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
65 places of holy Scripture Lond. 1643. qu. Written originally by Jo. Hen. Alstedius Professor of the University at Herborne Our Author Will. Burton gave way to fate on the 28. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven and was buried the same day in a Vault belonging to the Students of S. Clements Inn under part of the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near London leaving then behind him several Papers and Collections of Antiquity Manuscripts and Coines which came into the hands of Tho. Thynne Esq sometimes his Scholar at Kingston afterwards Gent. Com. of Ch. Church then of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York a Bt. after the death of his Father Sir Hen. Fred. Thynne of Kemsford in Glocestershire possessor of the large estate belonging to Tho. Thynne of Longleet in Wilts murdered by certain Forreigners 12. Feb. 1681 and at length Viscount Weymouth There have been several Writers of both our Authors names as Will. Burton of Leicestershire Will. Burton a Divine and Will. Burton a Pretender to Astronomy a Specimen of which he gave us in an Ephemeris for 1655 which was printed at Oxon. WILLIAM AYLESBURY Son of Sir Thom. Aylesbury of the City of Westminster Bâ— was born in that City became a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1628 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and afterwards was by K. Ch. 1. made Governour to the Duke of Buckingham and his Brother the Lord Francis Villiers with whom he travelled beyond the Seas While he continued in Italy it hapned that walking in the Garden of the House where he lodged he was shot with a brace of bullets in his thigh by men who watched him on the other side of the wall a usual adventure in that Country and assoon as he fell the men who had done it leaped over the wall and looking upon him beg'd his pardon and said they were mistaken for he was not the man that they intended to kill which was all the satisfaction he had After his return into England and had delivered up his charge of the two noble Brothers to the King who highly approved of the care he had taken of their education as it appears by the grant his Maj. was pleased to give him of the first place of Grome of his Bed-chamber which should become void the King was pleased to command him to translate Davila's History he being a perfect Master of the Italian Language which he did with the assistance of his constant Friend Sir Charles Cotterel and published it under this title The History of the Civil Wars of France written in Italian by Henry Canterino de Avila Lond. 1647. fol. written in 15 Books to which was a continuation of 15 books more In the year following our Translator Aylesbury went beyond the Sea and dwelt at Antwerp with his Relations till 1650 at which time being reduced to great straights stole over into England where he lived for some time among his friends and acquaintance and sometime at Oxon. among certain Royalists there At length Oliver Cromwell sending a second supply to the Island of Jamaica he engaged himself in that expedition in the quality of a Secretary to the Governour as I have heard where he died in the year sixteen hundred fifty and seven otherwise had he lived till the Restauration of K. Charles 2. he might have chosen what preferment in the Court he pleased by the help of Edward E. of Clarendon who married his Sister OBADIAH SEDGWICK elder Brother to John mentioned under the year 1643. was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Marlborough in Wilts and there or near it was educated in Grammar learning In 1616 he was sent to Qu. Coll. being then 16 years of age but making no long stay there he retired to Magd. Hall took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and became Chaplain to Sir Horatio Vere Baron of Tilbury with whom he went into the Low Countries in quality of a Chaplain After his return he retir'd to Oxon. and performing certain exercise he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in the latter end of 1629. Afterwards he was Preacher to the Inhabitants of S. Mildrids Parish in Breadstreet within the City of London which he quitting upon no good account before the beginning of the rebellion he became the scandalous and seditious Minister as one calls him of Cogshall in Essex But soon after upon appearance of the said rebellion he retired to the said City again and being a voluble Preacher he was thought fit not only to exercise his parts at S. Mildrids beforemention'd but also before both Houses of Parliament the Members of which constituted him one of the Assembly of Divines as being a Covenanteer to the purpose While he preached at S. Mildrids which was only to exasperate the People to rebel and confound Episcopacy 't was usual with him especially in hot weather to unbutton his doublet in the Pulpit that his breath might be the longer and his voice more audible to rail against the Kings Party and those that were near to him whom he called Popish Counsellors This he did in an especial manner in Sept. 1644 when he with great concernment told the People several times that God was angry with the Army for not cutting off Delinquents c. Afterwards about 1646 he became Minister of the Church of S. Paul in Convent Garden where as also sometimes in the Country he kept up the vigour of a Presbyterian Ministry which for divers years prospered according to his mind to the converting of many and conviction of more In 1653 he was appointed one of the number of triers or examiners of Ministers appointed by Parliament and the year after he was by the members thereof constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of London for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters At length finding himself decayed by his too zealous carrying on the Covenanting work he resigned his charge in Convent Garden about two years before his death and retired to Marlborough Soon after the Earl of Bedford upon some consideration confer'd the said Church on the Son-in-law of our Author Sedgwick called Thomas Manton as zealous a Presbyterian as the former where he continued till the Act of Uniformity ejected him as I shall tell you when I come to him As for our Author Sedgwick he hath these things following going under his name Several Sermons as 1 Military discipline for a Christian Soldier on 1. Cor. 16.13.14 Lond. 1639. oct 2 Christs counsell to his languishing Church of Sardis or the dying and decaying Christian c. being the effect of certain Sermons on Rev. 3.2.3 Lond. 1640. in a large oct 3 Christ the life and death the gaine at the funeral of Rowl Wilson a member of Parliament on 1. Philip. 1.21 Lond. 1650. qu. Before which is An account given of some years more than ordinary experience
of Aldermary while he was Chapl. to Archb. Laud. Which Serm. being esteemed a blasphemous piece by the puritanical party of the said Parish they complained of it to the said Archbish who instead of having him punished was made said they Canon of Windsore and afterwards when the Archbishop's Writings were seized on at Lambeth the Sermon was found lying on his Table But this I presume was never printed He hath also written A Key to the Kings Cabinet or animadversions upon the three printed speeches of Mr. L'isle Mr. Tate and Mr. Brown Members of the H. of Commons spoken at a Common hall in London 3 July 1645 detecting the malice and falshood of their blasphemous Observations upon the K. and Queens letters Oxon 1645. qu. The said Speeches were spoken by Joh. L'isle Zouch Tate and Mr. Browne Our Author Th. Browne wrot also a treatise in defence of H. Grotius against an Epistle of Cl. Salmasius De posthumo Grotii published under the name of Simplicius Virinus Hag. 1646. in oct But the said Treatise or Answer I have not yet seen nor was he known to be the Author of it till after his death at which time Isaac Vossius to whom he had sent a printed copy of it formerly but never told him who was the Author found the Manuscript of it written with his own hand with a Title page owning himself therein to be the Author of it Dissertatio de Therapeutis Philonis adversus Henricum Valesium Lond. 1687. oct Put at the end under the name of Tho. Bruno of the interpretation of S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians made by Pat. Junius Gottifredus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius published by Paulus Colomesius Our Author Browne also did translate from Lat. into Engl. Camden's second Vol. of the Annals of Qu. Elizabeth from the beginning of the year 1589 to the end of 1602 Which Translation bears this Title Tomus alter idem Or the history of the life and raigne of that famous Princess Elizabeth c. Lond. 1629. qu. To which Translation our Author Browne added An Appendix containing Animadversions upon several passages corrections of sundry errours and additions of some remarkable matters of the History before mention'd never yet printed He died at Windsore on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried without and on the south side of the Kings Free-Chappel there dedicated to S. George Over his grave was soon after erected at the charge of Dr. Isaac Vossius Canon of that Chappel sole Executor to our Author Browne a monument of free stone with a plank of marble thereon joyning to the south wall between two Buttresses of the Chappel and an inscription engraven upon it made by the said Vossius from which I am informed that he the said Browne was esteemed by all that knew him Vir apprimè doctus eruditus Criticus acutus facundus Orator felix Philologus Antiquitatum Chronologiaeque cultor solertissimus Aenigmatum Dilemmatumque conscientiarum dubitantium Oedipus admodum Christianus c. One Tho. Browne was elected from Eaton School into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1550. was afterwards Master of Westminster School Prebendary of the collegiat Church there 1565 Doctor of Div. and a worthy and learned Divine He wrot a Tragedy called Thebais and dying in 1584 or thereabouts was buried at Westminster What relation there was between this and the former Thom. Browne I know not nor whether he was related to another Thom. Browne whom I shall mention among these writers under the year 1682. JAMES JANEWAY a Ministers son was born as it seems at Lilly or Lulley in Hertfordshire became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1655. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and became Tutor for a time to one George Stringer in his mothers house at Windsore the same I mean who was afterwards a Commoner and M. of A. of the said College So that our author who had all his education under Presbyterians and Independents did after his Majesties restauration set up a Conventicle at Redriff near London where to the time of his death he was much resorted to by those of his persuasion and admired for a forward and pretious young man especially by those of the female sex His works are Several Sermons as 1 Death unstung preached at the funeral of Tho. Mousley an Apothecary with a brief narrative of his life 2 Serm. at the funeral of Tho. Savage 3 The duties of Masters and Servants on Ephes 6. ver 5.6 7.8.9 Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674 and 76. 4 Mans last end fun Serm. on Psal 89 48. Lond. 1675. oct Heaven upon Earth or the best friend in the worst of times Lond. 1670. c. oct Delivered in several Sermons A token for Children being an exact account of the conversion holy and exemplary Lives and joyful deaths of several young children Lond. 1671. the first part in oct The second part was printed there also in 8o. an 1672. Invisible realities demonstrated in the holy life and death of Mr. John Janeway Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge Lond. 1673. c. oct This Jo. Janeway who was elder brother to James our author was born at Lilly in Hertfordshire 27. Oct. 1633 bred in Paules School under Mr. Joh. Langley became a zealous Presbyterian and dying in June 1657 was buried in Kelsall Church in Hertfordsh This life is recommended to the world with an Epistle written by Mr. Rich. Baxter The Saints encouragement to diligence in Christs service with motives and meanes to Christian activity To which is added as an example to prove the point handled The death-bed experiences of Mistris B. Lond. 1673. oct Legacie to his Friends containing 27 famous instances of Gods providences in and about Sea-dangers and deliverances with the names of several that were Eye-witnesses to many of them Lond. 1674. 75 oct Before which book is the authors picture in a cloak aged 38 years and at the end of it is a Sermon intit Sea-dangers and deliverances on Acts 27.18.19.20 by Joh. Ryther a Nonconformist of Wapping near London The said Legacie is several times made use of by Increase Mather in his Essay for the recording of illustrious providences Saints memorials or words fitly spoken like apples of gold in pictures of silver Being a collection of divers sentences Lond. 1674. oct Edm. Calamy Ralph Venning and Jos Caryl had a hand besides Janeway in the said memorials He died on the sixteenth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried 4 days after in the Church of S. Mary in Aldermanbury within the City of London near to the grave of his father At which time his friend Mr. Nath. Vincent preached his funeral Sermon which being extant the reader may satisfie himself more of the character of Mr. Janeway therein Several Elegies I have seen that were made on his death as that by Ralph Venning who saith
After his Majesties restauration he was made one of his Advocates being then esteemed a learned man and as well read in Divinity as in his own faculty as may be seen in the books following of his writing The holy Limbeck or an extraction of the Spirit from the letter of certain eminent places in the holy scripture Lond. 1650. in tw Other copies have this title The holy Limbeck or a semicentury of spiritual extractions c. The holy arbour containing the whole body of Divinity or the sum and substance of Christian Religion Lond. 1651. in a thin fol. A view of the Admiral jurisdiction wherein the most material points concerning that jurisdiction are fairly and submissively discussed c. Lond. 1661. oct A Catalogue of such that have been dignified with the office of Lord high Admiral in this Kingdom c. Printed at the end of the said View and all or most taken from Sir Hen. Spelman's Glossary in the word Admiralius The Orphans legacy or a testamentary abridgment in three parts 1. Of last Wills and Testaments 2. Of Executors and Administrators 3. Of Legacies and Devises c. Lond. 1674. qu. c. Repertorium Canonicum or an abridgment of the Ecclesiastical Laws of this Realm consistent with the temporal wherein the most material points c. Lond. 1678. 80 c. qu. He also translated into English out of Garsias alias Ferrand An extract of the antient Laws of Oleron Lond. 1661 printed with The view of Admiral jurisdiction before mention'd to which translation he put marginal observations He died in or near Fleetstreet on the fourth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the north isle of Clarkenwell Church near London As for Ch. Geor. Cock before mentioned he was of the Inner Temple and a Counsellor there but whether he was ever of this Univ. I cannot tell However this I know of him that he being a great Antimonarchist was in some manner contributary to the death of K. Ch. 1 that he was one of those 21 persons that were appointed to be of a Committee to consult of a reformation of the Law in Jan. 1651 he being then living and residing in Norwych that he was one of the Commissioners of the Prerogative Court one of the High Court of Justice in Nov. 1653 and author of a canting whimsical and enthusiastical book intit English-Law or a summary survey of the houshold of God on earth and that both before and under the Law and that both of Moses and the Lord Jesus c. Lond. 1651. in a thin fol. To which is added Essay of Christian Government under the regiment of our Lord and King the one immortal invisible c. Prince of Peace Emanuel Written by the same hand THOMAS GOOD became scholar of Ball. Coll. in the latter end of 1624 aged 15 years Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Mich. term 1628 and on the 29 of Nov. the next year he was admitted probationer Fellow of that house ran thro all exercises of the Coll. and University till he was Bach. of Div. in 1639. Afterwards tho he was absent in the times of distraction yet he kept his Fellowship and submitted to the men of the interval At length having obtained a small Cure at Coerley in his native Country of Shropshire he resigned his Fellowship in 1658 and at the Kings restauration was as a Sufferer for the Kings Cause as 't is said in the Univ. Reg. of that year actually created D. of D. About that time he was made one of the Residentiaries of the Cath. Ch. of Hereford and Rector of Winstanstow in his own Country and at length on the death of Dr. Savage Master of Ball. Coll. He was in his younger years accounted a brisk Disputant and when resident in his Coll. a frequent Preacher yet always esteemed an honest and harmless Puritan A noted author of the Presbyterian perswasion tells us that he was one of the most peaceable moderate and honest Conformists of his acquaintance and subscribed the Worcestershire agreement for concord and joyned with the Presbyterians in their association and meetings at Kedirminster and was the man that drew the Catalogue of Questions for their disputations at their meetings and never talked then to them of what he afterwards wrot in his book called Dubitantius Firmianus which when published he lost his credit among them and was lesser esteemed by Mr. Baxter the pride and glory of that party He hath written and published Firmianus and Dubitantius Or certain Dialogues concerning Atheisme Infidelity Popery and other Heresies and Schismes c. Oxon. 1674. oct Animadverted upon by the said Mr. Baxter in a letter directed to him dat 10 Feb. 1673 in the Apologie here quoted from pag. 142 to 146. A brief English Tract of Logick Printed 1677. in a little oct of 2 sh and an half He had as I have been informed other things laying by him at his death fit for the press but of what subject they treated or in whose hands they are gotten I know not He died at Hereford on the ninth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Cathedral Church there On the 24 day of the same month was elected in his place of Master of Ball. Coll. John Venn M. A. and Fellow of that House BENJAMIN WELLS second son of John Wells the famous Mathematician of Deptford in Kent was born there or at least in that County became a Communer of S. Albans Hall in 1632 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and then being translated to that of S. Mary was admitted Master as a member thereof an 1639 and the next year was elected Probat Fellow of All 's College Afterwards entring on the Physick line he was admitted to practise that faculty in Dec. an 1650 having been about that time in some of the Western Plantations Afterwards he setled at Greenwich alias East Greenwich in his native County where he practised his faculty but being of a morose temper tho able in his profession was but little resorted to by Patients which was the reason he died very indigent He hath written A treatise of the Gout or Joint Evil. Lond. 1669. in tw and translated into English The Expert Physitian learnedly treating of all agues and feavers Lond. 1657. oct Written originally by Dr. Brice Bauderon This Mr. Wells died at East Greenwich before mentioned in April in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Church there on the 13 day of the same month John Wells Esq the father before mention'd was Store-keeper of the naval Arsenal at Deptford a charge of good credit and requiring extraordinary application was much valued for his mathematical sufficiencies by Briggs Gunter Gellibrand Oughtred c. and learnedly wrot Sciographia Or the art of Shadows plainly demonstrating out of the Sphaere how to project both great and small circles upon any place whatsoever with
endeavours of some of his friends and fellow-sufferers to reduce the University to that manner and form as to Preaching Disputing Discipline Opinion c. as 't was while Dr. Laud was Chancellour thereof but because of the twenty years interval wherein a most strange liberty loosness in manners and religion had taken place they could not do it and I remember that many made it a ridiculous thing that he and they should in the least think of such a matter which a whole age could not do nor that also unless a succession of good Kings came that should be of the same mind and opinion with Ch. 1. of ever blessed memory He was a most excellent Disciplinarian kept up the exercise of his house severely was admirable in training up Youth of noble extraction had a faculty in it peculiar to him and was much delighted in it He would constantly on several mornings in the week take his rounds in his Coll go to the Chambers of Noblemen and Gent. Commoners and examine and see what progress they made in their studies He constantly frequented divine Service in public four times in a day and had besides Prayers twice every day in his own family He was a most zealous Favourer of the Ch. of England and none that I yet know of did go beyond him in the performance of the rules belonging thereunto He was a great encourager and promoter of Learning in the University and of all public works belonging thereunto witness not only the Edifices before mentioned but his sollicitation for the building of the publick Theater to the end that the house of God might be kept free for its own use He likewise advanced the learned Press and improv'd the Manufacture of Printing in Oxford in such manner as it had been designed before by that public spirited person Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury and certainly it would have been by him effected as other matters of greater concern relating to Religion and Learning had not the iniquity of the restless Presbyterians prevented him He was also a person of a most generous spirit undervalued money and disburs'd it so freely upon learned pious and charitable uses that he left sometimes for himself and his private use little or nothing He was an eager defender and maintainer of the University and its Privileges especially while he executed the office of Vicechancellour against the Oppugners of them and always endeavour'd to advance its Liberties for which he often gained the ill opinions of the Citizens He was a bold and resolute man and did not value whaâ— the generality said or thought of him so that he could accomplish his just and generous designs which being too many to effect was the chief reason of shortning his days His charity was so great that he was a husband to the afflicted widow a father to the orphan and a tender parent to poor Children He constantly allowed an yearly pension to a poor man of S. Thomas in the Suburb of Oxon purposely that he should teach gratis 20 or 24 poor children of that Parish to read some of which he afterward bound Apprentices or made Scholars He was a person of great morals and vertues spent his time in celebacy of an unspotted life and unquestionable reputation On the 8 of Jan. 1675 he was elected Bishop of Oxon by the Chapter of Ch. Ch. by vertue of a Conge d'eslire sent to them from his Majesty and on the sixth of Febr. following being then Shrove Sunday he was consecrated in the Chappel of the Bishop of Winchester at Chelsey near London at which time liberty was given to him to keep his Deanery in commendam purposely to keep him in his Coll. that he might do farther good therein and in the University No sooner he was setled in his See but he betook himself to the rebuilding the Palace belonging thereunto at Cudesden near Oxon whereupon examining what had been done in order to it by any of his Predecessors which was no considerable matter he undertook and finished it as I have told you in the first vol. p. 634 yet enjoyed but a little time in it As for his Works pertaining to Learning they are these The life of the most learned Rev. and Pious Dr. Hen. Hammond Lond. 1661 c. oct Before which time he was supposed to be author of The interest of England stated or a faithful and just account of the aimes of all parties now pretending distinctly treating of the designments of the R. Cath Royalist Presbyterian Anabaptist c. Printed in 1659 in two sh in qu. but how true it is I cannot tell because I heard of it but very lately and that from no considerable hand It was answered by March Nedham as I have told you in my discourse of him The vanity of scoffing in a letter to a Gent. Lond. 1674 qu. No name is set to it only then generally reported to be his Responsio ad epistolam Thomae Hobbes Malmsburiensis See at the end of Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. Several Sermons as 1 The Character of the last days preached before the King on 2. Pet. 3.3 Oxon. 1675. qu. 2 Serm. preached before the H. of Peers 22. Dec. 1680 being the day of solemn humiliation on Matth. 12.25 Oxon. 1680. qu. c. Account of Dr. Rich. Allestree's life This is in the preface before the said Doctors Forty Sermons published by our author Dr. Fell who also reviewed and illustrated with marginal notes the works of S. Cyprian which he published under this title Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Opera recognita illustrata per Johannem Episcopum Oxoniensem Pr. 1682 fol. in the printing house joyning on the east side of the Theater erected at the charge of the University of Oxon on the motion of Dr. Fell an 1674. To which book were added Annales Cyprianici by Dr. John Pearson Bishop of Chester He also translated into English Of the Unity of the Church Printed also in the same house 1681. qu. Written originally by S. Cyprian See more of his works in Pat. Young in the first vol. p. 794 and in Ger. Langbaine and Tho. Willis in this p. 141 and 403. Dr. Fell also published or reprinted every year while he was Dean of Ch. Ch viz. from 1661 to the time of his death a book commonly a classical author against new-New-years tide to distribute among the Students of his House To which books he either put an Epistle or running notes or corrections These I have endeavoured to recover that the titles might be known and here set down but in vain The first piece which he published of the incomparable author of The whole duty of man was The Ladies Calling before which he put an Epistle to the Reader giving an account after what a private manner the copy thereof accompanied with a letter was conveyed to his hands This Epistle is left out in the folio edit of that authors works as also Dr. Hammonds Epistle before The whole duty of man
their Vault at Felsted adjacent 9 Sept. following on Sam. 3.38 Lond. 1673. qu. 3 The virtuous Woman found her loss bewailed and character preached at Felsted in Essex 30. Apr. 1678 at the funeral of Mary Countess-Dowager of Warwick c. with so large additions which may be stiled the life of that noble Lady Lond. 1678. oct To which are annexed some of her Pious and useful meditations This book was afterwards reprinted twice at least in tw 4 Say on or a seasonable plea for a full hearing between man and man preached at Chelmsford in Essex at the general Assize holden for that County 8. July 1678. Lond. 1678. oct 5 Serm. at the Black-fryers before the Company of Apothecaries 8. Sept. 1681. Lond. 1681. 82. qu. 6 The true interest of nations impartially stated preached at the lent Assizes at Chelmsford in Essex 2. March 1690 proving that the c. Lond. 1691. qu. He hath also written and published The great evil of procrastination or the sinfulness and danger of deferring repentance in several discourses Lond. 1681 in tw And was as it seems the author of The holy life of Mrs. Eliz. Walker late Wife of him A. W.D. D. c. giving a modest and short account of her exemplary piety and charity c. Lond. 1680. oct with some Vseful papers and letters written by her on several occasions He hath other things extant which I have not seen as Serm. on 2. Chron. 23.11 printed 1660. qu. c. Joh. Dillingham Bach. of Div. of Sidney Coll. Joh. Browne Doct. of Phys of Camb. .... Bernard D. of D. of the fame Univ. The Christian name of this Doctor is not registred and therefore I do not know to the contrary but that he may be Nich. Bernard of whom I have spoken in the Fasti 1628. Qu. All which Cambridge men viz. Joh. and Edw. Stillingfleet Thomas White R. Cumberland M. Poole J. Meriton W. Williams A. Walker J. Diliingham Jo. Browne and ... Bernard were incorporated on the 14. of July There were 34 Masters of that University incorporated on the same day among whom besides those before mention'd was Tho. Wilson of Clare Hall one of both whose names was Rector of Arrow in Warwickshire after his Majesties restauration a Writer against the Quakers as Will. Pen G. Fox G. Whitehead c. an 1678 and author of Sermons in 1679. 83 c. whether the same I cannot tell One Will. Johnson also of the said Hall of Clare was then incorporated but not to be taken with one of both his names who was D. of D Chaplain and Sub-Almoner to K. Ch. 2 author of Deus nobiscum A narrative of a great deliverance at Sea Lond. 1659 c. oct and of other things He died 4. March 1666 aged 54 years and was buried in the north trancept or isle joyning on the north side of the choire of S. Peters Ch. in Westminster Creations July 9. Edw. Davenport of Vniv Coll. was created Bach. of Phys by dispensation from the Delegates I find this person to be admitted to the said degree 15 June 1661 and the same day admitted to practice his faculty July 29. Richard Cromwell Chanc. elected of the University of Oxon was actually created Mast of Arts in a Convocation of certain Doctors and Masters of the University held in Whitehall within the liberty of Westm and soon after in the same Convocation he was installed Chancellour of the said University which was the first publick honour done unto him in the nation He was the eldest Son of Oliver L. Protector and had no other breeding than in hawking hunting horse-racing c. He was a boon companion and had done no service in the Parliament Army unless it was the often drinking his Fathers Landlords K. Ch. 2. health His abilities in praying and preaching and love to the Sectaries was much like those of his cousin Rich. Ingoldesby mention'd among the Creations of M. of A. under the year 1649. However he being designed to be his Fathers successor in tne Protectorate was about the time that this honour was done to him sworn a Privy Counsellour made a Colonel in the Army when fighting was over to the end that he might have an interest in parties and parts of the Body politique and the first Lord of the Other House About that time he was commonly called the most noble Lord Richard and rife discourses there were of Richard the fourth but they proved no more than the story of Queen Dick. On the 4 of Sept. 1658 he was proclaimed Lord Protector his Father dying the day before at the usual places in London where Kings use to be and soon after had addresses flew to him at Whitehall from all parts of the three Nations to salute and magnifie his assumption to the Soveraignty wherein he was celebrated for his excellency of his wisdom and nobleness of mind for the lovely composition of his body c. as if he had been another Titus Deliciae Gentis Dominii Britanici c. In the latter end of Apr. 1659 he was as a pitiful thing laid aside and deposed Whereupon withdrawing to Hursley in Hampshire absconded there for a time He had before taken to Wife Dorothy Daughter and Coheir of Rich. Maijor or Mager of Hursley before mention'd Son of Joh. Maijor sometimes Mayor and Alderman of Southampton by whom he had issue Oliver Cromwell and other Children The other Daughter and Coheir named Anne was married to John Dunch of Pusey in Berks Son of Sam. Dunch of North Baddisley in Hampshire Esq by whom he had a Son named Major or Maijor Dunch and other Children This Rich. Cromwell who was born in the antient Borough of Huntingdon has gone through no death as yet only a political one His younger Brother formerly called Lord Harry L. Lieut. of Ireland was born also at Hunt and died and was buried some years since at Wickhen in Cambridgshire Sept. 5. Robert Whitehall M. of A. of Mert. Coll. was created Bac. of Phys by vertue of the Letters of R. Cromwell Chanc. of the University Nov. 11. Jos Williamson of Qu. Coll now in France was diplomated M. of A. Dec. 2. Abraham Cowley the great ornament of our Nation as well by the candor of his life as the excellency of his writings was created Doctor of Phys This Gentleman who is justly characterized to be Anglorum Pindarus Flaccus Maro deliciae decus desiderium aevi sui was born in Fleetstreet near to the end of Chancery-lane in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London an 1618. His Father who was a Grocer dying before the Son was born the Mother by her endeavours and friends got him to be a Kings Scholar at Westminster where in the year 1633 being then going into the sixteenth year of his age he composed a book called Poetical Blossomes whereby the great pregnancy of his parts was discovered Soon after having obtained the Greek and Rom. Languages he was removed to Trin.
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
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
the honor of the Protestant Religion and the English Nation insomuch as his many conflicts with and conquests of the learned Sorbonists in defence of the Protestants and opposition to the Papists caused even those his adversaries to give him this encomium that he was Featlaeus acutiss acerrimus Upon his return into England he repaired to his College took the degree of Bac. of Div. 1613 and soon after became Rector of Northill in Cornwall by the favour of Ezeck Arscot Esq one of his Pupils and a Cornish man born But before he was scarce warm there he was sent for from thence to be domestick Chaplain to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury and by him was prefer'd soon after to the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey In 1617 he proceeded in Divinity and puzled Prideaux the Kings professor so much with his learned arguments that a quarrel thereupon being raised the Archbishop was in a manner forced to compose it for his Chaplains sake The Archb. of Spalato being also present at the disputation was so much taken with our Authors arguments that he forthwith gave him a Brothers-place in the Savoy Hospital near London he being then Master thereof About that time he had the Rectory of Alhallowes Church in Broadstreet within the City of London confer'd upon him by Canterbury which soon after he changed for the Rectory of Acton in Middlesex and at length became the third and last Provost of Chelsey Coll. In 1625 he left Canterburies service being then married and retiring to Kennington near Lambeth where his wife had a house laid aside his polemical Divinity wholly devoted himself to the study and practice of Piety and Charity and composed his Ancilla Pietatis which the next year was published From that time to the beginning of the Civil War may be many things here spoken of him worthy of memory as of his often disputes with persons of contrary Religion his writing of books against the Church of Rome c. which shall now for brevity sake he omitted In Nov. 1642 after the King had encountred the Parliament-Soldiers at Brentford some of the Rebels took up their quarters at Acton who after they had missed our Author Featley whom they took to be a Papist or at least that he had a Pope in his belly they drank and eat up his Provision burnt down a Barn of his full of Corn and two Stables the loss amounting to 211 l. and at the same time did not only greatly profane the Church there by their beastly actions but also burnt the rails pull'd down the Font broke the windows and I know not what In Feb. following the said Rebels sought after him in the Church at Lambeth on a Lords day to murder him but he having timely notice of their coming withdrew and saved himself In 1643 when the Bishops were altogether disinabled from performing their Office and thereupon the Assembly of Divines was constituted by the Blessed Parliament then by some so call'd our Author was appointed a member thereof shewing himself among them to have more of Calvin in him than before being as t is said a Calvinist always in his heart tho he shewed it not so openly till that time But so it was that our Author being a main stickler against the Covenant there which he was to take did in a letter to the learned Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland then at Oxon in the middle of Sept. the same year shew to him the reasons why he excepted against it A copy of which letter or else another which he about the same time wrot being treacherously gotten from him was first carried to the Close Committee and at length to the House of Commons Whereupon our Author being judged to be a Spye and a betrayer of the Parliaments cause was seised on committed Prisoner to the Lord Petre's house in Aldergatestreet on the 30 of the said month and his Rectories taken away that of Acton being bestowed on the infamous Independent Philip Nye and that of Lambeth on Joh. White of Dorchester the old instrument of sedition who afterwards got an order to obtain and keep his Library of books till such time that he could get his own back which had a little before been seised on at Dorchester by the command of Prince Rupert In the said Prison-house he continued till the beginning of March 1644 and then after much supplication made to the Parliament in his behalf he being then drawn very low and weak by the Dropsie he was remov'd for health sake to Chelsey Coll. of which he was then Provost where spinning out a short time in Piety and holy Exercise surrendred up his last breath to him that first gave it He was esteemed by the generality to be one of the most resolute and victorious Champions of the reformed Protestant Religion in his time a most smart scourge of the Church of Rome a Compendium of the learned Tongues and of all the liberal Arts and Sciences Also that though he was of small Stature yet he had a great soul and had all learning compacted in him He was most seriously and soundly pious and devout and tam studio quà m exercitio Theologus insignis c. as 't is express'd in his Epitaph What the Reader may further judg of him may be by his works the Catalogue of which follows The life and death of Jo. Jewell somtime B. of Salisbury 'T is an abridgment of the said Bishops life written by Laur. Humphrey D. D. drawn up by our Author whilst he was a Student in C. C. Coll. an 1609 at the command of Dr. Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury Which being by him concluded and sent to Lambeth was suddenly printed and prefix'd to the said Jewells works before he had time to revise it and to note the errata therein Most if not all of the said life is printed in English in a book intit Abel redivivus collected and written by Tho. Fuller Lond. 1651. qu. History of the life and manner of death of Dr. Joh. Rainolds President of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxon. It was delivered in a Lat. Oration from a pew set in that Coll. quadrangle when the said Rainolds was to be inter'd in the Chappel there Most or all of the said life is remitted into the before mention'd Abel redivivus Life and death of Rob. Abbot D. D. somtimes Bishop of Salisbury Written in Latine also as it seems and remitted into Ab. rediv. in English The Romish Fisher caught and held in his own net Or a true relation of his conference with Joh. Fisher and Joh. Sweet Lond. 1624. qu. Appendix to the Fishers net with a description of the Romish wheel and circle Printed with the former book A defence of his proceedings in the conference together with a refutation of Mr. Fishers answer under the name of A. C. to a treatise intit The Fisher caught in his own net Lond. 1624. qu. The sum and substance of that which passed in a
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
minus dubiae fidei supersunt Lond. 1650. in a thick large oct Interiora regni dei Lond. 1665. in tw He also translated The Psalmes of David into English meeter Lond. 1646. oct This translation tho ordered by the H. of Commons to be printed 4. Nov. 1645 yet if I am not mistaken all or most of it was printed in 1641. The said Psalmes were also turned into Meter by Will. Barton pr. by order of Parl. 1645. oct Our Author Rous gave way to fate at Acton near London on the seventh day of January in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in Eaton Coll. Church near to the entrance of that Chappel joyning thereunto formerly built by Rog. Lupton Provost of the said College Soon after were hanged up over his grave a Standard Pennon c. and other Ensigns relating to Barons containing in them the arms of the several matches of his Family All which continuing there till 1661 were then pulled down with scorn by the loyal Provost and Fellows and thrown aside as tokens and badges of damn'd baseness and rebellion Those of his Party did declare openly to the World at his death that he needed no monument besides his own printed works and the memorials of his last will to convey his name to posterity And that the other works of his life were works of charity wherein he was most exemplary as the poor in many parts would after the loss of him tell you c. The Poet of Broadgates called Ch. Fitz Geffry did celebrate his memory while he was of that house and after his death Pembroke College built in the place of Broadg. did the like for his benefaction to the members thereof WILLIAM SANDBROOKE of Glocester Hall took one degree in the Civil Law in 1630 and about that time entring into Holy Orders became Rector of the Church of S. Pet. in the Baylie in Oxon 1635 where he was much frequented by Puritanical People and precise Scholars as Rogers Principal of New Inn was who had his turn in preaching there In the beginning of the Civil Wars he left the University and betook himself to a Sea employment in the quality of a Chaplain under the Earl of Warwick Admiral for the Parliament but being weary of it by the year 1644 he officiated as Vicar of S. Margarets Church in the City of Rochester by the leave of one Mr. Selvey the true Incumbent who having a good temporal estate allowed Sandbrooke the whole profits of the living Afterwards he was appointed by the Presbyterian Party one of three Lecturers in the Cathedral there purposely to preach down the Blasphemies and Heresies of Rich. Coppin and his besotted and begotted followers This Mr. Sandbrooke hath published The Church the proper subject of the new Covenant in three Sermons Lond. 1646. oct Several Sermons as 1 Fun. Sermon on Col. 2.6 printed 1657. in oct c. which and others I have not yet seen He died at Rochester in sixteen hundred fifty and eight and was inter'd in the South Isle joyning to the Parish Church of S. Margaret beforemention'd remarkable for being the place of burial of one of the Saxon Kings as the People there say on the fifteenth day of March leaving then behind him the character of a godly and painful preacher WILLIAM RUSSELL Son of a Father of both his names was born at Wickware in Glocestershire educated in the Grammar School at Wotton Underedge in the said County became a Batler of Linc. Coll. in Lent term 1635 took one degree in Arts and then taught School for a time at Sadbury in his own Country At length John Langley being called away to be chief Master of S. Pauls School he became Master in his room of the publick College School in the City of Glocester where by his singular industry happy way of teaching and by his great skill in the Tongues and holy Scripture many learned youths were sent thence to the Universities His works are these The old Protestants conscientious enquiries concerning the new engagement printed in qu. 'T was written against the Oath called the Engagement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Holy Ghost vindicated in oct written against Joh. Biddle He gave way to fate on the 5. of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine aged 42 years and was buried in S. Michaels Church within the City of Gloc. See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. p. 167. a. b. He left behind him three most ingenious Sons and excellent Scholars who were afterwards successively Masters of Arts and Fellows of Magd. Coll. The eldest was Samuel who died 22. July 1670. aged 22 the next was William who died 8. Dec. 1672 aged 22 and the third was Richard who dying 21. of Oct. 1681. aged 28 years was buried by his said two Brethren on the south side of Magd. Coll. outer Chappel One Rich. Russell a Rutlandsh man born as it seems bred in the English Coll. of Secular Priests at Lisbon in Portugal was by the K. of that Country designed to go into England as an interpreter to Don Francisco de Mello Earl of Ponte Embassador extraordinary from the said K. to K. Ch. 2 to settle the Marriage between him and Donna Catherina the Infanta of that Country After Russels return into Portugal he was rewarded for his pains with the Bishoprick of Portalegre where he now lives but whether of the same Family with Will. Russell beforemention'd I cannot tell HENRY EDMONDSON or as he writes himself Henricus Edmundus ab Edmundo was born in Cumberland and in the beginning of the year 1622 and in that of his age 15 he was entred a Student in Queens Coll. where after he had undergone the servile places of a poor Child and Tabarder was when Master of Arts admitted Fellow Afterwards he was made Usher of Tunbridge School in Kent under Dr. Nich. Grey and in 1655 when Thomas Widdowes died he was constituted by the Provost and Fellows of Qu. Coll. Master of the well endowed Free-school at Northleech in Glocestershire where he continued to the time of his death He hath written Lingua Linguarum The natural Language of Languages wherein it is desired and endeavoured that tongues may be brought to teach themselves and words may be best fancied understood and remembred c. Lond. 1655. oct c. Homonyma Synonyma Linguae Latinae conjuncta distincta Oxon. 1661. oct and other things as 't is probable He was buried in the Church of Northleech on the 15 day of July in sixteen hundred fifty and nine leaving then the character behind him of a most able Person in his profession and of one who had done great benefit for the publick by his sedulous and industrious education of youth MICHAEL JERMIN Son of Alex. Jerm Merchant and Sherriff of Exeter Son of Mich. Jermin somtimes twice Mayor of the said City was born at Knowston in Devonshire entred a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. in the beginning of
of Ansley in Wiltshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of probation an 1609 aged 19 years and after he had taken one degree in the Civil Law became an Advocate of note in Doctors Commons In the year 1619 he was admitted Doctor of the Civil Law became the Kings Professor of that fac in the year following was chosen by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward Lord Zouche L. Warden of the Cinque-ports a Burgess twice at least for Hyeth in Kent to serve in Parliaments in the latter end of K. Jam. 1 became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Oxon Principal of S. Albans Hall in 1625 and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament sate in the University he submitted to their power and so consequently kept his Principality and Professorship during the times of Usurpation After the Kings return he was restored to the Admiralty tho he kept that honorable office but for a small time was one of the Commissioners for regulating the University and might have risen higher than the Admiralty had he lived He was an exact Artist a subtile Logician expert Historian and for the knowledge in and practice of the Civil Law the chief Person of his time as his works much esteemed beyond the Seas where several of them are reprinted partly testifie He was so well vers'd also in the statutes of the University and controversies between the members thereof and the City that none after Twynes death went beyond him As his birth was noble so was his behaviour and discourse and as personable and handsome so naturally sweet pleasing and affable The truth is there was nothing wanting but a forward spirit for his advancement but the interruption of the times which silenc'd his profession would have given a stop to his rise had he been of another disposition His works are these The Dove or passages of Cosmography Lond. 1613. oct This is a Poem which he wrot in his younger days and dedicated it to Edw. Lord Zouche his kinsman Elementa Jurisprudentiae definitionibus regulis sententiis selectioribus juris civilis illustrata Oxon. 1629. oct 1636. qu. in 7. parts Lugd. Bat. 1652. in 16o. Amstel 1681. in tw Descriptio Juris Judicii feudalis secundum consuetudines Mediolani Norman pro introductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam Oxon. 1634. and 36. oct Descript Jur. Judicii temporalis secundum consuetudines feudales Normanicos Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts Descript Juris Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum canones constitutiones Anglicanas Oxon. 1636. qu. in 4. parts This book with Desc Juris Judicii tempor c. were reprinted with Dr. Mockets Tract De politia Eccl. Anglicanae Lond. 1683. oct Descr Juris Judicii sacri ad quam leges quae ad religionem piam causam respiciant referuntur Oxon. 1640. qu. Lugd. Bat. Amstel 1652. in 16o. Desc Jur. Jud. Militaris ad quam leges quae rem militarem ordinem personarum respiciunt referuntur Printed with the former Des Jur. Jud. Maritimi ad quam quae ad navigationem negotiationem maritimam respiciunt referuntur Printed also with the former Juris Judicii fecialis sive Juris inter gentes quaestionum de eodem explicato c. Oxon. 1650. qu. in two parts Cases and questions resolved in the Civil Law Oxon. 1652. oct In the year following was published a book entituled Specimen quaestionum Juris civilis cum designatione authorum Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to it and therefore I cannot yet say 't was written by Dr. Zouche It is now to be observed that Don Pantalion Sa Brother to the Portuguese Embassador having killed one Greeneway a Gentleman of Linc. Inn in the New Exchange within the liberty of Westm on the 22. of Nov. 1653 and thereupon imprisoned there was a dispute between Oliver Cromwell and his Council whether he might be tried for his life in the English Courts of Justice and how Whereupon our Author Zouche who was then the living Pandict of the Law being sent for from Oxon he cleared their doubts whereupon Sa being tried by the Civ Law and executed on Tower-hill 10. July 1654 our Author thereupon wrot this book following Solutio quaestionis de Legati delinquentis Judice competente Oxon. 1657. oct Afterwards he published these books following Eruditionis ingenuae specimina scil Artium Logicae Dialecticae Rhetoricae nec non Moralis Philosophiae M. T. Ciceronis definitionibus praeceptis sententiis illustrat Oxon. 1657. in tw Quaestionum Juris Civilis centuria in 10 classes destributa Ox. 1660. oct Lond. 1682. in tw the third Edit The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sir Edw. Cokes Articuli Admiralitatis in the 22 Chapter of his Jurisdiction of Courts Lond. 1663 in a large oct published by Dr. Tim. Baldwin Fellow of All 's Coll. It was afterwards once or more reprinted Our learned Author Dr. Zouche died in his Lodgings at Doctors Commons in Lond. on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and sixty and was buried in the Church of Fulham in Middlesex near to the grave of his eldest Daughter Catherine somtimes the Wife of William Powell alias Hinson Esquire He had a hand in the University Reasons against the Covenant as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard Langbaine num 150. HENRY CAREY or Cary Son of Sir Rob. Carey the first Earl of Monmouth of his name was born in Buckinghamshire became Fellow-communer of Exeter Coll. in Lent term 161â— 1â— aged 15 years or thereabouts took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Feb. 1613 about which time he with Bevill Greenvill of Ex. Coll. also were nominated and elected Collectors for the Lent ensuing made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales in 1616 and about that time was sent to travel into forreign Counties In 1625 he was known by the name of the Lord Lepington his Father being then created Earl of Monmouth and in 1639 Earl of Monmouth being then noted for a Person well skill'd in the modern languages and a general Scholar the fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of rebellion when by a forced retiredness he was capacitated to exercise himself in studies while others of the Nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake He hath extant these things following Speech in the H. of Peers 30. Jan. 1641 upon occasion of the present distractions and of his Majesties removal from Whitehall Lond. 1641. He translated from Italian into English 1 Romulus and Tarquin or de principe tyranno Lond. 1637. in tw written by Marq. Virg. Malvezzi In praise of which translation Sir John Suckling hath an admirable copy of verses in his Fragm aurea c. Lond. 1648. p. 24. 2 Historical relations of the united
act he was much blamed by his antient friends and acquaintance of the Orthodox Clergy yet commended by some for making provision for a second Wife that he a little before in his elderly years had taken and the Children to be had by her After the Kings restauration he left that Living to make room for the true owner returned to Eifley near Oxon. to live on his Archdeaconry and might had he not acted the vain man been made a Bishop or at least a Dean of a rich Church His poetry and sublime fancy were such that fam'd him second to none in his time in the University witness in some manner his smooth translation of rough Persius which he made before he was 20 years of age tho in these times much undervalued by Juniors As Scaliger said of Claudian and his works solo argumento ignobiliore oppressus addit de ingenio quantum deest materiae so may it be of Holyday and his Poem viz. whatsoever is mean in Persius is so choicely adorned by his Genie that if it stand out of the presence of ignorant and desperate emulation it may be graceful His Philosophy also expressed in his book De Anima and well languag'd Sermons speak him eminent in his generation and do enough shew him to have traced the rough as well as the pleasant pathes of Poetry His works are these Several Sermons viz. 1 Three Sermons upon the passion resurrection and ascension of our Saviour Lond. 1626. qu. The first at Ch. Ch. on Goodfriday 1621. on 1. Cor. 2.8 The second at S. Maries on Easter Tuesday 1623 on 1. Cor. 15.20 and the third at Ch. Ch. on Ascension day 1625 on 1. Pet. 3.22 2 Two Sermons at Pauls Cross the first preached 24. of Mar. 1624 on Ezech. 37.22 Lond. 1626. qu. The other preached the 5 of Aug. 1623 on Psal 18.48.49 Printed there the same year 3 Nature of Faith on Heb. 11.4 Lond. 1654. qu. 4 Motives to a godly life in 10. Sermons Oxon. 1657. qu. 5 Four Sermons against disloyalty preached in the times of the late troubles Oxon. 1661. oct The first of which is Of Obedience on Exod. 20.12 c. Technogamia or the marriage of Arts a Comedy Lond. 1630. qu. acted publickly in Ch. Ch. Hall with no great applause 13. Febr. 1617. But the wits of those times being minded to shew themselves before the King were resolved with leave to act the said Comedy at Woodstock whereupon the Author making some foolish alterations in it it was accordingly acted on a Sunday night 26. Aug. 1621. But it being too grave for the King and too Scholastick for the auditory or as some have said that the Actors had taken too much wine before they began his Majesty Jam. 1. after two Acts offer'd several times to withdraw At length being perswaded by some of those that were near to him to have patience till it was ended least the young men should be discouraged sate down tho much against his will Whereupon these verses were made by a certain Scholar At Christ Church Marriage done before the King Least that those Mates should want an offering The King himself did offer what I pray He offer'd twice or thrice to go away Several witty copies of verses were made on the said Comedy among which was that of Pet. Heylyn of Magd. Coll. called Whoop Holyday Which giving occasion for the making other Copies pro and con Corbert Dean of Ch. Ch. who had that day preached as it seems before the King with his band starch't clean did put in for one for which he was reproved by the graver sort but those that knew him well took no notice of it for they have several times said that he loved to the last boys-play very well Philosophiae polito-barbarae specimen in quo de animâ ejus habitibus intellectualibus quaestiones aliquot libris 2. illustrantur Oxon. 1633. qu. Survey of the World in 10 books a Poem Oxon. 1661. oct Which passing the censure of Scholars it was judged by them to be an inconsiderable piece and by some not to be his But so it was that it being published just before his death it was taken for a posthumus work which had been by him composed in his younger days 'T is said by some that he was Author of a Com. called The Gentile Craft but whether true I doubt it Sure I am he translated from Lat. into English 1 Satyrs of Persius Oxon. 1616. sec edit There again 1635. Reviewed and amended and also augmented with illustrations by the translator Oxon. 1673. fol. In this translation he consulted above a dozen Expositors yet in his preface to the translation he hath these words I may without ambition say it is a new thing Persius understood To have committed no faults in my translation saith he according to his elegant way of writing had been to translate my self and put off man 2 Satyrs of Juvenal illustrated with notes and sculptures Oxon. 1673. fol. At the end of which is the fourth Edit of Persius before mention'd both which were published by Will. Dewey of Tortdeane in Glocestershire Gent. whose Mother Dr. Holyday had taken to his second Wife 3 Odes of Horace Lond. 1652. oct Whether printed before that time I know not This translation is so near that of Sir Tho. Hawkins printed 1638. in oct or that of Hawkins so near this that whether of the two is the Author remains to me as yet undiscovered This Dr. Holyday who was highly conceited of his own worth especially in his younger days died in the house belonging to the Archdeacon of Oxon. situated and being in a village called Eisley near to that City on the second day of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and one and was three days after buried at the foot of Bishop Kings monument under the South wall of the Isle joyning on the South side to the choire of Christ Church Cathedral At which time his bones being laid close on the right side to those of W. Cartwright and Jo. Gregory what had it been for an admirer of those learned and pious men to have put a memorial over their graves As for Sir Thom. Hawkins Kt. before mention'd he was an ingenious man was as excellent in the fac of Musick as in Poetry and translated from the original Unhappy prosperitie expressed in the history of Ael Sejanus and Philippa the Catanian with observations on the fall of Sejanus Lond. 1639 in oct or tw sec edit What other translations he hath made or what books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was of Nash Court in the Parish of Boughton under the Bleane in Kent where dying in the latter end of 1640 as it seems was buried in the Parish Church of Boughton near to the graves of his Father Sir Tho. Hawkins Kt and of Anne his Mother He had an ingenious Brother named John Hawkins Doctor of Physick of London and a
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
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
was with the said Earl at Wolverhampton he preached twice there before his Lordship as Quarter-master General to Sir Tho. Middleton and within two hours after his last Sermon he fell to practice on one of his brethren and plundered a Townsman to the value of 500 l tho the man was as notorious as any in Coventry Banbury or Colchester c. This Keme was asked at Namptwich by a Brick-layer why the Earl of Denbigh gave offence by wearing long hair To which he made answer being then the chief leader in cases of conscience That to wear long hair was not against the rule but to have it was the thing forbidden by the Apostle for truly said he if my Lord should have long hair of his own I hold my self bound to tell him of it but that which his Lordship wears is not his own hair and if S. Paul were in England he would not mislike it tho it reached down as low as his knees Such Levites as this Keme were Sprat and Lorkin the two twins of Greenwich where they libell'd and blasphemed every Sunday according to their talents In Nov. the same year 1644 he went with his Colonel Basil Earl of Denbigh and the other Commissioners constituted by Parliament to treat with his Majesty at Oxon for peace where he with great confidence preached before them and about that time was made a Major and became very active in several places within this Kingdom to carry on the cause as well by fighting as preaching Afterwards he took all oathes to keep what he had and to gain more took all advantages to rake and scrape what he could together meerly to satisfie his unsatiable desire The truth is he was a man of a very servile spirit a flatterer a time-server an Epicure a Lecher c. and yet always a pretender to Saintship After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he turned about endeavoured to express his Loyalty took the oathes again as he had done when he took the Academical degrees and when he entred on the Minister and all to keep his living of Albury and the trade of eating and drinking He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Martialists dignity on Deut. 23.14 Printed 1640. qu. 2 The messengers preparation for an address to the King for a well grounded peace preached at Oxon. 24. Nov. 1644 before the Commissioners of both Kingdoms the morning before their presenting the propositions to his Majesty on Esther 4.16 Lond. 1644. qu. Dedic to the said Commissioners 3 The King of Kings his privy marks for the Kingdoms choice of new members c. preached at Bristol at the choice of new Burgesses of that City 28. Feb. 1645 on Prov. 10. ver 10.11 Lond. 1646. qu. The said City was then under the command of the Parliament 4 The Olive-branch c. on 2. Thes 3.16 Lond. 1647. qu. 5 Serm. on 1. Cor. 13. ver 14. Lond. 1647. qu. This last with others which he hath published I have not yet seen He died at Albury before mention'd on the 22 of Octob. in sixteen hundred and seventy and was two days after buried in the Chancel of the Church there near to an inscription which he before had caused to be painted on the wall to the memory of Anne Ball only daughter of John Ball Citizen and Skinner of London Jemimah Pelham eldest dau of Herbert Pelham of Lincolnsh and of Feriars Court in Essex Esq and of Mary Bridger second daughter of Samuel Bridger of Dursley in the County of Glocester Which three Women had been the wives of him the said Samuel Keme who at his death left behind him a young buxom Widow with whom he had a good portion but left her nothing as having spent all that he could get to satisfie his Epicurisme JOHN STRICKLAND was born of and descended from an antient and gentile family of his name in the County of Westmorland became a Batler of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1618 aged 17 years took the degrees of Arts holy Orders and was made Chaplain as I have been informed to the Earl of Hertford In the month of May 1632 he was admitted Bach. of Div. and in Dec. following he became Rector of Middleton alias Pudimore Milton in Somersetshire by the presentation of Sir John Horner Knight c. This person who was always puritanically affected sided with the rebellious party in the beginning of the Civil War took the Covenant was made one of the Assembly of Divines preached frequently before the Long Parliament exciting the members thereof to proceed in their blessed cause prayed several times blasphemously and in 1645 or thereabouts was made Minister of S. Peters le poor in London where he exercised his gifts against the King and his party and was never wanting to excite his Auditors to carry on the said Cause Afterwards he was made Minister of S. Edmunds Church in Salisbury was constituted an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejection of such whom they then 1654 called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and took upon him great authority in his Apostleship especially if he had to do with the loyal and suffering Clergy He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Gods work of mercy in Sions misery Fast-Sermon before the House of Commons 27. Dec. 1643 on Isay 10.20 Lond. 1644. qu. 2 A discovery of peace or the thoughts of the Almighty for the ending of the peoples calamities c. on Jer. 29.11 Lond. 1644. qu. 3 Immanuel or the Churches triumph in God with us c. Thanksgiving serm before the House of Lords 5. Nov. 1644. on Psal 26.7 Lond. 1644. qu. 4 Mercy rejoycing against Judgment Fast-serm before the House of Commons 29. Oct. 1645 on Isay 30.18 Lond. 1645. qu. In his Epist dedic to the House of Com. he desires them to have a care how they plant the towns in Cumberland and Northumberland with able preachers that they reform the Universities c. He hath other Sermons extant which I have not yet seen See more of him in Hum. Chambers under the year 1662. p. 207. This Mr. Strickland who is stiled by one of his opinion Praeco fidelissimus and so he was esteemed by the factious party was ejected from his Living for his refusal to conform to the service and ceremonies of the Church of England an 1662 Whereupon keeping Conventicles in and near Salisbury was several times as I have been informed imprisoned At length giving way to fate in sixteen hundred and seventy was buried on the 25 of Octob. in the Church of S. Edmund before mention'd being then accompanied to his grave by many of his perswasion VAVASOR POWELL having often told his friends and the Brethren not without boasting that he was once a member of Jesus Coll. in Oxon I shall therefore upon his word number him among these writers Be it known therefore that this person who was famous in his generation for his ill name
fecit c. Afterwards our Author Cawton continuing for some time in Mert. Coll. was at length upon the resetling of the English Liturgy in the University called thence and afterwards setling within the City of Westminster lived a Nonconformist and kept religious meetings in private to his last His works besides the former are these Dissertatio de usu linguae Hebraicae in Philosophia theoretica Printed at Utrecht And wrot also the life of his Father intit The life and death of that holy and rev man of God Mr. Tho. Cawton sometimes Minister of the Gospel at S. Barthelmews behind the Royal Exchange and lately Preacher to the English Congregation of Rotterdam in Holland c. Lond. 1662. oct The Life tho it seemâ— to be written by another person yet the son was the Author who caused to be added to it his fathers sermon intit Gods rule for a godly life c. preached before the Lord Mayor and his brethren the Aldermen of London at Mercers Chappel 25 of Feb. 1648 on Philip. 1.27 Lond. 1662 being the Sermon for which the Author was committed Prisoner to the Gatehouse in Westminster Balaam's wish or the vanity of desiring without endeavouring to obtain the death of the upright Lond. 1670. 75. oct 't is a Sermon He died on the tenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 40 years or thereabouts and was buried in the new Church in Tuttle street within the City of Westminster at which time Mr. Hen. Hurst his friend and sometimes Fellow collegian spoke before a large Auditory a Funeral discourse in the latter end of which are many things deservedly said of the Defunct which being made publick I refer the Reader to it RICHARD HOLLAND was born within the City of Lincoln and for a time educated in this University but took no degree Afterwards he taught the grounds of Geography and Mathematicks among the young scholars for about 50 years grew wealthy and being always sedulous in his employment several afterwards became eminent by his instruction He wrot for their use Globe notes Oxon. 1678. oct sec edit Notes how to get the angle of the parallax or a Comet Oxon. 1668. oct He died on the first day of May in sixteen hundred seventy and seven aged 81 years and was buried very deep behind the south door of the Parish Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon. His employment in instructing young scholars was afterwards taken up by Joh. Caswell M. A. of Wad Coll. afterwards Vice-principal of Hart Hall Besides this Rich. Holland is another of both his names M. of A. and Rector of S. George's Church in Stanford in Lincolnshire Author of one or more sermons BRUNO RYVES kinsman to Dr. Tho. Ryves mentioned under the year 1651. p. 83. was born in Dorsetshire made one of the Clerks of New Coll. in 1610 where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts became one of the Chaplains of Magd. Coll. 1616. Soon after he proceeded in Arts became a most noted and florid Preacher Vicar of Stanwell in Middlesex Rector of St. Martins de le Vintry in London Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 1. and in 1639 proceeded Doct. of Div. But the Rebellion breaking out soon after he was sequestred of his Rectory by the Presbyterians plunder'd and forced to fly and at length losing his Vicaridge he shifted from place to place and by the favour of his Majesty had the Deanery of Chichester and the Mastership of the Hospital there conferr'd upon him tho little or no profit accrued thence till after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. About which time being sworn Chaplain in ord to him had the Deanery of Windsore confer'd on him in which he was installed 3 Sept. 1660 and so consequently was Dean of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire Afterwards he became Rector of Acton in Middlesex was sworn Scribe of the most noble order of the Garter 14 Jan. 1660 and about that time was made Rector of Haseley near to and in the County of Oxford which I think is annexed to his Deanery as the Deanery of Wolverhampton is but all separated by Mr. Baxter thereby to make him a great Pluralist without any consideration had to his great sufferings occasion'd by the Presbyterians He hath written Mercurius Rusticus or the Countries complaint recounting the sad events of this unparralel'd Warr. Which Mercuries in number at least 19 commencing from 22 Aug. 1642 came out in one sheet sometimes in two in qu. Merc. Rustic The second part in number 5 giving an account of Sacriledges in and upon several Cathedrals After the Warr was ended all these Mercuries were pr. an 1646 and 47. in oct and had to them added 1 A general bill of mortality of the Clergy of London c. Or a brief martyrologie and catalogue of the learned grave religious painful Ministers of the City of Lond. who have been imprison'd plundered c. for their constancy to the Protestant Religion and their Loyalty from 1641 to 1647 about which time it came out by it self in one sheet only pr. on one side 2 Querela Cantabrigiensis or a Remonstrance by way of Apology for the banished members of the flourishing University of Cambridge Written by a member thereof 3 Micro-Chronicon or a brief Chronologie of the time and place of the Battles Sieges Conflicts and other remarkable passages which have hapned betwixt his Majesty and the Parliament from the beginning of the unhappy dissentions to the 25 of Mar. 1647. Which Micro-Chron I take to be written by our Author Ryves and to have been partly collected by him from Englands Iliads in a Nuâ—-shell written by George Wharton 4 A Catalogue of the names of all or most part of the Lords Knights Commanders and Persons of Quality slain or executed by law martial on both sides from the beginning of this unnatural War to the 25 of Mar. 1647. This also I take to be collected by Ryves The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that that edition of Merc. Rusticus which came out in 1647 had more in it than that of 1646. However Rich. Royston the Bookseller being minded to make another edition he followed only that which came out in 1646. so that the third edit which he made in 1685 hath less in it than that of 1647. Dr. Ryves hath also written and published Several sermons as 1 Serm. on 1 Tim. 6.10 Pr. in qu. 1652. 2 Fun. Serm. on 2 Tim. 4.7 Pr. 1656. qu. 3 Serm. before the H. of Commons 15 Jan. 1661. Whether printed I know not as yet for I have not seen it He died at Windsore on the 13 day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the Alley or Isle joyning on the south side to his Majesty's Chappel of S. George there Over his grave is this inscription engraven on a marble table fastned to the south Wall Brunus Ryves S. Theologiae Professor Reg. majestati Ã
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.
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
great a stranger to Covetousness that he hardly understood money which yet he took care to employ to the best uses His memory was prodigious in his younger years not only natural but acquired for he had studied and wrot of the Art of memory and improv'd it to great advantage He wrot several Treatises curious and learned which were designed to see the light but were all lost together with his great Library of many years collection and several Mss which he had brought from forreign Countries partly by the Irish and partly by the Protestant Army in the time of K. Will. 3. an 1689.90 He died in sixteen hundred seventy and one aged an hundred years and more being then as 't was computed the antientest Bishop in the world having been above 50 years a Bishop His death hapned at his Seat called Castle Lesley alias Glaslogh and was there buried in a Church of his own building which he had made the Parish Church by vertue of an Act of Parliament for that purpose in Ireland Which Church was consecrated to S. Salvator Sir James Ware in his Commentary of the Irish Bishops tells us that this Bishop Lesley was Doct. of Div. of Oxon and his Son named Charles Lesley a Minister in Ireland hath informed me that he was not only Doct. of Div. but of both the Laws of Oxford How true these things are I cannot tell sure I am that I cannot find his name in any of the registers of Congreg or Convocation or that he took any degree there GILBERT IRONSIDE sometimes Fell. of Trin. Coll was made B. of Bristow in the year 1660 and died in Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 357. In the said See succeeded Dr. Guy Carleton as I shall tell you under the year 1685. WILLIAM NICOLSON sometimes one of the Clerks of Magd. Coll succeeded Dr. Godfrey Goodman in the See of Glocester an 1660 and died in the beginning of Feb. in sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 362. In the said See succeeded John Prichett as I shall tell you under the year 1680. GRIFFITH WILLIAMS sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon afterwards of the Univ. of Cambr. became Bishop of Ossory in 1641 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 363. In the said See succeeded Dr. John Parry as I have told you among the said Writers an 1677. p. 448. JOHN WILKINS sometimes of New Inn afterwards of Magdalen Hall was consecrated Bish of Chester an 1668 on the death of Dr. George Hall and died in Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and two under which year you may also see more of him among the Writers p. 370.371 In the said See succeeded the learned Dr. Joh. Pearson born at Creake in Norfolk bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1631 commenced M. of A became Chaplain to George Lord Goring at Exeter Preb. of Sarum Preacher at S. Clements Eastcheap and afterwards at S. Christophers in London In 1660 he was installed Archd. of Surrey after it had laid void about eleven years being then D. of D. was afterwards Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Preb. of Ely Chapl. in ord to his Maj and Master of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. I say that he succeeding Dr. Wilkins in Chester was consecrated to that See with Dr. Pet. Mews to Bath and Wells on the ninth day of Febr. an 1672 having before published an Exposition on the Creed c. After his death which I have mention'd elsewhere succeeded in the See of Chester Dr. Thom. Cartwright The said Dr. Joh. Pearson had a younger brother named Richard born also at Creake bred in Eaton School admitted into Kings Coll. in 1646 was afterwards M. of A Professor of the Civil Law at Gresham Coll and kept his Fellowship with it went out Doct. of the Civ and Canon Law upon the coming of the Prince of Tuscany to Cambr. in the beginning of 1669 he being then Under-keeper of his Maj. Library at S. James He was a most excellent Scholar a most admired Greecian and a great Traveller He died in the summer-time an 1670 being then as 't was vulgarly reported a Rom. Cath. FRANCIS DAVIES a Glamorganshire man born became a Student of Jes Coll. an 1628 aged 17 years took the degr in Arts and was made Fellow of the said House About that time entring into holy Orders he became beneficed in Wales and in 1640 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences Afterwards suffering much for the Kings Cause lived as opportunity served and was involved in the same fate as other Royalists were But being restored to what he had lost after his Maj. restauration he was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of the year 1661 being then Archd. of Landaff in the place of Tho. Prichard In. 1667 he was made Bishop of Landaff on the death of Dr. Hugh Lloyd paid his homage on the 4 of Sept. the same year and about that time was consecrated He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and four and was buried as I have been informed by some of the Fellows of Jes Coll in the Cath. Ch. at Landaff In the said See of Landaff succeeded Dr. Will. Lloyd sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr consecrated thereunto on the 18 of Apr. 1675 where sitting till the death of Dr. Henshaw he was translated to Peterborough and confirmed therein 17 of May 1679. Besides the beforemention'd Franc. Davies was another of both his names the e in Davies excepted but before him in time author of A Catechism wherein is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian Faith contained in the Lords Prayer and Creed c. Lond. 1612. oct ded to Mr. Tho. Digges but whether he was of Oxford I cannot yet tell Qu. WILLIAM FULLER son of Tho. Fuller was born in London educated in the Coll. School at Westminster became a Communer of Magd. Hall in 1626 or thereabouts aged 18 years took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law six years after as a Member of S. Edm. Hall having translated himself thither some time before About that time he entred into holy Orders was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch and when the K. had taken up his head quarter at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion he became Chapl. to Edw. L. Littleton L. Keeper of the Gr. Seal there Afterwards upon the declension of the Kings Cause he suffer'd as others did taught a private School at Tâ—â—ttenham or Twickenham in Middlesex in the Reigns of Oliv. and Richard and endeavoured to instil Principles of Loyalty into his scholars At length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Dean
Dauphine of whom the Qu. was delivered Nov. 1. stilo novo About that time he the said Laurence Hyde was made by the endeavours of his father Master of the Robes to his Majesty and in 1676 or thereabouts was sent Embassador to Poland In Oct. 1679 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Wotton Basset in his own Country of Wilts to serve in that Parl. which was to begin on the 17 of the said month and on the 19 of Nov. following he became the first Commissioner of the Treasury being the second of the four that were by his Majesty appointed on the 26 of March going before upon the removal of Tho. Earl of Danby from the office of Lord Treasurer and being then sworn a Privy Counsellor he took his place accordingly at the Board This was done when his Majesty on the same day was pleased to declare in Council that he had given leave to Arthur Earl of Essex to resign his place of first Commissioner of the said Treasury and that he intended his Lordship should continue of his Privy Council In the month of Apr. 1681 his Maj. was pleased in consideration of his faithful Services in that Office and other Employments of eminent trust to create him Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth in Warwickshire and Baron of Wotton Basset in Wilts and soon after upon the death of Charles the young E. of Rochester to make him an Earl by the title of Earl of that City in Nov. or thereabouts 1682. On the 24 of Aug. 1684 his Maj being then at Windsore did declare in Council the said Earl of Rochester Lord President of his Council in the place of John Earl of Radnor whom his Majesty had given in consideration of his great age leave to retire Wnereupon Sidney Godolphin Secretary of State was made first Commissioner of the Treasury in his place and Charles Earl of Middleton in Scotland Secretary in Godolphin's place In Feb. following K. Jam. 2 who was then newly proclaimed King did constitute him L. High Treasurer of England and on the 16 of the said month his Majesty gave him the White Staff On the 29 of June 1685 he was elected Kr. Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter and was then invested with the George and Garter having been first Knighted by the Soveraign and on the 22 of July following he was installed in the Royal Chappel of S. George at Windsore at which time were also installed Henry Duke of Nâ—rfolk Earl Marshal of England and Hâ—nry Earl of Peterborough Groom of the Stole to his Majesty In the beginning of Jan. 1686 he was discharged of his place of Lord Treasurer and soon after John Lord Bellasyse Sidney Lord Godolphin Henry Lord Dover Sir John Ernle Chanc. of the Exchecquer and Sir Steph. Fox were constituted Commissioners for executing the said Office On the first of March 1691 he was with Richard Earl of Ranelagh Charles Lord Cornwallis and Sir Edw. Seymour Bt sworn of their Majesties hon Privy Council c. Bach. of Phys Aug. 7. Will Cole of Gloc. Hall Aug. 7. Will. Hawkins of Pemb. Coll. The first of these two hath published several things of his faculty and therefore hereafter he is to be remembred among the Writers The other had practised Phys 20 years before this time but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell Bach. of Div. Eighteen were created of whom were these Aug. 2. Thom. Smith M. of A. of Qu. Coll. He is now B. of Carlile 7. Henr. Pigot of Linc. Coll. This person who was a Staffordshire man born was afterwards Minister of Rochdale in Lancashire and published A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Lancaster 19 Mar. 1675. Lond. 1676. qu. Sept. 20. Thom. Long of Exet. Coll. Doct. of Law Aug. 2. Will. Fuller sometimes of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards B. of Limerick and at length of Linc. 7. Will. Parsons of New Coll. He had been a great Sufferer by the Presbyterians and had been kept in Jayl at Cambridge 19 weeks for his Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. during the Rebellion Afterwards retiring to his small Living at Birchanger in Essex did usually read the Common Prayer there in the times of Usurpation and therefore beloved of the loyal Gentry in those parts After his Majesties restauration he became Prebendary of Chichester Rector of Lambourne and Vicar of Great Dunmow in Essex At the last of which places he dying of an Apoplexy was buried there on the eleventh of July 1671 aged 72 years This person tho said in the Register to be actually created Doct. of the Civil Law yet in the Letters of the Chanc. of the University written in his behalf it is said that when he was Subwarden of New Coll. and Bachelaur of Law he read his Lectures for Doctorship according to the Statutes an 1635. Joh. Lowen of Ch. Ch. who had been ejected thence for his Loyalty by the Parl. Visitors in 1648 was actually created the same day Aug. 7. He was afterwards of Doctors Commons and usually lived at Rainham in Essex where I think he died in the latter end of 1677. Dec. 6. Pet. Mews of S. Johns Coll. Feb. 16. Leolin Jenkyns of Jesus Coll. This person who was the son of a father of both his names living at Llanblethian in Glamorganshire was born at Llanthrished in the same County and at 16 years of age in 1641 he became a Student in Jesus Coll but the Troubles in the Nation soon after following he retired to his own Country and afterwards became a Tutor to several Welsh Gentlemen of Quality in the house of Joh. Aubrey at Llantrithied in Glamorganshire Esq which was then left void by Sequestration where continuing from 1648 to 1651 he removed with his charge to Oxon and there sojourned in an house opposite to Vniv Coll then possess'd by Sampson White a Mercer afterwards Mayor of the City and a Knight where he educated them as in Glamorganshire before according to the way of the Church of England In 1655 they were dispersed because they were obnoxious to the then schismatical Members of the University and forthwith travelled beyond the seas for 2 or 3 years After Mr. Jenkyns his return and delivery up of his Pupils to their respective Parents and Relations he was invited by the most loyal Sir Will. Whitmore of Apley in Shropshire to live with him an 1658 the most ingenious Rob. Waring whom he had for some years kept in his Family being then dead where continuing till his Majesties restauration in 1660 he then returned to Jesus Coll of which he was first made Fellow and soon after upon the resignation of Dr. Fr. Mansell Principal and Dr. of the Civ Law as before 't is told you Afterwards he retired to London and in the time of the Dutch War he executed the office of Judge of the Admiralty for Dr. Joh. Exton which he managed with great dexterity and prudence and at length was Judge in his own right and when Dr. Will.
Edward Rogers of Magd. Coll. The first of these two a most celebrated Lat. Poet of his time hath published several things of his profession and therefore he ought to be numbred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Incorporations Jul. 5. John Boord Doct. of the Laws of Cambr. He was of Trin. Hall in that University Sept. 8. Edward Montague Earl of Mancester Baron of Kimbolton c. Master of Arts and Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge which University he had ruin'd in the time of the grand and unparallel'd Rebellion was incorporated in the same degree as he had stood at Cambridge After he had been conducted into the House of Convocation in his Masters Gown and Hood by the Beadles and seated on the right hand of the Vicechancellour the Orator of the University who then stood on the other side near and above the Registraries desk did then speak directing his voice to him an eloquent Oration which being done the said Oratoâ— went from his place and going to he took him by the hand and led him to the middle of the Area where he presented him to the Vicechancellour and ven Convocation which being done and he incorporated by the Vicechancellours Sentence he re-took his place This is that Kimbolton who with 5 members of the House of Commons were demanded by his Majesty on the 4 of Jan. 1641 for endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government and to deprive the King of his legal power c. and the same who after he had sedulously endeavoured to promote did carry on a Rebellion and continued his course till the Wars were ceased Afterwards striking in with Oliver he became one of his Lords that is one of the Lords of the other house and was a great man a thorough-pac'd Dissembler c. and never a looser for his high actings against the Royal Family After his Majesties restauration towards which he pretended to be a great helper when it could not otherwise be avoided he was made L. Chamberlain of his Majesties houshold and in that quality did he with Edw. Earl of Clarendon Chanc. of the Univ come this year to Oxon from Salisbury where they left their Majesties in order to have Lodgings provided for them about to come hither to take up their Winter-Quarters to avoid the Plague then raging in Lond. and Westminster This Edw. Earl of Manchester had a younger brother named Walter Montague born in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate in London educated in Sidney Coll. in Cambr afterwards travelled beyond the Seas and returning with an unsetled mind did at length after he had been sent once or more into France about public concerns give a farewel to his own Country and Religion wherein he had been born and baptized and going beyond the Sea he setled himself in a Monastery for a time and wrot A Letter in justification of his change which was afterwards answer'd by Lucius Lord Falkland Afterwards being received with great love into the favour of the Qu. Mother of France she made him Abbat of Nantveil of the Benedictine order in the dioc of Mets and afterwards Abbat of the Benedictines of S. Martins Abbey near Pontois in the dioc of Roan in the place of Job Franc. de Gâ—ndy deceased He was also one of her Cabinet Council and a promoter of Mazarine into her favour who when fix'd shew'd himself in many respects ungrateful to Montague and his friends And whereas Mazarine made it one of his chief endeavours to raise a family and to do such things that might perpetuate his name so Montague who was of a most generous and noble spirit and a person of great piety did act to the contrary by spending all that he could obtain for public and pious uses In his younger years before he left the Ch. of England he wrot The Sheppards paradise Com. Lond. 1629. oct And after he had left it Miscellanea spiritualia Or devout Essayes in two parts The first was printed at Lond. 1648 the other at the same place in 1654 and both in qu. I have seen a book intit Manchester al Mundo Contemplations on death and immortality Lond. 1635. oct and several times after the fifteenth impression of which was made at Lond. in 1690. in tw Which book was written by one of the family of the Earl of Manchester but whether by this Walter Montague who was a younger son to Henry Montague the first Earl of Manchester of his name I cannot tell because his name is not set to it This person who was commonly called Abbat Montague and sometimes Lord Abbat of Pontois died after Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother of England who concluding her last day on the last of Aug. 1669 he soon after followed as I have been informed by one of his domestick Servants who told me further that he was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the Hospital of Incurables at Paris You may read much of him in a book called Legenda lignea c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 137.138 c. but that book being full of Satyr persons of moderate Principles believe little or nothing therein As for the other persons who were incorporated besides the said Earl of Manchester were these Dec. 8. Joh. Logan M. A. of Glascow with liberty to suffragate in Convoc and Congreg which is all I know of him Mar. 8. Henr. Montague M. A. of Cambridge a younger son to the said Edward Earl of Manchester and others CREATIONS The Creations this year were mostly made on the 8 of Septemb. when the said Edward Earl of Manchester was incorporated M. A. at which time the Chancellour of the University was then in Oxon. Mast of Arts. Rob. Montague Visc Mandevile eldest son to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was presented by the Orator of the University with a little Speech and afterwards was seated on the left hand of the Vicechancellour After his fathers death in 1671 he became Earl of Manchester and died at Paris about the latter end of Decemb according to the English Accompt an 1682. Charles Dormer Visc Ascot of Mert. Coll eldest son of Charles Earl of Caernarvan Edward Capell of Wadh. Coll. a younger son of Arthur Lord Capell Vere Bertie a younger son of Montague Earl of Lindsey He was made Serjeant at Law in 1675 and afterwards one of the Barons of the Exchecquer Charles Bertie his brother He is now Treasurer of the Ordnance Nich. Pelham Bt. of Ch. Ch. Scrope How Kt. of Ch. Ch. Will. Dolben a Counsellor of the Inner Temple and brother to Dr. John Dolben He was afterwards Recorder of London a Kt Serjeant at Law and one of the Justices of the Kings Bench. Rich. Cooling or Coling Secretary to Edw. Earl of Manchester He was afterwards Secretary to Hen. Earl of Arlington while he was L. Chamberlain and on the 21 of Feb. 1688 he was sworn one of the Clerks of his Maj. Privy Council in ordinary at which time were sworn with
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
Jan. 1688. Lond. 1689. qu. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law July 27. Edward Filmer of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys July 7. Thomas Rose of Ex. Coll. Feb. 16. Rob. Pitt of Wadh. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Doct. of Div. June 10. Edw. Fowler of C. C. Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Div. and is now Bishop of Gloc. 20. Franc. Carswell of Exet. Coll. This Divine who is now Vicar of Bray in Berks and had been Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty K. Ch. 2 hath published 1 The State-informer enquired into Sermon before the Judges at Aylesbury Assizes in Bucks 3. Mar. 1683 on 2. Sam. 15 part of the 3. and 4. verses Lond. 16â—4 qu. 2 Englands restauration parallel'd in Judges or the Primitive Judge and Counsellour Sermon at Abendon Assizes for Berks 6. Aug. 1689 on Isay 1.26.27 Lond. 1689. qu. July 8. Anth. Radcliffe of Ch. Ch. He had been Chapl. to Hen. Earl of Arlington and after the death of Dr. Rich. Allestree he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. on the eleventh of Feb. 1680. Dec. 8. Joh. Mill of Qu. Coll. This learned Divine who is now Principal of S. Edm. Hall hath in the Press at Oxon the New Testam in a Greek fol according to Rob Stephens his fair fol. Edition an 1550 wherein he gives an account of the various lections of all the Mss that could be met with both at home and abroad Also the Readings of the Fathers Greek and Latine with a judgment upon such Lections as are more considerable with large annotations upon them together with a very full collection of parallel places of holy Scripture and other places illustrative of particular words or passages in each verse placed at the foot of the Greek Text in each page with distinct Asteristiques and marks of reference by which in every verse may be seen what part of each verse the said places of Scripture do refer to This most elaborate work was began above 15 years since and without intermission carried on with great industry and care He hath consulted all the antient Mss of the whole or any part of the New Test now reposited in England and has procured a collation of the most authentick Ms copies at Rome Paris and Vienna The work was attempted by the advice and countenance of Dr. Joh. Fell Bishop of Oxon and the impression began at his charge in his Lordships Printing-house near the Theater After the said Bishops death his Executors being not willing to carry on the undertaking the author Dr. Mill refunded the prime costs and took the impression on himself and at his proper expence it is now so near finish'd that the publication is expected within an year with very learned Prolegomena that will give an historical account of the tradition or conveyance of the New Test and other most early records of the Church Mar. 2. Henry Aldrich Can. of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the degrees in Divinity and on the 17 of June 1689 he was installed Dean of Ch. Ch. in the place of Mr. Joh. Massey who withdrew himself from that office in the latter end of Nov. going before In a Convocation held in the beginning of July this year were Letters of the delegated power of the Chanc. of the University read in behalf of Will. Hore M. A. of Exet. Coll Chapl. in ord to his Majesty and Preb. of Worcester that he might accumulate the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div. but whether he did so it appears not Incorporations Thirteen Masters of Arts of Cambr. were incorporated this year mostly after the Act but not one of them is yet a Writer as I can yet find Among them was Byron Needham Brother to Tho. Visc Kilmurrey in Ireland July 12. William Cave D. D. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge This person who was now Rector of Great Allhallows in London and in 1684 had succeeded Mr. Joh. Rosewell in his Canonry of Windsore about which time he became Rector of Haseley in Oxfordsh as it seems is a learned man as divers books published by him in English and Lat. shew the titles of which are now too many to be here set down See before in p. 286. Liveley Mody or Moody D. D. of the said Coll. of St. Joh. was also incorporated this year May 2 he being then a Master Com. of S. Alb. Hall and beneficed in Northamptonshire Creations Feb. 18. George Compton Earl of Northampton of Ch. Ch being about to leave the University was actually created Mast of Arts. Charles Somerset Lord Herbert of Ragland of Ch. Ch the eldest Son of Henry Marquess and Earl of Worcester was then also actually created M. of A. The said Marquess is now Duke of Beaufort These two young Noblemen were presented by the publick Orator each with a little speech This year was a Sojournour in the University and a student in the publick Library one Andreas Arnoldus of Nuremberg who published the Sermon of Athanasius to the Monks and other things and afterwards became Professor of Div. in the University of Altorf Rector of a Church in Nuremberg c. An. Dom. 1682. An. 34. Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Joh. Lloyd D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll Oct. 6. Proct. Roger Altham of Ch. Ch. Apr. 26. Will. Dingley of New Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. May 2. White Kennet of S. Edm. Hall Oct. 24. Joh. Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 15. Rich. Simpson of Qu. Coll. Dec. 15. Rob. Harrison of Qu. Coll. The first of these two who was Son of Jam. Simpson Senior Alderman of the Corporation of Kendal in Westmorl was born and bred in the Free-school there and being put aside from being Tabarder of his Coll when Bach. of Arts he retired to his native place in discontent and there concluded his last day He hath written Moral considerations touching the duty of contentedness under afflictions Oxon. 1686 in 6. sh in oct Written by way of Letter to the most affectionate and best of Fathers Mr. Jam. Simpson To this Letter are added Two Prayers one for the submission to the divine Will another for contentment This ingenious and religious young man died in his Fathers house 20. Decemb. 1684 and was buried the day following in the middle Isle of the Parish Church of Kendal before mention'd on the W. side of the Pulpit The other Rob. Harrison who was Son of Joh. Har. of the said Corporation of Kendal and who became a Student of Queens Coll. 1678. aged 15 years hath written A strange relation of the sudden and violent tempest which hapned at Oxford May 31. an 1682. Together with an enquiry into the probable cause and usual consequents of such like tempests and storms Oxon 1682 in two sheets in qu. He hath also written another book which is not yet extant entit Mercurius Oxonio-Academicus c. taken mostly from Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. and said to be written by a well-wisher to Astron
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