri cum scriptoribus sacris quoad Normam loquendi Oxon. 1658. oct Help to prayer both extempore and by a set forme as also to meditation c. Oxon. 1660. oct published after the Authors death by Dan. Agas Fellow of C. C. Coll. He also wrot a large and learned Epistle to Edm. Dickinson M. A. of Mert. College set before a book going under his name entit Delphi Phaenicizantes c. Oxon. 1655. oct At length this our Author Bogan who had contracted an ill habit of body by studying surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the first day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine whereupon his body was committed to the Earth about the middle of the north cloister belonging to the Coll. of Corp. Christi joyning to the S side of the Chappel there At that time and before the Nation being very unsetled and the Universities expecting nothing but ruin and dissolution it pleased Mr. Bogan to give by his will to the City of Oxon 500 l. whereas had the nation been otherwise he would have given that money to his College His picture drawn to the life hangs in the Council Chamber joyning to the Guild-hall of the City of Oxon. CHARLES HERLE third Son of Ed. Herle Esq by Anne his Wife Daugh. of John Trefrie was born at Prideaux Herle near Lystwithyel in Cornwall where tho his ancestors have lived several generations in gentile fashion yet they were originally of West Herle in Northumberland At 14 years of age in 1612 he became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. in Mich. term took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1618 and afterwards Holy Orders but what were his employments or preferments that immediatly followed I know not Sure I am that he was Rector of one of the richest Churches in England which is at Winwick in Lancashire before the eruption of the Civil War in 1642 that at the eruption he having always been esteemed a Puritan sided with the Presbyterian Party took the Covenant was elected one of the Assemb of Divines in 1643 being then a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament and in the year 1646 July 22 he was voted by the members of the said Parliament Prolocutor of that Assembly after the death of Twysse In 1647 he with Steph. Marshall went with certain Commissioners appointed by the Parliament into Scotland to give them a right understanding of the affairs in England but what he did there was chiefly to give constant notice of the Scots resolutions and the forwardness of their Levies After the King was beheaded he retired to his rectory of Winwick having first received satisfaction from the Parliament for his Service and losses he sustained at Winwick after he had fled to London for protection during the heat of the War where he was esteemed by the factious party the prime man of note and power among the Clergy In 1654 he was by the Authority of Parl. appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Lanc. for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters in which office he with Is Ambrose of Preston Edw. Gee of Eccleston c. shewed great severity against them This Mr. Herle hath extant under his name these things following Several Sermons as 1 A pair of Compasses for the Church and State Sermon before the House of Com. at their monthly fast ult Nov. 1642 on Zach. 8.19 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Davids Song of three parts Thanksgiving Sermon before the H. of Lords for Gods great deliverance of the Parl. City and Kingdom
pity as well as with strength of arguments to convince him of his dangerous error telling him that either he was in a damnable error or else that the whole Church of Christ who had in all ages worshipped the Holy Ghost had been guilty of Idolatry But Biddle who had little to say was no whit moved either by the learning gravity piety or zeal of that good Archbishop but continued as 't is said obstinate After he had remained about six months at liberty in Glocester he was cited to Westminster to make his defence but being put off by the Parliament to a Committee to be examined his crime was by them laid closely to his charge The crime he denied not and desired withal that some Theologist whom they should appoint might dispute with him concerning that criminal matter in hand But it being delayed from day to day Biddle desired a certain Knight Sir Hen. Vane of that Committee that his cause might be heard or he set at liberty The Knight proposed it and shewed himself a friend to Biddle who thereupon was confin'd more close than before Whereupon came out his book for the satisfaction of all People with this title Twelve questions or arguments drawn out of Scripture wherein the commonly received opinion touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit is clearly and fully refuted Printed 1647. in qu. Before which is printed a letter tending to the said purpose written to the said Sir Henry Vane a member of the H. of Commons And at the end is An exposition of five principal passages of the Scripture alledged by the Adversaries to prove the Deity of the Holy Ghost These I say being published and making a great noise in the World the Author was summoned to appear at the Bar of the H. of Com. being asked whether he owned that book or Tw questions c. and the opinions therein he answered yea and that they were his Whereupon being remitted to his Prison they ordered on the 6. of Sept. 1647 that the said Book blasphemous against the Deity of Christ be called in and burnt by the hand of the common Hangman and that the Author be examined by the Committee of plunder'd Ministers Both which were done viz. the book burnt on the 8 of the same month and he examined While these things were in doing the book vended so fast that the same year it was printed again in oct and afterwards answer'd by Matthew Poole M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge in his Plea for the Godhead of the Holy Ghost c. Soon after or at the same time was published of Biddles writing A confession of faith touching the Holy Trinity according to Scripture Lond. 1648. oct It consists of 7 articles each of which is confirmed all along by subjoyned proofs and reasonings on them which for the most part tend to disprove the Deity of our Saviour Before the said confession is put a Preface against the Holy Trinity and about the same time came out of our Authors composition The testimonies of Irenaeus Justin Martyr Tertullian Novatianus Theophilus Origen who lived in the two first centuries after Christ was born or thereabouts as also of Arnobius Lanctantius c. concerning that one God and the Persons of the Trinity together with observations on the same Printed in oct Upon the coming out of which things the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westminster made their endeavours to the Parliament that he might suffer death in the month of May 1â—48 but what hindred it I cannot tell unless it was the great dissention that was then in the said Parliament However his confinement was made close Some time after the publication of Biddles first book it hapned that Joh. Cloppenburch D. D. and Professor in the University of Frisia was at Bristow in England where meeting with Will. Hamilton a Scot lately Fellow of All 's Coll. in Oxon the said William did not only then furnish him with a copy of that book but debated the controversie with him Afterwards upon the return of Cloppenburch to his own Country he did excellently well answer it in Latine which he had translated so much as he answer'd in a small treatise entituled Vindiciae pro Deitate spiritus sancti adversus Pneumatomachum Johan Bidellum Anglum printed at Franeker 1652. qu. It must be also noted that upon the publishing of the said book of Biddle I mean his Twelve questions Samuel Maresius D. D. and chief Professor of that faculty at Gronningen did take occasion in his Epist ded before his first Vol. entit Hydra Socianismi written against Joh. Volkelius and Jo. Crellius to give this account of the growth of Socinianisme Vigesimus jam praeteriit annus ex quo pestilentissima haec nutrix viz. Socinianismus in Sarmaticis paludibus primum nata caput erexit per Germaniam ac Belgiam nostram sibilis halitu faedissimo grassata etiam tetrum suum virus superato oceano intulit in Angliam in quâ tristi hoc tempore dicitur incredibiles progressus fecisse c. As for the Confession of Faith c. beforemention'd it was examined and confuted by Nich. Estwick Rector of Warkton in Northamptonshire in a book published by him in qu. an 1656 Which being dedicated to Edward Lord Montague of Boughton he takes occasion to say that Biddles writings have not been enclosed within the confines of our nation but have taken their wings and have fled beyond the Seas to the disreputation of our dear Country in the reformed Churches insomuch that Maresius Professor of Divinity at Groningen is bold to avouch I cannot say either truly or charitably that Socinianisme hath fixed its seat here in England and displayed openly the banners of its impiety The said Estwick also had some years before held forth an antidote against the Poyson of Biddles Twelve arguments against the Deity of the Holy Ghost Since which as 't is usual in deceivers so Estwick words it Biddle grew worse and worse and levied his forces against the Holy Trinity and published notwithstanding other matters replenished with Socinian Tenents Our Author Biddle continued yet in restraint and none of the Assembly durst venture to give him a visit either out of charity or to convince him of his errors nor indeed any Divine of note of the other party only Mr. Pet. Gunning who had several friendy conferences with him At length some of the Layty of London and others of the Country would come to him either to see or converse with him who being taken with his religious discourse and Saint-like conversation a certain Justice of Peace of Staffordshire prevailed so far with his keeper that upon security given for his appearance upon the least summons he should be surrendred up to him Whereupon he was conveyed into Staffordshire and not only made by him his Chaplain but also Preacher of a Church there These matters soon after being known at London John Bradshaw President of the Council of
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
Westminster near to the grave of his great Uncle Dr. Barnab Potter sometimes Bishop of Carlile While the said Ch. Potter was an Undergraduat of Ch. Ch Tho. Severne M. A. and Student thereof Son of Joh. Severne of Broadway afterwards of Powick in Woocestershire was his Tutor and wrot and composed the said Theses Quadragesimales and therefore he who is now living at Worcester is to be taken for the Author of that book much commended when it was first published JOHN HULETT Son of Silvester Hul. Gent. was born in London entred a Commoner in New Inn in the beginning of 1627 aged 20 took the degrees in Arts afterwards travelled into several parts of the World particularly into Russia and Muscovia and improved himself in several sorts of Learning especially in Geography and Mathematicks After his return he setled in Oxon taught Scholars those Arts and became a useful person in his generation He hath written and published Several Ephemerides Description and use of the Quadrant Quadrat Nocturnal Printed several times in octav He died in his Lodgings in Catstreet on the 21 day of December in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxford leaving then behind several written Specimens of his profession which without doubt might be useful if made extant JOHN TOY Son of Joh. Toy was born and bred in Grammar Learning within the City of Worcester became either a Servitor or Batler of Pembroke Coll. in 1627 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts entred into Orders and became Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford under which title he took the degree of Master of Arts in 1634. Afterwards he was made Master of the Free then of the Kings School within the place of his nativity which last he kept for 20 years space and furnished the Universities with several hopeful youths He hath written and published Worcesters Elegie and Eulogie Lond. 1638. quar a Poem Before which Will. Rowland the Poet mentioned among these Writers under the year 1659. hath two Lat. Copies of Verses Quisquiliae poeticae tyrunculis in re metrica non inutilis Lond. 1662. oct Fun. Serm. on Mrs. .... Tomkyns on Job 14.14 Printed 1642. qu. And whether he was Author of Grammatices Graecae Enchiridion in usum scholae Collegialis Wigooniae Lond. 1650. oct I know not yet to the contrary He gave up the ghost on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester Over his grave was a Mon. soon after put with an Inscription thereon wherein he is stiled Vir ingenii perpoliti industriae indefessae eruditionis singularis eximiae morum sanctitatis vitae integer pubis constituendae scientissimus pietate fide modestia gravitate nullâque non virtute spectabilis c. WILLIAM PAGE received his first breath in the Parish of Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex applied his mind to Academical Studies in Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1606 aged 16 took the degrees in Arts and in the year 1619 was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. Afterwards by the favour of Dr. Laud Bishop of London he succeeded Dr. Joh. Denison in the Rectory of the Free-school at Reading and about the same time was presented by the Society of the said Coll. to the Rectory of East Lockyng near to Wantage in Berks which he kept to the time of his death but his School not for he was sequestred of it by the Committee of Parliament in 1644. In the year 1â—34 he proceeded Doctor of Divinity at which time and after he was esteemed well vers'd in the Greek Fathers a good Preacher and Disputant He hath written A Treatise of justification of bowing at the name of Jesus by way of answer to an Appendix against it Oxon. 1631. qu. An examination of such considerable reasons as are made by Mr. Prynne in a reply to Mr. Widdowes concerning the same Argument Printed with the former Of which Treatise or Treatises I find in a letter written by Will. Baker Secretary to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury directed to the Author Page these passages following Good Mr. Page my Lord of Canterbury is informed that you are publishing a Treatise touching the question of Bowing at the name of Jesus an Argument wherein Mr. Giles Widdowes foolishly and Mr. W. Prynne scurrilously have already to the scandal and disquiet of the Church exercised their pens His Grace hath formerly shewed his dislike of them both and hearing that you take up the bucklers in a theam of so small necessity and of so great heat and distemper which will draw a new Reply for Prynne will not sit down as an idle spectator and beget bitterness and intestine Contestations at home among our selves he is much offended that you do stickle and keep on foot such questions which may be better sopited and silenced than maintained and drawn into sidings and partakings And therefore I am wished to advise you to withdraw your self from these or the like domestick broyles and if your Treatise be at the press to gve it a stop and by no means suffer it to be divulged c. This Letter being written at Lambeth 31 May 1632 the Contents thereof flew to Fulham where finding Dr. Laud B. of London he wrot this following Letter to the Vicechanc. of the Univ. of Oxon dated 22 June following Sir these are to pray and require you in his Majesties name that a book lately printed at Oxon and made by Mr. Page of Allsoules College be presently set to sale and published It is as I am informed in defence of the Canon of the Church about bowing at the name of Jesus and modestly and well written And his Majesty likes not that a Book boldly and ignorantly written by Mr. Prynne against the Church should take place as the Churches opinion against her self or as unable to be answer'd by the Church c. What else our Author Page hath written are Certain Animadversions upon some passages in a Tract concerning Schisme and Schismatiques c. Oxon 1642. qu. Which Tract was written by J. Hales of Eaton The Peace-maker or a brief motive to Unity and Charity in Religion Lond. 1652. in 16o. He hath also published a Serm. on 1 Tim. 5.3.4.5 Printed in qu. which I have not yet seen and also translated from Lat. into Engl. Tho. à Kempis his Treatise De imitatione Christi in 4 books Oxon. 1639. in tw Before which Translation by him amended and corrected he hath set a large Epistle to the Reader This Dr. Page departed this mortal life in the Parsonoge-house of Lockyng before mentioned on the 24 of Febr. being then Ashwednesday in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by Mr. George Ashwell who had the care of his Library and Interment committed to him See more in Dr. Sam. Page under the year 1630.
Redeeming the time serm on Ephes 5.16 Lond. 1658. qu. Looking unto Jesus A view of the everlasting Gospel or the Souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation Lond. 1658. qu. Printed with the former In the penning of which he took most delight as being a subject as he complains almost wholly neglected by all others Warre with Devils Ministration of and Communion with Angells Printed also with the former At the end of this Treatise are subjoined two Letters the first written by Rich. Baxter dat at Lond. 29 Nov. 1661. and the other by Will. Cole dat at Preston 8 Oct. 1661. He hath also a Sermon extant preached at the funeral of the Lady Houghton which I have not yet seen nor others He died suddenly of an Apoplexy as I have heard but when I know not JAMES HEATH Son of Rob. Heath the Kings Cutler living in the Strand leading from London to Westminster was born I presume there educated in Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term 1646 aged 17 ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 lived afterwards upon his Patrimony and adhered to K. Ch. 2. in his Exile till it was almost spent and then married which hindred his restoration to his Students place in 1660. About that time having several Children he was forced to write books and correct the Press for bread to maintain them He was a good School-scholar had a command of his Engl. and Lat. pen but wanted a head for a Chronologer and was esteemed by some a tolerable Poet. He hath communicated to the World A brief Chronicle of the late intestine War in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland c. Lond. 1661. oct enlarged by the Author and compleated from 1637 to 1663 in four parts Lond. 1663. in a thick octavo Some Copies have in them the pictures of the most eminent Soldiers in the said War which makes the book valued the more by some Novices But this Chronicle being mostly compiled from lying Pamphlets and all sorts of News-books are innumerable Errors therein especially as to name and time things chiefly required in History To this Chronicle is added a Continuation from the end of 1662 to 1675. by Joh. Philipps Nephew by the Mother to Joh. Milton Lond. 1676. fol. Which Continuation is mostly made up from Gazets Another Edit is continued to 1691. Elegy upon Dr. Tho. Fuller that most incomparable Writer who deceased 15 of Aug. 1661. Lond. 1661. on one side of a sheet This Dr. Th. Fuller was Author of The Ch. Hist from the time of Christ till the year 1648 and and of divers other things The glories and magnificent triumphs of the blessed restitution of K. Ch. 2. from his arrival in Holland 1659 till this present c. Lond. 1662. in a large oct It reaches to the month of May 1661 and hath added to it the names of the then Companions of the Order of the Gaâ—ter the Nobility Archb. and Bishops Judges Baronets and the Marriage of Catherina of Portugal to K. Ch. 2. and their noble reception by the City of Lond. by water from Hampton Court to their Landing at Whitehall 23 Aug. 1662. Flagellum or the Life and Death Birth and Burial of Ol. Cromwell the late Usurper Lond. 1663. The third Edit came out with additions at Lond. 1665. all in oct Elegy with Epitaph on the much lamented death of Dr. Sanderson late L. Bishop of Lincolne who deceased in the latter end of Jan. 1662. Lond. 1663. on one side of a sh of paper A new book of Loyal English Martyrs and Confessors who have endured the pains and terrors of death arraignment c. for the maintenance of the just and legal Government of these Kingdoms both in Church and State Lond. 1663. in tw Brief but exact survey of the Affairs of the United Netherlands comprehending more fully than any thing yet extant all the particulars of that Subject c. Printed in tw but when I know not for I have not yet seen it He died of a Consumption and Dropsie in Well-Close near to the Lame Hospital in the Parish of S. Barthelmew the Less in London on the 16 of August in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was the third day after buried in the Church of that Parish near to the Skreen-door leaving then behind him several Children to be maintained by the Parish as also the foundation of other matters which he intended to have published if life had been spared JOHN L'ISLE son of Sir Will. L'isle of Wootton in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire Knight was born there became a Communer of the upper Order of Magd. Hall in the year 1622 aged 16 or thereabouts took a degree in Arts went to one of the Temples and at length became a Barrister and Counsellor of note In the year 1640 he was chose a Burgess for Winchester to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13 of Apr. and again for the same place in that unhappy Convention that met on the 3 of Nov. following In which last Parl. he improved his interest to the purpose bought State lands good cheap was made Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester which belongs to a Divine upon the Ejectment of Dr. Will. Lewis which Office he voluntarily surrendring up into the hands of the Parliament in the latter end of June 1649 it was confer'd upon John Cook the then Sollicitor General In Dec. 1647 he was appointed one of the Commons to carry to his Maj. in the Isle of Wight the four Bills dethroning Bills and in Jan. 1648 was one of the Judges to condemn to death his said Majesty Soon after he was constituted a Member of the Council of State and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal helped in Parliament to change the Government from Kingly to Parliamentary and from that to Kingly again and did swear Oliver Protector at his first installing chief Magistrate contrary to the four Acts of Parliament which he helped to make with others that made it Treason so to do In 1654 he by the name of John L'isle one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal and Recorder of Southampton was chose Burgess for that place to serve in the Parliament which began 3 of Sept. the same year was afterwards taken out of the House to have a negative Voice in the other House that is House of Lords and made President of the High Court of Justice for a time by whose violence acted there fell many gallant and heroick Spirits some of which I am now about to mention He hath extant under his name Several Speeches as 1 Speech spoken in a common Hall London 3 Jul. 1645. concerning observations on the Kings Cabinet of Letters See more in Tho. Browne under the year 1673. 2 Speech while he was Pres. of the High Court of Justice at the pronouncing of sentence of death on Sir Hen.
THURMAN the Son if I mistake not of Edw. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex who had been thrown out of his living by the Committee of Religion for a scandalous and malignant Priest an 1643 was educated in Westminster School and thence elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1648. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and keeping pace with the Presbyterian discipline became a Preacher some years before his Majesties restauration but when he saw how matters were like to be carried upon his return he became very vehement in his preachings and discourses against the Presbyterians and Independents So that gaining the name of one of the Royal party had a cure bestowed on him in Sussex He hath written A defence of humane learning in the Ministry Or a treatise proving that it is necessary a Minister or Preacher should be skill'd in humane learning Oxon. 1660. oct Dedicated to Dr. John Wall a rich Canon of Ch. Ch. with a flattering Epistle before it for which he was then rewarded but not altogether to his mind This book being published in Mich. term 1659 was look'd upon as a seasonable piece of service because the Universities and Ministry did then lay at stake and had certainly gone to the pot had not Monk come opportunely out of Scotland for their relief This Mr. Thurman died about sixteen hundred and seventy in Sussex as one or two of his contemporaries in Ch. Ch have informed me but where buried they could not further add CORBET OWEN son of Will. Owen of Pontsbury in Shropshire Minister was born at Hinton in that County an 1646 educated in the first rudiments of Grammar in a private School in Shrewsbury under one Scofield a loyal Parson emulated by the Town Free-school under the government of the Saints where he profited very much and more might he have done had not his friends sent him into France and thence into Flanders to be touched by the then exil'd King for the cure of the Kings Evil of which he was once so lame that he went upon crutches In the month of May 1658 he made his first entry into Westminster School and in the year following he was elected one of the Kings Scholars there where 't was usual with him to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses ex tempore in little more than half an hour In 1664 he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and in short time was well vers'd in the most crabbed subtilities of Philosophy After he was Bach. of Arts he applied himself to the study of Physick in which he made so wonderful a progress that had he lived he would have gone beyond all of his time in that faculty In 1670 he proceeded M. of A. and had there been an Act celebrated that year which was put off because of the death of the Duchess of Orleance he would have performed the exercise belonging to the Senior of that solemnity and thereby would as 't is probable have shew'd himself as excellent for Oratory as he had the year before done for his poetry He was the most forward person of his age in the University for his polite learning He was enriched with a great and happy memory a most accurate judgment and with a clear and quick wit He hath written Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum in solennibus magnifici operis Encaeniis Oxon. 1669 in 4. sh in qu. Divers poems MS. with translations of Poetry particularly the Otho of Monsieur de Corneille often acted on the French stage which he rendred into English vers He died to the great reluctancy of all those who were well acquainted with the wonderful pregnancy of his parts about the 18. day of January in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church at Cundore in Shropshire Soon after was a large epitaph made for by one that intirely loved him but whether it was put over his grave I know not The beginning is this Siste viator irrita naturae virtutisque molimina vel risu vel lachrymis prosequere c. JOHN MENNES the third Son of Andr. Mennes Esq by Jane his second Wife Daughter of John Blechendon Esq Son of Matthew Mennes was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Sandwich in Kent on the eleventh of May 1598 and was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there In the 17th year of his age or thereabouts he became a Com. of Corp. Ch. Coll. where continuing for some years did advance himself much in several sortâ— of learning especially in Humanity and Poetry and somthing in History Afterwards he became a great Traveller a most noted Sea-man and as well skil'd in marine affairs in building of Ships and all belonging thereunto as any man of his time In the raign of K. Jam. 1 he had a place in the Navy-Office and in the raign of K. Ch. 1. he was made Controller of it In 1636 I find him a Militia-Captain and in 1639 he was Captain of a Troop of horse in the expedition against the Scots In 1641 I find him a Vice-Admiral and by that title did he receive the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty at Dover in the month of Feb. the same year Afterwards upon the breaking out of the rebellion he closely adhered to the cause of his Majesty and in 1642 I find him Captain of a Ship called the Rainbow for his Maj. service while Robert Earl of Warwick was Vice-Admiral but how long he continued in that employment I cannot tell sure I am that when his Majesties cause declined he left the nation and for a time adheered to Pr. Rupert while he roved on the Seas against the Usurpers in England who being successless he retired to K. Ch. 2 in Exile took his fortune as other Royalists did yet always in a gay cheerful and merry condition After the return of his Majesty from his Exile he had the place of chief Controller of the Navy conferred on him which he kept to his dying day being accounted by all that knew him to be an honest and stout man generous and religious and well skill'd in Physick and Chimistry This Person who was always poetically given and therefore his company was delightful to all ingenious and witty men was author of the greater part of a book intit Musarum dilitiae or the Muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656. oct 2d edit James Smith whom I have mentioned under the year 1667 had so great a hand in that book that he is esteemed the author almost of half of it Sir John Mennes hath also written Epsom Wells a poem Printed in qu. and divers other poems scattered in other mens works He hath also extant a mock poem on Sir Will. D'avenant and his Gondibert and did assist as I have been credibly informed Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his Poetry on whom and his Fine Troop of Horse that ran away when they were to engage with the enemy
person of Quality to his friend in the Country c. Lond. 1676. qu. Of which book and its author you may see in another intit An account of the growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England Lond. 1678. in a thin fol. p. 22. Written by Andr. Marvel Esq A second Pacquet of Advices c. occasion'd by several seditious Pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former Pacquet c. Lond. 1677. qu. This answers first a Pamphlet intit Some considerations upon the question whether the Parliament be dissolved by its prorogation for 15 months 2 Another intit The long Parliament dissolved written by Denzill L. Holles the author of which being sought after his Chaplain a Nonconformist named Cary or Carew own'd it to free his Lord whereupon he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London in the beginning of Feb. 1676. This Cary after his Lords death lived in Hatton Garden in Holborne and practised Physick 3 A letter from a person newly chosen to sit in this Parliament to a Bencher in the Temple with a pretended answer of the Bencher to the same 4 A narrative of the cause and manner of the imprisonment of the Lords now close prisoners in the Tower of London The said two Pacquets of Advices were written as 't is said by Nedham and he encouraged thereunto by Edm. Warcup a Justice of Peace and Thomas Earl of Danby Christianissimus Christianandus or reasons for the reduction of France to a more Christian state in Europe Lond. 1678. in 10 sh in qu. Besides all these he hath written several other small things which I have not yet seen He hath translated into English Mare clausum printed in fol. 1652 or thereabouts but he being then no way affected to Monarchy gave himself therefore the license to foist in the name of a Commonwealth instead of the Kings of England and also to suppress the Epist ded to the King He also added an Appendix to it concerning the Soveraignty of the Kings of Great Britaine on the sea intit Additional Evidences which he procured as 't was thought of Joh. Bradshaw All which besides treasonable Comments and false Glosses were done in the life time of the learned author Joh. Selden After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. the English copy was corrected perfected and restored by J. H. Gent. and pr. at London 1662. fol. He the said Nedham also hath written a Preface before the book intit A new idea of the practice of Physick written by Frane de le Boe Sylvius published in English at London in 1675. oct In which Pref. towards the latter end our author Nedham saith that he had then 1675 and before a purpose to publish some Essays to discover what may be done by able men towards an advancement of knowledge in the power of Plants by the examining their natures by the principles and operations of the Chymists also that he was about to form divers Treatises for publick view c. By the way it must be known that our author in the said Preface doth shew himself a great disliker of the common way of the first studying of Physick in the Universities and seems also to run down University promotions or degrees calling them in derision the doctoral confederates the scholastic family of a fine breed who come to town with the learned Cushion Cap and Scarlet The Apothecaries boys are able to tutour them in Town-practice They vaunt and make a noise with their anatomical rattle spend much time in Anatomy neglect the chymical way c. Several things are fathered also upon him of which he was not in the least the author as the publication of The Speeches of Oliver Cromwell Hen. Ireton and Joh. Bradshaw intended to have been spoken at their execution at Tyburne 30 Jan. 1660 c. Lond. 1660. in one sh and half in qu. said in the title to be published by Marcham Nedham and Payne Fisher Servants Poets and Pamphleteers to his infernal Highness At length this most seditious mutable and railing author M. Nedham died suddenly in the house of one Kidder in D'eureux Court near Temple bar London in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the 29 of Novemb. being the Vigil of S. Andrew at the upper end of the body of the Church of S Clements Danes near the entrance into the chancel Soon after that Church being pull'd down and rebuilt and the letters on his grave taken away or defaced you shall have in their place this Epitaph made on him an 1647 printed at the end of Merc. Britanicus his welcome to hell Here lies Britanicus Hell's barking Cur That son of Belial who kept damned stir And every Munday spent his stock of spleen In venomous railing on the King and Queen Who though they both in goodness may forgive him Yet for his safety we 'll in hell receive him With this person may well be coupled Henry Care several times reflected upon by Rog. L'estrange in his Observators for a poor sniveling Fellow who after he had wrot several things in the behalf of the Church of England and the Presbyterians and had reflected on both the Universities in several of his Writings as popishly affected was at length prevail'd upon in the time of King Jam. 2. to write for the Rom. Catholicks against the Church which he before had eagerly defended where by it was made manifest that what he wrot was not for Religion or Conscience sake which he before did pretend but meerly for Interest After his death which hapned in Aug. 1688 was an Elegy written in his commendation printed on one side of a sheet of paper and a satyrical thing called Henry Cares last Will and Testament JOHN NEWTON son of Humphrey Newton of Oundle in Northamptonshire and he the second son of Joh Newt in Axmouth in Devoâ—sh was born in Northamptonshire became a Communer of S. Edm. Hall in Mich. term 1637 aged 15 years took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1641 and in the year following was actually created Master of that faculty among several Esquires Gentlemen and Soldiers that belonged to the K. and Court then residing in this University At which time his genie being naturally inclined to Mathematicks and Astronomy he by continual industry made great proficiency in them which he found advantageous to him in the times of Usurpation After his Majesties return he was actually created Doct. of Div made one of the Kings Chaplains and Rector of Rosse in Herefordshire in the place I think of Mr. Joh. Tombes ejected which he kept to his dying day He hath written these things following mostly printed in qu. Astronomia Britannica Exhibiting the doctrine of the Sphere and theory of Planets decimally by Trigonometry and by Tables c. in 3 parts Lond. 1656. 57. qu. Help to calculation with tables of Declinat Ascensions c. Lond. 1657. qu. Trigonometria Britannica shewing the construction of the natural
want of understanding tho 't is well known as the E. of Devonshires Chaplain hath said he several times within two years after his death received the Sacrament from him with seeming devotion He dyed at Hardwyke before mentioned about 10 of the clock at night on the fourth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine Whereupon his body being wrap'd up in a woollen shroud and coffin'd was two days after accompanied by most of the E. of Devonshires Family and some of the neighbourhood after they had received a funeral entertainment to the Parish Church called Hault-Hucknell where in an Isle joyning to the Church he was inter'd with the service in the Common-prayer book close to the rail of the monument of the Grandmother of the then present Earl of Dev. Soon after was a Marble stone with an inscription thereon laid over his grave the contents of which and a farther account of the person you may at large see in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium following the life in prose before mention'd written by himself and published by Rich. Blackbourne born in London sometimes M. of A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of Leyden in Holland The materials of which were all or at least the most part taken from the English life in Mâ— of Thom. Hobbes largely and more punctually written by John Aubrey his antient acquaintance born at Easton-Piers near Malmsbury bred under the same Master who had been a Pedagogue above 40 years that educated Hobbes in Grammatical learning afterwards he became Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in Oxon then a Student in the Middle Temple and afterwards a member of the Royal Society Mr. Hobbes by his last Will and Test dat 25. Sept. 1677. did bequeath to Mary Tirell Daughter of his deceased Broâ—ther Edm. Hobbes 40 l. To Eleanor Harding Daughter of the said Edm. 40 l. To Elizab. Alaby Daughter of Thomas Alaby 200 l for her furtherance in marriage which Eliz. was then an Orphan and committed to the tuition of Mâ— Hobbes Exec. to the said Tho. as also an 100 l which thâ— Earl of Devon gave him to dispose in his will to be equalâ—ly divided among the Grandchildren of his said Bâ—otheâ— Edm. Hobbes to the eldest of which named Thom. Hobbes he had before given a piece of Land He also lefâ— considerable Legacies to his Executor James Wheldon a servant to the Earl of Devonshire who before had for many years been his Amanuensis EDWARD BYSSHE or Bissaeus as he writes himself Son of Edw. Bysshe of Burstow in Surrey Esq a Counsellor of Linc. Inn was born at Smallfield in the Parish of Burstow the capital tenement of which he and six of his Ancestors or more were not only Lords of but of divers other Lands in Horne near thereunto and elsewhere in the said County and some of them also owners of the Mannour of Bysshe or Bysshe Court situated and being between Burstow and Smallfield As for our author whom we are now to mention he became a Communer of Trin. Coll. in 1633 aged 18 years but before he took a degree he went to Lincolns Inn studied the Common Law and was made a Barrester In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Blechenley in Surrey to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year and afterwards taking the Covenant he was about 1643 made Garter King of Arms in the place of Sir John Borough who had followed his Majesty to Oxon. On the 20 of Oct. 1646 there were votes passed in the House of Commons that he the said Bysshe should be Garter K. of Arms and Clarenceaux and Will. Râ—ley should be Norroy or the Northern K. of Arms and that a committee be appointed to regulate their fees so that if Bysshe was ever invested in the said office of Clarenceaux as several of the Coll. of Armes say he was then did he succeed Arthur Squibb who had obtained that office by the endeavours of his Son in Law Sir John Glynn a noted and leading member in that Parliament upon the recess to his Majesty at Oxon of Sir Will. Le Neve Howsoever it is sure I am that in the greatest part of the interrupted times our aâ—thor Bysshe was both Garter and Clarenceaux his genie being more adequat to Arms and Armory in which he did excel than to the municipal laws In 1654 he was elected Burgess for Rigate in Surrey to serve in that Convention called the Little Parliament that met at Westm 3. Sept. the same year and in 1658 a Burgess for Gatton in the same County for that Convention that met at the same place 27 Jan. in that year After the Kings restauration he was forced to leave his Gartership to make room for Sir Edw. Walker who had that office conferr'd on him by his Majesty on the death of Sir Hen. S. George an 1644. and with much ado obtaining the place of Clarenceaux Sir Will. Le Neve being then distracted had the honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him In 1661 he was chosen Burgess for Blechenley to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May the same year which continuing 17 years or more he became a Pensioner as 't is said and received 100 l. every Session and yet was very poor In the rebellious times he was a great gainer by being a Parliament man and thereupon became an encourager of learning and learned men particularly that noted Critick John Gregory of Ch. Ch. He had a very choice Library of books all richly bound with gilt dorses but after the Kings restauration running much in debt became at length necessitous and not only took dishonest courses by issuing out divers Grants of Armes under hand as Clarenceaux to the undoing of the Heralds Office meerly to supply his necessities but also sold many of his books which cost him much for inconsiderable prizes He had been one that understood Armes and Armory very well but could never endure to take pains in Genealogies and in his younger years was esteemed a worthy and virtuous Person but in his latter not being thâ—n much degenerated as to manners His works of learning are these Notae in librum Nicholaâ— Upton de studio militari Notae in Johannis de Bado aureo libellum de Armis Notae in Henrici Spelmanni Aspidologiam These three things which were all printed together at Lond. 1654. fol. weâ—e written by Sir Ed. Bysshe in English but translated into Latine by Dav. Whitford to whom he exhibited after his expulsion fâ—om the Univ. of Oxon. for several years He also pâ—t out under his own name a translation from Gr. into Lat. with some notes and corrections entit Palladius de gentibus Indiae â—ragmanibus Lond. 1665. qu. in Gr. and Lat. To which he added 1 S. Ambrosius de moribus Brachmannorum 2 Anonymus de Bragmanibus Both in Gr. and Lat. Of which three pieces see more in Jo. Gregory under the year 646.
is reprinted as if it was a new thing by Dr. Hen. More among the additions to the Sec. edit of Saducismus triumphans Plus ultra or the progress and advancement of knowledge since the dayes of Aristotle c. Lond. 1668. oct An account of which book you may see in the Royal or Phil. Transactions nu 36. Several Sermons as 1 Fast Sermon on the Kings Martyrdome on Rom. 13.2 Lond. 1667. 2 Catholic Charitie recommended in a Serm. before the L. May. of Lond. on 1. Pet. 1. part of the 22 verse in order to the abating the animosities among Christians that have been occasion'd by differences in religion Lond. 1669. qu. 3 Seasonable recommendation and defence of reason in the affairs of religion against infidelity Sceptisme and fanaticisme of all sorts on Rom. 12. latter part of the first verse Lond. 1670. oct See more Sermons following The way of happines in its difficulties and encouragements cleared from many popular and dangerous mistakes Lond. 1679. oct This had also another title put to it the same yeare with alterations thus A discourse concerning the difficulties of the way to happines whence they may arise and how they may be overthrowne with an account of the shortness and vanity of the animal religion c. in oct A Seasonable recommendation and defence of reason in the affaires of religion against infidelitie Sceptisme and Fanaticismes of all sorts Lond. 1670. qu. Philosophia Pia A discourse of the religious temper and tendences of the experimental Philosophy which is profest by the Royal Society Lond. 1671. oct A Praefaratory answer to Mr. Hen. Stubbe the Doctor of Warwick wherein the malignity hypocrisie and falshood of his temper pretences and reports c. in his animadversions on Plus ultra are discovered Lond. 1671. oct A farther discovery of Mr. Stubbe in a brief reply to the last Pamphlet against Jos Glanvill Lond. 1671. oct Ad Clerum Somersetensem Epistola ΠΣΟΣΦΩÎΗΣΙΣ Pr. in one sh in oct at the end of the Farther discovery An earnest invitation to the Lords Supper Lond. 1673. 74. 77. in tw Seasonable reflections and discourses in order to the conviction and cure of the scoffing and infidelity of a degenerate age Lond. 1676. oct Made up of four Sermons viz. 1 The sin and danger of scoffing at religion on 2. Pet. 3.3 2 The Churches contempts from profane and fanatick Enemies on Psal 123.3.4 3 Moral Evidence of a life to come on Matth. 22.32 4 The serious considerations of a future judgment on Acts 17.31 Essays on several important subjects in Philosophy and Religion Lond. 1676. qu. Which Essays being 7 in number except the last were published singly before by the author whose preface to them gives a particular account of his new furbishing and vamping them up in this collection An Essay concerning preaching written for the direction of a young Divine c. Lond. 1678. oct A seasonable defence of preaching and the plain way of it Printed with the Essay concerning c. Saducismus triumphans or full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions in two parts The first treats of the possibility the second of the real existence of them with a Letter of Dr. Hen. More on the same subject The first part consists of his Considerations about Witchcraft c. reprinted herein the fifth time The second part is made up of an Answer to part of Mr. John Websters Display of suppos'd Witchcraft c. Lond. 1667. fol. and of our authors former narrative of the Daemon of Tidworth and a second relation printed with it inlarged together with a collection of 26 modern relations The authors imperfect preface to the second part gives an account of the several editions of his former treatise of Witches and relates the many motives which induced him to those large additions in this edition The person who perused his papers after his death disgested his materials that were left somewhat incompleat into order and distinctness tied the pieces methodically together and supplied what was wanting by advertisements scatter'd through the whole work The last advertisement is the most considerable and as an appendage to the first part concerning the possibility of apparitions c. is added an easie true and genuine notion and consistent explication of the nature of a spirit translated out of the two last Chapters of Dr. More 's Enchiridion Metaphysicum c. Lond. 1681. oct and there again in 82 with large additions of the said More the publisher of both editions An account of which additions he gives in the beginning of the work Some discourses Sermons and remains Lond. 1681. qu. with his picture before them Before these Sermons in number eleven most of which came out in small vol. is prefix'd a short preface of Anth. Horneck the publisher of the said Discourses c. In which is briefly drawn our authors character mostly as to his eminent ministerial endowments in very lively and graceful strokes The zealous and impartial Protestant shewing some great but less heeded dangers of popery c. in a Letter to a member of Parliament Lond. 1681. qu. This book being published a little before the authors death was so displeasing to some Parliament men that they would have called the author to an account for it if he had lived a little longer Letter to the Earl of Bristol with another to a friend of the usefulness of the universal character with the way of learning it MS which I think is not extant See more of our author Glanvil and some of his writings in Rob. Crosse under the year 1683. He hath also published Two Discourses viz. A discourse of truth by Dr. Geor. Rust Bishop of Dromore and The way to happiness and salvation Lond. 1677. in tw which discourses came out afterwards 1683 in oct with this title Two choice and useful treatises The one Lux orientalis c. The other a discourse of truth by the late reverend Dr. G. Rust L. Bish of Dromore in Ireland with Annotations on them by Dr. Hen. More as I suppose These Annotations are full as large as the discourses themselves on which they are written The title to the latter Annotations on Dr. Rusts discourse run thus Annotations upon the discourse of truth In which is inserted by way of digression A brief return to Mr. Baxters reply which he calls a placid collation with the learned Dr. Hen. More occasioned by the Doctors answer to a letter of the learned Psythophorist which letter of Mr. Baxter Dr. More published without the authors knowledge in the sec edit of our author Glanvils Saducismus triumphans c. whereunto is annexed a devotional Hymn translated for the use of the sincere Lovers of true piety Lond. 1683. oct Mr. Glanvill hath a pretty large letter before Dr. Rust's discourse concerning the subject and the author of it The Annotator to the reader before his Annotations on the last discourse endeavours to make people believe that Dr.
followed the Court from Newcastle and having received satisfaction concerning their sobriety and education he was willing to receive them as Grooms of his Bedchamber to wait upon his person with Mr. Maule and Mr. Maxwell which the Commissioners approving they were that night admitted and by his Majesty instructed as to the duty and service he expected from them So as they thenceforth attended his Royal Person agreeable to that great trust with due observance and loyalty and were by Maule and Maxwel affectionately treated Being thus setled in that honorable office and in good esteem with his Maj. Mr. Herb. continued with him when all the rest of the Chamber were removed till his Majesty was to the horror of all the world brought to the block It was then that Mr. Herbert was fully satisfied that the King was not the Man that the Presbyterians Independents and other factious people who obtained their ends by lies and slanders made him to be He clearly found that he was no Papist no obstinate Person no cruel or bloody Man no false dealer c. but purely a man of God which made him in an high manner lament his untimely death His Majesty tho he found him to be Presbyterianly affected yet withal he found him very observant and loving and therefore entrusted him with many matters of moment among which was his sending by him from the Isle of Wight his gracious Message to the Parliament which in the evening he gave it sealed up to him directed to the Speaker of the Lords House with a Letter to his Daughter the Princess Elizabeth who was then at S. James's with her Governess The wind was then averse and much ado Mr. Herbert had to cross the Sea But no delay was suffer'd in regard the King had commanded him to hasten away that his Letters might be delivered next day before the Lords rose When he was Landed at S. Hampton he took post and it may not be forgotten that at one stage the Postmaster a malevolent person understanding from whom the pacquet came and that it required extraordinary speed he mounted him upon an horse that had neither good eyes or feet so as usually he stumbled much which with deep ways and dark weather would have abated his hast and endanger the Rider Yet so it fell out by good providence that the horse albeit at full Gallop most of that 12 miles riding neither stumbled nor fell at which the People at the next stage admired The Kings pacquet was within the time limited delivered to William Lord Grey of Werk at that time Speaker Which done Mr. Herbert waited on the young Princess at S. James's who gave him her hand to kiss and was overjoyed with his Majesties kind Letter to which her Highness the next day returned an answer by the said Mr. Herbert who at his arrival at Carisbroke had the Kings thanks for his diligence And for a badge of the fair esteem that K. Ch. 2. had of him for faithfully serving his royal Father during the two last years of his life he did after his restauration by Lett. Pat. dat 3. July 1660 advance him to the dignity of a Baronet by the name of Thomas Herbert of Tinterne in Monmouthshire because Little Tinterne about half a mile from Tinterne Abbey was his own estate and the seat of Tho. Herbert before mention'd He hath written A relation of some years travels into Africa and the greater Asia especially the territories of the Persian Monarchy and some parts of the oriental Indies and Iles adjacent Lond. 1634. 38. c. 1677. which is the fourth impression wherein many things are added which were not in the former All the impressions are in fol. and adorn'd with Cuts He also at the proposal of John de Laet his familiar friend living at Leyden did translate some books of his India occidentalis but certain business interposing the perfecting of them was hindred He left behind him at his death an historical account of the two last years of the life of K. Ch. 1. the Martyr which he entit Threnodia Carolina written by him an 1678. in qu. on this account viz. that the Parliament a little before taking into their consideration of appointing 70 thousand pounds for the funeral of the said King and for a monument to be erected over his grave Sir Will. Dugdale then Garter King of Armes sent to our author Sir Thomas living at York to know of him whether ever the said King spoke in his hearing where he would have his body bestowed in burial to which Sir Tho. returning a large answer with many observations and things worthy of note concerning that King Sir William thereupon being much taken with it as containing many things which he never heard of before did desire him by another Letter to write a Treatise of the actions and sayings of the said King from his first confinement to his death which he did accordingly About the same time the author of this book having occasion to write to Sir Thomas for information of certain persons then or about that time attending the King he thereupon sent him several Letters in answer to his Queries with divers other matters by way of digression which Letters contain as it seems the chief contents of Thren Car. and are several times quoted in this work He also assisted the said Sir Will. Dugdale in his compiling the third vol. of Monast Anglic. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Knight in the Fasti an 1642. At length this worthy person Sir Thomas Herbert who was a great observer of men and things in his time died in his house at York on the first day of March S. Davids day in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 76 years and was buried in the Church there commonly called S. Crux or S. Cross situated in the street called Fossegate Over his grave was a monument soon after erected by his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Gervas Cutler of Stainborough in Yorksh Knight with a large inscription thereon Wherein we are instructed that he took to his first Wife Lucia Daughter of Sir Walt. Alexander Servant to K. Ch. 1 by whom he had issue Philip Henry Heir to his Father Montgomery Thomas William c. This Sir Thomas a little before his death gave several Mss to the publick Library at Oxon and others to that belonging to the Cathedral at York and in the Ashmolean Musaeum there are certain collections of his which he made from the registers of the Archbishops of York given thereunto by Sir W. Dugdale Knight I find one Tho. Herbert to be author of a poem entit An Elegy upon the death of Thomas Earl of Strafford c. Printed in one sh in qu. an 1641. but him I take not to be the same with our author Sir Thomas nor to be the same with Sir Tho. Herbert Knight Clerk of the Council at Dublin of Hen. Cromwell L. Lieutenant of Ireland an 1657. 58.
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
volebat cum vita merita ejus laudes omnes longe superarent In the Rectory of Winwick succeeded Thom. Benet M.A. Fellow of Univ. Coll lately one of the Proctors of this University now Master of the said Coll. WILLIAM THOMAS son of John Thomas was born on the bridge in the Parish of S. Nicholas in the City of Bristow on the second day of Feb. 1613 educated in Grammar learning at Caermethen in Wales by the care of his Grandfather Recorder of that Town became a Student in S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term 1629 thence translated to that of Jesus of which he was made Fellow when Bach. of Arts proceeded in that faculty took holy Orders and before the Civil War began he became Vicar of Penbryn in Cardiganshire Afterwards being sequestred for his loyalty he taught School at Laughern in Caermerthenshire where after a while he read the common prayer and preached yet not without some disturbance occasioned by Olivers Itinerant preachers After his Majesties restauration in 1660 he became Chauntor of the Cathedral Church of St. David in the place of Dr. Griff. Higges deceased was actually created Doct. of Divinity made Chaplain to James Duke of York and about that time had the Living of Llanbedder in the Valley in Pembrokshire confer'd upon him In 1665 Nov. 25. he was installed Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Tho. Warmestry deceased and about that time he gave up Llanbedder for the Rectory of Hampton Lovet six miles distant from Worcester On the 27. of January 1677 he was consecrated with Dr. Sancroft to the See of Cant. Bishop of S. David at which time liberty was given him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it and in the middle of Aug. 1683 he was translated to the See of Worcester in the place of Dr. James Fleetwood deceased where he sate to the time of his death in good respect from the Clergy and Laity He hath written Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the Assize at Caermerthen on Exod. 20.16 Lond. 1657. qu. 2 Serm. before the right honorable the Lords assembled in Parliament in the Abbey Ch. of S. Pet. Westm upon the Fast-day appointed 10. Apr. 1678. on Luke 13.3 Lond. 1678. qu. 3 The mammon of unrighteousness detected and purified preached in the Cathedral of Worcester 19 Aug. 1688 on Luke 16.9 Lond. 1689. qu. Apology for the Church of England in point of separation from it Lond. 1678. 9 oct Written in the time of Usurpation A pastoral letter to his Clergy of Worcester Dioc. about catechising Printed with many things expung'd since his death It was as 't is said written in answer to Dr. G. Burnet Bishop of Salisbury his Pastoral letters about Oathes an 1689. Roman Oracles silenced or the prime testimonies of antiquity produced by Hen. Turbervil in his Manual of controversies Lond. 1691. Published in the beginning of Mar. 1690. This worthy Bishop Dr. Thomas died on the 25 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried according to his desire in the north east corner of the Cloyster belonging to the Cathedral Church of Worcester at the foot of the steps in the way from the Deanery to the Cathedral Soon after was a plain stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Depositum Gulielmi Thomas S. T. P. olim Decani Wigorniensis indigni postea Episcopi Menevensis indignioris tandem Episcopi Wigorniensis indignissimi meritis tamen Christi ad vitam aeternam resurrectionis candidati Sanctissimus doctiss Praesul pietatis erga Deum erga Regem fidelitatis charitatis erga Proximos illustre exemplum expiravit An. redemptionis MDCLXXXIX Aetatis LXXVI Junii XXV moribundus hoc quicquid supra est epitaphii pro modestia sua tumulo inscribi jussit THOMAS MANWARING a younger Son of Philip Manwaring Esq was born of an antient and gentile family in Cheshire either at Over-Peover or Baddily on the 7 of Apr. 1623 became a Commoner of Brasn Coll. 24. of Apr. 1637 where continuing about 3 years receeded without an Academical degree to his Fathers house and after the death of his elder Brother became Heir to the Lands of his Ancestors In the time of the grand rebellion he sided with the dominant party took the usual Oathes then prescribed was Sherriff of Chester in the reign of Oliver an 1657 and after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was created a Baronet 22. Nov. 1660. He hath written and published A Defence of Amicia daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester wherein is proved that she was not a Bastard Lond. 1673. oct Written against Sir Pet. Leycester A reply to an answer to The defence of Amicia wherein is proved that the reasons alledged by Sir Pet. Leycester concerning her illegitimacy are invalid c Lond. 1673. oct An answer to Sir Pet. Leycester's Addenda Lond. 1673 4. oct He died in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried by his Wife Father and Mother in a vault under a Chappel on the North side of the Chancel of the Church of Over-Peover before mentioned See more in Peter Leycester under the year 1678 p. 463. SAMUEL DERHAM son of Will. Derham of Weston called by some Weston Subter Wethele near Camden in Glocestershire was born in that County entred a Student in Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1672 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line took one degree in Physick and published Hydrologia Philosophica Or an account of Ilmington waters in Warwickshire with directions for drinking of the same Oxon. 1685. oct Experimental observations touching the original of compound bodies Printed with Hydr. Philos Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty had then and before some practice in it and dying of the small pox on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine in his house in S. Michaels parish within the City of Oxon was buried at the upper end of the north Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Parish OBADIAH GREW was born at Atherston in the Parish of Manceter in Warwickshire in Nov. 1607 partly educated in Grammaticals under Mr. Joh. Denison his Uncle admitted a Student in Ball. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Trimnell an 1624 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders at 28 years of age from the hands of Dr. Rob. Wright Bishop of Cov. and Lichfield and had some cure I presume bestowed on him in his own Country In the beginning of the Civil War he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and about that time became upon the desire of the Mayor Aldermen and principal Citizens of Coventry Minister of the great Parish of S. Michael in that City In which place The soundness of his doctrine as those of his perswasion have told me the sanctity and prudence of his conversation the vigilancy and tenderness of his care were of that constant tenor that he seemed to do all that which S.
a Batler of Madg. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon to the Parliament forces and being Puritannically educated from his childhood he submitted to the power of the Visitors when they came to reform or rather deform the University an 1648. In the latter end of the next year he was made by them Probationer-Fellow of Mert. College where as in the public Schools he shew'd himself a quick dexterous and smart Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he became a frequent preacher in these parts without any Orders from a Bishop especially in the Church or Chappel of S. Cross of Halywell in the Suburbs of Oxon where he was much frequented by those of his perswasion and somtimes by others too for his edifying way of Preaching Much about the time of his Majesties restauration he left the College and preached in London with the good approbation of those of his party So that upon the vacancy of the Church of S. Matthew in Fridaystreet in London he was by the majority of the Parishoners votes elected the Rector thereof In 1662 he was ejected at Barthelmew-tide for Nonconformity whereupon taking all opportunities he preached in Conventicles for which he was somtimes brought into trouble In the latter end of the year 1671. when then an Indulgence of Liberty was granted to Nonconformists he preached openly in London and somtimes at his native place where those of his party would usually say that the Gospel was then come among them But that Indulgence being soon after annul'd upon the petition of the Parliament made to his Majesty he return'd to his customary preaching in private and about 1675 his preaching being much admired by Elizabeth Countess or Anglesey he was taken into the service of her Family and made Chaplain to her Lord with whom he continued several years Upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot in Sept. 1678 he shewed himself very active in aggrevating the concerns thereof in his preachments and common discourses And it was usual with him to vent his mind in Conventicles not without some passion many things savouring of Treason But when the Fanatical which was generally call'd the Presbyterian Plot broke out in June 1683 he sculk'd being closely sought after and was several times in danger of being brought into trouble When K. Jam. 2. came to the Crown and another Indulgence was soon after allowed he preached openly again and continued his Lectures in and near London to the time of his death His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The inability of the highest improved natural man to attain a sufficient and right knowledge of indwelling sin discovered in three Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxford all on Rom. 7. latter part of the 7 verse Oxon. 1659. oct The running title on the top of every page is The natural mans blindness In an Epistle to the Reader set before them which cut the very sinews as t is said of Pelagius and Socinus in some of their doctrines written by one of the authors perswasion named Hen. Wilkinson D. D. Princ. of Magd. Hall is this Character given of the author viz. that he was sufficiently known to him and many others to be a godly learned and orthodox Divine and that through his modesty and low opinion of himself did deny for a long time his consent to the making of those Sermons of publick use c. 2 Whether well composed religious vowes do not exceedingly promote religion on Psal 116.12 and 14. This is the thirteenth Sermon in The Morning Exercise at Cripplegate preached in Sept 1661 Lond. 2661. qu. 3 Kings and Emperours not rightful Subjects to the Pope on Acts 26.2 This is the third Sermon in The Morning Exercise against Popery preached by Nonconformists in Conventicles in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 The faithful and diligent Servant of the Lord a funeral discourse on the death of Mr Tho. Cawton on Luke 12.43 Lond. 1677. qu. 5 How we may best cure the love of being flattered on Prov. 26.28 in the continuation of The Morning Exercise 1682. 6 How we may enquire after news not as Athenians but as Christians for the better managing our prayers and prayses for the Church of God on Acts 17.21 Preached in Oct. 1689. The revival of Grace in the vigour and fragrancy of it by a due application of the blood of Christ a Sacrifice a Testator and bearing a curse for us particularly each for the exciting and increasing the graces of the believing Communicant Lond. 1678. oct Dedicated to his Patron Arthur Earl of Anglesie Annotations upon Ezekiel and the twelve lesser Prophets In continuation of M. Poole's Annotations of the holy Scripture At length this learned and religious Nonconformist preaching on the Lords day in a Conventicle or Meeting-House in or near Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster on a Lords day Apr. 13 was taken with an apoplectical fit whereupon being conveyed to a Goldsmiths house adjoyning expired the next day ascending as t were from the Pulpit to the Throne in sixteen hundred and ninty aged 61 or thereabouts Afterwards his body was buried in the yard near the Sun-Dial within the Railes belonging to the Church of S. Paul within the said Cov. Garden wherein he before had buried 3 of his children at which time Rich. Adams M. A. somtimes Fellow of Brasn Coll. a Nonconformist Divine preached his funeral Sermon Which being extant the Reader may see more of the person at the latter end thereof p. 21.22 c. ABRAHAM WRIGHT son of Rich. Wr. Citizen and Silk dier of London son of Jeffr. Wr. of Longborough in Leycestershire was born in Black-Swan Alley in Thamestreet in the Parish of S. James Garlickhith in Lond. on the 23. of Decemb. 1611 educated in Grammar learning partly in Mercers-Chapel School in Cheapside but mostly in Merchant-Taylors School under Dr. Nich. Grey elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. an 1629 by the endeavours of Dr. Juxon President there who finding him to be a good Orator especially in proper and due pronuntiation which in his elderly years he retained in his Sermons and public Offices favoured him then and afterwards in his studies In 1632 he was elected Fellow and having then a Genie which enclined him to Poetry and Rhetorick did while Bach. of Arts make his collection of Delitiae Poetarum being then esteemed also an exact master of the Latine tongue even to the nicest criticisme On the 30. Aug. 1636 at which time Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. entertained the King and Qu. at S. Johns Coll he spoke an English Speech before them when they entred into the Library to see and be entertained in it at a dinner and after dinner he was one of the principal persons that acted in the Comedy called Loves Hospital or The Hospital of Lovers presented before their Majesties in the public refectory of that House The chief Actor was the author Mr. Geor. Wilde and the others who were all of that House
great a stranger to Covetousness that he hardly understood money which yet he took care to employ to the best uses His memory was prodigious in his younger years not only natural but acquired for he had studied and wrot of the Art of memory and improv'd it to great advantage He wrot several Treatises curious and learned which were designed to see the light but were all lost together with his great Library of many years collection and several Mss which he had brought from forreign Countries partly by the Irish and partly by the Protestant Army in the time of K. Will. 3. an 1689.90 He died in sixteen hundred seventy and one aged an hundred years and more being then as 't was computed the antientest Bishop in the world having been above 50 years a Bishop His death hapned at his Seat called Castle Lesley alias Glaslogh and was there buried in a Church of his own building which he had made the Parish Church by vertue of an Act of Parliament for that purpose in Ireland Which Church was consecrated to S. Salvator Sir James Ware in his Commentary of the Irish Bishops tells us that this Bishop Lesley was Doct. of Div. of Oxon and his Son named Charles Lesley a Minister in Ireland hath informed me that he was not only Doct. of Div. but of both the Laws of Oxford How true these things are I cannot tell sure I am that I cannot find his name in any of the registers of Congreg or Convocation or that he took any degree there GILBERT IRONSIDE sometimes Fell. of Trin. Coll was made B. of Bristow in the year 1660 and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 357. In the said See succeeded Dr. Guy Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1685. WILLIAM NICOLSON sometimes one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll succeeded Dr. Godfrey Goodman in the See of Glocester an 1660 and died in the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 362. In the said See succeeded John Prichett as I shall tell you under the year 1680. GRIFFITH WILLIAMS sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards of the Univ. of Cambr. became Bishop of Ossory in 1641 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 363. In the said See succeeded Dr. John Parry as I have told you among the said Writers an 1677. p. 448. JOHN WILKINS sometimes of New Inn afterwards of Magdalen Hall was consecrated Bish of Chester an 1668 on the death of Dr. George Hall and died in Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two under which year you may also see more of him among the Writers p. 370.371 In the said See succeeded the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson born at Creake in Norfolk bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631 commenced M. of A became Chaplain to George Lord Goring at Exeter Preb. of Sarum Preacher at S. Clements Eastcheap and afterwards at S. Christophers in London In 1660 he was installed Archd. of Surrey after it had laid void about eleven years being then D. of D. was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Preb. of Ely Chapl. in ord to his Maj and Master of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. I say that he succeeding Dr. Wilkins in Chester was consecrated to that See with Dr. Pet. Mews to Bath and Wells on the ninth day of Febr. an 1672 having before published an Exposition on the Creed c. After his death which I have mention'd elsewhere succeeded in the See of Chester Dr. Thom. Cartwright The said Dr. Joh. Pearson had a younger brother named Richard born also at Creake bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in 1646 was afterwards M. of A Professor of the Civil Law at Gresham Coll and kept his Fellowship with it went out Doct. of the Civ and Canon Law upon the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to Cambr. in the beginning of 1669 he being then Under-keeper of his Maj. Library at S. James He was a most excellent Scholar a most admired Greecian and a great Traveller He died in the summer-time an 1670 being then as 't was vulgarly reported a Rom. Cath. FRANCIS DAVIES a Glamorganshire man born became a Student of Jes Coll. an 1628 aged 17 years took the degr in Arts and was made Fellow of the said House About that time entring into holy Orders he became beneficed in Wales and in 1640 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards suffering much for the Kings Cause lived as opportunity served and was involved in the same fate as other Royalists were But being restored to what he had lost after his Maj. restauration he was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of the year 1661 being then Archd. of Landaff in the place of Tho. Prichard In. 1667 he was made Bishop of Landaff on the death of Dr. Hugh Lloyd paid his homage on the 4 of Sept. the same year and about that time was consecrated He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried as I have been informed by some of the Fellows of Jes Coll in the Cath. Ch. at Landaff In the said See of Landaff succeeded Dr. Will. Lloyd sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr consecrated thereunto on the 18 of Apr. 1675 where sitting till the death of Dr. Henshaw he was translated to Peterborough and confirmed therein 17 of May 1679. Besides the beforemention'd Franc. Davies was another of both his names the e in Davies excepted but before him in time author of A Catechism wherein is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian Faith contained in the Lords Prayer and Creed c. Lond. 1612. oct ded to Mr. Tho. Digges but whether he was of Oxford I cannot yet tell Qu. WILLIAM FULLER son of Tho. Fuller was born in London educated in the Coll. School at Westminster became a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1626 or thereabouts aged 18 years took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law six years after as a Member of S. Edm. Hall having translated himself thither some time before About that time he entred into holy Orders was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch and when the K. had taken up his head quarter at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion he became Chapl. to Edw. L. Littleton L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal there Afterwards upon the declension of the Kings Cause he suffer'd as others did taught a private School at Tâ—â—ttenham or Twickenham in Middlesex in the Reigns of Oliv. and Richard and endeavoured to instil Principles of Loyalty into his scholars At length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Dean
of March 1674 aged 74 years was buried in the Parish Church of Churchill before mention'd Sir John Monson or Mounson of South Carleton in Lincolnshire Knight of the Bath and Baronet This person who was son of Sir Tho. Mounson of the same place Baronet was born in the Parish of S. Sepulcher in London not bred in any University only spent some time in one of the Inns of Court whereby he became as good a Lawyer as any in London and as wise a man as any now 1642 in Oxon when then he assisted in all Councils and was in all Treaties particularly in that concerning the surrender of the Garrison of Oxford to the Parliament an 1646. He afterwards suffered much for his Loyalty and at length was permitted a quiet retirement He hath written 1 An Essay of afflictions by way of advice to his only son Lond. 1661. 62. Written in the time of the unhappy Wars 2 Antidote against the errors of opinions of many in their dayes concerning some of the highest and chiefest duties of religion viz. Adoration Almes Fasting and Prayer Printed with the former book 3 Supream power and common right c. This I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot give you a fuller title nor the time when printed He died in the year 1684 aged 84 or more and was buried in the Church of South Carleton before mentioned among the graves of his Ancestors The report among his Relations at this day is that when he was in Oxon in the War time he was made Doctor of Physick but false for he being versed in the Common thought it convenient to be created Doctor of the Civil Law and among those doth his name stand Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath He was created Lord Hatton of Kirbye in Northamptonshire by Let. Pat. bearing date at Oxon 29 Jul. 1643 and about that time was made privy Counsellor to K. Ch. 1. and Controller of his Houshold he being then accounted a friend to all that loved the King and Ch. of England for which he suffered in a high degree Some time after the restauration his Majesty was pleased of his own accord in consideration of his vast Sufferings and eminent Loyalty to make him one of his privy Council and as a testimony of further favour he not only made him Governour of the Isle of Guernsey for his life but confer'd the reversion of that Government on his son as a lasting mark of honour on his family This Christop L. Hatton was a principal Mecaenas of Learning and more especially of Antiquities wherein his skill and knowledge did far surpass any within the compass of his orb the Nobility that I know Sir Brian Palmes of Ashwell or Astwell in Rutlandshire Kt. This loyal Knight son of Sir Guy Palmes who had been educated in Trin. Coll was chose a Burgess for Aldbuâ—g in Yorkshire to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 13 Apr. 1640 but whether he did sit in the Parl. at Oxon 1643 I know not He died in 1654. Sir Will. Brounker Kt late Commissary general of the Musters in the Scotch Expedition an 1639 now Vicechamberlain to Prince Charles and one of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1 was then also Nov. 1. actually created Doctor of the Civil Law This loyal Knight who was son of Sir Hen. Brounker President of Mounster in Ireland by Anne his wife sister of Henry Lord Morley was created Vicount of Castle-Lyon in the said Kingdom 12 Sept. 1645 and dying in Wadham Coll. in the middle of Nov. following was buried on the 20 of the said month in the isle joyning on the west side to the north Trancept of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon leaving then behind him a son named William aged 25 years or thereabouts of whom I shall speak at large under the year 1646. Winefrid the widow of the said L. Brounker dau of Will. Leigh of Newenham in Warwickshire died 20 July 1649 after she had lost and won vast sums of money by gaming whereupon her body was conveyed to Oxon and buried by that of her husband Many years after was a large marble stone laid over their graves and in the wall near it was erected a splendid monument of Aladaster containing their Statua's sitting both leaning on a table that stands between them Sir Nich. Byron of Norfolk was also then created Doctor of the Civ Law He was Uncle to John Lord Byron was a Colonel and an excellent Commander of foot K. Ch. 1. did so much value him that in all warlike engagements he would have him always near to him I have been told by persons that had degrees confer'd upon them in these Creations that Thomas Robert and William Byron all Knights valiant Colonels for his Majesty and brothers to the most couragious Lord Byron before mention'd had degrees confer'd on them but in what faculty they knew not nor are they registred For the truth is the public Scribe or Registrary of the University that now was being given more to bibbing and smoaking than the duty of his Office many learned and valiant persons are omitted by him Nay those also that are by him remembred have only their bare names and sometimes only their Sirnames set down without the addition of their Titles Quality Office or place of habitation Sir Tho. Byron before mentioned was buried on the left side of the grave of William Lord Grandison in a little isle joyning on the south side of the choire of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon 9 Feb. 1643. Wingfield Lord Cromwell He was after the death of his father Earl of Arglas in Ireland Sir Thom. Salisbury Baronet sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University Will. Chadwell Esq He was a Burgess for Michel in Cornwall to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 which Parliament he leaving because of the violent proceedings therein retired to his Majesty at Oxon and sate in the Parl. there Ferdinando Stanhope Esq He was a Burgess for Tamworth in Staffordshire for the said Parliament but leaving it he retired to his Majesty and sate in Oxford Parliament This worthy person who was a younger son of Philip Earl of Chesterfield was made a Colonel of Horse in the Kings Army and was soon after slain at Bridgford in Nottinghamshire John Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq He was one of the Knights for that County to sit in the said Parliament but being frighted thence by the tumults that came up to the Parliament door as other Royalists were he conveyed himself away privately to Oxon and sate there He was a learned and a prudent man and as one of the richest so one of the meekest men in England He was active in making the defence and drawing up the Articles of Oxon when the Garrison was to be surrendred to the Parliament for which and his steddy Loyalty he afterwards was forced to pay a round sum in Goldsmiths Hall at London John Lufton of S. Johns Coll.
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
was made one of the Kings Serjeants being then esteemed an excellent Orator a great Lawyer and an ornament to his profession and on the 7. of Aug. 1641 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament he followed him to Oxon and was very serviceable to him in many respects In 1645 he was disinabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency as t was then called So that retiring to his home after the Kings cause declined he was committed to Prison where continuing till he had made his composition was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant 1 Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham an 1626. See in John Rushworths Collections under the year 1626. 2 Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628 wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Soveraign power Printed in qu. See in a book entit The Soveraigns Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3 d. and 4 th years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186 3 Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right 4 Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640 p. 1121.1123 5 Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances in Dec. 1640. c. with other things c. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Serjeant also and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661 was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire the Mannour of which he some years before had bought In Sept. 1673 Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake shall be now omitted One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622 and afterwards that of Master but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John because he was never bred in any University as his Son hath informed me The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock who when young being very vicious was disinherited by his Father and the Estate setled on Sir John But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man Sir John restored to him the Estate See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale c. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo p. 11. Feb. 19. Sir Rich. Vivian Knight He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there an 1643. Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon was created the same day In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter afterwards the Queens Sollicitor and now 1643 her Attorney and upon the declining of the Kings cause a great sufferer After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Recorder of Exeter again after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendred that office in 1676. Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires The first of these two was a Knight for Anglesie to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 sate in the Parl. at Oxon. March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires March 21. Peirce Edgecombe Esquires The first of these last two who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County and afterwards sate at Oxon suffered for the Kings cause and dying in 1650 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County and afterwards sate at Oxon for which also he suffered in his Estate This year was among others nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law one Colonel Bard but whether he was admitted I cannot tell I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eaton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631. Whilst he was Scholar he made an excursion to Paris upon the customary leave of absence which is but for 9 weeks in a year without the College or his Relations privity After he was made Fellow he travelled for some years into France Germany Italy Turkey Palestine Aegypt Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason After his return he lived high as he had done before without any visible income and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library supposed to be stoln by him out of a Mosque in Egypt which being valued but at 20 l he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventur'd his neck for it This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition yet proper robust and comely did upon the approach of the grand rebellion retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages especially of the French which the Queen took notice of he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel and afterwards to be Governour of Camden house in Glocestershire which when he quitted he burnt and then for a time of Worcester On the 22 of Nov. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood and soon after being made a Baronet his ambition was so great that being not content with that station he by his and the endeavours of others was created Baron of Brombry and Vicount Bellomont in Ireland 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesties unfortunate battles he wrot to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up armes neither for religion for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of nor for that moustrap the Laws but to re-establish the King in his Throne and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come he desired leave that they would discharge him that he might relinquish the Land which accordingly was done After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2 then â—n Exile Embassador to the Emperour of Persia upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus But so it was that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind
authority do when he is possest by knaves Miserable man His foolery did so long wait upon Cromwells and Iretons knavery that it was not safe for him then to see his folly and throw by his cap with a bell and his bable Elsewhere he speaks of his ill breeding and churlishness of his being a Cypher or Prepositor in the Free-school called the Army while Cromwell was Head-master and Ireton Vsher c. that he was a stalking horse a Brute c. and indeed his Majesty K. Ch. 1. doth once at least in his works stile him the brutish General as being a person not fit to hearken to reason When the War was terminated and no enemy either in Field or Garrison left he went to London in Nov. 1646 where he was in a most high manner joyed and caressed by the Citizens of London and Parliament for the great service he had done for the Commonwealth and nothing was thought too good or great for him After his Majesty was taken away from Holdenby and conveyed to Childerley Newmarket c. he expressed himself civil to him as he did afterwards at Hampton-court but then having no pious frauds in him or dissimulation for a good end he did not or could not endeavour as being no politician to countermand the diabolical designs of Cromwell and the hellish crew He did not endeavour to repell or hinder the Remonstrance of the Army the purging of the House of Commons of its chief members the Agreement of the People c. but was lull'd on in a kind of stupidity 'T is true that before the King was beheaded in order to whose trial he was nominated the chief Judge but did not sit he did use his power and interest to have the execution defer'd for some days forbearing his coming among the Officers and did fully resolve with his own Regiment to prevent the execution or have it defer'd till he could make a party in the Army to second his design But behold his policy all the morning of that day on which the King was beheaded and the time when he was beheaded he was with certain Officers of the Army at Prayer or in discourse or both in Maj. Tho. Harrisons apartment in Whitehall being a room at the hither end of that Gallery looking towards the Privy-garden and knew nothing of it as it doth appear by this passage When his Majesty was beheaded on a Scaffold joyning to the Banquetting-house at Whitehall and his Corps thereupon immediatly coffin'd and covered with a black velvet Pall Bishop Juxon who attended him on the Scaffold and Thomas Herbert the only Groom of his Bedchamber that was then left did go with the said Corps to the Back-stairs to have it embalm'd and Mr. Herbert after the body had been deposited meeting with Fairfax the General Fairfax asked him how the King did whereupon Herbert looking very strangely upon him he told him that the King was beheaded at which he seem'd much surpriz'd Afterwards Herbert walking farther in the Gallery with the said Bishop they were met by another great Commander named Ol. Cromwell who knew what had lately past for he told them unasked that they should have orders for the Kings burial speedily as I have been informed by the Letters of the said Thomas Herbert In little more than a fortnight after viz. Feb. 14. an 1648. General Fairfax was elected one of the Council of State consisting of 30 persons and soon after when K. Ch. 2. ship'd himself near the Hague in Holland to go to Scotland there to be invested in his right he laid down his Commission as General being influenc'd thereunto by certain Presbyterian Ministers because he would not engage against him whereupon Cromwell was made General in his place and how he afterwards acted against that King especially when he went into England to obtain his right all Histories will tell you Afterwards the Lord Fairfax retired to his Seat in Yorkshire lived there mostly during the Reign of Oliver was ready to rise with the people of his County to assist Sir George Booth in Cheshire if any ways successful and soon after did not only appear in the head of a great party when the forces belonging to Col. Jo. Lambert began to desert him when they were about to fight Gen. Monke at what time he was coming into Engl. from Scot. to restore the Rump but declared with his party in Decemb. 1659 against illegal taxes and free-quarter as also for the freedom of a Parliament as it was in the year 1648. On the 2. Jan. 1659 the Rump Parliament then sitting he was by them appointed one of the Council of State and in Apr. following being elected the first Knight for the County of York to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster on the 25 of the said month he was by the members thereof appointed one of those 12 Commons to go with those persons appointed by the House of Lords to attend on his Majesty in Holland for the greater solemnity and luster of his Court there On the 16 of May following they were there with his Majesty at the Hague where Fairfax drew upon him the curiosity and eyeâ— of all men as known to them by name to have been Captain General of the Parliament Army And when the first ceremony was past he desired as 't is said to see the King in private and to ask him pardon for the past offences which accordingly he did with all submission After the said Parliament was dissolv'd he retired to his seat lived retiredly and dying there was buried in an Isle joyning on the south side to the Chancel of Bilborough or Bilburgh near York Over his grave was soon after pur this Epitaph Here lye the bodies of the right honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax of Denton Baron of Camerone who died Novemb. the 12 an 1671 in the sixtieth year of his age And of Anne his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Horatio Lord Vere Baron of Tilbury He had Issue Mary Duchess of Buckingham and Elizabeth Under this Lord Fairfax his name were published while he bore armes for the Parliament especially when General Many Letters of which most were to the Speaker of the House of Commons some Relations concerning skirmishes battles taking of Castles Towns c. As also Remonstrances Declarations Speeches Messages c. He was a great lover of learning religious in the way he professed and when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he took great care for the preservation of the publick Library which in several respects did suffer while the Garrison was possest by the Royal Party And what he did for it at the time of his death I have elsewhere told you May 19. Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then also created Dr. of the Civ Law He was conducted with Fairfax by the Beadles towards the upper end of the Convocation the members thereof then standing bare and was presented by
Zanchy with a flattering speech in a most humble posture which being done he that then held the Chancellours Chair who all the time stood up bare admitted him with another flattering speech by his authority or rather observance Which being done Zanchy and the Beadles conducted him to his place next on the left hand to the Chancellours Chair This person also who had a greater name in his time than Fairfax had not only in England but throughout the whole World which he obtained more by policy dissimulation under the cloak of religion whether in prayer preaching discourse and action rather than valour must according to method have something said of him which shall with as much brevity as may be done because all Histories ring of his fame as well as infamy Born therefore he was in the Parish of S. John in the antient Borough of Huntingdon on the 24 of Apr. 1599 41. of Elizab. and was Christned in that Church on the 29 of the same month where Sir Oliver Cromwell his Uncle gave him his name His Father who lived in the same Town was Rob. Cromwell second Son of Sir Hen. Cromwell of Hinchingbrook in Huntingdonshire Kt. who died in 1603 His Mother was Elizabeth sister to Sir Thomas Son of Sir Richard Steward Kts whence 't was that when Oliver gaped after the Protectorship it was given out by those of his party that he was descended of the Royal Blood and had right to the Crown of England His said Mother Elizabeth lived to See her Son Lord Protector and dying in Whitehall 18. Nov. 1654 was buried in K. Hen. 7. Chappel at Westm where her body continuing till after his Majesties restoration was removed from that place 12. of Sept. 1661 and buried with other Cromwellian bodies in a pit dug in S. Margarets Church-yard adjoyning where it now resteth Oliver her Son was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Huntingdon under one Dr. Tho. Beard a Minister in that Town and in Academical in Sidney Coll. in Cambridge but his Father dying while he was there he was taken home and sent to Lincolns Inn to study the Common Law but making nothing of it he was sent for home by his Mother became a Debauchee and a boysterous and rude Fellow At length being reformed and pretending to Saintship he married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir James Bouchier of Essex became heir to his Uncle his Mothers Brother spent the estate which was considerable took a Farm at S. Ives thrived not and therefore had intentions to go to New England a receptacle for Puritans and Nonconformists but that project taking not he removed to the Isle of Ely where he more frequently and publickly own'd himself a Teacher In 1640 he by the endeavours of one Rich. Tyms afterwards Alderman of Cambridge who had several times heard him preach at Ely was first made free of the Corporation of Cambridge then a Burgess thereof to sit in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640. Soon after when the rebellion began towards which he gave a considerable helping hand he had a Commission given to him to be a Captain of Horse which he soon raised in his native Country and doing great service in those parts he soon after was made a Colonel and at length Lieutenant General to Edward Earl of Manchester who had the separate command in a distinct supremacy of the associated Counties Afterwards doing great service at Marston-moor near York after Sir Tho. Faâ—rfax and the Scots had been totally routed there Cromwell and his party of Curassiers being then in the left wing his atchievment was industriously cried up at Westminster and all the Grandees of Scriptural Ovation were fitted and accommodated thereunto Within 4 months after we find him in the second battle at Newbury in Beâ—ks where the fates favoured him again tho not with a complete victory yet on that side where he fought with a part of one and so much as endangered the Person of the King if the noble and stout Earl of Cleveland had not hazardously interposed and bore off the pursuit Soon after the Army being new modell'd Essex the General was laid aside as unfortunate and Sir Thomas Fairfax being put into his place Cromwell was made Lieutenant General of the same Army from which time he continued as Fairfax did victorious and upon all occasions did lull and bewitch with the syrene charmes of his zealous insinuations the said Fairfax to carry on his pernitious designs Afterwards we find him the chief person under the cloak of great dissimulation of hurrying the King from place to place of defaming him among the people and bringing him to judgment Which done he sat with the rest of the Judges on him stood up when sentence was passed and set his hand and seal to the warrant for his execution Soon after he being made one of the Council of State he was ordained Commander in chief or Lord Governour of Ireland in June 1649 conquer'd there returned and was made General of the Parliament Army upon Fairfax's laying down his Commission Afterwards he went into Scotland did some seats there against K. Ch. 2 but that King giving him the go-by he followed him into England encountred him at Worcester conquer'd his party and put him to flight Thence he went to London and was highly caressed by the Citizens and Parliament and soon after dissolving the Parliament he called another but that being not suitable to his designs he dissolv'd that and took upon him the Protectorship which he enjoyed during his life time Under his name were published Many Letters written to the Speaker of the House of Commons to the House of Commons Sir Thomas Fairfax Committees c. containing relations of skirmishes victories taking of Castles Towns c. as also some Speeches and Declarations c. By his Wife Elizabeth before mention'd he had Sons and Daughters as 1 Rich. Cromwell who being young when the War began did not bear arms but several years after they were concluded he was made Colonel and Privy-Counsellour in order to have the Protectorship confer'd on him 2 Henry Cromwell afterwards Commander of the Generals Life-guard and at length on the 25 of Nov. 1657 was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland upon the recalling of Charles Fleetwood He married the Dau. of Sir Francis Russell of Cambridgshire Kt and Bt first a Royallist afterwards a Parliament Colonel of Foot under the Earl of Manchâ—ster and Chamberlain of Chester 3 Bridget the Wife of Hen. Ireton of whom I have made mention among the Writers an 1651. p. 81. After his death she was married to Charles Fleetwood before mention'd a Gent. of Bucks and a Recruiter of the Long Parliament afterwards a Colonel in their service a strong Anabaptist Lord Deputy of Ireland one of Olivers Lords and Lieutenant General of the Army and Major General of several Counties in the time of Cromwells Protectorship 4 Elizabeth the Wife of John
to be celebrated in a letter to the same friend in the Country to whom the Bankers case was formerly sent In 1680 was a book published entit The rights of the Bishops to judge in Capital cases in Parliament cleared Being a full answer to two books lately published the first entit A letter from a Gentleman to his friend c. The other A discourse of the Peerage and jurisdiction of the Lords spiritual in Parliament endeavouring to shew the contrary Lond. in oct Tho no name is set to this book yet it was commonly then reported to have been written by Thom. Turner the same I suppose who was author of The Case c. Sir Tim. Turner before mention'd died very aged in 1676. and his Son Thom. the Writer about the beginning of the year 1680. Qu. Jan. 25. Lancelâ—t Addison of Qu. Coll. 29. Thomas Sprat of Wadh. Coll. Both these are Writers and now living and therefore are to be remembred hereafter The first is Dean of Lichfield the other B. of Rochester Feb. 13. Tho. Tomkins of Ball afterwards of All 's Coll. 24 Rob South of Ch. Ch. He is also living and hath published several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Writers Adm. 147. Bach. of Law Oct. 12. Rob. Sharrock of New Coll. Dec. 14. Nath. Bond of All 's Coll. Mar. 15. Joseph Keble of All 's Coll. As for Nath. Bond who was of the same family with Dennis Bond mention'd in the first vol. p. 323 he was as I conceive Recorder afterward of Weymouth being then a man of those times In the latter end of Apr. 1689 he being by writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law by K. Will. 3 was sworn on the 2 of May at the Bar of the Common-pleas in Westm Hall with several others that had been with him called to that degree Afterwards he was Knighted made one of the Kings Serjeants c. The last of the said three Joseph Keble is living in Greys Inn and hath published several things and therefore he ought hereafter to be mentioned among the Writers Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. May 30. Benj. Parry of Jesus Coll. 31. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. June 1. Tho. Vincent of Ch. Ch. 13. John Cawley of All 's Coll. July 6. Zachary Mayne of Magd. Coll. This person who was originally of Ch. Ch. and afterwards made by the Visitors first Demie of Magd. Coll and then Fellow took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1652 at which time he had the letters of the Chancellour O. Cromwell for the dispensation of the want of two or three terms in which letters he is stiled eminently godly and of able parts Afterwards he was senior Collector of the Lent in 1652 and when Master of Arts a godly preacher in these parts After his Majesties restauration he conformed and wrot 1 Treatise of Justification c. Lond. 1662. oct 2 S. Pauls travelling pangs c. Pr. 1662. oct and perhaps other things He is now living a School-master in or near Exeter as I have lately been informed by one of his contemporaries in Magd. Coll. July 6. Hen. Thurman of Ch. Ch. Feb. 23. Seth Bushell of S. Maries Hall He accumulated the degrees in Arts and was admitted in Convocation Adm. 65. Bach. of Phys Apr. 11. Joh. Betts of C. C. Coll. June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. These were both learned Physitians the former of which hath published several things of his faculty the other not but left his profession for his original fac of Div. as I am now about to tell you Bach. of Div. Two were admitted this year as Jam. Stopes of Magd. Hall and Thomas Harward of Trin. Coll. but neither of them were Writers ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Apr. 11. John Arnold of Mert. Coll. He afterwards withdrew himself and stood not in the Act to compleat his degree went to York and there practised his faculty to the time of his death Joh. Betts of C C. Coll was adm the same day He accumulated the degrees in Phys June 21. Ralph Bathurst of Trin. Coll. He accumulated having before been employed in the service of the State as Physitian to the sick and wounded of the Navy which work he managed with much diligence and success to the full satisfaction both of the Generals at Sea and also of the Commissioners of the Admiralty c. After his Majesties restauration he reassumed his former fac of Divinity became one of the Royal Society President of his Coll one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 28. June 1670 was installed Dean of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Rob. Creighton to the See of B. and Wells In Apr. 1691 he was nominated by their Majesties Bishop of Bristow with liberty to keep his Deanery in Commendam but he refused it because he was minded to carry on his benefaction to his Coll being then about to reedifie the Chappel thereof and to do good thereunto and his Church of Wells He is accounted a most celebrated Latine Poet as it appears by those many Copies of verses of his that are extant some of which are made publick in a book lately printed at the Theater in Oxon entit Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta c. printed in oct Doct. of Div. May 29. Joh. Conant M. A. Rector of Exeter Coll. was then admitted in Convocation In 1662 he left his Rectory because he refused to subscribe to the Act of conformity but afterwards upon better thoughts conforming he became a Minister in Northampton where he now continues an aged man In 1676 June 8. he was installed Archdeacon of Norwich in the place of Mr. John Reynolds deceased which Dignity was confer'd upon him by Dr. Edw. Reynolds B. thereof whose Daughter he formerly had married and on the 3. of Dec. 1681 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Nath. Tomkins deceased He is a learned pious and meek Divine but hath published nothing Seth Ward of Wadham Coll Savilian professor of Astron was admitted in the same Convocation May 31. Joh. Wallis of Exeter Coll. Sav. Prof. of Geom. About this time arose a controversie between Dr. Wallis and Dr. Ward before mention'd concerning seniority in Doctorship Wallis he aver'd that he was incorporated Mast of Arts of this University before Ward and therefore 't was his but it appearing that Ward stood first in the Proctors book at Cambridge for they proceeded in Arts both in one year the Vicechancellour Dr. Owen decided the matter on Wards behalf Whereupon Wallis went out Grand compounder and so got seniority not only of Ward but of the rest that proceeded in Div. this year Dr. Wallis was afterwards against oath and statute elected Custos Archivorum in the place of Dr. Langbaine at which time stood for that office one every way capable of it viz. Dr. Rich. Zouche which being a most unjust act as being carried on and done by the godly
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
Coll. 23. Joshua Stopford of Magd. Coll. The first of these two hath published several ingenious books and is now living in Worcestershire The other was esteemed a good Greecian and would sometimes course in Greek in the publick Schools Mar. 9. Robert Huntingdon of Mert. Coll. In the beginning of the year 1692 he became Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland in the place of Dr. Will. Sherendon a Non-juror who had been consecrated B. of that City on the 19 of Febr. 1681. Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Jul. 4. Thomas Ireland of S. Maries Hall This ingenious person who was son of Will. Ireland Vergerer of the Church of Westminster was bred in the Coll. School there and thence elected Student of Ch. Ch but ejected in the time of Oliver by Dr. Owen his Dean Whereupon retiring to S. Maries Hall he entred upon the Law line and took a degree as a member of that house After the restauration of his Maj. Ch. 2. he obtained his Students place again but took no higher degree yet in the vacancy of the See of Durham between the death of Dr. Joh. Cosin and the translation thereunto of Dr. Crew he had confer'd on him the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Durham He hath extant besides several copies of verses occasionally printed in books Verses spoken at the appearance of the K. and Qu Duke and Dutchess of York in Christ Church Hall Oxford 29 Sept. 1663. Oxon. 1663. qu. They were also about the same time printed at Lond. with this title Speeches spoken to the K. and Qu Duke and c. pr. in qu. After dinner of the same day his Majesty with his royal Consort and their royal Highnesses went from their Lodgings with their respective Retinews purposely to see that spatious Refectory which had been built by the great Cardinal Wolsey where the Dean Canons and Students waiting their coming Mr. Ireland spoke the said Verses in number 116 on his knees Which being well done the K. thanked him for them gave him his hand to kiss and commanded a copy of them This Mr. Ireland who might have done greater matters had not his mind been diverted by the frequent indulgences of Poets died at or near the Golden Lyon in the Strand within the Liberty of Westm during his attendance on his beloved Miss in the middle of Decemb. 1676. Whereupon Dr. Rich. Lloyd of All 's Coll. succeeded him in his Chancellourship Dec. 15. Hugh Davis of New Coll. He hath published an English book in fol intit De jure Vniformitatis Ecclesiasticae c. and therefore larger mention is to be made of him hereafter Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. Apr. 9. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards one of the Proctors of the Univ and Chaplain to Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury who while he was L. Chancellour of Engl. procured for him a Prebendship in the Church of Nerwich and Glocester Another of both his names is a Physitian now living and therefore this Nath. Hodges ought to be mention'd for distinction sake 21. Gabr. Towerson of Qu. afterwards of All 's Coll. May 29. George Castle of All 's Coll. June 11. Tho. Sprat of Wadh. Coll. June 11. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. June 11. Nath. Vincent of Ch. Ch. 12. Rob. South 15. Edw. West of S. Maries Hall 17. Thom. Owen of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of S. David Jul. 4. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. 20. Richard Berry of Brasn Coll. The last of these two was afterwards made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. purely upon the account of his Voice and good Singing but being forced to leave that house upon no good account in the beginning of June 1670 he went into Ireland to seek his fortune but whether beneficed there I cannot tell He hath published A Sermon upon the Epiphany preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin 1672. printed in qu. and perhaps other things Qu. Dec. 15. Dan. Nicols of S. Joh. Coll. This person who had by the Visitors been made Scholar of his Coll of which he was afterwards Fellow conformed after his Majesties restauration and at length became Rector of Scotton in Lincolnshire He hath published A Sermon preached in the Cathedral of Lincolne 18 Jul. 1681 being Assize-Munday on 1 Sam. 12.14.15 Lond. 1681. qu. and perhaps other things Adm. 101. or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was adm this year Bach. of Div. Jun. 18. James Bedford of Queens Coll. This person a young forward Presbyterian who was one of the number of Cambridge men that came to Oxon in 1648 to obtain preferment from the Visitors was by them made Fellow of Queens Coll being then Bach of Arts. So that he and George Phillips another of the same gang afterwards Proctor of the Univ. being Juniors and wanting good chambers they did on the 21 of May 1649 make a motion to the Society of that House that forasmuch as the younger Fellows had bad Chambers they would allow that the outward Chappel which they said was useless might be converted into Chambers for them to lodge in c. Which motion being looked upon by the Seniors there men of the old stamp as a horrid and villanous thing they did not dare to express it so for fear of danger that might ensue but passed it over as a slight matter Afterwards this Mr. Bedford who was a forward and conceited person and presum'd to take his degree of Bac. of Div. before those who were much his Seniors in the House became Pastor of Blunsham and Erith in Huntingdonshire before this year and wrot and published The perusal of an old Statute concerning death and judgment Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. Francis Bedford dau of Sam. Bedford a member of Parliament and Justice of Peace for the County of Bedford who died 18 Jan. 1656 aged 12 years on Heb. 9.27 Lond. 1657. qu. The said Sam. was brother to James Bedford the author who perhaps hath published other things Qu. Jul. 23. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Tho. Lamplugh of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Tho. Tully of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Rich. Rallingson of Qu. Coll. Doct. of Law Jun. 27. Will. Offley of Vniv Coll. He was the only person that was adm this year Doct. of Phys Jun. 18. Pet. Fiott of Exet. Coll. 19. Edw. Stubbe of Pemb. Coll. 23. Will. Quaterman of Pemb. Coll. 30. Elisha Coysh of Pemb. Coll. The last was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May 14. Joh. Collins M. A. of Cambr. Whether he be the same Joh. Collins who was Doct. of Div. and author of Several discourses concerning the actual providence of God divided into three parts c. Lond. 1678. 79. qu. and of other things as 't is probable I cannot yet tell He is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Collinges Bach. of Div. and sometimes Minister of S. Stephens Parish in Norwich a frequent Writer before this time because their names
depos'd from his Protectorship in the beginning of this year Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. Conant 8. Oct Proct. George Philipps of Qu. Coll. Ap. 13. Thomas Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Ap. 13. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 14. Franc. Turner of New Coll. July 11. Charles Bridgman of Qu. Coll. Oct. 12. Joh. Lloyd of Mert. Coll. The first of these three was afterwards successively B. of Rochester and Ely and having written and published several things he is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers and Bishops The second was afterwards an Archdeacon as I shall tell you among the Masters an 1662 and the last who was afterwards of Jesus Coll was at length B. of S. David Oct. 12. Jam. Janeway of Ch. Ch. 14. Sam. Hardye of Wadham Coll. He was the author of The Guide to Heaven c. printed at several times in two parts in oct the last part of which was published 1687. 88. and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Nov. 1. Benj. Woodroff of Ch. Ch. He hath published several things and therefore he is also hereafter to be remembred Jan. 16. Thom. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 28. Sam. Parker of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two who is now a Physitian of note is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers The other who was afterwards of Trin. Coll. was at length B. of Oxon. I have mention'd him at large among the Writers in this vol. Feb. 28. Joh. Langford of Ch. Ch. This person who was a Ruthyn man born in Denbighshire did afterwards translate into good welsh The whole duty of man Lond. 1672. oct He took no higher degree in this University but elsewhere and is now living and beneficed in Wales Mar. 15. Sam Holding or Holden or Linc. Coll. This person who hath published several things is hereafter to be remembred among the Writers Adm. 148. Bach. of Law May 18. Thomas Jones of Mert. Coll. Oct. 12. Will. Trumbull of All 's Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doct. of the Civil Law 1667. Adm. 4. Mast of Arts. June 2. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. 4. Joh. Skelton of Queens Coll. The last was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Barlow Bishop of Lincolne who collating him to the Archdeaconry of Bedford was installed therein 22. Mar. 1678 and afterwards to the Prebendship of Biggleswade in the Church of Linc. was installed also therein 3. May 1684. June 21. Thomas Hockin of Magd. Coll. This person who was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll hath written A discourse of the nature of Gods decrees Being an answer to a Letter from a person of quality concerning them Lond. 1684. oct In the title of this book he writes himself Bach. of Div sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and late Preacher at Great S. Barthelmews in London But whether he took the said degree of B. of D in this University it appears not June 21. Will. Shippen of Vniv Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and at length Rector of Stockport in Cheshire and author of The Christians triumph over death Sermon at the funeral of Rich. Legh of Lime in the County Pal of Chester Esq at Winwick in Lancashire 6. Sept. 1687 on 1. Cor. 15.55 Oxon. 1688. qu. He is Doct. of Divinity not of this University but by the Diploma if I mistake not of Dr. W. Sancroft Archbishop of Canturbury June 25. Henry Foulis of Qu. Coll. June 25. Capel Wiseman of Qu. Coll. June 25. Henry Denton of Qu. Coll. The last of these three who was Son of Thomas Denton of the antient and gentile family of his name living at Warnel-Denton in Cumberland travelled afterwards to Constantinople in the quality of a Chaplain to the English Embassador and after his return did translate into English A description of the present state of Samos Nicaria Patmos and Mount-Athos Lond. 1678. oct Which book was written by Joseph Georgirines Archbishop of Samos living then 1678 in London who the year before had for some weeks been in Oxon about the Act time to obtain money from the Academians towards the finishing the Greek Church in London This Mr. Denton who was Fellow of Queens Coll and presented by the Provost and Fellows thereof to the Rectory of Blechingdon in Oxfordshire on the death of Joh. Hook B. D. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll which hapned 20. of Feb. 1673 was buried in the Church there 19 Aug. 1681. July 2. Arthur Brett of Ch. Ch. 4. Dav. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. 8. Rich. Morton of New Coll. Adm. 78. Bach of Phys June 4. Nath. Hodges of Ch Ch. July 9. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. Adm. 6. Two also were licensed to practise Physick of whom Hen. Brunsell M. A. of Magd. Hall was one ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year Doct. of Law May 18. Nicholas Staughton of Exet. Coll. Esq was adm Doctor of the Civ and Can. Law being then dispensed with for certain Terms and on the 27 of June following after he had spoken a formal Speech before the Members of the University for which he was laughed at because not at all desired or required he was admitted ad suffragandum in domo Convocationis Congreg About a month or two after was printed a sharp Libel intit Sundry things from several hands concerning the Vniversity of Oxford c. And at the end of it were printed 25 Queries the last of which runs thus Whether the Boy Dr. Staughton of Exeter Coll. did well to lye in his scarlet Gown that night he was made Doctor since his degree was a thing he ought not to have dreamed of He was then Lord of the ancient Mannour of Staughton in Surrey which unexpectedly fell to him after the death of divers persons of that name and on the 29 of January 1660 he was created a Baronet May 18. Tho. Jones of Mert. Coll who accumulated the degrees of Law by vertue of the Chanc. Letters was then adm to proceed Doct. of Phys Jun. 2. Thom. Jeanes of Magd. Coll. This person who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. did while he was a Junior there with Joh. Fidoe and Will. Shaw his Contemporaries of the said House write and publish The Parliament justified in their late proceedings against Charles Stuart Or a brief discourse concerning the nature and rise of Government together with the abuse of it in Tyranny and the peoples reserve To which is added An answer to a certain paper entit The humble advice to the Lecturers of Banbury in Oxfordshire and of Brackley in Northamptonshire Lond. 1648 in 2 sh and an half in qu. Afterwards Jeanes going to Oxon was made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors and always after during his stay there he was esteem'd by all that knew him a good Scholar and a generous and stour man But so it fell out that after Dr. Tho. Pierce became President of the said Coll. he found means to expell him thence an 1662 under pretence of