respected by the Queen that he was a person of excellent parts civil behaviour and of great complisance This acquaintance I presume had its original from our authors desire of having a book of his composition to be licensed for the Press through the means of Dr. Aug. Lindsell Chaplain to the said Archbishop who soon finding him to be a person of learning and great moderation did acquaint his grace of the man and his work Howsoever it was sure I am that when articles of impeachment were drawn up against Archb. Laud in the beginning of the Long Parliament 't is said in the seventh article that for the advancement of Popery and Superstition within this Realm the said Archb. hath wittingly and willingly received harboured and relieved divers popish Priests and Jesuits namely one called Sancta Clara alias Davenport a dangerous person and Franciscan Frier who hath written a popish and seditious book entituled Deus natura gratia c. wherein the thirty nine articles of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament are much traduced and scandalized The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him while he was in writing the said book and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Monsieur St. Giles a popish Priest at Oxon c. To which article the Archbishop made this answer I never saw that Franciscan Frier Sancta Clara in my life to the utmost of my memory above four times or five at most He was first brought to me by Dr. Lindsell I did fear he would never expound them the Articles so as the Ch. of England might have cause to thank him for it He never came to me after till he was almost ready to print another book to prove that Episcopacy was authorized in the Church by divine right and this was after these unhappy stirs began His desire was to have this book printed here but at his several addresses to me for this I still gave him this answer That I did not like the way which the Church of Rome went concerning Episcopacy And howsoever I would never give way that any such book from the pen of any Romanist should be printed here And the Bishops of England are very well able to defend their own cause and calling without calling in any aid from Rome and would so do when they saw cause and this is all the conference I ever had with him Our author S. Clara did at that time abscond and spend most of those years of trouble in obscurity sometimes beyond the Seas sometimes at London other times in the Country and now and then in Oxon at the publick Library where he was with great humanity received by Mr. Tho. Barlow Head keeper thereof as our author doth very gratefully acknowledge in one of his works At length after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 when a marriage was celebrated between him and Catherina of Portugal he became her Theologist or one of the chief Chaplains about her and was the third time chose Provincial Minister of his Order for the Province of England After the expiration of which for it lasts if I am not mistaken but for three years he was once or twice chosen again to that office before his death being accounted the greatest and chiefest pillar of his order and the onliest person to be consulted about the affairs thereof He was excellently well vers'd in School divinity the Fathers and Counsels Philosophers and in Ecclesiastical and Profane Histories He was a Person of very free discourse but Cressy was reserv'd of a vivacious and quick countenance the other clouded and melancholy and quick of apprehension but the other not or at least would not All which accomplishments made his company acceptable to great and worthy Persons As for the books which this noted author hath published mostly written in Latine are these Tract adversus judiciariam Astrologiam Duac 1626. oct This I have not yet seen nor is it printed among his Works Paraphrastica Expositio articulorum confessionis Anglicae This was printed first by it self and afterwards at the end of Tract de Praedest following This book was much talk'd against by the Jesuits who by all means would have it burnt but being soon after licensed in Rome gave a stop to any farther rumour of it However in Spain it was censur'd and how and why let the author tell you in his own words sent to me thus You told me that Mr. Leiburne shew'd you the Index Expurgatorius of Spain wherein was named the book of articles published by me There was here in London a Spanish Embassador under the Rebels named Alonso who had great malice to the last King and being informed by a knave that the book was dedicated to and accepted by the King whom he esteemed his enemy he surreptitiously procured in Spain to have it censured He endeavoured to have it so done at Rome but they answered as Pilate Non invenio causam and therefore it passed safe This man Alonso had been a Jesuit and was esteemed not only to have left them rudely but to have given himself over to get money c. In a letter also from Mr. Middleton to Archb. Laud dated at Venice in Dec. 1635 I find these passages that the book of S. Clara rellished not well with the Catholicks and that there was a consultation about it and some did extrema suadere and cried ad ignem Father Tho. Talbot a Jesuit of Paris told him so by letter who talking with the Popes Nuntio at Paris about it he told him 't was the best course to let it dye of it self to which the Nuntio a moderate man was inclinable Tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis peccatorum remissione c. Ludg. Bat. 1634. qu. In the year following the said book came out with this title Deus natura gratia sive tractatus de praedestinatione de meritis c. This book was dedicated to K. Ch. 1. to seduce him if you 'll believe Prynne to his religion and induce him to establish the Romish religion amongst us by his royal authority as he pretends to prove it from the dedicatory Epistle also that the whole scope of the book it self with the paraphrastical exposition of the articles at the end of it was to reconcile reduce both our King Church and the articles of our Religion which he comments upon to the Church of Rome He also endeavours to prove that St. Giles before mention'd living in the Venetian Embassadors house in London an 1635 was the author of that book and that it was printed at London but he is much mistaken and makes a confused story of the said two books which is needless now to tell you Systema fidei sive tractatus de concilio universali c. Leod. 1648. qu. Opusculum de definibilitate controversiae immaculatae conceptionis dei genetricis Tractatus de schismate speciatim Anglicano Fragmenta seu Historia minor
latter end of 1617 and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts took the degr in Arts holy orders and became a most florid Preacher in the University In 1629 he was chosen the public Orator of the University being then one of the Proctors of it and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences In 1638. Jul. 1. he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and in the same month proceeded D. of Div before which time K. Ch. 1. had setled a Canonry of the said Church upon him that should be lawfully elected public Orator but that pious Act hath been since annul'd by pretended Authority and now such a thing seems totally to be forgotten among us As for Strode he was a person of great parts but not equal to those of Cartwright a pithy and sententious Preacher exquisite Orator and an eminent Poet. He hath written Passions calmed Or the setling of the floating Island Lond. 1655. qu. 'T is a comedy and was publickly acted before the K. and Q. in Ch. Ch. Hall 29 Aug. 1636. Speech made to Qu. Mary at Oxon. at her return out of Holland Oxon. 1643. qu. Various Sermons as 1 Serm. concerning swearing on Math. 3.37 Oxon. 1644. qu. 2 Serm. concerning death and the resurrection preached at S. Maries in Oxon. on Low Sunday 28 Apr. 1644 on Colos 3. ver 3. Oxon. 1644. qu. 3 Serm. at a Visitation held at Linn in Norfolk 24 Jun. 1633 on Psal 76.11 Lond. 1660. qu. It was preached at the desire of Dr. Rich. Corbet Bish of Norwich to whom our Author I think was then Chaplain Orations Speeches Epistles Sermons c. They were left behind him fairly written in several Volumes which coming into the hands of Dr. Rich. Gardiner Canon of Ch. Ch. came after or before his death into those of Rich. Davies of Oxon Bookseller Our Author Dr. Strode yielded to the stroke of death to the great reluctancy of learned men on the tenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty and four and was buried in the Divinity Chappel that is the isle most northward from the Choire belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. I have seen several of his Poems that have had musical Compositions of two and three parts set to be sung by the incomparable Mr. Hen. Lawes as also certain Anthems particularly one to be sung on Good Friday which had a composition also set thereunto by Rich. Gibbs Organist of Ch. Ch. in Norwych I shall make mention of another Will. Strode elsewhere WILLIAM BURTON the eldest son of Ralph Burton Esq was born in Leycestershire at Lyndley I suppose near to Bosworth in that County 24 Aug. 1575 educated in the Grammar School at Sutton-colfield in Warwickshire became either a Commoner or Gent. Com. of Brasn Coll. in Mich. term an 1591 where by the benefit of a careful Tutor he became tolerably well read in Logic and Philosophy On the 20 of May 1593 he was admitted into the society of the Inner Temple and in the month of June in the year following he as a member of Brasnose Coll. was admitted Bach. of Arts. Afterwards setling in the Temple without compleating that degree by Determination was made a Barrester but his natural genie leading him to the studies of Heraldry Genealogies and Antiquities he became excellent in those obscure and intricate matters and look upon him as a Gentleman was accounted by all that knew him to be the best of his time for those studies as it may appear by a book that he published intit The description of Leycestershire c. Lond. 1622. fol. Soon after the Author did very much enlarge and enrich'd it with Roman Saxon and other Antiquities as by his letter dated 9 June 1627 written to Sir Rob. Cotton that singular lover of venerable Antiquity it appears 'T is now as I have been informed in the hands of Walt. Châ—twind of Ingestrey near to Stafford Esq who intends to publish it I have seen a common place book of English Antiquities made by our Will. Burton which is a Manuscript in folio composed mostly from Lelands several Volumes of his Itinerary being the first of that nature that I have yet seen but it being a copy and not written with his own hand but by an illiterate scribe are innumerable faults therein This ingenious person who is stiled by a learned Author of both his names The great ornament of his Country died in his house at Fald in Staffordshire after he had suffered much in the war time on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Parish Church belonging thereunto called Hanbury Church leaving then behind him several collections of Arms and Monuments of Genealogies and other matters of Antiquity which he had gathered from divers Churches and Gentlemens houses and a son named Cassibilian Burton the heir of his Vertues as well as of other fortunes who was born on the 9 of Nov. 1609 but whether educated in this University I know not His parts being different from those of his Father he exercised them mostly in Poetry and translated Martial into English but whether extant I cannot tell you In 1658 it then remained in Ms which made a boon Companion of his complain thus When will you do your self so great a right To let your English Martial view the light This Cass Burton who had consumed the most or better part of the Estate which his Father had left him died 28 Feb. 1681 having some years before given most of if not all the aforesaid Collections of his Father before mention'd to the said W. Chetwind Esq to be used by him in writing The Antiquities of Staffordshire DANIEL FAIRCLOUGH commonly called Featley Son of John Featley somtimes Cook to Dr. Laur. Humphrey President of Madg. Coll. afterwards Cook of that of Corp. Chr. by Marian Thrift his Wife was born at Charlton upon Otmore near to and in the County of Oxford on the 5. of March or thereabouts in 1582 educated in the Grammar School joyning to Madg. College being then 1590 c. Chorister of that house admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 13. Dec. an 1594 Probationer-Fellow 20 Sept. 1602 being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty at which time he was Junior of the Act he became a severe student in that of Divinity Soon after having laid a solid foundation in the positive part he betook himself to the Fathers Councils Schoolmen c. and in short time became eminent in them His admirable disputations his excellent Sermons his grave yet affable demeanour and his other rare accomplishments made him so renoun'd that Sir Tho. Edmonds being dispatched by King James to lye Leiger Embassadour in France he made choice of our Author to travel with him as his Chaplain The choice he accepted and willingly obeyed and spent 3 years in France in the house of the said Embassador During that time he became
on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Laurence in the Jewry before mention'd At which time Mr. Tho. Manton one of the chief Presbyterians in London preached his Funeral Sermon which was afterwards made publick It was observed by many and looked upon as miraculous by the Brethren that when the members of the Rump Parliament had passed their votes for his death did happen one of the most terrible thunder claps that was ever heard Also that that day on which he suffer'd was seen a most clear sky but soon after his death which was about two of the clock in the afternoon the sky began to thicken and at last was envelop'd in a black and dismal Cloud and all that night and till the next morning such thunder lightning and tempest hapned as if the machine of the world had been dissolving This was the observation of the Presbyterian who stuck not to say thereupon that God was angry at these things that had passed c. Yet the Independent Anabaptist and others made another construction of the matter which was published soon after in the common Mercury called Politicus viz. That on the 22 of Aug. the old Tyrant Ch. 1. did first erect his Standard at Nottingham and then Mr. Love and his Brethren did well to cry it down But it being down and themselves not set up as they expected then they deserted their first principles and cryed up his son whose interest however disguised is the same with his fathers and he by their instigation making way into England entred and erected his Standard at Worcester also upon the 22 of Aug. 1651 upon which very day likewise it was that Mr. Love who having help'd to beat down the old malignant Standard and then turning Apostate to set up the new one lost his head upon Tower-hill as a just judgment of God for his implacable Apostacy and Enmity and for a terror to all the men of his Confederacy c. At the same time and upon the same Scaffold was beheaded Mr. Jo. Gibbons engaged in the same plot but as for others engaged therein and to be brought to their tryal viz. Col. Joseph Vaughan sometimes a Leather-seller in London Lieut. Col. ..... Jackson Capt. Hugh Massey brother to Maj. Gen. Edw. Massey Dr. Drake Mr. Th. Case Mr. Arthur Jackson Mr. W. Jenkyns Minister of Ch. Church in London Mr. Th. Watson Mr. Ralph Robinson Mr. Rich. Heyrick c. were upon the motion of a certain noble person pardoned for Life and Estate and freed both from Sequestration and Imprisonment CLEMENT WALKER was born at Cliffe in Dorsetshire educated in Acad. learning in Ch. Church as I have been informed by his son Joh. Walker sometimes a Gent. Com. of Linc. Coll. but in what year or years of the Lord I know not for his name occurs not in the Matricula either under Ch. Church or Broadgates Hall adjoyning a receptacle mostly in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for Dorsetshire men Afterwards leaving the University without a degree he retired to an Estate he had at Charterhouse near Wells in Somersetshire where living in good repute was esteem'd among the Gentry in those parts for his knowledge in secular affairs and always taken to be as really he was an enemy to the Puritans as making it his frequent theme to declaim against them Before the Civil War commenc'd he was made Usher of the Exchequer but when the Puritans or Presbyterians were like to carry all before he closed with them was elected one of the Burgesses for the City of Wells upon the retreat to his Maj. of Sir Ralph Hopton and Sir Edw. Rodney who were elected to serve for that City in the Parliament began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640. Afterwards he became a zealous Covenantier and was Advocate to that Congregation of Murderers that adjudged Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher Citizens of Bristow to death having had as 't is said his hands stayned with his own Wives blood before he dipped them so deep in those Martyrs at Bristow About that time he and W Prynne inseparable Brethren became great Enemies to Col. Nath. Fiennes for his cowardly surrendring up the City of Bristow and were the chief men that brought him to a tryal for his life for the same During the time that our Author Walker sate in the Parliament he was a curious Observer and diligent Enquirer after not only the Actions but the Counsels of those times He was well read also and notably vers'd in the Liberties and Privileges of Parliaments and in the Statute Law of this Kingdom as those that knew him well have often affirmed it And when he saw how the Independent Faction began to sway and govern all things then did he become a bitter enemy to Fairfax the General for his folly to be led by the nose by O. Cromwell and to Cromwell for his devilish hypocrisie falsness tyranny c. and an indefatigable enemy in his Writings and Prayers against the said Independents that were then the Saints militant But so it was that tho he shew'd himself a zealous Presbyterian yet he was very serviceable in many things to the Parliament and did not at all get as others did as his own words which I believe are true averr it thus I have served you the Parliament faithfully from the beginning and have taken as much pains and run as many hazards as most men in your service wherein I have lost my health and above seven thousand pounds of my estate without any penny of compensation as other men have had Nor have I laid my hands upon any mans money or goods or had any gainful Imployments from you I was contented to serve my Country gratis and some little honor I had gotten thereby whereof you have now rob'd me c. by a roaving Accusation shot at random at me c. Thus our Author which service of his was performed till 1647 when he saw the Independent Faction to grow mighty he being then an elderly man and of a low stature His works that are published are these An Answer to Col. Nathan Fiennes relation concerning his surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow printed 1643 in 2 sheets in qu. But for some misconstruction made of a clause in the said answer the Author was suddenly seiz'd and sent Prisoner to the Tower of Lond. by the Parliament where he continued for some time Articles of impeachment and accusation exhibited in Parliament against Col. Nath. Fiennes touching his dishonorable surrender of the City and Castle of Bristow Lond. 1643. in 2 sh in qu. W. Prynne had a hand also in drawing up of the said articles at the end of which is his letter to the said Fiennes True and full relation of the prosecution arraignment tryal and condemnation of Nath. Fiennes late Colonel and Governour of the City and Castle of Brist before a Counsel of War held at S. Albans during 9 days space in
intemeratâ Parliamento praestitâ morte inopinâ noctu correptus diem suum obiit id Nov. A o libertatis humanae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo. A o libertatis Angliae restitutae M.DC.Lo. IIo. Aetatis suae Lv. Hoc in honorem servi tam bene meriti Parliament Reipub. Angl. P. P. Soon after was an Epitaph made in answer to it beginning thus Asta viator poetam legas Lucani interpretem quem ita feliciter Anglicanum fecerat ut Maius simul Lucanus videbatur c. But before his body had rested in the said South Isle eleven years 't was taken up with other bodies that had been unwarrantably buried there from 1641. to his Majesties restauration and buried in a large pit in the yard belonging to S. Margarets Church in Westminster where to this day it continueth At the same time his monument also was taken down and throw'd aside and in the place of it was set up that of Dr. Tho. Triplet an 1670. ALEXANDER HUISH was born in the Parish of S. Cuthbert within the City of Wells became either a Batler or Commoner of Magd. Hall 1609 from whence being taken by the Foundress of Wadham Coll. was made by her one of the original Scholars thereof an 1613 and in the same year he took the degree of Bach. of Arts being the first of all that obtained that degree as a member of that College Afterwards being Master of his faculty he entred into holy Orders became a noted Preacher and in the year 1627 was admitted to the reading of the sentences Afterwards he was made Rector of Beckington and of Hornbloton in Sommersetshire the last of which he obtained on the death of Thom. Clarke by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Milbourne Esq in the beginning of Febr. 1638. Afterwards he became a sharer of afflictions for the Kings cause in the sad time of rebellion and tho driven from place to place yet in the quiet repose that he sometimes obtained he did improve his talent for the publick good of learning After the return of his Maj. Ch. 2. an 1660 he was restored to what he before had lost and the same year Sept. 12 he was collated to the Prebendship of Whitlackington in the Church of Wells the gift of which he had before obtained He was a person well read in the Fathers a noted Critick a good Linguist and a solid and sober Divine He hath written Lectures on the Lords Prayer in three parts Lond. 1626. qu. He also was much assisting to Dr. Brian Walton in the compleating the Polyglot Bible was one of the four correctors of it at the Press and took great pains in the Septuagint translation the Greek text of the New Testament and the vulgar latine compared with the most antient Alexandrian MS copy with the old edit of the Septuagint printed at Rome according to the Vatican copy and Rob. Stephens his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament and did diligently collect the various readings of the Alexandrian Copy which are throughout the work put under the Roman edition of the Septuagint and Stephens's edition of the Greek text of the New Testament In the sixth vol. of the said Polyglot Bible our author Huish hath a Greek Hymn with the latine to it written by him on S. Hilaries day 13. Janu. Styl vet 1657 8 in the year of his great climacteric 63. At length having lived beyond the age of man and done extraordinary benefit for the common good died in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried either at Beckington or Hornbloton In his Prebendship succeeded Henry Dutton Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon to which he was collated on the 22. of April in the same year See more of Alex. Huish in the first vol. an 1617 in John Flavell nu 447. GEORGE HALL son of Dr. Joseph Hall sometimes Bishop of Exeter and afterwards of Norwich was born at Waltham Abbey in Essex where his Father had been a constant Preacher for above 20 years had the seeds of virtue sown in him very early by his said Father who when this his Son was ripe for the Univ. sent him to Exeter Coll. an 1628 aged 16 years Where living in the condition of a commoner under a noted and careful Tutor he became Fellow of that house an 1632 and afterwards proceeding in Arts took holy Orders became Archdeacon of Cornwall and Vicar of Mayhenet in that County What his sufferings were in the time of rebellion I know not Sure I am that several years before his Majesties restauration he was first preacher of S. Barthelmews near to the Old Exchange and afterwards Vicar of S. Botolphs Church without Aldersgate in London and that after his Majesties restauration he became one of his Chaplains Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. G. Goodman who had held it in Commendam with the See of Glocester Doctor of Divinity actually created and Archdeacon of Canterbury At length upon the death of Dr. Hen. Ferne he was consecrated Bishop of Chester on the eleventh day of May an 1662 and about the same time had the rectory of Wigan in Lancashire confer'd on him by Sir Orlando Bridgman then chief Justice of the Common-pleas Which rich rectory he kept in Commendam with his See to his dying day He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 Gods appearing for the tribe of Levie Serm. preached at S. Pauls 8. Nov. 1655 to the Sons of the Ministers on Rom. 8.31 Lond. 1656. qu. 2 Serm. at Court on Psal 7.9 Lond. 1666. oct c. He hath also written a book against Papists and Popery entit The triumphs of Rome over despised protestancy Lond. 1655. qu. there again 1667. oct He paid his last debt to nature in the rectory house at Wigan before mentioned on the 23. of Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried at the east end of the Rectors Chancel there Over his grave was soon after a large marble stone laid with this inscription thereon P. M. S. ejus repostus pulvere in sacro cinis expectat istic ultimae sonum Tubae mendace qui ne falleret titulo lapis sonum hoc sepulchro jussit incidi suo Georgius Hall S. Th. Pr. Ecclesiae dei servus inutilis sed cordatus D. Josephi Hall Praesulis pientissimi primo Exoniensis dein Norwicensis scriptis semper victuri filius imo umbra potius sex inter septemque annos sedit non meruit Cestriae Episcopus denatus aetatis suae anno LV. Christi vero MDCLXVIII Mirare lector Praesulis modestiam aliunde quaeras caetera By his last Will and Test he gave to Exeter Coll. after the decease of his Wife Gertrude who was afterwards buried under the same marble his Golden cup and all his Estate of land at Trethewen in S. Germans in Cornwall to the end that they be employed to the best commodity
have mention'd in the first vol. of this work under the year 1621 by Joan his wife daughter of Hen. Freeman of Staffordshire was born in the same house and chamber at Wornal in Bucks wherein his father had received his first breath in the month of January 1591. and was baptized there on the 16 of the said month educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordsh and partly in the College School at Westminster from which last he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1608 being then put under the tuition of a noted Tutor Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into holy Orders became a most florid preacher and successively Chapl. in ord to K. Jam. 1. of pious memory Archdeacon of Colchester Residentiary of S. Pauls Cathedral Canon of Ch. Ch Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1 D. of D. and Dean of Rochester in which Dignity he was installed 6. Febr. 1638 but whether in the room of Dr. John Richardson who occurs Dean of that Church in Apr. 1636 in which month and year he died or in that of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall who had the grant of the Deanery of Durham made to him in 1638 but not installed therein till May 1639 I cannot justly tell In 1641 he was made Bishop of Chichester being one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty tho late promoted to that honorable office to which being consecrated at Westminster as it seems on the 19. of Decemb. the same year sate there without any removal saving only that by the members of the Long Parliament to the time of his death When he was young he delighted much in the studies of Musick and Poetry which with his wit and fancy made his conversation much accepted When he was elder he applied himself to Oratory and Philosophy and in his reduced age fixed on Divinity in which faculty he became eminent as his Sermons partly shew which remain'd fresh in the minds of his Auditors many years after his death His works are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached at Pauls cross 25. Nov. 1621. upon occasion of that false and scandalous report lately printed touching the supposed apostacy of Dr. John King late B. of Lond. on Joh. 15.20 Lond. 1621. qu. To which is added The examination of Tho. Preston taken before the Archb. of Cant. at Lambeth 20. Dec. 1621 concerning his being the author of the scandalous report of Bishop Kings apostacy 2 Davids enlargement the morning Sermon on Act Sunday on Psalm 32.5 Oxon. 1625. qu. See more in John King in the first vol. an 1638. p. 526. 3 Sermon of deliverance at the Spittle on Easter Munday on Psal 91.3 Printed 1626. qu. 4 Two Sermons at Whitehall in Lent on Eccles 12.1 and on Psal 55.6 Printed 1627. in qu. 5 Serm. at Pauls on his Maj. inauguration on Jer. 1.10 Printed 1640. in qu. 6 Sermon at Whitehall 29. May being the happy day of his Maj. inauguration and birth on Ezek. 21.27 Lond. 1661. qu. 7 Serm. at the funeral of Brian Bishop of Winchester in the Abbey Ch. of Westm 24. Apr. 1662 on Psal 116.15 Lond. 1662. qu. 8 Visitation Serm. at Lewis 8. Oct. 1662 on Titus 2.1 Lond. 1663. qu. 9 Sermon preached 30. Jan. 1664 at Whitehall being the day of the Kings Martyrdome on 2 Chron. 35.24.25 Lond. 1665. qu. Exposition on the Lords Prayer delivered in certain Sermons on Matth. 6.9 c. Lond. 1628. qu. It must be now observed that this worthy Bishop being at divine Service on Sunday in a certain Church at Langley I think in Bucks and hearing there a Psalm sung whose wretched expression quite marr'd the Pen-mans matter and his devotion he did at his return home that evening try whether from the version of our Bible he could not easily and with plainess suiting the lowest understanding deliver it from that garb which indeed made it ridiculous From one to another he passed on until the whole book was run through Which done he could not resist the advice and importunity of better judgments than his own to put it to the press He was as he confess'd discouraged knowing that Mr. George Sandys and then lately one of our pretended Reformers had failed in two different extremes The first too elegant for the vulgar use changing both meter and tunes wherewith they had been long acquainted the other as flat and poor as lamely worded and unhandsomly rimed as the old which with much confidence he undertook to amend He therefore ventur'd in a middle way as he himself said aiming without affectation of words and endeavouring to leave them not disfigur'd in the sense This version soon after came out with this title The Psalmes of David from the new translation of the Bible turn'd into meter to be sung after the old tunes used in Churches Lond. 1651. 54. in tw c. He hath also written Poems Elegies Paradoxes and Sonnets Lond. 1657. oct When these poems were first published all the report was that Dr. Philip King Brother to the said Hen. King was the author and thereupon it was put into the Bodleian Catalogue under the said Philips name Several letters Among which are extant one or more to the famous Dr. Usher Primat of Ireland and another to Isaac Walton concerning the three imperfect books of Rich. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politie dat 13. Nov. 1664. Pr. at Lond. 1665. oct Divers Lat. and Gr. poems Many of which are extant in several books What remains to be observ'd of this Prelate is that he was always puritannically affected and therefore to please the Puritan he was promoted to the See of Chichester That after Episcopacy was silenced by the Long Parliament he mostly lived in the house of Sir Rich. Hobart who had married his Sister at Langley near to Colebrook in Bucks That being restored to his See at the return of K. Ch. 2. became esteemed by many persons of his neighbourhood and diocess the Epitome of all honors virtues and generous nobleness and a person never to be forgotten by his Tenants and by the Poor That also being not removed to a better See became discontented as I have heard and a favourer thereupon of the Presbyterians in his Diocess And lastly that dying on the first day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine was buried on the South side of the Choir near the Communion Table belonging to the Cathedral Church of Chichester Soon after was a comly monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was antiquâ eâque regiâ Saxonium apud Danmonios in agro Devoniensi prosapiâ oriundus that he was natalium splendore illustris pietate doctrinâ virtutibus illustrior c. Near to his body was in short time after buried his eldest Son named John to whose as also to the memory of the said Bishop King did his Widow Anne Daughter of Sir Will. Russell of Strensham in Worcestersh
The faithful Shepherd on Psal 80.1 Ibid. 1665. qu. 6 The flying Sea on Psal 114.5 Printed 1665. qu. 7 The only way to preserve life preached before the House of Commons at Oxon on Amos 5. ver 6. Pr. 1666. qu. Besides all these he hath several other Sermons which I have not yet seen He hath also written a book of his sufferings in the time of the grand rebellion which was published in English an 1664 but this neither have I yet seen At length this good old Bishop giving way to fate in Feb. or the beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and one was buried in his Cath. Church at Kilkenny By his last Will and testam dat 16. of Oct. 1671 and proved in the Prerogative Court at Dublin on the eleventh of Apr. following he bequeathed his Lands in Ireland called Fermoile worth forty pounds per an to be setled upon eight poor distressed Widows for whom he had erected eight several Alms-houses in the Parish of S. Kenny in his Diocess In the said Will was a passage by him inserted concerning the noble James Duke of Ormonde L. Lieut of Ireland for not promoting him as 't is thought to a higher Bishoprick Which being esteemed scandalous was struck out of his Will when proved JOHN AILMER was born of gentile Parents in Hampshire as it seems educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1652 took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1663 being then and before accounted an excellent Greecian and a good Greek and Lat. Poet as it appears by this book which he composed when a young man Musae sacrae seu Jonas Jeremiae threni Daniel Graeco redditi carmine Oxon. 1652. oct and also by divers Gr. and Lat. verses dispersed in various books He died at Petersfield on Good Friday Apr. 5. in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Church at Havant in Hampshire as I have been informed by the Letters of my sometimes friendly acquaintance Mr. Isaac Walton dated at Farnham 26. May 1683. HENRY SAVAGE son of Francis Sav. was born of a gentile Family at Dobs hill in the Parish of Elderfield commonly called Eldsfield in Worcestershire became a Communer of Ball. Coll. in the year 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts and taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in Nov. 1625 was three years after made Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. and two years after that 1630 he was compleated Master of his faculty In the beginning of the grand rebellion he travelled into France with William Lord Sandys whose Sister the Lady Mary he afterwards married and by the opportunity of that journey he not only learned the Language of that Country saw the fashions of their Clergy and Universities but learn'd to shake off the morosity and rusticity which commonly attends severe Students Soon after his return he obtained the Mastership or Headship of his House and in the year following was admitted Doctor of Divinity After the restauration of K. Ch 2 and a submission to the Powers in the time of Usurpation he became Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty Prebendary of Glocester an 1665 and Rector of Bladon near Woodstock in Oxfordshire on the death of Dr. Matth. Griffith He hath written and published Quaestiones tres in novissimorum comitiorum vesperiis Oxon. discussae an 1652. viz. An Paedobaptismus sit licitus aff c. Oxon. 1653. qu. Soon after these questions were answer'd by John Tombes of Magd. Hall Thesis Doctoris Savage nempe Paedobaptismum esse licitum confirmatio contra refutationem Mri. Tombes nuper editum c. Oxon. 1655. qu. Vindicatio ejus à calumniis Mri. Tombes Printed at the end of Thesis Confirmatio c. Reasons shewing that there is no need of such reformation of the publick 1. Doctrine 2. Worship 3. Rites and Ceremonies 4. Church Government and 5. Discipline as is pretended c. Lond. 1660 qu. This small piece as likewise another of Dr. John Pearson since B. of Chester the very learned Author of the much commended book on the Creed of the Vindiciae Epistolarum S. Ignatii c. entit No necessity c. which came out in qu. much at the same time with this of our author Savage were wrot against a Pamphlet called Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation c. Lond. 1660. qu. See in Corn. Burges an 1665. Which tho in the title it is said to have been wrot by divers Ministers of sundry Counties in England yet Mr. Baxter saith that Dr. Corn. Burges was the Person that penned The necessity of reformation c. meaning I conceive the said Reasons which so much as he farther affirms offended the Episcopal party This is yet further rendred the more probable because that besides a reply made by Will. Hamilton Gent. to Dr. Pearsons No necessity c. Cornel. Burges as possibly judging himself more concern'd than any body else in the success of these Reasons c. in a Postscript to a Treatise of his annexed a brief answer to Dr. Pearson who not long after in a short piece vindicated himself from what was said in the said Postscript against his No necessity c. The said Reasons shewing c. were answer'd again more fully in the Retractions of John Ellis Dr. Savage hath also written The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion or an answer to a book entit Sions groans for her distressed c. Offered to the Kings Majesty Parliament and People Lond. 1663. qu. Some copies of the impression of this book The dew c. have this title Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted or an answer to a book entit Sions groans c. Balliofergus or a Commentary upon the foundation founders and affairs of Balliol College gathered out of the records thereof and other antiquities c. Oxon. 1668. qu. But the author having had no natural genie to the study of Antiquities and History neither a timing head nor indeed record enough from his Coll. for there is no Register of Acts of the Society above the year 1520 12. Hen. 8. nor no antient rolls of Accompts wherein the state of the Coll. is every year represented as also the names of the Fellows he hath committed many foul errors therein especially in this respect that he hath made the said Coll. of Ball. Father or Parent to many eminent men which never studied or were conversant with the muses therein as Joh. Duns Scotus Dr. Tho. Gascoigne Steph. de Cornubia c. while in the mean time he hath omitted others that have studied there and have been of great fame in their time as Richard Son of Ralph sometimes Archb. of Armagh commonly called by Writers Ricardus Armachanus Tho. de Wylton Rich. Rotheram Cardinal Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. Cuthb Tonstall B. of Durham c. Natalitia Collegii Pembrochiani
a great admirer of the said Hobbes with whom he was intimately acquainted doth speak freely of Dr. Wallis and why he doth so is because as he tells us he was Sub-scribe to the Tribe of Adoniram i. e. Adoniram Byfield was Scribe to Assembly of Divines and had been an active Preacher in the first War and decyphered besides others to the ruin of many loyal persons the Kings Cabinet taken at Naseby and as a monument of his noble performances deposited the original with the decyphering in the publick Library at Oxford He tells us also that he the said Doctor was then the glory and pride of the Presbyterian faction which our Author Stubbe hated for his Patrons sake In the said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a farther discourse upon that subject but that I suppose was never printed The Savilian Professours case stated Together with the several reasons urged against his capacity of standing for the publick office of Antiquary in the University of Oxon. Which are enlarged and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh. Wallis c. Lond. 1658. in 3 sh and an half in qu. The famous Dr. Rich. Zouche who had been an Assessor in the Chancellours Court for 30 years or more and well vers'd in the Statutes Liberties and Privileges of the University did upon great intreaties stand for the said place of Antiquary or Custos Archivorum thereof but he being esteemed a Royalist Dr. J. W. was put up and stood against him tho altogether uncapable of that place because he was one of the Savilian Professors a Cambridge man and a stranger to the usages of the University At length by some corruption or at least connivance of the Vicechancellour and perjury of the senior Proctor Byfield W. was pronounced elected Whereupon our Author Stubbe who was an eye and an ear-witness of all that had most unjustly passed he therefore wrot and published the said book The Commonwealth of Israel or a brief account of Mr. Prynne's anatomy of the Good old cause Lond. 1659. in oct An Essay in defence of the Good old Cause or a discourse concerning the rise and extent of the power of the Civil Magistrate in reference to spiritual Affairs c. Lond. 1659 oct Vindication of the honorable Sir Hen. Vane from the false Aspersions of Mr. Baxter Lond. 1659. oct The same year I find another book published to that purpose intit A Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Rich. Baxter Printed at Lond. A letter to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate mention'd by them in their proposals to the late Parliament Lond. 1659. qu. Miscellaneous positions concerning Government Lond. 1659. qu. They are I suppose the proposals of a model for the Government of the three Nations mention'd by his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill A light shining out of darkness or certain Queries c. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that year the second edition of which hath therein several Additions and an Apology for the Quakers written by the said Stubbe The Commonwealth of Oceana put in a ballance and found too light Or an account of the Republic of Sparta with occasional animadversions upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistical model Lond. 1660. qu. The Indian Nectar or a discourse concerning Chocolata c. Lond. 1662. oct Concerning the said subject one Antonio Colminero of Ledesma a Spaniard and Doct. of Physick hath learnedly written and not unlikely the first of all that hath so done It was rendred into English by one who call'd himself Capt. James Wadsworth under this title Chocolate or an Indian drink c. Lond. 1652. oct Which book our Author Stubbe had seen and has as I conceive followed him in some things As for the said Wadsworth the Reader may know that he was the same who wrot The English Spanish Pilgrim born in Suffolk son of Jam. Wadsworth Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. Cath. bred in puerile learning at Sivil and Madrid in Spain in Grammar and Academical among the Jesuits at S. Omers but at riper years left them and returned to the Church of England was living in Westminster in the time of Oliver an 1655 at which time he was characterized by an English Historian to be a Renegado Proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade and is now living 1655 a common hackney to the basest catch-pole Bayliffs and too boot a Justice of the Peace in his bench book enters him and his wife Pimp and Bawd in his Precinct The miraculous Conformist or an account of several marvellous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrak Oxon 1666. qu. with a Physical discourse thereupon c. Before I go any farther with the remaining titles of our Author Stubbes's books I must make a digression and tell you why this book was written and who the subject of it was Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes son of Will. Gr. Esq was born at Affane in the County of Waterford in Ireland on S. Valentines day 14 Feb. 1628 was bred a Protestant in the Free-school at Lismore and at 13 years of age was designed to be a Student in the Coll. at Dublin but the Rebellion breaking out in that Nation he was forced with his mother to fly for refuge into England where by the favour of his Uncle Edm. Harris brother to Sir Edw. Harris Knight his mothers father he was for the present time relieved After his death his mother for his farther progress in literature committed him to the charge of a certain Presbyterian called Joh. Daniel Getsius a High German Minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devonshire with whom he spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity and found from his hands much favour and love After 5 or 6 years absence he returned to his native Country at that time in a most miserable and deplorable Estate which made him retire to the Castle of Caperquin where he spent an years time in contemplation and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world as he saith that his life became a burthen to him and his soul was as weary of this habitation of clay as ever was Gally-slave of the oar which brought his life even to the threshold of death so that his legs had hardly strength to carry his enfeebled body about c. In 1649 or thereabouts he became a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Roger Earl of Orrery then acting in Munster against the Irish Papists and others then called the Rebels and in 1656 a great part of the Army there of the English being disbanded he retired to his native country of Affane the habitation of his Ancestors and by the favour of the then Governor he was made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Corke Register for Transplantation and Justice of the Peace After his Majesties Restauration he was removed as I have heard from
c. and somewhat of Dr. Is Barrow on the same subject Several tracts as 1 A discourse of religion on three heads first the ends and uses of it secondly the life of religion and superadditions to it and thirdly the superstructions upon it and animosities about it 2 A treatise touching provision for the poor before mentioned 3 A letter to his Children advising them how to behave themselves in their speech 4 A letter to one of his Sons after his recovery from the small-pox Lond. 1684. in oct Discourse of the knowledge of God and of our selves first by the light of nature secondly by the sacred Scriptures Lond. 1688. oct Brief abstract of the Christian religion Considerations seasonable at all times for the cleansing of the heart and life These two last were printed with Discourse of the knowledge of God c. He hath also translated into English The life of Pomponius Atticus written by his contemporary and acquaintance Cornel. Nepos c. Lond. 1677. oct To which are added by our author Hale Observations political and moral thereupon He also wrot the preface to and published the Abridgment of many cases and resolutions c. made by Judge Henry Rolle as I shall tell you when I come to him and under his Hale's name ought to be put The perjur'd Fanatick or the malicious conspiracy of Sir John Croke of Chilton Henry Larimore and other Fanaticks against the life of Rob. Hawkins Clerk and late Minister of Chilton occasion'd by his suit for tithes Discovered in a trial at Ailesbury before Sir Matth. Hale Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Lond. 1685. in 10. sh in fol. Which Rob. Hawkins was afterwards Vicar but a poor one if not scandalous of Beckley in Oxfordshire These I think are all that are published under the name of Judge Hale The rest that he hath written and not yet extant are many among which are 1 Concerning the Secondary origination of mankind folio 2 Concerning religion fol. in 5. vol. 3 Of Policy in matters of religion fol. 4 De anima fol. written to Mr. Rich. Baxter 5 De anima fol. Transactions between him and the said Mr. Baxter c. and many others as you may see elsewhere And left behind him as a Legacy to Linc. inn Library several volumes of collections made by him mostly from records in the Tower and divers matters relating to Glocestershire all which may be of great use to Lawyers and Antiquaries At length after this most learned and religious person had lived to the age of 67 he gave way to fate on Christmas day 25. Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and six whereupon his body was buried on the 4. of Jan. following in the yard belonging to the Church of Alderley among the graves of his Mothers Ancestors At which time Evan Griffith the pious Minister of that place preached his funeral sermon on Isay 57.1 which was afterwards as I have been informed made extant by him the said Griffith sometimes of Oriel Coll. in Oxon as it seems who dying in the beginning of June 1681 after he had been one of the Wednesdays Lecturers at Wotton Under-edge in Com. Gloc. several years was buried at Alderley before mention'd To conclude all that I shall farther say of this worthy person Sir Matth. Hale whom we have now brought to his grave shall be the very same words which conclude his life written by a Native of Edenburgh called Gilbert Burnet D. D. sometimes Professor of Div. in the Univ. of Glascow but then 1682 Preacher at the Rolls in Chancery-lane running thus He was one of the greatest patterns that this age hath afforded whether in his private deportment as a Christian or in his publick employments either at the bar or on the bench Which character being without doubt true as most things of him in the said life are yet I must take leave to tell the reader that most knowing and observing men had a better esteem of Judg Hale before the said life was published than after as also in some respects before the publication of Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Matth. Hale The author of which Mr. R. Baxter the learned and most eminent Nonconformist takes often occasion to reflect in them on the Church of Englands and its Orthodox Sons THOMAS FORD was born of a Plebeian Family in Devons entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in Easter term an 1619 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts entred into Orders and became a very faithful Tutor in his House for several years But being puritanically educated as all in his time of the said House were and not able to endure certain passages acted in the University preached a very factious sermon at S. Maries on 2. Thes 2.10 for which he was banished thence an 1631 as I have at large elsewhere told you So that retiring into his own Country to get preferment he was kept back from it by the endeavours of Archb. Laud till such time that he should make his peace and recantation for what he had done At length the small cure of Oundle in Northamptonshire being bestowed upon him he continued there as I conceive till the grand rebellion began At which time finding no opposition he retired to the City of Exeter and became much resorted to for a time by those of the Presbyterian perswasion But leaving that place when garrison'd for his Majesty he retired to London or near it became one of the Ass of Divines in the room of Mr. Bolls deceased an 1644 and frequently preached up the cause there Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings interest he went to Exeter again was made Minister of S. Laurence Church there became the prime leader of the faction took the Engagement as before he had done the Covenant and was one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Devon for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters After his Majesties restauration he continued in his cure till silenced for Nonconformity an 1662 so that preaching in private among the brethren he obtained a livelyhood from them to the time of his death A certain Doct. of Divinity of his time and perswasion that knew him well hath several times told me that this our author was a man of very great parts and of unbyassed principles one and the same in all times and changes He hath written A treatise tending to prove the lawfulness of singing Psalmes Lond. 1657 in oct or tw 'T is grounded on Ephes 5.19 One John Foord hath written Expositio libri Psalmorum Lond. 1646. qu. Published by Thom. Paget but whether he was ever of Oxford I cannot tell The Sinner condemned of himself Being a plea for God against all the ungodly proving them alone guilty of their own destruction c. Lond. 1668 in oct containing 256. pages He preached once before the Lords of the Long Parliament at a Fast held 29.
born at Husboorne as 't is said in Hampshire became a Commoner of and was entred as a Knights son in Trin. Coll. an 1610 took one degree in Arts and then went to Lincols Inn and studied the Municipal Laws for some time Afterwards upon second thoughts and perhaps a desire of a sedate and Academical life he went to Caies College in Cambridge lived several years there on his Estate and at length took the degree of Bach. of Divinity About which time being made Chaplain to George Duke of Bucks by his Majesties special recommendations who then told the Duke that he should have an eye on him as occasion served he was admitted Dr. of Div. at which time some scruples being made the K. by his letters to the Univ. of Cambridge approved of what was done Much about the same time he became Rector of Burgh-cleere and High-cleere in Hampshire where continuing in a quiet repose till the grand Rebellion broke out was often disturb'd for his Loyalty and at length sequestred After his Majesties restauration he became Bishop of S. David by his nomination to which being Consecrated in S. Peters Church in Westminster on the second day of Decemb. 1660 sate there till the time of his death He was a person of signal Candor and vertues requisite in a Church man which in the worst of times gained him great esteem from the very enemies of his Order and Function He hath written and published Observations censures and confutations of notorious errors in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his books Lond. 1663. qu. put out under the name of Theophilus Pyke Lucius Occasional animadversions on some writings of the Socinians and such Hereticks of the same opinion with Mr. Hobbes Printed with the Observations c. Treatise of the nature of a Minister in all its Offices Lond. 1670. qu. Answer to Dr. Patr. Forbes concerning the necessity of Bishops to Ordaine in answer to a question proposed in these late unhappy times by the author what is a Minister Pr. with the Treatise of c. besides one or more Sermons which are extant He died on the fourth day of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Collegiat Church of Brecknock in Wales Over his grave is the Effigies of the Defunct to the middle part in a Gown and Lawn Sleves curiously fram'd from Alabaster with the right hand holding a book and the left resting on a deaths head All set up in the wall near his grave with this inscription in golden letters on a black Marble M.S. Vigilantissimi Praesulis Gulielmi Lucy qui veterum natalium prosapiâ morum candore miro ingenii acumine perspicaci literaturae reconditioris claritate integritate vitae spectabili virtutis emnigenae praesidio ad amussim ornatus ad gradus episcopalis apicem faeliciter evectus voce praesidebat exemplo meritis pietate sacrâ infulâ dignissimus Aequum servavit in utraque sorte mentem adversis fulvi probatus instar auri non fractus unquam fuit nec epatus rebus prosperis Ecclesiae Anglicanoe fulgebat sidus lucidum verbi divini dum res tulit concionator assiduus veritatis orthodoxae vindex acerrimus ordinis hierarchi decus propugnaculum sedis Menevensis per annos octodecim ingens ornamentum Satur dierum maturus coelo huic mundo placidè nec invitus valedixit Octobris die quarto anno aetatis 86 Dom. MDCLXXVII JOHN ROWE son of Joh. Rowe of Crediton in Devonshire was born there or at least in that County entred a Batler in New Inn in the beginning of 1642 aged 15 years but being soon after taken thence because the City of Oxon was garrison'd for his Majesties use and the said Inn made a Mint-house his friends sent him to Cambridge where taking the degree of Bach. of Arts retired to Oxon in 1648 to get preferment by the Visitation then and there made by order of Parliament So that setling himself in that Inn againe was incorporated in the same degree in the beginning of Dec. and on the 12 of the said month was admitted M. of Arts as a Member of the said Inn or Hall and much about the same time was put in Fellow of Corp. Ch. Coll. in a Lincolnshire place by the Visitors then sitting in Oxon. Afterwards he was Lecturer at Witney in Oxfordshire where his Sermons were much frequented by persons of the Presbyterian persuasion but leaving his fellowship soon after he became preacher at Tiverton in his own Country for a time and as a Minister of Devonshire he was appointed an Assistant to the Commissioners thereof for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School Masters Thence upon the death of Will. Strong an 1654 he was called to succeed him as preacher in St. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church within the City of Westminster At which place his Sermons being constant and much taking with the men of those times he was frequented by the chiefest of the Quakers to the conversion as t is said of some On the 14 of March 1659 he was appointed by Act of Parl. one of the Approvers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way but the vigour of that Act soon after ceasing and he after his Majesties restauration being deprived for want of Conformity he set up a privat meeting in the parish I think of S. Andrew in Holborn near London where he was assisted by Theoph. Gale His works are these Tragi-Comoedia A relation of the strange and wonderful hand of God discovered at Witney in the Comedy acted on the 3. Feb. 1652. Oxon. 1653. qu. The said Comedy was acted by young men of the Country in an old upper room in a public Inn there but the floor falling under them in the middle of Play some were slain and many hurt Three Sermons preached on that occasion on Rom. 1. 18. Printed with the Relation In which Sermons the author takes great liberty in speaking against Plays and the Actors of them Several other Sermons as 1 Mans duty in magnifying Gods work Sermon on a public day of Thanksgiving before the Parliament 8. oct 1656 on Job 36.24.25 Lond. 1657. qu. The said Thanksgiving was celebrated for the great victory obtained against the Spanish West-India Fleet. 2 The Saints temptations wherein the nature kinds occasion of temptation and the duty of the Saints under temptation are laid forth As also the Saints fence c. in Sermons Lond. 1674 oct 3 Emanuel or the Love of Christ explicated and applied in his incarnation being made under the Law and his satisfaction in 30 Sermons Lond. 1680. Published by Sam. Lee somtimes Fellow of Wadham Coll. He also preached a Sermon at the interment of Joh. Bradshaw President of the H. Court of Justice that condemned K. Ch. 1. to die in the Abbey Ch. at West 22. of Nov. 1659 on Isay 57.1 but whether it was ever printed I cannot tell Sure
Work the perusals of them when they could not otherwise but know that they would have been serviceable to him in the promotion of this Work then almost ready for the Press But such is the humour of the men of this age that rather than they 'll act a part for the public good and honour of learning they 'll suffer choice things to be buried in oblivion Mr. Fulman who died to the reluctancy of many learned men was buried in the Churchyard at the east end of the chancel of the Ch. at Meysey-Hampton before mentioned near to the body of his then late wife named Hester Grandaughter by the father of Dr. Rog. Manwaring sometimes Bishop of S. David ROBERT CARY son of George Cary of Cockington in Devonshire Gent was born there adm to the Communers table in Exeter Coll. 4 Oct. 1631 aged 16 years where continuing till Oct. 1634 was then adm scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll and in the year after took the degree of Bach. of Arts but whether he was ever Fellow of the said house I know not In 1638 he was licensed to proceed in Arts and in Nov. 1644 he as a Kinsman to Will Marquess of Hertford Chanc. of the Univ. of Oxon was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law by vertue of his letters then read in Convocation Afterwards he became Rector of East Portlemouth near Kingsbridge in Devonshire and Archdeacon of Exeâ—er being then accounted very learned in curious and critical learning He hath written Palaeologia chronica A chronological account of antient time in three parts 1. Didacticall 2. Apodeicticall 3. Canonicall Lond. 1677. fol. A large account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions numb 132. pag. 808.809 c. What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at East Portlemouth before mentioned in sixteen hundred eighty and eight was buried on the nineteenth day of Septemb. the same year in the Church there THOMAS FLATMAN an eminent Poet of his time was born in Aldersgate street in the Suburb of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester elected Fellow of New Coll. in 1654 left it before he took a degree retired to the Inner Temple of which he became a Barrester and equally ingenious in the two noble faculties of Poetry and Painting or Limning as several choice pieces shew the titles of the former of which are these A Pindariqu ' Ode on the death of the truly valiant and loyal George Duke of Albemarle late General of his Majesties Forces c. Lond. 1670. in 3 sh in fol. reprinted in his Poems and Songs following Poems and Songs Lond. 1674. oct there again with additions and amendments 1676. oct and lastly with more additions in oct 1682 with his picture before them A Pindariqu ' Ode on the death of Thomas Earl of Ossory Lond. 1681. in 2 sh in fol. Which Earl the eldest son of James Duke of Ormonde died at Westminster to the great grief of many at about 7 of the clock in the evening of the 30 of Jul. 1680. This Poem that pleased the author best as it did the generality was printed in the last edition of his Songs and Poems Soon after the publication of the said Ode it was read and perused by the said Duke who being in an high manner pleased with it he sent to the author a mourning Ring with a Diamond in it worth a 100 l as a reward for his labour and ingenuity On the death of K. Ch. 2. a Pindariqu ' Ode Lond. 1685. in two sh in fol. At the latter end of which are Gratulatory Verses on K. Jam. 2. In the year 1660 came out under the two letters of T. F. a book called Virtus rediviva A Panegyrick on the late King Charles the first of ever blessed memory attended with several ingenious pieces from the same pen. Whether Thom. Flatman was thâ— author of these Poems I cannot justly tell because they are not among his Songs and Poems In the next year was published a piece in prose intit Don Juan Lamberto or a comical history of the late times with a wooden cut before it containing the pictures of Giant Desborough with a great club in his right hand and of Lambert both leading under the arms the meek Knight i. e. Richard Cromwell which book vending very fast a second part was added by the same hand with the Giant Husonio before it and printed with the second impression of the first part Lond. 1661. qu. To both which parts very witty and satyrical tho the disguis'd name of Montelion Knight of the Oracle c. is set to them yet the acquaintance and contemporaries of Th. Flatman always confidently aver'd that he the said Flatman was the author of them He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Laodomia to Protesilaus which is in Ovids Epistles translated from Lat. into Engl. by several hands Lond. 1681. oct sec edit At length he having lived to the age of 53 or thereabouts gave way to fate in his house in Fleetstreet Lond. on the eighth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight and was three days after buried in the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget near to the rails of the Communion-table under a grave-stone with inscription and verses thereon which he had sometime before caused to be laid on his son there buried This person whose father a Clerk in the Chancery was then living in the 80 year of his age or more was in his younger days much against marriage to the dislike of his said father and made a song describing the cumbrances of it beginning thus Like a dog with a bottle ty'd close to his tail Like a Tory in a bog or a thief in a jayle c. But being afterwards smitten with a fair Virgin and more with her fortune did espouse her 26 Nov. 1672 whereupon his ingenious Comrades did serenade him that night while he was in the embraces of his Mistress with the said song SETH WARD a most noted Mathematician and Astronomer of his time was born in a little market town in Hertfordshire called Buntingford and on the 15 of Apr. 1617 was baptized there His father was an Attorney of good repute among his neighbours who perceiving his son very forward to learn he taught him common Arithmetick and caus'd him to be carefully educated in Grammar learning When he was fitted for the University he was sent to Sidney Coll. in Cambridge where he became Servitour to Dr. Sam. Ward Master of that house who being much taken with his ingenuity and industry as also with the suavity of his nature did soon after make him Scholar of the said house And because he was of the same Sirname many supposed that he was of kin occasion'd by the Doctor 's great kindness to him But there was no relation at all between them only the consimility of their dispositions which made a greater
for the King intended it for him conditionally he would conform Dr. Frewen had the benefit of that too all the fines for renewing and for the filling up lives to his very great profit besides what he got from York At length Mr. Baxter the Coryphaeus of the Presbyterian party refusing it least he in an high manner should displease the Brethren it was offer'd to Dr. Richard Baylie President of S. Johns College and Dean of Sarum who had been a very great sufferer for the Kings cause but he refusing it because Dr. Frewen had skim'd it it was thereupon confer'd on Dr. John Hacket of Cambridge as I shall anon tell you This Dr. Frewen who was accounted a general Scholar and a good Orator but hath nothing extant only a Latin Oration with certain verses on the death of Prince Henry for his Moral Philosophy Lectures are not yet made publick died at his Mannour of Bishops Thorp near York on the 28 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried on the third day of May following under the great east window of the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in York Soon after was erected a splendid monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which being too large for this place shall now for brevity sake be omitted His Father John Frewen before mention'd was a learned Divine and frequent preacher of his time and wrot 1 Fruitful instructions and necessary doctrine to edifie in the fear of God c. Lond. 1587 in tw 2 Fruitful instructions for the general cause of reformation against the slanders of the Pope and League c. Lond. 1589. qu. 3 Certain choice grounds and principles of our Christian Religion with their several expositions by way of questions and answers c. Lond. 1621. in octav and other things He died in 1627 about the latter end and was buried in Nordiam Church leaving then behind these Sons viz. Accepted before mention'd Thankful Stephen Joseph Benjamin Thomas Samuel John c. which John seems to have succeeded his Father in the Rectory of Nordiham but whether the said Father was educated in Oxon I cannot yet tell Qu. As for Dr. Hacket before mention'd who was an eminent person in his time for learning and a publick spirit I shall now take this opportunity to speak at large of him tho I have partly mention'd him already in the Fasti under the year 1616. p. 824 and elsewhere in the first volume Born therefore he was in the Strand near Exeter-house in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of Westminster on the first day of Sept. 34. Elizab. Dom. 1592. His Father was Andr. Hacket of Putferin in Scotland a senior Burgess of the City of Westminster and afterwards of the Robes to Prince Henry who being a zealous Protestant took great care to breed up this his only Son to that religion When he was very young therefore he put him to the Coll. School at Westminster and his Master Mr. Ireland finding in him a great propensity to learning was very kind to him as also was Dr. Lanc. Andrews the Dean of the Ch. there who in the necessary absence of the Master being accustomed to come into the School and examine the boys took this youth into his particular favour and continued it to him as long as the Bishop lived Being made ripe for the University he was in the year 1608 with the pious Mr. George Herbert elected to go to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge by the favour of Dr. Tho. Nevill Master of that Coll who told his Father when he addressed to him about his Son that he should go to Cambridge or else he would carry him upon his back and being there entred he was put under the tuition of Dr. Edw. Simson author of Chronicon ab exordio mundi c. Soon after he was so much noted for his painful studies sober life and great proficiency in learning that he was elected Fellow of that House assoon as he was by the rules thereof fit for the same Afterwards he grew into that credit that he had many Pupils put to his charge and those of the best families in England and then betaking himself to the study of Divinity he took holy Orders in 1618 from the hands of Dr. John King B. of London who had a great affection for him and expressed the same on divers occasions but above all others Dr. John Williams Bishop of Linc observing his great learning and knowledge in the Tongues chose him his Chaplain immediatly after the Great Seal was committed to his charge an 1621. Two years he spent in that Bishops service before his time was come to commence Bach. of Divinity and then beg'd leave to go to Cambridge to keep the publick Act an 1623 which he performed according to expectation and then returning to Court to his Master he prefer'd him to be Chaplain to K. Jam. 1 before whom he preaching several times to that learned Prince's good liking he was the next year by the recommendations of his Master presented to the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourn near London then within his Majesties disposal by reason of the minority of Thomas Earl of Southampton and suddenly after he was by the same means made Parson of Cheame in Surrey fallen likewise in his Majesties gift by the promotion of Dr. Ric. Senhouse to the Bishoprick of Carlile which two Livings he held till the most execrable rebellion broke out in 1642 and was constantly resident upon one of them In 1628 he commenced Doct. of Div. at Cambridge where he preached a Sermon highly applauded by the learned auditory of that time And returning to Holbourne and his duty there he became very famous for excellent preaching and decent order in his charge In 1631 his old Master the Bishop of Lincoln gave him the Archdeaconry of Bedford void by the death or resignation of Nich. Walker D. D. who had succeeded therein one George Eland an 1629. To which charge he usually went once in a year commonly after Easter and exhorted the Clergy thereof to keep strictly the Orders of the Church Afterwards finding his Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne much in decay he eagerly sollicited his great friends and acquaintance to contribute to its reedification or at least repair and about the year 1639 he had obtained divers thousands of pounds for that purpose but the unparalell'd rebellion following soon after the members of the Long Parliament mostly a prevalent party of Presbyterians did seize on that and all the money collected for the repair of St. Pauls Cathedral in London to carry on their rebellion against their King In the beginning of the Civil War he was named one of the Committee with divers eminent Bishops and Pastors to consider of what was amiss in the English Liturgy and Church government and to rectifie the same in hopes by that means to expel the cloud then appearing over the Church but the Lords
the Coll. of Edinburgh where he commenced Master of Arts afterwards he retired to Oxon to compleat his Learning especially his Divinity by the advice instruction and lectures of Dr. Prideaux an 1637. 38. c. Soon after he upon recommendations became one of the Chaplains to James Marquess of Hamilton at that time his Majesties High Commissioner for Scotland In which station he did acquit himself so well to the satisfaction of his noble Patron that upon his return to England he procured a Presentation for him from his Majesty to the Church of Birsa in the Stewartry of Orknay where Continuing some years his prudence diligence and faithfulness in the discharge of his Office did procure him much of veneration and respect from all persons especially from his Ordinary who confer'd upon him the dignity of Moderator to the Presbytery In the beginning of the year 1650 when the noble James Marq. of Montross landed in Orknay this Dr. Atkins was nominated by the unanimous Votes of the said Presbytery to draw up a Declaration in their names and his own which with their approbation and consent was published containing very great expressions of Loyalty and constant resolution firmly to adhere to their dutiful Allegiance For this the whole Presbytery being deposed by the general Assembly of the Kirk at that time sitting at Edinburgh the said Doctor was likewise excommunicated as one that conversed with the said Marquess against whom they had emitted the like Brutum Fulmen At that time the Scottish Council past an Act to apprehend him the said Doctor to the end that he might be tried for his life but upon private notice from his Kinsman Sir Archibald Primerose at that time Clerk to the said Council he fled into Holland where he sculked till 1653 and then returning into Scotland he transfer'd his family to Edinburgh where he resided quietly and obscurely till the year 1660. Upon the return then of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he attended Dr. Tho. Sydserf Bishop of Galloway the only Scottish Bishop who had the good fortune to survive the calamities of the Usurper's Government to London where the Bishop of Winchester presented him to the Rectory of Winfrith in Dorsetshire and continuing there till the year 1677 he was elected and consecrated Bish of Murray in Scotland to the great rejoycing of the Episcopal Party In 1680 he was translated to the See of Galloway with dispensation to reside at Edinburgh because it was thought unreasonable to oblige a reverend Prelate of his years to live among such a rebellious and turbulent People as those of that Diocess were the effects of whose fiery zeal hath too frequently appeared in affronting beating robbing wounding and sometimes murthering the Curates He had the oversight of the said Diocess for 7 years which he so carefully governed partly by his pastoral Letters to the Synod Presbyteries and Ministers and partly by his great pains in undertaking a very great journey for a man of his age and infirmities to visit his Diocess that had he resided on the place better order and discipline could scarce be expected He died at Edinburgh of an Apoplexy on the 28 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven aged 74 years Whereupon his body was decently inter'd in the Church of the Grey Friers there at which time John then Bish of Dunkeld since deceased preached his funeral Sermon His death was sadly regretted by all good and pious men who knew him to be a man of great reputation for his sincere piety constant Loyalty singular learning and true zeal for the Protestant Religion according to the Constitutions of the Church of England of which he lived and died a worthy Member Upon his Coffin was fastned this Epitaph Maximus Atkinsi pietate maximus annis Ante diem invitâ religione cadis Ni caderes nostris inferret forsitan oris Haud impune suos Roma superba Deos. He was very zealous and vigorous in opposing the taking off the Penal Laws in Scotland at which time notwithstanding he was so infirm by age and sickness that he could not walk yet he was daily conveyed to the Parliament where he declared publickly his aversion to the abolishing the said Penal Laws and to use his interest with the Nobility and Gentry of the Parl. in perswading them to a firm and constant adherence to the Protestant Religion and to oppose all the designs that might be prejudicial to the same SAMUEL PARKER sometimes of Wadh afterwards of Trin. Coll and Archd. of Canterbury became B. of Oxford on the death of Dr. Fell an 1686 and dying in the latter end of sixteen hundred eighty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 616 was succeeded in the same See by Timothy Hall as I shall tell by and by SETH WARD sometimes of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards of that of Wadh. in Oxon c. was first made B. of Exeter and afterwards of Salisbury who dying in the beginning of Jan. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight was succeeded in that See by Gilb. Burnet D. D. sometimes Preacher of the Rolls in Chancery lane in London consecrated thereunto according to the form prescribed in the book of Common Prayer in the Chappel belonging to the B. of London's house at Fulham by the B. of London Winchester Lincoln Landaff S. Asaph and Carlile on Easter-day 31 of March 1689. The said Dr. Ward did about his Majesties restauration 1660 endeavour to make his Loyalty known by being imprison'd at Cambr by his ejection his writing against the Covenant and I know not what but not a word of his cowardly wavering for lucre and honour sake of his putting in and out and occupying other mens places for several years c. See among the Writers p. 627. HUMPHREY LLOYD the third son of Rich. Lloyd D. D. and Vicar of Ruabon in Denbighshire by Jane his wife the daughter of Rudderch Hughes Clerk of the family of Maesâ—y Pandy was born at Bodâ—y Fudden in the Parish of Trawsfynydd in the County of Merioneth in Jul. or Aug. an 1610 became a Com. of Oriel Coll. for a time afterwards of Jesus where he was Scholar and thence again to Oriel Coll of which he became Fellow in 1631 and a great Tutor for many years When the K. and Court were setled in Oxon he became known to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York then there who made him his Chapl. and gave him the Prebendship of Ampleford in the Church of York which he kept to his death After the decease of his father which was in the time of the Troubles he succeeded him in the Vicaridge of Ruabon but was soon deprived of it and his Prebendship by the Usurpers till restored again to both by the happy Revolution in 1660. On the 13 of Aug. 1661 he was made Canon of S Asaph and in the month following he was actually created D. of D. On the 14 of Dec. 1663
Chanc. of England and Chanc. of the Univ. was seated in the supreme Chair Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester of Wadh. Coll. Jam. Levingston Visc of Kimardin as 't is said in the Reg. and Earl of Newburgh in Scotland sometimes of Mert. Coll. Edw. Mâ—ntague eldest son of Edw. L Montague of Boughton Edw. Hyde of Ch. Ch. third son of Edw. Earl of Clarendon He died of the Small pox on the 10 of January an 1664 aged 19 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster leaving then this character behind him that he was the most hopeful youth and the best natur'd Creature in the world John Lovelace of Wadh. Coll. eldest son of John Lovelace He was after the death of his father Lord Lovelace but obtaining no great matter during the reigns of K. Ch. 2. and K. Jam. 2 which he expected because his father had been a great sufferer for the cause of K. Ch. 1 he was by the favour of K. Will. 3. to whom he adhered when he arrived in the West in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and for his sake was for some time imprison'd at Glocester made Captain of his Band of Gentlemen Pensioners in the beginning of March 1688. Edw Sebright of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets John Williams of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets The former was of Besford in Worcestershire the other of Dorsetshire Sir Alan Broderick Kt His Majesties Surveyour General for the Kingdom of Ireland This person who was endowed with a poetical wit and hath several Specimens thereof extant died at Wandesworth in Surrey 25 Nov. 1680 and was buried there 3 of Dec. following John Bulteel Secretary to Edw. Earl of Clarendon This person who was son of John Bulteel a Frenchman sometimes living at Dover died a Bachelaur in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster an 1669. One Joh. Bulteel Gent. translated from French into English A general chronological History of France before the raign of K. Pharamond and ending with the raign of K. Hen. 4. c. Lond. 1683. fol. Whether he be the same with the former who was created M. of A. I know not I have made mention of another Joh. Bulteel in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 849. Matthew Wren or Wrenn Secretary to the said Edw. Earl of Clar. This person who was the eldest son of Dr. Matthew Wren Bish of Ely was originally a Student in Cambridge and afterwards a Student for several years in the time of Usurpation in this University not in a Coll. or Hall but in a private House After his Majesties restauration he was taken into the service of the Earl of Clarendon was elected a Burgess for S. Michael in Cornwal to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 8 May 1661 became a Member of the Royal Society and of the Council thereof and after the fall of the said Clarendon he became Secretary to James Duke of York and continued in his service to the time of his death At length giving way to fate on the 14 of June or thereabouts an 1672 aged about 42 years his body was conveyed to Cambridge and there buried in Pemb. Hall Chappel in the same Vault wherein his father was five years before buried This ingenious person hath written 1 Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Commonwealth of Oceana restrained to the first part of the preliminaries Lond. 1657. oct Before these Considerations is a large Letter sent by the author to Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll by whom the said author was desired to give his judgment concerning the Commonwealth of Oceana 2 Monarchy assâ—rted or the state of monarchical and popular Government in vindication of the Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Oceana Lond. 1659 and 1660. oct See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers p. 440. Joh. Dugdale chief Gent. in the Chamber of the said Earl of Clarendon L. Chanc. of Engl. This person who was the son of Sir Will. Dugdale mentioned in these Fasti an 1642 p. 643 c. was afterwards Windsore Herald upon the resignation of Elias Ashmole Esq and at length Norroy King of Arms upon the promotion of Sir Thom. St. George to the office of Garter in the place of the said Sir William deceased in the beginning of March 1685 about which time he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty This Sir Joh. Dugdale hath published A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their respective precedencies as it was presented to his Majesty on New-years day an 1684. To which is added The Blazon of their paternal Coates of Arms and a List of the present Bishops by permission of the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal This was printed at Lond. on a broad side of a large sh of paper an 1685 and came out again with additions in 1690. Thom. Agar Sam. Gabrie All which persons from Joh. Earl of Rochester to the said Sam. Gabrie were created Masters of Arts on the 9 of Sept. Sept. 12. Rich. Newporn of Ch. Ch. eldest son of Francis Lord Newport of High Ercall Sept. 12. Seymour Shirly of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stradling of Jes Coll. Baronets Sept. 12. Jam. Rushout of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stanley of Brasn Coll. Baronets All which were created by the favour of the said Chanc. Oct. 19. Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards Preb. of Salisbury and a publisher of Several Sermons and therefore he ought hereafter to be mention'd more at large Nov. 6. Tho. Traherne of Brasn Coll. Besides all these were several others created among whom were Rich. Newborough of Ball. Coll May 28 who had served his Maj. in the late Wars and was this year Preb. of Hereford Bach. of Div. Thirteen Bach. of Div. were created by vertue of the Chancellours recommendations among whom were these Jul. 1. Thom. Marshall of Linc. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. As for Wyatt who was born at Todenham in Glocestershire was not graduated in Arts because before the time came when he should take the degree of Bach the Civil War began Afterwards he was Assistant to Dr. Jer. Taylor when he taught School in Caermerthenshire and wrot as 't was usually said which he himself did also acknowledge A new and easie institution of Grammar c. which was published under Dr. Taylor 's name See more in the life of the said Doctor among the Writers p. 285. Afterwards Mr. Wyatt taught at Evesham in Worcestershire and at length assisted Mr. Will. Fuller while he taught a private School at Twittenham in Middlesex Afterwards when that person became Bishop of Linc he made him not only his Chapl but also Preb. and afterwards Chantor of the Church there Which Dignities he resigning in 1681 he retired to Nun-Eaton in Warwickshire where he died in the house of Sir Ric. Newdigate about 1686. What other things the said Mr. Wyatt hath
Athenae Oxonienses An Exact HISTORY OF ALL THE Writers and Bishops Who have had their EDUCATION in The most ancient and famous Vniversity OF OXFORD FROM The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh Dom. 1500 to the End of the Year 1690. REPRESENTING The Birth Fortune Preferment and Death of all those AUTHORS and PRELATES the great Accidents of their LIVES and the Fate and Character of their WRITINGS To which are added The FASTI or Annals of the said University For the same time The SECOND VOLUME Compleating the Whole WORK Antiquam exquirite Matrem Virgil. LONDON Printed for THO. BENNET at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard MDCXCII THE INTRODUCTION A General and perfect History of the Learning of the English Nation is a Work of that Vse and Fame that every advance towards that design hath so much the greater share and proportion of Glory as it tends nearer in to the accomplishment of so vast an Vndertaking And therefore it will naturally be the subject of wonder why our Author should not rather chuse to carry the date of those Memoires as high as the first Original of Learning in Britain and to extend enquiries as far as to the Schools and Societies of this Island than to confine himself within the bounds of two Centuries only and of one single Vniversity It is to be own'd indeed that even this so great a Work with a little alteration of the Model might have been almost wholly compos'd of the Materials which our Author had here prepar'd if it had been his design to affect rather the Shew and Grandeur of the Frontispiece than the Beauty and Strength of the Fabrick But when the Reader shall consider what is here offer'd he will have no reason to blame the modesty of our Author That his Performance has exceeded his Promise and that his Title only is below his Work For first As in Civil History four great and remarkable Periods have usually been taken from the rise and fall of Monarchies so upon a general view of the best Authors and their Writings it is easie for us to observe four signal Epocha's in the Increase and Decay of Learning The three first of those from the Nations which were successively the Seats of Empire and of Learning may be nam'd the Chaldean the Grecian and the Roman and the last in honor of those that were the chief Favorers and Promoters of the restoration of Letters the Alfonsine or Medicean When the Empire was first settled in the East whether among the Assyrians first or afterwards among the Medes or lastly among the Persians Learning still continued within the Confines of Asia their Philosophy as well as their Monarchy was confin'd to that great Continent as being alike rather desirous of establishing its Power than of inlarging its Dominions The Native Riches of the Country made them despise Commerce with the West and the in-born Wit of the Eastern Inhabitants seem'd to promise it self no improvement from the Society of those who were at a greater distance from the Sun Hence very improbable it is that during this Epocha of Learning so distant an Island as this of Britain should be sought out and cultivated by those who had but a late and that no great Intercourse even with the nearest Europeans Especially since the People it self was so wealthy and so sensible of its own sufficiency that even the greatest Advantages which we either conceive or find in this Island could hardly tempt them to so long and so unnecessary a Voyage However since I have no mind to contradict Etymologists because I have no inclination to dispute with them It may be own'd that some part of our Tongue especially of the Cornish and Welsh Dialects seems to retain some appearance of conformity with the Eastern Originals Whether this Agreement of Words and at least of some Letters in them can be wholly ascrib'd to Chance or whether in all derivative Tongues there still remains some footsteps and traces of the common Language or whether as in some words the sense naturally directs different Nations to the same sound or whether lastly there was an antient correspondence between Asia and Britain and the Phenicians a Nation born for Trade being tempted by the value of our Tin and other Metals brought from the Coast of Syria not only the Native Commodities of that Soil but the Language Customs and Religion of those Countries Certain it is that our Correspondence if any was not with Scholars but Seamen and consequently that whatever alterations our Tongue our Vsages and Religion might receive from them our Learning could have no Advance or Improvement In the second Period of Learning when the Grecians had first made themselves Masters of the Arts and Sciences and afterwards of the Treasure of Asia 'T is not wholly improbable that a vain-glorious People fruitful of Colonies and successful in Navigation should carry their Trade beyond the Mediterranean and place even in this remote Island the monuments of their Learning and of their Power For tho it would not be easie for our Antiquaries to find out the Altar which Ulysses erected in this Island and the search after the College of Athenian Philosophers which the Learned King Bladud happily founded in this his Kingdom might as successfully be made in Utopia as Britain yet it is not hard even in that age to descry not only some remains of their Language but some footsteps too of their Philosophy For as it appears from Cesar that the Druids the antient Philosophers of this Island us'd the Language of the Grecians or at least their Characters so are the Notions of the Druids and Bards such as seem to confess the same Original Whether the Neighbouring Colony of the Grecians at Marseils contributed to the cultivating this Nation or whether the Scythians that with a more than ordinary shew of probability have been prov'd to have Peopled this Island having had formerly the advantages of a nearer Correspondence with the Greeks brought hither the small stock of their borrow'd Knowledge and not only subdu'd but informed us However the matter is our Author hath with prudence begun this History of Learning below the date of those remote and doubtful inquiries as being Topicks already exhausted by the most fanciful Antiquaries and which as dark and barren Islands can at best yield no praise to any other than their first Diseâ—verers Afterwards Learning like the Sun having first enlightned the Eastern Countries and then gradually proceeded to the Neighbouring Nations at last took its progress to the West and so far dispers'd its Beams that even the most remote Islands were made Sharers in its influence For when the Romans had subdu'd Greece and brought from thence not only the Riches of the Country but their Arts and Learning too as the noblest spoils and marks of their Conquest Then began in Italy the third Period of Learning which was so much greater than the former as the Empire under which it
in the Archives of Bodlies Library also Britannia Scholastica vel de Britanniae rebus scholasticis lib. 10. 'T is a Lat. Poem in qu. dedicated to Sir Tho. Bodley and is reserved as a rarity for 't is a MS. in the Archives of his Library The said ten books are thus entit 1. Heroicus 2. Provincia 3. Heptarchia 4. Alfredus 5. Neotus 6. Elfleda 7. Parallismus 8. Itinerarium 9. Benemeriti 10. Foxus meaning Fox Founder of C. C. Coll. He also published a Sermon of Dr. Miles Smith B. of Gloc. preached at an Assize in Cirencester on Jer. 9. ver 23 24. At length upon the approach of the Civil War in England our Author Burhill retired for quietness sake to his Rectory of Northwold near to Thetford in Norfolk where dying in the month of Octob. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred forty and one was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the south side near to the entrance thereof from the Church as I have been informed by the Letters of Mr. Joh. Burrell Minister of Thetford dated 3 May 1673 who also tells me therein that Dr. Burhill was had in general esteem of a very great Scholar and a right worthy Churchman That the memory of him is pleasant to those that knew him c. JOHN EATON a Kentish man born became the first receiver of the exhibition which Rich. Blount gave to Trinity College an 1590 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1603. Afterwards he became a Curat for several years in divers places and at length in 1625 or thereabouts he was made Minister and Preacher at Wickham Market in Suffolk where he continued to the time of his death being accounted by all the neighbouring Ministers a grand Antinomian if not one of the Founders of the Sect so called His Works are The discovery of a most dangerous dead faith Lond. 1641. in tw Abrahams steps of faith printed with the former The Honey-comb of free Justification by Christ alone collected out of the meer authorities of Scripture c. Lond. 1642. in a thick quarto published by Rob. Lancaster who in his Epistle before it tells us that the Authors Faith Zeal and Diligence in doing his calling and his faith patience and cheerfulness in suffering for the same were so exemplary that they are worthy to be set forth as a pattern not only to all good People and Ministers now but even all succeeding Generations c. Thus he who was one of his admirers and sect by which we are given to understand that he suffered much from his Diocesan and others for his heterodox opinions At length dying at Wickham Market before mention'd in sixteen hundred forty and one was there buried In his pastoral charge succeeded one Zeph. Smith who afterwards published Directions for Seekers and Expectants or a guide for weak Christians in these discontented times c. on Psal 119. ver 102. Lond. 1646. qu. and perhaps other things BARNABAS POTTER received his first being in this world within the Barony of Kendall in the County of Westmorland became a Student in Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1594 aged 15 years Where after he had undergone with some hardship the place of a poor serving Child and Tabarder he was when M. of Arts made Fellow of the said College Afterwards entring into holy orders he became not only a puritanical Preacher in these parts but at Totness in Devonshire where he was much followed by the precise party In 1615 he proceeded in Divinity and in the year following was elected Provost of his College which place he holding about 10 years resign'd it being then one of the Kings Chaplains and by his interest got his Nephew Christopher Potter to succeed him In 1628 he tho a thorough pac'd Calvinist was made Bishop of Carlile to which being consecrated in the Chappel of Ely house in Holbourn near London on the 15 of March had the temporalities thereof given to him by the King on the 23 of the same month in the year before mention'd He hath written and published Lectures on the sixteenth Chapt. of Genesis When or where printed I know not Lect. on the 12.13.14.15.17.18 Chapters of Genesis Whether printed I cannot tell He had also written Lectures on the Plagues of Egypt from Exodus and on the Beatitudes from part of S. Luke but are not as I conceive extant Several Sermons as 1 The Baronets burial Or a funeral sermon at the solemnities of that honorable Baronet Sir Edw. Seymours burial on Deut. 34. ver 5. Oxon. 1613. qu. 2 Sermon on Easter Tuesday at the Spittle c. This learned and godly Bishop gave way to fate in his Lodgings within the Parish of S. Paul in Covent Garden near London in the beginning of January in sixteen hundred forty and one whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to that Parish on the sixth day of the same month At which time he left behind him a widow named Elizabeth but whether any Children I cannot tell BARTHELMEW PARSONS a most laborious and frequent Preacher was a Somersetshire man born and of the same Family with Fath. Parsons the Jesuit applied his mind to Academical studies in Oriel Coll. in the year 1590 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy orders and preached constantly for a time in these parts In 1611 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time Vicar of Collingbourne-Kingston and Rector of Ludgarshall in Wiltshire at which places he was much followed and admired for his hospitality and preaching He hath written and published Sermons as 1 The barren tree's doome on Math. 3.10 Lond. 1616. qu. 2 Sermon on Psal 82.6 printed 1616. qu. 3 First fruit of the Gentiles three Sermons on Math. 2. ver 1.2 c. Lond. 1618. qu. 4 Dorcas or a perfect pattern of true discipline on Acts 9.36 Oxon. 1631. qu. 5 Boaz and Ruth blessed or a sacred contract c. on Ruth 4.11 Oxon 1633. qu. 6 Four Sermons on Acts 10.1.2 Lond. 1635. qu. 7 Sermon on Ephes 6.12.13 Oxon. 1637. qu. 8 History of Tithes or Tithes vindicated to the Presbyters of the Gospell on Deut. 33.11 Oxon 1637. qu. This Sermon hath also this lat title Honos est onus Levitarum 9 Sermon at the funeral of Sir Franc. Pile Bt. at Collingbourne Kingston in the County of Wilts 8 Dec. 1635 on Isay 57.1.2 Oxon. 1636. qu. and others which I have not yet seen This venerable and frequent Preacher Mr. Barth Parsons died in the latter end of February in sixteen hundred forty and one and was buried under the south wall of the Chancel of the Church of Ludgarshall before mention'd on the 27 day of the same month as the Register of that Church inform'd my sometimes acquaintance Tho. Gore of Alderton in Wilts Esq GEORGE WEB or Webbe a Ministers Son was born at Bromham in Wilts began
to be conversant with the Muses in Univ. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1598 aged 17 years admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 8 May in the year following took the degrees in Arts holy orders and about that time was made Minister of Steple-Ashton in his native Country by the favour if I mistake not of the Earl of Pembroke where also he taught Grammar as he did afterwards for a time in Bathe In 1621 Jul. 28. he was inducted Rector of the Church of S. Pet. and Paul within the City of Bathe being then Bach. of Div. and three years after proceeded in that faculty When K. Ch. 1. came to the Crown he was made one of his Chaplains in ordinary and in his Attendance at Court he baptized his first child by the name of Charles James 13 May 1629 which child died about an hour after In 1634 he was made Bishop of Limerick in Ireland to which being consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin on the 18 of Decemb. the same year his Rectory at Bathe was bestowed on his Son Theoph. Webbe M. of A. of Mert. Coll. This Dr. Webbe who sate at Limerick to the time of his death was a person of a strict life and conversation and had so great a command of his Pen and Tongue that he was accounted the best Preacher of his time in the royal Court and the smoothest writer of sermons that were then published His works are these A brief Exposition of the Principles of Christian Religion gathered out of the holy Scriptures for the benefit of all that are desirous to hear sermons and to receive the Sacrament with comfort Lond. 1612. oct ded to his beloved hearers and congregation of Steple-Ashton and Semington The practise of quietness directing a Christian how to live quietly in this troublesome World Lond. 1631. in tw third edit Arraignment of an unruly tongue wherein the faults of an evil tongue are opened the danger discovered and remedies preserved c. Lond. 1619. in tw Agurs prayer or the christian choice for the outward estate and condition of this present life c. Lond. 1621. in tw It is grounded on Prov. 30.7.8.9 To which are added the rich and poore mans prayer Catalogus Protestantium Or the Protestants Calender containing a survey of the Protestant Religion long before Luthers dayes Lond. 1624. qu. Lessons and Exercises out of Cicero ad Atticum pr. 1627. qu. Pueriles confabulatiunculae or Childrens talke in Engl. and Lat. pr. 1627. qu. Several sermons They are in number at least twelve and were all published between the years 1609 and 1619. Among them I find these following 1 Gods controversie with England preached at Paules cross on Hosea 4.1.2.3 Lond. 1609. oct 2 The Bride royal or the spiritual marriage between Chr. and his Church c. on Psal 45.13.14.15 Lond. 1613. oct 'T was delivered by way of congratulation upon the marriage between the Palsgrave and the Lady Elizabeth in a serm preached 14 Feb. on which day the marriage was solemnized an 1612. Seven more of his sermons were published in 1610 one in 1611 one in 1612 and another in 1616. He also translated into English the First comedy of Pub. Terentius called Andria Lond. 1629. qu. The book is divided into two columes the first hath the English the other the Latine Also the Second comedy called Eunuchus which is divided in columes and printed with the former both very useful for school-boyes and are yet used as his two former school-books are in many schooles What other things he hath published I cannot yet find nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying in Limerick Castle in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred forty and one being then detained prisoner there by the Irish Rebels was permitted by them to be buried in S. Munchins Churchyard in Limerick But before he had lain 24 hours in his grave some of the meaner sort of Rebels took up the body and searched it in hopes of finding rings or other choice things but being frustrated they reposed the body in the same place as I have been informed by his Son HENRY ROGERS an eminent Theologist of his time a Ministers Son and a Herefordshire man by birth was admitted scholar of Jesus Coll. in 1602 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts holy orders and soon after was cried up for a noted preacher At length being made Vicar of Dorston in his own Country and Residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of Hereford he proceeded in Divinity This person having several years before fallen into the acquaintance of a Yorkshire man named John Perse alias Fisher a Jesuit with whom he several times had disputes the said Fisher did at length without Rogers his consent publish certain matters that had passed between them whereupon our Author Rogers put out a book entit An answer to Mr. Fisher the Jesuit his five propositions concerning Luther with some passages by way of dialogue between Mr. Rogers and Mr. Fisher printed 1623. qu. to which is annex'd Mr. W. C. his dialogue concerning this question Where was the Church before Luther discovering Fisher's folly Afterwards came out a Reply by Fisher or some other Rom. Cath. which made our Author Rogers to publish The protestant Church existent and their faith professed in all ages and by whom Lond. 1638. qu. To which is added A catalogue of Counsels in all ages who professed the same What other things he hath written or published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that as his Son in Law hath told me by Letters he was buried under the Parsons seat in the Church of Wellington about four miles distant from the City of Hereford but when he added not or that he was beneficed there Yet that he died in the time of the civil War or Usurpation those of his acquaintance have informed me ANTHONY STAFFORD an Esquires son was born of an antient and noble Family in Northamptonshire being descended from those of his name living at Blatherwicke in that County entred a Gentleman Commoner of Oriel Coll. in 1608 and in that of his age 17 where by the help of a careful Tutour but more by his natural parts he obtained the name of a good scholar became well read in antient history Poets and other authors What stay he made in that house I cannot yet tell or whether he took the degree of Bach. of Arts according to the usual course Sure I am that in 1609 he was permitted to study in the publick library purposely to advance his learning having then a design to publish certain matters and in 1623 just after the Act he was actually created M. of Arts as a person adorned with all kind of literature His works are these His Niobe dissolved into a Nilus or his age drown'd in her own tears c. Lond. 1611 and 12. in tw Meditations and resolutions moral divine and political cent 1. Lond. 1612. in tw Life
and death of that great Cynick Diogenes whom Lucretius stiles Canis coelestis the heavenly dog c. Lond. 1615. in tw The guide of honour or the ballance wherein she may weigh her actions c. Lond. 1634 in tw written by the author in foreigne parts The female glory or the life of the Virgin Mary pr. at Lond. with cuts 1635 in oct This little book pen'd in a flourishing stile was in another impression intit The President of female perfection or the life c. But the said book being esteemed egregiously scandalous among the Puritans who look'd upon it as purposely publish'd to encourage the papists Hen. Burton Minister of Friday street in London did pretend to discover in his Sermon entit For God and the King several extravagant and popish passages therein and advised the people to beware of it For which and nothing else as W. Prynne tells us he was brought into the Starr-chamber and there censured But on the contrary this popish book of Staffords as he calls it with many scandalous passages in it were by the Archbishops special direction professedly justified both by Dr. Heylyn in his Moderate answer to Mr. Burton and by Christoph Dow in his Innovations justly charged and this book neither called in nor corrected so audaciously popish was he grown in this particular among many others c. See more in Canterburies Doome p. 215.216.217 Our Author Stafford hath also written A just apology or vindication of a book intit The female glory from the false and malevolent aspersions cast upon it by Hen. Burton of late deservedly censured in the Starr-chamber c. Whether this book was ever published I know not I once saw it in a quarto MS. in the library of Dr. Tho. Barlow given to him by Sir Joh. Birkenhead Honour and virtue triumphing over the grave exemplified in a fair devout life and death adorned with the surviving perfections of Henry Lord Stafford lately deceased which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sun sets in a serene sky c. Lond. 1640. qu. At the end of which are divers Elegies upon the death of the said Lord mostly written by Oxford men especially those of S. Johns Coll. Our author A. Stafford who was Kinsman to the said Lord hath also translated from Latine into English The oration of Justus Lipsius against Calumny Lond. 1612. oct What other things he hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died as I have been informed in the time of the Civil Wars SHAKERLEY MARMION son and heir of Shak. Marm. Esq sometimes Lord of the Mannour of Ainoe near Brackley in Northamptonshire was born in the Mannour house at Ainoe in January 1602 and baptized there 21 of the said month educated in Grammar learning in the free school at Thame in Oxfordshire under Rich. Boucher commonly called Butcher LL. Bac. the then Master thereof became a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. in 1617 took the degrees in Arts and soon after was cried up for a noted Poet and a copious writer of English comedy which appeared by these his writings following which afterwards were made public Hollands Leaguer or a discourse of the life and actions of Donna Britannica Hollandia the Archmistris of the wicked women of Utopia A comedy Lond. 1632. quart A fine Companion com Lond. 1633. qu. Cupid and Psiche or an Epick poem of Cupid and his mistress as it was lately presented to the Prince Elector Lond. 1637. qu. 'T is a moral poem contained in two books the first having in it four sections and the other three The Antiquary com Lond. 1641. qu. besides copies of verses dispersed in several books and other things in Ms which he left ready for the press but are either lost or in obscure hands This Poet Marmion who was descended from an antient and noble family was a goodly proper Gentleman and had once in his possession seven hundred pounds per ann at least but died as the curse is incident to all Poets poor and in debt about the beginning or in the height of the civil war JOHN BARCHAM second son of Laur. Barcham of S. Leonards in Devonshire by Joan his wife dau of Edw. Bridgman of the City of Exeter Son of Will. Barcham of Meerfield in Dorsetshire where his ancestors had lived more than three generations before him was born in the parish of S. Mary the Moore within the said City entred a sojourner of Exeter Coll. in Michaelm Term 1587 aged 15 years admitted scholar of Co. Ch. Coll. 24 Aug. in the year following Probationer-Fellow 21 June 1596. being then M. of A. and in orders Afterwards being Bach. of Div. he was made Chaplain to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. as afterwards he was to his successour Rector and Dean of Bockyng in Essex and Doctor of his faculty He was a person very skilful in divers Tongues a curious Critick a noted Antiquary especially in the knowledge of Coins an exact Historian Herald and as 't is said an able Theologist He was also a strict man in his life and conversation charitable modest and reserv'd in his behaviour and discourse but above all he was remarkable for those good qualities which became a man of his profession He hath written The history or life of John King of England which is the same that is in the History of Great Britaine published by John Speed and the same which sheweth more reading and judgment than any life besides in that History 'T is reported also that he wrot or at least had a chief hand in composing The hist or life of Hen. 2. K. of Engl. Remitted by Speed also in his said History Which Hist. or Life Dr. Barcham wrot as my Author says in opposition or rather to suppress the same written by one Boulton a Rom. Catholick who did too much favour the haughty carriage of Thomas Becket c. This Boulton was the same with Edmund Boulton who wrot The elements of Armorie Lond. 1610. qu. and the Carmen gratulatorium de traductione corporis Mariae Reginae Scotorum à Petroburgo ad Westmonasterium Dr. Barcham hath also written The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. much used by Novices and the best in that kind for method that ever before was published This book being mostly composed in his younger years he deemed it too light a subject for him to own being then when published a grave Divine Chapl. to an Archb. and not unlikely a Dean Wherefore being well acquainted with John Guillim an Officer of Arms he gave him the copy who adding some trivial things to it published it with leave from the Author under his own name and it goeth to this day under the name of Guillims Heraldry Our Author also published Crackanthorps book against Marc. Ant. de Dominis and wrot a preface to it He also wrot a book concerning coins in Ms but
be in Latine or in another Language In the year 1608 he went according to summons to Rome where being appointed for the mission of Ireland he published his profession of the four vows and then being sent back to the Low Countries he went again into Ireland where he spent many years in confirming the Rom. Catholicks in their antient Religion and in gaining proselytes to his opinion At length the Rebellion breaking out there in 1641 of which he was a great Abettor and Encourager was after the Rebels began to be subdued forced to fly for shelter into Woods and on Mountains and to creep and sculk into every place for fear of being taken and hanged by the English Soldiers In the beginning of the year 1643 he was forced to change his place and retire for safety to a moorish and boggy ground where sheltring himself under a Shepherds cote no better than a hovel which could not keep out the wind and rain lived there in a very sorry condition and had for his bedding a pad of straw which would be often wet by the rising and coming in of the water Notwithstanding all this misery he seemed to be very cheerful and was ready to instruct the young ones about him and comfort others But being in a manner spent and his age not able to bear such misery long was with much ado taken away And being conveyed to some of the brethren into a better place expired among them on the Calends of Febr. the same year but where or in what place buried my informer tells me not By his death the R. Catholicks lost a pillar of their Church being esteem'd in the better part of his life a great ornament among them and the greatest defender for their Religion in his time GEORGE SANDYS a younger son of Edwin Archb. of York was born at Bishops Thorpe in that County and as a member of S. Maries Hall was matriculated in the University in the beginning of Dec. 1589 and in that of his age eleven at which time Henry his elder brother was remitted into the said Matricula but both as I conceive received their tuition in Corp. Ch. Coll. How long George tarried there or whether he took a degree it appears not In the month of Aug. 1610 he began a long journey and after he had travelled thro several parts of Europe visited divers Cities particularly Constantinople and Countries under the Turkish Empire as Greece Egypt and the Holy Land Afterwards he made a view of the remote parts of Italy and the Islands adjoyning That being done he went to Rome the Antiquities and Glories of which place were in four days time shew'd unto him by Nich. Fitzherbert sometimes an Oxford student who as I have before told you ended his days in 1612. Thence our Author went to Venice from whence he first set out and so to England Where digesting his notes and enterlarding them with various parts of Poetry according to the fashion of that time published them in English under this title Sandys Travailes c. in four books Lond. 1615. 1621. 27. 32. 52. 58. 70. 73. c. all in folio and illustrated with several Maps and Figures except the first edit The said Travailes are contracted in the second part of Sam. Parchas his books of Pilgrims lib. 8. The Author upon his return in 1612 or after being improved in several respects by this his large journey he became an accomplish'd Gent. as being Master of several Languages of a fluent and ready discourse and excellent Comportment He had also naturally a poetical fancy and a zealous inclination to all humane learning which made his company desir'd and acceptable to most vertuous men and Scholars of his time He also wrot and published A paraphrase on the Psalms of David and upon the Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testam Lond. 1636. oct reprinted there in fol. 1638 with other matters following under this title Paraphrase upon the divine Poems which contain a paraphrase on Job Psalmes of David Ecclesiastes Lamentations of Jeremiah and songs collected out of the Old and New Test The said Paraphrase on Davids Psalmes was one of the books that K Ch. 1. delighted to read in as he did in G. Herberts Divine poems Dr. Hammonds Works Hookers Ecclesiast policy c. while he was a Prisoner in Carisbroke Castle in the Isle of Wight Paraphrase on the divine Poems viz. on the Psalmes of David on Ecclesiastes and on the Song of Solomon Lond. 1676. oct Some if not all of the said Ps of David had vocal Compositions set to them by the incomparable Hen. and Will. Lawes with a thorough bass for an Organ in 4 large books or volumes in qu. He the said G. Sandys translated also into English 1 The first five books of Ovids Metamorphosis Lond. 1627. 32. 40. fol. methodized and expressed in figures 2 Virgils first book of Aeneis printed with the former 3 Tragedy of Christs passion Lond. 1640. written in lat by Hug. Grotius to which Trag. Sandys put also notes What other things he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he being then or lately one of the Gent. of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. gave way to fate in the house of his neice the Lady Margaret Wyat dau of Sir Sam. Sandys and widdow of Sir Francis Wyat Kt. Grandson to Sir Tho. Wyat beheaded in Qu. Maries Reign called Boxley abbey in Kent in the beginning of March in sixteen hundred forty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the parish Church there near to the door on the south side but hath no remembrance at all over his grave nor any thing at that place only this which stands in the common Register belonging to the said Church Georgius Sandys Poetarum Anglorum sui saeculi facile princeps sepultus fuit Martii 7. stilo Anglic. an dom 1643. One Tho. Philpot M. A. of Clare Hall in Cambr. hath in his Poems printed at Lond. 1646. in oct a copy of verses not to be contemn'd on his death I find another George Sandys contemporary with the former and a Knight who having committed felony was executed at Tybourne as it seems on the fourth of March 1617. HANNIBAL GAMMON a Londoner born and a Gentlemans Son became a Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1599. and in that of his age 17 took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Minister of S. Maugan in Cornwall where he was much frequented by the puritannical party for his edifying and practical way of preaching He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Gods smiting to amendment c. preached at the Assizes in Launceston 6. Aug. 1628. on Esay 1.5 Lond. 1629. qu. 2 Praise of a godly woman a wedding Sermon c. Lond. 1627. q. 3 Sermon at the Lady Roberts funeral 10. Aug. 1626. c. These two last I have not yet seen nor another Sermon preached at the Assizes in Launceston
and are printed in a book intit Gerard. Jo. Vossii clarorum virorum ad eum epistolae Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paul Colomesius I have seen and perused a Ms transcrib'd under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead containing all the passages which concern the University of Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the Chancellourship of the said University It commences 12 Apr. 1630 and ends 14 Dec. 1640 bound up in a vellam cover in fol. and endorsed thus Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This Ms was communicated to me when I was composing the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews President of S. Johns Coll. wherein finding many useful things for my purpose which another may do for his and therefore it escap'd Prynn's hands I thought it therefore not unworthy of a place here as I could do of many other things under his hand which I have seen reserved in private custody as choice monuments but time calls me away and I must hasten Yet I cannot but let the Reader know that there is a fol. Ms going from hand to hand entit Wholsome Queries resolved by Dr. Laud manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Principle for Protestants c. sed caveat lector At length in the beginning of the civil Distempers this worthy Archbishop was upon suspicion of introducing Popery into the Nation arbitrary Government and I know not what aggravated in an high degree committed Prisoner first to the Black-rod and afterwards to the Tower where remaining about four years was at length by the Votes of a slender house beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January in sixteen hundred forty and â—our Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of Allhallowes Barkin which he before had consecrated remained there entire till July 1663 at which time being removed to Oxon was on the 24 day of the same month deposited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick near to the high Altar of S. Johns Coll. Chappel Thus died and buried was this most reverend renowned and religious Arch-prelate when he had lived 71 years 13 weeks and four days if at least he may be properly said to dye the great example of whose vertue shall continue always not only in the minds of men but in the Annals of succeeding ages with renown and fame RICHARD BAKER son of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. by Cath. his wife daug of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt. a younger son of Sir Joh. Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt. Chancellour of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent particularly as I have been informed by his daughter at Sissingherst before mention'd entred a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584 and was matriculated in Mich. term that year as a Kentish man born and the son of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age at which time several of the family of the Scots before mention'd studied then in the said Hall After he had spent about 3 years in Logic and Philosophy in that house then flourishing with men of note in several Faculties he went to one of the Inns of Court afterwards beyond the seas and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accomplish'd person In 1594 after the celebration of a most solemn Act he was with other persons of quality actually created Master of Arts and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds at which time this our Author who lived at Highgate near London was esteem'd a most compleat and learned person the benefit of which he reaped in his old age when his considerable estate was thro suretiship very much impaired In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire being then Lord of Middle Aston and of other lands therein and if I mistake not a Justice of the Peace He was a person tall and comely of a good disposition and admirable discourse religious and well read in various Faculties especially in Div. and Hist as it may appear by these books following which he mostly composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions Cato variegatus Or Catoes moral disticks varied Lond. 1636. 'T is a Poem Meditations and disquisitions on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit qu. A copy of this book in Ms being sent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the press he returned this testimony of it I much admire the very character of your stile which seemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Austins age full of sweet raptures and of researching conceits nothing borrowed nothing vulgar and yet all flowing from you I know not how with a certain equal facility Med. and disq on the three last Psalmes of David Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the 50 Psal Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the seven penitent Psalmes Lond. 1639. qu. Med. and disq on the first Psal Lond. 1640. qu. Med. and disq on the seven consolatorie Psalmes of David namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103 and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu. Med. and Prayers upon the seven days of the week Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the same I suppose with his motives of prayer on the seven days of the week Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity Lond. 1641. in tw Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer printed with the Apology A solliloquy of the soul or a pillar of Thoughts c. Lond. 1641. in tw Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government unto the death of K. James c. Lond. 1641. c. fol. Which Chronicle as the Author saith was collected with so great care and diligence that if all other of our Chronicles were lost this only would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable or worthy to be known c. However the Reader must know that it being reduced to method and not according to time purposely to please Gentlemen and Novices many chief things to be observed therein as name time c. are egregiously false and consequently breed a great deal of confusion in the peruser especially if he be curious or critical There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58 in which last was added The history of the raigne of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps sometimes a student of Magd. Hall Afterwards in 1671 if I mistake not came out another edit in which was contained an addition of The first thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as also the Occurrences of his Restauration by George late Duke of Albemarle extracted from his Excellencies papers c. which as I have been informed were for the most part
say that he was natione Teutonicus fortunâ Batavus religione Calvinista c. His Father who was a sufficient Clothier of Newbury perceiving this his Son to have pregnant parts sent him to the College at Winchester where being elected a Child and soon made ripe for the University in the School there founded by Will of Wykeham was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. in the year 1596 and two years after having by that time shaken off his wild extravagancies was admitted Verus Socius after which he diligently applied himself to the Theological Faculty for 16 years together In 1604 he proceeded in Arts and about that time taking Holy Orders became a frequent and diligent Preacher in these parts noted to the Academians for his subtile wit exact judgment exemplary life and conversation and for the endowment of such qualities that were befitting men of his Function In 1614 he proceeded Doct. of Divinity and about that time went into Germany as Chaplain to Princess Elizabeth Daughter of King James I. and Consort of the Prince Palatine where continuing for some time did improve himself much by the conversation he had with German Divines After his return he exchanged the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks which the Society of New Coll. gave him before his departure beyond the Sea for Newbury near to the place of his Nativity with Dr. Nathan Giles Canon of Windsor where being setled he laid a foundation of his doctrine and the seeds of his zealous opinion tho not improved by his Auditors according to his wish His plain preaching was good his solid disputations were accounted by some better and his pious way of living by others especially the Puritans best of all yet some of New Coll. who knew the Man well have often said in my hearing that he was always hot-headed and restless The most learned men even those of his adverse party did confess that there was nothing extant more accurate exact and full touching the Arminian controversies than what was written by this our Author Twisse He also if any one as those of his persuasion say hath so cleared and vindicated the cause from the objected absurdities and calumnies of his Adversaries as that out of his labours not only the learned but also those that are best vers'd in Controversies may find enough whereby to disintangle themselves from the snares of Opposites The truth is there 's none almost that have written against Arminianism since the publishing any thing of our Author but have made very honourable mention of him and have acknowledged him to be the mightiest man in those Controversies that his age hath produced Besides Newbury he was offer'd several preferments as the Rectory of Benefield in Northamptonshire a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester the Wardenship of Wykehams Coll. there and a Professors place at Franeker in Frisland But the three last were absolutely refused and the first he would not accept unless he could obtain liberty of his Majesty in whose gift Newbury was and is to have had an able man to succeed him there Besides also upon conference with Dr. Davenant Bishop of Salisbury Ordinary of that place the King was well satisfied concerning Twisse that he was unwilling to let him go from Newbury In the beginning of the Civil War began by the Presbyterians an 1641. -2. he sided with them was chose one of the Assembly of Divines and at length Prolocutor of them Among whom speaking but little some interpreted it to his modesty as those of his persuasion say as always preferring penning before speaking and others to the decay of his intellectuals But polemical Divinity was his Faculty and in that he was accounted excellent While he was Prolocutor he was one of the three Lecturers in S. Andrews Church in Holborn near London which was given to him for his losses he sustained at Newbury being forced thence as his brethren said by the Royal Party He hath written Vindiciae gratiae potestatis ac providentiae dei Hoc est ad examen libelli Perkinsiani Gul. Perkins de praedestinationis modo ordine institutum à Jacobo Arminio responsio Sholastica tribus libris absoluta Una cum digressionibus ad singulas partes accommodatis c. Amstel 1632. 1648. fol. A discovery of Dr. Jacksons vanities c. Printed beyond the Sea 1631. qu. This was written against Dr. Tho. Jackson's Treatise of divine Essence and attributes but the Doctor made no reply Dissertatio de Scientiâ mediâ tribus libris absolutâ c. Arnhem 1639. fol. Wherein Gabr. Penots book intit Libertatis humanae propugnaculum and that of Franc. Suarez De Scientia dei are answer'd Digressiones Printed with the Dissertatio Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians delivered by way of answer to the Translator of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath Divided into two parts 1 An answer to the preface 2 A consideration of Dr. Prideaux his Lecture Lond. 1641. qu. Treatise of Reprobation in answer to Mr. Jo. Cotton Lond. 1646. qu. Animadversiones ad Jacobi Arminii Collat. cum Franc. Junio Joh. Arnold Corvin Amstel 1649. fol. published by Andr. Rivet The doubting conscience resolved in answer to a pretended perplexing question c. Wherein is evidently proved that the Holy Scriptures not the Pope is the foundation whereon the Church is built c. Lond. 1652. oct published by Sam. Hartlib The riches of Gods love unto the Vessels of Mercy consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the Vessels of Wrath Or an answer to a book intit Gods love to mankind manifested by disproving his absolute decree for their damnation in two books One against Mr. Sam. Hoard and the other against Mr. Hen. Mason Rector of S. Andrews Undershaft London Oxon. 1653. fol. Two tracts in answer Dr. to H. Hammond the one concerning Gods decree definite or indefinite the other about the object of predestination Printed with the former book The Synod of Dort and Ales reduced to practice with an answer thereunto The Scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of Faith made good against the Papists Lond. in tw Christian Sabbath defended against the crying evil in these times of the Antisabitarians of our age shewing that the morality of the Fourth Commandment is still in force to bind Christians unto the sanctification of the Sabbath day Lond. 165. qu. Fiveteen Letters to Mr. Joseph Mede See in the 4 book of the said Mr. Medes works Besides these and something upon the Commandments that are printed he left behind him many Manuscripts mostly compleat of his own composition which were carefully kept in the hands of his Son Rob. Twisse a Minister in Westminster but what became of them after his death which hapned in the latter end of the year 1674 I know not Among them are 1 Examen Historiae Pelag written by Ger. Jo. Vossius put after the Authors death into the
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
out that after the turn of the times it was by his means stocked with such a factious and fanatical Crew that all endeavours could not reform it nor ever as 't is thought will it continuing so to this day In 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines took the Covenant and sitting often with them at Westminster shewed himself one of the most learned and moderate among them and soon after did by order not only succeed Dr. Featley in the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey ejected thence but had his library conferred on him to keep and enjoy it till such time Dr. Featley could get back our Authors from the Soldiers under Prince Rupert When the broils of the Nation were over he repaired to Dorchester and in Nov. 1647 was designed Warden of New Coll. upon the death of Dr. Pink by Will Lord Say and Nath. Fiennes his son but if I am not mistaken he refused that office He was a person of great gravity and presence and had always influence on the puritannical Party near to and remote from him who bore him more respect than they did to their Diocesan His works are these Commentary on the three first Chapters of Genesis with large Observations on the same Lond. 1656. 57. fol. Directions for the profitable reading of the Scriptures Printed in oct Of the Sabbath Printed in qu. Way to the tree of life in sundry directions Pr. 1647. oct 'T is the same I think which is called The Directory to perfection Several Sermons as 1 The troubles of Jerusalems Restauration or the Churches Reformation Fast-sermon before the H. of Lords 26 Nov. 1645. on Dan. 9.15 Lond. 1646. qu. with others which I have not yet seen Ten vowes to the Parishioners of Dorchester Ms written about the year 1628 answer'd by Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow in 1660. At length having lived beyond the age of man died suddenly on the 21 of July in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was inter'd in the Church porch of S. Peter in Dorchester which is a Chappel belonging to Trinity Church before mentioned Besides this John White was another of both his names a Ministers son Doctor of Divinity brother to Dr. Franc. White Bishop of Ely and a publisher of several books born at S. Neots in Huntingdonshire bred in Caies Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards became Vicar of Eccles in Lancashire Whence after he had continued some years he was brought into Suffolk by Sir John Crofts who bestowed on him the best Living that he had to give He sent for him unknown from Eccles where he lived in those distresses which he was never able to look through He furnished him with books fit for his studies he honoured and countenanced him so much that all the Country was satisfied he had a love and respect for him He wrot a book called The way to the true Church and A defence of it against the two books that Joh. Fisher the Jesuit published and other things as the Oxford Cat. will tell you One T. W. P. Priest who had sometimes as it seems been of Cambridge wrot a book against Jo. White called White died black But John dying before he could make a reply his brother Dr. Franc. White took up the bucklers and forthwith published a book against the said T. W. intit Orthodox faith and way to the Church explained c. Lond. 1617. qu. In the last will and test of the said John White without date I find these things said of himself Whereas for 20 years past by preaching and writing published in two books I engaged my self against Papistry I profess I have done therein nothing against my Conscience but desire all men to assure themselves that if any error hath escaped me it hath passed me through oversight when I always bended my self to that work of writing with much humility to God and such diligence as I was able to use And having the books always by me I writ nothing but what I found in antiquity and in the writings publickly receiv'd in the Church of Rome it self and I constantly avouch that what I have writ is the truth and have been the more confirmed therein by the unconscionable behaviour of my Adversaries against me c. This Will was proved 21 Feb. 1619 being two or more years after his death at which time he was Chaplain in ordinary to the King and his Father living after he had spent 50 years in preaching the word of God EDWARD HERBERT son of Rich. Herbert by Magd. his wife dau of Sir Rich. Newport of Highâ—Arcall in Shropshire Knight was born in the sometimes most pleasant and Romancy place in Wales called Mountgomery Castle became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in 1595 aged 14 years where being put under the tuition of an eminent Tutor laid the foundation of that admirable learning whereof he was afterwards a compleat Master Thence he betook himself to travel as also to certain military exercises in foreign parts whereby he became much accomplish'd After his return he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. afterwards one of the Counsellors to that King for his military affairs and sent Embassador to Lewes 13. King of France to mediate for the relief of the Protestants in that Realm then besieged in several places In which service continuing about five years he was recalled in July 1621 because he had irreverently treated de Luyens the great Constable of France and Edw. Sackvile was sent in his place In the 22 of K. Jam. 1. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of the Realm of Ireland by the name of Lord Herbert of Castle Island and in 5 of Car. 1. to the title of Lord Herbert of Cherbury in Shropshire He was a person well studied in the Arts and Languages a good Philosopher and Historian and understood men as well as books as it evidently appears in his Writings the titles of which follow De veritate prout distinguitur à revelatione à verisimuli à possibile à falso c. Par. 1624 and 1633. Lond. 1645. qu. c. Translated into French and printed 1639. qu much valued by learned men and reposed as 't is said in the Popes Vatican Answered by P. Gassendus in his third Tome the title of which is Opuscula philosophica from p. 411. to p. 419. in an Epistle directed to our Author Herbert Lugd. 1658. fol. and by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his More reasons for the Christian Religion c. Printed at Lond. in tw De causis errorum una cum tractatu de religione Laici appendice ad sacerdotes nec non quibusdam poematibus Printed with the book De veritate c. 1645. qu. Life and Reign of K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1649 and 72. fol. Both which editions being collated with the original Ms in the Archives of Bodleys Library given thereunto by the Author in 1643 by certain
Chaplains to come in the College library to study there and that he put Mr. John French Fellow out of his Chamber in Mert. Coll. and put them into it c. So that I say being ejected by the said Visitors he retired to London married and dyed soon after He was a Person in great value and much respected by learned men particularly by Selden who had our Author lived would have left to him part of his wealth and have taken great care that Hen. Jacob and Pet. Turner should not want but they all died before him He hath written Pyramidographia or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt Lond. 1646. in a large oct Translated into French and printed in a book of travels written in that Language Our Author Greaves found and visited these Pyramids in his travels an 1638. and 39 or the thousand and forty eighth year of Hegira He went twice to Grand Cairo from Alexandria and from thence into the Deserts and for the greater solemnity to view them he carried with him a Radius of ten feet most accurately divided besides some other instruments for the farther discovery of the truth While he was there he made the measure of the foot observed by all nations in one of the rooms under the said Pyramids with his name John Gravius under it which hath been noted by several Travellers A discourse of the Romane foot and Denarius From whence as from two principles the measures and weights used by the Ancients may be deduced Lond. 1647. oct Demonstratio ortus Syrii heliaci pro parallelo inferioris Aegypti Oxon. 1648. qu. published with Dr. Bainbridge his Canicularia To which is subjoined out of Ulugh Beigh the Longitudes and Latitudes of the chiefest of the fixed Stars Elementa linguae Persicae Lond. 1649. qu. With which he published Anonymus Persa de Siglis Arabum Persarum Astronomicis The manner of hatching Chickens at Cairo See in the Philosophical Transactions numb 137. p. 923. He published likewise in Arabick and Latine Epochae celebriores Astronomis Historicis Chronologiis Chaitaiorum Syro-Graecorum Arabum Persarum Chorasmiorum usitatae ex traditione Ulugh Beigh together with the Geographical tables of Abul Feda Both which pieces he illustrated with his learned notes In like manner he set forth Astronomica Shah Cholgii Persae together with the Hypotheses of the planets to which likewise he subjoyned the Geographical Tables of Nassir Eddinus the Persian and of Ulugh Beigh as you may further see in the Bodleyan or Oxford Catalogue where you 'll find his publication of the Description of the Grand Signiour's Seraglio or the Turkish Emperors Court Lond. 1650. 53. oct written by one Robert Withers He also left behind him at his death Lemmata Archimedis apud Graecos Latinos è vetusta codice MS. Arabico traducta cum Arabum Scholiis Which coming into the hands of Sam. Foster the Mathematician were by him reviewed and amended and remitted into the body of the Miscellanies or Mathematical Lucubrations of him the said Foster Many of which were translated into English and published by the care and industry of John Twisden C. L. M. D. whereunto he hath annexed some things of his own Lond. 1659. fol. Other things our learned Author Greaves did intend to publish among which was a Map or Maps of Aegypt first of all made by him and the learned World might justly have expected them had not death by a too hasty end of his life put a stop to the course of his ingenious studies which hapning to the great grief of learned and vertuous men in the month of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two his body was with the tears of many accompanied to his grave in the Church of S. Benet Sherehog in London as I was some years since informed by his learned Brother Dr. Tho. Greaves whom I accidently met in London when I was anxiously seeking after the place where his reliques had been lodg'd See more of our Author Joh. Greaves in Dr. John Bainbridge whom I have mention'd among these writers under the year 1643. HENRY JACOB Son of Hen. Jacob whom I have before mention'd under the year 1621 by his Wife Sarah Sister to John Dumaresque of the Isle of Jersey Gent. was born in the Dioc. of London and in his youthful years was sent by his Relations beyond the Seas to be educated in the Principles of his Father At length being his good fortune to be put under the tuition of the famous Thomas Erpenius did in a short time by the help of a natural Genie become the prodigie of his age for Philological and Oriental learning This is that Erpenius who went beyond all the Curiosi of his time for severe and crabbed literature nay beyond Drusius the Belgick Critick who would scarce give place to either of the Scaligers For one who knew them well saith that Erpenius was integerrimus doctissimusque vir Linguae Arabicae non peritior tantum quam Drusio sed etiam multo peritissimus c. At two and twenty years of age or more he came into England and by the endeavours of Will. Bedwell with whom the profession of Arabick then only remain'd he was presented as a great rarity to that most noble and generous Count William Earl of Pembroke Chancellour of this University who forthwith for his encouragement sent his Letters to the University in his behalf that he might be created Bach. of Arts dated 24. Nov. 1628. in which he saith that Hen. Jacob a young Scholar had bestowed divers years in the Low Countries in the study of good literature and had his education principally under one Erpenius a famous Scholar especially in the Oriental language in which learning he profited under him beyond the vulgar sort of Students and beyond the ordinary measures of his age c. In compliance to which Letters he was in January following adorned with that degree At the same time being commended to the patronage of Joh. Selden Hen. Briggs and Pet. Turner men much famous in their generation our Author was by their endeavours elected Probationer-Fellow of Mert. Coll. in the year following But then he having not so much Logick and Philosophy to carry him through the severe exercises of that Society the Warden and Fellows tacitly assign'd him Philological Lecturer This being done he was called away to follow Law-suites concerning his Patrimony which being concluded he fell into a dangerous sickness and by the sudden loss of his Patron Pembroke his life was in jeopardy Soon after that great encourager of learning Bishop Laud succeeding him in the Chancellourship of this University a way was found out from Mert. Coll. statutes to make him Socius Grammaticalis that is Reader of Philology to the Juniors a place that had been disused for about an 100 years So that being setled and made compleat Fellow he spent some time with the famous Selden an 1636. in composing a book which he was then publishing
said elaborate Treatises and some conceive that the pains and travels of bringing forth the younger tho more spiritual manchild did cost him his life They are and have been both taken into the hands of learned men and by them often quoted The Author is stiled by the head of the Presbyterian Party A very learned and great Conformist and by others of moderate perswasion a most profound Clerk He died at Burton commonly called Burton place before mention'd on the second day of December in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was not buried according to his Will in the Chancel of the said Chap. or Church which Sir Will Goring denied because he left him not those Legacies he expected but in the body under the Readers seat Over his grave tho there be no monument with inscription on it which the Testator desir'd yet on the south Wall of the Chancel of Harwell Church before mention'd is fastned a Tablet of Free-stone with this written on it which shall now go for his Epitaph for want of a better Christopher Elderfield Clerk born in this Parish gave by his last will and testament three hundred and fifty pounds with two hundred fourscore and four pounds whereof was bought so much land in the Parish of South Moreton as is worth twenty pounds per an And the other sixty and six pounds thereof residue according to a Decree in his Majesties Court of Chancery remain in the hands of the Church-wardens and other Officers of Hagborne the benefit whereof he willed to be employed yearly in works of charity bounty or piety for the good of this Parish But he expresly forbid that it should be added to the making up of taxes or any other way perverted to the easing of able men upon any pretence particularly he willed every Spring two good milch Cows to be bought and given to two the poorest men or widdows burdned with many children toward their sustentation He died Decemb. 2. an dom 1652. Thus far the inscription He also beside several Legacies which he left to several people bequeathed to the University of Oxon his Manuscripts of Lyra on the Psalmes the History of Tobit in Hebrew with Rodolphus his Postills bound up with Lyra Clemens Romanus with the Tract of Purgatory bound up with it He left also six and thirty pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor Ministers cast down by these times meaning loyal Ministers ejected from their Livings JOHN DIGBY was born of an antient and gentile family living in the Parish of Coleshill in Warwickshire in the month of Febr. 1580 became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in 1595 and the next year I find him to be one of the Poets of the University to bewail the death of Sir Hen. Unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight Afterwards he travelled into France and Italy and returned a well-qualified Gentleman So that his Abilities and Fidelity being occasionally discerned by K. James he was admitted Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and one of his Majesties Carvers in the year 1605 being then newly created Master of Arts of this University On the 16 of Feb. following he received the honor of Knighthood and in Apr. 1611 he was sent Ambassador into Spain as he was afterwards again in 1614. In the beginning of January about the third day 1615 Sir Franc. Cottington was sent into Spain to call him home and about the middle of March following he returned into England On the 3 of Apr. 1616 he was admitted one of the Kings Privy Council and Vicechamberlain of his Majesties Houshold in the place of Philip Lord Stanhope who was persuaded by the Kings Letters to give up that Office In July 1617 he was sent again into Spain and the next year upon his return he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 of Nov. by the Title of the Lord Digby of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire In 1620 he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in Octob. 1621 he was again in 1622 employed Ambassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage between Prince Charles who followed him in few months after and Princess Maria Daughter to Philip 3. King of that Realm and on the 15 of Sept. the same year he was created Earl of Bristow After his return he shew'd himself right able to appear before the English Parliament where he worsted the greatest Minion Buckingham the Folly Love or Wisdom of any King since the Conquest ever bred in this Nation As thro a prodigious dexterity he became the Confident of K. James so likewise of his son K. Ch. 1. for a time tho they drove on if not contrary divers designs From that time till the beginning of the Long Parliament we find no great matter of him when then he being found guilty of concealing some say of promoting a Petition of the Gentry and Ministers of Kent which was to be delivered to the Parliament he with Thomas Mallet were committed for a time to the Tower 28 March 1642. Afterwards perceiving full well what destructive Courses the Members of that Parliament took he left them and became a zealous Adherer to the King and his Cause for which at length he suffer'd Exile and the loss of his Estate He hath extant these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in the High Court of Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he spake another upon the delivery of the Scottish Remonstrance and Schedule of their Charges 2 Sp. in the High Court of Parl. 20 May 1642. concerning an accommodation of Peace and Union to be had between the K. and his two Houses of Parliament Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh Reprinted at Caen in Normandy 1647. in fol. and qu. The speaking of which Speech giving displeasure to the H. of Lords he thereupon spake 3 Another Speech 11 June 1642 in vindication of the former and of accommodation Lond. 1642. in 1 sh in qu. Repr at Caen in 1647. in fol. and qu. 4 Sp. at the Council Table in favour of the continuation of the present War Oxon 1642. qu. It was spoken after Edghill Fight and was reprinted at Lond. the same year Other Speeches of his I have seen in MS. which for brevity sake I now pass by A Tract wherein is set down those motives and ties of Religion Oaths Laws Loyalty and Gratitude which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy Wars in England Tract wherein he vindicateth his honor and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure of being excepted from pardon or mercy either in life or fortunes These two Tracts have the general Title of His Apologie Appendix containing many particulars specified in his first Tract meaning his Motives and tyes of Religion with the citations of the Chapters and Pages wherein they are cited The said two Tracts with the Appendix
exceeded him He was also so great a help to the Speaker and the House in helping to state the questions and to draw up the orders free from exceptions that it much conduced to the dispatch of business and the service of the Parliament His discretion also and prudence was such that tho faction kept that fatal commonly called the Long Parliament in continual storm and disorder yet his fair and temperate carriage made him commended and esteemed by all parties how furious and opposite soever they were among themselves And therefore it was that for these his abilities and prudence more reverence was paid to his stool than to the Speakers Lenthall Chair who being obnoxious timorous and interested was often much confused in collecting the sense of the House and drawing the debates into a fair question in which Mr. Elsynge was always observed to be so ready and just that generally the House acquiesced in what he did of that nature At length when he saw that the greater part of the House were imprisoned and secluded and that the remainder would bring the King to a trial for his life he desired to quit his place 26. of Dec. 1648 by reason as he alledged of his indisposition of health but most men understood the reason to be because he would have no hand in the business against the King He was a Man of very great parts and ingenious education and was very learned especially in the Latine French and Italian Languages He was beloved of all sober Men and the learned Selden had a fondness for him He hath written The antient method and manner of holding Parliaments in England Lond. 1663. oct 1675. in tw mostly taken as I presume from a Manuscript book intit Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos Of the forme and all things incident thereunto digested and divided into several chapters and titles an 1626 written by Hen. Elsynge Father to the aforesaid Henry who died while his Son was in his Travels Tract concerning proceedings in Parliament This is a Ms and was sometimes in the hands of Sir Matthew Hale who in his Will bequeathed it to Lincolns inn Library Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom This is a Pamphlet in quarto but when printed I cannot tell After he had quitted his beneficial Office he retired to his house at Hounslow in Middlesex where contracting many infirmities of body occasioned by sedentariness some distresses of his family and by a deep melancholy for the sufferings and loss of his Sovereign concluded his last day about the middle of the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and four and in that of his age 56 Whereupon his body was buried in his private Chappel which is the burying place of his Family at Hounslow he having no other Epitaph or Monument than the Eulogie given as due to him by all that knew him He left behind certain Tracts and Memorials of his own writing but so imperfect that his Executor would by no means have them published least they should prove injurious to his worth and memory THOMAS HORNE Son of Will. Horne of Cassall in Nottinghamshire was born at West Halam in Derbyshire became a Student in Magd. hall in the year 1624 and in that of his age 15 or thereabouts and in 1633 he was advanced to the degree of Master of Arts. About that time he was made Master of a private School in London afterwards of the Free-school at Leycester where remaining two years was translated to that of Tunbridge in Kent At length after he had taught there about 10 years he was for his merits and excellent faculty that he had in pedagogie preferr'd to be Master of the School at Eaton near Windsore where he remain'd to his dying day He hath written Janua Linguarum or a collection of Latine sentences with the English of them Lond. 1634. c. oct This is all or most taken from Janua Linguarum reserata written by J. A. Comenius Afterwards Horne's Janua Linguarum was much corrected and amended by John Robotham and lastly carefully reviewed by W. D. Lond. 1659. oct Which W. D. may be the same with Will. Dugard sometimes Master of Merchant Taylors School Quaere Manuductio in aedem Palladis qua utilissima methodus authores bonos legendi indigitatur sive de usu authoris Lond. 1641. in tw c. Rhetoricae compendium Latino-Anglicè Lond 1651. oct Besides which he hath made learned observations on the Epitome of the Greek tongue written by Ant. Laubegeois but when or where printed I cannot tell for I have not as yet seen it He gave way to fate at Eaton on the 22 of Aug. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried in the Church or Chappel there as I have been informed by Will. Horne his Son Master of the Free-school at Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex One Tho. Horne M. of A. became Rector of Methley in Yorkshire on the death of Tim. Bright Doctor of Physick in the latter end of Octob. 1615 but him I take to be Th. Horne who was Fellow of Mert. Coll. and afterwards Canon of Windsore Another Tho. Horne is now if I mistake not Fellow of Eaton Coll and hath extant one or more Sermons He was Son to Tho. Horne the Writer was born at Tunbridge in Kent and afterwards made Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge Chaplain to the Earl of S. Alban and Senior Proctor of that University about 1682. JOHN SELDEN the glory of the English Nation as Hugh Grotius worthily stiles him Son of John Selden by Margaret his Wife the only Daughter of Thomas Baker of Rushington descended from the knightly family of the Bakers in Kent was born in an obscure Village called Salvinton near to Terring a Market town in Sussex His Father who died in 1617 was a sufficient Plebeian and delighted much in Musick by the exercising of which he obtained as 't is said his Wife of whom our famous Author Jo. Selden was born on the 16 of Decemb. 1584. After he had been instructed in Grammar Learning in the Free-school at Chichester under Mr. Hugh Barker of New College he was by his care and advice sent to Hart Hall in the beginning of Mich. term an 1600 and committed to the tuition of Mr. Anth. Barker Fellow of the aforesaid Coll. under whom being instructed in Logick and Philosophy for about three years which with great facility he conquered he was transplanted to the Inner Temple to make proficiency in the municipal Laws of the Nation After he had continued there a sedulous Student for some time he did by the help of a strong body and vast memory not only run through the whole body of the Law but became a prodigie in most parts of learning especially in those which were not common or little frequented or regarded by the generality of Students of his time So that in few years his name was wonderfully advanced not only at home but in foreign Countries and
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
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
stile him in his works the learned Salkeld of which character he would often glory His works are A Treatise of Angels c. Lond. 1613. oct dedic to K. Jam. 1. Treatise of Paradise and the principal contents thereof c. Lond. 1617. oct ded to Sir Franc. Bacon L. Keeper of the Great Seal He gave way to fate at Uffculme in Devonshire having for 14 years before been sequestred of Church Taunton in the month of February in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 84 years or more and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed by his son John Salkeld of Uffculme before mention'd Gent. He then left behind him several things of his composition fit for the Press among which were two concerning Controversies between Rome and the Church of Engl. and another of the end of the world which last and one of the former were conveyed to London by his son to his Kinsman Sir Edw. VValker Garter K. of Arms who communicating one of the said former things to Dr. Sam. Parker Chaplain to Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury to know of him whether it was fit to be printed he found it a solid piece and the Author of it learned but the design Cassandrian c. as by his letters I was informed WILLIAM HICKS son of Nich. Hicks Gent. was born at Kerris in the Parish of S. Paulin near to the Mount in Cornwall an 1620 and baptized there on the second day of January the same year After he had been instructed in Grammaticals in the high School at Exeter under Mr. Will. Hayter and partly at Liskerd under one Granger he became a Commoner of Wadham Coll. in Lent Term 1637 and there ran thro the Classes of Logic and Philosophy But being taken thence in the beginning of the Civil War before he could be honored with a degree he was by his Relations put in Arms against the King and in short time became so fanatical in his opinion that he was esteemed by some to be little better than an Anabaptist So that being looked upon as a zealous brother for the Cause he was made a Captain in the Trained Bands and became very forward against those of the loyal party He hath published Revelation revealed being a practical Exposition on the Revelation of S. John Lond. 1659. fol. Which book laying dead on the sellers hands was a new title afterwards put bearing date 1661. with the Authors picture before it in a clock Quinto-Monarchia cum quarto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a friendly compliance between Christs Monarchy and the Magistrates being a glass for the Quinto-Monarchians and all others that desire to know under what dispensations of Providence we now live c. printed and bound with Revelation revealed c. which was written as the common report went in Exet. Coll. and Cornwall by a Kinsman of Will. Hicks called Alexander Harrie a Ministers son in Cornwall Bachelaur of Divinity and sometimes Fellow of the said Coll. of Exeter which book Revelation rev coming after his death into Hicks's hands he published it under his own name without any mention of A. Harrie who was a learned man and had in great veneration by those that knew him This Mr. Hicks died at Kerris in the very beginning of March in sixteen hundred fifty and nine and was buried on the third day of the same month in the Parish Church of S. Paulin before mention'd Besides this Will. Hicks was another of both his names Author of Oxford Jests and afterwards of Oxfords Drollery Which books several times printed in oct answering not the expectation of Cambridge men because they have supposed that they were written by a scholastical Wit I desire therefore that they should know that the said Will. Hicks who stiles himself in the titles of his books a Native of Oxon as having been born in S. Thomas Parish of poor and dissolute Parents was bred a Tapster under Tho. Williams of the Star Inn Inholder where continuing till after the Rebellion broke out became a Retainer to the family of Lucas in Colohester afterwards Clerk to a Woodmonger in Deptford where training the young men and putting them in a posture of defence upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2 obtained the name of Captain Hicks and was there living in 1669 when his book of Jests was published which gave occasion of other books of the like nature to be afterwards made extant as Cambridge Jests London Jests Englands Jests Poor Robins Jests Westminster Quibbles in verse c. This Hicks who was a sharking and indigent Fellow while he lived in Oxon and a great pretender to the art of Dancing which he forsooth would sometimes teach was also Author of Coffee-house Jests the third Edition of which came out in 1684 and of other little trivial matters meerly to get bread and make the pot walk PHILIP TAVERNER son of Joh. Taverner of Wycombe Great Wycombe in Bucks was born in that County admitted a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. 12 May 1634 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts holy Orders and was made Vicar of West Drayton and afterwards Minister of Hillingdon both in Middlesex He hath written The Quakers rounds Reply to Edm. Burrough Quaker Both which are animadverted upon by George Fox Quaker in his book intit The great mystery of the great whore unfolded c. Lond. 1659. fol. p. 283 and 308. The Grandfathers advice directed in special to his Children Lond. 1680 81. oct published after the Authors death for the common good What other books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Hillingdon as I have been informed by those of the neighbourhood TOBIE VENNER was born of gentile Parents at Petherton near to Bridgwater in Somersetshire became a Commoner of S. Albans Hall in 1594 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts entred upon the Physick line practis'd that fac for some time in these parts afterwards at Bridgwater and lastly in the City of Bathe and near thereunto In 1613 he took both the degrees in Medicine had then and always after the name of a plain and charitable Physitian was resorted to by rich and poor and venerated by all persons for his happy and successful practice in his faculty He did not only shew the right way for living long but acted it himself confirming the theory of the one with the practice of the other for near 60 years He hath written and published these things following Via recta ad vitam longam or a Treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthful life is clearly demonstrated Lond. 1620. 1650 c. in qu. This plain book which was written in condescension to mean capacities got him most of his practice Compendious treatise concerning the nature use and efficacy of the Bathes at Bathe Advertisement concerning the taking of Physick in the Spring Censure
concerning the water of S. Vincents Rocks near Bristol Brief and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of Tobacco These four last were printed with Via recta Philosophical discourse of dieterical Observations for the preserving of health Printed 1620. qu. He died at Bathe on the 27 day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the great Church there dedicated to S. Peter Over his grave was soon after put a very fair Monument with the bust of the defunct in the east wall with a large inscription thereon made by Dr. Rob. Peirce a Physician of Bathe sometimes a Com. of Linc. College a copy of which with most envious notes on it you may see in a book intit A discourse of Bathe c. printed 1676. in oct p. 170. 171. written by a Physician of note in that City HENRY HAMMOND son of Dr. John Hammond Physitian to Prince Henry was born at Chersey in Surrey on the 26 of Aug. 1605 educated in Grammar Learning in Eaton School near to Windsore where he was much advantaged in the Greek Tongue by Mr. Tho. Allen Fellow of that College In the year 1622 Jul. 30 he was made Demie of Magd. Coll. and the same year was admitted Bach. of Arts. In 1625 he proceeded in that faculty and on the 26 of July the same year he was elected Fellow of that house being then Philosophy Reader and a singular ornament thereunto In 1633 he had the Rectory of Penhurst in Kent confer'd on him by the Earl of Leicester who a little before had been deeply affected with a Sermon that he had delivered at Court and in the latter end of the same year he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences In 1638 he was licensed to proceed in the faculty of Divinity and in 1640 he was made a member of the Convocation of the Clergy called with the short Parliament that began the 13 of April the same year In 1643 he had the Archdeaconry of Chichester confer'd upon him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof and the same year he was nominated one of the Ass of Divines but sate not About which time being forced to leave his Rectory by the Presbyterians he retired to Oxon for shelter and the year following was entertained by the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Southampton to go as their Chaplain with them to London to treat with the Parliament for a composure of the unhappy differences in Church and State so that behaving himself with great zeal and prudence was also the same year appointed to attend the Kings Commissioners at Uxbridge for peace where it being his lot to dispute with Rich. Vines a Presbyterian Minister that attended the Commissioners appointed by Parliament he did with ease and perfect clearness disperse all the Sophisms that had been brought by him or others against him In the beginning of 1645 he was upon the death of Dr. VVill. Strode made one of the Canons of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty then there by vertue of which place I mean the Canonry he became Orator of the University but had seldom an opportunity to shew his parts that way In 1647 he attended the King in his restraint at VVoobourne Caversham Hampton Court and the Isle of VVight but he being sequestred from the office of Chaplain to him about Christmas the same year he retired to his Canonry in Oxon and being elected Sub dean of his house continued there till the Visitors appointed by Parliament first thrust him out without any regard had to his great Learning and Religion and then imprison'd him for several weeks in a private house in Oxon. Afterwards he was confin'd to the house of Sir Philip Warwick at Clapham in Bedfordshire where continuing several months was at length released Whereupon retiring to Westwood in Worcestershire the seat of the loyal Sir John Packington to which place he had received a civil invitation remained there doing much good to the day of his death in which time he had the disposal of great Charities reposed in his hands as being the most zealous promoter of Alms giving that lived in England since the change of Religion Much more may be said of this most worthy person but his life and death being extant written by Dr. Jo. Fell his great Admirer I shall only now say that great were his natural abilities greater his acquired and that in the whole circle of Arts he was most accurate He was also eloquent in the Tongues exact in antient and modern Writers was well vers'd in Philosophy and better in Philology most learned in school Divinity and a great Master in Church Antiquity made up of Fathers Councils ecclesiastical Historians and Lyturgicks as may be at large seen in his most elaborate Works the Titles of which follow A practical Catechism Oxon 1644. and Lond. 1646. qu. There again in 1652 in two vol. in qu. This Catechism was first of all published upon the importune Request of Dr. Christop Potter Provost of Queens Coll. to whom he had communicated yet could never get him to set his name to it Of Scandal Oxon. 1644. qu. Of Conscience Lond. 1650. qu. Of resisting the lawful Magistrate under colour of Religion Oxon. 1644. Lond. 1647. qu. Of Willâ—worship Oxon. 1644. qu. Considerations of present use concerning the danger resulting from the change of our Church Government Printed 1644 and 46. Lond. 1682. qu. Of Superstition Ox. 1645. Lond. 1650. qu. Of sins of weakness and wilfulness Oxon. 1645 50. quart Explication of two difficult texts Heb. 6. and Heb. 10. Printed with Sins of weakness c. Of a late or death-bed repentance Ox. 1645. qu. View of the Directorie and vindication of the Liturgie Ox. 1645. 46. c. qu. Of Idolatry Ox. 1646. Lond. 1650. qu. The Reader â—s now to understand that after the Lord Falklands book called A discourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome was published came out a book written by a Rom. Cath. intit A Treatise apologetical touching the infallibility of the Church Catholick c. printed 1645. Whereupon our Author Dr. Hammond wrot and published A view of the Exceptions which have been made by a Romanist to the Lord Viscount Falklands Discourse of the infallibility of the Ch. of Rome Oxon. 1646. quart The power of the keys or of binding and loosing Lond. 1647. 51. qu. Of the word KRIMA Of the Zelots among the Jews and the liberty taken by them of taking up the Cross Lond. 1647. qu. joyned with the second Edit Of resisting the lawful Magistrate Vindication of Christs representing S. Peter from the Exceptions of Mr. Steph. Marshall Lond. 1647. qu. joyned with the second Edit Of resisting the lawful Magistrate Of fraternal admonition and correption Lond. 1647. 50. qu. Copie of some papers past at Oxon between Dr. Hammond the Author of the Practical Catechism and Mr. Franc. Cheynell Lond. 1647 and 50 in qu. View of some
Monuments c. in Staffordshire Shropshire and Chester which coming into the hands of John son of Augustine Vincent Windsore Herald were by him intit Chaloners Collections for Staffordshire Salop and Chester marked with J. C. What became of them after his death which hapned in Drewry-lane in January 1671 I know not In Mar. or Apr. in sixteen hundred and sixty were Messengers sent from the superior Power then in being to take into their custody the said James Chaloner and to secure his Castle for the use of his Majesty but he having received timely notice of their coming he dispatched away himself by poyson taken as 't is said in a Posset made by his Concubine whom he there for several years had kept leaving then behind him a son named Edmund of about 19 years of age begotten on the body of his lawful wife named Ursula daughter of Sir Will. Fairfax of Steeton in Yorkshire EDWARD GEE Son as I conceive of Edward Gee mentioned among the Writers in the first Vol. under the year 1618. p. 377 was born at a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Banbury an 1613 bred in Newton School in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire became a Communer of Brasn Coll. in Mich. term an 1626 took one degree in Arts and left the University for a time At length entring into the sacred Function he proceeded Master in the said faculty 1636 being about that time Chaplain to Dr. R. Parr Bishop of the Isle of Man and a Minister in Lancashire Afterwards when the Rebellion broke out he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and for his great activity in prosecuting the holy cause he became Rector of the rich Church of Eccleston in the said County in the place of Dr. Parr before mentioned and an active man while he was an Assistant to the Commissioners of the said County for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 an 2 Oliv. Protect called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters He hath written A Treatise of Prayer and of divine Providence Lond. 1653. 61. oct The divine right and original of the civil Magistrate from God grounded on Rom. 13.1 Lond. 1658. in a large oct Soon after was another part of this put out concerning the Oath of Allegiance which I have not yet seen He died 26 of May in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Parish Church of Eccleston before mentioned NICHOLAS GREY was born in London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from the College School at Westminster in the year 1606 aged 16 years where making great proficiency in learning under the tuition of Mr. Sam. Fell took the degrees in Arts and being noted for a pure Latinist and Greecian was made the first Master of Charter house or Suttons Hospital School After he had taught there some years he married against the Statute of that School and Hospital so that thereby being made uncapable of the place the Governours thereof gave him a Benefice Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire I think where for some time he lived as 't were out of his Element On the 29 of January 1624 he was admitted chief Master of Merchant Taylors School where continuing till 1631 he was then or soon after made chief Master of the School at Eaton Coll and at length Fellow of that house but whether he proceeded D. of D. in the Univ. of Oxon which degree was confer'd on him about that time I know not for it appears not so in the publick Register In the time of the Rebellion he was turned out from his Fellowship and Parsonage by the Presbyterians was put to difficult shifts and with much ado rub'd out for some years At length obtaining the Mastership of Tunbridge School in Kent in or before the Reign of Oliver in the place of Tho. Horne made Master of Eaton School continued there till the Kings return and then being restored to his Parsonage and Fellowship was in hopes to spend his old age in peace retiredness and plenty but he died soon after as I shall anon tell you His works are these Dictionary in English and Latine Lat. and English Several times printed at London but when first of all published I know not This Dict. mostly taken from that of Rider had many additions put to it by Grey but a second or third edit of Holyok's Dict. coming out prevented as 't is said the publication of them He also published Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia ad Hugonis Grotii baptizatorum puerorum institutionem Lond. 1647. 50. 55. c. oct Which Catechism was written by Hug. Grotius in Latine Verse turned into Gr. Verse by Christ Wase B. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge since superior Beadle of Law in Oxon and into Engl. Verse by Franc. Goldsmith of Greys Inn Esq This book is dedicated to John Hales Fellow of Eaton Coll. by Dr. Grey who hath also published Parabolae Evangelicae lat redditae Carmine paraphrastico varii generis in usum scholae Tunbrigiensis Lond. in oct when printed I know not for 't is not put down in the tit or at the end He gave way to fate in a poor condition at Eaton in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Choire of the Church or Chappel there near to the stairs that go up to the Organ loft on the fifth day of October as I have been informed by the letters of John Rosewell B. D. sometimes Fellow of C. C. Coll. in Oxon afterwards School-master of Eaton Canon of Windsore and Fellow of Eaton College EDWARD TERRY was born at Leigh near Penshurst in Kent educated in Grammar in the Free School at Rochester entred into Ch. Church in 1607 and in the year after was elected Student thereof where with incredible industry going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1614. In the year following he took a Voyage with certain Merchants into East India where after his arrival he was sent for by Sir Tho. Roe Embassador from the King of England to the Great Mogul with whom he lived as Chaplain in the Court of that mighty Emperor for more than two years At his return he retired to his College and having some small Cure bestowed on him became at length Rector of Great Greenford in Middlesex which he enjoyed about 30 years and submitted to the men that bore sway in the time of Rebellion He was an ingenious and polite man of a pious and exemplary conversation a good Preacher and much respected by the Neighbourhood where he lived He hath written and published Several sermons as 1 Lawless liberty preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond. in the Cath. of S. Paul on Psal 2.3 Lond. 1646. qu. 2 The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving preached 6 Sept. 1649 to the East India Company upon a late return of their Ships on Psal 107.30.31 Lond. 1649. qu. and other Sermons published in
a Republick and I know not what to advance himself In the month of Aug. the same year he was made Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire by the Parliament and was persuaded almost to fortifie the City of Oxon for their use and to make Bulstrode Whitlock sometimes of S. Johns Coll. then a Member of Parliament Governour thereof but for what reasons he could not be overcome it appears not At the same time he did endeavour to engage the People of the said County in a Rebellion not only at Oxon but afterwards at Woodstock where he did protest upon his honour after Edghill Fight that the King had neither men nor money nor arms but the Parliament had all these c. On the 27 of Dec. and 8 of Febr. in 1642 his Maj. published two Proclamations commanding all the Officers of the Court of Wards to attend him at Oxon but this Lord Say refusing to come was outlaw'd and attainted of Treason So that he being put out of his place and a new Seal made for the use of the said Court it was ordered then to remain in the custody of the said Francis Lord Cottington In 1646 the Court of Wards was taken away by the Parliament sitting at Westminster the Members of which did recompence the Lord Say for his loss as being Master with the sum of 10000 l and Sir Ben. Rudyard the Surveyour of the said Court with the sum of 6000 l and both with Lands from the Earl of Worcester's Estate In 1648 he shew'd himself a zealous enemy in the House against a personal Treaty with his Majesty and the same year was present with the Parliament Commissioners in the Isle of Wight when they treated in order for Peace with the King At which time this Lord Say did boldly urge to his Maj. a passage out of the three last and corrupted books of Mr. Rich. Hocker's Ecclesiastical Polity that tho the King was singulis major yet he was universis minor which was answer'd with great prudence and dexterity by his Maj. as may be elsewhere seen At that time the Kings Arguments concerning several matters did so much work upon him that at his return to London he sided with that party in the House that voted that the Kings Answers to the Propositions were a firm ground for them to proceed upon for a Peace After the King's death he altogether sided with the Independents as before he had done with the Presbyterians became great with Oliver who made him one of the other House that is House of Lords After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. at what time he had acted as a grand Rebell for his own ends almost 20 years he was rewarded forsooth with the honorable Office of Lord Privy Seal while others that had suffered in estate and body and had been reduced to a bit of bread for his Maj. cause had then little or nothing given to relieve them for which they were to thank a hungry and great Officer who to fill his own Coffers was the occasion of the utter ruin of many A person of the Lord Say's persuasion who had run with the times as he did purposely to raise a family saith that he was a person of great parts wisdom and integrity and another who was taken to be a Puritan in his time tells us that Say and Sele was a seriously subtil piece and always averse to the Court ways something out of pertinaciousness his temper and constitution ballancing him altogether on that side which was contrary to the wind so that he seldom tack'd about or went upright though he kept his course steady in his way a long time c. As for the things that he hath published the titles of them are these Several Speeches as 1 Two Speeches in Parliament One upon the Bill against the Bishops and the other touching the Liturgy of the Church of Engl Lond. 1641. in two sh in quart 2 Sp. in the Guildhall London 27 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1642. qu. This was spoken just after Edghill Fight to encourage the Citizens to raise more money to carry on the War At which time also were very earnest in their Speeches for that purpose Philip Lord Wharton Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Earl of Holland and Will. Strâ—de one of the 5 Members 3 Speech in Parliament against the Supremacy of the Bishops and their power in civil Affairs Lond. 1642. qu. This with the former against the Bishops were much applauded among the patriotical Party whose sense they spoke out to the full and were the core of the Canker bred in them against the Church These Speeches also did the Clergy take to be their chief reason of their several years of Persecution that followed and why they were banished from their Livings for fear forsooth they should preach the People then in a great manner deceived into obedience to the King After the War was ceased and no Malignants there were as he called the Cavaliers to oppose him he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Quakers with whom he was much troubled at or near Broughton and thereupon wrot certain books against them as I shall tell you by and by The Scots designe discovered relating their dangerous attempts lately practised against the English Nation with the sad consequence of the same Wherein divers matters of publick concernment are disclosed and the book called Truths manifest is made apparent to be Lies manifest Lond. 1653 qu. This is usually called Vindiciae veritatis or an Answer to a Discourse intit Truth it 's manifest c. Folly and madness made manifest Or Some things written to shew how contrary to the word of God and practice of the Saints in the Old and New Testament the doctrines and practices of the Quakers are c. Oxon. 1659. qu. This I think was printed before The Quakers reply manifested to be rayling or a pursuance of those by the light of the Scriptures who through their dark imaginations would evade the truth c. Oxon. 1659 60. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen At length this noble Author after he had spent 80 years mostly in an unquiet and discontented condition had been a grand promoter of the Rebellion which began in 1642 did die quietly in his bed but whether in conscience I cannot tell on the fourteenth day of April in sixteen hundred sixty and two whereupon his body was buried in Broughton Church among the graves of his Ancestors and had over it soon after a rich and costly monument erected more befitting a Hero than a Rebell He left behind him several sons living at the time of his death among whom James his eldest son was one who succeeding him in his Honours was made L. Lieutenant of Oxfordshire having always been reputed an honest Cavalier and a quiet man Nathaniel the second son whom I shall mention elsewhere c. ROBERT SIBTHORPE was initiated in Academical Learning in Linc. Coll. as it seems but leaving the University
and of the repulse given to the Rebels at the Town of Newark Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh in qu. View of the proceedings in the West for a pacification Letter to a Gent. in Leycestershire about the Treatie at Uxbridge shewing that all the overtures which have been made for peace and accommodation have proceeded from his Majestie only Printed 1643 in 4. sh in qu. The Roundheads remembrancer or a true and particular relation of the great defeat given to the Rebels by his Maj. Subjects of Cornwall under the command of Sir Ralph Hopton in Tuesday 16. May 1643. Printed 1643 in one sh in qu. This Pamphlet is generally said to have been written by Heylyn Relation of the proceedings of S. Joh. Gell. This is the same if I mistake not with a Pamph. intit Theeves Theeves or a relation of Sir Jo. Gells proceedings in Derbyshire in gathering up the rents of the Lords and Gentlemen of that Country by pretended authority from the two Houses of Parliament printed 1643. qu. This Sir John Gell who was Son of Tho. Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire Gent. became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1610 left it without a degree exercised himself in martial seats beyond the Seas retired to his patrimony was made a Baronet in Jan. 1641 and being then a Presbyterian took up arms soon after for the Parliament became a Colonel and one of their Champions Afterwards hating the proceedings of the Independents when they had murder'd the King he entred into a plot against the Parliament in which Coll. Euseb Andrews being engaged suffer'd death an 1650. for which being imprison'd was at length tried for his life before the High Court of Justice but being found only guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it he was condemn'd to loose his estate and to perpetual imprisonment from the last of which he was released by order of Parliament 5. of Apr. 1653. He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster in Nov. 1671 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was as I suppose buried at Hopton Quaere having had this character given of him by the Presbyterians while they were dominant that he was a man beloved of his Country and feared by his enemies valiant in his actions and faithful in his ends to promote truth and peace Of the same family was Rob. Gell D. D. of Pampisford in Cambridgeshire and sometimes Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury which Doctor died in the very beginning of the year 25. of March or thereabouts 1665. The black ✚ Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of this present rebellion c. The Rebells Catechisme composed in an easie and familiar way to let them see the hainousness of their offence c. Printed 1643. in 4. sh in qu. Discourse in answer to the common but groundless clamour of the Papists nick-naming the religion of the Church of England by the name of a Parliament Religion Written in 1644 at the request of George Ashwell of Wadham Coll. But when this book was printed it had this title following put to it Parliaments power in Lawes for religion or an answer to that old and groundless calumny of the Papists nick-naming c. Oxon. 1645. in 6. sh in qu. In another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7. sh in qu. it hath this title The way of reformation of the Church of England declared and justified against the clamours of our Adversaries reproaching the religion here by law established by the name of a Parliament religion c. This was afterwards printed in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Brief relation of the death and sufferings of the most reverend and renowned Prelate the L. Archb. of Canterbury with a copie of his speech and other passages on the Scaffold more perfect than hath been hitherto imprinted Oxon. 1644 in 4 sh in qu. Bibliotheca Regia or the Royal Library c. Lond. 1649. 50. and 59. oct Heylyns name is not set to it but 't is generally known to be his collection from some of the works of K. Ch 1. In this book is inserted the conference between K. Ch. 1. and the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland which by many is taken to be authentick because published by Heylyn See more among the Writers in the first vol. in Lewis Bayly p. 486. Stumbling block of disobedience c. in answer to and examination of the two last sections in Calvins institutions against Soveraigne Monarchy MS. written in 1644. printed at Lond. 1658. qu. with this title The Stumbling block of disobedience and rebellion cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way discovered censured and removed The promised seed Written in vers The undeceiving the People in the point of Tithes c. Lond. 1648. 51. Published under the name of Ph. Treleinie which is an Anagram for Peter Heylyn Reprinted at Lond. in qu. 1657. in the first part of Eccles Vindicata Theologia Veterum The sum of Christian Theologie contained in the Creed according to the Greeks and Latines c. lib. 3. Lond. 1654. and 1673. fol. Full relation of two journies The one into the main Land of France The other into some of the adjacent Islands in 5 Books Lond. 1656. qu. These adjacent Islands are Guernsey and Jersie c. Survey of the estate of the two Islands Guernsey and Jersie with the isles depending c. in one book Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the former and both were published by their Author Pet. Heylyn because a little before a false copy of them had crept abroad under the title of France painted to the life as I shall farther tell you anon Observations on The Historie of the raigne of K. Charles published by Hamon L'estrange Esq for illustration of the storie c. Lond. 1656. oct Upon the coming out of which observations L'Estrange printed another edit of the said Hist Lond. 1656. fol. and at the end added a book intit The Observator observed or animadversions upon the observations on the History of K. Charles c. Whereupon our Author Heylyn came out with this book following entit Extraneus Vapulans or the Observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L'Estrange Esq and the back blows of Dr. Nich. Bernard an Irish Dean Lond. 1656. oct In our Authors Epist to the reader before this book dat 7. June 1656 he tells us that in one week of the last term he was plundered twice first of his name and secondly of his good name Of his name by one Will. Leak a Bookseller who publishing a discourse of his Dr. Heylyns under the title of France painted to the life by a false and imperfect copy hath fathered it in Stationers Hall on one Rich. Bignall a Fellow to him utterly unknown Secondly plundered of his good name by Ham. L'Estrange Esq by loading him with abusive language Ecclesia Vindicata or the Church of England justified 1 In the
he was one of the pillars of Presbytery and by others a person learned and well read in the Fathers and Councils One Mr. Ley a learned Divine wrot a book about 1624. intit The Christian Nomenclator c. against the Papists mention'd in Joh. Gee's book intit The foot out of the snare c. Lond. 1624. qu. p. 17. in marg whether the same with our Author Joh. Ley I know not HENRY JACKSON Son of Hâ—n Jacks Mercer was born in S. Maries parish within the City of Oxon admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. on the first of Dec. 1602 aged 17 years or thereabouts having for two years before been Clerk of the said house admitted probat Fellow thereof 5 of Sept. 1612 to the reading of the Sentences five years after and at length upon the death of Dr. Seb. Benefield sometimes his Tutor he became Rector of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire which was all the preferment he ever look'd after for being a studious and cynical person he never expected or desired more He was a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Joh. Rainolds whose memories being most dear to him he did for the sake of the first industriously collect and publish some of his small Treatises and of the latter several of his Epistles and Orations He also did diligently recognize and added marginal notes with a copious Index to the twelve books of Jo. Lud. Vives sometimes Rhetorick Reader of C. C. Coll. seven of the former of which are De corruptis Artibus the other five De tradendis disciplinis He had also made a Collection of several of the Works of Pet. Abaelard from antient MSS. of that Author had revised compared and collected them All which he did intend at his own charge to publish but the grand Rebellion breaking forth in 1642 the Soldiers belonging to the Parliament rifled his house scatter'd the said Collection and made it so imperfect that it could never be recovered He hath written Vita Ciceronis ex variis autoribus collecta Commentarii in Ciceronis Quaest lib. quintum Both which dedicated by the Author to Dr. Seb. Benefield are remaining under the Authors hand in my custody but whether they were ever printed I cannot tell He also translated from English into Latine Commentarii super 1 cap. Amos Openheim 1615. oct written by the said Dr. Benefield as I have elsewhere told you Also Joh. Fryth's book of Baptisme which he intituled De Baptismo cognitione sui next Joh. Hoopers Lectures on the Creed and lastly Hugh Latymers Oration to the Convocation concerning the state of the Kingdom to be reformed by the Gospel Which last Translation had before been done by Sim. Gryneus But whether these three last which are in MS. in my hands are published I cannot tell nor do I know any thing of the Translator besides only that he dying on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and two was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Meis Hamp near to the grave of Dr. Benefield before mention'd I find another Hen. Jackson to be Author of The description of the little world or body of man printed 1660 in oct but of what University he was if of any I know not THOMAS MERRIOT was born at Steeple Langford in Wilts educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1610 aged 21 years or more took one degree in the Civil Law and for a time taught in the Grammar-school joyning to the Cloister there Afterwards being presented to the Vicaridge of Swaclyve near Banbury in Oxfordshire by the Warden and Society of the said Coll. he preached there and taught Grammar to the time of his death He hath written Vulgaria sive miscellanea prosaica hinc inde decerpta ad discipulos non vulgares è ludis literariis emittendos quà m maximè conducentia modo solerter edoceantur c. in novem classes distributa Oxon. 1652. oct Adagia selectissima c. Ib. eod an oct He died at Swaclyve on the 19 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and two after he had been Vicar of that place 38 years and was two days after buried in the Church there EDWARD STANLEY was born of gentile Parents in the Parish of S. Peter within the City of Chichester educated in Wykeham's School made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. 1608 aged 20 years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts left the said Coll. in 1623 and was about that time made Master of the said School and afterwards Prebendary of Winchester and Doct. of Div. He hath published Several Sermons three of which were preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester The first on Sunday Aug. 19. an 1660 at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that Church on Psal 14.7 The second on Jan. 30. an 1661 being the Anniversary of K. Ch. 1. of glorious memory on Jer. 4.20 And the third at the general Assize held at Winton 25 Feb. 1661. on Isay 1.26 Lond. 1662. in oct In which year the Author died and was buried at Winchester leaving then behind him the character of a learned godly and orthodox Minister of Gods word HENRY JEANES Son of Christop Jeanes of Kingston in Somersetshire was born at Allensay in that County as I have been informed by one of his rural disciples became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsomer term in the year 1626 aged 15 years where pecking and hewing continually at Logick and Physicks became a most noted and ready Disputant After he had taken the degrees in Arts he removed to Hart Hall took holy Orders and soon after was cried up for a learned Preacher in the University In the beginning of Aug. 1635 he was presented by Sir Joh. Windham to the Rectory of Beer-Crocomb and Capland in Somersetshire and soon after became Vicar of Kingston in the same County At length upon the change of the times in 1641 he closed with the Presbyterians notwithstanding he had before while he continued in the University been a scoffer of them and when Dr. Walt. Raleigh was thrown out of Chedsey near Bridgwater he became Rector of the Church there where during the times of Usurpation he took into his family divers Youths designed for the University and read to them contrary to his Oath Logick and Philosophy and had often times set Disputations among them while he himself moderated He was a most excellent Philosopher a noted Metaphysitian and well grounded in polemical Divinity He was also a scholastical man a contemner of the World generous free-hearted jolly witty and facetious and in many things represented the humour of Dr. Rob. Wild the Poet. All which qualities do very rarely or seldom meet in men of the Presbyterian perswasion who generally are morose clownish and of sullen and reserved natures The books that he hath written and published are many the titles of most if not all follow Treatise concerning a Christians careful abstinence
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
of other persons to the same purpose an 1660. in oct The design was to perswade Oliver to take upon him the Kingship of Gr. Britain and Ireland All which Pamphlets one excepted were printed at Lond. in qu and not one of them exceeds the quantity of a sheet of paper I am perswaded that many more are extant under his name or at least written by him without any name set to them but such I have not yet seen At length after a great deal of moyling turmoyling perfidiousness and I know not what he laid down his head and died in his house at Burford before mention'd on that memorable day the third of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and two and two days after was buried without pomp in a little isle on the north side of the Church there next below that isle where the costly tomb of Sir Laur. Tanfeild stands At that time the body of his only Wife Elizabeth who died the 19 of April foregoing buried in the Communion Chancel of Burford Church was taken up and laid close to that of her Husband He forbad as I have been informed any excessive costs at his funeral or for a monument to be put over his body and was heard several times in his last hours to say that he desired no other Epitaph than Vermis sum So that as yet he hath no Monument nor so much as any Stone over his grave the floor being now or at least lately covered only with sand and unpaved What remains more to be remembred of him if not too much already is his own confession on his death-bed made to Dr. Ralph Brideoak then Rector of Witney near Burford who administring to him ghostly counsel and desiring to know how he had kept and observed the fifth Commandment remembring him that Disobedience Rebellion and Schism were the great sins against it made this confession Yes there is my trouble my disobedience not against my natural parents only but against the Pater patriae our deceased Sovereign I confess with Saul I held their clothes whilst they murdered him but herein I was not so criminal as Saul was for God thou knowest I never consented to his death I ever prayed and endeavoured what I could against it but I did too much almighty-God forgive me c. Then the said Doctor urged to him to confess if he knew any of those Villains that plotted and contrived that horrid murther which were not then detected to which he answer'd I am a stranger to that business my soul never entred into that secret but what concerns my self I will confess freely These things are especially laid to my charge wherein indeed I am too guilty as first that I went from the Parliament to the Army 2. That I proposed the bloody question for trying the King And 3. That I sate in Parl. after the Kings death To the first I may give this answer that Cromwell and his Agents deceived a wiser man than my self I mean that excellent King and then might well deceive me also and so they did I knew the Presbyterians would never restore the King to his just Rights these men the Independents swore they would For the second no excuse can be made but I have the Kings pardon and I hope Almighty God will shew me his mercy also yet even then when I put the question I hoped the very putting the question would have cleared him because I believed four for one were against it but they deceived me also To the third I make this candid confession that 't was my own baseness and cowardize and unworthy fear to submit my self to the mercy of those men that murthered the King that hurried me on against my own conscience to act with them Yet then I thought also I might do some good and hinder some ill Something I did for the Church and Universities something for the King when I broke the oath of abjuration Something also for his return but the ill I did over-weighed the little good I would have done God forgive me for this also c. He also confessed that he had no hand in or gave any consent to the murthering and ruining the Fathers of the Church and also that he died a dutiful son of the Church of England as it was established before the Rebellion broke out c. After which confession which was done like a very hearty Penitent he received the absolution of the Church with much content and satisfaction He left behind him one only son named John the grand Braggadocio and Lyer of the age he lived in bred in C. C. Coll. in this University made early motions and ran with the times as his Father did was a Recruiter of the Long Parliament consented to the tryal of the King was a Colonel while Oliver was Protector from whom he received the honour of Knighthood on the 9 of March 1657 was one of the six Clerks in Chancery and for a time Governour of Windsore Castle In 1672 he was elected High Sheriff of Oxfordshire and in the latter end of 1677 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. K. Ch. 2. This person who hath two or more Speeches in print spoken in the times of Usurpation died at Besills-Lee near Abendon in Berks the Mannour which his Father purchased of the Fettiplaces on the ninth day of Nov. 1681 and was buried in the Church there near to the body of his second wife named Mary Blewet the widow of .... Stonehouse Baronet by whom he had one only son named William who took to wife Catherine Hamilton of the noble Family of the Hamiltons in Scotland particularly of those of Pasley and by her had issue John and James Lental He died at Burford on the 5 of Sept. 1686 aged 27 years or thereabouts and was buried near to the grave of his Grandfather HUMPHREY CHAMBERS a Gentlemans son was born in Somersetshire became a Communer of University College in 1614 aged 15 years stood for a Fellowship in Merton Coll. in 1619 but put aside as insufficient notwithstanding he like a vain man had a little before taken occasion to display his Oratory in a flourishing Speech on the death of a Student of Univ. Coll. not in the Rectory or Chappel as the custom is but in a pew set in the middle of the Quadrangle on purpose After he had taken the degree of Master of Arts he entred into holy orders and in June 1623 was made Rector of Claverton in his own Country on the death of Joh. Bewshen Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Div. and was esteemed by the neighbouring Ministers an orthodox man But when the times began to change in 1641 he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant was made one of the Ass of Divines and maintained a horse and man at his own charge in actual service against the King Soon after he had the rich Rectory of Pewsie near to Marlborough in Wilts bestowed on him for
Mounteyne Bishop of Lincolne and not long after Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Southwell in the Dioc. of York and Preb. of Lincolne Dr. Laud Bish of Lond. got him to be Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. by commending him to be excellent in all casuistical learning and accordingly in Nov. 1631 he was sworn Chaplain in Ordinary So that having occasion to be somtimes near to him the said King took great content in conversing with him whereby our Author gained great credit from the Nobility and greater from the Clergy as being esteemed the most known casuist that this Nation ever produced In 1636 he was actually created D. of D on the very day that the K. and Court left Oxon after they had been some days entertained there In 1641 he with two more of the Convocation of the Clergy for he had been usually elected for all Convocations for about 20 years before that time did draw up some safe alterations in the Service Book and abated some of the Ceremonies that were least material for the satisfaction of the Covenanteers and Presbyterian Party in the Long Parliament In July 1642 he was nominated by his Majesty the Regius Professor of Divinity of this University and the same year he was proposed by both Houses of Parliament to the King then at Oxon. to be one of the Trustees for the setling of Church affairs as Prideaux Bishop of Worcester was and was allowed of by the King to be so but that treaty came to nothing In 1643 he was nominated one of the Assemb of Divines but sate not among them In 1647 he had the most considerable hand in drawing up the University Reasons against the Covenant and negative Oath and the same year he was sent for by the King then at a more large imprisonment with Dr. Hammond Dr. Sheldon and Dr. Morley to attend him in order to advise with them how far he might with a good conscience comply with the proposals of the Parliament for a Peace in Church and State which was allowed by the Independents but denied by the Presbyterians Afterwards he attended on his Maj. in the Isle of Wight preached before him and had many both publick and private conferences with him to his Majesties great satisfaction About that time his Maj. translated into English our Authors Book De Juramento which being done Dr. Juxon Dr. Hammond and Mr. Tho. Herbert did compare what he had done with the original as I shall anon tell you The same year 1648 he was turned out of his Professorship of Divinity by the Parl. Visitors and so consequently from his Canonry of Ch. Ch. and soon after he retired to his cure at Bothby where living obscurely took upon him to put the Kings Meditations in his solitude into Latine which being half done Dr. Earle prevented him from finishing it by doing that work himself While he remained there he was plunder'd imprisoned wounded and tho brought into a low and obscure condition yet many receded to him for the resolution of cases of conscience Which being also resolved by Letters many of them have been preserved and printed for the benefit of posterity In Aug. 1660 he was restored to his Professorship and Canonry by his Majesties Commissioners and by the commendations of Dr. Sheldon to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he was soon after made Bishop of Lincolne receiving consecration thereunto in the Abbey Church at Westminster 28. Oct. the same year After which retiring to his Mannour of Bugden in Huntingdonshire belonging to his See he bestowed much money in repairing his House or Pallace there All Authors especially those that are famous do speak honorably of him The learned Usher of Armagh stiles him judicious Sanderson upon the return of a case he proposed to him and Hammond that stayed and well weighed man Dr. Sanderson c. who receiveth things deliberately and dwells upon them discreetly Besides also his great knowledge in the Fathers and Schoolmen and profoundness in controversial Divinity he was exactly vers'd in the Histories of our Nation whether antient or modern was a most curious Antiquary and an indefatigable searcher into antient records as his labors in Mss which he left behind him do evidently shew One of them which is a large thick folio I have seen and perused containing all under his own hand collections from registers leiger books rolls evidences in the hands of private Gentlemen c. evidences belonging to Cathedral and other Churches c. This Book is endorsed with Cartae X shewing that there were other Volumes as indeed there are in number about twenty as I have been told by Hen. Symmons his somtimes Secretary which are as I conceive dispersed in several hands He was also a compleat Herald and Genealogist made several collections of English Genealogies and also of monumental inscriptions and Arms in Churches and Windows wheresoever he went His care also was so great for the preservation of them from ruin that when he published Articles of Enquiry in order to the visiting of his Diocess in 1661 he in the conclusion of them desired the Ministers to make a return of all such monumental Inscriptions and Arms in Windows that were in their respective Churches But many of them being ignorant of such matters made very imperfect and halt returns However he carefully preserved them so long as he lived and what became of them after his death I cannot tell His published works are these Logicae Artis Compendium Oxon 1615. 18. 40. c. oct there again 1680 the ninth Edit in oct Several Sermons as 1 Two Sermons on Rom. 14.3 and on Rom. 3.8 Lond. 1622. qu. 2 Twenty Sermons Lond. 1626. fol among which are the two former 3 Two Serm. on 1. Tim. 4.4 and Gen. 20.6 Lond. 1628. qu. 4 Twelve Serm. viz three ad Clorum three ad Magistratum and six ad Populum Lond. 1626. and 32. fol. 5 Two Serm. on 2. Pet. 2.16 and Rom. 14 23. Lond. 1635. qu. 6 Twenty Serm. formerly preached viz. sixteen ad Aulam three ad Magistratum and one ad Populum Lond. 1656. fol. The next year were fourteen of his Sermons reprinted to joyn with the aforesaid twenty together with a large Preface by the same Author Which fourteen were thus divided viz. Four ad Clerum three ad Magistratum and seven ad Populum It was the fourth time that they were then printed In 1660 they were all in number 34 reprinted in folio and again in 1681 with another ad Aulam and another ad Clerum added which make up the number of 36. 7th edit with the Authors life before them written by Is Walton c. As most books of later composure so more especially Sermons within the compass of a few years undergo very different characters and meet with a quite contrary entertainment in the World And this I conceive comes to pass because the way and manner of preaching is in a short time much altered from what it was but a little
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.
Prince of Poets fell into the hands of the Satyrical wits of this University who having easily got some of his prose and poetry served him as the wits did Tom. Coryat in his time and published them under these titles Naps upon Pernassus A sleepy muse nipt and pincht though not awakened c. Lond. 1658. oct Characters Printed with the former Both which were usher'd into the world by more than twenty Copies of verses advantaging the sale of the book by such that had the name of or at least pretended to be Poets Among them were Tho. Flatman Tho. Sprat and Sam. Woodford since noted and famed for their Poetical works Silvanus Taylour and George Castle of All 's Coll the former better at Musick the other at lying and buffooning than Poetry And among others not now to be named must not be forgotten Alexander Amidei a Jew and Florentine born then a Teacher of Hebrew and other tongues in the University afterwards a converted Christian and Reader of a Hebrew Lecture in Sion Coll. Lond. Our Author Austin hath also written and published A Panegyrick on K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1661. oct wherein just after the Preface he promised to publish more Poems conditionally the said Paneg. took the Subjects of which are there set down But what prevented him unless death which hapned about the plague year in 1665 I cannot tell JOHN OSBORNE a forward zealot for carrying on the righteous cause was the Son of John Osborne of Crediton in Devonshire whence after he had been trained up in trivial learning he was sent to New inn in the year 1634 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and became a frequent Preacher up of the Presbyterian design At length having sufficiently proved himself to be one of them was made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire in the place of a Loyalist ejected where continuing till the Act of conformity put him out preached in Conventicles in the Neighbourhood and thereupon was imprison'd for several weeks in Oxford Castle Afterwards being let loose he retired to the great City taught School and lived in S. Barthelmews Parish near little Britaine to the time as I take it of his death He hath published The Mysterie of the resurrection on Acts 24.15 Lond. 1651. qu. Conference between him and Rich. Coppin of Westwell near Burford at Burford in Oxfordshire concerning the resurrection of the Body Printed with The mysterie c. He also took a great deal of pains in making A catalogue of our English Writers on the Old and New Testament and had printed about 8 sheets of it but Will. Crowe of Suffolk Schoolmaster of Croyden in Surrey the same I mean who hung himself about the latter end of 1674 coming out before him on the same subject in 1659 prevented him from going any farther This Cat which hath been several times since printed is called by some Osbornes but by the generality Crowes Catalogue One John Osborne hath translated into English for the use of Schools Comenius his Vestibuli linguarum auctuarium c. Printed several times and in 1670 it was printed at London in oct Whether this Jo. Osborne be the same with the former I cannot yet tell GEORGE KENDALL son of Rich. Kendall of Rowel in Northamptonshire was born in that County became Batler of New inn in the year 1630 and that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards was actually created Master of that faculty when K. Ch. 1. was entertained at Oxon an 1636. He hath written a book entit An Appendix to the unlearned Alchymist wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent Diopharetick and Diuretick pill purging by sweat and urine commonly known by Matthews Pill c. Lond. 1664. At which time he practiced Physick but whether graduated here in that faculty or licensed to practice it it appears not What other things he hath written I cannot tell nor any thing else of the Author THOMAS HALL son of Rich. Hall clothier by Elizabeth Bonner his Wife was born in S. Andrews Parish within the City of Worcester about the 22 of July 1610 bred up to Grammar learning in the Kings School there under the famous Hen. Bright who perceiving him to be a youth of pregnant parts was by his perswasion sent to Ball. Coll. in 1624 But being his chance to be put under the tuition of a careless Tutor he was removed to Pembroke Coll. then newly founded and became Pupil to Mr. Tho. Lushington reputed by the generality of Scholars eminent for his Philosophical learning After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts and had compleated it by publick Determination he returned to his Country and for a while taught a private School and preached in the Chappels belonging to Kings Norton in Worcestershire Afterwards being a frequenter of the Lectures at Bermingham in Warwickshire maintained and held up by old Puritans they so much operated on his spirit that he relinquished his former principles adhered to that party and in many respects became an enemy to the Church of England and in fine so rigid in his perswasion that he was disliked by the Brethren Much about the same time he served the cure of Kings Norton under his Brother Mr. John Hall who at length resigned it all unto him and for his farther encouragement got the Free-school adjoyning to be added to it Both which employments took up most of his time and were all the preferments he ever had in the Church For being a single person a lover of books and learning and of a retired and obscure life never looked farther than his beloved Kings Norton At the turn of the times in 1641 he shew'd himself openly a Presbyterian and complied altogether with that party not for preferment sake but because they were against Bishops and Ceremonies At length in 1652 having the testimony of godly and able men had the degree of Bach. of Divinity confer'd upon him by the then members of the University but with this condition that he should preach a Latine Sermon as part of his exercise and an English Sermon instead of his other exercise Both which were as I conceive accordingly done tho his admission appears not He was accounted a Person by those of his own perswasion of great integrity and single-heartedness in his Ministry of a free and liberal heart just and one that lived much by faith of an holy and unblamable life of humble deportment and carriage a great lover of peace a plain and profitable Preacher that he was much in communion with God in publick abundant in thansgiving to God careful how to spend his time c. His works are these The Pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publick preaching and expounding the Scriptures without a Call c. Lond. 1651. qu. Answer'd by one Tho. Collier of whom more anon Six arguments to
himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. Catholicks as I have been informed by his familiar friend Robert Pugh a secular Priest who hath told me that he the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other things besides Erastus jun. and Erastus sen but the just titles of them he could not tell One Joh. Lewgar nearly related to if not descended from the before mentioned J. Lewgar died in the Island called Barbadoes an 1675 in which year also died Cecil L. Calvert JOHN QUARLES son of Franc. Quarles the Poet was an Essexian born became a Batler of Exeter Coll. in the latter end of 1642 and in that of his age 18 bore Arms within the Garrison of Oxon for his Majesty and was afterwards as 't is said a Captain in one of his Armies but upon the declining of his Majesties Cause he retired to London in a mean condition where he wrot several things meerly for maintenance sake among which were these Regale lectum miseriae or the English bed of misery in which is contained a Dream Lond. 1649. oct Elegy upon that never to be forgotten Ch. 1. late but too soon martyr'd King of England Elegy and Epitaph on Arthur Lord Capell beheaded 9 Mar. 1648. A curse against the enemies of peace His farewell to England These four last things were printed with Reg. lect miseriae before mention'd Afterwards he took his Rambles beyond the seas but whether in the condition of a Tutor or bare Traveller or Pilgrime I know not After his return he lived as occasion served and published Fons lacrymarum or a fountaine of tears from whence doth flow Englands complaint Jeremiahs Lamentations paraphrased with divine Meditations Elegy upon that son of Valour Sir Charles Lucas These three last things were several times printed in oct one Edition whereof came out in 1677. The tyranny of the Dutch against the English Lond. 1653. oct written in prose Continuation of the history of Argalus and Parthenia Lond. 1659. in tw He also published in verse The rape of Lucrece committed by Tarquin the 6. c. Lond. 1655. in oct Written by Will. Shakespear Gent and added to it Tarquin banished or the reward of lust Lond. 1655. oct in verse He hath also written Divine Meditations upon several Subjects whereunto is annexed Gods love and Mans unworthiness with several divine Ejaculations Lond. 1659 c oct Triumphant chastity or Josephs self conflict when by his Mistress was enticed to adultery shewing the powerful motions betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit Lond. 1683. oct a divine Poem This person J. Quarles who perhaps hath written other things was esteemed by some a good Poet and a great Royalist for which he suffer'd and lived therefore mostly in a poor condition At length upon the raging of the Plague in and near London he was swept away there among thousands that died of that disease in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where his carkass was lodged I cannot tell One Joh. Quarles occurs Archdeacon of Northampton an 1640 and was living after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but he is not to be taken with Joh. Quarles the Poet. ROBERT CODRINGTON was born of an antient and gentile family in Glocestershire elected Demie of Magd. Coll. 29 at July 1619 aged 17 years being then some months standing in that house took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1626 and afterwards upon his return from his Travels lived in the quality of a Gent. in Norfolk for several years and there took to him a wife At length retiring to London spent the remainder of his days and there finished his course This person who was always accounted a Puritan hath written and translated these things following The life and death of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex c. containing at large the Wars he managed and the Commands he had in Holland the Palatinate and in England c. Lond. 1646. in about 7 sheets in qu. In this book he shews himself a rank Parliamenteir Collection of many select and excellent Proverbs The life of Aesop This is written in French and Latine which with that written in English by Tho. Philipot are put before Aesops Fables in English illustrated with an 112 Sculptures by Francis Barlow Lond. 1666. fol. He also translated from French into English 1 Treatise of the knowledge of God Lond. 1634. Written by Pet. du Moulen 2 Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers Lond. 1654. in a thick oct Written by Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarr who divided it into eight days journey This translation is dedicated to the lover of all good learning Tho. Stanley Esq And also from Lat. into English 1 The History of Justin taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius containing the affairs of all Ages and Countries both in peace and war from the beginning of the world until the time of the Rom. Emperors Lond. 1664. second edit 1672. oct 82. in tw 2 Aesops Fables printed in oct 3 Ignoramus a Com. Lond. 1662. qu. with a supplement which out of respect to the Students of the Common Law was hitherto wanting 4 Prophecies of Christoph Kotterus Christiana Poniatovia and Nich. Drabicius three famous German Prophets c. Lond. 1664. oct second edit 5 Life and death of Alexander the Great King of Macedon In 10 books Lond. 1673. oct Written by Q. Curtius Rufus He hath also translated from French the last vol. of Nich. Caussins Holy Court which I have not yet seen Nor do I know any thing else of him only that he died of the Plague in Lond. in sixteen hundred sixty and five but where buried I cannot yet tell and that he had other matters lying by him fit for the Press SAMUEâ— FISHER son of Joh. Fisher a Haberdasher of hats and Mayor of Northampton was born there or at least in Northamptonshire became a Student in Trin. Coll. in Mich. term an 1623 aged 18 years took one degree in Arts as a member thereof at which time being puritanically inclined he translated himself to New Inn where by the stay that he made which was about two years after he had taken the degree of M. of A he was throughly setled in his opinion and as 't is verily thought he entertained then more opinions and Principles than one of his coat ought to have done About the year 1632 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Lydde in Kent where under the character of a very powerful Preacher he lived in Conformity tho continuing still in his Puritanism till about the year 1643 near which time he held a strict confederacy with some of the religious Zealots of his Town who applied themselves to him for spiritual advice in reference to their scruples of conscience as to which of the new differing Sects they ought to adhere Whilst their thoughts were herein wavering our Author Fisher enjoyn'd himself and them to the observance of several Fast-days wherein he as the mouth of the
in his own Country to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westm 3. of Nov. the same year but his election being voted void he sided notwithstanding with the faction was seemingly a Presbyterian and afterwards all things to all men So that being esteemed very capable of carrying on the beloved cause he was first made a Committee man of his County and afterwards was called into the House of Commons by the Independents upon their excluding the active Presbyterians purposely to carry on their designs against the King Afterwards he being very ready to keep pace with them he not only subscribed his vote for the trial of his Majesty Ch. 1. but personally sate in judgment when sentence was past for his decollation About that time he being observed by some of the H. of Commons to be a Person of strange principles in Religion an Arrian Socinian and I know not what and also to be a Person of no good Morals he was publickly complained of in the house by Colonel Joh. Downes one of the Regicides and afterwards a member of the Council of State Whereupon Fry published The Accuser ashamed or a pair of Bellows to blow off the dust cast upon John Fry a member of Parliament by Col. Jo. Downes who charged the said John Fry of blasphemy and errour Printed at Lond. in Febr. 1648. in oct To which he added 1 A word to the Priests Lawyers Royalists Self-seekers and rigid Presbyterians 2 A brief ventilation of that chaffie and absurd opinion of three Persons or substances in the Godhead Afterwards he being exasperated by the Presbyterian Ministers and some Independents he wrot and published The Clergy in their colours or a brief character of them c. Lond. 1650 in 4. sh in oct Which the next year was answered by J. D. Nephew as 't was said to Mr. John Davy of Taunton Magdalen in Somersetshire Soon after the publication of the said Clergy in their colours the Parliament took so much cognizance of the matter that they sate on Saturday 22. Feb. 1650 from morning to night in debate of certain passages published in the said books as 1 In debate of that added to the Accuser ashamed in the title running thus that chaffie and absurd opinion of three persons or substances in the Godhead 2 In that in p. 22. running thus that gross and carnal opinion of three distinct Persons or subsistences in the Godhead Persons and subsistences are subsistences or accidents As for the word Person I do not understand that it can be properly attributed but to man It is out of doubt with me that if you ask the most part of men what they mean by a Person they will either tell you 't is a man or else they are not able to give you any answer at all As for the word Accident I suppose none will attribute that to God for according to my poor skill that word imputes no more but the figure or colour c. of a thing and certainly no man ever saw the likeness of God as the Scriptures abundantly testifie c. These things being discussed it was resolved by the members of Parliament that they were erroneous prophane and highly scandalous Afterwards they proceeded to the book called The Clergy in their colours wherein p. 34 is this said by the Author I cannot let pass one observation and that is the strange posture those men put themselves into when they begin their prayers before their Sermons whether the fools and knaves in stage plays took their pattern from these men or these men from them I cannot determine c. what wry mouths squint eyes they make c. how like a company of conjurers do they mumble out the beginnings of their prayers that the People may not hear them c. These passages being debated the Parliament resolved that they were scandalous Again also p. 42. thus I must confess I have heard much of believing things above reason and the time was when I swallowed that still but I may say with S. Paul c. When I was a child c. Every man that knoweth any thing knoweth this that it is reason that distinguishes a man from a beast If you take away his reason you deny his very Essence therefore if any man will consent to give up his reason I would as soon converse with a beast as with that man c. These matters being debated it was resolved by Parliament that they were erroneous Afterwards they resolved that the said book called The Accuser ashamed and the other called The Clergy in their colours be burnt and that the Sherriffs of London and Middlesex be authorized and required to cause all the printed copies of both the said books and every of them wheresoever they should be found to be burnt some in the New-Pallace-yard at Westm and some at the Old Exchange Not a word in the order was there of the Hang-man for that would have sounded ominous to the whole pack of them then in pomp and great splendor At the same time it was resolved that the said Joh. Fry be disinabled to sit as a member of Parliament so that being solemnly cashier'd he had more liberty to keep company with John Biddle which he did as with others of that opinion This Person who had ran through most if not all religious even to Rantisme died soon after and thereby saved the Hang-man his labour JOHN ELLIS received his first breath in the Parish of Llanderkuin near to Harlech in Merionithshire entred a Student in Hart Hall in the year 1617 and in that of his age 18. or thereabouts where going through with infinite industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy became M. of A. in 1625 and three years after was elected Fellow of Jesus Coll. being then in holy orders In 1632 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and soon after going into Scotland upon what account I know not was made and admitted Doctor of his faculty in the University of S. Andrew on the day before the Cal. of August 1634 and in Oct. following was incorporated in this University Before that time having taken to Wife Rebecka Daugh. of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach near to Thame in Oxfordshire Esq became Rector of Whitfield near that place which Benefice he keeping till about 1647 was made Rector of S. Maries Church in a Market town called Dolgelhy or Dolgethle in his own county where he continued till the time of his death siding with all parties and taking all Oathes His works are these Clavis fidei seu brevia quaedam dictata in symbolum Apostolorum Oxon. 1642. 43. oct Translated into English by Will. Fowler a composer in the Art of Printing Camb. 1669. oct Comment in Obadium Proph. Lond. 1641. oct Defensio fidei seu responsio succincta ad argumenta quibus impugnari solet confessio Anglicana una cum nova articulorum versione Lond. 1660. He concluded his last day at Dolgethle before
entred in Jesus Coll. in Mich. term 1638 and was put under the tuition of a noted Tutor by whose lectures profiting much he took one degree in Arts was made Fellow of the said House and afterwards taking holy Orders from Dr. Manwaring Bishop of S. David had about that time the Rectory of S. Bridget before mentioned confer'd upon him by his kinsman Sir George Vaughan But the unsetledness of the times hindring him a quiet possession of he left it retired to Oxon and in a sedate repose prosecuted his medicinal genie in a manner natural to him and at length became eminent in the chymical part thereof at Oxon and afterwards at London under the protection and patronage of that noted Chymist Sir Rob. Murrey or Moray Kt Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland He the said Vaughan was a great admirer of the labours of Cornel. Agrippa whose principles he followed in most of his works and to whom in matters of Philosophy he acknowledged that next to God he owned all that he had and therefore in his praise he did often passionately break out into poetical streines as that he was Natures Apostle and her choice High-priest Her mystical and bright Evangelist c. As he was a great admirer of Agrippa so he was no great favourer of the Aristotelian Philosophy condemning it as altogether imperfect and false a meer Apothecaries drugg a mixture of inconsistent contrary Principles which no way agree with the harmony and method of nature The whole Encyclopaedia of which abating the demonstrative mathematical part he says is built on meer imagination without the least light of experience and therefore he wishes that all true sons of his famous Oxford mother would look beyond Aristotle and not confine their intellect to the narrow and cloudy horizon of his text Our Author seems also to have had as little kindness for the Cartesian Philosophy as the former for he says that the Author of it was a whim and a wham a Fellow that invented ridiculous Principles of his own but hath cast them into such a method that they have a seeming dependency and Scholars mistake his knavery for his reason c. The truth is our Author Vaughan was so wedded to his beloved Agrippa that nothing could relish with him but his works especially his Occult Philosophy which he would defend in all discourse and writing He was a great Chymist a noted son of the fire an experimental Philosopher a zealous brother of the Rosie-Crucian fraternity an understander of some of the Oriental Languages and a tolerable good English and Latin Poet. He was neither Papist nor Sectary but a true resolute Protestant in the best sense of the Church of England His Works are these Anthroposophia Theomagica or a discourse of the nature of Man and his state after death grounded on his Creators Proto-chimistry and verified by a practical examination of principles in the great world Lond. 1650. oct Dedicated to his brethren of the Rosie-Cross Anima magica abscondita or a discourse of the universal spirit of nature with the strange abstruse miraculous ascent and descent Lond. 1650. oct It is joyned with the former book and they go both together But the Reader is to know that our Author having reflected on some of the Writings of Mr. Hen. More Fellow of Christs Coll. in Cambridge particularly as it seems on his Psychodia Platonica More thereupon came out with a book intit Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica and Anima mag abscond under the name of Alazonomastix Philalethes Par. alias Lond. 1650. oct Which observations being somewhat satyrical charging our Author to be a Magician and withal affirming that nothing but an implacable enmity to Immorality and Foolery and a zeal of discountenancing Vanity moved him to write against him in which his Writings he stiles our Author a Mome a Mimick an Ape a meer Animal a Fool in a Play a Jack-pudding c our Author thereupon came out with an Answer in vindication of himself intit The Man-mouse taken in a trap and tortured to death for gnawing the Margins of Eug. Philalethes Lond. 1650. oct Written in the greatest buffoonry and scolding imaginable out-stripping the pattern laid before him by his Adversary and not only plays and quibbles on his name like a Novice but falls fouly on his University in a childish manner All which doth fully make out the fantasticalness of the title But this also was replied upon by the said More under the name of Alaz Philalethes in a book intit The second Lash against Vaughans Anthropos Camb. 1651. oct Which answer and reply of More did afterwards so little please him tho they tended to a good end that he thought not fit to have them translated into Latine with the rest of his Philosophical Works which were printed 1679. fol. See the general Preface to the said Works concerning the occasion and stile of the aforesaid Answer and Reply Th. Vaughan hath also written Magia Adamica or the antiquity of Magic and the descent thereof from Adam downward proved c. Lond. 1650. oct A perfect and full discovery of the true Coelum terrae or the Magicians heavenly Chaos and first matter of all things Printed with Magia Adam The second wash or the Moore scoured once more being a charitable Cure for the distractions of Alazonomastix Lond. 1651. oct The first wash was the Man-mouse This worthy person Dr. Hen. More of whom we heard no farther as to this matter was born of Calvinistical Parents in a Mercate Town in Lincolnshire called Grantham and there for a while bred up under a Master of the same perswasion At about 14 years of age he was sent to Eaton School near Windsore where he usually spoke very slightly of the opinions of Calvin and about three years after he was entred into Christs Coll. in Cambridge where he became Fellow a great Tutor and a most noted Philosopher He died on the third day of Apr. 1687 aged 73 years and was buried in the Chappel of Christs Coll as I have been informed thence Lumen de lumine or a new magical light discovered and communicated to the world Lond. 1651. oct Aphorismi Magici Eugeniani Printed with Lum de lum 〈◊〉 both dedicated to the Univ. of Oxon. Aula lucis or the house of Light a discourse written in the year 1651. Lond. 1652. oct Published not under the name of Eug. Philalethes but under the two Letters of S. N. a modern Speculator being the two last Letters of Thomas Vaughan Large Preface with a short declaration of the physical work of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross Set by him before a book intit The fame and confession of the Fraternity of R. C. commonly of the Rosie Cross Lond. 1652. oct Which Fame and Confession was translated into English by another hand I have seen another book intit Themis aurea The laws of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross Lond. 1656. oct Written in
last day was succeeded therein by Tho. Hyde of Qu. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Hyde B. of Salisbury This Dr. Wall was a quaint Preacher in the age he lived and Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincolne did use to give this character of him while he remained with him in his family that he was the best read in the Fathers of any he ever knew The truth is he was always a severe student lived a retired life and spent his time in celebacy and books His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Sermon at Shelford in Nottinghamshire on the death of Mr. John Stanhop Son and Heir to Philip Lord Stanhop Baron of Shelford whose Corps was translated from Ch. Ch. in Oxon to the sepulchers of his Fathers in the Church of Shelford on 2. Sam. 12.23 Lond. 1623. oct 2 Jacobs Ladder on 1. Pet. 5.6 Oxon. 1626. oct 3 Alae Seraphicae The Seraphins wings to raise us unto heaven in six sermons partly at S. Peters in Westminster partly at S. Aldates in Oxon. Lond. 1627. qu. The first of which is entit The Souls Ornament on Cantic 8.6 4 Christian progress serm at Shelford in Nott. on Matth. 21.9 Oxon. 1627. oct 5 The Lion in the Lamb or strength in weakness serm at Shelf in Not. on Rev. 7.10 Oxon. 1628. oct 6 Christian reconcilement or God at peace with man in Christ serm at S. Maries in Oxon. on Rom. 5.11 Lond. 1658. oct 7 Sermon on Rom. 10.15 Printed 1627. oct This last I have not yet seen Ramus Olivae sive concio habita ad clerum in templo B. Mariae Oxon 8. Junii pro inchoando termino in Luc. 24.36 Oxon. 1653. in a small oct Dedicated to Oliver Cromwell Solomon in solio Christus in Ecclesia sive concio latinè habita ad clerum in templo B. Mariae Oxon. primo Maii in Cantic 3.9.10 Oxon. 1660. oct He paid his last debt to nature in his Lodgings in Peckwater quadrangle belonging to Ch. Ch. on the 20 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in the second Isle joyning to Ch. Ch. choir on the North side See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 287. The Reader is now to know that this Person having got a plentiful estate in and from his College did a little before his death shew himself upon some small distast so ungrateful to it that instead of bestowing moneys thereon to carry on the publick buildings belonging thereunto he gave a thousand and twenty pounds to the City of Oxon to be employed for certain charitable uses and a greater sum to two flattering Persons that wanted it not or were any thing of kin to or cared a straw for him The picture of this Dr. Wall drawn to the life with his doctoral habit and square cap hangs at this day in the Council Chamber belonging to the City of Oxon joyning on the East side to the upper Gild-hall Besides this John Wall was another of both his names and time Bach. of Divinity somtimes Minister in Colchester afterwards Preacher of Gods word at S. Michaels Cornhill in London Author of None but Christ or a plain and familiar treatise of the knowledge of Christ exciting all men to study to know Jesus Christ and him crucified with a particular applicatory and saving knowledge in divers sermons on 1. Cor. 2.2 Lond. 1648 50. 56. oct But this John Wall who was a Presbyterian and much favoured by Sir Harbottle Grimstone was as it seems educated in Cambridge WILLIAM TOWERS son of Dr. Jo. Towers Bishop of Peterborough was born in Northamptonshire elected from Westm School Student of Ch. Ch. an 1634 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated an 1641. In the latter end of the year following he was made Prebendary of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Jo. Pocklington deceased and in 1644 Parson of Barnack in Northamptonshire Both which were only titular to him for some years In 1646 a little before the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred to the Parliament to which place he had retired for refuge he was actually created Bach. of Divinity and afterwards being deprived of all his spiritualities was patronized by Francis Lord Newport and lived upon mean places and employments the last of which before his Majesties restauration was the Curatship of Upton near Northampton Afterwards he was restored to his Preb. of Peterborough and Parsonage of Barnack and had that of Fisberton near Lincolne confer'd upon him His works of learning are these Atheismus Vapulans a treatise against Atheisme Lond. 1654. oct Published also before that time without the authors name to it Polytheismus Vapulans or a treatise proving that there is a God Printed with the former book Several Sermons as 1 Sermon against murder occasion'd by the Massacre of the Protestants in the Dukedome of Savoy on Exod. 20.13 Lond. 1655. qu. 2 Obedience perpetually due to Kings on Psal 21.1 Lond 1660. qu. 3 Thanksgiving Sermon for the blessed restauration of K. Ch. 2 on Psal 21. former part of the first verse Lond. 1660. qu. c. At length this loyal and religious Person W. Towers going from his rectory of Fisberton to visit some friends living at Uffington near to Stanford in Lincolnshire fell sick there and dying on the 20. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six was buried two days after in the Chancel of the Church at that place Soon after was a little inscription put over his grave but removed some years after when the Chancel was new paved after a burying vault had been made under part of it JAMES SHIRLEY the most noted drammatick Poet of his time did make his first entry on the stage of this transitory world in or near the Parish of S. Mary Wool-church where the Stocksâ—market now is within the City of London was descended from the Shirleys of Sussex or Warwickshire as by his Arms if he had right to them painted over his picture hanging in the School-gallery at Oxon appears educated in Grammar learning in Merchant Taylors School and transplanted thence to S. Johns Coll. but in what condition he lived there whether in that of a Servitour Batler or Commoner I cannot yet find At the same time Dr. Will. Laud presiding that house he had a very great affection for him especially for the pregnant parts that were visible in him but then having a broad or large mole upon his left cheek which some esteemed a deformity that worthy Doctor would often tell him that he was an unfit Person to take the sacred function upon him and should never have his consent so to do Afterwards leaving this University without a degree he went to Cambridge where I presume he took those in Arts so that soon after entring into holy Orders he became a Minister of God's word in or near to S. Albans in Hertfordshire But being then unsetled in his mind he changed his Religion for that of
became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1628 aged 19 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Vicar of Box near Malmsbury in his own Country where continuing in good esteem in the greatest part of the interrupted times was at length ejected from his living in the Reign of Oliver whereupon he wrot A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walt. Bushnell Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts Which book being not permitted to be published after he had made it fit for the Press was at his Majesties return printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. About which time the Author being restored to his living continued there to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and seven was buried in the Church at Box having then laying by him one or more things fit to be printed as I have been informed by some of the neighbourhood GEORGE WITHER Son of George Wither the first Son by a second venter of the house of Wither of Manydowne near to Wotton S. Laurence in Hampshire was born at Bentworth near Alton in the said County on the eleventh day of June 1588 30 Eliz. educated in Gram. learning under the noted School-master of those parts called Joh. Greaves of Colemore sent to Magd. Coll. in the year 1604 or thereabouts where being put under the tuition of Joh. Warner afterwards B. of Roch. whom if I mistake not he serv'd made some proficiency with much ado in academical learning but his genie being addicted to things more trivial was taken home after he had spent about three years in the said house and thence sent to one of the Inns of Chancery in London and afterwards to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law But still his genie hanging after things more smooth and delightful he did at length make himself known to the world after he had taken several rambles therein by certain Specimens of Poetry which being dispersed in several hands became shortly after a publick Author and much admired by some in that age for his quick advancement in that faculty But so it was that he shewing himself too busie and satyrical in his Abuses stript and whipt was committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where continuing several months was then more cried up especially by the puritanical Party for his profuse powring forth of English rime and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical Poetry in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass which he pretended to predict In 1639 he was a Captain of Horse in the Expedition against the Scots and Quarter-master Gen. of the Regiment wherein he was Captain viz. of that Regiment of oâ— next under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the said expedition But this our Author who was always from his youth puritannically affected sufficiently evidenced in his Satyrs sided with the Presb. in the beginning of the Civil Wars rais'd by them an 1642 became an enemy to the King and Regality sold the estate he had and with the moneys received for it rais'd a Troop of Horse for the Parliament was made a Captain and soon after a Major having this motto on his Colours Pro Rege Lege Grege but being taken prisoner by the Cavaliers Sir Jo. Denham the Poet some of whose land at Egham in Surry Wither had got into his clutches desired his Majesty not to hang him because that so long as Wither lived Denham would not be accounted the worst Poet in England About that time he was constituted by the said Long Parliament a Justice of Peace in Quorum for Hampshire Surrey and Essex which office he kept 16 years and afterwards was made by Oliver Major Gen. of all the Horse and Foot in the County of Surrey in which employment he licked his fingers sufficiently gaining thereby a great Odium from the generous Royalist After the Kings Restauration in 1660 he lost all the lands that had belonged to Royalists and Bishops which he before had either bought or had confer'd upon him for the love and zeal he had to the blessed Cause And being then look'd upon as a dangerous person to the King and State especially for a scandalous and seditious libel that he had then dispersed was committed Prisoner to Newgate and afterwards upon his own confession and the oaths of two persons that he was the Author of it he by order of the H. of Commons was sent in custody and committed close prisoner to the Tower of London to be debarr'd Pen Ink and Paper and about the same time 24 of March 1661 2 an Impeachment was ordered to be drawn up against him In both which Prisons he continued three years and more wrot several things by the connivance of the Keeper of which some were afterwards made publick yet could never refrain from shewing himself a Presbyterian Satyrist He began very early being precisely educated from his childhood to express and publish those conceptions which the affections and inclinations to youth had awakened in him endeavouring to season them with morality and piety as subjects of that nature are capable of suiting them to the capacities of young-men who delight to see their own natural passions represented as 't were in a glass wherein they not only meet with some better things than they looked for but with such notions also therewith mixed as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems and rendred him so generally known that thousands especially such youths that were puritannically educated were desirous to peruse his future writings and to take better heed of that whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice while others of generous education and of more solid parts looked upon them as the effects of a crazed brain and esteemed Taylor the Water-Poet a fit match for him with his wild and rambling rimes The things that he hath written and published are very many accounted by the generality of Scholars meer scribbles and the fancies of a conceited and confident if not enthusiastical mind The titles of them follow Iter Hibernicum or an Irish Voyage Written in verse Iter Bor. or a northern Journey Written in verse Patricks Purgatory Written in verse Philaretes Complaint Written in verse These four were called his Juvenilia and tho the original MS. of them was lost yet they were recovered and printed more than once Prince Henries obsequies or mournful elegies upon his death Lond. 1612. and 1622. oct A supposed interlocution betw the ghost of Pr. Hen. and Great Britaine Printed with the former Abuses stript and whipt or satyrical essays in two books Lond. 1613. 14.15 and 22. in oct Satyr written to the King Jam. 1. when he was prisoner in the Marshalsea for his first book Lond. 1614. 15. 22. in
Aug. following it was voted by them that G. Wither author thereof should pay to the said Sir R. Onslow 500 l. for damages and that the book be burnt by the hand of the common Hangman at which time Withers was then in prison for it and continued there about an year Opobalsamum Anglicanum An English balm lately pressed out of a shrub and spread upon these papers for the cure of some scabs gangrenes and cancers endangering the body of this Commonweale c. Lond. 1646 in 3 sh and an half in qu. in verse Amygdala Britannica Almonds for Parrets A dish of stone-fruit partly shell'd and partly unshell'd which if crack'd pick'd and digested may be wholsom against those epidemick distempers of the brain now predominant c. Printed 1647 in qu. in double columes in tw sh in verse Carmen expostulatorium Printed 1647. This was written to prevent the engaging these nations into a second war when the dividing of the City and Army was then by some endeavoured A si quis or Quaeries with other verses annexed Printed 1648. Presented to the members of Parliament in their single capacities related to the Authors particular interest A petition and narrative to the Parl. Pr. 1648. The tired petitioner Printed in a single sheet in verse about the same time Carmen Eucharisticon A private Thank-oblation exhibited to the glory of the Lord of Hosts for the timely and wonderful deliverance vouchsafed to this Nation in the routing of a numerous army of Irish rebels before Dublin by Mich. Jones Lieut. Gen. for the Parl. of England Lond. 1649 in one largesh in qu. in double columns Of which poem and its author several things are said by the writer of Mercurius Elencticus numb 19. p. 152. published 3. Sept. 1649. Se defendendo Not said when printed 'T was an Apologie written by him in prose to vindicate himself from such aspersions as had been injuriously and without any probable cause cast upon him by malicious detractors A thankful retribution Lond. 1649 in vers The British appeal with Gods merciful replies on the behalf of the commonwealth of England contained in a brief commemorative Poem c. Lond. 1651. oct The dark lantern containing a dim discovery in riddles parables and semi-riddles intermix'd with cautions remembrances and predictions c. Lond. 1650 53 oct in vers Poem concerning a perpetual Parliament Printed with the Dark lantern A suddaine flash on the stile of Protector Printed in oct Westrow revived a funeral poem Pr. in oct Vaticinium casuale Printed 1655. Boni ominis votum Printed 1656. This poem was occasion'd by the summoning of extraordinary Grand Juries out of the eminent Baronets Knights Esquires Gentlemen to serve in their Counties at a Summer assize 1656. A cause allegorically stated Printed 1657 with an appeal therein to all impartial censurers Address to the members of Parl. in their single capacities Printed 1657. a poem Salt upon salt made out of certain ingenious verses upon the late storm and the death of his Highness c. by which occasion is taken to offer to consideration the probable near approaching of greater stormes and more sad consequences Lond. 1659. oct in vers A bitter-sweet passion of the Soul expressed in a Hymne to God Printed at the end of Salt upon salt Poetick frenzie occasion'd by Gen. Monks restoring the Parliament Printed in a large oct Speculum speculativum or a considering glass being an inspection into the present and late sad conditions of these nations c. Lond. 1660. oct poem Glimmerings discovered of what will probably ensue hereafter Printed with the former 'T is a Poem Postscript in answer to some cavilling objections made against the Author of this considering glass since the composing thereof Printed also with the former Fides Anglicana or a plea for the publick faith of these nations lately pawned forfeited and violated by some of their former Trustees to the rendring it as infamous as Fides punica was heretofore c. Lond. 1660. oct prose Triple paradox affixed to a counter-mure raised against the furious batteries of restraint slander and poverty c. Lond. 1661. oct poem Crums and scraps lately found in a Prisoners basket in Newgate Lond. 1661. oct poem Metrical paraphrase on the Lords Prayer Printed 1665. 1688. oct vers Memorandum to London occasion'd by the pestilence in the year 1665. Pr. in oct a poem Sigh for the pitchers with three private meditations Lond. 1666. oct Fragmenta prophetica or his remains being a collection of the several predictions dispersed throughout his works Lond. 1669 oct Before which is his picture in armour and his head bare adorn'd with a wreath of Laurel An interjection being a sudden ejaculation cast in at the collecting of Fragm proph Metrical paraphrase on the Creed Lond. 1688. oct vers 'T is at the end of the 2d edit of the Paraphrase on the 10 Com. before mention'd Besides all these which I have mostly seen and perused are many others which I have not seen only their trite and imperfect titles as they follow 1 The Scourge 2 The Mistress of Philarete 3 Vaticinium poeticum All these written in verse and the last reprinted in Fragm Proph. 4 Caveat Emptor in prose 5 Britains Genius Pr. in oct 6 Carm. Ternarium semicynium ver 7 Speech without door 8 His Disclaimer These two last are in prose 9 Know thy self ver 10 The Delinquents purgation prose 11 Sinners confession vers 12 A cordial confection c. prose 13 Verses to the individual members of Parliament 14 Epistolium vagum prosau-metricum 15 Furor poeticus 16 Three grains of Frankincense 17 The Protector The three last are in vers 18 Epistle to the three Nations 19 Epistle at random Pr. in qu. 20 Ecchoes from the sixth trumpet reverberated by a review of neglected remembrances Pr. in oct c. Besides these 20 pieces and others which were printed were many others of his composition which were not as 1 Exercises on the nine Psalmes next following the first These which he intended to add to the Exercises on the first psalme printed 1620 were lost and could never be recovered 2 Treatise of antient Hieroglyphicks with their various significations Lost 3 Persuit of happiness being a character of the extravagancy of the authors affections and passions in his youth Written in prose 4 Riddles Songs Epigrams 5 The Dutchess in vers 6 Domestick devotions prose 7 Funeral Elegie 8 Tract of usury c. prose 9 The confession of his faith both in fundamentals and in relation to most points controverted by men of several judgments in religion 10 Precatory meditation and soliloquy with God on the behalf of his children and their posterity if they have any 11 Discourse to a friend touching the consolations in close imprisonment 12 Familiar Epistles 13 The true state of the cause between the King and Parl. Wr. in prose 14 Declaration in the Person of Oliver Cromwell given into his own hand and tending to the
made up of smoothness and gentleness yet he could bear with the harshness and roughness of the Schools and was not unseen in their subtilities and spinosities His skill was great both in the civil and canon Law and casuistical Divinity And he was a rare conductor of Souls and knew how to counsel and to advise to solve difficulties and determine cases and quiet consciences To these may be added his great acquaintance with the Fathers and ecclesiastical Writers and the Doctors of the first and purest ages both of the Greek and Lat. Church which he hath made use of against the Rom. Catholicks to vindicate the Church of England from the challenge of innovation and to prove Her Antient Catholick and Apostolical Add to all these he was a Person of great humility had nothing in him of pride and humour but was courteous and affable and of easie access He was withal a Person of great charity and hospitality And whosoever compares his plentiful incomes with the inconsiderable estate he left at his death will be easily convinc'd that Charity was steward for a great proportion of his revenue To sum up all in a few words of another author this great Prelate had the good humour of a Gentleman the eloquence of an Orator the fancy of a Poet the acuteness of a Schoolman the profoundness of a Philosopher the wisdom of a Chancellour the sagacity of a Prophet the reason of an Angel and the piety of a Saint He had devotion enough for a Cloister learning enough for an University and wit enough for a Coll. of Virtuosi And had his parts and endowments been parcel'd out among his poor Clergy that he left behind him it would perhaps have made one of the best Diocese in the world His works of learning are very many and all that he hath written are I conceive set down in the following Catalogue The Golden Grove or a manual of dayly prayers and letanies fitted to the days of the week c. This is sometimes called The Guide of Infant devotion and was composed at the Golden Grove in the County of Caermerthen before mention'd Several impressions have been made of it mostly in the Vol. called twelves one of which was made at Lond. 1656 or thereabouts and the fourteenth impression came out in 1683. Festival Hymns according to the manner of the antient Church An Apologie for authorized and set forms of Liturgy against the pretence of the spirit c. Lond. 1649. qu. Of the sacred order and offices of Episcopacy by divine institution Apostolical tradition and Catholick practice Or thus Episcopacy stated c. Oxon. 1642. qu. The real presence and spiritual of Christ in the blessed Sacrament proved against the doctrine of Transubstantiation Lond. 1654. oct Discourse of the liberty of prophecying Lond. 1647. qu. In the writing of which book the author made use of a like stratagem as Hales did in writing his book of Schisme to break the Presbyterian power and so countenance divisions between the factions which were too much united against the loyal Clergy For in the said book as a certain author saith he insists on the same Topicks of schisme and heresie of the incompetency of Councils and Fathers to determine our Ecclesiastical controversies and of scrupulous consciences and urgeth far more cogent arguments than Hales did but still he had prepared his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an antidote to prevent any dangerous effect of his discourse For the judicious reader may perceive such a reserve tho it lay in ambuscado and is compacted in a narrow compass as may easily rout those Troops which began too soon to cry victoria and thought of nothing else but of dividing the spoil And if the learned author did this and was blameless the goodness of the end in such cases denominating the action I see no cause why our author whose ends were for the restoring of peace seeing he represented the causes of the war so frivolous and inconsiderable ought to be represented as a Criminal or Adversary This book of Liberty of prophecying was animadverted upon by Sam. Rutherford Prof. of Divinity in the University of S. Andrew in his Free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience c. Lond. 1649. qu. Vindication of the Glory of the divine attributes in the question of original sin Lond. 1656. in tw Measures and offices of Friendship in a letter to the most ingenious and excellent Mrs. K. P. Lond. 1657. 2d edit in tw By this K. P. is to be understood Katherine Philipps the Wife of Jam. Philipps of the Priory of Cardigan Esq daughter of John Fowler of Bucklesbury in Lond. Merchant by Katherine his Wife daughter of Dan. Oxenbridge Doctor of Physick Which Kath. Fowler alias Philipps by the way it must be observed was born in the Parish of S. Mary Wool-church in Lond and baptized there on the eleventh of Januar. 1631 bred up in a School at Hackney under Mrs. ... Salmon where she then much delighted in Poetry notwithstanding brought up in the Presbyterian way After her marriage with Ja. Philipps she went into Ireland with the Vicountess of Dungannon Trevor and at Dublin she translated from French into Engl. the Tragedy called Pompey which was several times acted in the new Theater there with great applause an 1663. and 64. in which last year it was made publick While she was young she was very forward in English learning by the blessedness of a quick and happy memory At riper years she was esteemed the most applauded Poetess of our Nation and not without reason since her name is of a fresh and lively date from a publish'd Vol. in fol. of her poetical Works bearing this title Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philipps the matchless Orinda To which is added Monsier Corneille's Pompey and Horace's Tragedies with several other translations out of French Lond. 1667. fol with her picture a shoulder piece before them standing on a pedestal and underneath written Orinda These Poems which were first printed in oct an 1664 without the translations are commended to the world by the Poems of Abr. Cowley Tho Flatman Jam. Tyrrell Esq c. At length she being overtaken with the small pox died of it in Fleet-street and was buried 22 June 1664 in the Church of S. Bennet Sherehog at the end of Syths-lane in London under a great grave-stone where her Father Grand-father and Gr. mother were before buried Dr. Taylor hath also published Sermon at S. Maries in Oxon upon the 5 or Nov. 1638. on Luke 9.54 Oxon. 1638. qu. All which books and sermon before mention'd were printed in one Vol. under this title A collection of polemical and moral discourses Lond. 1657. fol. To a third Edition of which collection wherein are omitted The Golden Grove and the Sermon at S. Maries are added 1 A disswasive from Popery the first and second part written while he was B. of Downe and Connor and received with
became one of the Bible-Clerks of that house in the latter end of 1647 and afterwards did all or most of his Exercise with much ado for the degree of Bach. of Arts and so abruptly left the College But while he continued there he shew'd himself a Dunce a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University and a factious person Soon after his Father provided for him a Parsonage that had belonged to an honest man and a wife the first of which he keeping till his Majesties Restauration was then ejected and put to his shifts At length repairing to London he fell into the company of desperate Fanaticks as Fifth-Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents c. and did seemingly plot with them to surprize the King at Whitehall the Lord Chancellor Clarendon George Duke of Albemarle Major Gen. Sir Rich. Browne c. to have the Tower Windsore Castle and other Holds delivered to them and of reducing the Kingdom to a free state These things being freely imparted to him by one or more of the said Fanaticks knowing that he and his Father had been Vilâ—ains in the time of Usurpation he secretly betrayed aâ— to the said Sir Rich. Browne Whereupon the said Sir Rich. putting him into a way to gain more intelligence which he accordingly did draw'd them on till almost the time that they were to rise and be in Arms which was to be on the Vigil of Allsaints day an 1662. But two days before that time when all things were in a manner made ready some of the principal Actors were seized on by the said Sir Rich. Browne and Sir Joh. Robinson L. Mayor of London according to the directions of the said Will. Hill viz. Tho. Tonge George Phillips Franc. Stubbs Jam. Hind Joh. Sallers and Nath. Gibbs All which coming afterwards to a Trial at Justiceâ—Hall in the Old Baily four of them were condemned and afterwards suffer'd at Tybourne on the 22 of Dec. following viz. Tongue Phillips Gibbs and Stubbs Soon after came out a Pamphlet in qu. intit A brief Narrative of that stupendious Tragedy late intended to be acted by the satanical Saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the Kings Majesty c. Before which is printed and set A Narrative of the said plot written by the said Will. Hill to the Kings most excellent Majesty and in the Pamphlet following wherein is the trial and condemnation of the said persons Hill is one of the principal speakers as being a chief witness Afterwards for a reward of his Loyalty he had a considerable Benefice bestowed upon him in Glocestershire but being hated by one party for his falsness and by another for his factiousness did enjoy it but few years he dying upon the place JOHN EEDES Son of Nich. Eedes was born in the City of Salisbury entred a Student in Oriel Coll. 1626 aged 17 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards became a Minister in the Isle of Shepie whence being ejected in the time of the Rebellion suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely House and other miseries At length returning to his native Country he became Curate of Broadchalke which with much ado he held for about two years and then was made Vicar of Hale in Hampshire He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre of Salisbury The orthodox doctrine concerning justification by faith asserted and vindicated Lond. 1654. qu. After his Maj. Restauration he did not return to Shepie but continued at Hale which is not far from Surum where he was first rob'd in his own house and then murdered by Thieves in sixteen hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there What other things he hath published or left behind him fit for the press I cannot tell WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry on the stage of this vain world in the Parish of S. Martin within the City of Oxford about the latter end of the month of Febr. and on the third of March following an 1605 6 he received baptism in the Church of that Parish His Father John Davenant was a sufficient Vintner kept the Tavern now known by the name of the Crown wherein our Poet was born and was Mayor of the said City in the year 1621. His Mother was a very beautiful Woman of a good wit and conversation in which she was imitated by none of her Children but by this William The Father who was a very grave and discreet Citizen yet an admirer and lover of Plays and Play-makers especially Shakespeare who frequented his house in his journies between Warwickshire and London was of a melancholick disposition and was seldom or never seen to laugh in which he was imitated by none of his children but by Robert his eldest son afterwards Fellow of S. Johns Coll and a venerable Doct. of Div. As for William whom we are farther to mention and may justly stile the sweet Swan of Isis was educated in Grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester whom I shall elsewhere mention and in Academical in Linc. Coll. under the care of Mr. Dan. Hough in 1620. 21 or thereabouts and obtained there some smattering in Logic but his genie which was always opposite to it lead him in the pleasant paths of Poetry so that tho he wanted much of University learning yet he made as high and noble flights in the poetical faculty as fancy could advance without it After he had left the said Coll wherein I presume he made but a short stay he became servant to Frances the first Duchess of Richmond and afterwards to Foulk Lord Brook who being poetically given especially in his younger days was much delighted in him After his death an 1628. he being free from trouble and attendance betook himself to writing of Plays and Poetry which he did with so much sweetness and grace that he got the absolute love and friendship of his two Patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of S. Alban to both which he dedicated his poem which he afterwards published called Madagascar Sir John Suckling also was his great and intimate friend who exercis'd his fancy on that book and other of his Poems but could not let him pass without this censure in his Session of Poets Will. Davenant asham'd of a foolish mischance That he had got lately travelling into France Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse Might any deformity about him excuse Thus Sir John son of Sir Joh. Suckling of Whitton in Middlesex Knight sometimes one of the Secretaries of State afterwards Controller of the Houshold to K Jam. and K. Ch. 1. to which last he was of the Privy Council who dying 27 March 1627 at which time Sir John the Poet was 19 years of age was buried in the Church of S. Andrew in the City of Norwych The said mischance which Sir John mentions hapned to D'avenant by lying with a handsome black girl in Axe yard in Westminster on whom he thought when he spoke of Dalga
and sometimes at London he continued with that Count more than an year In which time he did translate one of Virgils Aeneids and burlesqu'd it but whether he ever publish'd it I know not K. Ch. 1. did grant to him the reversion of the place of Surveyor of his buildings after the decease of Inigo Jones Which place he entring upon at the restauration of K. Ch. 2. an 1660 for the said Jones died 21. July 1651 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in London he enjoyed it to the time of his death and got by it 7000 l. In the year following he was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. and became much renown'd in the Court of that King for his ingenuity but upon some discontent arising from a second match he became craz'd for a time and so consequently contemptible among vain Fops Soon after being cured of his distemper he wrot excellent verses on the death of Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and some months after followed him The things that he hath written and translated have been many but those that are published are only these The Sophy a tragedy Lond. 1642. qu. and 1667. oct Coopers hill a poem Oxon 1643 in one sh and an half in qu. Printed again with additions at Lond. 1650 and 55 in qu. There again in 1667. 68. in oct A poem it is which for the Majesty of the stile is and ever will be the exact standard of good writing It was translated into Latin verse by Moses Pengrey as I shall elsewhere tell you An Essay against gaming Lond. in about 3 sh in oct This I have not yet seen Cato Major of old age a poem Lond. 1648. in tw in 4 parts c. The destruction of Troy or an Essay upon the second book of Virgils Aeneids Lond. 1656. in 4 sh and an half in qu written in the year 1636. Panegyrick on his excellency the Lord General George Monk Commander in chief c. Printed at Lond. in one sh in qu. in the month of Mar. 16â—â— â—â— Tho the name of John Denham is not set to it yet the frequent report was then among the Academians that he was the author of it Various poems and translations Lond. 1667 68. c. oct Among which is The Destruction of Troy Cato Major before mention'd and A Poem on Mr. Abr. Cowleys death and burial among the antient Poets Which last was a little before printed by it self in one sheet in fol. in Aug. 1667. Among them also as I remember is The Prologue to his Majesty at the first play presented at the Cock pit in Whitehall being part of that noble entertainment which their Majesties received Nov. 19. an 1660 from his Grace the D. of Albemarle Which Prologue was printed by it self at Lond. 1660. on one side of a broad sheet or paper A new version of the Psalmes of David This I have not yet seen only mention of it in an excellent copy of verses made in its commendation by Mr. Sam. Woodford sometimes of Wadham Coll in his Occasional compositions in English rimes Lond. 1668. p. 146. The true Presbyterian without disguise or a character of a Presbyterians way and actions Lond. 1680. in half a sh in fol. The name of Sir John Denham is set to this poem but then question'd by many whether ever he was the author of it See other works of his poetry in Sir Will. D'avenant before mention'd He died at his Office near to Whitehall which he before had built in March in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried on the 23 of the same month in the s cross isle or trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster near to the graves of Jeffry Chaucer and Abr. Cowley In the year 1666 were printed by stealth in oct certain poems entit Directions to a painter in four copies or parts and each dedicated to K. Ch. 2 in verse They were very satyrically written against several persons engaged in the War against the Dutch an 1665 and at the end of the said four parts is a copy entit Clarindons house-warming Sir John Denhams name is set yet they were then thought by many to have been written by Andrew Marvell Esq and after that his epitaph both bitterly reflecting on Edw. E. of Clarendon his house called Clarendon house and his ways of scraping up wealth To which Directions tho The Printer that printed them being discovered stood in the pillory for the same GEORGE BATE a most noted Physitian of his time Son of John Bate of Burton or Bourton in Buckinghamshire was born at Maidsmorton near to Buckingham became one of the Clerks of New Coll. in the beginning of 1622 aged 14 years was thence translated to Qu. Coll. for a time and thence to S. Edm. Hall took the degrees in Arts as a member of the last entred on the Physick line and took a degree in that faculty 1629 at which time being licensed to practice exercised it in and near Oxon. for some years among precise and puritanical people he being then taken to be one of their number In 1637 he proceeded in his faculty and became thereupon more noted among men especially when K. Ch. 1. to whom he was chief Physitian and his Court kept their residence several years in Oxon in the time of the grand rebellion Afterwards when his Maj. and his cause declined he retired to London closed with the times for interest sake became Physitian to the Charter-house Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and at length chief Physitian to Oliver while he was General and afterwards when Protector and did not stick tho he pretended to be a concealed Royalist to flatter him in an high degree Upon the restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 he got in with the Royal party by his Friends report that he by a dose given to Oliver hastned him to his end was made chief Physitian to K. Ch. 2. and a member of the Royal Society His published works are these The Royal Apologie or the declaration of the Commons in Parliament 11. Feb. 1647. canvassed Printed 1648 in about 14 sh in qu. There was also a book entit The Regal Apologie printed as 't is said at Paris the same year in qu but who the author of it was I know not unless the King himself Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia simul ac Juris regii ac Parliamentarii brevis narratio Par. 1649. Franc. ad Maen 1650. 51. qu. Which being communicated to Dr. Pet. Heylyn before it went to the Press or else when the second part was joyned to it were by him made many observations on it which much tended to the honor of the King and Church This first part of Elenchus was translated into English by an unknown hand and printed at Lond. 1652 in oct The second part of the said Elenchus wherein the author was
so pleasing to the Royalists who have found much wit and mirth therein that some of them have caused it to be chained to desks in publick places and in some country Churches to be read by the vulgar But as by the publishing of this book he hath much displeased the Presbyterians of whom some have fallen foul upon him in their Writings for so doing so hath he more displeased another party for the writing of this book following The history of the Romish Treasons and Usurpations with an account of many gross corruptions and impostures of the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1671 and 81. fol. Which book had it not fallen into the hands of a knavish Bookseller might have been extant in the life time of the author and so consequently more compleat and exact than now it is At its first publication I was enformed by a letter written by a noted man of that party that the Papists did look upon the said book as a simple thing That he the Author fought against his own shadow and that all sober Catholicks did disallow much of what he combats against That he prayed much to the Lord that he might live to see his book published and then nunc dimittis but it was not granted him c. This Mr. Foulis had laid the foundations of other books which he intended to advance and have them published but the day before he died he committed them to the flames as many other notes he did which would have been serviceable to some scholars He ended his days in the prime of his years occasion'd by a generous and good natur'd intemperance on the Vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried under the north wall at the upper end of the Chancel of S. Michaels Church within the City of Oxon. on the 26 of Dec. being S. Steph. day In his grave was afterwards buried William Stone LL. Bach. sometimes Principal of New Inn who died 22 June 1685. SAMUEL CLARKE right famous for oriental learning son of Thom. Clarke of Brackley a market town in Northamptonshire was born there or at least in that County became a Student in Mert. Coll. in Lent term 1638 aged 15 years where continuing about three years left the University then with the City about to be garrison'd for the Kings use Some time after the surrender thereof to the Parliament he returned to his College submitted to the Visitors and the same year 1648 he took the degree of M. of Arts. The next year July 24 he was designed the first Architypographus of the University and for his better encouragement in that Office had the grant of the superior Beadleship of the Civil Law when it should fall void given to him and after his death to his Successors in that place for ever In 1650 he was Master of a Boarding-school at Islington near London where continuing for some time did give his assisting hand towards the correcting and publishing of the Polyglott Bible In 1658 he made another return to the University and upon a foresight of the death of him that held the superior Beadleship of Law was elected Architypographus 14 May 1658 and on the 29 of the same month superior Beadle of the Civil Law both which places he kept to his dying day and shew'd himself a most necessary and useful person in the concerns thereof belonging to the University Vir Graecis latinisque literis probe instructus in studiis philologicis versatissimus c. His Works are these Variae lectiones observationes in Chaldaicum Paraphrasin These are in the sixth Vol. of the Polyglott Bible beginning in pag. 17. You are to understand that in this Vol. which consists chiefly of notes on the many versions of the other precedent Volumes there are divers number of pages and therefore I cannot better refer you to his Notes than I have done already Scientia metrica rhythmica seu tractatus de Prosodia Arabica ex authoribus probatiss eruta Oxon. 1661. oct Septimum Bibliorum Polyglott 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen cum versionibus antiquissimis non Chaldaica tantum sed Syriacis Aethiopicis Copticis Arabicis Persicis contextum This is yet in MS and not printed He did also accurately describe and turn into Latine from the original Autographe in Cambridge publick Library Paraphrastes Chaldaeus in lib. Paralipomen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n. Which book Dr. Edm. Castell consulted when he composed his Lexicon Heptaglotton as he tells you in the Preface to the first Vol. of that elaborate work And it is mention'd to be the labour of Mr. Sam. Clarke in the Proposals of the University of Oxon for printing of MS published in Sept. in half a sheet of paper an 1681 Our Author Clarke also took great pains in the Hebrew Text Chaldee Paraphrase and the Persian Gospells in the Polyglott Bible which last he translated into Latine This Translation is placed next after the several Versions of the Apocryphal books There also goes under his name a Translation out of Hebrew into Latine the Mishna of the first Massěceth or Tract of the Talmud called Beracoth i. e. about their prayers and forms of blessing See more in Tho. Greaves an 1676. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the Suburb of Oxon on the 27 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the middle of the body of the Church belonging to the said Parish of Halywell dedicated to the Holy Cross Two days after his death was an election made for his successor in the place of Beadle and Architypographus for which stood Tho. Bennet M. A. of Ch. Ch. then Corrector of the University press being put up by his Dean Dr. Joh. Fell as being the most fit person that could be then thought on But Bennet stirring little in the matter supposing the Masters could not otherwise but choose tho then they had little or no respect for him they elected a boon companion not at all fit to be Archityp named Norton Bold M. A. and Fellow of C. C. Coll. who had been put aside from being elected when he stood after the death of Edm. Gayton mention'd under the year 1666. This being done to the discontent of Dr. Fell as Lichfields Election was after Gayton's death who could not otherwise but look upon it as a great contempt of his generous design he upon a foresight of the short life of the then superior Beadle of Div. Tim. Wilkins obtained a Mandamus that Mr. Bold should be translated to that place and thereby make his once more vacant and so consequently bring his man therein Soon after Wilkins died and a Convocation thereupon being called Oct. 6. an 1671 Bold was translated to that place by virtue of the said Mandamus to his advantage and somewhat of disgrace At that time were Candidates for the supply of that vacancy Mr. Bennet before mention'd Noah
Davenports perswasion Whereupon Best came out with The Churches plea for her right or a reply to an answer c. Amst 1635. qu and soon after our author Davenport with An Apolegetical reply to the answer of W. B. Roterd. 1636. qu. About the same time Davenport who took these matters very ill refused to joyn with the Ministers in their meetings took away many of their disciples such especially that had an esteem for his notable learning and singular parts and preached and prayed to them in private houses In the beginning of the rebellion he returned into England as other Nonconformists did and had a cure bestowed on him but finding matters not to go current with his humour he by the perswasive letters of Mr. John Cotton of New England who was esteemed the misleader of him and John Goodwin went into that Country and became Pastor of Newhaven there where he continued in great esteem with those of his perswasion to the time almost of his death His other writings are these Catechisme containing the chief heads of Christian religion Lond. 1659. oct Published at the desire and for the use of the Church of Christ at Newhaven in New England In this Catechisme one Will. Hook a teacher there had a hand I mean the same Will. Hook who was sometimes Minister of Axmouth in Devonshire author of 1 New Englands tears for old Englands fears c. Print 1640-1 qu. 2 The privileges of the saints on earth above those in heaven Pr. in oct 3 Sermon in New England in behalf of old England Pr. 1645. qu. and other Sermons He died in or near London 21. March 1677. aged 77 years and was committed to the earth in the burial place situated on the north side of the New Attillery-yard or Garden near to the said City See more of him in Jerom Turner an 1655. Several Sermons as 1 The Messiah is already come on Acts 2.36 Lond. 1653. qu. 2 Gods call to his people to turn unto him c. in two Sermons on two publick fasting days in N. England Lond. 1670. qu. 3 Saints Anchor-hold in all Storms and Tempests on Lam. 3.26 Printed 1661 in tw and others among which is his Sermon on 2. Sam. 1.18 Lond. 1629. qu. The power of congregational Churches asserted and vindicated in answer to a treatise of Mr. Jo. Paget entit The defence of Church government exercised in classes and synods Lond. 1672. oct He also had a considerable hand in writing The life of Mr. John Cotton before mention'd published by John Norton Minister of Boston in N. England and had formerly with Dr. Rich. Sibbs published certain works of Dr. John Preston viz. his New Covenants or Saints portion in 14. sermons with four other added an 1629. qu. c. At length he having lived beyond the age of man surrendred up his Soul to God at Boston in New England to which place he had removed from Newhaven in 1668 on the thirteenth day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was inter'd there in the tomb of the said Mr. Cotton for whom in his life time he had an extraordinary respect He left behind him An Exposition on the Canticles contained in an 100 sheets in a small hand-writing Which being esteemed very fit for the press was recommended by Dr. Sam. Anely and Mr. Ed. Veal and accordingly proposals were made for the printing it to be sold for 7. sh in quires in Mich. term an 1687. But soon after the printing of it was stop'd and the merchant who design'd afterwards to publish it died so 't is question'd now whether ever it will see light JOHN MAYNARD esteemed by those of his perswasion an eminent and judicious Divine was born of a gentile family in Sussex at or near Riverfield became a Commoner of Queens Coll. in the beginning of the year 1616 compounded for the degree of Bach. of Arts as a member of that house and afterwards translated himself to Magd. Hall In 1622 he took the degree of Mast of Arts as a Compounder entred into holy Orders and at length became Vicar of Maighfield in his own Country But when the rebellion broke out he shew'd himself more a Puritan and preached with more liberty than he did before whereupon being appointed one of the Ass of Divines he took the Covenant held forth several times before the members of the Long Parliament had other preferments I presume bestowed upon him and in 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Sussex for the ejection of such whom they then called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters His writings are Several Sermons as 1 Sermon preached before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 26 Feb. 1644. on Prov. 23. ver 23. Lond. 1645. qu. 2 A shadow of the victory of Christ Fastâ—serm before the H. of C. 28. Oct. 1646. on Phil. 3.21 Lond. 1646. qu. c. The young mans remembrancer and old mans monitor Lond. 1669 oct The Law of God ratified by the Gospel of Christ or the harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded c. delivered in several sermons Lond. 1674. oct What became of this reverend author after his Majesties restauration I mean whether he conformed or was ejected I know not nor any thing else of him only that about 1670 he became a benefactor to Magd. Hall and that his Library was exposed to sale by way of auction several years after his death 13. June 1687. I find another John Maynard who published a book entit The XII wonders of the world set and composed for the Viol de Gambo the Lute and the voice to sing the verse c. Lond. 1661. fol. But this was no Divine but a most admired Lutenist at the famous School of S. Julians in Hertfordshire Another John Maynard who was an eminent Lawyer I shall mention hereafter under the year 1690. WILLIAM SEDGWICK son of Will. Sedgw. of Lond. Gent. was born in Bedfordshire became a Com. of Pemb. Coll. in Mich. term an 1624 aged 15 years Where being put under the tuition of George Hughes profited more in Div. than Philosophy After he had taken the degrees in Arts he entred into the sacred function and became Rector of Farnham in Essex where he behaved himself conformable to the Ch. of England but upon the turn of the times in 1â—41 he closed with the Presbyterians having before been instructed in their principles by his Tutor put in a Curate into Farnham and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Sir Will. Constable a Parliamentarian Commander the same who was afterwards one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. After the loyal Clergy had been ejected from their Livings he became the chief Preacher of the City of Ely and was commonly called The Apostle of the isle of Ely but what he enjoyed there and elsewhere for several years he lost after his Maj.
years and was buried according to his desire near the west door fast by the Christning pew in S. Pauls Church in Covent Garden within the liberty of Westm but he was no kin to the former Will. Neile because he was of the Neales of Wollaston near Northampton JOSHUA CHILDREY son of Robert Childrey was born within the City of Rochester where being educated in Grammar learning became a Student in Magd. Coll. in Lent term 1640 aged 17 years and about that time was made one of the Clerks of the said house But soon after leaving the University upon the eruption of the civil war he returned to his native Country and came not again till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred for the use of the Parliament at which time taking the degree of Bach. of Arts was two years after that expelled by the Parliamentarian Visitors Afterwards he taught School at Faversham in Kent yet not without some disturbance by the godly party where continuing till his Maj. restoration was made Chaplain to Henry Lord Herbert was actually created D. of D. and had the Rectory of Upway in Dorsetshire bestowed on him In the year 1663 Jan 23 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Anth. Hawles and on the first of June 1664 he was collated to the Prebendship of Yatminster Prima in the Church of Salisbury by Dr. Earle Bishop of that place he being then accounted a learned and religious Divine a good Astrologer and a great Virtuoso His works are Indago Astrologica or a brief and modest inquiry into some principal points of Astrology as it was delivered by the Fathers of it and is now generally received by the Sons of it Lond. 1652. in 2. sh in qu. Syzygiasticon instauratum or an Ephemeris of the places and aspects of the Planets c. calculated for the year 1653. Lond. 1653 oct His chief design is to prove the aspects of the Planets related to the Sun of greater efficacy in the change of the air then when respecting the earth as center c. Britannia Baconica or the natural rarities of England Scotland and Wales According as they are to be found in every Shire Historically related according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon c. with observations upon them and deductions from them c. Lond. 1661. oct From which book Dr. Rob. Plot took a hint for the writing The natural History of Oxfordshire As for the other works of his which are not extant you may be pleased to know from his letter dated at Upway 12. Jul. 1669. written to Mr. Hen. Oldenburg Secretary of the Royal Soâ—ciety concerning some observations of the weather philosophical collections Portland and Purbeck stones serving for fewel shifting of tydes at Weymouth c. thus In my next God willing I shall send you part of my collections of Naturalls out of voyages and itineraries In the mean time take this brief account of my studies so far as concerns Philosophy Some two years before the happy return of the King I bought me as many paper books of about 16 sheets apiece as my Lord Verulam Bacon had Histories at the end of his Novum Organon Into which books being noted with the figure and title given them by my Lord I entred all Philosophical matters that I met with observable in my reading and intend God willing to continue it This I acquaint you with to let you see how earnest and serious I have been for several years in that which is the business of the Royal Society tho indeed I first fell in love with the Lord Bacons philosophy in the year 1646 and tried several experiments though such as I now reckon be not of any moment in 1647. 48. 49. 50 and besides these I have two larger paper books in folio one of which I call Chronologia naturalis and the other Geographia naturalis the former containing the time of all droughts comets earthquakes c. and the other the natural rarities of Countries These paper books cannot be expected to be yet full and God knows whether I shall live to see them filled But God willing such and so as they are I intend to bequeath them to the Royal Society whensoever I die c. He concluded his last day at Upway before mention'd having never been of the said Society on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In the latter end of Sept. following succeeded him in his Archdeaconry John Sherman Doct. of Div. of Camb. who dying in the parish of S. Sepulchre in London after a short injoyment of that Dignity viz. in the latter end of the year in March 1670 was succeeded in the beginning of May following by John Prideaux D. D. as I shall elsewhere tell you Besides this John Sherman was another of both his names but before him in time educated in Gramar learning in the Charter-house School in Academical in Trin. Coll. in Camb. where he arrived to great eminence in several sorts of literature He wrot a book entit White salt or a sober correction of a mad world in some well wishes to goodness Lond. 1654. oct and another called The infallibility of the holy Scripture asserted c. Lond. 1664. qu. c. This learned religious and conscientious Person died in Aug. as it seems an 1663. EDWARD FORD the eldest Son of Sir John Ford Knight was born at Uppark in the parish of Harting in Sussex became a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1621 aged 16 years but before he took a degree he left that House and whether afterwards he travelled or studied in the Inns of Court I know not Sure it is that about the beginning of the Civil War he was prick'd High Sherriff for Sussex adheer'd to the King at Oxon from whom he received the honour of Knighthood there 4. Oct. 1643 and about that time had a commission to be a Colonel in his Army against the Rebels for which afterwards he suffered equally with other Royalists In Nov. 1647 when the King made his escape from Hampton Court he with Dr. Steph. Goffe were committed to safe custody as being suspected for the design of the Kings escape In 1656 he upon Olivers encouragement and invitation of the chief Citizens of London raised the Thames water into all the highest streets of that City ninety three foot high in four eight-inch pipes to the wonder of all and honor of the nation done at his own charge and in one years time with his rare engine that he had invented for that purpose by which several parts of the nation did afterwards find benefit in the draining of Mines and Lands much better and cheaper than any other device before 'T was he also that made the great water Engine against Somersethouse for the serving the Inhabitants of the Strand and of other parts adjoyning with water which hindring the
Ril of Radbrook in Glocestershire was born at Over-Quinton in that County educated in Grammar learning at Stratford upon Avon in Warwicksh under John Trapp became a Student in Magd. Hall in 1633 aged 14 and soon after of Magd. Coll where taking the degrees in Arts became perpetual Fellow of that House in 1641. Afterwards he submittted to the parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 was made Archdeacon of Coventry by Dr. Frewen B. of Lichfield on the death of Dr. Jo. Arnway Rector of Bilton by Tho. Boughton Esq an 1660 and of Birmingham both in Warwicksh by Sir Sam. Marrow 1665. He hath written and published Several Sermons viz. 1 Dooms-day book opened an Assize Serm at Warwick on Rev. 20.12 Lond. 1660. qu. 2 Elias the second his coming to restore all things on Isay 1.26 Oxon 1662. qu. 3 Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of the two contending brethren on Acts 7. 26. Oxon. 1662. qu. 4 Confirmation reviv'd on Psal 1.3 Lond. 1663. qu. 'T is a Visitation Sermon and 't was preached at Coventry before Dr. Hacket B. of Lich. and Cov. He died on the third day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Birmingham before mention'd Over his grave was a marble table fixed soon after to the wall with this inscription Engraven thereon M. S. Johannis Riland nèc non chariss conjugis Ciciliae filiolae unicae Mariae Coventriae Archidiaconi Parochiae hujus Ministri simul ornamenti Qui Atheos pariter Fanaticos quicquid deprivati moris fidei scelerosa aetas non tantum scriptis sermonibus utrisque licet nervosè sed constanti indeflexo vitae inculpatae decursu castigavit Post absoluta Oxoniae juventutis tyrocinia in Coll. Magdal ubi non dudum commoratus est quin socius cooptatus post vitam variisque locis plagis injuriâ temporum peractam hic tandem consedit hic moriebatur 3 o Martii anno Salutis 1672 aetatis 53. RICHARD BRATHWAYTE second son of Tho. Brath of Warcop near Appleby in Westmorland Son and heir of Thom. Brathw of Barnside son of Richard Br. of Ambleside in the Barony of Kendall became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. an 1604 aged 16 at which time he was matriculated as a Gentlemans son and a Native of the County of Northumberland While he continued in that House which was at least three years he avoided as much as he could the rough pathes of Logic and Philosophy and traced those smooth ones of Poetry and Roman History in which at length he did excell Afterwards he removed to Cambridge as it seems where also he spent some time for the sake of dead and living authors and then receeding to the north parts of England his father bestowed on him Barnside before mention'd where living many years he became Captain of a Foot-Company in the Trained-bands a Deputy-Lieutenant in the County of Westmorland a Justice of peace and a noted wit and poet He wrot and published several books in English consisting of Prose and Poetry highly commended in the age wherein published but since slighted and despised as frivolous matters and only to be taken into the hands of Novices The titles of them are these Golden-Fleece with other poems Lond. 1611. oct The Poets willow or the passionate Shepheard with sundry delightful and no less passionate sonnets describing the passions of a discontented and perplexed Lover Lond. 1614. oct Written in Lyrick and Anacreontick measures Annotations upon some of the Sonnets before mention'd These are printed at the end of The Poets Willow The Prodigall's teares or his farewell to vanity a treatise of Soveraigne cordialls c. Lond. 1614 oct The Schollers Medley or an intermixt discourse upon historical and poetical relations c. Pr. 1614. qu. Essayes upon the five senses Lond. 1620. oct there again 1635. in tw Natures Embassie or the wild-mans measures danced naked by 12 Satyres Lond. 1621. oct Divine and moral essayes Printed with Natures Embassie c. The Shephards tales Printed with Natures Embassie c. Omphale or the inconstant Shepheardess Printed with Natures Embassie c. Odes or Philomel's teares Printed with Natures Embassie c. Times curtaine drawne divers poems Lond. 1621. oct The English Gentleman containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations tending to direction of every Gentleman of selecter rank and quality how to demean or accommodate himself in the manage of publick or private affaires Lond. 1630. and 33. qu. There again with enlargments 1641. fol. The English Gentlewoman containing c. Lond. 1631. 33. qu. There again with enlargments 1641. fol. Discourse of detraction Lond. 1635. in tw Chistian resolves and divine contemplations Pr. with the Disc of detract The Arcadian princess or the triumph of Justice Lond. 1635. oct Survey of History or a Nursery for Gentry A discourse historical and poetical c. Lond. 1638. qu. Pr. again in 1652. qu. being then I think epitomized A spiritual spicery containing sundry sweet tractates of devotion and piety Lond. 1638. in tw With which was printed a translation of A christian diall by which he is directed how he is to dispose of his houres while he is living c. written by Joh. Justus Lanspergius a Carthusian who died 1539. Mercurius Britanicus or the English Intelligencer Tra. Com. Printed the second time 1641. qu. Times treasury or Academy for the accomplishment of the Englâ—sh Gentry in arguments of discourse habit fashion behaviour c. all summed up in Characters of honour Lond. 1655. 56. qu. Congratulatory poem to his Majestie upon his happy arrivall in our late discomposed Albion Lond 1660. in 2. sh in qu. Tragicemedia cui titulum inscribitur Regicidium perspicacissimis judiciis accuratius perspecta pensata comprobata Lond. 1665. or thereabouts What other things he hath written and published I know not nor any thing else of him only that in his latter days he removed upon an employment or rather a second Marlinge to Appleton near Richmond in Yorkshire where dying on the fourth day of May in sixteen hundred seventy and three was buried in the Parish Church of Catherick near that place leaving them behind the character of a well bread Gentleman and a good Neighbour WILLIAM LACEY was born in a Market Town in Yorkshire called Scarborough became a Student in this University in Magd. Hall as he used to say in 1600 aged 16 years or thereabouts but whether in the condition of a Batler or Servitor I know not nor what continuance he made there After he had left the University without the taking of any degree he retired for a time to his native Country and thence by the perswasion of a certain person to the English Coll. at Rome where a little after his arrival Father Persons the Rector thereof gave up the Ghost Thence he went to Nancy in Loraine where he entred himself into the Society of Jesus an 1611 at which time
he bound himself by oath to observe the four vows Afterwards he taught Humanity for some years at S. Omers or was as a certain author tells us Reader of Poetry and Master of the Syntax an 1622. About that time being sent on the mission into England he setled in the City of Oxon. where and in the Neighbourhood he administred to the R. C. till towards the latter end of his life He lived many years in a poor cottage without the east gate of that City standing on the site of the habitation sometimes belonging to the brethren of the Holy Trinity In the said cottage did then live two Ro. Cath. Virgins of mean condition named Mary and Joan Meakyns who from their Childhood had dedicated themselves to piety and good works always lived singly and arrived both of them beyond the age of man These two antiquated Virgins were owners of the cottage and did very carefully attend this Father and took as much care of him as if he had been their own Father or Brother His fare was course his drink of a penny a gawn or gallon his bed was under thatching and the way to it was up a ladder With these two I say he lived in a most retir'd and devout condition till God was pleased to translate them to a better place and then the Father was removed to the Dolphin Inn in Magd. Parish in the suburb of Oxon the Hostes of which was one of his perswasion where he ended his days He was esteemed by all especially by those of his opinion a learned Man well vers'd in the Poets of a quiet disposition and gentile behaviour which made him therefore respected and his company to be desired by certain Scholars of the University especially by Tho. Masters and other ingenious men of New Coll. But this their civility to and esteem of him was not while the Presbyterians governed who made it a most dreadful and damnable thing to be seen in the company of Papists especially of Romish Priests but before the rebellion broke forth upon their account when then the Men of the Church of England had a respect for Papists as they now have for Presbyterians The things that this Father hath written are The judgment of an University man concerning Mr. Will. Chillingworth his late Pamphlet in answer to charity maintained Printed 1639. qu. Reprinted at Camb. in 1653 in oct in a preface to a book then and there published The character that Edw. Knot the Jesuit gives of this book is that it is a witty erudite and solid work Heantomachia Mr. Chillingworth against himself The total sum These two are printed at the end of The Judgment c. At length this Father Lacey who had lived to be twice a child died in the Dolphin Inn before mention'd on the seventeenth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and three aged 89 years and two days after his body being carried to Somerton near Dedington in Oxfordshire to which place he usually retired was buried in the Church there noted for the splendid monuments of the Fermours Lords of that Town and Roman Catholicks From the same family of this Will. Lacey was descended John Lacey the Comedian born near Doncaster in Yorks originally an apprentice to John Ogilby a Dancing master afterwards one of the best and most applauded of our English actors belonging to the Kings Play-house and from an Actor to be Author of these Comedies 1 The Old Troop or Monsieur Raggou Lond. 1672. qu. 2 The dumb Lady or the Farrier made Physitian Lond. 1672. qu. 3 Sir Hercules Buffoon or the poetical Squire Lond. 1684. qu. This Person who was of a rare shape of body and good complexion and had served his Majesty in the time of the rebellion in the quality of a Lieutenant and Quarter-master under Coll. Charles Gerard afterwards Earl of Macclesfield died on the 17. of Sept. 1681 and was two days after buried in the farther Church-yard of S. Martin in the Fields I mean in that yard on the other side of S. Martins-lane within the liberty of Westminster His Maj. Ch. 2. who had a great respect for caused several pictures of him to be drawn according to several postures which he acted in several parts and do now or else did lately remain at Windsore and Hampton Court JOHN THEYER was born of gentile Parents at Cowpers-hill in the Parish of Brockworth near to and in the County of Glocester began to be conversant with the Muses in Magd. Coll. an 1613 aged 16 years or thereabouts where continuing about three years partly under the tuition of John Harmur retired to an Inn of Chancery in London called New Inn where spending as many years in obtaining knowledge in the Common Law he receeded to his patrimony and as years grew on gave himself up mostly to the study of venerable antiquity and to the obtaining of the antient monuments thereof Manuscripts in which he did so much abound that no private Gentleman of his rank and quality did ever I think exceed him He was a bookish and studious Man a lover of learning and the adorers thereof a zealous Royallist and one that had suffer'd much in the rebellion that began 1642 for the Kings and Churches cause He hath written Aerio-Mastix or a vindication of the Apostolical and generally received government of the Church of Christ by Bishops against the scismatical Aerians of our time Wherein is evidently demonstrated that Bishops are jure divino c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Dedicated to King Ch. 1. who afterwards made use of it in his Writings to Alexander Henderson a Presbyterian Scot who died at Edenburg 31. Aug. 1646 of grief as some then said because he could not perswade the said King to sign the propositions for peace which the members of Parliament sent to him at Newcastle by their Commissioners to treat with him for that purpose In the same year 1643 our author Theyer was adorned with the degree of Master of Arts Ob merita sua in Rempub. literariam ecclesiam by virtue of the Kings Letters sent to the Vicechanc and Convocation dat 6. July the same year About which time he the said Theyer being discovered to be a man of parts was perswaded to embrace the Rom. Catholick Religion by Father Philipps a Scot confessor to Henrietta Maria the Queen Consort He hath also written A friendly debate between the Protestants and the Papists MS. But before it was quite fitted for the Press the author died and what became of it afterwards I know not His death hapned at Cowpers hill on the 25 of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and two days after was buried among his Ancestors in the Church yard at Brockworth before mention'd particularly near to the grave of his Grandfather ... Theyer who had married the Sister of one Hart the last Prior of Langthony near Glocester He then left behind him a Library of antient Manuscripts consisting of the number
of about 800 which he himself had for the most part collected The foundation of it was laid by his Grandfather who had them from Prior Hart and he from the library of Langthony when it was dissolved besides houshold stuff belonging to that Priory Afterwards Charles Theyer Grandson to our author John Theyer who in his last will had bequeathed them to him did offer to sell them to the University of Oxon but the price being too great they were sold to Robert Scot of London Bookseller who soon after sold them to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. to be reposed in his library at S. James he having first as I have been informed cull'd them ROWLAND STEDMAN was born at Corfton in the Parish of Didlebury in Shropshire 1630 admitted Communer of Ball. Coll. 13. Mar. 1647 and the year following removed to Univ. Coll. In 1655 he was admitted Master of Arts and soon after became Minister of Hanwell near Brentford in Middlesex where continuing till 1660 he removed to Okingham or Wokingham in Berks and thence two years after was ejected for Nonconformity Afterwards he was entertained in the condition of a Chaplain by Philip Lord Wharton in whose service he died He hath written The mystical Union of believers with Christ or a treatise wherein the great mysterie and priviledg of the Saints Union with the Son of God is opened c. Lond. 1668. oct Sober Singularity or an antidote against infection by the example of a multitude being practical meditations on Exod. 23.2 c. Lond. 1668. oct He died at Ubourne or Wobourne where the Lord Wharton hath a Seat near to Beaconsfield in Bucks on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried two days after in the Church there leaving then behind him the character of a zealous Nonconformist GEORGE CASTLE son of John Castle sometimes Doctor of Physick of this University was born in the County of Middlesex in London as it seems educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire while Dr. Will. Burt was the Master admitted a Communer of Ball. Coll. 8. Apr. 1652 aged 17 years or thereabouts elected Probationer Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1655 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he applied his Studies to Medicine with the help of his Fathers notes took the degrees in that faculty that of Doctor being compleated in the year 1665 being about that time a member of the Royal Society and a Candidate as it seems of the Coll. of Physitians He hath written The Chymical Galenist A treatise wherein the practice of the Ancients is reconciled to the new discoveries in the Theory of Physick c. Lond. 1667. oct Reflections on a book intit Medela Medicinae Printed with the former book Afterwards by the favour of his intimate and dear friend Martin Clifford Master of Suttons Hospital alias the Charter-house he became Physitian there and practised his faculty with good success But giving himself the liberty of too frequent indulgments either to please his friend or patient or both was taken away by death in the prime of his years on the twelfth day of Octob. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was I suppose buried in the Chap. belonging to the said Hospital By the way I must tell you that the said Mart. Clifford had been educated in Westminster School and thence elected into Trin. Coll. in Cambridge an 1640 where he arrived to good learning and might have been eminent had not the Wars hindred his progress He was the author of A treatise of humane reason Lond. 1675 in 4. sh in tw Which book being made publick in Aug. 1674 it hapned that Dr. B. Laney Bishop of Ely dined with many persons of quality in Octob. following in the Charterhouse and whether he then knew that Mart. Clifford the Master was author of it is uncertain However he being then asked what he thought of that book answer'd that 't was no matter if all the copies were burnt and the author with them knowing by what he had read in the book that the author makes every mans private fancy judge of religion which the Rom. Catholicks have for these 100 years cast upon protestantisme In Decemb. following were published Observations upon a treat intit Of hum reason Lond. 1675. in 3. sh in tw commonly reported then to be written by the same hand and soon after another thing intit Plain dealing or a full and particular examination of a late treatise intit Humane reason Lond. 1675 in 7. sh in tw said in the title to be written by A. M. a Country Gentleman Whereupon came out a reply called An Apology for the discourse of humane reason c. Lond. 1680 in 7. sh in tw with a Review of and an appendix to it written by Alb. Warren who at the end of all hath added Cliffords Epitaph and just character to which I refer the reader This Mr. Clifford died on the 10. of Decemb. or thereabouts an 1677 and was buried in the Chap. belonging to Suttons Hospital Soon after was elected into his place of Master of that Hospital William Erskyne Esq a member of the Royal Society Cupbearer to his Majesty and a younger Son of John Earl of Marr. THOMAS WHARTON was descended from the antient and gentile family of his name living in Yorkshire educated in Pemb. Hall in Cambridge retired to Trin. Coll. in Oxon. before the Civil Wars broke out being then Tutor or Governour to John Scrope the natural and only Son of Emanuel Earl of Sunderland whom he begat on the body of his servant-maid named Martha Jeanes Daughter of John Jeanes a Taylor living sometimes in the Parish of Turfield near to Great Wycomb in Bucks When the rebellion began our author Wharton left the Univ. and retired to London where he practised Physick under Dr. John Bathurst a noted Physitian of that place After Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament in 1646 he retired to Trin. Coll. again and as a member thereof was actually created Doctor of Physick in the beginning of the year 1647 by virtue of the letters of Sir Thomas Fairfax Generalissimo of the Parliament Army Afterwards he retired to London was admitted a Candidate of the Coll of Physitians the same year Fellow thereof an 1650 and for 5. or 6. years was chosen Censor of the said Coll he being then a person of eminent esteem and practice in the City He hath written Adenographia seu descriptio Glandularum totius corporis Lond. 1656. oct Amstel 1659. oct In which book he hath given a more accurate description of the Glands of the whole body than was formerly done And whereas authors have ascribed to them very mean uses as supporting the divisions by vessels or imbibing the superfluous humidities of the body he assigns them more noble and considerable uses as the preparation and depuration of the Succus nutritius with several
other uses belonging to different Glands as well for conservation of the individual as propagation of the species Amongst other things we ought particularly to take notice of his being the first who discovered the Ductus in the Glandulae Maxillares by which the Saliva is conveyed into the mouth He hath also given an admirable account of morbid Glands and their differences and particularly of Strumae and Scrophulae how new Glands are often generated as likewise of the several diseases of the Glands of the Mesentery Pancreas c. Which opinions of his he often illustrates by Anatomical observations What else he hath written I find not nor any thing besides of him only that he dying in his house in Aldersgate-street in the month of October in sixteen hundred seventy and three was as I suppose buried in the Church of S. Bottolph situat and being without Aldersgate in London GEORGE SWINNOCK was born in the antient Borough of Maidstone in Kent an 1627 brought up religiously when a Child in the family of Rob. Swinnock a most zealous Puritan of that Town educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts went to Oxon to get preferment in the latter end of 1647 at which time he entred himself a Communer of Magd. Hall Soon after he became one of the Chaplains of New Coll and on the sixth day of Octob. following 1648 he was made Fellow of Ball. Coll by the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament In 1650 he became Vicar of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire and thereupon resigning his Fellowship on the 24 of Nov. the same year took the degree of Master of Arts six days after In 1660 or thereabouts he was made Vicar of Great Kimbel in Bucks and in Aug. 1662 being ejected tor nonconformity he was received into the family of Rich. Hamden of Great Hamden in the said County of Bucks Esquire and continued with him for some time in the quality of a Chaplain At length upon the issuing out of his Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience in the latter end of the year 1671 he retired to his native place where he continued in preaching and praying among the Godly till the time of his death His works are these The dore of Salvation opened by the key of regeneration or a Treatise containing the nature necessity marks and means of regeneration Lond. 1660. c. in oct and in qu. commended to the Readers by the Epistles of Edw. Reynolds D. D Tho. Watson of S. Stephens Walbroke in Lond. and Mr. Rich. Baxter written in Jan. 1659. This book was printed the third time at Lond. 1671. oct The Christian mans calling or a treatise of making Religion ones business wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered c. Lond. 1661. c. qu. The second part of this book which directeth Parents Children Husbands Wives Masters Servants in prosperity and adversity to do their duties was printed at Lond. 1663 c. qu. and the third part there in 1665 c. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The Pastors farewell and wish of welfare to his people or a valedictory Serm. on Acts 20.32 Lond. 1662. qu. It was preached as it seems at Gr. Kimbell before mention'd 2 The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith or one cast for eternity c. Funeral sermon on Mr. Caleb Swinnock of Maidstone on Psal 73.26 Lond. 1662. qu. To which is added by the said Author The gracious persons incomparable portion 3 Men are Gods Gods are Men two Assize sermons These I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you the Texts Heaven and Hell epitomized the true Christian characterized as also an exhortation with motives to be speedy about the work of Conversion Lond. 1663. qu. The beauty of Magistracy in an exposition of the 82 Psal wherein is set forth the necessity utility dignity duty and morality of Magistrates Lond. 1660. c. qu. Assisted therein by Tho. Hall of whom I have spoken under the year 1665. p. 235. Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being attributes works and word opened and applied Lond. 1672. oct The Sinners last sentence to eternal punishment for sins of omission wherein is discovered the nature causes and cure of those sins Lond. 1675 and 79. oct What other things this Mr. Swinnock who was accounted an eminent Preacher among those of his perswasion hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died on the tenth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried in the Church at Maidstone before mention'd In that most virulent and diabolical Pamphlet called Mirabilis annus secundus is a story of one Mr. Swinnock a Minister in S. Martins lane near Canon street in London sometimes Chaplain to one of the Sheriffs of that City who for his Conformity to the Ch. of England and for wearing a Surplice which he began to do on the 21 of Sept. 1662 after he had often said among the brethren he would rather burn than conform c. as the Author of the said Mirab. an saith it pleased the Lord as he further adds to strike him with sickness which proved a violent burning feaver whereof within a few days after before another Lords day came about he died c. Who this Mr. Swinnock was I cannot tell neither doth the Author set down his Christian Name otherwise we might have said something more of him and something to the disproof of that most vile Author THOMAS BROWNE was born in the County of Middlesex elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1620 aged sixteen years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1627 made Proctor of the University in 1636 and the year after domestick Chaplain to Archbishop Laud and Bach. of Divinity Soon after he became Rector of S. Mary the Great called Aldermary in London Canon of Windsore in 1639 and Rector of Oddington in Oxfordshire But upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he being forced from his Church in London by the impetuous Presbyterians he retired to his Majesty to whom he was Chaplain at Oxford By virtue of whose letters he was actually created Doct. of Div. in Feb. 1642 having then only the profits of Oddington coming in to maintain him Afterwards he lost all for his Loyalty lived partly beyond the Seas in the condition of Chaplain to Mary Princess of Orange at which time he became acquainted with divers learned men in Holland and suffered equally as other generous Royalists did After the return of his Majesty he was restored to what he had lost kept some of his Spiritualities especially Windsore to the time of his death without any other promotion in the Church He hath written and published A copy of the Sermon preached before the University at S. Maries in Oxon. 24 Dec. 1633 on Psal 130.4 Oxon. 1634. qu. I have seen a Serm. of his on Joh. 11.4 preached before his Parishiones
having received a call he went to New England where he finished his course This Person was composed of a strange hodg-podg of opinions not easily to be described was of a roving and rambling head spent much and I think died but in a mean condition And tho he was a great pretender to Saintship and had vowed an eternal love to his Wife before mention'd who died 22. Apr. 1655 yet before he had remained a Widower an year he married a religious Virgin named Frances the only Daughter of Hezekiah Woodward the scismatical Vicar of Bray near Windsore who dying also in the first year of her Marriage in Childbed I think aged 25 years he took soon after as I have been told a third Wife according to the fleshly custom of the Saints of that time He hath written A double Watchword or the duty of watching and watching to duty both echoed from Revel 16.5 and Jer. 50.4.5 Lond. 1661. oct and perhaps other things He died at Boston in New England in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried there In the Church or Chappel belonging to Eaton Coll. was a monument with a large canting inscription set up by this D. Oxenbridge for his first Wife Jane Butler wherein 't is said that while he preached abroad she would preach and hold forth in the House But the said inscript or Epitaph giving great offence to the Royallists at the restauration of K. Ch. 2 they caused it to be daub'd or covered over with paint There was also a Monument and Inscription set up for his second Wife the contents of which and the other I have but this last is not defaced JONATHAN GODDARD son of Henry Goddard a Ship-carpenter of Deptford was born at Greenwich in Kent became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 15 years where continuing till he was standing for the degree of Bach. of Arts he then left that House and went as I presume beyond the Seas On the 20 of Jan. 1642 he was created Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Cambridge at which time he was a practitioner of that faculty in London afterwards in the Army raised by the Parliament and at length to Oliver Cromwell with whom he went as his great confident into Ireland and into Scotland after the murder of K. Ch. 1. In 1651 he by the said Olivers power became Warden of Mert. Coll. and in January the same year he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University Afterwards he was elected Burgess for the University to serve in the Little Parliament an 1653 and made one of the Council of State in the same year About that time he became Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London afterwards of the Royal Society and Professor of Physick in Gresham Coll. When he was ejected his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. which was in 1660 he lived mostly in that of Gresham where being an admirable Chymist he had a Laboratory to prepare all Medicines that he used on his Patients besides what he operated for his own satisfaction He was also a zealous member of the Royal Society for the improvement of natural knowledg among them and when any curious experiment was to be done they made him their Drudg till they could obtain to the bottom of it He hath written A discourse concerning Physick and the many abuses thereof by the Apothecaries Lond. 1668. oct An account of which is in the Philosophical transactions num 41. He is said to have written of this matter of the Abuse of Physick more warily and with greater prudence than Christ Merret Discourse setting forth the unhappy condition of the practice of Physick in London c. Lond. 166. qu. Proposal for making wine See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Experiments of the Stone called Oculus mundi See in the Hist of the Royal Soc. Pr. 1667. p. 143.230 Some observations of a Camelion See in the Philosophical Transactions nu 137. p. 930. c. Experiments of refining gold with Antimony See there also nu 139. p. 953. c. And left behind him at his death Lectures read at Chirurgeons Hall and other matters in 2 vol. in qu. fit as 't is said for the press He had also laying by him at his death Arcana medicinalia Published at the end of the second Edit of Pharmacopoeia Bateana by Ja. Shipton an Apothecary Lond. 1691. oct He died suddenly of an apoplexy at the end of Woodstreet in Cheapside in his going home from the Crown Tavern in Bloomsbury where a club of Virtuosi sometimes met to his Lodgings in Gresham Coll. about eleven of the clock in the night of the 24. of Mar. in sixteen hundred seventy and four and was the third day after buried in the middle of the Chancel of Great S. Helens Church in London He was Master of a most curious Library of books well and richly bound which he intended to bestow on the Library belonging to the Royal Society but he dying intestate it came into the hands of the next Heir viz. his Sisters Son a Scholar of Caies Coll. in Cambridge I find an excellent character of this our author Dr. Goddard given by Dr. Seth Ward in his Epist dedic before Praelectio de Cometis inquisit in Bullialdi Astronom Philolaicae fundamenta and in the Epist ded before Delphi Phoenicizantes c. published by Edmund Dickenson of Mert. Coll. To both which I refer the reader if he be curious to know farther of him RICHARD SMITH the Son of a Clergy man named Richard Smith a Native of Abendon by Martha his Wife Daughter of Paul Darrel or Dayrell of Lillingston Darrel in Bucks Esq Son of Richard Son of another Ric. Smith of Abendon in Berks. sometimes Gent. Usher to Qu. Elizabeth was born at Lillingston Darrel before mention'd an 1590 and after the beginning of the raign of King James 1. was sent to the Univ. of Oxon where his stay being short he was not matriculated and therefore I cannot positively tell you of what Coll. or Hall he was a member Thence he was taken away by his Parents and put a Clerk to an Attorney belonging to the City of London but his mind hanging after learning he spent all the time he could obtain from his employment in Books At riper years he became Secondary of the Poultry Compter within the City of London a place of good reputation and profit being in his time worth about 700 l. per an which he executed many years but upon the death of his Son an 1655 begotten on the body of his Wife Elizab. Daughter of George Deane of Stepney to whom he intended to resign his place he immediatly sold it and betook himself wholly to a private life two thirds of which at least he spent in his Library He was a person infinitely curious in and inquisitive after books and suffered nothing considerable to escape him that fell within the compass of
his learning desiring to be Master of no more than he knew how to use He was constantly known every day to walk his rounds among the Booksellers shops especially in Little Britaine in London and by his great skill and experience he made choice of such books that were not obvious to every mans eye He lived in times which ministred peculiar opportunities of meeting with books that were not every day brought into publick light And few eminent Libraries were bought where he had not the liberty to pick and choose Hence arose as that vast number of books so the choiceness and rarity of the greatest part of them and that of all kinds and in all sorts of learning especially in History of which he had the most considerable Writers of all ages and nations antient and modern especially of our own and the neighbouring nations of which as 't was thought there was scarce any thing wanting that was extant He was also a great collector of Mss whether antient or modern that were not extant and delighted much to be poring on them He collected also abundance of pamphlets published at and before the time of reformation of religion relating to Ecclesiastical affairs and it was supposed that the copies of some of them were not then extant in the World and therefore esteemed as choice as Mss Among the books relating to history were his collection of Lives the Elogia of illustrious men the authors who have written the lives and characters of Writers and such who have writ of the foundations of Monasteries Nor was he the owner of this choice treasure of books as an idle possessor or did he barely turn over the leaves but was a constant peruser of and upon his buying did generally collate them observed the defects of impressions the all arts used by many and compared the differences of editions concerning which and the like cases he with great diligence and industry entred many memorable and very useful remarks and observations upon very many of his books under his own hand He hath written Letter to Dr. Hen. Hammond concerning the sense of that article in the Creed He descended into Hell Dated from his house in Little Moorfields near London where he mostly lived after he had buried his Son in Apr. 1659. Which Letter being answer'd by Dr. Hammond in the same month were both afterwards published an 1684. See more in Dr. Hammond under the year 16â—0 p. 161. This I think is all that R. Smith hath extant Those things that are not are these Observations on the three grand Impostors Exposition on these words used in the form of Marriage with my body I thee worship Written in qu. Collection of expositions of Baptisme for the dead Wr. in qu. Collection of several expositions and opinions of Christs descent into hell See more in Dr. Hammond before mentioned Miscellaneous tracts chiefly Theological Collection of Arms belonging to the name of Smith in colours MS. in oct Vita S. Simonis Stock Angli Carmelitae Collected from the Writings and Mss of John Bale Life of Hugh Broughton and Cat. of his works He also translated from Latin into English 1 The fifth book of Histories of Corn. Tacitus 2 The order of receiving the new Bishop after his consecration before he enter into the Cathedral Church of Salisbury taken out of an old Ms ritual belonging to that Church and from French into English Bosquires Sermon before the company of Shoomakers in France an 1614. on the Festival of S. Crispin and Crispiana Besides these and others of his writing and translations he made ten thousand instances or remarks with his own hand either of authors in or before the title or in the margin of their works This Mr. Rich. Smith who was a man of an excellent temper great justice c. died 26. March in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Church of S. Giles near to Cripplegate in London Soon after was a marble monument erected over his grave for him his Wife and Children with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by Afterwards there was a design to buy his choice Library for a publick use by a collection of moneys to be raised among generous persons but the work being publick and therefore but little forwarded it came into the hands of Richard Chiswell a Bookseller living in S. Pauls Ch. yard London who printing a catalogue of with others added to them which came out after Mr. Smiths death they were exposed to sale by way of Auction to the great reluctancy of publick spirited men in May and June 1682. HEZEKIAH WOODWARD the youngest of the nine Children of his Father was born in Worcestershire and after he had spent six years or more in a Grammar school was sent to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1608 and setled in Ball. Coll. where being put under a careful Tutor took a degree in Arts in the latter end of the year 1611. Afterwards he retired to London taught school there several years and was esteemed eminent in his profession but having been always puritanically affected he sided with the Presbyterians upon the change of the times in 1641 was a great Zealot and frequent Preacher among them either at S. Mary in Aldermanbury or near it Afterwards he took the Covenant and shewed the use and necessity of it in his discourse and preachings but soon after when he saw the Independents and other factious people to be dominant he became one of them and not unknown to Oliver who having quartered more than an year in the Vicaridge-house at Bray near Maydenhead in Berks during the time of the Rebellion in which time he had opportunity to know the Parish to be very large being a whole Hundred of it self he sent afterwards thither our Author Woodward being then his Chaplain or at least Favourite under the notion of doing some eminent good to that great place and to take care of it and the souls therein This was about the year 1649 at which time one Mr. Brice the then Vicar left it and was afterwards Minister of Henley in Oxfordshire Here he continued ten years or more and had the good opinion of the rabble and factious people but of others of sense and judgment not He was always very invective in his sermons which by the sober party were accounted dull against the King his Followers whom he call'd Malignants the Church of England her Rites Ceremonies and all Forms of Worship and it is commonly now reported among the Inhabitants of Bray that he wrot a book against the Lords Prayer which was answer'd by Brice before mention'd He was also an eager man and spent much time in preaching against observation of times and days as Christmas Easter c. against May-poles Morices Dancing c. He had a select Congregation out of his Parish of those that were to be saved who frequently met to pray in the Vicaridge-house which if he had
restauration he lived in and near London a Nonconformist to his dying day being in high value for his edifying preaching among the Brethren in Conventicles Under his name are published Several sermons as 1 How we must govern our tongues on Ephes 4.29 'T is in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. and 76. qu. 2 Purgatory a groundless and dangerous doctrine on 1. Cor. 3.15 'T is the 24 sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. c. His Legacy being a discourse of the perfect man Lond. 1679. in a small oct 'T is grounded on Psal 37.37 At length this zealous person having preached twice to his congregation on the Lords day being then the 30. of January and finished his work departed this life in the night of the same day and went to his rest in the 41 year of his age in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body was buried towards the West end of Tindals Cemetery commonly called the Fanatical burial place joyning to the New Artillery Yard or Garden near London Over his grave was soon after erected an Altar-monument of white stone built on a brick foundation with this inscription engraven thereon The Saint whose dust this stone doth hide Sung Epicedium first then dy'd His life he spent lost man to save And yet 's not silent in the grave Reader no more but underneath he lies Who whilst he liv'd th' world had one good one wise EDWARD TURNOUR son of Arthur Turnour of Little Parendon in Essex Serjeant at Law was born in Essex educated in Grammar learning partly under a private Tutor but chiefly in the Free-school at Abendon in Berks. under Dr. Tho. Godwin the famous Schoolmaster there became a Gent. Com. of Queens Coll. in Mich. term 1632 aged 15 years where spending about 10 terms in Logicals and Philosophicals he afterwards retired to the Middle Temple applied himself severely to the studies of the Municipal Laws and took the usual degrees belonging thereunto After his Majesties restauration he became Attorney to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood was elected Speaker for the Parliament that began at Westminster 8. May 1661 afterwards made Solicitor Gen. to his Majesty Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer 1671 and the same year Serjeant at Law Under his name were printed Several speeches as 1 Sp. to the House of Commons when they chose him Speaker 8. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in one sh in fol. 2 Sp. to his Maj. when he was presented to him by the House of Com. to be their Speaker 10. May 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. sh in fol. 3 Sp. after the L. Chanc. had declared the Kings approbation of the choice of the H. of C. Lond. 1661. in 2. sh in fol. 4 Sp. to the King at the passing of the bill for confirmation of the Act of oblivion 8. July 1661. Lond. 1661. in 1. or 2. sh in fol. 5 Sp. to the K. at the adjournment of the Parl. 30. July 1661. Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh in fol. 6 Sp. upon the Parliaments adjournment 20. Dec. 1661 Ibid. 1661. in 2. sh fol. In which Speech as 't is said he compared the restitution of our monarchy to the return of the tide after a very low ebb at which very time there hapned at London-bridge a very strange double tide which by the troublesome and factious party was looked upon as a prodigie 7 Sp. upon the Commons reasons and address presented to hiâ— Maj. 28. Feb. 1662. As also his report of the substance of his Majest gracious answer thereunto Lond. 1662. in two sh in fol. or thereabouts 8 Sp. to his Maj. representing the humble thanks of the H. for his gracious acceptance of their endeavours in the service of his Maj. and of the publick c. 17. May 1664. 9 Sp. to his Maj. and both Houses of Parl. at Oxon at the prorogation of the Parl. 21. Oct. 1665. Oxon. 1665. in fol. 10 Sp. to the Kings Majesty at the prorogation of the Parliam 8. Feb. 1666 Lond. 1666. in 2. sh in fol. or thereabouts These are all that I have seen besides several of his discourses in the trial of the Kings Judges an 1660 and therefore I have no more to say only that he the said Sir Edw. Turnour with Justice W. Ellis being appointed to go as Judges of the Assize for the Norfolk Circuit in the month of Feb in the Lent then ensuing died at Bedford on the fourth of March following in sixteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body being conveyed to London laid there for some days in state After which he was dignâ pompâ carried to Little Parendon before mention'd and according to his own command he was inter'd in the Chancel of the Church there under the marble stone that covered the grave of his first Wife THOMAS GREAVES younger Brother to John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652 p. 87. was born at Colmore in Hampshire mostly educated in the Charterhouse School near London admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. 15. Mar. 1627 where making great progress in Log. Phil. and other learning he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he became Deputy Professor of the Arabick Lecture in the absence of Mr. Edw. Pocock an 1637 Bach. of Div. in 1641 Rector of Dunsby in Lincolnshire in the times of Usurpation and of another place near London had the degree of D. of D. confer'd upon him in 1661 and a Prebendship in the Church of Peterborough in the place of Mr. Will. Towers deceased an 1666 being then Rector of Benyfield in Northamptonshire Which last he resigned some years before his death through trouble from his Parishioners who because of his slowness of speech and bad utterance held him insufficient for them and it notwithstanding he was a man of great learning His works are these De Linguae Arabicae utilitate praestantia oratio Oxonii habita 19. Jul. 1637. c. Ox. 1639. in 3. sh in qu. Observationes quaedam in Persicam Pentiteuchi versionem They are in the sixth Tome of Bib. Polyglot p. 48. Annotationes quaedam in Persicam interpretationem Evangeliorum In the said sixth Tome p. 56. Which annotations were translated into Lat. by Sam. Clerk This learned person Dr. Greaves did in his latter days retire to Weldon in Northamptonshire where he had purchased an Estate and dying there on the 22. of May in sixteen hundred seventy and six was buried in the Chancel of the Church at that place Over his grave was soon after a plain gravestone laid in the N. East corner of the said Chancel with this inscription thereon Thomas Gravius S. Th. D. Ecclesiae Petroburg Praebend vir summae pietaâ—is eruditionis in Philosophicis paucis secundus in Philologicis peritissimis par in Linguis Orientalibus plerisque major quarum Persicam notis in appendice ad Biblia Polyglotta doctissime illustravit Arabicam
Soc. c. Lond. 1670. qu. Letter to Sir N. N. relating the cause of the quarrel between Hen. Stubbe and the Royall Society and an Apology against some of their cavills Printed with Campanella revived Postscript concerning the quarrel depending between Hen. Stubbe and Dr. Christop Merrett Pr. also with Campanella Reply unto the letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe in defence of The history of the Royal Society Oxon. 1671 quart Reply to a letter of Dr. Hen. More printed with Mr. Glanvill's Prefatory answer to Hen. Stubbe with a censure upon the Pythagorico-Cabbalistical Philosophy promoted by him Oxon. 1671. A Preface against Ecebolius alias Joseph Glanvill Fellow of the Royal Society c. These two last are printed with the Reply unto a letter written to Mr. Hen. Stubbe c. Medice cura te ipsum Or the Apothecaries plea in some short and modest animadversions upon a late Tract entit A short view of the fraudes and abuses of the Apothecaries c. by Christop Merrett Dr. of Phys Lond. 1671. quart An epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy in opposition to George Thomson Pseudo-Chymist a pretended disciple to the Lord Verulam Lond. 1671. qu. A discourse concerning the Sweating Sickness temp Hen. 7. Relation of the strange Symptoms hapning by the bite of an Adder and the cure thereof These two last are printed with the Epistolary discourse c. A caveat for the Protestant Clergy or an account of the sufferings of the English Clergy upon the restitution of Popery in the dayes of Qu. Mary Lond. 1671. 78. in two sh in oct This is said to be written by Hen. Stubbe but not I suppose by our author but by another of both his names whom I shall anon mention A justification of the present warr against the united Netherlands c. illustrated with Sculptures In answer to a Dutch treatise entit considerations upon the present state of the united Netherlands c. Lond. 1672. 73. qu. A farther justification of the present warr against the United Netherlands illustrated with several Sculptures Lond. 1673. qu. For the compiling of these two last books the author was allowed the use of the Paper Office at Whitehall and when they were both finished he had given him 200 l. out of his Majesties Exchequer and obtained a great deal of credit from all people especially from the Courtiers and all that belonged to the Kings Court. In the month of Octob. the same year 1673 when the marriage to be between James Duke of York and Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena was controverted in the House of Commons where were 180 voices for and 188 against it then did this our author Stubbe about the latter end of the said month write and publish The Paris Gazette Which being against the said marriage and for the breaking it off gave great offence to many It was printed in half a sheet as one of our Gazetts are now and was by the author with great confidence and impudence presented to several Parliament men Whereupon a Writ being issued out against him he was taken in the beginning of the next month hurried in the dark from one private Prison to another threatned with hanging and was put to a great deal of charge So that all the credit he had got before was lost among the generallity Directions for drinking the Bath-water Ars Cosmetica or beautifying Art These two go under his Stubbes name and are printed at the end of James Cook his translation from Lat. into English of a book written Originally by Joh. Hall entit Select observations on Eminent persons in desperate diseases Which translation was reprinted with additions in 8 o an 1679. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Introduction to Geography Oxon 1657 oct Written by Philip Cluver 2 The Arts of Grandure and submission Lond. 166â— and 1665 oct Written by John Casa Archb. of Benevento 3 The History of the United Provinces of Achaia Lond. 1673. qu. in 4 sh and half written by Jacobus Gothofredus and others as it seems which I have not yet seen I have now no more to say of this learned person only that he being at Bathe attending several of his Patients living in and near Warwick then there he was sent for to come to another at Bristow in very hot weather to which place therefore going a by-way at 10 of the clock in the night on the twelfth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six his head being then intoxicated with bibbing but more with talking and snuffing of powder was drowned passing through a shallow River wherein as 't is supposed his horse stumbled two miles distant from Bathe So that his body being taken up the next morning and his death examined by the Coroner was the next day after that being Friday buried in the great Church at Bathe dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul in the grave of Dr. Pet. Wentworth joyning on the North side to the stately Tomb of Dr. Jam. Mountague somtimes Bishop of that City situat and being on the north side of the body of that Church At which time his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill preached his funeral Sermon but said no great matter of him and soon after a certain Physitian of that place who seemed to be glad for his death made this Epitaph following on him Which tho not yet put on his grave shall be here set down to his memory Memoriae Sacrum Post varios casus magna rerum discrimina tandem heic quiescunt mortalitatis exuviae Henrici Stubbe Medici Warwicensis quondam ex Aede Christi Oxon â—ei Medicae Historicae ac Mathematicae peritissimi judicii vivi Librorum heluonis qui quum multa scripserat plures sanaverat aliorum saluti sedulo prospiciens propriam neglexit Obiit aquis frigidis suffocatus 12 die July A.D. 1676. aetatis suae ... Besides this Hen. Stubbe was another of both his names and time a nonconforming Minister and somtimes a preacher in the City of Wells where I find him as an Assistant to the Commissioners appointed by Parliam to eject such whom they then 1654 called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and School-masters who hath among several things pertaining to Divinity written 1 Great Treaty of peace exhort of making peace with God Lond. 1676. 77. oct 2 Disswasive from conformity to the world Lond. 1675. in 8o. 3 Gods severity against mans iniquity Printed with the Disswasive 4 Gods gracious presence the Saints great privilege a farewel Sermon to a Congreg in Lond on 2. Thes 3.16 Printed also with the Disswasive 5 Conscience the best friend or the happy Effects of keeping a good Conscience very useful for this age Lond. 1685. in tw and other things which I have not yet seen among which is his answer to the Friendly debate an 1669 in oct When he died I know not sure I am that after his death which was in London his books were exposed to sale by way of Auction 29. Nov.
Morice received a letter from the King by Sir Joh. Greenvill afterwards Earl of Bathe to excite him to influence the General to his restauration which he answered with assurance of his utmost zeal and affection for that service whereupon in Feb. 1659 he received from his Majesty by the hands of the said Sir John with approbation of the General the Seal and Signet as the badge of the Secretary of States Office About which time it was his business to keep the then expiring Session of Parliament steddy and clear from intermedling with the change of the Government in which case he did excellent service punctually observing the directions of the General who then passionately longed for their dissolution On the 10. of March following he was by the Generals motion made a Colonel of a Regiment of Foot and Governour of the Fort and Island of Plymouth and after he had joyned with the General in the great secret of the restauration he was not only knighted by his Majesty then at Canterbury in his way to London 26. May 1660 but had the Office of Secretary confirm'd unto him and then sworne also one of his Majesties Privy Council In 1661. he was chosen for Plymouth to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 8. of May but he being much taken up with his new Employment he could not do his duty in the House so well and truly as he wished he could How influential Sir William was in his Majesties reduction and establishment may easily be collected from the Letters under the hands of his Majesty and Sir Edw. Hyde L. Chancellour now in the custody of Henry Earl of Clarendon And may perhaps be made more manifest unto the World upon the publication of an History said to be written by the said Sir Edw. Hyde afterwards E. of Clarendon who was most particularly acquainted witth all the steps made in the transacting of that whole affair At Michaelmas in the year 1668 Sir W. Morice did upon his humble desire made to his Majesty resign his Secretariship and was succeeded by Sir John Trevor son of Sir Joh. Trevor Kt so that retreating into the Country he passed the rest of his life in a quiet retirement at Werington before mention'd situate in the west part of Devonshire where he erected a fair Library valued at twelve hundred pounds which was the principal divertisement and most sensible pleasure he took during the last years of his life He hath written and published Coena quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The new enclosures broken downe and the Lords Supper laid forth in common for all Church Members having a dogmatical faith and not being scandalous In a Diatribe and defence thereof Lond. 1656. 57 qu. This book being afterwards much enlarged came out again with this title The common right to the Lords Supper asserted in a Diatribe and a defence thereof c. Lond. 1660. fol. The first edition of this book came out as it seems in 1651. qu. in answer to one Humph. Saunders who had written a book of administring the Sacrament to a select company Letter to Gen. Monke in answer to his of the 23. of Jan. directed to Mr. Rolle to be communicated to the Gentlemen of Devonshire This Letter is dated 28. Jan. 1659 and is said to be written by an excluded Member of Parliament particularly by W. Morice as the general Voug then was yet it is subscribed by R. M. He died on the twelfth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in Werington Church in an Isle belonging to his Family His eldest son William Morice Esq was made a Baronet 20. of April 1661. MATTHEW HALE son of Rob. Hale Esq a Barrester of Lincolns inn by Joan his Wife Daughter of Matthew Poyntz of Alderley in Glocestershire Gent was born at Alderley on the first day of Nov. an 1609 educated in Grammar learning at Wotton Under-edge the Seat of his ancestors in the same County not in the Free-school there but under one Mr. Staunton the scandalous Vicar so he was accounted by Orthodox Clergy of the neighbourhood of that Town became a Communer of Magd. Hall under the tuition of Obadiah Sedgwick mention'd under the year 1657. p. 138. in Mich. term 1626 where continuing about three years laid the foundation of some learning and knowledge which he afterwards built upon and might have proceeded farther had not his thoughts been diverted by certain juvenile vanities Afterwards upon the advice of Sir Jo. Glanvill Serjeant at Law who occasionally observed in him a clear apprehension of things a solid judgment and a great fitness for the study of the Law he was taken off from the design of being a Soldier which he intended and was admitted a Student in Lincolns inn 8. Nov. 1629 And being then deeply sensible how much time he had lost and that idle and vain things had over-run and almost corrupted his mind he resolved to redeem the time he had lost And therefore for many years together he studied at the rate of 16 hours a day threw aside all fine clothes and betook himself to a plain fashion which he continued to use in many points to his dying day Will. Noy the Attorney General being of the same Inn took early notice of him directed him in his studies and grew to have such friendship for him that he came to be called Young Noy The learned Selden also soon found him out who tho much superior to him in years yet he came to have such a liking of him and also of Mr. John Vaughan of the Inner Temple afterwards L. Ch. Just of the Common pleas that as he continued in a close friendship with them while he lived so he left them at his death two of his Executors By his acquaintance it was that he persued other learning than that of his profession so that by great industry accompanied with good natural parts he became well read in the Civil and Rom laws attained to a great readiness in Arithmetick Algebra and other mathematical sciences He obtained also a great insight in Philosophy whether experimental or theoretical Physick Anatomy and Chirurgery He was well acquainted with the antient Greek Philosophers but want of occasion to use them wore out his knowledge of the Greek tongue And tho he never studied the Hebrew yet by his great conversation with Selden he understood the most curious things in the Rabinical learning But above all these he seemed to have made the study of Divinity the chief of all others to which he not only directed every thing else but also arrived at that pitch in it that those who have read what he has written on that subject will think that it hath had most of his time and thoughts Some years before the unhappy Wars broke forth he was called to the Bar and when they did break forth he sided with the Presbyterians having been for the most part when young educated under
sacris liberarum Windsorensis Wolverhamptonensis capellarum à restitutione sereniss Caroli 2. Regis Decanus primus nobilissimi ordinis à Periscelide Scriba Fide in rebus Regis promovendis Zelo in rebus Ecclesiae promovendis Affectu in rebus Regni promovendis Toto nuperae rebellionis tempore nemini secundus celeberrimis hujus seculi concionatoribus à primo juventutis flore ad extremam usque senectam annumeratus hic sepultus jacet beatam expectans resurrectionem Obiit Julii 13. an dom 1677. aetatis suae 81. Some are pleased to say that this Dr. Ryves hath written An exposition on the Church Catechisme printed in qu. but mistaken as I conceive because it seems to have been written by one Edm. Reeves Quaere WILLIAM BERKLEY a Knights son was born of an ancient and honorable family near to and in the Diocess of London elected probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1625 and four years after was admitted Master of Arts. In 1630 he travelled into various Countries and at his return he was much valued for his experience and knowledge in many matters In 1646 he was sent to Virginia about publick concerns and in 1660 when Colonel Mathews the then Governour of that Country died this our Author being then a Knight was in consideration of the service he had done there in defending the people thereof from being kill'd by the Natives and destroying the great number of the Indians without the loss of three men of his own made Governour thereof by the unanimous Votes of all that Country and there continued in that honorable Office till 1676 in which year he was sent for into England where he soon finished his course He hath written The lost Lady a Trag. Com. Lond. 1639. fol. Description of Virginia Printed in fol. and said in the title to be performed by an eye-witness The Laws of Virginia now in force collected out of the Assembly records and digested into one vol. Revised and confirmed by the grand Assembly 23 Mar. 1661. c. Lond. 1662. fol. Published by Franc. Moryson and by him dedicated to Sir Will. Berkley in whose Epistle 't is said that Sir William was Author of the most and best of the said Laws and that little addition had been made to what he himself had done during the time of his Government only what vitious excrescencies had grown in the body of them by the corrupt humour of the times This Sir Will. Berkley was buried in the middle Chancel of the Par. Church of Twittenham or Twickenham near Hampton Court in Middlesex on the 13 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven Afterwards a Vault being made for the Lord J. Berkley in the south Chancel of the said Church Sir William's body was removed to it and there deposited 4 Septemb. 1678. TIMOTHY WOODROFFE son of Rich. Woodr sometimes Vicar of Sherton and afterwards Rector of Garsdon near Malmsbury in Wilts was born in that County at Sherston as it seems educated in Grammar learning at Malmsbury under Rob. Latymer who taught school there 40 years and was Master to Tho. Hobbes the famous Philosopher In 1610 T. Woodr being then 16 years of age he was sent to Balliol Coll. in Lent term and â—hen matriculated as a Ministers son After he had taken the degrees in Arts he translated himself to S. Albans Hall and as a member thereof he was admitted and proceeded Master of that faculty About that time he entred into holy orders and became Chaplain in the family of the St. Johns of Lidyard St. Johns in his own Country but before he had continued long there he by the favour of Dr. Williams B. of Linc. and L. Keeper of the Great Seal of England was prefer'd to the Vicaridge of Inglesham near Highworth in Wilts which being about 14 or more miles from Oxon gave him the opportunity of spending much of his time in Ball. College where he set up a Divinity Lecture and himself read it for several years he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of the Civil War he suffered much by both Armies and was plundered of a very good library whereupon he left his Living and removed to London and thence without his seeking he was invited to Great Dunmow in Essex where he was recieved as an Angel and became a frequent Preacher Not long after he was invited by Sir Rob. Harley Knight of the Bath to be one of the Preachers in the Minster or Cath. at Hereford from whence by his favour he was again in the year 1649 removed to the Parsonage of Kingsland in the same County where after many years painful preaching and much good done in the Neighbourhood by the practice of Physick wherein he always gave his advice and remedies gratis he finished his course He hath written and published Heavens Alarum c. Serm. on Hosea 4.3.4 Lond. in tw A religious Treatise upon Simeons song or instructions advertising how to live holily and dye happily Lond. 1659. oct Built on Luke 2.29.30 and composed for the use of Sir Rob. Harley before mentioned when weakness and old age confin'd him to his chamber Before this book is a commendatory Epistle subscribed by Joh. Row and S. Wood who stile the said book a sound and savoury discourse and such that wanteth not a pleasant quickness to hold on the Readers appetite c. He died in the month of August in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Church of Kingsland before mentioned Among several Children that he left behind him at the time of his death were Tim. Woodroffe sometimes of Magd. Coll now a Physitian at S. Albans in Hertfordshire and Benj. Woodr D. of D. and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. JOHN WAGSTAFFE son of John Wags Citizen of London descended from those of his name of Hasland Hall in Derbyshire was born in Cheapside within the City of London became a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the latter end of 1649 took the degrees in Arts and applied himself to the study of Politicks and other learning At length being call'd from an academical life to the inheritance of Hasland by the death of an Uncle who died without male-issue he spent his life afterwards in a single estate But before he left Oxon he wrot and published Historical reflections on the Bishop of Rome chiefly discovering those events of humane affairs which most advance the Papal Usurpation Oxon. 1660. qu. This book tho much commended at its first appearance yet the author was laughed at because that he being a little crooked man and of a despicable presence should adventure to encounter with so great person as the Pope After he had left the University he wrot and published The question of Witchcraft debated or a discourse against their opinion that affirm Witches Lond. 1669. oct To which is added Lucians dialogue called Lovers of lyes translated by another hand But an answer coming out against the said book intit The opinion of
and their better understanding they interrupted him and told him in plain terms they could not suffer his attendance any longer about the King With which proceedings and dismiss without acquainting him with the occasion 't was ill resented by the King who had Harrington in good esteem looking upon him as a Gentleman qualified with special parts and having found him trusty his service was the more acceptable yet blamed him nevertheless for not being more wary amongst men that were at such a time full of jealousies and very little obliging to his Majesty Being thus dismist and Herbert only left to attend the K. in his chamber I think he was never admitted again when the King was afterwards conveyed to Windsore and so to St. James's However he was with him on the Scaffold when he suffered death where or else a little before he received a pledge of his Majesties affection From that time always even when Oliver raigned he would speak of the said King with the greatest zeal and passion imaginable and would often say to his Companions that his death gave him so great grief that he contracted a disease by it and that never any thing went more near to him than the death of that most wise and pious Prince Before I go any farther with Harrington I will here make a little digression concerning the condition then of his Majesty Herbert was only then left to wait upon the K. in his Bed-chamber for the other two were before dismist who tho sickly and in an aguish condition yet he held out by his careful observing his Majesty's instructions without which as the times then were it had been impossible for him to have kept his station To this deplorable condition his Maj. being thus reduced he could not choose but have some melancholy apprehensions as indeed he had for accordingly about midnight there was an unusual noise in the said Hurst Castle that awakened him out of his sleep and was in some marvel to hear the Draw-bridg let down at that unseasonable hour and some Horsemen enter who being alighted the rest of the night was in a deep silence The King being desirous to know the matter he rung his silver bell long before break of day which with both his watches he usually laid upon a stool near the wax Lamp that was set near them in a large silver bason upon which call Herbert opened the Bed chamber door to know his Maj. pleasure The K. told him he would rise and as he was making ready he ask'd him if he heard the noise that was made about midnight Herbert answer'd he did as also the falling of the Draw-bridg but he being shut up in the back-stair room next to the Bed chamber and the door by the Governours order being bolted without he neither could nor would without his Maj. order adventure out at such a time of night The K. then bid him go and learn what the matter was which he did accordingly and knocking at the back-stair door the Soldiers unbolted it without so that entring into the next room he happily found Capt. Joh. Reynolds there alone by a fire and after some discourse he enquired of him who they were that came so very late into the Castle last night and their errand The Captain in a joking way bad him be wary in carrying news to the K. for he was among supercilious superintendants and his Comrade was served for an example Herbert thanked him for his friendly caution and at length got out of him who the Commander was that came so late into the Castle but would not discover what his business was Whereupon he returned to his Majesty and told him it was Major Tho. Harrison that came so late into the Castle Are you sure it was Major Harrison said the King May it please your Majesty said Herbert Captain Reynolds told me so the K. then making a little pause said then I believe it but did you see Major Harrison No Sir said Herb. Then the K. said Would not Capt. Reynolds tell you what the Major's business is Herbert then replied that he did what he could to be informed but all that he could then learn from the Captain was that the occasion of Harrisons coming would be known suddenly The King said no more but bad him attend in the next room and forthwith his Maj. went to his prayers In less than an hour the K. opened the Bed-chamber door and beckoned to Herbert to come in and make him ready Herbert was in some consternation to see his Maj. so much discomposed and wept which the K. observing asked him the meaning of it Herbert replied because I perceive your Maj. so much concerned at the news I brought said the K. thereupon I am not afraid but do you not know that this is the man Harrison who intendeth to assasianate me as by letter I was informed during the late Treaty To my knowledge I never saw the Major tho I have often heard of him nor ever did him injury The Commissioners indeed hearing of it represented it from Newport to the House of Lords what satisfaction he gave them I cannot tell this I can that I trust in God who is my helper I would not be surprised but this is a place fit for such a purpose Herbert I trust to your care go again and make farther enquiry into this business Immediately after Herbert went out and finding an opportunity to speak in private with Capt. Reynolds who being a Gent. well educated and at all essays ready to express civility towards the King with whom he most times walked upon a long narrow passage of stony ground joyning to the Castle and was always courteous to his servants he told him that the Major's business was to remove the King thenee to Windsore Castle within three days at farthest Herbert believing the King would be well pleased with the exchange by leaving the worst to enjoy the best Castle in England returned to his Majesty with a mirthful countenance little imagining God knows the sad consequence but as soon as the King heard Windsore named he seemed to rejoyce at it The Major tarried two nights at Hurst Castle and when it was dark having given orders for the Kings removal he departed to the place from whence he came and what passed between the King and him in his Majesties going from Hurst Castle to Windsore you shall have an account hereafter Now let 's return to our Author Harrington who when he thought that after the death of his Master Monarchy would never be restor'd he followed his own genie which chiefly laid towards the Politicks and Democratical Government He made several Essays in Poetry as in writing of Love verses and translating of Virgils Eclogues but his muse was rough and Harry Nevill an ingenious and well-bred Gentleman and a good but conceited Poet being his familiar and confident friend disswaded him from tampring with Poetry and to apply himself to the improvement of
to a senior Master Soon after he left Oxon and became Chaplain to Robert Earl of Leycester and afterwards tho not in Orders from a Bishop he was made Minister of S. Mary Magdalens Church in Milkstreet in London which place he keeping till the day of S. Barthelmew an 1662 left it because he would not conform Whereupon retiring to Hoxton alias Hogsden near London preached in a Conventicle there to his dying day being always held in great esteem for his piety by those of his perswasion He hath written Spiritual antidote for a dying soul Lond. 1665. oct Gods terrible voice in the City by plague and fire Lond. 1667. oct Of Christs certain and sudden appearance to judgment Lond. 1667. oct and several times after the sixth edit came out in 1683. and the book it self is grounded on Rev. 22.20 last part Answer to the sandy foundation of Will Pen the Quaker Defence of the Trinity Satisfaction by Christ and Justification of Sinners Lond. 1667. in tw or sixt Wells of salvation opened or words whereby we may be saved With advice to young men Lond. 1669. oct Explicatory Catechisme or an explanation of the Assemblies shorter Catechisme wherein all the Answers are taken asunder under Questions and Answers the Truths explained and proved c. Lond. 1673 c. oct The true Christians love of the unseen Christ or a discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians Lond. 1677. 84. in tw Appendix concerning Christs manifestation of himself to them that love him Printed with The true Christians love c. Holy and profitable Sayings Lond. 1680. Printed on one side of a sh of paper Several sermons as 1 Fire and Brimstone from Heaven from Earth in Hell or three discourses 1. Concerning the burning of Sodome and Gomorrah formerly 2. Concerning c. Lond. 1670. oct contained in several sermons 2 Wherein doth appear the blessedness of forgiveness and how it may be attained on Psal 32.1 Lond. 1674. 76. qu. in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate published by Sam. Aneley 3 Sermon on 1 Tim. 4.1.2 and part of the third verse This is the seventeenth sermon in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in a Conventicle in Southwark Lond. 1675. qu. 4 Serm. on Isa 57.1.2 Printed 1667 oct This I have not yet seen nor certain controversial Writings between him and Dr. VVill. Sherlocke This Mr. Vincent died at Hogsden before mentioned in the Parish of S. Leonards Shoreditch in the month of Octob. the 15 day as it seems in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the new Churchyard belonging to Cripplegate Parish as his Brother Nathaniel hath informed me at which time Sam. Slater preached his funeral sermon on Heb. 13.7 afterwards published under the title of Vincentius redivivus in the beginning of which he tells us that the said Mr. Vincent was buried 27 of Oct. 1678. SILAS DOMVILLE or D'omvill alias Taylor son of Silvanus Taylor a Committee man for Herefordshire in the time of the rebellion a busie man against the Kings party and a Commissioner for Herefordshire and certain Counties in Wales for the ejecting of scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and School-Masters was born at Harley near Muchwenlock in Shropshire on the 16 of July 1624 bred in the Free-Schools at Westminster and Shrewsbury became a Communer of New Inn in the beginning of the year 1641 but being soon after called thence without the taking of a degree upon the eruption of the Civil Wars he took part with the Rebels upon his fathers instance and at length became a Captain under Colonel afterwards Major General Edw. Massey and when the Wars ceased he was made by his fathers endeavours a Sequestrator of the Royalists in Herefordshire and had in those times great power there which he used so civilly and obligingly that he was beloved of all the Kings party His father setled upon him a good estate in Church Lands which he had bought and had the moity of the Bishops Pallace in Hereford setled on him the other part Col. John Birch had got into his clutches on which he laid out much mony in building and altering Upon the rising of Sir George Booth in Cheshire in the beginning of Aug. 1659 he received a Commission to be Captain of a Troop of Horse for the Militia of the City of Westminster and shew'd himself very active in that employment but at the Kings return he lost all and was in a manner ruined Soon after by the favour of certain persons whom he had before obliged he became Commissary of the ammunition and warlike provision at Dunkirke and five years after about 1665 he was by the endeavours of Sir Paul Neile and others made keeper of the Kings Store-houses for Shipping and other marine matters at Harwich a Sea-port Town in Essex where he continued to the time of his death This person being a great lover of Antiquities did in the times of usurpation ransack the Library belonging to the Church of Hereford of most or at least the best Mss therein and did also garble the Mss in the Library of the Church at Worcester and the evidences pertaining thereunto among which as I have heard he got the original grant of K. Edgar whence the Kings of England derive their right to the soveraignty of the Seas which is printed in Mr. Seldens book called Mare Clausum lib. 2. He had got also into his hands a quarto Ms of great antiquity which treated of the Philosophers stone in Hieroglyphicks with some few lat verses underneath And being limn'd with very great curiosity it was presented to the view of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 who offer'd 100 l. for it but was refused by the owner This person commonly called Captain Taylor hath written The History of Gavel-kind with the Etymology thereof containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the antient Britains notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans Saxons Danes and Normans Lond. 1663. qu. Observations and remarks upon many special occurrences of British and English History Printed with the former book At the end of which is an Anonymus Ms by him publish'd entit Brevis relatio de Willielmo Comite Normannorum c. The original of which is in the Archives of Bodlies Library communicated to him by Dr. Tho. Barlow the head keeper of that Library He had also written and published several pamphlets before the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but his name being not put to would never after own them He also laboured four years or more in collecting various antiquities as Armes monumental Inscriptions c. in many places of Herefordshire during his employment there under the two Protectors Which being now or at least lately in the hands of Sir Edw. Harley of Brompton Brian may serve as an Apparatus for him who shall hereafter write the
of Vitae Hobbianae auctarium Historical narration of heresie and the punishment thereof Lond. 1680 in 4. sh and an half in fol. There again in 1682 oct It is mostly taken out of the second chapter De Haeresi of his Appendix to the Leviathan in latine and seems to have been wrot purposely to vindicate its author from all default in the publication of the Leviathan For after he hath deduced from our Saviours time the different punishments by way of History by laws enacted and inflicted on those who were declared Hereticks throughout the several ages of the Church having told what was done in other parts of the world relating to this point he proceeds to reckon up the many laws here in force against Hereticks from the first profession of Christianity down to the â—ate Civil Wars and saith that the Court of High Commission had the sole power of declaring what was heresie according to the mind of the first four general Councils that is according to the faith declared in the Nicene Creed as is manifest from the Councils themselves invested in them in all Qu. Elizabeths Raign that after this Court was taken away at the beginning of the late troubles thereby to satisfie the restless clamours of the Presbyterian party against it no body stood then empowered by lawful authority either to declare what was heresie or to punish any one proved to be this way obnoxious At this time he saith his Leviathan came forth for the writing of which he could not be deemed heretical And the reasons which moved him to compose and publish that book so much justly excepted against he there gives and then concludes So that 't is manifest he aimes and levels at this as his end in this narration viz. to vindicial himself from the imputation of disturbing the peace contrary to the known laws of the realm by his setting forth such monstrous and dangerous tenets and principles in his Leviathan He addeth also that at the first Parliament after the Kings restauration the Episcoparians and Presbyterians accused it of heresie and yet there was no law then which declared what it was The falsity of the said Historical narration of Heresie is shewn in a small treatise entit The Leviathan heretical or the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified c. written by John Dowell Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leycestershire Oxon. 1683. in tw In which book p. 137 the author saith that Oliver gaining ths Protectorship was so pleased with many of his principles laid down in the Leviathan which tended to justifie and support his usurpation that the great place of being Secretary was profer'd to him Vita Thomae Hobbes Written by himself in prose and printed at Caropolis alias London before Vitae Hobbianae auctarium an 1681. oct There again 1682. qu. A brief of the art of Rhetorick containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three books of that subject Printed in tw but not said when Afterwards it was published in two books Lond. 1681. oct The first bearing the title of The Art of Rhetorick and the other of The Art of Rhetorick plainly set forth with pertinent examples for the more easie understanding and practice of the same To which is added A dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England He hath also written An answer to Archb. Bramhalls book called The catching of the Leviathan Lond. 1682. oct Seven philosophical problems and two propositions of Geometry Lond. 1682. oct Dedicated to the King in the year 1662. An apology for himself and his writings In which he sets forth that those things he delivered in the Leviathan were not his own opinions but submitted to the judgment of the Ecclesiastical power and that he never maintained any of them afterwards either in writing or discourse Adding also that what is in it of Theology contrary to the general warrant of Divines was not put in as his own opinion but propounded with submission to those who had the Ecclesiastical power Historia Ecclesiastica carmine Elegiaco concinnata Aug. Trinob i. e. Lond. 1688. oct Besides all these he hath other things in Ms not yet printed among which is His defence in the matter relating to Dan. Scargil Bach. of Arts of C. C. Coll. in Cambridge written in one sheet a copy of which Sir John Birkenhead had in his possession which after his death came into the hands of Hen. Birkenhead See in Vitae Hobbianae auctarium p. 108.109 Mr. Hobbes hath also translated into English 1 The History of the Greecian War in eight books Printed in 1628. and afterwards at Lond. in 1676. fol. Written originally by Thucidides 2 The Voyage of Ulysses or Homers Odysses book 9.10.11.12 Lond. 1674. oct in English verse 3 Homers Iliads and Odysses Lond. 1675. and 77. c. in tw in Engl. vers Before which is a preface concerning the virtues of heroick Poesie What other things go under his name I know not as yet sure it is if several persons of credit may be believed that a certain Scholar who was made a Bishop sometime after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 did say it openly in the time of Oliver he having been bred under Presbyterians and Independents that he had rather be author of one of Mr. Hobbes his books than to be King of England To conclude about two months before the death of this noted author he was seized with an acute pain in making water caused by a strangury or ulcer in the bladder which continuing for a considerable time he made use of some medicines by the advice of a Chirurgion yet the Physitian judged it incurable by reason of his great age and natural decay But he finding little benefit of the said medicines he asked the Chirurgion whether he thought his distemper curable to which being answered it would be very difficult to make a perfect cure and the best that could be expected was ease for the present he thereupon made this expression I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world at seeming then to be more afraid of the pains he thought he should endure before he died than of death About the 20. of Nov. his Patron the Earl of Devons being to remove from Chatsworth to Hardwyke in Derbyshire Mr. Hobbes would not be left behind and therefore with a feather-bed laid in a coach upon which he lay warm clad he was safely conveyed to Hardwyke and was in appearance as well after that little journey being but 10. miles as before it But within few days after he was suddenly stricken with a dead Palsie which stupified his right side from head to foot and took away his speech and 't is thought his reason and sense too which continued about 7 days before he died So that being so suddenly seized he did not take the Sacrament nor seem to desire the company of any Minister which in charity may be imputed to his
Sir Ed. Bysshe also gave out among his acquaintance before the Kings restauration that he wouâ—d write The Survey or Antiquities of the County of Surrey â—ut when after that time he was fix'd in his Clarenceauxship and had got a Knighthood he did nothing but deturpate and so continued worse and worse till his death which hapning in the Parish of S. Paul in Covent-garden on the 15 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine was obscurely buried late in the night in the Church of S. Olaves in the Jewry within the City of London by Mr. Green the Minister of that Church Nephew to the Relict of the Defunct JOHN SHIRLEY son of Jo. Shiâ— of London Bookseller was born in the Parish of S. Botolph Aldersgate in London 7. Aug. 1648 entred into Trin. Coll. in Lent term 1664 became Scholar of that House in 1667 took the degrees in Arts made Terrae filius in 1673 but came off dull Soon after he was elected Probationer Fellow of his Coll. being then esteemed a person of some parts but behaving himself very loosely was expell'd when the year of his Probationship was expir'd or rather before So that retiring to the great City he married an Inn-keepers Daughter of Islington corrected the Press and wrot and scribled for bred several trite things as A short compendium of Chirurgery containing its grounds and principles more particularly treating of impostumes wounds ulcers fractures and dissolutions Lond. 1683. sec edit in oct In the title of which he writes himself Med. Doctor though never took it in this Univ. or any other degree in that faculty Discourse of the generation and birth of man c. Printed with the former The art of Rowling and Bolstring that is the method of dressing and binding up the several parts c. Lond. 1682. oct printed with the sec edit of the Compendium before mention'd Life of the valiant and learned Sir Walt Raleigh Kâ— with his trial at Winchester Lond. 1677. oct 'T is the same that was a little before prefix'd to the works of the said Sir Walter printed in fol. He hath also written and published little things of a sheet and half a sheet of paper but what they treat of I know not He died at Islington near London before mention'd on the 28. of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Ch. yard there two days after One John Shirley Gent. hath written The History of the Wars of Hungary or an account of the miseries of that Kingdome c. Lond. 1685. in tw and one John Shurley M. A. and Gent. hath written Ecclesiastical History epitomized containing a faithful account of the birth life and doctrine c. of the holy Jesus with the lives of the Apostles c. in two parts Lond. 1682. oct But whether either of these two was of Oxon I cannot yet tell nor whether J. Shirley author of The renowned History of the life and death of Guy Earl of Warwick c. Lond. 1681. qu. be the same with our author John Shirley of Oxon. DANIEL CAPEL son of Rich. Capel mention'd under the year 1656 was born in the City of Glocester educated in the Coll. School there under Will. Russell was first Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll and about the time that he took the degree of M. of A. which was in 1651 he became a preacher Afterwards he was successively Minister of Morton Alderley and Shipton in his own Country which last he resigning because as I presume he would not conform he fell to the practice of Physick in the Town of Strowd in Glocestershire where he continued to the time of his death He hath written Tentamen medicum de variolis and one or two little things besides which I have not yet seen He died at Strowde in sixteen hundred seventy and nine or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there The next that follows a most excellent School Divine and Philosopher is Fr. à S. Clara not known or called Christop Davenport after he had entred into a religious order CHRISTOPHER DAVENPORT son of Joh. Dav. by Elizabeth Wolley his Wife the fifth Son of Hen. Dav. Alderman of Coventry Grandson to a younger Brother of the Davenports of Henbury in Cheshire was born in the antient City of Coventry in Warwickshire and in Grammar learning there educated At about 15 years of age he and his Brother John were sent to Merton College in the beginning of the year 1613 and became Pupils to Mr. Sam. Lane Fellow of that House They were only Batlers and took the Cooks Commons but the Warden Sir Henry Savile having received notice of them and their condition he dismiss'd them unless they would become Commoners But their Parents being unwilling John thereupon went to Magd. Hall and became afterwards a noted Puritan and at length an Independent but Christopher continued longer in the Coll. especially upon Sir Henries recess to Eaton but upon his return withdâ—ew So that having spent about two years among the Mertonians he by the invitation of some Rom. Priest then living in or near Oxon went to Doway an 1615 where remaining for some time went to Ypres and entred into the Order of Franciscans among the Dutch there 7. Oct. 1617. Afterwards he returned to Doway and was entred into the House of the English Recollects there of the same order 18. Oct. 1618 which was then built for them and dedicated to S. Bonaventure the same year After he had ran a course there and had read for some time a Lecture he went into Spain and in an University there Salamanca I think he improved himself much in the supreme faculty Thence he returned to Doway where he read first Philosophy and afterwards became chief Reader of Divinity in the said Coll. of S. Bonaventure and in fine was made Doctor of Divinity of his order but not of any University At length he became a Missionary in England where he went by the name of Franciscus à Sancta Clara and at length was made one of the Chaplains to Henrietta Maria the Royal Consort of K. Ch. the first and became highly honored of all of his profession and of many Scholars too whether Protestants or Papists for his great learning After his settlement in England where he continued going and coming more than 50 years he did very great service for the R. Cath. cause by gaining disciples raising money among the English Catholicks to carry on publick matters beyond the Seas in writing of books for the advancement of his Religion and Order by his perpetual and unwearied motion day and night to administer among the Brethren and by tendring his service to consult and help warping Protestants c. When Dr. Laud was made Archb. of Canterbury he became his acquaintance not to make use of him as an instrument to reconcile us to the Church of Rome as inveterate Prynne would have it but for that he was much
before the said Epistle congratulatory c. Printed at Oxon 1684. qu. Which Epistle was written as I have been informed by a Scottish Writer since I wrot these things by John Maxwell Bishop of Ross in Scotland who therein compares the Presbyterians to the Jesuits Sed qu. ANTHONY SADLER son of Tho. Sadl of Chilton in Wilts was born in that County entred in S. Edm. Hall in the condition of a Batler in Lent term 1627 admitted Bach. of Arts and in Orders an 1631 being then 21 years of age Soon after he became Chaplain to an Esquire of his name in Hertfordshire and in the beginning of the Civil War Curat of Bishopsstoke in Hampshire afterwards Chaplain to the Lady Let. Paget Dowager and at length being presented to the Living of Compton-Hayway in Dorsetshire was refused to pass by the Triers an 1654 and thereupon no small trouble passed between him and them Soon after he was made Vicar of Mitcham in Surrey where I find him in much trouble an 1664 occasion'd by Rob. Cranmer of London Merchant an inhabitant of that place and afterwards to be Doctor of Div. and Chapl. extraord to his Majesty He hath written and published Inquisitio Anglicana or the disguise discovered shewing the proceedings of the Commissioners at Whitehall for the approbation of Ministers c. Lond. 1654. in three sh in qu. Several Sermons as 1 Benedictio Valedictio or the remembrance of thy friend and thy end being a farewell serm preached at the house of Letitia Lady Paget Dowager deceased on 2 Cor. 13.11 Lond. 1655. oct 2 Mercy in a miracle shewing the deliverance and duty of the King and People on Matth. 8.25 Lond. 1661. qu. It was preached at Mitcham in Surrey 28 Jun. 1660 in a solemn congregation for the restauration of his Maj. to his royal throne c. A divine Masque Lond. 1660. qu ded to the Lord Gen. Monke Strange news indeed from Mitcham and Surrey of the treacherous and barbarous proceedings of Rob. Cramer Merchant of London against A. Sadler Vicar of Mitcham c. Lond. 1664. in one sh in qu. Schema sacrum in ordine ad ordinem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ceremoniarum Lond. 1683. on a broad side of a sheet of paper written in English partly in verse and partly in prose This is the second or third edition but when the first came out I know not nor any thing else of the author only that he died in sixteen hundred and eighty or thereabouts leaving then behind him the character of a man of a rambling head and turbulent spirit RICHARD ALLESTRY or Allestree son of Robert son of Will. Allestry of Alveston in Derbyshire was born at Uppington near to Wreken in Shropshire educated in Grammar learning mostly in the Free-school at Coventry where Philem. Holland taught became a Commoner of Ch. Ch. in Lent term an 1636 aged 15 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Busby and about half an year after was made Student of that House In 1642 he put himself in actual arms for his Maj. under Sir Joh. Byron and when Oxford was garrison'd for the King he bore a musket among the Scholars for his service In 1643 he proceeded Master of Arts and the same year had like to have lost his life by the pestilential disease that then raged within the garrison of Oxon. Soon after he took holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in the House but when the Parliament Visitors came under pretence of reforming the University he with hundreds more were ejected So that being put to his shifts he was soon after entertained as Chaplain to Francis Newport of Shropshire Esq afterward L. Newport of High-Arcal with whom continuing till Worcester fight he did after the Kings miraculous escape from the Rebells there attend him at Roan in Normandy and received his dispatches to the managers of his Affairs in England Soon after coming to Oxon where he found his friends Mr. Joh. Dolben and Mr. Jo. Fell living privately and performing the Offices of the Church of England to the loyal party there he joyned with them and continued there till Sir Anth. Cope of Hanwell near Banbury prevailed with him to live in his family which for several years he did having liberty allowed him to go or stay as his occasions required By which advantage he was enabled to step aside upon Messages from the Kings friends which he managed with courage and dexterity But in the Winter of 1659 being snapt at Dover in his return from his Majesty in Flanders he was examined by the Committee of the Council of Safety and committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he continued till things moved towards his Maj. restauration In 1660 he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and soon after actually created D. of Div and about that time made one of the Lecturers of the City of Oxon to instill principles of Loyalty among the Citizens who before had been led aside by schismatical Teachers In 1663 he being then one of the Kings Chaplains in ordinary became Reg. Prof. of Div. upon the death of Dr. Creed and two years after he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. near Windsore upon the death of Dr. Joh. Miredith which was all the preferment he enjoyed being little enough for such a sufferer as he had been and one that had often ventured his neck to do his Majesty service He was a good and most affectionate Preacher and for many years by his prudent presiding in the Professors chair he did discover perhaps as much learning as any and much more moderation as to the five controverted points than most of his Predecessors He was also a person richly furnished with all variety of choice solid learning requisite to recommend him with the greatest advantage to the more intelligent world for one of the most eminent Divines of our age He hath written and transmitted to posterity The privileges of the Univ. of Oxford in point of Visitation in a letter to an honorable personage Pr. in one sh and an half in qu. 1647. Whereupon W. Prynne came out with his University of Oxfords plea refuted c. and in answer to that R. Waryng wrot An account of Mr. Prynns refutation c. and Ed. Bagshaw sen with his Short censure c. Eighteen Sermons whereof 15 were preached before the King and the rest upon public occasions Lond. 1669. fol most of which had been before published singly Of the authority and usefulness of the Scripture serm on 2 Tim. 3.15 Oxon. 1673. qu. Forty Sermons whereof twenty one are now first published the greatest part preach'd before the King and on solemn occasions Oxon. 1684. fol. These were published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxford and had the 19 sermons before mention'd added to with his picture before them He died in January in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in Eaton Coll. Chappel on the north side of the high Altar or Com. table Over his grave was
was observed to smile and lift up his Eyes to Heaven as appealing to the Divine Majesty the most supreme Judge The King at the rising of the Court was with a guard of Halberdiers returned to Whitehall in a close chair through King-street Both sides whereof had a guard of Foot soldiers who were silent as his Majesty passed but shop-stalls and windows were full of People many of which shed tears and some of them with audible voices prayed for the King till he was carried through the Privy garden door to his Bedchamber whence after two hours space he was removed to S. James's Nothing of the fear of death or indignities offer'd seem'd a terrour or provok'd him to impatience nor uttered he a reproachful word reflecting upon any of his Judges albeit he well knew that some of them were or had been his domestick servants nor against any member of the House or Officer of the Army so wonderful was his patience tho his spirit was great and might otherwise have express'd his resentment upon several occasions It was a true Christian fortitude to have the mastry of his passion and submission to the will of God under such temptations The same night after which sentence was pronounced Coll. Hacker who then commanded the Guards at S. James's about the King would have placed two Musquetiers in the Kings Bedchamber with which his Majesty being acquainted he made no reply only gave a sigh Howbeit the good Bishop Dr. Juxon and Mr. Herbert apprehending the horrour of it and disturbance it would give to the King in his meditations and preparation for his departure out of this uncomfortable world they never left the Col. till he had reversed his order by withdrawing those men representing it as the most barbarous thing in nature The King now bidding a farewel to the World his whole business was a serious preparation for death which opens the door unto eternity In order thereunto he laid aside all other thoughts and spent the remainder of his time in prayer and other pious ejaculations and exercises of devotion and in conference with that meek and learned Bishop before mentioned who under God was a great support and comfort to him in that his afflicted condition And resolving to sequester himself so as he might have no disturbance to his mind nor interruption to his meditations he ordered Mr. Herbert to excuse it to any that might have the desire to visit him I know said the K. my Nephew the Prince Elector will endeavour it and some other Lords that love me which I would take in good part but my time is short and precious and I am desirous to improve it the best I may in preparation I hope they will not take it ill that they or any have not access unto me only my Children The best office they can do now is to pray for me What he had said it fell out accordingly for his Electoral Highness accompanied with James D. of Richmond William Marq. of Hertford Thomas Earl of Southampton and Mountague E. of Lindsey with some others having go leave came to the Bedchamber door where Mr. Herbert persuant to the Kings command acquainted his Highness and the said Noblemen with what the King gave him in charge and thereupon they acquiesced and presented their humble duty to his Majesty with their prayers which done they return'd with hearts full of sorrow as appeared by their faces The Prince of Wales also then in Holland did by the States Embassadors interceed to the Parliament and used all possible means to prevent or at least to defer his Majesties execution and applyed themselves likewise to the Army At this time Jan. 30. Mr. Herbert should have said came to S. James's Edm. Calamy Rich. Vines Jos Caryl Will. Dell and some other London Ministers who presented their duty to the King with their humble desires to pray with him and perform other offices of service if his Majesty would please to accept of them The King returned them thanks for their love to his Soul hoping they and all other good Subjects would in their addresses to God be mindful of him but in regard he had made choice of Dr. Juxon whom for many years he had known to be a pious and learned Divine and able to administer ghostly comfort to his Soul sutable to his present condition he would have none other The Ministers were no sooner gone but John Goodwin Minister in Coleman street came likewise upon the same account to tender his service whom the King also thanked and dismist with the like friendly answer Mr. Herbert about this time going to the Cockpit near Whitehall where the Lodgings of Philip Earl of Pembroke were he then as at sundry times enquired how his Majesty did and gave his humble duty to him and withal asked if his Majesty had the gold Watch he sent for and how he liked it Mr. Herbert assured his Lordship the K. had not yet received it The Earl fell presently into a passion marvell'd thereat and was much troubled least his Majesty should think him careless in observing his commands and told Mr. Herbert that at the Kings coming to S. James's he as he was sitting under the great elm tree near Sir Ben. Rudyerds Lodge in the Park seeing a considerable military Officer of the Army going towards S. James's he went to meet him and demanding of him if he knew his Cosin Tom Herbert that waited on the King the Officer said he did and was going to S. James's The Earl then delivered to him the gold watch that had the Larme desiring him to give it to Mr. Herbert to present it to the King The Officer promised the Earl he would immediately do it My Lord said Mr. Herbert I have sundry times seen and past by that Officer since and do assure your Lordship he hath not delivered it to me according to your order and his promise nor said any thing concerning it nor has the King it I am certain The Earl was very angry and gave the Officer his due character and threatned to question him But such was the severity of the times that it was judged dangerous to reflect upon such a person so as no notice was taken of it Nevertheless Mr. Herbert at the Earls desire did acquaint his Majesty therewith who gave the Earl thanks and said had he not told the Officer it was for me he would probably have delivered it he well knew how short a time I should enjoy it This relation is in prosecution of what is formerly mentioned concerning the Clock or Larm-watch which his Majesty would have to lay by Mr. Herbert's Pallet to awaken him at the hour in the morning which his Majesty should appoint when he was at Windsore The name of this Officer Mr. Herbert told me not only that he was executed after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and therefore I take him to be either Major Harrison or Col. Hacker That evening Mr. Hen. Seymour a
should crown his beginnings But Sir Geor. party being dispers'd in Aug. 1659 in the County of Chester where he first appeared the Rump Beagles did trace the scent of the Abettors of that rising so closely that Sir Anth. being shrewdly suspected to have a most considerable hand in it and to have kept intelligence with the King then in exile was publickly accused of it in the Rump Parliament then sitting So that being called to the bar of the House he made answer so dexterously to their objections that he stopt the mouthes of his Accusers and most of the Members having a great opinion of his fidelity did then dismiss him After this he perceiving full well that in short time Monarchy would be restored he studied all the ways imaginable especially when it could not be hindred to promote it He corresponded with Monk then in Scotland when he took discontent that the Rump Parliament which was invited to sit again by the Army on the 6. of May 1659 was thrust out of doors on the 13 of Oct. following So that he being very forward in that affair he was on the 2 of Jan. following the Rump having been a little before readmitted to sit nominated one of the Council of State and about 9 days after had the Regiment of Horse then very lately belonging to Charles Fleetwood commonly called the Lord Fleetwood given to him to be Colonel thereof Soon after Monks coming to Westminster he became very great with him and was for his sake not only made Governour of the Isle of Wight but one of the Council of State by the Rump and secluded members then newly added to them on the 16. of March 1659 on which day they dissolved themselves In the beginning of 1660 he was chosen one of the Knights of Wilts to serve in that Parliament called the Healing Parliament began at Westm 25. of Apr. the same year at which time the authority of the Council of State ceased In the latter end of May following he went with General George Monk to Dover to meet the King then about to take possession of his Kingdoms after 12 years absence thence The next day being May 26 he was sworn a Privy Counsellour to his Majesty being at that time at Canterbury in his way to London to be received by his Subjects there at which time Sir Anthony took one or more Oathes In the beginning of Oct. following when his Majesty was pleased to issue out the grand commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the Regicides directed to several noble persons choice was made of Sir Anthony to be one So that he sitting upon the Bench first at Hicks-hall and afterwards at the Old Baylie with others that had been deeply engaged in the then late grand rebellion caused Adrian Scrope Esq one of the Regicides that then was tried to say of himself and them thus his words being directed to Sir Orl. Bridgman Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer the chief Judge then in that affair But my Lord I say this if I have been misled I am not a single person that have been misled My Lord I could say but I think it doth not become me to say so that I see a great many faces at this time that were misled as well as my self but that I will not insist upon c. As for the faces which he meant that then sate as Judges on him were taken at that time to be those of Sir Anthony Ash Cooper Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Visc Say and Seal John Lord Roberts Denzil Hollis Esq afterwards Lord Hollis Arthur Annesley Esq afterwards Earl of Anglesey c. But to return Sir Anth. Ash Cooper being put into the road to gain honour and riches he was in the year following on the 20. of Apr. three days before his Majesties Coronation advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles Afterwards he was made Chancellour and Under-Treasurer of the Exchecquer in which places he was succeeded by Sir John Duncombe about the 20 of Nov. 1672 and upon the death of Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer he was made one of the five Commissioners by his Majesty for the executing the said office on the first of June an 1667. About that time he was Lieutenant of Dorsetshire and a person in great favour with the K. and Court In Dec. 1671 he with Sir Thomas Clifford were the principal advisers of his Majesty to shut up the Exchecquer which was accordingly effected on the first of January following and in granting injunctions in the case of Bankers In the beginning of March following he with the said Sir Thomas were great promoters of the indulgence for liberty of Conscience effected also by the Kings Proclamation for that purpose dat 15. of the same month 1671 which was the source of all misfortunes that followed even to the Popish Plot an 1678. But that Indulgence or Toleration was happily annull'd by the Parliament which did begin to re-sit 4. Feb. 1672. On the 27. of Apr. 1672 he was by Letters Pat. then bearing date created Lord Cooper of Paulet and Earl of Shaftesbury and at that time tugging hard for the Lord Treasurers place his Majesty was pleased to advance him higher that is to be Lord Chancellour of England 17. Nov. the same year and on the 28 of the same month he gave the office of Lord Treasurer to the said Sir Thomas then Lord Clifford 'T is reported by a nameless author but of no great credit that when his Majesty upon an occasional hearing of this Lords Shaftesbury publick sagacity in discussing publickly some profound points did as in a rapture of admiration say that his Chancellour was as well able to vye if not out-vye all the Bishops in point of Divinity and all his Judges in point of Law and as for a Statesman the whole world in forreign Nations will be an evident witness c. Before I go any farther it must be known that altho his Majesty did publish his Declaration of War against Holland with a manifesto of its causes on the 17. of Mar. 1671 seconded by the French Kings Declaration of War by Sea and Land against the States dat 27. of the same month in pursuance of which the English and French had a sharp engagement with the Dutch 28. May 1672 off of Southwould-bay the D. of York being then Admiral yet this War was not communicated to the Parliament till they did re sit 4. Feb. 1672 In the opening of which Session I say that Shaftesbury did in a speech the next day promote and much forward the said War and enforced it moreover with a Rhetorical flourish Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Commonwealth was too near a Neighbour to an English Monarch c. By which advice the Triple-League which had been made between us the Dutch and the Sweed in the latter end of the year
came out in which he reflected on the falseness of it as 't was also in a smart and ingenious answer to it pen'd by John Northleigh of Exeter Coll. Besides also I conceive that scarcely any body besides Shaftesbury would have adventured on such insolent and bold arraignments of some chief Ministers of State not sparing the Government it self He also made the little short Speech intit The Earl of Essex's Speech at the delivery of the petition to the King 25. of Jan. 1680 which petition was that the King would change his mind from the setting of the Parl. at Oxon to be at Westminster Answer'd in a letter sent to him by Anon. in half a sh in fol. as big as the speech and petition He was also deeply supposed to have written A vindication of the Association which was seized on in the hands of his servant Stringer as he was going to the Press with it in the beginning of Dec. 1682 who being examined about it confessed that it was written by Rob. Ferguson a Nonconformist Minister author of as he added The second part of the growth of Popery Whereupon soon after a Messenger was sent to Brill in Holland to demand the body of him the said Ferguson and of Shaftesbury but the States refused so to do as the common Letters dat 13 January following told us Much about the same time I was informed by Letters also that since the said Earls retirement to Amsterdam he printed and published a book there in which he endeavoured to free himself from all cause of Jealousie and aspersions cast on him upon which a back friend of his immediatly dispers'd a satyrical reply in opposition thereunto Which coming early to his Lordships hands he printed a second book justifying the validity of the first but he did so much confound himself therein that the States had then a jealousie that he came among them for some other intent than barely his Majesties displeasure with him At length dying at Amsterdam of the Gout on the 21. of January in sixteen hundred eighty and two his body was conveyed into England and buried at Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire beforemention'd What Epitaph there is over his grave I know not and therefore in its place take this character of him given by a most ingenious author For close designs and crooked counsels fit Sagacious bold and turbulent of wit Restless unfixt in principles and place In power unpleas'd impatient of disgrace c. In friendship false implacable in hate Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the State c. Before his death came out several Pamphlets in vindication of him but very partially written by his admirers At the time of his death or thereabouts was published The compleat Statesman demonstrated in the life actions and politicks of that great Minister of State Anth. Earl of Shaftsbury c. Printed in tw at Lond. in Hillary term 1682. And after his death was published besides some Memoirs of his life which made against him under the name of Philanax Misopappus a book intit Rawleigh redivivus or the life and death of the honorable Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury Lond. 1683. oct with his picture before it It is divided into two parts and dedicated to the protesting Lords but partially written and containeth many errors and slightly passeth over and omits many of his actions during the time of Rebellion wherein he had a prime hand There were also published Elegies on him pro and con as also A supplement to his last Will. and Test written in verse the particulars of which I shall now for brevity sake pass by THOMAS HUNT son of Hen. Hunt was born in the City of Worcester an 1611 became a Student in Pembr Coll. 1628 Master of Arts in 1636 but whether ever Bach. of that faculty it appears not and therefore Hen. instead of Tho. Hunt in the Fasti 1630 among the Bachelaurs is to be taken away Afterwards he went into the Country and taught a private School then to London and taught in the Church of S. Dunstan in the East and at length being preferred to the Mastership of the Free-school of S. Saviours in Southwark did much good among the Youth there as elsewhere he had done by his admirable way accompanied with much industry in teaching For the use of whom he wrot Libellus Orthographicus or the diligent School-boys Directory c. Lond. 1661 and several times after in oct One Edit of which bears this title Libel Orthograph Or the diligent School-boys Directory very useful for Grammar scholars Apprentices c. or any that desire to be exactly perfect especially in the English Orthography Abecedarium Scholasticum or the Grammar Scholars Abecedary Lond. 1671 oct or thus in the title of another edition Abecedarium Scholasticum Or the Grammar Scholars Flower-garden wherein are these following flowers to wit Proverbs proverbial Sayings Sayings also on several subjects What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died 23 January in sixteen hundred eighty and two and was buried in the Church of S. Saviour in Southwark close to the wall in the corner on the left hand of that door that leads from the Bull Churchyard or Bull-head Churchyard into the said Church The Reader may be pleased now to know that besides this hath been another Thom. Hunt who tho no Oxford man by education yet having been famous in his generation among certain schismatical persons for several things that he hath written and published I shall therefore give you these brief memoirs of him viz. That he was born in London in the Augustine Friers as I conceive near the Old Exchange was first Scholar then Fellow and Master of Arts of Queens Coll. in Cambridge where he was esteemed a person of quick parts and of a ready fluence in discourse but withall too pert and forward Thence he went to Greys Inn where before he had been entred a Student and making proficiency in the municipal Laws was made Barrister was had in repute for his practice and acknowledged by most persons to be a good Lawyer In 1659 he became Clerk of the Assizes of Oxford Circuit but ejected from that office at his Majesties restauration to his great loss to make room for the true owner Afterwards he lived and followed his profession at Banbury in Oxfordshire was Steward for a time to part of the Duke of Buckinghams Estate and afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk c. He hath written and published 1 Great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York or Successor to the Crown c. considered And an answer to a Letter c. Lond. 1680. in 9 sh in fol. 2 An Argument for the Bishops right in judging in capital Causes in Parliament c. To which is added A postscript for rectifying some mistakes in some of the inferior Clergy mischievous to our Government and Religion Lond. 1682. oct For the writing of
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
This book which got him great credit with his Diocesan Dr. Jo. Cosin is commended by Dr. Durell in his S. Eccles Anglicanae Vindiciae Afterwards at the request of the said Hesenthalerus our author Ritschel sent to Wertemberg his Ethica Christiana in 2 vol. qu. with another Latin quarto called Exercitationes sacrae which Hesenthalerus desired and promised to take care of the printing them and engaged his son to take the like care if he should die before they were began Whether they were printed is not yet certain He also at his death left with his son two MSS. ready for the press one De fide catholica and the other against the English Quakers both in qu. and in Latine This learned author who for a time had been Tutor in his travels to the sons of the Prince of Transylvania died on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Hexham before mentioned sometimes a Cathedral dedicated to St. Andrew in the Vicaridge of which his son named George Ritschel lately of S. Edm. Hall succeeded him Soon after was a monument put over his grave with this inscription thereon Sub hoc marmore sacrae reconduntur reliquiae Georgii Ritschel Patria Bohemi religione reformati qui saeviente in Protestantes Ferdinando secundo omnibus gentilitiis haereditatibus exutus sed Argentorati Lugduni Batavorum aliarumque Academiarum exterarum spoliis onustus quicquid eruditionis in istis florentissimis Musarum Emporiis viguit secum detulit Oxonium an Dom. 1644 qua celeberrima Academia consummatis studiis aliorum commodo studere coepit contemplationibus Metaphysicis vindiciisque ceremoniarum Eccles Anglicanae aliisque scriptis eruditissimis editis toto orbe statim inclaruit Tanta fame auctus Ecclesiam Augustaldensem ad quam electus erat cui praefuit annos plus minus 27 magis Augustam tantum non cathedralem qualis olim fuerit reliquit c. You may read more of the Encomiums of this worthy person in the sermon preached at his funeral by one Major Algood Rector of Simonbourne in Northumberland and in an Elegy on his death at the end of it Printed at Lond. 1684. quart FRANCIS BAMPFIELD third son of John Bampf of Portimon in Devons Esq was born in that County became a Commoner of VVadham Coll. in 1631 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1638 and afterwards holy Orders from a Bishop But being puritannically inclined he sided with the rebellious party in 1642 took the Covenant preached up the Cause in several places and was all things to all men except those of the royal party At length on the death of VVilliam Lyford he became Minister of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire having before taken the Engagement an 1653 where he continued carrying on the trade among the factious people not without great disturbance from Quakering Witches as he pretended till the Act of Uniformity cast him out an 1662. Afterwards he lived in the said Town for some time kept Conventicles was imprisoned for so doing several times and forced to remove his quarters At length retiring to London the common refuge of such people he preached in Conventicles there was several times committed upon that account and continued a Prisoner for about the ten last years of his life at several times He was always a person so strangely fickle and unsteady in his judgment that he was first a Church man then a Presbyterian afterwards an Independent or at least a fider with them an Anabaptist and at length almost a compleat Jew and what not He was also so enthusiastical and canting that he did almost craze and distract many of his disciples by his amazing and frightful discourses He hath written His judgment for the observation of the Jewish or seventh day Sabboth with his Reasons and Scriptures for the same Sent in a Letter to Mr. Will. Ben of Dorchester c. Lond. 1672 and 1677. oct See more in VVill. Ben under the year 1680 p. 507. who by one of his perswasion is commended for a pious man for his holiness of life and for his dexterous preaching All in one All useful Sciences and profitable Arts in one book of Jehovah Aelokim copied out and commented upon in created Beings comprehended and discovered in the fulness and perfection of Scripture-knowledges The first part Printed 1677 in 45 sh in fol. The design of which fantastical and unintelligible book is for the advancement and augment of useful Arts and of profitable Sciences in a scripture way and that all Philosophy be taught out of the Scripture and not from Heathen Authors The Author shews himself dissatisfied with his Academical education and is clearly against that way and would if he could have his own Idea take place and vainly endeavours to represent the many pretended inconveniencies of those methods which have been so long established in our Universities saying that Enthusiastick Phantasmes humane Magistralities self-weaved Ratiocinations forc'd Extractions indulg'd Sensuations and unsetling Scepticismes have laid some of the most claim to the highest advance of humane learning that hath been hitherto made 'T is full of bombast great swelling and forc'd language and oftentimes unintelligible The house of wisdome The house of the sons of the Prophets An house of exquisite enquiry and of deep research where the mind of Jehovah Aeloim in the holy Scripture of truth in the original words and phrases and their proper significancy is diligently studied faithfully compared and aptly put together for the farther promoting and higher advancing of Scripture knowledge of all useful Arts and profitable Sciences in the one book of books the word of Christ copied out and commented upon in created Beings Lond. 1681. in 7 sh in fol. In which fantastical book the Author would have the Hebrew Tongue and Language to be the universal character over all the inhabited earth to be taught in all Schools and Children to be taught it as their mother language He proposes a way for the erection of Academies to have it taught and all Philosophy to proceed from Scripture to have all books translated into that language and I know not what What other things he hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only 1 That he having been convicted and committed for preaching at Pinmakers-Hall in London was brought on the 24 of Feb. 1682 to the Sessions held at the Old Bayly where being tendred the Oaths he said that the King of Kings forbad him to take them and thereupon was re-committed to Newgate Prison 2 That he was brought thither again about the 18 of Apr. 1683 and refusing them was sent to Newgate from whence he came 3 That he and one Griffith Reynolds and Warner who had laid a long time in Newgate for refusing the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy were on the 18 of Jan. 1683 indicted for the same and
Spelling-book or reading and spelling English made easse wherein all the words of our English Bible are set down in an alphabetical order and divided into their distinct Syllables Together with the grounds of the English Tongue laid in verse wherein are couch'd many moral Precepts Lond. 1674. oct c. What other Sermons or books are published under his name I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Bednal green near London on the seventh day of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four was buried in the Ch. of Clapham in Surrey in which Town he had usually held forth in Conventicles with Dr. Hen. Wilkinson commonly called Long Harry and Will. Bridge sometimes Minister of Yarmouth He also for a better livelyhood instructed the sons of Nonconformists JOSHUA SPRIGGE son of Will. Sprigge sometimes servant to Will Lord Say afterwards Steward of New Coll was born at Banbury in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of New Inn in Midsummer term an 1634 aged 16 years left it without a degree journied into Scotland and became Master of Arts at Edinburgh and a Preacher A little before the Rebellion began he retired to London was a Preacher at S. Mary Alderm afterwards took the Covenant was made Minister of S. Pancras Ch. in Soperlane and at length a retainer to Sir Tho. Fairfax General of the Parliament Army In 1648 he was constituted one of the Fellows of All 's Coll. by the Committee and Visitors appointed by Parliament to reform the University and in the year following he was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Edinburgh While he continued in All 's Coll he was of civil conversation but far gone in Enthusiasme and blamed much by some of the Fellows then there for his zeal of having the history of our Saviours Ascension curiously carved from stone over that Coll. gate to be defaced after it had remained there since the foundation of that House About that time he was esteemed also a noted Independent and afterwards very well known to be a great favourer of factious and blasphemous persons particularly that grand Impostor James Naylor Quaker in whose behalf he did in the head of an 100 men deliver a Petition in favour of him to Oliver L. Protector After the Kings return he retired to an Estate which he had purchased at Crayford in Kent lived privately there and frequented Conventicles At length upon the death of James Lord Say which was in the latter end of 1673 he married his widow named Frances daughter of Edward Viscount Wimbledon with whom he had great familiarity during the time of her first Husband But she being a holy Sister and kept or caused to be kept Conventicles in her house they upon trouble ensuing removed to Highgate near London where our Author Sprigge died as I shall tell you anon He hath extant these things following viz. Several Sermons viz. 1 God a Christians all himself nothing on Gen. 5.24 Printed 1640. 2 A Testimony to approaching glory in five Sermons delivered at S. Pancrass Church in Soperlane Lond. 1649 sec edit In which Sermons are contained several blasphemies as certain Pamphlets inform us See more in Joh. Owen 3 A farther Testimony c. Printed in oct This I have not yet seen 4 The dying and living Christian c. on Rom. 14.8 Lond. 1648. oct and others as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen Anglia rediviva Fnglands recovery Being the History of the motions actions and successes of the Army under the conduct of Sir Tho. Fairfax Knight Capt. General of all the Parliament forces in England Lond. 1647. fol. Characterized falsly by an outlandish author to be opus rude moles indigesta c. This book goes under the name of J. Sprigge but if a knowing author saies true Nath. Fiennes second son to Will Lord Say had a chief hand in compiling the said book Certaine weighty considerations humbly tendred and submitted to the consideration of such of the Members of the High Court of Justice for the trial of the King as they shall be presented unto Lond. 1648. in two sh in qu. Solace for Saints in the saddest times Printed in oct This I have not yet seen News of a new world from the word and works of God compared together evidencing that the times of the man of sin are legally determined and by the same right the days of the son of man are already commenced with an account of the times of Gog and Magog and of the three last Viols Lond. 1676. oct Besides these he hath other things without doubt extant but I cannot yet in all my searches find them out He died at Highgate before mention'd in the month of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body being carried to Crayford aforesaid was buried in the Church there About a fortnight after his beloved wife Frances dying was I presume buried near him So that the Estate of him the said J Sprigge went to his younger brother William who hereafter is to be mention'd as a writer RICHARD HAYTER son of Will. Hayt of the City of Salisbury was born in Wilts became a Commoner of Madg. Hall in 1628 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts retired to Salisbury lived three as a Lay-man and wrote The meaning of the Revelation or a paraphrase with questions on the Rev. of the holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Divine c. wherein the Synchronismes of Mr. Joseph Mede c. are called into question c. Lond. 1675. qu. Errata Mori The errours of Henry More Doct. of Div. contained in his Epilogue annex'd to his exposition of the Revelation of S. John in which these questions are debated c. This was made ready for the Press in Apr. 1683 and another book but whether yet printed I cannot tell He died on the 30. of June in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Thomas in Salisbury which is all I yet know of him only that he and Joh. Warner are by the Printers mistake put among the Masters of Arts in the Fasti an 1634. as Masters of Magd. College instead of Madg. Hall and that by another mistake in this vol. p. 254 he hath set down the death of Dr. H. More before mentioned to be on the 3. of Apr. instead of the first of Sept. 1687. PETER GUNNING son of Pet. Gunn Minister of How in Kent by Elianor Trest his wife a Kentish woman of a good family was born at How on the eleventh and baptized on the 16 of Janu. 1613 bred up in the Free-School at Canterbury where being found remarkably ripe for the University he was at 15 years of age sent to Clare Hall in Cambridge of which House he was soon after made Fellow having been from his first admittance very much in the Eye of all that University as having and never wanting in any kind of exercise either
party He also left behind him at his death unfinished 1 Canonis Chronici liber quintus sive Imperium Persicum 2 De Provinciis Legionibus Romanis 3 De re nummaria c. At length departing this mortal life at Bushy hall in Hertfordshire on the 25. of May in sixteen hundred eighty and five his body was thereupon conveyed to Cuxton near Rochester in Kent where he had an Estate and buried in the Church there He left issue behind him begotten on the body of Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Will. Hammond of S. Albans in East Kent two Sons viz. Sir John Marsham now of Cuxton Baronet who is writing The History of England much more exact as 't is said than any yet extant and Sir Robert of Bushy hall Knight who succeeded his Father in the place of Six Clerk In the possession of the first of these two is Sir Johns Library which tho diminished by the fire that hapned in London 1666 yet it is considerable and highly to be valued for the exquisite remarks in the margin of most of the books and in the possession of the other is his Cabinet of Greek Medals as curious as any private collection whatsoever ANDREW ALLAM the son of a sufficient Plebeian of both his names by Bridget Derling his Wife was born at Garsingdon near to and in the County of Oxon in Apr. 1655 and baptized there on the 23 of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School at Denton in the Parish of Cudesdon near to his native place under a noted Master named Will. Wildgoose M. of Arts of Brasn Coll. much fam'd for his dexterity in Pedagogy became a Batler of S. Edmunds Hall in Easter term 1671 where had it not been his misfortune to fall under the tuition of a careless and crazed person he might have prov'd a prodigy in several sorts of learning After he had taken the degrees in Arts he became a Tutor Moderator a Lecturer in the Chappel and at length Vice-principal of his House In all which offices he behaved himself much to the credit honor and flourishing thereof In 1680 at Whitsontide he entred into holy Orders and in 83 he was one of the Masters of the Schools which last place he executed with very great judgment and prudence He was a person of eminent virtues was sober temperate moderate and modest even to example He understood the controversial writings between Conformâ—sts and Nonconformists Protestants and Papists far beyond his years which was advanc'd by a great and happy memory And I am perswaded had he not been taken off by the said Offices he would have gone beyond all of his time and age in those matters and might have proved an useful and signal member to the Church of England for which he had most zealous respect He understood the world of men well authors better and nothing but years and experience were wanting in to make him a compleat walking Library His works that are extant are 1 The learned Preface or Epistle to the Reader with a dedicatory Epist in the Printers name set before The Epistle Congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor c. to the Covenanters of Scotland c. Oxon. 1684. 2 The Epistle with the account therein of Dr. Rich. Cosins's life set before the said Cosins's book entit Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia in tabulas digesta Oxon 1684. in a thin fol. The ded Epist to Sir Leolin Jenkins in the Printers name was written by Christoph Wase superior Beadle of Law in the Univ. of Oxon. 3 The Epistle before with a review and correction of the book entit Some plain discourses on the Lords Supper c. Written by Dr. George Griffith B. of S. Asaph Oxon. 1684. oct 4 Five or six sheets of his own hand writing and composure containing corrections in and addit to a book entit Angliae Notitia or the present state of England c. written by one who had been also of S. Edm. Hall They were made by Mr. Allam in the edit of that book printed at Lond. 1684. and were all as I presume inserted in that edition which came out at that place in 1687 but without any acknowledgment with shame be it spoken from the author of that Notitia who neither returned those thanks that he ought out of common civility to have done or granted him his company or acquaintance when he went to Lond to desire it purposely to communicate such things by word of mouth which he could not without great trouble by his Pen concerning various matters in that book 5 He also began and made divers additions in Helvicus his Historical and Chronological Theatre as occasion required and would have quite finished the supplement at the end from 1660 to 1685 had he not been cut off by cruel death These things were printed with that author at Lond. 1687 fol But the Reader is to understand that whereas there was a colom in that book of the said editi-of 1687 made to contain the names of the famous Jesuits from the first foundation of their order to the year 1685 which was not in any of the Latine editions 't was not done by Allam but by a busie body nor that passage under the year 1678 which runs thus Titus Oates discovers a pretended Popish Plot. 6 He had laid the foundation of a Notitia Ecclesiae Anglicanae wherein he would have spoken of the foundation of all Cathedrals with a touch of their Statutes and Customs Which done to set down the names of the present Bishop Dean Archdeacon Cannons and Officers of each Cathedral but death also prevented the finishing this He also many times lent his assisting hand to the author of this present work especially as to the Notitia of certain modern writers of our Nation while the said author was day and night drudging after those more antient For the truth is which hath been a wonder to him since his death he understood well what he wanted and what would be fit for him to be brought into this work which none else in the University could as he and the author knew full well to their great reluctancy or would give any assistance or encouragement Further it must not be forgotten that he translated into English The Life of Iphicrates written in Lat. by Corn. Nepos and remitted into the book of Lives of that author translated by several Oxford hands Oxon. 1684. oct p. 99 c. At length after a great deal of fear of and avoidance from the disease called the Small pox he was in unseasonable weather overtaken by it so that being not able to overcome its encounters he did surrender up his spotless soul being too worthy for this world and the people he lived with and was wedded to his Saviour Jesus Ch. on the 17. of June about noon in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was buried the same day late at night at the west end of the Church of S.
ordered that a copy of it should be sent to Anglesey and that he return an answer thereunto on the 20 of the said month at Hampton Court But no Council being then held notwithstanding Anglesey had made answer to Ormond's particular charges against him the next day the matter was defer'd till the 27 of the same month Another Council being therefore there held on that day the charges and answers were debated Which done and the Lords concerned being withdrawn this resolution passed by the Council on Anglesey's letter to the Earl of Castlehaven viz. That it was a scandalous libel against his late Majesty against his now Majesty and against the Government When the Parties or Lords concern'd were called in again the Lord Chancellour only told Anglesey that the King conceived him faulty in the clause pag. 32. of the said Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven wherein the Committees of the Parliament of Ireland were mention'd as having been in at the intrigues of the Popish Faction at Court. After which a farther hearing was appointed to be on the 3 of Aug. following but Anglesey continuing extream ill of the Gout and finding himself prejudg'd by the Lords of the Council on the 27 of July he wrot a Letter on the 2 of Aug. to his Majesty which being openly read in Council the next day he did in some manner as 't was said resent it for some passages therein yet nothing appear'd entred to be done thereupon Afterwards the Earl of Castlehaven James Touchet was called in several times and question'd about his Memoires which he acknowledging to be his the said book in conclusion was by his Majesty and Council judged to be a scandalous Libel against the Government On the 9 of the said month of Aug. 1682 the Privy Seal by command from his Majesty was taken away from Anglesey by Sir Leolin Jenkins Principal Secretary of State without any farther hearing and was given to George Marquess of Halyfax Besides the aforesaid Letter of the E. of Anglesey written to the Earl of Castlehaven containing Observations c. was another book published intit Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires c. written by Dr. Edm. Borlase Author of The Hist of the execrable Irish Rebellion c. and printed at London 1682. oct But the said Author who commends Anglesey's Letter was not regarded Afterwards our Author Anglesey wrot A true account of the whole Proceedings betwixt James Duke of Ormonde and Arthur Earl of Anglesie before the King and his Council c. Lond. 1682 in 18 sh in fol. and A Letter of Remarks upon Jovian Lond. 1683. in two sh in qu which Jovian was wrot by Dr. George Hicks Dean of Worcester In the beginning of the year 1686 he began to be admitted into the favour of King James 2 but being about that time seized with a Quinsey in his throat died soon after as I shall anon tell you leaving behind him The History of Ireland MS. and The Kings right of indulgence in spiritual matters with the equity thereof asserted Which book being put into the hands of Hen. Care he caused it to be published at Lond. in Nov. 1687. in 10 sh and an half in qu. with the date of 16S8 put at the bottom of the title So that that person who in the time of the Popish Plot had shew'd himself the most bitter enemy in the Nation against the Papists and Duke of York by publishing The weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome and other things was when the said Duke came to the Crown taken so much into favour as to be made a Tool to print matters for the abolishing of the Test and Penal Laws the publishing of which book was one At length after our Author Arthur Earl of Anglesey had acted the part of a Polititian for more than 45 years he gave way to fate in his house in Drury-lane within the Liberty of Westminster on Easter Tuesday the 6 of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six whereupon his body being conveyed to Farnborough in Hampshire where he had an Estate was buried in the Church there He left behind him a choice Library of Books which were exposed to sale by way of Auction in Oct. Nov. c. following JOHN DOLBEN son of Will. Dolb. D. D. was born at Stanwick in Northamptonshire of which his father was Rector elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. school an 1640 aged 15 years bore arms for a time in Oxon when made a Garrison for his Majesty and having made proof of his Courage in that service he was appointed an Ensign and at length a Major in one of the Armies belonging to his Majesty but after the surrender of Oxford the declension of the Kings Cause and his Army disbanded he returned to Christ Church again and took the degree of Master of Arts in 1647 and the next year was ejected from his Students place by the Visitors appointed by Parliament Soon after he took to wife Catherine daughter of Ralph Sheldon elder brother to Dr. Gilb. Sheldon then lately Warden of All 's Coll. with whom he lived during the time of Usurpation in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon and assisted Mr. Joh. Fell in keeping up the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church of England in a private house opposite to Mert. Coll. Church After the Kings restauration he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. 27 Jul. 1660 in the place of John Pointer then ejected and soon after was created Doctor of Divinity At which time the Uncle of his Wife being Bishop of London and in great favour with the King he was upon his recommendation deservedly made not only Archdeacon of London in the place of Dr. Thom. Paske deceased but afterwards Clerk of the Closet and Dean of Westminster upon the promotion of Dr. Earle to the See of Worcester in which last dignity he was installed 5 Dec. 1662. In 1666 he was made Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner deceased to which See being consecrated in the Archb. Chappel at Lambeth on the 25 of Nov. the same year he had then liberty allowed him by his Majesty to keep his Deanery in commendam Afterwards he became Almoner to his Majesty and at that time and before that place was manag'd to the benefit of the Poor with great justice and integrity At length upon the death of Dr. Sterne Archb. of York he was by vertue of the Kings Conge d'eslire elected to that See 28 Jul. 1683 and soon after viz. Aug. 16. being translated thereunto in the Archb. Chap. at Lambeth was on the 23 of the same month enthronized He was a man of a free generous and noble disposition and withall of a natural bold and happy Eloquence As he imitated his Uncle Bishop Williams in the greatness of his parts and abilities so he by a certain hereditary right succeeded him in his Honours both in his Deanery of Westminster and his Archbishoprick of York He was not very careful
great effects if ever it shall be retrieved upon the publick stock of the Nation c. A model of it tho lost was given by the inventor thereof to the Royal Society made with his own hand and it is at this day kept in the repository at Gresham College To conclude he was a person of an admirable inventive head of a prodigious working wit and of so great worth and learning that he was both fit for and an honour to the highest preferment He hath written Advice concerning the education of youth c. Lond. 1647. qu. Written to Mr. Sam. Hartlib under the two letters of W. P. Advice for the advancement of some particular parts of learning Lond 1648. written to Sam. Hartlib This title which I have received from a second hand may be for I have not yet seen it the same with the Advice before mentioned A brief of proceedings between Sir Hierom Zanchy and him with the state of the controversie between them Lond. 1659. in 2 or 3. sh in fol. The articles then put up against him relating to his actions in Ireland were 1 That he the said Doctor Petty had received great bribes 2 That he had made a trade of buying debenters in vast numbers against the statute 3 That he had gotten vast summs of money and scopes of land by fraud 4 That he had used many foul practices as Surveyor and Commissioner for setting out lands 5 That he and his fellow Commissioners had placed some debenters in better places than they could claim denying right to others 6 That he and his fellow Commissioners had totally disposed of the Armies security the debt still remaining chargeable on the state All which were according to the said Brief of proceedings cleared by Petty what the event of the matter was I cannot have Reflections upon some persons and things in Ireland by letters to and from him Doct. Petty with Sir Hierom Zanchy's speech in Parliament Lond. 1660. oct written mostly against his busie and envious Antagonist Zanchy of whom I shall speak elsewhere A treatise of taxes and contributions shewing the nature and measures of Crown-lands assessments customs poll-moneys lotteries benevolence c. Lond. 1662 and 67. in about 10. sh in qu. Discourse made before the Royal society 26. Nov. 1674 concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars Lond. 1674 in tw See in the Philosoph Transact nu 109. p. 209. A new Hypothesis of springing or elastique motions Printed at the end of the said Discourse An apparatus to the history of the common practices of Dying See in The Hist of the Royal Society written by Tho. Sprat Lond. 1667. qu. part 2. p. 284. c. Treatise or discourse about the building of Ships It was presented by the author in MS to the R. Society about 1665 contained in about a quire of paper of his own writing but William Lord Brounker President of the Council pertaining to that Society took it away and kept it in his possession till 1682 and after perhaps to the time of his death saying it was too great an Arcanum of state to be commonly perused The author tho he had no copy of it by him yet Dr. Rob. Wood who lived in Ireland had one Colloquium Davidis cum anima sua accinente paraphrasim in 104 psalmum de magnalibus dei Lond. 1679 in two sh in fol. This thing which is in latin Hexameter was composed by the author 25 of March 1678 under the name of Cassid Aureus Minutius Political Arithmetick or a discourse concerning the extent and value of land people buildings husbandry manufacture commerce fishery artizans seamen soldiers publick revenues c. as the same relates to every County in general and more particularly to the territories of his Majesty of Great Britain and his neighbours of Holland and France This was presented in MS by the author to his Majesty Ch. 2 and Sir Joseph Williamson had a copy of it but was not printed till Mich. term 1690 'T is in oct as the other volumes of Pol. Arithm. are Another Essay in political Arithmetick concerning the growth of the City of London with the measures periods causes and consequences thereof an 1682. Lond. 1683. 86 in 3 sh in oct Observations upon the Dublin-bills of mortality 1681. and the state of that City Lond. 1683 in 3. sh in oct He had also long before assisted or put into a way John Graunt in his writing of Nat. and Pol. Observations of the bills of mortality of Lond. Maps of Ireland being his actual survey of that whole kingdom These were printed in fol. 1685. and were then valued at 2 l. 10 s. in quires Essay concerning the multiplication of mankind Lond. 1686. oct With this was printed the second edit of Another Essay in Pol. Arith. c. Further observations upon the Dublin bills or accompts of the houses hearths baptismes and burials of the City Lond. 1686. oct Two Essays in Political Arithmetick concerning the people housing hospitals of London and Paris with observations on the Cities of London and Rome Lond. 1686. 7. oct Five Essays in political Arithmetick viz. 1. Objections from the City of Rey in Persia and from Monsieur Aurout against two former Essays answer'd and that London hath as many people as Paris Rome and Rouen put together 2. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars 3. Proofs that in London within its 134. Parishes in the bills of mortality there live about six hundred ninety six thousand People 4. An estimate of the people c. Lond. 1687. oct A treatise of taxes and contributions particularly fitted for the state of Ireland Lond. 1691. qu. Printed in a book entit A Collection of three state Tracts c. Treatise of naval philosophy c. Lond. 1691 oct Qu. whether the same with the Treatise or disc about building of Ships before mention'd The Political Anatomy of Ireland c. Lond. 1691. oct Verbum Sapienti or an account of the wealth and expence of England c. Ibid. 1691. oct This is animadverted upon in a pamph intit A letter from a Gent. in the Country to his friend in the City c. Lond. 1692. qu. This learned Vertuoso Sir Will. Petty died in his house in Piccadilly-street almost opposite to S. James's Church within the liberty of Westminster of a Gangreen in his foot occasion'd by the swelling of the Gout on the sixteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was carried to Rumsey the place of his nativity and buried in the Church there near the bodies of his father and mother By his wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Hardress Waller Kt and Relict of Sir Maurice Fenton he had issue two sons viz. Charles created Baron of Shelborne in Ireland soon after his fathers death and Henry and a daughter named Anne He had also a natural daughter more like to him than any other of his children who was an
Actress in the Dukes Play-house an 1680 and after Could I have seen Sir Will. Petty's life written by himself which is in MS. in the hands of his brother in Law Waller I might have spoken more fully and punctually of him but the owner of it living remote from the author of this book and altogether unknown to him he could never gain a sight of it THOMAS PITTIS son of a father of both his names a Captain somtimes of the trained Bands in the Isle of Wight was born at Knighton there became a Commoner of Trin. Coll. in the latter end of 1652 took one degree in Arts and then translated himself to Linc. Coll. where he was esteemed by his Contemporaries a tolerable Disputant Afterwards he took the degree of Master and was made one of the Terrae Filii but his speech being much disliked by the Godly party of those times he was expel'd the University an 1658. Afterwards he was prefer'd to the Rectory of Gatcombe in the Isle of Wight took the degree of Bach. of Div. 1665 became Vicar of the Parish of Holy Rood in Southampton by the favour of Dr. Morley B. of Winchester made Lecturer of Ch. Church in London being about that time one of his Maj. Chapl. in Ord. proceeded in Div. in 1670 and had the Rectory of Lutterworth in Leicestersh bestowed on him by the King which he exchanged with the successor of Mr. Rob. Clarke somtimes of Linc. Coll. for the Rectory of S. Botolph without Bishopsgate London So that before his death he was Rector of Gatcombe Chapl. in Ord. to his Majesty Lecturer at Ch. Church and Rector of S. Botolph before mention'd His works are these A private Conference between a rich Alderman and a poor Country Vicar made public Wherein is discoursed the obligation of Oaths which have been imposed on the Subjects of England Lond. 1670. oct Several Sermons as 1 Serm. before the Artillery Company on Luke 3.14 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 An old way of ending new Controversies preached to the Comptroller and Gentlemen of the Society of the Inner Temple 8. Jan. 1681 on 1. John 2. former part of the 24. ver Lond. 1682. qu. c. A discourse of Prayer wherein this great duty is stated so as to oppose some principles and practices of Papists and Fanaticks as they are contrary to the publick Formes of the Church of England established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parl. Lond. 1683. oct A discourse concerning the trial of Spirits wherein enquiry is made into mens pretences to inspiration for publishing doctrines in the name of God beyond the rules of Sacred Scripture in opposition to some Principles of Papists and Fanaticks as they contradict the Doctrine of the Church of England defined in her Articles of Religion established by her Ecclesiastical Canons and confirmed by Acts of Parliament Lond. 1684 oct Dedic to Sir Edw. Worsley Kt Deput Gov. of the Isle of Wight This Dr. Pittis died on the 28. of Decemb. Innocents day in sixteen hundred eighty and seven whereupon his body was conveyed from the Parish of S. Botolph before mentiond into the Isle of Wight and there buried at Westcowes as I have been informed CLEMENT BARKSDALE son of Joh. Barks was born at Winchcombe in Glocestershire on S. Clements day 23. Nov. 1609 educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School at Abendon in Berks entred a Servitour in Mert. Coll. in the beginning of Lent terme 1625 but making little stay there he translated himself to Gloc. Hall under the tuition and Patronage of Deg. Whear the Principal where continuing a severe Student several years he took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred Function and in 1637 he supplyed the place of Chaplain of Lincoln Coll. at the Church of Allsaints commonly called Alhallowes in the City of Oxon. But being called thence the same year he was made Master of the Free-School at Hereford Vicar Choral there and in short time after Vicar of Alhallowes in that City In 1646 the Garrison of Hereford which had been a little before surprized by the Parliam Forces he was rescued out of the danger of that time and placed at Sudeley Castle near the place of his Nativity where he exercised his Ministry and submitted to the men then in power And after that he sheltred at Hawling in Coltswold where he taught a private School with good success After the Kings restauration he was by his Majesties gift setled in the Parsonage of Naunton near Hawling and Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire which he kept to the time of his death He was a good Disputant a great admirer of Hugh Grotius a frequent preacher but very conceited and vain a great pretender to Poetry and a writer and translater of several little Tracts most of which are meer Scribbles The titles follow Monumenta literaria sive â—obitus Elogia doctorum Virorum ex historiis Jac. Aug. Thuani Lond. 1640. qu and several times after with additions or corrections in oct A short Practical Catechisme out of Dr. Hammond with a paper monument Lond. 1649. oct Adagilia Sacra Novi Testamenti Selecta exposita ab Andr. Schotto Oxon. 1651. in tw They were drawn into a Compendium by Barksdale Nympha Libethris or the Coâ—swold Muse presenting some extempore Verses to the imitation of young Scholars In four parts Lond. 1651. oct I have a book in my Study entit Annalia Dubrensia Upon the yearly celebration of Mr. Rob. Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills c. Lond. 1636 qu. This book which hath the running title on every page of Cotswold Games consists of verses made by several hands on the said Annalia Dubrensia but nothing of the Cotswold Muse of Barksdale relates to them which some that have only seen the title of it think it to be the same The said Games were begun and continued at a certain time in the year for 40 years by one Rob. Dover an Attorney of Barton on the Heath in Warwickshire son of John Dover of Norfolk who being full of activity and of a generous free and publick Spirit did with leave from K. Jam. 1. select a place on Cotswold Hills in Glocestershire whereon those Games should be acted Endimion Porter Esq a native of that County and a servant to that King a person also of a most generous spirit did to encourage Dover give him some of the said Kings old clothes with a Hat and Feather and Ruff purposely to grace him and consequently the solemnity Dover was constantly there in person well mounted and accoutred and was the chief Director and Manager of those Games frequented by the Nobility and Gentry some of whom came 60 Miles to see them even till the rascally Rebellion was began by the Presbyterians which gave a stop to their proceedings and spoyled all that was generous or ingenious elsewhere The verses in the said book called Annalia Dubrensia were composed by several Poets some of which were
his books p. 234 and in Will. Erbury an 1654. p. 104. In Thomae Hobbii philosophiam exercitatio Epistolica ad D. Joh. Wilkinsium Guardianum Coll. Wadhami Ox. 1656. octav Appendicula ad calumnias ab eodem Hobbio in sex documentis nuperrimè editis in authorem congestas responsoria Printed with the Exercitatio epistolica Astronomia Geometrica ubi methodus proponitur qua primariorum Planetarum Astronomia sive Elliptica sive circularis possit Geometricè absolvi Lond. 1656. oct Several Sermons as 1 Against resistance of lawful powers preached 5 Nov. 1661. on Rom. 13.2 2 Against the Antiscripturists pr. 20 Feb. 1669 on 2 Tim. 3.16 3 Concerning sinfulness danger and remedies of infidelity pr. 16 Feb. 1667 on Heb. 3.12 4 Sermon before the H. of Peers at Westm 10 Oct. 1666 on Eceles 11.9 5 Serm. concerning the strangeness frequency and desperate consequence of impenitency preached 1 Apr. 1666 soon after the great Plague on Rev. 9.20 6 Serm. against Ingratitude on Deut. 32.6 7 An Apologie for the mysteries of the Gospel preached 16. Feb. 1671 on Rom. 1.16 Some of which Sermons having been severally printed at several times were all printed in one vol. at Lond. 1673 74. oct and then said to have been all preached at Whitehall except the fourth 8 The Christians victory over death preached at the funeral of George Duke of Albemarle c. in the collegiat Church of S. Pet. Westm 30 Apr. 1670 on 1. Cor. 15.57 Lond. 1670. qu. 9 The Case of Joram preached before the House of Peers 30. Jan. 1673 on 2. Kings 6 last vers Lond. 1674. qu. He also collected viewed and reviewed the Determinationes Theologicae Tractatus de justificatione and Praelectiones de peccato originali of Dr. Samuel Ward before mentioned which he caused to be printed and published at London In the beginning of the year 1683 arose a controversie between him the said Dr. Ward Bishop of Salisbury and Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of the Cathedral Church there occasion'd by the denial upon the first asking of Pierce for a Prebendship in the said Church for his Son Robert which denial being much resented by Pierce notwithstanding the reversion of it had been before promised by the Bishop he studied revenge and forthwith rais'd a controversie by maintaining that the King had right of giving and bestowing of the Dignities in the Church of Salisbury and not the Bishop Which controversie being laid before his Majesties Commissioners for Ecclesiastical affairs they ordered Dr. Pierce to write a Narrative of that matter which being done Dr. Ward answered it but 't was not printed Whereupon Pierce wrot A Vindication of the Kings Soveraign rights c. which was printed at Lond. 1683 in 12. sh in fol. Afterwards the controversie being carried on by the black and dismal malice of Pierce it did so much discompose the Bishop especially by the several journies to London in unseasonable time and weather that by degrees his spirits were exhausted his memory gone and totally unfit for business About a month before he died he took very little sustenance and lived only on the stock and died a Skeleton which hapning in his house at Knightbridge near London on Sunday morn the sixth of January being the day of Epiphany in sixteen hundred eighty and eight his body was afterwards conveyed to Salisbury and buried in the Cathedral there What epitaph he hath over his grave I know not notwithstanding I have more than once sent for it and therefore take this character of him given by Mr. Oughtred in his pref to Clavis mathem running thus Vir prudens pius ingenuâ—s nec mathesi solum sed omni politioris literaturae genere cultissimus c. He tells us there that he was the first in Cambr. that expounded his Clav. Math. and that he had taken a large journey to see him in his hidden and retired condition at which time by his importunate desire he did correct add many things to and republish his said book of Clav. Math. There had been formerly several learned Letters passed between him and Ballialdus and Hevelius which are yet kept private THOMAS CARTWRIGHT son of Tho. Cartwright sometimes Schoolmaster of Brentwood in Essex was born in the antient Borough of Northampton on the first of Sept. 1634 educated in the School there and being puritanically educated under Presbyterian Parents was sent to Magd. Hall where spending two terms in the study of Logick was forcibly put into Queens Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 and at that time was put under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully Afterwards he was made Tabarder and Chapl. of the Coll. for a time but before he was elected Fellow he left the House having before been ordained Priest by Dr. Robert Skinner B. of Oxon. and became Vicar of Walthamstow in Essex and a very forward and confident preacher for the cause then in being In 1659 I find him Chaplain to Joh. Robinson Esq Alderman and then Sherriff of London and a Preacher at S. Mary Magd. in Milkstreet but whether he did then enjoy the Vicaridge of Barking in Essex which he did after his Majesties restauration I cannot tell After the Kings return he shew'd himself very forward to express his loyalty was made domestick Chaplain to Henry Duke of Glocester procured himself to be actually created D. of D tho not of full standing for it was made Preb. of Twyford in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul Minister of S. Thomas Apostle in London Preb. of Shalford in the Church of Wells and Chaplain in Ord. to his Majesty In Nov. 1672 he was installed Prebend of Durham struck in on the death of Dr. Tully his quondam Tutor and was made Dean of Rippon in the latter end of 1675. Afterwards putting in with great boldness before his Seniors for a Bishoprick particularly for that of S. David but put aside by Dr. L. Womack was at length made Bishop of Chester on the death of the most learned and religious Dr. John Pearson to which See being consecrated with Dr. Lloyd to S. David and Dr. Parker to Oxon at Lambeth on the 17. of Octob. 1686 had liberty then allowed to him to keep the Vicaridge of Barking and the Rectory of Wigan in Lanc. which he before had obtained in commendam with his Bishoprick In the next year he being then in favour with K. James 2 and ready upon all occasions to run with his humour purposely to obtain a translation to a better Bishoprick he was by him not only added to the number of Ecclesiastical Commissioners but also appointed one of the three Delegates or Commissioners Sir Rob. Wright Ch. Just of the Kings-Bench and Sir Thomas Jenner one of the Barons of the Exchecquer being the other two to go to Oxon to examine and determine the affairs relating to Magd. Coll and what they did there in ejecting the President and Fellows thereof a book entit An impartial relation of the
then admitted because he was esteemed by the faction a zealous Royallist Afterwards with much ado he obtained the Church of Bolton in Craven in Yorkshire which being worth but 50 l. per an supposed then enough to maintain a malignant Minister he was permitted to keep it during the sad affliction of the Church of England In 1661 his Maj. K. Ch. 2. being then setled in the regal Throne he was admitted to the Church of Whalton by John L. Bishop of Durham was about the same time made Preacher of the Parochial Chappel of S. John in the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and chosen a member of the Convocation for Yorkshire as he was again in 1679 and Procurator Cleri for the Archdeaconry of Northumberland He hath written The Pourtraicture of the Primitive Saints in their actings and sufferings according to S. Paul's canon Heb. 11. One part whereof to verse 23 was preached at Newcastle 1652. The other from verse 22 to the end was preached at the same place an 1659. Both which were afterwards published in qu. Origo Protestantium or an answer to a popish manuscript of N. N's that would fain make the Protestant Catholick Religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than Popery Lond. 1677. and 79. qu. Answer to the Jesuits letter Printed with the former book and the Jesuits letter with it No reformation of the established religion Lond 1685. oct This loyal religious and learned person died on the 22 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chap. or Church of S. John in Newcastle before mention'd just before the altar Soon after his ingenious Son Joh. Shaw belonging to the Cath. Church of Norwich bestowed an epitaph on his Fathers marble part of which runs thus Hic quod remanet Johannis Shaw hujus Ecclesiae Pastoris Deo Ecclesiae Patriae Regi pie fidelis c. Besides this John Shaw was another of both his names and time Minister of Hull in Yorkshire author of several Sermons among which are 1 Britannia rediviva or a soveraign remedy to cure a sick commonwealth preached in the Minster at York before the Judges at the Assize 9. Aug. 1649 2 The Princess Royal preached at the same place before the Judges 24 Mar. 1650. c. And among other things he hath published a book entit Mistriss Shawes tomb stone or the Saints remains being a brief narrative of some few remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw the Wife of Mr. John Shaw who died oh the 10. Dec. 1657. Lond. 1657. oct WILLIAM ANNAND son of Will. Annand Parson of Air the Head-Burgh royal of the Shire of Air in the Dioc. of Glasgow in Scotland was born in the said Burgh an 1633 and being 5. years of age was conveyed by his Father with his family into England in the time of the great rebellion and Presbyterian tyranny an 1638 they being forced to make their escape thither on account of their loyalty to their Prince and their adherence to the Episcopal government then established by law in that Kingdom He was descended of the Annands of Auchterellon an antient family in the Shire of Aberdene and Parish of Ellon but now their estate there is out of their hands In 1651 our author W. Annand became a Scholar of Univ. Coll and tho then put under a Presbyterian Tutor and Discipline yet he took all occasions to frequent Sermons preached by loyal persons in and near Oxon. In 1656 he being then Bach. of Arts he took holy Orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Dr. Thomas Fulwar Bishop of Ardfert or Kirrie in Ireland in the beginning of Aug and the same year we find him preacher of Gods word at Weston on the Green near Bister in Oxfordshire where he found great encouragement from Sir Fr. Norris Lord of that Town After he had proceeded in Arts he became Vicar of Leighton Budezard in Bedfordshire where continuing in good repute for his ready and edifying way of preaching till 1662 he then went in the quality of a Chaplain with his Grace John Earl of Middleton Lord high Commissioner of Scotland when he left the Court at Whitehall to go to that Kingdom In the latter end of 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburg where continuing several years was transplauded to the Trone Church of that City which is also a Prebendship In Apr. 1676 he was by the presentation of his Majesty under his royal hand with the Privy Seal of his Kingdom of Scotland appended thereto made Dean of Edinburgh and on Oct. 1. an 1685 he commenced Doctor of Div. in the University of S. Andrew His works as to learning are these Fides Catholica Or the doctrine of the Cath. Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word Sacraments and Prayer in purity number and nature catholickly maintained and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts Lond. 1661. 62. in a pretty thick qu. Solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to the nature of each ordinance c. Print with Fides Catholica c. Panem quotidianum or a short discourse tending to prove the legality decency and expediency of set forms of prayer in the Churches of Christ with a particular defence of the book of Common prayer of the Church of England Lond. 1661. qu. Pater noster Our Father or the Lords Prayer explained the sense thereof and duties therein from Scripture History and Fathers methodically cleared and succinctly opened Lond. 1670. oct Mysterium Pietatis or the mystery of godliness c. Lond. 1671. oct Doxologia or glory to the Father the Churches Hymn reduced to glorifying the Trinity Lond. 1672. oct Dualitas or a twofold subject displayed and opened conduceable to godliness and peace in order first Lex loquens the honor and dignity of Magistracy with the duties thereupon c. secondly Duorum unitas or the agreement of Magistracy and Ministry at the election of the honorable Magistrates of Edinburgh and opening of the diocesan synod of the rev Clergy there Edinburg 1674. qu. He died at about one of the Clock in the Morn of the 13 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine whereupon his body was conveyed in the evening of that day to the vestry of that part of S. Giles's Church which is called the High Church of Edinburgh in which Church as Dean he did ordinarily preach at the very same time that Duke Gordon surrendred up the Castle there to the Convention On the 15 of the said month he was honorably interr'd in the Grey Friers Church but without a funeral Sermon because not permitted by the Presbyterians in whose hands the Magistracy then was As his life was pious and devout so was his sickness and death to the great comfort of those then present with him He received his
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.
way c. for the use of the Neophyte in Merchant Taylors School Lond. 1676. oct 〈◊〉 edit Declamation whether Monarchy be the best formâ— of government This is at the end of a book entit The English Orator or Rhetorical descants by way of Declaâ—mation Lond. 1680. oct written by Will. Richards of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. But the grand work which he laboured in from about the year 1650 to the time that it was published but hindred from finishing it sooner thro the manifold avocations and the vastness of the enterprize is that intit Astro Meteorologica or Aphorismes and discourses of the bodies Celestial their natures and influences discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air temperate or intemperate as to heat or cold frost snow hail fog raine wind storme lightnings thunder blasting hurricane c. Lond. 1686. fol. The whole discourse is founded on sacred authority and reason About the time of his death was published of his Composition Autodidactica or a practical Vocabulary being the best and easiest method yet extant for young beginners to attain to the knowledg of the Latin tongue Lond. 1690 oct and after his death was published under his name Astro-Meteorologia sana sive Principia Physico-Mathematica quibus mutationum aeris morborum epidemicorum cometarum Terrae Motuum aliorumque insigniorum naturae effectuum ratio reddi possit Lond. 1690. qu with his picture before it very much resembling him while living aged 62 an 1677. He also wrot a book Concerning plagues their number natures kinds c. Which while in printing was burnt in the dismal conflagration of London an 1666. At length this learned and religious person concluding his last day on Munday the 28. of Octob. S. Simon and Jude about 5 of the Clock in the morn in sixteen hundred eighty and nine was buried on the Wednesday following among the graves of his Relations in the Church of Great S. Helen in Bishopsgate street in London Soon after were published several Elegies on his death two of which I have seen One was made by Joshua Barnes Bach. of Div. of Cambridge which begins thus Can then a father of our Israel die And none step forth to sound an Elegy The other was made by his great Admirer James Wright of the Middle Temple Esq the beginning of which also is this Goodness inspire me while I write of one Who was all Goodness but alas he 's gone THOMAS SYDENHAM son of Will. Sydenham of Winford Eagle in Dorsetsh Esq was born there became a Communer of Magd. Hall in Midsomer term an 1642. aged 18 years or thereabouts left Oxon while it was a Garrison for his Majesties use and did not bear Arms for him as other Scholars then and there did went to London fell accidentally into the company of a noted Physitian called Dr. Tho. Cox who finding him to be a person of more than ordinary parts encourag'd and put him into a method to study Physick at his return to the University After the said Garrison was delivered to the Parliament Forces he retired again to Magd. Hall entred on the Physick Line was actually created Bachelaur of that faculty in the Pembrockian Creation in Apr. 1648 having not before taken any degree in Arts and about that time subscribing and submitting to the authority of the Visitors appointed by Parliament he was thro the endeavours of a near relation made by them Fellow of All 's Coll in the place of one of those many then ejected for their Loyalty After he had continued for some years there in the zealous prosecution of that Faculty he left the University without the taking of any other degree there and at length setled in Westminster became Doctor of his Faculty at Cambridge an exact observer of diseases and their Symptoms famous for his practice the chief Physitian from 1660 to 1670 and in his last dayes Licentiat or Permissus of the College of Physitians He was a person of a florid stile of a generous and publick Spirit very charitable and was more famous especially beyond the Seas for his published books then before he had been for his practice which was much lessened after the year 1670 when then he was laid up with the terrible disease of the Gout He was famous for his cool regimen in the Small-pox which his greatest Adversaries have been since forc'd to take up and follow He was also famous for his method of giving the Bark after the Paroxysm in Agues and for his Laudanum He hath written Methodus curandi febres propriis observationinibus superstructa c. cui etiam accessit sectio quinta de Peste sive morbo pestilentiali Lond. 1668. oct sec edit more large and corrected than the former Observationes Medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam curationem Lond. 1676. 85. oct with his picture before them An account of these Observat are in the Philos Transact nu 123. p. 568 and a just character in Dr. W. Cole's Epist to our author printed with Dissert Epist following Epistolae responsoriae duae Prima de morbis epidemicis ab an 1675. ad an 1680. Written to Rob. Brady Doct. of Physick Master or Head of Caies Coll. in Cambr. and the Kings Professor of Phys there Secunda de Luis venereae historia curatione Written to Henry Paman Doct. of Physick Fell. of S. Joh. Coll. in Camb Pub. Orator of that Univ and Professor of Phys in Gresham Coll. Both these Epistles were printed at Lond. 1680. and 85. oct with two short Epistles set before them written by the said Doctors Brady and Paman which our author answers Dissertatio Epistolaris ad Spectatiss doctiss virum Guliel Cole M. D. de observationibus nuperis circa curationem variolarum confluentiam necnon de affectione hysterica Lond. 1682. 85. oct The three last books were reprinted at Amsterdam 1683. oct with several corrections in them Tractatus de Podagrâ Hydrope Lond. 1683 85. oct All which books were reprinted at Lond. 1685. with an useful index Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu Lond. 1686. oct This learned Doctor died in his house in the Pall-mall in the Suburbs of Westm on the 29. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the South Isle near to the S. door of the Church of S. James there He had an elder brother named William Sydenham an active man in the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1. was a Colonel of Horse and Foot Governor of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis and Commander in chief in Dorsetshire afterward one of O. Cromwells Council and a Lord of his other House had a great command in the Isle of Wight was one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury a great Rumper and one of the Committee of Safety c. HENRY HURST a late noted Preacher of the Nonconformists party son of Hen. Hurst somtimes Vicar of Mickleton in Glocestershire was born there entred
1642. Wherein several passages relating to the late Civil Wars omitted in former Histories are made known Lond. 1681. in a large folio It was also commonly reported that he was author of a book entit The honors of the Lords Spiritual asserted and their privileges to vote in Capital Cases in Parl. maintained by Reason and Precedents c. Lond. 1679. in 7. sh in fol. but how true I cannot tell Quaere He died in the Prison called the Fleet in London about Midsomer in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried in the middle Isle of the Church of S. Vedastus in Foster-Lane within the said City as I have been lately enformed thence JOHN CAVE son of Joh. Cave Impropriator and Vicar of Great Milton in Oxfordshire was born at Stoke-Line near Bister in the same County educated in the Free School at Thame became Demy of Magd. Coll. an 1654 and on the 24. Sept. 1660 he being then Bach. of Arts was elected Fellow of that of Lincoln At which time conforming himself to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England notwithstanding he had been disciplin'd under Presbyterians and Independents he afterwards took the degree of Master and entred into holy Orders Afterwards he was made Rector of Cold Overton commonly call'd Coleorton in Leicestershire and Chaplain to Dr. Crew when he was made Bishop of Durham Which Doctor bestowing on him the Church of Gateside near Newcastle upon Tyne he afterwards changed it with Rich. Werge for Nailston in Leicestershire which with Coleorton and a Prebendship of Durham which he also obtained by the favour of the said Bishop he kept to his dying day He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A Serm. preached at the Assizes in Leicester 31. Jul. 1679. on Micah 4.5 Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Serm. to a country audience on the late day of Fasting and Prayer Jan. 30. on Tim. 1.2 ver 1.2 Lond. 1679. qu. 3 The Gospell preached to the Romans in four Sermons of which two were preached on the 5. of Nov. and two on the 30. of Jan all on Rom. 1.15 Lond. 1681. oct 4 The duty and benefit of submission to the will of God in afflictions two Serm. on Heb. 12.9 Lond. 1682. qu. 5 King Davids Deliverance and Thanksgiving applyed to the case of our King and Nation in two Sermons the one preached on the second the other on the ninth of Sept. 1683 the first on Psal 18.48 the second on Psal 18.49 Lond. 1684. qu. 5 Christian tranquility Or the Government of the passion of joy and grief Serm. upon the occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young Gent. Mr. Franc. Wollatson Wollaston an only son and heir to a very fair estate preached at Shenton in Leycestersh Lond. 1685. qu. This Mr. Cave died in the beginning of Oct. in sixteen hundred and ninety aged 52 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Coleorton before mention'd In his Prebendship succeeded Sam. Eyre D. D. of Lincolne Coll. JOHN MAYNARD the eldest son of Alex. Mayn of Tavistock in Devons Esq was born there became a Communer of Exeter Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 16 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts but before he determined or completed that degree by Determination in Schoolstreet he went to the Middle Temple studied the Municipal Law was called to the Bar and being a favourite of Will. Noy Attorney General was much resorted to for his Counsel In the year 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Totness in his County to serve in that Parliament that began at Westm 13. Apr. and again for the same place to serve in that Parl that began there 3. Nov. following In which last he being noted for his activity and readiness in pleading he was appointed on of the Committee to draw up Evidence against the most noble Thomas Earl of Strafford whom afterwards he baited to some purpose in the name of the Commons of England Afterwards he managed the Evidence against Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant took the Covenant was one of the Lay-men nominated in the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons to sit with the Ass of Divines got then much by his practice and became a considerable gainer in a Circuit that was appointed by order of Parliament an 1647. In 1653 1. Oliv. Protect he was by Writ dated 4. Feb called to the degree of Serjeant at Law having before taken the Engagement and on the first of May following he was by Patent made the Protectors Serjeant and pleaded in his and the then Causes behalf against several Royallists that were tried in the pretended High Court of Justice wherein several generous Cavaliers and noble Hearts received the dismal Sentence of death Afterwards he continued in great repute under that Usurper was setled in his place of the Protectors Serjeant by Let. Pat. under the Great Seal of England continued so in Richards Raigne and obtained wealth as he pleased After his Maj. Restauration in 1660 he wheeled about struck in with his party took those Oaths that he had done before to K. Ch. 1 and by Writ dated in the beginning of June he was called again to the degree of Serjeant was made the Kings Serjeant by the corrupt dealing of a great man of the Law on the 9. of Nov and Knighted on the 16 of the same mouth an 1660 at which time he was appointed one of the Judges but by several excuses he got clear off from that employment In the beginning of 1661 he was elected Burgess of Beralston in Devonshire to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 8. of May in the same year wherein for some time he shewed himself a Loyal person But when he saw to what end the several affairs and interests of men tended to the increase of Pensioners therein and Popery in the Nation he stood up for the good of this Country and thereupon was esteemed by some a Patriot After that Parliament was dissolv'd he was elected a Burgess in his own Country to serve in the next three Parliaments that were called by K. Ch. 2 and in that which began on the 17. of Oct. 1679 which because of several Prorogations did not sit till 21. of Oct. 1680 he was one of the Committee appointed to mannage the Evidence against William Viscount Stafford impeached of High Treason relating to the Popish Plot but he being then an aged man he was not so eager in that employment as he was before against Strafford When K. Jam 2. came to the Crown he was chosen Burgess for Beralston again to sit in that Parliament that begun at Westm 19. May 1685 and when the Prince of Aurange became King by the name of Will 3 he with Anth. Kecke of the Inner Temple Esq and Will. Rawlinson Sergeant at Law were on the 2. of Mar. or thereabouts an 1688 constituted Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England In the year following he was chosen Burges
1666 he followed Dr. Willis to the great City and setling at first in Hatton Garden practised under him and became Fellow of the said Society Afterwards growing famous he removed to Salisbury Court near Fleetstreet and thence to Bowstreet and afterwards to Kingstreet near Covent Garden where being much resorted to for his succesful practice especially after the death of Dr. Willis an 1675 he was esteemed the most noted Physitian in Westminster and London and no mans name was more cried up at Court than his he being then also Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot in 1678. about which time he left the Royal Society and thereupon their experiments did in some manner decay he closed with the Whiggs supposing that party would carry all before them But being mistaken he thereby lost much of his Practice at and near the Court and so consequently his Credit At that time a certain Physitian named Tho. Short a R. C. struck in carried all before him there and got riches as he pleased but he dying in the latter end of Sept. 1685 most of his Practice devolved on Dr. Joh. Radcliffe The works of Dr. Lower are these Diatribae Thomae Willisii Med. Doct. Profess Oxon de Febribus vindicatio contra Edm. de Meara Lond. 1665 oct Amstel 1666. in tw An account of this book you may see in the Philos Transactions num 4. p. 77. Letter concerning the present state of Physick and the regulation of the practice of it in this Kingdom by way of Letter to a Doct. of Phys Lond. 1665. Tractatus de corde item de motu colore sanguinis chyli in eum transitu Lond. 1669 70. oct c. ibid. 1680. oct fourth edit Amstel 1669. 71. oct An account also of this book you may see in the said Transactions num 45. p. 909. c. num 73. p. 2211. Dissertatio de origine catarrhi de venae sectione This was printed at first with the book De Corde and afterwards by it self Lond. 1672. oct An account also of it is in the said Transactions This learned Doctor Lower died in his house in Kingstreet near Covent Garden on Saturday the 17. day of January in sixteen hundred and ninety whereupon his body being conveyed to St. Tudy near Bodmin in Cornwall where some years before he had purchased an Estate was buried in a vault under part of the south side of the Church there By his last Will and Test he gave as it was then said a 1000 l. to St. Bartholomews Hospital in London 500 l. to the French Protestant Refuges 500 l. to the Irish Prot. Refuges 50 l. to the poor of the Parish of S. Paul in Cov. Garden 40 l. to the poor of two Parishes in Cornwall where he had land c. He then left behind him two daughters one called Loveday the other Philippa both then unmarried Sir Will. Lower the Poet was of the same family and born also at Tremere but when he died his Estate did not go either to the Father or Brethren of the Doctor which was then much regretted by the Family ATHENAE OXONIENSES THE HISTORY OF THE Archbishops and Bishops Of the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD FROM The Beginning of the Year MDCXLI to the End of the Year MDCXC JOHN THORNBOROUGH sometimes of S. Mary Magdalens Coll was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in Ireland an 1593 translated thence to Bristow 1603 and to Worcester in the latter end of the year 1616. He departed this mortal life in the month of July in sixteen hundred forty and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 1.2 In the See of Bristow he was succeeded by Nich. Felton D. D. and Master of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge consecrated thereunto on the 14 of Dec. 1617 where sitting about 15 months he was translated to Ely 14 Mar. 1618 And in the See of Worcester succeeded Dr. Jo. Prideaux as I shall tell you elsewhere BARNAB POTTER sometimes Provost of Queens College was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in the latter end of the year 1628 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred forty and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 6. Soon after his Bishoprick was given to the learned Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland to keep in Commendam with Armagh in consideration of his great losses sustained in that Kingdom by the Rebellion that a little before that time broke out The revenues of which tho much abated by the Scotch and English Armies quartering there as also by the unhappy Wars that soon after followed in England yet he made shift to subsist upon it with some other helps until the Houses of Parl. seized upon all Bishops Lands And tho in consideration of his great losses in Ireland as also of his own merits they allowed him a pension of 400 l. per an in consideration for what they had taken away yet he did not receive that sum above once or twice at most For the Independent Faction over-topping the Presbyterian an end was put to the payment thereof From the time of his death which hapned in the latter end of 1655 the See of Carlile laid void till 1660 and then Dr. Rich. Sterne of Cambridge succeeded installed or enthronized therein on the 4 of Jan. the same year The said Dr. Usher a most reverend man famous for Religion and Literature throughout Europe an eminent Pillar of the Protestant Cause against the Papacy and of the Commonwealth of Learning died on Friday 21 of Mar. 1655 and on the 31 of the said month 1656 Oliver L. Protector sign'd a Warrant directed to the Lords of the Treasury for the sum of 200 l. to bear the charges of his funeral which sum was paid to Nich. Bernard D. D. And this he did out of an honorable respect to the memory of so pious and learned a Champion of the Protestant Cause as he was On Thursday the 17 of Apr. following his body was conveyed from Riegate in Surrey where he died to S. George's Church in Southwark at which place about 12 of the clock his friends and many of the Clergy met the corps and accompanied it thence to Somerset house in the Strand where laying for some time it was accompanied thence to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster where after the said Dr. Bernard had preached before the large Auditory a sermon it was inter'd GEORGE WEB or Webbe sometimes of University afterwards of Corp. Christi College was consecrated B. of Limerick in Ireland an 1634 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred forty and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 7. In the See of Limerick succeeded one Rob. Sibthorpe Bishop of Kilfenore mentioned in the first vol. p. 835 and in this p. 181. ROBERT WRIGHT was born in the Parish of S. Alban in Hertfordshire and at
him in the Abbey Ch. at Westm and very many frequently in his respective Dioceses where he successively sate so that at his death it was computed that he had sent more Labourers into the Vineyard than all the brethren he then left behind him had done He hath extant A sermon preached before the King at Whitehall 3 Dec. on Psal 96.9 Lond. 1634. qu. and another preached in S. Gregories Ch. 1628 which I have not yet seen THOMAS BAYLY an English man born was originally of this University afterwards of Dublin in Ireland whence flying in the time of the Rebellion he retired to Oxon and there became one of the Petty Canons or Chapl. of Ch. Ch. as the Antients there have informed me but how long he continued in that place I cannot tell After his Maj. restauration he became D. of D. and Dean of Downe and upon the death of Dr. H. Hall was made B. of Killala and Achonry to which receiving consecration on 5 June 1664 sate there till the time of his death which hapning in July or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and one was buried as I presume near the body of his Predecessor in the Cath. Ch. of Killala Qu. JOHN LESLEY was born of the antient family of his name of Balquhaine in the north parts of Scotland and nearly related to both the Count Lesleys who successively have rendred themselves conspicuous by their Arms in Germany received some Academical education in his own Country at Aberdene as I have heard and afterwards for some time in Oxon but whether he took a degree there in Arts it appears not Afterwards he travelled into Spain Italy and Germany but most in France where he perfected his Studies and became remarkable for the most polite and abstruse points of Learning He spoke French Spanish and Italian equal to the Natives and had such an extraordinary command of the Lat. Tongue that it was said of him when he was in Spain solus Lesleius Latine loquitur He was from his tender years conversant in Courts where he learned that address and freedom which was peculiar to his Education and gave a particular air even to his Preaching Whence it was said of him and another Bishop of his name that no man preached more gracefully than the one nor with more authority than the other These accomplishments introduced him to be treated even with familiarity by several Princes and great men abroad And he was particularly happy in the good esteem of his Master K. Ch. 1 who admitted him to sit at his Council-Table both in Scotland and Ireland as his father K. James had done for the first in both which he was continued by K. Ch. 2. His chiefest advancement in the Ch. of Scotland was the Episcopal See of the Isles where sitting several years not without trouble from the Faction he was translated to the See of Raphoe in Ireland an 1633 and the same year was made one of his Maj. Privy Council in that Kingdom When he first came to the said diocess he found the Revenew of the Bishoprick much embezel'd several Gentlemen in that Country having ingrossed great part of it to themselves and combin'd together to maintain what they had got But so it was that he by his activity did tho a stranger retrieve from them by an expensive sute at Law what they had gotten and by that means increased the revenew of the said See of Raphoe near a third part He built a noble and stately Pallace for his Successors the Bishops of Raphoe there being none in that diocess before his access to it He contriv'd it for strength as well as beauty which proved of good use in that broken Country for it held out against the Irish during the whole Rebellion of 1641 and preserved great part of that Country When the said Rebellion broke out and the Irish Rebels spread over the Country and all men forced to fight for their lives and particularly those under his Protection and in his diocess yet he would not take upon him any military command as not becoming his character tho in effect he performed the Office of a General among them even to the exposing his person whenever there was occasion of which a remarkable instance is told us in the Epist to the Reader to the Hist of the execrable Irish Rebellion written by Dr. Edw. Borlase viz. That when Sir Ralph Gore at Matchribeg with many other Brittish Inhabitants were reduced to great extremity by a long Siege and a necessity of a sudden Surrender of themselves without hope of quarter to the enraged cruelty of the Irish the Bishop sallied forth amidst the flames of the whole Country and relieved him at that time reduced to such streights as he and they were forced to cast their dishes into Ball. I say that after the Laggan Forces consisting of three Regiments had refused the hazard of a Relief the said Bishop with his Company Tenants and Friends did attempt and perfect it evidencing at that instant as much personal valour as regular conduct which is at this day remembred in Ireland with much astonishment After the Rebellion when his Majesties Cause K. Ch. 1. was there maintained by the Royallists and such that had fled into Ireland after the declension of his Cause in England he raised a Foot-Company and maintained them at his own charges while his affairs had any prospect for he was loyal if it was possible to excess He endured a Siege in his Castle of Raphoe before he would surrender it to Oliver and held out the last in that Country He declared then against the Presbyterian as well as Popish pretences for Rebellion and would neither joyn in the Treason nor Schism of those times but held unalterably to the practice as well as principles of the Ch. of England whose Liturgy he continued always in his family after he was thrust out of the Church And even in Dublin he had frequent Confirmations and Ordinations for which tho he was persecuted by the faction yet he persisted and several of present Irish Clergy of whom the Archb. of Tuam is one were then as Confessors admitted into holy Orders by him After his Majesties restauration he went into England to present himself to him and flew with that zeal that he rode from Chester to London which is 150 miles in 24 hours In 1661 he was translated to the See of Clogher upon the translation thence of Dr. Hen. Jones to Meath who had succeeded in Clogher Dr. James Spotswood a Scot buried in S. Benedicts Chappel in the Abbey Church at Westminster 31. March 1645. and afterwards his Maj. would have promoted him to a See more profitable in requital of his great sufferings but he excused himself and was resolved to end his labours among those with whom he had suffer'd and where his influence was most beneficial He was a person very temperate which was the reason that he attained to a great age and was so
of S. Patricks Church near Dublin and in August the same year he was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law as a member of S. Edm. Hall by vertue of the Chancellours Letters written in his behalf which say that he is a worthy and learned person and hath suffered much for his Loyalty to his Majesty c. Afterwards he went into Ireland was installed Dean of the said Ch. on the 21 of Oct. following and continuing in that dignity till 1663 he was made Bish of Limerick and Ardfert in that Kingdom to which being consecrated on the 20 of March the same year according to the English accompt sate there tho much of his time was spent in England till 1667 and then upon Dr. B. Laney's removal to Ely on the death of Dr. Math. Wren he was translated to the See of Lincoln after he had taken a great deal of pains to obtain it on the 28 of Sept. the same year He paid his last debt to nature at Kensington near London on the 22 of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and five whereupon his body being carried to Lincoln was buried in the Cath. Ch. there In the afternoon of the very same day that he died Dr. Tho. Barlow Provost of Qu. Coll did by the endeavours of the two Secretaries of State both formerly of his Coll. kiss his Majesties hand for that See and accordingly was soon after consecrated The said Dr. Fuller did once design to have written the Life of Dr. Joh. Bramhall sometimes Primate of Ireland and had obtained many materials in his mind for so doing wherein as in many things he did he would without doubt have quitted himself well as much to the instruction of the living as honor of the dead And therefore it was lamented by some that any thing should divert him from doing so acceptable service But the providence of God having closed up his much desired life has deprived us of what he would have said of that most worthy Prelate See in the beginning of the said Dr. Bramhall's Life written by Joh. L. Bish of Limerick Lond. 1677. fol. WALTER BLANDFORD son of a father of both his names was born at Melbury Abbats in Dorsetshire became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Ch. Ch. an 1635 aged 19 years admitted Scholar of Wadh. Coll on the 1 of Oct. 1638 at which time he said he was born in 1619 took the degrees in Arts and in 1644 Jul. 2 he was admitted Fellow of the said Coll. In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament to eject all such from the Univ. that would not take the Covenant or submit to their power they did not eject him which shews that he did either take the Covenant or submit to them and about the same time obtaining leave to be absent he became Chapl. to John Lord Lovelace of Hurley in Berks and Tutor to his son John to whom also afterwards he was Tutor in Wadh. Coll. In 1659 he was elected and admitted Warden of that Coll and in the year after in Aug. he was among many actually created D. of D being about that time Chapl. to Sir Edw. Hyde L. Chanc. of Engl who obtained for him the same year a Prebendship in the Ch. of Glocester and a Chaplainship in ord to his Majesty In 1662 and 63 he did undergo the office of Vicechanc. of this Univ not without some pedantry and in 1665 he being nominated Bishop of Oxon on the death of Dr. Will. Paul was elected thereunto by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. Ch. on the 7 of Nov confirmed in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon on the 28 of the said month and on the 3 of Dec. following in the same year of 1665 the K. and the Q. with their Courts being then in Oxon he was consecrated in New Coll. Chap. by the Bishops of London Glocester and Exeter Soon after he was made Dean of the Royal Chappel and upon the death of Dr. Skinner was translated to the See of Worcester in the Ch. of S. Mary Savoy in the Strand near London on the 13 of June 1671. This Dr. Blandford who lived a single man and never at all was inclined to Marriage died in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester on Friday the 9 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Chappel next beyond the east end of the Choir belonging to the Cath. Ch. there commonly called Our Ladies Chappel Afterwards was set up in the Wall that parts the said Chap. and the east end of the Choire a monument of Northamptonshire marble and in the middle of it was fix'd a black marble table with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus H. S. I. Gualterus Blandford SS T. P. c. ad primorum Ecclesiae temporum exempla factus futurorum omnium natus summis honorum fastigiis ita admotus ut perpetuo super invidiam citra meritum consisteret non seculi artibus assentatione aut ambitu sed pietate modestia animi dimissione dignitatum fuga clarus Ab Academiae gubernaculo ad Ecclesiae clavum quaeque anceps magis procuratio ad conscientiae Principis regimen evocatus muneribus omnibus par quasi unico impenderetur Nimirum eruditione recondita Academiam sanctissima prudentia Dioecesim illibata pietate Aulam illustrabat Donec perpetuis laboribus morbo diutino quem invicta animi constantia tolleraverat confectus facultatibus suis Deo Ecclesiae Pauperibus distributis c. 'T is said in the Epitaph that he died in the year of his age 59 and on the 16 of July which should be the 9 as I have told you before In the See of Worcester succeeded him Dr. Jam. Fleetwood as I shall tell you elsewhere EDWARD REYNOLDS sometimes Fell. of Merton Coll. and afterwards Dean of Ch. Ch was consecrated B. of Norwych in the beginning of Jan. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred seventy and six under which year you may see more among the Writers p. 420. In the said See succeeded Anth. Sparrow D. D. Bish of Exeter who after his Translation was confirmed on the 18 of Sept. the same year where he sate to the time of his death This learned Doctor who was the son of a wealthy father named Sam. Sparrow was born at Depden in Suffolk educated in Queens Coll. in Cambr of which he was successively Scholar and Fellow but ejected thence with the rest of the Society for their Loyalty and refusing the Covenant an 1643. Soon after he was prevail'd upon to take the benefice of Hankdon in his native Country but by that time he had held it 5 weeks where he read the Common Prayer he was ejected thence by the Committee of Religion sitting at Westminster After the restauration of his Maj. he returned to his Living was elected one of the Preachers at S. Edmunds Bury and made Archd. of Sudbury as I have told you in the Fasti under the year 1577. Soon after he became
Translation of Dr. Is Barrow to the See of S. Asaph being nominated Bishop of the Isle of Man by the Earl of Derby he was consecrated thereunto at Chester on Sunday the second of Octob. 1671 having had liberty before granted to him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it What the merits of this person were except his Loyalty and his benefaction to the Deans house at Chester let others speak while I tell you that he giving way to fate on the 15 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and two after he had had two Wives was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. at Chester Qu. In his Deanery succeeded James Arderne or Arden D. D whom I shall mention in the Fasti an 1673 and in the See of Man succeeded Dr. John Lake who after nomination thereunto by William Earl of Derby and the issuing out of a Commission for his consecration in the beginning of Decemb. 1682 was accordingly soon after consecrated This person who was born in Yorkshire was educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge was afterwards Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Bishopsgate in London instituted Rector of Prestwych in Cheshire 17 Octob. 1668 collated to the Prebendship of Friday Thorp in the Church of York upon the resignation of Hen. Bagshaw Bach. of Div in Apr. 1670 was afterwards a Preacher in that City and on the death of Dr. Rob. Feild he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland 13. Oct. 1680. Before he had continued two years in the See of Man he was upon the death of Dr. Will. Goulson elected Bishop of Bristow to which he was translated in the Ch. of S. Mary le Bow in London on the 12 of Aug and on the first of Sept. following an 1684 he was installed by proxy with leave then allow'd him to keep his Prebendary c. in commendam with it See more of him in Guy Carleton an 1685. EDWARD RAINBOW son of Tho. Rainbow A Minister by Rebecca his wife dau of Dav. Allen Rector of Ludbrough in Lincolnshire was born at Bliton near Gainsborough in the said County 20. Apr. 1608 educated in Grammar learning successively at Gainsborough Peterborough and at Westminster entred a student in Corp. Christi Coll in Oxon in Jul. 1623 his elder brother John being about that time Fellow of the said House but before he had quite spent two years there he was translated to Madg. Coll. in Cambridge where he was adm one of the Scholars of Frances Countess Dowager of Warwick daugh of Sir Christop Wray L. Ch. Justice of England Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Fellow a noted Tutor in that House Master thereof in Oct. 1642 in the place of Dr. Hen. Smith deceased continued therein in the time of Rebellion without being ejected with others that denied the Covenant commenc'd Doctor of Div. in 1646 and in 1650 lost his Mastership for refusing a Protestation against the King that is the Oath called the Engagement Afterwards he became Minister of Chesterford near Audley inn in Essex married Elizabeth dau of his predicessor Dr. Hen. Smith and in the beginning of the year 1659 became Rector of Benefield in Northamptonshire which tho of considerable value yet by the favour of friends he did not undergo the examination of the Tryers of that time as he had not done for Chesterford Upon his Majesties return in 1660 he was restored to his Mastership was made Chaplain to his Majesty Dean of Peterborough the same year and in 1662 Vicech of Cambridge In 1664 he became Bishop of Carlile upon the Translation thence of Dr. Rich. Sterne to the See of York where sitting till the time of his death was then succeeded by Dr. Tho. Smith somtimes Fellow of Qu. Coll. in this University See in the Fasti in the first Vol. p. 861. but more in a book entit The life of the right rev fath in God Edw. Rainbow D. D. late L. Bishop of Carlile Lond. 1688. oct written by one Jonathan Banks Bach. of Arts of Cambridge and School-Master of Applebey in Westmorland who composed it by the help of some papers and a diary of the Bishop which the widow of the said Bishop furnished him with He the said Dr. Rainbow published Labour forbidden and commanded two Sermons at S. Paules Cross on Joh. 6.27 Lond. 1635 and another at the Funeral of Susanna Countess of Suffolk 13. May 1649 on Ecclesiastes 7.1 c. PETER GUNNING somtimes Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambridge afterwards one of the Chaplaines of New Coll. in Oxon c. became first Bishop of Chichester afterwards of Ely and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 577. he was succeeded in Ely by Dr. Franc. Turner B. of Rochester sometimes Fellow of New Coll who for refusing the Oath of Alleg. and Supremacy to K Will. 3. was deprived of it GEORGE MORLEY somtimes Dean of Ch. Church was first Bishop of Worcester where he was received and inthronized with very great solemnity on the 12. of Sept. 1661 and afterwards of Winchester on the death of Dr. Duppa who dying in the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 581. was succeeded in Winchester by Dr. Pet. Mews B. of Bathe and Wells GUY CARLETON was born of an antient and gentile family at Brampton Foot in Gilsland within the County of Cumberland educated in the Free-School at Carlile under Mr. Tho. Robson and admitted a poor serving child of Queens Coll under the tuition of Charles son of the said Tho. Robson an 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Tabarder Fellow and in 1635 one of the Proctors of the University Vicar of Bucklesbury near to Newbury in Berks c. At length upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he took part with his Majesty and did him good service being then accounted an excellent Horsman in a double sense for which he had his share in sufferings as other Loyallists had After the Kings Restauration he was made one of his Chaplaines was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of Aug. 1660 made Dean of Carlile in the place of Dr. Tho. Comber somtimes Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge some years before dead and on the 2. of Nov. the same year was installed Prebendary of Durham In 1671 he was nominated Bishop of Bristow on the death of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to which See being consecrated in S. Peters Church at Westm on the eleventh day of Febr. in the same year had much about that time liberty allowed him to keep his Prebendship in Commendam In 1678 he was translated to Chichester on the death of Dr. Brideloake and was confirmed therein on the eighth day of January the same year but had not the name there for a Scholar or liberal Benefactor as his predicessor and kinsman had
named Dr. George Carleton This Dr. Guy Carleton died in the City of Westminster during his attendance in Parliament on the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and five whereupon his body was conveyed as I have been informed to Chichester and buried in the Cath. Ch. there In the Bishoprick of Bristow succeeded Dr. Will. Goulson a Leicestershire man born educated in S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards was Chaplaine to the Duchess of Sommerset He was consecrated at Lambeth on the ninth day of Febr. 1678 and dying at his Rectory of Symondsbury in Dorsetshire to which he had been presented by the said Duchess on the fourth day of Apr. an 1684 was buried on the 18. day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church of that towne In the See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Carleton the Bishop of Bristol viz. Dr. Joh. Lake in Aug. or Sept. 1685 who was one of the seven Bishops that were committed Prisoners to the Tower on the 8. of June 1688 for contriving making and publishing a Seditious Libel against his Majesty K. Jam. 2. and his Government that is for subscribing a petition to his Majesty wherein he and the rest shewed the great aversness they found in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their Churches his Majesties then late Declaration for Liberty of Conscience c. After K. Will. 3. came to the Crown he was one of the Bishops that denied the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him and on his death bed in the latter end of Aug. 1689. he did publickly declare against them In the said See succeeded Dr. Sim Patrick Dean of Peterborough who was consecrated thereunto on the 13. of Octob following This Bishop Lake who had been Rector of S. Botolphs Ch. without Bishopgate London hath written 1 A Serm. preached at Whitehall 29. of May 1670 being the day of his Majesties birth and restaurat Lond. 1671. qu. 2 The Character of a true Christian preached in the Parish Church of S. Botolph Bishopsgate at the funeral of Will Cade Deputy of the Ward Lond. 1690. qu and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen JOHN DOLBEN son of Dr. Will. Dolben by Elizabeth his wife daugh of Hugh Williams of Cyctiwillair in Caernarvanshire a Captain somtiemes in Holland son of Joh. Dolben of Haverford West in Pembrokshire descended from those of his name in Denbighshire by his wife Alice sister to Sir Tho. Middleton of Chirk Castle in the said County of Denbigh became Bishop of Rochester in the place of Dr. Warner an 1666 and in 1683 was Translated to the Archiepiscopal See of York He died in the beginning of the yeer sixteen hundred eighty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 600. In the said See after it had laid void till Nov. 1688 did succeed Dr. Tho. Lamplugh Bishop of Exeter who upon the Prince of Aurang's arrival in the West left Exeter and retired to London to pay his respects to King Jam. 2 which being taken very kindly by that King he translated him to York on the 15 of the said month The said Dr. Joh. Dolben was great Nephew to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York and had much of his boldness and confidence in him but little of his learning And whereas I have told you that the said Archb. Williams was upon supposal buried at Aberconway where he had built an House in the place of that wherein he was born which he caused to be called Lincolns Inn is false for he was buried in the Church of Llandegay which signifies the Church of S. Gay in the British language near Bangor in Caernarvanshire in which parish Penhryn the Seat somtimes of Archb Williams is situated He died at Glodded of a Quinsey in his throat which being sudden he told his attendants then by him that nothing troubled him more than that he should dye like a beast that had alwaies liv'd like a Gentleman c. Afterwards his body being conveyed to Penhryn was thence carried to the Church at Llandegay and there buried in a little Vault at the upper end of the Chancel Some years after his Nephew and heir called Sir Griffith Williams erected on the north wall of the said Chancel a very fair monument containing the Effigies of the Archbishop kneeling carved and wrought from white marble with a large inscription under it made by Dr. Joh. Hacket his sometimes Chaplain the contents of which being large I shall now for brevity sake pass by But whereas the said Doctor saith that he died 25 March 1650 is false for he died on that day in 1649 aged 68 years or more JOHN FELL D. of D. and Dean of Christ Church in Oxon became Bishop of Oxford on the translation of Dr. Henry Compton to London in the latter end of the year 1675 and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 602. was succeeded in the said See by Dr. Samuel Parker as I have among the Writers told you and shall among these Bishops He the said Dr. Fell left behind him the character among some men of a Valde vult person who by his grasping at and undertaking too many affairs relating to the public few of which he throly effected brought him untimely to his end to the loss of learning c. JOHN LLOYD son of Morgan Lloyd was born of an antient family at Pentaine in Caermerthenshire became a Student in Merton Coll. in Lent term 1655 aged 15 years or thereabouts and took one degree in Arts as a member of that house Afterwards he became Fellow of that of Jesus Principal thereof on the resignation of Sir Leolin Jenkyns D. of D. and Treasurer of Landaff In 1682. 83. and 84 he did execute the Office of Vicechancellour of this University and on the death of Dr. Laur. Womack being nominated by K. Jam. 2. to succeed him in the See of S. David was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth on the 17 of Oct. 1686. Afterwards retiring to Oxon in a dropsical condition died in Jesus Coll. on the thirteenth day of Febr. following being then the first Sunday in Lent Whereupon his body was buried at the upper end of the Chappel belonging to that Coll near to the grave of Sir Leol Jenkyns before mention'd To the said See was nominated by the said King Dr. Tho. Watson of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 26 June 1687 and afterwards upon dislike of his person and for that he had been recommended by the L. Dover to the said King he did suffer and endure many affronts and intolerable abuses from the Rabble in Dec. 1688 just after the said King had left England for France JAMES ETKINS or Atkins son of Henr. Atkins Sheriff and Commissary of Orknay was born in the Town of Kirkwall in the Stewartry of Orknay in Scotland educated in
he was installed Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Dr. Dav. Lloyd deceased and on the 19 of Dec. 1664 he resigned the Sinecure of Northop in Flintshire in which he was succeeded by Mr. Will. Stone Princ. of New Inn in Oxon. In 1673 he was removed from Ruabon to the Vicaridge of Gresford vacant by the death of his elder brother Mr. Sam. Lloyd and soon after succeeding Dr. Rob. Morgan in the See of Bangor was consecrated thereunto in the Chap. of London house in Lond. on Sunday the 16 of Nov. 1673 by Dr. Hinchman B. of London Dr. Morley of Wint Dr. Ward of Sal Dr. Dolben of Roch. c. at which time Dr. Will. Lloyd who was afterwards successively B of Landaff Peterb and Norwich preached the Consecration Sermon and on the 5 of Jan. following he was installed at Bangor by proxy In 1685 he procured the Archdeaconries of Bangor and Anglesie and the Sine-cure of Llanrhaider in Kinmerch to be annexed to the Bishoprick of Bangor by Act of Parl. for ever and two thirds of both the comportions of Llanddinam to the Ch for the support of the Fabrick and the maintenance of the Choir of Bangor and the other third for the maintenance of the Vicaridges belonging to Llanddinam He ordered the four bells formerly bestowed by B Hen. Rowlands on the Ch. of Bangor to be all new cast and added a fifth bell bigger than the former all at his own charge He died on Friday the 18 of Jan. in sixâ—een hundred eighty and eight and was buried in the grave of B. Rowlands on the north side of the Altar in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor leaving then behind him three sons named John Francis Archdeacon of Merioneth and Rector of Llandyrnoe and Richard Registrary of Bangor as also a Relict named Jane the daugh of John Griffyth of Llyn Esq widow of Owen Brereton of Burros Esq The inscription on the Monument which I presume is by this time put over his grave runs thus M. S. Humphredi Lloyd S. T. P. Episcopi Bangor qui è familia Lloydorum de Dulasseu oriundus in agro Merviniensi natus in Acad. Oxon. educatus Postquam causae regiae sub Carolo Martyre strenuus Assertor Confessor extitisset sub Carolo secundo primo Decanatu Asaphensi dein Episcopatu Bangor insignitus Huic Ecclesiae per tria annorum lustra praefuit benefecit Obiit xv Kal. Feb. MDCLXXXVIII aetatis suae LXXVIII THOMAS CARTWRIGHT sometimes of Qu. Coll afterwards Prebendary of Durham Dean of Rippon c. became B. of Chester on the death of Dr. Jo. Pearson an 1686 and dying in the beginning of sixteen hundred eighty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 629. was succeeded in the said See by Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. WILLIAM THOMAS sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll afterwards Dean of Worcester B. of S. David and at length of Worcester where dying in June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 635. he was succeeded in that See by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral to which he was consecrated in the Chappel of the B. of London at Fulham with Dr. Simon Patrick to Chichester and Dr. Gilb. Ironside to Bristow on the 13 of Octob. following TIMOTHY HALL the son of a Turner of Wood was born in the Parish of S. Catherine near the Tower of London where his father obtained some estate in houses became a Student in Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of the year 1654 aged 17 years or thereabouts trained up there under a Presbyterian discipline which caused him ever after to be a Trimmer took one degree in Arts left the College without compleating it by Determination and what preferment he enjoyed afterwards in or near the great City I know not sure I am that several years after his Majesties restauration he became Rector of Allhallowes Staining in Mark lane in London in which place we find him in 1688 when then in the month of May or June he by vertue of his Majesties Declarations for Liberty of Conscience bearing date 4 and 27 of Apr. going before did read in his Church when the generality of London Ministers refused the said Declarations in the time of Service on a Sunday or at least gave half a Crown to another the Parish Clerk I think to do it for which great service his then Maj. K. Jam. 2 did confer upon him the Bishoprick of Oxon void by the death of Dr. Sam. Parker an act so egregiously resented by the true sons of the Church of England that they look'd upon it as a matter to bring their Church into contempt by throwing upon it such an obscure person to be a father as he had before two or more c. without any regard had to merit He was consecrated at Lambeth by the Archb. of Canterbury Bishops of Chichester and Chester on the seventh of Octob. 1688 but when he came into these parts to see and take possession of his house at Cudesden the Dean and Canons of Ch. Ch. refused to install him the Gentry to meet or congratulate him the Vicech and Heads to take notice of him or any Master or Bachelaur to make application to or take holy Orders from him So that when he was in Oxon at Whitsontide in the month of May 1689 Baptista Bishop of Man then there did that duty in Magd. Coll. Chappel on the 26 of the said month at which time 84 persons or thereabouts were ordained Ministers This Mr. Hall called by some Doctor and by others Sir Hall died miserably poor at Hackney near London on the tenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried in the Church there on the 13 of the same month In the said See of Oxon succeeded John Hough D. D. President of Magd. Coll. This Bish Hall hath published two Sermons viz. one at the Funeral of Major Rob. Huntingdon who died suddenly of an Apoplexy 14 Aug. 1685 aged 70 or more And the other at Mercers Chappel after he was Bishop but neither of these have I yet seen The said Rob. Huntingdon Esq son of Rob. Huntingdon of Yarmouth in Norfolk was Commissioner of the Excise at London had been a Major in a Regiment in the Parliament Army left them when he saw they would take away the life of King Ch. 1. to whom he had been very civil in the time of his affliction which that King acknowledges in his works hated Oliver for his diabolical Proceedings and was hated by him again so much that he imprisoned him several times His body was buried in the Ch. of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire of which Town he was Impropriator by vertue of a Lease from Allsoules Coll. EZEKIEL HOPKINS sometimes a member of Magd. Coll afterwards a Preacher near London and in Exeter and Dean of
Army raised by the Parl. againâ—t the King one of the Proctors of the University and published 1 The Christian Soldiers great Engine Sermon before the Lord General Fairfax at S. Maries in Oxon 20 May 1649. qu. 2 A letter to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Monke containing the instrumental causes of the ruine of Government and Commonwealths c. This was printed at Lond. in Feb. 1659 in one sh in qu. What other things he hath published I know not sure I am that after the restauration of K. Ch 2. he left his Benefice in Devonsh to avoid Conformity and died soon after Adm. 112. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only created See among the Creations Bach. of Div. Jun. ... John Hillersden of C. C Coll. He was the only person that was admitted this year the others were created In 1671 he became Archdeacon of Buckingham on the death of Dr. Giles Thorne and dying Joh. Gery LL. D. was installed in his place 29 Nov. 16â—4 ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you shall have under the title of Creations Doct. of Phys Jun. 28. Hugh Barker of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rog. Puliston of Magd. Coll. 8. Thom. Duke of S. Maries Hall ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you may see under the title of Creations Incorporations May 20. Thom. Gifford Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland He had that degree confer'd upon him in the said Univ. in the month of May 1636. Oct. 10. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden He had that degree confer'd upon him there in the month of Apr. 1638. This person or one of both his names was incorporated in 1660. Jul. 8. Will Clegge M. A. of Dublin Jul. 8. Thom. Turner M. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Nov. 1. Charles Prince of Wales Mast of Arts of Cambridge He was afterwards King of England c. by the name of K. Ch. 2. His Maj. Ch. 1. had then after his return from Edghill fight taken up his quarters in Oxon and on the same day was a great Creation in all faculties as I shall tell you by and by Dec. 7. Will. Harvey sometimes of Caies Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Padua and at his return into England of Cambridge was then incorporated Doctor of the said faculty in this University This person who was son of Tho. Harvey Gent. by Joan Halke his wife was born at Folksten in Kent on the second day of Apr. 1578 sent to a Grammar school in Canterbury at 10 years of age and at 14 to Gonvil and Caies Coll. in Cambr. At 19 years of age he travelled into France and Italy and at 23 he had for his Instructors in Medicine at Padua Eustac Radius Joh. Tho. Minadous and H. Faber ab Aquapend At 24 he became Doct. of Phys and Chirurgery and returning into England soon after he practised Phys in London and married At 25 or thereabouts he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London and at 37 Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery About which time which was in the year of our Lord 1615 he discovered the wonderful secret of the Bloods circular motion by which the anatomical part of Physick seemed then to be rising towards the Zenith of Perfection At 54 years of age he was made Physitian to K. Ch. 1 having as 't is said by some been Physitian to K. Jam. 1. and adhering to him in the beginning of the troubles he attended him at Edghill battel Thence going with him to Oxon was there incorporated as before 't is told you In 1645 he was elected Warden of Merton Coll. by vertue of the Kings letters sent to the Society of that house for that purpose but in the year following when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he left that office and retired to London In 1654 he was chosen President of the Coll. of Physitians but refused to accept of that honorable place And after he had lived to see his doctrine the circulation of the blood with much ado established being the only man as one saith that did so he surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the 30 of June an 1657. Soon after his body being lap'd up in lead it was conveyed to Hempsted in Essex and deposited in a Vault under part of the Church there Several monuments of his learning which have been and are received into the hands of all curious men as well abroad as at home are extant as the Oxford or Bodletan Catalogue will partly tell you besides his New Principles of Philosophy containing Philosophy in general Metaphysicks c. but more in MS. he hath left behind him the titles of which you may see in the Epist dedicat before An historical account of the Colleges Coll. of Phys Proceedings against Empricks c. Lond. 1684. qu. Written by Charles Goodall Doctor of Phys Feb. 1. Joh. Bathurst M. A. of Cambr. Feb. 1. Tho. Browning M. A. of Cambr. The first who was of Pembr Hall was afterwards Doctor of Phys a practitioner in London and a Burgess for Richmond in Yorksh. to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver an 1656 and for that called by Richard 1658. Feb. 11. Morgan Godwin Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Dublin Which degree was confer'd upon him there 5 Octob. 1637. He was originally of Ch. Ch afterwards of Pemb. Coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach of the Civil Law in this University an 1627 being about that time Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess confer'd upon him by his father Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford whose Annales rerum Anglicarum c. he translated into English as I have told you in the first vol. p. 497.498 What other things he hath translated or what written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was a Native of the Isle of Anglesie Feb. 21. Rob. Creygton D. D. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. He was incorporated M. of A. an 1628 as in the Fasti of that year in the first vol. p. 861. I have told you He wrot the Preface to Dr. Rich. Watsons book called Epistolaris Diatribe c. dated at Brussels 25 May 1658 which book was printed at Lond. 1661. in tw Francis Walsal D. D. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day This person who was forced away from his benefices by the severity of the Presbyterians did now attend the King in Oxon and did afterwards participate of afflictions with other Royalists In 1660 after his Majesties return I find him Rector of Sandey in Bedfordshire Prebendary of Westminster and author of 1 The bowing of the heart of Subjects to their Soveraigne Sermon preached 24 May 1660 being a day of Thanksgiving for the
in a solemn chapter held by the Soveraign and certain of the Knights Companions of that most noble Order in the red room at Whitehall which Oath was administred to him by Seth Bishop of Salisbury Chancellour of the Garter one of the Officers of that order then kneeling on his Majesties left hand As to the exercise of his office of Norroy when he was Provincial K. of Armes for the northern parts of this Realm the books of his visitation of the several Counties under his charge remaining in the Coll. of Armes will sufficiently manifest his care therein as by taking exact notice of all collaterals viz. Uncles Aunts Brothers and Sisters in the descents there drawn Also by publickly disclaiming all such as did take upon them the titles of Esquire or Gentlemen without just right and truly registring the Armes of all such as could shew any justifiable right thereto His care also was manifested in defacing such Tablets of Armes as he found in any publick places which were fictitious and by pulling down several Atchievments commonly called Hatchments irregularly and against the law of Armes hung up in any Churches or Chappels within the precincts of his Province the particulars whereof are expressed in that large book in the Office or Coll. of Armes covered with russet leather and called the Earl Marshalls book Further also to vindicate the just rights of his said office he commenced a sute at the common law against one Randal Holme a Painter of the City of Chester who had boldly invaded the office of him the said Norroy by preparing Atchievments for the funeral of Sir Ralph Ashton of Middleton in the County of Lancaster Kt and giving directions for a formal proceeding at the solemnity thereof whereupon he had a verdict against him the said Holme at the general Assizes held at Stafford in March an 1667 and recovered good damages with costs of suit The titles of such books touched on before which are published under Sir Will. Dugdales name are these 1 Monasticon Anglicanum sive Pandectae caenobiorum Benedictinorum Cluniacensium Cisterciensium Carthusianorum à primordiis ad eorum usque dissolutionem ex Mss ad Monasteria olim pertinentibus Archivis turrium Lond. Ebor. c. Lond. 1655. and 82. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. 2 Monastici Anglicani volumen alterum de Canonicis Regularibus Augustinianis scil Hospitaliariis Templariis Gilbertinis Praemonstratensibus Maturinis sive Trinitaniariis Cum appendice ad vol. primum de Caenobiis aliquot Gallicanis Hibernicis Scoticis necnon quibusdam Anglicanis antea omissis à primordiis c. Lond. 1661. fol. Adorned with the prospects of Abbeys Churches c. These two large volumes tho they were published under the names of Roger Dodsworth of Yorkshire and Will. Dugdale of Warwickshire yet the chiefest now of the Coll. of Armes have several times informed me that they were both collected and totally written by Dodsworth as the original which they had seen do testifie And Dr. Barlow hath several times told me that much about the time of death of Dodsworth they were offer'd to him to be bought that he might take some order to have them published Howsoever it is sure I am that Sir William did take great pains to have them published did methodize and order them correct them when at the press and made several indexes to them This Roger Dodsworth was the Son of Matthew Dodsworth Esq Registrary as I have heard of the Church of York by Elianor his Wife Daughter of Ralph Sandwith Esq was born on the 24 July 1585 at Newton Grange in the Parish of S. Oswald in Ridale in Yorkshire being the house and possessions of his Mothers Father but whether he was ever educated in any University I could never learn This Person who had a natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities began early to make collections of them especially such that related to Yorkshire and afterwards was much encouraged in his labours by Sir Thomas afterwards Lord Fairfax who for several years allowed him a pension He was a Person of wonderful industry but less judgment was always collecting and transcribing but never published any thing He died in the month of August 1654 and was buried in the Church of Rufford in Lancashire After his death the said Lord Fairfax took into his possession not only all the old Mss which he had obtained from several hands but also all his proper collections which he had written from Mss Leigher books evidences in the Tower at York in the custody of many Gentlemen not only in Yorkshire but other northern Counties as also his collections of monumental and fenestral inscriptions c. which being done he communicated them to Dr. Nat. Johnston a Physit of Yorkshire with hopes that he would extract from them and make and compleat a book of Antiquities of the West Riding of Yorkshire which he hath not yet done being as I have been informed weary of the work When the said Lord Fairfax died he bequeathed the said old Mss and collections which last amounted to 122 volumes at least to the publick Library in Oxon but were not conveyed thither till June 1673 which being then a wet season most of them took wet and had it not been for the author of this book who with much ado obtained leave of the then Vicechancellour to have them conveyed into the muniment room in the School-Tower purposely to dry them on the leads adjoyning which cost him a months time to do it they had been utterly spoiled The other books that Sir William Dugdale hath published are there 3 The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records leiger-books manuscripts charters evidences tombes and armes Beautified with maps prospects and portraictures Lond. 1656. fol. The foundation of tnis book which is his Master piece was laid on the collections of divers antiquities for the said County made and gathered by Sir Simon Archer Knight whom I have mention'd in the first vol. of this work p. 504 which Sir Simon dying at Warwick about the beginning of 1666 was gathered to the graves of his Fathers in Tamworth Church 4 The History of S. Pauls Cathedral in London from its foundation till these times extracted out of original charters records leâ—ger-books and other Manuscripts Beautified with sundry prospects of the Church figures of tombes and monuments Lond. 1658. in a thin folio 5 The History of imbanking and draining of divers fens and marshes both in foreign parts and in this Kingdom and of the improvement thereby Extracted from recordâ— Mss and other authentick testimonies Lond. 1662. fol. Adorned with several Cuts 6 Origines juridiciales or historical memorials of the English laws Courts of Justice forms of Trial punishment in cases criminal law writers law books grants and settlements of estates degree of Serjeant inns of Court and Chancery Also a chronologie of the Lord Chancellours and Keepers of the great Seal L. Treasurers Justices itinerant Justices of
all the Shires Cities Burrough-Towns Cinque ports in England specifying the number of the Knights of the Shires Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque-ports they do respectively elect to serve as their Representatives in Parliaments c. collected and written by Charles Hatton Esq Son of Christopher L. Hatton Secondly A true and perfect Cat. of the Nobility of Scotland with a list of the Royal Burroughs therein c. collected and written by the same hand and thirdly A true and pâ—rf Cat. of the Nobility of Ireland with a list of all the Shires Cities and Burroughs of Ireland which make returns of Parliament c. collected and written also by the same hand 15 A perfect copy of all the summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm from the 49 of Hen. 3 to this present with Catalogues of such Noblemen as have been summoned to Parliament in right of their Wives c. Lond. 1686. fol. Further also our author Sir W. Dugdale took a great deal of pains in publishing the second vol. of Councils and Glossary of Sir Hen. Spelman as I have before told you At length this most industrious Person contracting a great cold at Blythe Hall by attending too much his worldly concerns died thereof in his Chair about one of the Clock in the afternoon of the tenth day of February S. Scholastica's day an 1685. Whereupon his body being conveyed to the parochial Church of Shustock in Warwickshire before mention'd was on the 12 of the same month deposited in a stone-coffin laying in a little vault which he before had caused to be made under the north side of the Chancel of the Church there It was laid near another stone-coffin in the said vault containing the remains of his then late Wife named Margery Daughter of John Huntbache of Seawell in Staffordshire Gent who died 18 Decemb. 1681 after she had continued his Wife from the 17 of March 1622. Sir Will. Dugdale did also in his life time erect over the said vault a strong tomb of Free-stone in form of an altar joyning to the North wall with his Armes and those of his Wife carved on the South side thereof And above it he caused to be fixed on the wall a tablet of white marble bordered with the like Free-stone on which was engraven his epitaph made by himself By his last Will and Testament he bequeathed all his Manuscripts and Collections of Antiquities to the Musaeum of Elias Ashmole in Oxon who divers years before had married one of his Daughters where they remain and are of great use to curious and critical persons To conclude had this indefatigable person sequestred himself from worldly troubles and totally addicted himself to his studies and had minded the publick more than his private concerns the world might have justly enjoyed more of his lucubrations and those more true and accurate than such that are already published especially those in his latter days Yet however what he hath done is prodigious considering the great troubles that he had endured for his loyalty and the cumbrances of this world that he had run through and therefore his memory ought to be venerated and had in everlasting remembrance for those things which he hath already published which otherwise might have perished and been eternally buried in oblivion Le ts now go on with the Creations Nov. 1. Sir Rich. Byron Knight a most valiant Colonel in the Kings Army and Brother to John Lord Byron Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards a noted Mathematician Thom. Smith of Queens Coll. Thom. Lamplugh of Queens Coll. Thom. Tully of Queens Coll. The two first of these three were afterwards Bishops Edw. Walker Herald of Armes by the title of Chester This Person who was second Son of Edw. Walker of Roobers in the Parish of Nether Stowey in Somersetsh by Barbara his Wife Daughter of Edw. Salkeld of Corby Castle in Cumberland was born at Roobers bred a servant in the family of Thomas Earl of Arundell Earl Marshall of England to whom afterwards being Secretary he gave him the Pursevants place called Rogue-Croix in the Coll. of Armes In 1639 when that noble Count was made General of the English Forces in the Scotch expedition this Mr. Walker was by him made Secretary of War and executed that Office till the return of the said Army to London Afterwards when his Majesty and the Royal Family were by the endeavours of that unhappy Parl. that began 3. Nov. 1640 forced from London in Jan. 1641 Mr. Walker followed him into the North parts of England and was with him at Edghâ—ll fight and afterwards at Oxon where he was actually created Master of Arts being then Chester Herald as I have before told you In the latter end of 1643 he was made Norrâ—y King of Armes in the place of Sir Henry St. George promoted to the office of Garter and in the year following upon the death of the said Sir Henry he was made Garter and on the 2. of Feb. the same year 1644 he received the honor of Knighthood This Person who with great diligence and observation had committed to writing in a paper book the several occurrences that passed in the K. Army and the victories obtained by his Majesty over his rebellious Subjects the book was seized on at the fatal battle at Naseby by some of the forces belonging to the Parliament then Victors Afterwards it was presented to their General called Sir Thomas Fairfax who perusing it found one passage therein which was very observable to him viz. that whereas he Walker had taken occasion to speak of the Irish and call'd them Rebells his Majesty who before that time had perused the book did among several alterations made therein with his own hand put out the word Rebells with his pen and over it wrot Irish This book was after his Majesties restauration regain'd and is now or at least was lately in the hands of Sir Joh. Clopton who married the Daughter and Heir of Sir E. Walker who also hath written The order of the Ceremonies at S. Georges feast at Windsore which is printed in quarto After his Majesties return he was confirmed in his Gartership and made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council and dying suddenly in Whitehall 19. Febr. 1676 his body was conveyed to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire and buried in the Church there among the graves of the Cloptons of Clopton in that Parish In his office of Garter K. of Armes succeeded Will. Dugdale Norroy as I have before told you and in his Clerkship of the Privy Council Sir Tho Dolman of Shaw near Newbury in Berks. Nov. 1. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield Ferdinando Marsham Esq He was Brother to Sir Joh. Marshaw the Critick Jervais Hollis a Parliament man for Great Grimesby in Lincolnshire He had lately retired to his Majesty because of the violent proceedings against him his said Maj.
be created D. D. but he came not to take it nor was he diplomated Nov. 10. John Earle sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Chaplain to Charles Pr. of Wales Dec. 20. John Arnway of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 20. Thom. Bradley of Exet. Coll. Dec. 20. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. ..... Staunton of Ch. Ch. ..... Hodges of Ch. Ch. These two last were created the same day or at least were allowed their degrees when they would please to call for them but whether they were educated in Ch. Ch. it appears not and therefore I presume they were Strangers that came with and attended the Kings Court lodging now in that house I find one Thom. Hodges to be Rector of Kensington near London before the rebellion broke out a Preacher sometimes before the Long Parliament one of the Ass of Divines and a Covenantier After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of S. Peter's Church in Cornhill London and Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. H. Croft made Bishop thereof an 1661 which Deanery he holding to the time of his death was succeeded therein by Dr. George Benson about Midsummer an 1672. This Tho. Hodges hath extant 1 A Glimps of Gods glory Sermon before the H. of Com. at a solemn Fast 28 Sept. 1642 on Psal 113.5.6 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 The growth and spreading of Heresie Fast-serm before the H. of Com. 10 Mar. 1646. on 2 Pet. 2.1 Lond. 1647. qu 3 Inaccessible glory or the impossibility of seeing Gods face whilst we are in the body Serm. at the funeral of Sir Theod. de Mayerne in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields on Friday 30 of Mar. 1655. on Exod. 33.20 Lond. 1655. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I believe him to be the same with Hodges before mentioned who was created D. of D because I cannot find him written or called Doctor till after his Majesties return Another Thom. Hodges I find who was Rector of Soulderne near Deddington in Oxfordshire and Bach. of Divinity not of this University but of that of Cambridge and afterwards one of the Chaplains of Allsouls Coll in the time of Oliver which he kept with his Rectory This person who was also a zealous Presbyterian was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire first admitted into Emanuel Coll and thence taken and made Fellow of that of S. John the Evangelist the Master and Society of which presented him to the Rectory of Soulderne before mention'd When the Act of Uniformity came out he prevailed so much with the said Society that they nominated his friend to be his Successor viz. one Will. Twyne Fellow of the said Coll and then Hodges leaving the place he retired to Okingham in Berks and became Chaplain to the Hospital there where he died and was buried about the month of January 1688 as I have been informed from Soulderne The said Mr. Hodges hath written 1 A Treatise concerning Prayer containing particularly an Apology for the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. in tw 2 A Scripture Catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours of the present times Lond. 1658. oct Besides which two things he hath also several Sermons extant as 1 The hoary head crowned a fun serm on Prov. 16.31 2 The creatures goodness as they came out of Gods hands and the good mans mercy to the brute creatures c in two sermons printed twice at least 3 A cordial against the fear of death preached before the University of Oxon on Heb. 2.15 Oxon. 1659. qu. and one two or more which I have not yet seen This Thomas Hodges tho he lived in Oxon several years yet he was neither incorporated or took any degree in Divinity Dec. 20. Edw. Wolley M. of A. or Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and at this time one of the Chapl. to his Majesty was actually created Doct. of Div. He was born in the antient borough of Shrewsbury educated in the Kings School there transplanted thence to St. Johns Coll. in the said University where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards adhering to the cause of his Majesty retired to Oxon to attend and preached sometimes before him there When his Majesties cause declined he suffered as other Royallists did attended his Son in his adverse fortune while he himself endured great misery After the return of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of a Church in Essex Finchingfield I think to settle the inhabitants thereof in loyal principles and to undo and invalidate the doctrine which that most notorious Independent Steph. Marshall had instil'd into them In 1665 he was promoted to the Episcopal See of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in Ireland to which being consecrated at Titam on the 16. of Apr. the same year sate there for some time and was held in great veneration for his admirable way Of preaching and exemplary life and conversation Among several things that he hath extant are these 1 Eulogia The Parents blessing their Children and the Children begging on their knees their Parents blessings are pious actions warrantable by the word of God and practiced by Gods saints and servants Lond. 1661. c. oct 2 Eudoxia A module of private prayers or occasional helps in retired devotions Printed with the former book 3 Loyalty amongst Rebels the true Royallist c. Lond. 1662. oct ... Edmonds M. A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. ... Earskin B. D. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. Both which were actually created the same day Jan. 16. Christoph Prior M. A. of Ball. Coll. On the 24 of Dec. 1641 he was collated to the Prebendship of Slape in the Church of Salisbury in Sept. 1643 he became Prebend of Barton Davy in the Church of Wells and in the latter end of the same year Principal of New Inn in the place of Christoph Rogers who some time before had fled from Oxon to the Parliament This person who was always esteem'd a good Greecian and well furnish'd with other parts of learning dyed about half a year before his Majesties return and thereby prevented not only his restauration to what he had lost for the Kings cause but his promotion to higher Dignities Will. O' dis of New Coll. sometimes Proctor of the University was actually created the same day He was afterwards slain by the Parliament Soldiers without any provocation given on his part between Adderbury in Oxfordshire of which place he was Vicar and the Garrison of Oxon about 1644. Jan. 16. Henry Ancketyll of Wadh. Coll. Jan. 16. Hugh Halswell of All 's Coll. Jan. 16. Joh. Metelfer or Meltalfer of Cambr. Jan. 16. Edw. Hyde of Cambr. The last of these four I take to be the same Edward Hyde who is mention'd in Alexander Hyde among the Bishops nu 34. ... Fowler of Ch. Ch. was created the same day On Matthew Fowler of Ch. Ch. took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1637 as I have in the Fasti of that year told you So that if the said Fowler be the
Coll. in Cambr. 20. George Jolliff of Pemb. Coll. May 4. Mart. Llewellin of Ch. Ch. June 2. John Fell of Ch. Ch. June 2. Rich. Allestree of Ch. Ch. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. 26. Will. Scroggs of Pembr Coll. Jul. 7. Will. Joyner alias Lyde of Magd. Coll. The last of these two who was Son of Will. Joyner Gent was born in the Parish of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon educated partly in the Free-school at Thame but more in that within the City of Coventry elected Demy of Magd. Coll. an 1636 and afterwards Fellow But upon a foresight of the utter ruin of the Church of England by the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion he changed his Religion for that of Rome renounced his Fellowship and became a Retainer to the most noble Henry Marquess of Worcester at Ragland and after his death to Walt. Mountague L. Abbat of S. Mart. near Pontois in France in whose family there he spent some years and afterwards returned to his native Country In 1687 he was restored to his Fellowship by his Maj. K. Jam. 2 but outed thence after a years enjoyment He hath written 1 The Roman Empress a Comedy Lond. 1670. qu. 2 Some observations upon the life of Reginaldus Polus Cardinal of the blood royal of England sent in a pacquet out of Wales c. Lond. 1686. oct This person W. Joyner is now living in an obscure village in Bucks near Thame in Oxfordshire in a most retired studious and devout condition and also in a capacity of publishing other things if he please Feb. 8. Will. Beaw of New Coll. Feb. 8. Dan. Whistler of Mert. Coll. Mar. 21. Will. Howe of S. John Coll. Adm. 39 ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys or of Div. was adm this year only created ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Physick was adm this year only created Doct. of Div. July 6. Nich. Greaves of All 's Coll. He was the only person that was admitted or licensed to proceed this year Incorporations June 15. Hen. Ferne D. D. of Cambridge This learned person who was originally of S. Maries Hall in Oxon was afterwards Bish of Chester Dec. 9. Sir John Lamb Kt. Doct. of the Laws of Cambridge and Dean of the Arches This worthy Knight who had been a great persecutor of the Puritans was now forced by them to leave his station and retire to his Majesty at Oxon where for a time he found security Afterwards he suffered much for the royal cause paid a large summ of money for his composition and was in a manner utterly ruin'd He died in London in the Bell Inn as 't is said in S. Martins-lane in the beginning of the year 1647. Jan. 31. Paul Knell Mast of Arts of Clare Hall in Cambridge now Chaplain to a Regiment of Curiasiers in his Majesties Army was then incorporated in the same degree He hath written and published 1 A Looking-glass for Levellers Sermon on Luke 20.14 Lond. 1648. qu. 2 Israel and England paralelled Serm. on Amos 3.2 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 The life-guard of a loyal Christian Serm. on Isay 43.2 Lond. 1648. qu. Which three Sermons with two more were afterwards published with this title Five seasonable sermons preached before eminent Auditories c. Lond. 1660. In the year following was this title put to them Five seasonable Sermons preached before the Kings Majesty beyond the Seas and other eminent Auditories in England formerly prohibited but now published and dedicated to his Majesty Mar. 21. Will. Holder Mast of A. of Pembr Hall in Cambridge You may see more of this person who was about this time Rector of Blechington in Oxfordshire among the created Doctors of Div. an 1660. John Cruse or Cruso M. A. of the said University was incorp the same day CREATIONS Notwithstanding the chief members of the University had the last year put up a Petition to his Majesty against the promiscuous conferring of degrees and the danger that the University was like to fall into if some remedy in the matter was not taken as namely that the solemn Arts and Sciences would be destroyed the fountain of the University treasury dried up because that few or none that were created paid any fees and hopeful Scholars discouraged and the University dishonored yet nevertheless his Majesty could not otherwise at this time but recommend as he did the year before several of his faithful subjects to have degrees confer'd upon them tho with this caution as the Chancellour of the University did the like in his recommendatory Letters that they should pay all o◠most of the fees belonging to each degree The names of most of such persons that were actually created in several faculties are here set down Bach. of Arts. Oct. 17. Martin Barnes created in Convocation Feb. 8. Tho. Culpeper of Vniv Coll. was created by vertue of the letters of the Chanc. of the University He was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll and a Writer and therefore to be numbred hereafter among the Oxford Authors Bach. of Law Jan. 31. Will. Hinson Mar. 18. John Baldwin He was created in respect had to his loyalty and faithful service to his Majesty and extraordinary sufferings and imprisonment for religion and the laws Both these were created by vertue of the Chancellours letters tho Baldwin had not been educated in any University On the 9 of May this year Tho Fletcher a Student in the municipal Laws had liberty granted to him tho then absent to take the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law when he should come to the University Mast of Arts. Jun. 16. Sir Franc. Lee Kt. Jun. 16. Will. Killingtree Esq The last of these two was buried in the middle isle of those three that joyn on the north side of the choir of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon 4. Aug. 1643. Jul. 6. John Theyer Gent sometimes a Student in Magd. Coll. He was created by vertue of his Majesties rescript written with his own hand to Sir Edw. Nicholas his Secretary which was the same day sent to the venerable convocation to the end that the members thereof freely bestow that honor upon him who hath well deserved of his Majesty and the Church The said Mr. Theyer had a little before presented to his Majesty on the Mount in Merton Coll. garden a book which he had dedicated to him as I have told you among the Writers an 1673 p. 380. July 18. Rich. Evans B. A. of Magd. Coll. He was then created Master because he had lately done for the King service in the Western parts of England and for that also he was now about to go into Ireland Oct. 17. Rich. Rallingson B. A. of Qu. Coll. He was then created Master by vertue of the Kings letters which say that by our direction and for our service he hath drawn a mathematical scheme or plot of this garrison Oxon wherein he hath given us good satisfaction and is very like to be useful to us
was made one of the Kings Serjeants being then esteemed an excellent Orator a great Lawyer and an ornament to his profession and on the 7. of Aug. 1641 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall Afterwards when the King was forced to leave the Parliament he followed him to Oxon and was very serviceable to him in many respects In 1645 he was disinabled from being a member of Parliament sitting at Westminster for his delinquency as t was then called So that retiring to his home after the Kings cause declined he was committed to Prison where continuing till he had made his composition was released in 1648. Under his name are these things extant 1 Enlargements and aggravations upon the sixth seventh and eighth articles against George Duke of Buckingham an 1626. See in John Rushworths Collections under the year 1626. 2 Speech at a general committee of both Houses 23. May 1628 wherein he delivers the reasons of the Commons House why they cannot admit of the propositions tendered unto them by the Lords concerning Soveraign power Printed in qu. See in a book entit The Soveraigns Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3 d. and 4 th years of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 145.186 3 Sp. in Parl. concerning the petition of right 4 Two speeches before the K. in the H. of Lords when he was presented by the H. of Commons as their Speaker 15 Apr. 1640. See in the said Collections under the year 1640 p. 1121.1123 5 Speech in the upper House of Parl. for the redress of present grievances in Dec. 1640. c. with other things c. After the return of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was made his Serjeant also and dying on the second day of Octob. 1661 was buried in the Church at Broad Hinton in Wiltshire the Mannour of which he some years before had bought In Sept. 1673 Winifrid his Widow put a monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which for brevity sake shall be now omitted One John Glanvill of Exeter Coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1622 and afterwards that of Master but he is not to be understood to be the same with Sir John because he was never bred in any University as his Son hath informed me The said Sir John Glanvill had an elder Brother called Sir Francis an Inhabitant of Tavistock who when young being very vicious was disinherited by his Father and the Estate setled on Sir John But Sir Francis becoming afterwards a sober man Sir John restored to him the Estate See in The life and death of Sir Matthew Hale c. Written by Gilb. Burnet D. D. Lond. 1682 in a large octavo p. 11. Feb. 19. Sir Rich. Vivian Knight He had been elected a Burgess for Tregony in Cornwall to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there an 1643. Sir Peter Ball of the Middle Temple Knight Son and Heir of Giles Ball of Mamhed in Devon was created the same day In 1632 he became Recorder of the City of Exeter afterwards the Queens Sollicitor and now 1643 her Attorney and upon the declining of the Kings cause a great sufferer After his Majesties return he was restored to what he had lost became Recorder of Exeter again after that place had been occupied by two Cromwellians named Edm. Prideaux and Tho. Bampfield At length the infirmities of age coming upon him he surrendred that office in 1676. Feb. 20. John Bodvill Esquires Feb. 20. Owen Griffith Esquires The first of these two was a Knight for Anglesie to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3. Nov. 1640 but leaving it in 1642 sate in the Parl. at Oxon. March 21. Ambr. Manaton Esquires March 21. Peirce Edgecombe Esquires The first of these last two who was of Erecarrell in Cornwall was Parliament man for Lanceston in that County and afterwards sate at Oxon suffered for the Kings cause and dying in 1650 or thereabouts was buried in the Church at South Petherwyn The other was a Parliament man for Cameilford in the said County and afterwards sate at Oxon for which also he suffered in his Estate This year was among others nominated to be created Doctor of the Civil Law one Colonel Bard but whether he was admitted I cannot tell I take this person to be the same with Henry Bard Son of George Bard Vicar of Stanes in Middlesex who after he had been educated in Grammar learning in Eaton Coll. School was admitted in Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631. Whilst he was Scholar he made an excursion to Paris upon the customary leave of absence which is but for 9 weeks in a year without the College or his Relations privity After he was made Fellow he travelled for some years into France Germany Italy Turkey Palestine Aegypt Arabia and sent a large account of his several travels to his contemporary Dr. Charles Mason After his return he lived high as he had done before without any visible income and gave a fair Alcoran to Kings Coll. Library supposed to be stoln by him out of a Mosque in Egypt which being valued but at 20 l he made answer that he was sorry that he had ventur'd his neck for it This person who was a compact body of vanity and ambition yet proper robust and comely did upon the approach of the grand rebellion retire to his Majesty K. Ch. 1. at York where making himself known to be a Traveller and Master of several languages especially of the French which the Queen took notice of he had a Commission given him to be a Colonel and afterwards to be Governour of Camden house in Glocestershire which when he quitted he burnt and then for a time of Worcester On the 22 of Nov. 1643 he received the honour of Knighthood and soon after being made a Baronet his ambition was so great that being not content with that station he by his and the endeavours of others was created Baron of Brombry and Vicount Bellomont in Ireland 8. July 1645. Afterwards being taken Prisoner in one of his Majesties unfortunate battles he wrot to the Parliament and told them that he had taken up armes neither for religion for there were then so many that he knew not which to be of nor for that moustrap the Laws but to re-establish the King in his Throne and therefore seeing that the time was not yet come he desired leave that they would discharge him that he might relinquish the Land which accordingly was done After the murder of K. Ch. 1 he was sent by his Majesty K. Ch. 2 then â—n Exile Embassador to the Emperour of Persia upon hopes of great assistance of money from that Court in consideration of great Services done to the Persian by the English Ships at Ormus But so it was that he being unhappily overtaken in his travels in that Country by a Whirlwind
at Oxon an 1646 he spent some years in the family of Sir Will. Walter of Sarsden in the Parish of Churchill in Oxfordshire who with his Lady were great lovers of Musick At length upon the desire of Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. then Lecturer at Churchill made to his quondam Pupil Dr. Joh. Owen Vicechancellour of this University he was constituted Musick Professor thereof an 1656 which with other helps from some Royalists in these parts he having then a Lodging in Ball. Coll. found a comfortable subsistance Upon the return of K. Ch. 2. to his Dominions he was restored to his places belonging to his Majesty and was made one of the Choire at Westminster All which he kept to his dying day He hath published 1 Psalterium Carolinum The devotions of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings rendred into verse seâ— for three Voices and an Organ or Theorbo Printed about 1656 in fol. 2 Cheerful Ayres or Ballads first composed for one single Voice and since set for three Voices Oxon. 1660. qu. in 3 vol then usher'd into the world by certain Poets of this University 3 Ayres for a Voice alone to a Theorbo or Bass-Viol c. These are in a book intit Select Ayres and Dialogues Lond. 1653. c. fol. In which book are besides Dr. Wilson's labours the compositions of several Masters of Musick viz. of Dr. Charles Colman Henry and Will. Lawes Will. Webb Nich. Laniere or Laneare an Italian one of the private Musick to K. Ch. 1 and an excellent Painter who died about the beginning of the rebellion Will. Smegergill alias Caesar Edward Colman and Jeremy Savile 4 Divine Services and Anthems the words of one of which are extant in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 235. But above all things that our Author Wilson hath published is highly valued by curious men a Manuscript of his framing containing Compositions partly to be play'd on the Lute but chiefly on a Treble or Bass set to several Odes in the first book and in others of Horace on some part of Ausonius Claudian Petronius Arbiters Fragment Statius c. This book which is in folio bound in Russia leather with silver clasps he gave to the publick Library at Oxon before his Majesties restauration but with this condition that no person should peruse it till after his death 'T is in the Archives of the said Library numb 102 and hath several copies of verses put before it or in the beginning made in praise of the author and the book One of the copies being made by that excellent Latin Poet Hen. Birkhead of All 's Coll was afterwards remitted into his book intit Poematia c. Oxon. 1656. p. 122.123 This Dr. Wilson who was a great Humourist and a pretender to Buffoonry died in his house at the Horse Ferry within the Liberty of Westminster on the 22 day of Febr. 1673 aged 78 years ten months and 17 days whereupon his body was buried in the little cloyster belonging to the Abbey Church of S. Peter within the said City of Westm He did often use to say for the honour of his Country of Kent that Alphonso Farabosco was born of Italian Parents at Greenwich and Joh Jenkâ—ns at Maidstone both highly valued and admired not only in England but beyond the Seas for their excellent compositions in Musick especially for Fancies The last was living 10 years or more after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 but we have not yet his picture in the Musick School as that of Dr. Wilson hanging near to that of Nich. Laniere before mention'd Doct. of Law Apr. 6. Will. Pleydell Esq He was a Burgess for Wotton Basset in Wilts to serve in that Parliam which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it afterwards retired to Oxon and sate there .... Lloyd was created the same day and admitted into the house of Congreg and Convocation His christian name I cannot yet learn or in what Coll. or Hall in this University or in that of Cambridge educated May 1. George Boncle or Bonkley of Greenwich in Kent Esq On the 30 of Jan. following he received the honour of Knighthood being about that time Deputy-Governour of the Garrison of Oxon but afterwards being taken by the Forces belonging to the Parliament he was committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he shortly after expired He had before obtained great fame for his valour and activity in the relief of Basing house in Hampshire June 10. Sir Thom. Blackwell of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire Kt. He had lately at his own charge raised many men and arms for his Majesties service and had fought most valiantly in divers battels for him He afterwards suffer'd much for the royal Cause and compounded for his Estate June 12. Henr. Bate He was admitted and actually created Doct. of the Civ Law by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the University and of those of the Marquess of Newcastle which say that he had paid his fees already by the large contribution he hath given to his Majesty in his service and losses sustained by the Rebels c. Jul. 10. Sir Robert Fenne Kt. Nov. 4. Rob. Cary M. A. lately of C. C. Coll. in this University He was Kinsman to the Marquess of Hertford Chancellour thereof This year was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Sir James Ware of Ireland Kt as his son hath by his letters informed me but the day or month he cannot tell neither doth it appear in the acts of the publick Register this or in the year following because omitted as it seems among many that were actually created in several degrees from the 1 of Nov. 1642 till the surrender of Oxon 1646. This worthy person Sir Jam. Ware who by his pen hath done admirable service for the credit of the Irish Nation I desire the Reader by the way if not too tedious to take these observations of him following He was born in Castle-street within the City of Dublin about two of the clock in the morn of the 26 of Novemb. an 1594. His father was Sir Jam. Ware Kt sometimes Secretary to two of the Lords Justices or Deputies of Ireland and afterwards Auditor General of that Kingdom who finding his said son to make early advances towards learning spared neither cost or labour to encourage him therein At 16 years of age he caused him to be entred a Student in Trinity Coll. at Dublin where making great proficiency in his studies was in less than six years made Master of Arts. In 1629 or thereabouts he received the honour of Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely and Rich. Boyle Earl of Cork they both being at that time Lords Justices of Ireland and in 1632 he became upon the death of his father Auditor General of Ireland Notwithstanding which place of trouble as well as of profit and the cumbrances of marriage he wrot and published several books the titles of which
dignified with the Deanery of Durham which he held a few months and afterwards of S. Pauls which he enjoyed three years tho either of them too short a season yet discharged both with singular care and fidelity living and dying a Batchellour and strictly chast and sanctimonious both in soul and body And being much debilirated by a long and lingring consumption here he rests in the Lord and deposits his last remains among those ruinous ones of S. Pauls Church being confident of the resurrection both of the one and other He died in the 53 year of his age and of our Lord 1664. Reader if thou desirest to know more of this reverend Church-man go home and learn by the conspicuous copy of his sincere devotion what it is to be a true Christian indeed After his death succeeded in the Deanery of S. Pauls Dr. Will. Sancroft Dean of York in Oct. or thereabouts in 1664. Doct. of Law Apr. 16. Colonel Will. Legge Governour of the Garrison of Oxford He was afterwards one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 1. and 2. Apr. 16. Colonel George L'isle Governour of the Garrison of Faringdon in Berkshire On the 21. of Dec. following he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him being then as 't is said Master of the Kingsâ—Houshold and highly valued for his great valour and prudent conduct in martial affairs This person I take to be the same with the most magnanimous Sir George L'isle who was afterwards deeply engaged in that as honorable as unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 in which last place he with the Forces under him for his Majesty being besieged by Fairfax the Parliament General and those under his conduct he was after the surrender thereof shot to death in cold blood with the most renowned Sir Charles Lucas on the 28 of Aug. the same year At which time they being both obscurely buried their funeral was afterwards viz. on June the 7 an 1661 with great solemnity celebrated at Colchester by the loyal Inhabitants thereof and Gentry adjoyning The particulars being too many for this place must for brevity sake be now omitted Apr. 22. Colonel Will. Leighton who hath this character given of him in the publick register fide fortitudine pro Principe pro Patria insignis was actually created with due solemnity on that day in Convocation He was descended from or at least near of kin to Sir Will. Leighton Kt an excellent Musitian author of a Poetical piece entit Vertue triumphant or a lively description of the four Cardinal vertues Published in 1603 and dedic to K. Jam. 1. See more of him in the first vol. p. 342. Nov. 28. Sir Thomas Gemham Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University now Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was actually created in the House of Convocation with very great solemnity At which time the Vicechancellour spoke a short and pithy speech to the assembly before he was presented shewing to them the holiness of his life and conversation the invincibleness of him and his party at York and Carlile of which Cities he was successively Governour and tho brought to famine and pestilence yet yielded neither but upon honourable conditions c. This right valiant and prudent commander was the Son of Sir Hen. Glemham of Little Glemham in Suffolk Kt by Anne his Wife eldest Daugh of Sir Thomas Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset and after he had thrown off his gown betook himself to the German Wars then the great nursery for English Gentlemen where gaining much experience was made fit for the service in the Wars at home In 1639 he was a Lieutenant Col. in the regiment of the Earl of Arundell in the Scotch expedition then undertaken as also in the next if I am not mistaken that was took in the year following Afterwards taking part with his Majesty against his rebellious Subjects in England did him admirable service in the Garrisons before mention'd and was highly venerated by all military Men. When he died I cannot justly say sure I am that by his last Will and Test dated 22. Jan. 1647 and proved 13 Mar. 1649 he appointed his younger Brother Dr. Hen. Glemham his Executor who caused his body to be buried at Little Glemham before mention'd as I have been enformed by some of his relations Doct. of Phys May 6. Adrian Metcalfe Bach. of Phys was then created Doct. of that faculty In 1642 Nov. 1. he was actually created M. of Arts and perhaps is the same but mistaken by the Registrary with Franc. Metcalf created Bach. of Phys an 1643 as before 't is told you Aug. 12. the most noble ... Seymour was then actually created and admitted to give his suffrage in the house of Congregation and Convocation Whether this person be the same with Henry Lord Seymour who was created M. of A. an 1642 as I have before told you I know not nor yet to the contrary but that he may be Robert Seymour another Son of William Marquess of Hertford who became a Noble man of Christ Church an 1635. aged eleven years Oct. 30. Edward Buckoake Bach. of Phys was created Doctor by vertue of the Chancellours letters which say that his Majesty hath thought him worthy to serve his Highness Prince Charles in the place of Physitian and therefore that he might be the more capable of that honour he desires that the Convocation would confer on him the honour of Doctor of Physick c. He was afterwards a Physitian of some note in Yorkshire Doct. of Div. July 10. Edward Aylmer or Elmer M. A. of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was created D. D. by vertue of the Letters from the Chanc. of the University and Prince Rupert This person who was Grandson to John Aylmer or Elmer sometimes Bishop of London being forced from his station by the barbarities of the Presbyterians took refuge in Oxon and under the said Prince He had a kinsman named Joh. Aylmer Rector of Bletneso and Melchbourne in Bedfordshire before the Civil Wars broke out who was Son of Tobell the fifth Son of the said Bishop Aylmer Dec. 17. Philip King was then actually created D. of D. This person who was a younger Son of Dr. John King sometimes Bishop of London was originally a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Orator of the University Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Billingsgate in London Prebend of S. Pauls Cathedral Church and Archdeacon of Lewes But being sequestred of S. Botolphs and forced to fly by the faction he took sanctuary at Oxon lived afterwards in a retired condition till his Majesties return at which time being restored to what he had lost lived for some time in a quiet and sedate repose At length paying his last debt to nature on the 4 of March 1666 was buried at Langley in Bucks where he had a Sister married to Sir Rich. Hobart Besides this Ph. King I find another of Cambr. who was incorporated M.
disconsolate and relegated place to walk two miles at least in length containing but a few paces in breadth either in the company of the Governour of the said Castle or in that of Captain Reynolds an Officer therein beside Harrington while he was there and Herbert who according to their duties did always attend him That which made some amendments was a fair and uninterrupted prospect a good way into the Sea a view into the Isle of Wight one way and main Land the other with the sight of Ships of all sizes daily under sail with which his Majesty was much delighted In this Castle his Majesty continued from the evening of the 30 of Nov. till the 21. of Dec. following an 1648. and what hapned in that interval I have partly told you in Jam. Harrington among the Writers under the year 1677. p. 437.438 About the 15 of the said month of Dec. Major Harrison came late at night with orders for the removal of his Majesty thence lodged there two nights and went away without seeing the King or speaking with any of his Attendants Two days after L. Col. Cobbet before mention'd came and acquainted his Majesty with the orders he had received for his remove thence to Windsore Castle forthwith The King told him he was more kind at that time than he was at Newport when he would not gratifie him or any other the knowledge of the place he was to go to Windsore was the place he ever delighted in and 't would make amends for what at Hurst he had suffer'd All things in short time being made ready he bad solitary Hurst adieu and having pass'd the narrow passage before mention'd which reaches well nigh from Hurst to Milford three long miles there appeared a party of Horse belonging to the Army who had then their Winter quarter at Lindhorsh and were ordered to convoy the King to Winchester but going first to Ringwood then through the New Forest to Rumsey went thence to the said City At his entrance therein the Mayor and Aldermen of the City did notwithstanding the times receive the King with dutiful respect and the Clergy did the like During his short stay there the Gentry and others of inferiour rank flock'd thither in great numbers to welcome his Majesty and out of zeal to pray for his enlargement and happiness with which the King was much satisfied and was pleased to give his hand to many of them to kiss Thence his Majesty rode to Alton and so to Alresford while the Inhabitants round about made hast to see his Majesty pass by and to pour forth their prayers for his preservation From thence he went to Farnham 'twixt which two Towns Major Harrison met him with a party of Horse to convey him to Windsore See more before in Thomas Harrison among these creations Bach of Phys May 19. Thomas Trapham Chyrurgion to the General of the Parl. Army was then actually created Bach. of Physick while the said General Cromwell and the aforesaid Officers were seated in their Gowns in the Doctors seats This person who was Son of John Trapham of Maidstone in Kent and had been licensed by the University to practice Chyrurgery an 1633 did practice it in these parts for some time before the grand rebellion broke forth Afterwards he turned tail for profit sake practiced in the Parliament Army and became a bitter enemy to his Majesty K. Ch. the first to whose body after his decollation in the latter end of Jan. 1648 he put his hand to open and embalm and when that was done he sewed his head to his body and that being done also he said to the company then present that he had sewed on the head of a Goose Afterwards he was Chyrurgeon to Oliver Cromwell at the fight at Worcester against K. Ch. 2 was a great man among his party and got what he pleased After his Majesties return he retired to the fanatical Town of Abendon in Berks practiced there among the Brethren and dying an absolute Bigot for the cause in the latter end of Dec. 1683 was buried on the 29 of the same month in the presence of a great number of Dissenters in the Church yard of S. Helen there close under one of the windows of that Church One of both his names and his Son as it seems I shall elsewhere mention Nov. 14. James Ward was actually created by the favour of Fairfax the General This person who was lately made Fellow of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors I have mentioned among the Incorporations an 1648. Jan. 14. Edm. Scrope eldest Son of Col. Adrian Scrope mention'd among the Creations of Bachelaurs of Arts this year was created by order of the Delegates of this University This ingenious and most comely Gentleman who had by the endeavours of his Father been made Fellow of All 's Coll. by the favour of the Committee and Visitors was afterwards Keeper of the Privy Seal in the Kingdom of Scotland He died much lamented by those that knew him in 1658 or thereabouts and was buried with solemnity by two or more Officers of Armes at Ch. Ch. alias the Grey-friers within Newgate in London Bach. of Div. May 19. Matthew Barten sometimes Mast of Arts of New Inn now a sturdy zealous and dayly Preacher up of the blessed cause in the Parliament Army was actually created Bach. of Div while the General Lieut. General and Officers were sitting in their respective stalls It was the pleasure then of Fairfax and Cromwell that George Sikes Jam. Baron Joh. Dale and Josh Cross all zealous and doughty Brethren for the said cause might be created Bachelaurs of Div. when they pleased June 8. George Sikes was created in a Convocation then held This person who was Son of George Sikes of Lutterworth in Leycestershire was originally of S. Johns Coll a Servitour I think and as a member of it he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards siding with the faction he became a Presbyterian a Covenantier an Independent was made Fellow of Magd. Coll by the Com. and Visitors where he had his share of the old gold or spurroyals belonging to that house went away with and never restored them again as others did and took the Engagement became a great admirer and follower of Sir Hen. Vane junior and therefore esteemed by the generality an Anabaptist Fifth-monarchy man and a Hodg-podge of religions He hath written The life and death of Sir Hen. Vane Knight or a short narrative of the main passages of his earthly pilgrimage Printed 1662 in qu. 'T is a most canting and enthusiastical piece and the effects rather of a craz'd than setled brain And instead of giving the Reader an account of the birth extract breeding actions c. of that Knight usually called Sir Humerous Vanity he puts the Reader off with his such as 't is Divinity What else he hath written I know not nor any thing besides of the person only that he was a great encourager of Henry Stubbe in
lately made Principal of the said Coll. by the Committee and Visitors was then actually created Doct. of Div. He was a severe and good Governour as well in his Vicechancellourship as Principality continued in his Coll. till the Kings return and then being discharg'd by the Kings Commissioners to make room for Dr. Thom. Yate he and his wife retired to Studley near Oxford and continued there in a private condition till her death Afterwards he lived in the House of his Nephew Mr. Dan. Greenwood Rector of Steeple-Aston near Dedington in Oxfordshire where dying 29. January 1673 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there and soon after had a Mon. put over his grave July 24. Franc. Cheynell Presid of S. Joh. Coll. July 24. Hen. Wilkinson Senior Can. of Ch Ch. Dec. 18. John Wilkins Warden of Wadh. Coll. Henry Langley Master of Pembr Coll was created the same day This person who was originally Fellow of the same Coll was made Master thereof by order of Parliament 26. Aug. 1647 and established therein by the Visitors on the 8. of Octob. following he being then one of the six Ministers appointed by Parliament to preach at S. Maries and elsewhere in Oxon to draw off the Scholars from their Orthodox Principles In the beginning of the year following he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. G. Morley ejected by the Visitors but being forced to leave his two places after his Majesties restauration he retired to Tubney near Besills-Lee and Abendon in Berks where he instructed the sons of dissenting brethren in Academical Learning as 't was usually reported and oftentimes preached in Conventicles at Abendon of which place his father Thomas Langley had been a Shoomaker He died about the 10 of Sept. 1679 and was buried in S. Helens Church in Abendon One of both his names Minister of Treswell in Nottinghamshire hath written and published The Chariot and Horsemen of Israel A discourse of Prayer c. Lond. 1616. oct and other things but whether he was ever of Oxon I cannot tell About the same time when the two last persons were created it was granted to Henry Cornish Bach. of Div. and Canon of Ch. Ch that he if he please might be actually created Doct. of Div. but he refused it and was not This person who was Son of Will. Cornish of Ditthet in Somersetshire was originally a poor Scholar of New Inn and an Assistant to the Butler there to put on or enter battles in the buttery book and as he had been puritannically educated at home so more under Dr. Rogers Principal of the same Inn. Afterwards he took the degr in Arts and became a puling Preacher left Oxon when it was garrison'd for his Majesty preached among the Godly party and was appointed by the Parliament with Langley before mention'd Corbet Cheynell c. to preach the Scholars into obedience to the then Powers For which his service he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Rob. Sanderson ejected After his Majesties restauration he was removed and preached in these parts as a Nonconformist till the Five-mile-Act was made and then retiring to Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire where he was patroniz'd by Sir Philip Harcourâ— a favourer of such like persons as having been educated in their Principles by one of the Parl. Generals named Sir Will. Waller who had married his mother he lived and carried on the trade there for many years and took all occasions to preach elsewhere when the Indulgences for tender Consciences were granted and did sometimes after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown preach in an antiquated Dancing-School just without the north Gate of Oxon to which place many people did usually resort Afterwards this Meeting was translated to a house in S. Ebbes Parish where it now 1691 continueth and is chiefly carried on by a certain person who has received some education in Cambridge c. In the year 1690 Mr. Cornish left Stanton Harcourt and translated himself to a market Town in Oxfordshire called Bister where he now holds forth So that he who had been a licensed Preacher by the Blessed Parliament as it was by the Brethren so called and had been Canon of Ch. Ch and much respected by those of his perswasion while he lived in Oxon for a godly man doth now in his old age being about 80 years old preach in a Barn in the said Town of Bister for profit sake to silly women and other obstinate people such is the poor spirit of the person Feb. 16. Edward Hinton was then actually created Doctor of the said faculty by the favour of the Delegates of the University This person who was son of a father of both his names of Marlborough in Wilts Minister of Gods word was elected Prob. Fellow of Mert. Coll. 1629 having been before Post-master of that house took his Masters degree became Vicar of Maldon in Surrey by the presentation of his Coll an 1639 ran with the Presbyterians in the beginning of the Rebellion and was a Preacher up of Sedition and Discontent among them After the War was ceased he became Rector of Islip in the County of Oxon in the place as I suppose of a Loyalist ejected which by conformity after his Majesties restauration and the death of the former Incumbent he kept to the day of his death He hath published The vanity of Self-boasters Sermon at the funeral of Joh. Hamnet Gent. late of Maldon in Surrey on Psal 52.1 Oxon. 1651. qu. He died 22 July 1678 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Islip Whereupon Rob. South D. D. and Preb. of Westminster succeeded him in that Rectory In the month of January this year the Delegates of the University gave leave to four persons thereof that they might supplicate the ven Congr or Convoc for the degr of Doctor of Div. viz. 1 Tho. Goodwin the new President of Magd. Coll. but he being not yet setled did not See more among the created Doctors of Div. 1653. 2 George Marshall the new Warden of New Coll who refused it 3 Edw. Pococke Canon of Ch. Ch but he being soon after turned out for denying the Engagement he did not then take that degree 4 Ralph Button M. or A Orator of the Univ. and Canon of Ch. Ch who being newly married or upon the point of Marriage refused to be at the charge and so continued in the degree of Master all his life time This person who was the son of Robert Button of Bishopston in Wiltshire was originally of Exeter Coll. where being put under the tuition of a puritannical Tutor he made so great a progress in philosophical and other Literature that when he was Bachelaur of Arts he was recommended by Dr. Prideaux his Rector to Sir Nath. Brent Warden of Merton Coll to stand for a Fellowship there Whereupon an Election being appointed in 1633 very many stood and twelve were chosen Probationer Fellows whereof the said Ralph Button being one
S. Maries on Tuesday a Lecture day 25 July 1654 he did then deliver a very offensive Sermon preached on Job 37.22 With God is terrible Majesty In which Sermon speaking of the attributes of God particularly of that in the text took a hint from the word terribilis which might as he said signifie with some terrae bilis to say that God was a Melancholy God c. and in the conclusion to maintain that those that had no teeth to gnash should gnash their gums c. For which Sermon he being call'd into question was in a fair way of expulsion but by the intercession of friends the business was compromised yet two years after he was forced to leave his Fellowship upon some quarrel between him and Dr. Greenwood Principal of his House Afterwards he was intrusted with a Commission from Oliver to be Chaplain to the English Forces in Jersey an 1656 where continuing for some time in preaching suffered soon after in his relations reputation salary c. by a new Governour placed there who forced him as it seems thence He hath published 1 Blood-thirsty Cyrus unsatisfied with blood Or the boundless cruelty of an Anabaptists tyranny manifested in a letter of Colonel John Mason Governour of Jersey 3. Nov. 1659 wherein he exhibits seven false ridiculous and scandalous articles against Quarter-Master Will. Swan c. Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. 2 Satan in Samuels mantle or the cruelty of Germany acted in Jersey containing the arbitrary bloody and tyrannical proceedings of John Mason of a baptized Church commissionated to be a Colonel and sent over into the Island of Jersey Governour in July 1656 against several Officers and Soldiers in that small place c. Lond. 1659 in 4. sh in qu. After his Majesties restauration the author was beneficed near Hertford in Hertfordshire where he soon after finished his restless course Dec. 11. Christoph Wren of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 21. Edward Veel or Veal of Ch. Ch. was admitted M. of A. in Convocation and at the same time was admitted ad regendum This person who had been elected Fellow of Trin. Coll. near Dublin between the time that he took the degree of Bach. and Master in this University I take to be the same Ed. Veel who is now or at least was lately a Nonconformist Minister in or near London and author of 1 What spiritual knowledge they ought to seek for that desire to be saved Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 2 Sermon on Psalm 62.12 'T is the eleventh Serm. in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwerk Lond. 1675. qu and perhaps of other things but such I have not yet seen See in Joh. Davenport and Steph. Charnock among the Writers p. 335 and 491. Adm. 63 or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys or of Div or Doct. of the Civil Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 4. Tho. Waldron of Ball. Coll. 6. Will. Page of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Will. Coniers of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Thom. Cummyns of Wad Coll. The first of these four was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys and Physitian in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. 15. Martin Luellyn of Ch. Ch. Dec. 14. Rob. Fielding of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was adm or licensed this year Incorporations May 14. Tho. Wolfius Doct. of Phys of Padua May 14. John Clerk Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Thomas Pepys Doct. of Phys of Padua The first was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and the second is the same I suppose with him who published Disputatie medica de Ilio vero I find one John Clark to have been Doct. of the Laws of Doctors Commons in Lond. who died in the latter end of the year 1672 but whether ever of Oxon I cannot yet tell See another Joh. Clerk among the created Doctors of Phys 1660. As for the third I know nothing of him June 13. Walt. Mills Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians 15. Will. Whitaker Doct. of the same faculty of Franaker in Wâ—st Freisen He was afterwards as I conceive one of the Coll. of Physitians and lived several years in good repute for his learning in the Parish of S. Andrew in Hoâ—bourne near London but died in the Parish of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster in the month of Dec. or beginning of January 1670. He hath written The tree of life or blood of the grape c. pr. in oct and perhaps other things Qu. I have made mention of a learned Divine of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 744 and another a Nonconformist in this in Tho. Jacombe under the year 1687. p. 607. July 12. John Sherman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards Archd. of Salisbury See in Josh Childrey among the Writers p. 339. Rob. Dixon M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the said day I take this person to be the same Rob. Dixon who was afterwards Doct. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester author of 1 The degrees of Consanguinity and affinity described and delineated Lond. 1675. oct 2 The nature of the two Testaments or the disposition of the Will and Estate of God to mankind c. In two volumes The first of the Will of God the second of the Estate of God Lond. 1676. 77. fol and of other things as 't is probable Isaac Barrow M. A. of Trin. Coll. in the same University was incorporated on the said day In the next year he took a long journey into several forreign Countries and returned a compleat Master of divers Languages In 1660 he was chose Greek Professor of Cambridge and two years after on the death of Laur. Rooke Geometry Lecturer in Gresham Coll. In 1672 he was elected Master of Trin. Coll being then in great esteem for his learning and accomplishments And dying on the fourth day of May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the South cross Isle of S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in the City of Westminster His works were afterwards collected and published by Dr. Joh. Tillotson an 1683 before the first of which is a full account of the life of the said Is Barrow to which I refer the Reader These three last Sherman Dixon and Barrow were of the number of 25 Cambridge Masters of Arts that were incorporated just after the Act this year July 12. Edw. Spark Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 2 and well beneficed if not dignified He hath written and published 1 The Christians map of the world drawn at the solemn funerals of Henry Chitting Esq Chester-Herald at Armes inter'd 11. January 1637. Lond. 1637. oct 'T is a Sermon preached at the said Chittings funeral 11. Jan. 1636 on Heb. 13. ver 14. 2 Scintilla
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
whole substance of his illiterate plea entit Medela Medicinae is occasionally considered Lond. 1665. See more in March Nedham among the Writers p. 470. Afterwards upon some controversie that hapned between his Father and Mother the last of which was made away he became much discontented turned Papist went into Lancashire setled at Preston in Amunderness practised among the Roman Catholicks and by them cried up tho as 't is said there he led a drunken and debauch'd life Some time before his death he was reconciled to the Church of England and dying at Preston was buried there but when my author a Physitian of those parts tells me not only that 't was after or about the year 1670. Rich. Kidder M. A. of Eman. Coll. This learned person a Suffolk man born I think was afterwards Rector of S. Martins Outwich in London installed Preb. of Noâ—wich in the place of Hezek Burton deceased on the 16 of Sept. 1681 being then D. of D. Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Sim. Patrick promoted to the See of Chichester an 1689 and at length became Bish of Bath and Wells upon the deprivation of the religious and conscientious Dr. Tho. Ken for not taking the usual Oaths to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He was nominated thereunto about the 14 of June 1691 upon the refusal of it by Dr. William Beveridge and on the 30 of Aug. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary Le Bâ—w in London by John Archb. of Cant Gilbert B. of Sarum Peter B. of Wâ—nton John B. of Norwich and Edward B. of Glocester At which time were also consecrated Dr. Rob. Grove of Cambridge to the See of Chichester upon the translation thence of Dr. Patrick to Ely and Dr. Joh. Hall Master of Pemb. Coll. in Oxon to the See of Bristow upon the translation thence of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Hereford Dr. Kidder hath written 1 The young mans duty A discourse shewing the necessity of seeking the Lord betimes as also the danger and unreasonableness of trusting to a late or death-bed repentance Designed especially for young persons before they are debauched by evil company and evil habits Lond. 1663 and several times after in tw The sixth edition was publish'd in 1690. 2 Convivium coeleste A plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Suppor shewing at once the nature of that Sacrament as also the right way of preparing our selves for the receiving of it c. Lond. 1674. oct and afterwards again with additions 3 Charity directed or the way to give almes to the greatest advantage In a Letter to a friend Lond. 1677. qu. 4 The Christian sufferer supported or a discourse concerning the grounds of Christian fortitude shewing at once that the sufferings of good men are not inconsistent with Gods special providence c. Ibid. 1680. oct 5 Reflections on a French Testam printed at Bourdeaux 1626 pretended to be translated into the French by the Divines of Lovain Ibid. 1691. qu. He hath also published several Sermons as 1 A discourse concerning the education of youth on Ephes 1.4 Lond. 1673. 2 Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-hall Chap. 16. July 1682. Ibid. 1682. qu. 3 Serm. at the funeral of Mr. Will. Allen 17. Aug. 1686. on Heb. 13.4 Ibid. 1686. qu. This Will. Allen had been a Citizen and Trader of London and had written 10 books chiefly for conformity against Quakers Anabaptists c. Dr. Kidder hath published several books against popery during the reign of K. Jam. 2 and other things which for brevity sake I now pass by James Arderne M. A. of Christs Coll. See among the Incorporations an 1673. All the said Cambridge men viz. B. Rively J. Dowell R. Sprackling R Kidder and J. Arderne were incorporated on the 13 of July at which time were incorporated 15 other Masters of the said University among whom were Joh. Quarles and Joh. Gosling of Peter House Jan. 2. Henry Yerbury Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had been turn'd out of his Fellowship of Magd. Coll. in this University by the Visitors in 1648 did afterwards travel and took the said degree at Pad in the beginning of Apr. 1654. After his Majesties return he was restored by his Commissioners an 1660 was a Candidate of the Coll. of Phys and dying on the 25 of March 1686 was buried in the Chappel belonging to Magd. Coll near to the north door which leads from the cloister therein I shall make farther mention of this person when I come to speak of Dr. Thomas Pierce Creations Apr. 16. Will. Burt M. of A. chief Master of Wykehams School near Winchester was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chanc. of the Univ. This person who was Son of Will. Burt sometimes belonging to the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll in 1627 took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Master of the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire In 1647 he was made Rector of Whitfield in the said County and soon after became chief Master of Wykehams School before mentioned in the place of Dr. Jo. Pottinger On the 9. of Sept. 1658 he was admitted Warden of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Harris deceased and after his Majesties restauration was made Prebendary of the Cathedral there He hath published Concio Oxoniae habita postridie Comitiorum 13 Julii 1678 pro gradu Doctoris in Psal 72.17 Oxon. 1659 in tw Dedic to Rich. Cromwell Lord Protector of England with whom and the great men going before in the interval he kept pace This being all the exercise that he performed for the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div I do therefore put him under the Creations He died at Winchester 3 July an 1679 and was buried on the South side of the altar in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of Wykeham near Winchester May 14. Rob. Woseley or Wolseley who had been a Student in this Univ. for 8 years time and a Burgess as 't is said in the register in the late Parliament was actually created Master of Arts I cannot find his name in the Catalogues of Parliament men that sate in the three Parliaments going before this time only Charles Wolseley Esq who was one of Olivers Lords July 7. Paul Hartman of the City of Thorne in Prussia was actually created Mast of Arts He was afterwards one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch and is now or else was lately Rector of Shillingford in Berks This person who is Brother to Ad. Sam. Hartman mentioned among the Incorporations an 1680 hath written and published certain matters pertaining to Grammar as I have heard An. Dom. 1659. An. 11. Car. 2. An. 1 â— Rich. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell
Chaplain to his Majesty in his Exile was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury by Bishop Duppa in January 1657 in the place of Will. Buckner deceased and about the same time to a Prebendship in the same Church After his Majesties restoration he was installed Canon of Windsore 18. July 1660 in the place of Joh. Hales some years before dead and had two good rectories bestowed on him in Wilts He died on the 16 of Jan. 1663 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Josh Childrey and his Canonry on Joh. Durell Joh. Lloyd M. A. of All 's Coll. Chaplain also to his Majesty in his Exile who on the 18 of July going before had been installed Canon of Wind. in the place of Hugh Cressey who in the War time had changed his Religion This Dr. Lloyd died on the 9 of April 1671 and thereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Joh. Saumares M. A. of Pemb. Coll and Dean of Guernsey One Joh. Lloyd wrot A Treatise of Episcopacy Liturgies and Ecclesiastical Ceremonies Pr. in 1660. qu. but whence he was I cannot yet tell And Joh. Lloyd D. D. was of Hombleston in Kent and died about the beginning of the year 1679. Joseph Crowther Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll and Chaplain to James Duke of York He was about this time Chantor and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in the diocese of Worcester On the 7. of March 1661 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Herbert Croft promoted to the See of Hereford and on the 26. of Dec. 1664 he was admitted Principal of S. Maries Hall In his last days he was committed Prisoner to the Prison call'd the Fleet in London by the endeavours of Sir Tho. Draper because he refused to renew a Corps belonging to S. Pauls Cath. then in the possession of Sir Thomas which the Doctor intended to wear out for the benefit of the said Cathedral He died in the Fleet on the 16 of Dec. 1689 and was buried in S. Pauls Cathedral Whereupon his Chantorship was bestowed on Dr. Tho. Turner President of C. C. Coll his Preb. of Worc. on Jonathan Blagrave of Magd. Hall Sub-Almoner to the Queen his rectory of Tredington on Tho. Kerry of Ch. Ch. and his principality on Will. Wyat M. A. of the same House George Benson M. A. of Qu. Coll and about this time Archdeacon of Hereford On the 16. of June 1671 he was installed Preb. of Worcester in the place of Dr. Will. Dowdeswell deceased and in the year following he became Dean of Hereford on the death of Tho. Hodges Ralph Brideoake M. A. of New Coll. He was afterwards B. of Chichester Edw. Fulham Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. This person who had been Rector of Hampton Poyle in Oxfordshire in the times of Usurpation was installed Canon of Windsore on the 12 of July this year in the place of Dr. Thomas Some some years before deceased who had been of Peter House in Cambridge and Preb. of S. Pauls Cathedral and about the same time he became Preb. of Chichester George Hall of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester Nath. Hardy of Hart sometimes of Magd. Hall Joh. Townson of Magd. Coll. Joh. Lee M. A. sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll. This person who was Son of Thom. Lee of London by Anne his Wife Daughter of Harman Warner and Sister and Heir of Dr. John Warner Bishop of Rochester was now Preb. of Rochester and Archdeacon thereof in the place of Elizeus Burges some years before deceased He afterwards wrot himself Joh. Lee alias Warner because he was heir to the said Bishop hath published one or more Sermons which I have not yet seen and dying about the beginning of June 1679 at which time he left behind him a Son named Hen. Lee Esq was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Thom. Plume D. of D. of Cambr installed therein on the 10 of the said month and in the same year Henry Bridgman M. A. of Brasn Coll was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he hath done his Majesty faithful service c. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Mich. Woodward B. D. Warden of New Coll. Tho. Barlow B. D. Provost of Qu. Coll. Rob. Say M. A. Provost of Oriel Coll. Walt. Blandford M. A. Warden of Wadham Coll. Thomas Yate B. D. Principal of Brasn Coll. The first of these five dying on the 16 of June 1675 was succeeded in his Wardenship by Joh. Nicholas M. A. and Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester The second was afterwards B. of Linc and was succeeded in his Provostship by Tim. Halton D. D. The third dying on the 24 of Oct. 1691 was succeeded in his Provostship by George Royse D. D. The fourth was afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Worcester and was succeeded ih his Wardenship by Gilbert Ironside Bach. of Div and the last dying on the 22 of Apr. 1681 was succeeded in his principality by Joh. Meare M. A. But this the Reader is to know that tho all five were created as Loyalists yet none of them suffered for their Loyalty in the times of Rebellion and Usurpation only the last Rob. Davenant of S. Johns Coll Bach. of Div. of 28 years standing and now Preb. elect of Salisbury as 't is said in the publick register He was Brother to Sir Will. D'avenant the Poet. Ralph Cooke of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester Rich. Harwood B. D. of Magd. Hall This person who was Son of a Father of both his names was born in the City of Glocester educated in Grammar learning there became a Com. of the said Hall in Mich. term 1631. aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and being accounted a learned Preacher was appointed by the Delegacy of the Univ. to be one of those persons to preach before K. Ch. 1 at Ch. Ch. in the time of the rebellion Afterwards upon the death of that King he suffer'd as all Divines that adhered to him did but upon his Sons restauration he became Chaplain in Ord. to him was created Doctor as before 't is said made Preb. of Glocest and Rector of a Church near Stow on the Wold in Glocestershire He hath written and published 1 King Davids Sanctuary Sermon before his Majesty at Ch. Ch. on Psal 73.25 Oxon. 1644. qu. 2 The Royal Subjects retiring-room Serm. at S. Maries 13. July being Act Sunday on Esay 26.20.21 Oxon. 1645. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the year 1669 and was succeeded in his Preb. by Will. Washbourne M. A. and Fellow of Oriel Coll. Rich. Hyde M. A. of S. Edm. Hall He was sometimes a Chaplain in the Kings Army was now Preb. of Warmister in the Church of Salisbury afterwards Sub-dean of the said Church by the resignation of
is so called Preb. of Westminster was created by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that Mr. Dav. Michell of Aberdene is a person very learned and honest and from the beginning of the Troubles has been a great Sufferer for the Cause of his Majesty and the Church c. This worthy person was born in the Shire of Merne was Minister at Edinburgh and there challenged for Arminianisme in the time of the Covenant and forced afterwards to fly into Engl where he enjoyed some Benefice during his exile After his Maj. restauration he was made Preb. of Westm as before 't is told you and on the first day of June 1662 he was consecrated Bishop of Aberdene at S. Andrews with Dr. Wishart to Edinburgh where sitting but one year died of a Fever and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Macchar at Old Aberdene among his Predecessors Jul. 19. Tho. Gorges of All 's Coll. On the 23 Apr. 1643 he was collated to the Prebendship of Woodford and Willsford in the Ch. of Salisbury and afterwards suffered much for the royal Cause After the return of his Maj. he was restored to his Prebendship was installed Archdeacon of Winchester on the death of Dr. George Roberts 19 Mar. 1660 and soon after became Preb. of Westminster After his death his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Dr. Walt. Dayrel and his Preb. of Salisbury on Dr. Will. Lloyd to which he was collared in Dec. 1667 but who succeeded him in Westm I cannot yet tell In 1629 the said Tho. Gorges was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. with Gilbert Talbot a Native of Worcestershire son of Sherington Talbot an Inhabitant then of Lacock in Wilts Which Gilb. who was originally of Ch. Ch. was by his Majesty sent ordinary Agent to the Republic of Venice about 1638 was afterwards a Sufferer for his Cause in the time of the Rebellion and having the honour of Knighthood confer'd on him became Master of the Jewel house and one of the first 21 persons who were appointed by his Majesty to be of the Council of the Royal Society at its first institution c. Sept. 5. Will. Barker of New Coll was created Doctor for his laudable Sermons preached before the King and Parl. at Oxon during the time of Rebellion He was now Preb. of Canterbury and dying in his Rectory house at Hardwick in Bucks 26 Mar. 1669 was buried in the Church there I have seen his Epitaph wherein 't is said that he was always noted for his orthodox Sermons and for his frequent and innocent Conceits and Jests Sept. 9. Rich. Rallingson or Rawlinson of Queens Coll Chaplain to the Duke of Newcastle was created while the Chancellour held the Supreme Chair in Convocation He was an ingenious man well skill'd in the Mathematicks but had not preferment confer'd on him equal to his merits He died in 1668 being then as I conceive Rector of Pulborough in Sussex Sept. 12. Sam. Cotton of Pemb. Coll. Sept. 12. Laur. Hungerford of Pemb. Coll. Sept. 12. Rob. Henderson of Mert. Coll. Sept. 12. Hen. Parkhurst of Magd. Coll. Sept. 12. Humph. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Sept. 12. Jenkin Lloyd of Jesus Coll. The second of these four was beneficed at Norton in Kent and died in 1669 or thereabouts The third was afterwards Bish of Bangor and the last beneficed in his own Country of whom by the way I must let the Reader know these things viz. That he was a Cardiganshire man born son of Joh. Lloyd of Varedreff in the same County Gent. That he became a Student in Jesus Coll. in Mich. term an 1640 but the Rebellion breaking out soon after he left the University without a degree and closed with the predominant party That in 1648 or before he retired to the University again submitted to the Visitors appointed by the Parl and was actually created Mast of Arts in the Pembrokian Creation That about that time he was Rector of Llandishill in his own Country and afterwards wrot and published Christs Valedictions or sacred Observations on the last words of our Saviour delivered on the Cross Lond. 1658. in tw They are discourses or at least the effect of certain Sermons on Luke 23. ver 34.43.46 and on Joh. 19. ver 28.30 c. That he put in among the Royalists and several Presbyterians to be created D. of D. Sept. 12. Thom Ballow of Ch. Ch. Sept. 12. Nich. Searle of Cambridge Sept. 12. Henry Beesley of S. Alb. Hall Sept. 12. Sam. Rich of Hart Hall Sept. 12. Tim. Dewell of Magd. Hall Sept. 12. Joh. Jones of Hart Hall Francis Gregory of S. Maries Hall was created the same day This person who was the son of Francis Gregory was born at Wodstock in Oxfordshire educated in Gram. Learning in the Coll. school at Westminster in Academical at Cambr whence he return'd to Westm and was an Usher under Mr. Rich. Busby Afterwards he became Master of the Free-school in the Town of his nativity founded by Rich. Cornwell Cit. and Skinner of Lond. 27 Eliz. dom 1585. and at length the first Master of the Free-school founded at Witney in Oxfordshire by Hen. Box a Druggist of Lond after his Majesties restauration At both which places continuing several years he did much good by his sedulous instruction In 1672 or thereabouts he became Rector of Hambleton near Great Wycomb in Bucks and about that time one of his Majesties Chaplains in ordinary He hath written 1 Etymologicum parvum ex magno illo Sylburgii Eustathio Martinio aliisque magni nominis authoribus excerptum digestum explicatum c. in usum Schol. publ Westmon Lond. 1654. c. oct 2 Instructions concerning the art of Oratory for the. use of Schools more especially for the use of Westm School Lond. 1659. c. 3 Nomenclatura brevis Anglo-Latino-Graeca in usum Sch. pub VVestm 4 Examples of five declensions of Nounes These last two have been several times printed and with some impressions were added Centuriae duae proverbiorum Ang. -Lat.-Graecorum 5 Vorivum Carolo Or a welcome to his sacred Majesty Charles 2 printed 1660 in 3 sh and a half in qu. This book consists of several copies of Verses mostly made by Mr. Greg. and some by his Scholars at Wodstock 6 The tryal of Religions with cautions to the Members of the reformed Church against defection to the Roman Lond. 1674. 75. qu. 7 The grand presumption of the Rom. Church in equalling their Traditions to the written word and their jealousies of themselves in refusing to admit the holy Scriptures as the rule for the tryal of their Religion in two discourses Lond. 1675. qu. 8 Discourse upon the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles c. Oxon. 1678. qu. He hath also several Sermons extant as 1 Davids return from his Banishment Thanksgiving sermon for the return of K. Ch. 2 preached at S. Maries in Oxon 27 May 1660 on 2 Sam. 19.30 Ox. 1660. qu. 2 The Gregorian Account or the spiritual Watch preached to the Society of
the Gregories dwelling in and about the City of London and assembled in the Church of S. Mich. Cornhill 19 June 1673 on Mark 13.37 Lond. 1673. qu. 3 Three Sermons the first on Deut. 23.9 the second on Mark 13.37 and the third on 1 Tim. 4.16 Lond. 1673. qu. 4 Serm. on Jude 12 preached at the Oxfordshire Feast Lond. 1676. qu. 5 The religious Villain preached before Sir Rob. Clayton L. Mayor of London and the Court of Aldermen 5 Nov. 1679 at S. Mary le Bow on 2 Sam. 19.3 Lond. 1680. qu. This Dr. Gregory who is now living at Hambleton free from the noise of a School had a younger brother named John Gregory born at Wodstâ—ck educated in Cambr afterwards Master of the Coll. School in Glocester Rector of Hemsted in Glocestershire by the favour of the Lord Scudamore and at length Archdeacon of Glocester on the death of Edward Pope in the latter end of 1671. He hath written A discourse of the morality of the Sabbath being an exposition of Exod. 20.8.9.10.11 with prayers relating thereunto Lond. 1681. oct In which book the author shews a great deal of antient Learning especially as to Criticism and the Languages It is dedicated by his son Joh. Greg. M. A. of Magd. Hall to John Lord Visc Scudamore his Patron by whose grant he succeeded his father in the Rectory of Hemsted before mention'd The said John the father hath also written Greek Scholia on the New Test but whether yet printed I know not He died in the beginning of Dec. 1678 whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Thom. Hyde M. A. of Queens Coll. in Ox. There is another younger brother named Abrah Gregory who is D. D. and Preb. of Glocester Sept. 12. Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall Sept. 12. Henry Eve of Cambr. Sept. 12. Tho. Cartwright of Qu. Coll. Oct. 10. Andr. Dominick of Pemb. Coll. Oct. 10. Tho. Greaves of Co. Chr. Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Trin. Coll where he had in a manner been drawn off from his Religion to that of Rome but reclaimed by the endeavours of Dr. Christoph Wren Minister of Bishopsknoyle or Knahill in Wilts afterwards Dean of Windsore was now beneficed in that County and afterwards published Dies nefastus on Psal 22.12 printed 1662. qu. and perhaps other things Oct. 17. Joh. Gandy of Oriel Coll. Oct. 17. Joh. Whitmore of Wadh. Coll. Nov. 6. George Stradling of All 's Coll. In the Fasti of 1640 I have made a reference to this last person with intentions when I wrot that part to mention one Sermon that he had published in this place but since that time several of his Sermons and Discourses being made extant I have put him among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 622. Nov. 16. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. He was son of Dr. W. Piers Bishop of Bathe and Wells who confer'd on him tho of little merit the Archdeaconry of Bathe with the Preb. or Rectory of Cudworth and the Chappel of Knowle annexed on the death of Dr. Tim. Revett in the beginning of Apr. 1638 and in Dec. following had the Rectory of Buckland S. Mary given to him In the latter end of March 1639 he was collated to the Preb. of Whitchurch in the said Ch. of Wells and in the latter end of June following he resigning Cudworth with Knowle was succeeded therein by Rich. Busby M. A. of Ch. Ch. In 1643 he resign'd the Archdeaconry of Bathe to Will. Davis having other preferments bestowed on him and after his Majesties restauration he had setled on him the Archdeaconry of Taunton with a Prebendship in the Ch. of Wells of 10 l. per an annex'd to it the rich Rectory of Christian Malford in Wilts and a resid Canonship in the said Ch. of Wells All which he enjoyed many years gaining from them a good estate in Lands and Money He died on the 4 of Apr. 1682 and thereupon Dr. Mews Bish of Bathe and Wells bestowed his Archdeaconry of Taunton on Edw. Waple B. D. of S. Joh. Coll his Canonship on Dr. Will. Levinz President of that Coll and Christ Malford on Dr. Baptista Levinz of Magd. Coll. afterwards B. of the Isle of Man Nov. 16. Will. Hodges of Exet. Coll. In 1645 May 30 he was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester in the place of Dr. Edward Thornborough deceased by the favour of Dr. Prideaux Bish of Worc. whose dau he before had married Dr. Hodges was about that time if not before one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire and Rector of Ripple in Worcestersh which last he kept in the times of Usurpation and dying about the latter end of Aug. 1676 within few days after the death of his beloved son Thomas M. A. lately of Ball. Coll. esteemed a florid Preacher during his stay in the University his Archdeaconry was confer'd by Dr. Fleetwood B. of Worcester on his son John Fleetwood M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and was admitted thereunto on the 4 of Sept. following Dec. 7. Rich. Heylyn B. D. of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards made Canon of Ch. Ch. in the place of Dr. Wall deceased 17. Henr. Sutton of Brasn Coll. I have made mention of this person in Dr. Prideaux p. 70. Feb. 27. Dan. Brevint M. A. of Jes Coll. and a Student in Div. 20 years This person is now Dean of Lincoln hath written several things and therefore he is to be numbred hereafter among the Oxford Writers An. Dom. 1662. An. 14 Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. Earl of Clarendon Vicechanc. Walt. Blandford D. D. Warden of Wadham Coll 18 Septemb. The Caroline Cycle being still kept back a year Merton and Magd. Colleges did choose Proctors this year according as the said Cycle was kept back viz. Mr. Rob. Crippes for the first and Mr. Joh. Hook for the other But the Vicechanc. and Heads of Houses being then and before inclined to reform it and set it right Ch. Ch. and Brasnose chose also according to the true tenor of the Cycle So that from thence a Controversie arising it was on the 22 of March last year decided at Westminster in the Chancellours house by him the said Chancellour and the Bishops of London and Worcester viz. Sheldon and Morley who ordered that the Proctors chosen by Ch. Ch. and Brasnose should stand and be admitted Which being the result of the matter pronounced before certain members of the Unversity then present of which the President of Magd. Coll. was one and the Warden of Mert. should have been another but withdrawn when he saw how the business was carried these persons following were admitted Proctors in Convocation Proct. Tho. Frankland of Brasn Coll. Apr. 9. Henry Bold of Ch. Church Apr. 9. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 11. Will. Asshton of Brasn Coll. May 5. George Howell of All 's Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1666. Jun. 28. Nich. Adee of Magd. Hall This person who took no higher degree in
this University was afterwards Vicar of Rodborne-Cheyney in Wilts and published A plot for a Crown in a Visitation Sermon at Cricklade 15 May 1682 on Luke 20.14 being a parallel between the Heir and the Husbandmen in the Parable and the rightful Prince and his Excluders in Parl. Lond. 1685. qu. in 5 sh Before which is a large Preface by the Author in vindication of himself for what he had preached in that nice time Nov. 11. Tho Alvey of Mert. Coll. See among the Doctors of Phys in 1672. 22. Will. Wyat of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1665. Jan. 17. Edw. Hinton of S. Alb. Hall lately of Mert. Coll. See also among the said Masters an 1663. Feb. 24. Will. Richards of Trinity Coll. Feb. 24. George Hickes of Magd afterwards of Linc. Coll. As for Will. Asshton and George Hicks they are hereafter to be mention'd at large and perhaps too Will. Richards with his Wallography and English Orator c. Adm. 120. ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was adm this year Mast of Arts. Apr. 16. Edw. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. May 5. Charles Bridgman of Qu. Coll. He was Nephew to Sir Orlando Bridgman sometimes L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal by whose endeavours he was promoted to the Archdeaconry of Richmond His breeding in Grammar and trivial Learning had been at Harlem beyond the Seas where under his name was published in 1653 Carmen contra praecipua hujus saeculi vitia Printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper He died 26 Nov. 1678 aged 40 or thereabouts and was buried in the outer Chap. of Qu. Coll. Whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Hen. Dove B. D. of Cambr as I shall tell you elsewhere May 31. Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Jun. 17. Benj. Woodroffe of Ch. Ch. Oct. 16. Tho. Bevan of Jes Coll. Oct. 16. Tho. Guidott of Wadh. Coll. 25. Sam Holding or Holden lately of Linc. now of New Coll. Jan. 14. Francis Turner of New Coll. 21. Rob. Huntingdon of Mert. Coll. Adm. 80. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year Bach. of Div. June 28. John Beeby of Qu. Coll. He was afterwards Doctorated in Div. at Cambr but was no Author and dying 19 Oct. 1672 was buried in Qu. Coll. Chap. Jul. 12. Benj. Parry of C. C. Coll. 15. Joh. Smart of Trin. Coll. The last was an excellent Preacher but no Author was frequented much by precise people when he held forth and dying 26 March 1666 was buried in Trin. Coll. Chap. Adm. 9. Doct. of Law Jul. 16. John Allmer of New Coll. Dec. 2. Richard Lloyd of All 's Coll. The last of these two was an Advocate in the Court of Arches afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Landaff a Knight Chanc. of the Dioc. of Durham in the place of Tho. Iâ—eâ—and deceased Dean of the Arches and Judge of the Admiralty in the room of Sir Leol Jeâ—kins He died in Doct. Com. on the 28 of June 1686 and was buried on the first of July in the Yard belonging to the Church of S. Bennet near Paules Wharf in Lond. Soon after was a large monument of black marble breast high erected over his grave joyning to the north wall of the said Church ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations Jul. 19. Jam. Farewell an English man D. of D. of Leyden Nov. 4. Geor. Croyden of Ch. Ch. Doct. of the Laws at Padua Which degree was confer'd on him at Pad 1656. He was afterwards Canon of the said House in the place of Dr. Joh Dolben promoted to the See of Rochester and dying on the 14 of June 1678 aged 60 years was buried in one of the north Isles joyning to the Choir of the Cath. of Ch. Ch. Nov. 11. Arthur Amherst a Gent. of antient and noble descent sometimes a Student for 4 years together in this University afterwards Doct. of Phys of Bourges in France and Practitioner of his Faculty at Hastings in Sussex was then incorporated Doctor He afterwards practiced at Timbridge in Kent where he died in 1680 or thereabouts 17. Pet. Richierius of Maremne in the dioc of Xantoigne in France Doct. of Phys of Bourdeaux Which degree he took at Bourd 1634. Feb. 7. George Glen M. A. of Edinburgh This person who had that degree confer'd on him there in 1624 was installed Preb. of Worcester 7 Sept. 1660 in the place of Anth. Tyringham some years before dead and dying in May 1669 Dr. Tho. Lamplugh of Oxon succeeded him Creations The Creations this year were but in two Faculties viz. Arts and Divinity as they follow Mast of Arts. May 7. Sir Francis Popham of Ch. Ch. Knight of the Bath was created by the decree of Convocation Mar. 2. Godfrey Earl of Montgomery in the Province of Gwienne in France Principal Commoner of Jesus Coll now about to return to his County was then created with liberty allowed him to suffragate in Congregat and Convocat In the Matricula under the title of Jesus Coll he is thus entred Jan. 15. an 1661. Godfredus de Duras an natus 16 filius Guy-aldenii Marchionis de Duras apud Aquitanos Bach. of Div. May 7. Dan. Estcot of Wadh. Coll. He was afterwards Prebendary and Archdeacon of Exeter Doct. of Div. Apr. 9. Rich. Watson of Caies Coll. in Cambr. and Chaplain to James Duke of York was declared Doctor in Convocation he being then absent whereupon a Diploma for it being drawn up it was sealed on the third of the Ides of the same month He had been Master of the Free-School in Cambr. while he was Fellow of the said Coll and being a most zealous man for the Ch. of Engl. preached A Sermon touching Schisme in S. Maries Church there an 1642 which being highly offensive to the Presbyterians he was ejected from his Fellowship and School Afterwards to avoid their barbarities he fled into France was patroniz'd at Paris by Sir Rich. Browne Clerk of his Majesties Council officiated for some months in his Oratory or Chappel there and was one of those English Divines who did many times argue with the contrary party concerning the visibility of their Church The said Sir Richard also endeavoured to have such an establishment made for him as thereby in the most difficult of times he might have had a comfortable subsistence and a safe protection under his sacred roof besides the other graces and civilities received from him Afterwards he became Chapl. to Ralph Lord Hopton in whose service he continued till that Lords death being then accounted one of the prime Sufferers of the English Clergy beyond the seas After his Majesties restauration he did not return with him but continued at Caen till 1661 and then repairing to his native place became Chaplain to the Duke of York Rector of Pewsie in Wiltshire in Septemb. 1662 Preb. of Warmister in the Ch. of Sarum by the ceasing of Rich. Hyde in the latter end of March 1666 Preb. of Bitton in
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
died at Salisbury where he was Can. resid on the 10 of June 1676 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Whereupon Obadiah Walker M. A. was elected Master of the said Coll. on the 22 of the said month of June Jun. 15. Thom. James Warden of All 's Coll. He became Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edw. Davenant who died at Gillingham in Dorsetsh 12 March 1679 and dying on the 5 of January 1686 was buried in the outer Chap. of All 's Coll. In his Treasurership succeeded Seth Ward M. A. 23. Tho. Lambert of Trin. Coll. a Compounder He was now Can. resid of Salisbury one of his Majesties Chaplains and Rector of Boyton in Wilts On the 12 of June 1674 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Priaulx Jun. 23. Tho. Wyat of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 23. Jam. Longman of New Coll. The former was now Vicar of Melksham in Wilts the other Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire 27. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. 30. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. The former who accumulated was Preb. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and Chapl. to his Majesty the other was now Warden of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh Heywood of C. C. Coll. a Compounder He was now Rector of Walton in Lancashire Sim. Patrick of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He had been sometimes Fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was elected Master thereof by the major part of the Fellows against a Mandamus for the admitting of Dr. Anth. Sparrow Master of the same For which opposition some if not all of the Fellows that sided with him were ejected Afterwards if not at that time he was Minister of Battersea in Surrey then of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty Subdean of Westminster and in the year 1680 Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. James Duport who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Edw. Rainbow an 1664. On the 13 of Oct. 1689 he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in the Bishop of Lond. Chappel at Fulham in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake deceased and in the Month of June 1691 he was translated to Ely in the place of Dr. Franc. Turner deprived of his Bishoprick for not taking the Oathes to their Majesties K Will. 3. and Qu. Marie This Dr. Patrick hath many Sermons Theological discourses and other things relating to the supreme faculty extant which shew him to be a learned Divine and an Orthodox Son of the Church of England July 5. Joh. Cawley of All 's Coll. This person who was Son of Will. Cawley of the City of Chichester was by the endeavours of his Father made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 where he continued several years Some time after his Majesties restauration he became Rector of Henley in Oxfordshire and upon the death of Dr. Raphael Trockmorton Archdeacon of Lincoln in which Dignity he was installed on the second of March or thereabouts an 1666. He hath written The nature and kinds of Simony Wherein is argued whether letting an ecclesiastical jurisdiction to a Lay-surrogate under a yearly pension reserved out of the profits be reducible to that head And a sentence in a cause depending about it near six years in the Court of Arches is examined Lond. 1689 in 5. sh in qu. July 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. He was now Vicar of Adderbury in Oxfordshire and afterward B. of Landaff Incorporations Apr. 7. Henry Compton M. of A. of Cambr. youngest Son of Spencer Earl of Northampton was then incorporated M. of A with liberty allowed him to enter into and suffragate in the House of Congregation and Convocation This Gent. was originally of Queens Coll. in this University and afterwards through several preferments he became B. of London June 19. Edward Browne Bach. of Phys of Cambridge I shall mention him among the Doctors of that faculty in the next year 27. Sim. Patrick Bach. of Div. of Cambridge I have made mention of him among the Doct. of Div. of this year CREATIONS Those that were created this year were mostly by such that were created when Thom. Earl of Ossory had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd on him Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. Sam. Bowater of Pemb. Coll. lately Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was created Mast of that faculty and the same day was admitted Bach. of Div. conditionally that he preach a Latin Sermon The other persons following were created on the 4. of Feb. after the Earl of Ossory and two of his retinue had been created Doctors of the Civil Law James Russell of Magd. Coll. George Russell of Magd. Coll. They were younger Sons of William Earl of Bedford Thom. Leigh a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Lord Leigh of Stoneley Anthony Ashley Cooper of Trin. Coll. Son of Anthony Lord Ashley He was after his Fathers death Earl of Shaftesbury an 1682. Sir Rich. Graham of Ch. Ch. Bt. This Gentleman who was usually called Sir Rich. Grimes was the Son of Sir George Graham of Netherby in Cumberland Bt and afterwards at riper years a Burgess for Cockermouth in Cumberl to serve in several Parliaments particularly for that which began at Westm 26. of Jan. 1679 and for that which began at Oxon 21. of March 1680. Afterwards he was created by his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Viscount Preston in Scotland and by K. Jam. 2. was sent Embassador into France upon the recalling thence of Sir Will. Trumbull Some time after his return he became so great in the favour of that King that on the 28. of Octob. or thereabouts an 1688 he was made one of the Secretaries of State upon the removal of Robert E. of Sunderland who seemed very willing to be discharged of that office because that having then lately changed his religion for that of Rome he thought it very requisite to make provision for a safe retirement to avoid the danger that might come upon him if the enterprize of the Prince of Orange should succeed as it did In the said station of Secretary the Lord Preston continued till K. Jam. 2. left the Nation in Dec. following who then would have made him Viscount Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire but the sudden change of affairs being then made to the great wonder of all People there was no Seal pass'd in order to it In the beginning of Jan. 1690 he was taken with others in a certain Yatcht going to France to K. Jam. 2 upon some dangerous design as 't was said and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower was in danger of his life and endured a long and tedious imprisonment c. He is a Gent. of many accomplishments and a zealous lover of the Church of England c. Sir Carr Scrope of Wadh. Coll. Bt. This person who was Son of Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Kt became
a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll. in 1664 and on the 16 of January 1666 he was created a Baronet He hath translated into English The Epistle of Sapho to Phaon which is in a book entit Ovids Epistles translated by several hands c. Lond. 1681. sec edit in oct And in another book called Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgils Eclogues Ovids love Elegies Odes of Horace c. by the most eminent hands Lond. 1684 oct Sir Carr hath translated The fourth Elegy of Ovids first book of Elegies which is in the 110 page of the said Miscellany Poems as also The parling of Sireno and Diana out of the 3 book of Ovids Elegies which is in the 173 page of that Miscellany He wrot also the Prologue to The Rival Queens or the death of Alexander Trag. Lond. 1677 qu. made by Nath. Lee And as divers Satyrical copies of verses were made on him by other persons so he hath divers made by himself on them which to this day go from hand to hand He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster in Nov or thereabouts 1680. All which persons from Jam. Russell to Sir Carr Scrope were created on the fourth of Feb. Feb. 5. John Scudamore a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. Grandson and Heir of Visc Scudamore of Slego in Ireland He was to be created the day before with the rest but was absent Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Thom. Boteler Earl of Ossory in Ireland and Lord Roteler of More-Park in England the eldest Son of James Duke of Ormonde and General of all the Forces in Ireland under his Father now Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom was created Doct. of the Civil Law with more than ordinary solemnity He was afterwards made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and in 1673 May 17 he was made Reer-Admiral of the Blew-Squadron of his Majesties Fleet in order to the great Sea-fight against the Dutch which shortly after hapned In which fight as also in others he gallantly acted beyond the fiction of a Romance Afterwards he was made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen and on the 16 of Apr. 1680 he was sworn of his Majesties most honorable Council At length this brave Gent of whom enough can never be spoken died of a violent Feaver in Whitehall on Friday 30. July 1680 whereupon his body was in the next evening carried privately and deposited in a vault in the Chap. of Hen. 7 joyning to the Abbey Church at Westminster there to remain till his Father the Duke of Ormonde should order the farther disposal of it Afterwards it was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland as I have been informed and there laid in the Vault belonging to the Ormondian Family under part of the Cath. Church His eminent Loyalty and forward zeal on all occasions to serve his Majesty and Country were manifested by many brave and generous actions which as they made him to be honoured and esteemed by all when living made him also when dead generally lamented There were several Elegies made on his death deploring much the untimely loss of so great and valiant a Commander as he was the chiefest and best of which was made by Thomas Flatman which being his Master-piece he was nobly rewarded for his pains as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 626. George Douglas Son of the Marquess of Douglas in Scotland lately an Officer of note in the Army under the K. of France now an Officer or Captain under the K. of Poland was created next after the Earl of Ossory Sir Nich. Armorer Kt Governour of Duncannon Castle with the territory adjoyning in Ireland The said three persons were presented by Dr. Hen. Deane of New Coll and created by the Vicechanc. with a little complemental Speech which being done and they conducted to their respective Seats among the Doctors Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. the Dep. Orator did congratulate them with an accurate Speech in the name of the University Afterwards were created Masters of Arts certain Noblemen and persons of quality of this University as I have before told you among these Creations In the latter end of this year Joh. Jacob. Buxtorfius Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Basil became a Sojournour in this University for the sake of the Bodleian Vatican and continued there some months He was a learned man as by the things that he hath published appears An. Dom. 1667. An. 19. Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. E. of Clar c. but he being accused of divers crimes in Parl which made him withdraw beyond the Seas he resigned his Chancellourship of the University by his Letter bearing date at Calis Dec. 7. Which being read in Convocation on the 20 of the same month the right reverend Father on God Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archbishop of Canterbury was then elected into his place Vicechanc. the same viz. Joh. Fell D. D. Aug. 16. by the nomination of the E. of Clar. Proct. George Roberts of Mert. Coll. Apr. 17. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Arts. May 21. Corbet Owen of Ch. Ch. May 21. George Walls of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682. Jun. 27. Rob. Parsons of Vniv Coll. Jun. 27. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1670. July 4. Joh. Cudworth of Trin. Coll. July 4. Thom. Jekyll of Trin. Coll. Oct. 17. Tho. Crane of Brasn Coll. Of the first and last of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1684 and among the Masters 1670. As for Thomas Jekyll he hath published several Sermons and other things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Oct. 17. Maurice Wheeler of New Inn afterwards Chaplain or Petty Canon of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1670. Oct. 17. William Pindar of Vniv Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Thompson of Vniv Coll. The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an 1670. The other who took no higher degree in this Univ I must mention here He was the Son of Rob. Thomps of Wakefield in Yorkshire was bred in Grammar learning there and thence sent to Vniv Coll. where he became a Scholar of the old foundation took one degree in Arts left it upon pretence of being unjustly put aside from a Fellowship there went to Cambridge took the degree of Master of Arts had Deacons orders confer'd on him and afterwards those of Priest which last he received from Dr. Fuller B. of Linc. in Hen. 7. Chap. at Westm 14 of March 1670. Being thus qualified he became Curat of Brington in Northamptonshire for Dr. Thomas Pierce who when made Dean of Salisbury an 1675 left that Living and took his Curat with him to that City and in 1676 he gave him a Prebend there and afterwards a Presentation to S. Maries in Marlborough in Wilts In
1677 he travelled with Joh. Norbourne of Caln in the same County Gent but before he had spent 12 months in France with him he was recalled and had the Church of Bedminster near Bristow confer'd on him and afterwards the Vicaridge of St. Mary Radcliff At both which places expressing himself a most zealous and orthodox man for the Church of England especially when the Popish Plot broke out the Faction aspers'd him with the name of Papist and more particularly for this reason when he said in his Prayer or Sermon in the Church of S. Thomas in Saâ—isbury 30. of Jan. 1679 that there was no Popish Plot but a Presbyterian Plot. About which time shewing himself a great stickler against petitions to his Majesty for the sitting of a Parliament which the Faction with all their might drove on he was brought into trouble for so doing and when the Parliament sate he was among those many that were against petitioning brought on his knees in the H. of Commons and blasted for a Papist whereupon to free himself from that imputation he wrot and published The Visor pluckt off from Rich. Thompson of of Bristol Clerk in a plain and true character of him Printed in one sh in fol. in 1681 wherein he takes occasion to shew that while he was in his travels he did not study at S. Omers or Doway as the Faction gave out but sojourned in Protestant Houses in Paris Glen Blois and frequented Protestant Chappels Company c. Afterwards in consideration of these his sufferings his Majesty gave him the Deanery of Bristow void by the death of Mr. Sam. Crossman in which being installed on Trinity Sunday 1684 had the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him about that time at Cambridge He hath published besides the Visor before mention'd A Sermon in the Cath. Ch. of Bristow before Henry Duke of Beaufort L. Lieutenant of Glocestershire c. on Titus 3.1 Lond. 1685. qu. He died on the 29 of Nov. 1685 and was buried in the South Isle joyning to the said Cath. Ch whereupon Dr. Will. Levett of Oxon succeeded him in his Deanery Jan. 28. Henry Maurice of Jes Coll. Jan. 28. Joh. Garbrand of New Inn. Jan. 28. Joh. Graile of Exet. Coll. Jan. 28. Thom. Salmon of Trin. Coll. The first of these four was afterwards an author of note and therefore he is hereafter to be remembred The others are Writers also have published several things and if living may more hereafter Adm. 193. Bach. of Law Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. May 2. Nathan Wilson of Magd. Hall May 2. Will. Harrison of Wadh. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards B. of Limerick in Ireland as I have before told you The other Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester and Preb. of Winchester and well beneficed by the favour of B. Morley whose near Kinswoman he had married He is called Doctor but took no higher degree than Master of Arts in this University 7. Joh. Rainstropp of S. Joh. Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son was afterwards Master of the City Free-school in Bristow and published Loyalty recommended in a Sermon preached before the Merchant Adventures at S. Stephens Ch. in Bristol 10. Nov. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15.21 Lond. 1684. qu. June 20. Tho. Wagstaff of New Inn. 27. Joh. Hinton of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Rector of Newbury and Preb. of Sarum and published A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Newbury in Berks 26. July 1685 being a day of Thanksgiving for his Majesties late victory over the Rebels on 2. Sam. 18.28 Lond. 1685. qu. Oct. 31. Sam. Dugard of Trin. Coll. Mar. 10. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. Mar. 14. Edw. Pocock of Ch. Ch He was Son of Dr. Edward Pocock Canon of Ch. Ch. and published Philosophus Autodidactus seu Epistola Abi Giaaphar fil Tophail de Hai fil Jokdhan Arab. Lat. Oxon 1671. qu. Adm. 89. ☞ Not one Each of Physick was admitted this year Bach. of Div. July 2. Will. Lloyd of Jes Coll. Oct. 21. Joh. Rosewell of C. C. C. Oct. 21. Nich. Horsman of C. C. C. The first or these two who was at this time and after in great esteem for his Greek and Latin learning was afterwards made Master of Eaton School and continued there in a sedulous instruction of the youth for several years In 1678 Oct. 26 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. R Brideoake deceased and in Aug. or Sept. 1683. he became Fellow of Eaton Coll. on the death of Dr. Nathan Ingelo He died at Eaton 30. Oct. 1684 and was buried in the Chap. or Collegiat Church there leaving then most of his choice Library to C. C. Coll. Nov. 7. Hen. Foulis of Linc. Coll. Dec. 12. Franc. Drope of Magd. Coll. Dec. 12. Joh. Dobson of Magd. Coll. Dec. 12. Narciss Marsh of Ex. Coll. Adm. 11. Doct. of Law Jun. 27. Edw. Low of New Coll. Jun. 27. Will. Oldys of New Coll. July 4. Tho. Musprat of New Coll. The first of these three was afterwards one of the Masters in Chancery and a Knight and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Saliâ—bury in the place of Dr. Joh. Elliot deceased an 1671. He died in the latter end of May 1684. The second Dr. Oldys was afterwards Advocate for the office of Lord high Admiral of England and to the Lords of the Prizes his Majesties Advocate in the Court Martial and Chanc. of the Dioc. of Lincolne and of the third I know nothing July 6. Will. Trumbull of All 's Coll. This person who was originally of that S. Johns Coll. was afterwards an Advocate in Doctors Commons Chancellour of the Dioc. of Rochester and one of the Clerks of the Signet On the 21. Nov. 1684 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty and in Nov. in the year following he was sent Envoy extraordinary into France In the beginning of 1687 he was sent Embassador to the Ottoman Port in the place of James L. Shandois where he continued till 1691. c. Doct. of Phys July 4. Edward Browne of Mert. Coll. This Gent who was Son of Sir Tho. Browne the famous Physitian of Norwych was afterwards a great Traveller and after his return became Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians of which he was censor 1683 and Physitian in ord to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. He hath written and published 1 A brief account of some travels in Hungaria Servia Bulgaria Macedonia Thessaly Austria Styria Carinthia Carniola and Friuli As also some observations on the gold silver c. Mines Baths and Mineral waters in those parts c. Lond. 1673. qu afterwards with additions in fol. An account of which is in the Phil. Transactions nu 95. 2 An account of several travels through a great part of Germany in four journeys 1. From Norwich to Colen 2. From Colen to Vienna with a particular description
the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the dedication of the Theater and the coming to the University of the Duke of Ormonde Mast of Arts. On the 9 of July in a Convocation held in the Sheldonian Theater betwixt the hours of 8 and 10 in the morn at which time it was dedicated to a learned use were these seven persons following actually created Masters of Arts there George Berkley of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of George Lord afterwards Earl of Berkley He was afterwards benenced in Leycestershire at Segrave I think and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester 22. July 1686 on Matth. 7.12 Lond. 1686. qu. c. Blewet Stonehouse of Ch. Ch. Baronets Tho. Middleton of Ch. Ch. Baronets Joh. Bowyer of Ch. Ch. Baronets Ralph Ashton of Brasn Coll. Baronets Joh. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Baronets Charles Keymish of Wadh. Coll. Baronets Afterwards were these two persons following created in the Convocation house at what time the most noble Duke of Ormonde was created Doct. of Law Jul. 15. Rob. Shirley of Ch. Ch. Baronets Jul. 15. Will. Drake of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets Sir Rob. Shirley Son of Sir Rob. Shirley who died in the Tower of London was brought into the Lords house and seated next above the Lord Stourton by the name of the Lord Ferrers of Chartley 28. Jan. 1677 as I have before told you Jul. 17. Franc. Cholmondeley Esq Jul. 17. George Brucâ— These two were to have been created on the 15 of Jul. when the Duke of Orm. honored the degree of Doct. of Law had they been present The first was of the antient family of his name in Cheshire and was a Burgess as it seems to serve in Parl. after the Prince of Orange came to the Crown The other was a Scot of an antient and noble race Doct. of Law July 15. The most illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Ossâ—ry and Brecknock Viscount Thorles Baron of Lanthony and Arclo chief Butler of Ireland Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary Chanc. of the Univ. of Dublin Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland one of the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council in all his Majesties Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold L. Lieutenant of the County of Somerset Gentleman of his Majesties Bedchamber and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter was with great solemnity actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in the House of Convocation in order to his election of Chancellour of this University which was accordingly made on the 4 of Aug. following He was paternally descended from Harvey Walter a great Baron of this Realm in the time of K. Hen. 2 whose posterity afterwards became Earls of Ormonde whereof another James surnamed Boteler who married Elizabeth the Dau. of Humph. de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Lord of Brecknock and Constable of England by Elizabeth his Wife one of the Daughters of K. Edw. 3. was the first so created by K. Edw. 3. This James Duke of Ormonde was L. Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of K. Ch. 1. of blessed memory where he performed great things for his cause and afterwards did constantly adhere to K Ch. 2. in the tedious time of his calamitous exile Afterwards for these his loyal actings and sufferings he was by his Majesty after his restauration made L. Lieutenant of Ireland and advanced to honours and places in England as before 't is told you At length in the latter end of Nov. 1682 his Majesty K. Ch 2. was graciously pleased to create him a Duke of this Kingdom of England by the name and title of James Duke of Ormonde This most noble person who was a true Son of the Church of England a zealous adherer to the Royal cause and a great lover of the regular Clergy Universities and Scholars hath going under his name several Declarations Letters c. while he was L. Lieutenant of Ireland and in other capacities engaged there for the cause of K. Ch. 1 as also A Letter in answer to Arthur Earl of Anglesey his Observations and reflections on the E. of Castlehavens Memoirs concerning the rebellion of Ireland Lond. 1682 in 3 sh in fol. See in Arth. Annesley E. of Angl. among the Writers in this Vol. an 1686. p. 598.599 He died much lamented at Kingston Hall in Dorsetshire on Saturday 21. of July 1688 aged 79 years whereupon succeeded him in his honours his Grandson James Earl of Ossory Son of his eldest Son Thom. late Earl of Ossory Afterwards his body was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland and there depoâ—ted in a vault under part of the Cath. Ch. among his Ancestors Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield was created the same day Jul. 15. He had before taken for his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of the said James Duke of Ormonde Rob. Spencer Esq Joh. Evelyn Esq The last of these two who was originally of Ball. Coll hath written many things of great curiosity and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers with honor It was then also July 15. granted that Charles Earl of Dunfermling in Scotland and Theobald Earl of Carlingford in Ireland who accompanied the Duke of Ormonde in these parts might be created Doctors of Law but whether they were so it appears not Doct. of Phys Nov. 2. Elias Ashmole Esq sometimes of Brasn Coll now 1669 chief controller of his Majesties excise in England and Wales was diplomated Doct. of Phys ab eruditione reconditâ benevolentia in Academ propensa nobis charissimus as it is said in the pub reg of the University He hath written several things and therefore he is with due respect to be numbred hereafter as he is partly already among the Oxford Writers Doct. of Div. Feb. 28. Joh. Durell of Merton Coll. the judicious and laborious Advocate for the Church of England both in word and deed was then created On the 15 of July when the D. of Orm. was created it was unanimously granted by the members of Convocation that Rich. Lingard Dean of Lismore in Ireland might be admitted to the degree of Doct. of Div but whether he was so it appears not He was now publick Professor of Div. of the University of Dublin of which he was D. D. and dying at Dublin was buried in the Chap. of Trinity Coll. there on the 13 of Nov. 1670. Soon after were published An Elegy and funeral Oration on his death In both which the last being in Lat. and spoken in the Hall of the said Coll. just before he was inter'd may be seen a just character of his great learning and worth He was originally of the University of Cambridge and hath written among other things A Letter of advice to a young Gentleman leaving the Vniversity concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world Printed in tw 1670 c. The said letter was
written to James Lane of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. eldest Son of Geor. Visc Lanesborough Peter Worm a Dane son of the great Antiquary Olaus Worm was a Student this year and after in Oxon where obtaining several accomplishments became after his return to his Country Secretary to the K. of Denmarke c. In the beginning of July Joh. Rodolph Westenius and Sebastianus Feschius both of Basil in Germany were entred Students in the publick library and continued in Oxon about two years The first was afterwards Professor of the Greek tongue at Basil and a publisher of several noted books the other also a publisher of certain curious and critical matters which are now highly valued by Scholars oâ— his Country c. An. Dom. 1670. An. 22 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Dr. Mews now Dean of Rochester Sept. 16. Proct. Alex. Pudsey of Magd Coll. Apr. 13. Henry Smith of Ch. Ch. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. June 18. Benj. Hoffman of S. Edm. Hall afterwards of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters 1673. Oct. 10. Walt. Harrys of New Coll. 20. Robert Cooper of Pemb. Coll. 31. Gilbert Budgell of Trinity Coll. Of the last of these three you may see more among the Masters an 1673. Jan. 18. Austin Freezer of S. Edm. Hall Feb. 8. Edward Tyson of Magd. Hall Of A. Freezer you may see more among the Masters an 1879. Mar. 4. John Hughes of Ball. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1684. W. Harrys R. Cooper and Edw. Tyson have published several things and therefore they are to be remembred hereafter Admitted 240. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Six were admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll. This ingenious person hath translated from English into Latin a book written by the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq entit The Origine of formes and qualities See more of him the said Mr. Russell in William Russell among the Writers p. 150. Apr. 22. Rob. Parsons of Vniv Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Anne the Countess Dowager of Hâ—nry Earl of Rochester and Curat of Adderbury in Oxfordshire for Dr. Bâ—aw Bishop of Landaff who gave him a Preb. in that Church Rector of Shabington and at length one of the Vicars of Waddesdon in Bucks on the death of Joh. Ellis He hath published A Sermon preached at the funeral of John Earl of Rochester 9. Aug. 1680. on Luke 15.7 Oxon. 1680 qu. A discourse it is so excellent that it hath given great and general satisfaction to all good and judicious readers May 11. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. May 11. Tho. Jekyll of Trin. Coll. June 8. Will. Pindar of Vniv Coll. This person who was son of Nich. Pindar was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire bred in Grammar learning there and for a time was an Apprentice to an Oil-drawer in that Town as Rich. Thompson mention'd under the year 1667 was Afterwards entring into Holy Orders he succeeded Joh. Inett in the Rectory of S. Ebbes Church in Oxon which place he keeping but for a little time was made Chaplain to Ford Lord Grey of Werke in whose service he died He was a very ready Disputant and a noted preacher and might if life had been spared been very serviceable to the Church of England He hath published 1 A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at Guildhall Chappel on Prov. 17.27 Lond. 1677. qu. 2 Sermon of divine providence in the special preservation of government and Kingdoms on Psalm 127.1 This Sermon being prophetically delivered a little before his death concerning some change that would follow was upon the discovery of the Popish Plot in the latter end of Sept. 1678 published in the beginning of Nov. following in qu. with the date at the bottom of the title of 1679. He died 23 Sept. 1678 and was buried as I have heard at Gosfield in Essex where the Lord Grey hath a Seat June 8. Jam. Lane of Ch. Ch. He was the eldest son of Sir Geor. Lane Bt Visc Lanesborough in Ireland 28. Thomas Crane of Brasn Coll. This Divine who was son of a Father of both his names of Lathom in Lancashire was afterwards Curat at Winwick in his own Country for Dr. Sherlock and published Job's assurance of the resurrection Sermon at Winwick in Lancashire 25. June 1689 at the funeral of Rich. Sherlock D. D. late Rector there on Job 19.25.26.27 Lond. 1690. qu. He is now living in Lancashire a Non-juror July 5. Maurice Wheeler of Ch. Ch. He afterwards had a hand in translating from Greek The second Vol. of Plutarch's Morals Lond. 1684. oct That part which he performed bears this title Of curiosity or an overbusie inquisitiveness into things impertinent He is now Master of the College School in Glocester and is in a capacity of doing greater matters July 7. Edward Drew of Or. Coll. July 7. Tho. Salmon of Trinity Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Exeter Coll. was afterwards Can. resid of the Church of Exeter and Archdeacon of Cornwall Oct. 20. Joh. Grayle of Exet. Coll. Mar. 1. Joh. Floyr of Queens Coll. Adm. 81. or thereabouts ☞ But one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year Bach. of Div. Apr. 16. Nathan Alsop of Brasn Coll. This Divine who had been Proctor of the Univ. was afterwards Rector of Church-Laugton in his native Country of Leycestershire and published A Sermon at the Assizes held at Leycester for that County 23. Mar. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. May 11. Joshua Stopford of Brasn Coll. July 12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10. Doct. of Law July 5. John Mayow of All 's Coll. He was now and after a profess'd Physitian Doct. of Phys Dec. 17. David Thomas of New Coll. Doct. of Div. June 25. Thomas Pitâ—is of Linc. Coll. July 2. Giles Hinton of Mert. Coll. 9. Benj. Parry of C. C. Coll. The second was an Accumulator and the last a Compounder 12. Adam Littleton of Ch. Ch. Accumulator His Letters Test under the hand of Humphrey B. of London which he brought with him when he was to take his degree partly run thus Vir egregiè doctus multiplici literatura excultus eoque doctis bonisque plurimi factus est adamatus tum ob singularem eruditionem humanitatem morumque suavitatem tum ob vitam inculpatam pie institutam in concionando facultatem promptam exquisitum ingenium His nominibus apud nos claret c. Incorporations July 12. Joh. Bonwick Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was of Christs Coll. in that University Octob. 26. Will. Briggs M. A. of C. C. Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of Phys Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians Physitian to the Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark and author of Opthalmographia sive oculi ejusque partium descriptio Anatomica Cui accessit nova visionis Theoria Camb. 1676 in tw c. An account of this book is in the Philos
Transact nu 129.147 in which the author hath one or more Discourses Dec. 20. John Vlacq Doct. of the Civil Law of Orange was incorporated in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange was entertain'd with the delights of the Muses there He was the Son of Cornelius Vlacq chief Amanuensis or Scribe or Secretary to the said Pr. of Orange Edw. Halsius Doct. of Phys of Leyden and Physitian in the Court of the said Prince was then and there also incorporated Sam. Morrys Doct. of Physick of the said University was also then and there incorporated He was Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall an 1662. These three last were nominated by the Pr. of Orange to be incorporated CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all the four faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of the Prince of Aurange or Orange Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Joshua Stopford of Brasnose lately of Magd. Coll. He was soon after admitted Bach. of Div. as I have before told you Dec. 20. Rich. Lauder of S. Johns Coll was actually created in a Convocation held in the Theater while the Prince of Orange sate in a chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour This noble person was son of Charles Maitland Baron of Haltown in Scotland by his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Lauder younger Brother to John Maitland Duke of Lauderdale and was afterwards Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland where he was called Lord Maitland so long as his Father Charles was Earl of Lauderdale for by that title he was known after the said Joh. Maitland Duke of Lauderdale died which was at Tunbridge in Kent on S. Barthelmews day 1682 and after the said Charles his death which hapned about the ninth day of May an 1691 the said Richard Lauder became Earl of Lauderdale and is now living in Scotland After him were these persons following created in the said Convocation Will. Scharp of Ch. Ch who was allowed to wear the gown of a Noble man during his stay in the University was next after Lauder created He was the eldest Son of Dr. James Scharp sometimes Professor of Divinity and Rector of the University of S. Andrew afterwards consecrated Archbishop of S. Andrew in S. Peters Church commonly called the Abbey Church in Westminster 15 of Decemb. 1661 at which time were also consecrated Andr. Fairfoâ—d Minister of Dâ—nce to the Archiepiscopal See of Glascow James Hamilton late Minister of Cambusnethum to the See of Gaâ—loway and Rob. Leighton Dean of his Majesties Chappel Royal in Scotland and late Principal of the Coll. at Edinburgh to the See of Dâ—mblayne This most worthy Archbishop Scharp who is justly characterized to have been Pietatis exemplum pacis Angelus sapientiae oraculum gravitatis imago c. was most barbarously murdered for his function sake near the City of S. Andrew by a pack of Hell-hounds enemies to God Man and all kind of Religion to the great horror and amazement of all the christian world on the 3 of May 1679 aged 61 years whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Andrew and had soon after put over it a stately monument with a most noble inscription thereon the contents of which being now too large for this place they shall for brevity sake be omitted George Sheild a Scot Governour to the before mention'd John Lauder Andrew Bruce a Scot of an antient family I have made mention of another Andrâ—w Bruce among the Incorporations an 1660. Joh. Trevor Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll. Son of Sir Joh. Trevor one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and of his most honorable Privy Council The said Sir Joh. Trevor died on the 28 of June 1672 aged 47 years and was buried in the Church of S. Barthelmew in Smithfield London whereupon Hen. Coventrie Esq was sworn Principal Secretary in his place on the 3. of July following The said Sir Joh. Trevâ—r was Son of another Sir John Trevor of the City of Westminster Kt who after he had kept pace with the dominant party in the times of Usurpation as his said Son had done for they were both halters in the Presbyterian Rebellion and adherers to the Usurper died full of years in the said City in the Winter time before the month of Dec. an 1673. Besides the aforesaid persons were then actually created William Tayler Joh. Dan Franc. Anshenhurst Jam Innys Clem. Dolby Joh. Mathew and James Waddyng of all whom I know nothing Febr. 1. Altham Annesley of Magd. Coll. Febr. 1. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. These were the Sons of Arthur Earl of Anglesey and were to have been created had they not been absent in the Orangian Creation I shall make mention of the said Rich. Annesley among the Doct. of Div. an 1689. Mar. 21. Sir Will. Ellis of Linc. Coll. Bt. He was also nominated to be created when the Pr. of Orange honored the degree of Doct. of the Civil but was then absent Bach. of Div. Jan. 13. Joseph Sayer of Wadh. Coll. This Divine who was Son of Franc. Sayer sometimes Minister of Yattenden in Berks became Servitour of Wadh. Coll. in 1647 left it without a degree took holy Orders but from whom I know not succeeded his Father in Yattenden an 1656 resign'd it to his Brother Francis sometimes of Mert. Coll. an 1665 at which time Joseph Sayer became Minister of Newbury and of Sulham in his own Country of Berks. In the month of May 1670 he became Preb. of Bishopston in the Church of Salisbury by the death of one Will. Hobbes and under pretence of being ejected for his loyalty from his Coll which is false he got himself to be put in the roll of those which the Prince of Orange desired to be created while he was entertain'd at Oxon. About which time he by the endeavours of one Sayâ—r his Majesties chief Cook procured the rich Rectory of North-Church in Hertfordshire He hath published A Sermon preached at Reading 25 Feb. 1672 at the Assizes there holden for the County of Berks c. on Rom. 13. part of the 5 vers Lond. 1673. qu. On the 8 of Decemb. 1681 he was installed Archdeacon of Lewes in Sussex which is all that I hitherto know of him Doct. of Law Sept. 16. Isaac Vossius Son of the famous Joh. Gerard Vâ—ssius was then actually created Doct. of the Civil Law after he had been with great humanity and friendship entertained by some of the chief Heads of Colleges as his Father had been before in 1629 much about which time he was installed Canon of Canterbury This Dr. Vossius was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Tho. Viner deceased 12 May 1673 and dying in his Lodgings in Windsore Castle on the 10 of Feb. 1688 was buried there leaving then behind him the best private library as it was then supposed in the whole world He hath published several books the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodâ—eian
catalogue Several also he wrot while he was at Windsore among which is his book De Sibyllinis aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis Accedit ejusdem responsio ad objectiones nuperae Criticae sacrae c. Oxon. 1680. oct Decemb. 20. The most illustrious Prince William Henry Nassau Prince of Orange and Nassau was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law in a Convocation held in the Theater The rest of his titles you shall have as they stand in the publick register given into the hands of the Registrary by one of his chief Attendants thus Comes Cattimelibocii Viendae Dietziae Lingae Moersiae Bureniae Leerdamiae Marchio Verae Fâ—issingiae Dynasta Dominus ac Baro Bredae Vrbis Graviae dâ—tionis Cuychiae Diestae Grimbergae Herstalliae Cronendonchiae Warnestonii Arlaii Noseretti Sancti Viti Daesbergae Aggeris Sancti Martini Geertrudenbergae utriusque Swaluwe Naelwici c. Vicecomes haereditarius Antwerpiae Vezantionis Marescallus haereditarius Hollandiae Regii ordinis Pariscelidis Eques This most noble Prince was conducted in his Doctors robes with a velvet round cap from the Apodeterium or Vestry of Convoc by the Beadles with their silver staves erected and chains about their necks in the company of the Reg. Prof. of the Civil Law And when he came near to the grades leading up to the Vicechancellours Seat in the Theater the said Professor in an humble posture presented him with a short speech the Pr. having his cap on which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another and then descending from his place he took the Prince by the arme and conducted him up to his chair of state standing on the right hand of that of the Vicech at some distance above it The said Pr. is now King of Engl. by the name of Will 3. A little before his entrance into the Theater the Vicechancellour read the names of certain persons that were then to be created in the four faculties of Arts Law Physick and Divinity which were all or mostly nominated by the Prince and given into the hands of Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies who gave it into those of the Vicechancellour The paper or roll contained the names of fifteen to be created Masters of Arts one to be Bach. of Divinity eighteen to be Doctors of the Civil Law whereof one was incorporated six to be Doctors of Physick and seven to be Doct. of Divinity After the names were read by the Vicechancellour and proposed to the Ven. Convocation for their consents there was a general murmuring among the Masters not against the Strangers to be created but some of their own Body This Creation was called by some the Orangian Creation tho not so pleasing to the generality as might be wished for After the Prince was seated these persons following were created Doct. of the Civ Law Jacobus Liber Baro ac Dominus Wassenariae Obdami Hensbrokii c. Praefectus equestris necnon Legionis Equitum Major Gubernator urbium Willemstadii â—landriaeque ut propugnaculorum adjacentium confaederati Belgii Servitio William Albert Earl or Count of Dona who was now or at least was lately Embassador from the King of Sweedland to his Majesty the King of Great Britaine He was here in England in the same quality an 1667 as I have told you in p. 543. Henry de Nassau Lord in Ouwerkerk c. One of both his names and title became Master of the Horse after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown and Capt. of the fourth Troop of his Majesties Horse-Guards Will. de Nassau Lord in Leersum in Faederato Belgio Turmae peditum Praefectus c. This person and H. de Nassau were related in blood to the Prince William Benting or Bentink After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown of England he was made Groom of the Stole and Privy purse and in the beginning of Apr. 1689 he was made Baron of Cirencester Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland John de Bye Lord in Albranswert His other titles stand thus in the register Celsissimi Principis Auriaci Aulae Magister primarius Canonicus Vltrajectensis Turmae Peditum in Faederato Belgio Praefectus Vice Colonellus James de Steenhuys free Lord in Heumen Malden Oploo and Floresteyn Herman Scaep Lord of Beerse was being absent diplomated Sir Charles Cotterel Kt Master of the Ceremonies and Master of the Requests This Gent. who was of Wylsford in Lincolnshire succeeded Sir Joh. Finet in the Mastership of the Ceremonies an 1641 and became so great a Master of some of the modern Languages that he translated from Spanish into English A relation of the defeating of Card. Mazarini and Ol. Cromwells design to have taken Ostend by treachery in the year 1658. Lond. 1660. 66. in tw And from French into English The famed Romance called Cassandra Lond. 1661. fol. See more of him in Will. Aylesbury among the Writers p. 138. and in G. Morley p. 582. In the beginning of Decemb. 1686 he having petitioned his Majesty K. Jam. 2. for leave by reason of his age to resign his office of Master of the Ceremonies his Majesty was graciously pleased in consideration of his faithful services to his Royal Father Brother to whom he adhered in his exile and himself to receive his Son Charles Lodowick Cotterel Esq sometimes Gent. Com. of Mert. Coll into the said office and to constitute his Grandson by his Daughter Joh. Dormer Esq Assistant Master of the Ceremonies in his place On the 18 of Feb. following his Majesty confer'd the honor of Knighthood on the said Ch. Lod. Cotterel and at the same time did put about his neck a gold chain and medal the mark of his office Sir Walt. Vane Kt. Of the family of the Vanes of Kent Henr. Cocceius John Wooldridge or Wolveridge Esq He was of Dedmaston in Shropshire had been educated in Cambridge and afterwards became Barrester of Greys Inn c. Thomas Duppa Esq He was Nephew to Brian sometimes B. of Winchester was afterwards eldest Gentleman Usher and dayly waiter to his Majesty and upon the death of Sir Edw. Carteret Usher of the Black rod about the middle of March 1682. Soon after he was made a Knight Edm. Warcup Esq This person who is a Cadet of an antient family of his name at English near Henley in Oxfordshire became a Commoner of S. Alb. Hall a little before the grand rebellion broke out afterwards a Traveller and at length a Captain in the Parliament Army by the favour of his Uncle Will. Lenthall Speaker of the Long Parliament and a Captain he was in the regiment of Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper in the latter end of 1659. After the Kings return he was made a Justice of Peace of Middlesex of which as also of his Commission in the Lieutenancy and Service of the Duke of York he was deprived for a time and committed to the Fleet for abusing the name of Hen. Earl of Arlington But being soon after restored
into the Protection of Prince Justinian in whose Pallace he continued till the time of that Prince's death In 1657 Pope Alexander 7 an encourager of all good Arts advanced him to the Lecturership of Rhetorick in the School called Sapienza at Rome in the place of Hen. Chifillius a person of great name and learning deceased Which being worth about 60 l. per an was a great help to his poetical Muse About that time he had also a Canonry of S. Celsus bestowed upon him by the said Pope who having published a book of Verses our Poet Ghibbesius had a copy commendatory set before them In the year 1667 Leopold the Emperor of Germany did by his Diploma dat 2 of May constitute and create him his Poet Laureat and at the same time gave him a gold Chain with a Medal hanging thereunto to be always worn by him especially at public and solemn times and in public places Which great honour being made known to Pope Clement 9 he was admitted into his presence kissed his Foot and was congratulated by him In 1668 he published his Carminum pars Lyrica ad exemplum Q. Horatii Flacci quamproxime concinnata printed at Rome in 4 books in oct They are dedicated to the said Pope Clement 9 and have before them the Author's picture shewing him to be a handsome person as indeed he was which is supported by the Roman Eagle with a Laurel in its beak hanging over the Author's head and under it two verses made by the famous Athanas Kircherus who well knew the vain humour of the Poet running thus Tot pro Ghibbesio certabunt regna quot urbes Civem Moeoniden asseruêre suum At the end of the said four books is one of Epods dedicated to his dear Mother the English Coll. at S. Omer and at the end of that is Symphonia Clarorum Virorum ad Ghibbesii Lyram wherein his humour which was much addicted to Flattery and inane Applause is exactly hit by the Pens of Cardinal Spada Thom. Farnabie of England mention'd among the Writers p. 53. Joseph Maria Suares Bishop of Vaison in France Leo Allatius the famous Jesuit Claudius Grattus Thomas the son of Casper Bartolin Joh Veslingius a Physitian of Padua Franc. Angelus Cardinal of Rapacciol c. In the year 1670 he being minded to make a present of his gold Chain and Medal to the famous University of Oxon he wrot a Letter to Dr. Pet. Mews the Vicechancellour thereof dated at Rome 5 of Apr. the same year which verbatim runs thus ' Right rev Sir Having received sundry literary honors from Princes abroad in the space of these last 30 years of my being out of England but especially from his sacred Imperial Majesty a glorious Diploma characterizing me his Poet Laureat sent me to Rome with a rich Chain and Medal of gold I have thought to make a solemn consecration of this Cesarean present to the altar of memory and posterity in the worthiest Temple I could in any place think upon In this resolution I was not long to make a choice where the head-stone of gratitude like the Chrysomagenes Naturalists speak of draw to it self and fix my Golden Fleece In Brittain's Athenaâ—â—m then Oxford that general Mart of Sciences as in a Treasury or Cabinet of Fame I desire to deposite with an eternal do dico dedico this dear pledge with all my hopes of future renown What I said of gratitude I would have understood doubly for my fathers concern of good memory and mine own particular interest He having received being a Student his vertuous education in Brasen-nose College and transfus'd part of it into me it would seem an act of omission unpardonable did I not profess openly and correspond in some measure to the great obligations I owe in both our names to such an Alma Mater that famous University from whose abundant streams I had the good fortune to draw some milk I have been of late in a strange anxiety how to bring my purpose happily to effect I consulted finally with some Gentlemen Oxford Scholars that now are in this City who unanimously speak your worth and great learning congratulating with me the good luck I have now to send the present in your time of Vicechancellour under whose conduct the matter might find its wished issue Wherefore most rev Doctor be pleased to think upon a way to inform us particularly how I am to consign and convey a Donative I so much esteem I hear there is a fair large Gallery wherein are kept rarities of Antiquity Medals and things of that nature I shall be ambitious of a corner among them Mr. Scamen my Lord of Northumberland's Secretary hath been pleased to take upon him the conveyance of these lines who will likewise accompany them with his Letter to you When you shall honour me with an Answer I shall send joyntly my book of Lyricks newly printed here and make an oblation of it to the Library Now I begin henceforth to wait your commands accordingly to govern my self which I doubt not with your best convenience shortly to receive In the mean while with low veneration due unto your grand deserts I kiss your hands as most reverend and learned Sir Your c. This Letter being received by the Vicechanc. a return of thanks for the present time was made soon after with direction how to send his present Afterwards the gold Chain Medal Diploma whereby he was created Poet Laureat were conveyed by the hands of the Steward belonging to Josselin Earl of Northumberland I mean that Earl who died in his Travels at Turin in Savoy in May an 1670 who when he came to London sending them to Dr. H. Compton Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon he thereupon presented them to the Vicechancellour At which time the most noble James D. of Ormonde Chanc. of the University having received an account of this generous gift he thereupon sent his Letters to the Vicechancellour to make some handsome return for it Whereupon a Convocation being called he was declared by a Diploma Doctor of Physick in the latter end of Febr. 1670. See more among the Creations in these Fasti under that year But so it was that the Poet having received little or no notice especially by writing how and with what honour his gift was received which did much perplex him for tho the Diploma then passed yet it was not sealed much less sent to Rome he thereupon wrot a Letter to the said Dr. Compton to know the full proceeding of the matter and what he was to trust to Whereupon that worthy person did by his Letter dated 17 Sept. 1672 tell him that The whole University in Convocation nemine contradicente in answer to your noble Present but more to your worth did vote a Diploma under the University Seal to confer the degree of Doctor of this place upon you and there is order taken that the best Poets we have shall endeavour to shew how much right they would
the Son of Thomas Williams of Swansey in Glamorganshire went away without compleating his degree by Determination and was author of 1 A pindarick Elegy on the famous Physitian Dr. Willis Oxon. 1675 in one sh in fol. 2 Imago saeculi or the image of the age represented in four characters viz. the ambitious Statesman insatiable Miser atheistical Gallant and factious Schismatick Oxon. 1676. oct The Pindarick Elegy is printed with and added to this last book He died in his own Country about 1679. June 13. Sam. Derham of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Theoph. Downes of Ball. Coll. 26. Will. Haylie of All 's Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1679 and of the other in 1680. Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day He hath written and published many things relating to Divinity and therefore he is to have a place hereafter among the Oxf. Writers Feb. 6. Rob. Brograve of Magd. Hall See among the Masters 1679. Adm. 188. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. James Bampton of New Coll. This person who took no higher degree entred afterwards into holy Orders and published a Sermon but the title of it I know not only the text which is Suffer the little children to come c. Mark 10.14 He also had provided another thing for the press which I think is not yet published or ever will He died of a consumption 9. May 1683 aged 37 and was buried in the west Cloyster belonging to that Coll. Adm. 11. Mast of Arts. June 8. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. July 3. Edm. Sermon of S. Maries Hall This person who was the Son of a Father of both his names of Naunton Beauchamp in Worcestershire was originally of Trin and afterwards of Ball. Coll and as a member of the last he took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1665 but left the University without compleating it by Determination Afterwards he took upon him a spiritual cure and the education of a youth of noble extraction but instead of taking the degree of Bach. of Div in order to which he had the Chancellours Letters he with much ado obtained that of Master He hath published The wisdom of publick piety discoursed in a Sermon at Guild-hall Chap. on Jam. 3.13 Lond. 1679. qu. He died about 1680. Nearly related to him was that forward vain and conceited person named Will. Sermon who wrot himself Doctor of Physick and Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2 author of 1 The Ladies companion or English Midwife c. Lond. 1671. oct 2 A friend to the sick or the honest English mans preservation c. Lond. 1673. 4. oct and of other things but whether he was of this or of any University I know not He died in his house in the Parish of St. Bride alias St. Bridget in Lond. in Winter time an 1679. Oct. 17. Will. Howell of New Inn. Nov. 23. Charles Hutton of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Rector of Vplime in his native Country of Devonshire and author of The Rebels text opened and their solemn appeal answered Thanksgiving Sermon 26. July 1685 on Josh 22. ver 22. Lond. 1686. qu. Jan. 15. Tho. Mannyngham of New Coll. Adm. 130. Bach. of Phys Two were admitted but neither of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. Six were admitted of whom Tho. Snell Can. resid of Exeter was one Three others I shall make mention among the Doct. of Div. in their respective places Doct. of Law July 6. Rich. Warren of S. Joh. Coll. Doct. of Phys July 4. Joh. Ludwell of Wadh. Coll. 6. William Warner of S. Joh. Coll. 7. Ralph Harrison of New Coll. a Compounder He had been of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge of which Univ. he was Bach. of Phys and coming to Oxon he was incorporated in that degree on the 26 of June this year Doct. of Div. July 6. Edward Reynolds of Magd. Coll. July 6. Will. Hawkins of Magd. Coll. These were both Compounders as being dignified in the Church On the 20 of Sept 1660 the first was installed Preb. of Worcester and on the 15 of Apr. 1661 Archdeacon of Norfolk on the death of Philip Tenison which last Dignity was confer'd upon him by his Father Dr. Edw. Reyn. Bish of Norwich The other was Preb. of Norwich and had some other preferment in the Church July 6. George Owen of All 's Coll. July 6. Tho. Pargiter of Linc. Coll. The first of these two who was originally of Mert. Coll was now Canon of S. David The other was Rector of Greetworth in his native Country of Northamptonshire and published A Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond 23. July 1682 on 1. Thess 4.6 Lond. 1682. qu. Incorporations July 6. Will. Howell or as he writes himself Hoëlus Doct. of the Civil Law of Cambridge He was educated in Magd. Coll. in the said University of which he was Fellow was afterwards Tutor to John Earl of Mulgrave and at length Chancellour of the Diocess of Lincolne He hath written 1 An institution of general History from the beginning of the world to the monarchy of Constantine the Great Printed 1661. oct In this work the Reader may without any intervening matters impertinent to his present purpose read the History of any Empire or Kingdom contemporary to it by it self The principal passages in all of them are linked together by Synchronisms not only placed in the Margin but in the beginning or end of every occurrence This book which was afterwards put into latine by the author for the use of the said Earl entit Elementa Historiae ab orbe condito usque ad Monarchiam Constantini magni c. Lond. 1671. in a thick tw was increased to two folio's Lond. 1680. and afterwards had three remaining parts of it published in 1685. 6. 2 Medulla Historiae Anglicanae Being a comprehensive History of the lives and raigns of the Monarchs of England From the time of the invasion thereof by Julius Caesar to the death of K. Ch. 2 with an abstract of the lives of the Rom. Emperours commanding in Britain There have been several editions of this book to the great benefit of the Bookseller that printed it One came out in 1679 with the addition of A list of the names of the H. of Com. then sitting and a list of his Majesties Privy Council c And in 1687 the third edit of it was published in oct with a continuation from the year 1678 to 1684 by a great favourer of the Roman Catholicks There is no name set to this Medulla Hist Angl. only report makes Dr. W. Howell the author and upon that report I presume here to set it down under his name He hath without doubt other things extant but such I have not yet seen and therefore I can only now say that he died in the beginning of the year 1683. One William Howell Minister of Tuttleworth in Sussex hath published A Sermon at the Bishop of Chichesters first Visitation Lond. 1675. 6. qu. but
his body was conveyed to Windsore and buried in the Chap. or Church of S. George within the Castle there In the year following was a table of white marble fix'd to the wall near his grave with this inscription thereon M. S. Francisco Junio Francisci Junii Biturig is filio nobilitate generis integritate morum omnigenâ doctrina conspicuo viro nato Heidelbergae anno salutis MDLXXXIX qui per omnem aetatem sine quaerelâ aut injuriâ cujusquam Musis tantum sibi vacavit Vniversitas Oxoniensis cui scripta monumenta laboris sui moriens pene nonagenarius commisit in grati animi significationem lubens meritoque titulum posuit an MDCLXXVIII The titles of some of the books that he published you may see in the Bodleian or Oxf. Catalogue To this learned person I must add another of less name much noted in his time but since not for the art and fac of Poetry who had spent about eight years in Oxen partly in custody but mostly in liberty and freedom in the public Library and conversation with ingenious Scholars The Anagram of his sirname is Benevolus given to him by Flatterers and Pretenders to Poetry for his Benevolence to them His Christian Name was Edward Son and heir of Andr. Bendlowes Esq Son of Wâ—ll Bendlowes Esq Son and heir of Andrew Bendlowes Serjeant at Law c. all Lords of Brent Hall and of other Lands in Essex but descended from those of their name of Bendlowes in Yorkshire When he was young he was very carefully educated in Grammar learning and when at about 16 years of age he became a Gent. Com. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge to which he was afterwards a Benefactor Thence he was sent to travel with a Tutor or Guide and having rambled thro several Countries and had visited seven Courts of Princes he returned a most accomplished person as to behaviour and discourse yet ring'd with Romanism But being a very imprudent man in matters of worldly concern and ignorant as to the value or want of money he did after he was invested in his Estate at Brent hall and elsewhere which amounted to seven hundred some say a thousand pounds per an make a shift tho never married to squander it mostly away on Poets Flatterers which he loved in buying of Curiosities which some call'd Baubles on Musitians Buffoones c. He also gave from his said Estate a large Portion with a Neice who was married to one Blount of Mapledurham in Oxfordshire Esq supposing thereby that so long as they lived he should not want but the case being otherwise he lived afterwards in a mean condition He also very imprudently entred himself into Bonds for the payment of other mens debts which he being not able to do he was committed to prison in Oxford which was the matter that first brought him thither but being soon after released he spent the remainder of his days there in studies till the time of his death This person who was esteemed in his younger days a great Patron of Poers especially of Franc. Quarles Will. D'avenant Payne Fisher c. who had either dedicated books or had written Epigrams and Poems on him hath several things whereby he hath obtained the name of a Divine Author extant among which are these 1 Sphinx Theologica seu Musica Templi ubi discordia concors Camb. 1626. oct 2 Theophila or Loves Sacrifice A divine Poem Lond. 1652. fol. with his picture before it Several parts thereof had Aires set to them or were fitted for Aires by the incomparable Musitian Job Jenkyns who had been favoured much and patronized by Benevolus A whole Canto of this Theophila consisting of above 300 verses was turn'd into elegant Latin Verse in the space of one day by that great prodigy of early parts John Hall of Durham mentioned in the first vol. p. 455. having had his tender affections ravish'd with that divine piece 3 Summary of divine Wisdome Lond. 1657. qu. 4 A glance at the glories of sacred friendship Lond. 1657 printed on one side of a large sheet of paper 5 De sacra Amicitia Printed with the former in Lat. verse and prose 6 Threnothriambeuticon Or Latine Poems on K. Ch. 2. his restauration Lond. 1660 pr. on a side of a large sheet of paper Some he caused to be printed on white Sattin a copy of which in a frame sutable to it he gave to the public Library at Oxon. 7 Oxonii Encomium Ox. 1672. in 4 sh in fol. It is mostly in Lat. verse 8 Oxonii Elogia Oxon 1673. on one side of a large sh of paper They consist of 12 Stanzaes and afterwards follow 1. Oxonii Elegia 2. Academicis serenitas 3. Academ temperantia 4. Studiosis cautela and other things 9 Magia Coelestis Oxon 1673. 'T is a Lat. Poem pr. on one side of a large sh of paper These three last under the 7.8 and 9 heads were with other things composed at Oxon while he was conversant there He hath also a Mantissa to Rich. Fenns Panegyricon inaugurale intit De celeberrima florentiss Trinobantiados Augustae civ Praetori reg senatui populoque Lond. 1637 qu. In the title of which Mr. Bendl. stiles himself Turmae equestris in Com. Essex praefectus He hath other things extant which I have not yet seen and therefore I shall only tell you that after he had been courted and admired for his antient Extraction Education and Parts by great men of this Nation and had been a Patron to several ingenious men in their necessities and by his generous mind void of a prudential foresight had spent a very fair Estate without keeping little or any thing to support him did spend his last days at Oxon but little better than in obscure condition in which for want of conveniencies required fit for old age as Clothes Fewel and warm things to refresh the body he marched off in a cold season on the 18 of Decemb. at eight of the clock at night an 1676 aged 73 years or more Whereupon by a collection of money among certain Scholars who knew what he had been he was decently buried with Escocheons in the north isle or alley joyning to the body of S. Maries Ch. in Oxon near to the door that leads thence into Adam Brome's Chappel In his younger years he was esteemed a Papist or at least Popishly affected but being drawn off from that Opinion in his elderly years he would take occasion oftentimes to dispute against Papists and their Opinions which was not at all acceptable to his Nephew and Neice Blount before mentioned which was the cause that his room rather than company was desired by them and could not endure any person that seemed to favour the Opinions of Arminius or Socinus His picture now hangs in the Gallery belonging to the public Library at Oxon. This year one Joh. Wulferus of Nuremberg became a Sojourner in Oxon for the sake of the public Library went
to his own Country became a Professor and published Secalim and other Talmudical Authors in Hebrew and Latin An. Dom. 1677. An. 29 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he being made L. Lieut. of Ireland he did by his instrument dated 20 of Aug. delegate the Vicechanc. for the time being and certain Doctors to manage and execute in his absence the Powers and Jurisdiction belonging to him in the University Vicechanc. Joh. Nicholas D. D. Warden of New Coll nominated by the Vicechancellors Letters dated at Chester 16 Aug. confirmed by Convocation 8 Octob. Proct. Nathan Wight of Mert. Coll. Apr. 25. Rich. Warburton of Brasn Coll. Apr. 25. Bach. of Arts. May 3. Jo. Webb of Wadh. Coll. 10. Nich. Kendall of Exet. Coll. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1679. Jun. 26. Will. Coward of Wadh afterwards of Mert. Coll. See among the Doctors of Phys 1687. Jul. 4. Hugh Todd of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. Francis Digby of Qu. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards of Vniv Coll. and a Writer The other a Translator from the original Greek into English of the first four books of The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great Lond. 1685. oct written originally by that famous Philosopher Xenophon of Athens The other four books were translated by Joh. Norris M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. Jul. 19. Will. Davenant of Magd. Hall Oct. 16. Joh. Gilbert of Hart Hall Of both these you may see among the Masters an 1680. Oct. 16. Will. Talbot of Oriel Coll. Nov. 20. Thom. Williams of Jes Coll. 27. Thom. Walter of Jes Coll. Of these three you may see more among the Mast an 1680. Jan. 29. John Howell of Trin. Coll. Feb. 14. Obad. Dana of Trin. Coll. The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an 1680. The other was afterwards a Monk among the English Benedictines at Doway Adm. 211. Bach. of Law Jun. 30. Rob. Woodward of New Coll. Jun. 30. Charles Morley of All 's Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctors of Law an 1685. The other was afterwards Vicar General of the Spiritualities or Chancellour to the Bish of Winton by the favour of his great Uncle Dr. Morley Bishop thereof c. Aug. 2. James Astrey of Brasn Coll a Compounder In 1682 he became High Sheriff of his native County of Bedford where he enjoyeth Lands of antient Inheritance and in the beginning of 1683 one of the Masters in Chancery and in Nov. the same year a Knight This person who is now one of the Gent. of the Privy Chamber in ord to his Maj. K. Will. 3 hath augmented and corrected the third Edition of Glossarium Archaiologicum of Sir Henry Spelman and before it hath put a large Epistle of the Life Manners and Writings of the said Sir Henry Adm. 6. Mast of Arts. Apr. 7. Daniel Pratt of S. Joh. Coll. This person who was son of a father of both his names of London wrot as 't was generally reported The Life of the blessed S. Agnes Virgin and Martyr in Prose and Verse Lond. 1677. oct published under the name of L. Sherling He died in 1679 or thereabouts May 3. Joh. Kettlewell of Linc. Coll. 14. John Hutton of Queens Coll. The last of these two was installed Archdeacon of Stow 21 Feb. 1684 in the place of Byrom Eaton translated to the Archdeaconry of Leycester Jun. 16. Charles Allestree of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Vicar of Cassington in Oxfordsh and Author of A Sermon at Oxon before Sir Will. Walker Mayor of the said City 26 Jul. 1685 being the day of Thanksgiving for the defeat of the Rebels in Monmouths Rebellion on Judges the 5.51 Oxon. 1685. qu. Soon after he became Vicar of Great Budworth in Cheshire where he now lives He hath also made a Translation of one of the Lives Eumenes in Corn. Nepos Oxon. 1684. oct Jun. 26. Joh. Caswell of Wadh. Coll. afterwards of Hart Hall He hath written A brief but full account of the doctrine of Trigonometry both plain and spherical Lond. 1689. in 4 sh in fol at the end of Dr. Jo. Wallis his Treatise of Algebra Jul. 3. Sam. Synge of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was eldest son of Dr. Edw. Synge Bishop of Cloyne Cork and Ross and in the year 1681 he was Dean of Kildare Oct. 16. Will. Guise of All 's Coll. Oct. 16. Andrew Allam of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 13. Villiers Bathurst of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Judge Advocate of the Navy Jan. 17. Thom. Baker of All 's Coll lately of Magd. Hall He was Author of The head of Nile or the turnings and windings of the Factious since sixty in a Dialogue between Whigg and Barnaby Lond. 1681. in 6 sh in qu. He is now Rector of Haritsham in Kent in the place of Mr. Joh. Clerke deceased whom I have mentioned among the Masters in these Fasti an 1673. Adm. 134. Bach. of Phys But two were admitted one of which was Ch. Twysden as I shall tell you among the Doct. of Phys this year Bach. of Div. May 22. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll. Jun. 22. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. The last of these two became by the favour of Dr. Mews Bish of B. and Wells Prebendary a golden Preb. of the Church of Wells on the death of Dr Grindal Sheaf in May 1680 and Archdeacon of Taunton with the Preb. of Kilverton prima in the said Ch. of Wells annexed to it on the death of Dr. Will. Piers In which Archdeaconry he was installed 22 Apr. 1682. Soon after he was made Vicar of S. Sepulchers Church in London on the death of Dr. Will. Bell. Jul. 3. Thom. Staynoe of Trin. Coll. Jul. 3. Thom. Sykes of Trin. Coll. The first of these two is now a Minister in London hath published two Sermons and may hereafter publish more or at least other things The other was elected Margaret Professor of the Univ. of Oxon 6 Nov. 1691 on the sudden death of Dr. Hen. Maurice of Jesus Coll who had been elected thereunto upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Hall to the See of Bristow on the 18 of July the same year He the said Mr. Sykes was admitted Doctor of his faculty 12 May 1692. Doct. of Law Jul. 21. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. On the 13 June 1678 he was licensed to practice Physick which afterwards he did at Windsore and hath since published one or more books of that faculty and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxf. Writers Nov. 20. Joh. Irish of All 's Coll. 27. Charles Trumbull of All 's Coll. Jan. 17. Joh. Clotterbuck of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys May 22. Charles Twysden of Ch. Ch. an Accumulator and Compounder This person who had spent several years in foreign parts was son of Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent and Nephew to Judge Tho. Twysden Jan. 17. Will. Coker of All 's Coll. Doct. of Div. Jun. 30. Steph. Philipps of Brasn
oct Dedic to Sir Joh. Micklethwait President of the Coll. of Physitians a Yorkshire man born and bred in the same School with Dr. Wittie 4 Pyrologia Mimica or an answer to Hydrologia Chymica of Will Sympson in defence of Scarborough Spaw Wherein the five mineral principles of the said Spaw are defended against all his objections c. Lond. 1669. oct with which is printed 5 A vindication of the rational method and practice of Physick called Galenical and a reconciliation between that and Chimical As also 6 A further discourse about the original of Springs Besides the answer of Dr. Will. Sympson made to the aforesaid book called Scarborough Spaw came out another answer entit Scarborough Spaw spagirically anatomized together with a New years-gift for Dr. Wittie Lond. 1672. oct written by George Tonstall Doct. of Phys sometimes Bach. of Phys of Magd. Hall in Oxon as I have told you in these Fasti p. 741. Dr. Wittie hath also written 7 Gout raptures or an historical fiction of a War among the stars wherein are mention'd the 7 planets the 12 signs of the Zodiack and the 50 constellations of Heaven mention'd by the Antients c. Lond. 1677 oct written in vers 8 A survey of the Heavens a plain description of the admirable fabrick and motions of heavenly bodies as they are discovered to the eye by the Telescope and several eminent consequences illustrated thereby 1. The infinite wisdom c. of God in the Creation 2. The verifying c. Lond. 1680. 81. oct To which is added the Gout raptures in English Latine and Greek Lyrick verse by the author Dr. Wittie who hath also done another work mention'd in the first vol. of this book in the Fasti an 1628. p. 864. This Dr. Wittie who was always esteemed an ingenious and learned man was Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London had practised Physick for 18 years together with Dr. James Primerose at Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and after the said Primerose's death carried on his practice there and in the neighbourhood for several years after with good success At length retiring to Londâ—n in his old age died in Basingshaw-street about the latter end of Nov. 1684. The before mention'd Cambridge men viz. Steph. Kay N. Shute H. Hitch and R. Wittie were incorporated on the 13. of July Oct. 2. Adam Samuel Hartman Doct. of Div. of the University of Francfurt upon Oder Bishop of the reformed Churches through Great Poland and Prussia Oct. 19. Joh. Price Doct. of Div. of Cambr. This worthy Doctor was born in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire educated in Eaton School elected thence into Kings Coll. in Cambr. 1645 of which he was afterwards Fellow left it when he was Master of Arts and became Chaplain to George Monk when he was chief Governour or General of Scotland and afterwards was privy to all the secret passages and particularities in order to the restauration of K. Ch. 2 made by the said most noble and generous Monk At which time he came with him into England when he effected that matter and as a reward for his services done in that affair he had first confer'd upon him by the intercession of James Earl of Northampton a Fellowship in Eaton Coll. in the place of the learned Joh. Hales some years before dead a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury and the rich Rectory of Petworth in Sussex He hath published 1 A Serm. preached before the H. of Com. at S. Margarets in Westm 10. May 1660 on 1. Sam. 2. ver 9. Lond. 1660. qu. 2 The mystery and method of his Majesties happy restauration c Lond. 1680. oct and died in the beginning of the year in the month of May as it seems 1691. CREATIONS The Creations this year were in all faculties occasion'd mostly by the coming to the University of certain noble Forreigners Bach. of Arts. May 21. Rich. Bulkley of Ch. Ch. Son of Sir Rich. Bulkley of the Kingdom of Ireland four years standing in the condition of Fellow Com. of Trin. Coll. near Dublin c. was actually created Bach. of Arts. Mast of Arts. Sept. 6. James Boteler Earl of Ossory of Ch. Ch. Son of Thom. late Earl of Ossory and Grandson to James Duke of Ormonde was presented by the Orator with a little speech to the Vicechancellour which done he was created M. A. He became after the death of his Grandfather Duke of Ormonde and Chancellour of this University Bach. of Div. June 14. Rich. Bravell of Exet. Coll Chaplain to the Garrison of Tangier within the Kingdom of Fezz in Africa where he had shew'd himself so useful to the publick that upon his desire of return the Bishop of Lond. and other eminent persons required his continuance there was diplomated Bach. of Div. Doct. of Law Charles the Electoral Prince Palatine being entertained at Oxon in Septemb. this year some of his retinue were created Doctors of Law viz. Sept. 9. Johan Philippus ab Adelsheim France-Germanus Master of the Horse to the Electoral Prince Fredericus Adolphus Hansen Lord in Grumbuy and Beulshubygard Gustavus Georgius D' Haleke of Brandeberg in Germany Paulus Hackenbergh of Westphalia in Germany Professor of Eloquence and Histories in the Univ. of Heidelberg The said four persons were created on the 9. of Sept. Feb. 25. George Lewes Duke of Brunswick and Lunenberg was then created with solemnity This person who was now commonly called Prince of Hannover and had come to Whitehall on the 16 of Decemb. going before purposely to pay his respects to the Lady Anne Daughter of James Duke of York was the day before he was created received in the University with solemnity at his coming thereunto and being lodg'd in Ch. Ch he with his retinue were conducted the next day by the Bishop Dr. Fell to the publick Schools and being habited in scarlet in the Apodyterium was thence conducted by three of the Beadles with the Kings professor of Law to the Theater where the Convocation was then held and coming near to the Vicechancellours seat the Professor presented him the Prince being then bare which done the Vicechancellour then standing bare as the Doctors and Masters did he created him Doctor of Law That also being done he went up to his chair of state provided for him on the right hand of the Vicechancellours seat and when three of his retinue were created Doctors as I am now about to tell you the Orator complemented him in a speech in the name of the University The next day he left the University at which time was presented to him in the name thereof Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon with the cuts belonging thereto The noble John free Baron of Reek of the retinue of the said Pr. of Hannover was created at the same time Doct. of Phys Sept. 9. The Electoral Prince Charles Count Palatine of the Rhine was with solemnity created Doctor of Phys This most noble person who was Son of Charles Lovys Count Pal. of the
this University unless in the condition of a Sojourner I cannot tell Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Josepha Maria the Princess of Modena he became by his endeavours Captain of the Band of Pensioners belonging to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 and afterwards Master of the Horse to the said Jos Maria Dutchess of York both which places he quitted some time before his death This worthy person who was accounted most excellent in the Art of Poetry hath written and published 1 An Essay on translated Verse Lond. 1680. 1684 c. in 4 sheets in qu. Before which John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verses in praise of it as also Charles Dryden his son of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. and others The second edit of this Essay was published two years after the Pamphlet intit An Essay upon Poetry written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the most noble Order of the Garter To one of the Editions of the said Essay on translated Verse is added by the said Earl of Roscommon A specimen of blank Verse being the fight between the Angels taken out of Joh. Milton's book call'd Paradise lost 2 Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays as also Divers Copies of Verses and Translations which are publish'd with the respective Plays themselves and in the Miscellany Poems c. printed at London by Jacob Tonson 1684. He hath also translated into English Horace's Art of Poetry Lond. 1680. qu. Before which Edm. Waâ—ler Esq hath a Copy of Verses on that Translation and of the use of Poetry As also into French The case of resistance of Supreme Powers c. Lond. in oct written by Dr. Will. Sherlock At length this most noble and ingenious Count paying his last debt to nature in his house near that of S. James within the Liberty of Westminster on the 17 of January or thereabouts an 1684 was buried in the Church of S. Peter commonly called the Abbey Church within the said City of Westm He was succeeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regiment in Ireland in the War between K. Jam. 2. and K. Will. 3 from which place going into England was overtaken by a violent Disease which brought him to his grave in the City of Chester in the month of Novemb. 1689. James Earl of Roscommon before mention'd father to Wentworth the Poet was when young reclaim'd from the Superstition of the Romish Church by the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland and thereupon was sent by him into England as a Jewel of Price to be committed to the care and trust of Dr. George Hakewill who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts placed him in Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Laurence Bodley Bach. of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley in the beginning of the year 1628 in which Coll. continuing some years became a person of several Accomplishments and afterwards Earl of Roscommon in his own Country of Ireland The next persons who were nominated to be created Doctors of the Civil Law but were not were James Boteler Earl of Ossory Franc. Visc Newport George Savile Lord Elande eldest son of George Marquess of Halyfax Robert Lord Lexinton who with Anth. Visc Falkland were sworn of their Majesties Privy Council 17 Mar. 169â— Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke who afterwards did good service for his Master when he was King being then a Major General He died in Red-lyon-Square near London on S. James day or thereabouts 1690. The next who was in Oxon but not created was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the said Duke and after him James Graham Esq younger brother to Rich. Visc Preston which James was afterwards Privy Purse to and a Colonel under K. Jam 2 to whom afterwards he closely adhered when he fled to avoid imminent danger in England into France c. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforesaid Creation was made the said Duke Dutchess and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon the Vicechancellour with other Doctors went to to take their leave of them at which time the Vicechancellour did in the name of the University present to the Duke the Hist and Antiq. of the Vniv of Oxon with the Cuts belonging thereunto to the Dutchess the said Cuts by themselves and the Natural History of Oxfordshire written by Dr. Plot and a fair English Bible to the Lady Anne All which books were richly bound On the 13 of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria aged 20 years or thereabouts son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the present K. of Sweedland came to Oxon under the conduct of Sir Charles Cotterel Mast of the Ceremonies and lodged that night in the apartment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day after he had viewed most places in the University and the Theater he went thence to the Apodyterium where he with such of his retinew that were to be created Doctors being habited in Scarlet were conducted into the Convocation house and created as now I am about to tell you Jun. 14. The most illustrious Prince Adolphus Johan Count Pal. of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria c. was presented with an encomiastical Speech by the Deputy Orator Which being done the Vicechancellour created him with another Doct. of the Civ Law and then was conducted to his chair of State on the right hand of the Vicechancellour Afterwards were these following presented D. Rudolphus Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Otto Counts of Lipstat Created Doctors of the Civ Law D. Fred. Harder a Noble German Created Doctors of the Civ Law Andr. Fleman Secret to Pr. Adolph Created Doctors of the Civ Law It was then the common report that the said Prince came into England with his Uncle to break off the Match to be between Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne Doct. of Phys Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before mentioned was created Doctor while the said Prince sate in his chair of State Mar. 5. Martin Lister Esq was declared Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Chancellours Letters sent to the members of the ven Convocation then assembled partly running thus He was lately a Practitioner of Physick at York now here in London a person of exemplary Loyalty and of high esteem amongst the most eminent of his Profession for his excellent skill and success therein and hath given farther proof of his worth and knowledge by several learned books by him published He hath entertained so great an affection for the University of Oxon that he hath lately presented the Library with divers valuable books both manuscript and printed and enriched the new Musaeum with several Altars Coins and other Antiquities together with a great number of Curiosities of nature whereof several cannot be matched for any price which yet he declares to be but an earnest
resignation of Mr. Steph. Penton 15 Mar. 1683 and admitted thereunto on the 4 of Apr. following but he being outed thence for several reasons notwithstanding he had been re-elected by the majority of the Fellows of his Coll Dr. John Mill of the said Coll. was elected and adm in his place 5 May 1685. These things I set down purposely to carry on the succession of the Principals of S. Edm. Hall a printed Cat. of which to Dr. Thom. Tully you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. Feb. 6. Rob. Harsnett of Ch. Ch. Feb. 6. Charl. Hickman of Ch. Ch. 23. John Willes of Trin. Coll. Incorporations Thirteen Masters of the University of Cambridge were incorporated after the Act time but not one of them is a Writer as I can yet find Jun. 9. Joh. Chrysostom du Charoll M. A. of Avignion who had taken that degree there in 1669 was incorporated by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he had served in his Maj. Chap. royal as one of the daily Chaplains for 7 or eight years past c. Jul. 9. Bartholdus Holtzfus a Native of Pomerania and a Master of Arts of Frankfurt upon the Order in the Marquisate of Brandeburg was incorporated also by vertue of the said Letters which tell us that he was sent to the Vniversity of Oxon to study by his Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandeburg c. 14. Thom. Fryer Doct. of Phys of Pemb. Hall in Cambr. was incorporated as he had stood there after the Act time He was as it seems honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Creations Sept. 1. Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of Engl. c. was with solemnity created Doctor of the Civil Law after he had been presented with an encomiastical Speech by Dr. Rob. Plot Professor of Nat. History and Chymistry This person who was afterwards Knight of the most honorable Order of the Garter and L. Lieutenant of Berks Norfolk Surrey and the City of Norwich I have mentioned among the Creations under the year 1668. An. Dom. 1685. An. 1 Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Timothy Halton Provost of Queens Coll. Oct. 6. Proct. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Tho. Smith of Brasn Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 17. Francis Willis of New Coll. Jul. 9. Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. a Compounder Oct. 27. Philip Bertie of Trin. Coll. Oct. 27. Dav. Jones of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last is a younger son to Robert E. of Lindsey L. High Chamberlaine of England c. The other is a frequent Preacher in London and a Publisher of several Sermons Dec. 8. Will. King of Ch. Ch. a Comp. Adm. 167. Bach. of Law Five were admitted of whom Matthew Bryan of Magd. Hall was one Jul. 10. See among the Doctors of Law following Mast of Arts. Novemb. 24. John Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 17. Leop. William Finch of All 's Coll. The last of these two was elected Warden of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Tho. James deceased by vertue of a Mandamus from King Jam. 2 on the 21 of January 1686. Adm. 90. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted of whom Wilhelm Musgrave of New Coll. was one Dec. 8. lately admitted Bach. of the Civil Law Bach. of Div. July 7. Luke Beaulieu of Ch. Ch. This Divine was born in France educated for a time in the Univ. of Samur there came into England upon account of Religion 18 years or more before this time exercised his ministerial function was naturaliz'd made Divinity Reader in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore was a Student in this University for the sake of the public Library 1680 and after became Chaplain to Sir George Jeffreys L. Ch. Justice of England Rector of Whitchurch in the dioc of Oxon an 1685 and by his published Writings did usefully assert the Rights of his Majesty and Church of England This person who is called by some Dean Beaulieu who hath written several things in French and English chiefly against Popery is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers July 9. John Scot of New Inn. This learned Divine who is not yet mentioned in these Fasti because he took no degree in Arts or in any other faculty hath published divers books of Divinity some of which were against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. and therefore he is hereafter to crave a place among the Oxford Writers 11. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. a Comp. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law May 5. John Rudston of S. Joh. Coll. a Comp. Jul. 7. Rob. Woodward of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rich. Traffles of New Coll. The first of these two who was a Compounder became Archdeacon of Wilts upon the resignation of Mr. Seth Ward in Nov. 1681 Chanc. of the Dioc. of Salisbury upon the death of Sir Edw. Low in June 1684 Rector of Pewsie in Wilts on the death of Dr. Rich. Watson in Jan. the same year Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of the said Mr. S. Ward in Jan. 1686 Dean of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Pierce in Apr. 1691. c. July 7. Joh. Gibbs of All 's Coll. July 7. Steph. Waller of New Coll. July 7. Matth. Tindall of All 's Coll. July 7. Matth. Morgan of S. Joh. Coll. 10 Edm. Evans of Jes Coll. 10 Matth. Bryan of Magd. Hall The last of these two is a Divine and Non-Juror hath one or more Sermons and A perswasive to the stricter observance of the Lords day c. extant See in the first vol. of Athenae Oxon. p. 513. July 11. Ralph Bohun of New Coll. He hath written A discourse concerning the origine and properties of wind c. and may hereafter publish other books Doct. of Phys July 7. Steph. Fry of Trin. Coll. 9. Robert Conny of Magd. Coll. 10. Sam. Kimberley of Pemb. Coll. The last accumulated the degrees in Phys Doct. of Div. Jun. 26. Joh. Venn of Ball. Coll. Jun. 26. Thom. Dixon of Qu. Coll. The first of these two had been elected Master of his Coll on the death of Dr. Tho. Good 24 Apr. 1678. July 3. Fitzherbert Adams of Linc. Coll. July 3. Will. Johnson of Queens Coll. The first of these two was elected Rector of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Thom. Marshall deceased May 2. this year and was afterwards Prebendary of Durham July 4. Constant Jessop of Magd. Coll. a Comp. 9. Joh. Scott of New Inn He accumulated the degrees in Div. 11 Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. Comp. 11 Henry Godolphin of All 's Coll. Comp. The first of these two who hath published one or more books is now a Non-Juror The other Fell. of Eaton and can resid of S. Pauls c. Nov. 3. Will. Bernard of Merton Coll. Incorporations The Act being put off this year no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only one in the degree of Master July 9. Creations Apr. 29. Michael Morstin a Polonian Son of John Andr. Morstin