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A71277 Athenæ Oxonienses. Vol. 2. an exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 1690 representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings : to which are added, the Fasti, or, Annals, of the said university, for the same time ... Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695. 1692 (1692) Wing W3383A; ESTC R200957 1,495,232 926

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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
for plunder'd Ministers at Westminster where he began to make a solemn profession of his faith in Orthodox Language to the admiration of some there that had heard and were ready to witness against him the said blasphemies But the then Chairman took him up and commanded him silence saying we know your tricks well enough c. To say the truth he had Language at command and could dissemble for matter of profit or to avoid danger and it was very well known he was only a meer Cant●r However he is characterized by those of his perswasion to have been a holy harmless man for which not only the World hated him but also those of the Church and add that 't is hoped they did it ignorantly On the 12 of Octob. 1653 he with John Webster sometimes a Cambridge Scholar endeavoured to knock down Learning and the Ministry both together in a disputation that they then had against two Ministers in a Church in Lombard-street in London Erbury then declared that the wisest Ministers and purest Churches were at that time befool'd confounded and defiled by reason of Learning Another while he said that the Ministers were Monsters Beasts Asses greedy Dogs false Prophets and that they are the Beast with seven heads and ten horns The same Person also spoke out and said that Babylon is the Church in her Ministers and that the great Whore is the Church in her Worship c. So that with him there was an end of Ministers and Churches and Ordinances altogether While these things were babled to and fro the multitude being of various opinions began to mutter and many to cry out and immediatly it came to a mutiny or tumult call it which you please wherein the Women bore away the bell but lost some of them their kerchiefs And the dispute being hot there was more danger of pulling down the Church than the Ministry This our Author Erbury hath written The great Mysterie of Godliness Jesus Christ our Lord God and Man and Man with God one in Jesus Christ our Lord. Lond. 1640. oct Relation of a publick discourse between him and Mr. Franc. Cheywell in S. Maries Church in Oxon 11. Jan. 1646. Lond. 1646. in 4 sh in qu. published by Cheynell or some of Erburys Party Ministers for tythes proving they are no Ministers of the Gospel Lond. 1653. qu. Sermons on several occasions one of which is entit The Lord of Hosts c. printed 1653. qu. An Olive leaf or some peaceable considerations to the Christian meeting at Ch. Church in London Munday 9. Jan. 1653. The raigne of Christ and the Saints with him on Earth a thousand years one day and the day at hand These two last were printed at London 1654 in one sh and half and dedicated to Mr. John Rogers Mr. Vavasor Powell and other Fanatical People at Ch. Ch. in London His Testimony left upon record for the Saints of succeeding ages printed with his Tryal at Westminster This was published after his death at Lond. 1658. qu. What other things he hath written or go under his name I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he died in the beginning of the year in April I think sixteen hundred fifty and four and was as I conceive buried either at Ch. Church beforementioned or else in the Cemiterie joyning to Old Bedlam near London Quaere Within few days after was a silly and impudent Pamphlet written and published by J. L. entit A small mite in memory of the late deceased and never to be forgotten Mr. Will. Erbury printed at Lond. in Apr. 1654 in one sheet in oct Whereunto are added Two new Songs one of which are brief touches on the 12. Chapt. of the Revelat. c. to the tune of When the King enjoys his own again The other touching the doing away of sin through our Lord Christ in our Souls c. to the tune of Sound a charge In my readings I meet with one Dorcas alias Mary Erbury who was a great admirer and follower of James Nayler the Quaker after the death of Will. Erbury Which Dorcas who was his Widow did really confess upon her examination for her villanies by a Magistrate that the said Nayler was the holy one of Israel and the only begotten Son of God that he raised her after she had been dead two days and that he should sit at the right hand of the Father and should judge the World with equity c. JOHN GRAYLE Son of Jo. Gr. of Stone in Glocestershire Priest was born in that County entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1632 aged 18 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards became a Puritannical Preacher In 1645 or thereabouts he succeeded one Mr. George Holmes in the Mastership of the Free-School at Guilford in Surrey and afterwards was made Rector of Tidworth in Wilts where he was much followed by the precise and godly party He hath written against Will. Eyre of Sarum A modest vindication of the Doctrine of conditions in the Covenant of Grace and the Defenders thereof from the aspersions of Arminianisme and Popery Which W. E. cast on them Lond. 1655. qu. published after the Authors death by Constantine Jessop who hath put a preface to it What else our Author hath written unless Sermons I know not nor any thing of him beside only that he dying in the beginning of sixteen hundred fifty and four was buried in Tidworth Church At which time Dr. Hump. Chambers his neighbour preached his funeral Sermon before the Brethren then in great numbers present In the latter end of which Sermon which is printed as also in the Epistle before it you may read much in commendation of our Author Grayle who tho a Presbyterian yet tinged he was with Arminianisme HENRY ELSYNGE eldest Son of Hen. Els Esq and he the Son of another Henry a Citizen of London Son of John Elsynge of Daxworth in Cambridgshire was born in Surrey particularly as I conceive at Battersey where his Father who was Clerk of the Lords House of Parliament and a Person of great abilities mostly lived educated in Grammar learning in Westminster School under Mr. Lamb. Osbaldeston a Person very fortunate in breeding up many Wits became Commoner of Ch. Church in the beginning of the year 1622 took one degree in Arts and afterwards at several times spent more than 7 years in travelling through various Countries beyond the Seas whereby he became so accomplished that at his last return his company and conversation was not only desired by many of the Nobility but Clergy also and was so highly valued by Dr. Laud Archb of Canterbury that he procured him the place of Clerk of the House of Commons This crown'd his former labours and by it he had opportunity given to manifest his rare abilities which in short time became so conspicuous especially in taking and expressing the sense of the House that none as 't was believed that ever sate there
Westminster near to the grave of his great Uncle Dr. Barnab Potter sometimes Bishop of Carlile While the said Ch. Potter was an Undergraduat of Ch. Ch Tho. Severne M. A. and Student thereof Son of Joh. Severne of Broadway afterwards of Powick in Woocestershire was his Tutor and wrot and composed the said Theses Quadragesimales and therefore he who is now living at Worcester is to be taken for the Author of that book much commended when it was first published JOHN HULETT Son of Silvester Hul. Gent. was born in London entred a Commoner in New Inn in the beginning of 1627 aged 20 took the degrees in Arts afterwards travelled into several parts of the World particularly into Russia and Muscovia and improved himself in several sorts of Learning especially in Geography and Mathematicks After his return he setled in Oxon taught Scholars those Arts and became a useful person in his generation He hath written and published Several Ephemerides Description and use of the Quadrant Quadrat Nocturnal Printed several times in octav He died in his Lodgings in Catstreet on the 21 day of December in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxford leaving then behind several written Specimens of his profession which without doubt might be useful if made extant JOHN TOY Son of Joh. Toy was born and bred in Grammar Learning within the City of Worcester became either a Servitor or Batler of Pembroke Coll. in 1627 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts entred into Orders and became Chaplain to the Bishop of Hereford under which title he took the degree of Master of Arts in 1634. Afterwards he was made Master of the Free then of the Kings School within the place of his nativity which last he kept for 20 years space and furnished the Universities with several hopeful youths He hath written and published Worcesters Elegie and Eulogie Lond. 1638. quar a Poem Before which Will. Rowland the Poet mentioned among these Writers under the year 1659. hath two Lat. Copies of Verses Quisquiliae poeticae tyrunculis in re metrica non inutilis Lond. 1662. oct Fun. Serm. on Mrs. .... Tomkyns on Job 14.14 Printed 1642. qu. And whether he was Author of Grammatices Graecae Enchiridion in usum scholae Collegialis Wigooniae Lond. 1650. oct I know not yet to the contrary He gave up the ghost on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester Over his grave was a Mon. soon after put with an Inscription thereon wherein he is stiled Vir ingenii perpoliti industriae indefessae eruditionis singularis eximiae morum sanctitatis vitae integer pubis constituendae scientissimus pietate fide modestia gravitate nullâque non virtute spectabilis c. WILLIAM PAGE received his first breath in the Parish of Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex applied his mind to Academical Studies in Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1606 aged 16 took the degrees in Arts and in the year 1619 was elected Fellow of All 's Coll. Afterwards by the favour of Dr. Laud Bishop of London he succeeded Dr. Joh. Denison in the Rectory of the Free-school at Reading and about the same time was presented by the Society of the said Coll. to the Rectory of East Lockyng near to Wantage in Berks which he kept to the time of his death but his School not for he was sequestred of it by the Committee of Parliament in 1644. In the year 1●34 he proceeded Doctor of Divinity at which time and after he was esteemed well vers'd in the Greek Fathers a good Preacher and Disputant He hath written A Treatise of justification of bowing at the name of Jesus by way of answer to an Appendix against it Oxon. 1631. qu. An examination of such considerable reasons as are made by Mr. Prynne in a reply to Mr. Widdowes concerning the same Argument Printed with the former Of which Treatise or Treatises I find in a letter written by Will. Baker Secretary to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury directed to the Author Page these passages following Good Mr. Page my Lord of Canterbury is informed that you are publishing a Treatise touching the question of Bowing at the name of Jesus an Argument wherein Mr. Giles Widdowes foolishly and Mr. W. Prynne scurrilously have already to the scandal and disquiet of the Church exercised their pens His Grace hath formerly shewed his dislike of them both and hearing that you take up the bucklers in a theam of so small necessity and of so great heat and distemper which will draw a new Reply for Prynne will not sit down as an idle spectator and beget bitterness and intestine Contestations at home among our selves he is much offended that you do stickle and keep on foot such questions which may be better sopited and silenced than maintained and drawn into sidings and partakings And therefore I am wished to advise you to withdraw your self from these or the like domestick broyles and if your Treatise be at the press to gve it a stop and by no means suffer it to be divulged c. This Letter being written at Lambeth 31 May 1632 the Contents thereof flew to Fulham where finding Dr. Laud B. of London he wrot this following Letter to the Vicechanc. of the Univ. of Oxon dated 22 June following Sir these are to pray and require you in his Majesties name that a book lately printed at Oxon and made by Mr. Page of Allsoules College be presently set to sale and published It is as I am informed in defence of the Canon of the Church about bowing at the name of Jesus and modestly and well written And his Majesty likes not that a Book boldly and ignorantly written by Mr. Prynne against the Church should take place as the Churches opinion against her self or as unable to be answer'd by the Church c. What else our Author Page hath written are Certain Animadversions upon some passages in a Tract concerning Schisme and Schismatiques c. Oxon 1642. qu. Which Tract was written by J. Hales of Eaton The Peace-maker or a brief motive to Unity and Charity in Religion Lond. 1652. in 16o. He hath also published a Serm. on 1 Tim. 5.3.4.5 Printed in qu. which I have not yet seen and also translated from Lat. into Engl. Tho. à Kempis his Treatise De imitatione Christi in 4 books Oxon. 1639. in tw Before which Translation by him amended and corrected he hath set a large Epistle to the Reader This Dr. Page departed this mortal life in the Parsonoge-house of Lockyng before mentioned on the 24 of Febr. being then Ashwednesday in sixteen hundred sixty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by Mr. George Ashwell who had the care of his Library and Interment committed to him See more in Dr. Sam. Page under the year 1630.
of Will. Warm Registrary of the Cath. Church at Worcester was born and educated in Grammar learning in that City became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1624 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1631 and had some spiritual cure in his own Country confer'd upon him soon after In 1640 he was Clerk for the Diocess of Worcester in the two Convocations of the Clergy held that year and in 1642 he retired for security sake the Nation being then in a combustion to the King at Oxon where he was actually created D. of D. the same year and afterwards lost what he had before obtained in the Church notwithstanding he had always before been accounted a Puritan After the Kings cause declined he lived mostly in London was the distributer of money obtained from generous Loyalists to sufferers for the royal interest was chief confessor to loyal Martyrs a constant and indefatigable visiter and comforter of sick and distressed Cavaliers for so the Royalists were called very zealous also in converting Infidels industrious in reclaiming the loose and establishing the wavering zealous and careful in preparing his auditors for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and for death After the Kings return in 1660 he was restored to what he had lost was made Prebendary of Glocester and in the year following Dean of Worcester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Oliver in which Dignity he was installed 27. Nov. 1661. He hath written and published A convocation speech against images altars crosses the new canons and the oath Lond. 1641 in 3. sh in qu. Pax vobis or a charm for tumultuous spirits being an advice to the City of London to forbear their disorderly meetings at Westminster Lond. 1641. qu. Ramus Olivae or a petition for peace to his Maj. and the Houses of Parliament Oxon. 1642. qu. Answer to one W. Bridges concerning the present war and taking up Arms against the King Printed 1643. qu. This W. Bridges I take to be the same with him who wrot Some short annotations on The loyal convert Lond. 1644. in 4. sheets in qu. but not the same I presume with Will. Bridges Preacher at S. Dunstans in the East London Author of Joabs counsel and Davids seasonable hearing it serm before the H. of Com. at the publick fast 22. Feb. 1642 on 2. Sam. 19.5.6.7.8 Lond. 1643. qu. and of other things I find one Will. Bridge to have been fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Minister in Norfolk but to avoid the censures of Episcopal consistories he with Jerem. Burroughes withdrew themselves into the Low countries Upon the change of the times occasion'd by the Presbyterians Bridge returned became Minister at Yarmouth in Norfolk a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament a notorious Independent and a keeper up of that faction by continual preaching during the time of Usurpation silenced upon his Majesties return carried on his cause with the said Jer. Burroughs in Conventicles at Clapham in Surrey till about the time of his death which hapned in 1670. I say this Will. Bridge who while he lived published several Sermons and Theological Tracts and after his death had 8 of his Sermons made publick which are entituled Bridges remains c. Lond. 1673. oct with his picture before them is not to be taken to be the same with Will. Bridges before mention'd because of the different writings of their names Dr. Warmestry hath also written An hearty and friendly premonition to the City of London before their meeting in their common Hall 24 1648. whereby they have an opportunity to become the happy instruments of their own safety and the peace and preservation of the Kingdom Lond. 1648 in two sheet in qu. Vindication of the solemnity of the nativity of Christ Printed 1648. qu. Answer to certain Queries propounded by one Joseph Hemming in opposition to the practice of the Church in the solemnity of the said nativity Printed with the Vindication Sighs of the Church and Commonwealth of England Lond. 1648. in tw A box of Spiknard or a little manual of Sacramental instruction and devotion especially helpful to the People of God at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper Lond. 1664 third edit in 12o. printed there again in 1671. and 74. in 24o. The baptized Turk or a narrative of the happy conversion of Signior Rigep Dandulo the only Son of a silk Merchant in the isle of Tzio c. and of his admission unto Baptisme by Mr. Pet. Gunning at Exeter house Chappel 8. Nov. 1657. Lond. 1658. oct This narrative was drawn up by our Author Warmestry who caused the picture of the said Dandulo in a Turkish habit to be put before it The countermine of union or the Jesuits mine of division being a short platform of expedients for peace Lond. 1660. What other books he hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying on the 30. of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and five aged 60 or thereabouts was buried by his Father Grandfather and other relations in the body of the Cathedral at Worcester not far from the north door Over his grave is an inscription engraven on a black marble the copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 279.6 In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Will. Thomas of whom I shall make mention in his proper place ROBERT POINTZ son of Sir John Pointz was born of and descended from an antient and noble family of his name living at Iron-Acton in Glocestershire was educated for a time in the quality of a Gent. Com. in this University but in what Coll. unless in that of Lincoln for I cannot find him matriculated as yet I know not Afterwards he studied for a time in one of the Temples and when K. Ch. 1. was crown'd in 1625 he was made one of the Knights of the Bath He hath written A vindication of Monarchy and the government long established in the Ch. and Kingdom of England against the pernitious assertions and tumultuous practices of the Innovators during the last Parliament in the raign of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1661. qu. He was buried in the Church of Iron-Acton among the graves of his ancestors on the tenth day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five aged 79 years or thereabouts leaving then behind him a Son named John a Knight who died in the Middle Temple at London in 1680 and left behind him a relict named Anne but not the estate at Iron-Acton because it had been conveyed away by his Father One of his name and family called Captain John Pointz wrot and published The present prospect of the famous and fertile Island of Tobago c. with Proposals for the encouragement of all those that are minded to settle there Lond. 1683. in 7 sh in qu. Whether he was of any University I know not JOHN EARLE received his first being in this vain and transitory
became a Batler of Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1628 aged 19 years took the degrees in Arts and afterwards was made Vicar of Box near Malmsbury in his own Country where continuing in good esteem in the greatest part of the interrupted times was at length ejected from his living in the Reign of Oliver whereupon he wrot A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell for ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers in the case of Walt. Bushnell Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts Which book being not permitted to be published after he had made it fit for the Press was at his Majesties return printed at Lond. in oct an 1660. About which time the Author being restored to his living continued there to the time of his death which hapning in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and seven was buried in the Church at Box having then laying by him one or more things fit to be printed as I have been informed by some of the neighbourhood GEORGE WITHER Son of George Wither the first Son by a second venter of the house of Wither of Manydowne near to Wotton S. Laurence in Hampshire was born at Bentworth near Alton in the said County on the eleventh day of June 1588 30 Eliz. educated in Gram. learning under the noted School-master of those parts called Joh. Greaves of Colemore sent to Magd. Coll. in the year 1604 or thereabouts where being put under the tuition of Joh. Warner afterwards B. of Roch. whom if I mistake not he serv'd made some proficiency with much ado in academical learning but his genie being addicted to things more trivial was taken home after he had spent about three years in the said house and thence sent to one of the Inns of Chancery in London and afterwards to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law But still his genie hanging after things more smooth and delightful he did at length make himself known to the world after he had taken several rambles therein by certain Specimens of Poetry which being dispersed in several hands became shortly after a publick Author and much admired by some in that age for his quick advancement in that faculty But so it was that he shewing himself too busie and satyrical in his Abuses stript and whipt was committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where continuing several months was then more cried up especially by the puritanical Party for his profuse powring forth of English rime and more afterwards by the vulgar sort of people for his prophetical Poetry in regard that many things were fancied by them to come to pass which he pretended to predict In 1639 he was a Captain of Horse in the Expedition against the Scots and Quarter-master Gen. of the Regiment wherein he was Captain viz. of that Regiment of o● next under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the said expedition But this our Author who was always from his youth puritannically affected sufficiently evidenced in his Satyrs sided with the Presb. in the beginning of the Civil Wars rais'd by them an 1642 became an enemy to the King and Regality sold the estate he had and with the moneys received for it rais'd a Troop of Horse for the Parliament was made a Captain and soon after a Major having this motto on his Colours Pro Rege Lege Grege but being taken prisoner by the Cavaliers Sir Jo. Denham the Poet some of whose land at Egham in Surry Wither had got into his clutches desired his Majesty not to hang him because that so long as Wither lived Denham would not be accounted the worst Poet in England About that time he was constituted by the said Long Parliament a Justice of Peace in Quorum for Hampshire Surrey and Essex which office he kept 16 years and afterwards was made by Oliver Major Gen. of all the Horse and Foot in the County of Surrey in which employment he licked his fingers sufficiently gaining thereby a great Odium from the generous Royalist After the Kings Restauration in 1660 he lost all the lands that had belonged to Royalists and Bishops which he before had either bought or had confer'd upon him for the love and zeal he had to the blessed Cause And being then look'd upon as a dangerous person to the King and State especially for a scandalous and seditious libel that he had then dispersed was committed Prisoner to Newgate and afterwards upon his own confession and the oaths of two persons that he was the Author of it he by order of the H. of Commons was sent in custody and committed close prisoner to the Tower of London to be debarr'd Pen Ink and Paper and about the same time 24 of March 1661 2 an Impeachment was ordered to be drawn up against him In both which Prisons he continued three years and more wrot several things by the connivance of the Keeper of which some were afterwards made publick yet could never refrain from shewing himself a Presbyterian Satyrist He began very early being precisely educated from his childhood to express and publish those conceptions which the affections and inclinations to youth had awakened in him endeavouring to season them with morality and piety as subjects of that nature are capable of suiting them to the capacities of young-men who delight to see their own natural passions represented as 't were in a glass wherein they not only meet with some better things than they looked for but with such notions also therewith mixed as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems and rendred him so generally known that thousands especially such youths that were puritannically educated were desirous to peruse his future writings and to take better heed of that whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice while others of generous education and of more solid parts looked upon them as the effects of a crazed brain and esteemed Taylor the Water-Poet a fit match for him with his wild and rambling rimes The things that he hath written and published are very many accounted by the generality of Scholars meer scribbles and the fancies of a conceited and confident if not enthusiastical mind The titles of them follow Iter Hibernicum or an Irish Voyage Written in verse Iter Bor. or a northern Journey Written in verse Patricks Purgatory Written in verse Philaretes Complaint Written in verse These four were called his Juvenilia and tho the original MS. of them was lost yet they were recovered and printed more than once Prince Henries obsequies or mournful elegies upon his death Lond. 1612. and 1622. oct A supposed interlocution betw the ghost of Pr. Hen. and Great Britaine Printed with the former Abuses stript and whipt or satyrical essays in two books Lond. 1613. 14.15 and 22. in oct Satyr written to the King Jam. 1. when he was prisoner in the Marshalsea for his first book Lond. 1614. 15. 22. in
Kent and married Jane the Daughter of one Dr. Edw. Simson who being antient resign'd his living Pluckley I think to him and then took the degrees in Divinity in this University But he being much vex'd with factious Parishioners and Quakers left his Benefice and in the year 1657 he procured himself to be made Fellow of the new erected Coll. at Durham where being appointed one of them that should teach Grammar he followed precisely the Jesuits method and the boys under him did by that course profit exceedingly But that Coll. being dissolved in the beginning of 1660 or rather a little before he returned into the South parts setled at Islington near London and in a large Gallery in a house belonging to Sir Thomas Fisher he taught boys after an easie method too large now to tell you He had also there a little Academy for Girls to be taught Latine and Greek and as I have been informed one of them at 14 years of age could construe a Greek Gospel Afterwards this person who had a restless and freakish head went with Coll. E. Harley to Dunkirk and was there a Chaplain for some time Which place with the garrison being sold by the English he returned and that Colonel setled him in the Vicaridge of Lentwarden in Herefordshire But that being a poor thing he soon after left it and by the favour of the Bishop of London he obtained the cure of S. Mary Stayning in that City scarce worth 20 l. per an unless benevolence make it more Being setled there the grand conflagration hapned which burnt down his Church and Parish to the ground an 1666. So that being for the present destitute of a subsistance he went soon after in the quality of a Chaplain to the garrison of Tangier where remaining till the Church of S. Michael in Woodstreet was rebuilt and the Parish of S. Mary united with it he was sent for home and made Rector of that Church which with a Lecture elsewhere he kept to his dying day He was a person very well vers'd in Lat. Gr. and Poetry and always took a very great delight to instruct youth He understood Chronology well and spent much time and money in the art of Alchimy He was a person cynical and hersute shiftles in the world yet absolutely free from covetousness and I dare say from pride But above all that he is to be remembred for is that he was the first discoverer to his Majesty of that Plot commonly called the Popish Plot and by many Oates his Plot about the 25. of Sept. 1678 having a little before been told of it by Titus Oates who conferr'd together what to do in that matter He hath written A short compendium of Grammar Printed in two sheets at most in oct Noun Substantives the names of things declare And Adjectives what kind of things those are c. And in 6 or 8 verses more are comprehended the concords c. Observations directions and enquiries concerning the motion of sap in trees Remitted into the Philosophical Transactions an 1670 num 57. Enquiries relating particularly to the bleeding of Walnuts Rem into the same Trans num 58. Letter about the retarding of the ascent of sap c. and concerning the running of sap in trees There also numb 68. The Royal Martyr Whether printed I cannot tell because R●g L'estrange refused to licence it an 1678. The Jesuits unmasked or political observations upon the ambitious pretences and subtile intreagues of that cunning society presented to all high powers as a seasonable discourse at this time Lond. 1678. qu. The new design of the Papists detected or an answer to the last speeches of the five Jesuits lately executed viz. Thom. White alias Whitebread Will. Harcourt alias Harison John Gavan alias Gawen Anthony Turner and John Fenwick Lond. 1679. in 2. sh in fol. An Answer to the objections against the Earl of Danby concerning his being accessary to the murdering of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey Lond. 1679 in one sh in folio There is no name to it but the general vogue then was that Dr. Tongue was the author An account of Romish doctrine in case of conspiracy and religion Lond. 1679. qu. Jesuits Assassins or the Popish Plot further declared and demonstrated in their murtherous practices and principles Lond. 1680 in 9. sh in fol. the first part Whether the second was ever published I know not The northern Star The British monarchy c. Being a collection of many choice antient and modern prophecies wherein also the fates of the Roman French and Spanish monarchies are occasionally set out Lond. 1680. fol. He also compleated and published the Chronicon written by the aforesaid Dr. Edward Simson sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge printed at Oxon 1652. folio see more in Thom. Jones an 1682. He also translated from French into English 1 Popish mercy and justice Being an account not of those massacred in France by the Papists formerly but of some later persecutions of the French Protestants Lond. 1679. qu. 2 Jesuitical Aphorismes or a summary account of the doctrine of the Jesuits and some other popish Doctors c. Lond. 1678. 79. qu. 3 The Jesuits morals or the principal errors which the Jesuits have introduced into Christian morality c. printed several times particularly at Lond. in 1680. fol. 4 Abridgment of controversie c. Written by Ch. Drelincourt 5 Combat Romaine c. by the same author and other things as I conceive which I have not yet seen He died in the house of that factious Dissenter called the Protestant Joyner alias Steph. Colledge who kept him in his house had much ado with him and had been at great charge to keep him in order for the carrying on of the cause then in hand on the eighteenth day of December in sixteen hundred and eighty and was on the 23 of the same month conveyed by a numerous train most of them of the godly party from Scotch-Hall in the Black Friers to St. Michaels Church in Woodstreet within the City of London where his funeral Sermon was preached by Thom. Jones sometimes of University Coll. in Oxon and therein highly characterized Afterwards the body was reposed in the Vault of the Churchyard of S. Mary Stayning before mentioned He the said Dr. Tongue left behind him at his death two written folio's touching Alchymy which was the art wherein he was most excellent and took delight besides certain MSS. of his composition concerning Divinity which he wrot at Durham and elsewhere but whether fit for the Press I know not Some time before his death he invented among other things the way of teaching Children to write a good hand in twenty days time after the rate of 4 hours in a day by writing over with black ink copies printed from copper Plates in red Inke After his death R. Moray Projector of the Penny-Post did cause to be engraven several Plates and then to be printed off with red ink by which means boys
followed the Court from Newcastle and having received satisfaction concerning their sobriety and education he was willing to receive them as Grooms of his Bedchamber to wait upon his person with Mr. Maule and Mr. Maxwell which the Commissioners approving they were that night admitted and by his Majesty instructed as to the duty and service he expected from them So as they thenceforth attended his Royal Person agreeable to that great trust with due observance and loyalty and were by Maule and Maxwel affectionately treated Being thus setled in that honorable office and in good esteem with his Maj. Mr. Herb. continued with him when all the rest of the Chamber were removed till his Majesty was to the horror of all the world brought to the block It was then that Mr. Herbert was fully satisfied that the King was not the Man that the Presbyterians Independents and other factious people who obtained their ends by lies and slanders made him to be He clearly found that he was no Papist no obstinate Person no cruel or bloody Man no false dealer c. but purely a man of God which made him in an high manner lament his untimely death His Majesty tho he found him to be Presbyterianly affected yet withal he found him very observant and loving and therefore entrusted him with many matters of moment among which was his sending by him from the Isle of Wight his gracious Message to the Parliament which in the evening he gave it sealed up to him directed to the Speaker of the Lords House with a Letter to his Daughter the Princess Elizabeth who was then at S. James's with her Governess The wind was then averse and much ado Mr. Herbert had to cross the Sea But no delay was suffer'd in regard the King had commanded him to hasten away that his Letters might be delivered next day before the Lords rose When he was Landed at S. Hampton he took post and it may not be forgotten that at one stage the Postmaster a malevolent person understanding from whom the pacquet came and that it required extraordinary speed he mounted him upon an horse that had neither good eyes or feet so as usually he stumbled much which with deep ways and dark weather would have abated his hast and endanger the Rider Yet so it fell out by good providence that the horse albeit at full Gallop most of that 12 miles riding neither stumbled nor fell at which the People at the next stage admired The Kings pacquet was within the time limited delivered to William Lord Grey of Werk at that time Speaker Which done Mr. Herbert waited on the young Princess at S. James's who gave him her hand to kiss and was overjoyed with his Majesties kind Letter to which her Highness the next day returned an answer by the said Mr. Herbert who at his arrival at Carisbroke had the Kings thanks for his diligence And for a badge of the fair esteem that K. Ch. 2. had of him for faithfully serving his royal Father during the two last years of his life he did after his restauration by Lett. Pat. dat 3. July 1660 advance him to the dignity of a Baronet by the name of Thomas Herbert of Tinterne in Monmouthshire because Little Tinterne about half a mile from Tinterne Abbey was his own estate and the seat of Tho. Herbert before mention'd He hath written A relation of some years travels into Africa and the greater Asia especially the territories of the Persian Monarchy and some parts of the oriental Indies and Iles adjacent Lond. 1634. 38. c. 1677. which is the fourth impression wherein many things are added which were not in the former All the impressions are in fol. and adorn'd with Cuts He also at the proposal of John de Laet his familiar friend living at Leyden did translate some books of his India occidentalis but certain business interposing the perfecting of them was hindred He left behind him at his death an historical account of the two last years of the life of K. Ch. 1. the Martyr which he entit Threnodia Carolina written by him an 1678. in qu. on this account viz. that the Parliament a little before taking into their consideration of appointing 70 thousand pounds for the funeral of the said King and for a monument to be erected over his grave Sir Will. Dugdale then Garter King of Armes sent to our author Sir Thomas living at York to know of him whether ever the said King spoke in his hearing where he would have his body bestowed in burial to which Sir Tho. returning a large answer with many observations and things worthy of note concerning that King Sir William thereupon being much taken with it as containing many things which he never heard of before did desire him by another Letter to write a Treatise of the actions and sayings of the said King from his first confinement to his death which he did accordingly About the same time the author of this book having occasion to write to Sir Thomas for information of certain persons then or about that time attending the King he thereupon sent him several Letters in answer to his Queries with divers other matters by way of digression which Letters contain as it seems the chief contents of Thren Car. and are several times quoted in this work He also assisted the said Sir Will. Dugdale in his compiling the third vol. of Monast Anglic. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of that Knight in the Fasti an 1642. At length this worthy person Sir Thomas Herbert who was a great observer of men and things in his time died in his house at York on the first day of March S. Davids day in sixteen hundred eighty and one aged 76 years and was buried in the Church there commonly called S. Crux or S. Cross situated in the street called Fossegate Over his grave was a monument soon after erected by his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Gervas Cutler of Stainborough in Yorksh Knight with a large inscription thereon Wherein we are instructed that he took to his first Wife Lucia Daughter of Sir Walt. Alexander Servant to K. Ch. 1 by whom he had issue Philip Henry Heir to his Father Montgomery Thomas William c. This Sir Thomas a little before his death gave several Mss to the publick Library at Oxon and others to that belonging to the Cathedral at York and in the Ashmolean Musaeum there are certain collections of his which he made from the registers of the Archbishops of York given thereunto by Sir W. Dugdale Knight I find one Tho. Herbert to be author of a poem entit An Elegy upon the death of Thomas Earl of Strafford c. Printed in one sh in qu. an 1641. but him I take not to be the same with our author Sir Thomas nor to be the same with Sir Tho. Herbert Knight Clerk of the Council at Dublin of Hen. Cromwell L. Lieutenant of Ireland an 1657. 58.
Before I go any farther the Reader is to note that this Pen-combat exercised between our author and Marvell was briskly managed with as much smart cutting and satyrical wit on both sides as any other perhaps of late hath been they endeavouring by all the methods imaginable and the utmost forces they could by any means rally up to blacken each others cause and to set each other out in the most ugly dress their pieces in the mean while wherein was represented a perfect trial of each others skill and parts in a jerking flirting way of writing entertaining the Reader with a great variety of sport and mirth in seeing two such right Cocks of the Game so keenly engaging with sharp and dangerous weapons And it was generally thought nay even by many of those who were otherwise favourers of Parkers cause that he Parker thro a too loose and unwary handling of the debate tho in a brave flourishing and lofty stile laid himself too open to the severe strokes of his snearing Adversary and that the odds and victory laid on Marvell's side Howsoever it was it wrought this good effect upon our author that for ever after it took down somewhat of his high spirit insomuch that tho Marvell in a second part replyed upon our authors reproof yet he judged it more prudent rather to lay down the Cudgels than to enter the Lists again with an untowardly Combatant so hughly well vers'd and experienc'd in the then but newly refin'd art tho much in mode and fashion almost ever since of sportive and jeering buffoonry And moreover it put him upon a more serious sober and moderate way of writing in other good treatises which he since did set forth and which have proved very useful and beneficial to the publick The Reader may be pleased now to know by the way for here I think it very proper to be brought in and no where else that the said Andr. Marvell was son of Andr. Marv. the facetious yet Calvinistical Minister of Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire that being very well educated in Grammar learning was sent to Cambridge particularly as I conceive to Trin. Coll where obtaining the Mastership of the Lat. tongue became Assistant to Joh. Milton when he was Lat. Secretary to Oliver and very intimate and conversant with that person A little before his Majesties restauration the Burghers of his native place of Kingston before mention'd did choose him their Representative to sit in that Parliament that began at Westm 25. of Apr. 1660 and again after his Maj. rest for that which began at the same place 8. May 1661 and they loved him so well that they gave him an honorable pension to maintain them From which time to his death he was esteemed tho in his conversation very modest and of few words a very celebrated wit among the Fanaticks and the only one truly so for many years after He hath written besides the two parts of The Rehearsal transpros'd 1 A book entit Mr. Smirk or the Divine in mode being certain annotations upon the Animadversions on Naked truth together with a short historical Essay concerning general Councils Creeds and impositions in matters of Religion Lond. 1676. qu. Which Historical Essay was afterwards printed by it self in fol. The person whom he calls Mr. Smirk author of Anim. on Naked truth was Dr. Franc. Turner Head or Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridg conceiv'd and taken by Marvell to be a neat starcht formal and forward Divine 2 The rise and growth of Popery c. Lond. 1678. fol. The second part of which from the year 1677 to 1682 was pen'd by Rob. Ferguson before mentioned said to be printed at Cologne but really at Lond. 1682. qu. This Andr. Marvell who is supposed to have written other things as I have told you in Joh. Denham p. 303. died on the 18. of Aug. 1678. and was buried under the Pewes in the South side of the Church of S. Giles in the fields near London Afterwards his Widow published of his Composition Miscellaneous Poems Lond. 1681. fol which were then taken into the hands of many persons of his perswassion and by them cried up as excellent Soon after his death one Benj. Alsop then a Conventicling Minister about Westminster did put in very eagerly to succeed Marvell in Buffoonry partly expressed in his Antisozzo written against Dr. Will. Sherlock in his Melius inquirendum against Dr. Joh. Goodman Chapl. in ord to K. Ch. 2. and Rector of Hadham his Serious and compassionate enquiry c. and in his Mischief of impositions against Dr. Stillingfleets Sermon entit The mischief of Separation c. In all which pieces upon little or no ground pretending to wit he took more than ordinary pains to appear smart but the ill natur'd jokes did still commonly hang off and when he violently sometimes drag'd them into a sentence they did not in the least become their place but were a disgrace to rather than an ornament of his seemingly elaborate and accurate periods This person took upon him to act a part for the due and laudable performance of which neither the natural bent of his own genius nor any acquired improvements this way have in any measure tolerably qualified him notwithstanding the poor well wisher to punning laboured under all these discouraging disadvantages that he did still couragiously go on in a way of pleasing and at the same time exposing himself and furnisht his Readers with matter only of laughter at him and not at those whom he endeavoured to vilifie and was in 1682 and after cried up as the main witmonger surviving to the fanatical party which argued a great scarcity of those kind of creatures among them when such little things as this person were deemed by them fit for that title As for the other books which our author Parker hath written the titles are these Disputationes de Deo providentia divina Disp 1. An Philosophorum ulli quinam Athei fuerunt c. Lond. 1678. qu. In which is much of his Tentamina de Deo involved See a character of this book and its author in Dr. Hen. More 's Praefatio generalissima set before the translation of the first tome of his Philosophical volume Lond. 1679. fol. One Antonius le Grand a french man born and a Cartesian Philosopher of great note now or lately living in London author of 1. Institutio Philosophiae secundum principia D. Renati Descartes c. much read in Cambr. and said in the title to be wrot in usum juventutis Academicae 2. Historia Naturae and thirdly of a small piece in tw maintaining a great paradox called De carentia sensus cognitionis in Brutis c. published a book against some passages in the said Disp de Deo in which our author hath impartially examined and deservedly censur'd certain principles of the Cartesian Philosophy as grosly atheistical and destructive of Religion This piece of Le Grand
all the Shires Cities Burrough-Towns Cinque ports in England specifying the number of the Knights of the Shires Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque-ports they do respectively elect to serve as their Representatives in Parliaments c. collected and written by Charles Hatton Esq Son of Christopher L. Hatton Secondly A true and perfect Cat. of the Nobility of Scotland with a list of the Royal Burroughs therein c. collected and written by the same hand and thirdly A true and p●rf Cat. of the Nobility of Ireland with a list of all the Shires Cities and Burroughs of Ireland which make returns of Parliament c. collected and written also by the same hand 15 A perfect copy of all the summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm from the 49 of Hen. 3 to this present with Catalogues of such Noblemen as have been summoned to Parliament in right of their Wives c. Lond. 1686. fol. Further also our author Sir W. Dugdale took a great deal of pains in publishing the second vol. of Councils and Glossary of Sir Hen. Spelman as I have before told you At length this most industrious Person contracting a great cold at Blythe Hall by attending too much his worldly concerns died thereof in his Chair about one of the Clock in the afternoon of the tenth day of February S. Scholastica's day an 1685. Whereupon his body being conveyed to the parochial Church of Shustock in Warwickshire before mention'd was on the 12 of the same month deposited in a stone-coffin laying in a little vault which he before had caused to be made under the north side of the Chancel of the Church there It was laid near another stone-coffin in the said vault containing the remains of his then late Wife named Margery Daughter of John Huntbache of Seawell in Staffordshire Gent who died 18 Decemb. 1681 after she had continued his Wife from the 17 of March 1622. Sir Will. Dugdale did also in his life time erect over the said vault a strong tomb of Free-stone in form of an altar joyning to the North wall with his Armes and those of his Wife carved on the South side thereof And above it he caused to be fixed on the wall a tablet of white marble bordered with the like Free-stone on which was engraven his epitaph made by himself By his last Will and Testament he bequeathed all his Manuscripts and Collections of Antiquities to the Musaeum of Elias Ashmole in Oxon who divers years before had married one of his Daughters where they remain and are of great use to curious and critical persons To conclude had this indefatigable person sequestred himself from worldly troubles and totally addicted himself to his studies and had minded the publick more than his private concerns the world might have justly enjoyed more of his lucubrations and those more true and accurate than such that are already published especially those in his latter days Yet however what he hath done is prodigious considering the great troubles that he had endured for his loyalty and the cumbrances of this world that he had run through and therefore his memory ought to be venerated and had in everlasting remembrance for those things which he hath already published which otherwise might have perished and been eternally buried in oblivion Le ts now go on with the Creations Nov. 1. Sir Rich. Byron Knight a most valiant Colonel in the Kings Army and Brother to John Lord Byron Joh. Newton of S. Edm. Hall He was afterwards a noted Mathematician Thom. Smith of Queens Coll. Thom. Lamplugh of Queens Coll. Thom. Tully of Queens Coll. The two first of these three were afterwards Bishops Edw. Walker Herald of Armes by the title of Chester This Person who was second Son of Edw. Walker of Roobers in the Parish of Nether Stowey in Somersetsh by Barbara his Wife Daughter of Edw. Salkeld of Corby Castle in Cumberland was born at Roobers bred a servant in the family of Thomas Earl of Arundell Earl Marshall of England to whom afterwards being Secretary he gave him the Pursevants place called Rogue-Croix in the Coll. of Armes In 1639 when that noble Count was made General of the English Forces in the Scotch expedition this Mr. Walker was by him made Secretary of War and executed that Office till the return of the said Army to London Afterwards when his Majesty and the Royal Family were by the endeavours of that unhappy Parl. that began 3. Nov. 1640 forced from London in Jan. 1641 Mr. Walker followed him into the North parts of England and was with him at Edgh●ll fight and afterwards at Oxon where he was actually created Master of Arts being then Chester Herald as I have before told you In the latter end of 1643 he was made Norr●y King of Armes in the place of Sir Henry St. George promoted to the office of Garter and in the year following upon the death of the said Sir Henry he was made Garter and on the 2. of Feb. the same year 1644 he received the honor of Knighthood This Person who with great diligence and observation had committed to writing in a paper book the several occurrences that passed in the K. Army and the victories obtained by his Majesty over his rebellious Subjects the book was seized on at the fatal battle at Naseby by some of the forces belonging to the Parliament then Victors Afterwards it was presented to their General called Sir Thomas Fairfax who perusing it found one passage therein which was very observable to him viz. that whereas he Walker had taken occasion to speak of the Irish and call'd them Rebells his Majesty who before that time had perused the book did among several alterations made therein with his own hand put out the word Rebells with his pen and over it wrot Irish This book was after his Majesties restauration regain'd and is now or at least was lately in the hands of Sir Joh. Clopton who married the Daughter and Heir of Sir E. Walker who also hath written The order of the Ceremonies at S. Georges feast at Windsore which is printed in quarto After his Majesties return he was confirmed in his Gartership and made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council and dying suddenly in Whitehall 19. Febr. 1676 his body was conveyed to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire and buried in the Church there among the graves of the Cloptons of Clopton in that Parish In his office of Garter K. of Armes succeeded Will. Dugdale Norroy as I have before told you and in his Clerkship of the Privy Council Sir Tho Dolman of Shaw near Newbury in Berks. Nov. 1. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Lichfield Ferdinando Marsham Esq He was Brother to Sir Joh. Marshaw the Critick Jervais Hollis a Parliament man for Great Grimesby in Lincolnshire He had lately retired to his Majesty because of the violent proceedings against him his said Maj.
Chanc. of England and Chanc. of the Univ. was seated in the supreme Chair Joh. Wilmot Earl of Rochester of Wadh. Coll. Jam. Levingston Visc of Kimardin as 't is said in the Reg. and Earl of Newburgh in Scotland sometimes of Mert. Coll. Edw. M●ntague eldest son of Edw. L Montague of Boughton Edw. Hyde of Ch. Ch. third son of Edw. Earl of Clarendon He died of the Small pox on the 10 of January an 1664 aged 19 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westminster leaving then this character behind him that he was the most hopeful youth and the best natur'd Creature in the world John Lovelace of Wadh. Coll. eldest son of John Lovelace He was after the death of his father Lord Lovelace but obtaining no great matter during the reigns of K. Ch. 2. and K. Jam. 2 which he expected because his father had been a great sufferer for the cause of K. Ch. 1 he was by the favour of K. Will. 3. to whom he adhered when he arrived in the West in the beginning of Nov. 1688 and for his sake was for some time imprison'd at Glocester made Captain of his Band of Gentlemen Pensioners in the beginning of March 1688. Edw Sebright of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets John Williams of S. Joh. Coll. Baronets The former was of Besford in Worcestershire the other of Dorsetshire Sir Alan Broderick Kt His Majesties Surveyour General for the Kingdom of Ireland This person who was endowed with a poetical wit and hath several Specimens thereof extant died at Wandesworth in Surrey 25 Nov. 1680 and was buried there 3 of Dec. following John Bulteel Secretary to Edw. Earl of Clarendon This person who was son of John Bulteel a Frenchman sometimes living at Dover died a Bachelaur in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster an 1669. One Joh. Bulteel Gent. translated from French into English A general chronological History of France before the raign of K. Pharamond and ending with the raign of K. Hen. 4. c. Lond. 1683. fol. Whether he be the same with the former who was created M. of A. I know not I have made mention of another Joh. Bulteel in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 849. Matthew Wren or Wrenn Secretary to the said Edw. Earl of Clar. This person who was the eldest son of Dr. Matthew Wren Bish of Ely was originally a Student in Cambridge and afterwards a Student for several years in the time of Usurpation in this University not in a Coll. or Hall but in a private House After his Majesties restauration he was taken into the service of the Earl of Clarendon was elected a Burgess for S. Michael in Cornwal to serve in that Parl. that began at Westm 8 May 1661 became a Member of the Royal Society and of the Council thereof and after the fall of the said Clarendon he became Secretary to James Duke of York and continued in his service to the time of his death At length giving way to fate on the 14 of June or thereabouts an 1672 aged about 42 years his body was conveyed to Cambridge and there buried in Pemb. Hall Chappel in the same Vault wherein his father was five years before buried This ingenious person hath written 1 Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Commonwealth of Oceana restrained to the first part of the preliminaries Lond. 1657. oct Before these Considerations is a large Letter sent by the author to Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll by whom the said author was desired to give his judgment concerning the Commonwealth of Oceana 2 Monarchy ass●rted or the state of monarchical and popular Government in vindication of the Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Oceana Lond. 1659 and 1660. oct See more in Jam. Harrington among the Writers p. 440. Joh. Dugdale chief Gent. in the Chamber of the said Earl of Clarendon L. Chanc. of Engl. This person who was the son of Sir Will. Dugdale mentioned in these Fasti an 1642 p. 643 c. was afterwards Windsore Herald upon the resignation of Elias Ashmole Esq and at length Norroy King of Arms upon the promotion of Sir Thom. St. George to the office of Garter in the place of the said Sir William deceased in the beginning of March 1685 about which time he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty This Sir Joh. Dugdale hath published A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their respective precedencies as it was presented to his Majesty on New-years day an 1684. To which is added The Blazon of their paternal Coates of Arms and a List of the present Bishops by permission of the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal This was printed at Lond. on a broad side of a large sh of paper an 1685 and came out again with additions in 1690. Thom. Agar Sam. Gabrie All which persons from Joh. Earl of Rochester to the said Sam. Gabrie were created Masters of Arts on the 9 of Sept. Sept. 12. Rich. Newporn of Ch. Ch. eldest son of Francis Lord Newport of High Ercall Sept. 12. Seymour Shirly of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stradling of Jes Coll. Baronets Sept. 12. Jam. Rushout of Ch. Ch. Baronets Sept. 12. Edw. Stanley of Brasn Coll. Baronets All which were created by the favour of the said Chanc. Oct. 19. Paul Latham of Pemb. Coll. He was afterwards Preb. of Salisbury and a publisher of Several Sermons and therefore he ought hereafter to be mention'd more at large Nov. 6. Tho. Traherne of Brasn Coll. Besides all these were several others created among whom were Rich. Newborough of Ball. Coll May 28 who had served his Maj. in the late Wars and was this year Preb. of Hereford Bach. of Div. Thirteen Bach. of Div. were created by vertue of the Chancellours recommendations among whom were these Jul. 1. Thom. Marshall of Linc. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Wyatt of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Will. Bell of S. Joh. Coll. Sept. 12. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. As for Wyatt who was born at Todenham in Glocestershire was not graduated in Arts because before the time came when he should take the degree of Bach the Civil War began Afterwards he was Assistant to Dr. Jer. Taylor when he taught School in Caermerthenshire and wrot as 't was usually said which he himself did also acknowledge A new and easie institution of Grammar c. which was published under Dr. Taylor 's name See more in the life of the said Doctor among the Writers p. 285. Afterwards Mr. Wyatt taught at Evesham in Worcestershire and at length assisted Mr. Will. Fuller while he taught a private School at Twittenham in Middlesex Afterwards when that person became Bishop of Linc he made him not only his Chapl but also Preb. and afterwards Chantor of the Church there Which Dignities he resigning in 1681 he retired to Nun-Eaton in Warwickshire where he died in the house of Sir Ric. Newdigate about 1686. What other things the said Mr. Wyatt hath
it seems at Llanymodyfri in Caermarthenshire and being educated in those parts he was sent to Jesus Coll. in 1597 aged 18 years or thereabouts ordained Priest at Wittham or Wytham in Essex by John Suffragan Bishop of Colchester on Sunday 25. Apr. 1602 took the degree of Bach. of Arts in June following and on the sixth of Aug. the same year had the Vicaridge of Llanymodyfri before mentioned commonly called Landovery collated on him by Anthony Bishop of S. David On the 19. of Nov. 1613 he was instituted Rector of Llamedy in the dioc of S. David presented thereunto by the King which he held with the other Living by dispensation from the Archb. 28. Oct. 1613 confirmed by the great Seal on the 29 of the same month and qualified by being Chaplain to Robert Earl of Essex In 1614. May 17. he was made Prebendary of the Collegiat Church of Brecknock by the aforesaid Anthony Bishop of S. David and by the Title of Master of Arts which degree he was persuaded to take by Dr. Laud his diocesan he was made Chancellour of S. David to which the Prebend of Llowhadden is annex'd on the 14. of Sept. 1626 upon the resignation of Rich. Baylie Bach. of Div. of S. Johns Coll. In Wales is a book of his composition that is common among the people there and bears this Title Gwaith Mr Rees Prichard Gynt Ficcer c. The works of Mr. Rees Prichard sometimes Vicar of Landovery in Caermarthenshire printed before in 3 Books but now printed together in one book c. with an addition in many things out of Mss not seen before by the publisher besides a fourth part now the first time imprinted Lond. 1672 in a thick 8● It contains four parts and the whole consist of several Poems and pious Carols in Welsh which some of the Authors Countrymen commit to memory and are wont to sing He also translated divers Books into Welsh and wrot somthing upon the 39 Artiticles which whether printed I know not some of it I have seen in Ms He dyed at Llanymodifri about the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and four and was as I presume buried in the Church there In his life time he gave Lands worth 20 l. per ann for the setling a Free School at Llanymodifri together with an House to keep it in Afterwards the House was possessed by four School-Masters successively and the mony paid to them At length Tho. Manwaring Son of Roger sometimes Bishop of St. David who married Elizab. the only daugh of Samuel Son of the said Rees Prichard did retain as I have been informed by letters thence and seise upon the said Lands under pretence of paying the School-Master in mony which accordingly was done for an year or two But not long after as my informer tells me the River Towry breaking into the House carried it away and the Lands belonging thereunto are occupied at this time 1682 by Rog. Manwaring Son and Heir of Thomas before mentined so that the School is in a manner quite forgotten WILLIAM LAUD Son of Will. Laud by Lucia his Wife widdow of Joh. Robinson of Reading in Berks and daugh of Joh. Webbe of the same place was born in S. Laurence Parish in the said borough of Reading on the 7. of Octob. 1573 educated in the Free-School there elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1590 where going thro with great diligence the usual forms of Logic and Philosophy under the tuition of Dr. John Buckeridge was made Fellow in 1594 and four years after Mast of Arts at which time he was esteemed by all those that knew him a very forward and zealous person About that time entring into the Sacred Function he read the Divinity Lecture newly set up in the Coll and maintained by one Mrs. ... May. In 1●03 he was elected one of the Proctors of the University and became Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire which proved his happiness and gave him hopes of greater preferment In 1604 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in 1607 he became Vicar of Stanford in Northamptonshire In the year following he proceeded D. of Div. and was made Chaplain to Dr. Neile Bishop of Rochester In 1609 he became Rector of West-Tilbury in Essex for which he exchanged his Advowson of North-Kilworth in Leicestershire The next year his Patron the Bishop of Rochester gave him the Rectory of Kuckstone in Kent but that place proving unhealthful to him he left it and was inducted into Norton by proxy The same year viz. 1610 he resign'd his Fellowship and the year following he was elected President of his College In 1614 his Patron then Bishop of Lincoln gave him a Prebendship in that Church and after that the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon an 1615 on the death of Matthew Gifford Master of Arts. In the year 1616 the King gave him the Deanery of Glocester after the death of Dr. Rich. Field and in the year following he became Rector of Ibstock in Leicestershire In 1620 Jan. 22. he was installed Canon or Prebendary of the eighth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of Edw. Buckley D. D. who had succeeded Will. Latymer in that dignity 1582. and the next year after his Majesty who upon his own confession had given to him nothing but the Deanery of Glocester which he well knew was a shell without a kernel gave him the grant of the Bishoprick of S. David and withal leave to hold his Presidentship of S. Jo. Coll. in commendam with it as also the Rectory of Ibstock before mention●d and Creek in Northamptonshire In Sept. 1626 he was translated to B. and Wells and about that time made Dean of the Royal Chappel In 1627 Apr. 29. he was sworn privy Counsellor with Dr. Neile then B. of Durham and on the 15 of Jul. 1628 he was translated to London Much about which time his antient acquaintance Sir Jam. Whitlock a Judge used to say of our Author Dr. Laud that he was too full of fire though a just and a good man and that his want of experience in state matters and his too much zeal for the Church and heat if he proceeded in the way he was then in would set this Nation on fire In 1630 he was elected Chancellour of the Univ. of Oxon and in 1633 Sept. 19. he was translated to Canterbury which high preferment drew upon him such envy that by the puritan party he was afterwards in the beginning of the Long Parliament impeached of high Treason He was a person of an heroick spirit pious life and exemplary conversation He was an encourager of Learning a stiff maintainer of the rights of the Church and Clergy and one that lived to do honour to his Mother the University and his Country Such a liberal benefactor also he was towards the advancement of learning that he left himself little or nothing for his own use and by what his intentions were we may guess that if
and are printed in a book intit Gerard. Jo. Vossii clarorum virorum ad eum epistolae Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paul Colomesius I have seen and perused a Ms transcrib'd under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead containing all the passages which concern the University of Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the Chancellourship of the said University It commences 12 Apr. 1630 and ends 14 Dec. 1640 bound up in a vellam cover in fol. and endorsed thus Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This Ms was communicated to me when I was composing the Hist and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews President of S. Johns Coll. wherein finding many useful things for my purpose which another may do for his and therefore it escap'd Prynn's hands I thought it therefore not unworthy of a place here as I could do of many other things under his hand which I have seen reserved in private custody as choice monuments but time calls me away and I must hasten Yet I cannot but let the Reader know that there is a fol. Ms going from hand to hand entit Wholsome Queries resolved by Dr. Laud manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Principle for Protestants c. sed caveat lector At length in the beginning of the civil Distempers this worthy Archbishop was upon suspicion of introducing Popery into the Nation arbitrary Government and I know not what aggravated in an high degree committed Prisoner first to the Black-rod and afterwards to the Tower where remaining about four years was at length by the Votes of a slender house beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January in sixteen hundred forty and ●our Whereupon his body being buried in the chancel of the Church of Allhallowes Barkin which he before had consecrated remained there entire till July 1663 at which time being removed to Oxon was on the 24 day of the same month deposited with ceremony in a little Vault built of brick near to the high Altar of S. Johns Coll. Chappel Thus died and buried was this most reverend renowned and religious Arch-prelate when he had lived 71 years 13 weeks and four days if at least he may be properly said to dye the great example of whose vertue shall continue always not only in the minds of men but in the Annals of succeeding ages with renown and fame RICHARD BAKER son of Joh. Bak. of Lond. Gent. by Cath. his wife daug of Reynold Scot of Scots hall in Kent Kt. a younger son of Sir Joh. Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt. Chancellour of the Exchequer and of the Council to K. Hen. 8. was born in Kent particularly as I have been informed by his daughter at Sissingherst before mention'd entred a Commoner of Hart Hall in 1584 and was matriculated in Mich. term that year as a Kentish man born and the son of a Gent. being then in the 16 year of his age at which time several of the family of the Scots before mention'd studied then in the said Hall After he had spent about 3 years in Logic and Philosophy in that house then flourishing with men of note in several Faculties he went to one of the Inns of Court afterwards beyond the seas and nothing was omitted by his Parents to make him an accomplish'd person In 1594 after the celebration of a most solemn Act he was with other persons of quality actually created Master of Arts and in 1603. May 17. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds at which time this our Author who lived at Highgate near London was esteem'd a most compleat and learned person the benefit of which he reaped in his old age when his considerable estate was thro suretiship very much impaired In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire being then Lord of Middle Aston and of other lands therein and if I mistake not a Justice of the Peace He was a person tall and comely of a good disposition and admirable discourse religious and well read in various Faculties especially in Div. and Hist as it may appear by these books following which he mostly composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions Cato variegatus Or Catoes moral disticks varied Lond. 1636. 'T is a Poem Meditations and disquisitions on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1637. qu. there again 1640 fourth edit qu. A copy of this book in Ms being sent to his quondam Chamber-fellow Sir Hen. Wotton before it Went to the press he returned this testimony of it I much admire the very character of your stile which seemeth unto me to have not a little of the African Idea of S. Austins age full of sweet raptures and of researching conceits nothing borrowed nothing vulgar and yet all flowing from you I know not how with a certain equal facility Med. and disq on the three last Psalmes of David Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the 50 Psal Lond. 1639. Med. and disq on the seven penitent Psalmes Lond. 1639. qu. Med. and disq on the first Psal Lond. 1640. qu. Med. and disq on the seven consolatorie Psalmes of David namely the 23.27.30.34.84.103 and 116. Lond. 1640. in qu. Med. and Prayers upon the seven days of the week Lond. 1640. in 16. which is the same I suppose with his motives of prayer on the seven days of the week Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity Lond. 1641. in tw Short meditation on the fall of Lucifer printed with the Apology A solliloquy of the soul or a pillar of Thoughts c. Lond. 1641. in tw Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Roman Government unto the death of K. James c. Lond. 1641. c. fol. Which Chronicle as the Author saith was collected with so great care and diligence that if all other of our Chronicles were lost this only would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable or worthy to be known c. However the Reader must know that it being reduced to method and not according to time purposely to please Gentlemen and Novices many chief things to be observed therein as name time c. are egregiously false and consequently breed a great deal of confusion in the peruser especially if he be curious or critical There was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and 58 in which last was added The history of the raigne of K. Ch. 1. with A continuation from his death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw. Philipps sometimes a student of Magd. Hall Afterwards in 1671 if I mistake not came out another edit in which was contained an addition of The first thirteen years of K. Ch. 2. that is from the death of K. Ch. 1. to the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. as also the Occurrences of his Restauration by George late Duke of Albemarle extracted from his Excellencies papers c. which as I have been informed were for the most part
endeavours to answer the four Arguments of Bishop Andrews which are in his Sermon on 2 Phil. 7.11 Answer to Mr. Joseph Mede's treatise of the name of Altar or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 antiently given to the holy table Written in Feb. 1637. Answer to the defence of the coal from the Altar Evangelium contractum ex quatuor Evangeliis c. Written in Hebrew Annales Ecclesiae Christi inchoati secundum methodum Baronii This is written in Lat. but imperfect Chronicon Regum Judaeorum methodo magis perspicu● Written in Hebr. Mesolabum Geometricum Chronicon mundi emendatum Divina sphaera humanorum eventuum The beginning is Etiam absque eo foret c. dedic to the King 1632. Problema Astronomicum de solis eccentricitate The beginning is Ternis Diatribis c. Diatribae animadversiones Astronomicae ternae Circuli dimensio Lydyatéa Archimidéa Marmoreum chronicon Arundelianum cum annotationibus c. This was afterwards printed in a book intit Marmora Oxoniensia published by Humph. Prideaux All which Mss with others treating of Divinity Mathematicks and Astronomy amounting to the number of 38 at least were bound up in 22 Volumes and reserved as rarities in the hands of Dr. Joh. Lamphire lately Principal of Hart Hall At length after our Author had lived at Okerton several years very poor and obscurely surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the third day of April in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried the next day being the same day on which he had above 70 years before been baptized by the bodies of his Father and Mother in the Chancel of the Church at Okerton which he before had rebuilt Over his grave near to the south Window and not far from the east end of the said Chancel the Warden and Society of New Coll. did cause a stone to be laid at their charge an 1669. The inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 149. a as also the Inscription on his honorary monument in New Coll. Cloyster pag. 155. WALTER RALEIGH second son of Sir Carew Raleigh of Downton in Wilts Knight by Dorothy his wife daugh of Will. Wroughton of Broadhinton in the same County relict of Sir Joh. Thynne Knight elder Brother to the famous Sir Walter Raleigh and both the Sons of Walter Raleigh of Furdell or Fardell in Devon Esq was born at Downton before mention'd educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester became a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in Mich. Term 1602 ult Eliz. being then 16 years of age Afterwards proceeding in Arts he was thought worthy being a noted Disputant to undergo the Office of Junior of the Act celebrated in 1608. About that time taking holy Orders he became Chaplain to that most noble Count William Earl of Pembroke in whose family spending some time had the Rectory of Chedsey near Bridgwater in Somersetshire conferred upon him on the death of George Mountgomery in the latter end of 1620 and afterwards a minor Prebendship in the Church of Wells and the Rectory of Streat with the Chappel of Walton in the same County Much about the time of the lamented death of the said Count he became one of the Chaplains in ord to K. Ch. 1. and by that title he was actually created D. of D. in 1636. On the 13 of January 1641 he was admitted Dean of Wells on the death of Dr. George Warburton and on the breaking out of the Rebellion soon after which hindred his farther advance in the Church he was persecuted plunder'd and forced to abscond for his Loyalty to his Prince At length being taken Prisoner at Bridgwater by the Rebels 21 Jul. 1645 he was sent to Banwell house as a Captive and after several removes to his own at Wells where being committed to the custody of a Shoe-maker David Barret a Constable of that City by the Committee of the County of Somerset was treated by him far beneath his quality and function Soon after having occasion to write a letter to his Wife the rude Keeper endeavoured to take it from him and read it supposing it might be a letter of intelligence to be sent to some noted Cavalier But the Doctor preventing his sauciness the Keeper thrust his sword into his groyn shedding his blood as the blood of a dog of which wound he died about six weeks after to the great grief of the loyal party His papers after his death such as could be kept were for more than 30 years reserved in obscurity At length they coming into the hands of the worthy and learned Dr Simon Patrick then Rector of S. Paul in Covent Garden Preb. of Westm and Dean of Peterborough now Bish of Ely he viewed amended and methodized them which being done they were made publick under this title Reliquiae Raleighanae Being discourses and Sermons on several subjects Lond. 1679. qu. The number of Sermons are 13. What other things he left worthy of publication were kept in Dr. Charles Gibbes's hands whose sister Mary our Author had married but whether any of them are yet made publick I know not 'T is said that he wrot a Tract of Millinanism he having for some time been much addicted to that opinion but that as I have been informed was long since lost Those that remember him have often said that he was a person not only of gentile behaviour but of great wit and elocution a good Orator and a Master of a strong reason which won him the familiarity and friendship of those great men who were the envy of the last age and wonder of this viz. Lucius Lord Falkland Dr. Hen. Hammond and Mr. Will. Chillingworth The last of which was wont to say that Dr. Raleigh was the best Disputant that ever he met withal He departed this mortal life on the tenth day of Octob. being Saturday in sixteen hundred forty and six and was buried on the thirteenth of the same month before the Deans stall in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Andrew in Wells Over his grave is not yet an inscription only a rough marble stone which had probably been laid there many years before the Doctors death One Standish a Clergy-Vicar of that Cathedral was afterwards questioned by the aforesaid Committee for burying him in the Church and his death being soon after call'd into question at an Assize or Sessions there was a Jury of Rebels that brought in his murder either Ignoramus or at least but Man slaughter for they said that the Doctor to shun the Keepers reading of a letter which he wrot to his Wife ran upon the Keepers sword c. Much about that time the Committee turned the Doctors Wife and Children out of doors and his Son as 't is said was forced to fly the Country for that he would have farther prosecuted the Law against the murderer of his Father MATHIAS PRIDEAUX son of Dr. Joh. Prideaux Rector of Exeter Coll. was
out that after the turn of the times it was by his means stocked with such a factious and fanatical Crew that all endeavours could not reform it nor ever as 't is thought will it continuing so to this day In 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines took the Covenant and sitting often with them at Westminster shewed himself one of the most learned and moderate among them and soon after did by order not only succeed Dr. Featley in the Rectory of Lambeth in Surrey ejected thence but had his library conferred on him to keep and enjoy it till such time Dr. Featley could get back our Authors from the Soldiers under Prince Rupert When the broils of the Nation were over he repaired to Dorchester and in Nov. 1647 was designed Warden of New Coll. upon the death of Dr. Pink by Will Lord Say and Nath. Fiennes his son but if I am not mistaken he refused that office He was a person of great gravity and presence and had always influence on the puritannical Party near to and remote from him who bore him more respect than they did to their Diocesan His works are these Commentary on the three first Chapters of Genesis with large Observations on the same Lond. 1656. 57. fol. Directions for the profitable reading of the Scriptures Printed in oct Of the Sabbath Printed in qu. Way to the tree of life in sundry directions Pr. 1647. oct 'T is the same I think which is called The Directory to perfection Several Sermons as 1 The troubles of Jerusalems Restauration or the Churches Reformation Fast-sermon before the H. of Lords 26 Nov. 1645. on Dan. 9.15 Lond. 1646. qu. with others which I have not yet seen Ten vowes to the Parishioners of Dorchester Ms written about the year 1628 answer'd by Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow in 1660. At length having lived beyond the age of man died suddenly on the 21 of July in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was inter'd in the Church porch of S. Peter in Dorchester which is a Chappel belonging to Trinity Church before mentioned Besides this John White was another of both his names a Ministers son Doctor of Divinity brother to Dr. Franc. White Bishop of Ely and a publisher of several books born at S. Neots in Huntingdonshire bred in Caies Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards became Vicar of Eccles in Lancashire Whence after he had continued some years he was brought into Suffolk by Sir John Crofts who bestowed on him the best Living that he had to give He sent for him unknown from Eccles where he lived in those distresses which he was never able to look through He furnished him with books fit for his studies he honoured and countenanced him so much that all the Country was satisfied he had a love and respect for him He wrot a book called The way to the true Church and A defence of it against the two books that Joh. Fisher the Jesuit published and other things as the Oxford Cat. will tell you One T. W. P. Priest who had sometimes as it seems been of Cambridge wrot a book against Jo. White called White died black But John dying before he could make a reply his brother Dr. Franc. White took up the bucklers and forthwith published a book against the said T. W. intit Orthodox faith and way to the Church explained c. Lond. 1617. qu. In the last will and test of the said John White without date I find these things said of himself Whereas for 20 years past by preaching and writing published in two books I engaged my self against Papistry I profess I have done therein nothing against my Conscience but desire all men to assure themselves that if any error hath escaped me it hath passed me through oversight when I always bended my self to that work of writing with much humility to God and such diligence as I was able to use And having the books always by me I writ nothing but what I found in antiquity and in the writings publickly receiv'd in the Church of Rome it self and I constantly avouch that what I have writ is the truth and have been the more confirmed therein by the unconscionable behaviour of my Adversaries against me c. This Will was proved 21 Feb. 1619 being two or more years after his death at which time he was Chaplain in ordinary to the King and his Father living after he had spent 50 years in preaching the word of God EDWARD HERBERT son of Rich. Herbert by Magd. his wife dau of Sir Rich. Newport of High●Arcall in Shropshire Knight was born in the sometimes most pleasant and Romancy place in Wales called Mountgomery Castle became a Gent. Com. of University Coll. in 1595 aged 14 years where being put under the tuition of an eminent Tutor laid the foundation of that admirable learning whereof he was afterwards a compleat Master Thence he betook himself to travel as also to certain military exercises in foreign parts whereby he became much accomplish'd After his return he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. afterwards one of the Counsellors to that King for his military affairs and sent Embassador to Lewes 13. King of France to mediate for the relief of the Protestants in that Realm then besieged in several places In which service continuing about five years he was recalled in July 1621 because he had irreverently treated de Luyens the great Constable of France and Edw. Sackvile was sent in his place In the 22 of K. Jam. 1. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of the Realm of Ireland by the name of Lord Herbert of Castle Island and in 5 of Car. 1. to the title of Lord Herbert of Cherbury in Shropshire He was a person well studied in the Arts and Languages a good Philosopher and Historian and understood men as well as books as it evidently appears in his Writings the titles of which follow De veritate prout distinguitur à revelatione à verisimuli à possibile à falso c. Par. 1624 and 1633. Lond. 1645. qu. c. Translated into French and printed 1639. qu much valued by learned men and reposed as 't is said in the Popes Vatican Answered by P. Gassendus in his third Tome the title of which is Opuscula philosophica from p. 411. to p. 419. in an Epistle directed to our Author Herbert Lugd. 1658. fol. and by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his More reasons for the Christian Religion c. Printed at Lond. in tw De causis errorum una cum tractatu de religione Laici appendice ad sacerdotes nec non quibusdam poematibus Printed with the book De veritate c. 1645. qu. Life and Reign of K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1649 and 72. fol. Both which editions being collated with the original Ms in the Archives of Bodleys Library given thereunto by the Author in 1643 by certain
Scholars of this University was printed at Lond. again in 1682. fol. Expeditio Buckinghami Ducis in Ream insulam Written by the Author in 1630 published by Timothy Baldwin Doct. of Law and Fellow of All 's Coll. Lond. 1656. octav Occasional Verses or Poems Lond. 1665. oct published by Hen. Herbert his son and by him dedicated to Edward Lord Herbert Grandson to the Author Others of his Poems I have also seen in the books of other Authors occasionally written particularly in that of Joshua Silvester in t Lacrymae lacrymarum or the spirit of tears distilled for the untimely death of Pr. Henry Lond. 1613 qu. There be others also of Sir Hen. Goodyere Sir Will. Cornwallis Jos Hall c. De religione Gentilium errorumque apud eos causis Amst 1663. qu. At length after our Author Herbert had sided with the Long Parliament and had received satisfaction from the members thereof for their causing Mountgomery Castle to be demolished upon the declining of the Kings Cause he surrendred up his last breath in his house in Queen street near London in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of S. Giles Church in the Fields Over his grave which is under the south wall was laid a flat marble stone with this Inscription engraven thereon Heic inhumatur corpus Edwardi Herbert Equitis Balnei Baronis de Cherbury Castle-Island auctoris libri cui titulus est De veritate Reddor ut herbae vicessimo die Augusti anno domini 1648. He was Father to Rich. Lord Herbert and he to Edward which last dying 21 Apr. 1691. was buried on the 28 of the same month near to the grave of his Grandfather The Reader is to know that one Edward Herbert an Esquires son of the County of Mountgomery was matriculated in the University as a member of Qu. Coll. in the beginning of July 1608 aged 17 years but he is not to be taken to be the same with the former who was Lord Herbert tho Isaac Walton in the life of Mr. George Herbert doth and from him the society of the said Coll. I take him to be the same who was afterwards a Knight and Attorney General temp Car. 1. SAMUEL FELL was born within the Parish of S. Clements Danes without Temple-Barr near London elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School 1601 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1608 elected Proctor of the University in 1614 admitted Bac. of Div. in the year after and about that time became Minister of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight In the month of May 1619 he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and the same year proceeded in Divinity being about that time domestick Chaplain to King Jam. 1. In 1626 he was made Margaret Professor and so consequently Prebendary of Worcester which was about that time annected to the Professorship he being then a Calvinist At length leaving his opinion became after great seekings and cringings a Creature of Dr. Laud Archbishop of Canterbury by whose means he was made Dean of Lichfield upon the promotion of Dr. John Warner to the See of Rochester an 1637 Dean of Ch. Ch. in the year after in the place of Dr. Duppa promoted to the See of Chichester and would without doubt had not the Rebellion broke out been a Bishop In 1647 he was ejected from his Deanery and Vicechancellourship after he had suffered much for his Loyalty and for the preserving of the statutes and liberties of the University Afterwards retiring to his Rectory of Sunningwell near Abendon in Berks spent the short remainder of his life in obscurity He hath written and published Primitiae sive oratio habita Oxoniae in scholâ Theologiae 9 Nov. an 1626. Oxon 1627. qu. Concio Latina ad Baccalaureos die cinerum in Colos 2.8 Oxon. 1627. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the Parsonage-house at Sunningwell before mentioned on the first day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there In his Deanery Edward Reynolds M. A. afterwards D. of Div. had violently been thrust in by the Authority of Parliament in April 1648 as I have at large told you elsewhere WILLIAM TIPPING second son of Sir George Tipp of Dreycot and Whitfield in Oxfordshire Knight by Dorothy his wife dau of Joh. Burlacy of Little-Marlow in Bucks Esq was born in Oxfordshire at Dreycot I think became a Commoner of Queens Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Langhorne in the latter end of 1614 aged 16 years where making a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals took a degree in Arts. Afterwards he went to London and spent some time in one of the Inns of Court but his genie being theologically given he retired to Oxon lived a single life many years in Canditch in the north Suburbs thereof for the sake of scholastical company and of books and was a Justice of the peace for Oxfordshire In the beginning of the civil War he sided with the Presbyterians being always puritanically affected took the Covenant and at length was made one of the Visitors of the University of Oxon by the power of Parliament an 1647 and the next year was actually created Master of Arts. He hath written A discourse of Eternity Oxon. 1633. qu. After the publication of which he obtained the name among Scholars of Eternity Tipping to distinguish him from others of his sirname A return of Thankfulness for the unexpected recovery out of a dangerous sickness Oxon 1640. oct A Fathers Counsel or directions to young persons Lond. 1644. oct The preachers plea or a short declaration touching the sad condition of our Clergy in relation to the smalness of their maintenance throughout the Kingdom Lond. 1646. in tw The remarkable life and death of the Lady Apollonia Hall widdow deceased in the 21 year of her age Lond. 1647. in tw He gave way to fate at Waterstock near to and in the County of Oxon on the second day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight and was buried on the eighth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Church there This person tho born to a fair estate and so consequently might have taken those pleasures which the generality of Gentlemen do yet he gave himself solely up to Learning Piety and Charity He gave 20 shillings yearly to Allsaints Parish in Oxon for a Sermon to be preached there every Good Friday and an hundred pounds towards the building of a Bridewell house without the north gate of the City some years before the Rebellion broke out JOHN GEREE a Yorkshire man born became either a Batler or Servitour of Magd. Hall in the beginning of the year 1615 and in that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1621 entred into holy orders and became Minister of a
all likelyhood in a certain possibility of rising higher if the times had not interrupted him In the beginning of 1640 he was elected Burgess for Q. Mynhead in Somersetshire to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13 Apr. the same year and soon after siding with his Maj. in the rebellious times suffer'd much in his estate having 300 l. at one time given thence to one Serle a widdow In the month of Sept. in 1648 he and Dr. Ryves were sent for to Newport in the Isle of Wight by his Majesty to be assisting to him in his Treaty with the Commissioners sent from Parliament But that Treaty taking no effect he retired to his habitation at Chiswick near London where living to see his Master murdered before his own door he soon after ended his life He was a person of smooth Language was an excellent Civilian and a tolerable Poet especially in his younger days and well vers'd in Histories whether ecclesiastical or civil He hath extant Vita Henrici Chichele Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis sub Regibus Henric. V. VI. Oxon. 1617. qu. remitted into the Collection of Lives published by Dr. Bates an 1681. De usu authoritate Juris civilis Romanorum in Dominiis Principum Christianorum lib. 2. Lond. 1●53 and 79. oct Leyd●● 1654. Lips 1668. in tw c. In which book Dr. Gerard Langbaines labours were so much that he deserved the name of Co-author Dr. Duck paid his last debt to nature in the month of May in sixteen hundred forty and nine and was buried in the Church at Chiswick in Middlesex to the poor of which place he gave 10 l. He left considerable legacies to Exeter and All 's Colleges and 10 l. to the poor of North Cadbury in Somersetshire besides other gifts of charity elsewhere which for brevity sake I now pass by RICHARD ALLEN was born in or near to Abendon in Berks was originally of Ball. Coll. and as a member of that house he took one degree in Arts. Afterwards he was made one of the first Scholars of Pembr Coll proceeded in his faculty was made Fellow and at length beneficed near Ewelme in Oxfordshire He hath written An antidote against heresie or a preservative for Protestants against the poyson of Papists Anabaptists c. Lond. 1648. dedicated to his Uncles Sir Tho. Gainsford Kt and Humph. Huddleston Esq One of both his names but after in time was Pastor of Henfield in Sussex and Author of Englands Distemper their cause and cure according to the judgment of famous Princes Peers Parliaments c. occasion'd by a learned Frier accusing the whole Nation of Perjury for abjuring Transubstantiation and sent to the Author for a reply Lond. 1677. qu. in 3 sh and an half Whether this Rich. Allen was ever of Oxon I know not I shall make mention of Rich. Allein among these Writers under the year 1681. NICHOLAS DARTON a Cornish man born was entred into Exet. Coll. either in the condition of a Batler or Servitour in Mich. term 1618 aged 15 years took one degree in Arts afterwards holy orders and at length became Minister of Killesbye in Northamptonshire He hath extant Several sermons as 1 The true and absolute Bishop with the Converts return unto him on 1 Pet 2.25 Lond. 1641. qu. dedicated to Will Lord Say at which time the Author who was always before esteemed a Puritan closed with the Presbyterian Party He hath one or more extant which I have not yet seen Ecclesia Anglicana or his clear and protestant Manifesto as an evangelical key sent to the Governour of Oxford for the opening of the Church doors there that are shut up without prayers or preaching Printed 1649. qu. JOHN PRIDEAUX was born in an obscure town called Stowford near to Lyfton in Devon on the 17 of Sept. 1578 became a poor Scholar of Exeter Coll. under the tuition of Will. Helme Bach. of Div. in Act term 1596 and in 1602 was elected probat Fellow of that house being then Bach. of Arts. In the year after he proceeded in that Faculty and thereupon entred into holy Orders so that being soon after noted for his great Learning and profound Divinity he was elected Rector of his Coll. upon the death of Holland in 1612 he being then Bach. of Div. and the same year proceeded in the same faculty In 1615 he was upon the promotion of Dr. Abbot to the See of Sarum made the Kings Professor of Divinity by vertue of which he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordshire And afterwards did undergo the Office of Vicechancellour of this University for several years as I have elsewhere told you In the Rectorship of his College he carried himself so winning and pleasing by his gentle government and fatherly instruction that it flourished more than any house in the University with Scholars as well of great as of mean birth as also with many Foreigners that came purposely to set at his feet to gain instruction So zealous he was also in appointing industrious and careful Tutors that in short time many were fitted to do service in the Church and State In his Professorship he behaved himself very plausible to the generality especially for this reason that in his Lectures Disputes and Moderatings which were always frequented with many Auditors he shew'd himself a stout Champion against Socinus and Arminius Which being disrellish'd by some who were then rising and in authority at Court a faction thereupon grew up in the University between those called Puritans or Calvinists on the one side and the Remonstrants commonly called Arminians on the other which with other matters of the like nature being not only fomented in the University but throughout the Nation all things thereupon were brought into confusion to the sorrow of the Puritan who had with all his might opposed Canterbury in his generous designs of making the English Church glorious At length after he had sate 26 years Professor he was one of those persons of unblemished reputation that his Majesty tho late made a Bishop by the endeavours as some say of James Marq. of Hamilton his somtimes Pupil The See which he was design'd to govern was Worcester to which being elected 22. of Nov. was consecrated at Westminster on the 19. of Dec. following an 1641 but received little or no profit from it to his great impoverishment So that upon that account and for his adhering to his Maj. in the time of the Civil War wherein he pronounced all those of his diocess that took up arms against him excommunicated he became at length Verus Librorum helluo for having first by indefatigable studies digested his excellent Library into his mind was after forced again to devour all his books with his teeth turning them by a miraculous faith and patience into bread for himself and his children to whom he left no legacy but pious poverty Gods blessing and a Fathers prayers as it appears in
oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he paid his last debt to nature on the second of January or thereabouts in sixteen hundred fifty and one and was buried in the Church of S. Clements Danes without Temple-barr near London on the fifth day of the same month having suffer'd much in his estate for the Kings Cause which he had stoutly defended PETER TURNER a younger son of Dr. Peter Turner a Physitian mention'd among the Incorporations in the Fasti an 1599 was born as it seems in the parish of S. Helen within Bishopsgate in the City of London in which parish his father lived and practised his Faculty admitted Probation Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1607 proceeded in Arts and being not bound to any particular Faculty as the Fellows in other Colleges are became most admirably well vers'd in all kind of Learning He was a most exact Latinist and Greecian was well skill'd in the Hebrew and Arabick was a thorough-pac'd Mathematician was excellently well read in the Fathers and Councils a most curious Critick a Politician Statesman and what not The first preferment that he had whereby his parts were made manifest to the world was the Professorship of Geometry in Gresham College which he kept with his Fellowship as afterwards he did the Savilian Professorship of Geometry in this University obtained on the death of Hen. Briggs in the year 1630. He was much beloved of Archb. Laud and so highly valued by him that he would have procured him to be one of the Secretaries of State or Clerks of the Privy Council c. but being wedded to his College and a studious life entertaining hopes withal of being Warden thereof he denied those and other honorable and beneficial places In 1636 he was actually created Doctor of Physick and in the beginning of the grand Rebellion was one of the first Scholars that went out and served his Majesty in the quality of a Volunteer under the command of Colonel Sir John Byron for which he did not only for the present suffer as being a Prisoner of War but was afterwards ejected by the Parliamentarian Visitors from all right he had to his Fellowship of Mert. Coll and from his Professorship of the University He wrot many admirable things but he being too curious and critical he could never finish them according to his mind and therefore cancell'd them He also made divers Translations from Greek into Lat. particularly some of the Epistles from an old authentick MS of Isidorus Pelusiota Which Trans were found among Hen. Jacobs Papers after his death But that with other Curiosities of our learned Turner went afterwards into obscure hands He hath extant in several books Epistolae variae ad doctissimos viros He had also a principal hand in framing the University Statutes now in use and was the sole person that made them run in good Latine and put the Preface to them He made the Caroline Cycle for the Election of Proctors beginning in 1629 and ending in 1720 and did many other matters for the benefit of Learning and this University At length being in a manner undone by the Severities of the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 he retired to the House of his Sister the afflicted widdow of one Wats a Brewer living against the Compter Prison in Southwark near London where spending the short remainder of his life in obscurity surrendred up his soul to God in the month of January in sixteen hundred fifty and one and in that of his age 66 or thereabouts whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Saviour there This person having been of a proud and haughty mind because of his great parts and intimate acquaintance with Archb. Laud and the great Heroes of that time the snivling Presbyterians therefore especially those of his College which he left behind him as Alex. Fisher Ralph Button c. did not stick to report that he died no better than a Brewers Clerk because he often inspected the Accompts of his Sister before mention'd and had a great care of her concerns JOHN ARNWAY a Shropshire man born became a Commoner of S. Edm. Hall in the year 1618 and in that of his age 18 took the degrees in Arts entred into the sacred function and had a cure of Souls bestowed on him At length the Civil Wars breaking forth he adhered to the Kings cause suffer'd much for it in his own Country went after him to Oxon and was actually created D. of D. in 1642 being about that time as I conceive made Archdeacon of Lichf and Coventry in the place of Dr. Ralph Brownrig promoted to the See of Exeter He had then quitted a large fortune to serve his Prince and thereupon was plunder'd by the Rebels and lost his books and papers which he could never recover Afterwards upon the declining of the Kings cause he went to the Hague in Holland and afterwards to Virginia where he died He hath written The Tablet or moderation of Charles the first martyr An Alarum to the Subjects of England A few copies of these two little treatises were both printed together in a small character at the Hague an 1650 afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1661. in oct by the care of Will. Rider sometimes of Mert. Coll. who married the authors near kinswoman Afterwards Dr. Arnway being reduced to necessity left the Hague and upon an invitation he went into Virginia to exercise his function among the English where he died about Lyn haven Elizabeth river or Nausunum but when I cannot tell unless about the year 1653. JOHN VICARS a Londoner born descended from those of his name living in the County of Cumberland educated from his infancy or time of understanding in School learning in Ch. Ch. Hospital in London and in Academical partly in Oxon. particularly as it seems in Queens Coll. but whether he took a degree it appears not Afterwards he retired to his native place became Usher of the said Hospital which he kept to or near his dying day and was esteemed among some especially the puritannical party of which number he was a zealous brother a tolerable Poet but by the Royalists not because he was inspired with ale or viler liquors In the beginning of the Civil Wars he shewed himself a forward man for the Presbyterian cause hated all people that loved Obedience and did affright many of the weaker sort and others from having any agreement with the Kings Party by continually inculcating into their heads strange stories of Gods wrath against the Cavaliers Afterwards when the Independents began to take place he bore a great hatred towards them especially after they had taken away the Kings life His works are these A prospective glass to look into heaven or the celestial Canaan described Lond. 1618. oct 'T is a Poem The Soules sacred Soliloquie c. sung in a most heavenly hymne 'T is a Poem also and printed with
The capacious title of these collections is The History of Great Britaine being the life and raign of K. James the first relating to what passed from his first access to the crown till his death Lond. 1653. fol. In which History which some call an infamous Pasquil you 'll find the Author to favour Rob. D'evereux the last Earl of Essex and his allies and to underprize such as were more in the Kings favour than he The reason is because he from his youth had attended that Count in his chamber and had received an annual pension from him several years After his death he was received into the Family of Robert Earl of Warwick and by him made his Steward of whose Father named Robert also he maketh honourable mention in the said History in which may easily be discerned a partial Presbyterian veine that constantly goes throughout the whole work And it being the Genie of those People to pry more than they should into the Courts and Comportments of Princes do take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter them Further also our Author having endeavour'd in many things to make the world believe that K. James and his Son after him were enclined to popery and to bring that Religion into England hath made him subject to many errors and misrepresentations He gave way to fate at Felsted near to Little Lighes the seat of the Earl of Warwick in the County of Essex about the beginning of October in sixteen hundred fifty and two and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there After his death the said History coming into the hands of a certain Doctor had some alterations made therein as 't is said by him who shaped it according to his desire In the year before the said Hist was published came out a most desperate and libellous book full of lyes mistakes nonsense c. entit The divine Catastrophe of the Kingly family of the house of Stuarts or a short History of the rise raigne and ruin thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. are discovered c. Lond. 1652. oct written by one who pretended to be a diligent observer of the times named Sir Edw. Peyton Knight and Baronet the same who had written and published A discourse concerning the fitness of the posture necessary to be used in taking the bread and wine at the Sacrament Lond. 1642. qu. The said book called The divine Catastrophe c. being highly resented by the Royalists the Author of it therefore was condemn'd of great baseness and ingratitude His puritanical education had been at Cambridge for a time and therefore he being out of my road I have no more to say of him but this that he was bred in Grammar Learning at S. Edmunds Bury that after he had left the University he setled on his patrimony in Cambridgshire in which County I suppose he was born that afterwards he served in one or more Parliaments in the latter end of Jac. 1. and in others after and was Custos Rotulorum for Cambridgshire of which office he was deprived by the endeavours of the great favourite of K. Jam. 1. called George Duke of Buckingham At length he siding with the Presbyterians in the time of grand rebellion had his share of sufferings for that cause while the war lasted wrot a sharp Pamphlet against the Kings violation of the rights and privileges of Parliament as he calls them by endeavouring to seize upon and imprison five of the members thereof 4. Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all occasions to blast the reputation of his Majesty and his followers At length having lived to see the Line of the Steuarts extirpated for a time died at Wicket in Cambridgshire in the beginning of the year 1657. JOHN GREAVES Son of John Gr. Rector of Colmore near to Ailresford in Hampshire was born there educated in Grammar and Polite learning under his Father the most noted Schoolmaster in all that Country became a Student in this Univ. in the fifteenth year of his age an 1617 took a degree in Arts and being Masters standing was a Candidate for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. in 1624 at which time shewing himself an admirable proficient in Philosophy Latine and Greek Learning was the first of five that was elected Afterwards being made compleat Fellow and Master of Arts he had more liberty to pursue his critical studies much advanc'd by his acquaintance and familiarity had with Pet. Turner a senior Fellow of that House who finding him a compleat Master and gentile withal was by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury At length in the year 1633 his worth and knowledge being well known to that worthy Person he sent him to travel into the Eastern parts of the world to obtain books of the Languages for him The voyage he performed not without great danger and having satisfied himself with many curiosities return'd in 1640 to the great content of his Patron and three years after upon the death of Dr. Bainbridge he became not only the Savilian Professor of Astronomy in this University but also superior reader of Lynacres Lecture in Merton Coll. In the performance of which especially that of Astronomy his learning was so made manifest to the remnant of the Academians then left that he gained thereby to himself an unperishing reputation But then again the Parliamentarian visitation coming on the impetuous Visitors mostly Presbyterians who did not or at least would not discern between Dunces and Scholars threw him out of his Lecture and right to his Fellowship which by supreme authority he kept in Commendam with his Astr Lecture and the rather for this cause that he avoided an answer to several articles of misdemeanour pretended to have been committed by him while the King was in Oxon that were by the endeavours of some factious and puritanical Fellows put up to them and prosecuted Among them I find these 1 That he betrayed the College in discovering to the Kings Agents 400 l. in the treasury which thereupon was taken away for the Kings use 2 That contrary to his oath he conveyed away a considerable part of the College goods without the consent of the company and thereby gratified Courtiers with them in other houses 3 That he feasted the Queens confessors and sent divers presents to them among which was an holy thorne and that he was more familiar with them than any true Protestants use to be 4 That he was the occasion of ejecting Sir Nath. Brent from his Wardenship for adhering to the Parliament and bringing in Dr. Harvey into his place 5 That he was the occasion why Mr. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button puritannical fellows were turned out of their respective offices and chambers in the College because they abode in the Parliaments quarters c. 6 That he gave leave to Father Philips the Queens confessor and Wyatt one of her
ubi ad interiorem Templum saith he Amanuensis mihi in codice Regi tunc porrigendo operam praestitit mihi vir doctissimus Henricus Jacobus c. At which time as 't is said he taught or at least improved Selden in the Hebrew Language and added several things which Selden finding to be very excellent let them stand In the same year he was created Master of Arts but upon the turn of the times Brent then Warden of Mert. Coll. no friend to Laud silenced him In the year 1641 he was upon the death of John Thimble elected superior Bedle of Divinity about the 14 of June and in the beginning of Novemb. in the year following he was created Bach. of Physick But his head being always over-busie about critical notions which made him sometimes a little better than craz'd he neglected his duty so much that he was suspended once if not twice from his place and had his Bedles staff taken from him At length when the Parliamentarian Visitors sate he lost it for altogether and the right he pretended to his Fellowship in Mert. Coll. So that being destitute of maintenance he retired to London where the learned Selden exhibited to him gave him his cloaths and an old scarlet cloak of which last his friends would mock him and call him Young Selden when they saw it on his back But he being a shiftless Person as most meer Scholars are and the benefactions of friends not sufficing him he sold that little Land he had at Godmersham in Kent to supply his necessities and died before that was spent He wrot many things but he himself published nothing in his life time a Cat. of which is this Oratio inauguralis sub aditu praelectionis Philologicae publicè habita apud Collegium Oxonio-Merton 4. Aug. 1636. Graeca Latina Poemata Description of Oakey hole near Wells an 1632 Written in English verse Annotationes in eam partem Orationis inaug in qua viz. p. 6. dicitur Oratione soluta scripsit Aristeus Proconnesius Contained in about 5. sheets in qu. These four things beforemention'd were published at Oxon while the Author lived an 1652. in qu. by his intimate friend Hen. Birkhead Fellow of All 's Coll. To which he putting a Preface he tells you therein that this our Author had written and laying by him these things following Etymotechnia Catholica containing four Diatribes concerning the original of Letters The first De ordine Alphabeti the second De transitu Alphabeti the third De numero figura potestate divisione Literarum and the fourth called Geographistor Etymotechnicus Grammatica Ebraea No English man before his time did ever endeavour to make one after that way and manner which he did this ΣΒΩ′ vel Osiris inventus de coptiacis originibus commentatio Geographumena In which are many Assiriac and Egyptic antiquities discovered Pancarpia opus ex artibus linguis miscellan Imperfect Excogitata Philosophica nempe de novâ ratione circa Monoptosyllogismum dialecticum pridem semicirculariter figuratam natalia ventorum conceptacula c. Magnetologia in lib. 3. agentibus de triplici motu Magnetico Lapidali Caelesti Animali c. Before I go any farther the reader is to understand that this our Author Jacob being ejected in 1648 from Merton Coll. and so consequently from his Chamber wherein he had left a trunk full of Books as well written as printed left Oxon as I have before told you And taking no care or appointing any friend for its security his Chamber door before an year was expired was broke open for a new commer who finding the trunk there did let it remain in its place for a time At length when no man inquired after it as the then possessor thereof pretended he secur'd it for his own use broke it open and therein discover'd a choice treasure of Books One of them being a Ms and fit for the press he disguised and alter'd it with another stile and at length after he had learned Hebrew and the Oriental Languages to blind the World and had conversed openly with those most excellent in them as Pocock and Bogan of C. C. Coll. or any Grecian or Jew that came accidentally to the University he published it under this title Delphi Phoenicizantes sive tractatus in quo Graecos quicquid Delphos celebre erat c. è Joshuae Historiae scriptisque sacris effluxisse rationibus haud inconcinnis ostenditur c. Oxon. 1655. oct To which is added Diatriba de Noe in Italiam adventu ejusque nominibus Ethnicis and a little tract De origine Druidum Which three things are much commended by forreign Authors particularly by Spizelius in his book De doctrina Senensium The Reader is also to know farther that Dr. Pet. Turner of Mert. Coll. being a great friend to Hen. Jacob did borrow and peruse several of his elucubrations in which taking great delight because his learning did partly lye that way did either keep the originals by him or at least took copies of them At length the Doctor being involv'd in the same fate with his friend retired with his Books for succour to his Sister the Widow of one Wats sometimes a Brewer in Southwark where dying obscurely about an year before Jacob his Papers came into the hands of his Nephew Will. Wats afterwards a Residentiary of Hereford who having a Son of Bras Coll. into whose possession they came he communicated several of them to Moses Pengry Fellow of that House a curious Person in Philological learning of which one was entit De Mari rubro and another De historia Beli Draconis Copies of which Pengry communicated to Mr. Rich. Reeves then Master of the School joyning to Magd. Coll. which he hath in his possession to this day Our Author Jacob also did put notes to most of the printed books in his study which tho little yet curious and particularly on Solinus his Hist of the World with Salmasius's notes to it Which book coming I know not how into the hands of H. B. he transcribed the said notes or observations and entring them as it seems into another Copy of his own deleeted those of Jacob with Aquafortis and sold the copy it self to an Oxford Bookseller such was his sordid avarice There is also another Ms of his going about entit Libri Ebraeo Rabbinici in Bib. Bodleiana recensiti an 1629. A copy of which I have written by the hand of the learned Dr. Langbaine It was the first work that Jacob performed after he was setled in Oxon at the desire and command of his Patron Will. Earl of Pembroke being the same books which the said Count a little before had obtained out of Italy from the Baroccian Library A copy of which Cat. or else another I have seen written under the hand of Pet. Turner for Seldens use To conclude it must be now known that this miracle of learning a harmless innocent careless and shiftless Person who by his
perfect man a Sermon at the burial of Sir Robert Spencer Knight Baron of Wormleighton 6 Nov. 1627 in Braynton Church in Northamptonshire on Psal 37. ver 37. Oxon 1628. qu. and one or two more which I have not yet seen This person who was a Sufferer for the Royal Cause during the time of the Rebellion was living in Lancastire as I have been informed thence in the time of Usurpation but when he died I cannot yet tell One Rich. Parr was of Exeter Coll and afterwards a Writer and is now an 1690. living One Elnathan Parr also was an eminent Divine in the Raign of K. Jam. 1. as his Works shew but he was not of Oxon but of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was Bach. of Divinity and Rector of Palgrave in Suffolk WILLIAM LYFORD son of Will. Lyf Rector of Peysmere near to Newbury in Berks. was born there to the poor of which place he was an especial benefactor at the time of his death became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term 1614 aged 16 or thereabouts Demie of Magd. Coll. 1617 and perpetual Fellow five years after he being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he took holy Orders and exercised his Function for some time in and near Oxford In 1631 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time became Minister of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire by the favour of John Earl of Bristow where he was much resorted to for his edifying and practical way of preaching At length the Civil War breaking forth and the Presbyterians carrying all before he sided with them was made one of the Assembly of Divines but sate not among them He hath written and published several theological Tracts which savour much of great Piety Zeal and sincerity to Religion but withal they shew him to have been a zealous Calvinist The Titles are these Principles of Faith and good Conscience digested into a catechistical form Lond. 1642. Oxon. 1652. in oct c. An Apology for our publick Ministry and Infant-baptism Lond. 1652. 53. c. qu. Several Sermons as 1 The translation of a Sinner from death to life by the free grace of God Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon on Tit. 3.5 Oxon. 1648. qu. 2 Serm. on Dan. 3. from ver 14. to 18. Lond. 1654. qu. 3 Serm. on 2 Cor. 2.15.16 Lond. 1654. qu. 4 Serm. on Heb. 5.13.14 Lond. 1655. qu. One of these last two if I am not mistaken is intit The matching of the Magistrates Authority and the Christians true liberty in matters of Religion Plain mans Senses exercised to discern both good or evil or a discovery of the Errors Heresies and Blasphemies of these times c. Lond. 1655. qu. His Legacy or an help for young people to prepare them for the Sacrament Lond. 1656. 58 oct Cases of Conscience propounded in the time of Rebellion resolved Lond. 1661. oct Conscience informed touching our late Thanksgivings in a plain and modest discourse Lond. 1661. This I have not yet seen and therefore cannot tell you in what Vol. 't was printed At length this person who was of great Modesty and Vertues being tormented with a painful and sharp disease by the Witchcraft as 't is said of certain Quakers surrendred up his pious soul to God on the third day of Octob. in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church at Shirebourne before mention'd By his last Will and Test he bequeathed to Magd. Coll. 120 l. towards the maintenance of a godly poor Scholar thereof in way of restitution for a sum of money which according to a corrupt custom of his time he did receive for the resignation of his Fellowship of that College You may see more of him his holy life and conversation in some Memorials of him delivered after his funeral sermon by W. H. D. of D. prefixed to The plain mans senses exercised c. before mention'd FRANCIS HOLYOKE who writes himself de sacrâ Quercu was born at Nether Whitacre in Warwickshire applied his mind to Academical Learning in this University in the year 1582 or thereabouts particularly in Queens Coll. as his son Thomas hath informed me but whether he took a degree it appears not Sure I am that after he had taught School partly here but mostly in his own Country was made Rector of Southam there in Feb. 1604. And being esteemed a grave and learned person was elected a Member of the Convocation of the Clergy 1 Car. 1. He hath written and published Sermon of Obedience especially unto Authority Ecclesiastical c. on Heb. 13.17 preached at a Visitation of Dr. Will. Hinton Archd. of Coventry Oxon. 1610. quart Dictionarium Etymologicum part 2. Riders Dictionary corrected and augmented Wherein Riders Index is translated into a Dictionary Etymological deriving every word from his native fountain c. Lond. 1606. c. in a thick quarto See more in John Rider under the year 1632. p. 495. This Dictionary was afterwards published several times with the addition of many hundred words out of the Law and out of the Latine French and other Languages c. This our Author concluded his last day on the 13 of Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and three and in that of his age 87 and was buried in S. Maries Church in Warwick having suffer'd much for the Kings Cause during the time of the grand Rebellion which began in 1642. He left behind him a son named Thomas whom I shall mention in his proper place GEORGE SINGE son of Rich. Singe alias Millington was born of gentile Parents at Bridgnorth in Shropshire became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1609 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1616 and afterwards became Chaplain as it seems to Dr. Christop Hampton Archb. of Armagh who not only made him his Vicar general but Dean of Dromore In 1638 Nov. 11. he was consecrated at Tredagh Bishop of Cloyne and soon after was made one of the Kings Privy Council in Ireland but upon the breaking out of the Rebellion there in 1641 he was forced to fly to Dublin for a time for his own security At length upon the death of Dr. Joh. Maxwell in Feb. 1646 he was as 't is said nominated to succeed him in the Archbishoprick of Tuam The next year he went into England and setling at his native place died in few years after as I shall anon tell you He was a learned man especially in Polemical Divinity the Civil and Canon Law and hath written A Rejoynder to the Reply of Will Malone Jesuit against Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland Dubl 1632. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day at Bridgnorth before mention'd in Winter time before the month of Jan. in sixteen hundred fifty and three and was buried in the Church of S. Mary Magdalen there He had a younger Brother named Edward born
Aug. 1659. As for Hoyle he gave way to fate on the sixth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and four and was buried in that little old Chappel of University College which was pulled down in 1668 standing sometimes in that place which is now the middle part of the present Quadrangle in that College In his Mastership of that house succeeded Francis Johnson an Independent and in his Professorship Dr. Jo. Conant then a Presbyterian RICHARD SMITH was born in Lincolnshire 1566 became a Student of Trin. Coll. about 1583 went a course there but before he took a degree he left the Coll went to Rome ran another course in studies there not in Philosophy as he did at Trin. Coll. but in Divinity wherein making great proficiency was sent by his Superior to Valladolid in Spain where he took the degree of Doctor of Divinity Thence as I suppose he went into the Mission of England in which Employment he remained some years From thence he was sent for to Rome to be consulted with about the affairs of the English Popish Clergy Which being finished according to his mind he was remitted into England again and at length was by the Pope made Bishop titular only of Chalcedon in Greece and by him commissionated to exercise episcopal Jurisdiction in England over the Catholicks there The chief stage of his action was in Lancashire where he appeared in his Pontificalia with his horned Miter and Crosier conferring of Orders bestowing his Benediction and such like to the wonder of ignorant and poor people At length the King having received notice of these matters he renewed his Proclamation in 1628 one of a former date taking no effect for his apprehension promising an hundred pounds to be presently paid to him that did it besides all the profits which accrued to the Crown as legally due from the person that entertained him But the Bishop having timely notice of these matters convey'd himself over into France where he became a Confident of Armandus du Plessis Cardinal and Duke of Richlieu who confer'd upon him the Abbatship of Charroux in the diocess of Poitou which he kept and received the profits of it till 1647 and then Julius Cardinal Mazarine took it into his own hands The conveniency and validity of the episcopal power of the said Dr. Smith was made the subject of several books which were written thereon viz. in favour of him were 1 N. le Maistre a Sorbon Priest in a book intit De persecutione Episcoporum de illustrissimo Antistite Chalcedonense 2 The faculty of Paris which censur'd all such that opposed him In opposition to him or them were 1 Daniel a Jesuit or Dan. à Jesu i. e. Joh. Floyd a Jesuit 2 one Horucan 3 Lumley an English man and 4 Nich. Smith a Regular who with his Brethren did make so great a stir about this Bishops Authority and were heightned to that animosity against the secular Priests the Bishop being of that number that the Pope was forced to rouze and declare himself concern'd in so great a scandal to the Unity of the Rom. Church And because he would not proceed to cure this Schism until he rightly understood the original ground thereof over he dispatched into England Gregory Panzani a Civilian and Rom. Priest an 1634. with a Commission of Oyer and Terminer of hearing and determining the Quarrel if not to certifie to him the state of the cause and where the fault lay This was the upper Mantle of the Plot which had readily in it enough to overspread more secret designs so that they were not transparent to vulgar eyes But tho his Instructions would not own any other lading yet some especially the puritannical party held it for certain that they had taken in other contrivances of pernitious import to the Church and State of England He tarried here till 1636 having by that time procured an indifferent fair agreement between the Seculars and the Regulars What else was to be done in the matter was to be performed by Seignior George Con the Popes Agent sent into England the same year of Panzani his departure As for the Bishop of Chalcedon he was a general read Scholar in the Controversies between the Papists and Protestants in Histories whether civil or profane and did great service for the Cause he professed He hath written An Answer to the Challenge of Thom. Bell an Apostate Printed 1609. The prudential ballance of Religion wherein the Catholick and Protestant Religion are weighed together with the weight of Prudence and right Reason printed in a thick oct an 1609. This is the first part and is contained in two books Afterwards were two other parts composed by the said Author which I have not yet seen Collatio doctrinae Catholicorum Protestantium cum ipsis verbis S. Scripturae Par. 1622. qu. Flores ecclesiasticae Historiae Gentis Anglorum lib. 7. Par. 1654. fol. A survey of a late book intit The just Vindication of the Church of England from the unjust aspersion of criminal schism by John Bramhall Bishop of Derry printed 1654. Whereupon Bramhall came out with a Reply in 1656 but our Author being then dead the controversie ceased He also wrot The life and death of the illustrious Lady de Monte acuto which I have not yet seen At length after he had lived 88 years in this vain and transitory world gave way to fate at Paris on the eighth day of March in sixteen hundred fifty and four which according to the French accompt is the 18 of March 1655 and was buried near to the Altar in the Church of the English Nunnery of the Order of S. Austin situate and being in the Suburbs of S. Victor there Over his grave was a monument soon after put with an inscription thereon the contents of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 298. a. Before or after his death a MS. containing Several Letters and Epistles to the Pope to some Cardinals Bishops and Superiors written by the said Smith B. of Chalcedon came into the hands of Edw. Knott the Jesuit and afterwards into those of Dr. Seth Ward late Bishop of Salisbury See more of the said Bishop of Chalcedon in Will. Bishop an 1624. vol. 1. p. 415. EDWARD BOUGHEN a Buckinghamshire man born was elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. in the year 1605 aged 18 years and after he had been some time standing in the degree of Master was made Chaplain to Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxford Afterwards he had some Cure at Bray in Berks and in 1636 became Rector of Woodchurch in Kent whence being ejected by the Presbyterians in the time of Rebellion he retired for a time to Oxon where he was actually created Doctor of Divinity a little before the surrender of the Garrison there to the Parliaments Forces an 1646. Afterwards he resided at Chartham in Kent but in what condition I know not as yet His works are
degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1611 and about 3 years after leaving his College he became chief Master of Winchester School afterwards Archdeacon of Winton Canon of Wells D of Div. and Archdeacon of Glocester in the place as it seems of Sam. Burton deceased In the beginning of the Civil War when the Puritan or Presbyterian began to be dominant he sided with them took the Covenant and having lost in the War time the profits of his Canonry and Archdeaconry obtained the rectory of Hinton near Winchester in Hampshire whence a Loyal Person a little before had been ejected He was an excellent Linguist able Divine and very well seen in antient Histories His works are these Preces written for the use of the children of Winchester School in Lat. and Engl. Grammaticalia quaedam in Lat. and Engl. Antiquae Historiae Synopsis All which were printed at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct Scholae Wintoniensis Phrases Latinae The latine phrases of Winchester School c. Lond. 1654. 64. oct published by Nich. Robinson his Son Annalium mundi universalium c. Tomus Unicus lib. 14. absolutus c. Lond. 1677. fol. Which book coming into the hands of Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury he did by the Kings command revise amend and fill it up with many things that were wanting He hath also written something in vindication of the Scotch Covenant which I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of him only that he dying on the same day on which James Duke of Richmond died so have I been informed by his Daughter which was the 30 of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five was buried near to and within the North door of the Chancel belonging to the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near to London In his Archdeaconry of Gloc. succeeded one John Middleton in 1660. After him succeeded Edw. Pope who dying in Jan. 1671 John Gregory of Cambr. succeeded CHRISTOPHER BENNET Son of Joh. Bennet of Raynton in Somersetsh was born there or in that County became a Com. of Linc. Coll. in Mich. term in the year 1632 and that of his age 15 took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line but doctorated in that faculty elsewhere Afterwards he was made a member of the Coll. of Physicians at London and much frequented for his practice in that City His works are Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum c. Lond. 1654 oct Exercitationes Dianocticae cum historias demonstrativis quibus alimentorum sanguinis vitia deleguntur in plerisque morbis c. Lond. 1655. He hath also corrected and inlarged Healths improvement or rules comprizing and discovering the nature method and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this Nation Lond. 1655. qu. Written originally by Tho. Moufet This Dr. Bennet was buried on the second day of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five in S. Gregories Church near to the Cathedral of S. Paul within the City of London leaving then behind him as 't is said one or more things fit for the press EDWARD WOOD Son of Tho. Wood alias à Wood or Awood Bachelaur of Arts and of the Civ Law of this University by Maria la Petite commonly called Pettie his Wife descended from a gentile and antient Family in the County of Oxon was born in the Parish of S. John Bapt. in an house opposite to the forefront of Mert. Coll. within the University of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame under his kinsman Will. Burt M. A afterwards Warden of the Coll. near Winton and D. of D. elected Probationer Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1648 and in 1655 was installed one of the Proctors of the University being then noted for a good Disputant Orator and Preacher His works are Several Sermons as 1 Of the knowledge of God by the book of nature in two Sermons on Rom. 1.19.20 Oxon. 1656. and 74. oct 2 Of the knowledge of Jesus Christ by the book of Scripture in two Serm. on 2. Tim. 3.16.17 printed with the former two Sermons 3 His last Sermon Preached at S. Maries in Oxon 20. March 1654. on Philip. 3.8 first part printed also with the former Sermons All which were then acceptable to the generality for the good practical divinity contained in them but since not He died in his Proctorship on the 22 of the Month of May in sixteen hundred fifty and five aged 28 years he being then the eldest of my Brethren and was buried two days after in Mert. Coll. Church not far from the grave of his Father at which time were present the whole body of Convocation and Juniors of the University JOHN ANGELL was born as I conceive in Glocestersh where receiving part of his juvenile Education made his first entry into Magd. Hall about the beginning of the year 1610. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and holy Orders became a frequent and painful Preacher At length about 1630 being made a Lecturer at Leycester continued there several years a Man mighty in Word and Doctrine among the Puritannical Brethren of that place till about the year 1650 at which time being forced by the Independent faction to leave his place because he refused to take the Engagement the Company of Mercers in London gave him a call and chose him Lecturer of Grantham in Lincolnshire it being one of the Lectures that had been given to the said Company by Vicountess Camden whereupon setling at that place he shone as 't is said as a burning light until God translated him to shine above as a Star for ever To which may be added that as his name was Angell so saith another of his perswasion he was a man indeed of angelical understanding and holiness a burning and shining light c. He hath written The right government of the thoughts or a discovery of all vain unprofitable idle and wicked thoughts c. Lond. 1659. oct Four Sermons 1 The right ordering of the conversation two Sermons on Psal 50 last verse 2 Fun. Sermon at the burial of John Lord Darcey 27. Aug. 1636. on Psal 39.5 3 Preparation to the Communion on 1. Cor. 11.28 All printed at Lond. 1659. oct He was buried in the Church at Grantham beforemention'd on the sixth day of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five at which time being attended to his grave by many Divines of the neighbourhood Mr. Laur. Sarson Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. did then deliver before them a large oration of mortality and in praise of the Defunct This Mr. Angell who had the year before his death been appointed by Parliament an Assistant to the Commissioners of Lincolnshire for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters was several times heard to say before he fell sick that it was his great desire to live to see the conclusion of the year 1660 hinting
that he was very confident that then would be great revolutions in the Kingdom of England THOMAS WIDDOWES Son of Thom. Wid. Brother I think to Giles mention'd under the year 1645. p. 44 was born at Mickleton in Glocestershire entred a Student in Gloc. Hall in 1626 aged 14 years where continuing about 8 Terms was made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the favour of Dr. Frewen President thereof Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he was by the endeavours of the same Person made Master of the College School at Glocester in the place of Joh. Langley an 1640. at which time Dr. Frewen was Dean of the Cath. Church there But Widdowes being soon after outed for his Loyalty he became Minister of Woodstock and Master of the School there founded by Rich. Cornwell Citizen and Skinner of Lond. 27. Eliz. dom 1585. where continuing for some time was removed to the Free school at Northleech in Glocestershire a place of more value He hath written The just Devil o● Woodstock or a true narrative of the several apparitions the frights and punishments inflicted upon the Rumpish Commissioners sent thither to survey the Mannors and Houses belonging to his Majestie Lond. 1649. qu. It is a diary which was exactly kept by the Author for his own satisfaction intending not to print it But after his death the copy coming into the hands of another Person 't was printed in Dec. 1660 and had the year 1649 put in the bottom of the title as if it had been then printed The names of the Commissioners were Cockaine Hart Unton Croke Careless and Roe Captains Rich. Croke the Lawyer afterwards Recorder of Oxon. and Browne the surveyor The Book is very impartially written and therefore worth the reading by all especially the many Atheists of this age Our Author also hath written A short survey of Woodstock Taken from antient Authors and printed with the former He hath also written as I have been told certain matters pertaining to the faculty of Grammar for the use of his Scholars which I have not yet seen He was buried in the Church of Northleech beforemention'd on the 26. of June in sixteen hundred fifty and five In the year 1649 was printed in one sheet in qu. a Poem intit The Woodstock scuffle or most dreadful apparitions that were lately seen in the Mannor-house of Woodstock near Oxford c. the beginning of which is It were a wonder if one writes c. but who the Author of it was I cannot tell JOHN LATCH a Sommersetshire man born descended from a gentile family of his name living at Upper Langford near to Churchill in the said County was by the care of his Uncle Latch educated in Academical Learning in Oxon. particularly as I have been informed in S. Johns Coll where he made a considerable proficiency in Literature Afterwards he retired to the Middle Temple studied the municipal Laws but being very sickly lived a solitary and studious life and improved his natural talent as much as his abilities of body would permit He hath written Reports of divers causes adjudged in the three first years of K. Ch. 1. in the Court of the Kings bench Lond. 1662. fol. He paid his last debt to nature at Hayes as it seems in Middlesex in the month of August in sixteen hundred fifty and five and was buried in the Church there Some years before his death he had embraced the R. Cath. Religion partly if not altogether by the perswasion of one called Francis Harvey whose right Sirname was Hanmer a pretended Solicitor and a Broker for letting out money esteemed by the Fanatical Party of that time to be either a Rom. Priest or Jesuit for by his endeavours his estate came to the Soc. of Jesus Soon after fell out great controversies between Uncle Latch who pretended to be Executor to his Nephew and others entrusted by the R. Catholicks What the event of the matter was I know not only that Hanmer was committed to Newgate Prison for conveying away his Will and the matter it self was examined by the Protector in Sept. following FRANCIS GOLDSMITH or Gouldsmith Son and Heir of Franc. Golds of S. Giles in the Fields in Midd. Esq Son of Sir Franc. Goldsmith of Craford in Kent Knight was educated under Dr. Nich. Grey in Merchant Taylours School became a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of 1629 was soon after translated to S. Johns Coll. and after he had taken a degree in Arts to Greys Inn where he studied the common Law several years but other learning more and wrot Annotations on Hugh Grotius his Sophompaneus or Joseph a Tragedie Lond. 1652. oct Which Trag. was with annotations printed then in English He also translated from Lat. H. Grotius his Consolatory Oration to his Father in verse and prose with Epitaphs and also his Catechism into English verse intit Luculenta è sacrâ scripturâ testimonia c. which translations were printed with the annotations beforemention'd See more in Nich. Grey among these Writers under the year 1660. What other things Fr. Goldsmith hath written or translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at Ashton in Northamptonshire either in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and five was I presume buried there leaving then behind him a Daugh. named Catherine afterwards the Wife of Sir Hen. Dacres Knight His Father Francis Goldsmith died 16. of Decemb. 1634 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near to London beforemention'd TOBIE MATHEW the eldest Son of Dr. Tob. Math. Archb. of York by Frances his Wife Daugh. of Will. Barlow sometimes Bishop of Chichester was born as it seems in Oxon. while his Father was Dean of Ch. Church matriculated as a member of that house in the beginning of March 1589 being then eleven years of age and the year following had a Students place conferred on him By the benefit of a good Tutor and pregnant parts he became a noted Orator and Disputant and taking the degrees in Arts he afterwards travelled into various Countries beyond the Seas At his return he was esteem'd a well qualified Gentleman and to be one well vers'd in the affairs of other Nations At length leaving the Church of England by the perswasions of Fath. Parsons the Jesuit to the great grief of his Father he entred himself into the Society of Jesus but whether he took holy Orders is yet to me uncertain Afterwards growing famous for his eminency in the Politicks he came into England upon invitation in January 1621 to the end that the King might make use of his assistance in certain matters of State On the 10. of Octob. 1623 he received the honor of Knighthood from his Maj. then at Royston for his great zeal in carrying on the Spanish match to be had with Prince Charles at which time not only the King but the chief of the Nobility and others
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 B● 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
H. N. O. J. Oxon. which whether meant by Henry HickmaN I know not as yet Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the life and death of Will Laud Archb. of Canterbury c. Lond. 1668. and 71. fol. Aërius redivivus or the Hist of the Presbyterians c. Oxon. 1670. Lond. 1672. fol. Historical and miscellaneous Tracts Lond. 1681. fol. Several of these are mention'd before as 1 Eccl. Vindicata 2 Hist of the Sabbath in 2 parts 3 Hist Quinqu articularis 4 Stumbling block c. 5 Tract de jure paritatis c. with Dr. Heylyn's life before them written by George Vernon Rector of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire sometimes one of the Chaplains of All 's Coll. Which life being alter'd and mangled before it went to the Press by the B. of Linc. T. Barlow and the Bookseller that printed it Hen. Heylyn son of Dr. Heylyn made a protestation against it and Dr. Joh. Barnard who married Dr. Heylyn's daughter wrot his life to rectifie that of Vernon which was alter'd and Vernon wrot another published in oct Our Author Heylyn also composed A discourse of the African Schisme and in 1637 did upon Dr. Laud's desire draw up The judgment of Writers on those texts of Scripture on which the Jesuits found the Popedome and the Authority of the Rom. Church Both which things the said Dr. Laud intended as materials towards his large Answer to Fisher the Jesuit which came out the year following He also I mean Heylyn did translate from Lat. into Engl. Dr. Prideaux his Lecture upon the Sabbath as I have before told you and put the Scotch Liturgy into Latine an 1639 partly that all the world might more clearly see upon what grounds the tumults in Scotland that then before brake out had been raised At length after our Author Heylyn had spent his time partly in prosperity and partly in adversity paid his last debt to nature on Ascension day May 8. in sixteen hundred sixty and two Whereupon his body being buried before the Sub-deans stall within the choire of S. Peters Church within the City of Westminster had a monument soon after set up for him on the north wall of the Alley joyning on the north side of the said choire a copy of the inscription on which you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 205. JOHN LEY was born in the antient Borough of Warwick on the 4 of Feb. an 1583 but descended from the Leys of Cheshire educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school in the said Borough became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1601 where continuing for some time after he was Master of Arts was presented by the Dean and Canons to the Vicaridge of Great Budworth in Cheshire and there continued several years a constant Preacher Afterwards he was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Chester Sub-dean thereof 1605 a weekly Lecturer on Friday in S. Peters Church in the said City and Clerk of the Convocation of the Clergy once or twice But he having always been puritanically inclined he sided with the Presbyterians upon the defection of the Members of the Long Parliament an 1641 took the Covenant was made one of the Assembly of Divines Examiner in Latine to the said Assembly Rector of Ashfield in Cheshire and for a time Rector of Astbury or Estbury in the said County Chairman of the Committee for the examination of Ministers and of the Committee for Printing one of the Ordainers of Ministers according to the Presbyterian way c. President of Sion Coll. about 1645 and afterwards when Dr. Ed. Hyde was ejected from his rich Parsonage of Brightwell near Wallingford in Berks he was appointed to succeed him by the Committee which if I mistake not he kept with other Benefices for a time In 1653 he was appointed one of the Tryers for the approbation of publick Ministers and in the year following an Assistant to the Commissioners of Berks. for the ejecting of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters Soon after upon pretence that he could enjoy but little peace or hope of settlement for after times at Brightwell for the truth is he was much hated while he lived there he obtained the rich Rectory of Solyhull in Warwickshire from the Patron thereof Sir Sim. Archer of Umberslade near Tamworth Knight before the year 1656 where he continued for some time At length breaking a vein within him by overstraining himself in speaking became very weak thereupon So that being not able to go on in the Ministry he resigned Solyhull upon some consideration given and went to Sutton Colfield in the said County where after he had lived privately for a short time gave up the ghost in a fair age He was esteemed in his time a man of note especially by those of the Presbyterian perswasion well vers'd in various Authors and a ready Preacher His works are these An Apology in defence of the Geneva Notes on the Bible which were in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon publickly and severely reflected on by Dr. Joh. Howson When printed I know not 'T was written about 1612 and submitted to the judgment of Bish Usher who did well approve of it Pattern of piety or the religious life and death of Mrs. Jane Ratcliff widow and Citizen of Chester Lond. 1640. oct Several sermons as 1 Serm. on Ruth 3.11 Lond. 1640. oct 2 A monitor of mortality in two funeral sermons occasion'd by the death of Joh. Archer son and heir of Sir Sim. Archer of Warwicksh Knight and of Mrs. Harper of Chester and her daughter Phebe of 12 years old The first on Jam. 4.14 and the other on Gen. 44.3 Lond. 1643. qu. 3 Fury of war and folly of sin Fast serm before the H. of Com. on Jer. 4.21.22 Lond. 1643. qu. c. Sunday a sabbath or a preparative discourse for discussion of sabbatarie doubts Lond. 1641. qu. Assisted in this work by the MSS. and advice of Archb. Usher The Christian Sabbath maintained in answer to a book of Dr. Pocklington stiled Sunday no Sabbath Defensive doubts hopes and reasons for refusal of the Oath imposed by the sixth Canon of the Synod Lond. 1641. qu. Letter against the erection of an Altar written 29 June 1635 to John Bishop of Chester Case of conscience concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper These two last things were printed and go with Defensive doubts Comparison of the parliamentary protestation with the late canonical Oath and the difference between them as also the opposition between the doctrine of the Ch. of England and that of Rome c. Lond. 1641. quar Further discussion of the case of conscience touching receiving of the Sacrament Printed with the Comparison Examination of John Saltmarsh's new Query and determination upon it published to retard the establishment of the Presbyterial Government c. Lond. 1646. qu. Censure of what Mr. Saltmarsh hath produced to the same purpose in his other and
before Insomuch that in compliance with the whimsical and ridiculous fickleness of an humoursome age what of this kind was but just now received from the Press with all possible marks of acceptance and approbation is soon after as not suited to the fashionable mode of the nice and delicate palet of the present times decryed and condemned by the same Persons as flat dull and insipid Notwithstanding this observation generally almost holds good yet Dr. Sandersons Sermons and indeed all his other genuine works have not by their age lost the least of their former repute For such is that solidity and clearness of reason which runs through all his discourses and writings pen'd in such a manly and lasting a language that so long as men make these the only tests and measures of their judgings and censures as they do still so must they needs likewise in after ages continue in the greatest esteem and veneration and he be always placed in the highest and first rank of English writers Two cases of conscience resolved Lond. 1628. oct Three more added Lond. 1667. 8. oct Another Lond. 1674 and another in 1678. In all nine and repr 1678 and 1685. in oct De juramenti promissorii obligatione praelectiones septem in Schola Theol. Oxon. 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. and 83. in oct Printed also at Lond. in Engl. 1655. oct This is the book which I have before hinted that was translated into English by K. Ch. 1. writ with his own hand and by him shew'd to his Servants Jam. Harrington and Tho. Herbert commanding them then to examine it with the original which they did and found it accurately translated Not long after his Maj. communicated it to Dr. Juxon B. of Lond Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sheldon his Majesties Chaplains in ordinary but the particular time when I cannot tell Oratio habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. cum publicam professionem auspicaretur 26. oct 1646. Lond. 1647. 70. 76. 83. oct Censure of M● A. A. his book of the confusions and revolutions of Government Lond. 1649. The next year came out a reply to that censure by Anon. De obligatione conscientiae praelectiones decem Oxonii in Schola Theol. habitae an 1647. Lond. 1660. 70. 76. 82. oct The same in English came out with this title Several cases of conscience discussed in 10 Lectures at Oxon. Lond. 1660. oct Published at the instant desire of Rob. Boyle Esq an encourager of Dr. Sandersons studies in the time of his affliction Episcopacy as established by law in England not prejudicial to regal power c. Lond. 1661. 73. 83. oct His judgment for setling the Church in exact resolutions of sundry grand cases Oxon. 1663. qu. This is at the end of a book intit Reason and judgment or special remarks of the life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Linc. Reprinted I mean His judgment at Lond. 1678. oct Physicae scientiae compendium Oxon. 1671. oct Whether ever before printed I know not His judgment concerning submission to Usurpers Lond. 1678. oct Pax Ecclesiae Lond. 1678. oct in English These two with His judgment for setling c. before mention'd and the Oxford reasons are to be seen in his life printed in oct Discourse concerning the Church in these particulars 1 concerning the visibility of the true Church 2 concerning the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1688 in about 5 ●h in qu. Published by Dr. Will. Assheton of Brasn Coll. from a Ms copy which he had from Mr. Josias Pullen of Magd. Hall in Oxon Domestick Chaplain to the said Bishop at the time of his death He also had the chief hand in a book intit Reason● of the University of Oxon against the Covenant c. wherein the matters that refer to reason and conscience are his yet notwithstanding tho Dr. Zouch drew up the Law part the whole goes under his name He also wrot 1 The large Preface before a book which he faithfully published out of the original copy entit The power communicated by God to the Prince and the obedience required of the Subjects Lond. 1660. 1. in qu. there again in 1683 oct Written by Dr. Jam. Usher Archb. of Armagh 2 The Preface to a collection of Treatises made by the said Archb. bearing the title of Clavi Trabales or nails fastned by some great Masters of Assemblies c published by Nich. Bernard D. D. Lond. 1661. It consists of several Treatises written by Dr. Usher Mr. Ric. Hooker Lanc. Andrews Adr. Saravia c. 3 Prophecies concerning the return of Popery Printed in a book intit Fair warning the second part Lond. 1663. and left a fragment of an Answer to Dr. Tho. Baylies Challenge Which challenge a certain Author calls a piece of transparent Sophistry as was ever called Demonstration And tho the weakness and inconsequence of it hath been sufficiently displayed yet such is the pleasure of some men that it hath been printed and reprinted with as much assurance as if not the least notice had been ever taken of it He also had the chief hand in reviewing the Common Prayer at the Savoy an 1661 being one of the Commissioners appointed for that purpose and was the Author and Writer of several Letters to Dr. Hammond in Dr. Hammonds works about those knotty points which are by the learned called the Quinquarticular controversie Several Treatises also he had laying by him which were esteemed by those that had seen them most worthy of publication but a little before his death he caused them to be burnt least after they might come out imperfectly for lucre sake He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on Thursday 29 of January in sixteen hundred sixty and two and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Bugden before mention'd in the 76 year of his age Over his grave was soon after a marble stone laid with an Inscription engraven thereon made by himself a Copy of which being printed in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. shall be now omitted and in its room shall this be said that whether you consider him in his writings or conversation from his first book of Logick to his Divinity Lectures Sermons and other excellent discourses the vastness of his judgment the variety of his learning all laid out for publick benefit his unparallel'd meekness humility and constancy you cannot but confess that the Church of England could not loose a greater pillar a better man and more accomplish'd Divine Pray be pleased to see more of him in a book entit The life of Dr. Sanderson late Bishop of Lincolne Lond. 1678. oct Written by Isaac Walton and in the book before mention'd entit Reason and judgment or special remarks c. ROBERT VILVAIN a most noted Physician of his time in the West parts of England Son of Peter Vilvaine sometimes Steward of the City of Exeter by Anne his Wife was born in the Parish of Allhallows in Goldsmith-street within the said City and educated there in Grammar
Prince of Poets fell into the hands of the Satyrical wits of this University who having easily got some of his prose and poetry served him as the wits did Tom. Coryat in his time and published them under these titles Naps upon Pernassus A sleepy muse nipt and pincht though not awakened c. Lond. 1658. oct Characters Printed with the former Both which were usher'd into the world by more than twenty Copies of verses advantaging the sale of the book by such that had the name of or at least pretended to be Poets Among them were Tho. Flatman Tho. Sprat and Sam. Woodford since noted and famed for their Poetical works Silvanus Taylour and George Castle of All 's Coll the former better at Musick the other at lying and buffooning than Poetry And among others not now to be named must not be forgotten Alexander Amidei a Jew and Florentine born then a Teacher of Hebrew and other tongues in the University afterwards a converted Christian and Reader of a Hebrew Lecture in Sion Coll. Lond. Our Author Austin hath also written and published A Panegyrick on K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1661. oct wherein just after the Preface he promised to publish more Poems conditionally the said Paneg. took the Subjects of which are there set down But what prevented him unless death which hapned about the plague year in 1665 I cannot tell JOHN OSBORNE a forward zealot for carrying on the righteous cause was the Son of John Osborne of Crediton in Devonshire whence after he had been trained up in trivial learning he was sent to New inn in the year 1634 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts and became a frequent Preacher up of the Presbyterian design At length having sufficiently proved himself to be one of them was made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire in the place of a Loyalist ejected where continuing till the Act of conformity put him out preached in Conventicles in the Neighbourhood and thereupon was imprison'd for several weeks in Oxford Castle Afterwards being let loose he retired to the great City taught School and lived in S. Barthelmews Parish near little Britaine to the time as I take it of his death He hath published The Mysterie of the resurrection on Acts 24.15 Lond. 1651. qu. Conference between him and Rich. Coppin of Westwell near Burford at Burford in Oxfordshire concerning the resurrection of the Body Printed with The mysterie c. He also took a great deal of pains in making A catalogue of our English Writers on the Old and New Testament and had printed about 8 sheets of it but Will. Crowe of Suffolk Schoolmaster of Croyden in Surrey the same I mean who hung himself about the latter end of 1674 coming out before him on the same subject in 1659 prevented him from going any farther This Cat which hath been several times since printed is called by some Osbornes but by the generality Crowes Catalogue One John Osborne hath translated into English for the use of Schools Comenius his Vestibuli linguarum auctuarium c. Printed several times and in 1670 it was printed at London in oct Whether this Jo. Osborne be the same with the former I cannot yet tell GEORGE KENDALL son of Rich. Kendall of Rowel in Northamptonshire was born in that County became Batler of New inn in the year 1630 and that of his age 16 or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and afterwards was actually created Master of that faculty when K. Ch. 1. was entertained at Oxon an 1636. He hath written a book entit An Appendix to the unlearned Alchymist wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent Diopharetick and Diuretick pill purging by sweat and urine commonly known by Matthews Pill c. Lond. 1664. At which time he practiced Physick but whether graduated here in that faculty or licensed to practice it it appears not What other things he hath written I cannot tell nor any thing else of the Author THOMAS HALL son of Rich. Hall clothier by Elizabeth Bonner his Wife was born in S. Andrews Parish within the City of Worcester about the 22 of July 1610 bred up to Grammar learning in the Kings School there under the famous Hen. Bright who perceiving him to be a youth of pregnant parts was by his perswasion sent to Ball. Coll. in 1624 But being his chance to be put under the tuition of a careless Tutor he was removed to Pembroke Coll. then newly founded and became Pupil to Mr. Tho. Lushington reputed by the generality of Scholars eminent for his Philosophical learning After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts and had compleated it by publick Determination he returned to his Country and for a while taught a private School and preached in the Chappels belonging to Kings Norton in Worcestershire Afterwards being a frequenter of the Lectures at Bermingham in Warwickshire maintained and held up by old Puritans they so much operated on his spirit that he relinquished his former principles adhered to that party and in many respects became an enemy to the Church of England and in fine so rigid in his perswasion that he was disliked by the Brethren Much about the same time he served the cure of Kings Norton under his Brother Mr. John Hall who at length resigned it all unto him and for his farther encouragement got the Free-school adjoyning to be added to it Both which employments took up most of his time and were all the preferments he ever had in the Church For being a single person a lover of books and learning and of a retired and obscure life never looked farther than his beloved Kings Norton At the turn of the times in 1641 he shew'd himself openly a Presbyterian and complied altogether with that party not for preferment sake but because they were against Bishops and Ceremonies At length in 1652 having the testimony of godly and able men had the degree of Bach. of Divinity confer'd upon him by the then members of the University but with this condition that he should preach a Latine Sermon as part of his exercise and an English Sermon instead of his other exercise Both which were as I conceive accordingly done tho his admission appears not He was accounted a Person by those of his own perswasion of great integrity and single-heartedness in his Ministry of a free and liberal heart just and one that lived much by faith of an holy and unblamable life of humble deportment and carriage a great lover of peace a plain and profitable Preacher that he was much in communion with God in publick abundant in thansgiving to God careful how to spend his time c. His works are these The Pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publick preaching and expounding the Scriptures without a Call c. Lond. 1651. qu. Answer'd by one Tho. Collier of whom more anon Six arguments to
put an Introduction to the book He died at Lincoln in sixteen hundred sixty and six and was buried in one of the Chappels joyning to the Cath. Church Of the same family with this Dr. Jo. Featley a true and zealous son of the Church of England was Richard Fairclough commonly called Featley a non-conforming Minister and a frequent Preacher in Conventicles sometimes Minister of Wells in Somersetsh afterwards a Preacher in the City of Bristow one or more of whose Sermons you may see in the book called The morning exercise against Popery c. Lond. 1675. qu. He died 4 July 1682 aged 61 and was inter'd in the burial place joyning to the Artillery Yard near London in the presence of 500 Persons who accompanied him to his grave Of the same family tho remote was Sam. Fairclough born at Haveril in Suffolk 1594. bred in Qu. Coll. in Cambr. and died 1677. You may read of him in The lives of sundry eminent Persons in this later age c. Lond. 1683. fol. collected by Sam. Clark p. 153. JOHN WARNER received his first breath as 't is said in the Parish of S. Clements Danes within the liberty of Westminster was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. as a Surrey man born an 1599 aged 16 years where being put under the tuition of a careful Person made a considerable progress in his studies took the degrees in Arts and in 1605 was made perpetual Fellow of that house being then esteemed a witty man a good Logician and Philosopher In 1610 he resigned his Fellowship was about that time Rector of S. Dionyse Backchurch in London and afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity was made one of his Majesties Chaplains Prebendary of Canterbury Governour of Sion Coll Dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Aug. Lindsell promoted to the See of Peterborough an 1633 and in the year 1637 being nominated Bishop of Rochester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Bowles was consecrated thereunto on the 14th and installed 21 of January the same year being then noted for a good School Divine and one well read in the Fathers In 1639 he perceiving the want of a fixed Font in the Cath. Ch. of Canterbury built one at his proper charge which whether more curious or more costly was difficult to judge and the same year it was consecrated by John L. Bishop of Oxon. In the beginning of the Long Parliament he shew'd himself a zealous assertor of Episcopacy in the H. of Lords speaking for the function as long as he had any voice left and very pertinently and valiantly defended the antiquity and justice of Bishops votes in the H. of Parliament Afterwards he did not only suffer with his Brethren by having the Lands of his See taken away but by compounding for his temporal Estate which was considerable He hath written Church Lands not to be sold or a necessary and plain answer to the question of a conscientious Protestant whether the Lands of Bishops and Churches in England and Wales may be sold Printed 1646. 48. qu. Letters to Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning the Chapter of Original sin in the Unum necessarium Printed in the said Dr. Taylor 's Collection of Polemical discourses See more in Dr. Taylor among these Writers under the year 1667. He hath also one or more Sermons extant which I have not yet seen and perhaps other things Quaere At length he giving way to fate on the 14 of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and soon after had a stately monument erected over his grave with a large Epitaph thereon wherein 't is said that he died in the year of his age 86. By his last Will and Test he left his personal estate for an Hospital or Alms-house to be built as conveniently as might be near the Cath. Ch. of Rochester and Lands for the maintenance therein of twenty poor Widows tho himself had always led a single life the Relicts of Orthodox and Loyal Clergy men and a Chaplain to administer holy things to them according to the Church of England To which Chaplain he bequeathed 50 l. per an and to each of the Widows 20 l. per an always reserving so much out of their exhibition as may keep in good repair the said Hospital or Almeshouse The election of the Chaplain is to be made out of Magd. Coll. in Oxon and not out of any other House And the election of the said 20 Widows is to be made by his Executors for the time being and after their decease by such Trustees as they shall appoint In his life time and at his death he gave a 1000 l. for the encrease of the Library of Magd. Coll. with books Five hundred pounds at his death to buy books for the late erected Library at Rochester Two hundred pounds in his life time for the reparation of Rochester Cathedral and at his death he bequeathed 800 l. more To the repair of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London he gave 1050 l. To ●he buying in of impropriations in the Dioc. of Rochester to be laid to the smallest Vicaridges in the said Dioc. 2000 l. To S. Clem. Danes 20 l to Bromley where his Bishops seat is 20 l and an yearly pension to S. Dionyse Backchurch By his said last will also he bequeathed 80 l. per an to issue out of his mannour of Swayton for the maintenance of four Scholars of the Scotch Nation to live and abide in Balliol Coll to be chosen from time to time by the Archb. of Canterbury and Bishop of Rochester and each to have 20 l. yearly till they were Masters of Arts and then to return to their Country and there be Ministers of Gods word c. But the Overseers of the said Will being not willing to place the said Scholars in that College neither the Master and Fellows thereof altogether willing to receive them thoughts were had of making Glocester Hall a College for them and thereupon till they should come to a final resolution concerning that matter the Scholars for the present time were placed there At length when Dr. Tho. Good became Master of the said Coll. of Balliol which was in 1672 he took order that they should be translated thither where they yet remain JOHN WALL was born of gentile Parents in the City of London elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1604 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and afterwards exercised his function for several years in S. Aldates Church in Oxon. In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Chaplain as I conceive to Philip Lord Stanhop and in 1632 he was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. L. Hutten deceased which he kept to his dying day notwithstanding the several revolutions in his time In Nov. 1644 he was made Prebendary of Yatmister secunda in the Church of Sarum given to him by Dr. Duppa Bishop thereof which also keeping till his
settlement of such a government as he never intended Wr. in prose 15 Private address to Oliver offering things pertinent to his consideration This written in prose and verse was sealed up and given into his hands 16 Addr. to Oliver for the third of Sept. 1658. Given also into his own hands 17 Addr. to Rich. Cromwell Given into his own hands These four last things contained the duties and failings of Ol. and Richard and forewarnings of what soon after came to pass There also goes about in Ms his Poem of the History of the pestilence or proceedings of justice and mercy being the same I suppose which I have before mention'd He hath also translated from Greek into English with the help only of two copies The nature of man printed 1636 in tw Written originally by Nemesius At length after this our author George Wither had lived to the age of 79 years mostly spent in a rambling and unsetled condition concluded this life on the second day of May in sixteen hundred sixty and seven Whereupon his body was buried between the east door and south end of the Church which stands north and south belonging to the Savoy Hospital in the Strand near London One George Wither was a Dignitary in the Church and a Writer before the former George was born as I have told you in the Fasti an 1565 but what relation there was between them I cannot tell JAMES SMITH son of Tho. Smith Rector of Merston in Bedfordshire and Brother to Dr. Tho. Smith sometimes an eminent Physician of Brasn Coll was born in the said Town of Merston matriculated as a member of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1622 3 aged 18 years and soon after was transplanted to Linc. Coll. where he continued for some years a Commoner Thence he was preferred to be Chaplain at Sea to Henry Earl of Holland who was Admiral of a squadron of Ships sent for a supply to the Isle of Ree Afterwards he was domestick Chaplain to Tho. Earl of Cleevland who had an especial respect for him for his ingenuity and excellent parts In his service he continued six years had a benefice in Lincolnshire which he kept for a time and in 1633 took the degree of Bach. of Div. by accumulation being then much in esteem with the poetical Wits of that time particularly with Philip Massenger who call●d him his Son Will. D'avenant John Mennes c. From his Benefice in Lincolnsh he removed to Kings Nimphton in Devons and leaving a Curat there he went as Chaplain to the before mention'd Earl of Holland Lieutenant General of the English Forces in the first expedition against the Scots Returning thence soon after he setled at Kings Nimphton where he resided during all the changes of government by compliance with the power that was uppermost After his Majesties return he was made one of the Canons of S. Peters Cathedral in Exeter Archdeacon of Barnstaple Chaplain to Edw. Earl of Clarendon and in July 1661 he was actually created Doct. of Divinity In the next year he became Chauntor of Exeter in the place of Dr. S. Ward promoted to the Episcopal See of that place and in 1663 was presented to the rectory of Alphyngton in Devonshire at which time he resigned Kings Nymphton and his Archdeaconry where he finished his course His chief works that are of Poetry are in Musarum delitiae or the muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656 oct second edit See more in John Mennes under the year 1670. and also in another book entit Wit restored in several select poems Lond. 1658. oct Which book I say is mostly of our author Smiths composition At the end of which is his translation or poem called The innovation of Penelope and Ulysses a mock poem Lond. 1658. oct And at the end of that also is Cleavlands Rebel Scot translated into Latine He also composed Certain Anthems Not the musical but poetical part of them which are to this day used and sung in the Cath. Ch. at Exeter At length paying his last debt to nature at Alphyngton on the 20. day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and seven his body was conveyed to Kings Nimphton before mention'd and was buried in the Chancel belonging to the Church there near to the body of Elizabeth his first Wife Over their graves was soon after put a comely monument with an inscription thereon enlarged after the death of his second Wife who died 4 years after him the contents of which shall now for brevity sake be omitted JOHN BERY or Bury was born in Devonshire admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 9. Feb. 1597 and in the year 1603 he being then Bach. of Arts became tanquam socius of Balliol Coll. or the first Fellow that was put in there to receive the benefaction of Peter Blundell by the appointment of Sir John Popham L. Ch. Justice of the Kings bench Afterwards he took the degree of Master and retiring to his own Country became Minister of Heavietree Canon of Exeter and Rector of Widworthie In Dec. 1643 were the Chancellors letters read in a Convocation of Doctors and Masters in the behalf of him the said Bury then Bach. of Div. as in the said letters is expressed that he might be actually created Doctor of that faculty but he being then absent in the Kings service he was to have that degree confer'd upon him when he should desire it but whether he did so or was diplomated it appears not in the registers He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The School of godly fear an Assize Sermon at Exeter 20. March 1614 on 1. Pet. 1.17 Lond. 1615. qu. 2 The moderate Christian preached at Exeter at a triennial visitation on 1. Cor. 10. vers ult Lond. 1631. qu. c. Gods method for mans salvation or a guide to heaven leading between errors on both hands c. Lond. 1661. in two sheets in oct 'T is a Catechisme for the use of his Parishioners at Widworthie What else he hath published I know not nor any thing besides of him only that he dying on the 5 day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 87 years or thereabouts was buried in the Cathedral Church at Exeter having been before a liberal Benefactor to the Work-house belonging to that City as I have been informed by his Son Arthur GEORGE HUGHES distinguished while living from others of his sirname by the addition of Plymouth to his was born of a Plebeian family in Surrey particularly as I have been informed by a learned Nonconformist in the Borough of Southwark was sent by his relations to Corp. Ch. Coll. in the beginning of the year 1619 where continuing in the condition of a Clerk or Chorister till he had compleated his Bachelaurs degree by Determination translated himself to Pembroke Coll took the degree of Master of Arts as a member thereof entred into the sacred function and for a time exercised the Ministry in
Lat. and Greek and such books having too few buyers in England none yet are found that will be at the charge of printing the said book He gave up the Ghost in Novemb. in the year sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of Taunton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton preached a Sermon before a large auditory mostly consisting of Dissenters wherein were many things said to the great honour of the person that then laid dead before him Over his grave was only this engraven on a stone Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies To God and you a sacrifice Not long after was published his life written by Mr. Rich. Baxter who wrot also the introduction Rich. Alleine Rich. Faireclough George Newton his Widow Theodosia Alleine and two conforming Ministers who conceal their names From which Sermon and canting farce or life especially that ridiculous discourse of Theodosia the reader may easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause this our author Jos Alleine was and how his life was spent in actions busie forward if not pragmatical and medling without intermission The said Theodosia a prating Gossip and a meer Zantippe finding Jos Alleine to be a meer Scholar and totally ignorant of Womens tricks did flatter sooth him up and woe and soon after married and brought him to her Luer After she had buried him and being not able to continue long without a consort she freely courted a lusty Chaundler of Taunton alienated his affections by false reports from a young Damsel that he was enamoured with and by three days courting they were the fourth day married as I have been credibly informed by several persons of Taunton and so obtained him meerly to supply her salacious humour In 1●91 our author Alleine had another book put out under his name entit A sure Guide to heaven c. printed in tw RICHARD GOVE a Gentlemans Son was born at South Tavistock in Devonsh became a Commoner of Magd. Hall in Lent term an 1604 aged 18 years where going through the courses of Logick and Philosophy he took the degree of M. of A. an 1611. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to John Lord Paulet and in Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of Henton S. George in Somersetshire at which place much about the same time he taught a Grammar School In the time of the rebellion he was outed thence for his loyalty as some of his relations have said but I think false and afterwards retiring to the City of Exeter closed so much with the Presbyterians that he became Minister of S. Davids Church there and for several years was much frequented by them About the time of his Majesties restauration he went to East Coker in Somersetshire where he had lived for some time before he went to Exeter at which place he taught School for some time and afterwards was made Minister of it His works are The Saints hony-comb full of Divine truths touching both Christian belief and a Christian life in two cent Lond. 1652. oct The Communicants guide directing both the younger and elder sort how they may receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1654. oct Pious thoughts vented in pithy ejaculations Lond. 1658. oct as also A Catechisme print in oct which I have not yet seen He died on the vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of East Coker before mention'd but hath neither inscription or monumental stone over his grave JOHN DENHAM the only Son of Sir Joh. Denham Knight sometimes chief Baron of the Exchecquer in and one of the Lords Justices or Commissioners of Ireland by Eleanor his Wife one of the Daughters of Sir Garret More Kt sometimes Baron of Mellifont in that Kingdom was born within the City of Dublin but being brought thence very young at what time his Father was made one of the Barons of the Exchecquer in England an 1617 he was educated in Grammar learning either in London or Westminster and being made full ripe for the University was sent to Trinity Coll where he became a Gent. Com. in Michaelm term an 1631. aged 16 years But being looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries and given more to cards and dice than his study they could never then in the least imagine that he could ever inrich the World with his fansie or issue of his brain as he afterwards did From Trin. Coll. where he continued about 3 years and had been examined in the publick Schools for the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Lincolns inn where tho he followed his study very close to the appearance of all persons yet he would game much and frequent the company of the unsanctified crew of Gamesters who rook'd him sometimes of all he could wrap or get But his Father having received notice of these matters took him severely to task with many threatnings to cast him off if he did not forbear from so doing Whereupon he wrot a Little Essay against Gaming shewing the vanities and inconveniencies which he presented to his Father to let him know his detestation of it After his Fathers death who died 6. Jan. 1638 and was buried in Egham Church in Surrey he fell to gaming again and shortly after squandred away several thousands of pounds that were left him c. In the latter end of the year 1641 he published the Tragedy called The Sophy which took extremely much and was admired by all ingenious men particularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield who then said of the author that he broke out like the Irish rebellion threescore thousand strong when no body was aware or in the least suspected it Shortly after he was prick'd High Sherriff for Surrey and made Governour of Farnham Castle for the King But he being an inexpert soldier soon after left that office and retired to his Maj. at Oxon where he printed his poem called Coopers hill which hill is in the Parish of Egham in Surrey above Runney mead hath a very noble prospect and the author of it from thence doth admirably well describe several places in his view there which he mentions in that most celebrated poem In 1648 he conveyed or stole away James Duke of York from S. James's in Westminster then under the tuition of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and carried him into France to the Prince of Wales and the Qu. Mother and not long after was sent with William afterwards Lord Crofts as Envoyes to the King of Poland by the said Prince then K. Ch. 2. In 1652 or thereabouts he return'd into England and being in some streights for by gaming and the War he had squandred away much of his Estate at Egham and elsewhere and the rest ordered to be sold by the Parliament 15 July 1651 he was kindly entertain'd by the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton where
and sometimes at London he continued with that Count more than an year In which time he did translate one of Virgils Aeneids and burlesqu'd it but whether he ever publish'd it I know not K. Ch. 1. did grant to him the reversion of the place of Surveyor of his buildings after the decease of Inigo Jones Which place he entring upon at the restauration of K. Ch. 2. an 1660 for the said Jones died 21. July 1651 aged 79 years or thereabouts and was buried in the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in London he enjoyed it to the time of his death and got by it 7000 l. In the year following he was made a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. and became much renown'd in the Court of that King for his ingenuity but upon some discontent arising from a second match he became craz'd for a time and so consequently contemptible among vain Fops Soon after being cured of his distemper he wrot excellent verses on the death of Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and some months after followed him The things that he hath written and translated have been many but those that are published are only these The Sophy a tragedy Lond. 1642. qu. and 1667. oct Coopers hill a poem Oxon 1643 in one sh and an half in qu. Printed again with additions at Lond. 1650 and 55 in qu. There again in 1667. 68. in oct A poem it is which for the Majesty of the stile is and ever will be the exact standard of good writing It was translated into Latin verse by Moses Pengrey as I shall elsewhere tell you An Essay against gaming Lond. in about 3 sh in oct This I have not yet seen Cato Major of old age a poem Lond. 1648. in tw in 4 parts c. The destruction of Troy or an Essay upon the second book of Virgils Aeneids Lond. 1656. in 4 sh and an half in qu written in the year 1636. Panegyrick on his excellency the Lord General George Monk Commander in chief c. Printed at Lond. in one sh in qu. in the month of Mar. 16●● ●● Tho the name of John Denham is not set to it yet the frequent report was then among the Academians that he was the author of it Various poems and translations Lond. 1667 68. c. oct Among which is The Destruction of Troy Cato Major before mention'd and A Poem on Mr. Abr. Cowleys death and burial among the antient Poets Which last was a little before printed by it self in one sheet in fol. in Aug. 1667. Among them also as I remember is The Prologue to his Majesty at the first play presented at the Cock pit in Whitehall being part of that noble entertainment which their Majesties received Nov. 19. an 1660 from his Grace the D. of Albemarle Which Prologue was printed by it self at Lond. 1660. on one side of a broad sheet or paper A new version of the Psalmes of David This I have not yet seen only mention of it in an excellent copy of verses made in its commendation by Mr. Sam. Woodford sometimes of Wadham Coll in his Occasional compositions in English rimes Lond. 1668. p. 146. The true Presbyterian without disguise or a character of a Presbyterians way and actions Lond. 1680. in half a sh in fol. The name of Sir John Denham is set to this poem but then question'd by many whether ever he was the author of it See other works of his poetry in Sir Will. D'avenant before mention'd He died at his Office near to Whitehall which he before had built in March in sixteen hundred sixty and eight and was buried on the 23 of the same month in the s cross isle or trancept of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster near to the graves of Jeffry Chaucer and Abr. Cowley In the year 1666 were printed by stealth in oct certain poems entit Directions to a painter in four copies or parts and each dedicated to K. Ch. 2 in verse They were very satyrically written against several persons engaged in the War against the Dutch an 1665 and at the end of the said four parts is a copy entit Clarindons house-warming Sir John Denhams name is set yet they were then thought by many to have been written by Andrew Marvell Esq and after that his epitaph both bitterly reflecting on Edw. E. of Clarendon his house called Clarendon house and his ways of scraping up wealth To which Directions tho The Printer that printed them being discovered stood in the pillory for the same GEORGE BATE a most noted Physitian of his time Son of John Bate of Burton or Bourton in Buckinghamshire was born at Maidsmorton near to Buckingham became one of the Clerks of New Coll. in the beginning of 1622 aged 14 years was thence translated to Qu. Coll. for a time and thence to S. Edm. Hall took the degrees in Arts as a member of the last entred on the Physick line and took a degree in that faculty 1629 at which time being licensed to practice exercised it in and near Oxon. for some years among precise and puritanical people he being then taken to be one of their number In 1637 he proceeded in his faculty and became thereupon more noted among men especially when K. Ch. 1. to whom he was chief Physitian and his Court kept their residence several years in Oxon in the time of the grand rebellion Afterwards when his Maj. and his cause declined he retired to London closed with the times for interest sake became Physitian to the Charter-house Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and at length chief Physitian to Oliver while he was General and afterwards when Protector and did not stick tho he pretended to be a concealed Royalist to flatter him in an high degree Upon the restauration of King Ch. 2. an 1660 he got in with the Royal party by his Friends report that he by a dose given to Oliver hastned him to his end was made chief Physitian to K. Ch. 2. and a member of the Royal Society His published works are these The Royal Apologie or the declaration of the Commons in Parliament 11. Feb. 1647. canvassed Printed 1648 in about 14 sh in qu. There was also a book entit The Regal Apologie printed as 't is said at Paris the same year in qu but who the author of it was I know not unless the King himself Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia simul ac Juris regii ac Parliamentarii brevis narratio Par. 1649. Franc. ad Maen 1650. 51. qu. Which being communicated to Dr. Pet. Heylyn before it went to the Press or else when the second part was joyned to it were by him made many observations on it which much tended to the honor of the King and Church This first part of Elenchus was translated into English by an unknown hand and printed at Lond. 1652 in oct The second part of the said Elenchus wherein the author was
and keeping Sir Gilb. Gerard and other members by force of Arms out of the Commons house of Parl. on 27. Dec. 1659. Lond. 1660. Three seasonable Queries proposed to all those Cities Counties and Burroughs whose respective Citizens c. have been forcibly excluded unjustly ejected and disabled to sit in the Commons H. by those now acting at Westm Ibid. 1660. It was published about the latter end of Dec. 1659 on one side of a sh of paper Humble petition and address of the Sea-men and Water-men in and about the City of Lond. to the L. Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of Lond. in Com. Council assembled for a free and legal Parliament c. Ibid. 1660. Seasonable and healing instructions humbly tendered to the Free-holders Citizens and Burgesses of England and Wales to be seriously commended by them to their respective Knights Citizens Burgesses elected and to be elected for the next Parliament 25 Apr. 1660. Books and Pamphlets written after the restauration of his Maj. K. Ch. 2. Second part of a brief Register Kalendar and Survey of the several kinds of Parliamentary Writs relating to the H. of Commons c. Lond. 1660. qu. Bathonia rediviva The humble address of the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Bathe to the Kings most excellent Maj. presented by Mr. Prynne 16 June 1660. Lond. 1660. The first part of the signal loyalty of Gods true Saints and pious Christians as likewise of Pagans towards their King both before and under the Law and Gospel expressed in and by their constant public prayers supplications intercessions thanksgiving for them Lond. 1660. quart The 2 part of ●ig Loyalty together with various forms of prayers supplications votes acclamations ceremonies and solemnities used at the Coronations of Emperors and Kings especially of the Kings of England Ibid. 1660. quart Vindication of Christian Kings transcribed out of Joh. Hus Ibid. 1660. qu. Sundry reasons humbly tendered to the most honorable H. of Peers by some Citizens and Members of Lond. and other Cities Burroughs Corporations and Ports against the new intended bill for governing and reforming Corporations Some few of these reasons were published and the rest suppressed A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common Prayer c. Lond. 1661. qu. Brevia parliamentaria rediviva in 13 sections containing several catalogues of the numbers dates of all bundles of original Writs of summons and elections newly found or formerly extant in the Tower of London c. Ibid. 1662. qu. Apology for tender consciences touching not bowing at the name of Jesus Ibid. 1662. qu. The fourth part of a register and survey of the several kinds and forms of Parliamentary Writs c. Lond. 1664. qu. The first Tome or an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction in over all spiritual or religious affairs causes persons c. within their Realms of England Scotland Ireland and other dominions from the original planting of Christian Religion c. to the death of K. Rich. 1. an 1199. Lond. 1666 in a large fol. The second Tome of an exact chronological vindication c. from the first year of K. John 1199 to the death of K. Hen. 3. dom 1273 c. Ibid. 1665. in a large fol. This second Tome came out before the first Aurum Reginae or concerning Queen-gold c. Lond. 1668. qu. Animadversions on the fourth part of Sir Edw. Cokes Institutes of the Laws of England c. Lond. 1669. fol. The History of K. John K. Hen. 3. and K. Edw. 1. wherein the antient Soveraign dominion of the Kings of England Scotland France and Ireland c. is asserted and vindicated against all incroachments and innovations whatsoever c. Lond. 1670. in a thick fol. He also did revise rectifie in sundry mistakes and supplied with a preface marginal notes several omissions and exact tables a book intit An exact abridgment of the Records of the Tower of London from the Reign of K. Ed. 2. unto K. Rich. 3. of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign and the several Acts in every Parliament c. Collected by Sir Rob. Cotton Kt. and Bar. Lond. 1657. fol. c. Besides these and others which I have not yet seen our Author Prynne hath published the works of other persons as 1 Truth gloriously appearing from under the sad cloud of Obloquy or a vindication of the practice of the Church of Christ in the Summer Islands c. Lond. about 1650. Written by Nath. White Bac. of Div. and Pastor of the Church of Christ at Summer Islands 2 A discourse of the Spanish Monarchy Written by Tho. Campanella which having been translated into English by Edm. Chilmead and published 1654 had a new Preface put to it by Prynne with a Title bearing the date of 1659. 3 A breviat of the life of Will Laud Archb. of Cant. published purposely to make him odious to the vulgar sort of people yet the rational part I mean those persons that were not guided by Presbyterian clamours entertained other kind of thoughts of the Archb. than they had before The original of this Diary was found after his death by Mr. Will. Dugdale and others who were commanded by Authority to search for that and other matters which he the said Prynne unwarrantably got into his custody Several Pamphlets also are fathered upon him of which he was not in the least Author among which are 1 Mola Asinaria or the unreasonableness and insupportable burden now pressed upon the shoulders of this groaning Nation by the headless head and unruly rulers c. held forth in a remonstrance c. Lond. 1659. in 1 sh in qu. 2 Two letters one from Joh. Audland a Quaker to Will Prynne the other Will. Prynne's Answer Lond. 1672. in 3 sh in fol. written by Samuel Butler Author of the much celebrated Poem called Hudibras of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know that he was born in the Parish of Strensham in Worcestershire and baptized there 13 Feb. 1612. His father named Sam. Butler was a person of a fair estate near 300 l. per an but most of it lease-lands held of Sir Tho. Russell Grandfather to Sir Franc. Russell Bt Lord of the Mannour of Strensham before mention'd The son Sam. Butler whom we are farther to mention was educated in Grammar learning in the Coll. School at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright and from thence went as his brother now living affirms to the University of Cambridge yet others of the neighbourhood say to Oxon but whether true I cannot tell Sure I am that one Sam. Butler was elected from Westm school a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1623 but making little stay there he was not matriculated and so consequently the place of his nativity and age are not remaining on record otherwise had he been made a member of the University we
so pleasing to the Royalists who have found much wit and mirth therein that some of them have caused it to be chained to desks in publick places and in some country Churches to be read by the vulgar But as by the publishing of this book he hath much displeased the Presbyterians of whom some have fallen foul upon him in their Writings for so doing so hath he more displeased another party for the writing of this book following The history of the Romish Treasons and Usurpations with an account of many gross corruptions and impostures of the Church of Rome c. Lond. 1671 and 81. fol. Which book had it not fallen into the hands of a knavish Bookseller might have been extant in the life time of the author and so consequently more compleat and exact than now it is At its first publication I was enformed by a letter written by a noted man of that party that the Papists did look upon the said book as a simple thing That he the Author fought against his own shadow and that all sober Catholicks did disallow much of what he combats against That he prayed much to the Lord that he might live to see his book published and then nunc dimittis but it was not granted him c. This Mr. Foulis had laid the foundations of other books which he intended to advance and have them published but the day before he died he committed them to the flames as many other notes he did which would have been serviceable to some scholars He ended his days in the prime of his years occasion'd by a generous and good natur'd intemperance on the Vigil of the Nativity of our Saviour in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried under the north wall at the upper end of the Chancel of S. Michaels Church within the City of Oxon. on the 26 of Dec. being S. Steph. day In his grave was afterwards buried William Stone LL. Bach. sometimes Principal of New Inn who died 22 June 1685. SAMUEL CLARKE right famous for oriental learning son of Thom. Clarke of Brackley a market town in Northamptonshire was born there or at least in that County became a Student in Mert. Coll. in Lent term 1638 aged 15 years where continuing about three years left the University then with the City about to be garrison'd for the Kings use Some time after the surrender thereof to the Parliament he returned to his College submitted to the Visitors and the same year 1648 he took the degree of M. of Arts. The next year July 24 he was designed the first Architypographus of the University and for his better encouragement in that Office had the grant of the superior Beadleship of the Civil Law when it should fall void given to him and after his death to his Successors in that place for ever In 1650 he was Master of a Boarding-school at Islington near London where continuing for some time did give his assisting hand towards the correcting and publishing of the Polyglott Bible In 1658 he made another return to the University and upon a foresight of the death of him that held the superior Beadleship of Law was elected Architypographus 14 May 1658 and on the 29 of the same month superior Beadle of the Civil Law both which places he kept to his dying day and shew'd himself a most necessary and useful person in the concerns thereof belonging to the University Vir Graecis latinisque literis probe instructus in studiis philologicis versatissimus c. His Works are these Variae lectiones observationes in Chaldaicum Paraphrasin These are in the sixth Vol. of the Polyglott Bible beginning in pag. 17. You are to understand that in this Vol. which consists chiefly of notes on the many versions of the other precedent Volumes there are divers number of pages and therefore I cannot better refer you to his Notes than I have done already Scientia metrica rhythmica seu tractatus de Prosodia Arabica ex authoribus probatiss eruta Oxon. 1661. oct Septimum Bibliorum Polyglott 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 volumen cum versionibus antiquissimis non Chaldaica tantum sed Syriacis Aethiopicis Copticis Arabicis Persicis contextum This is yet in MS and not printed He did also accurately describe and turn into Latine from the original Autographe in Cambridge publick Library Paraphrastes Chaldaeus in lib. Paralipomen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n. Which book Dr. Edm. Castell consulted when he composed his Lexicon Heptaglotton as he tells you in the Preface to the first Vol. of that elaborate work And it is mention'd to be the labour of Mr. Sam. Clarke in the Proposals of the University of Oxon for printing of MS published in Sept. in half a sheet of paper an 1681 Our Author Clarke also took great pains in the Hebrew Text Chaldee Paraphrase and the Persian Gospells in the Polyglott Bible which last he translated into Latine This Translation is placed next after the several Versions of the Apocryphal books There also goes under his name a Translation out of Hebrew into Latine the Mishna of the first Massěceth or Tract of the Talmud called Beracoth i. e. about their prayers and forms of blessing See more in Tho. Greaves an 1676. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the Suburb of Oxon on the 27 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the middle of the body of the Church belonging to the said Parish of Halywell dedicated to the Holy Cross Two days after his death was an election made for his successor in the place of Beadle and Architypographus for which stood Tho. Bennet M. A. of Ch. Ch. then Corrector of the University press being put up by his Dean Dr. Joh. Fell as being the most fit person that could be then thought on But Bennet stirring little in the matter supposing the Masters could not otherwise but choose tho then they had little or no respect for him they elected a boon companion not at all fit to be Archityp named Norton Bold M. A. and Fellow of C. C. Coll. who had been put aside from being elected when he stood after the death of Edm. Gayton mention'd under the year 1666. This being done to the discontent of Dr. Fell as Lichfields Election was after Gayton's death who could not otherwise but look upon it as a great contempt of his generous design he upon a foresight of the short life of the then superior Beadle of Div. Tim. Wilkins obtained a Mandamus that Mr. Bold should be translated to that place and thereby make his once more vacant and so consequently bring his man therein Soon after Wilkins died and a Convocation thereupon being called Oct. 6. an 1671 Bold was translated to that place by virtue of the said Mandamus to his advantage and somewhat of disgrace At that time were Candidates for the supply of that vacancy Mr. Bennet before mention'd Noah
Perkinson M. A. of Hart Hall and Gowin Knight M. A. and Fell. of Mert. Coll. But before the Election was to be made Perkinson desisted and Knight by the perswasions some say threatnings of Dr. Fell desisted So that then the Masters were left to Hobsons choice to choose Bennet and no body else Whereupon they perceiving full well that Dr. Fell was resolved to get his man in meerly by his Authority without any application to them and Bennet's little stirring for it only for form sake without applying himself according to the manner with cap in hand to gain votes they were resolved to cross the matter So that when the Election was to be on the 10 of the same month a majority of the Masters joyned together headed and encouraged chiefly by a clownish factious person did in despight of Dr. Fell his Mandamus and Authority of the Heads of Houses Seniors and the sober party set up and choose a meer stranger who lived remotely from Oxon named Christop Wase sometimes Fellow and Bach. of Arts of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a Schoolmaster at several places to the very great-discomposure of Dr. Fell and something to the discredit of the University as if not able to afford a man to execute the said Office Afterwards Wase came to Oxon was sworn and took possession of his place But Dr. Fell who had received a character of would never let him execute the Archityp place because as he usually said he was not fit for it as being not a person of sobriety c. So that from the death of Mr. Clarke to this time the superior Beadleship of the Civ Law and the Architypographers place hath been joyned WILLIAM EYRE Son of Giles Eyre of White in Wilts was born in that County became either a Batler or a Communer of Magd. Hall an 1629 aged 16 years where continuing under a severe discipline till he had taken the degrees in Arts was appointed a Tutor in that House and about the same time entred into the sacred function But being always schismatically enclined he sided with the factious party in the time of the Rebellion against K. Ch. 1 became a rigid Calvinist an enemy to Tithes and a purchaser of Church Revenues In those sad times of calamity he was made Minister of S. Edmunds Church in the City of Salisbury where by his doctrine he advanced much the blessed Cause and in 1654 he was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Wilts for the ejection of such that were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters in which office he shew'd himself very forward against those people of which some were his acquaintance and contemporaries in Oxon. After the Kings restauration he proceeded in his usual preaching but in 1662 was silenced for Nonconformity and lived for a time at or near to Salisbury But finding that place and neighbourhood uneasie he retired to Milksham near to Chippenham in Wilts where he had purchased an Estate and continued there to the time of his death His works are An Assize Sermon at Salisbury on Psal 45.6 Lond. 1652. qu. Vindiciae justificationis gratuitae Justification without conditions or a free justification of a sinner c. vindicated from the Exceptions and Objections which are cast upon it by the Assertors of conditional Justification c. against Mr. Ben. Woodbridge Mr. Jam. Cranford and Mr. Rich. Baxter Lond. 1654. qu. Answer'd the same year by Mr. Baxter in his book intit An admonition to Mr. Will. Eyre of Salisb. concerning his miscarriages in a book lately written for the justification of Infidels against Mr. B. VVoodbridge c. Sermon on Acts 20.9 Lond. 1658. oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church at Milksham before mentioned on the 30 of Januar. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine as the Register of that Church enforms me which I presume follows the English Accompt and not the common Another VVill. Eyre I find who was long before this mans time educated in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge between whom and the learned Usher Primate of Ireland passed many letters some of which were De Textus Hebraici veteris Testamenti variantibus lectionibus an 1607. Pr. at Lond. 1652. The said VVill. Eyre was living at Colchester in Essex an 1617. 15 Jac. 1. EDMUND VAUGHAN son of the Minister of Ashted in Surrey and nephew to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London was born in that County admitted Chorister of Corp. Ch. Coll. an 1621. aged 12 years afterwards he was successively Clerk Scholar and Fellow of that House Bach. of Div. and at length Rector of Pichford alias Pisford in Northamptonshire He hath written The life of Dr. Thom. Jackson sometimes President of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxford 'T was printed and set before the said Dr. Jacksons Commentary on the Creed an 1653 and afterwards before the collection of his works an 1672. fol. This Mr. Vaughan died on the Purification of the Virgin Mary in sixteen hundred sixty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Pichford after he had suffer'd much as a true son of the Church of England and as a loyal man to his Prince and his cause in the time of the grand rebellion began and carried on by a predominant party in both Houses of Parliament THOMAS SWADLIN born in Worcestershire applied his mind to Academical studies in S. Johns Coll. in the beginning of the year 1615 aged 16 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders and had some little cure bestowed on him At length about the time that Dr. Laud became Bishop of London he was made Minister of S. Botolphs Church without Aldgate there where for his ready and fluent way of preaching he was much frequented by the Orthodox party but in the beginning of the grand rebellion he being esteemed as one of Dr. Lauds creatures he was imprison'd in Gresham Coll. and afterwards in Newgate was sequestred plunder'd and his wife and children turn'd out of doors At length he with much ado getting loose but in a manner distracted by the great miseries he endured he retired to Oxon where he was created D. of Div. an 1646 about which time and after he taught School in several places meerly to gain bread and drink as in London and afterwards at Paddington c. Upon the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2. he was re-invested in S. Botolphs Church but being wearied out there by the contentiousness of his parishioners he left it and in the year 1662 he was presented to the Vicaridge of S. James in Dover upon the removal of one John Davis an Independent Preacher and to the Rectory of Hougham near to that place by the favour of Dr. Juxon Archb. of Canterbury but the yearly valuation of both not exceeding 80 l. per an he was at length being grown crazy and infirm presented unsought
sententiis facetiis Lond. 1622. 23. oct Janua Linguarum sive methodus ratio compendiaria facilis ad omnes linguas ad latinum verò maximè aperiens c. Lond. 1617. qu. the sixth edition There again in 1631. Eclogae sententiarum similitudinum è D. Chrysostomo deceptae Graec. Lat. cum annot Lond. 1622. oct Protomartyr Britannus Seu Elegia sacra in conversionem Martyrium S. Albani Lond. 1630. qu. in one sh Lexicon etymologicon Graecum junctim cum Scapula Lond. 1637. fol. De lue venerea libellus This I have not yet seen only a lat copy of verses written in praise of it in the Poems of Tho. Philipot M. A. of Clare Hall in Cambr. Epistola ad D. Lambertum Osbaldestonum cui intexitur Apologia pro honoratiss illustrissimoque viro ac Domino D. Johanne Williams Archiep. Eborac Angliae Primate Lond. 1649. oct Oratio Oxoniae habita in schola publicâ Linguae Graecae assignatâ 15 Kal. Aug. 1650. Lond. 1650. oct Dedicated to Francis Rous afterwards one of Olivers Lords Oratio sereniss Protectoris elogium complectens Oxoniae habita quinto Kal. Maii 1654. Oxon. 1654. qu. Ad Protectorem carmina de pace cum Belgis sancitâ This is printed with the Oration and both are contained in less than two sh Oratio gratulatoria inaugurationi nobiliss honoratissimique Domini D. Richardi Cromwelli c. in Oxoniensis Academiae Cancellariatum consecrati c. Oxon. 1657. oct Oratio steliteutica Oxoniae habita 14 Oct. 1657. sive stricturae in hujus aevi delatores pasquillos in Terrae filios quos vocant eorumque similes Elisae qui in Comitiis Oxoniensibus mense Julio annuatim celebrari solitis c. Lond. 1658. oct This was published purposely to flatter the Presbyterian and Independent Heads of the University for which he was laughed at by the Masters and Juniors Vindiciae Academiae Oxoniensis sive oratio apologetica quâ exercitiorum Academicorum in trimestre vacat à crimine vindicatur Oxon. 1662. oct Marci Tullii Ciceronis vita ex optimis quibusque scriptoribus delibata in compendium reducta Oxon. 1662. in a little oct in 3 sh Oratio panegyrica in honor Car. 2. c. in Angliam plaudente orbe Britannico remigrantis habita Oxoniae 27 Maii 1660. Oxon. 1660. 63. oct Poemata Gr. Lat. de Rege Regina in nuptias Regias These Poems are printed with the 2 edit of the said Oration and both are contained in 2 sh in a large oct He also translated from Lat. into English 1 The mirrour of humility or two eloquent and acute discourses upon the nativity and passion of Christ c. Lond. 1618. oct Written by Dan. Hensius 2 From English into Gr. and Lat. The lesser or shorter Catechism made by the Ass of Divines Lond. 1659 60. oct Dedicated to Rich. Cromwell the Parliament and University of Oxon. 3 From Engl. into Lat. A treatise or discourse concerning Embassadors Lond. 1664 oct Written by Jam. Howell and one or more of the Plays of Margaret Duchess of New-castle for which he was well rewarded He paid his last debt to nature at Steventon in Hampshire near to Newbury in Berks. on Allsaints day in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Churchyard there partly if not altogether at the charge of Nich. Lloyd M. A. and Fellow of Wadham Coll who always had a singular respect for him and for his most excellent knowledge in the Greek and Latine Tongues RICHARD GARDINER was born and bred in Grammar learning within the City of Hereford made Student of Ch. Ch. in 1607 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a quaint Preacher and Orator At length by the favour of K. Jam. 1 who had been much pleased with a Speech that he had spoken before him in the Scotch tone when he was Deputy Orator he gave him the reversion of the next Canonry of Ch. Ch which afterwards falling void by the death of Dr. Tho. Thornton he was installed therein 1629 and in the year following taking the degrees in Divinity he was made one of the Chaplains in ord to King Ch. 1. In 1648 he was thrust out of his Canonry by the Parl. Visitors and for 12 years together lived obscurely in Oxon. After the return of K. Ch. 2 he was restored to what he before had lost and whatsoever he got from that time to the day of his death he bestowed on charitable uses his kindred and the College which gave him breeding He hath published Many Sermons as 1 Serm. at S. Maries on Act Sunday 1622 on Gen. 45.8 Oxon. 1622. qu. 2 Serm. on Christm day on S. Joh. 1. the beg of the 14 verse Ox. 1638. qu. 3 Serm. on Easter day at Ox. in S. Peters Church in the East on Rom. 8.11 Ox. 1638. qu. 4 Serm. conc the Epiphany on Math. 2. ver 2. Ox. 1639. qu. 5 Serm. at S. Pauls Church on his Maj. day of inauguration 27 March 1642 on 1 Tim. 2.1.2 Lond. 1642. qu. 6 Sixteen Serm. preached in the Univ. of Oxon and at Court Lond. 1659. oct The first is on Luke 13.23.24 The sec on Joh. 2.11 and the third on Luke 7. part of the 47 verse c. 7 Serm. at Bow Church in Lond. on the Anniversary meeting of Herefordshire Natives 24 Jun. 1658 on S. Joh. 19.27 Lond. 1659. oct Concio ad Clerum in Templo B. Mariae 14 Feb. in 1 Tim. 4.14 Ox. 1631. qu. Specimen Oratorium Lond. 1653. in 2 sh in oct In which is 1 A Letter from the Univ. of Oxon. to K. Jam. 1. to thank him for his Works which he gave to the publick Library 2 Oration in the Convocation when the Members of the Univ. received them 3 Fun. Oration on Dr. Budden 1620 4 Oration in K. Hen. 7. Chappel at Westminster 11 Nov. 1640 when the Dean of Chichester was presented Prolocutor to the Convocation 5 Gratulation for the Kings safe returne from Edghill battle 29. Oct. 1642. This little book was published again in 1657 and in 1662. in a little oct with the additions of 1 Art Bac. ex Ed. Ch. Oxon Progymnasmata 2 Epistolae nonnullae è cumulo exceptae nomini Subdecani inscriptae 3 Orationes Epistolae c. All which were again printed at Oxon 1668. 1675 c. He died on the 20 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and seventy aged 79 and was buried in one of the isles joyning to the choire of Ch. Ch. Cathedral on the north side You may see his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his Canonry succeeded Rob. South D. D. and Student of Ch. Ch being but the fourth Canon of his stall since the foundation of the Cathedral by K. Hen. 8. The first wos Tho. Day LL. Bac. 1546. The second was Tho. Thornton D. D. an 1567 and the third Dr. Gardiner 1629 as before I have told you HENRY
THURMAN the Son if I mistake not of Edw. Thurman Rector of Hallingbury in Essex who had been thrown out of his living by the Committee of Religion for a scandalous and malignant Priest an 1643 was educated in Westminster School and thence elected a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1648. Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and keeping pace with the Presbyterian discipline became a Preacher some years before his Majesties restauration but when he saw how matters were like to be carried upon his return he became very vehement in his preachings and discourses against the Presbyterians and Independents So that gaining the name of one of the Royal party had a cure bestowed on him in Sussex He hath written A defence of humane learning in the Ministry Or a treatise proving that it is necessary a Minister or Preacher should be skill'd in humane learning Oxon. 1660. oct Dedicated to Dr. John Wall a rich Canon of Ch. Ch. with a flattering Epistle before it for which he was then rewarded but not altogether to his mind This book being published in Mich. term 1659 was look'd upon as a seasonable piece of service because the Universities and Ministry did then lay at stake and had certainly gone to the pot had not Monk come opportunely out of Scotland for their relief This Mr. Thurman died about sixteen hundred and seventy in Sussex as one or two of his contemporaries in Ch. Ch have informed me but where buried they could not further add CORBET OWEN son of Will. Owen of Pontsbury in Shropshire Minister was born at Hinton in that County an 1646 educated in the first rudiments of Grammar in a private School in Shrewsbury under one Scofield a loyal Parson emulated by the Town Free-school under the government of the Saints where he profited very much and more might he have done had not his friends sent him into France and thence into Flanders to be touched by the then exil'd King for the cure of the Kings Evil of which he was once so lame that he went upon crutches In the month of May 1658 he made his first entry into Westminster School and in the year following he was elected one of the Kings Scholars there where 't was usual with him to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses ex tempore in little more than half an hour In 1664 he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and in short time was well vers'd in the most crabbed subtilities of Philosophy After he was Bach. of Arts he applied himself to the study of Physick in which he made so wonderful a progress that had he lived he would have gone beyond all of his time in that faculty In 1670 he proceeded M. of A. and had there been an Act celebrated that year which was put off because of the death of the Duchess of Orleance he would have performed the exercise belonging to the Senior of that solemnity and thereby would as 't is probable have shew'd himself as excellent for Oratory as he had the year before done for his poetry He was the most forward person of his age in the University for his polite learning He was enriched with a great and happy memory a most accurate judgment and with a clear and quick wit He hath written Carmen Pindaricum in Theatrum Sheldonianum in solennibus magnifici operis Encaeniis Oxon. 1669 in 4. sh in qu. Divers poems MS. with translations of Poetry particularly the Otho of Monsieur de Corneille often acted on the French stage which he rendred into English vers He died to the great reluctancy of all those who were well acquainted with the wonderful pregnancy of his parts about the 18. day of January in sixteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church at Cundore in Shropshire Soon after was a large epitaph made for by one that intirely loved him but whether it was put over his grave I know not The beginning is this Siste viator irrita naturae virtutisque molimina vel risu vel lachrymis prosequere c. JOHN MENNES the third Son of Andr. Mennes Esq by Jane his second Wife Daughter of John Blechendon Esq Son of Matthew Mennes was born in the Parish of S. Peter in Sandwich in Kent on the eleventh of May 1598 and was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school there In the 17th year of his age or thereabouts he became a Com. of Corp. Ch. Coll. where continuing for some years did advance himself much in several sort● of learning especially in Humanity and Poetry and somthing in History Afterwards he became a great Traveller a most noted Sea-man and as well skil'd in marine affairs in building of Ships and all belonging thereunto as any man of his time In the raign of K. Jam. 1 he had a place in the Navy-Office and in the raign of K. Ch. 1. he was made Controller of it In 1636 I find him a Militia-Captain and in 1639 he was Captain of a Troop of horse in the expedition against the Scots In 1641 I find him a Vice-Admiral and by that title did he receive the honor of Knighthood from his Majesty at Dover in the month of Feb. the same year Afterwards upon the breaking out of the rebellion he closely adhered to the cause of his Majesty and in 1642 I find him Captain of a Ship called the Rainbow for his Maj. service while Robert Earl of Warwick was Vice-Admiral but how long he continued in that employment I cannot tell sure I am that when his Majesties cause declined he left the nation and for a time adheered to Pr. Rupert while he roved on the Seas against the Usurpers in England who being successless he retired to K. Ch. 2 in Exile took his fortune as other Royalists did yet always in a gay cheerful and merry condition After the return of his Majesty from his Exile he had the place of chief Controller of the Navy conferred on him which he kept to his dying day being accounted by all that knew him to be an honest and stout man generous and religious and well skill'd in Physick and Chimistry This Person who was always poetically given and therefore his company was delightful to all ingenious and witty men was author of the greater part of a book intit Musarum dilitiae or the Muses recreation containing several pieces of poetick wit Lond. 1656. oct 2d edit James Smith whom I have mentioned under the year 1667 had so great a hand in that book that he is esteemed the author almost of half of it Sir John Mennes hath also written Epsom Wells a poem Printed in qu. and divers other poems scattered in other mens works He hath also extant a mock poem on Sir Will. D'avenant and his Gondibert and did assist as I have been credibly informed Sir John Suckling in the composition of some of his Poetry on whom and his Fine Troop of Horse that ran away when they were to engage with the enemy
freed himself from that suspicion I know not Sure it is that he was a most dangerous and seditious Person a politick Pulpit driver of Independency an insatiable esurient after riches and what not to raise a family and to heap up wealth He hath written Letter from Scotland to his Brethren in England concerning his success of affairs there Lond. 1643. qu. Steph. Marshalls name is also subscribed to it Exhortation to the taking of the solemn league and Covenant for reformation and defence of religion c. Printed at Lond. in Feb. 1643 and there again once or twice That edit which came out in 1645 is in tw The excellency and lawfulness of the solemn league and covenant set forth in a speech to the H. of Commons and the reverend Assembly of Ministers at the taking of the said covenant 25 Sept. 1643. Lond. 1660. second edit qu. Apologetical narration submitted to the honourable Houses of Parliament Lond. 1643. qu. In this narration are joyned with Phil. Nye others as Thom. Goodwin Sidrach Simpson Jerem. Burroughs and Will. Bridge all formerly in exile but then members of the Ass of Divines In an answer to this by Anon 't is said that it was written by Tho. Goodwin and Phil. Nye only as the title of the said answer tells you thus An anatomy of Independency or a brief commentary and moderate discourse upon The Apologetical narration of Mr. Tho. Goodwin and Mr. Phil. Nye Lond. 1644. qu. An Epistolary discourse about toleration Lond. 1644. qu. In this discourse are joyned with him Tho. Goodwin and Sam. Hartlib The keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and power thereof according to the word of God c. Lond. 1644. sec edit Thom. Goodwin had also a hand in this book Mr. Anth. Sadler examined or his disguise discovered shewing the gross mistakes and most notorious falshoods in his dealing with the Commissioners for approbation of publick preachers in his Inquisitio Anglicana c. Lond. 1654. qu. Tho no name is set to this pamphlet yet 't was generally reported that it was wrot by Joh. Nye Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. and Clerk to the said Triers or Commissioners assisted therein by his Father The Principles of faith presented by Tho. Goodwin Ph. Nye c. to the Committee of Parliament for religion by way of explanation to the proposals for propagating the Gospel Lond. 1654. qu. Beames of former light discovering how evil it is to impose doubtful and disputable formes for practices upon Ministers especially under the penalty of ejection for nonconformity unto the same c. Lond. 1660. qu. Case of great and present use c. Printed 1677. oct The lawfulness of the oath of Supremacy and power of the King in Ecclesiastical affairs with Qu. Elizabeths admonition c. Lond. 1683. qu. It was then reprinted and in 1687 being printed again it was dedicated by Hen. Nye the Authors Son to K. Jam. 2. Vindication of Dissenters proving that their particular congregations are not inconsistent with the Kings supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs Printed with The Lawfulness c. 1683. Some account of the nature constitution and power of Ecclesiastical courts Printed with the former also an 1683. The Lawfulness of hearing the publick Ministers of the Church of England proved by Phil. Nye and John Robinson Lond. 1683. qu. He hath also a Sermon extant preached before the Citizens of London an 1659 Printed that year in qu. and perhaps more and something about catechising which I have not yet seen He died in the Parish of S. Mich. Cornhill or near it in Lond. in the month of September in sixteen hundred seventy and two and was buried on the 27 day of the same month in the upper Vault under part of the said Church of S. Michael I have been informed by those that knew this Mr. Nye that he had much more moderation in his last years than he ever before shewed To which I then made answer that good reason he had so to be because he was altogether incapacitated from being otherwise JOHN WILKINS Son of Walt. Wilk Citizen and Goldsmith of Oxon was born at Fawlsley near to Daventry in Northamptonshire in the house of his Mothers Father Joh. Dod the Decalogist educated in Grammar Learning under Edw. Silvester a noted Greecian who taught a private School in Allsaints Parish in Oxon entred a Student in New Inn in Easter Term an 1627 aged 13 years but making no long stay there he was removed to Magd. Hall under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Tombes and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became Chaplain to William Lord Say and afterwards to Charles Count Palatine of the Rhyne and Prince Elector of the Empire with whom he continued for some time At length upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he closed with the Presbyterians having always before been puritanically affected and took the Covenant Afterwards being designed by the Committee for the reformation of this University to be Warden of Wadham Coll he was actually created Bach. of Div. in the Pembrochian Creation 12 Apr. 1648 and the next day was put into possession of his Wardenship in the place of a loyal person then ejected The next year he was created Doct. of Div. and about that time took the Engagement that is to be faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it was then established without a King or House of Lords In 1656 or thereabouts he took to wife Robina the widow of Pet. French sometimes Canon of Ch. Ch. and sister to Oliver Cromwell Protector of England which marriage being contrary to the Statutes of Wadh. Coll. because they prohibit the Warden thereof from marrying while he is Warden he obtained a dispensation from Oliver to keep it notwithstanding Afterwards by the favour of Richard Cromwell who succeeded Oliver in the Protectorship he had the Headship of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge confer'd upon him upon the death of Dr. Jo. Arrowsmith in the beginning of 1659 which is the best preferment in that University But being ejected thence the next year about the time of his Majesties Restauration he became Preacher as it seems to the honorable Society of Greys Inn Minister of S. Lawrence in the Jewry in London in the place of Dr. Ward took the Oaths again which he before had taken when he took his Academical degrees and entred into the Ministry and became a member of the Royal Society of and to which he was one of the Council and at length a considerable benefactor Soon after he was made Dean of Rippon in the room as I suppose of Tho. Dod D. D. Rector of Malpass in Cheshire and sometimes Chapl. in ord to K. Jam. and K. Ch. 1. who dying 10 of March 1647 was buried in the Church of Malpass and at length by the endeavours of George Duke of Buckingham then in favour with K. Ch. 2 he obtained upon the death of Dr. George Hall the
of about 800 which he himself had for the most part collected The foundation of it was laid by his Grandfather who had them from Prior Hart and he from the library of Langthony when it was dissolved besides houshold stuff belonging to that Priory Afterwards Charles Theyer Grandson to our author John Theyer who in his last will had bequeathed them to him did offer to sell them to the University of Oxon but the price being too great they were sold to Robert Scot of London Bookseller who soon after sold them to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. to be reposed in his library at S. James he having first as I have been informed cull'd them ROWLAND STEDMAN was born at Corfton in the Parish of Didlebury in Shropshire 1630 admitted Communer of Ball. Coll. 13. Mar. 1647 and the year following removed to Univ. Coll. In 1655 he was admitted Master of Arts and soon after became Minister of Hanwell near Brentford in Middlesex where continuing till 1660 he removed to Okingham or Wokingham in Berks and thence two years after was ejected for Nonconformity Afterwards he was entertained in the condition of a Chaplain by Philip Lord Wharton in whose service he died He hath written The mystical Union of believers with Christ or a treatise wherein the great mysterie and priviledg of the Saints Union with the Son of God is opened c. Lond. 1668. oct Sober Singularity or an antidote against infection by the example of a multitude being practical meditations on Exod. 23.2 c. Lond. 1668. oct He died at Ubourne or Wobourne where the Lord Wharton hath a Seat near to Beaconsfield in Bucks on the 14. of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was buried two days after in the Church there leaving then behind him the character of a zealous Nonconformist GEORGE CASTLE son of John Castle sometimes Doctor of Physick of this University was born in the County of Middlesex in London as it seems educated partly in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire while Dr. Will. Burt was the Master admitted a Communer of Ball. Coll. 8. Apr. 1652 aged 17 years or thereabouts elected Probationer Fellow of All 's Coll. in 1655 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he applied his Studies to Medicine with the help of his Fathers notes took the degrees in that faculty that of Doctor being compleated in the year 1665 being about that time a member of the Royal Society and a Candidate as it seems of the Coll. of Physitians He hath written The Chymical Galenist A treatise wherein the practice of the Ancients is reconciled to the new discoveries in the Theory of Physick c. Lond. 1667. oct Reflections on a book intit Medela Medicinae Printed with the former book Afterwards by the favour of his intimate and dear friend Martin Clifford Master of Suttons Hospital alias the Charter-house he became Physitian there and practised his faculty with good success But giving himself the liberty of too frequent indulgments either to please his friend or patient or both was taken away by death in the prime of his years on the twelfth day of Octob. or thereabouts in sixteen hundred seventy and three and was I suppose buried in the Chap. belonging to the said Hospital By the way I must tell you that the said Mart. Clifford had been educated in Westminster School and thence elected into Trin. Coll. in Cambridge an 1640 where he arrived to good learning and might have been eminent had not the Wars hindred his progress He was the author of A treatise of humane reason Lond. 1675 in 4. sh in tw Which book being made publick in Aug. 1674 it hapned that Dr. B. Laney Bishop of Ely dined with many persons of quality in Octob. following in the Charterhouse and whether he then knew that Mart. Clifford the Master was author of it is uncertain However he being then asked what he thought of that book answer'd that 't was no matter if all the copies were burnt and the author with them knowing by what he had read in the book that the author makes every mans private fancy judge of religion which the Rom. Catholicks have for these 100 years cast upon protestantisme In Decemb. following were published Observations upon a treat intit Of hum reason Lond. 1675. in 3. sh in tw commonly reported then to be written by the same hand and soon after another thing intit Plain dealing or a full and particular examination of a late treatise intit Humane reason Lond. 1675 in 7. sh in tw said in the title to be written by A. M. a Country Gentleman Whereupon came out a reply called An Apology for the discourse of humane reason c. Lond. 1680 in 7. sh in tw with a Review of and an appendix to it written by Alb. Warren who at the end of all hath added Cliffords Epitaph and just character to which I refer the reader This Mr. Clifford died on the 10. of Decemb. or thereabouts an 1677 and was buried in the Chap. belonging to Suttons Hospital Soon after was elected into his place of Master of that Hospital William Erskyne Esq a member of the Royal Society Cupbearer to his Majesty and a younger Son of John Earl of Marr. THOMAS WHARTON was descended from the antient and gentile family of his name living in Yorkshire educated in Pemb. Hall in Cambridge retired to Trin. Coll. in Oxon. before the Civil Wars broke out being then Tutor or Governour to John Scrope the natural and only Son of Emanuel Earl of Sunderland whom he begat on the body of his servant-maid named Martha Jeanes Daughter of John Jeanes a Taylor living sometimes in the Parish of Turfield near to Great Wycomb in Bucks When the rebellion began our author Wharton left the Univ. and retired to London where he practised Physick under Dr. John Bathurst a noted Physitian of that place After Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament in 1646 he retired to Trin. Coll. again and as a member thereof was actually created Doctor of Physick in the beginning of the year 1647 by virtue of the letters of Sir Thomas Fairfax Generalissimo of the Parliament Army Afterwards he retired to London was admitted a Candidate of the Coll of Physitians the same year Fellow thereof an 1650 and for 5. or 6. years was chosen Censor of the said Coll he being then a person of eminent esteem and practice in the City He hath written Adenographia seu descriptio Glandularum totius corporis Lond. 1656. oct Amstel 1659. oct In which book he hath given a more accurate description of the Glands of the whole body than was formerly done And whereas authors have ascribed to them very mean uses as supporting the divisions by vessels or imbibing the superfluous humidities of the body he assigns them more noble and considerable uses as the preparation and depuration of the Succus nutritius with several
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 16●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
stayed an year longer or more would have destroyed all that were to be saved by falling upon them for he was a great Dilapidator suffered some of the Offices Stable and Wood-house to fall made Hey-lofts of the Chambers and suffered one side of the Hall the assembling room to drop down Insomuch that Dr. Edw. Fulham who succeeded him at the Kings restauration was forced to build it up in the first month he had it and Mr. Fr. Carswell in short time succeeding Dr. Fulham spent about 150 l. to make the house habitable He received his maintenance out of the then Augmentation Court neglecting his tithes and put whims into the peoples heads that they were Romish and Antichristian and only pleased himself in taking presents of the peoples free will offering as most becoming the Gospel By these courses he had almost ruined a good Vicaridge for there are but few there now but what are so principled as they think it a piece of service to the establish'd Religion to cheat or rob the Church and an age is scarce able to repair that mischief which he hath done there as other Saints elsewhere I have been informed from that place by a very good hand that he was a man very censorious and ready to damn all those that did not comply with him in his fancies also that he always denied to pay and cheated the wife of Mr. Faringdon his Predecessor in the Vicaridge of her fifths or fifth part of the revenews of the said Vicaridge which he by Law was to pay and she to receive and he thought it a sin to pay her being the wife of one of the Antichristian Crew of the Ch. of England tho she lived near him and he knew full well that she had five or six small Children ready to starve and her Husband a learned man He would not administer the Sacrament in the Church to his Parishioners nor baptize their Children unless they were of his private Church and would not so much as keep company with or come near those that were not of his mind He hath left an ill name behind him and none there have any esteem for his memory only Anabaptists Quakers or such that tend that way In this course he continued till his Majesties Restauration an 1660 and then leaving the place to prevent Ejection he retired to Uxbridge where he carried on the trade among the Brethren either more or less to the time of his death His printed works are these Gate to Sciences Written when he was a Schoolmaster The Childs patrimony laid out upon the good nurture or tilling over the whole man In two parts Lond. 1640. qu. c. This came out afterwards again with the title alter'd Vestibulum or a manuduction towards a fair Edifice by their hands who are designed to open the way thereunto Printed with The Childs Patrimony The Churches Thanksgiving to God her King c. Lond. 1642. qu. The Covenant cleared to the Consciences of all men c. Ibid. 1643. qu. Three Kingdoms made one by the Covenant c. Pr. 1643. Cause use and cure of fear c. Pr. 1643. The Kings Chronicle in two sections Wherein we have the acts of the wicked and good Kings of Judah fully declared with the ordering of their militia and grave observations thereupon c. Lond. 1643. qu. Dedicated to the high court of Parliam and written purposely to point out the bad actions of his Majesty who then stood in his own defence against the inveterate Presbyterians and tumultuous factions in London The Sons patrimony and daughters portion c. Lond. 1643. qu. Inquiries into the causes of our miseries c. Lond. 1644. qu. Written partly against a book entit An antidote against the contagious air of Independency c. by D. P. P. Lond. 1644. qu. Short Letter intreating a friends judgment upon Mr. Edwards book call'd Antipologia with a large but modest answer thereunto c. Lond. 1644. qu. Lords-day the Saints holy-day Christmas an Idol-day c. Lond. 1648. qu. About which time came out Christmas-day the old Heathens feasting-day in honor to Satan their Idol-God c. Whether written by Woodward quaere A just account in truth and peace by Brethren lovers of and fellow-helpers to both why they must open themselves to the view of the world speaking to them as the house top c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Appeal to the Churches of Christ for their righteous judgment in matters of Christ the concernments of all his glory over whom there is a defence whether Christs way be not poured forth in scripture to be traced by the footsteps of his near ones Pr. at Lond. in qu. Conference of some Christians in Church fellowship about the way of Christ with his people and the result therefrom c. Pr. at Lond. in qu. Infant baptism and the first quere thereupon Whether all Parents how notorious soever for wickedness are priviledged upon account of their own baptism to present their infants thereunto The negative maintained Pr. at Lond. in qu. An inoffensive answer to remove offences taken from some passages in a printed book other some from report which are cleared to be wholly mistaken by the Author of the Dialogue concerning the practical use of Infant baptisme in his Postscript to his scond part p. 103. c. Lond. 1657. qu. He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen and had others fit for the press lying by him at the time of his death which hapning at Uxbridge in Middlesex 29 of March in sixteen hundred seventy and five aged 87 years or thereabouts his body was carried to Eaton near Windsore and buried in the Churchyard there near the grave of his sometimes wife Frances Woodward who was as I have been told inter'd some years before him in the said yard He had one only daughter named Frances who became the second wife of John Oxenbridge Fellow of Eaton Coll. and dying in child-bed in the 25 year of her age was buried in the Chappel there and hath a monument over her grave as I have before told you HENRY BEESLEY son of Rob. Beesl Chaplain of Merton Coll was born in the Parish of S. Peter in the East in the City of Oxon 22 Jul. 1605 and in Mich. term 1621 was made either Clerk or Portionist of the said College where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts retired to S. Albans Hall took the degree of Master as a member thereof and was for his ingenuity made one of the Terrae filii in the Act following Soon after he became Tutor in the Country to Tho. Pope the young Earl of Downe whose Guardian Joh. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glocestershire Esq did for the great care he took on his Pupil bestow on him the Rectory of Swerford near to Ch●pping-Norton in Oxfordshire which was all the preferment I think that he enjoyed to his dying day Afterwards he became a sufferer in the time of the
a great admirer of the said Hobbes with whom he was intimately acquainted doth speak freely of Dr. Wallis and why he doth so is because as he tells us he was Sub-scribe to the Tribe of Adoniram i. e. Adoniram Byfield was Scribe to Assembly of Divines and had been an active Preacher in the first War and decyphered besides others to the ruin of many loyal persons the Kings Cabinet taken at Naseby and as a monument of his noble performances deposited the original with the decyphering in the publick Library at Oxford He tells us also that he the said Doctor was then the glory and pride of the Presbyterian faction which our Author Stubbe hated for his Patrons sake In the said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a farther discourse upon that subject but that I suppose was never printed The Savilian Professours case stated Together with the several reasons urged against his capacity of standing for the publick office of Antiquary in the University of Oxon. Which are enlarged and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh. Wallis c. Lond. 1658. in 3 sh and an half in qu. The famous Dr. Rich. Zouche who had been an Assessor in the Chancellours Court for 30 years or more and well vers'd in the Statutes Liberties and Privileges of the University did upon great intreaties stand for the said place of Antiquary or Custos Archivorum thereof but he being esteemed a Royalist Dr. J. W. was put up and stood against him tho altogether uncapable of that place because he was one of the Savilian Professors a Cambridge man and a stranger to the usages of the University At length by some corruption or at least connivance of the Vicechancellour and perjury of the senior Proctor Byfield W. was pronounced elected Whereupon our Author Stubbe who was an eye and an ear-witness of all that had most unjustly passed he therefore wrot and published the said book The Commonwealth of Israel or a brief account of Mr. Prynne's anatomy of the Good old cause Lond. 1659. in oct An Essay in defence of the Good old Cause or a discourse concerning the rise and extent of the power of the Civil Magistrate in reference to spiritual Affairs c. Lond. 1659 oct Vindication of the honorable Sir Hen. Vane from the false Aspersions of Mr. Baxter Lond. 1659. oct The same year I find another book published to that purpose intit A Vindication of Sir Hen. Vane from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Rich. Baxter Printed at Lond. A letter to an Officer of the Army concerning a select Senate mention'd by them in their proposals to the late Parliament Lond. 1659. qu. Miscellaneous positions concerning Government Lond. 1659. qu. They are I suppose the proposals of a model for the Government of the three Nations mention'd by his Antagonist Mr. Glanvill A light shining out of darkness or certain Queries c. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that year the second edition of which hath therein several Additions and an Apology for the Quakers written by the said Stubbe The Commonwealth of Oceana put in a ballance and found too light Or an account of the Republic of Sparta with occasional animadversions upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistical model Lond. 1660. qu. The Indian Nectar or a discourse concerning Chocolata c. Lond. 1662. oct Concerning the said subject one Antonio Colminero of Ledesma a Spaniard and Doct. of Physick hath learnedly written and not unlikely the first of all that hath so done It was rendred into English by one who call'd himself Capt. James Wadsworth under this title Chocolate or an Indian drink c. Lond. 1652. oct Which book our Author Stubbe had seen and has as I conceive followed him in some things As for the said Wadsworth the Reader may know that he was the same who wrot The English Spanish Pilgrim born in Suffolk son of Jam. Wadsworth Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. Cath. bred in puerile learning at Sivil and Madrid in Spain in Grammar and Academical among the Jesuits at S. Omers but at riper years left them and returned to the Church of England was living in Westminster in the time of Oliver an 1655 at which time he was characterized by an English Historian to be a Renegado Proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade and is now living 1655 a common hackney to the basest catch-pole Bayliffs and too boot a Justice of the Peace in his bench book enters him and his wife Pimp and Bawd in his Precinct The miraculous Conformist or an account of several marvellous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrak Oxon 1666. qu. with a Physical discourse thereupon c. Before I go any farther with the remaining titles of our Author Stubbes's books I must make a digression and tell you why this book was written and who the subject of it was Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes son of Will. Gr. Esq was born at Affane in the County of Waterford in Ireland on S. Valentines day 14 Feb. 1628 was bred a Protestant in the Free-school at Lismore and at 13 years of age was designed to be a Student in the Coll. at Dublin but the Rebellion breaking out in that Nation he was forced with his mother to fly for refuge into England where by the favour of his Uncle Edm. Harris brother to Sir Edw. Harris Knight his mothers father he was for the present time relieved After his death his mother for his farther progress in literature committed him to the charge of a certain Presbyterian called Joh. Daniel Getsius a High German Minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devonshire with whom he spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity and found from his hands much favour and love After 5 or 6 years absence he returned to his native Country at that time in a most miserable and deplorable Estate which made him retire to the Castle of Caperquin where he spent an years time in contemplation and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world as he saith that his life became a burthen to him and his soul was as weary of this habitation of clay as ever was Gally-slave of the oar which brought his life even to the threshold of death so that his legs had hardly strength to carry his enfeebled body about c. In 1649 or thereabouts he became a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Roger Earl of Orrery then acting in Munster against the Irish Papists and others then called the Rebels and in 1656 a great part of the Army there of the English being disbanded he retired to his native country of Affane the habitation of his Ancestors and by the favour of the then Governor he was made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Corke Register for Transplantation and Justice of the Peace After his Majesties Restauration he was removed as I have heard from
Ap. 1646. and once as it seems before the Commons 30. July 1645 and his sermons without doubt were published but such I have not yet seen nor a little thing printed in tw going under the name of Thom. Ford entit The Anatomy of the times This Tho. Ford of Exeter died in the latter end of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and six and was buried on the 28 day of the same month in the Church of S. Lawrence before mention'd near to the bodies of his Wife Bridget and several of his Children that had been there buried before him I find one Thomas Ford who entitles himself Philothal to be author of Virtus rediviva A Panegyrick on our late K. Ch. 1. c. attended with several other pieces from the said pen viz. 1 A theatre of Wits being a collection of Apothegms 2 A century of familiar Letters 3 Loves Laberynth a Trag. Comedy 4 Fragmenta Poetica or poetical diversions concluding with a Panegyrick on his sacred Majesties return Lond. 1660. oct But whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot yet tell nor whether he was the same T. Forde who translated into English Lusus fortunae c. Lond. 1649. oct GEORGE DIGBY son and heir of John Digby Earl of Bristow was born in the City of Madrid in Spain in the month of Oct. 1612 made his first entry into Magd. Coll. 15. Aug. 1626 and was then entred a Noble man there At which time and so long as he continued there he was very familiar and held great correspondence with Pet. Heylyn Fellow of that House by whose directions and conversation he improved himself much in several sorts of learning In 1636 just after his Majest had left Oxon where he had been splendidly entertained by the members of the University and by the Archbishop at S. Johns Coll he was among other Persons of honor actually created Master of Arts being then esteemed a Person of good parts and in hopes to do the State service In the beginning of the Long Parliament of which he was a member he became one of the eminent Darlings of the People as being a Person discontented and therefore was appointed one of the Committee to prepare a charge against the most noble and eminently conspicuous Thomas Earl of Strafford 11. Nov. 1640 and appointed one of the managers of the evidence against him But upon a discovery of the unjust practices against him he became his Advocate tho all the advantage he got by it was that he lost his own esteem both among the House of Commons and among the Faction From that time he became their declared enemy by being a bold friend of truth and justice which he shewed in a Speech at the passing of the Bill of Attainder against the said Earl 21. Apr. 1641 ordered to be burnt as I shall tell you anon and therefore was posted up by some in the head of those called Straffordians He was also a friend to the Bishops and their function when both were called into question about that time and a zealous enemy to the Covenant All which do appear in speeches uttered in good language and sweetness On the 10. of June 1641. he was expell'd the House of Commons not only for exceptions taken by them for words spoken concerning an oath which Colonel G. Goring confessed he had taken to be secret to saying he was a perjur'd Person but because he was the day before made a Baron and introduced into the upper House the very same 10. of June In the beginning of January following he went on a message from his Maj. to Kingston upon Thames to certain Gentlemen there some say to give Coll. Tho. Lundsford a visit in a Coach with 6 horses and no other equipage with him save only a servant riding by him and a Companion in a Coach But his appearance there being represented to the Parliament as in a warlike manner and every Coach horse reckoned for a Troop the House of Commons made a complaint thereof on the 10. of the same month to the House of Lords Whereupon it being voted that he then took up Arms for his Majesty he was proclaimed Traitor banished and made the publick hatred of the Puritans or Presbyterians But the King soon after leaving the Parliament because of their desperate proceedings he drew by degrees many Lords and Commons after him together with this Lord from beyond the Seas and therefore he was excepted by the Parliament in a treaty of peace with the King at Oxon in the latter end of the year 1642. In 1643 he was made one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty and high Steward of this University in the place of Will Lord Say who adher'd to the Parliament and in the next year he would have been question'd for an Incendiary by the Parliament sitting at Oxon because of a Mutiny that hapned among the Soldiers of the Garrison there but it was dissolved before the members could do any thing in the matter In the latter end of 1645 he being then a stirring active man he went into Ireland where he did good service for his Majesty and underwent great hazards of his life but upon the declining of the Kings cause he left that place and on the 24. of Oct. 1648 he was exempted from pardon by the Parliament Afterwards upon the death of his Father he became Earl of Bristow and Knight of the Garter being then in exile beyond the Seas suffering much by the loss of his Estate After the Kings return he was restored to what he had lost and the year after was installed with others Knight of the said Order became a frequent Speaker in Parliaments and an enemy to Clarendon while he was Lord Chancellour Under his name were printed these things following Several Speeches as 1 Speech in Parl. 9. Nov. 1640. concerning grievances and a triennial Parliament Lond. 1641. qu. Printed in the 1. vol. of John Nalson's Impartial Collection c. p. 505. 2 Speech in the H. of Com. to the bill of triennial Parliaments 19. Jan. 1640. Lond. 1641. qu. Remitted into the third part of Joh. Rushworth's Historical Collections 3 Sp. in the H. of Com. concerning Bishops and the City Petition 9. Feb. 1640. Lond. 1640. in 4. sh in qu. Remitted into the said 3d. part of Hist Coll. with other discourses of our author Digby This Sp. spoken 9. Feb. is called the L. Digby's third speech 4 Sp. in the House of Com. to the bill of Attainder of the Earl of Strafford 21. Apr. 1641. Lond. 1641. in two sh in qu. Remitted into John Rushworth's Trial of the E. of Strafford p. 50. and into Joh. Nalson's Impart Coll. vol. 2. p. 175. On the 13 of July following it was ordered by the H. of Com. that one part of the said speech should be publickly burnt on Friday after at 10. of the clock in the morn by the hands of the common hangman in the Pallace-yard at Westminster and another part
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 seem● 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 Nu●-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 à
mark and number of the name of the beast c. Lond. 1656. qu. grounded on Rev. 13.18 Which book is much commended by Matth. Poole in his fifth vol. of Synopsis Criticorum on the Rev. and doth acknowledge that he had some MS. notes from our Author concerning that matter which he had made use of in that volume Vindiciae fundamenti Or a threefold defence of the doctrine of original sin Together with some other fundamentals of Salvation The first against the exceptions of Mr. Rob. Everard in his book intit The Creation and the Fall of man The second against the Examiners of the late Assemblies Confession of Faith The third against the Allegations of Dr. Jer. Taylor in his Unum necessarium and two lesser Treatises of his Lond. 1658. qu. After his Majesties restauration he the said Mr. Stephens kept his Rectory of Fenny-Drayton because the owner of it had been some years before dead but upon the publication of the Act of Uniformity in 1662 he left it because he would not conform resided for some time in the said town and preached thereabouts as a Nonconformist At length after several disturbances he removed to Stoke-Golding two miles distant from Fenny-Drayton and preached there in Conventicles till he was disabled by lameness some years before his death which hapning in sixteen hundred seventy and seven was buried in the Church-yard of Stoke-Golding on the 24 of Feb. the same year One of both his names an Esquire was appointed one of the Commissioners of Glocestershire 1654 for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters who had before been educated in this University THEOPHILUS GALE son of Theoph. Gale D. D. and sometimes Prebend of Exeter was born in Devonshire became a Commoner of Magd. Hall after the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon made Demy of Magd. Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1648 and afterwards Fellow In the year 1652 he proceeded in Arts became a frequent Preacher in the University and a great resorter to the Presbyterian and Indep meetings especially that of Tho. Googwin in the Presidents Lodgings of his College At the Kings return he lost all the right he had to his Fellowship to make room for the true owner and being then wholly addicted to nonconformity travelled beyond the seas as a Tutor to the sons of Philip Lord Wharton After his return he lived in London was for some time an Assistant to Joh. Rowe in carrying on the work of preaching in his private congregation in Holbourne and published these books following which shew him to have been a person of great reading an exact Philologist and Philosopher The court of the Gentiles Or a discourse touching the original of humane literature both of Philology and Philosophy from the Scriptures and Jewish Church c. part 1. of Philology Oxon. 1669 and there again 1672 both in qu. The second part which is Of Philosophy was printed at Oxon. 1671 and at Lond. 1676 both in qu. Of these two parts there is a laudable account in the Philosophical Transactions num 74. p. 2231. an 1671. The third part Of the vanity of Pagan Philosophy was pr. at Lond. 1677 and the fourth Of Reformed Philosophy was pr. there the same year and both in qu. These four books or parts shew the Author to have been well read in and conversant with the Writings of the Fathers the old Philosophers and those that have given any account of them or their works As also to have been a good Metaphysician and School-Divine The true Idea of Jansenisme both historick and dogmatick Lond. 1669. oct The large preface to it was written by Dr. Joh. Owen Theophilie or a discourse of the Saints amity with God in Christ c. Lond 1671. oct The Anatomie of Infidelity or an explication of the nature causes aggravations and punishment of unbelief Lond. 1672. oct Discourse of Christs coming and the influence with the expectation thereof c. Lond. 1673. oct Idea Theologiae tam contemplativae quam activae ad formam S. Scripturae delineata Lond. 1673. in tw Wherein the love of the World is inconsistent with the love of God Sermon on 1 Jo. 2.15 Lond. 1674. and 76 in The Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Philosophia generalis in duas partes disterminata una de ortu progressu philosophiae c. Altera 1. De minorum gentium philosophia 2. De novem habitibus intellectualibus 3. De philosophiae objecto c. Lond. 1676. oct Ars sciendi sive Logica novâ methodo disposita novis praeceptis aucta Lond. 1682. oct This is Joh. Clauberg's Logick and Ars cogitandi called the Jansenists Logick digested into one volume with some alterations and enlargments A summary of the two Covenants This is set before a book by him published intit A discourse of the two Covenants c. Lond. 1678. fol. Written by Will. Strong sometimes Preacher in the Abbey Church at Westminster This learned and industrious person Mr. Gale did design to have published other matters but was cut off in the prime of his years aged 49 or thereabouts at Newington Green near London in Middlesex where then his habitation was in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March in sixteen hundred seventy and seven and was buried in the burial place of Dissenters joyning to the New Artillery Garden and Bunhill Fields in Cripplegate Parish near London He left all his real and personal estate for the education and benefit of poor Presbyterian and Independent Scholars to be managed by certain Nonconformists for their use All his Library also he gave to the Coll. in New England except such philosophical books which are needful for Students of his opinion in Old England JOHN GODOLPHIN the third son of Joh. Godolphin Esquire of the ancient and gentile family of Godolphin in Cornwall was born in the Island of Scilly beyond the lands end in the said County in the Castle there which belonged to his name on S. Andrews Eve an 1617 became a Commoner of Glocester Hall in Mich. term 1632 where profiting much in Logick and Philosophy as afterwards in the Civil Law under the tuition of Will. Sandbrooke was four years after admitted to the reading of any book of the Institutions that is to the degree of Bach. of the said Law In the beginning of 1643 he was actually created Doctor of his faculty being then puritannically inclined and going afterwards to London he sided so much with the men there in power that after he had taken the wicked oath called the Engagement he was by Act of Parl. 30 Jul. 1653 constituted and appointed with Will. Clerke Doct. of the Civ Law and Charles George Cock Esq Judges of the Admiralty and in the middle of Jul. 1659 Clerke being then dead he and Cock were constituted again yet to hold and exercise the said office but till 10 of Dec. following
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
Teresa was born 28. Mar. 1515 died 4. Oct. 1582 and was buried first at Alva and afterwards in the Monastery of S. Joseph of Avila in Spain 4 Her Treatise of the manner of visiting the Monasteries of discalced Nunns These three last were printed with her Life 5 The second part of the works of S. Teresa of Jesus containing 1 The way of perfection 2. The Castle interior or the seven mansions c. Printed 1669. qu. 6 The holy life of Gregory Lopez a Spanish Hermit in the West Indies Printed 1675. in oct 2d edit This Greg. Lopez was born at Madrid 4. Jul. 1542 died at Sancto●fe near Mexico 20. Jul. 1596 and had his life afterwards written by Franc. Loza and translated into several Langages Mr. Woodhead also changed the stile of a book called The Scale or Ladder of perfection written by Walt. Hilton a Carthusian in the time of K. Hen. 6. Which book having been printed an 1494 he I say changed many antiquated words therein and rendred them more intelligible for ordinary capacities Lond. 1679. oct He also changed the stile of another treatise of the same author written to a devout man of secular Estate teaching him how to lead a spiritual life therein Printed with The Scale c. At length after this most pious learned and retired person Mr. Woodhead had lived to the age of man surrendred up his most devout soul to God in his little Cell at Hogsden before mentioned in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body was conveyed to S. Pancras Church near Holbourn in Middlesex distant about half a mile from the back part of Greys Inn and was buried in the yard there about 22 paces distant from the Chancel of that Church on the south side Afterwards was a raised altar-monument built of brick covered with a thick planke of blew Marble put over his grave and on the said planke was this ingraven A. W. obiit Maii 4. A.D. 1678 aetatis suae LXX Elegi abjectus esse in domo Dei mansi in solitudine non quaerens quod mihi utilis est sed quod multis This monument being built 2 or 3 years after his death those that put it up caus'd his grave to be opened to view the coffin and body that they might be sure that it was the person for whom the said monument was erected And had K. Jam. 2. continued in his throne two years longer his body would have been removed to the Chappel in Univ. Coll. and there had a monument erected over him equal to his great merits and worth WILLIAM WHITE who writes himself Guliel Phalerius was born of plebeian parents in a market town called Witney in Oxfordshire in the month of June 1604 was entred a Student in Wadham Coll. in Act term 1620 took the degrees in Arts holy orders and preached for a time near Oxon. At length the Mastership of the Free-School joyning to Madg. Coll. falling void it was confer'd upon him some years before the Civil War began where being setled several persons by his care and industry proved afterwards eminent But being ejected thence in the fatal year of 1648 he did about that time privately obtain of Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury the Rectory of Pusey near Faringdon in Berks situated within his Diocess and kept it during the interval by the favour of friends and the smalness of its profits After the Kings return Dr. Th. Pierce President of Magd. Coll. who had sometimes been his Scholar procured the Rectory of Appleton near Abendon in the same County of the Society of that house to be confer'd upon him both which Livings he kept to his dying day and built houses on them having been always accounted a noted Philologist and a loyal and pious Divine He hath published several small tracts of which these only have come to my sight Ad Grammaticam ordinarium Supplementa paedagogica alia c. Lond. 1648 and 52. oct Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam Lond. 1660. qu. Paraphrasis cum annotatis ad difficiliora loca catechismi Anglicani Printed 1674 in Lat. and Engl. He died at Pusey before mention'd on the first day of June about the first hour of the morn in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been enformed by letters written from one of his quondam Scholars living in those parts HENRY GREISLEY son of Joh Gr. of Shrewsbury Gent. became a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1634 took the degrees in Arts adheer'd to his Majesties cause in the time of the rebellion for which he suffer'd by ejection from his house and expulsion from the University by the impetuous Visitors an 1648. He hath translated from French into English 1 The Prince Lond. 1648. oct Written by Sieur de Balsac 2 The Christian man or the reparation of nature by grace Lond. 1650. in a large qu. Written originally by Jo. Franc. Senault Besides which translations he hath certain Specimens of Poetry extant which have obtained him a place among those of that faculty After his Majesties restauration he became beneficed in the Church and on the 19 of Apr. 1672 he was installed Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Will. Owen M. A. deceased This Mr. Greisley died about the beginning of June in sixteen hundred seventy and eight and was succeeded in his prebendship by Mr. Joseph Glanvill I find R. G. sometimes M. of A. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. to be the translator of A discourse of Constancy Lond. 1654. oct Written in Lat. by Just Lipsius but who he was unless Rob. Gomershall I know not Quaere NATHANIEL HOLMES commonly called Homes Son of George Hol. Minister of Kingswood in Glocestershire was born in Wilts became a Communer of Magd. Hall in the latter end of 1616 aged 17 years whence after he had continued there for a little while he was translated to Exeter Coll. for the sake of John Prideaux whom he much admired and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts. Afterwards returning to Magd. Hall he took the degree of Master and became a frequent preacher for a time in these parts What his preferments were in the Church afterwards I find not unless it was a cure in Glocestershire Sure I am that he took the degrees in Divinity as a member of Exeter Coll. that of Bach. in 1633 and that of Doctor four years after and also that being a severe Calvinist he did upon the defection of the members of the Long Parliament close with the Presbyterians and when the rout of Orthodox Ministers in and near London was made in 1642 and 43 he obtained one or more cures of which the Church of S. Mary Stayning was one But being soon after delivered from the Presbyterian contagion as he call'd it he with Hen. Burton B. D. and Minister of Friday-street in London became great advancers of the faction set up their Independent
weavers beam And certainly he that will or can peruse those his Intelligences called Merc. Politici will judge that had the Devil himself the Father of all lies been in this Goliahs office he could not have exceeded him as having with profound malice calumniated his Soveraign scurrility abused the Nobility impudence blasphemed the Church and Members thereof and industry poysoned the People with dangerous principles At the happy return of the times in 1660 he being conscious to himself that he might be in danger of the halte● once more sculk'd some said fled into Holland till s●ch time he could get his pardon or that the Act of Oblivion should pass In the mean time were not wanting some forward Loyallists to complain of and write against him Among which was a nameless author entit A rope for Pol. or a hue and crie after March Nedham the late scurrulous News-writer print in May 1660. qu wherein he sheweth to the world the horrid blasphemies and revilings against the Kings Majesties Person his cause and his friends published in his weekly Politicus In Apr. also the same year was put forth A conference between Tho. Scot and March Nedham concerning the present Affairs of the Nation wherein many of Nedhams rogueries are ript up and laid open to the world In the beginning also of Jan. before going when great hopes depended upon Monks proceeding a poem entit A New-years gift for Politicus said to be written by Will. Kilburne flew about wherein he tells you that Nedham wrot Politicus Intelligencer As famous as old Meg Spencer Pragmaticus The Spy what not Britanicus The Counter plot Of Hell c. But notwithstanding all verbal and printed complaints he for money given to an hungry courtier obtained his pardon under the Great Seal which was his defence oftentimes particularly at Oxford Act in 1661 when then several set upon him in S. Maries Church to hale him before a Justice and so to prison for treason so that I say being free and at liberty by vertue of that Seal which he several times produced he exercised the faculty of physick to his dying day among the Brethren which was a considerable benefit to him He was a person endowed with quick natural parts was a good humanitian Poet and boon Droll And had he been constant to his Cavaleering principles he would have been beloved by and admired of all but being mercenary and valuing money and sordid interest rather than conscience friendship or love to his Prince was much hated by the Royal Party to his last and many cannot yet endure to hear him spoken of Among several things that he hath written and published these following have only come to my sight Mercurius Britanicus communicating the affairs of Great Britaine for the better information of the people These Mercuries began about the middle of Octob. 1643 and were carried on thence week by week every Munday in one sh to the latter end of 1646 or beginning of 1647. I have seen a Trag. Com. intit Merc. Britanicus or the English intelligencer reprinted in 1641. qu. but the author of that was Rich. Brathwayte A check to the checker of Britanicus or the honour and integrity of Coll. Nath. Fiennes revived re-estated from certain prejudices and mistakes occasion'd by late misreports Lond. 1644. qu. A Hue and crie after the King c. Generally reported to have been written by this author particularly 1 By the writer of the Brief Chron. of the late intestine war c. who tells us that when the King fled from Hampton Court in Nov. 1647 to the Isle of Wight one Nedham published a most execrable and blasphemous paper called A hue and crie after the King c. But how it can be so I cannot judge unless our author Nedham could write treason and loyalty in one breath for at that time and some weeks before he wrot Merc. Pragm as I shall anon tell you 2 The writer of the witty Poem entit Merc. Britanicus his welcome to Hell wherein reckoning up most of the Intelligencies that were wrot for the Parliament saith thus Amongst all these dear son Britanicus Thou hast shew'd thy self the best Mercurius Thou hast out-slander'd Slander and prevail'd And every railing Rogue thou hast out-rail'd Thou bravely didst thy Soveraigne vilifie Persu'dst his honour with an Hue and Cry Abus'd the Queen with scandals c. But the Reader is to know notwithstanding these Writers that the Hue and Cry was not written when the K. left Hampton Court but after his defeat at Naseby an 1645. Our author Nedham hath also written The case of the Kingdom stated according to the proper interests of the several parties engaged c. When first published I know not the third edition was printed at Lond. 1647. in qu. The Levellers level'd or the Independents conspiracy to root out Monarchy An interlude Lond. 1647. in two sh in qu. Said in the title to be written by Merc. pragmaticus See in Will. Prynne under the year 1669. p. 320. Mercurius pragmaticus communicating intelligence from all parts touching all affairs designs humours and conditions throughout the Kingdom especially from Westminster and the Head-quarters There were two parts of them and they came out weekly in one sheet in qu. The former part commenced the 14 Sept. 1647 and ended the 9 Jan. 1648. The other which was intit Merc. pragm for K. Ch. 2 c. commenced 24 Apr. 1649 but quickly ended There were now and then other Pragmatici that peeped forth but they were counterfeit A plea for the King and Kingdom by way of answer to a late remonstrance of the Army Lond. in Nov. an 1648 in 3 sh in qu. Digitus Dei or Gods Justice upon treachery and treason exemplified in the life and death of the late James Duke of Hamilton being an exact relation of his traiterous practices since the year 1630 c. with his epitaph Lond. 1649. in 4 sh in qu. In the year before came out a book intit The manifold practices and attempts of the Hamiltons and particularly of the present Duke of Hamilton now General of the Scottish Army to get the Crown of Scotland in a letter from a Malignant in London to his friend in Scotland Lond. 1648. qu. But who the author of this was I cannot tell Mercurius Politicus Comprising the sum of forein intelligence with the affairs now on foot in the three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland These Mercuries came out weekly every Wednesday in two sheets in qu. commencing with the 9 of June 1649 and ending with the 6 of June 1650. At which time being Thursday he began again Now appeared in print saith a certain writer as the weekly Champion of the new Commonwealth and to bespatter the King Ch. 2. with the basest of scurrulous raillery one Marchamont Nedham under the name of Politicus a Jack of all sides transcendently gifted in opprobrious and treasonable droll and hired therefore by
1663 and for which several suffered death at York and elsewhere But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet Sure I am that his name was in his Majesties Proclamation for his apprehension and was therein described to be a tall man flaxen haired and to be between 40 and 50 years of age JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas son of Will. Henshaw of Sussex descended from those of his name in Cheshire was born in the Parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond educated in Merchant-Taylors School became a Communer of Madg. Hall in 1621 aged 18 years or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy orders and became Chaplain to Sir Jo. Digby Earl of Bristow In 1634 I find him Parson of Stedham with Hayshot in Sussex and about that time Preacher at the Charterhouse and Vicar of little S. Bartholomew in London In 1639 he proceeded Doctor of Div. being then Prebendary of Chichester and much in renown for his admirable way of preaching but when the nation was turn'd topsie turvey by the iniquity of the Presbyterians and other discontented people he was dispoyl'd of all suffered much for the royal cause was a brand snatch'd out of the fire and lived for sometime at Chiswick in the house of the Lady Paulet At length after his Majesties restauration he was made Dean of Chichester in Sept. 1660 upon the promotion of Dr. Ryves to the Deanery of Windsore and by vertue of the Kings Conge d' eslire being elected to thee see of Peterborough 15. Apr. 1663 upon the removal of Dr. Laney to Lincoln was soon after consecrated and on the 28. of May Ascension day installed He hath written and published Horae Succissivae or spare houres of meditations upon our duty to God others and our selves Lond. 1631. There again 1640. in tw being the fifth edit In the year 1620 was published in ●● a book entit Horae Subsecivae Observations and discourses but this book was written by Gilbert Lord Cavendish who died before his father Will. Earl of Devonshire which William departed this life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also written Dayly thoughts or a Miscellany of Meditations holy and humane Lond. 1651. oct the third edit with enlargements He departed this mortal life in his house or lodgings in S. James street Covent●Garden with the liberties of Westminster on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hundred seventy and eight whereupon his body being conveyed into Sussex was buried in the Church of East●Lavant near Chichester close by the body of his only wife Jane somtimes daughter of Thomas May of that place and near to a son that he had buried there JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was born at Great Wycombe commonly called Hygh●Wycombe in Bucks became a Commoner of New Inn in the latter end of the year 1622 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts left the University about two years after entred into the sacred function and became a preacher at Abendon in Berks. When the puritan began to be dominant he put in for one having alwaies been precisely educated closed with the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion and took the Covenant and being found very ready to carry on and propagate the cause he was made Minister of S. Thomas in Southwark took the Engagement was made an Assistant to the Commissioners of Surrey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and about the same time had the charge of the Church of S. George in the said Borough confer'd on him as I have been informed by those that knew the man where or else at S. Thomas continuing till after his Majesties restauration was ejected for Nonconformity He hath written and published The glorious mystery of Gods mercy or a pretious cordial for fainting soules c. Lond. 1647. oct This book is the effect of certain Sermons The grand trial of true conversion or sanctifying grace appearing and acting first and chiefly in the thoughts wherein is opened the mystery of iniquity in mans thoughts c. Lond. 1655. oct This also as it seems is the effect of certain Sermons The Mystery of free grace in the Gospel and mystery of the Gospel in the Law Printed in oct Whether he hath any other things extant I cannot tell sure I am that after his ejection he removed to several places and preached in Conventicles and that in his last days removing to the place of his nativity High Wicombe concluded his last there to the great lamentation of the brethren in sixteen hundred seventy and nine whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church at that place was buried on th● ninth day of June the same year in the north isle joyning thereunto JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner born bred in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns Coll. in 1665 junior Collector of the University when Bach. of Arts and one of the first persons that spoke in verse in the first Encaenia at the dedication of Sheldons Theater an 1669. Afterwards being Master of Arts and Fellow of his House he was made Lecturer of St. Michaels Cornhill and Curat to Dr. Edward Layfield of Allhallows Barkin in London He hath written Poems upon several occasions Lond. 1667. oct Character of a London Scrivener Printed with the Poems He was buried in the Church of Allhallows Barkin before mention'd 24 of August in sixteen hundred seventy and nine having before taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield before mention'd widdow of Sir John Mennes and alwaies accounted an ingenious man JOHN MAYOW descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet London admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years cho●e probationer●fellow of All 's Coll. soon after upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq one of the Secretaries of State where tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law yet he studied Physick and became noted for his practice therein especially in the Summer time in the City of Bathe but better known by these books which shew the pregnancy of his parts De Respiratione tractatus unus Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct De Rachitide tract un Oxon. 1668. 69. c. oct Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions nu 41. p. 833. an 1668. De Sal-nitro spiritu nitro-acerbo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De Respiratione Faetûs in utero ovo Ox. 1674. in a large oct De motu musculari spiritibus ani malibus Ox. 1674. in a large oct Of these three last with which were printed again the two first is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact nu 105. p. 101. c. And all five were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet
Sir Ed. Bysshe also gave out among his acquaintance before the Kings restauration that he wou●d write The Survey or Antiquities of the County of Surrey ●ut when after that time he was fix'd in his Clarenceauxship and had got a Knighthood he did nothing but deturpate and so continued worse and worse till his death which hapning in the Parish of S. Paul in Covent-garden on the 15 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine was obscurely buried late in the night in the Church of S. Olaves in the Jewry within the City of London by Mr. Green the Minister of that Church Nephew to the Relict of the Defunct JOHN SHIRLEY son of Jo. Shi● of London Bookseller was born in the Parish of S. Botolph Aldersgate in London 7. Aug. 1648 entred into Trin. Coll. in Lent term 1664 became Scholar of that House in 1667 took the degrees in Arts made Terrae filius in 1673 but came off dull Soon after he was elected Probationer Fellow of his Coll. being then esteemed a person of some parts but behaving himself very loosely was expell'd when the year of his Probationship was expir'd or rather before So that retiring to the great City he married an Inn-keepers Daughter of Islington corrected the Press and wrot and scribled for bred several trite things as A short compendium of Chirurgery containing its grounds and principles more particularly treating of impostumes wounds ulcers fractures and dissolutions Lond. 1683. sec edit in oct In the title of which he writes himself Med. Doctor though never took it in this Univ. or any other degree in that faculty Discourse of the generation and birth of man c. Printed with the former The art of Rowling and Bolstring that is the method of dressing and binding up the several parts c. Lond. 1682. oct printed with the sec edit of the Compendium before mention'd Life of the valiant and learned Sir Walt Raleigh K● with his trial at Winchester Lond. 1677. oct 'T is the same that was a little before prefix'd to the works of the said Sir Walter printed in fol. He hath also written and published little things of a sheet and half a sheet of paper but what they treat of I know not He died at Islington near London before mention'd on the 28. of Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Ch. yard there two days after One John Shirley Gent. hath written The History of the Wars of Hungary or an account of the miseries of that Kingdome c. Lond. 1685. in tw and one John Shurley M. A. and Gent. hath written Ecclesiastical History epitomized containing a faithful account of the birth life and doctrine c. of the holy Jesus with the lives of the Apostles c. in two parts Lond. 1682. oct But whether either of these two was of Oxon I cannot yet tell nor whether J. Shirley author of The renowned History of the life and death of Guy Earl of Warwick c. Lond. 1681. qu. be the same with our author John Shirley of Oxon. DANIEL CAPEL son of Rich. Capel mention'd under the year 1656 was born in the City of Glocester educated in the Coll. School there under Will. Russell was first Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magd. Coll and about the time that he took the degree of M. of A. which was in 1651 he became a preacher Afterwards he was successively Minister of Morton Alderley and Shipton in his own Country which last he resigning because as I presume he would not conform he fell to the practice of Physick in the Town of Strowd in Glocestershire where he continued to the time of his death He hath written Tentamen medicum de variolis and one or two little things besides which I have not yet seen He died at Strowde in sixteen hundred seventy and nine or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there The next that follows a most excellent School Divine and Philosopher is Fr. à S. Clara not known or called Christop Davenport after he had entred into a religious order CHRISTOPHER DAVENPORT son of Joh. Dav. by Elizabeth Wolley his Wife the fifth Son of Hen. Dav. Alderman of Coventry Grandson to a younger Brother of the Davenports of Henbury in Cheshire was born in the antient City of Coventry in Warwickshire and in Grammar learning there educated At about 15 years of age he and his Brother John were sent to Merton College in the beginning of the year 1613 and became Pupils to Mr. Sam. Lane Fellow of that House They were only Batlers and took the Cooks Commons but the Warden Sir Henry Savile having received notice of them and their condition he dismiss'd them unless they would become Commoners But their Parents being unwilling John thereupon went to Magd. Hall and became afterwards a noted Puritan and at length an Independent but Christopher continued longer in the Coll. especially upon Sir Henries recess to Eaton but upon his return withd●ew So that having spent about two years among the Mertonians he by the invitation of some Rom. Priest then living in or near Oxon went to Doway an 1615 where remaining for some time went to Ypres and entred into the Order of Franciscans among the Dutch there 7. Oct. 1617. Afterwards he returned to Doway and was entred into the House of the English Recollects there of the same order 18. Oct. 1618 which was then built for them and dedicated to S. Bonaventure the same year After he had ran a course there and had read for some time a Lecture he went into Spain and in an University there Salamanca I think he improved himself much in the supreme faculty Thence he returned to Doway where he read first Philosophy and afterwards became chief Reader of Divinity in the said Coll. of S. Bonaventure and in fine was made Doctor of Divinity of his order but not of any University At length he became a Missionary in England where he went by the name of Franciscus à Sancta Clara and at length was made one of the Chaplains to Henrietta Maria the Royal Consort of K. Ch. the first and became highly honored of all of his profession and of many Scholars too whether Protestants or Papists for his great learning After his settlement in England where he continued going and coming more than 50 years he did very great service for the R. Cath. cause by gaining disciples raising money among the English Catholicks to carry on publick matters beyond the Seas in writing of books for the advancement of his Religion and Order by his perpetual and unwearied motion day and night to administer among the Brethren and by tendring his service to consult and help warping Protestants c. When Dr. Laud was made Archb. of Canterbury he became his acquaintance not to make use of him as an instrument to reconcile us to the Church of Rome as inveterate Prynne would have it but for that he was much
make him delightfully ventrous and frollicksome to the utmost degrees of riotous extravagancy they for some years heightned his spirits enflamed by wine into one almost interrupted fit of wantonness and intemperance Some time before his death were several copies of his verses printed besides what went in MS. from hand to hand among which were A Satyr against mankind Printed in one sheet in fol. in June 1679. Answer'd in another sheet in the next month by one Mr. Griffith a Minister Andr. Marvell who was a good Judge of wit did use to say that Rochester was the only man in England that had the true vein of Satyr On nothing a Poem Printed on one side of a sheet of paper in 2 columes But notwithstanding the strict charge which the Earl of Rochester gave on his death bed to those persons in whose custody his papers were to burn all his prophane and rude Writings as being only fit to promote Vice and Immorality by which he had so highly offended the Omnipotent and sham'd and blasphem'd that holy Religion into which he had been baptized yet no sooner was his breath out of his body but some person or persons who had made a collection of most of his Poetry in Manuscript did meerly for lucre sake as 't was conceived publish them under this title Poems on several occasions Antwerp alias Lond. 1680. oct Among which as those before mention'd are numbred so many of his composure are omitted and there is no doubt but that other mens Poems are mixed among them They are full of obscenity and prophaneness and are more fit tho excellent in their kind to be read by Bedlamites than pretenders to vertue and modesty and what are not so are libellous and satyrical Among them is a Poem intit A Ramble in S. James's Park p. 14 which I guess is the same with that which is meant and challenged in the preface to the Poems of Alex. Radcliff of Greys Inn intit The Ramble an anti-heroick Poem together with some terrestial Hymns and carnal Ejaculations Lond. 1682. oct as the true composure of the said Radcliff but being falsly and imperfectly published under the Earl's name is said there to be enlarged two thirds above what it was when before in print The Reader is to know also that a most wretched and obcene and scandalously infamous Play not wholly compleated passed some hands privately in MS under the name of Sodom and fathered upon the Earl as most of this kind were right or wrong which came out at any time after he had once obtained the name of an excellent smooth but withall a most lewd Poet as the true author of it but if that copy of verses inserted among his printed Poems before mention'd in pag. 129. wrot upon the author of the Play call'd Sodom be really his then questionless the writing of this vile piece is not to be laid to his charge unless we should suppose him to have turned the keenness and sharpness of his piercing Satyr for such is this upon himself He hath also written A Letter to Dr. Gilb. Burnet written on his death bed Lond. 1680. in one sh in fol. And that he was the author of it the Doctor himself acknowledgeth in the History of some passages of the life and death of John Earl of Rochester About the same time also was published a sheet in fol. intit The two noble Converts or the Earl of Marlborough and the Earl of Rochester their dying Requests to the Atheists and Debauchees of this age but this was faigned and meerly written by a Scribler to get a little money In Nov. 1684 was a Play of Joh. Fletchers published intit Valentinian a Tragedy as 't is altered by the late Earl of Rochester and acted at the Theatre-Royal Lond. 1685. qu. To which is put by a nameless Writer a large Preface concerning the Author and his Writings wherein among too many things and high●flown surfeiting Encomiums that are by him given of the said Count is this For sure there has not lived in many ages if ever so extraordinary and I think I may add so useful a person as most English men know my Lord to have been whether we consider the constant good sense and the agreeable mirth of his ordinary conversation or the vast reach and compass of his invention and the wonderful depths of his retired thoughts the uncommon graces of his fashion or the inimitable turns of his wit the becoming gentleness the bewitching softness of his civility or the force and fitness of his Satyr for as he was both the delight and wonder of Man the love and the dotage of Women so he was a continual curb to impertinence and the publick censor of folly c. In another place he saith thus He had a wit that was accompanied with an unaffected greatness of mind and a natural love to justice and truth a wit that was in perpetual war with knavery and ever attacking those kind of vices most whose malignity was like to be most diffusive such as tended more immediately to the prejudice of publick bodies and were of a common nusance to the happiness of humane kind Never was his pen drawn but on the side of good sense and usually imployed like the Arms of the ancient Heroes to stop the progress of arbitrary oppression and beat down the bruitishness of head-strong will to do his K. and Country justice upon such publick State-Thieves as would beggar a Kingdom to enrich themselves c. To pass by other characters which the said Anonymus too too fondly mentions of the Count I shall proceed and tell you that he hath also written Poems c. on several occasions with Valentinian a Tragedy Lond. 1691. oct They were published in the latter end of Feb. 1690. but the large Preface before mention'd is there omitted These Poems which are different from those that came out in 1680 have before them an admirable Pastoral on the death of the Earl of Roch. in imitation of the Greek of Moschus made by Oldham and among them songs and letters as also 1 A copy of English verses made on the Kings return in a book intit Britannia rediviva printed at Oxon. under the name of the University 1660. qu. 2 A Lat. and English copy on the death of Mary Princess of Orange in another book of verses published under the name of the said University at Oxon. the same year in qu. But these three copies were made as 't was then well known by Rob. Whitehall a Physitian of Mert. Coll who pretended to instruct the Count then 12 years of age in the art of Poetry and on whom he absolutely doted 3 The translation of the ninth Elegy in the second book of Ovids Amours which was published in a thing intit Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgils Eclogues Ovids love Elegies Odes of Horace c. by the most eminent hands Lond. 1684. oct At length after a short but
before the said Epistle congratulatory c. Printed at Oxon 1684. qu. Which Epistle was written as I have been informed by a Scottish Writer since I wrot these things by John Maxwell Bishop of Ross in Scotland who therein compares the Presbyterians to the Jesuits Sed qu. ANTHONY SADLER son of Tho. Sadl of Chilton in Wilts was born in that County entred in S. Edm. Hall in the condition of a Batler in Lent term 1627 admitted Bach. of Arts and in Orders an 1631 being then 21 years of age Soon after he became Chaplain to an Esquire of his name in Hertfordshire and in the beginning of the Civil War Curat of Bishopsstoke in Hampshire afterwards Chaplain to the Lady Let. Paget Dowager and at length being presented to the Living of Compton-Hayway in Dorsetshire was refused to pass by the Triers an 1654 and thereupon no small trouble passed between him and them Soon after he was made Vicar of Mitcham in Surrey where I find him in much trouble an 1664 occasion'd by Rob. Cranmer of London Merchant an inhabitant of that place and afterwards to be Doctor of Div. and Chapl. extraord to his Majesty He hath written and published Inquisitio Anglicana or the disguise discovered shewing the proceedings of the Commissioners at Whitehall for the approbation of Ministers c. Lond. 1654. in three sh in qu. Several Sermons as 1 Benedictio Valedictio or the remembrance of thy friend and thy end being a farewell serm preached at the house of Letitia Lady Paget Dowager deceased on 2 Cor. 13.11 Lond. 1655. oct 2 Mercy in a miracle shewing the deliverance and duty of the King and People on Matth. 8.25 Lond. 1661. qu. It was preached at Mitcham in Surrey 28 Jun. 1660 in a solemn congregation for the restauration of his Maj. to his royal throne c. A divine Masque Lond. 1660. qu ded to the Lord Gen. Monke Strange news indeed from Mitcham and Surrey of the treacherous and barbarous proceedings of Rob. Cramer Merchant of London against A. Sadler Vicar of Mitcham c. Lond. 1664. in one sh in qu. Schema sacrum in ordine ad ordinem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ceremoniarum Lond. 1683. on a broad side of a sheet of paper written in English partly in verse and partly in prose This is the second or third edition but when the first came out I know not nor any thing else of the author only that he died in sixteen hundred and eighty or thereabouts leaving then behind him the character of a man of a rambling head and turbulent spirit RICHARD ALLESTRY or Allestree son of Robert son of Will. Allestry of Alveston in Derbyshire was born at Uppington near to Wreken in Shropshire educated in Grammar learning mostly in the Free-school at Coventry where Philem. Holland taught became a Commoner of Ch. Ch. in Lent term an 1636 aged 15 years being then put under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Busby and about half an year after was made Student of that House In 1642 he put himself in actual arms for his Maj. under Sir Joh. Byron and when Oxford was garrison'd for the King he bore a musket among the Scholars for his service In 1643 he proceeded Master of Arts and the same year had like to have lost his life by the pestilential disease that then raged within the garrison of Oxon. Soon after he took holy Orders and became a noted Tutor in the House but when the Parliament Visitors came under pretence of reforming the University he with hundreds more were ejected So that being put to his shifts he was soon after entertained as Chaplain to Francis Newport of Shropshire Esq afterward L. Newport of High-Arcal with whom continuing till Worcester fight he did after the Kings miraculous escape from the Rebells there attend him at Roan in Normandy and received his dispatches to the managers of his Affairs in England Soon after coming to Oxon where he found his friends Mr. Joh. Dolben and Mr. Jo. Fell living privately and performing the Offices of the Church of England to the loyal party there he joyned with them and continued there till Sir Anth. Cope of Hanwell near Banbury prevailed with him to live in his family which for several years he did having liberty allowed him to go or stay as his occasions required By which advantage he was enabled to step aside upon Messages from the Kings friends which he managed with courage and dexterity But in the Winter of 1659 being snapt at Dover in his return from his Majesty in Flanders he was examined by the Committee of the Council of Safety and committed Prisoner to Lambeth house where he continued till things moved towards his Maj. restauration In 1660 he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and soon after actually created D. of Div and about that time made one of the Lecturers of the City of Oxon to instill principles of Loyalty among the Citizens who before had been led aside by schismatical Teachers In 1663 he being then one of the Kings Chaplains in ordinary became Reg. Prof. of Div. upon the death of Dr. Creed and two years after he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. near Windsore upon the death of Dr. Joh. Miredith which was all the preferment he enjoyed being little enough for such a sufferer as he had been and one that had often ventured his neck to do his Majesty service He was a good and most affectionate Preacher and for many years by his prudent presiding in the Professors chair he did discover perhaps as much learning as any and much more moderation as to the five controverted points than most of his Predecessors He was also a person richly furnished with all variety of choice solid learning requisite to recommend him with the greatest advantage to the more intelligent world for one of the most eminent Divines of our age He hath written and transmitted to posterity The privileges of the Univ. of Oxford in point of Visitation in a letter to an honorable personage Pr. in one sh and an half in qu. 1647. Whereupon W. Prynne came out with his University of Oxfords plea refuted c. and in answer to that R. Waryng wrot An account of Mr. Prynns refutation c. and Ed. Bagshaw sen with his Short censure c. Eighteen Sermons whereof 15 were preached before the King and the rest upon public occasions Lond. 1669. fol most of which had been before published singly Of the authority and usefulness of the Scripture serm on 2 Tim. 3.15 Oxon. 1673. qu. Forty Sermons whereof twenty one are now first published the greatest part preach'd before the King and on solemn occasions Oxon. 1684. fol. These were published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxford and had the 19 sermons before mention'd added to with his picture before them He died in January in sixteen hundred and eighty and was buried in Eaton Coll. Chappel on the north side of the high Altar or Com. table Over his grave was
bred in Cambridge and was some years before reconcil'd to the Ch. of Rome by a R. Priest 3 Tr. of Will Ireland Thomas Pickering and Jo. Grove for conspiring to murder the King c. 17. Dec. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. 4 Tr. of Rob. Green Hen. Berry and Laur. Hill for the murder of Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey Kt. c. 10. Feb. 1678. Lond. 1679. fol. 5 Try. and condemnation of Tho. White alias Whitebread Provincial of the Jesuits in England Will. Harcourt pretended Rector of London John Fenwick Procurator of the Jesuits in Engl. John Gavan alias Gawen and Ant. Turner all Jesuits for High Treason in conspiring the death of the K. the subversion of government c. 13. and 14. of June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. 6 Try. of Rich. Langhorne Esq Counsellor at Law for conspiring the death of the King c. 14. June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. 7 Tr. of Sir George Wakeman Bt. Will. Marshall Will. Rumley and Jam. Corker Benedictine Monks for High Treason in conspiring the death of the King c. 18. Jul. 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. But the generality of people supposing that Scroggs had dealt very unjustly with Wakeman in letting him go free and not condemning him to be hang'd came out Observations on the tryals of the said persons by one that called himself Tom Tickle foot the Tabourer late Clerk to Justice Clodpate Lond. in 3 sh in fol. In which pamphlet the author intimates as if Scroggs was a Butchers Son Soon after this came out two other Pamphlets to the same purpose one entit The Tickler tickled in 2. sh and an half in fol. and the other A dialogue between Clodpate and Ticklefoot in 3 sh in fol. both reflecting on Scroggs as also a piece of poetry that was published at that time called Scroggs upon Scroggs in tw sh and an half in fol. 8 Tr. conviction and condemnation of Ad. Brommich and Will Atkins for being Romish Priests at Stafford Assize 13. Aug. 1679 and Of Charles Kerne another R. Priest at Hereford Assize 4. of Aug. the same year Lond. 1679. in 5. sh in fol. 9 Tr. and condemnation of Lionel Anderson alias Munson Will. Russel alias Napier Charles Parris alias Parry Hen. Starkey Jam. Corker and Will Marshall for High Treason as Romish Priests c. together with the trial of Alex. Lumsden a Scotch man and the arraignment of David Joseph Kemish for the same offence c. 17 Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680. fol. 10 Tr. of Sir Tho. Gascoigne Bt. for High Treason in conspiring c. 11. Feb. 1679. Lond. 1680. fol. Which Sir Thomas being found guiltless and set at liberty he left the Nation and feeling for a time among the Engl. Benedictine Monks at Lambspring in Germany was there seen and visited by Will. Carr an English Gent. sometimes Consul for the English Nation in Amsterdam in his rambles in those parts of whom he makes this mention From the Princes Court meaning of Hessen I directed my journey to Hanover taking Lambspring in my way a place where there is a Convent of English Monks and there I met with a very aged worthy and harmless Gent. Sir Tho. Gascoigne a person of more integrity and piety than to be guilty so much as in thought of what Miscreants falsly swore against him in the licentious time of plotting c. 11 Tr. of Roger Earl of Castlemaine for High Treason in conspiring the death of the King c. 23. Jun. 1680. Lond. 1681. fol. The reader is to note that this tryal was not published immediatly after it was done as all others were but in Janu. following which was more than half an year after the said Trial had been passed And 't is thought that it would never have been printed had it not been to bring an odium upon Scroggs to the end that he might be turned out of his office for his partiality as 't was by many thought in the said Tryal for his too much baiting of Titus Oates endeavouring as they farther added to lessen his evidence 12 Tr. of Hen. Care Gent. upon information brought against him c. charging him to be the author of a scandalous false and malicious book entit The weekly pacquet of advice from Rome or the History of Popery particularly of that of the first of Aug. 1680 wherein Scroggs is scandalized as to the Tryal of Sir Geor. Wakeman c. 2. Jul. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. 13 Tr. of Elizah Cellier c. 11. Jun. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. in 4 sh In all which Tryals our author Scroggs being chief Judge and Speaker they were by his authority printed At length he giving up the ghost at Weald-hall before mention'd on Thursday the 25 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and three was buried in the Parish Church belonging thereunto Southweald The late Industrious Garter Sir W. D. informed me by his Letters dat 28. Jun. 1684 that the said Sir Will. Scroggs was the son of an one ey'd Butcher near Smithfield Bars and his Mother was a big fat Woman with a red face like an Alewife that he was a very ill humour'd man and as I have heard he would never pay his tithes His boldness got him practice by the Law and some wealth wherewith he purchased a Lordship called Weald c. But the Reader must know that the said person Sir W. D. never speaking well of him after he had refused to pay the Fees of his Knighthood to the Coll. of Armes of which he was to have had a considerable share he is therefore desir'd to suspend his belief of the said character given of him the said Sir W. Scroggs till farther proof may be made to the contrary JOHN OLDHAM son of Joh. Oldham a Nonconformist Minister and he the son of Joh. Oldham sometimes Rector of Nun-eaton near Tetbury in Glocestersh was born at Shipton of which his Father was then Minister near the said Town of Tetbury and in the same County on the ninth day of Aug. 1653 bred in Grammar learning under his Father till he was nigh fit for the University afterwards sent to the School at Tetbury where he spent about two years under the tuition of Henry Heaven occasion'd by the desire of one Yeat an Alderman of Bristow who had a Son then there under the said Master whom Oldham accompanied purposely to advance him in his learning This occasion'd his longer stay at School than else he needed but conduced much to his after advantage In the beginning of June 1670 he became a Batler of S. Edmunds Hall under the tuition of Will. Stephens Bach. of Div where he was observed to be a good Latinist and chiefly to addict himself to Poetry and other studies tending that way to which the bent of his Genius led him more naturally than to any other Four years after he took the degree of Bach. of Arts but went away and did not compleat it by Determination So that living for some time after with his
This book which got him great credit with his Diocesan Dr. Jo. Cosin is commended by Dr. Durell in his S. Eccles Anglicanae Vindiciae Afterwards at the request of the said Hesenthalerus our author Ritschel sent to Wertemberg his Ethica Christiana in 2 vol. qu. with another Latin quarto called Exercitationes sacrae which Hesenthalerus desired and promised to take care of the printing them and engaged his son to take the like care if he should die before they were began Whether they were printed is not yet certain He also at his death left with his son two MSS. ready for the press one De fide catholica and the other against the English Quakers both in qu. and in Latine This learned author who for a time had been Tutor in his travels to the sons of the Prince of Transylvania died on the 28 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Hexham before mentioned sometimes a Cathedral dedicated to St. Andrew in the Vicaridge of which his son named George Ritschel lately of S. Edm. Hall succeeded him Soon after was a monument put over his grave with this inscription thereon Sub hoc marmore sacrae reconduntur reliquiae Georgii Ritschel Patria Bohemi religione reformati qui saeviente in Protestantes Ferdinando secundo omnibus gentilitiis haereditatibus exutus sed Argentorati Lugduni Batavorum aliarumque Academiarum exterarum spoliis onustus quicquid eruditionis in istis florentissimis Musarum Emporiis viguit secum detulit Oxonium an Dom. 1644 qua celeberrima Academia consummatis studiis aliorum commodo studere coepit contemplationibus Metaphysicis vindiciisque ceremoniarum Eccles Anglicanae aliisque scriptis eruditissimis editis toto orbe statim inclaruit Tanta fame auctus Ecclesiam Augustaldensem ad quam electus erat cui praefuit annos plus minus 27 magis Augustam tantum non cathedralem qualis olim fuerit reliquit c. You may read more of the Encomiums of this worthy person in the sermon preached at his funeral by one Major Algood Rector of Simonbourne in Northumberland and in an Elegy on his death at the end of it Printed at Lond. 1684. quart FRANCIS BAMPFIELD third son of John Bampf of Portimon in Devons Esq was born in that County became a Commoner of VVadham Coll. in 1631 aged 16 years took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1638 and afterwards holy Orders from a Bishop But being puritannically inclined he sided with the rebellious party in 1642 took the Covenant preached up the Cause in several places and was all things to all men except those of the royal party At length on the death of VVilliam Lyford he became Minister of Shirebourne in Dorsetshire having before taken the Engagement an 1653 where he continued carrying on the trade among the factious people not without great disturbance from Quakering Witches as he pretended till the Act of Uniformity cast him out an 1662. Afterwards he lived in the said Town for some time kept Conventicles was imprisoned for so doing several times and forced to remove his quarters At length retiring to London the common refuge of such people he preached in Conventicles there was several times committed upon that account and continued a Prisoner for about the ten last years of his life at several times He was always a person so strangely fickle and unsteady in his judgment that he was first a Church man then a Presbyterian afterwards an Independent or at least a fider with them an Anabaptist and at length almost a compleat Jew and what not He was also so enthusiastical and canting that he did almost craze and distract many of his disciples by his amazing and frightful discourses He hath written His judgment for the observation of the Jewish or seventh day Sabboth with his Reasons and Scriptures for the same Sent in a Letter to Mr. Will. Ben of Dorchester c. Lond. 1672 and 1677. oct See more in VVill. Ben under the year 1680 p. 507. who by one of his perswasion is commended for a pious man for his holiness of life and for his dexterous preaching All in one All useful Sciences and profitable Arts in one book of Jehovah Aelokim copied out and commented upon in created Beings comprehended and discovered in the fulness and perfection of Scripture-knowledges The first part Printed 1677 in 45 sh in fol. The design of which fantastical and unintelligible book is for the advancement and augment of useful Arts and of profitable Sciences in a scripture way and that all Philosophy be taught out of the Scripture and not from Heathen Authors The Author shews himself dissatisfied with his Academical education and is clearly against that way and would if he could have his own Idea take place and vainly endeavours to represent the many pretended inconveniencies of those methods which have been so long established in our Universities saying that Enthusiastick Phantasmes humane Magistralities self-weaved Ratiocinations forc'd Extractions indulg'd Sensuations and unsetling Scepticismes have laid some of the most claim to the highest advance of humane learning that hath been hitherto made 'T is full of bombast great swelling and forc'd language and oftentimes unintelligible The house of wisdome The house of the sons of the Prophets An house of exquisite enquiry and of deep research where the mind of Jehovah Aeloim in the holy Scripture of truth in the original words and phrases and their proper significancy is diligently studied faithfully compared and aptly put together for the farther promoting and higher advancing of Scripture knowledge of all useful Arts and profitable Sciences in the one book of books the word of Christ copied out and commented upon in created Beings Lond. 1681. in 7 sh in fol. In which fantastical book the Author would have the Hebrew Tongue and Language to be the universal character over all the inhabited earth to be taught in all Schools and Children to be taught it as their mother language He proposes a way for the erection of Academies to have it taught and all Philosophy to proceed from Scripture to have all books translated into that language and I know not what What other things he hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only 1 That he having been convicted and committed for preaching at Pinmakers-Hall in London was brought on the 24 of Feb. 1682 to the Sessions held at the Old Bayly where being tendred the Oaths he said that the King of Kings forbad him to take them and thereupon was re-committed to Newgate Prison 2 That he was brought thither again about the 18 of Apr. 1683 and refusing them was sent to Newgate from whence he came 3 That he and one Griffith Reynolds and Warner who had laid a long time in Newgate for refusing the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy were on the 18 of Jan. 1683 indicted for the same and
among us jealousies in the people of the violent comming in of Popery make continual clamours after preferment as if they had deserv'd it as well as sufferers and I know not what But now to return to the worthy person whom we are further to mention Be it remembred therefore that upon the death of Dr. Hen. King he was promoted to the See of Chichester to which being Consecrated on the sixth day of March the third Sunday in Lent an 1669 sate there till the death of Dr. Benj. Lan●y Bishop of Ely which hapning towards the latter end of 1674 he was translated to that See on the fourth day of March the same year with a particular acknowledgement from his Majesty of his steaddiness to the Church having kept up the face thereof in the worst of times In all the several preferments that he went thro from the first to the last he was first thought of by his Prince or Patron before he himself made any application whatsoever While he continued in Cambridge he was a constant Preacher and looked upon as so umblameable in his life and practice that his schismatical and factious Adversaries were sorry that they could not possibly fasten the least spot on him He was admired by great Scholars as well abroad as at home for his profund Divinity was noted much also in England for his diffusive Charity for what he had not spent in his life time by supplying Scholars at Cambridge by his large endowments and bountiful benefactions in that place by his great summs laid out on his Sees as well as formerly on his Livings by his dayly relieving at his door from his Table all sorts of indigent and distressed persons and by privately supplying others with a plentiful hand he disposed the remainder by his last Will and Test to be laid out for the augmentation of poor Vicariges Under his name go these things following A contention for truth in two several publick disputations before thousands of people in the Church of S. Clement Danes without Temple Bar on the 19. and 26. of Nov. 1657 between Mr. Gunning on the one part and Mr. Hen. Denn on the other concerning the baptisme of Infants whether lawfull or unlawfull Lond. 1658. qu. Schisme unmasked or a late conference betwixt Mr. Pet. Gunning and Mr. John Pierson Ministers on the one part and two Disputants of the Rom. perswasion on the other Wherein is defin'd both what Schisme is and to whom it belongs c. Paris 1658. in tw This conference is said to have been began in May 1657. The large Preface to it was written by two Catholick Disputants who published the whole and 't is presum'd not so fairly on the Protestants side as in truth and justice they ought to have done View and corrections of the Common Prayer an 1662 At which Mr. Baxter if I mistake not carped The Paschall or Lent-Fast Apostolical and perpetuall Lond. 1662. qu. This at first was but a Sermon preached before the King who forced it into the Press by his repeated commands and thereupon he added so much to it as to make it a compleat Treatise on that subject Appendix containing an answer to the late printed objections of the Presbyterians against the Fast of Lent Printed with the former book See in the Fasti 1669 among the incorporations in Will. Saywell At length this worthy Bishop who continued single all his days wholly addicted to his studies and the service of God and had made preaching and doing all the good offices proper to a Bishop so much his delight that according to the usual saying he died in his calling did surrender up his pious soul to God on Sunday the sixth day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four whereupon his body was buried with due solemnity in the Cathedral Church of Ely As Dr. Fr. Turner somtimes Fellow of New Coll succeeded him in the Mastership of that of S. Johns chiefly by his means so did he likewise in the Bishoprick of Ely between whom there passed many affectionate endearments Much more may be said of this most pious and learned Bishop but he being not totally ours I shall omit it and commend you to his large character given of him in a book entit A discourse delivered in two Sermons preached in the Cathedral at Ely in Sept. 1684 c. p. 4.5 c. Written spoken and published by Humph. Gower D. D. Master of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge in the place of Dr. Turner before mention'd and one of the Prebendaries of Ely printed 1685. in qu. WILLIAM DURHAM son of Joh. Durh. of Willersley near Camden in Glocestershire was born there educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. Sturby who kept a private School at Broadway in the same County became a Student of New Inn in 1626 aged 15 years took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and when about an years standing in the degree of Master he was made Curat to Dr. Thom. Bunbury Rector of S. Maries Church in Reading In the beinning of the Civil War he left that place retired to London and there after some short stay was chosen preacher of the Rolls in Chancery Lane at which time he took the Covenant From thence by a presentation he went into Berks and became Rector of Burfield being about that time Bach. of Divinity and thence was translated to the rich Rectory of Tredington in Worcestershire which before I cannot say immediatly had been enjoyed by Dr. Will. Smith somtimes Warden of Wadham Coll. After his Majesties restauration he was ejected thence to make room for Dr. Joseph Crowther of S. Johns Coll. who before had obtained a presentation thereunto whereupon our author Durham retiring to London lived there for some time without a cure A length upon his Conformity to the Church of England Sir Nich. Crispe presented him to the Rectory of S. Mildred in Breadstreet within the City of London to which Parish that of S. Margaret Moses was joyned after the dreadful fire in the said City where he finished his course He hath extant Several Sermons as 1 Maran-Atha The second Advent or Christs comming to jugdment an Assize Serm. at Warwick 25. of July 1651. on Jam. 5.9 Lond. 1652. qu. 2 Serm. before the Artillery Company at S. Andrews Undershaft 30 Aug. 1670. on 1. Cor. 16.13 Lond. 1671. qu. 3 Serm. before the L. Mayor and Court of Aldermen at at S. Mary le Bow 21. Nov. 1675. on Prov 29.1 Lond. 1676. qu. A serious exhortation to the necessary duties of families and personal instruction for the use of Tredington Parish Printed in 1659 in tw The life and death of that judicious Divine and accomplished preacher Rob. Harris D. D. lately President of Trinity Coll. in Oxon c. Lond. 1660. oct He died on the seventh day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Chancell of the Church of S. Mildred before mentioned in a vault belonging to the
resolved not to submit to their new Masters Soon after he was one of the first that was deprived of all that he had in Oxon or elsewhere for not submitting to them tho he was offer'd by one of the Grandees of the H. of Commons to keep all that he had without being put to say or do or subscribe any thing against his Conscience if he would but then give his word only that he would not actually appear against them or their proceedings See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. 391. a. b. 393. a. 394. a. 395. a. 396. a. c. After this he was one of the Divines that was sent for by the King to assist at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight which proving ineffectual he resolved having first assisted the gallant Arthur Lord Capell as his confessor before his execution in the beginning of Mar. 1648 to quit his Country and find out the young King and never to return till he and the Crown and the Church were restored With this resolution he left England in the 51. year of his age and found him at the Hague where he was graciously received by him From thence he went first with him into France and from thence with him to the Scotch Treaty at Breda and there preach'd the last Sermon that the K. heard before he went into Scotland whither being not suffer'd to carry any of his own Divines with him he the said Dr. Morley went thereupon to the Hague and after some short stay there he went with his dearest friend Dr. Jo. Earle to live at Antwerp where they continued together in the house of Sir Charles Cottrel Master of the Ceremonies for the space of one year or thereabouts At which time Sir Charles being called thence to be Steward to the Queen of Bohemia and Dr. Earle to attend on his Higness James Duke of York then in France Dr. Morley continued still in Antwerp with the Lady Frances Hyde her Husband Sir Edw. Hyde being then Embassador for the King in Spain and all the time he was there which was about 3. or 4 years he read the Service of the Church of England twice every day catechiz'd once a week and administred the Communion once a month to all the English in the Town who would come to it as he did afterwards at Breda for 4 years together in the same Family But betwixt his going from Antwerp and his comming to Breda he was invited by the Queen of Bohemia to the Hague to be her Chaplain And he thereupon knowing her condition to be necessitous thought himself so much the rather oblig'd both in Conscience towards God and in duty to the Royal Family for she was Sister to K. Charles 1. to wait on her and accordingly he did and readily officiated both in her family and in the English Church there about two years and an half without expecting or receiving any Salary or gratuity at all for so doing There as in all other places where he lived especially at Breda he was blest with a retirement full of satisfaction to himself and with many opportunities of doing much good to others also For besides the constant reading of the Prayers of the Church his Catechizing of young persons his administring the holy Sacraments and his devoutest supplications for the K. and the Church in private he visited the sick and buried the dead and relieved many whom their Loyalty had impoverished His learned acquaintance abroad were Andr. Rivet Dan. Heinsius and Claud. Salmasius whom he often visited to the last of which then abiding at Leyden the King sent our author Morley to give him thanks in his name for the Apology he had published for his martyr'd Father but not with a purse of Gold as Joh. Milton the impudent lyer reported But his acquaintance was more intimate with the famous Sam. Bochart to whom he wrote a Latine Letter from Paris declaring his reasons of not coming to the French Congregation To which Mr. Bochart printed an answer in Latine the year following And as he was zealous for the Church so he was also for his Royal Master w●tness the large Epistle he wrote in Latine to Triglandius to vindicate his Master from the false aspersion of Popery For his friends at home of whom he never lost any but by death only were eminent both for parts and quality the chiefest of which were Lucius L. Falkland and Sir Francis Wenman of Oxfordshire both long since dead and Edward Earl of Clarendon who died long after them Among the Clergy were Dr. Rob. Payne Dr. H. Hammond and Dr. Rob. Sanderson late B. of Linc. who were all Canons of Ch. Ch. at the same time with him To these may be added many more as Mr. W. Chillingworth Dr. Gilb. Sheldon Archb. of Cant Dr. Earl of Salisbury c. with the two last of which he kept a constant friendship for above 40 years and enjoyed the company of Dr. Earl very often abroad which made his banishment less tedious to him After his Majesties return this most worthy person Dr. Morley was first made Dean of Ch. Ch being then Chapl. to the Duchess of York whence after he had restored those that had been illegaly ejected in 1648 c. and had filled up the vacant places he was called to be Bishop of Worcester to which See he was Consecrated in the Abbey Church at Westm on the 28. of Octob. 1660 and in the beginning of the next year had the honour to preach the Kings Coronation-Sermon and soon after made Dean of the Chappel Royal in the place of Dr. Sheldon In 1662 he was upon the death of Dr. Duppa translated to the See of Winchester confirmed therein 14. May the same year where he hath truly verified the saying that the King gave when he bestowed the said Bishoprick on him that he would never be the richer for it For besides his expences in building and repairing his Palace at Winchester he hath laid out much more than the supplies the Parliament gave him in the Act which impowred him to lease out Waltham Park and his Tenements which were built out of Winchester House in Southwark He spent 8000 l. in repairing the Castle at Farnham before the year 1672 and afterwards spent more and above 4000 l. in purchasing Winchester House at Chelsey to annex it to the See which when he came to he found not an house to dwell in yet afterwards left two fair ones to his successors At that time also he had not purchased one foot of Land or Lease as if he had taken more care to enrich the poor than his Relations and what his benefaction was to the Coll. that gave him education you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 285. a. In the first year of his Translation he visited his Diocese in person and went into the Isle of Wight where had not been a Bishop before in the memory of man In July 1664 he came to Oxon
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 Conform●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.
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 wha● 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
Work the perusals of them when they could not otherwise but know that they would have been serviceable to him in the promotion of this Work then almost ready for the Press But such is the humour of the men of this age that rather than they 'll act a part for the public good and honour of learning they 'll suffer choice things to be buried in oblivion Mr. Fulman who died to the reluctancy of many learned men was buried in the Churchyard at the east end of the chancel of the Ch. at Meysey-Hampton before mentioned near to the body of his then late wife named Hester Grandaughter by the father of Dr. Rog. Manwaring sometimes Bishop of S. David ROBERT CARY son of George Cary of Cockington in Devonshire Gent was born there adm to the Communers table in Exeter Coll. 4 Oct. 1631 aged 16 years where continuing till Oct. 1634 was then adm scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll and in the year after took the degree of Bach. of Arts but whether he was ever Fellow of the said house I know not In 1638 he was licensed to proceed in Arts and in Nov. 1644 he as a Kinsman to Will Marquess of Hertford Chanc. of the Univ. of Oxon was actually created Doctor of the Civ Law by vertue of his letters then read in Convocation Afterwards he became Rector of East Portlemouth near Kingsbridge in Devonshire and Archdeacon of Exe●er being then accounted very learned in curious and critical learning He hath written Palaeologia chronica A chronological account of antient time in three parts 1. Didacticall 2. Apodeicticall 3. Canonicall Lond. 1677. fol. A large account of which is in the Philosophical Transactions numb 132. pag. 808.809 c. What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at East Portlemouth before mentioned in sixteen hundred eighty and eight was buried on the nineteenth day of Septemb. the same year in the Church there THOMAS FLATMAN an eminent Poet of his time was born in Aldersgate street in the Suburb of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester elected Fellow of New Coll. in 1654 left it before he took a degree retired to the Inner Temple of which he became a Barrester and equally ingenious in the two noble faculties of Poetry and Painting or Limning as several choice pieces shew the titles of the former of which are these A Pindariqu ' Ode on the death of the truly valiant and loyal George Duke of Albemarle late General of his Majesties Forces c. Lond. 1670. in 3 sh in fol. reprinted in his Poems and Songs following Poems and Songs Lond. 1674. oct there again with additions and amendments 1676. oct and lastly with more additions in oct 1682 with his picture before them A Pindariqu ' Ode on the death of Thomas Earl of Ossory Lond. 1681. in 2 sh in fol. Which Earl the eldest son of James Duke of Ormonde died at Westminster to the great grief of many at about 7 of the clock in the evening of the 30 of Jul. 1680. This Poem that pleased the author best as it did the generality was printed in the last edition of his Songs and Poems Soon after the publication of the said Ode it was read and perused by the said Duke who being in an high manner pleased with it he sent to the author a mourning Ring with a Diamond in it worth a 100 l as a reward for his labour and ingenuity On the death of K. Ch. 2. a Pindariqu ' Ode Lond. 1685. in two sh in fol. At the latter end of which are Gratulatory Verses on K. Jam. 2. In the year 1660 came out under the two letters of T. F. a book called Virtus rediviva A Panegyrick on the late King Charles the first of ever blessed memory attended with several ingenious pieces from the same pen. Whether Thom. Flatman was th● author of these Poems I cannot justly tell because they are not among his Songs and Poems In the next year was published a piece in prose intit Don Juan Lamberto or a comical history of the late times with a wooden cut before it containing the pictures of Giant Desborough with a great club in his right hand and of Lambert both leading under the arms the meek Knight i. e. Richard Cromwell which book vending very fast a second part was added by the same hand with the Giant Husonio before it and printed with the second impression of the first part Lond. 1661. qu. To both which parts very witty and satyrical tho the disguis'd name of Montelion Knight of the Oracle c. is set to them yet the acquaintance and contemporaries of Th. Flatman always confidently aver'd that he the said Flatman was the author of them He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Laodomia to Protesilaus which is in Ovids Epistles translated from Lat. into Engl. by several hands Lond. 1681. oct sec edit At length he having lived to the age of 53 or thereabouts gave way to fate in his house in Fleetstreet Lond. on the eighth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight and was three days after buried in the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget near to the rails of the Communion-table under a grave-stone with inscription and verses thereon which he had sometime before caused to be laid on his son there buried This person whose father a Clerk in the Chancery was then living in the 80 year of his age or more was in his younger days much against marriage to the dislike of his said father and made a song describing the cumbrances of it beginning thus Like a dog with a bottle ty'd close to his tail Like a Tory in a bog or a thief in a jayle c. But being afterwards smitten with a fair Virgin and more with her fortune did espouse her 26 Nov. 1672 whereupon his ingenious Comrades did serenade him that night while he was in the embraces of his Mistress with the said song SETH WARD a most noted Mathematician and Astronomer of his time was born in a little market town in Hertfordshire called Buntingford and on the 15 of Apr. 1617 was baptized there His father was an Attorney of good repute among his neighbours who perceiving his son very forward to learn he taught him common Arithmetick and caus'd him to be carefully educated in Grammar learning When he was fitted for the University he was sent to Sidney Coll. in Cambridge where he became Servitour to Dr. Sam. Ward Master of that house who being much taken with his ingenuity and industry as also with the suavity of his nature did soon after make him Scholar of the said house And because he was of the same Sirname many supposed that he was of kin occasion'd by the Doctor 's great kindness to him But there was no relation at all between them only the consimility of their dispositions which made a greater
volebat cum vita merita ejus laudes omnes longe superarent In the Rectory of Winwick succeeded Thom. Benet M.A. Fellow of Univ. Coll lately one of the Proctors of this University now Master of the said Coll. WILLIAM THOMAS son of John Thomas was born on the bridge in the Parish of S. Nicholas in the City of Bristow on the second day of Feb. 1613 educated in Grammar learning at Caermethen in Wales by the care of his Grandfather Recorder of that Town became a Student in S. Johns Coll. in Mich. term 1629 thence translated to that of Jesus of which he was made Fellow when Bach. of Arts proceeded in that faculty took holy Orders and before the Civil War began he became Vicar of Penbryn in Cardiganshire Afterwards being sequestred for his loyalty he taught School at Laughern in Caermerthenshire where after a while he read the common prayer and preached yet not without some disturbance occasioned by Olivers Itinerant preachers After his Majesties restauration in 1660 he became Chauntor of the Cathedral Church of St. David in the place of Dr. Griff. Higges deceased was actually created Doct. of Divinity made Chaplain to James Duke of York and about that time had the Living of Llanbedder in the Valley in Pembrokshire confer'd upon him In 1665 Nov. 25. he was installed Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Tho. Warmestry deceased and about that time he gave up Llanbedder for the Rectory of Hampton Lovet six miles distant from Worcester On the 27. of January 1677 he was consecrated with Dr. Sancroft to the See of Cant. Bishop of S. David at which time liberty was given him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it and in the middle of Aug. 1683 he was translated to the See of Worcester in the place of Dr. James Fleetwood deceased where he sate to the time of his death in good respect from the Clergy and Laity He hath written Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at the Assize at Caermerthen on Exod. 20.16 Lond. 1657. qu. 2 Serm. before the right honorable the Lords assembled in Parliament in the Abbey Ch. of S. Pet. Westm upon the Fast-day appointed 10. Apr. 1678. on Luke 13.3 Lond. 1678. qu. 3 The mammon of unrighteousness detected and purified preached in the Cathedral of Worcester 19 Aug. 1688 on Luke 16.9 Lond. 1689. qu. Apology for the Church of England in point of separation from it Lond. 1678. 9 oct Written in the time of Usurpation A pastoral letter to his Clergy of Worcester Dioc. about catechising Printed with many things expung'd since his death It was as 't is said written in answer to Dr. G. Burnet Bishop of Salisbury his Pastoral letters about Oathes an 1689. Roman Oracles silenced or the prime testimonies of antiquity produced by Hen. Turbervil in his Manual of controversies Lond. 1691. Published in the beginning of Mar. 1690. This worthy Bishop Dr. Thomas died on the 25 of June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried according to his desire in the north east corner of the Cloyster belonging to the Cathedral Church of Worcester at the foot of the steps in the way from the Deanery to the Cathedral Soon after was a plain stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Depositum Gulielmi Thomas S. T. P. olim Decani Wigorniensis indigni postea Episcopi Menevensis indignioris tandem Episcopi Wigorniensis indignissimi meritis tamen Christi ad vitam aeternam resurrectionis candidati Sanctissimus doctiss Praesul pietatis erga Deum erga Regem fidelitatis charitatis erga Proximos illustre exemplum expiravit An. redemptionis MDCLXXXIX Aetatis LXXVI Junii XXV moribundus hoc quicquid supra est epitaphii pro modestia sua tumulo inscribi jussit THOMAS MANWARING a younger Son of Philip Manwaring Esq was born of an antient and gentile family in Cheshire either at Over-Peover or Baddily on the 7 of Apr. 1623 became a Commoner of Brasn Coll. 24. of Apr. 1637 where continuing about 3 years receeded without an Academical degree to his Fathers house and after the death of his elder Brother became Heir to the Lands of his Ancestors In the time of the grand rebellion he sided with the dominant party took the usual Oathes then prescribed was Sherriff of Chester in the reign of Oliver an 1657 and after the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he was created a Baronet 22. Nov. 1660. He hath written and published A Defence of Amicia daughter of Hugh Cyveliok Earl of Chester wherein is proved that she was not a Bastard Lond. 1673. oct Written against Sir Pet. Leycester A reply to an answer to The defence of Amicia wherein is proved that the reasons alledged by Sir Pet. Leycester concerning her illegitimacy are invalid c Lond. 1673. oct An answer to Sir Pet. Leycester's Addenda Lond. 1673 4. oct He died in the month of July in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried by his Wife Father and Mother in a vault under a Chappel on the North side of the Chancel of the Church of Over-Peover before mentioned See more in Peter Leycester under the year 1678 p. 463. SAMUEL DERHAM son of Will. Derham of Weston called by some Weston Subter Wethele near Camden in Glocestershire was born in that County entred a Student in Magd. Hall in Mich. term 1672 aged 17 years took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line took one degree in Physick and published Hydrologia Philosophica Or an account of Ilmington waters in Warwickshire with directions for drinking of the same Oxon. 1685. oct Experimental observations touching the original of compound bodies Printed with Hydr. Philos Afterwards he proceeded in his faculty had then and before some practice in it and dying of the small pox on the 26. of Aug. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine in his house in S. Michaels parish within the City of Oxon was buried at the upper end of the north Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Parish OBADIAH GREW was born at Atherston in the Parish of Manceter in Warwickshire in Nov. 1607 partly educated in Grammaticals under Mr. Joh. Denison his Uncle admitted a Student in Ball. Coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rich. Trimnell an 1624 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders at 28 years of age from the hands of Dr. Rob. Wright Bishop of Cov. and Lichfield and had some cure I presume bestowed on him in his own Country In the beginning of the Civil War he sided with the Presbyterians took the Covenant and about that time became upon the desire of the Mayor Aldermen and principal Citizens of Coventry Minister of the great Parish of S. Michael in that City In which place The soundness of his doctrine as those of his perswasion have told me the sanctity and prudence of his conversation the vigilancy and tenderness of his care were of that constant tenor that he seemed to do all that which S.
Gregory wrot a whole book De cura Pastorali to tell us it should be done By which means he ever obtained the love and respects of the City of Coventry and his ends for their good amongst the Citizens thereof Of his integrity and courage also they farther add this instance viz. In the year 1648 when Oliv. Cromwell then Lieut. Gen. of the forces in England was at Coventry upon his March towards London the said Ob. Grew took his opportunity to represent to him the wickedness of the design then more visibly on foot for taking off the King and the sad consequences thereof should it take effect earnestly pressing him to use his endeavours to prevent it and had his promise for it And afterwards when the design was too apparent he wrot a letter to him to the same purpose and to mind him of his promise Which letter was conveyed by an honest Gent. since Mayor and Alderman of Coventry now or lately living to a Messenger then waiting at Whitehall and by him delivered into Cromwells own hand c. In 1651 he accumulated the degrees in Divinity and in the next year he compleated that of Doctor by standing in the Act much about which time he preached the Concio ad clerum with applause In 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Warwickshire for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and continued after till his Majesties restauration in good repute among the Precisians He hath written A Sinners justification by Christ or the Lord Jesus Christ our righteousness Delivered in several Sermons on Jer. 23.6 Lond. 1670. oct Meditations upon our Saviours parable of the prodigal son being several sermons on the 15 Chapter of S. Lukes Gospel Lond. 1678. quart Both written and published at the request and for the common benefit of some of his quondam Parishioners of S. Michael in Coventry What other things he hath written that are fit for the Press I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died on the 22 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and nine and that his body was buried in the Chancel of the said Church of S. Michael This Divine was the Father of Dr. Nehemiah Grew a Physitian of good note and practice in London whose publish'd works are so well known and valued that divers of them have been translated into Latin and French by learned forraigners and many eminent persons both at home and abroad have returned him their thanks with great respect and it is believed that he hath still much under his consideration relating both to Philosophy and the practice of Physick Among several things that he hath written and published are 1 Musaeum Regalis Societatis Or a description of the natural and artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Societie and preserved at Gresham Coll. Lond. 1681. fol. 2 The Anatomy of the History of Plants and Vegetables Lond. 1683. fol. c. JOHN GOAD son of Joh. G. of Bishopsgate street in London was born in St. Helens Parish there 15 Febr. 1615 educated in Merchant Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns Coll. and admitted in his due course and order by the just favour of Dr. Juxon the then President an 1632. Afterwards he became Fellow Master of Arts Priest and in 1643 Vicar of S. Giles's Church in the North Suburb of Oxon by the favour of the Pres and Fellows of his College where continuing his duty very constant during the time that the Garrison was besieged by the Parliament Forces did undergoe great dangers by Canon Bullets that were shot from their Camp adjoyning in the time of Divine Service On the 23. of June 1646 he was presented to the Vicaridge of Yarnton near Oxon by the Chancellour and Masters of this University by vertue of an Act of Parliament begun at Westm 5. Nov. 3. Jac. 1 disinabling Recusants from presenting to Church Livings and in the year following he was in consideration of his Sermons preached either before the King or Parliament at Oxon or both actually created Bach. of Divinity In 1648 he was sollicited by Dr. Franc. Cheynell one of the Visitors appointed to visit the University of Oxon to return to his College and Fellowship he having heard of and partly known the great worth and merit of him but because he would not conform himself to the new Directory he refused to go and with much ado keeping Yarnton till the Kings restauration did then contrary to his friends expectation take the offer of Tunbridge School in Kent But being scarce setled there he was in July 1661 made chief Master of Merchant Taylors School in London In which place continuing with good success and great applause till Apr. 1681 at which time the great and factious City was posses'd by the restless Presbyterian Ministers of the sudden introduction to Popery among them he was summoned to appear before the chief Heads of the Society of Merchant Taylors In obedience to which summons he appearing and then charged with certain passages savouring of Popery in his Comment on the Church of England Catechisme which he had made for the use of his Scholars he was by them discharged with a considerable gratuity in Plate from them The particulars of this affair being too many for this place you may see them at large in a Postcript to a book entit Contrivances of the Fanatical Conspirators in carrying on the treasons under umbrage of the Popish-Plot laid open with Depositions c. Lond. 1683. in 8 sh in fol written by Will. Smith a Schoolmaster of Islington near London who stiles therein Mr. Goad a pious and learned person so extraordinarily qualified for his profession that a better could not be found in the three kingdoms Mr. Goad being thus dismist he took a house in Piccadilly in Westminster to which place many of the gentiler sort of his Scholars repairing to be by him farther instructed he set up a private School which he continued to or near the time of his death In the beginning of 1686 K. Jam. 2. being then in the Throne he declared himself a Rom. Catholic having many years before been so in his mind for in Dec. 1660. he was reconcil'd to that Faith in Somerset house by a Priest belonging to Hen. Maria the Qu. Mother then lately return'd from France This person who had much of Primitive Christianity in him and was endowed with most admirable morals hath written Several Sermons as 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An advent Sermon preached at S. Paules on Luke 21.30 Lond. 1664. qu. 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sermon of the tryal of all things preached at S. Paules on 1 Thes 5.21 Lond. 1664. qu. c. Genealogicon latinum A previous method of Dictionary of all Latine words the compounds only excepted that may fruitfully be perused before the Grammar by those who desire to attain the Language in the natural clear and most speedy
called to Bar. This person hath written and published The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland collected from records antient Manuscripts Monuments on the place and other authorities illustrated with Sculpture Lond. 1684 in a thin fol. To which was put an Addition Lond. 1687 in 2 sh and an half in fol. He hath also published little trivial things of History and Poetry meerly to get a little money which he will not own THEODORE HAAK was born at Newhausen near Wormes in the Palatinate on the day of S. James S. V. an 1605 educated in Grammar and in the Reform'd Religion in those parts travelled into England in 1625 retired to Oxon about the beginning of Aug. the same year while the two Houses of Parliament were sitting there continued half an year in obtaining Academical learning and afterwards at Cambridg as much Thence he went and visited several Cities and recesses of the Muses beyond the Seas returned in 1629 became a Communer of Glocester Hall continued there near three years but took no degree and soon after was made a Deacon by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter In the time of the German Wars he was appointed one of the Procurators to receive the benevolence money which was raised in several Diocesses in England to be transmitted into Germany which he usually said was a Deacons work and when the Wars broke out in this Nation he seemed to favour the interest of Parliament having been alwaies Calvinistically educated The Prince Elector did afterwards kindly incite him to be his Secretary but he loving Solitude declined that employment as he did the Residentship at London for the City of Hamburgh and for Fred. 3. King of Denmark c. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that when the Synod of Dort was celebrated in 1618 care was then taken that the most learned and pious Divines of the United Provinces should make a new and accurate Translation of the Bible and Annotations to be put thereunto In which work they were assisted by many eminent and able Divines from most of the reformed Churches and particularly from England by Dr. Geo. Carleton Bishop of Chichester Dr. Jo. Davenant B. of Sarum Dr. Hall B. of Exon Dr. Sam. Ward of Cambr. c. by whose great and assiduous Labours jointly for many years together the said Annotations were compleated and came forth in print first an 1637. These Annotations I say commonly called the Dutch Annotations being thought very fit and of great use by the Assembly of Divines sitting at Westm to be translated into English by the hand of Th. Haak it was ordered and ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parl. 30. of March 1648. for the encouragement of the said undertaker Theod. Haak that he or whom he should assign should have the priviledge of printing and vending the said Annotations for the space of 14 years which terme should begin from the time of the first impression So that none else under what pretence soever should be permitted to intermeddle in printing the whole or any part thereof upon the pain of forfeiting a thousand pounds to the said Theod. Haak c. Afterwards the work going forward and the whole Englished by Haak it came out with this title The Dutch Annotations upon the whole Bible together with their translation according to the direction of the Synod of Dort 1618. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in fol. Before which is an exact narrative touching the work and the said translation Besides the translation of this great work Mr. Haak hath translated into High Dutch several English books of practical Divinity as 1 Of the deceitfulness of mans heart written by Dan. Dyke 2 The Christians daly walke c. written by Hen. Scudder 3 The old Pilgrim being the Hist of the Bible written by Anon. but not yet printed as other translations which he had made are not He also translated into High Dutch in blank verse half the Poem called Paradise lost written by Joh. Milton which comming into the hands of J. Secbald Fabricius the famous Divine at Heidelberg he was so much taken with it that in a Letter sent to the Translator he tells him incredible est quantum nos omnes afficerit gravitas stili copia lectissimorum verborum c. He also made ready for the Press before his death about 3000 Proverbs out of the Germ. into the English tongue and as many into the Germ from the Language of the Spaniard who are famous for wise sayings and had most part of them from the Arabians This Mr. Haak who was several years Fellow of the Royal Society hath Observations and Letters in the Philosophical Collections which were published in the beginning of May 1682 and perhaps in the Transactions Quaere At length this virtuous and learned person departing this mortal life in the house of his kinsman Fred. Slare or Slear M. D situate and being in an Alley joyning to Fetter Lane on Sunday the ninth day of May in sixteen hundred and ninety was buried three days after in a vault under the Chancel of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London At which time Dr. Anth. Horneck a German preached his Funeral Sermon wherein were delivered several remarks of Mr. Haaks life but that Sermon being not yet extant I cannot therefore refer you to it Among the many great and learned acquaintance which Mr. Haak had were Prince Rupert Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland Dr. Williams Archb. of York Joh. Selden Dr. Hall Bishop of Exeter Dr. Predeaux B. of Worc. Dr. Walton B. of Chester Dr. Wilkins B. of the same place Briggs and Pell Mathematicians Dr. W. Alabaster the Poet whose Manuscript called Elisaeis he had by him and kept it as a choice relique of his deceased friend to the time of his death Sir Will. Boswell Ambassador at the Hague who encouraged him to keep and continue his correspondence with the learned Marseanus and others of later time JOHN RUSHWORTH was born of Gentile Parents in the County of Northumberland educated for a time in this University in the latter end of the Raign of K. Jam. 1 but left it soon after without being matriculated and retiring to London he entred himself a Student in Lincolns Inn of which he became a Barrister But his Geny then leading him more to State affairs than the Common Law he began early to take in Characters Speeches and passages at conferences in Parliament and from the Kings own mouth which he speak to both the Houses and was upon the stage continually an eye and an ear witness of the greatest transactions He did also personally attend and observe all occurrences of moment during the eleven years interval of Parliament in the Star-Chamber Court of Honour and Exchecquer Camber when all the Judges of England met there upon extraordinary cases and at the Council Table when great causes were tried before the K. and Council Afterwards when matters were agitated at a great distance he was
1666 he followed Dr. Willis to the great City and setling at first in Hatton Garden practised under him and became Fellow of the said Society Afterwards growing famous he removed to Salisbury Court near Fleetstreet and thence to Bowstreet and afterwards to Kingstreet near Covent Garden where being much resorted to for his succesful practice especially after the death of Dr. Willis an 1675 he was esteemed the most noted Physitian in Westminster and London and no mans name was more cried up at Court than his he being then also Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians At length upon the breaking out of the Popish Plot in 1678. about which time he left the Royal Society and thereupon their experiments did in some manner decay he closed with the Whiggs supposing that party would carry all before them But being mistaken he thereby lost much of his Practice at and near the Court and so consequently his Credit At that time a certain Physitian named Tho. Short a R. C. struck in carried all before him there and got riches as he pleased but he dying in the latter end of Sept. 1685 most of his Practice devolved on Dr. Joh. Radcliffe The works of Dr. Lower are these Diatribae Thomae Willisii Med. Doct. Profess Oxon de Febribus vindicatio contra Edm. de Meara Lond. 1665 oct Amstel 1666. in tw An account of this book you may see in the Philos Transactions num 4. p. 77. Letter concerning the present state of Physick and the regulation of the practice of it in this Kingdom by way of Letter to a Doct. of Phys Lond. 1665. Tractatus de corde item de motu colore sanguinis chyli in eum transitu Lond. 1669 70. oct c. ibid. 1680. oct fourth edit Amstel 1669. 71. oct An account also of this book you may see in the said Transactions num 45. p. 909. c. num 73. p. 2211. Dissertatio de origine catarrhi de venae sectione This was printed at first with the book De Corde and afterwards by it self Lond. 1672. oct An account also of it is in the said Transactions This learned Doctor Lower died in his house in Kingstreet near Covent Garden on Saturday the 17. day of January in sixteen hundred and ninety whereupon his body being conveyed to St. Tudy near Bodmin in Cornwall where some years before he had purchased an Estate was buried in a vault under part of the south side of the Church there By his last Will and Test he gave as it was then said a 1000 l. to St. Bartholomews Hospital in London 500 l. to the French Protestant Refuges 500 l. to the Irish Prot. Refuges 50 l. to the poor of the Parish of S. Paul in Cov. Garden 40 l. to the poor of two Parishes in Cornwall where he had land c. He then left behind him two daughters one called Loveday the other Philippa both then unmarried Sir Will. Lower the Poet was of the same family and born also at Tremere but when he died his Estate did not go either to the Father or Brethren of the Doctor which was then much regretted by the Family ATHENAE OXONIENSES THE HISTORY OF THE Archbishops and Bishops Of the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD FROM The Beginning of the Year MDCXLI to the End of the Year MDCXC JOHN THORNBOROUGH sometimes of S. Mary Magdalens Coll was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in Ireland an 1593 translated thence to Bristow 1603 and to Worcester in the latter end of the year 1616. He departed this mortal life in the month of July in sixteen hundred forty and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 1.2 In the See of Bristow he was succeeded by Nich. Felton D. D. and Master of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge consecrated thereunto on the 14 of Dec. 1617 where sitting about 15 months he was translated to Ely 14 Mar. 1618 And in the See of Worcester succeeded Dr. Jo. Prideaux as I shall tell you elsewhere BARNAB POTTER sometimes Provost of Queens College was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in the latter end of the year 1628 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred forty and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 6. Soon after his Bishoprick was given to the learned Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland to keep in Commendam with Armagh in consideration of his great losses sustained in that Kingdom by the Rebellion that a little before that time broke out The revenues of which tho much abated by the Scotch and English Armies quartering there as also by the unhappy Wars that soon after followed in England yet he made shift to subsist upon it with some other helps until the Houses of Parl. seized upon all Bishops Lands And tho in consideration of his great losses in Ireland as also of his own merits they allowed him a pension of 400 l. per an in consideration for what they had taken away yet he did not receive that sum above once or twice at most For the Independent Faction over-topping the Presbyterian an end was put to the payment thereof From the time of his death which hapned in the latter end of 1655 the See of Carlile laid void till 1660 and then Dr. Rich. Sterne of Cambridge succeeded installed or enthronized therein on the 4 of Jan. the same year The said Dr. Usher a most reverend man famous for Religion and Literature throughout Europe an eminent Pillar of the Protestant Cause against the Papacy and of the Commonwealth of Learning died on Friday 21 of Mar. 1655 and on the 31 of the said month 1656 Oliver L. Protector sign'd a Warrant directed to the Lords of the Treasury for the sum of 200 l. to bear the charges of his funeral which sum was paid to Nich. Bernard D. D. And this he did out of an honorable respect to the memory of so pious and learned a Champion of the Protestant Cause as he was On Thursday the 17 of Apr. following his body was conveyed from Riegate in Surrey where he died to S. George's Church in Southwark at which place about 12 of the clock his friends and many of the Clergy met the corps and accompanied it thence to Somerset house in the Strand where laying for some time it was accompanied thence to the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster where after the said Dr. Bernard had preached before the large Auditory a sermon it was inter'd GEORGE WEB or Webbe sometimes of University afterwards of Corp. Christi College was consecrated B. of Limerick in Ireland an 1634 and died in the latter end of sixteen hundred forty and one under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 7. In the See of Limerick succeeded one Rob. Sibthorpe Bishop of Kilfenore mentioned in the first vol. p. 835 and in this p. 181. ROBERT WRIGHT was born in the Parish of S. Alban in Hertfordshire and at
use of him he having then an eye upon his Brother George in Scotland whom his family had obliged likewise I say that this good benefice being bestowed on him he was by his Brothers interest fix'd therein and ready to perform what laid in his power to serve the interest of the Royal Family In 1659 he agitated with his said Brother by Letters to and soon after in Person in Scotland in order to influence him for the restauration of K. Ch. 2. to his Kingdoms being put upon it chiefly by the said Sir Jo Greenvill and some of the Gentry in the West who were of kin to Monke So happy it was for his Maj. to employ the said Sir John and so lucky for him to send his Clerk Mr. Monke thither where he omitted nothing of his instructions but prudently managed them as may reasonably be inferred from the good effect they had Thus did the sense of allegiance and the love of his Country prevail with his Brother against all hazards And if I should speak right the revenge of slights was some part of grain in the Scales In the year following 1660 his endeavours and desires being effected he was by the interest of the said Sir John minded thereunto by Gen. Monke made Provost of Eaton Coll in the month of June then or lately enjoyed by Nich. Lockyer sometimes Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell lately Protect In the beginning of Aug. following he was actually created Doctor of Divinity by vertue of the Kings Letters sent to the University for that purpose and soon after being nominated by his Majesty to the See of Hereford which had laid void for 14 years by the death of George Cook he was consecrated thereunto on the sixth day of January Epiphany day in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster by the Archb. of York Bishops of Durham Chichester Lincolne and Peterborough But before he had enjoyed that See a full year he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in the Old Pallace-yard in Westminster on the seventeenth of December in sixteen hundred sixty and one whereupon his body was buried on the twentieth of the said month in S. Edmunds Chappel within the Precincts of the said Church of S. Peter In the See of Hereford succeeded Dr. Herbert Croft of whom may future mention be made and of his works as to learning BRIAN DUPPA sometimes Fellow of Allsouls Coll afterwards Dean of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Chichester an 1638 translated to Salisbury in 1641 and thence to Winchester in 1660. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 176. He was so bountiful in his Legacies to Ch. Church that the money might serve to found a new and not to compleat an old College He left Legacies to Allsouls Coll to the Cath. Churches of Chichester Salisbury and Winchester and erected an Hospital at his own charge in the place of his nativity as I have elsewhere told you Over the door of which may this be engraven That a poor Bishop vowed this House but a great and wealthy one built it In the See of Winchester succeeded Dr. George Morley of whom I have made large mention among the Writers under the year 1684. p. 581. JOHN GAUDEN sometimes of Wadham College was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the 2. of Decemb. being the first Sunday in Advent an 1660 and translated thence to Worcester on Morleys going to Winchester in the beginning of 1662 in which year in Septemb. he died See more of him among the Writers under the same year p. 207. In the said See of Worcester succeeded Dr. John Earle and him Dr. Rob. Skinner as I shall tell you anon under the year 1670. ROBERT SANDERSON sometimes Fellow of Lincolne College was consecrated Bishop of Lincolne on the 28 of Octob. 1660 and died in the latter end of the year sixteen hundred sixty and two under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 213. He was succeeded in the said Bishoprick by Dr. Benj. Laney Bishop of Peterborough who after he had sate there four years was translated to Ely WILLIAM JUXON son of Rich. Juxon of Chichester son of John Juxon of London was born as 't is said within the City of Chichester in Sussex educated in Merchant Taylors School became Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in 1598 and Bach. of the Civil Law in 1603 being about that time a Student in Greys Inn in Holbourne near London Soon after he took holy Orders and in the latter end of the year 1609 he was made Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon where continuing about six years he was much frequented for his edifying way of preaching In 1621 he was elected President of his College and in the next year he proceeded in the Civil Law In 1626 and after he did execute the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in January 1627 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Jos Hall promoted to the See of Exeter On the 10. of July 1632 he was at Dr. Lauds suit then Bishop of London sworn Clerk of his Majesties Closet which office was by that great person procured for him to the end that he might have one that he might trust near his Majesty if he grew weak or infirm In the beginning of the year 1633 he was elected Bishop of Hereford in the place of Dr. Franc. Godwin deceased was about that time made Dean of the Kings Chappel and on the translation of Dr. Laud to the See of Cant. which was on the 19 of Sept. the same year he was translated to London that City being then in its height of giddiness and faction About that time he was called to be one of his Majesties Privy Council who finding him to be a person of uprightness and justice did confer upon him the great office of Lord Treasurer on Sunday the sixth of Mar. 1635. Which office no Churchman had since Hen. 7 time as Doct. Laud observes who adds this I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honour and the King and the state service and contentment by it And now if the Church will not hold up themselves under God I can do no more In this office which he enjoyed till 1641 he kept the Kings Purse when necessities were deepest and clamours loudest to the great content of all that had to do with him In the time of the rebellion began and carried on by the restless Presbyterians he suffer'd as other Bishops did was outed of the House of Lords with his Brethren and lost the Lands belonging to his Bishoprick as the rest did In 1648 he had the honour and happiness if it may be so called to attend K. Ch. 1.
for the King intended it for him conditionally he would conform Dr. Frewen had the benefit of that too all the fines for renewing and for the filling up lives to his very great profit besides what he got from York At length Mr. Baxter the Coryphaeus of the Presbyterian party refusing it least he in an high manner should displease the Brethren it was offer'd to Dr. Richard Baylie President of S. Johns College and Dean of Sarum who had been a very great sufferer for the Kings cause but he refusing it because Dr. Frewen had skim'd it it was thereupon confer'd on Dr. John Hacket of Cambridge as I shall anon tell you This Dr. Frewen who was accounted a general Scholar and a good Orator but hath nothing extant only a Latin Oration with certain verses on the death of Prince Henry for his Moral Philosophy Lectures are not yet made publick died at his Mannour of Bishops Thorp near York on the 28 day of March in sixteen hundred sixty and four and was buried on the third day of May following under the great east window of the Cathedral Church of S. Peter in York Soon after was erected a splendid monument over his grave with an inscription thereon which being too large for this place shall now for brevity sake be omitted His Father John Frewen before mention'd was a learned Divine and frequent preacher of his time and wrot 1 Fruitful instructions and necessary doctrine to edifie in the fear of God c. Lond. 1587 in tw 2 Fruitful instructions for the general cause of reformation against the slanders of the Pope and League c. Lond. 1589. qu. 3 Certain choice grounds and principles of our Christian Religion with their several expositions by way of questions and answers c. Lond. 1621. in octav and other things He died in 1627 about the latter end and was buried in Nordiam Church leaving then behind these Sons viz. Accepted before mention'd Thankful Stephen Joseph Benjamin Thomas Samuel John c. which John seems to have succeeded his Father in the Rectory of Nordiham but whether the said Father was educated in Oxon I cannot yet tell Qu. As for Dr. Hacket before mention'd who was an eminent person in his time for learning and a publick spirit I shall now take this opportunity to speak at large of him tho I have partly mention'd him already in the Fasti under the year 1616. p. 824 and elsewhere in the first volume Born therefore he was in the Strand near Exeter-house in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of Westminster on the first day of Sept. 34. Elizab. Dom. 1592. His Father was Andr. Hacket of Putferin in Scotland a senior Burgess of the City of Westminster and afterwards of the Robes to Prince Henry who being a zealous Protestant took great care to breed up this his only Son to that religion When he was very young therefore he put him to the Coll. School at Westminster and his Master Mr. Ireland finding in him a great propensity to learning was very kind to him as also was Dr. Lanc. Andrews the Dean of the Ch. there who in the necessary absence of the Master being accustomed to come into the School and examine the boys took this youth into his particular favour and continued it to him as long as the Bishop lived Being made ripe for the University he was in the year 1608 with the pious Mr. George Herbert elected to go to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge by the favour of Dr. Tho. Nevill Master of that Coll who told his Father when he addressed to him about his Son that he should go to Cambridge or else he would carry him upon his back and being there entred he was put under the tuition of Dr. Edw. Simson author of Chronicon ab exordio mundi c. Soon after he was so much noted for his painful studies sober life and great proficiency in learning that he was elected Fellow of that House assoon as he was by the rules thereof fit for the same Afterwards he grew into that credit that he had many Pupils put to his charge and those of the best families in England and then betaking himself to the study of Divinity he took holy Orders in 1618 from the hands of Dr. John King B. of London who had a great affection for him and expressed the same on divers occasions but above all others Dr. John Williams Bishop of Linc observing his great learning and knowledge in the Tongues chose him his Chaplain immediatly after the Great Seal was committed to his charge an 1621. Two years he spent in that Bishops service before his time was come to commence Bach. of Divinity and then beg'd leave to go to Cambridge to keep the publick Act an 1623 which he performed according to expectation and then returning to Court to his Master he prefer'd him to be Chaplain to K. Jam. 1 before whom he preaching several times to that learned Prince's good liking he was the next year by the recommendations of his Master presented to the Church of S. Andrew in Holbourn near London then within his Majesties disposal by reason of the minority of Thomas Earl of Southampton and suddenly after he was by the same means made Parson of Cheame in Surrey fallen likewise in his Majesties gift by the promotion of Dr. Ric. Senhouse to the Bishoprick of Carlile which two Livings he held till the most execrable rebellion broke out in 1642 and was constantly resident upon one of them In 1628 he commenced Doct. of Div. at Cambridge where he preached a Sermon highly applauded by the learned auditory of that time And returning to Holbourne and his duty there he became very famous for excellent preaching and decent order in his charge In 1631 his old Master the Bishop of Lincoln gave him the Archdeaconry of Bedford void by the death or resignation of Nich. Walker D. D. who had succeeded therein one George Eland an 1629. To which charge he usually went once in a year commonly after Easter and exhorted the Clergy thereof to keep strictly the Orders of the Church Afterwards finding his Church of S. Andrew in Holbourne much in decay he eagerly sollicited his great friends and acquaintance to contribute to its reedification or at least repair and about the year 1639 he had obtained divers thousands of pounds for that purpose but the unparalell'd rebellion following soon after the members of the Long Parliament mostly a prevalent party of Presbyterians did seize on that and all the money collected for the repair of St. Pauls Cathedral in London to carry on their rebellion against their King In the beginning of the Civil War he was named one of the Committee with divers eminent Bishops and Pastors to consider of what was amiss in the English Liturgy and Church government and to rectifie the same in hopes by that means to expel the cloud then appearing over the Church but the Lords
Thomas Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who gave him the Deanery of Connor in that Kingdom at which time he was esteem'd well vers'd in the Ecclesiastical Laws On the 30 of Apr. 1639 he was admitted Doctor of the Laws of the University of Dublin and going soon after into England was incorporated Doctor of that faculty at Oxon. In the time of the rebellion in Ireland he lost all there and suffer'd much for the royal cause but being restored to what he had lost after his Majesties return was in requital of his sufferings made Bishop of Fernes and Laighlin in the said Kingdom to which Sees being consecrated in the Cathedral Church of S. Patrick on the 27 of January 1660 sate there to the time of his death which hapned in sixteen hundred sixty and five as I have been informed by one of his successors in the said Sees named Dr. Narcissus Marsh now Archb. of Cashiells who also told me that Dr. Rich. Boyle succeeded Dr. Price in those Sees JOHN EARLE sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll afterwards Dean of Westminster was consecrated Bishop of VVorcester on the death of Gauden in the latter end of Nov. 1662 and thence translated to Salisbury in the latter end of Sept. an 1663. He died in Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 251. In VVorcester succeeded Dr. Skinner and in Salisbury Dr. Hyde as I shall tell you hereafter GEORGE WILDE sometimes Fellow of S. Johns Coll. was consecrated in S. Patricks Church near Dublin Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland on the 27. of January 1660 by John Archb. of Armagh Griffin Bishop of Ossory and Robert B. of Kilmore He departed this mortal life in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty and five under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 252. In the said See succeeded Robert Moss●m author of The Preachers Tripartite in 3 books c. and him Dr. Mich. Ward and him Dr. Ezek. Hopkins JOHN WARNER sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in January 1637 the temporalities of which See were delivered to him on the 30 of the said month and died in Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 258. In the said See succeeded John Dolben D. D of whom I have made mention among the said Writers GEORGE GRIFFITH sometimes Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the latter end of Octob. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred sixty and six under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 270. He succeeded in the said See after it had laid void 9 years one Dr. Joh. Owen of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in the first vol. of this work p. 628. But whereas I have said there that he was author of Herod and Pilate reconciled c. which I took from Mercurius Publicus published 4. June 1663 wherein 't is said that Dr. Owen late Bishop of S. Asaph was the author it proves an errour for David Owen was the writer of it as I have told you in the said vol in the Fasti p. 803 wherein the first part of the title is omitted for whereas the title there is The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings it should be Herod and Pilate reconciled or the concord of a Papist c. Camb. 1610. qu reprinted under Dr. John Owens name in 1663 and so it was put in the said News book called Merc. Pub. which caused the errour by me made ALEXANDER HYDE fourth Son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury Knight second Son of Laur. Hyde of Gussage S. Michael in Dorsetshire third Son of Robert Hyde of Northbury in Cheshire was born in S. Maries Parish within the said City of Salisbury educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1617 aged 20 years or thereabouts and took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1632. In the month of May 1637 he was made Subdean of Salisbury on the death of Giles Thornborough and on the 5 of Jan. 1638 he was collated to the Prebendship of South Grantham in the said Church upon the resignation of Dr. Humph. Henchman he being then possest of a Benefice elsewhere What were his sufferings in the time of the rebellion if any or his merits afterwards to be advanced to a Bishoprick let others speak while I tell you that after his Majesties restauration he was by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. Hyde Lord Chanc. of England not only made Dean of Winchester an 1660 in the place of Dr. Joh. Yonge some years before dead who had succeeded in that Deanery Dr. Thomas Morton an 1616 but also advanced upon the death of Dr. Joh. Earle to the See of Salisbury To which receiving consecration in New Coll. Chappel 31. Dec. 1665 the K. and Qu. with their Courts being then in Oxon from the Hands of the Archb. of Cant assisted by the Bishops of Winchester Gloc Peterb Limerick and Oxon enjoyed it but a little while to his detriment In his Deanery succeeded Will. Clark D. D. of Cambridge who dying in the Parish of S. Giles in the Fields near London Rich. Meggot D. D. of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge Canon of Windsore Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and Vicar of Twittenham in Middlesex was installed in his place 9. Oct. 1679. As for Dr. Hyde he died to the great grief of his Relations on the 22 day of August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven aged 70 years and was buried in the South isle near the Choir of the Cath. Church of Salisbury Afterwards was a black marble stone laid over his grave with an inscription thereon the beginning of which is this Siste viator hac itur in patriam hisce vestigiis in coelum c. His eldest Brother Laur. Hyde Esq was of Heale near Salisbury whose Widow Mrs. Mary Hyde did for a time conceal in her house there K. Ch. 2. in his flight from Worcester battle an 1651 when then he removed incognito from place to place till he could obtain a passage over Sea into France The next was Sir Rob. Hyde who by the endeavours of his kinsman Sir Edw. before mention'd was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas He died suddenly on the Kalends of May 1665 aged 70 and was buried in the said Isle Soon after was erected on the wall near his grave a splendid monument with his bust in white marble and a large inscription thereon beginning thus H. S. E. ordini par paterno fraternoque Robertus Hyde Eq. aur Laurentii Hyde militis filius secundus c. Another Brother he had called Sir Hen. Hyde who adheering to
Man on the 21. of March 1669 to the great rejoycing of the true Sons of the Church in the Diocese thereof After he was setled he repaired several parts of the Cathedral Church especially the North and South Isles and new covered them with lead and caused the East part of the choir to be wainscoted He laid out a considerable sum of money in building and repairs about his Pallace at S. Asaph and the mill thereunto belonging In the year 1678 he built an Almes house for eight poor Widows and did endow it with twelve pounds per an for ever The same year he procured an Act of Parliament for the appropriating of the Rectories of Llaurhaiader and Mochnant in Denbighshire and Mountgomeryshire and of Skeiviog in the County of Flint for repairs of the Cathedral Church of S. Asaph and the better maintenance of the choire there and also for the uniting several Rectories that were Sinecures and the Vicaridges of the same Parishes within his said Diocese of S. Asaph He also intended to build a Free-school and to endow it but was prevented by death Yet since that time his successor Dr. Will Lloyd Bishop of S. Asaph did recover from Bishop Barrow's Executors 200 l. towards a Free-school at S. Asaph an 1687. This most worthy Bishop Dr. Barrow died at Shrewsbury about noon of the 24 of June Midsomer day an 1680 and on the 30 of the said month his Corps was lodged in his house called Argoed hall in Flintshire and from thence carried on the first of July to his Palace at S. Asaph and the same day to the Cathedral Church there where after Divine Service and a Sermon the said Corps was decently inter'd by Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph on the South side of the West door in the Cathedral Church yard which was the place he appointed Over his grave was soon after laid a large flat stone and another over that supported by Pedestals On the last of which is this inscription engraven Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita Obiit dictus reverendus Pater festo Divi Johannis Baptistae anno Domini 1680 Aetatis 67 Translationis suae undecimo On the lower stone which is even with the ground is this inscription following engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto which was made by the Bishop himself Exuviae Isaaci Asaphensis Episcopi in manum Domini depositae in spem laetae resurrectionis per sola Christi merita O vos transeuntes in Domum Domini Domum orationis orate pro Conservo vestro ut inveniat miserecordiam in die Domini The said brass plate was fastned at first as 't is there reported over the said West door but afterwards taken down and fastned to the lower stone next the body But so it was that as soon as this last Epitaph was put up the contents thereof flew about the nation by the endeavours of the godly faction then plump'd up with hopes to carry on their diabolical designes upon account of the Popish Plot then in examination and prosecution to make the world believe that the said Bishop died a Papist and that the rest of the Bishops were Papists also or at least popishly affected and especially for this reason that they adhered to his Majesty and took part with him at that time against the said Faction who endeavoured to bring the Nation into confusion by their usual trade of lying and slandering which they have always hitherto done to carry on their ends such is the religion of the Saints But so it is let them say what they will that the said Bishop was a virtuous generous and godly man and a true Son of the Church of England And it is to be wished that those peering poor spirited and sneaking wretches would endeavour to follow his example and not to lye upon the catch under the notion of religion to obtain their temporal ends private endearments comfortable importances filthy lusts c. The said Bishop was Uncle to a most worthy religious and learned Doctor of both his names as I have elsewhere told you who dying 4. May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the great or south cross Isle of Westm Abbey near to the monument of the learned Camden sometimes Clarenceaux K. of Armes WILLIAM PIERS son of William Piers a Haberdasher of Hats Nephew or near of kin to Dr. John Piers sometimes Archb. of York and a Native of South Hinxsey near Abendon in Berks was born in the Parish of Allsaints within the City of Oxon in Aug and baptized there on the 3. of Sept. an 1580. In 1596 he was made Student of Ch. Church and taking the degrees in Arts fell to the study of Divinity and was for a time a Preacher in and near Oxon. Afterwards being made Chaplain to Dr. King Bishop of London he was prefer'd to the Rectory of S. Christophers Church near to the Old Exchange in London and Vicaridge of Northall in Middles In 1614 he proceeded in Divinity being about that time Divinity Reader in S. Pauls Cathedral and in 1618 he was made Canon of Ch. Church and soon after Dean of Chester In 1621. 22. 23. he did undergo the office of Vicechancellour of this University wherein behaving himself very forward and too officious against such that were then called Anti-Arminians he gained the good will of Dr. Laud then a rising star in the Court and so consequently preferment In 1622 he was made Dean of Peterborough in the place of Hen. Beaumont promoted to that of Windsore and in 1630 had the Bishoprick thereof confer'd on him by the death of Dr. Tho. Dove to which being elected he had the temporalities thereof given to him on the 30 of Oct and installation on the 14 of Nov. the same year While he sate there which was but for a short time he was esteemed a man of parts knowing in Divinity and the Laws was very vigilant and active for the good both for the ecclesiastical and civil estate In Oct. 1632 he was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells upon the translation of Dr. Curle to Winchester the temporalities of which See being given to him on the 20 of December the same year he continued there without any other translation to the time of his death As for his actions done in his Diocese of Bath and Wells before the grand rebellion broke out which were very offensive to the puritanical party who often attested that he brought innovations therein and into his Church suppressed Preaching Lectures and persecuted such who refused to rail in the Lords Table c. in his Diocese let one of them named William Prynne a great enemy to the Hierarchy speak yet the reader may be pleased to suspend his judgment and not to believe all what that partial cropear'd and stigmatized person saith When the Bishops were silenc'd and their Lands sold by that
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 T●●ttenham or Twickenham in Middlesex in the Reigns of Oliv. and Richard and endeavoured to instil Principles of Loyalty into his scholars At length upon the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Dean
of S. Patricks Church near Dublin and in August the same year he was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law as a member of S. Edm. Hall by vertue of the Chancellours Letters written in his behalf which say that he is a worthy and learned person and hath suffered much for his Loyalty to his Majesty c. Afterwards he went into Ireland was installed Dean of the said Ch. on the 21 of Oct. following and continuing in that dignity till 1663 he was made Bish of Limerick and Ardfert in that Kingdom to which being consecrated on the 20 of March the same year according to the English accompt sate there tho much of his time was spent in England till 1667 and then upon Dr. B. Laney's removal to Ely on the death of Dr. Math. Wren he was translated to the See of Lincoln after he had taken a great deal of pains to obtain it on the 28 of Sept. the same year He paid his last debt to nature at Kensington near London on the 22 of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and five whereupon his body being carried to Lincoln was buried in the Cath. Ch. there In the afternoon of the very same day that he died Dr. Tho. Barlow Provost of Qu. Coll did by the endeavours of the two Secretaries of State both formerly of his Coll. kiss his Majesties hand for that See and accordingly was soon after consecrated The said Dr. Fuller did once design to have written the Life of Dr. Joh. Bramhall sometimes Primate of Ireland and had obtained many materials in his mind for so doing wherein as in many things he did he would without doubt have quitted himself well as much to the instruction of the living as honor of the dead And therefore it was lamented by some that any thing should divert him from doing so acceptable service But the providence of God having closed up his much desired life has deprived us of what he would have said of that most worthy Prelate See in the beginning of the said Dr. Bramhall's Life written by Joh. L. Bish of Limerick Lond. 1677. fol. WALTER BLANDFORD son of a father of both his names was born at Melbury Abbats in Dorsetshire became a Servitour or poor Scholar of Ch. Ch. an 1635 aged 19 years admitted Scholar of Wadh. Coll on the 1 of Oct. 1638 at which time he said he was born in 1619 took the degrees in Arts and in 1644 Jul. 2 he was admitted Fellow of the said Coll. In 1648 when the Visitors appointed by Parliament to eject all such from the Univ. that would not take the Covenant or submit to their power they did not eject him which shews that he did either take the Covenant or submit to them and about the same time obtaining leave to be absent he became Chapl. to John Lord Lovelace of Hurley in Berks and Tutor to his son John to whom also afterwards he was Tutor in Wadh. Coll. In 1659 he was elected and admitted Warden of that Coll and in the year after in Aug. he was among many actually created D. of D being about that time Chapl. to Sir Edw. Hyde L. Chanc. of Engl who obtained for him the same year a Prebendship in the Ch. of Glocester and a Chaplainship in ord to his Majesty In 1662 and 63 he did undergo the office of Vicechanc. of this Univ not without some pedantry and in 1665 he being nominated Bishop of Oxon on the death of Dr. Will. Paul was elected thereunto by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. Ch. on the 7 of Nov confirmed in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon on the 28 of the said month and on the 3 of Dec. following in the same year of 1665 the K. and the Q. with their Courts being then in Oxon he was consecrated in New Coll. Chap. by the Bishops of London Glocester and Exeter Soon after he was made Dean of the Royal Chappel and upon the death of Dr. Skinner was translated to the See of Worcester in the Ch. of S. Mary Savoy in the Strand near London on the 13 of June 1671. This Dr. Blandford who lived a single man and never at all was inclined to Marriage died in the Bishops Pallace at Worcester on Friday the 9 of July in sixteen hundred seventy and five and was buried in the Chappel next beyond the east end of the Choir belonging to the Cath. Ch. there commonly called Our Ladies Chappel Afterwards was set up in the Wall that parts the said Chap. and the east end of the Choire a monument of Northamptonshire marble and in the middle of it was fix'd a black marble table with a large inscription thereon part of which runs thus H. S. I. Gualterus Blandford SS T. P. c. ad primorum Ecclesiae temporum exempla factus futurorum omnium natus summis honorum fastigiis ita admotus ut perpetuo super invidiam citra meritum consisteret non seculi artibus assentatione aut ambitu sed pietate modestia animi dimissione dignitatum fuga clarus Ab Academiae gubernaculo ad Ecclesiae clavum quaeque anceps magis procuratio ad conscientiae Principis regimen evocatus muneribus omnibus par quasi unico impenderetur Nimirum eruditione recondita Academiam sanctissima prudentia Dioecesim illibata pietate Aulam illustrabat Donec perpetuis laboribus morbo diutino quem invicta animi constantia tolleraverat confectus facultatibus suis Deo Ecclesiae Pauperibus distributis c. 'T is said in the Epitaph that he died in the year of his age 59 and on the 16 of July which should be the 9 as I have told you before In the See of Worcester succeeded him Dr. Jam. Fleetwood as I shall tell you elsewhere EDWARD REYNOLDS sometimes Fell. of Merton Coll. and afterwards Dean of Ch. Ch was consecrated B. of Norwych in the beginning of Jan. 1660 and died in sixteen hundred seventy and six under which year you may see more among the Writers p. 420. In the said See succeeded Anth. Sparrow D. D. Bish of Exeter who after his Translation was confirmed on the 18 of Sept. the same year where he sate to the time of his death This learned Doctor who was the son of a wealthy father named Sam. Sparrow was born at Depden in Suffolk educated in Queens Coll. in Cambr of which he was successively Scholar and Fellow but ejected thence with the rest of the Society for their Loyalty and refusing the Covenant an 1643. Soon after he was prevail'd upon to take the benefice of Hankdon in his native Country but by that time he had held it 5 weeks where he read the Common Prayer he was ejected thence by the Committee of Religion sitting at Westminster After the restauration of his Maj. he returned to his Living was elected one of the Preachers at S. Edmunds Bury and made Archd. of Sudbury as I have told you in the Fasti under the year 1577. Soon after he became
Coll. in Oxon and Trin. Coll. in Cambr besides great and large sums of money annually bestowed some to publick and some to private charities His Legacies at his death for charitable uses came to 1500 l which afterwards were paid part to All 's Coll part to the Church of Canterbury part to the Hospital of Harbledowne in Kent and the rest to indigent persons I have heard Sir Joseph Sheldon before mentioned say who was afterwards buried near to the body of his Uncle that from the time of Dr. Sheldon's being made Bishop of London to the time of his death it did appear in the book of his Accompts that he had bestowed upon publick pious and charitable uses about threescore and six thousand pounds In his Archbishoprick succeeded Will. Sancroft D. D. Dean of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in Lond. and sometimes Fellow of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge who after he had been nominated by the King thro the endeavours of James Duke of York was consecrated in the Abbey Ch. of S Peter at Westm on Sunday the 27 of Jan. 1677. What he hath written and published except 1 Modern policies taken from Machiavel Borgia and other choice authors by an eye witness Lond. 1652 in tw 2 Serm. on the first Sunday in Advent 1660 at the consecration of John Bishop of Durham William Bishop of S. Dav. c. Lond. 166● qu. and 3 Serm. preached to the H. of Peers 13 Nov. 1678 being the Fast day appointed by the King c. Lond 1679. qu. I say what he hath published besides these things let others speak while I tell you that after he had sate in the said See without the exception of any and had behaved himself with great prudence and moderation was after K. Will. 3. came to the Crown deprived with five other Bishops for not swearing Allegiance and Supremacy to that Prince and his Queen JOHN PARRY sometimes of Trin. Coll. near Dublin afterwards Fell. of Jesus Coll. in this Univ was consecrated Bish of Ossory in Ireland on the death of Griff. Williams in the beginning of the year 1672 and died a little before the Nativity in sixteen hundred seventy and seven under which year you may see more among the Writers p. 448. In the said See succeeded his brother Ben. Parry as I am now about to tell you BENJAMIN PARRY sometimes of Trin. Coll. near Dublin afterwards of Jesus in this Univ and at length Fellow of Corp. Ch. was consecrated Bish of Ossory in Jan. 1677 and died in the beginning of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 462. In the said See succeeded Dr. Michael Ward as I have elsewhere told you RALPH BRIDEOAKE son of Rich. Brid by Cicely his wife dau of John Booth of Lancashire and he the son of another Richard of Adbaston was born as I have been informed at Chitham Hill near Manchester in the said County was admitted a Student in Brasn Coll. 15 Jul. 1630 aged 16 years took one degree in Arts and determining soon after his Disputations did so much please Dr. Pink Warden of New Coll then Vicechancellour of the Univ that he forthwith upon enquiry that his condition was mean made him a Pro-Chaplain of the said New Coll. In 1636 he among many others was actually created Mast of Arts by vertue of his Maj. Letters dated at Oxon he being then accounted a good Greecian and Poet But having nothing to keep up the degr of Master only his employment in the said Coll he became Curat of Wytham near Oxon for Dr. Joh. Brikenden sometimes of Magd. Coll and Corrector of the Press in Oxon. In which last employment hapning to correct a book of Dr. Tho Jackson President of C. C. Coll to whom he had often recess that Doctor had such an affection for him that upon the vacancy of the Free-school at Manchester founded by Bishop Hugh Oldham of which the President of the said Coll. for the time being is Patron he forthwith gave the government of it to him So that being soon after setled there he by his interest and great forwardness became Chaplain to the Earl of Derby whom and his family he much pleased And when Latham House in Lanc. belonging to the said Count was besieged by the Forces belonging to Parliament he was all the time in it and did good service When the Kings Cause declined he stuck close to the said family and managed as 't is said most of the Estate belonging to it In 1651 his Lord James Earl of Derby being engaged for K. Ch. 2. at Worcester fight and before he was after the loss of the day taken by the Parliamenteers in Cheshire Whereupon he being like to lose his life this his Chaplain Mr. Brideoake with others were desired to sollicit the Grandees at Westminster to save him and Will. Lenthall the Speaker of the House of Com. being much plyed by the said Chaplain with more than ordinary reason and application Lenthall thereupon when he saw nothing could save his Lords life finding him to be a man of parts and business made him his own proper Chaplain and soon after Preacher of the Rolls in Chancery lane Which act of his tho noble and generous yet he was clamour'd at and gained the ill will of divers members of Parliament for his entertaining openly and afterwards preferring a Malignant as they term'd him Soon after by Lenthall's endeavours he became Vicar of a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Witney where being setled he preached twice every Lords day and in the Evening catechised the Youth in his own house outvying in labour and vigilancy any of the godly Brethren in those parts He also by his Patron 's means got the Rectory of the said place which had been leased out to be annexed to the Vicaridge whereby it became one of the richest Rectories in Oxford Diocess and not long after he was made Minister of S. Bartholmew near the Royal Exchange in London where in holding forth preaching and laying about him in the Pulpit he equalled any of the holy Brethren of that City On the 14 of March 1659 he was appointed one of the Commissioners by Act of Parliament for the approbation and admission of Ministers of the Gospel after the Presbyterian mode but that Act soon after vanishing upon the approach of his Majesties restauration he by his unwearied diligence and application was made Chaplain to his Majesty installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thom. Howell B. of Bristow several years before dead on the 11 day of July and actually created Doct. of Div. in the beginning of Aug. following an 1660. About that time he became Rector of the rich Church of Standish in his native Country given formerly to him by the Earl of Derby but hindred from enjoying it by the Triers in Oliver's Reign between whom and him followed some controversie concerning that matter but how terminated I cannot tell
Translation of Dr. Is Barrow to the See of S. Asaph being nominated Bishop of the Isle of Man by the Earl of Derby he was consecrated thereunto at Chester on Sunday the second of Octob. 1671 having had liberty before granted to him to keep his Deanery in commendam with it What the merits of this person were except his Loyalty and his benefaction to the Deans house at Chester let others speak while I tell you that he giving way to fate on the 15 of May in sixteen hundred eighty and two after he had had two Wives was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. at Chester Qu. In his Deanery succeeded James Arderne or Arden D. D whom I shall mention in the Fasti an 1673 and in the See of Man succeeded Dr. John Lake who after nomination thereunto by William Earl of Derby and the issuing out of a Commission for his consecration in the beginning of Decemb. 1682 was accordingly soon after consecrated This person who was born in Yorkshire was educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge was afterwards Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Bishopsgate in London instituted Rector of Prestwych in Cheshire 17 Octob. 1668 collated to the Prebendship of Friday Thorp in the Church of York upon the resignation of Hen. Bagshaw Bach. of Div in Apr. 1670 was afterwards a Preacher in that City and on the death of Dr. Rob. Feild he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland 13. Oct. 1680. Before he had continued two years in the See of Man he was upon the death of Dr. Will. Goulson elected Bishop of Bristow to which he was translated in the Ch. of S. Mary le Bow in London on the 12 of Aug and on the first of Sept. following an 1684 he was installed by proxy with leave then allow'd him to keep his Prebendary c. in commendam with it See more of him in Guy Carleton an 1685. EDWARD RAINBOW son of Tho. Rainbow A Minister by Rebecca his wife dau of Dav. Allen Rector of Ludbrough in Lincolnshire was born at Bliton near Gainsborough in the said County 20. Apr. 1608 educated in Grammar learning successively at Gainsborough Peterborough and at Westminster entred a student in Corp. Christi Coll in Oxon in Jul. 1623 his elder brother John being about that time Fellow of the said House but before he had quite spent two years there he was translated to Madg. Coll. in Cambridge where he was adm one of the Scholars of Frances Countess Dowager of Warwick daugh of Sir Christop Wray L. Ch. Justice of England Afterwards taking the degrees in Arts he became Fellow a noted Tutor in that House Master thereof in Oct. 1642 in the place of Dr. Hen. Smith deceased continued therein in the time of Rebellion without being ejected with others that denied the Covenant commenc'd Doctor of Div. in 1646 and in 1650 lost his Mastership for refusing a Protestation against the King that is the Oath called the Engagement Afterwards he became Minister of Chesterford near Audley inn in Essex married Elizabeth dau of his predicessor Dr. Hen. Smith and in the beginning of the year 1659 became Rector of Benefield in Northamptonshire which tho of considerable value yet by the favour of friends he did not undergo the examination of the Tryers of that time as he had not done for Chesterford Upon his Majesties return in 1660 he was restored to his Mastership was made Chaplain to his Majesty Dean of Peterborough the same year and in 1662 Vicech of Cambridge In 1664 he became Bishop of Carlile upon the Translation thence of Dr. Rich. Sterne to the See of York where sitting till the time of his death was then succeeded by Dr. Tho. Smith somtimes Fellow of Qu. Coll. in this University See in the Fasti in the first Vol. p. 861. but more in a book entit The life of the right rev fath in God Edw. Rainbow D. D. late L. Bishop of Carlile Lond. 1688. oct written by one Jonathan Banks Bach. of Arts of Cambridge and School-Master of Applebey in Westmorland who composed it by the help of some papers and a diary of the Bishop which the widow of the said Bishop furnished him with He the said Dr. Rainbow published Labour forbidden and commanded two Sermons at S. Paules Cross on Joh. 6.27 Lond. 1635 and another at the Funeral of Susanna Countess of Suffolk 13. May 1649 on Ecclesiastes 7.1 c. PETER GUNNING somtimes Fellow of Clare Hall in Cambridge afterwards one of the Chaplaines of New Coll. in Oxon c. became first Bishop of Chichester afterwards of Ely and dying in July in sixteen hundred eighty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 577. he was succeeded in Ely by Dr. Franc. Turner B. of Rochester sometimes Fellow of New Coll who for refusing the Oath of Alleg. and Supremacy to K Will. 3. was deprived of it GEORGE MORLEY somtimes Dean of Ch. Church was first Bishop of Worcester where he was received and inthronized with very great solemnity on the 12. of Sept. 1661 and afterwards of Winchester on the death of Dr. Duppa who dying in the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers p. 581. was succeeded in Winchester by Dr. Pet. Mews B. of Bathe and Wells GUY CARLETON was born of an antient and gentile family at Brampton Foot in Gilsland within the County of Cumberland educated in the Free-School at Carlile under Mr. Tho. Robson and admitted a poor serving child of Queens Coll under the tuition of Charles son of the said Tho. Robson an 1621 aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Tabarder Fellow and in 1635 one of the Proctors of the University Vicar of Bucklesbury near to Newbury in Berks c. At length upon the breaking out of the grand Rebellion he took part with his Majesty and did him good service being then accounted an excellent Horsman in a double sense for which he had his share in sufferings as other Loyallists had After the Kings Restauration he was made one of his Chaplaines was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of Aug. 1660 made Dean of Carlile in the place of Dr. Tho. Comber somtimes Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge some years before dead and on the 2. of Nov. the same year was installed Prebendary of Durham In 1671 he was nominated Bishop of Bristow on the death of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to which See being consecrated in S. Peters Church at Westm on the eleventh day of Febr. in the same year had much about that time liberty allowed him to keep his Prebendship in Commendam In 1678 he was translated to Chichester on the death of Dr. Brideloake and was confirmed therein on the eighth day of January the same year but had not the name there for a Scholar or liberal Benefactor as his predicessor and kinsman had
the Coll. of Edinburgh where he commenced Master of Arts afterwards he retired to Oxon to compleat his Learning especially his Divinity by the advice instruction and lectures of Dr. Prideaux an 1637. 38. c. Soon after he upon recommendations became one of the Chaplains to James Marquess of Hamilton at that time his Majesties High Commissioner for Scotland In which station he did acquit himself so well to the satisfaction of his noble Patron that upon his return to England he procured a Presentation for him from his Majesty to the Church of Birsa in the Stewartry of Orknay where Continuing some years his prudence diligence and faithfulness in the discharge of his Office did procure him much of veneration and respect from all persons especially from his Ordinary who confer'd upon him the dignity of Moderator to the Presbytery In the beginning of the year 1650 when the noble James Marq. of Montross landed in Orknay this Dr. Atkins was nominated by the unanimous Votes of the said Presbytery to draw up a Declaration in their names and his own which with their approbation and consent was published containing very great expressions of Loyalty and constant resolution firmly to adhere to their dutiful Allegiance For this the whole Presbytery being deposed by the general Assembly of the Kirk at that time sitting at Edinburgh the said Doctor was likewise excommunicated as one that conversed with the said Marquess against whom they had emitted the like Brutum Fulmen At that time the Scottish Council past an Act to apprehend him the said Doctor to the end that he might be tried for his life but upon private notice from his Kinsman Sir Archibald Primerose at that time Clerk to the said Council he fled into Holland where he sculked till 1653 and then returning into Scotland he transfer'd his family to Edinburgh where he resided quietly and obscurely till the year 1660. Upon the return then of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 he attended Dr. Tho. Sydserf Bishop of Galloway the only Scottish Bishop who had the good fortune to survive the calamities of the Usurper's Government to London where the Bishop of Winchester presented him to the Rectory of Winfrith in Dorsetshire and continuing there till the year 1677 he was elected and consecrated Bish of Murray in Scotland to the great rejoycing of the Episcopal Party In 1680 he was translated to the See of Galloway with dispensation to reside at Edinburgh because it was thought unreasonable to oblige a reverend Prelate of his years to live among such a rebellious and turbulent People as those of that Diocess were the effects of whose fiery zeal hath too frequently appeared in affronting beating robbing wounding and sometimes murthering the Curates He had the oversight of the said Diocess for 7 years which he so carefully governed partly by his pastoral Letters to the Synod Presbyteries and Ministers and partly by his great pains in undertaking a very great journey for a man of his age and infirmities to visit his Diocess that had he resided on the place better order and discipline could scarce be expected He died at Edinburgh of an Apoplexy on the 28 of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and seven aged 74 years Whereupon his body was decently inter'd in the Church of the Grey Friers there at which time John then Bish of Dunkeld since deceased preached his funeral Sermon His death was sadly regretted by all good and pious men who knew him to be a man of great reputation for his sincere piety constant Loyalty singular learning and true zeal for the Protestant Religion according to the Constitutions of the Church of England of which he lived and died a worthy Member Upon his Coffin was fastned this Epitaph Maximus Atkinsi pietate maximus annis Ante diem invitâ religione cadis Ni caderes nostris inferret forsitan oris Haud impune suos Roma superba Deos. He was very zealous and vigorous in opposing the taking off the Penal Laws in Scotland at which time notwithstanding he was so infirm by age and sickness that he could not walk yet he was daily conveyed to the Parliament where he declared publickly his aversion to the abolishing the said Penal Laws and to use his interest with the Nobility and Gentry of the Parl. in perswading them to a firm and constant adherence to the Protestant Religion and to oppose all the designs that might be prejudicial to the same SAMUEL PARKER sometimes of Wadh afterwards of Trin. Coll and Archd. of Canterbury became B. of Oxford on the death of Dr. Fell an 1686 and dying in the latter end of sixteen hundred eighty and seven under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 616 was succeeded in the same See by Timothy Hall as I shall tell by and by SETH WARD sometimes of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards of that of Wadh. in Oxon c. was first made B. of Exeter and afterwards of Salisbury who dying in the beginning of Jan. in sixteen hundred eighty and eight was succeeded in that See by Gilb. Burnet D. D. sometimes Preacher of the Rolls in Chancery lane in London consecrated thereunto according to the form prescribed in the book of Common Prayer in the Chappel belonging to the B. of London's house at Fulham by the B. of London Winchester Lincoln Landaff S. Asaph and Carlile on Easter-day 31 of March 1689. The said Dr. Ward did about his Majesties restauration 1660 endeavour to make his Loyalty known by being imprison'd at Cambr by his ejection his writing against the Covenant and I know not what but not a word of his cowardly wavering for lucre and honour sake of his putting in and out and occupying other mens places for several years c. See among the Writers p. 627. HUMPHREY LLOYD the third son of Rich. Lloyd D. D. and Vicar of Ruabon in Denbighshire by Jane his wife the daughter of Rudderch Hughes Clerk of the family of Maes●y Pandy was born at Bod●y Fudden in the Parish of Trawsfynydd in the County of Merioneth in Jul. or Aug. an 1610 became a Com. of Oriel Coll. for a time afterwards of Jesus where he was Scholar and thence again to Oriel Coll of which he became Fellow in 1631 and a great Tutor for many years When the K. and Court were setled in Oxon he became known to Dr. Joh. Williams Archb. of York then there who made him his Chapl. and gave him the Prebendship of Ampleford in the Church of York which he kept to his death After the decease of his father which was in the time of the Troubles he succeeded him in the Vicaridge of Ruabon but was soon deprived of it and his Prebendship by the Usurpers till restored again to both by the happy Revolution in 1660. On the 13 of Aug. 1661 he was made Canon of S Asaph and in the month following he was actually created D. of D. On the 14 of Dec. 1663
he was installed Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Dr. Dav. Lloyd deceased and on the 19 of Dec. 1664 he resigned the Sinecure of Northop in Flintshire in which he was succeeded by Mr. Will. Stone Princ. of New Inn in Oxon. In 1673 he was removed from Ruabon to the Vicaridge of Gresford vacant by the death of his elder brother Mr. Sam. Lloyd and soon after succeeding Dr. Rob. Morgan in the See of Bangor was consecrated thereunto in the Chap. of London house in Lond. on Sunday the 16 of Nov. 1673 by Dr. Hinchman B. of London Dr. Morley of Wint Dr. Ward of Sal Dr. Dolben of Roch. c. at which time Dr. Will. Lloyd who was afterwards successively B of Landaff Peterb and Norwich preached the Consecration Sermon and on the 5 of Jan. following he was installed at Bangor by proxy In 1685 he procured the Archdeaconries of Bangor and Anglesie and the Sine-cure of Llanrhaider in Kinmerch to be annexed to the Bishoprick of Bangor by Act of Parl. for ever and two thirds of both the comportions of Llanddinam to the Ch for the support of the Fabrick and the maintenance of the Choir of Bangor and the other third for the maintenance of the Vicaridges belonging to Llanddinam He ordered the four bells formerly bestowed by B Hen. Rowlands on the Ch. of Bangor to be all new cast and added a fifth bell bigger than the former all at his own charge He died on Friday the 18 of Jan. in six●een hundred eighty and eight and was buried in the grave of B. Rowlands on the north side of the Altar in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor leaving then behind him three sons named John Francis Archdeacon of Merioneth and Rector of Llandyrnoe and Richard Registrary of Bangor as also a Relict named Jane the daugh of John Griffyth of Llyn Esq widow of Owen Brereton of Burros Esq The inscription on the Monument which I presume is by this time put over his grave runs thus M. S. Humphredi Lloyd S. T. P. Episcopi Bangor qui è familia Lloydorum de Dulasseu oriundus in agro Merviniensi natus in Acad. Oxon. educatus Postquam causae regiae sub Carolo Martyre strenuus Assertor Confessor extitisset sub Carolo secundo primo Decanatu Asaphensi dein Episcopatu Bangor insignitus Huic Ecclesiae per tria annorum lustra praefuit benefecit Obiit xv Kal. Feb. MDCLXXXVIII aetatis suae LXXVIII THOMAS CARTWRIGHT sometimes of Qu. Coll afterwards Prebendary of Durham Dean of Rippon c. became B. of Chester on the death of Dr. Jo. Pearson an 1686 and dying in the beginning of sixteen hundred eighty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 629. was succeeded in the said See by Dr. Nich. Stratford Dean of S. Asaph sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Oxon. WILLIAM THOMAS sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll afterwards Dean of Worcester B. of S. David and at length of Worcester where dying in June in sixteen hundred eighty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the Writers p. 635. he was succeeded in that See by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral to which he was consecrated in the Chappel of the B. of London at Fulham with Dr. Simon Patrick to Chichester and Dr. Gilb. Ironside to Bristow on the 13 of Octob. following TIMOTHY HALL the son of a Turner of Wood was born in the Parish of S. Catherine near the Tower of London where his father obtained some estate in houses became a Student in Pembroke Coll. in the beginning of the year 1654 aged 17 years or thereabouts trained up there under a Presbyterian discipline which caused him ever after to be a Trimmer took one degree in Arts left the College without compleating it by Determination and what preferment he enjoyed afterwards in or near the great City I know not sure I am that several years after his Majesties restauration he became Rector of Allhallowes Staining in Mark lane in London in which place we find him in 1688 when then in the month of May or June he by vertue of his Majesties Declarations for Liberty of Conscience bearing date 4 and 27 of Apr. going before did read in his Church when the generality of London Ministers refused the said Declarations in the time of Service on a Sunday or at least gave half a Crown to another the Parish Clerk I think to do it for which great service his then Maj. K. Jam. 2 did confer upon him the Bishoprick of Oxon void by the death of Dr. Sam. Parker an act so egregiously resented by the true sons of the Church of England that they look'd upon it as a matter to bring their Church into contempt by throwing upon it such an obscure person to be a father as he had before two or more c. without any regard had to merit He was consecrated at Lambeth by the Archb. of Canterbury Bishops of Chichester and Chester on the seventh of Octob. 1688 but when he came into these parts to see and take possession of his house at Cudesden the Dean and Canons of Ch. Ch. refused to install him the Gentry to meet or congratulate him the Vicech and Heads to take notice of him or any Master or Bachelaur to make application to or take holy Orders from him So that when he was in Oxon at Whitsontide in the month of May 1689 Baptista Bishop of Man then there did that duty in Magd. Coll. Chappel on the 26 of the said month at which time 84 persons or thereabouts were ordained Ministers This Mr. Hall called by some Doctor and by others Sir Hall died miserably poor at Hackney near London on the tenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred and ninety and was buried in the Church there on the 13 of the same month In the said See of Oxon succeeded John Hough D. D. President of Magd. Coll. This Bish Hall hath published two Sermons viz. one at the Funeral of Major Rob. Huntingdon who died suddenly of an Apoplexy 14 Aug. 1685 aged 70 or more And the other at Mercers Chappel after he was Bishop but neither of these have I yet seen The said Rob. Huntingdon Esq son of Rob. Huntingdon of Yarmouth in Norfolk was Commissioner of the Excise at London had been a Major in a Regiment in the Parliament Army left them when he saw they would take away the life of King Ch. 1. to whom he had been very civil in the time of his affliction which that King acknowledges in his works hated Oliver for his diabolical Proceedings and was hated by him again so much that he imprisoned him several times His body was buried in the Ch. of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire of which Town he was Impropriator by vertue of a Lease from Allsoules Coll. EZEKIEL HOPKINS sometimes a member of Magd. Coll afterwards a Preacher near London and in Exeter and Dean of
Army raised by the Parl. again●t the King one of the Proctors of the University and published 1 The Christian Soldiers great Engine Sermon before the Lord General Fairfax at S. Maries in Oxon 20 May 1649. qu. 2 A letter to his Excellency the Lord Gen. Monke containing the instrumental causes of the ruine of Government and Commonwealths c. This was printed at Lond. in Feb. 1659 in one sh in qu. What other things he hath published I know not sure I am that after the restauration of K. Ch 2. he left his Benefice in Devonsh to avoid Conformity and died soon after Adm. 112. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only created See among the Creations Bach. of Div. Jun. ... John Hillersden of C. C Coll. He was the only person that was admitted this year the others were created In 1671 he became Archdeacon of Buckingham on the death of Dr. Giles Thorne and dying Joh. Gery LL. D. was installed in his place 29 Nov. 16●4 ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you shall have under the title of Creations Doct. of Phys Jun. 28. Hugh Barker of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rog. Puliston of Magd. Coll. 8. Thom. Duke of S. Maries Hall ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year only created the names of which you may see under the title of Creations Incorporations May 20. Thom. Gifford Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland He had that degree confer'd upon him in the said Univ. in the month of May 1636. Oct. 10. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden He had that degree confer'd upon him there in the month of Apr. 1638. This person or one of both his names was incorporated in 1660. Jul. 8. Will Clegge M. A. of Dublin Jul. 8. Thom. Turner M. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Nov. 1. Charles Prince of Wales Mast of Arts of Cambridge He was afterwards King of England c. by the name of K. Ch. 2. His Maj. Ch. 1. had then after his return from Edghill fight taken up his quarters in Oxon and on the same day was a great Creation in all faculties as I shall tell you by and by Dec. 7. Will. Harvey sometimes of Caies Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Padua and at his return into England of Cambridge was then incorporated Doctor of the said faculty in this University This person who was son of Tho. Harvey Gent. by Joan Halke his wife was born at Folksten in Kent on the second day of Apr. 1578 sent to a Grammar school in Canterbury at 10 years of age and at 14 to Gonvil and Caies Coll. in Cambr. At 19 years of age he travelled into France and Italy and at 23 he had for his Instructors in Medicine at Padua Eustac Radius Joh. Tho. Minadous and H. Faber ab Aquapend At 24 he became Doct. of Phys and Chirurgery and returning into England soon after he practised Phys in London and married At 25 or thereabouts he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London and at 37 Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery About which time which was in the year of our Lord 1615 he discovered the wonderful secret of the Bloods circular motion by which the anatomical part of Physick seemed then to be rising towards the Zenith of Perfection At 54 years of age he was made Physitian to K. Ch. 1 having as 't is said by some been Physitian to K. Jam. 1. and adhering to him in the beginning of the troubles he attended him at Edghill battel Thence going with him to Oxon was there incorporated as before 't is told you In 1645 he was elected Warden of Merton Coll. by vertue of the Kings letters sent to the Society of that house for that purpose but in the year following when Oxford Garrison was surrendred for the use of the Parliament he left that office and retired to London In 1654 he was chosen President of the Coll. of Physitians but refused to accept of that honorable place And after he had lived to see his doctrine the circulation of the blood with much ado established being the only man as one saith that did so he surrendred up his soul to him that gave it on the 30 of June an 1657. Soon after his body being lap'd up in lead it was conveyed to Hempsted in Essex and deposited in a Vault under part of the Church there Several monuments of his learning which have been and are received into the hands of all curious men as well abroad as at home are extant as the Oxford or Bodletan Catalogue will partly tell you besides his New Principles of Philosophy containing Philosophy in general Metaphysicks c. but more in MS. he hath left behind him the titles of which you may see in the Epist dedicat before An historical account of the Colleges Coll. of Phys Proceedings against Empricks c. Lond. 1684. qu. Written by Charles Goodall Doctor of Phys Feb. 1. Joh. Bathurst M. A. of Cambr. Feb. 1. Tho. Browning M. A. of Cambr. The first who was of Pembr Hall was afterwards Doctor of Phys a practitioner in London and a Burgess for Richmond in Yorksh. to serve in that Parl. called by Oliver an 1656 and for that called by Richard 1658. Feb. 11. Morgan Godwin Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Dublin Which degree was confer'd upon him there 5 Octob. 1637. He was originally of Ch. Ch afterwards of Pemb. Coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach of the Civil Law in this University an 1627 being about that time Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in Hereford Diocess confer'd upon him by his father Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford whose Annales rerum Anglicarum c. he translated into English as I have told you in the first vol. p. 497.498 What other things he hath translated or what written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was a Native of the Isle of Anglesie Feb. 21. Rob. Creygton D. D. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. He was incorporated M. of A. an 1628 as in the Fasti of that year in the first vol. p. 861. I have told you He wrot the Preface to Dr. Rich. Watsons book called Epistolaris Diatribe c. dated at Brussels 25 May 1658 which book was printed at Lond. 1661. in tw Francis Walsal D. D. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day This person who was forced away from his benefices by the severity of the Presbyterians did now attend the King in Oxon and did afterwards participate of afflictions with other Royalists In 1660 after his Majesties return I find him Rector of Sandey in Bedfordshire Prebendary of Westminster and author of 1 The bowing of the heart of Subjects to their Soveraigne Sermon preached 24 May 1660 being a day of Thanksgiving for the
labours in the search of Records for those works already published perused the notes that he had taken of the Lord Chancellours L. Treasurers Masters of Rolls Judges of all the Courts in Westminster Hall Kings Attorneys and Sollicitors as also of the Serjeants at Law Courts of ●us●ice and Inns of Court and Chancery for Students in that excellent Profession he compiled that historical work intit Origines Juridiciales adorned with exact cuts in copper plates of the Arms in the windows throughout all the Inns of Court and Serjeants Inns which was first made public by the Press an 1666 but the grand Conflagration soon after hapning many of the copies were burnt Further also he having in the course of his Collections formerly made at Oxon in the time of the Rebellion extracted from sundry choice MSS. divers special notes relating to antient Nobility of this Kingdom and being not ignorant that those Volumes of Monasticon would yield many excellent materials of that kind he then became encouraged to go to the Tower of London Exchequer Office of the Rolls in Chancery lane which were the chief treasures of Records as also to the Archbishops principal Registers and Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury of Wills and Testaments Dispensations for Marriages c. Whence and out of sundry MSS. in private hands monumental inscriptions and other Authorities which after the greater part of 30 years labour he had got together he at length compiled that large work intit The Baronage of England In making which Collections he omitted nothing of consequence which related to the Foundations and Endowments of the Cathedral and Collegiat Churches in England and Wales consisting of secular Canons as also of what else he could observe concerning those Monasteries that were already published to the end that use might be made of them as Additaments to those volumes And in the year 1673 he published all those Additaments together with what he had so gathered for those cathedral and collegiate Churches before specified But the said Volumes of the Baronage hanging long at the Press came not out till the year 1675 and 1676 being then and soon after taken into the hands not only of his Majesty and royal issue but also by the prime Nobility of the Nation Towards the end of the said year 1676 Sir Edw. Walker Garter Principal K. of Arms departing this mortal life at Whitehall Mr. Dugd. being then in Warwick●hire much dispute grew between Henry then Earl of Norwich afterwards Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal of England and the King for the nomination of a person unto whom his Majesty should by his Letters Patents make a grant of that Office the Chancellour of the Garter on the Kings behalf as Soveraign of that most noble Order strenuously insisting upon his Majesties right to nominate by reason that the said Office of Garter was an employment meerly belonging to that Order and chiefly for attending at all Installations and Festivals and performing other services unto the Soveraign and Knights Companions thereof The Earl on his part as Earl Marshal and chief Superintendent of the Office and Officers of Arms pleading the usage of his Predecessors in that honorable Office of Earl Marshal to nominate and recommend to the King upon the death and vacancy of any King of Arms Herald or Pursevant such person or persons to supply the place as he shall think most fit and most properly qualified for that service In which contest one Sir Will. Haward Knight a person well accomplish'd with learning especially in point of Honour and Arms having obtained the favour of divers great men to move his Majesty on his behalf the K. did thereupon much incline to to have that office confer'd upon him The Earl of Norwych on the other part accounting it no little derogation to his Office of Earl Marshal to be refused the like privilege as his Predecessors in that great place had been permitted to enjoy for which he produced some late Presidents acknowledging tho he had nothing to do as to any superintendency over him as an Officer of the Garter yet as Garter was Principal K. of Arms he was subordinate to his authority did obtain the favour of the Duke of York upon this great dispute to speak to his Majesty on his behalf The King therefore asked the said Count Earl Marshal whom he had a design to nominate and recommend he answer'd Mr. Dugdale tho 't is well known he had another person Th. Leigh Chest Her in his eye against whom such objections might have been justly taken as that he would have failed of his aim had he stuck to him whereupon his Maj. immediately replied Nay then I am content So that the matter being thus ended the Earl Marshal caused his Secretary to advise Mr. Dugdale thereof by the Post that night and earnestly to press his speedy coming up to London he then being at Blythe Hall in Warwickshire This news did not a little surprize him because he was so far from any thoughts of that Office that upon some Letters from certain honorable persons ensuing Sir E. Walkers death earnestly desiring his speedy repair to London in order to his obtaining that Office he excused himself in respect of his age he being then above 20 years older than any other Officer in the Coll. of Arms then living as he then told me being then with him at Blythe Hall when those Letters came to him After serious consideration what to resolve on therein having a far greater desire to wave it than otherwise as he then said he grew fearful that his Majesty so readily assenting to the Earl Marshal's nomination of him should not take it well in case he did refuse what was so intended him as a favour And doubting also the Earl Marshal's displeasure for not complying with him therein did at length conclude with himself that it was by God Almighties disposal thus cast upon him and therefore he resolved to accept of it So that within few days after repairing to London he was welcom'd by the Earl Marshal with many noble Expressions for his ready acceptance of his Lordships favour herein On the 26 of Apr. 1677 was passed the Patent for his Office of Garter and on Thursday 24 of May following being then Holy Thursday he was solemnly created Garter in the College of Arms by Henry Earl of Peterborough who then exercised the Office of Earl Marshal as Deputy to the Earl of Norwych by vertue of his Majesties immediate Warrant for that purpose And the day following 25 May Mr Dugd. being brought before the King in the old Bed-chamber at Whitehall by the Earl Marshall he then received the honor of Knighthood much against his will because of his small estate at which time his Majesty put the badge of his office hung in a gold chain usually worn by Garter K. of Armes about his neck On the first of June following he took his oath of Garter Principal K. of Armes
be created D. D. but he came not to take it nor was he diplomated Nov. 10. John Earle sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Chaplain to Charles Pr. of Wales Dec. 20. John Arnway of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 20. Thom. Bradley of Exet. Coll. Dec. 20. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. ..... Staunton of Ch. Ch. ..... Hodges of Ch. Ch. These two last were created the same day or at least were allowed their degrees when they would please to call for them but whether they were educated in Ch. Ch. it appears not and therefore I presume they were Strangers that came with and attended the Kings Court lodging now in that house I find one Thom. Hodges to be Rector of Kensington near London before the rebellion broke out a Preacher sometimes before the Long Parliament one of the Ass of Divines and a Covenantier After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of S. Peter's Church in Cornhill London and Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. H. Croft made Bishop thereof an 1661 which Deanery he holding to the time of his death was succeeded therein by Dr. George Benson about Midsummer an 1672. This Tho. Hodges hath extant 1 A Glimps of Gods glory Sermon before the H. of Com. at a solemn Fast 28 Sept. 1642 on Psal 113.5.6 Lond. 1642. qu. 2 The growth and spreading of Heresie Fast-serm before the H. of Com. 10 Mar. 1646. on 2 Pet. 2.1 Lond. 1647. qu 3 Inaccessible glory or the impossibility of seeing Gods face whilst we are in the body Serm. at the funeral of Sir Theod. de Mayerne in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields on Friday 30 of Mar. 1655. on Exod. 33.20 Lond. 1655. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I believe him to be the same with Hodges before mentioned who was created D. of D because I cannot find him written or called Doctor till after his Majesties return Another Thom. Hodges I find who was Rector of Soulderne near Deddington in Oxfordshire and Bach. of Divinity not of this University but of that of Cambridge and afterwards one of the Chaplains of Allsouls Coll in the time of Oliver which he kept with his Rectory This person who was also a zealous Presbyterian was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire first admitted into Emanuel Coll and thence taken and made Fellow of that of S. John the Evangelist the Master and Society of which presented him to the Rectory of Soulderne before mention'd When the Act of Uniformity came out he prevailed so much with the said Society that they nominated his friend to be his Successor viz. one Will. Twyne Fellow of the said Coll and then Hodges leaving the place he retired to Okingham in Berks and became Chaplain to the Hospital there where he died and was buried about the month of January 1688 as I have been informed from Soulderne The said Mr. Hodges hath written 1 A Treatise concerning Prayer containing particularly an Apology for the Lords Supper Lond. 1656. in tw 2 A Scripture Catechisme towards the confutation of sundry errours of the present times Lond. 1658. oct Besides which two things he hath also several Sermons extant as 1 The hoary head crowned a fun serm on Prov. 16.31 2 The creatures goodness as they came out of Gods hands and the good mans mercy to the brute creatures c in two sermons printed twice at least 3 A cordial against the fear of death preached before the University of Oxon on Heb. 2.15 Oxon. 1659. qu. and one two or more which I have not yet seen This Thomas Hodges tho he lived in Oxon several years yet he was neither incorporated or took any degree in Divinity Dec. 20. Edw. Wolley M. of A. or Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and at this time one of the Chapl. to his Majesty was actually created Doct. of Div. He was born in the antient borough of Shrewsbury educated in the Kings School there transplanted thence to St. Johns Coll. in the said University where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards adhering to the cause of his Majesty retired to Oxon to attend and preached sometimes before him there When his Majesties cause declined he suffered as other Royallists did attended his Son in his adverse fortune while he himself endured great misery After the return of K. Ch. 2. he became Rector of a Church in Essex Finchingfield I think to settle the inhabitants thereof in loyal principles and to undo and invalidate the doctrine which that most notorious Independent Steph. Marshall had instil'd into them In 1665 he was promoted to the Episcopal See of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in Ireland to which being consecrated at Titam on the 16. of Apr. the same year sate there for some time and was held in great veneration for his admirable way Of preaching and exemplary life and conversation Among several things that he hath extant are these 1 Eulogia The Parents blessing their Children and the Children begging on their knees their Parents blessings are pious actions warrantable by the word of God and practiced by Gods saints and servants Lond. 1661. c. oct 2 Eudoxia A module of private prayers or occasional helps in retired devotions Printed with the former book 3 Loyalty amongst Rebels the true Royallist c. Lond. 1662. oct ... Edmonds M. A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. ... Earskin B. D. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. Both which were actually created the same day Jan. 16. Christoph Prior M. A. of Ball. Coll. On the 24 of Dec. 1641 he was collated to the Prebendship of Slape in the Church of Salisbury in Sept. 1643 he became Prebend of Barton Davy in the Church of Wells and in the latter end of the same year Principal of New Inn in the place of Christoph Rogers who some time before had fled from Oxon to the Parliament This person who was always esteem'd a good Greecian and well furnish'd with other parts of learning dyed about half a year before his Majesties return and thereby prevented not only his restauration to what he had lost for the Kings cause but his promotion to higher Dignities Will. O' dis of New Coll. sometimes Proctor of the University was actually created the same day He was afterwards slain by the Parliament Soldiers without any provocation given on his part between Adderbury in Oxfordshire of which place he was Vicar and the Garrison of Oxon about 1644. Jan. 16. Henry Ancketyll of Wadh. Coll. Jan. 16. Hugh Halswell of All 's Coll. Jan. 16. Joh. Metelfer or Meltalfer of Cambr. Jan. 16. Edw. Hyde of Cambr. The last of these four I take to be the same Edward Hyde who is mention'd in Alexander Hyde among the Bishops nu 34. ... Fowler of Ch. Ch. was created the same day On Matthew Fowler of Ch. Ch. took the degree of Bach. of Arts an 1637 as I have in the Fasti of that year told you So that if the said Fowler be the
same with the other then was he created D. D. at 5 years standing in the degree of Bachelaur The said Matthew Fowler was now deeply engaged in his Majesties service for which afterwards he suffered as other Royallists did After his Majesties restauration he became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire in the place of Dr. Nich. Bernard deceased where he continued to his dying day He hath published besides Totum hominis mention'd in the Fasti an 1637 a Sermon entit The properties of heavenly wisdome preached at the Assizes held at Shrewsbury in the County of Salop. Lond. 1681-2 qu. He died on S. Stephens day 1683 aged 66 years and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch before mention'd Soon after was a black marble monument set up in the north wall over his grave with an inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was almost 22 years Rector of the said Church that he was descended of the antient family of his name living in Staffordshire that he was first of the Vniversity of Oxon and afterwards of Cambridge and the ornament and glory of both and that when he was a young man of Ch. Ch he was one of the chief of those many Scholars that stood up and valiantly defended the Kings cause c. Other persons also occur created the same day or at least were nominated by his Majesty to be promoted Doctors of Divinity when they were pleased to make intimation to the Vicechancellour as one Ramsd●n of Linc. Coll King of Magd. Hall Babington of Ch. Ch. c. Jan. 31. Rob. Marks of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Rich. Langston of Merton Coll. Jan. 31. Will. Cox of New Coll. Jan. 31. John Jones of Bras Coll. Thom. Hook of Cambr. was created the same day Feb. 21. William Bayly a Dignitary in Ireland He was soon after made Bishop of Clonfort and Kilmacogh in that Country Feb. 21. Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. Feb. 21. Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. Feb. 21. Thom. Bourman of Cambr. One Rob. Boreman or Bourman Brother to Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Green-cloth to K. Ch. 2. was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambr and afterwards D. of D. and Rector of S. Giles Church in the Fields n●●● London but what relation he had to the said Thomas I cannot yet tell This Robert who seems to be of the family of the Boremans in the Isle of Wight hath written several things among which are 1 The Countrymans Catechisme or the Churches plea for tithes Lond. 1651. qu. 2 The triumph of learning over ignorance and of truth and falshood Being an answer to four quaeries first whether there be any need of Vniversities c. Lond. 1653. qu. 3 Life and death of Freeman Sonds Esq 4 Relation of Sir George Sonds narrative of the passages on the death of his two Sons Both printed at Lond. in qu. The said Freeman Son of Sir George was hanged for murdering his Brother 5 A mirrour of Christianity and a mirrour of charity or a true and exact narrative of the life and death of Alice Dutchess Duddeley c. Lond. 1669. qu. The said Dutchess who had been the Wise of Sir Rob. Dudley died in her house near the Church of S. Giles in the fields 22. Jan. 1668 aged 90 years 6 Sermon on Philip. 3.20 Ibid. 1669. qu. This person Dr. Boreman after he had spent his time in celebacy died at Greenwich in Kent in the Winter time 1675. Mar. 4. Laurence Hinton of Mert. Coll. Prebend of Winchester He died at Shilbolton or Chilbolton in Hampshire of which he was Rector an 1658. 24. Will. Sherbourne of S. John Coll. in this Univ. and Prebend of Hereford He suffered afterwards much for the Kings cause and lost all his spiritualities but being restored to them again after his Majesties return enjoyed himself in a quiet repose for almost 20 years He died at Pembridge in Herefordsh of which he was Rector in the month of Apr. 1679 aged 92 years An. Dom. 1643. An. 19. Car. 1. Chanc. the same viz. Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery c. but he being thought unworthy to bear the said office by the King and University forasmuch as he was actually against the former in the present War and altogether neglected the other the K. authorized the members thereof to make choice of another wherefore they calling a convocation on the 24 of Octob. did elect for their Chancellour one that had been formerly of Magd. Coll viz. Will. Marquess of Hertford Vicount Beauchamp Baron Seymour c and on the 31 of the said month they admitted and installed him in the House of convocation then in the north chap. joyning to S. Maries Church in the presence of the Bishops of Bathe and Wells Salisbury Rochester and divers of the Nobility that were then in the University Vicechanc. Joh. Tolson D. D. Provost of Oriel who continuing in his office till the 18 of Nov Dr. Pink before mention'd succeeded him Proct. George Wake of Magd. Coll. Apr. 12. Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. Apr. 12. The senior Proctor having sprain'd his leg or else put it out of joynt and therefore not able to come to the convocation house to be admitted that ceremony a dispensation being first granted was performed in his Chamber at Magd. Coll. As for the other Proctor he dying 29. Nov. Mr. Joh. Mapl●t of the same house succeeded Dec. 9. This year in the month of Oct. the courts of Parliament assembled in the Schools and there sate for some time so that upon that account and that the other Schools were employed as Granaries all exercises and lectures if any at all were performed in S. Maries Church Bach. of Arts. July 4. Joh. Ahier of New Coll. See among the Masters an 1646. Dec. 2. John Lakenby of Magd. Coll. This person who was the Son of Simon Lakenby of Shadford in the County Pal. of Durham did afterwards retire to S. Edm. Hall and lived there a close student till the Garrison of Oxon was surrendred an 1646. At which time perceiving the English Church tottering he went beyond the Sea changed his religion and was entred into the English Coll. at Doway After some time spent there he returned into England became Usher to James Shirley when he taught in the White Fryers at London in the time of Oliver but being seized on and imprisoned for some time was at length released and died in London in a mean condition He was accounted famous among those of his opinion for the Greek and Latin tongues and for ecclesiastical history Feb. 16. John Douch of Trin. Coll. This person who was a Dorsetshire man born hath extant A Serm. on 1. Sam. 10.24 Print 1660. qu. Adm. 73. Bach. of Law But two this year were admitted viz. John Jennings of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 20 and Thomas Godwin sometimes a member of this University Mast of Arts. Apr. 12. Gilb. Coles of New Coll. Apr. 12. Nich. Ward of Sydney
Coll. in Cambr. 20. George Jolliff of Pemb. Coll. May 4. Mart. Llewellin of Ch. Ch. June 2. John Fell of Ch. Ch. June 2. Rich. Allestree of Ch. Ch. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. 26. Will. Scroggs of Pembr Coll. Jul. 7. Will. Joyner alias Lyde of Magd. Coll. The last of these two who was Son of Will. Joyner Gent was born in the Parish of S. Giles in the north suburb of Oxon educated partly in the Free-school at Thame but more in that within the City of Coventry elected Demy of Magd. Coll. an 1636 and afterwards Fellow But upon a foresight of the utter ruin of the Church of England by the Presbyterians in the time of their rebellion he changed his Religion for that of Rome renounced his Fellowship and became a Retainer to the most noble Henry Marquess of Worcester at Ragland and after his death to Walt. Mountague L. Abbat of S. Mart. near Pontois in France in whose family there he spent some years and afterwards returned to his native Country In 1687 he was restored to his Fellowship by his Maj. K. Jam. 2 but outed thence after a years enjoyment He hath written 1 The Roman Empress a Comedy Lond. 1670. qu. 2 Some observations upon the life of Reginaldus Polus Cardinal of the blood royal of England sent in a pacquet out of Wales c. Lond. 1686. oct This person W. Joyner is now living in an obscure village in Bucks near Thame in Oxfordshire in a most retired studious and devout condition and also in a capacity of publishing other things if he please Feb. 8. Will. Beaw of New Coll. Feb. 8. Dan. Whistler of Mert. Coll. Mar. 21. Will. Howe of S. John Coll. Adm. 39 ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys or of Div. was adm this year only created ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Physick was adm this year only created Doct. of Div. July 6. Nich. Greaves of All 's Coll. He was the only person that was admitted or licensed to proceed this year Incorporations June 15. Hen. Ferne D. D. of Cambridge This learned person who was originally of S. Maries Hall in Oxon was afterwards Bish of Chester Dec. 9. Sir John Lamb Kt. Doct. of the Laws of Cambridge and Dean of the Arches This worthy Knight who had been a great persecutor of the Puritans was now forced by them to leave his station and retire to his Majesty at Oxon where for a time he found security Afterwards he suffered much for the royal cause paid a large summ of money for his composition and was in a manner utterly ruin'd He died in London in the Bell Inn as 't is said in S. Martins-lane in the beginning of the year 1647. Jan. 31. Paul Knell Mast of Arts of Clare Hall in Cambridge now Chaplain to a Regiment of Curiasiers in his Majesties Army was then incorporated in the same degree He hath written and published 1 A Looking-glass for Levellers Sermon on Luke 20.14 Lond. 1648. qu. 2 Israel and England paralelled Serm. on Amos 3.2 Lond. 1648. qu. 3 The life-guard of a loyal Christian Serm. on Isay 43.2 Lond. 1648. qu. Which three Sermons with two more were afterwards published with this title Five seasonable sermons preached before eminent Auditories c. Lond. 1660. In the year following was this title put to them Five seasonable Sermons preached before the Kings Majesty beyond the Seas and other eminent Auditories in England formerly prohibited but now published and dedicated to his Majesty Mar. 21. Will. Holder Mast of A. of Pembr Hall in Cambridge You may see more of this person who was about this time Rector of Blechington in Oxfordshire among the created Doctors of Div. an 1660. John Cruse or Cruso M. A. of the said University was incorp the same day CREATIONS Notwithstanding the chief members of the University had the last year put up a Petition to his Majesty against the promiscuous conferring of degrees and the danger that the University was like to fall into if some remedy in the matter was not taken as namely that the solemn Arts and Sciences would be destroyed the fountain of the University treasury dried up because that few or none that were created paid any fees and hopeful Scholars discouraged and the University dishonored yet nevertheless his Majesty could not otherwise at this time but recommend as he did the year before several of his faithful subjects to have degrees confer'd upon them tho with this caution as the Chancellour of the University did the like in his recommendatory Letters that they should pay all o● most of the fees belonging to each degree The names of most of such persons that were actually created in several faculties are here set down Bach. of Arts. Oct. 17. Martin Barnes created in Convocation Feb. 8. Tho. Culpeper of Vniv Coll. was created by vertue of the letters of the Chanc. of the University He was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll and a Writer and therefore to be numbred hereafter among the Oxford Authors Bach. of Law Jan. 31. Will. Hinson Mar. 18. John Baldwin He was created in respect had to his loyalty and faithful service to his Majesty and extraordinary sufferings and imprisonment for religion and the laws Both these were created by vertue of the Chancellours letters tho Baldwin had not been educated in any University On the 9 of May this year Tho Fletcher a Student in the municipal Laws had liberty granted to him tho then absent to take the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law when he should come to the University Mast of Arts. Jun. 16. Sir Franc. Lee Kt. Jun. 16. Will. Killingtree Esq The last of these two was buried in the middle isle of those three that joyn on the north side of the choir of Ch. Ch. Cathedral in Oxon 4. Aug. 1643. Jul. 6. John Theyer Gent sometimes a Student in Magd. Coll. He was created by vertue of his Majesties rescript written with his own hand to Sir Edw. Nicholas his Secretary which was the same day sent to the venerable convocation to the end that the members thereof freely bestow that honor upon him who hath well deserved of his Majesty and the Church The said Mr. Theyer had a little before presented to his Majesty on the Mount in Merton Coll. garden a book which he had dedicated to him as I have told you among the Writers an 1673 p. 380. July 18. Rich. Evans B. A. of Magd. Coll. He was then created Master because he had lately done for the King service in the Western parts of England and for that also he was now about to go into Ireland Oct. 17. Rich. Rallingson B. A. of Qu. Coll. He was then created Master by vertue of the Kings letters which say that by our direction and for our service he hath drawn a mathematical scheme or plot of this garrison Oxon wherein he hath given us good satisfaction and is very like to be useful to us
then left behind him a daughter named Elizabeth Thompson alias Aston May 1. Rob. Croke May 1. Lister Blount The first of these two was of the family of the Crokes of Chilton in Bucks was a Burgess for Wendover in the same County to serve in the Parl. began at Westm 3 Nov. 1640 but leaving it he retired to Oxon and sate in the Parl. there One Rob. Croke was knighted by his Maj. at Whitehall 9 Aug. 1641 but whether the same with the former who is not stiled Kt. in the Register I cannot tell Jul. 10. Joh. Castle Esq He was father to George Castle mention'd among the Writers an 1673. p. 381. Dec. 12. Will. Thomas of Trin. Coll. in Oxon was then admitted into the house of Congreg and Convoc Doct. of Div. Apr. 2. James Dugdale Chaplain to the Marquess of Hertford He had been forced for his Loyalty out of Somersetshire where he was Vicar of Evercreech and Rector of Shepton Beauchamp did suffer also afterwards for his Majesties Cause but upon the return of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to what he had-lost and was made as I have been informed Canon of Wells He died about the beginning of the year 1661. Jun. 10. Tho. Bunbury of Ball. Coll. He had succeeded Dr. Joh. Denison in the Vicaridge of S. Maries Church in Reading but being put out thence by the Presbyterians when that Town came into their possession he fled to Oxon for protection Dec. 12. Thom. Stephenson of Qu. Coll. in this Univ. He was then created because his Majesty had present and special occasion to employ him in places more remote about certain weighty affairs Mar. 24. Joh. Pitt Warden of Wadham Coll. An. Dom. 1645. An. 21 Car. 1. Chanc. William Marquess of Hertford Vicechanc. Sam. Fell D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 29. He was some days before nominated Vicech by the Chanc. Proct. Charles Whear of Gloc. Hall Apr. 16. Joh. Michel of Ball. Coll. Apr. 16. In defect of a statutable Master of Corp. Ch. Coll. whose turn it was this year to elect a Proctor because that the generality of the Society were now absent the Election fell to the Halls who elected Whear before mention'd son of Degorie Whear Princ. of Gloc. Hall Bach. of Arts. Jul. 9. Thom. Marshall of Linc. Coll. 12. Joh. Drope of Magd. Coll. The last of these two was now numbred among the minor Poets of the University See among the created Masters of Arts an 1660. Feb. 7. Joh. Barbon of Exeter Coll. Feb. 7. Edw. Wood of Trin. afterwards of Mert. Coll. These four Bachelaurs were all of the 40 admitted this year that proved afterwards Writers They were now as the rest of the Scholars were in actual service for his Majesty within the Garrison of Oxon. ☞ Not one Bach. of the Civ Law was this year either admitted or created Mast of Arts. Apr. 21. Pet. Mews of S. Joh. Coll. 30. Will. Richardson of Ch. Ch. He was presented by the University to the Vicaridge of Brayles in Warwickshire an 1651 by vertue of an Act of Parl. began at Westm 5 Nov. 3 Jac. 1. to disinable Recusants to present to Church Livings He hath written A Protestant Catechisme Printed 1681. qu. published purposely against the Papists then under Hatches because of the Popish Plot. Jun. 5. Arthur Bury of Exet. Coll. Adm. 20. or thereab Bach. of Phys Only two were admitted by vertue of the Chancellours letters viz. Pet. Eliot of C. C. Coll Master of Arts and Preacher and Tho. King M. A. of Brasn Coll Both which were admitted 26 Feb. being then in actual service for his Majesty in Oxford ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was admitted this year ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Phys or Div was admitted or licensed this year only incorporated and created Incorporations Several persons who were lately forced to leave the University of Cambridge for their Loyal●y and others who had formerly been of that University their respective Cures and Dignities retired to Oxon to avoid the Cruelties and Barbarities of the Presbyterians and were this year either incorporated or created Those that were incorporated are these following Aug. 12. .... Edshaw M. A. of Cambr. Aug. 12. .... Sharpington M. A. of Cambr. Aug. 12. .... Pindar Bach. of Div. of Cambr. Aug. 12. Tho. Fuller D. of D of Cambr. now Bishop of Ardfert in Ireland In the year 1600 he was made Archb. of Cashells in the said Kingdom He hath one or more Sermons extant Will. Fuller D. of D. of the same Univ. and Dean of Ely was incorporated the same day This worthy person who had as it seems succeeded Dr. Hen. Caesar in the said Deanery an 1636 or else afterwards Dr. Rich. Love was about the middle of March this year 1645 made Dean of Durham on the death of Dr. Christop Potter and without doubt would have risen higher had it not been for the iniquity of the times He was the son of Andrew Fuller of Hadleigh in Suffolk at which place he was born was educated in all kind of Learning in Cambridge and afterwards became famous for it his prudence and piety He was also a good Linguist and an excellent Preacher preached several times before his Majesty to whom he was Chaplain in ord as he had been to K. Jam. while he was in Oxon this year to his great approbation In the beginning of the Rebellion 1642 he was sequestred from his Church of S. Giles near Cripplegate London plundered imprison'd and spoiled of all for his Loyalty to his Prince by the impetuous and restless Presbyterians After Oxford was surrendred he retired to London and lived there obscurely till the time of his death which hapning on Holy Thursday May 12. 1659 aged 79 years was denied rest in his sometimes Church of S. Giles before mention'd Whereupon his body being conveyed to S. Vedastus in Foster lane was there buried at the upper end of the south isle Soon after was a comely Monument put over his grave by his daugh the wife of Dr. Brian Walton and upon his Majesties restauration his Deanery of Ely was confer'd on Dr. Hen. Ferne. Under this Doctor Fuller's name goes a Sermon intit The mourning of Mount Libanon Printed 1628 and perhaps other things Aug. 12. Lodowick Wemmys or Weems D. D. of Cambr. and Prebendary of the fourth stall in the collegiate Church at Westm in the place of Dr. Joh. Holt was then incorporated Thom. Wilson D. of D. of the said University was incorporated the same day He was originally of Merton Coll and was Bach. of Div. of this University an 1621 at which time he was Preb. of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London and had been Sub-Almoner under Bishop Mountague In 1625 Jan. 10. he was installed Preb. of Westminster in the place of Dr. Hen. Caesar resigning and about the same time was made D. of D. of Cambridge In 1640 he occurs Arch. of Westminster but he is not to be taken to be the same with Tho. Wilson beneficed
S. Michaels Ch. in Cornhill London Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and Canon of Windsore in which Dignity he was installed on the first of Feb. 1638. This person who had been much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and therefore esteemed by the Puritans an Arminian popishly affected and I know not what was in the beginning of the rebellion raised by them sequestred of his Rectory plundered his Wife and Children turned out of doors and he himself forced to fly Whereupon retiring to Oxon the common mother and refuge in those times of afflicted Royallists he was in considerations of his sufferings and loyalty promoted by his Majesty to the Deanery of Glocester upon the nomination of Dr. Frewen to the See of Lichfield and Cov. in Aug. 1643 and was possest of it as much as then could be in Apr. following in which month Dr. Frewen was consecrated He hath written 1 The holy Feasts and Fasts of the Church with meditations and prayers proper for Sacraments and other occasions leading to Christian life and death Lond. 1657. in tw They are grounded on certain texts of Scripture 2 Sacred principles services and soliloquies or a manual of devotions made up of three parts 1. The grounds of the Christian Religion c. 2. Dayly and weekly forms of prayer 3. Seven charges to conscience delivering if not the whole body the main Limbs of Divinity c. Lond. 1659. 1671. c. in tw and other things as it seems Quaere After the Kings return he had restored to him what he had lost had other preferments given to him and dying on the fifth day of July an 1671 was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Thomas Vyner and in his Canonry Peter Scott LL. D both of Cambridge CREATIONS The Creations made this year did partly consist of Military Officers and partly of Cantabrigians that had taken Sanctuary at Oxon most of all which follow Mast of Arts. Apr. 22. Charles Fox Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Payne Fisher Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Joh. Beeton Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Nich. Bertie Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. Apr. 22. Rob. Johnson Captains in the Kings Army presented to their degrees by Capt. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll. The said Payne Fisher who was Son of Sir Will. Fisher and one of the Captains of the Life-guard to K. Ch. 1. at Oxon was Father to Payne Fisher an Officer also in the Kings Army and afterwards Poet Laureat to Oliver Protector being now living an aged man Nich. Bertie was of the noble Family of Bertie Earl of Lindsey and all afterwards sufferers for the royal cause Alexander Walwyn another Captain was also created the same day Aug. 26. Joh. Squire B. A. of Jesus Coll. in Cambr. Aug. 26. Joh. Pattison B. A. of S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr. These two Bachelaurs were then created Masters because they before had as they did this year bear armes for his Majesty in Oxon. Dec. 3. Matthias Prideaux of Exet. Coll. a Capt. in his Majesties service Mar. ... Rob. Bingham Secretary to the Marquess of Dorchester Bach. of Phys Dec. 3. Will Sparke of Magd. Coll. See more of him among the created Doctors of Physick an 1661. Bach. of Div. Feb. 21. John Barwick Mast of Arts of 19 years standing Priest and late Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge did then supplicate the ven congregation that he might have the degree of Bach. of Div. confer'd upon him Which being granted simpliciter he was without doubt then admitted and created tho it appears not in the register so to be He had been lately turn'd out of his fellowship being then I suppose Chaplain to Dr. Tho. Morton Bishop of Durham who as 't is said gave him about this time a Prebendship in that Church After his Majesties return he became Doct. of Div. Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and was in consideration of his great sufferings installed Dean of Durham on the first of Nov. 1660 in the place of Dr. Will. Fuller who died in the year before going On the 15 of Oct. 1661 he was elected Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral in Lond in the place of Dr. Matthew Nicholas deceased whereupon being installed in that Dignity on the 19 day of the same month his Deanery of Durham was confer'd on Dr. Joh. Sudbury and accordingly was installed therein on the 15 of Feb. following This worthy person Dr. Barwick hath published 1 The fight victory and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to Thomas Morton late Lord Bishop of Duresme in a Sermon preached at his funeral in the par Church of S. Peter at Easton-manduit in Northamptonshire on Mich. day on 2. Tim. 4.7.8 Lond 1660. qu. 2 A summary account of the holy life and death of Thomas late Lord Bishop of Duresme printed with the said Sermon which Bishop died at Easton-manduit before mention'd on S. Matthews day an 1659. aged 95 years 3 Deceivers deceived or the mistakes of wickedness c. Sermon at S. Pauls Cathedral 20. Oct. 1661 on Prov. 14. part of the 8 ver Lond. 1661. qu. See more of him in Peter Gunning among the Writers an 1684. p. 577. and in his epitaph following which was set over his grave in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul within the City of London S. Amori Aeternitati c. in English thus that it might be understood by vulgar capacities Sacred to Love and to generations to come Thou that passest by whosoever thou art bring hither thine eyes and understanding also intuitively both to look and lament For within this marble Wardrobe are folded up the thin worn weeds of the valuable substantial and well accountred Soul of John Barwick Doctor of Divinity to whom Westmorland may well boast to have given first breath and being Next Cambr. may boast to have given him his first admission and S. Johns Coll. there a Fellowship in that foundation From which Fellowship which still makes more for his honour he was unjustly ejected by a pack of Parricides who notwithstanding regardless of the rage of those bloody times or his own blood-spitting malady equally pernicious boldly attempted and successfully managed matters of the greatest difficulty and danger in the behalf of the King and Church And for that cause was shut up in a dire and loathsome prison where he suffered inhumane and barbarous usage yet with a constant and undaunted spirit And in the end he saw by the miracle as it were of a new creation the revisal of both Crown and Mitre himself playing the Man-midwives part and vigorously assisting at the new birth of both Last of all for his active services and passive sufferings he was
dignified with the Deanery of Durham which he held a few months and afterwards of S. Pauls which he enjoyed three years tho either of them too short a season yet discharged both with singular care and fidelity living and dying a Batchellour and strictly chast and sanctimonious both in soul and body And being much debilirated by a long and lingring consumption here he rests in the Lord and deposits his last remains among those ruinous ones of S. Pauls Church being confident of the resurrection both of the one and other He died in the 53 year of his age and of our Lord 1664. Reader if thou desirest to know more of this reverend Church-man go home and learn by the conspicuous copy of his sincere devotion what it is to be a true Christian indeed After his death succeeded in the Deanery of S. Pauls Dr. Will. Sancroft Dean of York in Oct. or thereabouts in 1664. Doct. of Law Apr. 16. Colonel Will. Legge Governour of the Garrison of Oxford He was afterwards one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 1. and 2. Apr. 16. Colonel George L'isle Governour of the Garrison of Faringdon in Berkshire On the 21. of Dec. following he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him being then as 't is said Master of the Kings●Houshold and highly valued for his great valour and prudent conduct in martial affairs This person I take to be the same with the most magnanimous Sir George L'isle who was afterwards deeply engaged in that as honorable as unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 in which last place he with the Forces under him for his Majesty being besieged by Fairfax the Parliament General and those under his conduct he was after the surrender thereof shot to death in cold blood with the most renowned Sir Charles Lucas on the 28 of Aug. the same year At which time they being both obscurely buried their funeral was afterwards viz. on June the 7 an 1661 with great solemnity celebrated at Colchester by the loyal Inhabitants thereof and Gentry adjoyning The particulars being too many for this place must for brevity sake be now omitted Apr. 22. Colonel Will. Leighton who hath this character given of him in the publick register fide fortitudine pro Principe pro Patria insignis was actually created with due solemnity on that day in Convocation He was descended from or at least near of kin to Sir Will. Leighton Kt an excellent Musitian author of a Poetical piece entit Vertue triumphant or a lively description of the four Cardinal vertues Published in 1603 and dedic to K. Jam. 1. See more of him in the first vol. p. 342. Nov. 28. Sir Thomas Gemham Kt sometimes a Gent. Com. of Trin. Coll. in this University now Governour of the Garrison of Oxford was actually created in the House of Convocation with very great solemnity At which time the Vicechancellour spoke a short and pithy speech to the assembly before he was presented shewing to them the holiness of his life and conversation the invincibleness of him and his party at York and Carlile of which Cities he was successively Governour and tho brought to famine and pestilence yet yielded neither but upon honourable conditions c. This right valiant and prudent commander was the Son of Sir Hen. Glemham of Little Glemham in Suffolk Kt by Anne his Wife eldest Daugh of Sir Thomas Sackvile Knight Earl of Dorset and after he had thrown off his gown betook himself to the German Wars then the great nursery for English Gentlemen where gaining much experience was made fit for the service in the Wars at home In 1639 he was a Lieutenant Col. in the regiment of the Earl of Arundell in the Scotch expedition then undertaken as also in the next if I am not mistaken that was took in the year following Afterwards taking part with his Majesty against his rebellious Subjects in England did him admirable service in the Garrisons before mention'd and was highly venerated by all military Men. When he died I cannot justly say sure I am that by his last Will and Test dated 22. Jan. 1647 and proved 13 Mar. 1649 he appointed his younger Brother Dr. Hen. Glemham his Executor who caused his body to be buried at Little Glemham before mention'd as I have been enformed by some of his relations Doct. of Phys May 6. Adrian Metcalfe Bach. of Phys was then created Doct. of that faculty In 1642 Nov. 1. he was actually created M. of Arts and perhaps is the same but mistaken by the Registrary with Franc. Metcalf created Bach. of Phys an 1643 as before 't is told you Aug. 12. the most noble ... Seymour was then actually created and admitted to give his suffrage in the house of Congregation and Convocation Whether this person be the same with Henry Lord Seymour who was created M. of A. an 1642 as I have before told you I know not nor yet to the contrary but that he may be Robert Seymour another Son of William Marquess of Hertford who became a Noble man of Christ Church an 1635. aged eleven years Oct. 30. Edward Buckoake Bach. of Phys was created Doctor by vertue of the Chancellours letters which say that his Majesty hath thought him worthy to serve his Highness Prince Charles in the place of Physitian and therefore that he might be the more capable of that honour he desires that the Convocation would confer on him the honour of Doctor of Physick c. He was afterwards a Physitian of some note in Yorkshire Doct. of Div. July 10. Edward Aylmer or Elmer M. A. of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was created D. D. by vertue of the Letters from the Chanc. of the University and Prince Rupert This person who was Grandson to John Aylmer or Elmer sometimes Bishop of London being forced from his station by the barbarities of the Presbyterians took refuge in Oxon and under the said Prince He had a kinsman named Joh. Aylmer Rector of Bletneso and Melchbourne in Bedfordshire before the Civil Wars broke out who was Son of Tobell the fifth Son of the said Bishop Aylmer Dec. 17. Philip King was then actually created D. of D. This person who was a younger Son of Dr. John King sometimes Bishop of London was originally a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Orator of the University Rector of S. Botolphs Church near Billingsgate in London Prebend of S. Pauls Cathedral Church and Archdeacon of Lewes But being sequestred of S. Botolphs and forced to fly by the faction he took sanctuary at Oxon lived afterwards in a retired condition till his Majesties return at which time being restored to what he had lost lived for some time in a quiet and sedate repose At length paying his last debt to nature on the 4 of March 1666 was buried at Langley in Bucks where he had a Sister married to Sir Rich. Hobart Besides this Ph. King I find another of Cambr. who was incorporated M.
of A. of this University 23. March 1614 a second born in Oxfordshire who became Auditor of Ch. Ch. in 1608 or thereabouts aged 35 and a third born in Nottinghamshire and the Son of a Minister who being entred into Ch. Ch. in 1624 took one degree in Arts four years after I find also another perhaps one of the two next before going who dying at Bathe was buried in the great Church there by the name of Mr. Philip King of Oxford 23. Sept. 1635. c. An. Dom. 1646. An. 22. Car. 1. Chanc. William Marquess of Hertford Vicechanc. Dr. Sam. Fell again without any nomination from the Chancellour because he had left Oxon at the surrender of it to the Parliament Forces 24 of June this year Proctors Rich. Wyatt of Oriel Coll. Apr. 8. Byrom Eaton of Brasn Coll. Apr. 8. But the Senior Proctor dying in his Fathers house Dr. Tho. Wyatt at Ducklington near Witney in Oxfordshire in the beginning of Octob his place was supplied by a Deputy till the 25 of Feb. following At which time Mr. James Farren of the said Coll. of Oriel who had been elected by the Masters of that house was admitted therein by the consent of the Committee for regulating the University Bach. of Arts. July 22. Joshua Childrey of Magd. Coll. Oct. 21. Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch. Oct. 21. Zachar. Bogan of C. C. Coll. Feb. 9. John Betts of C. C. Coll. The last is now living and one of the Coll. of Physitians Mar. 18. Rob. Wood of Merton afterwards of Linc College Adm. 47. Bach. of Law Five were admitted but not one of them was afterward either a Writer Bishop or man of note Mast of Arts. July 1. Thankful or Gracious Owen of Linc. Coll. This person who was the Son of Philip Owen was born at Taplow in Buckinghamshire became a Sojournour of Exeter Coll under a Puritanical Tutor in the year 1635 aged 16 years elected Fellow of Linc. Coll. in the beginning of Aug. 1642 he being then Bach. of Arts but soon after left the University and so consequently did not bear arms for his Majesty as other Scholars did within the Garrison of Oxon. Upon the surrender of the said Garrison for the use of the Parliament he returned to his Coll took the degree of Master as 't is before told you submitted to the Visitors appointed by the said Parliament being then esteemed a Presbyterian But the Independents at that time carrying all before them he became one of their number a Preacher in their private congregations Proctor of the University in 1650 and the same year upon Cheynells marching off President of S. Johns College and a noted Polititian for carrying on the then cause In the latter end of 1653 he was appointed by Oliver one of the Commissioners for the approbation of publick preachers and in 1654 he was appointed one of the Assistants to the Commissioners of Oxfordshire as certain Heads of other Colleges were for the ejection of such who were then called scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters and was not wanting upon all occasions to promote the Independent interest in the University In 1660 he was forced to leave his beloved Presidentship to make room for the right owner Dr. Rich. Baylie who for 12 years going before had suffer'd much for his Loyalty So that retiring to London he took up his quarters at length in Hatton Garden and was not wanting to carry on the congregational way upon all occasions This person with James Baron did after Dr. Thomas Goodwins death publish certain of his Theological works in two volumes in fol. and set before them a preface See more among the Creations under the year 1653. This Mr. Owen who had a good command of the Latin tongue died suddenly in his House in Hatton Garden in Holbourn near London on the first day of April Good Friday 1681 and was buried near to the grave of the said Dr. Goodwin in the yard called by some Tyndales and by others The fanatical burying place joyning on the north side to the New Artillery-yard or Garden near London Some time before his death he had almost prepared for the press a book entit Imago Imaginis The design of which was to shew that Rome Papal is an image of Rome Pagan as I have been informed by one of his perswasion who is remembred among the Writers under the year 1669. July 4. Thomas Clutterbook or Clotterbook of Magd. Coll. This person is the same I suppose who was doctorated in Divinity elsewhere and installed Archdeacon of Winchester 31. Jul. 1684. See more in Robert Sharrock among the Writers under the year 1684. Nov. 10. Joshua Ahier of New Coll. This Loyal Gentleman who was the Son of Guy Ahier of S. Saviours in the isle of Jersey translated from French into English The Elements of Logick Oxon 1647 oct Written originally by Pet. du Moulin A translation of the said book had been before made with the authors approbation and printed at Lond. 1624. oct by one Nathan de Lawne Bach. of Arts of Cambridge educated in the Grammar Free-school in the City of Norwych whence he was sent by the Mayor Sherriffs and Aldermen thereof to C. C. Coll. in the said University an 1618. Nov. 10. Steph. Skinner of Ch. Ch. He then accumulated the degrees in Arts. Dec. 9. Will. Lloyd of Jes Coll. Jan. 26. George Stradling of All 's Coll. Adm. 39. Bach of Phys Dec. 3. John Baber of Ch. Ch. He was then admitted by vertue of the Letters of Colonel John Lambert Governour of the Garrison of Oxford for the Parliament which Garrison was surrendred for their use on the 24 of June this year as I shall tell you anon 8. Thom. Willis of Ch. Ch. 8. Humph. Brooke of S. John Coll. The last of these two did on the eleventh of Nov. going before supplicate the ven Convocation that he might accumulate the degrees of Master of Arts and Bach. of Phys which was granted See among the Doctors of Phys an 1659. Besides these three who were all that were this year admitted were two that were licensed to practice Phys viz. Peter Dewever of Brasn Coll and Edward-Atkinson Chirurgeon to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax the Generalissimo of the Parl. Army Bach. of Div. July 23. Gilb. Stoaks of Wadh. Coll. This person who was the Son of a Gentleman of Devonshire had taken one degree in Arts as a member of Hart Hall an 1608 at which time being noted for his Scholarship he was afterwards made the Junior of the first two Chaplains of Wadham Coll by the Dame Dorothy the Foundress thereof Afterwards he became an indefatigable Student in Philosophy and Theology and a continual Disputant even to his last among the Juniors in the time of Lent being a usual thing in his time and before for grave Seniors to take the questions of quadragesimal Disputants to try and ferret them from one hole to another with subtilities But since that custome is
Prideaux said after his joking way that all the Election besides him was not worth a Button Afterwards he became a noted Tutor in the House and several of his Pupils became some of them famous and some infamous When the Rebellion began he left Oxon being puritannically affected and especially because he would not bear Arms for his Majesty while Oxford was a Garrison or be any way contributary thereunto When the War was ceased he returned took Pupils again became one of the Proctors tho out of course in 1648 as I have before told you and while he bore that office he was upon the refusal of Dr. E. Corbet made Canon of Ch. Ch. and Orator of the University in the place of the learned and religious Dr. H. Hammond After his Majesties restauration he was discharg'd of his Canonry and Oratorship and when he was in removing his goods from his lodgings in the Cloister at Ch. Ch to make room for Mr. Joh. Fell he would usually say when he heard the two little bells ring to canonical Prayers There now go the Mass-bells and let those that are affected that way go to the Church for be sure I shall not or words to that effect Afterwards retiring with his family to London he setled at Islington near to that City where he preached in Conventicles and taught youths to the time of his death which hapning in the latter end of Octob. 1680 was buried in the Church there with his son who died at or near the same time of a Consumption An. Dom. 1650. An. 2 Car. 2. Chanc. The place of Chancellour being void by the death of Philip E. of Pembroke the Visitors assumed the power thereof into their hands till the first of January this year On which day a Convocation being assembled the then members of the University did unanimously choose leave being first granted by the Committee to make choice of a fit person Oliver Cromwell Generalissimo of the Parliament Forces now on foot in England Which office after he had been acquainted what the Convocation had done by certain Doctors and Masters sent to him then at Edinburgh in Scotland he kindly accepted and forthwith promised to be a friend to the University by his canting Letter sent thereunto dated at that place on the 4 of Feb. following part of which runs thus But if these prevail not meaning some Exceptions for the refusal of the Office and that I must continue this honour until I can personally serve you you shall not want my prayers that that seed and stock of Piety and Learning so marvelously springing up among you may be useful to that great and glorious Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ of the approach of which so plentiful an effusion of the spirit upon those hopeful plants is one of the best presages And in all other things I shall by the divine assistance improve my poor abilities and interests in manifesting my self to the University and your selves c. Which Letter being read in Convocation the members thereof made the House resound with their cheerful Acclamations Vicechanc. Daniel Greenwod D. D. Principal of Brasn Coll. 12. Oct having been on the 12 of Sept. going before nominated and designed to that Office by the Committee for the reformation of the University the Chancellourship being then void Proct. Thankful Owen of Linc. Coll. Apr. 24. Philip Stephens of New Coll. Apr. 24. These Proctors were elected contrary to the Carolyne Cicle which appointed Trin. and Wadh. Colleges to elect this year So that the Cicle being interrupted for those Colleges did not choose till the year following it continued so till 1662 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Bach. of Arts. May 23. Hamlet Puleston of Jes Coll. Nov. 17. Will. Masters of Mert. Coll. Dec. 16. Rob. Lovel of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards an excellent Botanist wrot Enchiridion Botanicum c. and other things and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Writers being as I conceive now living Feb. 7. Thom. Ashton of Brasn Coll. Feb. 7. Joh. Smith of Brasn Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters 1653. 18. Will. Cole of Mert. Coll. Mar. 11. Joh. Hall of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Bishop of Bristow 18. Christopher Wren of Wadh. Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of All 's Coll. and an eminent Mathematician Adm. 96. This year Thom. Clifford of Exeter Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Arts but whether he was admitted it appears not This person who was son of Hugh Clifford of Vgbrook in the Parish of Chudleigh in Devonsh Col. of a Regiment of Foot in the first Expedition against the Scots by Mary his wife dau of George Chudleigh of Ashton in the said County Baronet was born there at Vgbrook on the first of Aug. 1630 became Commoner of Ex. Coll. 25 May 1647 and afterwards went to one of the Inns of Court or to travel or both being then accounted by his Contemporaries a young man of a very unsetled head or of a roving shatter'd brain In the beginning of Apr. 1660 he was elected one of the Burgesses for Totness in his own Country to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm on the 25 of the same month and after his Majesties restauration he was chose Burgess again for the same place to serve in that Parl. which began 8 May 1661 Wherein shewing himself a frequent and forward Speaker especially in behalf of the Kings Prerogative he was taken notice of by the great men at Court and thereupon taken into favour and had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him Afterwards he attended James D. of York at sea an 1665 in the battel fought against the Dutch in the beginning of June continued at sea also the same year when the Fleet was commanded by Edward E. of Sandwich and was in person at the Expedition at Bergen in Norway Which attempt upon the Dutch in that Port was made on the 2 of Aug. the same year He was also in that year sent Envoy to the two northern Kings of Sweden and Denmark with full power to conclude new Treaties and Alliances with them In 1666 he attended his Highness Pr. Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle at sea against the Dutch and was in that fight which continued on the 1.2.3 and 4. days of June being with the same Generals also upon the 25 of July following in another great fight with the Dutch On the 8 Nov. following his Maj. gave him the White staff of Comptroller of his Houshold in the place of Sir Hugh Pollard Kt. and Bt who died the day before and on the 5 of Decemb. following that he was sworn one of his Maj. Privy Council for his singular zeal wherein he had on all occasions merited in his Maj. service and more eminently in the honorable dangers in the then late War against the Dutch and French where he had been all along
a constant Actor and as 't was observed had made it his choice to take his share in the warmest part of those services On the 12 of June 1668 died Charles Visc Fitzharding Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold whereupon Sir Tho. Clifford changed his White staff and was by his Maj. advanced to that place the day following and Francis Lord Newport succeeded Clifford as Comptroller Much about which time his Maj. by Patent made him one of the Lords Commissioners of his Treasury In 1671 his Maj. gave him a lease of 60 years of the Pastures of Creslow in Bucks and in the same year he finished a new Chappel at Vgbrook which was consecrated and dedicated to S. Cyprian by Anthony Bishop of Exeter Upon the death of Sir Joh. Trevor and in the absence of Henry Earl of Arlington he executed the office of Secretary of State in the year 1672 until the return of the said Earl from his Embassy into Holland and Mr. Hen. Coventry from his Embassy into Sweden On the 22 Apr. 1672 his Maj. by Patent created him Baron Clifford of Chudleigh in Devonsh and in June following he gave him and his heirs males the mannours of Cannington and Rodway Fitzpayne in Somersetshire On the 28 of Nov. the same year his Maj. valuing his many eminent services and his great abilities in experience in the affairs of his Treasury he was pleased to advance him to the place of L. High Treasurer of England which had remained void since the death of Tho. late Earl of Southampton At which time his Maj. confer'd the place of Treasurer of the Houshold on the L. Newport beforemention'd and the place of Comptroller on Will Lord Maynard On the 29 Mar. 1673 an Act of Parl. pass'd for the entailing of Vgbrook and the Rectory of Chudleigh on his Lordship and the heirs of his body and on the 19 of June following he resigning into his Majesties hands his staff as L. Treasurer because he as 't was said refused the Test it was thereupon given by his Maj. to Sir Tho. Osborne Kt. and Bt. In the beginning of the Winter following the L. Clifford died and was as I suppose buried at Chudleigh ☞ Not one Bach. of Law was admitted incorporated or created this year Mast of Arts. Jul. 27. Joh. Johnson of New Coll. He afterwards lived a Nonconformist and hath published a Serm. at the funeral of Steph. Charnock mention'd among the Writers under the year 1680. p. 492. and perhaps others Quaere One John Johnson Gent. hath written The Academy of Love describing the folly of Youngmen and the fallacy of Women Lond. 1641. qu. But whether he was of this or of any other University I know not yet Nov. 19. Zachary Bogan of C. C. Coll. 30. George Swinnock of Ball. Coll. Jan. 14. Tho. Neast of New Coll. This person who was originally of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge was lately made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors and afterwards by his Warden and Society presented to the Rectory of Hardwick in Bucks Thence going to London lived for some time after his Majesties Restauration a Nonconformist and preached in Conventicles Afterwards conforming he became Minister of S. Martins Ch. in Ironmonger-lane and a little before the grand Conflagration was presented to S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet London He hath extant Serm. on Ephes 6.24 printed in The Morning exercise at Cripplegate c. Lond. 1661. qu published by Sam. Annesley or Anely and perhaps other things Feb. 20. Tho. Jones of Vniv Coll. Feb. 20. Joh. Barnard of Linc. Coll. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was admitted this year only Benj. Wells M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. was admitted to practise that faculty 10 Dec. Bach. of Div. ..... George Kendall of Exeter Coll was admitted to the reading of the Sentences this year but the day or month when it appears not Doct. of Law Oct. 19. John Wainwright of All 's Coll Chancellour of the Dioc of Chester ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Doctor of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May .... Christoph Tearne or Terne Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at London hath published something of his faculty and died about 1685. He was as it seems originally of Cambridge May 11. Sam. Collins Doct. of Phys of Cambridge This person who was son of Dan. Collins sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University was lately Fellow of that House also but now of New Coll. in Oxon by the favour of the Visitors Afterwards he travelled into remote parts of the World resided at the Great Tzar's Court of Mosco for the space of nine years and wrot The History of the present state of Russia in a letter written to a friend in London Lond. 1671. oct illustrated with many copper plates and published under the name of Dr. Sam. Collins of the Coll. of Physitians in London and Fellow of Kings Coll. I have made mention of another Sam. Collins in the first vol. of this work p. 538 and shall make mention of another Samuel in these Fasti July 6. Thom. Jeanes or Janes Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge This person who took that degree in Camb. 1649 was now or soon after Fellow of Magd. Coll. in this Univ. See more in the year 1652 and 59. 18. Joh. Baber Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Anger 's in France This Gent. who had that degree confer'd on him in the said Univ. in Nov. 1648 was son of Joh. Baber of the City of Wells was educated in Westm School elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1642 and travelled during the time of the War Afterwards he practised his faculty in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster became Physitian in ord to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. after his restauration and on the 19 of March 1660 he received the honour of Knighthood from him See in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 894. Nov. 29. George Swinnock Bach. of Arts of Cambr. The next day he was admitted M. of A as before I have told you Dec. 16. Peter French Bach. of Div. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time made Canon of Ch. Ch. by the favour of Ol. Cromwell whose Sister he had married See more among the created Doctors of Div. 1653. Feb. 4. Tho. Tanner lately Bach. of Arts of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge He was about this time made Fellow of New Coll. by the Visitors Mar. 18. John Parry lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin He was now or soon after made Fellow of Jesus Coll. in this Univ. Creations Mar. 8. Cuthbert Sydenham lately of S. Alb. Hall now a Presbyterian Preacher at Newcastle upon Tyne was created Master of Arts. 12. John Waterhouse who had been a Student for 18 years in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. was then created Doctor of Phys by vertue of the Letters of Ol. Cromwell Gen. of the Parl. Army and Chanc. of this Univ. which partly run
Coll. Nov. 18. Will. Crompton of Ch. Ch. 19. Will. Master of Mert. Coll. Feb. 17. Hen. Leigh of Magd. Hall See more of him in Edw. Leigh among the Writers an 1671. p. 352. Mar. 17. Josiah Lane of C. C. Coll. In 1664 he took the degree of Doct. of Phys at Leyden and published his Disputatio med inaug de cholera morbo the same year Adm. 63. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or man of note Bach. of Div. June .... Thom. Hall sometimes of Pembr Coll. had liberty allow'd him by the Delegates of the University to take the degree of Bach. of Div. See more among the Writers p. 234. But one besides him doth occurr really admitted Doct. of Law Jul. 6. Tobias Swinbourne of Linc. Coll. Dec. 6. Timothy Baldwin of All 's Coll. The last of these two who was a younger son of Charles Baldwin of Burwarton in Shropshire Gent became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in 1634 and Fellow of that of All 's in 1640 being then Bach. of Arts where continuing till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 he became Principal of Hart Hall afterwards Chancellour of the diocesses of Hereford and Worcester in which last he succeeded James Littleton one of the Masters of the Chancery and a Knight in July 1670. being then of Stokecastle in Shropshire He hath published The privileges of an Embassador written by way of Letter to a Friend who desired his opinion concerning the Portugal Embassador Printed in 1654 in one sh and an half in qu. See more of Tim. Baldwin in Edward Lord Herbert among the Writers of this second vol. p. 62 and in Dr. Rich. Zouche p. 167. where you 'll find the matter about the Portugal Emb brother who was beheaded and a book of Dr. Zouche which T. Baldwin published He had an elder Brother named Sam. Baldwin bred in Balliol Coll. also afterwards a Common Lawyer and by writ called to be Serjeant at Law an 1669 and in 1672. made the Kings Serjeant Doct. of Phys May 27. Henry Clerk of Magd. Coll who accumulated the degrees in Physick by vertue of the Chancellours Letters He was afterwards Fellow of the Coll of Physitians succeeded Dr. Pierce in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll and dying in the house of his Son-in-law Sir Rich. Shuttleworth called Gawthorp hall in Lancashire 24. March 1686. was buried in the Church at Willoughby in Warwickshire among the graves of his ancestors In his Presidentship was elected ●ch Hough Bach. of Div. 15. Apr. 1687. July 9. Pet●r E●io● of S. Maries Hall sometimes Chapl. of C. C. Coll. and a Preacher He afterwards practised his faculty many years in and near Oxon and dying 5. Mar. 1681 was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of S. Peter in the East in Oxon. 20. Tim. Clarke of Ball. Coll. Doct. of Div. July 31. Henry Wilkinson Principal of Magd. Hall a Compounder On the 28. of Oct. following the Vicechancellour admitted him in Convocation as compleat Doctor and on the 3. of May 1676 his degree was confirm'd by a Diploma This person was usually called Deane Harry as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1690. p. 646. Incorporations April 8. Samuel Collins Doct. of Phys of Padua April 8. George Mede Doct. of Phys of Padua These two had been Travellers together and took their degree of Doct. of Phys in the said Univ. of Padua in Aug. 1651. See in the year 1659. June 24. Henr. Saltonstal a Knights Son Fellow of New Coll by the favour of the Visitors and Doct. of Physick of Padua was then incorporated The said degree he took at Padua in October 1649. 29. Tho. Janes or Jeanes Bach. of Arts of Cambr now of Magd. Coll. in this Univ was then incorporated He was adm Mast of that faculty 6. of Jul. this year See among the Doctors of Physick an 1659. Aug. 9. Thom. Horton D. of D. of Cambr. and Master of Queens Coll. therein was then incorporated in Convocation This person who was Son of Laur. Horton Citizen of London was born in that City bred in Emanuel Coll of which he became Fellow and a noted Tutor to young Presbyterian Scholars among whom John Wallis was one In 1637 he was constituted one of the publick Preachers of the Univ. of Cambr. and in 1638 or thereabouts he became Minister of S. Mary Cole church in the City of his nativity Afterwards he was preacher to the Society of Greys Inn Reader of Div. in Gresham Coll a holder forth sometimes before the Long Parliament Vicar of Great S. Helens in London and one of the Triers or Commissioners appointed for the approbation of publick Preachers an 1653. He was esteemed by those of the Presbyterian perswasion a sound and solid Divine a good Textuary and well skill'd in the original Languages Under his name hath been published 1 Forty six Sermons upon the whole eighth Chapter of the Epist of the Apost Paul to the Romans Lond. 1674. fol. 2 Choice and practical exposition on four select Psalms viz. the 4. Psalm in 8 Sermons the 42 Psal in 10 Sermons the 51. Psal in 20 Sermons the 63 Psal in 7 Sermons Lond. 1675. fol. 3 One hundred select Sermons upon several Texts fifty upon the Old Test and fifty on the New Lond. 1679. fol. He also with William Dillingham D. D. and Master of Emanuel Coll. did publish A chain of principles or an orderly concatenation of theological Aphorismes and Exercitations wherein the chief Heads of Christian Religion are asserted and improved Lond. 1660 written by John Arrowsmith D. D. Master of S. Johns and Trin. Coll. successively and the Kings Professor of Div. in the University of Cambridge Published since his death according to his own Manuscript This Dr. Horton died in 1673 and was I presume buried in the Church of S. Helen before mention'd leaving then behind him a relict called Dorothy who administred 28. Aug. the same year Nov. 19. Steph. Charnock M. A. of Eman. Coll. in Cambr. now Fellow of New Coll. by the favor of the Visitors Dec. 6. Tho. Croyden Doct. of Phys of Padua The same degree he took at Pad 30. Oct. 1648. Jan. 14. Will. Harrington Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr. 16. Will. Squire lately Bach. of Arts of Trin. Hall in Cambr. 27. Gabriel de Beauvoir of the Isle of Guernsey Doct. of Physick of Padua This person who was the Son of Charles de Beauvoir took the said degree at Pad in the latter end of Octob. 1648. Creations June 17. Jonathan Maud a Student in Phys 17 years was then actually created Doctor of that fac by vertue first of an order from the Committee and secondly by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of the Univ. dated 29. May 1650 rather 51 which say that his conversation is pious and sober and that he hath been a constant friend to the Parliament c. July 9. Thomas Danson of Magd. Coll. was
S. Maries on Tuesday a Lecture day 25 July 1654 he did then deliver a very offensive Sermon preached on Job 37.22 With God is terrible Majesty In which Sermon speaking of the attributes of God particularly of that in the text took a hint from the word terribilis which might as he said signifie with some terrae bilis to say that God was a Melancholy God c. and in the conclusion to maintain that those that had no teeth to gnash should gnash their gums c. For which Sermon he being call'd into question was in a fair way of expulsion but by the intercession of friends the business was compromised yet two years after he was forced to leave his Fellowship upon some quarrel between him and Dr. Greenwood Principal of his House Afterwards he was intrusted with a Commission from Oliver to be Chaplain to the English Forces in Jersey an 1656 where continuing for some time in preaching suffered soon after in his relations reputation salary c. by a new Governour placed there who forced him as it seems thence He hath published 1 Blood-thirsty Cyrus unsatisfied with blood Or the boundless cruelty of an Anabaptists tyranny manifested in a letter of Colonel John Mason Governour of Jersey 3. Nov. 1659 wherein he exhibits seven false ridiculous and scandalous articles against Quarter-Master Will. Swan c. Lond. 1659. in one sh in qu. 2 Satan in Samuels mantle or the cruelty of Germany acted in Jersey containing the arbitrary bloody and tyrannical proceedings of John Mason of a baptized Church commissionated to be a Colonel and sent over into the Island of Jersey Governour in July 1656 against several Officers and Soldiers in that small place c. Lond. 1659 in 4. sh in qu. After his Majesties restauration the author was beneficed near Hertford in Hertfordshire where he soon after finished his restless course Dec. 11. Christoph Wren of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 21. Edward Veel or Veal of Ch. Ch. was admitted M. of A. in Convocation and at the same time was admitted ad regendum This person who had been elected Fellow of Trin. Coll. near Dublin between the time that he took the degree of Bach. and Master in this University I take to be the same Ed. Veel who is now or at least was lately a Nonconformist Minister in or near London and author of 1 What spiritual knowledge they ought to seek for that desire to be saved Printed in the Supplement to the morning exercise at Cripplegate Lond. 1674. 76. qu. 2 Sermon on Psalm 62.12 'T is the eleventh Serm. in The morning exercise against Popery c. preached in Southwerk Lond. 1675. qu and perhaps of other things but such I have not yet seen See in Joh. Davenport and Steph. Charnock among the Writers p. 335 and 491. Adm. 63 or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys or of Div or Doct. of the Civil Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys July 4. Tho. Waldron of Ball. Coll. 6. Will. Page of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Will. Coniers of S. Joh. Coll. 6. Thom. Cummyns of Wad Coll. The first of these four was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Phys and Physitian in Ord. to K. Ch. 2. 15. Martin Luellyn of Ch. Ch. Dec. 14. Rob. Fielding of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was adm or licensed this year Incorporations May 14. Tho. Wolfius Doct. of Phys of Padua May 14. John Clerk Doct. of Phys of Padua 21. Thomas Pepys Doct. of Phys of Padua The first was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians and the second is the same I suppose with him who published Disputatie medica de Ilio vero I find one John Clark to have been Doct. of the Laws of Doctors Commons in Lond. who died in the latter end of the year 1672 but whether ever of Oxon I cannot yet tell See another Joh. Clerk among the created Doctors of Phys 1660. As for the third I know nothing of him June 13. Walt. Mills Doct. of Phys of Leyden He was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians 15. Will. Whitaker Doct. of the same faculty of Franaker in W●st Freisen He was afterwards as I conceive one of the Coll. of Physitians and lived several years in good repute for his learning in the Parish of S. Andrew in Ho●bourne near London but died in the Parish of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster in the month of Dec. or beginning of January 1670. He hath written The tree of life or blood of the grape c. pr. in oct and perhaps other things Qu. I have made mention of a learned Divine of both his names in the Fasti of the first Vol. p. 744 and another a Nonconformist in this in Tho. Jacombe under the year 1687. p. 607. July 12. John Sherman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards Archd. of Salisbury See in Josh Childrey among the Writers p. 339. Rob. Dixon M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the said day I take this person to be the same Rob. Dixon who was afterwards Doct. of Div. and Prebendary of Rochester author of 1 The degrees of Consanguinity and affinity described and delineated Lond. 1675. oct 2 The nature of the two Testaments or the disposition of the Will and Estate of God to mankind c. In two volumes The first of the Will of God the second of the Estate of God Lond. 1676. 77. fol and of other things as 't is probable Isaac Barrow M. A. of Trin. Coll. in the same University was incorporated on the said day In the next year he took a long journey into several forreign Countries and returned a compleat Master of divers Languages In 1660 he was chose Greek Professor of Cambridge and two years after on the death of Laur. Rooke Geometry Lecturer in Gresham Coll. In 1672 he was elected Master of Trin. Coll being then in great esteem for his learning and accomplishments And dying on the fourth day of May 1677 aged 47 years was buried in the South cross Isle of S. Peters commonly called the Abbey Church in the City of Westminster His works were afterwards collected and published by Dr. Joh. Tillotson an 1683 before the first of which is a full account of the life of the said Is Barrow to which I refer the Reader These three last Sherman Dixon and Barrow were of the number of 25 Cambridge Masters of Arts that were incorporated just after the Act this year July 12. Edw. Spark Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty Chaplain to his Maj. Ch. 2 and well beneficed if not dignified He hath written and published 1 The Christians map of the world drawn at the solemn funerals of Henry Chitting Esq Chester-Herald at Armes inter'd 11. January 1637. Lond. 1637. oct 'T is a Sermon preached at the said Chittings funeral 11. Jan. 1636 on Heb. 13. ver 14. 2 Scintilla
Physick one of the Coll. of Phys and eminent for the practice of it in London He paid his last debt to nature on the 31 of Oct. 1679 aged 57 years Whereupon his body was buried in the middle of the Church of S. Bride alias Bridget near Fleetstreet in the said City There is a monument not over his grave but on the south wall at the upper end of the south alley or isle joyning to the said Church One of his sirname and family called Walter Needham Doct. of Phys honorary Fellow of the said Coll. of Physitians and Physitian to Sutton's Hospital called the Charter house near Lond did spend also some time in Oxon for the sake of the public Library but whether ever incorporated it appears not He hath written Disquisitio Anatomica de formato Foetu Lond. 1667. oct with Sculptures He died on the 16 of Apr. 1691 and was buried obscurely in the Church of S. Giles in the Fields near Lond having for several years before not lived in Sutton's Hospital for the relief of the poor Pensioners as he ought according to the Founders will to have done but in Great Queenstreet within the Liberty of Westm where he died as honest a man as Dr. Th. Cox and Dr. D. Whistler did elsewhere and yet he as both the others had great practice Executions were out against him to seize both body and goods c. Jul. 11. Rob. Sawyer M. A. of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was a younger son of Sir Edm. Sawyer living sometimes near Windsore in Berks and was now or soon after a Barrester of the Inner Temple of which he at length became Treasurer grew eminent for his practice in Lond and in Oxford Circuit which he frequented several years Afterwards he was a Recruiter for Great Wycomb in Bucks to serve in that Parl. which began at Westm 8 May 1661 was Knighted and on the 14 of Feb. 1680 was sworn Attorney Gen. in the place of Sir Creswell Levinz or Levens made one of the Judges of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Will. Ellis deceased In the beginning of Dec. 1687 he was removed from that honorable place of Attorney by K. James 2 and Sir Tho. Powis was put in his room and in his of Solicitor Gen. Will. Williams Esq on whom his Maj. at that time confer'd the honour of Knighthood Under the name of this person Sir R. Sawyer and under those of Mr. Heneage Finch Sir Geo. Treby and Mr. Hen. Polexfen are extant Pleadings and Arguments with other Proceedings in the Court of Kings Bench upon the Quo Warranto touching the Charter of the City of London with the Judgment entred thereupon c. Lond. 1690. fol. In the year following he built and finished the Church of High-Cleere in Hampshire where he hath a plentiful Estate Jul. 11. Hen. Paman M. A. and Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. in the said Univ. of Cambr. was then also incorporated See more among the Incorporations an 1669. Thom. Viner M. A. of Catherine Hall in the same Univ. was incorporated on the said day This person who was brother to Sir Rob. Viner of Lond. Goldsmith was afterwards Rector of Bradwell in Essex Bach. and Doct. of Div Preb. of Gloc. in the place of Dr. Tho. Warmstry deceased an 1665 Canon of Windsore in the room of Dr. Joh. Heaver sometimes of Clare Hall in Cambr. deceased in Jul 1670 and at length Dean of Glocester on the death of Dr. Will. Brough an 1671. He died on the eleventh of Apr. 1673 aged 44 years and was buried in our Ladies Chap. at the east end of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Glocester where there is a monument with an inscription thereon over his grave In his Deanery succeeded Dr. Rob. Frampton and in his Canonry of Windsore Dr. Isaac Vossius c. The said 4 Cambr. men who were incorporated were of the number of 26 Masters of Arts of the said Univ. that were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act. Octob. 31. Abel Collier Doct. of Phys of Padua He had that degree confer'd on him at Padua in Jan. 1654. Dec. 13. Lodovic de Lambermont of Sedan a young man of great hopes and learning son of Joh. Lambermont of the same place and Doctor of Phys of the Univ. of Valence was then incorporated Doctor of that faculty His Diploma for the taking of that degree at Valence bears date 8 Mar. 1651. Under the name of Lambermontius is extant Anthologia Graec. Lat. Lond. 1654. oct Whether published by the said Lod. Lamberm I know not Qu. Jan. 18. George Beare Doct. of Phys of Padua The said degr was confer'd upon him at Pad in Octob. 1652. He was originally of Exeter Coll. Creations Jul. 16. Steph. Budaeus a Transylvanian who had spent some years in the Univ. of Groning Vtrecht and Franaker was actually created Master of Arts. At this time and before were several Hungarians that studied in Oxon for the sake of the publ Library some of which being poor had Commons daily allowed to them in Ch. Ch. Hall by the favour of Dr. Joh. Owen the D●an and the then Canons of that House Jul. 18. It was then granted by the Delegates of the University and afterwards by the Convocation that Sam. Smith late Fellow of S. Joh. Coll who was admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts 12 years before this time since which he was a constant Preacher partly in Essex but mostly in London might be actually created M. of A. in any Convoc or Congreg This person is now or at least was lately Ordinary of the Prison in Lond. called Newgate and hath published several things Nov. 23. Sam. Birch of S. Maries Hall who had been several years a Captain in the Parl. Army was actually created M. of A. being then between 30 and 40 years of age He was about this time made one of the Chaplains of C. C. Coll and afterwards being averse to Conformity he taught a private School at Shilton in Berks near Burford in Oxfordshire where he had constantly under his tuition the sons of divers persons of quality and those too who were good Loyalists He died at that place 22 Jan. 1679 leaving behind him the character of a good man among the precise people but otherwise among the neighbouring Royalists who esteem'd him an instiller of evil Principles into youth Feb. 12. Gustavus Queckfeldt a noble Sweed of high birth and eminent for his learning lately commended to the favour of the University by an Englishman called Sir George Fleetwood a Baron of Sweedland was actually created Doct. of the Civ Law Benedict Queckfeldt brother to Gustavus commended also by the said Sir Geo. Fleetwood was at the same time created Doct. of the Civ Law These two persons with Joh. Stuart another Sweed were then Sojourners and Students in this University as they had been about a year before purposely to have the benefit of the publ Library The said two brothers are now or at least were lately
Coll. 23. Joshua Stopford of Magd. Coll. The first of these two hath published several ingenious books and is now living in Worcestershire The other was esteemed a good Greecian and would sometimes course in Greek in the publick Schools Mar. 9. Robert Huntingdon of Mert. Coll. In the beginning of the year 1692 he became Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland in the place of Dr. Will. Sherendon a Non-juror who had been consecrated B. of that City on the 19 of Febr. 1681. Adm. 152. Bach. of Law Jul. 4. Thomas Ireland of S. Maries Hall This ingenious person who was son of Will. Ireland Vergerer of the Church of Westminster was bred in the Coll. School there and thence elected Student of Ch. Ch but ejected in the time of Oliver by Dr. Owen his Dean Whereupon retiring to S. Maries Hall he entred upon the Law line and took a degree as a member of that house After the restauration of his Maj. Ch. 2. he obtained his Students place again but took no higher degree yet in the vacancy of the See of Durham between the death of Dr. Joh. Cosin and the translation thereunto of Dr. Crew he had confer'd on him the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Durham He hath extant besides several copies of verses occasionally printed in books Verses spoken at the appearance of the K. and Qu Duke and Dutchess of York in Christ Church Hall Oxford 29 Sept. 1663. Oxon. 1663. qu. They were also about the same time printed at Lond. with this title Speeches spoken to the K. and Qu Duke and c. pr. in qu. After dinner of the same day his Majesty with his royal Consort and their royal Highnesses went from their Lodgings with their respective Retinews purposely to see that spatious Refectory which had been built by the great Cardinal Wolsey where the Dean Canons and Students waiting their coming Mr. Ireland spoke the said Verses in number 116 on his knees Which being well done the K. thanked him for them gave him his hand to kiss and commanded a copy of them This Mr. Ireland who might have done greater matters had not his mind been diverted by the frequent indulgences of Poets died at or near the Golden Lyon in the Strand within the Liberty of Westm during his attendance on his beloved Miss in the middle of Decemb. 1676. Whereupon Dr. Rich. Lloyd of All 's Coll. succeeded him in his Chancellourship Dec. 15. Hugh Davis of New Coll. He hath published an English book in fol intit De jure Vniformitatis Ecclesiasticae c. and therefore larger mention is to be made of him hereafter Adm. 5. Mast of Arts. Apr. 9. Nath. Hodges of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards one of the Proctors of the Univ and Chaplain to Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury who while he was L. Chancellour of Engl. procured for him a Prebendship in the Church of Nerwich and Glocester Another of both his names is a Physitian now living and therefore this Nath. Hodges ought to be mention'd for distinction sake 21. Gabr. Towerson of Qu. afterwards of All 's Coll. May 29. George Castle of All 's Coll. June 11. Tho. Sprat of Wadh. Coll. June 11. Hen. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. June 11. Nath. Vincent of Ch. Ch. 12. Rob. South 15. Edw. West of S. Maries Hall 17. Thom. Owen of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of S. David Jul. 4. Lancelot Addison of Qu. Coll. 20. Richard Berry of Brasn Coll. The last of these two was afterwards made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. purely upon the account of his Voice and good Singing but being forced to leave that house upon no good account in the beginning of June 1670 he went into Ireland to seek his fortune but whether beneficed there I cannot tell He hath published A Sermon upon the Epiphany preached at Ch. Ch. in Dublin 1672. printed in qu. and perhaps other things Qu. Dec. 15. Dan. Nicols of S. Joh. Coll. This person who had by the Visitors been made Scholar of his Coll of which he was afterwards Fellow conformed after his Majesties restauration and at length became Rector of Scotton in Lincolnshire He hath published A Sermon preached in the Cathedral of Lincolne 18 Jul. 1681 being Assize-Munday on 1 Sam. 12.14.15 Lond. 1681. qu. and perhaps other things Adm. 101. or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was adm this year Bach. of Div. Jun. 18. James Bedford of Queens Coll. This person a young forward Presbyterian who was one of the number of Cambridge men that came to Oxon in 1648 to obtain preferment from the Visitors was by them made Fellow of Queens Coll being then Bach of Arts. So that he and George Phillips another of the same gang afterwards Proctor of the Univ. being Juniors and wanting good chambers they did on the 21 of May 1649 make a motion to the Society of that House that forasmuch as the younger Fellows had bad Chambers they would allow that the outward Chappel which they said was useless might be converted into Chambers for them to lodge in c. Which motion being looked upon by the Seniors there men of the old stamp as a horrid and villanous thing they did not dare to express it so for fear of danger that might ensue but passed it over as a slight matter Afterwards this Mr. Bedford who was a forward and conceited person and presum'd to take his degree of Bac. of Div. before those who were much his Seniors in the House became Pastor of Blunsham and Erith in Huntingdonshire before this year and wrot and published The perusal of an old Statute concerning death and judgment Sermon at the funeral of Mrs. Francis Bedford dau of Sam. Bedford a member of Parliament and Justice of Peace for the County of Bedford who died 18 Jan. 1656 aged 12 years on Heb. 9.27 Lond. 1657. qu. The said Sam. was brother to James Bedford the author who perhaps hath published other things Qu. Jul. 23. Tho. Barlow of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Tho. Lamplugh of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Tho. Tully of Qu. Coll. Jul. 23. Rich. Rallingson of Qu. Coll. Doct. of Law Jun. 27. Will. Offley of Vniv Coll. He was the only person that was adm this year Doct. of Phys Jun. 18. Pet. Fiott of Exet. Coll. 19. Edw. Stubbe of Pemb. Coll. 23. Will. Quaterman of Pemb. Coll. 30. Elisha Coysh of Pemb. Coll. The last was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year Incorporations May 14. Joh. Collins M. A. of Cambr. Whether he be the same Joh. Collins who was Doct. of Div. and author of Several discourses concerning the actual providence of God divided into three parts c. Lond. 1678. 79. qu. and of other things as 't is probable I cannot yet tell He is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Collinges Bach. of Div. and sometimes Minister of S. Stephens Parish in Norwich a frequent Writer before this time because their names
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.
Marble and a stately urn placed thereon On the pedestal is a most elegant and befitting inscription engraven made by his great admirer Dr. Tho. Sprat before mention'd and all inviron'd with an iron grate where we shall now leave him Petrus Schumacherus a young Dane was a sojournour this and several years after in Oxon purposely to obtain literature in the publick library and was much favour'd and encouraged by Mr. Tho. Barlow the Keeper thereof Afterwards he became a man of note in his own Country and tho the Son of a Vintner Chancellour of Denmark c. He hath lately sent his picture to the University of Oxon and it now hangs in the School-Gallery An. Dom. 1658. An. 10. Car. 2. An. 5 1 Oliv. Protect An. 5 1 Rich. Protect Chanc. Rich. Cromwell usually called Lord Rich. Cromwell who on the death of his Father Oliver was proclaimed Protector of England c. 4. Sept. this year Vicechanc. Joh. Conant D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll Oct. 9. Proct. Sam. Byfield of C. C. Coll. Apr. 8. Sam. Conant of Exet Coll. Apr. 8. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 25. Nich. Billingsley of Mert. Coll. He was a Ministers Son at or near Bristow as I suppose and having had a long sickness hanging upon him was dispenced with by the Ven. Congreg for the absence of eight Terms In which time living in his Fathers house he wrot in vers Hagio Martyrologia Or an exact epitome of all the persecutions which have befall'n the People of God in all ages Lond. 1657. oct Of which Poetry and its author you may take this character from a very conceited Writer who was his contemporary thus Stand off thou Poetaster from the press Who pygni'st Martyrs with thy dwarf-like verse Whose white long bearded flame of zeal aspires To Wrack their ashes more than did their fiers Jun. 11. Tho. Trapham of Magd. Coll. Jun. 11. John Cave of Magd. Coll. Of the first of these two who was senior collector of the determining Bachelaurs this year you may see more among the Masters an 1661. July 6. Sam. Jemmat of Vniv Coll. See among the Masters in 1661. Oct. 12. Rich. Burthogge of All 's Coll. He went afterwards to Linc. Coll compleated his degree by Determination as a member thereof and soon after left the University Afterwards he was doctorated in Physick elsewhere at Leyden I think lived at Bowden near Totness in Devonshire wrot several books of Divinity but nothing of his own faculty is a sider at this time with the fanatical crew and therefore he is hereafter to be number'd among Oxf. Writers Feb. 12. Nathaniel Alsop of Brasn Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1670. Joseph Constable of Magd. Hall He translated into English The Works of Jo. Bapt. Van Helmont Lond. 1664. fol. Feb. 12. Edw. Bernard of S. Joh. Coll. Feb. 12. Joh. Troughton of S. Joh. Coll. The first of these last two was lately one of the Savilian Professors and hath written and published several things and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among Oxford Writers Adm. 137. Bach. of Law Three were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards either a Writer or a Bishop Mast of Arts. Mar. 25. Joh. Franklin of C. C. Coll. Apr. 22. Tho. Branker of Exet. Coll. Jun. 11. Edm. Elys of Ball. Coll. Jun. 11. Joh. Williams of Magd. Hall 29. Nath. Crew of Linc. Coll. 29. Thom. Pittis of Linc. Coll. 29. Jos Glanvill of Linc. Coll. July 6. Nich. Lloyd of Wadh. Coll. July 6. Will. Annand of Vniv Coll. July 6. Tho. Tomkins of All 's Coll. 9. Joh. Price of Vniv Coll. This person who was a Ministers Son became soon after Curate of S. Cross alias Ha●ywel in the Suburbs of Oxon where preaching many Sermons he published four of them the titles of which follow 1 The Christians excellency on Matth. 5.47 2 Truth begets Eternity on Gal. 4.16 3 A Nations happiness in a good King on Eccles 10.17 4 The praise of charity on Heb. 13.16 These four Serm. were printed at Oxon. 1661. in oct and by him dedic to Dr. Hen. King Bishop of Chichester who taking him into his patronage confer'd a Cure on him near that City where soon after he finished his course in a craz'd condition occasion'd by a high conceit of his own worth and parts July 9. Rich. Stretton of New Coll. This person who was Chaplain of the said House was afterwards Chaplain to the L. Fairfax a Nonconformist Divine and a Traveller He hath written A true relation of the cruelties and barbarities of the French upon the Engl●sh Prisoners of War being a journal of their travels from Dinan in Britany to Thoulon and back again With a description of the situation and fortifications of all the eminent Towns on the road of their Prisons and Hospitals the number and names of them that d●ed with the charity and sufferings of the Protestants Lond. 1690 qu. c. published under the name of Rich. Strutton an eye-witness of those things who perhaps hath written other matters Quaere This person who held forth among the godly for a time in an antiquated Dancing-school without the north gate of Oxon in the Winter season 1689 K. Will. 3. being then in the Throne lives now a Nonconformist-Preacher in Warwick lane in London Mar. 17. Nich. Horsman of C. C. Coll. Adm. 81. Bach. of Phys Three were admitted this year and one to practice Chirurgery but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Man of note Bach. of Div. May 29. Henry Hickman of Magd. Coll. Beside him were but two admitted but neither of them was then or afterwards a Writer ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was this year admitted nor one of Phys or of Divinity Incorporations These Cambridge men following were incorporated 13 July being the next day after the solemnity of the Act was finished Benedict Rively M. A. of Eman. Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Dr. Reynolds Bishop of Norwich and a Preacher in that City and author of A Sermon preached in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich at the funeral of Dr. Edw. Reynolds Lord Bish of Norw on Job 30.23 Lond. 1677. qu. Joh. Dowell M. A. of Christs Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Melton-Mowbray in Leicestershire and author of The Leviathan heretical or the charge exhibited in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified by the refutation of his book entit The historical narration of heresie and the punishments thereof Lond. 1683 in tw See more in Tho. Hobbes among the Writers an 1679. p. 481. Robert Sprackling M. of A. of Peter House This person who was born of a gentile family living at S. Lawrence and Ramsgate in the Isle of Thanet in Kent became afterwards Doctor of Physick at Anger 's in France in which degree being incorporated in Cambridge became one of the Coll. of Physitians and author of Medela ignorantiae or a just and plain vindication of Hypocrates and Galen from the groundless imputations of M. N wherein the
whole substance of his illiterate plea entit Medela Medicinae is occasionally considered Lond. 1665. See more in March Nedham among the Writers p. 470. Afterwards upon some controversie that hapned between his Father and Mother the last of which was made away he became much discontented turned Papist went into Lancashire setled at Preston in Amunderness practised among the Roman Catholicks and by them cried up tho as 't is said there he led a drunken and debauch'd life Some time before his death he was reconciled to the Church of England and dying at Preston was buried there but when my author a Physitian of those parts tells me not only that 't was after or about the year 1670. Rich. Kidder M. A. of Eman. Coll. This learned person a Suffolk man born I think was afterwards Rector of S. Martins Outwich in London installed Preb. of No●wich in the place of Hezek Burton deceased on the 16 of Sept. 1681 being then D. of D. Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Sim. Patrick promoted to the See of Chichester an 1689 and at length became Bish of Bath and Wells upon the deprivation of the religious and conscientious Dr. Tho. Ken for not taking the usual Oaths to their Majesties K. Will. 3. and Qu. Mary He was nominated thereunto about the 14 of June 1691 upon the refusal of it by Dr. William Beveridge and on the 30 of Aug. following he was consecrated thereunto in the Church of S. Mary Le B●w in London by John Archb. of Cant Gilbert B. of Sarum Peter B. of W●nton John B. of Norwich and Edward B. of Glocester At which time were also consecrated Dr. Rob. Grove of Cambridge to the See of Chichester upon the translation thence of Dr. Patrick to Ely and Dr. Joh. Hall Master of Pemb. Coll. in Oxon to the See of Bristow upon the translation thence of Dr. Gilb. Ironside to the See of Hereford Dr. Kidder hath written 1 The young mans duty A discourse shewing the necessity of seeking the Lord betimes as also the danger and unreasonableness of trusting to a late or death-bed repentance Designed especially for young persons before they are debauched by evil company and evil habits Lond. 1663 and several times after in tw The sixth edition was publish'd in 1690. 2 Convivium coeleste A plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Suppor shewing at once the nature of that Sacrament as also the right way of preparing our selves for the receiving of it c. Lond. 1674. oct and afterwards again with additions 3 Charity directed or the way to give almes to the greatest advantage In a Letter to a friend Lond. 1677. qu. 4 The Christian sufferer supported or a discourse concerning the grounds of Christian fortitude shewing at once that the sufferings of good men are not inconsistent with Gods special providence c. Ibid. 1680. oct 5 Reflections on a French Testam printed at Bourdeaux 1626 pretended to be translated into the French by the Divines of Lovain Ibid. 1691. qu. He hath also published several Sermons as 1 A discourse concerning the education of youth on Ephes 1.4 Lond. 1673. 2 Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-hall Chap. 16. July 1682. Ibid. 1682. qu. 3 Serm. at the funeral of Mr. Will. Allen 17. Aug. 1686. on Heb. 13.4 Ibid. 1686. qu. This Will. Allen had been a Citizen and Trader of London and had written 10 books chiefly for conformity against Quakers Anabaptists c. Dr. Kidder hath published several books against popery during the reign of K. Jam. 2 and other things which for brevity sake I now pass by James Arderne M. A. of Christs Coll. See among the Incorporations an 1673. All the said Cambridge men viz. B. Rively J. Dowell R. Sprackling R Kidder and J. Arderne were incorporated on the 13 of July at which time were incorporated 15 other Masters of the said University among whom were Joh. Quarles and Joh. Gosling of Peter House Jan. 2. Henry Yerbury Doct. of Phys of Padua This person who had been turn'd out of his Fellowship of Magd. Coll. in this University by the Visitors in 1648 did afterwards travel and took the said degree at Pad in the beginning of Apr. 1654. After his Majesties return he was restored by his Commissioners an 1660 was a Candidate of the Coll. of Phys and dying on the 25 of March 1686 was buried in the Chappel belonging to Magd. Coll near to the north door which leads from the cloister therein I shall make farther mention of this person when I come to speak of Dr. Thomas Pierce Creations Apr. 16. Will. Burt M. of A. chief Master of Wykehams School near Winchester was created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Letters of Rich. Cromwell Chanc. of the Univ. This person who was Son of Will. Burt sometimes belonging to the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester was born in the Parish of S. Laurence in that City educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll in 1627 took the degrees in Arts and soon after became Master of the Free-school at Thame in Oxfordshire In 1647 he was made Rector of Whitfield in the said County and soon after became chief Master of Wykehams School before mentioned in the place of Dr. Jo. Pottinger On the 9. of Sept. 1658 he was admitted Warden of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Harris deceased and after his Majesties restauration was made Prebendary of the Cathedral there He hath published Concio Oxoniae habita postridie Comitiorum 13 Julii 1678 pro gradu Doctoris in Psal 72.17 Oxon. 1659 in tw Dedic to Rich. Cromwell Lord Protector of England with whom and the great men going before in the interval he kept pace This being all the exercise that he performed for the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Div I do therefore put him under the Creations He died at Winchester 3 July an 1679 and was buried on the South side of the altar in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of Wykeham near Winchester May 14. Rob. Woseley or Wolseley who had been a Student in this Univ. for 8 years time and a Burgess as 't is said in the register in the late Parliament was actually created Master of Arts I cannot find his name in the Catalogues of Parliament men that sate in the three Parliaments going before this time only Charles Wolseley Esq who was one of Olivers Lords July 7. Paul Hartman of the City of Thorne in Prussia was actually created Mast of Arts He was afterwards one of the petty Canons of Ch. Ch and is now or else was lately Rector of Shillingford in Berks This person who is Brother to Ad. Sam. Hartman mentioned among the Incorporations an 1680 hath written and published certain matters pertaining to Grammar as I have heard An. Dom. 1659. An. 11. Car. 2. An. 1 ● Rich. Protect Chanc. the same viz. Rich. Cromwell
D. of D. and Bish of Cloyne in Irel. 1679 on the death of Dr. Edw. Singe who being Bish of Cloyne Cork and Ross the two last Sees were then the same year confer'd on Dr. Edw. W●tenhall sometimes of Linc. Coll. Aug. 4. Nich. Stanley Doct. of Phys of Leyden 7. Nich. Davies Doct. of Phys of Leyden The first of these two who was son of Dr. Edw. Stanley mention'd among the Writers p. 195 was Fellow of New Coll and afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London Edmund Borlase Doct. of Phys of Leyden was incorporated the same day Aug. 7. This person who was son of Sir Joh. Borlaso Kt Master of the Ordnance and one of the Lords Justices of Irel. 1643 Sir Hen. Tichborne being the other was educated in the Coll. near Dubl and going afterwards to Leyden had the said degr of Doct. of Phys confer'd on him there 1650. Afterwards he setled in the City of Chester where he practised his faculty with good success to his dying day Among the several books which he hath written and published I find these 1 Latham Spaw in Lancashire with some remarkable Cases and Cures effected by it Lond. 1670. oct dedicated to Charles Earl of Derby 2 The reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England With the Governours since the Conquest by K. Hen. 2 an 1172 with some passages in their Government A brief account of the Rebellion an Dom. 1641. Also the original of the Vniv of Dublin and the Coll. of Physitians Lond. 1675. in a large oct 3 The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion traced from many preceeding Acts to the grand eruption 23 Oct. 1641. And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement 1672. Lond. 1680. fol. Much of this book is taken from another intit The Irish Rebellion or the History of the beginnings and first progress of the general Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland 23 Oct. 1641 c. Lond. 1646. qu. Written by Sir Joh. Temple Kt Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties honorable privy Council in Irel. 4 Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehavens Memoires of his engagement and carriage in the War of Ireland By which the Government at that time and the Justice of the Crown since are vindicated from aspersions cast on both Lond. 1682. oct In the third p. of the Epist to the Reader before the book is a pretty severe reflection made on the design of the eighth Chapt. of Sir Will. Dugdale's book intit A short view of the late Troubles in England as was a little before by another person in A Letter in answer to a friend upon notice of a book entit A short view c. Wherein in the eigth Chapter the occasion of the execrable Irish Rebellion in 1641 is egregiously mistaken This Letter which is dated on the last of Apr. 1681 was printed at Lond. in 1 sh in fol. the same year What other things Dr. Borlase hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died and was buried at Chester after the year 1682. Sept. 20. Joh. Bidgood Doct. of Phys of Padua was ●hen incorporated This person who had been Fellow of Exeter Coll was ejected thence in 1648 by the then Visitors appointed by Parl first for Non-submission and secondly for drinking of healths to the confusion of Reformers This last reason was mention'd in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 397. a. under the tenth head next following the matter of Nich. Braine there mention'd which is under the ninth But the author communicating the copy of that book before it went to the Press to a certain Doctor in Oxon of Bidgood's faculty he upon the perusal of that passage did falsly unknowing to the author acquaint by another hand the said Bidgood then living at Exeter of it Whereupon Bidgood a covetous person fearing that such a passage as that might when made public hinder his practice among the godly party at Exeter and near it he made application by letters to the said Doctor of Oxon and to Dr. Fell the publisher of the History to have it taken out Whereupon Dr. Fell wondring that he should scruple at such a passage which made much for his Loyalty the sheet wherein it was was reprinted and the eleventh head in the said p. 397. a was made the tenth in its place This Health tho said by his Contemporaries in Exeter Coll to be a Cup of Devils to Reformers yet the author of the aforesaid History finding it not so in the Visitors Register of their actions but as it is word by word before mention'd therefore did he set it so down without any invention of his own as some did surmise This Dr. Bidgood who was honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians at Lond died very rich at Exeter on the 13 of Jan. 1690 after he had cashier'd and disinherited his nat son call'd Joh. Sommers sometimes M. A. of Trin. Coll. His Estate was computed to be worth between 25 and 30000 l the main bulk of which he left to one Humph. Bidgood his Kinsman and some to pious uses And having been a person of a surley and proud nature and offensive in word and action he did a little before his death desire pardon and forgiveness of all the world especially of several persons with whom he had any animosities Oct. 17. Robert Henchman Doct. of Phys of Padua Oct. 17. Christop Bathurst Doct. of Phys of Padua The first of these two who was son of Onuphrius Henchman had the degree of Doct. confer'd on him at Pad an 1654 the other in 1659 and afterwards practised his fac in Lincolnshire Nov. 19. Franc. Giffard M. A. of Cambr One of both his names and Mast of Arts hath written and published The wicked Petition or Israels sinfulness in asking a King explained in a Serm. at the Assizes held at Northampton first of March 1680. Lond. 1681. qu. Whether the same I cannot tell Sure I am that the Sermon was seasonably delivered the K. being then tired our by factious people with Petitions relating to Parliaments CREATIONS After the restauration of his Majesty K. Ch. 2 it was his and the pleasure of the Marquess of Hertford Chanc. of the Univ. of Ox and of Sir E. Hyde who succeeded him in that Office this year that there should be a Creation in all faculties of such that had suffer'd for his Majesties Cause and had been ejected from the University by the Visitors appointed by Parl. an 1648. 49. c. Mast of Arts. Seventy and one Masters of Arts at least were actually created among whom some that had not been Sufferers thrust themselves into the crowd for their money Others yet few were Gentlemen and were created by the favour of the Chancellours Letters only Among the 70 and odd Masters which were created I shall mention these following Aug. 2. Charles Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely Aug. 2. Will. Wren Sons of Matth. B. of Ely
Rob. Atkyns Tho the title of Knight of the Bath be not added to his name in the publick register yet I take him to be the same Sir Rob. Atkyns Knight of the Bath who became Serjeant at Law an 1671 one of the Justices of the Common-pleas in the year following and at length when the Prince of Aurange came to the Crown Lord Chief Baron of the Exchecquer and Speaker of the House of Lords c. He hath written 1 An inquiry into the power of dispensing with penal Statutes together with some animadversions upon a book written by Sir Edw. Herbert L. Ch. Justice of the Court of Com. pleas entit A short account c. Lond. 1689. See more in these Fasti an 1669. in Edw. Herbert 2 The power jurisdiction and privilege of Parliament and the antiquity of the H. of Com. asserted occasion'd by an information in the Kings Bench by the Attorney gen against the Speaker of the H. of Com. Lond. 1689 with which is printed A discourse concerning the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Realm of England occasion'd by the late Commission in ecclesiastical causes This Sir Rob. Atkyns was Son of Sir Edw. Atkyns one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the troublesome times and is Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir Rob. Atkyns of Saperton in Glocestershire Edm. Warcup See among the created Doctors of Law an 1670. James Tyrrell Esq of Qu. Coll. This Gentleman hath published four or more books and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers Thomas Ross Esq This person who was nearly related to Alex. Ross as I have heard adhered to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. in his Exile and was Tutor for a time to James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth Upon his Majesties return he became Keeper of his Libraries and Groom of his Privy Chamber and author of a translation from Latin into English Poetry of the whole 17 books of The second punick War between Hannibal and the Romans written originally by Silius Italicus with a Continuation from the triumph of Scipio to the death of Hannibal Lond. 1661. fol. Ded. to the King and printed on large paper and adorned with choice Cuts Besides these who were created on the 28 Sept were about 30 more some of quality that had the said degree of Master confer'd upon them It was also granted at that time to nine other persons to be created when they were pleased to require admission among whom Mr. Rob. Hook sometimes of Ch. Ch. now of the Royal Society was one but whether he or they were admitted it appears not Doct. of Law Four were actually created on the 28 of Sept. the names of which follow Sir Henry Benet Knight one of the Secretaries of State to his Majesty This Gentleman who was second Son of Sir Joh. Benet of Arlington commonly called Harlington in Middlesex by Dorothy his Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Croft of Saxham in Suffolk was educated in the condition of a Student in Ch. Ch took the degrees in Arts and had the reputation of a Poet among his contemporaries which was evidenc'd by certain copies of his composition occasionally printed in books of verses published under the name of the University and in others in his time In the beginning of the Civ War when his Majesty fix'd his chief residence in Oxon he became Under Secretary to George L. Digby Secretary of State and afterwards a Gentleman Volunteer for the royal cause in which condition he did his Majesty good service especially at the sharp encounter near Andover in Hampshire c. When the Wars were ended he left not his Majesty when success did but attended his interest in Foreign parts and the better to fit himself for his Majesties service he travelled into Italy and made his remarks and observations of all the parts and States of Christendom Afterwards he was made Secretary to James Duke of York received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Bruges in March Stil nov 1658 and then was sent Leiger to the Crown of Spain in which negotiation with that wary Court he carried things with so much prudence circumspection and success that his Majesty upon his happy return for England soon called him home and made him Keeper of his privy Purse In the month of Octob. 1662 he was made Principal Secretary of State on the resignation of Sir Edward Nicholas whereupon the place of Keeper of the privy Purse was confer'd on the Son of Charles Visc Fitz Harding called Sir Charles Berkley Captain of the Guards to James Duke of York and Governour under his Highness of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth c. In the latter end of the year 1663 he was made a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arlington of Arlington in Middlesex and in Apr. 1672 he was made Earl of Arlington On the 15 of June following he was elected one of the Knights companions of the most noble order of the Garter and on the 22 of the same month he with George Duke of Buckingham began their Journey towards Holland as Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to treat and settle affairs between the most Christian King and the States In Apr. 1673 he was appointed one of the three Plenipotentiaries to go from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Colen to mediate for a peace between the Emperor and the said Christian King and on the eleventh of Sept. 1674 he was upon the resignation of Henry Earl of S. Alban made Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold In which honorable office he was confirmed by K. Jam. 2. when he came to the Crown He died early in the morning of the 28 of July 1685 aged 67 years whereupon his body was conveyed to his Seat at Ewston in Suffolk and there buried in a vault under the Church of that place Two days after his death his Majesty K. Jam. 2. gave the white staff of Lord Chamberlain to Robert Earl of Aylesbury who after a short enjoyment of it died much lamented in his house at Ampthil in Bedfordshire on Tuesday the 20 of Octob. the same year See more of him in the Fasti of the first vol. p. 886.887 The eldest Brother of the said Henry Earl of Arlington was named John Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. created a Baron of this Kingdom by that King under the stile and title of John Lord Ossulston in Novemb. an 1682. He was originally a Gent. Com. of Pembroke Coll to which he was not only a Benefactor by contributing largely towards the buildings thereof but by giving a Fellowship thereunto Will. Coventrie sometimes of Qu. Coll Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1686. p. 601. Richard Nicolls one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to James D. of York Will. Godolphin M. A. of Ch. Ch. and under Secretary to Sir Hen. Benet before mention'd This person who was descended
Vicechanc. Dr. Say again Aug. 23. Proct. Phineas Bury of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 6. David Thomas of New Coll. Apr. 6. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 10. Will. Beach of Trin. Coll afterwards of that of Ball. Jun. 10. Will. Hopins of Trin. Coll. 14. Edm. Sermon of Ball. lately of Trin. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1676. 27. Jam. Scudamore of Ch. Ch. Nov. 11. John Brandon of Oriel Coll. He hath two or more things of Divinity extant is now living and therefore is to be hereafter numbred among the Oxford Writers Dec. 18. John Wolley of Trin. Coll. Dec. 18. Rich. Reeve of Trin. Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1668. The other who was afterwards Master of the Free-School joyning to Magd. Coll. is now of the Order of S. Benedict hath published several things and therefore to be hereafter recorded among Oxford Writers Feb. 15. James Bristow of C. C. Coll. This person who was son of a father of both his names of Ribly in Lincolnshire Gent was bred in Eaton School and in the year following this he was elected from being Scholar of C. C. Coll. to be prob Fell of All 's where he ended his days to the great reluctancy of all those that were inwardly acquainted with his most admirable parts He had began to translate into Latine some of the Philosophy of Margaret Dutchess of Newcastle upon the desire of those whom she had appointed to enquire out a fit person for such a matter but he finding great difficulties therein through the confusedness of the subject gave over as being a matter not to be well performed by any He died on the 16 of Dec. 1667 aged 21 years or thereabouts and was inter'd in the outer Chap. of All 's Coll. Soon after came out an Elegy on his death as having been a person that deserved considering his age the best copy of verses that could be made by any Academian as I shall tell you under the year 1668. Mar. 16. Tho. Turner of C. C. C. See among the Doctors of Div. 1683. Adm. 127. Bach. of Law Apr. 15. Ralph Bohun of New Coll. See among the Doctors an 1685. May 30. Joh. Mayow of All 's Coll. Oct. 10. Joh. Harrison of New Coll. The last of which having published several books he is therefore to be remembred hereafter Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. Jun. 21. Spencer Lucy of Queens Coll. He was afterwards Canon and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of S. David by the favour of his father Bishop of that place and dying at Brecknock 9 Feb. 1690 was buried in the collegiate Church there Jun. 28. Will. Wyat of Ch. Ch. This person who was educated in S. Pauls School was for some time Deputy-Orator of the University for Dr. South afterwards Orator in his own right on the death of Thom. Cradock of Magd. Coll 26 of March 1679 and at length Principal of S. Maries Hall to which office he was admitted on the death of Dr. Crowther 20 January 1689. He hath published Sermon preached to those who had been Scholars of S. Pauls School in Guildhall Chappel London at their anniversary meeting on S. Pauls day 1678. on 1 Cor. 8.1 Lond. 1679. qu. Oct. 12. Edwin Sandys of Magd. Coll. On the 14 of Nov. 1683 he was installed Archdeacon of Wells with the Prebend of Huish and Brent annex'd 14. Edw. Hinton of S. Alb. Hall lately of Mert. Coll. This person who was son of Edw. Hinton mention'd among the created Doctors of Div. 1649 was afterwards Master of the Free-School at Witney in Oxfordshire founded by Hen. Box afterwards he taught at Kilkenny in Ireland where at Dublin he had the degree of D. of D. confer'd on him He hath translated from Greek into English The Apothegms or remarkable Sayings of Kings and great Commanders c. Lond. 1684 in the first vol. of Plutarchs Morals In the same year Mr. Hinton left Witney to go to Ireland Dec. 8. George Hickes of Linc. Coll. Adm. 44. Bach. of Phys Jun. 21. George Castle of All 's Coll. 28. Rich. Lower of Ch. Ch. Adm. 4. Bach. of Div. Jun. 10. Tho. Pittis of Linc. Coll. Jun. 10. Seth Bushell of S. Maries Hall 27. Hen. Glover of C. C. Coll. This person born at Mere in Wilts who had been ejected his house by the Parl. Visitors in 1648 was now Rector of Shroton in Dorsetshire and published Cain and Abel paralel'd with K. Charles and his Murderers Sermon at S. Thomas Church in Salisbury 30 Jan. 1663 on Gen. 4.10.11 Lond. 1664. qu. Jul. 8. Will. Browne of Magd. Coll. This Divine who was an Oxford man born was one of the best Botanists of his time and had the chief hand in the composure of a book intit Catalogus Hor●● Botanici Oxoniensis alphabetice digestus c. Oxon. 1658. oct See more in Philip Stephens among the Doctors of Phys an 1655. This Mr. Browne died suddenly on the 25 of Mar. 1678 aged 50 or thereabouts and was buried in the outer Chappel of Magd. Coll of which he was a senior Fellow Dec. 18. Malachi Conant of Magd. Coll. This Theologist who was a Somersetshire man born became by the presentation of the Pres and Society of his Coll Minister of Beding alias Seale where and in the neighbourhood he was esteem'd a good and godly Preacher He hath written and published Vrim and Thummim or the Clergy's dignity and duty recommended in a Visitation sermon preached at Lewes in Sussex 27 Apr. 1669 on Math. 5.16 Oxon 1669. qu. He died and was buried at Beding before mentioned in the beginning of the year 1680. Feb. 15. Joh. Franklin of C. C. Coll. This person who was a Wilts man born and esteem'd a good Philosopher and Disputant while he was living in his House was by the President and Fell. thereof presented to the Rectory of Heyford Purcells or Heyford ad pontem near Bister in Oxfordshire an 1670 where by the loneness of the place and his retired condition his excellent and profound parts were in a manner buried He hath published A resolution of two cases of Conscience in two discourses The first of the lawfulness of compliance with all the Ceremonies of the Church of England The second of the necessity of the use of Common Prayer in public Lond. 1683 in 5 sh in qu. He died on the 7 of Decemb. 1689 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Heyford before mentioned Adm. 17. Doct. of Law Jun. 10. Joseph Harvey of Mert. Coll. 14. Kenelm Digby of All 's Coll. 27. Hen. Deane of New Coll. The last of which was at the time of his admission Chancellour of the Dioc. of Wells where he died about the beginning of Decemb. 1672. Doct. of Phys Jun. 21. George Castle of All 's Coll. Accumulators 28. Edm. Davys of Exet. Coll. Accumulators 28. Rich. Lower of Ch. Ch. Accumulators Doct. of Div. Jun. 21. Simon Ford of Ch. Ch. Jul. 5.
died at Salisbury where he was Can. resid on the 10 of June 1676 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Whereupon Obadiah Walker M. A. was elected Master of the said Coll. on the 22 of the said month of June Jun. 15. Thom. James Warden of All 's Coll. He became Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edw. Davenant who died at Gillingham in Dorsetsh 12 March 1679 and dying on the 5 of January 1686 was buried in the outer Chap. of All 's Coll. In his Treasurership succeeded Seth Ward M. A. 23. Tho. Lambert of Trin. Coll. a Compounder He was now Can. resid of Salisbury one of his Majesties Chaplains and Rector of Boyton in Wilts On the 12 of June 1674 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Priaulx Jun. 23. Tho. Wyat of S. Joh. Coll. Jun. 23. Jam. Longman of New Coll. The former was now Vicar of Melksham in Wilts the other Rector of Aynoe in Northamptonshire 27. Arth. Bury of Exet. Coll. 30. Gilb. Ironside of Wadh. Coll. The former who accumulated was Preb. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and Chapl. to his Majesty the other was now Warden of Wadh. Coll. Jul. 3. Joh Heywood of C. C. Coll. a Compounder He was now Rector of Walton in Lancashire Sim. Patrick of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He had been sometimes Fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge was elected Master thereof by the major part of the Fellows against a Mandamus for the admitting of Dr. Anth. Sparrow Master of the same For which opposition some if not all of the Fellows that sided with him were ejected Afterwards if not at that time he was Minister of Battersea in Surrey then of the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden within the Liberty of Westminster Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty Subdean of Westminster and in the year 1680 Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. James Duport who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Edw. Rainbow an 1664. On the 13 of Oct. 1689 he was consecrated Bishop of Chichester in the Bishop of Lond. Chappel at Fulham in the place of Dr. Joh. Lake deceased and in the Month of June 1691 he was translated to Ely in the place of Dr. Franc. Turner deprived of his Bishoprick for not taking the Oathes to their Majesties K Will. 3. and Qu. Marie This Dr. Patrick hath many Sermons Theological discourses and other things relating to the supreme faculty extant which shew him to be a learned Divine and an Orthodox Son of the Church of England July 5. Joh. Cawley of All 's Coll. This person who was Son of Will. Cawley of the City of Chichester was by the endeavours of his Father made Fellow of the said Coll. by the Visitors appointed by Parliament an 1649 where he continued several years Some time after his Majesties restauration he became Rector of Henley in Oxfordshire and upon the death of Dr. Raphael Trockmorton Archdeacon of Lincoln in which Dignity he was installed on the second of March or thereabouts an 1666. He hath written The nature and kinds of Simony Wherein is argued whether letting an ecclesiastical jurisdiction to a Lay-surrogate under a yearly pension reserved out of the profits be reducible to that head And a sentence in a cause depending about it near six years in the Court of Arches is examined Lond. 1689 in 5. sh in qu. July 6. Will. Beaw of New Coll. He was now Vicar of Adderbury in Oxfordshire and afterward B. of Landaff Incorporations Apr. 7. Henry Compton M. of A. of Cambr. youngest Son of Spencer Earl of Northampton was then incorporated M. of A with liberty allowed him to enter into and suffragate in the House of Congregation and Convocation This Gent. was originally of Queens Coll. in this University and afterwards through several preferments he became B. of London June 19. Edward Browne Bach. of Phys of Cambridge I shall mention him among the Doctors of that faculty in the next year 27. Sim. Patrick Bach. of Div. of Cambridge I have made mention of him among the Doct. of Div. of this year CREATIONS Those that were created this year were mostly by such that were created when Thom. Earl of Ossory had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law confer'd on him Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. Sam. Bowater of Pemb. Coll. lately Bach. of Arts of Cambridge was created Mast of that faculty and the same day was admitted Bach. of Div. conditionally that he preach a Latin Sermon The other persons following were created on the 4. of Feb. after the Earl of Ossory and two of his retinue had been created Doctors of the Civil Law James Russell of Magd. Coll. George Russell of Magd. Coll. They were younger Sons of William Earl of Bedford Thom. Leigh a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Lord Leigh of Stoneley Anthony Ashley Cooper of Trin. Coll. Son of Anthony Lord Ashley He was after his Fathers death Earl of Shaftesbury an 1682. Sir Rich. Graham of Ch. Ch. Bt. This Gentleman who was usually called Sir Rich. Grimes was the Son of Sir George Graham of Netherby in Cumberland Bt and afterwards at riper years a Burgess for Cockermouth in Cumberl to serve in several Parliaments particularly for that which began at Westm 26. of Jan. 1679 and for that which began at Oxon 21. of March 1680. Afterwards he was created by his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Viscount Preston in Scotland and by K. Jam. 2. was sent Embassador into France upon the recalling thence of Sir Will. Trumbull Some time after his return he became so great in the favour of that King that on the 28. of Octob. or thereabouts an 1688 he was made one of the Secretaries of State upon the removal of Robert E. of Sunderland who seemed very willing to be discharged of that office because that having then lately changed his religion for that of Rome he thought it very requisite to make provision for a safe retirement to avoid the danger that might come upon him if the enterprize of the Prince of Orange should succeed as it did In the said station of Secretary the Lord Preston continued till K. Jam. 2. left the Nation in Dec. following who then would have made him Viscount Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire but the sudden change of affairs being then made to the great wonder of all People there was no Seal pass'd in order to it In the beginning of Jan. 1690 he was taken with others in a certain Yatcht going to France to K. Jam. 2 upon some dangerous design as 't was said and thereupon being committed Prisoner to the Tower was in danger of his life and endured a long and tedious imprisonment c. He is a Gent. of many accomplishments and a zealous lover of the Church of England c. Sir Carr Scrope of Wadh. Coll. Bt. This person who was Son of Sir Adrian Scrope of Cockrington in Lincolnshire Kt became
a Gent. Com. of Wadh. Coll. in 1664 and on the 16 of January 1666 he was created a Baronet He hath translated into English The Epistle of Sapho to Phaon which is in a book entit Ovids Epistles translated by several hands c. Lond. 1681. sec edit in oct And in another book called Miscellany Poems containing a new translation of Virgils Eclogues Ovids love Elegies Odes of Horace c. by the most eminent hands Lond. 1684 oct Sir Carr hath translated The fourth Elegy of Ovids first book of Elegies which is in the 110 page of the said Miscellany Poems as also The parling of Sireno and Diana out of the 3 book of Ovids Elegies which is in the 173 page of that Miscellany He wrot also the Prologue to The Rival Queens or the death of Alexander Trag. Lond. 1677 qu. made by Nath. Lee And as divers Satyrical copies of verses were made on him by other persons so he hath divers made by himself on them which to this day go from hand to hand He died in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in Westminster in Nov or thereabouts 1680. All which persons from Jam. Russell to Sir Carr Scrope were created on the fourth of Feb. Feb. 5. John Scudamore a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. Grandson and Heir of Visc Scudamore of Slego in Ireland He was to be created the day before with the rest but was absent Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Thom. Boteler Earl of Ossory in Ireland and Lord Roteler of More-Park in England the eldest Son of James Duke of Ormonde and General of all the Forces in Ireland under his Father now Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom was created Doct. of the Civil Law with more than ordinary solemnity He was afterwards made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and in 1673 May 17 he was made Reer-Admiral of the Blew-Squadron of his Majesties Fleet in order to the great Sea-fight against the Dutch which shortly after hapned In which fight as also in others he gallantly acted beyond the fiction of a Romance Afterwards he was made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen and on the 16 of Apr. 1680 he was sworn of his Majesties most honorable Council At length this brave Gent of whom enough can never be spoken died of a violent Feaver in Whitehall on Friday 30. July 1680 whereupon his body was in the next evening carried privately and deposited in a vault in the Chap. of Hen. 7 joyning to the Abbey Church at Westminster there to remain till his Father the Duke of Ormonde should order the farther disposal of it Afterwards it was conveyed to Kilkenny in Ireland as I have been informed and there laid in the Vault belonging to the Ormondian Family under part of the Cath. Church His eminent Loyalty and forward zeal on all occasions to serve his Majesty and Country were manifested by many brave and generous actions which as they made him to be honoured and esteemed by all when living made him also when dead generally lamented There were several Elegies made on his death deploring much the untimely loss of so great and valiant a Commander as he was the chiefest and best of which was made by Thomas Flatman which being his Master-piece he was nobly rewarded for his pains as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1688. p. 626. George Douglas Son of the Marquess of Douglas in Scotland lately an Officer of note in the Army under the K. of France now an Officer or Captain under the K. of Poland was created next after the Earl of Ossory Sir Nich. Armorer Kt Governour of Duncannon Castle with the territory adjoyning in Ireland The said three persons were presented by Dr. Hen. Deane of New Coll and created by the Vicechanc. with a little complemental Speech which being done and they conducted to their respective Seats among the Doctors Mr. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. the Dep. Orator did congratulate them with an accurate Speech in the name of the University Afterwards were created Masters of Arts certain Noblemen and persons of quality of this University as I have before told you among these Creations In the latter end of this year Joh. Jacob. Buxtorfius Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Basil became a Sojournour in this University for the sake of the Bodleian Vatican and continued there some months He was a learned man as by the things that he hath published appears An. Dom. 1667. An. 19. Car. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Edw. E. of Clar c. but he being accused of divers crimes in Parl which made him withdraw beyond the Seas he resigned his Chancellourship of the University by his Letter bearing date at Calis Dec. 7. Which being read in Convocation on the 20 of the same month the right reverend Father on God Dr. Gilbert Sheldon Archbishop of Canterbury was then elected into his place Vicechanc. the same viz. Joh. Fell D. D. Aug. 16. by the nomination of the E. of Clar. Proct. George Roberts of Mert. Coll. Apr. 17. Edw. Bernard of S. Johns Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Arts. May 21. Corbet Owen of Ch. Ch. May 21. George Walls of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1682. Jun. 27. Rob. Parsons of Vniv Coll. Jun. 27. Sam. Russell of Magd. Coll. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1670. July 4. Joh. Cudworth of Trin. Coll. July 4. Thom. Jekyll of Trin. Coll. Oct. 17. Tho. Crane of Brasn Coll. Of the first and last of these three you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1684 and among the Masters 1670. As for Thomas Jekyll he hath published several Sermons and other things and therefore he is to be remembred hereafter among the Oxford Writers Oct. 17. Maurice Wheeler of New Inn afterwards Chaplain or Petty Canon of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1670. Oct. 17. William Pindar of Vniv Coll. Oct. 17. Rich. Thompson of Vniv Coll. The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an 1670. The other who took no higher degree in this Univ I must mention here He was the Son of Rob. Thomps of Wakefield in Yorkshire was bred in Grammar learning there and thence sent to Vniv Coll. where he became a Scholar of the old foundation took one degree in Arts left it upon pretence of being unjustly put aside from a Fellowship there went to Cambridge took the degree of Master of Arts had Deacons orders confer'd on him and afterwards those of Priest which last he received from Dr. Fuller B. of Linc. in Hen. 7. Chap. at Westm 14 of March 1670. Being thus qualified he became Curat of Brington in Northamptonshire for Dr. Thomas Pierce who when made Dean of Salisbury an 1675 left that Living and took his Curat with him to that City and in 1676 he gave him a Prebend there and afterwards a Presentation to S. Maries in Marlborough in Wilts In
Majesty recommended to me by the L. Chief Just Hale as a person that hath been always truly loyal and was by reason thereof deprived of the Vicaridge of Kings Cleere in the usurped times c. One Hadrian Beverland who entitles himself Dominus Zelandiae became a Sojourner in Oxon this year for the sake of the public Library He was afterwards Doctor of the Law and a Publisher of prohibited obscene and profane books In the same year and before was a Student in Divinity in the said Library one Andreas Fredericus Forneretus of Lausanna in Switzerland who wrot and published Dissertatio Theologica de persona officio Christi mediatorio Oxon. 1673. qu. dedicated to Peter Bish of Bathe and Wells who was an encourager of his Studies An. Dom. 1673. An. 25 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde c. Vicechanc. Ralph Bathurst Doct. of Phys and Priest President of Trin. Coll. and Dean of Wells Oct. 3. Proct. Abrah Campion of Trin. Coll. Apr. 9. Nathaniel Salter of Wadh. Coll. Apr. 9. The senior of these two Proctors was elected and admitted while Proctor Moral Philos Professor in the place of Mr. Nath. Hodges 21 Nov. 1673. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 9. Thom. Mannyngham of New Coll. 10. John Hough of Magdalen Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. 30. Daniel Pratt of S. Joh. Coll. See among the Masters 1677. Jun. 28. Joh. Knight of New Inn. See among the Masters in 1675. Jul. 9. Charles Hutton of Trin. Coll. See also among the Masters in 1676. Jan. 17. Will. Howell of New Inn sometimes of Wadh. Coll. Mar. 23. Pet. Birch of Ch. Ch. See among the Doctors of Div. 1688. As for Mannyngham and Howell they have written and published several things and therefore they are to be remembred hereafter among the Writers Adm. 211. Bach. of Law Jul. 9. Joh. Jones of Jes Coll. Besides him were 9 more admitted of whom Charles Hales of Vniv Coll. was one son of Sir Edw. Hales of Kent Mast of Arts. Apr. 9. Tho. Cradock of Magd. Coll. He was elected Orator of the University on the resignation of Dr. Rob. South 10 of Nov. 1677 and dying 22 of March 1678 Will. Wyat of Ch. Ch. was elected into his place 26 March 1679. This I set down to carry on the Succession of Orators from Dr. South who is the last Orator mention'd in the printed Cat. of them in the 2 book of Hist Antiq Vniv Oxon. May 31. Rob. Cooper of Pemb. Coll. Jul. 1. Benj. Hoffman of Ball. Coll. The last of these two who was son of John Hoffman a German Rector of Wotton near Woodstock in Oxfordshire was afterwards Lecturer of S. George's Church in Botolph lane London and at length by the favour of Nottingham L. Chanc. of Engl he became Rector of a Church in Sussex He hath published Some considerations of present use wherein is shewn that the strong ought to bear with the weak and the weak not clamour against or censure the strong c. Delivered in a Sermon at S. George Botolph lane on Rom. 15.5.6.7 Lond. 1683. qu. Jul. 9. Rich. Forster of Brasn Coll. This Divine who was son of Clem. Forster of the City of Chester was afterwards Rector of Beckley in Sussex and author of Prerogative and Priviledge represented in a Sermon in the Cath. Church of Rochester in Kent 18 March 1683 at the Assizes holden there c. on Prov. 17.26 Lond. 1684. qu preached and published at the request of Archibald Clinkard Esq in the third year of his Shrievalty of Kent Oct. 15. Joh. Clerke of All 's Coll. This Gent who was son of Sir Franc. Clerke of Rochester and had been Proctor of the Univ. was afterwards Rector of Vlcomb and Haristsham in Kent and Author of A Sermon preached in the Cath. Ch. of Rochester on the 29 of May 1684 on 1 Cor. 10.10 Lond. 1684. qu. He died about 3 years after Nov. 4. Edw. Tyson of Magd. Hall Nov. 4. Gilb. Budgell of Trin. Coll. The last of these two was afterwards Rector of Simondsbury in Dorsetshire and Author of A Discourse of Prayer Sermon at S. Clem. Danes Lond. 28 July 1689 on Jam. 4.3 Lond. 1690. qu. Jan. 29. Jonathan Kimberley of Pemb. Coll. He was in the year following Junior of the Act and soon after a famed Preacher in the University which carried him to the Vicaridge of Trinity Church in the City of Coventry He hath published Of Obedience for conscience sake Sermon preached at the Assizes held at Warwick 7 Aug. 1633 on Rom. 13.5 Lond 1683. qu. Feb. 19. Tho. Stripling of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards one of the Chaplains of New Coll. and author of A Sermon preached before the Vniversity of Oxford on S. Andrews day Lond. 1681. qu. He died on the 6 of Mar. 1678 aged 27 years and was buried near the north end of the west Cloister of that Coll. Feb. 26. Joh. Okes of S. Maries Hall He was before of Oriel Coll and after this time became Vicar of Shinfield in Berks and Author of An Assize Sermon at Reading on Mark 12.19 Lond. 1681. qu. Adm. 117. Bach. of Div. Jul. 9. Rob. Feild of Trin. Coll. a Comp. Jul. 9. George Hooper of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these two you may see among the D. of D. following Mar. 23. Joh. March of S. Edm. Hall Adm. 5. Doct. of Law Apr. 19. Rob. Holte of Allsoules sometimes of Brasnose Coll. Doct. of Phys Jul. 11. Joh. Luffe of S. Maries Hall sometimes of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of Physick of this Univ. On the 3 of Oct. were the Chancellours Letters read in Convocation in behalf of Joh. Harford M. A. of S. Johns Coll that he might accumulate the degrees in Physick but whether he did so it appears not Doct. of Div. May 15. Thom. Tomkins of All 's Coll. a Comp. Jul. 8. Rob. Frampton of Ch. Ch. Dean of Gloc. 9. Nich. Stratford of Trin. Coll. Compounders 9. Rob. Feild of Trin. Coll. Compounders The first of these two was now Warden of the Coll. at Manchester and soon after Dean of S. Asaph and at length B. of Chester The other was Sub-dean of York to which he had been collated on the 3 of Sept. 1670 on the death of Dr. Anth. Elcocke and on the 27 of Apr. 1675 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Clievland on the death of Joh. Neile D. D. who was also Dean of Rippon and Preb. of York He died on the 9 of Sept. 1680 aged 42 years and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of York in that Chap. wherein his Patron and Benefactor Dr. Rich. Sterne Archb. of that place was afterwards buried In his Subdeanery succeeded George Tully M. A. of Qu. Coll. in this University and in his Archdeaconry Joh. Lake D. D. of Cambridge afterwards B. of the isse of Man c. Jan. 23. Will. Assht●n of Brasn Coll He had 9 Terms granted to him by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc.
to his own Country became a Professor and published Secalim and other Talmudical Authors in Hebrew and Latin An. Dom. 1677. An. 29 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde but he being made L. Lieut. of Ireland he did by his instrument dated 20 of Aug. delegate the Vicechanc. for the time being and certain Doctors to manage and execute in his absence the Powers and Jurisdiction belonging to him in the University Vicechanc. Joh. Nicholas D. D. Warden of New Coll nominated by the Vicechancellors Letters dated at Chester 16 Aug. confirmed by Convocation 8 Octob. Proct. Nathan Wight of Mert. Coll. Apr. 25. Rich. Warburton of Brasn Coll. Apr. 25. Bach. of Arts. May 3. Jo. Webb of Wadh. Coll. 10. Nich. Kendall of Exet. Coll. Of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1679. Jun. 26. Will. Coward of Wadh afterwards of Mert. Coll. See among the Doctors of Phys 1687. Jul. 4. Hugh Todd of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. Francis Digby of Qu. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards of Vniv Coll. and a Writer The other a Translator from the original Greek into English of the first four books of The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great Lond. 1685. oct written originally by that famous Philosopher Xenophon of Athens The other four books were translated by Joh. Norris M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. Jul. 19. Will. Davenant of Magd. Hall Oct. 16. Joh. Gilbert of Hart Hall Of both these you may see among the Masters an 1680. Oct. 16. Will. Talbot of Oriel Coll. Nov. 20. Thom. Williams of Jes Coll. 27. Thom. Walter of Jes Coll. Of these three you may see more among the Mast an 1680. Jan. 29. John Howell of Trin. Coll. Feb. 14. Obad. Dana of Trin. Coll. The first of these two I shall mention among the Masters an 1680. The other was afterwards a Monk among the English Benedictines at Doway Adm. 211. Bach. of Law Jun. 30. Rob. Woodward of New Coll. Jun. 30. Charles Morley of All 's Coll. Of the first of these two you may see more among the Doctors of Law an 1685. The other was afterwards Vicar General of the Spiritualities or Chancellour to the Bish of Winton by the favour of his great Uncle Dr. Morley Bishop thereof c. Aug. 2. James Astrey of Brasn Coll a Compounder In 1682 he became High Sheriff of his native County of Bedford where he enjoyeth Lands of antient Inheritance and in the beginning of 1683 one of the Masters in Chancery and in Nov. the same year a Knight This person who is now one of the Gent. of the Privy Chamber in ord to his Maj. K. Will. 3 hath augmented and corrected the third Edition of Glossarium Archaiologicum of Sir Henry Spelman and before it hath put a large Epistle of the Life Manners and Writings of the said Sir Henry Adm. 6. Mast of Arts. Apr. 7. Daniel Pratt of S. Joh. Coll. This person who was son of a father of both his names of London wrot as 't was generally reported The Life of the blessed S. Agnes Virgin and Martyr in Prose and Verse Lond. 1677. oct published under the name of L. Sherling He died in 1679 or thereabouts May 3. Joh. Kettlewell of Linc. Coll. 14. John Hutton of Queens Coll. The last of these two was installed Archdeacon of Stow 21 Feb. 1684 in the place of Byrom Eaton translated to the Archdeaconry of Leycester Jun. 16. Charles Allestree of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Vicar of Cassington in Oxfordsh and Author of A Sermon at Oxon before Sir Will. Walker Mayor of the said City 26 Jul. 1685 being the day of Thanksgiving for the defeat of the Rebels in Monmouths Rebellion on Judges the 5.51 Oxon. 1685. qu. Soon after he became Vicar of Great Budworth in Cheshire where he now lives He hath also made a Translation of one of the Lives Eumenes in Corn. Nepos Oxon. 1684. oct Jun. 26. Joh. Caswell of Wadh. Coll. afterwards of Hart Hall He hath written A brief but full account of the doctrine of Trigonometry both plain and spherical Lond. 1689. in 4 sh in fol at the end of Dr. Jo. Wallis his Treatise of Algebra Jul. 3. Sam. Synge of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was eldest son of Dr. Edw. Synge Bishop of Cloyne Cork and Ross and in the year 1681 he was Dean of Kildare Oct. 16. Will. Guise of All 's Coll. Oct. 16. Andrew Allam of S. Edm. Hall Dec. 13. Villiers Bathurst of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Judge Advocate of the Navy Jan. 17. Thom. Baker of All 's Coll lately of Magd. Hall He was Author of The head of Nile or the turnings and windings of the Factious since sixty in a Dialogue between Whigg and Barnaby Lond. 1681. in 6 sh in qu. He is now Rector of Haritsham in Kent in the place of Mr. Joh. Clerke deceased whom I have mentioned among the Masters in these Fasti an 1673. Adm. 134. Bach. of Phys But two were admitted one of which was Ch. Twysden as I shall tell you among the Doct. of Phys this year Bach. of Div. May 22. Bapt. Levinz of Magd. Coll. Jun. 22. Edw. Waple of S. Joh. Coll. The last of these two became by the favour of Dr. Mews Bish of B. and Wells Prebendary a golden Preb. of the Church of Wells on the death of Dr Grindal Sheaf in May 1680 and Archdeacon of Taunton with the Preb. of Kilverton prima in the said Ch. of Wells annexed to it on the death of Dr. Will. Piers In which Archdeaconry he was installed 22 Apr. 1682. Soon after he was made Vicar of S. Sepulchers Church in London on the death of Dr. Will. Bell. Jul. 3. Thom. Staynoe of Trin. Coll. Jul. 3. Thom. Sykes of Trin. Coll. The first of these two is now a Minister in London hath published two Sermons and may hereafter publish more or at least other things The other was elected Margaret Professor of the Univ. of Oxon 6 Nov. 1691 on the sudden death of Dr. Hen. Maurice of Jesus Coll who had been elected thereunto upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Hall to the See of Bristow on the 18 of July the same year He the said Mr. Sykes was admitted Doctor of his faculty 12 May 1692. Doct. of Law Jul. 21. Joh. Jones of Jesus Coll. On the 13 June 1678 he was licensed to practice Physick which afterwards he did at Windsore and hath since published one or more books of that faculty and therefore he is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxf. Writers Nov. 20. Joh. Irish of All 's Coll. 27. Charles Trumbull of All 's Coll. Jan. 17. Joh. Clotterbuck of All 's Coll. Doct. of Phys May 22. Charles Twysden of Ch. Ch. an Accumulator and Compounder This person who had spent several years in foreign parts was son of Sir Rog. Twysden of Kent and Nephew to Judge Tho. Twysden Jan. 17. Will. Coker of All 's Coll. Doct. of Div. Jun. 30. Steph. Philipps of Brasn
oct Dedic to Sir Joh. Micklethwait President of the Coll. of Physitians a Yorkshire man born and bred in the same School with Dr. Wittie 4 Pyrologia Mimica or an answer to Hydrologia Chymica of Will Sympson in defence of Scarborough Spaw Wherein the five mineral principles of the said Spaw are defended against all his objections c. Lond. 1669. oct with which is printed 5 A vindication of the rational method and practice of Physick called Galenical and a reconciliation between that and Chimical As also 6 A further discourse about the original of Springs Besides the answer of Dr. Will. Sympson made to the aforesaid book called Scarborough Spaw came out another answer entit Scarborough Spaw spagirically anatomized together with a New years-gift for Dr. Wittie Lond. 1672. oct written by George Tonstall Doct. of Phys sometimes Bach. of Phys of Magd. Hall in Oxon as I have told you in these Fasti p. 741. Dr. Wittie hath also written 7 Gout raptures or an historical fiction of a War among the stars wherein are mention'd the 7 planets the 12 signs of the Zodiack and the 50 constellations of Heaven mention'd by the Antients c. Lond. 1677 oct written in vers 8 A survey of the Heavens a plain description of the admirable fabrick and motions of heavenly bodies as they are discovered to the eye by the Telescope and several eminent consequences illustrated thereby 1. The infinite wisdom c. of God in the Creation 2. The verifying c. Lond. 1680. 81. oct To which is added the Gout raptures in English Latine and Greek Lyrick verse by the author Dr. Wittie who hath also done another work mention'd in the first vol. of this book in the Fasti an 1628. p. 864. This Dr. Wittie who was always esteemed an ingenious and learned man was Fellow of the Coll. of Phys at London had practised Physick for 18 years together with Dr. James Primerose at Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and after the said Primerose's death carried on his practice there and in the neighbourhood for several years after with good success At length retiring to Lond●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
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. 16●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
resignation of Mr. Steph. Penton 15 Mar. 1683 and admitted thereunto on the 4 of Apr. following but he being outed thence for several reasons notwithstanding he had been re-elected by the majority of the Fellows of his Coll Dr. John Mill of the said Coll. was elected and adm in his place 5 May 1685. These things I set down purposely to carry on the succession of the Principals of S. Edm. Hall a printed Cat. of which to Dr. Thom. Tully you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. Feb. 6. Rob. Harsnett of Ch. Ch. Feb. 6. Charl. Hickman of Ch. Ch. 23. John Willes of Trin. Coll. Incorporations Thirteen Masters of the University of Cambridge were incorporated after the Act time but not one of them is a Writer as I can yet find Jun. 9. Joh. Chrysostom du Charoll M. A. of Avignion who had taken that degree there in 1669 was incorporated by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he had served in his Maj. Chap. royal as one of the daily Chaplains for 7 or eight years past c. Jul. 9. Bartholdus Holtzfus a Native of Pomerania and a Master of Arts of Frankfurt upon the Order in the Marquisate of Brandeburg was incorporated also by vertue of the said Letters which tell us that he was sent to the Vniversity of Oxon to study by his Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandeburg c. 14. Thom. Fryer Doct. of Phys of Pemb. Hall in Cambr. was incorporated as he had stood there after the Act time He was as it seems honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys Creations Sept. 1. Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of Engl. c. was with solemnity created Doctor of the Civil Law after he had been presented with an encomiastical Speech by Dr. Rob. Plot Professor of Nat. History and Chymistry This person who was afterwards Knight of the most honorable Order of the Garter and L. Lieutenant of Berks Norfolk Surrey and the City of Norwich I have mentioned among the Creations under the year 1668. An. Dom. 1685. An. 1 Jac. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormonde Vicechanc. Dr. Timothy Halton Provost of Queens Coll. Oct. 6. Proct. Will. Breach of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Tho. Smith of Brasn Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 17. Francis Willis of New Coll. Jul. 9. Franc. Hickman of Ch. Ch. a Compounder Oct. 27. Philip Bertie of Trin. Coll. Oct. 27. Dav. Jones of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last is a younger son to Robert E. of Lindsey L. High Chamberlaine of England c. The other is a frequent Preacher in London and a Publisher of several Sermons Dec. 8. Will. King of Ch. Ch. a Comp. Adm. 167. Bach. of Law Five were admitted of whom Matthew Bryan of Magd. Hall was one Jul. 10. See among the Doctors of Law following Mast of Arts. Novemb. 24. John Glanvill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 17. Leop. William Finch of All 's Coll. The last of these two was elected Warden of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Tho. James deceased by vertue of a Mandamus from King Jam. 2 on the 21 of January 1686. Adm. 90. Bach. of Phys Six were admitted of whom Wilhelm Musgrave of New Coll. was one Dec. 8. lately admitted Bach. of the Civil Law Bach. of Div. July 7. Luke Beaulieu of Ch. Ch. This Divine was born in France educated for a time in the Univ. of Samur there came into England upon account of Religion 18 years or more before this time exercised his ministerial function was naturaliz'd made Divinity Reader in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore was a Student in this University for the sake of the public Library 1680 and after became Chaplain to Sir George Jeffreys L. Ch. Justice of England Rector of Whitchurch in the dioc of Oxon an 1685 and by his published Writings did usefully assert the Rights of his Majesty and Church of England This person who is called by some Dean Beaulieu who hath written several things in French and English chiefly against Popery is hereafter to be numbred among the Oxford Writers July 9. John Scot of New Inn. This learned Divine who is not yet mentioned in these Fasti because he took no degree in Arts or in any other faculty hath published divers books of Divinity some of which were against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam. 2. and therefore he is hereafter to crave a place among the Oxford Writers 11. Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. a Comp. Adm. 12. Doct. of Law May 5. John Rudston of S. Joh. Coll. a Comp. Jul. 7. Rob. Woodward of New Coll. Jul. 7. Rich. Traffles of New Coll. The first of these two who was a Compounder became Archdeacon of Wilts upon the resignation of Mr. Seth Ward in Nov. 1681 Chanc. of the Dioc. of Salisbury upon the death of Sir Edw. Low in June 1684 Rector of Pewsie in Wilts on the death of Dr. Rich. Watson in Jan. the same year Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of the said Mr. S. Ward in Jan. 1686 Dean of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Pierce in Apr. 1691. c. July 7. Joh. Gibbs of All 's Coll. July 7. Steph. Waller of New Coll. July 7. Matth. Tindall of All 's Coll. July 7. Matth. Morgan of S. Joh. Coll. 10 Edm. Evans of Jes Coll. 10 Matth. Bryan of Magd. Hall The last of these two is a Divine and Non-Juror hath one or more Sermons and A perswasive to the stricter observance of the Lords day c. extant See in the first vol. of Athenae Oxon. p. 513. July 11. Ralph Bohun of New Coll. He hath written A discourse concerning the origine and properties of wind c. and may hereafter publish other books Doct. of Phys July 7. Steph. Fry of Trin. Coll. 9. Robert Conny of Magd. Coll. 10. Sam. Kimberley of Pemb. Coll. The last accumulated the degrees in Phys Doct. of Div. Jun. 26. Joh. Venn of Ball. Coll. Jun. 26. Thom. Dixon of Qu. Coll. The first of these two had been elected Master of his Coll on the death of Dr. Tho. Good 24 Apr. 1678. July 3. Fitzherbert Adams of Linc. Coll. July 3. Will. Johnson of Queens Coll. The first of these two was elected Rector of his Coll. in the place of Dr. Thom. Marshall deceased May 2. this year and was afterwards Prebendary of Durham July 4. Constant Jessop of Magd. Coll. a Comp. 9. Joh. Scott of New Inn He accumulated the degrees in Div. 11 Will. Beach of Ball. Coll. Comp. 11 Henry Godolphin of All 's Coll. Comp. The first of these two who hath published one or more books is now a Non-Juror The other Fell. of Eaton and can resid of S. Pauls c. Nov. 3. Will. Bernard of Merton Coll. Incorporations The Act being put off this year no Cambridge Masters or others were incorporated only one in the degree of Master July 9. Creations Apr. 29. Michael Morstin a Polonian Son of John Andr. Morstin
May 14. Jacob. Sartreus Mast of Arts of the Univ. of Puy-Laurence in Languedock He is now Prebendary of Westminster in which Dignity he succeeded if I mistake not Dr. George Stradling 21. Henry Dodwell M. of Arts of the Univ. of Dublin who had been generously elected by the University of Oxford Camden's Professor of History in his absence and without his privity after the death of Dr. Joh. Lamphire on the 2 Apr. this year was then May 21. incorporated in the same degree This learned person who was the Son of Will. Dodwell of Ireland Son of Hen. Dodwell of the City of Oxon Son of William supposed to be Brother to Alderman Hen. Dodwell Mayor of the said City in the 34. of Q. Eliz. dom 1592 was born in the Parish of S. Warburgh commonly called S. Warborough within the City of Dublin in the beginning of the grand rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom in Octob. 1641 educated in Grammar learning under Christopher Wallis in the Free-school situated in the Bederew within the City of York from 1649 to 1654 and afterwards for a years time in Dublin entred a Student in Trin. Coll. there an 1656 and when Bach. of Arts was made Fellow thereof After he had proceeded in that faculty he left his Fellowship to avoid entring into holy Orders and in 1666 I find him a Sojournour in Oxon purposely to advance himself in learning by the use of the publick Library Thence he return'd to his native Country for a time and published a posthumous book ent De obstinatione Opus posth pietatem Christiano-stoicam Scholastico more suadens Dubl 1672 oct Before which book written by his sometimes Tutor named Joh. Stearne M. D. and publ Professor in the University of Dublin Mr. Dodwell put of his own composition Prolegomena Apolegetica de usu Dogmatum Philosophicorum c. In the beginning of this book is Dr. Stearne's Epitaph without date insculp'd on a marble on the north side of the Altar in Trin. Coll. Chappel near Dublin part of which is this Philosophus Medicus summusque Theologus idem Sternius hic c. Afterwards Mr. Dodwell returned into England spent his time there in divers places in a most studious and retired condition and wrot and published these books following 1 Two letters of advice 1. For the susception of holy orders 2. For studies Theological c. Printed at Dubl first and afterwards twice at Lond. in oct At the end of the first letter is added A Catalogue of Christian Writers and genuine works that are extant of the first three Centuries And to both in the 2d and 3d edit is added A discourse concerning Sanchoniathans Phoenician History 2 Considerations of present concern how far the Romanists may be trusted by Princes of another Communion Lond. in oct 3 Two short discourses against the Romanists 1. An account of the fundamental principles of Popery and of the insufficiency of the proofs which they have for it 2. An answer to 6 Queries proposed to a Gentlewoman of the Ch. of England by an Emissary of the Church of Rome Lond. 1676. oct To another edition of this which came out at Lond. in 1689 in qu. was added by the author A preface relating to the Bishop of Meaux and other modern complaints of misrepresentation 4 Separation of Churches from Episcopal government as practiced by the present Non-conformists proved Schismatical from such principles as are least controverted and do withal most popularly explain the sinfulness and mischief of Schisme Lond. 1679. qu. In this Treatise the sin against the Holy Ghost the sin unto death and other difficult Scriptures are occasionally discoursed of and some useful rules are given for explication of Scripture 5 A reply to Mr. Baxters pretended confutation of a book entit Separation of Churches from Episcopal government c. Lond. 1681. oct To which are added Three Letters written to him in the year 1673 Concerning the possibility of discipline under a diocesan government which tho relating to the subject of most of his late books have never yet been answered 6 A discourse concerning the one Altar and the one Priesthood insisted on by the Ancients in their disputes against Schisme c. Being a just account concerning the true nature and principles of Schisme according to the Ancients Lond. 1682. 3. oct 7 Dissertationes Cypriniac●e There were two editions of these viz. one in fol. at the end of S. Cyprians works published by Dr. Joh. Fell B. of Oxon an 1682 and another in oct printed in Sheldons Theater 1684 purposely for the sake of such Scholars who could not spare money to buy those in fol. which were to go and were always bound with S. Cyprians works before mention'd 8 Dissertatio de Ripa Striga ad Lanctant de morte Persecutorum Printed at the end of Lanctantius Firm. his works with commentaries on them made by Thomas Spark M. A. of Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1684. oct 9 De jure Laicorum sacerdotali c. This book which is written against Hug. Grotius was printed at Lond. in oct at the end of a piece of that author entit De Caenae administratione ubi Pastores non sunt c. Much about which time was published Antidodwellisme being two curious tracts formerly written by Hug. Grotius concerning a solution of these two questions 1. Whether the Eucharist may be administred in the absence of or want of Pastors c. Made English by one who calls himself Philaratus 10 Additiones dissertatio singularis in the Opera posthuma chronologica of the famous Dr. Jo Pearson sometimes Bish of Chester Lond. 1687-8 in qu. 11 Dissertationes in Irenaeum Oxon. è Theat Sheldon 1689. oct To which is added a Fragment of Phil. Sideta de Catechistatum Alexandrinorum successione with notes Besides these books the author now in the prime of his years designs others which in good time may be made extant for the benefit of the Church of Engl. for which he hath a zealous respect and commonwealth of learning His universal knowledge and profound judgment in all sciences and books has rendred him famous amongst all the learned men of France and Italy and the great sanctity and severity of his life has gain'd him a veneration very peculiar and distinguishing among all sorts of people His greatest study has been to assert the honour and interest of religion and the Clergy and his writings in defence of the Church of England against Papists and Presbyterians have been esteemed perfect pieces in their kind But notwithstanding all this the Reader may be pleased to know that whereas he suffered much in his Estate in his native Country for not coming in and taking part with the Forces of K. Jam. 2 when they endeavoured to keep possession of Ireland against K. Will. 3. and his Forces an 1689 c. for which he was proclaimed Rebel Or had he been there as he was not they would have imprison'd him if not worse so soon after did
he suffer in England where he then was for keeping close and adhering to the oathes of allegiance which he had taken to the said K. Jam. 2 by being deprived of the Professorship of History founded by the learned Camden to the great prejudice of learning He lives now obscurely mostly in his Cell in the north suburb of Oxon and is preparing his learned Lectures and several useful discourses for the press An. Dom. 1689. An. 1. Will. 3. An. 1. Qu. Mary Chanc. The most Illustrious Prince James Boteler Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Brecknock and Ossory Viscount Thorles Baron of Lanthony and Arclo chief Butler of Ireland Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary Gent. of the Bedchamber to his Majesty Chancellour of the University of Dublin and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Vicechanc. Jonathan Edwards D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll Sept. 25. Proct. Will. Cradocke of Magd. Coll. Ap. 10. Thom. Newey of Ch. Church Ap. 10. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 10. Thom. Fletcher of New Coll. He hath lately published Poems on several occasions and Translations c. 20. Albemarle Bertie of Vniv Coll. a younger Son of Robert Earl of Lindsey c. Adm. 145. Bach. of Law Two were admitted but not one yet a Writer Mast of Arts. May 30. Francis Willis of New Coll. June 6. Edw. Hannes of Ch. Ch. July 4. Geo. Smalridge of Ch. Ch. Adm. 77. Bach. of Phys Five were admitted but not one of them is yet a Writer Bach. of Div. July 5. Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. July 5. Tho. Benet of Vniv Coll. The last was 〈…〉 Master of his Coll upon the death of Dr. Edw. Ferrar 〈…〉 and died there 12 of May 1692. Oct. 31. 〈…〉 Wadham Coll. Adm. 10. ☞ Not on● 〈…〉 was admitted this year 〈◊〉 of Phys July 3. 〈…〉 Joh. Coll. July 3. 〈…〉 Mert. Coll. 5. Francis 〈…〉 Coll. 6. Wilhelm 〈…〉 Coll. Doct. of Div. July 4. Will. Harris of New Coll. He accumulated the degrees in Div. 5. Rich. Annesley of Magd. Coll. a Comp. This person who was a younger Son of Arthur Earl of Anglesie was now Preb. of Westminster and Dean of Exeter which last Dignity he obtained on the death of Dr. George Cary in the beginning of Febr. 1680 and Cary on the promotion of Dr. Seth Ward to the Episc See of Exeter July 5. Zacheus Isham of Ch. Ch. Compound July 5. William Wake of Ch. Ch. Compound The first of these two is now Canon of Canterbury and the last who accumulated the degrees in Div was installed Canon of his house in the place of Dr. Hen. Aldrich promoted to the Deanery thereof 20. June 1689. July 5. Joh. James of Ch. Ch. July 5. Edw. Ferrar of Vniv Coll. The first of these two became Chanc. of the Church of Exeter in the place of Dr. Joh. Copleston deceased an 1689 The other was elected Master of his Coll. upon the removal of Mr. Obadiah Walker for being a Roman Catholick on the 15 of Feb. 1688. He died suddenly in his Lodgings in Vniv Coll. 13. Feb. 1690 whereupon Mr. Tho. Benet Rector of Winwick in Lanc. was elected into his place as I have before told you among the Bach. of Div. Incorporations The Act being now the fifth time put off not one Cambr. Master was incorporated at that time June 21. Joh. Deffray a French Protestant M. of A. of Samur He was lately forced out of his Country upon account of Religion July 4. Rich. Bentley M. A. of Cambr. This Divine who was of S. Johns Coll. in that University was now and after a Master-Com of Wadham Coll and afterwards domestick Chaplain to Edward L. Bishop of Worcester and author of 1 The folly of Atheisme and what is now called Deism even with respect to the present life Sermon preached in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields 7. March 1691 on Psal 14.1 being the first lecture founded by the honorable Rob. Boyle Esq Lond. 1692. qu. 2 Matter and motion cannot think or a confutation of Atheism from the faculties of the Soul Serm. preached at S. Mary-le-Bow 4. Apr. 1692 being the second Lecture founded by the hon Rob. Boyle Esq on Acts 17.27 Lond. 1692. qu. He hath also extant a Latin Epist to John Mill D.D. containing some Critical observations relating to Johan Malala a Greek Historiographer published at the end of that author at Oxon. 1691. in a large oct The said Mr. Bentley who is a Yorkshire man born designs to publish other things Creations June 15. Joh. Mesnard was actually created Doct. of Div. by vertue of the Chancellours Letters which say that he had been 16 years Minister of the reformed Church of Paris at Charenton and afterwards Chaplain to his Majesty K. Will. 3. when he was Prince of Orange for some years in which quality he came with him into England that he has his Majesties warrant to succeed Dr. Is Vossius in his Prebendary of Windsore c. Feb. 26. George Walker an Irish Minister lately Governor of London-Derry and the stout Defender of it against the Forces under the command of K. Jam. 2. when they besieged it in Apr. May. c. this year was after he had been presented by the Kings Professor of Divinity actually created Doct. of that faculty He was born of English Parents in the County of Tyrone as 't is said educated in the University of Glascow and afterwards beneficed at Dungannon many miles distant from the City London-Derry To which place retiring when the Protestants therein and in those parts were resolv'd to keep and defend it against Richard Earl of Tirconnel Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Forces under K. Jam. 2 he became a Defendant therein and at length Governour of it which he managed with great prudence and valour After the siege was raised and that part of the Country secured from the incursions of the said Forces he went into England to pay his respects to K. Will. 3 who receiving him graciously was highly caress'd by the Courtiers and afterwards by the Citizens of London at which time the common discourse was that Dr. Hopkins Bishop of London-Derry should be translated to Chichester and Mr. Walker succeed him in Derry He hath published A true account of the siege and famous defence made at London-Derry Lond. 1689. qu. c. 2 Vindication of the true account c. Ibid. 1689. qu. c. Afterwards being about to return to Ireland to do further service therein for his Majesty he obtained the Letters of the Chancellour of the University to have the degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him so that taking Oxford in his way in the company of Dr. Joseph Veasey Archb. of Tuam he was created as before I have told you Thence he went into Ireland where having a command confer'd on him in the English Army he received his deaths wound in the very beginning of July an 1690 at what time the said Army passed over
his Gangraena (b) Ibid. in Gangr edit 1646. p. 78. (c) Vide Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. sub an 1646. 1654. 1654. (a) Reg. Matric Univ. Ox. PP fol. 22. b. (b) Memorials of Engl. Affaires under the 1648. p. 359. a. 1654 1654. (a) Sir Joh. Suckling in his Fragmenta aurea or Poems Lond. 1648. in oct p. 7. (b) See in Pet. Heylyns book intit The History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Canterbury lib. 4. sub an 1636. (c) Ibid. (d) In Aist Antiq. Vniv Oxon. lib. 1. p. 30.31 1654. (a) See Mr. R. Baxter's book intit Additional notes on the life and death of Sir Math. Hale Lond. 1682. in oct p. 40. 1654. 1654. (*) Edw. Knott Jesuit went sometimes by the name of Nich-Smith Quaere Clar. 1654 Clar. 1654. Clar. 1654. Clar. 1654. (*) Vide in Append. illustrium Angliae scriptorum per Jo. Pitseum cent 4. nu 9. (*) The Wife of Sir Will. Bourman Clerk of the Greencloth to K. Ch. 2. 1655. 1655. 1655. (a) T. B. in the pref to The right Government of the thoughts c. (b) Tho. Case in his pref to The morning exercise or some short notes c. 1655. 1655. 1655. 1655. (a) Camd. in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1622. (b) See in Romes Master-peece c. publish'd by W. Prynne 1643. p. 19.20 (c) 'T was the word that he often used in company (d) 'T was his custome always to be whispering in company (e) Joh. Gee in a Cat. of Popish Books at the end of his Book called The foot out of the snare 1655. (f) Pastor vigilantiss doctrina pietate insignis c. So Fred. Lossius a Physician of Dorchester in his Observationes Medicinales Lond. 1672. oct lib. 2. observat 7. p. 121. 1655. 1655. Clar 1655. Clar. 1655. (a) See in the Rehearsal transpros'd written by Andr. Marvell pr. 1672. p. 175. (b) Dr. Jo. Pearson B. of Chester in his Preface to Jo. Hales his Remaines (c) Pet. Heylyn in his Life and death of Dr. W. Laud Archb. of Cant. under the year 1638. (d) Sir Joh. Suckling in his Fragm aurea or Poems Lond. 1648. p. 10. (e) Lucius Lord Falkland (f) Sam. Parker in his Reproof to the Rehearsal transpros'd p. 135. (g) Pet. Heylyn as before an 1638. (h) Printed at Lond. 1677. oct 1656 1656. 1656. 1656. 1656. (*) This Rule of Proportion in Arithm. and Geometry was rectified by Mr ..... Browne and Mr. Jam. Atkinson Teachers of the Mathematicks pr. at Lond. 1683. in tw 1656. 1656. Clar. 1656. Clar. 1656. 1657. 1657. 1657. (*) See Baconica or the Lord Bacons Remaines Lond. 1679. in oct p. 26.27 1657. (†) In Canterburies Doome p. 75. c. 1657. 1657. 1657. (*) Reg. Visit p. 182.194 1657. (*) Appollonia the Wife of one Calverley of Pewter-street in Westminster 1657. 1657. (*) Br. Ryves in his Merc. Rusticus printed 1647. p. 212. 1657 8. 1657 8. (a) Th. Fuller in his Worthies of England in Cumberland followed without acknowledgment by his Plagiary David Lloyd in his Memoires c. p. 518. (b) See his Divine purity defended chap. 6. p. 53. (c) ibid p. 54. 1657 8. Clar. 1657. Clar. 1657. (*) Reg. Matric P. P. fol. 24. b. 1658. 1658. 1658. 1658. 1658. (*) Second Narrative of the late Parliament so called c. printed 1658. p. 17. 1658 9. (a) In lib. 2. Asfaniarum (b) Vide Hist antiq Vniv Oxon. lib. 2. p. 334. 1658 9. 1659. 1659. 1659. 1659. 1659. (*) Rome is a piece of Land so called near to the end of the walk called Non ultra on the north side of Oxon. 1659. 1659. 1659. 1659 60. 1659 60. 1659 60. Clar. 1659. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660. 1660 1661. 1661. 1661. 1661. 1661. (*) Serenus Cressy in his Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Cath. Ch. by Dr. Stillingfleet printed 1672 p. 13. 1661. 1661. (*) Reg. Matric P. pag. 436. 1661. 1661 2. Clar. 1661. (*) Ben. Woodbridge in his Pref. to his Justification by Faith Clar. 1661. Clar. 1661. (†) Pat. 14. Car. 1. p. 19. 1662. 1662. (†) Persecutio undecima Printed 1648. p. 103. (*) Bulstr Whitlock in his Memorials of English Affairs an 1642. p. 60. b. (a) Arth. Wilson in his Hist of Great Britain c. an 1621. p. 162. 1662. (b) Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal transpros'd c. Lond. 1672. pag. 299. (c) Will. Prynne in Canterburies Doom p. 245. 1662. (d) In lib. 3. sub an 1627. (e) See more in Canterburies Doom written by Will. Prynne p. 386. Also in Dr. Heylyns Life of Archb. Laud. lib. 3. p. 210. (*) See a book intit Several conferences between a Rom. Priest a Fanatick Chaplain and a Divine of the Church of England c. in answer to Th. Goddens Dialogues Lond. 1679. oct written by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet (†) See in Will. Sandersons book entit Post-hast A reply to Peters Dr. Heylyns appendix to his treatise entit Respondet Petrus c. Lond. 1658 qu p. 13. (a) See Dr. Pet. Heylyns Life written by Joh. Barnard D. D. Lond. 1683. p. 224.225 (b) See in the pref to the reader before a book entit A justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen c. written by Hen. Hickman also in the said life written by Dr. Barnard p. 237. (c) The Author here means the Appendix to Resp Petrus (d) This hath no Appendix and therefore the Author Sanderson is mistaken being it self an Append. to Examen Historicum or advertisements on three Histories 1660. (a) Rich. Moore a Nonconformist Minister living at Wetherock hill in Worcestershire (b) Tho. Fuller in his Worthies of England in Yorksh. 1662. 1662. 1662. 1662. 1662. (*) Printed at Gronning an 1651. qu. (*) Tho. Tany Goldsmith who by the Lords voice that he heard changed his name from Thomas to Theauraw John Tany on the 23. of Nov. 1649 living then at the Three Golden Keys without Temple-bar London He was then and before a blasphemous Jew (a) Edit Groning an 1654. in qu. (b) Edit Amstel 1654 in qu. 1662. (c) Joannis Biddelli Angli Acad. Oxoniensis quondam Artium Magistri celeberrimi vita Lond. 1682. in 3. sh and an half in oct The Author of which was as I have been informed for there is no name set to it one Joh. Farrington J C T. of the Inner Temple (d) Jam. Heath in his Brief Chron. of the late intestine war c. in the latter end of the year 1654. (e) The said Will. Lenthall died on the 28. June 1497. 12. Hen. 7. and was buried in the South Isle joyning to the body of the Church of Great Haseley in Com. Oxon. (f) So John Leland in his Second Vol. of Itineraries p. 8. but in a Visitation book of Oxfordshire made by one of the Heralds I find that Will. Lenthall of Lachford married Catherine Dau. of John Badby by Jane his Wife Daugh. and Heir of Rich. Pyperd (g) Ibid. in 2. Vol.
c. Vindiciae Lond. 1669. cap. 28. p. 332. (c) Qui scripsit Historiam motuum nuperorum in Scotia (d) Qui Gallicè scripsit De rebus Anglicis (e) Lib. 2. p. 354. 1669. 1669. 1669. 1669. (a) In reg Pile in the Will. Office near S. Pauls Cath. Lond Qu. 52. (b) Francis Rous or Will. Barton (c) See in the Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. Vshers life printed 1686. nu 265. 1669. 1669. (a) In his Life of William Archb. of Cant. part 1. lib. 3. an 1632. (b) Bulst Whit●ock in his Memorials of English Affairs under the year 1632. (c) In the Life of William c. as before part 1. lib. 4. (d) See Prynne's book intit A new discovery of the Prelates Tyranny p. 141. and elsewhere (*) Will. Noy of Linc. Inn Attorn Gen. (a) In Merc. Pol. nu 7. (b) Ser. Cressy in his Church Hist of Britanny book 14. chap. 4. p. 321. (c) See also in Prynne's Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. part 1. p. 10. (d) Th●m Fuller in his Ch. Hist lib. 3. sect 40. (e) In A new discovery of the Prelates Tyranny p. 1. (*) George Gillespie as it seems 1669. (a) Clem. Walker in his Hist of Independency pr. 1649. sect 12. p. 32. 1669. (b) Lud. Molinaeus in Patron bonae fidei in cap. cui tit est Specimen contra Durelium p. 19. alii 1669. (c) Reg. Convoc T. ad finem p. 7. 1669. 166● 70. 1669 70. 1669 70. Clar. 1669. (*) See in the second part of Hudibras Lond. 1674. Cant. 3. p. 352. and in the annotations at the end p. 408. Clar. 1669. (a) Lewis Burnet a Scot M. A. of Aberdene lately a Reader in S. Mart. Ch. in the Fields within the liberty of Westm 1670. 1670. (*) In a Journal-book of the Royal Society MS. 1670. 1670. 1670. 1670. (a) Lib. vel reg Matric PP fol. 295. a. (b) Merc. Aul. in the 33 week an 1644. p. 1123. (c) The same author in the thirtieth week ending July 27. an 1644. p. 1095. 1670. (*) See in a book intit A short view of the late troubles in England Oxon. 1681. fol. Written by Sir Will. Dugdale p. 567. (†) Fred. Lossius Medic. Dorchest in Observat medicinalib Lond. 1672 oct lib. 1. observat 8. 1670. (a) Edw. Bagshaw as 't is reported pag. 106. (b) Alex. Griffith p. 1.2 (c) Ib. in E. Bagshaw (d) pag. 2. (d) In the Account of his Conversion and Ministry p. 11. (e) Strena Vav p. 3. (f) Ibid. See also in Merc. Cambro-Britannus or News from Wales touching the miraculous propagation of the Gospel there c. Lond. 1652. (g) So in his Life before quoted p. 107. (h) Strena p. 5. (i) Hen. Jessey in his book intit The Lords loud Call to England c. printed 1660. p. 13. 1670. 1670. 1670. 1670. 1671. 167● 1671. 1671. (a) Tho. Fuller in his Church Hist Lib. 10. Sect. 17.18 c. (b) See in Dr. Jo. Durells book entit Vindiciae Eccles Angl. Cap. 3. p. 33. 1671. 1671. 1671. 1671. 1671 1671. (a) Rich. Baxter in his Apology for Nonconformist Ministers p. 162. (b) In his Second admonition to Mr. Bagshaw Printed 1671. in oct p. 151. (c) See Mr. Baxters pref to his Second admonition to Mr. Edw. Bagshaw Pr. 1671. oct p. 11. 1671. 1671 2. 1671 2. 1672. (a) In Dr. Jo. Hinkley's book entit Fasciculus Literarum c. Lond. 1680. oct p. 34. 1672. 1672. 1672. (b) Merc. Aul. in Oct. 1643. p. 610. 1672. (a) See in The Hist of the Royal Society c. Lond. 1667. qu. Written by Tho. Sprat part 2. (b) In The life and death of Sir Mat. Hale Knight c. Lond. 1682. in a large oct p. 69. 1672. 1672. (a) In Hist Antiq. Vniv Oxon lib. 1. p. 335. 1672. 1672. 1672 3. 167● 3. 1673. (a) James Wadsworth in his book called The English Spanish Pilgr●m printed at Lond. the sec time 1630 qu. p. 13. (b) In his Pref. to Infidelity unmask'd 1673. (c) Reg. Convoc Un. Ox. S. p. 33. 1673. 1673. 1673. (d) Dr. Charles Goodall in his second pref in his Historical account of the Colleges proceeding against Empricks added to The Royal Coll. of Physitians of London founded and established by Law c. Lond. 1684. qu. (e) Ibid. 1673. 1673. (f) Mirabilis annus secundus or the second part of the second years p●●digies c. Printed 1662. in qu. pag. 49. 1673 1673 4. (a) Pref. to his Exomologesis (b) Edw. E. of Clar. in his book entit Animadversions on a book entit Fanaticisme fanatically imputed c. (c) The author of Legenda Lignea with an answer to the Moderator chap. 36. (d) Ser. Cressy in his Epistle Apologet. to a person of honour c. Sect. 5. p. 47. (e) Dan. Whitby in his Pref. to A reply to what S.C. hath returned to Dr. Pierces Sermon Lond. 1664. (*) The Christian Moderator Lond. 1652. sec edit pen'd by John Austen sometimes of Cambr. 1674. 1674. 1674. (a) Bulst Whitlock in his Memorials of English affairs in the month of June 1650 p. 444. a. (b) Ibid. p. 442. b. in June 1650. (c) Wiltshire Visitation book in the Heralds Office fol. 118. 1674. 1674. (*) Gesta cancellariatus Un. Ox. Gul. Laud p. 76. 1674. (a) Hen. Stubbe in his Campanella revived p. 21. 1674 5. (b) Edit Oxon. 1653. qu. (c) Ed. Ox. 1655. oct (d) See in the Epist to the reader set before Bibliotheca Smithiana c. Pr. at Lond. 1682. qu. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. 1675. (a) Reg. Matric PP fol. 127. a. 1675. (a) Edit Lond. 1655. qu. (b) Ibid. 1658. qu. (*) Lew. du Moul●n in his Account of several advances the Ch. of Engl. hath made towards Rome p. 31. 1675 6. 1675 6. (c) Reg. Matric P P. fol. 93. a. (d) See in a book entit Mirabilis annus secundus c. the first part Printed 1662. qu. p. 7. 167● 6. 1676. (*) In his Epist ded before Animadversiones in librum Georgii Bulli de Harm Apost 1676. 1676. (a) So have I been enformed by letters from his Mother (b) Mercurius pragmaticus numb 1. Dec. 19. an 1659. (c) Praef. of Hen. Stubbe to his Epistolary discourse concerning Phlebotomy pag. 8. (d) Ibid. (e) Ibid. (f) In the Pref. beforemention'd p. 12. (g) Jos Glanvill in his pref to his Prefatory answer (h) In his pref to Legends no Histories (i) In his pref to his Epist discourse concerning Phlebotomy p. 8. (k) Pref. to Legends c. as before (m) In the said Severe Enquiry pag. 7. (n) In his Prefatory answer before mention'd (o) Printed the second time at Lond. 1630. qu. (p) Will. Sanderson in The reign and death of King James Lond. 1655. fol. under the year 1620. p. 491. (q) In the Brief account of Mr. Val. Greatrakes and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed Lond. 1666. quart pag. 17. 1676. (a) Dr. Tho. Pierce
by the small pox to the great reluctancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts After his death Dr. Edw. Bernard Savilian professor of Astronomy published a book which Mr. Guise turn'd into Lat. and illustrated with a Commentary entit Misnae pars ordinis primi Zeraim tituli septem Ox. 1690. qu. Before which is put the translation into Latine by Dr. Edw. Pocock of Mosis Maimonides praefatio in Misnam Mr. Guise died in his House in S. Michaels Parish in Oxford on the third of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and three and was buried in that Chancel called the College Chancel in St. Michaels Church within the said City Soon after was set up a monument over his grave at the charge of his Widow named Frances Daughter of George Southcote of Devonshire Esq with an inscription thereon beginning thus MS. Gulielmi Guise Equestri apud Glocestrenses familia orti è Coll. Oriel in Coll. Omn. Anim. asciti Linguar praecipue Orientalium peritissimi Critici Rhetoris Mathemat Theologi in omnibus adeò eximii ut raro quisquam in singulis in juventute ut raro quisquam in senio quem ne perfectionis humanae apices transiret c. HENRY BOLD fourth Son of Will. Bold of Newstead in the Parish of Buriton in Hampshire sometimes Capt. of a Foot company descended from the antient and gentile family of the Bolds of Bold-hall in Lancashire was born in Hampshire elected Probationer-fellow of New Coll. from Winchester School 1645 or thereabouts ejected thence by the Parliamentarian Visitors in 1648 and afterwards going to the great City became a member of the Examiners office in Chancery and excellent at translating the most difficult and crabbed english into latine verse He hath written Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique c. Lond. 1664. oct Ded. to Col. Hen. Wallop of Farley-Wallop in the County of Southampton and to The ingenious he saith thus If thou wilt read so if not so it is so so and so farewell Thine upon liking H. B. Among these Poems is Scarronides or Virgil Travestie c. He hath also written Latine Songs with their English and Poems Lond. 1685. oct Collected and perfected by Capt. Will. Bold his Brother This Hen. Bold died in Chancery-lane near Lincolns inn on the 23. of Oct. being the first day of the Term in sixteen hundred eighty and three aged 56 or thereabouts and was buried in the Church at Twyford West Twyford near Acton in the County of Middlesex I shall make mention of another H. Bold in the Fasti an 1657. WILLIAM SCROGGS son of Will. Scroggs was born in a Market Town in Oxfordshire called Dedington became a Communer of Oriel Coll. in the beginning of the year 1639 aged 16 years but soon after was translated to that called Pembroke where being put under the tuition of a noted Tutor became Master of a good Latine stile and a considerable Disputant Soon after tho the Civil War broke forth and the University emptied thereupon of the greatest part of its Scholars yet he continued there bore arms for his Majesty and had so much time allowed him that he proceed Master of Arts in 1643. About that time he being designed for a Divine his Father procured for him the reversion of a good Parsonage but so it was that he being engaged in that honorable tho unfortunate expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester an 1648 wherein as I have been credibly informed he was a Captain of a Foot Company he was thereby disingaged from enjoying it So that entring himself into Greys inn studied the municipal Law went through the usual Degrees belonging to it was made Serjeant at Law 25. June 1669 and Knighted and the same year on the 2 of Nov. he was sworn his Majesties Serjeant In 1678 May 31. he was made L. Chief Justice of the Kings Bench upon the resignation of Sir Richard Rainsford but not long after his advancement the Popish conspiracy was discovered So that his place obliging him to have the chiefest hand in bringing some of the principal conspirators concern'd therein to publick justice he in several trials of them behaved himself with so undaunted a courage and greatness of spirit giving such ample testimony of his true zeal for the Protestant cause that he gained thereby for a while an universal applause throughout the whole Nation being generally esteemed as a main Patriot and support of his Country whose all seem'd then especially to the fanatical party to lay at stake and to be threatned with apparently impendent ruin But at length the implacable and giddy headed rabble being possess'd with an opinion that he had not dealt uprightly in the trials of some of the conspirators he mitigating his zeal when he saw the Popish Plot to be made a shooing-horn to draw on others which caused articles of impeachment to be drawn up against him read in the H. of Commons and ingrossed and on the 17 of Jan. 1680 sent up to the H. of Lords he was removed from his high office about the eleventh of April 1681 meerly to stop their mouthes and so obtain quietness Whereupon Sir Francis Pemberton Kt. was sworn to the said office on the next day as it seems and the day following that he paid his duty to his Majesty Soon after Sir William retired to his Estate at Weald hall near Burntwood in Essex where he enjoyed himself for a time in a sedate repose He was a person of very excellent and nimble parts a good Orator and a fluent Speaker but his utterance being accompanied with some stops and hesitancy his Speeches effected more in the reading than they did when heard with the disadvantage of his delivery Under his name were printed Several Speeches as 1 Speech before the L. Chancellor when he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench Printed in half a sh in fol. 2 Sp. in the Kings Bench in Westm hall on the first day of Mich. term 1679. Lond. 1679 in 3 sheets in fol. Answer'd by an idle fellow and remarks made on it in one sh in fol. entit A New years gift for Justice Scroggs c. He hath other Speeches extant as I shall tell you by and by Notes on the writing found in the pocket of Laur. Hill when he and R. Green were executed 21. Feb. 1678. Pr. in one sh in fol. Answer to the Articles against him given in by Titus Oates and Will Bedlow in Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680 in two sh and an half in fol. He hath also several discourses arguings and speeches printed in divers Tryals and Condemnations while he was Lord Chief Justice as in 1 The Tryal of William Staley Goldsmith for speaking treasonable words against his Majesty c. 21. Novemb. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. 2 Tryal of Edw. Coleman Gent. for conspiring the death of the King subversion of the government c. 28. Nov. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. This Coleman was as I have heard a Ministers Son had been