from the riding tales of Bartello 'T is among Gascoignes Poems called Weedes And from Greek into English Jocasta a Tragedie written by Euripides This also was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted in Greys Inn 1566. In this translation the said Gascoigne had the assistance of Francis Kynwelmersh before mention'd who translated about half of it The Epilogue was written by an ingenious Gentleman of the said Inn called Christoph Yelverton afterwards an eminent Counsellour a Knight and a Judge who dying at Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire 1607 left behind him several Sons of whom Henry was the eldest afterwards a Knight and a Judge also as I shall tell you elsewhere This Trag is among Gascoignes Poems called Hearbes All which poems and translations being gathered together were printed in an English character in two vol. in qu. One of which was printed at London about 1577 and the other there after the Authors death an 1587 at which time it was usher'd into the world by various copies of verses written by the Poets of that time As for the Author of them he made his last exit or yielded to nature in his middle age at his house in Walthamstow before-mention'd in Octob. or Nov. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 and was buried as I suppose in the Church there I find another George Gascoigne Esq but later in time than the former of whom I know nothing only but that he was of the Middle Temple and that he dyed about 1619. JOHN HARPESFEILD a grand zealot for the Rom. Cath. Religion was born in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fishstreet within the City of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1534 took the Degrees in Arts holy Orders was made Chaplain to Bonner Bishop of London and left his Fellowship about 1551 being then beneficed in London About 1554 he being then D. of D. he was made by his Patron Archdeacon of that place in the room of Joh. Wymesley of less activity by far than Harpesfeild and it was then temp Mariae Reg. observed that as Dr. Bonner B. of London shew'd himself the most severe of all Bishops against Hereticks as they were then called so our Author Harpesfeild of all Archdeacons which was the reason he fared the worse for it upon the change of Religion In 1558 some months before Qu. Mary died he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Norwych upon the resignation of John Boxall but forced to leave that dignity in the beginning of 1560 to make room for John Salisbury suffragan Bishop of Thetford who had been ejected in the first year of Qu. Mary I find published under this Doctor Harpesfeilds name these things following Concio ad clerum in Ecclesia S. Pauli 16. Oct. 1553 in Act. cap. 20. 28. Lond. 1553. oct Homelies to be read in Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554-55 At the end of Bonners Catechisme Disputations for the degree of Doctor of Divinity 19. Apr. 1554 Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church by Joh. Fox In which disputation Archb. Cranmer bore a part Disputes talkings arguings examinations letters c. Printed also in the said book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet where continuing for an year or more was released upon security given that he should not act speak or write against the doctrine of the Church of England Whereupon retiring to the house of a near relation of his dwelling within the Parish of St. Sepulcher in the Suburb of London spent the remainder of his days in great retiredness and devotion At length paying his last debt to nature in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 was buried as I conceive in the Church of that Parish On the 5. Dec. in the same year one Anne Worsop the nearest of kin to him had a Commission granted to her from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods debts and chattels of Joh. Harpesfeild D. D. of the Parish of St. Sepulcher in Lond. lately deceased so that I presume he died either in Oct. or Nov. going before He had a brother named Nicholas whom I shall remember under the Year 1583. JOHN FOWLER was born in the City of Bristow educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation in 1555 resigned it in 1559 and the year after took the Degree of Master of Arts but did not compleat it by standing in the Comitia About that time leaving England he took upon him the trade of printing partly at Antwerp and partly at Lovaine whereby he did signal service for the R. Catholicks in printing their books for the vindication of their cause against the Protestants in England He was well skill'd in the Greek and Latin tongues a tolerable Poet and Orator and a Theologist not to be contemn'd So learned he was also in Criticismes and other polite learning that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry Stephens Printers He did diligently peruse the Theological sums of St. Thomas of Aquine and with a most excellent method did reduce them into a Compendium To which he gave this title Loca communia Theologica c. lib. 1. He wrot also Additiones in Chronica Genebrandi A Psalter for Catholicks Answered by Tho. Sampson sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. Epigrams and other verses He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Osorius and The oration of Pet. Frarin of Antwerp against the unlawful insurrections of the Protestants under pretence to reform Religion Antw. 1566. oct answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge At length giving way to fate at Newmarck called by some Krainburg in Germany 13. Febr. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the Ch. yard of St. John the Evangelist there near to the body of John Harrys sometimes Father to Alice his Wife GEORGE FERRERS seems to have been born at or near to St. Alban in Hertfordshire was educated for a time in Oxon. whence going to Lincolns Inn did after he was Barrester became as eminent for the Law as before he was for his Poetry having been as much celebrated for it by the learned of his time as any This Person tho he hath not writ much as I can yet find yet he is numbred among the the illustrious and learned Men of the Age he lived in by Joh. Leland the Antiquary He hath written Miscellany of Poems And translated from French into Latin The Statutes called Magna Charta The beginning of which is Hic habes candide lector leges c. He ended his days at Flamsted in Hertfordshire in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was as I conceive buried there You may see more of him his character and employments in the Author before quoted In the Year 1542 I find
c. Andrew Henley son of the aforesaid Henley was his Executor who had his library remaining at â—ramsell wherein mostly in the books he found as I have been credibly informed about a thousand pound in gold I shall now proceed to give you a farther account of Sir W. Raleigh's works The Prerogative of Parliaments in England proved in a dialogue between a Counsellour of State and a Justice of Peace Middleburg some copies have it Hamburge 1621. Lond. 1640. qu. Instructions to his son and posterity Lond. 1632. 36. 1651. oct 56. in tw The life and death of Mahomet the conquest of Spaine together with the rising and ruin of the Sarazen Empire Lond. 1637. in tw In another title printed the year following 't is called The History of Mahomet The Prince or Maxims of State Lond. 1642. in 7 sh in qu. there again in 51. and 56. in tw 'T is the same with his Aphorisms of State Lond. 1661. oct published by John Milton Lond. 1651. and 56 in tw The Sceptick or Speculations Observations of the magnificency and opulency of Cities State of Government Letters to the King and others of quality Demeanour before his Execution His Pilgrimage in verse Certain verses Observations on the first invention of shipping or invasive War the Navy-Royal and Sea-service Lond. 1650. 1667. oct Apology for his Voyage to Guiana Printed with the Observations c. 'T was by him penned at Salisbury in July 1617. I have a copy of it in MS. bound with his Confession which is in MS. also and begins thus I thank God of his infinite Goodness that he hath sent me to die in the light and not in the darkness c. Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollanders and other Nations as it was presented to King James Lond. 1653. 56 in tw The Cabinet-Council containing the chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State Lond. 1658. oct This book was published by John Milton before-mentioned of whom you may see more in the Fasti an 1635. Historical and Geographical description of the great Country and River of the Amazons in America c. Lond. 1661. published by W. H. Wars with Foreign Princes dangerous to our Common-wealth Or Reasons for Foreign Wars answered When printed I know not Various Letters See in the Cabala or Screnia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Divers Speeches and Arguments in several Parliaments towards the latter end of Q. Elizab. See in H. Townsend's Historical Collections Lond. 1680. fol. The Sons advice to his Father The great Cordial Upon which N. le Febure hath written an English discourse Lond. 1664. oct I have seen a book in MS. containing Sir Walt. Raleigh's Speech at the time of his death and His Ghost or a conference between Sur Gundamoure his Maj. Embassadour of Spain the Fryer Confessor and Father Baldwyn the Jesuit at Ely House in Holbourne in 1622. but whether ever printed I know not However the Reader is to understand that Sir Walter 's Ghost before-mentioned is not the same with his Ghost or Apparition to his intimate Friend willing him to translate into English the learned book of Leonard Lessius intit De providentia numinis animi immortalitate Lond. 1651. in tw translated in compliance with Sir Walter 's late request because he had been often soully aspersed for an Atheist There is also a MS. going about from hand to hand said to have been written by our author Sir Walter which is concerning The present state of Spain with a most accurate account of his Cath. Majesty's power and riches c. Whether this or his Discourse touching a consultation about Peace with Spain MS. sometimes in the Libr. of Arthur Earl of Anglesey were ever printed I know not He hath also written The life and death of Will the Conquerour MS. sometimes in the Library of Sir Ken. Digby afterwards in that of George Earl of Bristow Of Mines and trials of Minerals MS. c. with other things which I have not yet seen But I say it again that I verily think that several of those things before-mentioned which go under his name were never written by him At length he was beheaded in the old Pallace-yard in Westminster year 1618 on 29. 〈◊〉 in sixteen hundred and eighteen aged 66. Whereupon his body which he sometimes designed to be buried in the Cath. Church at Exeter was conveyed to St. Margarets Church in the said City of Westminster and buried in the Chancel there at the upper end almost near to the Altar Over whose grave tho there was never any Epitaph put yet this following among others was made for him Here lieth hidden in this pit The wonder of the World for wit It to small purpose did him serve His wit could not his life preserve He living was belov'd of none Yet at his death all did him moan Heaven hath his Soul the World his fame The Grave his Corps Steukley his shame Some writers in the long Rebellion under K. Ch. 1. especially such who were not well-wishers to Monarchy have reported that his death was no less than a downright Murder having had his blood spilt upon a Scaffold meerly to satisfie some unworthy ends and the revenge of the Spaniard Nay and farther they have not stuck to say that the Conspiracy of Gowry seemed rather a Conspiracy of the K. of Scots against Gowry as many of that Nation have declared The said Sir Walt Raleigh left behind him a Son named Carew Raleigh born in Middlesex in the Tower of London as it seems while his Father was Prisoner there became a Gent. Com. of Wadham coll in 1620. aged 16. but proved quite different in Spirit from his Father Afterwards he was Gent. of the Privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. who honoured him with a kind token at his leaving Hampton Court when he was jugled into the Isle of Wight cringed afterwards to the Men in Power was made Governour of Jersey by the favour of General George Monk in the latter end of January 1659. and wrote a book as 't was generally reported intit Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately made publick intit A compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Q. of Scotland and of James K. of England written by Will. Sanderson Esq Lond. 1656. in 3 sh in qu. I have seen also some Sonnets of his composition and certain ingenious discourses but whether ever printed I know not I have seen also a Poem of his which had a Musical composition of two parts set to it by the incomparable Hen. Lawes Servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private Musick Sir Hen. Wotton gives him the Character of a Gentleman of dextrous abilities as it appeared in the management of a publick concern in Sir Henries time and so by others he is with honour mentioned but far god wot was he from his Fathers parts either as to the Sword or Pen. He was buried in his Fathers grave in the
The birth of this most noble Person was as a learned Author reports at Stoverton Castle in Staffordshire or as another who was a Forreigner tells us but false as I presume at London in the Month of March 1500. His education in Grammatical learning was partly in the Carmes House commonly called White Friers in the North suburb of Oxon and his Academical in the Coll. of St. Mary Magdalen where continuing for some time he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle that is to the Degree of Bach. of Arts an 1515. In which year he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might wear panni pretiosi and pellurae pretiosae and be admitted to enter into the Library How long he tarried in that Coll. after he had taken his Degree or whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts or a Degree in any other faculty it appears not in our Registers In the Year 1517. March 19. he was made Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury in 1519. Apr. 10. Preb. of Yatminster secunda in the said Church and on the 14 of Feb. 1523 he was admitted Fellow of Corp. Chr. College by command from the founder Which place I presume he never enjoyed being then absent if not happily Dean of Winbourne Minster in Dorsetshire from whence he was promoted to be Dean of Exeter Afterwards his life being chiefly spent in Italy he became by the favour of the Pope Cardinal of St. Nereus and Achilleus afterwards of St. Mary in Cosmedin and at length of St. Prisca was employed also by him in several Embassies to the French King and to the Emperor and lastly after the said Popes death Paul 3. he was in the Conclave of Cardinals chose twice by them to succeed him an 1549. But he upon some account refusing both the elections craved license to depart unto a certain Monastery in the Territory of Verona there to spend the remainder of his days To which place afterwards retiring he exercis'd himself for some years in great devotion and retiredness At length the news of K. Edw. death being brought of him and that Qu. Mary had obtained the Crown he procured of P. Julius 3. license to be sent his Legat into England to reconcile that Nation to the Romish See and the rather for this cause that being not in holy orders tho a Cardinal he might be in a capacity being one of the three that were named to marry the Queen Soon after coming into England the Queen being then married he was elected Chancellour of this University and was made Archb. of Canterbury in the place of Cranmer to which he was consecrated 22. March 1555. being about that time invested with the Temporalities of that See and kept it to his dying day He was a Person of great learning eloquence and judgment of singular piety charity and exemplary life as several Writers tell us who add also that he was an excellent Canonist and well read in the Laws of ecclesiastical polity as may partly be seen in the Books written by him which are these Pro unitate ecclesiastica ad Hen. 8. Rom. in fol. Oratio ad Imperatorem contra Evangelicos cum Scholiis Athanasii Print 1554. in qu. Oration of Speech in the Parliament House 27. Nov. 1554. The contents of which you may see in John Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under that year Letter to P. Julius 3. touching the restoring of the Realm of England dated on the last of Nov. 1554. See there again under the same year Unitatis Ecclesiasticae defensio c. lib. 4. Argent 1555. fol. Ingolst 1587. oct Oratio in materia de pace Ven. 1558. qu. Reformatio Angliae ex decretis Reg. poli an 1556. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1569. oct De concilio lib. 1. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1567. fol. 69. oct c. This is printed in Canones Decreta concilii Tridentini published by Philip Labbe Par. 1667. fol. De Baptismo Constantini Imperatoris Printed with the former Book De summi pontificis officio potestate Lov. 1569. oct A Treatise of Justification Lov. 1569. qu. in two Books This was found among the Writings of Card. Pole remaining in the custody of Mr. Hen. Pyning Chamberlain and receiver general to the said Cardinal then lately deceased at Lovaine With it were Printed and bound certain translations touching the said matter of justification viz. 1 The sixth Session of the generall Councel of Trent which is of justification with the Canons of the same Session 2 A Treatise of St. Augustin that famous Doctor by him intit Of faith and works c. Which translations were made by the Cardinal who sate several times in the said Council 3 A Sermon of St. Chrysostome of praying unto God 4 A Serm. of St. Basil of Fasting 5 Certain Sermons of St. Leo the great of the same argument 6 A notable Sermon of St. Cyprian of Almesdeeds He also Card. Pole had been several years gathering and obtaining from divers learned Persons the various readings emendations castigations c. of Cicero's works with intentions to have published a compleat Copy of them but death seizing on him unexpectedly that good work was stopp'd and what are become of the papers of corrections I know not This great Person who was in an high manner venerated by all Men tho extremely hated by K. Hen. 8. yielded to nature 18. Nov. early in the morning being the very next day that Qu. Mary died in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 58. years Whereupon his body being carried to Canterbury in the latter end of Decemb. year 1558 following was buried with solemnity in the Cathedral there within the Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr being as yet 1689. the last Archb. of that See that hath been there buried See more of him in his life written in the Italian tongue by Ludov. Bacatellus sometimes Domestick to this great Cardinal and afterwards advanced to the Archbishoprick of Rhaguse for his rare piety and learning translated into Latin by Andr. Duditius Sâ—ordellatus Episc Tininiensis Ven. 1563. qu. Who afterwards left his Religion and became a Protestant and Socinian HUGH WESTON was a Leycestershire Man born entred a Student in Balliol Coll. about 1526 took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1530 about which time being chose Fellow of Lincoln Coll. I mean into one of those Fellowships founded by Edw. Darby he proceeded in his Faculty studied Physick and was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University In 1538 he was elected Rector of the said College was admitted the year after to the reading of the sentences and in 1540. he proceeded in Divinity About which time he was made Margaret Professor Archdeacon of Colchester and Rector of Cliff in Kent In the first of Qu. Mary he had the Deanery of Westminster bestowed on him in the place of Dr. Ric. Coxe was made prolecutor
into England he setled in his native Country but being soon after apprehended was conveyed to London and there kept in prison several weeks At length being condemned to die according to the Statute against Seminaries was executed at Tybourne with George Haddock Tho. Emerferd and Joh. Nutter 12. Febr. 1582 3. All which are inrolled among the R. C. Martyrs that suffered during the Reign of Q. Elizabeth JOHN CARTWRIGHT who seems to have been descended from the Cartwrights of Washbourne in Glocestershire received his Academical education in Magd. coll but whether he took a degree in this University it appears not Afterwards he travelled was as it seems in holy Orders and after his return published these books following The Preachers travels Wherein is set down a true Journal to the confines of the E. Indies through the great Countries of Syria Mesopotamia Armenia Media Hircania and Parthia c. A relation of Sir Anth. Sherley's entertainment in the Court of the K. of Persia Description of the Port in the Persian Gulf commodious for the East-India Merchants of England Rehearsal of some gross absurdities in the Turkish Alcoran Which four Treatises were printed in one vol. at London 1611. in qu. At which time the author of them was living in Southwark near London Afterwards the said treatises being contracted were remitted into Sam. Purchaâ—s second part of Pilgrims lib. 9. p. 1422. Lond. 1625. fol. JOHN BOND Bondius a most noted critick in Greek and Latin learning of his time was born in Somersetshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winton became a Student in this University about the nineteenth year of his age an 1569. took a degree in Arts 4 years after being either one of the Clerks or Chaplains of New coll and much noted for his proficiency in Academical learning In 1579. he proceeded in Arts and had soon after the Mastership of the Free-School of Taunton St. Maryâ— Madg. in his own Country conferred on him by the Warden and Society of New coll At which place continuing many years he did exercise such an admirable way of teaching that many departed thence so excellently well grounded in humane learning that they proved afterwards eminent either in Church or State At length being in a manner worn out with the drudgery of a School he did for diversion I cannot say profit practice Physick tho he had taken no degree in that Faculty in this University and became at length Chief Secretary to the Lord Chancellour of England Egerton if one of his admirers may be credited As for his writings which are used by the Juniors of our Universities and in many Free-Schools and more admired and printed beyond the Seas than in England they are these Commentarii in Poemata Q. Horatii Flacci Printed 1606. oct and several times after beyond the Sea and at London Comment in sex Satyras A. Persii Lond. 1614. oct published after the author's death by Rog. Prows who married his Daughter Elizabeth He hath at least written if not published other things but such I have not yet seen He yielded up his last breath on the third of Aug. in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 being then possessed of several lands and tenements in Taunton Wilton near Taunton and in Newenton and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Taunton before-mentioned Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after put Qui Medicus doctus prudentis nomine clarus Eloquii splendor Pieridumque decus Virtutis cultor pietatis vixit amicus Hoc jacet in tumulo spiritus alta tenet The Reader is now to know that there was another John Bond but after the time of the former Son of Dennis Bond of Dorchester in Dorsetshire who having been educated in his youthful years under John White commonly called The Patriarch of Dorchester and from him sucked in most dangerous principles was sent to Cambridge and placed I think in S. Johns coll where he took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law Afterwards he was made a Lecturer in the City of Exeter and carried himself conformable for a season But when the times turned in 1641. and he saw that the Puritan began to be uppermost then did he Preach very seditiously and published what he had said under this title A door of Hope Also holy and loyal activity Two Treatises delivered in several Sermons in Exeter The first on Psal. 126. 1 2. and the other on Exod. 17. 11. Lond. 1641. qu. Both which do contain most scandalous and rebellious stuff besides what he preached in a Serm. in the said City before the Deputy-Lievtenants Lond. 1643. qu. So that having thus began his pranks and shewed himself a zealous Brother for the Cause and a rank Covenanteer he was made Preacher or Minister of the Savoy in the Strand near London in the place of Joh. White before-mentioned when he passed over the water to Lambeth to take possession of the Rectory there belonging to Dr. Dan. Featly one of the Assembly of Divines and about that time Doctor of the Laws This J. Bond by the way you must know being scarce warm in the Pulpit but he began to threaten Heaven with some of his Divinity by telling the auditory with great zeal that they ought to contribute and pray and do all they were able to bring in their Brethren of Scotland for the setling of Gods Cause I say this is Gods Cause and if ever God had any Cause this is it and if this be not Gods Cause then God is no God for me but the Devil is got up into Heaven c. About the same time he became a frequent Preacher before the Long-Parliament and hath 3 or more Sermons preached before the Members thereof published as 1 Salvation in a mystery c. on Jer. 45. 25. Lond. 1644. qu. It was a Fast Serm. pr. before the H. of Commons 27. Mar. 1644. 2 Ortus occidentalis or a dawning in the West c. on Isa. 25. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. 'T was a Thanksgiving Serm. for the Parliament Forces their gaining of Bathe Bridgwater Sherbourne Castle c. preached before the H. of Commons 22. Aug. 1645. and on the eleventh of Dec. following the said Jo. Bond was made Master of the Hospital called the Savoy under the great Seal 3 A Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of Com. on Psal. 50. 23. Lond. 1648. qu. preached on the 19. Jul. 1648. In which year he had a Serm. published intit Grapes among Thornes preached before the H. of Commons In all which Sermons as in others which he delivered in London and Westminster are contained many strange positions rebellious doctrines religious cantings and I know not what About that time he was made Master of Trinity hall in Cambridge which Mr. Jo. Selden refused and in 1654. he was made an assistant to the Commissioners of Middlesex and Westminster for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters These things I thought
have seen he gave to the priests of Clare hall in Cambridge considerable summs of money and forty pounds to the chest of that house To every fellow of Qu. coll in Oxon six shillings and eight pence and forty marks to the elemosinary chest thereof besides a sute of vestments for a Priest Deacon and Subdeacon and four copes He gave maintenance also to a Chaplain that should celebrate service for him his Parents and all faithful deceased for the space of an hundred years in the Church of Applebie before-mentioned Which Chaplain was to receive for his labour eight marks yearly To the Friers the Carmes in Applebie 20 marks to pray for him besides several sums to the Friers of Oxon and Cambridge and to Rowland Machel and Elizabeth his wife sister to the said Bishop he gave several lands in Westmorland besides 200 marks He built also the little room which is now a large Bay-window to the Provosts dining-room in Qu. coll with curious vaulting under it Which vault is now no other than a portico to the coll chappel Over the said Bay-window is carv'd in stone a musical note called a Long on a Tun which is the rebus for his firname and out of the Bung-hole of the Tun springs a Vine tree which without doubt was put for Vinton or Vinchestre he being then Bishop of that place He left behind him a Nephew named Rob. Langton born also in Applebie and educated in Queens coll of which he was LL. D. He died at London in the month of June 1524. and was buried before the image of S. Michael in the body of the Church belonging to the Charter-house now Suttons hospital near London By his last Will and Test he bequeathed to Qu. coll before mention'd two hundred pounds to purchase Lands and make a School-house in Appleby and what his benefaction was besides as also of that of Bishop Langton you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 123. 124 125. WILLIAM SHJOY commonly called Joy partly educated here but more in the Univ. of Paris was by provision from the Pope made Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland 16. Cal. of June 1485 where sitting about 16 years gave way at length to fate 28. Dec. in fifteen hundred and one and was as I suppose buried in his Cathedral Church In his Archbishoprick succeeded Philip Pinson a Minerite as I shall anon tell you RICHARD who writes himself Episcopus Oleven being Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester as it seems was a Dominican or Black Frier in Warwick to whose fraternity there he gave 6l at the time of his death and educated among the Black Friers in Oxon to whom also he gave 6l to pray for him He yielded up his last breath in Sept. in fifteen hundred and two year 1502 and was I suppose according to his last Will which I have seen buried in the choire of the Church belonging to the Black Friers in the City of Worcester on the south side of the Tomb of John Lichfield and opposite to that of Rich. Wolsey who as he saith in the said Will was nuper Conoren Duneren Episcopus HENRY DEANE was educated in this University where he took the degrees in Arts and Divinity but in what coll or Hall it appears not However some are pleased to say that he was educated in New coll yet whether he was perpetual Fellow thereof the registers of that house tells us not After he had left the University he was made Prior of Lanthony near to Gloucester in the neighbourhood of which place I presume he was born and on the 13 of Sept. or 20. Nov. 11. Hen. 7. he was by Letters Pat. constituted Chancellour of Ireland to execute that office by himself or a Deputy On the first of Janu. following he was constituted Deputy and Justice of the said Realm where being setled he performed good service against that grand impostor Perkin Warbeck and being elected Bishop of Bangor after the death of Richard lately Bishop of that place had restitution of the temporalities belonging thereunto made by the King 6. Octob. 12. Hen. 7. Dom. 1496. In 1500. he was translated to Salisbury on the death of John Blyth lately Bishop thereof Son of Will. Blyth of Norton in Yorkshire Son of another William of Leedes in the said County and had restitution of the temporalities thereof made to him as the manner is on the 12. March the same year About which time he was made Chanc. of the Order of the Garter In 1501. he was elected Archb. of Canterbury upon the death of Cardinal Moreton whereupon being translated thither had restitution made of his temporalities on the second of Aug. the same year About that time the members of the University of Oxon received an Epistle of favour from him wherein among other things he stiles the said University his benignissima mater He died at Lambeth on the 15. of Febr. saith a certain author tho a register of that time tells us 't was on the 16. of that month in fifteen hundred and two Whereupon his body was carried to Canterbury and buried in the middle of the Martyrdom within the precincts of the Cathedral there leaving then behind him the character of a person altogether fit for those places that he successively enjoyed DAVID CREAGH was born in the County of Limerick in Ireland studied several years among his Country men the Civil and Canon Law of which faculâ—ies he became at length Bachelaur Afterwards retiring to his native Country became thro several preferments Archb. of Cashills an 1483 where sitting about 20. years died 5. Sept. in fifteen hundred and three Of the great injuries done to him by Gerald Fits Gerald Earl of Kildare L. Deputy of Ireland of which Creagh complained to K. Hen. 7. by the advice of Sir Jam. de Ormond Knight the Histories of that Country will tell you PHILIP PINSON an English man studied among the Minorites or Grey Friers for a time in their house in Oxon. of which order he was a learned brother but whether he took the Degree of D. D. in this University we have no register that shews it Afterwards he became Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Hereford and afterwards of B. and Wells by whose endeavours but chiefly of those of K. Hen. 7. he was advanced at Rome to the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland on the 2. of Decemb. in fifteen hundred and three year 1503 and three days after died of the Plague Afterwards that See laid void two years and then 't was confer'd on Maurice O Fihely whom I have before among the writers mentioned JOHN ARUNDELL Son of Rainford or Rainford Arundell Knight by Jane his Wife Sister and heir of Joh. Coleshull third Son of Sir John Arundell of Talvern in Cornwall who died 13. Hen. 6. was born in that County received his Academical education in Exeter college became
Halyfax in his own Country In 1507. he was by the favour of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop of Meath in Ireland and the same year one of the Kings Privy Council there In the latter end of 1511. he was translated by the authority of the same Pope to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin and in 1515. was made Chancellour of Ireland by K. Hen. 8. in which great office as 't is supposed he continued to the time of his death He yielded to the stroke of death 29. Nov. in fifteen hundred twenty and one year 1521 and was buried as a certain author saith in the Church of S. Patrick near Dublin In his Will dated 22. Nov. and proved 4. February an 1521. wherein he stiles himself Archb. of Dublin and perpetual Vicar of Halifax I find these things following Item I will that after my death my body be embowelled and my bowels and heart to be buried in the Church of Halifax within the Quire and my body to be buried in the new Chappel at Sandall and thereon a Tomb of stone to be made and about the same to be written Ego Willielmus Dublin Archiepiscopus quondam Rector istius Ecclsie credo quod redemptor meus vivit qui obiit cujus anime proptietur deus amen Item I will that a Chappel be made in all convenient haste at Halifax on the south side of the Church after the direction of mine Executors and Church-Masters and there a Tomb to be made with my Image and thereupon written Hic jacet-Willlelmi Rokeby nuper Dublin Archiepiscopi Vicarii perpetui â—stius Ecclesie qui credo c. Item where I did obtain a Pardon for the Parish of Halifax and the Parishings thereunto adjoyning pro lacticiniis in quadragessima edendis I will that mine Executors at their discretion obtain sub plumbo the said license to be renewed and the profit thereof to be imployed for a Priest to sing at Halifax in my said new Chappel as long as may be by the advice and discretion of my Executors and the Church-Wardens Item I will that a Doctor of Div. have 10 l. to be occupied in Preaching c. Thus far part of his Will according to the tenour of which his heart was buried in the Chancel of the Ch. at Halifax and thereon was laid a stone with the figure only of an heart engraven thereon On the north side of the said Church was also founded a Chappel wherein was a monument built for him with an inscription put thereon Which being since partly defaced you shall have that part which lately remained thereon Orate pro anima Willielmi Rokeby jur Can. profess ac etiam Episcopi Medensis denide Archiepisc Dublin capelle fundatoris istius Qui obiit… Novembris an Dom. mcccccxxi What was performed at Sandall for the accomplishment of the other part of his Will I know not One Will. Rokeby LL. Bac. who was well beneficed in Yorkshire succeeded Joh. Dakyn LL. D. in the Archdeaconry of the East-riding of the said County in Dec. 1558. who dying in 1568. Martin Parkinson B. D. had that Dignity confer'd upon him in Dec. the same year but before he had kept it an year he gave way to fate Whereupon the said Dignity was confer'd on John Mey D. D. who was setled therein in the beginning of Aug. 1569. and soon after became Bishop of Carlile I find also one John Rokeby LL. D. to be Chanter Canon resid and Preb. of Duffeild of and in the Church of York who died in the latter end of 1574. Which John with William before-mentioned were of the same Family with Will Archb. of Dublin RICHARD FITZ-JAMES son of John Fitzjames by Alice his Wife daugh of Joh. Newbourgh son of James Fitz-james by Eleanor his Wife daugh and heir of Sim. Draycot was born in Somersetshire became a Student in the University of Oxon about 1459. elected probatoner-Fellow of Merton coll in 1465. took holy orders when he was Master and in 1473 was elected one of the Proctors of the University In the beginning of March 1474 he became Preb. of Taunton in the church of Wells upon the resignation of John Wansford and afterwards being constituted chaplain to K. Edw. 4. he proceeded in Divinity On the 12 of March 1482 he was elected Warden of Merton coll upon the resignation of John Gygur being then and after esteemed a frequent Preacher Which place he keeping about 25 years he shewed himself most worthy of it by his admirable way of government which he exercised by his continual benefaction thereunto and by his endeavours when in power to promote his Fellows In March 1484-85 he was made Vicar of Mynhead and about that time Rector of Aller in Somersetshire in which last he was succeeded by Mr. Christopher Baynbrigg in the latter end of May 1497. On the 2. of June 1495. he was admitted Almoner to K. Hen. 7. and on the 2. of January 1496. being then elected by the Monks of Rochester to be Bishop of that See was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 21. May following by Cardinal Moreton Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants Landâ—ff and Bangor In January 1503. he was translated to the See of Chichester in the place of Dr. Edw. Story a Cantabrigian who dying in the latter end of the year 1502. was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester under a fair Tomb which he a little before had built for himself and on the 14. March 1505. he was nominated by the King to succeed Dr. Barons in the See of London On the 1. Aug. 1506. the temporalities of that See were restored to him So that soon after being setled there he resigned his Wardenship of Merton coll which he had kept in Commendam with Rochester and Chichester and all that time had administred the Government thereof with great commendation But this the Reader is to note that tho he was a Bishop several years while Warden yet did he according to statute and custom submit himself yearly in the month of January to the scrutiny of the Fellows of the said coll in the Chappel of S. Cross of Halywell near to Oxon de mora muribus Custodis Which statute continuing in use till the time of Hen. 8. was then disused by Dr. Joh. Chamber Warden thereof under pretence of absence in serving his Majesty as Physician He the said Dr. 〈…〉 bestowed much money in adorning the Cathedral of S. Paul as he had done before the collegiate Parish Church belonging to Merton coll in which house he built I cannot say all at his own charge the hall with a fair dining-room over it and a lodging room with a large vault under it both joyning on the west side to the said hall and dining-room for the use of him while Warden and his Successor in that office for ever Which hall dining-room and lodging Chamber were made as additions to the old lodgings belonging to the Wardens of the
great portion that he had conveyed half the Bishoprick to her that because he had the Gout he could not stand to his marriage with such and the like scoffs to make him ridiculous to the vulgar and odious to the Queen The Earl of Bedford hapning to be present when these tales were told and knowing the Londoners Widdow the Bishop had married said merrily to the Queen after this manner Madam I know not how much the Widdow is above 20. but I know a Son of hers is but a little under forty c. The conclusion of the premises was this that to pacifie his persecutors and to save Banwell he was fain to part with Wyvelscomb commonly called Wilscomb for 99 years and so purchased his peace To conclude his reading had been much his judgment and doctrine sound his government mild and not violent his mind charitable and therefore not to be doubted but when he lost this life he won Heaven In his last days being taken with an quartan Ague he did by advice of his Physicians remove to the place of his Nativity Okingham before-mentioned with hopes of recovery but nothing availing he gave way to fate 19. of Novemb. in fifteen hundred and ninety aged 73 years year 1590 Whereupon being buried on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Parish Church there had a monument soon after set up in the wall over his grave by his Son Franc. Godwin then Subdean of Exeter In the See of Bathe and Wells succeeded John Still D. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambridge Son of William Still of Grantham in Lincolnshire who had been installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of Thom. Aldridge deprived for Nonconformity an 1573. and Archdeacon of Sudbury 28. of March 1576. He died 26. of Feb. 1607. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Wells leaving then behind him several Children which he had by his two Wives especially the first MARMADUKE MIDDLETON Son of Tho. Middleton of Cardiganshire descended from the Middletons of Middleton in Westmorland by Lucia his Wife daughter of Rob. Nevill had part of his education here but took not as I can yet find a degree Afterwards he went into Ireland where he became Rector of Killare in the diocess of Meath and on the death of Patr. Walsh B. of Waterford and Lisemore in 1579. In 1581. he was translated to S. Davids and about two years after he was actually created Doct. of div of this University He was afterwards not only deprived of his Bishoprick but degraded from all holy Orders for many notable misdemeanours And the sentence for it was accordingly executed by and before the High Commissioners at Lambeth house not only by reading of it in Scriptis but by a formal degrading him of his Episcopal robes and Priestly vestments He departed this mortal life on the 30. of Nov. in fifteen hundred ninety and two leaving then a Son behind him year 1592 named Richard who was Archdeacon of Cardigan In the See of S. Davids succeeded Anthony Rudd D. of div of Cambridge and a Yorkshire man born whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1577. JOHN UNDERHILL is according to time to follow Tho. Godwin but before I enter upon him I must let the reader know that after the death of Dr. Hugh Curwyn Bishop of Oxon that See continued void about 21. years At the term of which a great person Sir Fr. Walsingham out of pure devotion to the leases that would yield good fines recommended the said Vnderhill to it perswading him to take it as in a way to a better but as it should seem it was out of his way very much for e're the first fruits were paid he died in much discontent and poverty Yet his preferrer to seem to do some favour to the University for recompence of the spoil done to the Bishoprick of Oxon erected a new lecture at his own charge which Dr. Rainolds of C. C. coll did for some time read as I have told you elsewhere This John Vnderhill was born in an ancient tenement or receptacle for guests called the Cross Inn in St. Martins Parish within the City of Oxon where his name lived two or three generations if not more and continued there till the daughter and heir of Vnderhill was married to one Breys or Brice After he had been trained up in Grammar learning in Winchester school he was sent to New coll of which he became true and perpetual fellow in 1563. After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts it hapned that Doctor Horne Bishop of Winchester visited the said coll but Vnderhill making opposition by questioning the Bishops right for what he did or should do as to visitation he was removed from his fellowship in 1576. Whereupon making his complaint to Robert Earl of Leycester chancellour of the University of Oxon he hearkned to and encouraging him to go to law with the Bishop for what he had done the Bishop forthwith let the cause fall to the ground knowing very well that he should be a loser by carrying on the cause if that great Count should stand by Vnderhill In 1577. he was elected Rector of Lincoln coll and proceeded in Divinity in 1581. About which time he was made Chaplain to the Queen one of the Vicars of Bampton and Rector of Witney in Oxfordshire In 1589. he was nominated Bishop of Oxon upon Walsinghams motion as I have before told you whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. C. on the 8. day of Decemb. was consecrated thereunto about the latter end of the same month in the said year He paid his last debt to nature at London on the 12. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and two and soon after his body being conveyed to Oxon year 1592 was buried in the Cath. Ch. towards the upper end of the choire just before the Bishops chair leaving then this character of him that he was Vir clarus eloquio acutus ingenio From the time of his death to the consecration of Dr. Jo. Bridges his successor an 1603. the patrimony of the Bishoprick of Oxon was much dilapidated and made a prey for the most part to Robert Earl of Essex to whom it proved as miserably fatal as the gold of Tholouse did of old to the soldiers of Caepio The said Joh. Bridges had been sometimes fellow of Pembr hall in Cambridge was D. of D. and made Dean of Salisbury in the beginning of Januar. 1577. upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Piers to the Episcopal See there He was a learned man in the time he lived and wrot several books as the Bodleian or Oxford catalogue will tell you See more of him in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 291. b. JOHN WOOLTON sometimes of Brasnose coll was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in Aug. 1574. died in the latter end of fifteen hundred ninety and three year 1593 and was buried
Deanery for some time in Commendam with Chichester This Dr. Watson who spent his life in celebacy as his Predecessor Bickley did gave way to fate at his house in Cheame or Cheyham in Surrey being then Almoner to K. Jam. 1. whereupon his body was buried in the Church there on the third day of Oct. 1605. By his last Will and Testam he gave an hundred pounds to Christs coll in Cambridge where he had been educated before he became Fellow of Bennet college and divers other Legacies for pious uses RICHARD MEREDYTH a Welsh man born became a Student in this University about 1568. but in what house unless in S. Johns coll it appears not In 1575. he proceeded M. of Arts as a Member of Jesus coll which was the highest degree he took in this University Afterwards being Chaplain to Sir Joh. Perot L. Lievtenant of Ireland he was by him made Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin and at length B. of Leighlin To which See being consecrated in the month of Apr. 1589. sate there till the time of his death which hapning on the third of August in fifteen hundred ninety and seven was year 1597 buried on the north side of S. Patricks Church before-mentioned In the said See of Leighlin succeeded one Rob. Grave Dean of Cork but whether he was ever a Student in Oxford I cannot yet tell JOHN BULLYNGHAM received his first breath in the County of Gloucester was elected Probationer of Magd. coll in July 1550. being then Bach. of Arts and intimate with Julius Palmer the Protestant Martyr whose story he hath written in a large letter dated from Bridgnorth about 1562. for the satisfaction of Jo. Fox when he was in writing his English book of Acts and Monuments c. but before he took the degree of Master he left the University Q. Mary being then in the Throne and retired as it seems beyond the Seas where continuing mostly all her reign returned when Q. Elizabeth succeeded became well beneficed and in 1567. was made Archdeacon of Huntingdon but in whose room unless in that of Anth. Draycot I know not In 1568. he compleated the degree of D. of div in an Act celebrated on the twelfth of July and two years after was made Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Libbeus Byard deceased In 1581. Sept. 3. he was consecrated Bishop of Glocester about which time he had the See of Bristow given to him in Commendam but that being taken away from him in 1589. the rectory of Kilmington alias Culmington in the dioc of Wells was conferr'd on him in Jul. 1596. He paid his last debt to nature about the 20. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 and was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester Whereupon his rectory was bestowed on Rich. Potter father of Franc. Potter author of the Interpretation of the number of 666 c. as I shall tell you when I come to him in the next volume of this work and his Bishoprick on Godfrey Goldsborough Doct. of div of Cambridge JOHN MERICK was born in the Isle of Anglesie educated in Wykehams School near Winchester made perpetual fellow of New coll in 1557. took the degrees in Arts became one of the Proctors of the University in 1565. Vicar of Hornchurch in Essex in 1570. and three years after Bishop of the Isle of Man on the death of John Salisbury He yielded up his last breath in Yorkshire as it seems in Sept. or Oct. year 1599 in fifteen hundred ninety and nine and was succeeded in the said See by Dr. George Lloyd of Cambridge Son of Meredyth Lloyd Son of Joh. Lloyd of Caernarvanshire who was translated thence to Chester in 1604. This Joh. Merick left behind him a brother named Will. Merick LL. D. and another called Maurice Merick then M. of Arts and certain letters concerning Ecclesiastical and other affairs which I have seen in the Cottonian Library under the picture of Julius F. 10. WILLIAM HUGHES Son of Hugh ap Kendrick of Caernarvanshire by Gwenllian his wife daughter of John Vychan ap John ap Gruff ap Owen Pygott was born in the said County and for a while educated in this University Afterwards retiring to Christs coll in Cambridge he took there the degrees in Arts and holy orders and being soon after made chaplain to Thom. Haward or Howard Duke of Norfolk attended him to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1568. where on the same day that the said Duke was created Master of Arts this his chaplain was incorporated Bach. of div as he had stood in Cambridge The year after the said Duke writing letters to Dr. Laur. Humphrey in his behalf he was by the said Humphreys endeavours made to the Vicechancellour and Convocation permitted to proceed in his faculty Whereupon being licensed the same year stood in an Act celebrated 10. Jul. 1570. to compleat that degree In 1573. he was promoted to the Episcopal See of S. Asaph to which being consecrated in Lambeth chappel on the thirteenth of Sept. the same year sate there to the time of his death without any removal He concluded his last day in Octob. in sixteen hundred year 1600 and was as I suppose according to his will buried in the choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph leaving then behind him a Son named William and a daughter named Anne the then Wife of Tho. Mostyn Gent. begotten on the body of his Wife Lucia daughter of Rob. Knowesley of Denbighshire By his last Will and Test dated 16. Oct. 1597. and proved 9. Nov. 1600. he left lands and revenues for the founding a free school in the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph He the said Dr. Hughes was succeeded in St. Asaph by Dr. Will. Morgan author of the first translation of all the Bible since printing was used into the ancient and unmixed language of the Britains The translation he dedicated with a latin epistle prefix'd to Q. Eliz. and was printed in 1588. For which work he was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Landaff first and afterwards with that of S. Asaph JOHN CHARDON or Charldon sometimes fellow of Exeter coll was consecrated B. of Downe and Connor in Ireland year 1601 an 1596. and died in sixteen hundred and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Downe and Connor succeeded one Rob. Humpston Master of Arts but whether of this University I cannot tell HERBERT WESTPHALING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Hereford in 1585. and departed this mortal life in the latter end of sixteen hundred and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Bennet sometimes of Trin. coll in Cambridge Son of Leonard Bennet of Baldock in Hertfordshire who was consecrated thereunto 20. Feb. 1602-03 By his last Will dated 3. Mar. 14. Jac. 1. he bequeathed his body to be
unfortunate An. Dom. 1617. An. 15 Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke sometimes of New Coll. Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again Jul. 17. Proct. Franc. Grevill of Mert. Coll. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. Apr. ult Bach. of Arts. May 10. Christop Harvey of Brasn Coll 23. Joh. Seager of S. Maries Hall Oct. 17. Pet. Heylyn of Magd. 23. Will. Tipping of Qu. Coll. Nov. 23. Joh. Atherton of Glocester Hall afterwards of Linc. Coll. and the unfortunate Bishop of Waterford in Ireland 27. Gilbert Sheldon of Trinity Coll. afterwards Fellow of All 's and at length Archb. of Canterbury Feb. 10. Robert Blake of Wadham Coll. This right valiant person having taken no higher degree in this University I must therefore make mention of him in this place Born therefore he was at Bridgwater in Somersetshire being the Son and Heir of Humphrey Blake of that place Gent. but descended of the antient Family of the Blakes of Blanchfield in the said County In the beginning of Lent Term an 1615 he being then about 15 years of age he was matriculated in the University as a Member of S. Albans Hall about which time standing for a Scholarship of C. C. Coll. with Rob Hegge and Rob. Newan was put aside whether for want of merit or friends I cannot tell While he continued in the said Hall he was observed by his Contemporaries to be an early riser and studious but withal he did take his pleasure in Fishing Fowling c. and sometimes in stealing of Swans Before the time came when he was to take a degree in Arts he translated himself to his Country men in Wadham Coll. and as a Member of that House he did stand for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. with Alex. Fisher John Doughtie Edw. Reynolds John Earle c. an 1619 but whether it was for want of Scholarship or that his person was not handsome or proper being but of stature little which Sir Hen. Savile then Warden of that Coll. did much respect he lost it continued in Wadham Coll. without the taking of any other degree and in 1623 wrot a Copy of Verses on the death of the learned Camden Afterwards he went into his own Country where he lived in the condition of a Gentleman but always observed to be puritancially inclin'd In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Bridgwater to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13 Apr. 1640 but missing that Office in the same year when the Long Parliament began on the 3 Nov. following he sided with the Presbyterian took up arms for the Parliament soon after received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain of Dragoons and afterwards being made Governour of Taunton was made a Colonel Which Town as also afterwards Lyme he defended with great Valour against several famous and forcible Sieges of the Kings Army under the command of Prince Maurice and George Lord Goring At length the War being in a manner terminated the worth of this inestimable great Commander being so esteemed by those of his party was taken notice of by the Parliament whereupon they resolved that it should not lye hid at home but shew it self abroad and therefore he was made first one of the Commissioners of the Navy then one of the Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports and at length about 1649 one of the Generals at Sea At his entrance into which office he pent up Prince Rupert in the chief Port of Portugal and hunted him from Sea to Sea till he had reduced those Ships with him which before had revolted from the Parliament In the beginning of the year 1651 he reduced the Isle of Sciâ—ly to the Parliament Service and on the 25 Nov. following he was elected one of the Council of State being then in great repute with Oliver In 1652 Sept. 5. he sorely beat the French Fleet and at that time there being a Quarrel between the two Republicks England and the Vnited Provinces he and his Fleet were worsted in the Downes by Van Tromp the Dutch Admiral and his Fleet 29 of Nov. following but on the 18 of Febr. following that on which day hapned a most terrible Sea-sight betwixt them again near to the Isles of Wâ—ight and Portland the Dutch were in a woful manner worsted Ever after Blake continued a fortunate Vindicator of his Countries Privileges from the encroachments of insulting Neighbours a victorious Enemy of the Spaniard and was highly valued of all even the Royalist The last part and the most desperate attempt that he ever acted in a Sea-blood not that I shall now take notice of his daring piece of service at Tunis against the Turks an 1655 was against the Spaniards at Sancta Cruz in Apr. 1657 which made him as terrible as Drake had been before to them there being less difference betwixt the same and report of their actions and exploits than in the sound of their names For there with 25 sail he fought as 't were in a ring with seven Forts a Castle and 16 Ships many of them being of greater force than most of those Ships Blake carried in against them yet in spite of opposition he soon calcined the Enemy and brought his Fleet back again to the Coast of Spain full fraught with honour But what Commander is able to repel the stroke of death This is he that doth conquer the Conquerours and level the honours of the mightiest Monarchs with the meanest Captains there is no withstanding his force for all must fall Blake himself was compel'd to strike the top-sail and yield for in his return home he gave up the Ghost in the Ship called the George the Admiral as it entred into Plymouth Sound on Friday the seventeenth of August an 1657 aged 59 occasioned by the Scurvy and Dropsie which he had contracted by his seasaring The next day his body was imbowelled and closed in a sheet of lead and the bowels were interred in the great Church at Plymouth He was a man wholly devoted to his Countries Service resolute in his undertakings and most faithful in the performance of them With him Valour seldom mist its reward nor Cowardize its punishment When news was brought him of a metamorphosis in the State at home he would then encourage the Seamen to be most vigilant abroad for said he 'T is not our duty to mind State affairs but to keep foreigners from fooling us In all his expeditions the Wind seldome deceived him but most an end stood his friend especially in his last undertaking at S. Cruze in the Canary Islands To the last he lived a single life never being espoused to any but his Countries Quarrels Soon after his death and embalming the body was conveyed by Sea to Greenwych House where it remained for some time From thence it was conveyed by Water on the 4 of Sept. following with all due solemnity and honour in a barge of state coveâ—ed with Velvet adorned with Escocheons and Pencils accompanied with his brothers and